You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination
Princeton Architectural Press, 2003. Trade Paperback. More
Art & Design
The Meaning of Modern Art
Northwestern University Press, 1979. Paperback. Clean pages except for a prior owner's name on the first (blank) page; soft cover bears noticeable surface wear, particularly along spine sides and edges, and some chipping at corners and spine ends, otherwise sound. xiv, 166pp. incl. index. More
Hellenistic Art
New York Graphic Society, 1979. Hardcover. Small 4to. Clean pages, with no owners' marks; full green cloth cover shows only some fading and shelfwear at the spine heel; dust jacket bears some edge chipping and several short laminate peels around the spine ends, otherwise bright and attractive. 283pp.; b/w +..... More
Cyprus: Byzantine Churches and Monasteries, Mosaics and Frescoes
Melina Verlag, 1998. Hardcover. 4to. English translation. Crisp, bright, clean pages except for an erasure ghost at the front free endpaper, a prior seller's label at the final endpaper, and scattered foxing on the head edges; square, secure binding, hard cover turned slightly inward at the top free corners and..... More
Graphis Annual 86/87: The International Annual of Advertising and Editorial Graphics
Graphis Press, 1986. Hardcover. Folio. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; square, tight binding, hard cover only gently rubbed at corners and spine ends. Jacket bears a few small, round, scattered pressure marks at the lower front, some age-toning visible around light-colored portions of the edges, a spot of laminate..... More
Gothic Painting (Two volumes)
London: Heron Books, 1968. Hardcover. Volumes I and II of Gothic Painting, also serving as the seventh and eighth volumes of the History of Painting Series directed by Claude Schaeffner. 207 + 207pp.; b/w + color illus. Both volumes bear light foxing to endpapers, preliminaries, and edges, but pages are..... More
Human Rights Human Wrongs Art & Social Change
University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1986. Hardcover. Crisp and clean, with no owners' marks; except for light edgewear at the spine ends of the hard cover and dust jacket, excellent, nearly as new. More
Mauritshuis: Dutch Painting of the Golden Age
Royal Picture Gallery of The Hague, 1982. Paperback. 4to. Catalogue for an exhibition that appeared in three North American locations during 1982-1984. 46pp. text illustrated in b/w plus 80pp. color plates. More
Hybrid Instrument
Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa School of Art and Art History, 2006. Paperback. Large 8vo. Crisp, bright, and clean; no owners' marks; except for very light shelf rubbing at the corners of the soft cover, as new. More
The Stone Carvers: Master Craftsmen of Washington National Cathedral
Smithsonian Books, 1999. Hardcover. More
Künstler und Werkstatt der Spätgotik
Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1967. Leatherette. Language: German. Pages crisp and clean except for light dust spotting on the top edge of the page block; no owners' marks; flexible leatherette cover has a slight bend to top right front corner but is otherwise clean and excellent. 148pp. + 43 black-and-white photographic..... More
Tibetan Thangka Painting: Methods and Materials
Serindia Publications, 2006. Paperback. 4to. Clean, bright pages; no owners' marks; square, uncreased spine; soft cover has a few small, faded spots at the lower right front, modest shelf rubbing at corners and spine heel, and a short crease and fold at the spine head, otherwise excellent. More
Reading Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary
Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Hardcover. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; except for a little shallow crimping at the spine ends of the glossy hard cover, excellent, nearly as new. ix, 281pp. incl. index. More
Helmut Jahn: Design einer neuen Architektur = design of a new architecture = design d'une architecture nouvelle
New York: Nichols Publishing Company, 1987. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Crisp, clean pages; no owners' marks; a little mild rubbing and toning at corners and spine ends of the hard cover and around head and heel edges of jacket, with a few shallow creases at each spine end, otherwise excellent. More
Seward Johnson: The Retrospective
Hamilton, New Jersey: Grounds for Sculpture, 2014. Paperback. The book of the exhibit held May 4 - September 21, 2014. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; except for very light wear at the corners of the soft cover, excellent. 46pp. More
English Naive Paintings from the collection of Mr. & Mrs. Andras Kalman, London.
London: Crane Kalman Gallery. Paperback. Undated. Crisp, clean pages except for mild age-toning around the margins of a few leaves; binding secure; soft cover bears some surface rubbing and tiny wrinkles along the spine, a very small abrasion at the upper right rear not affecting the pictured reproduction, and a...... More
Essays: Twelve Centuries of Japanese Art from the Imperial Collections
Washington, D. C. Smithsonian Institution, 1997. Soft Cover. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; except for light rubbing at corners and spine ends, excellent. 83pp. Published to accompany exhibition catalogue for exhibit held at Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, December 14, 1997 - March..... More
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture
Penguin Books, 2001. Trade Paperback. More
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Walker Books, 2006. Hardcover. More
Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie
University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1996. Trade Paperback. 4to. More
Savi: Keramiikan ja arkkitehtuurin perinne Lansi-Afrikassa (30.10.1993 at Pyynikinlinna - 29.5.1994 at Suomen rakennustaiteen museo)
Pyynikinlinna, 1993. Paperback. Language: Finnish. Clean and bright, with no owners' marks; soft cover shows only a slight forward lean to the spine and gentle shelfwear at spine ends and corners, otherwise excellent. 80pp., 112 fig. in b/w & color. More
Picturing Eden
Steidl, 2006. Hardcover. More
A History of Costume
Philadelphia: David McKay Company, 1928. Hardcover. "With sixteen plates in colour and about 600 other illustrations and patterns." This edition undated but ca. 1928. Clean pages save for a prior owner's name at the front free endpaper, some rusty spotting on the final free endpaper, and modest age-toning in the..... More
Whose Art Is It?
Duke University Press, 1994. Trade Paperback. More
Our Natural Treasure: Genevieve Kroshus
Decorah, Iowa: South Bear Press, 2008. Schwartz, Nan (photographs). Hardcover. Long 8vo. Crisp, bright, and clean; except for a hint of shelf rubbing at the spine ends of the hard cover, very slight toning around the edges of the jacket, and a little rubbing at the free corners of the..... More