American / 4. Late 19th Century from LEFT COAST BOOKS

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992. Cloth, xxviii, 271 pages, colour illustrations; 31 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket, with a corner crease/front flap, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Folio.

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

Boston, New York, London: Little, Brown and Company; A Bulfinch Press Book, 2002. 303 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This book, the most comprehensive survey ever assembled, takes America's rich heritage of vernacular art out of the… Read more about this item

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1980. xix, 114 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Originally published (1976) under title: The Spirit of Fact. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House, Rochester, February to June 1976; at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, July to December 1976; and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1969. 78 pages, illustrations, portraits; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean text. Wraps soiled, something blacked-out with marker pen on the flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. . 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.

Washington D.C. and New York: Smithsonian Archives of American Art; Princeton Architectural Press, 2007. Cloth, xxiii, 245 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "Words can speak volumes, but, as every letter writer knows, there are times when… Read more about this item

Provo, UT: Brigham Young University Press, 1972. 96 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Exhibition held May 5 to June 4, 1972, at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; June 20 to July 10, 1972, Columbus Museum of Fine Arts, Columbus, Ohio; and September 1 to October 1, 1972, at Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. Good+. Firm binding,… Read more about this item

New York: Dial Press, 1971. Cloth, ix, 277 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Edges lightly soiled, expected browning. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. Luigi Palma di Cesnola (1832-1904), a veteran of the American Civil War, and before that the Austrian and Crimean Wars, was an amateur archaeologist, who… Read more about this item

Recklinghausen: Verlag Aurel Bongers, 1961. Cloth, 193 pages, illustrations (part mounted colour), portrait; 27 cm. Text in German/Text Deutsch. Good+. Firm binding, unmarked. Age toning, edges & endpapers moderately soiled. Dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. Berlin: Kunst und Kunstler seit 1870; Anfange und Entwicklungen = Berlin: Art and Artists since 1870; Beginnings and Developments. .… Read more about this item

New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2003. Pictorial boards, 151 pages, illustrations (some colour); 33 cm. Exhibition held May 8 to June 28, 2003 at Spanierman Gallery, New York. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio. Collectible.

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 Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. ix, 565 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Thomas Eakins was misunderstood in life, his brilliant work earned little acclaim, and hidden demons tortured and drove him. Yet the portraits he painted more than a century… Read more about this item

Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter Museum of Western Art,, 1961. Cloth, xiii, 209 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Catalogue accompanying exhibition presented at Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, and others. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Price-clipped dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Youth and art… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, University of California, 1976. 184 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth, Texas, July 8 to August 22, 1976, and, at the Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, October 12 to December 12, 1976. A… Read more about this item

New York and New Haven, CT: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2009. Cloth, xviii, 222 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 32 cm. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 12, 2009 to January 24, 2010, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 28 to May 23, 2010.… Read more about this item

New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2009. xii, 719 pages, [36] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2009; Winner of Pulitzer… Read more about this item

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995. 128 pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Subtitle on wraps: Folk Art Images of Native Americans. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Profusely illustrated. . Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022. 550 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In this compelling biography, William R. Cross chronicles the life story of the great painter and illustrator Winslow Homer (1836-1910), who captured America in the… Read more about this item

Paris: Musee Jacquemart-Andre, 1963. 56 pages, plates (some colour), portraits (some colour); 26 cm. Erratum slip laid in. Text in French/Texte en français. TRES BON ETAT. Légèrement usé. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. Giovannii Boldini (1842-1931) was a fashionable portrait painter at the turn of the twentieth century. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good.… Read more about this item

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. Cloth, ix, 218 pages, colour illustrations; 29 cm. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The work of portraitist John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) has come to epitomize the glamor and anxiety of his age. In this innovative new study, Bruce… Read more about this item