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Coaches and Trains (Golden Ariels No. 7), (19th Century Transport Prints Vol. 2)

By: Cadfryn-Roberts, John (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Princeton, Golden Ariels/D. Van Nostrand Company: 1965

Seller ID: 016307

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The second volume in the publisher's "19th Century Transport Prints" series. Decorated boards, 12 pages + 20 pages of colour plates by a variety of 19th-century artists and engravers. Moderate edge/corner wear, in lightly rubbed jacket w/a couple of quite short tears.
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The Blue of Distance

By: Carson, Anne, Kevin Finneran and Rebecca Solnit

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Aspen, Aspen Art Press: 2015

Seller ID: 018115

ISBN: 0934324700

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: As New

Text by Finneran, Carson and Solnit, and photography and art by Vija Celmins, Jason Dodge, Félix González-Torres, Roni Horn, Marie Jager, Catherine Opie, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Cy Twombly and Cerith Wyn Evans examine the colour blue's distinctive connection to such things as absence, distance and desire. 120 pages. An unread copy still sealed in publisher's shrink wrap.
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Echoes of the Remnant (signed print)

By: Coupar, Regina

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Truro, Gamaliel Publications: 2003

Seller ID: 016322

ISBN: 0-9695837-2-9

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

From the back cover: "...presents new metaphors which are helpful for discussing spirituality in the language of our time." This edition contains a signed original print by Coupar, bound in near the front. 120 pages, illustrated. A bit of slant, light general wear.
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MOCA Focus

By: Haendel, Karl (essay by Gloria Sutton, interview by Gabriel Ritter)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA): 2006

Seller ID: 017990

ISBN: 0-914357-95-6

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Haendel is an artist who "makes precise pencil drawings of appropriated source materials, whether New Yorker cartoons, advertisements, news stories, photojournalistic pictures or fine artworks." This particular tome was produced to accompany the exhibition "MOCA Focus: Karl Haendel," which was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art from January 26 through April 17, 2006. 96 pages. Scuff to fore-edge of front cover, otherwise mild general wear. Not a particularly common item.
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American Indian Lives: Artists and Craftspeople

By: Hirschfelder, Arlene

Price: $18.50

Publisher: New York, Facts On File / Infobase Holdings: 1994

Seller ID: 016208

ISBN: 0-8160-2960-1

Binding: Illustrated Boards

Condition: Near Fine

First printing w/complete number sequence. A title from the publisher's American Indian Lives series, this one taking a look at a number of native craftspeople, including Allan Houser, Oscar Howe, Dat So La Lee, Bill Reid, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Rhonda Holy Bear, and many others. 150 pages (including selected bibliography, index), illustrated. Light rubbing, light general wear. An unread copy.
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THE KOREAN RELICS IN JAPAN, Volume 4 (Book 7)

By: Joungwon Kim (editor)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Seoul, The Korea Foundation: 1997

Seller ID: 015051

ISBN: 89-860-9014-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

This is the seventh of eight volumes published between 1989 and 1998 in the "Korean Relics in Overseas Collections" series, containing "a list of Korean relics and approximately 360 illustrations with descriptions, consolidating information on Korean relics preserved in the Tenri University Central Library and the Tenri University Sankokan Museum." Text in English and Korean. Advisory Committee members included Kim Kwang-on, Yun Yong-i, and You Hong-june. Since they were not intended for sale to the general public, books in the series can be pretty tough to find. Blue cloth...
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Installation

By: Jung, Dieter

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Museum of Holography: 1985

Seller ID: 017269

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

The catalogue for an art holography exhibition held from September 17, 1985, until February 16, 1986, at the Museum of Holography in New York City. Rene Paul Barilleaux was the curator. Eberhard Roters contributes an introduction (translated by Rosemary Kunisch) to Jung Unpaginated. Scuffing, impressions, moderate soil, general wear. Uncommon.
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NORTHWEST COAST INDIAN PAINTING, House Fronts and Interior Screens

By: Malin, Edward

Price: $29.50

Publisher: Portland, Timber Press: 1999

Seller ID: 011798

ISBN: 0-88192-471-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

The author "explores the various styles, history, mythology, materials, and technology of house painting from all the tribal groups along the west coast of what is now Alaska and Canada: Tlingit, Coast Tsimshian, Haida, Northern and Southern Kwakiutl, Bella Coola, Nuu chaa nulth, and Coast Salish." Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 288 pages (including Bibliography and Index), illustrated. Wear to corners/spine ends, small abrasion to top edge of front cover, previous owner's lengthy gift inscription to top left corner of front end paper, in dust jacket w/edgewear, scratches/impressi...
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Canadian Art (signed)

By: McInnes, Graham

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Toronto, The Macmillan Company of Canada: 1950

Seller ID: 016186

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

From the front flap: "In 1939 Graham McInnes produced A SHORT HISTORY OF CANADIAN ART, the first attempt to portray Canadian art on a brief but comprehensive scale. Now comes CANADIAN ART, a revised, completely up-to-date and expanded version, which is virtually a new book." Contains material on all aspects of Canadian art, with sections on "art institutions, public opinion in relation to art and the growth of public art bodies. Special mention should be made of the chapter on the war artists of World War II." This copy inscribed and signed ("Inscribed for Pauline Mont...
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Collins Street Sketchbook

By: McKay, Andrew, and Haddon, George

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Rigby: 1975

Seller ID: nf.00194

ISBN: 0 7270 0035 7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Text by McKay, illustrations by Haddon, concerning Melbourne, Australia's Collins Street. 63 pages. Light spine end/corner wear, in dust jacket w/light edgewear, light soil to rear panel.
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Manet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets

By: Rubin, James H.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 008449

ISBN: 0-674-54802-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

a title from the publisher's 'Essays in Art and Culture' series; offering a number of insights into Manet's work, the author examines the silence in the artist's "flattened, sometimes fragmented forms [which] appear to exist absentmindedly in a world removed from speech."; sand cloth, 256 pgs. incl. Appendix/References/Bibliography/List of Illustrations; rubbed dj w/mild edgewear, thin scratches; an unread copy;
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John Downton, 1906-1991, Temperas and Drawings, 1928-1940

By: Russell-Taylor, John, and Leonie Heywood (introduction)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, The Fine Art Society: 1993

Seller ID: 016209

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

A catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by Stirrup & Company from May 4-28, 1993. 48 pages. Impressions/thin scratches, light corner wear, light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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Pieter de Hoogh

By: van Thienen, Prof. Dr. Fr.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, H.J.W. Becht:

Seller ID: nf.00057

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

No date (circa 1950). One of 36 Dutch-language titles from the publisher's Palet Serie, "Een Reeks Monografieen Over Hollandsche En Vlaamsche Schilders," examining the painter's work. Pale blue wraps, 60 pages (including bibliography), illustrated. Edgewear, lightly smudged covers, moderate general wear.
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