Search Results: Art from Aardvark Rare Books

New York: Atelier Press, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Quarto. 120 Illustrations (100 in full color). Inscribed by the collector Richard Wiseman on half-title page. (Another inscription below, as yet unidentified). 128 pp.

Washington D.C.: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1999. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Roy Lichtenstein. Folio, 13.75 in. x 9.6 in., pp. 247. 3,000 copies printed. Bright red boards with title stamped in blind to spine. Protected in mylar.

San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 1996. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine Dustjacket. Michael Sowa. Charcoal Gray Folio 9 in. x 8 1/2 in. LIght shelfwear to jacket. "Sowa's Ark showcases the fantastic, off-kilter imagination of artist Michael Sowa, where pigs gaze distractedly from telephone wires, and genteel ducks remove their bathrobes before swan-diving into the water..." (DJ notes, rear panel). 72 pp. "In a cross between Magritte and The Far Side, Sowa's Ark showcases over forty playfully macabre images that evoke the absurdity of language and of life."

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Plus. Small Folio, 12 in. x 9.5 in., pp. x, 357. Printed paper covers. Very light thumbing to bottom front corner. Unmarked interior. Laid in: 11 in. x 8.5 in. information sheet and site map form the Thomas Hart Benton Home & Studio in Jefferson Ciy, Missouri. "Born: April 15, 1889 in Neosho, Missouri, son of Maecenus Eason Benton and Elizabeth Wise Benton Died: January 19, 1975 in Kansas City, Missouri while finishing a large mural for the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee Thomas Hart Benton was born into political aristocracy, and though he lived a life of privilege, Benton was most comfortable finding himself within the working-class communities of rural America. He found his position as the pre-eminent American Regionalism artist, creating iconic works of art representing rural America and the communities found in the Midwest." (from Thomas Hart Benton website.

London, England: J.M. Dent & Sons, LTD, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Quarto. Black cloth over boards with red and gilt lettering to board and gilt to spine. More than 1000 engravings, mostly wood, but with a small section of copper engravings, mostly wortk done inthe early years. Also photographs of sculpture produced during the 1030's. Gibbings has illustrated sixty books, fourteen of which where he was also the author. The engravings are generally arranged chronologically, though exact dates are not always known. Gibbings died in January 1958.

Eugene, OR: Fern Ridge Press, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near FIne. 11.5 in. x 10.25 in, pp. 100. Signed by the author in silver ink on the title page. Black cloth boards with gilt title and chinese script deign to front. Gilt title to spine. Unmarked. Protected in mylar. "Dan's experience with the eastern and western disciplines of art have provided the inspiration for his extremely pleasing and dramatic style. Whether the media is oil, pastel, watercolor or sculptures in clay or in bronze, each piece Dan creates is an exquisite and masterful expression of line, color, form and energy which is truly his own." (from Dan Chen's website).