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Heads and Tales

By: Hoffman, Malvina

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Garden City Publishing Co., Inc.: 1943

Seller ID: 010835

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Maroon cloth on boards. How the Hall of Man in the Field Museum of Chicago came to be. Hoffman travelled the world to collect peoples' physical types to be cast in bronze for exhibit. Heavy book will need extra postage. Previous owner's initials are the only marks. Minor tanning on p. 4, probably due to offset from full-page illustration opposite. 416 pp.
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Wives / The Henpecked Man

By: Irving, Washington / Steele, Sir Richard

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Macmillan & Co., Ltd.: 1909

Seller ID: 005892

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair to Good

Original tan paper boards. Three tipped-in colour drawings by the man known as "the dog artist." Paper spine cracked, but hinges holding well. 30 pp.
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Jacob Jordaens 1593-1678 Catalog

By: Jaffe, Michael (Ed.)

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada: 1968

Seller ID: 000829

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original pictorial soft cover with paper wrapper. Book is very good. Wrapper is good, since it has been extensively reinforced inside with clear tape(100 per cent present). A large, colourful volume chock-full of Jordaens' work, beginning with five striking full-page colour plates. A short section of comparative works, biography, descriptions of 315 works in this exhibition, and the b/w plates of the paintings and drawings themselves. 416 pp.
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Bekenntnisse Eines Kunsthandlers

By: Jandolo, Augusto

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Berlin, Paul Zsolnay Verlag: 1939

Seller ID: 004893

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original yellow cloth on boards with red spine label. Translates to "Confessions of an Art Dealer." Laid in are two related, contemporary brochures. Text in German. 408 pp.
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A Cruise in the Acorn

By: Jerrold, Alice (Mrs. Adolphe Smith)

Price: $825.00 USD

Publisher: London, Marcus Ward & Co.: 1875

Seller ID: 004304

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Original reddish-brown blindstamped cloth with floral pastedown decorated in black and lettered in gold on bevelled boards. General wear; worn through at corners and head and foot of spine. All six chromolithographs by Kate Greenaway are present and excellent except for 1/2 inch edge tear in frontispiece. Chromograph Series. Each illustration is accompanied by a well-known, appropriate poem. There is light foxing to endpapers, but interior is essentially clean and easily readable. There are no names or any other writing. 140 pp. plus publisher's catalog.
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Major European Art Movements ,1900-1945

By: Kaplan, Patricia E./Manso, Susan (Eds.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., Dutton: 1977

Seller ID: 001230

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Original orange pictorial card stock, no DJ. A critical anthology with many photos of subject works. A hefty digest-size book of 396 pp. Only slightest corner turnup. No writing or abuse.
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Masters of Painting; Their Works, Their Lives, Their Times

By: Kielty, Bernardine

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday & Company, Inc.: 1964

Seller ID: 004608

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original maroon paper boards backed in black cloth. A survey from old masters to modern art. 183 pp. plus appendices and index. No writing or damage.
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Lusitanian Sketches of the Pen and Pencil (Vol. II only)

By: Kingston, W.H.G.

Price: $300.00 USD

Publisher: London, John W. Parker: 1845

Seller ID: 006635

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original blindstamped red cloth on boards. Volume II only of a two-volume set. No writing. Mild hand soil to cover, and faint foxing spots to endpapers. In internet reviews, Kingston is rebuked for stating "eight knots an hour", when a knot is a sea mile per hour, making Kingston's reference to time redundant. In another, the comment is made that Kingston referred offhand to the prevalence of illegitimacy in this travelogue through northern Portugal. Only in 1851 did Kingston publish the first of the adventure stories for boys that made him famous. Volume II has 364 pp.
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Gardner's Art Through the Ages

By: Kleiner, Fred S./Mamiya, Christin J.

Price: $40.00 USD

Publisher: Belmont, CA, Thomson Wadsworth: 2005

Seller ID: 012798

ISBN: 0155050907

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Huge, heavy book in very good condition in very good DJ. Very heavy book will need extra postage.Table of Contents alone requires 16 pp. ! Ribbon bookmark. 1150 pp. Weight 10 lbs.
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Oh, Why Should the Spirit of Mortal Be Proud ?

By: Knox, William

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Boston, Lee & Shepard, Publishers: 1878

Seller ID: 009635

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Red cloth on beveled boards showing small sheaf of wheat with scythe. Unpaginated, comprising 16 leaves with all but the title being blank on the verso, with black-and-white drawings by Miss Humphrey and stanzas of the poem on the recto sides. All edges gilt. Tiny flecks of white paint, nearly invisible, on cover. (Photo to follow). Theme of this book is the fact that the poem is said to be a favourite of Abraham Lincoln.
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The New American Arts

By: Kostelanetz, Richard (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Collier Books: 1967

Seller ID: 011378

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

New (as of 1967) developments in film, theatre, painting, poetry, dance, fiction, and music by six young artists. 270 pp.
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The Art of Disney's A Christmas Carol

By: Landau, Diana

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Disney Editions: 2009

Seller ID: 009545

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Brown leatherlike grain paper boards. Extra-large DJ folded over top and bottom. No writing or damage. Book appears to be a publicity effort to promote a film using new cinematographic effects. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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Frontiers of Enchantment; An Artist's Adventures in Africa

By: Leigh, W. R.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1938

Seller ID: 010847

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Beige cloth on boards. Previous owner's initials. The artist/author finds his preconception of Africa to be faulty. He describes it as "a marvelous virgin reservoir of incomparable inspiration."- p. xl. Heavy book will need extra postage. 299 pp. plus biography.
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"Characters Oriental"; A Series of 36 Coloured Drawings of Characters in Chinese and Japanese Mythology and Legend

By: Leonard, David James

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Hong Kong, South China Morning Post, Ltd./Four Corners Publishing Co. (Far East), Limited: 1981

Seller ID: 009928

ISBN: 962-224-004-6

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Red cloth lettered in gilt on boards. Previous owner's name. Staples have pulled through the first three leaves. However, should the purchaser wish to separate the drawings for display, this would not be an issue. 36 brief descriptions on verso, cover page, and 36 drawings on recto.
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Cezanne's Early Imagery

By: Lewis, Mary Tompkins

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, University of California Press: 1989

Seller ID: 011290

ISBN: 0-520-06563-8

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Colour cover paperback. Previous owner's name and address label. 302 pp. with index. Large, heavy book will need extra postage. "Far from merely giving unschooled form to his emotions, the compelling, enigmatic imagery of these works, when fully understood, and the conviction with which that imagery is expressed compel attention, admiration - and sometimes awe." p.7.
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Surrealists on Art

By: Lippard, Lucy R. (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Spectrum/ Prentice-Hall: 1970

Seller ID: 011380

ISBN: 13-878082-X

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

A unique collection of writings on Surrealism by 29 artists of t he movement. 213 pp.
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The History of Painting in Canada; Toward a People's Art

By: Lord, Barry

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, NC Press: 1974

Seller ID: 012795

ISBN: 0919600131

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

An introduction to Canadian art. 253 pp. with index.
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Early Views of British North America; From the Collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery

By: Lumsden, Ian G.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Fredericton, N. B., Beaverbrook Art Gallery: 1994

Seller ID: 012292

ISBN: 0-920674-38-0

Binding: Soft Cover, Stapled

Condition: Near Fine

A gathering of 47 paintings from across Canada on display in Fredericton, with backgrounds of their creators. With bibliography and index. 75 pp.
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Arran of the Bens

By: MacBride, Mackenzie

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, T.N. Foulis: 1911

Seller ID: 012789

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Sixteen colour illustrations reproduced from oil paintings by J. Lawton Wingate, together with historical accounts. 231 pp.with index.
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Museum Without Walls

By: Malraux, Andre

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: London, Secker & Warburg: 1967

Seller ID: 010741

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Black cloth on boards. Small wedge missing from head of DJ. Previous owner's name. In its original form (The Voices of Silence) this book was judged by Edmund Wilson to be "one of the really great books of our time." - DJ flap. Many b/w plates. 252 pp.
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Category: Art