20th Century Books

Horst Interiors by Barbara Plumb Hardcover Coffee Table Book 1993 First Edition.A beautiful monograph of the photographs of Horst P Horst’s by Barbara Plumb. Featuring the social and...

Vintage collectible book, First Lady: My Thirty Days Upstairs in the White House Hardcover – January 1, 1964. Title: First Lady : My Thirty Days Upstairs in the White house. by Mart...

Period Style by Mary Gilliatt Elizabeth Wilhide Hardcover Book.Demonstrates how to restore or redecorate a home to particular period specifications, including advice on how to recrea...

The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Motorcycles by Tod Rafferty. This lavishly illustrated history winds its way through the 20th century by exploring such popular Amer...

5 Antique Saddle Leather and Gilt Steel Grey Bound Gilt Theatrical Books in Greek European and early 20th-century authors, including Anton Chekhov, et al. Five enchanting Antique Sa...

Caproni Casts: Reproduction of Sculpture - Selected from the Masterpieces of the World - P. P. Caproni and Brother Incorporated - Boston, U.S.A. 1932 catalogue w/ four page price lis...

Norman Rockwell: Artist and Illustrator Buechner, Thomas S. Published by Abrams, NY, 1970. Hardcover. #F/58 of 1000. Signed by Buechner and Norman Rockwell on the limitation page. Publisher's full blue leather and marbled paper slipcase. Large oversized heavy book. Book is fine, slipcase shows some edge wear, a few dings, and a some tiny spots of loss to the paper, but is otherwise very good. Title: Norman Rockwell: Artist and Illustrator Publisher: Abrams, NY Publication Date: 1970 Binding: Hardcover Condition: Very good Signed: Signed by Author Buechner and By Norman Rockwell. “AN ARTIST OF REMARKABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS… BELOVED BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE”: SIGNED LIMITED NORMAN ROCKWELL: ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATOR, RICHLY ILLUSTRATED, ONE OF ONLY 100 ARTIST'S PROOF COPIES BUECHNER, Thomas S. Norman Rockwell: Artist and Illustrator. New York: Harry N. Abrams, (1970). Large thick folio, original full navy morocco, tan morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, original slipcase. Signed limited first edition, one of 1100 copies signed by both Rockwell and Buechner, with over 600 illustrations, including hundreds in color and many folding. "A lifelong chronicler of personalities and events, Rockwell… was an artist of remarkable accomplishments who possessed an extraordinary eye for detail and was beloved by the American people" (ANB). This comprehensive survey of his career not only showcases his celebrated Saturday Evening Post covers (it includes all 321 of them) but also explores other facets of his work, including advertising, book illustration, patriotic contributions to the United States' effort in World War II, and poignant and challenging portrayals of America's changing postwar society. Buechner, director of the Brooklyn Museum, was the first art who devoted serious attention to Rockwell's work. The hundreds of illustrations in this volume include over 80 color folio images, many of which are two-page or folding. As the signed limitation page explains, Rockwell supervised the pulling of 10 collotypes from his paintings, each in a limited edition of 110 copies, designated with letters A-J and each letter numbered 1-100. Ten Artist's Proofs of each collotype were designated AP-A through AP-J, numbered 1-10 for each, reserved for Rockwell. Rockwell signed...

Christopher Wool The Paris Review: 1989 The Paris Review book, with original cover design by Christopher Wool. Offset lithograph on double sided art periodical. The full book. ...

PRESENTING A RARE EDITION hardback copy of The Epic of America by James Truslow Adams, Illustrated by M.J. Gallagher, Published by Little, Brown and Company of Boston in 1932. Con...

American Impressionism Hardcover Book by William H. Gerdts. American Impressionism Book by William H. Gerdts Hardcover Book. Lavishly illustrated with more than 400 paintings by 125 different artists, this volume contains documentary photographs of the artists and quotations from their private letters and journals complementing the text. Good copy bound in cloth with an equally fine dust wrapper. 336 pages; Beginning with a brief prelude discussing the roots of Impressionism in America and its relationship to French Impressionism, Gerdts recounts the early adventures of American artists in Claude Monet's village of Giverny, evaluates Impressionism's progress from an avant-garde aesthetic to its triumph during the 1813 Chicago World Fair and its replacement by the radical styles of Cubism and Futurism. Also studies how Impressionism flourished across the United States and includes an exhaustive bibliography. Among the masters reproduced are Childe Hassam, John Twachtman...

Broadway Musical Martin Gottfried 1984 hardcover book.Large heavy book. A colorful tribute to the great Broadway shows of our time. Profusely illustrated in color. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Title Broadway Musicals Author Gottfried, Martin Format/Binding Hardcover Binding Hardcover Publisher Harry N. Abrams Place Of Publication NY Date Published 1984 395 illustrations, 112 in full color. Great oversized heavy coffee table art book. A true treasure of a book. This is a very large book, and not just width wise. It is very tall too. There are many pictures, a lot of them in color. They have some of the rarest flops featured toward the back of the book, and the classics are all here too. Some high points are the run-through of how they make (made) "Annie" run every night. There is also a synopsis of "Hello Dolly" which helpful since I have only seen the movie. There is a flaw though, and it is not insignificant. The author does not separate fact from opinion. Example: "Sweeney Todd does not hold a place in the theater". This book came out the same year "Sweeney Todd" did(1979), so it might be just a bit early to say that. Obviously, he is a critic, but he should have took that hat off ,and taken on the role of an author who looks at the facts.("Sweeney" is just one of the hows that gets criticized.) Colorful entertaining masterpiece with many of these Broadway Musicals some of them are THE WIZ...

Beautiful and Collectible Vintage 1968 Hardback Time Life Library of Art “The World of Rembrandt” Book. The World of Rembrandt 1606-1669 by Robert Wallace. New York, NY, Time Life ...

Classics : U. S. Aircraft of World War II by Walter J. Boyne, Mark Meyer. A must for any WWII buff, this collection boasts photographs of restored aircraft and interviews with the men who flew them. The pilots discuss training, missions, and even capture and imprisonment. 115 color and 40 b&w archival...

Moments with Jackie by Jean Mills hardcover book Barnes & Noble Books, 1999 - Celebrities - 120 pages. Stunning black-and-white photography accompanies a close-up portrait of Jacqu...

Remembering Jackie: A Life in Pictures Hardcover – January 1, 1994 by Life Magazine. Uses photographs to trace the life of the former first lady, including her childhood, marriage, ...

Spectacular America Hardcover Book 1994 Large horizontal format - 16 x 12 inches featuring 180 color plates and accompanying text. Spectacular America conveys all the grandeur of t...

Classic Superbikes from Around the World Coffee Table Book Hardcover 2003. by Mac. McDiarmid. The cool thing about Mac McDiarmid’s book Classic Superbikes from Around the World. The book not only gives us a look at some rare specimens most will never see, it also includes some classic superbikes that we have probably seen here or there or may even have in the garage. For example, McDiarmid included the still-popular Yamaha RD350, Suzuki GT750, Bridgestone 350 GTR, Kawasaki Z1, Kawasaki 750 H2, Yamaha XS-1, Harley-Davidson Duo-Glide and Honda CB750 and Honda CB450 “Black Bomber.” Less common classics such as the Indian Chief, Velocette Venom Thruxton, Norton 650 SS, BSA 650 Spitfire, Munch Mammoth, Douglas Dragonfly, Sunbeam S7/S8, Ducati 750 SS, Ariel Square Four, and Royal Enfield...

Texas a Salute from Above Fehrenbach, T. R 1985. Title: Texas: A salute from above Publisher: Brand: Texas Books, World Pub. Services, Inc. Publication Date: 1st Edition 1985 Language ? : ? English Hardcover ? : ? 280 pages Binding: Hardcover large coffee table book. A birds-eye view of the vast state of Texas: Mountains, cities, stadiums, plains, etc. in full color with text by T.R. Fehrenbach. Look with new eyes upon Texas. Its sweeping diversity is seen from another perspective--the view from above. Texas Books, 1985. First Ed.. Hardcover. History; Texas; The Trans-Pecos Region, The Panhandle, West, North, Central and East Texas...

Golden Moments: A Collection of United States 1984 Commemorative Olympic Issues MICHENER, James A. (foreword) Published by United States Postal Service, Washington, DC, 1984 Numerous color illustrations. A superb, tight first edition of what's really a study of "Paintings and 1984 Olympic postal designs by Robert Peak...

Fabrics The Decorative Art of Textiles Spectacularly illustrated with richly colorful, sumptuously textured photographs, Fabrics is an enthusiastic trip through the history, technol...

American Car Design Now: Inside the Studios of America's Top Car Designers by C. Edson Armi. This title provides in-depth examinations of the creative process behind more than 30 c...

Presenting a rare book, namely, Sketches of North Carolina by Rev WH Foote. Titled: “Sketches of North Carolina, Historical and Biographical, Illustrative of the principles of a p...

For thirty years Douglas Kirkland's camera has negotiated our relationship with the stars. Light Years is his photographic autobiography --a brilliant cons...

The World of Armand Hammer by John Bryson - Large hardcover coffee table book. A photographic journal follows the eighty-seven year old oil executive as he chairs a panel devoted t...

Annuaire connaissance des arts 1968 des ventes publiques en France Hardcover – January 1, 1968 French Edition by Francis Spar (Author) Publisher ? : ? Hach...

A Fine Romance Hollywood Broadway: The Magic, The Mayhem, The Musicians By Denkert, Darcie. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2005. 360 pages. Darcie covers the love/hate rel...

American Realism, a pictorial survey from the early 18th century to the 1970s. Mathey, François Published by Portland House, 1987 Title: American Realism: A pictorial survey from....

H.M. Tomlinson "The Sea and The Jungle" First Edition with woodcuts by Clare Leighton, circa 1930 Rare First Edition. Very good condition. Fantastic woodcuts by noted artist Clare...

Antique panorama children’s book illustrated by Willy Pogany and retold by Edith L Elias. A total of 14 panels, one side with illustrations, and the other with text. Published by George G. Harrap & Company. This book is part of a children’s series by Willy Pogány of folding panoramas illustrations and text, inspired by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1855 epic, The Song of Hiawatha. Lines from Longfellow run underneath Pogány’s illustrations, which follow the Ojibwe child Hiawatha from his early kinship with the wild animals, through his struggles with Nahma, King of Fishes, and his own estranged father, Mudjekeewis, up to his courtship of Laughing Water (Minnehaha). The prose text by Edith Elias, printed on the verso of the panorama, carries Hiawatha’s story farther, through the death of Minnehaha and the coming of “the Pale-Face Chief.” Pogány’s dynamic frames, with their striking use of negative space, show the influence not only of Golden Age illustrators like Walter Crane, but also the new generation of cartoonists like Winsor McCay...

The New Clay: Techniques and Approaches to Jewelry Making. A wonderful book, with over 100 color photos, on making intricate beads and jewelry using modeling clays such as "Fimo" and "Sculpey." Everything you need to know to work with the new polymer clays is covered clearly in this book. Excellent working diagrams show how easy it is to make the most complex looking designs. One of the first books...

Presenting a very rare first edition hardback copy of The Life Record of H.W. Grabber, A Terry Texas Ranger 1861-1865 Sixty-Two Years in Texas. Copyright ...

Bright stars: American painting and sculpture since 1776 Hardcover - January 1, 1976 by Jean Lipman (Author), Helen M. Franc (Author), John I. H. Baur (Introduction) Publisher: E. ...