Search Results: American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945 from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1987. 108 pages, all illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Clip-Art book unused & complete. Verified upon shipping. "Authentic copyright-free graphics: Christmas trees, Spanish dancers, tightrope walkers, hundreds more. Spotlight fashion, entertainment, education, holidays, more." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1984. 240 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. A chronological presentation, well illustrated.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1984. 240 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Good+. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Age toning. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. A chronological presentation, well illustrated.. Paperback. Good. 4to.

New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2001. Pictorial boards, 136 pages, colour illustrations; 33 cm. Exhibition held at Spanierman Gallery, New York, October 15 to December 31, 2001. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Collectible.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1991. vi, 64, 33 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. First work originally published: Craftsman furniture. Eastwood, NY: Craftsman Workshops, 1912. Second work originally published: The Craftsman. New York: Craftsman Department of Interior Furnishings, 1915. Tight, clean copy. "With over 200 detailed illustrations and descriptions, these two catalogs are essential reading and reference materials and identification guides for Stickley furniture. Among the items depicted and described are chairs, rockers, stools, settles, desks, library tables, music cabinets, drop-leaf tables, nests of tables, chests of drawers, sideboards, china cabinets and dressing tables. Captions cite materials, dimensions and prices." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York and Utica, NY: Henry Street Settlement; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, 1963. 212 pages, illustrations, plates (some colour); 28 cm. Reconstruction of the Armory Show (International exhibition of modern art, organized by the Association of American Painters and Sculptors) exhibited at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, February 17 to March 31 and at the Armory of the 69th Regiment, New York, April 6 to 28, 1963. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Expected browning. CONTENTS: Foreword, by Edward H. Dwight; Acknowledgments, by Joseph S. Trovato; Lenders to the 50th anniversary exhibition; Sponsors for the 50th anniversary exhibition; Henry Street Settlement Creative Arts Center; Illustrations. Color; European artists; American artists; Works included in the 1913 exhibition whose present owners are unknown; Articles and memorabilia. The Armory Show in retrospect, by Milton Brown 1963; Statements by artists 1963; Preface to the catalog for the International Exhibition of Modern Art, 1913;… Read More

Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art;, 1964. Rebound in library boards, 95 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Exhibition held October 6 to November 15, 1964. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings. No writing in text. A cross-section of modernist painting in 1914, chiefly Cubism and Futurism.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.

Cologne: Konemann, 1998. 393 pages, chiefly illustrations; 18 cm. Text in English, German and French. Near fine. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1979. Cloth, 370 pages, [8] leaves of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. "More than a mere overview of what may well be the most crucial year in American history, and not at all a nostalgia trifle, 1929 is a dramatic tale of a nation leading the rest of the world into the twentieth century--brilliantly aware of the surge of energy that has made it the leading world power, and yet blind to the destiny that waits in the caverns of Wall Street." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Cologne: Konemann, 1998. 393 pages, chiefly illustrations; 18 cm. Text in English, German and French. Near fine. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo.

New York: Avon Books, 1996. xiv, 418 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, map; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. First paperback edition. "In 1939, exhausted by a decade-long depression, Americans faced a brewing European conflict that would prove to be the most destructive war in history. At this dark juncture, a World's Fair was held in New York City that evoked such acute hope in its promise of a glorious future that a whole generation was drawn to it and transformed by its vision. People came from all over the world to see the fair, and it was not uncommon for many to attend ten, twenty, even thirty times. There, the awed spectators gazed at a utopian world of superhighways, spacious suburbs and other technological wonders. As David Gelernter brilliantly recounts in 1939, it was a future that has largely come to pass, but one that, in its realization, has drained us of the very pride and hope that were so palpable at the fair itself. In 1939, Gelernter gives us a virtual reality… Read More

Cologne: Konemann, 1998. 393 pages, chiefly illustrations; 18 cm. Text in English, German and French. Near fine. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 12mo.

New York: Hammer Galleries, 1990. 11 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Colour plates works by: Kenneth Frazier, John White Alexander, William MacGregor Paxton, William Morris Hunt, Henry Siddons Mowbray, and Robert Knight Ryland. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Hammer Galleries, 1989. [24] pages, colour illustrations; 22 x 28 cm. Previous owner's signature/inside front cover, otherwise fine.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

New York: David R. Godine Publisher in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1976. Cloth, 350 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. A Bicentennial exhibition organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, shown from March 16 to September 26, 1976. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by noted American sculptor Chaim Gross, with a sketch and personalized inscription. A very good copy, age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. The price of this unique book is not negotiable. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. CONTENTS: Sponsor's introduction, by David Rockefeller; Foreword, by Tom Armstrong; Aboriginal art, by Norman Feder; Images of a nation in wood, marble and bronze: American sculpture from 1776 to 1900, by Wayne Craven; The innocent eye: American folk sculpture, by Tom Armstrong; Statues to sculpture: from the nineties to the thirties, by Daniel Robbins; Magician's game: decades of transformation,… Read More

New York: Whitney Library of Design for the Architectural League of New York and the American Federation of Arts, 1993. x, 214 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. Stated First Printing.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Random House, 2014. xvii, 696 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The 1940s are the watershed decade of the twentieth century, a time of trauma and upheaval but also of innovation and profound and lasting cultural change. This is the era of Fat Man and Little Boy, of FDR and Stalin, but also of Casablanca and Citizen Kane, zoot suits and Christian Dior, Duke Ellington and Edith Piaf. The 1940s were when The New Yorker came of age. A magazine that was best known for its humor and wry social observation would extend itself, offering the first in depth reporting from Hiroshima and introducing American readers to the fiction of Vladimir Nabokov and the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop. In this enthralling book, masterly contributions from the pantheon of great writers who graced The New Yorker's pages throughout the decade are placed in history by the magazine's current writers.… Read More

Madison, CT: Sound View Press, 1991. Cloth, 256 pages, illustrations; 24 x 31 cm. Produced in a limited edition in conjunction with an exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Leaves rippling a little along the tail edge. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Oblong.

New York: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003. xxii, 537 pages, illustrations, genealogical table; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Founder of the Museum of Modern Art. "The first complete biography of Abby Rockefeller, founder of the Museum of Modern Art and the woman who shaped the character and destiny of one of America's most powerful families." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Random House, 1993. xv, 537 pages, illustrations, genealogical table; 25 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. Founder of the Museum of Modern Art. "The story of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, wife of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and mother of six: Babs, John III, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop, and David. Along with two other women, she took the first step toward founding what was to become the Museum of Modern Art." - Publisher. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.