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(art) . ERNI ELEMENTE ZU EINER KUNFTIGEN MALEREI
St. Gallen 1948 Zollikofer and Co. Herausgegeben von Frank Thiessing. In German. to., 103pp., illustrated, hardcover boards. VG . no dj. (a11440)
$45.00 (art) . SBORNIK S. V. U. MANES VOLNE SMERY rocnik XXXIX. 1938-45.
Svoboda 1947 Manes. Modern Czech art. In Czech. 4to., 278pp., mounted color and many monochrome illustrations, wraps. Fair, front wrap crushed and with taped tears, some wear and folds on rear cover. (f293)
$25.00 Ayrton, Michael . GOLDEN SECTIONS
London 1957 1st Methuen. 8vo., 219pp., 12 halftone plates, hardcover. VG in Good DJ, a bit of wear. (a46352)
$25.00 Bernoulli, Dr. Rudolf . MEIN WEG ZU KLEE
Bern 1940 Benteli. "Randbemerkungen zu einer ausstellung seines graphischen Werkes in der Eigd. Graphischen Sammlung in zuchich 1940." 27p. of text.8 bw mounted plates. Wraps. G-Vg. (a12415)
$35.00 Bonito Oliva, Achille . CRITICA AD ARTE
Milano 1983 Politi. In Italian. Small octavo, 229pp., monochrome illustrations,wraps. VG plus. (a44905)
$25.00 Brion, Marcel . ABSTRACT ART: ITS ORIGIN, NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE
1958. Article (22pp.) included in issue of Diogenes. In a complete issue with several articles, 8vo., wraps. (a54944c)
$27.00 Bulley, Margaret H. . ART AND UNDERSTANDING
London 1937 1st Batsford. 4to., 292pp., 275 plates, index, boards. Previous owner's name erased leaving a slight roughened area on front end paper. VG, light wear overall. (a39453)
$40.00 Charlot, Jean . ART FROM THE MAYANS TO DISNEY
1969. Reprint by Books for Libraries Press. Octavo, 285pp., hardcover. VG, no DJ. (a65776)
$20.00 Collins and Milazzo . HYPERFRAMES A POST-APPROPRIATION DISCOURSE VOL 1; HYPERFRAMES DISCOURS SUR L'APRES-APPROPRIATION VOL 1
Paris 1989 Candau. Sm.8vo., 55pp. in English, 57pp. (same text) in French. Based on 6 lectures delivered by Collins and Milazzo at Yale, provides the reader with a 'history' of the new Conceptual art of this decade. VG, light cover wear and soiling. (a30618)
$38.00 Ellis, Vernon . ON MODERN PAINTING - FOR DISTRIBUTION AT AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY VENON ELLIS AT THE BROOKS REED GALLERY
Boston 1916. Exhibition, November 1-15, 1916. This American Artist spent most of life in New Hampshire. 12mo., 27pp., original violet wraps. Near VG, some cover wear. Rare. (a71745)
$75.00 Gombrich, E. H. . LESSING - LECTURE ON A MASTER MIND
1957. Offprint from Proceedings British Academy Vol. XLIII. Octavo, pp. 133-156. wraps. Signed by Gombrich. Good corner of front chipped. (a63345)
$40.00 Gombrich, E. H. . ART AND SCHOLARSHIP AN INAUGURAL LECTURE DELIVERED AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
1957. Octavo, 21pp., original printed wraps. Signed by Gombrich. VG, light wear. (a63346)
$45.00 Goodman, Paul . ART AND SOCIAL NATURE
NY 1946 Vinco. Hardcover. Octavo, 98pp., cloth. VG, minor wear on spine ends, no DJ. (a13010)
$40.00 Gotthelf, Jeremiad . DIE SCHWARZE SPINNE
Zurich 1944 1st Buchergilde Gutenberg. In German. 8vo., 116pp., monochrome illustrations by Otto Tschumi, hardcover. Good, no DJ. (f337)
$25.00 Greenberg, Clement . MIRO
NY 1948 Quadrangle. Hardcover. 4to., 133pp., mounted color plates, hardcover. Near VG, minor edge browning and wear in Good DJ, a bit chipped on spine ends. (a11098)
$60.00 Gross, Chaim . ORIGINAL INK DRAWING OF WOMAN WITH TORSO UP IN THE AIR AS IF STANDING ON HER HANDS
Signed and Dated 1949 by Gross on the lower right of image. Very tastefully matted and framed under glass. Image is 7-1/2 x 10 inches. Matting border is dark brown, rest of matting is tan. Frame measures 11-1/2 inches x 14-1/2 inches. Frame is pale unpainted wood. Fine. (a21211)
$450.00 Hautecoeur, Louis . L'ARTISTE ET SON OEUVRE ESSAI SUR LA CREATION ARTISTIQUE TOME II, TOME II
Paris 1972, 1973. Fondation Wildenstein Gazette des Beaux-arts Paris. In French. 2 volumes. 4to., 152pp., 170pp., illustrated, stiff wraps. VG. Set of two. (a49547)
$90.00 Kalish, Max . LABOR SCULPTURE
NY 1938 1st Kalish. Introduction by Emily Genauer. Ltd to 500 copies. 4to., short text plus 43 photo plates of Kalish's sculptures of rubust working men which are designed to honor the working man and to further radical politics, hardcover. Signed by Alice Kalish. Near Fine, no DJ. (a6360)
$125.00 Kootz, Samuel M . NEW FRONTIERS IN AMERICAN PAINTING
NY 1943-3rd Architectural Book Printing. 4to., 65pp., illustrated in color and bw. VG. minor cover wear, no DJ. (a9306)
$45.00 Larkin, Oliver. . ART AND LIFE IN AMERICA
NY 1949 1st Rinehart. Ehresmann #1093; Chamberlain #758. 8vo., 547pp., monochrome illustrations, hardcover. Good, no DJ. (f184)
$29.00 Leger, Fernand . LA FORME HUMAINE DANS L'ESPACE
Montreal 1945-1st Les Editions de l'Arbre. Sm4to., 96pp., plus 38 pages of text, wraps. Near VG. (a15827)
$35.00 Lewis, Wyndham . THE DEMON OF PROGRESS IN THE ARTS
Chicago 1955. 8vo., 97pp., illus. Interesting pencil sketch of a hand on rear fly leaf.VG in chipped DJ. (a26658)
$40.00 Maduro, Renaldo . ARTISTIC CREATIVITY IN A BRAHMIN PAINTER COMMUNITY
Berkeley 1976 1st Center for South and Southest Asia Studies University of California. Research Monograph 14. Foreward by Gerald Berreman. 4to., (14), 222pp.,, wraps with black cloth spine. VG, light wear. Scarce. (a71892)
$125.00 Marriott, Charles . MODERN MOVEMENTS IN PAINTING
London 1920 1st Chapman and Hall. 8vo., 268pp., monochrome and a few color illustrations, index, printed hardcover. Owner signed. Good, large chip on rear blank, some light foxing throughout. (a52785)
$20.00 Millard, Alfred . ASPECTS OF ART AND PHILOSOPHY IDEAS ABOUT EXISTENCE
NY 1960 1st Exposition. 8vo., 123pp. Fine in Good DJ. (a30753)
$39.00 Morris, William . HOPES AND FEARS FOR ART
Boston 1882 1st America, Roberts. Hardcover. Sm.8vo., 217pp., decorated bluegreen cloth with design in brown and lettering in gilt. Lacks half title. Good, light wear. (a52323)
$39.00 Mourey, Jean-Pierre . FIGURATIONS DE L'ABSENCE RECHERCHES ESTHETIQUES SOUS LA REPONSABILITE DE JEAN-PIERRE MOUREY
1987 Universite de Saint-Etienne. Travaux LX. In French. 8vo., 149pp., illus., wraps. VG. (a44956)
$45.00 Munro, Thomas . THE MARXIST THEORY OF ART HISTORY SOCIO-ECONOMIC DETERMINISM AND THE DIALECTICAL PROCESS
1960. Offprint from Journal of Aesthetics. Octavo, pp.430-445. original printed blue wraps. VG, light wear. (a66869)
$30.00 Ostrower, Fayga . CRIATIVIDADE E PROCESSOS DE CRIACAO
Rio de Janeiro 1977 Imago. 8vo., 186pp., some illustrations, wraps. Good, some cover wear. (a29278)
$25.00 Pach, Walter . ART MUSEUM IN AMERICA ITS HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENT
NY 1948 1st Pantheon. Sm.4to., 300pp., index, cloth. A few pencil checkmarks and notes in one chapter. VG, minor cover edge wear, in Fair DJ, chipped and worn. (a11430)
$25.00 Read, Herbert . ORIGINS OF FORM IN ART
NY 1965 1st Horizon. Hardcover. Octavo, 207pp., index, cloth. Fine in Good DJ, some wear and stains. (a13899)
$35.00 Richards, I. A.; C. K. Ogden and James Wood . THE FOUNDATIONS OF AESTHETICS
NY 1925 1st Lear. Octavo,, 92pp., illustrationd, red cloth hardcover. Good plus, light spine wear and fading, no DJ. (a30883)
$20.00 Rosenberg, Harold . ARTWORKS AND PACKAGES
NY 1969 1st Horizon. Hardcover 4to., 232pp., color and monochrome illustrations, cloth. VG, no DJ. (a33421)
$32.00 Rothschild, Edward F. . THE MEANING OF UNINTELLIGBILITY IN MODERN ART
Chicago 1934 1st. Renaisance Society of University of Chicago. Small octavo, 103pp., illustrations, wraps. VG. (a40561)
$75.00 Ruskin, John . A JOY FOR EVER (AND ITS PRICE IN THE MARKET) BEING THE SUBSTANCE WITH ADDITIONS OF TWO LECTURES ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ART
NY 1891 Merrill. Brantwood Edition. Introduction by Charles Eliot Norton. 12mo., 253pp., green cloth hardcover. Good, new endpapers. (a69148)
$35.00 Sargent, Frederick Leroy . A WORKING SYSTEM OF COLOR FOR STUDENTS OF ART AND NATURE
NY 1927 Holt. Hardcover. 4to., 97pp., 11 color and monochrome plates on heavy stock, index, cloth. Bookplate. Good plus, spine faded, light cover wear, no DJ. (a25343)
$45.00 Schaefer-Simmern, Henry . UNFOLDING OF ARTISTIC ACTIVITY ITS BASIS, PROCESSES AND IMPLICATIONS
Berkeley 1948 1st University of California. Foreword by John Dewey. 4to., 201pp., glossy illustrations, color frontis, printed hardcover. Good, cover soiled, no DJ. (a50853)
$39.00 Schillinger, Joseph . THE MATHEMATICAL BASIS OF THE ARTS
New York 1948 1st Philosophical Library. Sm.4to., hardcover. VG in Good DJ, a bit worn, long closed tear. (a63646)
$138.00 Sorokin, Pitirim . SOCIAL AND CULTURAL DYNAMICS VOLUME 1: FLUCTUATIONS OF FORMS OF ART .
NY 1937 1st American Book Co. Large octavo, 745pp., hardcover. VG, spine lettering faded away. no DJ. (a69441)
$29.00 Swoboda, K. M. . NEUE AUFGABEN DER KUNSTGESCHICHTE
Brunn no date (c. 1945) Rohrer. In German. Octavo, 133pp., illustrations, hardcover. **Presentation copy signed by the Verfasser. VG, small stain on fore-edges not affecting margins of pages. (a41291)
$42.00 Levine, Harry . CLINICAL CYTOGENETICS
Boston 1971. 4to., 572pp., photo illus., index, boards. Fine, o DJ. (a39822)
$100.00 Tsuji, Shigebumi . POLYPHONIA VISIBILUS. I THE STUDY OF NARRATIVE LANDSCAPE
Osaka 1989. Memoirs of the Faculty of Letters, Osaka University Vol. XXIX, March 1989. Lg,8vo., 121pp., photo illustrated plates, wraps. VG, minor soiling on cover. (a24116)
$65.00 van der Leeuw, Gerardus . SACRED AND PROFANE BEAUTY: THE HOLY IN ART
NY 1963 1st Holt. Preface by Mircea Eliade. Translated by Daivd Green. Hardcover. Octavo, 357pp., index, cloth. VG plus in Good DJ, worn. (a12557)
$50.00 Ward, James . COLOUR HARMONY AND CONTRAST
London 1912 Second Edition. Lg.8vo., 140pp., color illus., index, decorative boards. Small owner label on front free blank. VG. (a37419)
$90.00 Wilenski, R. H. . MODERN MOVEMENT IN ART
NY n.d. 2nd Stokes. Hardcover. Octavo, 237pp., photo illustrations, index, cloth. Good, spine ends and corners worn (a12570)
$35.00