THE HISTORY OF THE POSTHUMOUS PAPERS OF THE PICKWICK CLUB
First Edition. Cloth. Thick 8vo, original publisher's green cloth with black lettering, More
Art & Illustrations
KING WOTAN
Austria: by the artist, ca.1920. Carl Angerer. original. Prepared paper. Drawing using scratch technique on prepared paper by Carl Angerer of "King Wotan" on his throne flanked by ravens with wolves at his feet; unframed: 6.6" x 4.3" / 16.8 x 10.8 cm. In Germanic mythology, W tan (in Old..... More
LEONARDO DaVINCI
Old Saybrook, Connecticut: William S. Konecky Associates Inc., 1998. Leonardo da Vinci. First Edition. Cloth. Folio (13" x 10"), brown cloth, dust jacket (unclipped), profusely illustrated, 543 pages + [2]. 5# 6 oz. Excellent study of the Florentine genius. Solid copy: bright and tight. Somewhat rubbed at corners and with a...... More
PORTRAIT of AUDEN
Randolph-Macon College: Dr. John Temple, 1974. Dr. John Temple Witt. Original. Framed in plastic. Association Copy of a Portrait of W.H. Auden once cherished by Dr. William Gray, Chairman of the department of English at Randolph-Macon College, executed in pen-and-ink (approximately 12" by 10") by Dr. John Temple Witt, the..... More
WHITE HEADED EAGLE ; Falco Leucocephalus (Linn.) Male Yellow Cat-fish
New York: J. Bien, c.1860. John James Audubon. First Bien Edition. Double-elephant Folio (39 9/16" x 27 1/16"; image: 37 1/8" x 25 1/2"), "White headed Eagle Falco Leucocephalus. Linn. Male. Yellow Cat-fish" (numbered in upper right "Plate 14") from The Birds of America, unwaterrmarked as issued, first-run chromolithograph with..... More
"WILD TURKEY" from Bien facsimile ed. of Audubon's The Birds of America; Melagris Gallopavo Linn. Male American Cane Miegia Macrosperma
Italy: W. W. Norton & Company, 2013. John James Audubon. Limited Edition Reproduction. Color printing. Folio (13 1/2" x 20 1/2"), "Wild Turkey" printed in color on quality medium-weight paper with original date of 1858 reproduced in plate. It has been carefully removed (by another party) from the outstanding, limited..... More
"NEVERMORE"
New Jersey or New York? Al Capp, ca.1930's. Al Capp. UNIQUE. Framed. Oil painting framed (15 1/2" H by 18 5/8" W; image: 13 7/16" x 16 7/16") signed by Al Capp with facial caricature of a man with bulbous eyes & two teeth plus initials; with the Edgar Allen..... More
DOWN THE EMPEROR'S ROAD WITH HIROSHIGE; edited by Reiko Chiba
Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1969. Hiroshige. Third Printing of First Edition. Pictorial cloth & matching cardboard slipcase. 24mo (5 7/8" W x 3 3/4" H), pictorial cloth with sewn binding depicting Japanese travellers passing by Mt. Fuji (verso) along a road, prefatory "Map of the..... More
STUDIES & SKETCHES OF A BIRD PAINTER; Paintings, Drawings and Text by Raymond Ching / with additional text by Errol Fuller
Melbourne: Lansdowne Editions c/o Merriweather Press, 1981. Raymond Ching. First Edition. Navy blue cloth. Elephant folio, navy blue cloth & slipcase (with photographic sleeve), 120 illustrations (30 of them in very large, magnificent color), 260 pages. 10 LBS +. Superb artist & magnificent paintings and preliminary studies of birds! The..... More
A SKETCHY PAST; The Art of Peter de Sève / Introduction by Amid Amidi / Foreword by Chris Wedge / Design by Lori Barra
Talence, France: Akileos, 2009. Peter de Sève. First Edition. Boards. SIGNED & EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED with an ORIGINAL DRAWING of "SCRAT" chasing an acorn (from ICE AGE) on the half title, folio (12 1/4" x 11"), orange boards with white lettering on spine, Introduction by Amid Amidi, Foreword by Chris Wedge, profusely..... More
PRINCIPLES OF FIGURE DRAWING
Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1948. Alexander Dobkin. First Edition. Cloth. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY with a NUDE & SKETCH of the Dedicatee, 4to, maroon buckram, profusely illustrated--mainly by the author-artist--with a color frontispiece reproducing Degas' "La Sortie du Bain," a few sepia-colored sketches, and around 500 drawings;..... More
Strawflower
1853. C. Le Comte. Leaf. Large folio,(25 x 42.5 cm) watercolor over pencil sketch. C. Le Comte appears to have been a monk at La Grange monastery, France. Large and delicately sketched and hand-colored flower. [Note: we grade conservatively and endeavor to identify any defects that might affect overall quality and..... More
MARY; Art, Culture, and Religion through the Ages / Translated by Peter Heinegg
New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company / A Crossroad Herder Book, 1997. Photographs. First Edition. Cloth. Folio (13 1/4" x 10"), blue cloth with gold spine lettering, profusely illustrated with color and B&W photographs, translated from the German by Peter Heinegg, 272 pages. 4# 14 oz. Magnificient study in Exceptional..... More
MASTERS OF CARICATURE; from Hogarth and Gilray to Scarfe and Levine / Introduction and commentary by William Feaver / Edited by Ann Gould
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. Caricatures. First American Edition. Cloth. Quarto (11" x 8 3/4"), brown buckram with gold lettering on spine, archival polyester-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with two caricatures, Introduction and commentary by William Feaver, profusely illustrated in B&W and color with hundreds of splendid caricatures by..... More
SIMPLE LESSONS IN WATER-COLOR; Flowers / Eight Facsimiles of Original Water-Color Drawings / and numerous outline drawings of flowers, after various artists
London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dublin: Blackie & Son, 1884. Vere Foster et al. First Edition. Pictorial cloth. 4to, beige pictorial cloth with gold title & a red flower with green stem on cover, The cloth is in Very Good condition with some rubbing; the Contents are clean and the tipped-in..... More
Children Feeding Deer
England: by the artist, c.1915. E. Francis. original. Unframed. Lovely silhouette of two children (an older sister and her little sister) feeding a doe and fawn with background skywashes of blue, pink, & yellow (10 1/2" x 7 1/4"; silhouette: 4 1/8" W x 2 1/4" H); two small white..... More
PORTRAIT OF FRIEDRICH ENGELS
Austria: by the artist, ca.1930. Rudolf Hermann. original drawing. Paper with embossed seal. Unframed drawing of Friedrich Engels executed in black chalk on paper, (unframed: 17.3" x 11.8" / 44.0 x 30.0 cm), monogrammed by Rudolf Hermann. A handsome, good-sized portrait by Rudolf Herrmann of the great English political economist..... More
![DAS GESAMTE GRAPHISCHE WERK [The Collected Graphic Work]; Nachwort von Hans H. Hofstätter...](/pictures/thumb/2768.JPG?v=1522283065)
DAS GESAMTE GRAPHISCHE WERK [The Collected Graphic Work]; Nachwort von Hans H. Hofstätter [Afterword by Hans H. Hofstätter]
Herrsching / Munchen [Munich]: Manfred Pawlak Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, [c.1974]. Caspar David Friedrich. Reprint: Text in GERMAN. Cloth. Thick 8vo, olive drab boards with brown lettering on spine, profusely illustrated with B&W illustrations by Caspar David Friedrich Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting a landscape by the artist Friedrich, Afterword by..... More
CHEROKEE ARTIST BERT D. SEABOURN; ...with an Evaluation by Clara Lee Tanner
Oklahoma City: Seabourn Studio, 1982. Bert D. Seabourn. Second Edition. Decorated cloth. Presentation Copy SIGNED and with a DRAWING by the author-artist. Oblong tall 8vo, gray decorated cloth, profusely illustrated/catalog raisonné, 94 pages. Volume is distinguished by the striking DRAWING SIGNED & Presented by the Artist. More
CHAIM GROSS
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 1974. Chaim Gross. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. PRESENTATION Copy SIGNED by the Artist with a SKETCH of a Woman, Oblong 4to, maroon cloth with gold lettering on spine and filagree gold medallion on front cover, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting three..... More
MAXFIELD PARRISH; The Masterworks / By Alma Gilbert
Berkeley, California: Ten Speed Press, 1992. Maxfield Parrish. First Printing / Copy #117 of 500. Cloth. Small folio (13" x 10 1/2" x 1"), navy blue buckram with gilt lettering on spine and front cover with facsimile of MP's signature, matching slipcase with gilt lettering on front cover, profusely illustrated..... More
"GOETHE"
Krems, Austria: by the artist, 1919. Gertrud Hozatko-Mediz. unframed drawing. Unframed. Charcoal and color chalks on paper, laid on mount, (unframed: (14.7" x 9.1" / 37.3 x 23.2 cm); dated in the lower left margin "27 [January] 1919 Krems"; SIGNED by the artist in the lower right as "Trude Mediz."..... More
APROPOS RODIN; with 73 photographs in colour
London: Thames & Hudson, 2006. First Edition. Cloth. Small square 4to (10 1/8" x 8 7/8"), gray cloth with silver lettering on spine & blind-stamped double-dolphin logo of Thames & Hudson on front cover, Mylar-protected photographic dust jacket of a female nude beside a marble sculpture by Rodin (unclipped) designed..... More
FANTASY DRAWINGS; Introduction by A. L. Chanin / Analytical Essay by Samuel Atkin, M.D.
New York: Beechhurst Press / A Bittner Art Bool, 1956. Chaim Gross. First Edition. Decorated & gilt-stamped cloth. PRESENTATION Copy SIGNED by the Artist with an ORIGINAL SIGNED SKETCH of a large Woman holding a man in her hand, 4to, black cloth with gold lettering on spine and gold circular..... More
IMAGINATIVE REALISM; How to paint what doesn't exist
Kansas City Sydney London: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC, 2009. James Gurney. First Edition, First Printing. Wrappers. SIGNED & EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the ARTIST-AUTHOR with a dinosaur painting at an easel, small 4to (10 1/2" x 9"), lavishly illustrated with 400 illustrations by Gurney--the creator of DINOTOPIA--most in full color with a...... More