Genre & Subject / Figure & Nudes from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Marlborough Gallery Inc., 1983. 40 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 30 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Marlborough Gallery Inc., New York, March 5 to April 2, 1983. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994. 232 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings. No writing in text. DJ in mylar. "For a woman in the Western world, there's no escaping beauty. She has it or she doesn't. If she doesn't, she may hope to gain it. If she already has it, she will… Read more about this item

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984. xxi, 458 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Bollingen Series, XXXV, 2. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled. . Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New Haven, CT: Yale Center for British Art, 1981. 101, [10] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, October 14, 1981 to January 3, 1982 and at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, January 29 to March 28, 1982. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light… Read more about this item

Rotterdam: Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, 1990. 48 pages, illustrations; 27 cm. Text in Dutch, English, and French. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 25 November 1990 to 20 January 1991. Firm binding, clean inside copy. . 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Brooklyn Museum; Skira Rizzoli, 2011. Pictorial boards, 304 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, October 28, 2011to January 29, 2012; Dallas Museum of Art, March 4 to May 27, 2012; Cleveland Museum of Art, July 1 to September 16, 2012. BRAND NEW. A fine copy. Still in… Read more about this item

New York: Stravon, 1951. Cloth, 95 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket worn at extremities, with chipping, protected in a mylar cover. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1960. Cloth, 128 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. With photographs and drawings by the author and many other illustrations. First published 1948. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, worn at the crown/spine, protected in a mylar cover. Author Anton Refregier was a notable American artist at mid-century known, among other things, for his… Read more about this item

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1941. Cloth, 221 pages, frontispiece (portrait), illustrations, plates, tables; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear, protected in a mylar book cover. This book, published after Nicolaides' death, shows his pedagogical method at the Art Students' League in NY, where he taught for 15 years.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very… Read more about this item

Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1996. 156 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Originally published: New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1973. Firm binding, unmarked. Moderate shelfwear. "Handy, well-written guide shows how to paint the nude figure in an easy-to-follow series of 24 fully illustrated projects. Materials and equipment; anatomy, proportion; utilization of hues, tones and values; plus how to paint major… Read more about this item

Boston: MFA Publications; Museum of Fine Arts, 2019. Pictorial boards, 111 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 30 cm. Published in conjunction with the exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 13, 2019 to February 23, 2020. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Hyman Bloom (1913-2009)… Read more about this item

New York and Berkeley, CA: Whitney Museum of American Art; University of California Press, 1998. 200 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Exhibition held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, September 25, 1998 to January 3, 1999. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Like many other artists and musicians… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. xiii, 168 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Edges lightly soiled. "Arguably the quintessential work of the High Renaissance in Venice, Titian's Venus of Urbino also represents one of the major themes of western art: the female nude. But how did Titian intend this work to be received? Is she Venus, as… Read more about this item

Venice: Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia, 1980. Cloth, 94 pages, colour illustrations; 25 cm. Text in English, French, and Italian. Exhibition held in Venice in 1980. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, foxing-dust spotting on top edge & endpapers. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Boston and Philadelphia: New York Graphic Society in association with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1981. Cloth, 255 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Published in connection with the exhibition opening at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, September 18, 1981. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First edition. Dust jacket protected… Read more about this item

New York: Graham, 1989. 73 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Exhibition held May 3 to June 17, 1989. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1975. Cloth, xxix, 514 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top edge lightly soiled. Stated First United States Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Arguably the most comprehensive book on the subject of erotic art with a provocative Brancusi… Read more about this item

New York: James Graham & Sons, 2006. [13] pages, colour illustrations; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at James Graham & Sons, New York, May 11 to June 30, 2006. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Chicago: Richard Gray Gallery, 1990. 20 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour), 1 portrait; 22 x 27 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Richard Gray Gallery, February 2 to March 10, 1990. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1994. Cloth, 143 pages, illustrations (some colour); 34 cm. Essays by Homan Potterton, et al. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This volume chronicles the life's work of an artist dedicated to challenging the… Read more about this item