Bossert, Helmuth Th. Peasant Art of Europe and Asia. Praeger, 1966. First US Edition Thus. 9 3/4" x 13 1/4". Hardcover in dustjacket. Few smudges, otherwise book is in very good condition. Jacket shows some overall wear & soil, and a few large chips. A range of folk art (selected from the large German work "Ornamentwerk"). This volume includes 44 full-page plates (several in color) + notes. There are several examples illustrated in each plate. $25.00
Cole, Herbert M., ed. (and with an introduction by). I Am Not Myself: The Art of African Masquerade. Los Angeles: Museum of Cultural History, 1985. 8 1/2" x 11", 112 pp. Softcover book. Moderate exterior wear with some tearing at top & bottom of spine. Owner's blindstamp on half-title. A bit of foxing to a few pages. Securely bound in sewn signatures; sound interior. Presentable working copy. Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name. Includes introductory essay by Cole on African masks, masking, and masquerade. Essays by divers hands on masquerade as practiced by different African peoples. Includes essays on the Voltaic people, Bidjogo, Mende, Dan and We, Bamana, Baule, Yoruba, Northern Edo, Cameroon Grasslands, Chokwe, Yaka, Pende, Lega, and Makonde. With notes and bibliography. Illustrated throughout in black & white, with a small section of color plates. Number Twenty-Six in the Museum of Cultural History Monograph Series. $35.00
Flexner, James Thomas. America's Old Masters. Doubleday, 1980. Revised edition. 369 pp. Remainder spray bottom edge; otherwise very good+ in moderately worn, rubbed dustjacket with short creased tear top of spine. Revised from the 1939 edition, with 16 new color illustrations and new foreword by the author. Seminal study of the work of Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, and Gilbert Stuart. $12.00
Sartin, Stephen. A Dictionary of British Narrative Painters. Leigh-on-Sea, UK: F. Lewis, 1978. First Edition. 8 3/4" x 11 1/2", 78+ pp. Hardcover in dustjacket. Light general wear & light overall soil to jacket. Alphabetical listing of artists, including some brief biographical and exhibition information. The 78 text pages are followed by 24 black & white illustrations. $25.00
Sydney, Clare. Flower Painting. Rizzoli, 1986. 80 pp. Softcover book in very good condition. Owner name on first leaf; a little shelfwear to exterior. Firmly bound in sewn signatures; straight, square spine. This nicely designed book celebrates flower painting, with an informative introductory essay and 32 color plates representing the work of 20th century masters of the form. $14.00
Trier, Eduard and Willy Weyres, eds. Kunst des 19. Jahrhunderts im Rheinland, Band 3: Malerei. Dusseldorf: Schwann, 1979. 8 1/2" x 10 3/4", 424 pp. Hardcover in dustjacket. Front hinge a bit tender, otherwise book is in very good condition; jacket is worn, torn, & chipped. This volume on 19th century painting contains contributions from several writers. Illustrated in both black & white and color. The text is in German. $37.00