Visual arts The Art Museum: Power, Money, Ethics by Karl E. Meyer [Price: $12.00] New York, William Morrow and Company, Inc., pub1979 c1979, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 352 pgs (Very small stain on front matter pages. DJ has edge wear and a couple of small closed tears.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Learning to Look: A Handbook for the Visual Arts by Joshua C. Taylor [Price: $8.00] Chicago, Illinois, The University of Chicago Press, c1957, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 3rd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 152 pgs (Some browning along edges. DJ worn at top and bottom of spine with spotting along edges.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Thomas Hoving [Price: $9.45] New York, Simon & Schuster, c1993, Hard Cover Fine/No jacket, 5th ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 447 pgs --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS The Grand Acquisitors by John L. 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Taylor [Price: $8.00] Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, pub1979 c1979, Hard Cover Fine/Good jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 264 pgs (DJ is soiled with wear at spine top and small one-inch closed tear near front top corner.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS The Culture Consumers: A Study of Art and Affluence in America by Alvin Toffler [Price: $8.00] New York, St. Martin's Press, c1964, Hard Cover Very Good/Good jacket, 2nd prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 263 pgs (Gold quarter-bound cover beginning to spot. 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Missing ffep.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Architecture Remaking America: New Uses, Old Places by Barbaralee Diamonstein [Price: $10.00] New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., pub1986 c1986, Hard Cover Fine/Poor jacket, stated 1st ed, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 204 pgs (DJ has large tear on rear cover otherwise very nice..) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Sculpture Slate and Soft Stone Sculpture by Frank Eliscu [Price: $12.00] Philadelphia, Chilton Book Company, c1972, Ex-Library Hard Cover Fair/Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 145 pgs (Usual ex-library indicators with ffep torn out.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Sculpture: Inside and Out by Malvina Hoffman [Price: $15.00] New York, W.W. Norton & Company, c1939, Ex-Libris Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 330 pgs (Previous owner's bookplate pasted on FFEP. Slight soiling and aging with small nick in surface of spine.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Drawing. Design. Illustration Express Yourself in Drawing by Gerhard Gollwitzer [Price: $8.00] New York, Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., pub1960 c1966, Ex-Library Hard Cover Fair/No jacket, 5th prtg, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 156 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. 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Hinge cracked.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS READ AUTHOR QUOTES (1) Painting Outdoors by Ralph Fabri [Price: $9.00] New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, pub1971 c1969, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/Good jacket, 2nd prtg, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 175 pgs (Usual ex-library indicators. Ffep missing with bottom of boards badly worn and fraying. DJ wrapped in mylar.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS An Approach to Modern Painting by Morris Davidson [Price: $8.00] New York, Coward-McCann, Inc., c1948, Ex-Library Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 155 pgs (Rebound with usual ex-library indicators.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Portrait Painting for Beginners by John W. Pratten [Price: $8.00] New York, Watson-Guptill Publicationis, Inc., pub1955 c1955, Hard Cover Good/Fair jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 112 pgs (Endpapers foxed. Spine bumped. DJ stained with several small open tears.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Men of Art by Thomas Craven [Price: $5.00] New York, Simon and Schuster, pub1940 c1931, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, revised ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 524 pgs (Blue cloth cover sunned and bumped with edge wear and spotting.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Master Painters of the Renaissance by David Jacobs [Price: $12.00] New York, The Viking Press, c1968, Hard Cover Very Good/Fair jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 143 pgs (DJ price clipped.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Van Gogh: His Life and His Art by David Sweetman [Price: $15.00] New York, Crown Publishers, Inc., c1990, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 1st American ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 391 pgs --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Rembrandt Paintings by Horst Gerson, Heinz Norder, translator; Gary Schwartz, editor [Price: $50.00] New York, Harrison House, pub1978 c1968, Hard Cover Very Good/Very Good jacket, fo. (12.00-15.00 in. tall), 527 pgs (Minor spotting on text edge.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Kandinsky: (The Colour Library of Art) by Frank Whitford [Price: $10.00] London, Hamlyn, pub1971 c1967, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 2nd prtg, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 48 pgs --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Print media Currier & Ives: Printmakers to the American People by Harry T. Peters, Design and typography by A. P. Tedesco [Price: $10.00] Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., c1942, Hard Cover Good/Fair jacket, Special ed, fo. (12.00-15.00 in. tall), 41 pgs (192 plates, some in color, including frontis, portraits, & facsimiles. Some soiling to book cover and edges. DJ is soiled and ripped in several places.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Lumiprinting: A New Graphic Art by Joseph di Gemma, Edited by Arthur L. Guptill [Price: $15.00] New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, Inc., pub1942 c1942, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, stated 1st ed, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 113 pgs (Brown boards show minor wear and rubbing with average edge wear and sunned spine.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS About Prints by S.W. Hayter [Price: $10.00] Oxford, Oxford University Press, pub1962, Ex-Library Hard Cover Poor/Good jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 176 pgs (Usual ex-library markings. Title page and FFEP missing. Spine head worn. Wrapped in mylar.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Decorative arts Costume Jewellry: A Studio Make It Yourself Book by Peggy Tearle [Price: $12.00] London, The Studio Publications, pub1952, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 12mo (6.75-7.75 in. tall), 64 pgs (Cover board and DJ have severely worn fore edge. Pricing pencilled on ffep.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS An Introduction to Design: Basic ideas and applications for paintings or the printed page by Robin Landa [Price: $25.00] Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, A Spectrum Book - Prentice-Hall, Inc., c1983, Hard Cover Fine/Very Good jacket, 1st ed, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 187 pgs (DJ starting to brown along edges.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Arts in general The Creative Spirit: Creative Man Library/Volume II by Julian Sorell Huxley, editor [Price: $10.00] Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., c1968, Hard Cover Good/No jacket, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 160 pgs (With 32 page appendix. Wear on spine bottom with stain at top else very good.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS CHECK READING LIST (1) The Illustrated Reference Book of Art by James Mitchell, editor [Price: $15.00] England, Windward, pub1982 c1982, Hard Cover Very Good/No jacket, 4to (9.75-12.00 in. tall), 184 pgs (Pictorial cover with very slight corner wear.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS The Doctor with Two Heads: and Other Essays by Gerald Weissmann [Price: $7.00] New York, Alfred A. Knopf, pub1990 c1990, Hard Cover Fine/Good jacket, stated 1st ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 225 pgs (DJ has small closed tear at lower spine edge.) --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America by Robert Hughes (Robert Studley Forrest Hughes) [Price: $5.00] New York, Oxford University Press, pub1993, Hard Cover Fine/Fine jacket, 3rd ed, 8vo (7.75-9.75 in. tall), 210 pgs --- SEE ALL AUTHOR'S BOOKS
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