Search Results: Titles starting with J from Browsing Is Arousing

NY: Watson Guptill, 1974. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Beautiful copy of this detailed study of the American illustrator. Color, black & white plates. 206 pages. In a bight, unclipped dust jacket. Record # 63208

NY: Abrams, 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 256 pages. One of the most prolific and successful artists of the Golden Age of American Illustration, J. C. Leyendecker captivated audiences throughout the first half of the 20th century. Leyendecker is best known for his creation of the archetype of the fashionable American male with his advertisements for Arrow Collar. These images sold to an eager public the idea of a glamorous lifestyle, the bedrock upon which modern advertising was built. He also was the creator instantly recognizable icons, such as the New Year’s baby and Santa Claus, that are to this day an integral part of the lexicon of Americana and was commissioned to paint more Saturday Evening Post covers than any other artist. Leyendecker lived for most of his adult life with Charles Beach, the Arrow Collar Man, on whom the stylish men in his artwork were modeled. The first book about the artist in more than 30 years, J. C. Leyendecker features his masterworks, rare… Read More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 181 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Record # 4450231

University of Nebraska Press, 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 279 pages, 227 plates. Traces the life of the Wyoming photographer and shows his pictures of people, landscapes, stories, street scenes, churches, farms, homes and businesses of the West Record # 362805

Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a dust jacket with minor fade to top edge. 348 pages including index. Sir James G. Frazer's The Golden Bough, first published in 1890, was the first work in English to understand the religion of classical antiquity in the context of primitive religion. Its dramatic impact on the history of ideas lasted well into the twentieth century, in its association of religious myths with the more primitive forms of ritual and magic generated by the 'savage mind', identified as a common misunderstanding of the scientific laws governing the natural world. This highly acclaimed biography is a comprehensive study of Frazer's life, the influences on his work, and its wide-ranging implications for modern anthropology, classics, cultural history and folklore. clean copy. Record # 380346

Secaucus NJ: Poplar Books, 1979. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, blue cloth covers in a bright dust jacket. Thick, heavy book, 527 pages, 1580 illustrations including 60 in color, bibliography, concordances, index and list of owners. This book contains complete title-catalog of all paintings and the most comprehensive catalog of the watercolors ever published including over 1500 items in public and private collections. Catalog Raisonne. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Record # 383217

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 419 pages. Hardcover with photographs, illustrations of woodcuts, engravings in bw. Brown cloth boards & black titles to spine. Light marginal foxing to top edge. Dust jacket with toning to spine & light wear to edges. Clean & tight copy. Record # 3340110

Princeton NJ: Pyne Press, 1971. 1st reprint. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover. A complete reprint of the Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Copper Weathervanes manufactured by J.W. Fiske, New York. Probably the best reprint ever done of an old weathervane catalog. This catalog features well over 200 black and white illustrations of weathervanes, finials, lightning rods, and stable fittings with the original introduction to the catalog as well as an informative history of the company in back. Also included is a list of collections, and a great bibliography. Fiske was one of the premier weathervane makers of their time and this book accurately portrays many of their designs with original size and pricing information. Clean copy. Record # 384937

New York: Hudson River Press, 1977. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 136 pages. Hardcover with lightly rubbed dust jacket. B&w and color illustrations throughout. The first comprehensive and fully illustrated study of two of the most important 19th-century American marine painters; twins John and James Bard. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Blue pictorial dust jacket, edge wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 605507

New York: Henry Holt, 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 288 pages. Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY GRAFTON. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to edges. Record # 360842

Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Jack Jackson . 313 pages, hardcover. Extensive b&w illustrations throughout. Illustrated title page and frontispiece. Rubbing to corners, otherwise clean, tight copy. Jack Jackson, who is credited with creating what many consider the first underground comic, God Nose, also cartooned a legacy of historical graphic novels that has never been equaled. He was a Texan, and in the 1970s he began writing and drawing short historical comics about Texas history. He then went on to produce six graphic novels chronicling 19th century Western history focusing on his beloved Texas and the Plains Indians. Fantagraphics is proud to bring his graphic histories back into print in a series of three volumes, each reprinting two of his long narratives. The first volume features Los Tejanos, which Fantagraphics published as a solo book in 1981, and Lost Cause (1998) — chronicling Texas history before and after the Civil War. Los Tejanos is the story… Read More

New Haven CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. "Fifty years after Kennedy's death, this book observes the public's reaction to the president's election and assassination, featuring many photographs published here for the first time. In his travels throughout America during this period, Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) encountered these responses and photographed what he witnessed. From Washington, D.C., to Buffalo to Minneapolis to Los Angeles, Friedlander has captured a moment in American history that galvanized the nation and continues to resonate today." 48 b&w images by Friedlander. Record # 362175

New Haven CT: Yale University Art Gallery, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. "Fifty years after Kennedy's death, this book observes the public's reaction to the president's election and assassination, featuring many photographs published here for the first time. In his travels throughout America during this period, Lee Friedlander (b. 1934) encountered these responses and photographed what he witnessed. From Washington, D.C., to Buffalo to Minneapolis to Los Angeles, Friedlander has captured a moment in American history that galvanized the nation and continues to resonate today." 48 b&w images by Friedlander. Record # 352507

Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago ; New Haven, Conn. : Distributed by Yale University Press, 2012. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The story of Jindrich Heislter--a Jewish surrealist who remained in Czechoslovakia and continued to produce art during the Nazi occupation is fascinating. It's particularly worth comparing to many of the European surrealists, who fled to the safety of the United States for the duration. Heisler's art has moments of greatness, particularly his unique cliche-verres, but the vast majority of it is third-rate (if that) surrealist photo-tableaux, art school poetry, object assemblages, and horror vacui typography. Record # 350915

Williston, VT: Hanley-Wood LLC, 2003. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 384 pages. Softcover with spiral bound. Light wear to paper cover. Clean copy. With DVD. Record # 369414

Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art , 1970. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hardcover, 100 pages, colored paper over boards in lettered glassine wrapper. 10¾ x 9¼" 27 pages of text, 89 illustrations - 12 in color. Introduction by Sheldon Reich. Lengthy essay by Larry Curry. Catalog lists 157 works. Selected bibliography. A significant exhibition. Glassine wrapper worn, frayed, book is clean, very good. Record # 371505

New York: Abrams Image, 2010. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 111 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Illustrated end papers and fly leaves. Clean, tight copy. Beginning in the early 1970s, Joseph Szabo started capturing the melting pot of humanity on Jones Beach, one of the busiest strips of sand and ocean in the world with more than six million visitors a year. Among the sea of bodies, Szabo’s camera reveals moments of both quiet introspection and unashamed exuberance. Images of tanned muscle men, catwalk-like displays of beach wear, heavily oiled skin, masses of sprayed hair, and shy adolescents all reveal the dynamics of the beach so close to New York City. Class, race, and other potential divisions are temporarily forgotten, and the perfect and the flawed are portrayed with the same respect and tenderness. Szabo is an internationally acclaimed artist whose last two books (Teenage, Almost Grown) have influenced and been admired by a whole generation of… Read More

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco , 1995-97. 1st thus. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Seven hardcover volumes, all in bright, unclipped dust jackets.Vol. 3 with a remainder line on bottom edge otherwise all clean copies with no markings. Titles: Run To The Mountain; Entering The Silence; A Search For Solitude; Turning Toward The World; Dancing In The Water Of Life; Learning To Love; The Other Side Of The Mountain. Record # 371677

New York: Argosy-Antiquarian Ltd., 1963. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 272 pages. limited edition (#10 of 750 copies). A diary of the late Emil Teichmann, edited and with an introduction by his son Oskar. Foreword by Ernest Gruening. Illustrated with b/w drawings and maps. Frontis portrait of author. Top edge stained blue. Blue cloth with gilt pictorial front and gilt lettering on spine. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Record # 220575

NY: Paragon House, 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 274 pages. Black cloth spine over brown boards. First published in 1925. Record # 384879