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In Praise of America: American Decorative Arts, 1650-1830 / Fifty Years of Discovery Since the 1929 Girl Scouts Loan Exhibition

COOPER, WENDY A. · 1980 · Ultramarine Books

$25.00 (€22.57 | £18.85 | ¥3,995)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1980, First American Edition. (ISBN: 0394509943). Cloth, 4to. 280 pages; 52 color plates; 308 b&w illustrations. Reaping the fifty years of scholarship since the famous Girl Scouts Exhibition put American antiques in a limelight. Clean throughout. In...

The Pieced Quilt an American Design Tradition

HOLSTEIN, JONATHAN · 1973 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.54 | £11.31 | ¥2,397)

Greenwich, Connecticut, New York Graphic Society. 1973, First Printing. (ISBN: 08212053410). Cloth, 4to. 192 pages; 96 color plates, most full-page; 59 b&w illustrations. A celebration of "the skilled hand and the practiced eye" of this "feminine art". Clean throughout; dustja...

Needlepoint from America's Great Quilt Designs

DAVIS, MARY KAY AND HELEN GIAMMATTEI · 1974 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.83 | £9.05 | ¥1,918)

New York, Workman Publishing. 1974, First Printing. (ISBN: 0911104410). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Ill.: Elizabeth Meyer. 170 pages; "Over fifty classic patterns to needlepoint, each with full-color and b&w photographs and large stich-by-stich diagrams". Clean through...

More Needlepoint from America's Great Quilt Designs

DAVIS, MARY KAY AND HELEN GIAMMATTEI · 1977 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.83 | £9.05 | ¥1,918)

New York, Workman Publishing. 1977, First Printing. (ISBN: 089480006x). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Ill.: Elizabeth Meyer. 208 pages; "sixty-two designs, each shown in both full-color and b&w photographs; for every design, easy-to-follow stiching diagrams." Featuring c...

Jean Dubuffet: Monuments, Simulacres, Praticables

ANONYMOUS · 1973 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.83 | £9.05 | ¥1,918)

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center. 1973. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Square 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue, not paginated. Essay by Martin Friedman. 35 works in the Checklist; 21 images, color and b&w. Clean throughout. Fine.

De Kooning: Drawings / Sculptures

LARSON, PHILIP AND PETER SCHJELDAHL · 1974 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.03 | £7.54 | ¥1,598)

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center. 1974, First Edition. (ISBN: 0525473769). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Oblong 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue, not paginated; 70 illustrations, color and b&w. Very Good.

Twilight of Arcadia: American Landscape Painters in Rome, 1830-1880

COFFEY, JOHN W. · 1987 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.05 | £15.08 | ¥3,196)

Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art. 1987. (ISBN: 0916606147). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Oblong 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue, 90 pages; 28 paintings, 8 color plates, 28 b&w. Bibliography. Very Good.

Invitation '77: Ten Painters

ANONYMOUS · 1977 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.03 | £7.54 | ¥1,598)

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center. 1977. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 24 pages; b&w reproductions. Paintings, drawings, collages by artists from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Clean throughout. Very Good.

Pittori Ad Ancona Nel Quattrocento

DE MARCHI, ANDREA E MATTEO MAZZALUPI (A CURA DI); ALESSANDRO DELPRIORI; ANDREA DE MARCHI; ANDREA DI LORENZO; [ET AL] (TESTI DI) · 2008 · Ultramarine Books

$100.00 (€90.27 | £75.39 | ¥15,980)

Milano, Federico Motta Editore. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9788871796079). Cloth, 4to. 384 pages; numerous color reproductions. The works of the fifthteenth century painters of Ancona, an area on Italy's Adriatic coast. A chapter with catalogue is devoted to each artist or sm...

Out of China's Earth: Archeological Discoveries in the People's Republic of China

QIAN, HAO; CHEN, HEYI; RU, SUICHU · 1981 · Ultramarine Books

$12.00 (€10.83 | £9.05 | ¥1,918)

New York / Beijing, Harry N. Abrams / China Pictorial. 1981, First Edition. (ISBN: 0810907666). Cloth, Folio. 206 pages; 286 illustrations, including 226 color plates.Yin Ruins and the Tomb of Fu Hao; Long Forgotten State of Zhongshan; Qin Dynasty Warriors and Horses; more. Cl...

Pierre Bonnard, Illustrator: A Catalogue Raisonné

TERRASSE, ANTOINE · 1988 · Ultramarine Books

$100.00 (€90.27 | £75.39 | ¥15,980)

New York, Harry N. Abrams. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0810907496). Cloth, 4to. Catalogue Raisonné, 320 pages; 328 illustrations, including 38 color plates. Book and periodical illustrations,exhibition invitations, personal announcements, and advertisements. Clean throughout. ...

Art Nouveau in Prague

BALAJKA, PETR · 1990 · Ultramarine Books

$10.00 (€9.03 | £7.54 | ¥1,598)

ASCO d.i. PRAHA. (ISBN: 8085377098). Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 8vo. c.1990. Unpaginated but 32 pages. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. A concise survey of Art Nouveau in Europe and in Prague specifically. Attention is directed to the architecture, architectur...

Galleria Milano: Art Déco (1920-1930)

GRACCO, L. SCACCHI; SANDRO SOMARÉ (REALIZZATA CON LA COLLABORAZIONE DI) · 1965 · Ultramarine Books

$30.00 (€27.08 | £22.62 | ¥4,794)

Milano, Galleria Milano. 1965. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. The thirteenth exhibition. 407 items are catalogued, about 70 are illustrated in b&w. Decorative arts.Opening essay by Giulia Veronesi. Italian and English text run together.. Very Good.

Augustus John

ROTHENSTEIN, JOHN · 1946 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.54 | £11.31 | ¥2,397)

London / New York, The Phaidon Press / Oxfrod University Press. 1946. Cloth, 4to. 26 pages followed by 90 plates, including his most admired portraits. Text and plates are clean; offset to the back endpapers from newspaper obituary taped to the rear board. The dustjacket is wh...

The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago: The First One Hundred Years

KEEFE, JOHN W. VALERIE TVRDIK; HAROLD JOACHIM; [ET AL] · 1977 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.54 | £11.31 | ¥2,397)

The Art Institute of Chicago. 1977. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 263 pages; 336 catalogued items, many illustrated. Clean throughout; a light bend to a corner of the final one hundred pages. Very Good.

Al Taylor, Early Work

STORR, ROBERT · 2008 · Ultramarine Books

$35.00 (€31.60 | £26.39 | ¥5,593)

Gottingen / New York, Steidl / Zwirner & Wirth. 2008, First Edition. (ISBN: 9783865216366). Illustrated paper boards, 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 141 pages; 131 catalogued works illustrated in full-page color. Works include Taylor's drawings, paintings and sculptures. Opening e...

Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt

CAPEL, ANNE K. AND GLENN E. MARKOE (EDITORS); ESSAYS BY CATHARINE H. ROEHRIG, BETSY M. BRYAN, JANET H. JOHNSON; CONTRIBUTIONS BY RICHARD A. FAZZINI, JAMES F. ROMANO · 1996 · Ultramarine Books

$20.00 (€18.05 | £15.08 | ¥3,196)

New York, Hudson Hills Press. 1996. (ISBN: 1555951295). Printed Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, 237 pages; numerous illustrations, color and b&w. Clean and tight throughout, interior in fine condition , wrappers with minor discoloration at an edge. Very Good.

Studio Arts Faculty Exhibition 1972

ANONYMOUS · 1972 · Ultramarine Books

$6.00 (€5.42 | £4.52 | ¥959)

Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press. 1972. Printed Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, Works of 25 artists illustrated in b&w and with brief captions. Fine.

The River: Images of the Mississippi

VARIOUS · 1976 · Ultramarine Books

$15.00 (€13.54 | £11.31 | ¥2,397)

Minneapolis, Design Quarterly 101/102 , Walker Art Center. 1976. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 102 pages; numerous illustrations, including 3-panel foldouts, b&w and color. A thorough overview of images of the Mississippi and of architecture and landscape along and in it...

Akagawa, Byrne, Kahn, Leicester, Axelrod, Bjorklund, Herdegen, Sorman: A Two Part Exhibition

VARIOUS · 1975 · Ultramarine Books

$16.00 (€14.44 | £12.06 | ¥2,557)

Minneapolis, Walker Art Center. 1975. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), Square 4to. Exhibition Catalogue, not paginated. An exhibition including Kinji Akagawa, James Byrne, Barry Kahn, Steven Sorman, Andrew Leicester, Dorothy Axelrod, Lee Bjorklund, Ray Herdegen. Illustrations in...