American / 3. Neo-Classical & Romantic from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press in association with the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2006. x, 236 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "American ABC", held at Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, February 1 to May 7, 2006; Smithsonian American… Read more about this item

New York and London: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc.; Christie's, 1979. Cloth, xviii, 249 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated with works by the English exponent of Neoclassicism.. *** Please note: ISBN conflicts with another book. The title of… Read more about this item

Washington D. C.: National Gallery of Art, 2004. viii, 166 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 9 May to 10 October 2004. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "John Wilmerding was curator of American art and senior curtor 1977-1983 and… Read more about this item

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999-2001 Cloth, 2 volumes, pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. COMPLETE SET. Both volumes in fine condition. Dust jackets protected in mylar covers. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Volume 1. A Catalogue of Works by Artists born before 1865; Volume 2. A Catalogue of Works by Artists born between 1865 and… Read more about this item

New York and Hanover, NH: Morgan Library & Museum: Foundation for Landscape Studies; University Press of New England, 2016. Cloth, 207 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps, facsimiles, colour portraits; 29 cm. Exhibition held at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 17 June to 11 September 2016. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover.… Read more about this item

New York: Vintage Books; Random House, 2015. xxii, 615 pages, illustrations, maps; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "The epic story of the rise and fall of the empire of cotton, its centrality in the world economy, and its making and remaking of global capitalism. Sven Beckert's rich, fascinating book tells the story of how, in a remarkably brief period, European… Read more about this item

Catskill, NY and New Haven, CT: Thomas Cole National Historic Site in association with Yale University Press, 2018. x, 179 pages, illustrations (some colour), facsimiles; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition of the same name held at Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, New York from May 1 to November 4, 2018. Published with assistance from the Willow Springs… Read more about this item

Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2005. 48 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, "A Tribute to Paul Mills: A Life in Art Remembered," July 16 to October 2, 2005. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 1999. 296 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 31 cm. English Edition. Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, March 17 to June 20, 1999. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "A specifically American form of art emerged in… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1991. xvi, 250 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. On 19th-century American genre painting, with precursors Alvan Fisher, Francis Guy, John L. Krimmel, and the more famous mid-19th-century practitioners such as William Sidney Mount,… Read more about this item

Santa Monica, CA, and Chicago, IL: Getty Center for the History of Art and Humanities, 1993. Cloth, 360 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Ideas & Debates Series. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: American genesis: the landing of Christopher Columbus, by Barbara Groseclose; Copley, West, and… Read more about this item

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2006. xxiii, 303 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First paperback edition. "Voices from the dark, or 'gothic,' side of American life are well known through the work of writers such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. But who were the Poes… Read more about this item

New York: Crowell-Collier Press, 1969. Pictorial cloth boards, 186 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. 558 pages, [48] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "David McCullough tells the story of the American artists and scientists who studied in Paris, and changed America… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2011. Cloth, xiii, 249 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "This is the first comprehensive study of an important but largely unknown part of the history of American art: the materials and techniques used by American painters. It is based on extensive research into primary… Read more about this item

Washington D.C.: Published for the National Museum of American Art by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985. 120 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 28 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., January 15 to April 7, 1985. Circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES). Firm binding, clean… Read more about this item

Muskegon and Detroit, MI: Muskegon Museum of Art and the Detroit Historical Museum, 1987. 216 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. A sesquicentennial exhibition commemorating Michigan statehood, 1837-1987 at the Muskegon Museum of Art, the Detroit Historical Museum. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.… Read more about this item

Washington D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1992. ix, 84 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. CONTENTS: The first capitol dome; The new dome; "Honor, name, family": the Megis-Walter troubles; The dome's redesign of 1859; Contract and war clouds; "That magnificent dome".. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2004. Half-Cloth, x, 514 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in New York from France in 1803, his illegitimacy a painful secret, speaking no English but already drawing and observing birds. We… Read more about this item

Evanston, IL: Terra Museum of American Art, 1981. 32 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, December 19, 1981 to March 14, 1982. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.