Search Results: Art from Veery Books

Munchen: Gallerie Wolfgang Ketterer Munchen, 1985. 83 pp. 957 lots. Allgemeine Kunstgeschichte lots 1-322; Glas, Keramik, Porzelian, lots 323-264; Zeitschriften und Jahrbucher, lots 365-406; Buchwesen und Bibliographien lots 407-428; Varia, lots 429-494; Kunstler Monographien lots 495-750; Schone Literatur und Illustrierte Bucher, lots 751-957. General Art History, Glass, Ceramic, Porcelain, Journals, Yearbooks, Bibliology, Bibliography, Artist's Monographs, Fine literature and illustrated books.. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall:.

175 pp. First edition, first printing. A clean, near fine volume price-clipped at the top although the price ($75) is found at the bottom of the front flap. Previous owner signed and dated (1968) on the half title. The dust jacket was torn completely from top to bottom of the spine, then stored folded within the book. The tear has since been repaired with japan paper to be practically unnoticeable from the outside. The crease on the front is visible, and is now protected in an archival wrap, but doesn't really detract from the stunning effect of the presentation. The interior is about fine. The reproduction of the art was done at Triton Press in New York, typography by Rudolf Ruzicka. Union Camp Corporation printed the engraved plates in Englewood, New Jersey, Robert Clive is responsible for the layout. The paper is University Text, cover fabric Bolton Buckram, and the book was bound by A, Horowitz & Son in Clifton, New Jersey. Fine crafting still making a good impression.

London: Eyre Methuen Limited, 1978. unpag. The slightest wear to wraps of an otherwise fine example. ''Warning: If you are of an artistic disposition and didn't know that animators do it for the money this book may shock you! If you always believed that cartoon films were put together from hundreds of thousands of painstaking drawings this book may disturb you!! If you have always thought of Angelo Bronzino as no more than a respected master of Tuscan Mannerism this book may confound you!!! If you don't like to see large pneumatic ladies exploding this book may disgust you!!!! In Animations of Mortality Terry Gilliam, aging animator of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, And Now for Something Completely Differenct and the Monty Python TV series; and creator of the film Jabberwocky lays bare for the first time the twisted and sordid little secrets of the Wonderful World of Animation.''. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Terry Gilliam. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

150 pp. 36 plates, some with full-page details, numerous figures, some in color. Nine pages of 3.5- x 2.5-inch thumbs reproducing more than 60 pages of ms. Prison notes. Folio [14.75 x 14 inches]; VG/F. Matte black dust jacket makes a good impression however shows minor rubbing and bumping easily, else fine. Foreword and acknowledgements—Kimberly Rorschach and Jock Reynolds; Preface—Robert Rosenkranz; Palimpsest: nearby Mu Xin—Alexandra Munroe; Landscape painting at the end of time—Richard M. Barnhart; Mu Xin and twentieth-century Chinese painting—Jonathan Hay; Reading Mu Xin: an exile without a past—Wu Hung; Tower within a tower: Landscape paintings, Prison notes [Mu Xin]; Passages from the Prison notes—translated by Toming Jun Liu; A dialogue with Mu Xin—Toming Jun Liu; Mu Xin: an annotated bibliography. The 33 landscape paintings and the prison notes were produced in the late 1970s during the Cultural Revolution in China while he was imprisoned and then under house arrest. "Mu Xin… Read More

Montevideo: Comision Nacional de Homenaje a Artigas, 1952. 49 pp. 123 pp. photographic illus., facs. Contents: Address of the president of the commission; Descripcion de las Obras Expuestas: Iconografia de Artigas, Los historiadores de Artigas, Medallas, Documentos; Laminas: Iconografia de Artigas, Medallas, Bibliografia de Artigas, Los Historiadores de Artigas; Documentos graficos relacionados con la inauguracion de la Exposicion y diversos aspectos de la misma. . Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Ursus Books, Ltd., Rare & Scholarly 32 pp. 292 items. A bump to bottom of spine, light wear to edges, otherwise fine. . Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Cover design by Ron Gordon, Abe Brewster, Oliphant Press. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Ursus Books, Ltd., Rare & Scholarly, 1990. 65 pp. 678 items. A faint sticker shadow and a little bump to one corner. Alphabetical by artist. Price list laid in as well as a tear sheet advertisting Bib. des Arts's Rodin Cat. Raisonné and Maeght's Leger Cat. Raisonné, v. 1, both 1990. Wraps. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Paris: Baudon, Ader, Catroux, 1934. 68 pp. plates unpag. XLVIII planches. Spine sunned, missing 2 inches at bottom, general soiling and rubbing to warps. PO has written on front of wraps and noted prices throughout. Pages are lightly darkening at margins. Catalogue des Très Belles Gravures Anciennes Imprimées en couleaurs de Écoles Anglaise et Française; Tableaux Modernes par Diaz et Tassaert, Aquarelle par Lami, Sculptures par Bayre, Carpeaux, Rodin; Tableaux Anciens par J. Brueghel, P.-H. Danloux, L. David, F. Eisen, J.-B.Greuze, F. Guardi, J. Loutherbourg, J. Pillement, H. Robert, Mme Vallayer-Coster, etc.; Objets d'Art et d'Ameublement des XVIIIe Siècles et autres. Faïencses et Porcelaines, Bronzes et Pendules--Lustres et Lanternes, Sièges et Meubles, signés: Blanchard, Nogaret, leLarge, Tilliard, Rémy, Dieudonné, Jullien, Forget, Migeon, Lavisse, Dautriche, Latz, Cressent, Saunier, Garnier, Genty, Boudin, Topino, Vassou,… Read More

Paris: Me F. Lair DuBreuil, M. Louis Godefroy, et M. Lucien Huteau à Paris Hôtel Drouot, 1928. 55 pp. describing 252 lots, 40 bw photographic plates. Some tanning toward margins of descriptive pages. Plates very good. Some soiling and rubbing on rear of wraps. L. . J. Durameau, H. S. Behan, L. N. van Blarenberghe, F. Boucher, Ph. Caresme, J. B. S. Chardin, F. Clouet, J. Cousin, Ecole Francaise XVe Siecle, P. A. Demachy, S. Freudeberg, F. H. Drouais, A. de Saint-Aubin, D. Dumonstier, Ecole d'Andrea del Sarto, J. H. Fragonard, A. van Dyck, Ecole Allemande XVIe Siecle, F. Hals, J. Swart, Ecole Flamande XVIIe Siecle, L. Limosin, H. Franken, C. Jamnitzer, Ecole Persane XVIIe Siecle, C. Gillot, J. B. Huet, H. F. Gravelot, Lagneau, C. Mellan, N. Lancret, J. B. J. Pater, J. A. Portail, A. Moitte, J. B. Oudry, P. P. Rubens, M. Schongauer, A. Watteau, L. Signorelli, and others.. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Four-color offset lithograph on paper. [28⅛ x 23¼ in. (71.4 x 59.2 cm)], one of a printing of 4,000. From a series of four works titled "Column" the others were named Column no. 2 (Picasso 90), Column no. 3 (Chile-F), and Column no. 4 (IB-affair). The title refers to the work's likeness to newspaper columns: full of facts, but a colorfully cartooned map of textual facts. The artist's signature is reproduced in the lower right. Discoloration to white edges, else very good. Still very pleasant to the eye. All posters are presently stored between acid free boards, flat, under weight. They will be shipped rolled, in tubes.

Poster, clay paper. [23⅞ x 16⅜ inches] A ½-inch tear at top not affecting text. Minor abrasions to bottom left. Some general light creases. Very good. Poster announcing a rally to protest the clearing out of vacant apartment buildings near the Berlin Wall. As the physical wall was dismantled and disappeared, vacant apartments next to the no-man's-land of the wall in East Berlin had been occupied, "squatted," by artists, punks, dissidents, and gays; young people with a liberal stance and creative energy. Offi cial clearing of the building by the police was often abetted by neo-nazi and fascist parties who participated in the harassment of the squatters.All posters are presently stored between acid free boards, flat, under weight. They will be shipped rolled, in tubes.

Woodcut, in black ink, hand colored. [23 x 17½ inches] Moderately heavy matte stock. Very Good to fine. " 'Diagonal Man' goes to a sort of employment agency and is assigned to the job of a trash man."—Philadelphia Daily News. Some waviness. Bright white background. Little wear. Pleasant to the eye. All posters are presently stored between acid free boards, flat, under weight. They will be shipped rolled, in tubes.

Woodcut, in black ink, hand colored. [23 x 17½ inches] Moderately heavy matte stock. Very Good. " 'Diagonal Man' goes to a sort of employment agency and is assigned to the job of a trash man."—Philadelphia Daily News. Some waviness. Evenly toned, with a little edgewear and pinholes. Still pleasant to the eye. All posters are presently stored between acid free boards, flat, under weight. They will be shipped rolled, in tubes.

164 pp. Elephant Folio (17.75 x 15 inches; 7 lbs, 12 oz) In the original box. Preliminary leaves show some waviness, perhaps from the mechanics of the connection to the endpapers. Else, a fine green cloth volume with gilt lettering in a fine dust jacket. The printing of this third edition was finished on April 25, 1991, in the workshops of Impresora Formal. José Sánchez Aguilar supervised the printing and Encaudernación Sauri bound the edition, which consists of 3,000 copies. With 114 illustrations including two foldout plates.

Toronto, 1967. 53 pp. including 16 b&w plates. 120 items. Light bumping to fore edge, inside fine. Contents: Introduction; Pharmacists and Apothecaries; Pharmacists Dispensing Medicines; Doctors Giving Medicine to Patients; John Bull and His Doctors; Patients Taking Medicines; The Taste of Medicines; Individual Subjects--Portraits; Individual Subjects--Caricatures; James Morison; Quacks and Quackery; Advertising; The Drug Store; Drug Store Interiors; Diseases and Illnesses; Death; Other Subjects. ''The group chosen for display in this exhibit includes caricatures, portraits, broadsides, and labels; there is even a card from a Victorian Peep Show. The prints include woodcuts, engravings and etchings, lithographs, and drawings. The people included range from the well-known (Napoleon, Gladstone, and Presidents Cleveland and McKinley) to the obscure; Many of the prints have some political significance while others comment on some of the social or professional problems of the day.''… Read More

Paris: Librairie Floury, 1936. iv pp., 24 pp.+ 65 plates, 5 pp. Table d'illustrations, 1 p. adv. 1 p. colophon. Two color plates. A detail of Bonparte on the Arcole bridge reproduced on the front wrap in color. The spine and rear wrap are missing, front wrap with wear to edges and missing a piece impinging of decorative border. Internally good, sewing loose, but holding, with light tanning to page edges. Works by Antoine-Louis Barye (Tigre Royal Couche, Portrait de Jeune Fille); Boissard de Boisenier(Episode de retraite de Russie); Richard Parkes Bonington (Son portrait par lui-meme, La statue du Colleone a Venise); Nicolas-Toussaint Charlet (La retraite de Russie); Thomas Couture (Les promises); Jacques-Louis David (Portrait de Mme Vigee-Le Brun, Marat; Le conventionnel, Gerard eet sa Famille; La Maraichere, Le Jardin du Luxembourg); Ferdinand-Victor-Eugene Delacroix (Portrait de Leon Riesener; Dante et Virgile aux Enfers; La Femme au perroquet); Francois-Pascal Simon Gerard (Le salon de Gerard;… Read More

Oblong quarto (8.25 x 11 in.) A fine book in blue cloth with a fine dust jacket. 114 full-color illustrations. "When Darger died in 1973 at the age of 81, he left behind an astonishing cache of art, shocking in both its content and its sheer size. . . . These works are the product of a fertile yet tormented imagination of a secretive Chicago janitor who has since been recognized as one of the supreme self-taught artists of the 20th century."—jacket blurb. This volume catalogs the exhibit (December 2001–June 2002), Darger: The Henry Darger Collection at the American Folk Museum, New York, showing their recent acquisition of 37 paintings.Veery Books will donate 30 percent of all sales from the Biblio Live book fair to the Ukrainian Museum, 222 East 6th Street, New York, New York—to the memory of Irena, and to support the Ukrainian people and their culture.

Munich: Bruckmann 104. pp. Soiling to white wraps and bump/crease to bottom outside corner. Articles, poems in Spanish and sometimes German. Richly illustrated. Includes: Romualdo Brughetti--Alumbramiento; Ernesto Sabato--Hombre e Mujer, Consideraciones y re-consideraciones; Moderne argentinische Dichtung: Eduardo Romano, Raul Yurkievich, Miguel Angel Bustos, Horacio Salas; Dieter Janig--Arte y realidad; Hans Paul Bahrdt--Posibilidades de la educacion estetica en nuestro tiempo; Hildegard Urner--La sombra; Dora Isella Russell--El siglo de Rainer Maria Rilke Con motivo del cenentario de su naciamento; Hombres de teatro: Vida y opiniones de la fotografa--Rosemarie Clausen; Bartomeu Melia y Olga Blinder Aquellos--Pai-Tavyvera que por primera vez dibujaron; Estuardo Nunez--La ciencia alemana y los fundamentos de la investigacion peruanista; Atahualpa Yupanqui--Indianische Gedichte; Ramiro Lagos Castro--Hispanoamerica, Brasil e Angloamerica; Mario de Andrade--Modistinnen; Siegfried Melchinger--El placer… Read More

Montevideo, Uruguay: Planta Alta Derecha del Teatro Solis, 1946. 20 pp. unpag. 25 plates unpag. Wraps rubbed, chipped and discolored. Some foxing to prelims. Last plate tanning from contact with wraps. Some pages with tiny folds at bottom of foreedge. Prints and drawings of Guilliermo C. Rodriguez, Humberto Frangella, Pedro Miguel Astapenco, Jose Lanzaro, Amalia Nieto, Luis Alberto Solari, Domingo de Santiago, Roberto Orlando, Jose Cuneo, Luis Mazzei, Petrona Viera, Federico Moller de Berg, Nicolas Cuparo, Oscar Garcia Reino, Cesar A. Pesce Castro, Homero Bais, Adolfo Pastor, Raul Veroni, Maria Carmen Portela, S. Calabrese, Victor Rebuffo, Hemile M. Saforcada, Lino Spilimbergo, Juan Carlos Castagnino, Demetrio Urruchua, Eduardo Vernazza, Manuel Dominguez Nieto, Angelia Togores de Bordabehere, Jose G. Padilla, and Hilda E. S. O'Donoghue. Altogether, very nice repros of some unusual drawings and prints.. Wraps. Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Munchen: Karl u. Faber, 1969. 326 pp.+Besitzeverzeichnis+6 color plates. Six sections: 15-17th centuries, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, Veduten, Dekorative Graphik. Each section is ordered by artist. Hundreds of bw illus. including Cranach, Durer, Goltzius, van Leyden, van Rijn, Piranesi, Tiepolo, Delacroix, Pissarro, Redon, Beckmann, Braque, Chagall, Corinth, Feininger, Heckel, Kirchner, Klimt, Kollwitz, Liebermann, Macke, Nolde, Pfeiffer-Watenphul, and Vlaminck.. Wraps. Good+. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.