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A DIAL MISCELLANY.

By: Wasserstrom, William, edited and with introduction by.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press: 1963

Seller ID: 12569

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

372 pp, large 8vo (9 3/16" H). B&w plates. "This Anthology is tangible evidence that 'The Dial' printed more original and influential work than any other journal in America or England. Here are many of (its) now-famous contributors, not always as we know them best. Included are letters from 'The Dial's' international correspondents: Thomas Mann (Germany), T.S. Eliot (London), Ezra Pound (Paris), Jose Ortega y Gasset (Spain). D.H. Lawrence writes a book review, William Carlos Williams discusses Marianne Moore, Gilbert Seldes reviews 'The Great Gatsby', and Paul Claudel gives us 'A Glan...
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MICHAEL RYSBRACK, SCULPTOR.

By: Webb, M.I.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: Country Life, London, (1954), Ist ed.:

Seller ID: 673

241 pp, lg 8vo, HC. Rysbrack wa one of the most famous and distinguished artists working in England in the first half of the 18th C; and a sculptor whose influence in the development of the classical tradition was of the greatest importance. Well illus. with b&w plates. Minor foxing to top and fore edge of text block, minor rubbing to edge of boards. Dj has several closed tears, small chips, edge creasing, light/moderate soiling and foxing along top edge on the inside. VG/G+
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ARCHETYPES AND ARCHAISM. SPRING 2001. AN EXHIBITION. MARCH 20-29.

By: Weisbrod, Michael B.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Weisbrod Chinese Art Ltd.: 2001

Seller ID: 27384

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

103 pp, 4to (11 15/16" H). The catalog of the exhibition, beautifully illustrated with full page color photographs facing detailed descriptions of each artifact. Articles: 'The Spirit of Wu' by Professor Robert J. Poor, University of Minnesota, 'Conservation Report for an Eastern Zhou Dynasty Inlaid Bronze Hu and Cover', Conservation Report for a Late Shang Dynasty Bronze Wine Vessel, Guang'. Includes Chronological Table. Bumped at top/bottom of spine. Dust jacket has wrinkling at top/bottom of spine, minor rubbing.
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THE MOORE COLLECTION IN THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO.

By: Wilkinson, Alan G. Foreword by William J. Withrow. Preface by Alan G. Wilkinson.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario: 1979

Seller ID: 29518

ISBN: 0919876536

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

232 pp, 4to (11 5/8" H). Profusely illustrated in b&w and colour. Contents: Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Drawings; Sculpture; Prints; Notes; Accession Numbers. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - small sticker residue mark on front cover; book is lightly cocked; light toning to spine, hinges - also at top and fore-edge of rear cover; small light sticker mark on rear cover.
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VERSATILE YANKEE: THE ART OF JONATHAN FISHER, 1768-1847.

By: Winchester, Alice.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Princeton, Pyne Press: 1973

Seller ID: 29666

ISBN: 878610510

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

29 pp + 40 plates (printed on one side of leaf, captions facing), + (9) pp List of Works, 12 1/4" H. Colour plates plus additional b&w illustrations. The Reverend Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine "was a universal man - inventor, farmer, architect and builder, surveyor, linguist, naturalist. Above all he was an artist, translating his vision of the goodness and orderliness of God's creation into paintings and woodcuts. Made for his own enjoyment and that of his family and a few friends, Fisher's paintings have largely been preserved in the small community where he lived and worked...
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JOHN WORSLEY'S WAR. AN OFFICIAL WAR ARTIST IN WORLD WAR II.

By: Worsley, John and Giggal, Kenneth.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Shrewsbury, Air Life: 1993

Seller ID: 23535

ISBN: 1853102571

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

116 pp, small 4to (10 7/16" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour reproductions of the author/artist's work. "John Worsley was one of the very few active service artists of the Second World War, and in this book he recalls his experiences both in active sea warfare and later as a prisoner of war. At the outbreak of war the twenty-year-old John Worsley joined up as a Midshipman and during off duty moments sketched his fellow sailors and incidental scenes of life at sea. Having survived the sinking of his first ship, HMS Laurentic, destroyer service on Atlantic convoys and, dur...
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JOHN WORSLEY'S WAR. AN OFFICIAL WAR ARTIST IN WORLD WAR II.

By: Worsley, John and Giggal, Kenneth.

Price: $17.50 USD

Publisher: Shrewsbury, Air Life: 1993

Seller ID: 29843

ISBN: 1853102571

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good+

PIN-UP'S PROGRESS: AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE IMMODEST ART, 1870-1970.

By: Wortley, Richard. Assisted by Jeremy Gibson.

Price: $45.00 USD

Publisher: London, Panther: 1971

Seller ID: 30295

ISBN: 586035397

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good -

175 pp, 7 3/4" H. B&w and colour illustrations. A social history of the pin-up. Contents: Introduction; Postcard Peeps and a few magazine suprises; Stars and Starlets 1918-39; The Girls Who Won the Wars; Magazine Mania 1945-63; Whiplash or Backlash 1963-70; Man and Superman; Who Buys and Why; Advertising Extra; Just for the Record. Interior - light to moderate browning to pages - mostly in margins, otherwise clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - one spine crease; fading to colour at top edges, on spine and on hinges; tiny orner creases on fron cover; small old ...
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THE AVIATION PAINTINGS OF JOHN YOUNG.

By: Young, John.

Price: $47.50 USD

Publisher: Newton Abbot, David & Charles: 1990

Seller ID: 21624

ISBN: 0715393952

Condition: Very Good

96 pp, oblong 4to (11 5/16" H x 12 3/4" D). Pictorial endpapers. Profusely illustrated in colour and b&w with reproductions, drawings, photographs. "For forty years (John Young) has painted the rich pageant of colour and atmosphere which surrounds aeroplanes. Having been initially fired with enthusiasm as a child by Alan Cobham's Flying Circus and spent his schooldays under skies filled with the planes of the Second World War, he went to art school and then into the RAF for National Service. All the time he was developing his artistic skills, and taking every opportunity to combin...
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Category: Art - General