Search Results: Art from Minotavros Books

West New York, NJ: Mark Batty Publisher, 2004. 1st American Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo (royal). Soft cover. 319 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. CD-ROM included. Fine.

Tokyo, 1970. No Binding. Near Fine/Fine. 11.75" x 15.25" 39 x 29.5 cm folder, with 12 brightly coloured monthly plates. Keisuke Serizawa (1895-1984) was a much celebrated fabric and textile designer. He began issuing calendars, each different from the prior ones, in 1946, and continued to do them until his death. The artwork and appearance of the calendars is highly distinctive, with their dazzling colours, their broad-brush typography, their bold, whimsical, folk-art inspired and often playful imagery ever viewed. In 1956, he was designated as a Living National Treasure by the Japanese government for his kataezome stencil dyeing technique. Some creasing to lower edges of plates, else fine.

Toronto: Art Toronto, 2011. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8" x 9" Soft cover. 328 pp. Fully illustrated in colour. Near fine.

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1997. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo (small). Paperback, 368pp. Illustrated. Light rubbing to spine and extremities, o/w near fine. Celebrating the evolution of design with influential designers Bass, Chermayeff, Glaser, Rand, Tanaka and Tomaszewski.

Toronto: Toronto Bahai Centre, 2000. Soft cover. Fine. 4to (oblong). Green wrappers, [unpaginated]. Illustrated. Light curling to wrappers and some markings but o/w fine. Colour catalogue featuring paintings from the Wol-Ho Korean Painting Class in Toronto, celebrating the seventh exhibition of their paintings.

Kleinburg, ON: McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 1998. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. 10.5" x 9.5" Oblong soft cover. 64 pp. Fully illustrated, mostly in colour. Near fine.

Roma: Carlo Bestetti, Edizioni d'Arte. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to. 1962 & 1964. Pictorial paper boards. Rinascimento: xxii, 368, [8] pp. index. Barocco - Impero: xxvii, 372, [8] pp. index. Fully illustrated, some folding illustrations. Rubbed to extremities, spines slightly darkened and rubbed. In custom burgundy cloth-backed slipcase. 0.

[Montreal]: [Lippel Gallery]. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 7" x 8" N.d., [ca. 196-?]. Text in French and English. Soft cover. Unpaged, [40] pp. Rubbed to covers and extremities. 0.

New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973. Soft cover. Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Praeger World of Art Paperbacks. Second printing. Soft cover. 288 pp. B&W illustration. Some overall age toning, else fine.

Lisbon: Mattos Moreira & C., 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. 4to. Original red cloth binding. 30 p.p. [preface], plus [14] p.p. b/w illustrations. Bookplate on pastedown endpaper. Large stains to front and rear boards. Rubbed to spine, edges and extremities. Pages lightly foxed. Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro (1846-1905) was a popular portuguese artist, who was known for creating the comic book character Ze Povinho (1875), an iconic symbol of the Portuguese everyman. He is credited as being the first creator of Portuguese comics.

Halifax: Nimbus Publishing Limited, 1981. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo (imperial). Orig. tan cloth. 159 pp. Numerous illustrations, mostly B&W but some in colour. Dust jacket is bumped with some light wear to extremities, a few short tears, one 1" tear repaired with tape to head of rear cover.

New York: Allan Stone Galleries, 1968. 1st Edition. No Binding. Near Fine. 18" x 12.5" Bifold poster. Addressed to Dr. C.B. Farrar, fro Allan Stone Galleries, with New York Franking dated Jan 23/68. A few bumps and creases, else fine.

Koln: Taschen, 2000. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Soft cover. 95 pp. Numerous illustrations in text. Fine. With bookmark.

New York: Harper and Row, 1980. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Blue cloth, 248pp. Illustrated. Fine in a fine, clipped d/w. A lovely biography on the turbulent personal life and creative world of Rockwell Kent, American Architect, Painter, Writer, Social Activist and Adventurer.

New York: The Argosy Gallery. Soft cover. Very Good. 7" x 10" N.d., [ca 1953?]. Blue card wraps, staple bound. Unpaginated, [32] pp. B&W photos. Wraps are bumped and lightly sunned at edges. 0.

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2005. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Adams, Bryan [photographs]. 4to. Black cloth, titling blind stamped to spine and front board. Unpaginated, approx. 120 p.p. Stunningly illustrated in B&W. Some minor bumping to extremities of dust jacket, else fine. In November 2003, the musician and photographer Bryan Adams began photographing a cross section of influential American Women dressed in Calvin Klein. Shot mainly in New York and Los Angeles thoughout 2004, American Women is a tribute to the beauty, strength, and character of American women. Actors, journalists, musicians, artists, businesswomen, athletes, and philanthropists are included - the binding theme being that they are American women known for excelling in their field.

Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2005. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Adams, Bryan [photographs]. 4to. Black cloth, titling blind stamped to spine and front board. Unpaginated, approx. 120 p.p. Stunningly illustrated in B&W. In November 2003, the musician and photographer Bryan Adams began photographing a cross section of influential American Women dressed in Calvin Klein. Shot mainly in New York and Los Angeles thoughout 2004, American Women is a tribute to the beauty, strength, and character of American women. Actors, journalists, musicians, artists, businesswomen, athletes, and philanthropists are included - the binding theme being that they are American women known for excelling in their field.

Mineapolis: Walker Art Center for Distribution By the American Artists Group, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 12mo. Orig. tan cloth, 109pp. Illustrated. From the library of C.B. Farrar on pastedown, with orig. front and rear jacket flaps laid-in. Light wear to spine and edges with some soiling to outer hinges, o/w near fine. First of a series of books published by Walker Art Center, and is the product of an exhibition held at Walker Art Center, Detroit Institute of Arts and the Brooklyn Museum in 1945.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Full navy cloth. 199 pp. Fully illustrated in colour and B&W. A few small damp stains to dust jacket, else fine.

Orlando: Harcourt, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Gorey, Edward. 8vo (imperial). Unpaginated. Illustrated blue cloth boards with matching dust jacket. Some bumping and rubbing to extremities, else fine. Illustrated thoughout, some in colour. This latest collection displays in glorious abundance the offbeat characters and droll humor of Edward Gorey. Figbash is acrobatic, topiaries are tragic, hippopotami are admonitory, and galoshes are remorseful in this celebration of a unique talent that never fails to delight, amuse, and confound. "Amphigorey Again "contains previously uncollected work and two unpublished stories--"The Izzard Book," a quirky riff on the letter "Z ," and "La Malle Saignante," a bilingual homage to early French silent serial movies.