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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Los Angeles: Astro Artz, 1983. Cloth, limited edition. 26 x 18 cm. 87 pp. 31 illustrations on 16 plates (under the title "Recollections of my life with Diaghilev") + 29 illustrations in the text. Several copies available, about as new.
Being Antinova.
Antin, Eleanor.
Price: $45.00
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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Berkeley: Archteype Press, 1939. 105 copies. 20 pp. Decorated rough linen. 43 x 32.5 cm. Texts by Stephen Pepper, James Caldwell, John Haley, Bertrand Bronson, Warren Perry, Edward Brewer, Jacob Loewenberg, Donald Mackay, Edward Strong, and Everett Glass. Other members are Wilder Bentley, Ray S. Boynton, James M. Cline, Charles C. Cushing, Mathurin Dondo, Albert Elkus, Griffith C. Evans, William Hays, Gordon McKenzie, Howard Moise, Howard O'Hagan, Worth Ryder, Leslie B. Simpson, and Randall Thompson. The abstract cover decoration is by John Haley. Near fine, with traces of discoloration on the covers. Another copy with some foxing, soiling, and light stains on the cover available at $85.
N'en parlons plus! Excerpts from divers papers & chronicles of The Arts Club, 1937-1938.
Arts Club, Berkeley, California
Price: $125.00
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Milano: Edizioni Toselli, 1972. 1500 copies. 9 color plates. [24] pp. White paper covers.. 29.6 x 20.9 cm. Light wear and a nearly invisible skinned area near the bottom front corner. Some faint foxing on the front cover.
Choosing: green beans
Baldessari, John
Price: $1,650.00
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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **1994. 4 illustrations. 4-panel folder. 20.3 x 18.7 cm (folded). **Text: "Dating bars and Montaigne," by John Baldessari. The illustrations include Graham's "Harlequin (self-portrait)" in its original version and in a version manipulated by Baldessari. Also, two versions of Baldessari's collage "e.g., Grass, Water Heater, Mouths, & etc. (for John Graham)," one indicating the sources of the images. This brochure is from the series Artist's Choice, in which "an artist is invited to mount a small show drawn from the Museum's collection…. John Baldessari is the first to make a new work as a part of his presentation, assembling a hybrid construction of details from paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, and film stills from various departments of the Museum" (from Kirk Varnedoe's Foreword). Several copies available.
John Baldessari, e.g., Grass, Water Heater, Mouths, & etc. (for John Graham).
[Baldessari, John] Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **La Jolla, CA, 1985. 40 plates (11 color, including 1 double-spread); paper covers.; 21.5 x 28 cm. As new. **Fine catalogue from the Mandeville Gallery on a good, little-known, WPA-period artist who spent most of her long life in California. Several copies available.
Belle Baranceanu: a retrospective. Essays by Bram Dijkstra and Anne Weaver
[Baranceanu, Belle] University of California, San Diego.
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Los Angeles: Gemini G.E.L., 1974. 1 plate. Black folder. 16.7 x 24 cm. Prospectus for suite of original lithographs, in mailing envelope.
Radio/Aether series 1966/1974.
Berman, Wallace
Price: $40.00
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Elmer Bischoff: figurative paintings 1957-1972.
[Bischoff, Elmer] Oakland Museum
Price: $30.00
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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Berkeley: Emigre Graphics, [1985?–1988?]. Seven issues, nos. 3, 4, 6-10 [1985?–1987/1988?]. Profusely illustrated. About 32 or more pp. Decorated paper covers.. 43.2 x 29.4 cm. No. 3 [1985?] contains a poster by Lisa Cohen. No. 6 is an unopened copy, presumably with three parts and a handmade, letterpress-printed fan by Susan E. King. No. 7 (1987) contains a booklet. No. 8: "Alienation." No. 9 with black cover. No. 10 with Cranbrook poster. Upper corner of no. 3 creased. Otherwise fine or better.
Emigre: the magazine that ignores boundaries
Emigre Graphics
Price: $1,500.00
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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **San Francisco: Dramatic Review Publishing Company. Covers West Coast theatre and music. 39.5 x 29 cm. **1) Christmas 1900: 56 pp. Edythe Chapman on cover. Features on Edwin Booth, Joe Jefferson, Lola Montez, and many others. Rich advertising. **2) Midsummer 1904: 36 pp. Art Nouveau cover by Prentice in purple and metallic gold, with photo of Lule Warrenton. Picture and story on William Desmond. Christmas 1900 notes on its cover, "'The Dramatic Review' absorbed 'The S.F. Music and Drama' Dec. 8th", but three OCLC records give no dates more precise than "1880s." It seems unlikely that there is a connection with The Dramatic Review of 1868-1869. Both issues near fine. See also related listings for "New York Dramatic Mirror"; "Leander Richardson's Illustrated Dramatic News"; and "Gallery of Players from the Illustrated American," ed. by Austin Brererton, et al.
San Francisco Dramatic Review. Christmas 1900 (vol. 3, no. 15) and Midsummer 1904
Farrell, Charles H., and Lombard, Charles H., proprietors
Price: $250.00
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Valencia, CA, 1975. Edited by Miriam Schapiro. Introduction by Deena Metzger. 75 illustrations and portraits of the artists. 82 pp. 17.4 x 30.7 cm (oversquare). Decorated black paper covers. This early and influential overview includes 38 women artists, from Pat Adams to Barbara Zucker and from Nell Blaine and Jeanne Reynal to Lynda Benglis and Carolee Schneemann. Very scarce now. Fine.
Art: a woman's sensibility.
Feminist Art Program. California Institute of the Arts
Price: $350.00
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Santa Monica: Lapis Press, 1987. One of 150 copies SIGNED by Sam Francis and Michael Taylor (total edition 1150 copies). Original lithograph cover by Sam Francis over boards. [141] pp. 24 x 12.5 cm. Mylar dustjacket printed in red with title on spine and copy on flaps. Calligraphy by Walasse Ting; beautifully designed by Les Ferriss, Jaime Robles, and Jack W. Stauffacher; typeset by Patrick Reagh.ISBN 0-932499-22-8.
Steles. Translated by Michael Taylor.
[Francis, Sam] Segalen, Victor.
Price: $250.00
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **Los Angeles, 1958. Text by Esther McCoy. 33 plates. 56 pp. Decorated paper covers.. 17.7 x 18.1 cm. List of buildings, bibl.
Irving Gill 1870-1936
[Gill, Irving] Los Angeles County Museum. Art Center in La Jolla
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **[Los Angeles: Dorothy Gleason], ©1963. Printed by Ward Ritchie Press. 500 copies. Color frontispiece & 21 illustrations. xiii + 42 pp. Green & orange boards with title labels on front and spine. 24.6 x 16 cm. The account of a painting trip by the Gleasons through the Southwest and Mexico. Related items laid in.
Sketches and paintings from Mexico. With commentaries by Dorothy Gleason.
Gleason, Duncan
Price: $100.00
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FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. **California State University, Los Angeles, Art Gallery, 1972. 12 plates (2 color). 20 pp. White paper covers. printed in brown with Herms' L O V E design on the rear cover. 18.5 x 21 cm (oversquare). Statement by Herms. Fine.
George Herms: selected works 1960-1972
[Herms, George]
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **San Diego, 1941. Balboa Park in San Diego was developed during two world's fairs, the 1915-16 Panama-California Exposition and the 1935-36 California Pacific International Exposition. The Spanish Village, an artists' colony of thirty-five studios, is one of the attractions added in 1935. This professionally designed and conceived magazine was modeled on some of the better art periodicals of the Thirties. Its intended horizon was more than merely local. Decorated paper covers.. 27.6 x 21.2 cm. **No. 1: Color frontispiece & 10 plates & illustrations + folder laid in loose with 6 illlustrations in sepia. 18 pp. Contributors include Lorser Feitelson ("What is Postsurrealism?"), Dan Dickey, Reginald Poland, Stanton MacDonald-Wright ("Work of the Southern California Art Project"), and Everett Gee Jackson. Illustrations include works by Picasso, El Greco, Paul Landacre, Goya, and Emil J. Kosa, Jr. **No. 2: 2 color plates (Van Dyck and Dali) & 33 plates & illustrations. Texts by Dan Dickey and Donal Hord, plus "Eight-Ring Circus," by Julia Gethman Andrews, a 12-page story on a watercolor course taught by Rex Brandt, David Scott, Millard Sheets, Milford Zornes, Tom Craig, George Post, and Phil Dike. Illustrations include works by Hord, Robert Gwathmey, Phil Paradise, Lyonel Feininger, Moreau, Guys, Claude Lorrain, Gainsborough, Belle Baranceanu, Utrillo, Rodin, and Degas. Fine copies, and vanishingly scarce. One set located at the San Diego Museum of Art; none in OCLC (the World Catalogue).
Spanish Village art quarterly. Volume 1, numbers 1 & 2, Spring & Fall 1941. Presumably all published.
Hester, Tom, ed.
Price: $500.00
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FREE domestic or international shipping with direct order. **1971. 40 illustrations. 35 pp. Brown printed paper covers.. 22.9 x 21.6 cm. An uncommon exhibition catalogue on the work of a highly talented African-American artist in the Bay Area. Small date stamp on front cover; otherwise, fine.
Sargent Johnson: retrospective.
[Johnson, Sargent] Oakland Museum
Price: $125.00
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FREE domestic & international shipping with direct order. Los Angeles, 1942-1961. **12 volumes. All have printed prices and are in paper covers. **Third, Fifth, and Sixth are 25.4 x 19 cm. Third and Fifth not illustrated, 4 pp. & covers each. Sixth has three illustrations. **1948 and 1950 are 22.9 x 15.1 cm. 1948 has 10 illustrations and 258 entries on 20 pp. and 1950 has 18 illustrations and 200 entries on 32 pp.; the inside cover and an invitation to the preview for 1950 are heavily browned from a newspaper clipping about the exhibition. **1952 has 64 illustrations and 290 entries on 72 pp. Paper covers with printed dustjacket on drafting vellum. 22.9 x 15.3 cm. Sewn signatures and square spine. Separate price list laid in. Cover illustration by Josef Albers. 1000 copies. **1954 through 1961 are 15.2 x 22.9 cm (oversquare). These later issues are all illustrated and include the artists' addresses. 1954: 32 pp.; 1000 copies. 1956: 32 pp.; 1500 copies. 1957: 36 pp.; 2000 copies. 1959: 32 pp. 1960: 32 pp. 1961: 40 pp. Invaluable records of mid-century modernism in L.A. 1961 was the final exhibition. All fine.
Artists of Los Angeles & vicinity. 12 early issues, 1942–1961. Third annual exhibition, 1942; Fifth annual exhibition, 1944; Sixth annual exhibition, 1945; 1948 annual exhibition; 1950 annual exhibition; 1952 annual exhibition; 1954 annual exhibition; 1956 annual exhibition; 1957 annual exhibition; 1959 annual exhibition; 1960 annual exhibition; 1961 annual exhibition.
Los Angeles County Museum
Price: $1,200.00
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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Los Angeles, 1925. 37 plates. [82] pp. Tan paper covers decorated with Art Deco drawing by A. G. Aldain. About 19.5 x 13.5 cm. Text in parallel English and Spanish by Wm. Alanson Bryan. 375 pieces exhibited from North and South America. Illustrated artists include Mary Cassatt, Gari Melchers, Childe Hassam, Rockwell Kent, John Sloan, Robet Henri, Jose Rivera, and Carlos Otero. A jury awarded several prizes, but many pieces were not in the competition. "Most of the paintings in this exhibition are for sale. . . ." In fact, prices are pencilled in for all but 13 of these works. Overlapping edges of the covers are creased and torn at the margins. A small piece of the upper corner of the front cover is gone.The outer half of the final blank torn off.
First Pan-American exhibition of oil paintings. November 15, 1925, to February 28, 1926
Los Angeles County Museum
Price: $50.00
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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Art Museum, 1996. Profusely illustrated (mainly color). 92 pp. Decorated paper covers. 24 x 20.8 cm. Fine. A second copy with the backstrip faded to yellow available at $225.
John McLaughlin: Western Modernism, Eastern thought
McLaughlin, John
Price: $250.00
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FREE domestic shipping with direct order. **Laguna Beach, CA: Laguna Art Museum, 1996. Profusely illustrated (mainly color). 92 pp. Decorated paper covers. 24 x 20.8 cm. Orange backstrip faded to yellow.
John McLaughlin: Western Modernism, Eastern thought
McLaughlin, John
Price: $225.00
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