Ltd Ars Libri (68 results)
Published by (Boston, MA: Ars Libri, Ltd., 1987). January 1987, 1987
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Seller: Inquiring Minds, Saugerties, NY, U.S.A.Inquiring Minds
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Published by Ars Libri, 1991
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Seller: Epilonian Books, Manhattan Beach, CA, U.S.A.Epilonian Books
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Add to basketWraps. Condition: Very Good. Ars Libri, Ltd., Boston, Published 1991. Wraps, 116 pp.; 28 cm.In Very Good condition. Gray and white pictorial paper covers wrap front and back with a satirical cartoon mapping the American art world as a genealogical tree of schools, movements, artists, and influences (balloons as sponsors, flags a…s influences, branches as schools). Mild shelf wear with light bumping to corners and edges and light toning to the spine panel. Binding is tight. Interior is text only, clean and unmarked.Bookseller's catalog issued January 1991 by Ars Libri of Boston, offering 3044 numbered items (descriptions and asking prices) for books, periodicals, and archives on American art, organized in four parts: Part I, General Works (items 1-1097); Part II, Annuals, Biennials, and Triennials (items 1098-1780); Part III, Monographs on Artists (items 1781-2944); Part IV, Periodicals (items 2945-3044).Noteworthy offerings include item 2705, a David Smith research library described as "probably the largest and most extensive in private hands," comprising 59 solo exhibition catalogues, more than 150 group show catalogues, 10 monographs, and an original circa-1950 photograph album made by Smith himself of his own sculptures (9 original photographs with handwritten captions and calligraphed cover, all by Smith), together with catalogues of Smith's 1938 first one-man show and his 1940 "Medals for Dishonor," at $19,500; item 68, Sylvester Baxter's "Spanish-Colonial Architecture in Mexico" (Boston: J.B. Millet, 1901), the rare "Tresguerras Edition" in 12 folio volumes with 197 original silver-print photographs by Henry Greenwood Peabody mounted loose in passepartouts, at $5,500; item 2786, Mark Tobey's "Six Impromptus on Omar Khayyam" (Frankfurt: Edition de Beauclair, 1971), a folio portfolio of six original color aquatints each signed and dated by Tobey, edition of 75, at $4,000; item 3039, a near-complete run of the Surrealist-inflected little magazine "View" edited by Charles Henri Ford, all published (lacking only Series I, Nos. 2-5), New York, 1941-1947, at $2,750; item 3032, a mint set of the 1968 portfolio publication "S.M.S." (William Copley, editor; The Letter Edged in Black Press), the complete six-issue run of boxed multiples with contributions by Man Ray, Roy Lichtenstein, Yoko Ono, Joseph Kosuth, On Kawara, Claes Oldenburg, Bruce Nauman, Richard Hamilton, Christo, Meret Oppenheim, John Cage, Walter de Maria, La Monte Young, and dozens more, at $2,750; item 2667, Ben Shahn's "The Alphabet of Creation" (New York: Pantheon, 1954), the signed and numbered edition de tete copy on uncut Umbria hand-made paper containing an original calligraphic brush-and-ink drawing of the letter alef, from the library of Paul J. Sachs, at $2,500; and item 2270, the original 17 x 16 inch orange-printed mailing poster for Allan Kaprow's "18 Happenings in 6 Parts" at the Reuben Gallery, October 1959, the foundational poster for the first Happening, at $2,000. A rich working snapshot of the 1991 market for American art bibliography, archives, and monographs.
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Published by Ars Libri Ltd., 1991
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Seller: Epilonian Books, Manhattan Beach, CA, U.S.A.Epilonian Books
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Add to basketWrappers. Condition: Very Good. Ars Libri Ltd., Boston, Published July 1991. Wraps (staple bound), 57 pp.; 28 cm; illustrated throughout with black-and-white reproductions and several color plates. Catalogue 84: Modern Art. In very good condition. Pictorial wraps reproducing El Lissitzky's 1920 design "Beat the Whites with the R…ed Wedge" (Klinom krasnym bei belykh) in golden-yellow, red, and black across front and back covers; mild shelf wear with light bumping and some color loss along edges, mild toning to the inside covers. Red endpapers front and back. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked.Ars Libri's July 1991 sales catalogue, number 84 in their running series, offering 205 numbered items devoted to modern art from the late nineteenth century through the postwar avant-garde: livres d'artistes, illustrated editions, avant-garde periodicals, portfolios, original prints, monographs, and ephemera, arranged alphabetically by artist or title and profusely illustrated with reproductions of covers, plates, and interior pages.Headline entries include: the De Stijl Dutch-language edition of El Lissitzky's Suprematisch worden van twee vierkanten (Two Squares in Six Constructions), issued by Theo van Doesburg in 1922 as De Stijl no. 10-11 (item 121), at $100,000; Wassily Kandinsky's Klänge (item 96, München: R. Piper & Co., 1913), the artist's prose-poem-and-woodcut book with 56 original prints, at $45,000; and Henri Matisse's Pasiphaé: Chant de Minos (item 130, Paris: Fequet et Baudier, 1944) with 50 linoleum-cut engravings, at $27,500.Further substantial entries include André Derain's 128 original color woodcuts for Rabelais's Pantagruel (item 44, Albert Skira, 1943); E. L. Kirchner's 47 woodcuts for Georg Heym's Umbra Vitae (item 103, Kurt Wolff, 1924); Georges Hugnet's La belle en dormant (item 87) with engravings by Hans Bellmer; Pierre Bonnard's 55 etchings for Octave Mirbeau's Dingo (item 20, Ambroise Vollard, 1924); Bonnard's lithographs for Claude Terrasse's Petit solfège illustré (item 23, 1893); Maurice Denis's woodcuts for André Gide's Le voyage d'Urien (item 42, 1893); and works or documentation on or by Hannah Höch, Georges Braque, Walter Gropius, Die Brücke, the Dada movement (including the Dada Handbill, Salon Dada, and Cabaret Voltaire), Die Fläche (the Viennese Art Nouveau pattern portfolio, item 73), Oskar Kokoschka's Die träumenden Knaben, and Arthur Mackmurdo's Wren's City Churches (1883, item 126). Bibliographical references section keyed to the abbreviations used throughout.Designed by Nelida Nassar (Nassar Design). Printed by Excelsior Printing Company. OCLC 34015117.
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Published by Ars Libri Ltd., 1991
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Seller: Epilonian Books, Manhattan Beach, CA, U.S.A.Epilonian Books
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Add to basketWrappers. Condition: Very Good. Ars Libri Ltd., Boston, Published August 1991. Wraps (staple bound), 99 pp.; 28 cm. Catalogue 85: Prints and Drawings. In very good condition. Pale pink paper covers with a reproduced Renaissance engraving of a printer's workshop on the front cover; mild shelf wear with light bumping to edges and…some color loss along edges. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked.Ars Libri's August 1991 sales catalogue, number 85 in their running series, offering 2,339 numbered items on the history and literature of prints and drawings, from general reference works and institutional collection catalogues to monographs on individual artists.Organized in two parts. Part I (General Works, entries 1 through 1448) covers reference books, museum and exhibition catalogues, and catalogues raisonnés of collections. Part II (Monographs on Artists, beginning at entry 1449) presents works on individual printmakers and draftsmen, alphabetically from Alastair and Josef Albers through the twentieth century.Significant entries include: a first edition of Bernard Berenson's The Drawings of the Florentine Painters (E.P. Dutton, 1903, two volumes, limited to 355 copies printed at the Ballantyne Press, with 180 color collotype plates later replaced by inferior monochrome illustrations in subsequent editions) at $3,000; a complete run of Die graphischen Künste (Gesellschaft für vervielfältigende Kunst, Vienna, 1879-1933), all 56 volumes, at $32,500; a complete set of the Vignier, Inada, and Koechlin signed limited-edition catalogues of Japanese ukiyo-e prints exhibited at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs from 1909 through 1914 (six volumes, Paris) at $4,500; Abraham Bloemaert's Oorspronkelyk en Vermaard Konstryk Tekenboek (Amsterdam, 1740), the great Dutch eighteenth-century drawing manual engraved by Frederik Bloemaert after his father Abraham, at $3,500; and a complete set of the Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters, Series I and II (32 parts, Oxford University Press, 1905-1935) at $6,000.
Published by Ars Libri, Ltd., Boston, 1986
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Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.George Ong Books
Contact seller5-star sellerWrappers. Condition: Fine. 39 pp., 4to, printed wrappers. Catalogue of 348 titles (not illustrated).
Published by (Boston, MA: Ars Libri, Ltd., 1988)., 1988
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Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.Redux Books
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear, may have minor rubbing and scuffing.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.
Published by (Boston, MA: Ars Libri, Ltd., March 1987). March 1987)., 1987
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Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Add to basketCondition: Very good. - Quarto, gray & white pictorial wraps. 85 pp. & 1-page publisher's catalogue. Very good. 863 items are catalogued with prices.
Published by Boston, MA: Ars Libri, Ltd., (1982). (1982)., 1982
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Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. - Quarto, stapled white self-wraps. Lightly soiled & creased; a bit darkened. 61 pp. Good. 557 general works about art and monographs on artists are catalogued with prices.
Published by Ars Libri, Ltd., Boston, 1988
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Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.George Ong Books
Contact seller5-star sellerWrappers. Condition: Fine. 89, [1] pp., 4to, printed card wrappers. Catalogue of 849 titles (not illustrated).
Published by Ars Libri, Boston, MA
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Seller: Lucky Panther Books, Leonia, NJ, U.S.A.Lucky Panther Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Catalogue of art books for sale. 344 items listed, 84 pages; most pages have an illustration. 2 faint circular indentations on back cover, otherwise fine.
Published by Ars Libri Ltd
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Seller: Lucky Panther Books, Leonia, NJ, U.S.A.Lucky Panther Books
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Catalogue with 153 items, most with images shown.157 pages.
Published by Ars Libri Ltd., Boston, 1993
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- First Edition
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.Vashon Island Books
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Two volumes in stapled pictorial wraps, 4to, 65 & 69pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
Published by Ars Libri Ltd., Boston, 1993
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- First Edition
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.Vashon Island Books
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Two volumes in stapled pictorial wraps, 4to, 96 & 93pp. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
Published by Ars Libri Ltd., Boston
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- First Edition
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.Vashon Island Books
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In stapled pictorial wraps, 4to, illustrated. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Color and B&W Illustrations By Bill Ward (illustrator). Book.
Published by (Boston, MA: Ars Libri, Ltd., 1987). 1987)., 1987
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Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Add to basketCondition: Very good. - Quarto, pictorial B&W wraps. Corners lightly creased; spine & rear wrap lightly soiled. 186 & 1-page publisher's catalogue. 1970 general works on American art and monographs on artists are catalogued with prices.
Published by (Boston, MA: Ars Libri, Ltd., 1988). 1988)., 1988
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Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
Contact seller5-star sellerCondition: Good. - Quarto, pictorial gray wraps. Corners lightly creased; rear wrap soiled; stain to each wrap; short tear to head of spine. 171 & 1-page publisher's catalogue. Page corners lightly creased. Good. 1648 works on architecture and monographs on architects are catalogued with prices.
Published by Boston, MA: Ars Libri, Ltd., (1985). (1985)., 1985
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Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
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Published by Ars Libri, 2005
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Seller: Katsumi-san Co., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.Katsumi-san Co.
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Very Good. Published circa 2005? Bottom fore-edge corner of book has small, minor crease. 84 p., with 344 entries, well illustrated. [b 119].
Published by Boston, 2018
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA)
Contact seller4-star seller27pp. Prof. illus. Sm. 4to. Wraps. Parallel texts in English and Farsi.
Published by Boston, 2018
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA)
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Published by Boston, 2017
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA)
Contact seller4-star seller27, (1)pp. 9 plates, 10 text figs. Oblong 8vo. Wraps.
Published by Boston, 2018
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA)
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Published by Boston, 2017
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA)
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Published by Boston, 2017
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA)
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Published by Ars Libri Ltd., 2008
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Seller: Marbus Farm Books, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.Marbus Farm Books
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. Condition: Fine. Softcover exhibition catalog, light shelfwear to covers. Contents clean and tight. 55 pages, color and b&w illus. 144 lots.
Published by Boston, 2011
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA)
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Published by Boston, 2011
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA)
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Published by Boston, 2011
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA)
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Published by Boston, 2011
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA)
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More imagesPublished by Ars Libri, Boston, 1994
- Softcover
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.Mullen Books, ABAA
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Add to basketSoftcover. Condition: VG. Glossy illustrated wraps. 60 pages : illustrations (some color). Catalog #101. Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-60).
