Search Results: Authors starting with D from Ultramarine Books

New York: The Orion Press, 1959. 277 pages; 25 b&w illustrations. "Mozart's librettist (and friend), Casanova's friend, the first Professor of Italian Literature at Columbia University." Reads like a novel with a stream of characters and places that the author encounters. Clean throughout; binding tight; boards darkened on edges. Jacket chipped with some material loss at extremities.. Embossed Quarter Cloth. Very Good/Good. 10" x 7".

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. 56 pages; more than 50 plates displaying the gifts of artwork from the couple. Reprint of the MMA Bulletin Spring 2004.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. Museum Bulletin.

London: H. Grevel & Co. no date, c. 1890. Caran d'Ache, the pseudonym of Emmanuel Poiré, a satirist and illustrator, who some credit with creating the first comic book.. Marlborough, 17th-century Duke and soldier, christened John Churchill. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards; duotone or full-color illustrations all bright. Several pages with soil marks at the edges.. First Edition. quarter-cloth-pictorial boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 11" x 8.5".

Koln, 1991. 17 works; essay by Betina Pauly; uber dunnes eis. Signed by Dahn.. Signed by Artist. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. 72 pages; filled with historical phtographs and drawings that document (beginning about 1879) the obelisk in its place in Alexandria to its movement to and onboard a ship, over sea to New York City; ship-to-shore, then to and around the streets and street corners; then to Central Park; then installation. Clean throughout.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. Museum Bulletin.

Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1982. 518 pages; typical National Geographic photography; filled with color photos. Decorated endpapers. Padded red cloth boards are decorated with a gilt dragon; gilt titles on spine; all edges gilt. DeLuxe. Minor soil marks on the front board.. First Edition. Decorated padded cloth. Very Good. 4to.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999. 56 pages, well illustrated in appropriate duotone.Talbot, Hill, Adamson, Calotypes, Fenton, Cameron, daguerrotype MMA Bulletin Spring 1999. . Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. Art periodical.

Birmingham, Alabama: Oxmoor House, 1984. 158 pages; numerous color photographs. The photographer Thase Daniels guides "from Texas to Arkansas to Mississippi to Louisiana to Alabama to Florida to Georgia to the Carolinas and Virginia and the Eastern Shore.". First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York/Philadelphia: The American Federation of Arts / Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1991. 100 pages; 43 works, most illustrated in color; short bibliography. European Themes, American Themes, Gilded Age Fantasies.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue.

New York: Aperture Foundation, 1991. 74 pages; illustrations throughout. Aperture # 124. Philosophies of collecting and collections, including those of Dorothy Norman, Gérard Lévy, Werner Bokelberg, Joshua P. Smith, Stanley B. Burns, M.D., Thomas Walther.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. 162 pages; b&w illustrations. "Danto traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists, and the Factory phenomenon. ... offers close readings of individual Warhol works." The author is art critic for The Nation and professor of philosophy at Columbia. . First Edition. Paper boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Henry Holt/ An Owl Book, 1986. 256 pages; illustrated text; 200 full-page plates, 1915-1979; many portraits; WW II; Fashion.. First Thus. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to.

World of Islam Festival Trust, 1983. 146 pages; 117 illustrations with catalogue entries; Biographies. Islamic design and British enthusiasts who viewed the design as a link to more imaginative architecture. An exhibition at the Leighton House Gallery, London. Clean throughout; tight binding.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover). Very Good. 11 3/4" x 8 1/2". Exhibition Catalogue.

New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1990. 212 pages; numerous b&w images of city socializing, playing, fooling-around. "... draws on two centuries of images by New York's great photographers and artists ... as well as oral histories, diaries, reminiscences, and interviews.". First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 4to.

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1979. 192 pages; 40 color plates; 256 b&w illustrations; all with complete catalog entries, including commentary. An exhibition organized by the National Museum of Korea for a tour of seven museums in the United States. Lower outside corner bumped causing a wrinklle to every page corner and the wrappers.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989. 351 pages; color and b&w illustrations. In collaboration with the New York Public Library this was an exhibition to mark the bicentennial of the French Revolution and the beginning of the French free press in 1789. Robert Darnton , Princeton University and Daniel Roche, University of Paris. Clean and with tight binding.. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover). Very Good. 10" x 7".

New York: Skira / Rizzoli, 1982. 270 pages; 90 color reproductions, 238 in b&w. A comprehensive history of its beginnings, its relation to painting, and its development and evolution. Typivally beautiful Skira production, unblemished in a cardboard Skira slipcase.. First United States Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Folio.

New York: Drake Publishers Ltd, 1971. 260 pages; 48 plates, 134 text illustrations, all b&w. Stone, earth, reed and straw, thatch, wood, burnt brick, terracotta, plaster, cements, stucco, concrete and mortar, asphalt. But, also architectural designs, such as vaults; decoration, such as roof tile and frescoes, glazes; water supply. And more.Clean and bright throughout within; boards soiled; binding tight.. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 9 3/4" x 7".

New York: Bulfinch Press, 2006. 180 pages; 200 illustrations, b&w and color. Prepared for the exhibition mounted by the Smithsonian's Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum. Post Civil War the three painters participated with other in painting, thereby advertising, the landscape of the United States, especially its wonders. National pride took hold and landscape tourism followed. Clean throughout; tight binding. . First Edition. Glossy Printed Boards. Fine/Fine. 11" x 8.75". Exhibition Catalogue.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. 352 pages; 524 plates, including 251 color. Furniture, Silver, Ceramics, Glass, Period Rooms, more. Typically splendid illustrations. Clean throughout; tight binding; pages flay and unmarked.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.