Literally all sorts of stencils of all shapes and sizes In a handy.
Spiral bound three by five note card size booklet

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Every tool you need for school in one handy place

School Tools

John Pound

The Topps Company

Art Spiegelman

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Garbage Pail Kids--a series of collectible stickers produced by Topps in the 1980s--combined spectacular artwork and over-the-top satire. The result was an inspired collaboration between avant-garde cartoonists and humorists including Art Spiegelman, Mark Newgarden, John Pound, Tom Bunk, and Jay Lynch. A new generation of fans continues to embrace this pop-culture phenomenon as Garbage Pail Kids stickers are still being published. Now, for the first time, all 206 rare and hard-to-find images from Series 1 through 5 are collected in an innovative package, along with a special set of four limited-edition, previously unreleased bonus stickers. This exciting follow up to Wacky Packages is guaranteed to appeal to die-hard collectors as well as a new generation of fans.

Praise for Garbage Pail Kids:


"If you ask me, reliving my time with Bad Breath Seth and Potty Scotty is worth the cover price alone." --USAToday.com

"I worried that [the Garbage Pail Kids" --USAToday.com

"I worried that [the Garbage Pail Kids" --USAToday.com

"I worried that [the Garbage Pail Kids" --USAToday.com

"I worried that [the Garbage Pail Kids] might seem too time-bound for their own good; but if anything, 27 years later, they're more poignant. Maybe it's because I'm a worried, concerned adult, but more likely it's because nothing is ever as funny as it is when you're ten years old--and everything is a lot scarier." --CapitalNewYork.com
"The book is a wonderfully designed tribute to these shit-disturbing cards in all their graphic, full-color glory." --ComicsBeat.com

"There's a lot of interesting stuff in Spiegel man's intro, and in the afterward by John Pound, the artist who originated and drew the bulk of the Kids. But the real reason to buy this book is for the graphic brilliance of the art itself..." --Boston Phoenix

Garbage Pail Kids

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Second edition. Phaidon Press. Large-scale reproductions of his paintings, drawings, and sculptures. All plates are attached and in great shape. Most of the drawings reproduced are done so in their original size.

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Wisconsin

The Artist

Leonardo Da Vinci

Tommye Scanlin

No writing or highlighting. Binding tight. Cover corners and edges show a touch of wear 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Missouri

Essays of a Tapestry Weaver

The Nature of Things

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Millie Marotta

California

A Coloring Book Adventure

Lose yourself in a riot of beauty and mindful drawing. Millie Marotta's intricately designed tropical world beckons would-be artists to enter and make their mark. Add brilliant colors to exotic blooms or a parrot's feathers. Complete a rainforest scene, add fine lines to palm trees, or personalize the illustrations. It's a wonderful way to fire up your imagination and relieve stress.

Tropical World

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MantraCraft

Mantra Craft Coloring Books

Stress Relieving Animal Designs

This adult coloring book has over 50 animal patterns and provides hours of stress relief through creative expression. It features small and big creatures from forests, oceans, deserts and grasslands. Designs range in complexity and detail from beginner to expert-level.

Adult Coloring Book

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Washington

The Graphic Work

M.C. Escher

Bride M. Whelan

This is a great book for anyone who works or wants to work in color. This book has a wide variety of combinations for any style - and even gives the 4 color code for print graphics!

This book is practically new and has to be held open when perusing. 

Massachusetts

A Guide to Creative Color Combinations

Color Harmony 2

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Jim Krause

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Discover all the lessons and insights that a lifetime of painting provides! The best way to learn something is with a great teacher. Let them speak, and listen closely. When it comes to painting, you need look no further than Watercolor Wisdom. Inside, Jo Taylor shares all the knowledge and experience she's accumulated over three decades of painting and teaching in watercolor. Packed with insights, tricks and invaluable tips, Watercolor Wisdom is a virtual master class in watercolor painting. Taylor illustrates every important technique and concept with examples, sketches, diagrams and demonstrations, whether covering the basics, such as brush selection, composition, value and color mixing or more advanced considerations. You'll learn how to find your personal style, express emotion in your work, understand and create abstract art and more. Let Jo Taylor help you to become watercolor wise today! There's no better way to learn, and no better teacher to guide you.

Color Index

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Dian Hanson

This book is very small but filled with amazing pictures.

Elvgren; Taschen

He's called the King of Pin-up for good reason. Gillette Elvgren (1914-1980) known as Gil, created some 700 pin-up oil paintings during his long career, more than any other calendar artist. His subjects were flirty, sassy, playful, and spirited, quintessential American girls who found themselves unintentionally exposed in myriad ways. They first rose to popularity among troops in World War II, and continued inspiring male fantasies well into the 1970s.

Today Elvgren's recognition factor is greater than ever, as his images are collected by men and women alike. His works have been the subject of top-selling TASCHEN books and calendars, and now 200 of his best are available in a compact package perfect for gifting--to oneself and others. From his first mid-'30s paintings through the 1970s, it's all here, more portable, affordable, and adorable than ever!

The Little Book Of Pin-Up

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Stephen Farthing

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

A Comprehensive Guide to the Giants of the Art World

Features an illustrated compendium of biographical profiles for some of the world's great artists, spanning in time from classical antiquity to the modern era, accompanied an analysis of each artist's work and cultural influence.

501 Great Artists

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Marylin Scott

This book provides an essential reference and an excellent resource for practicing artists.

Acrylic Artist's Bible

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Alison Smith

Watercolour has long been seen as a distinctive part of the British cultural heritage, with British artists widely acknowledged to be among its greatest exponents. This book traces its roots from the Middle Ages. It features works by artists including Turner, Girtin, Samuel Palmer, Anish Kapoor and Terry Frost.

Watercolour

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Michele Dantini

This engrossing volume takes us on a fascinating visual journey through the most groundbreaking and avant-garde art of the early 20th century to the present. Stunning, high-quality photographs of major artworks accompany illuminating discussions of the masters of modern and contemporary painting, sculpture, architecture, and conceptual art. Here are giants of invention such as Picasso and Matisse, the German expressionists, Dadaists, constructivists, surrealists, abstract expressionists, minimalists, pop artists, and today’s cutting-edge creators. They’re all carefully placed in cultural context, with ideas, movements, events, artists, and works beautifully examined. Scholars, art aficionados, students, gallery owners, and art historians will all find this mainstream, accessible guide appealing.

Modern and Contemporary Art

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Peter Max





An in-depth look at the personal and artistic life of renowned artist Peter Max...in his own words

In this intimate visual memoir, artist Peter Max details his life journey as an artist, providing a stirring account of himself as a young boy and as a successful artist eager to return to the days of wonderment and inspiration found only in dreams and childhood. Max charts his ascension in the art world and pauses to reflect on the nature of creativity, the universe at large, his many loves, and his ability to see beauty in the everyday. Vibrantly illustrated with Max's signature work, including some never-before-seen pieces, this colorful memoir reveals the personal inspiration behind the work of one of the world's most popular artists.

With 200 full-color photographs

The Universe of Peter Max

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Alan Aldridge

The Art of Alan Aldridge

Illustrated autobiography that charts Aldridge's life as a graphic entertainer, covering his whole career from 1963 up to the present. Among the hundreds of images are vivid stories about how the projects came about and Aldridge's encounters with famous people he has met along the way, which included a drawing duel with Salvador Dali, bike riding with Steve McQueen and pitching a film idea to Francis Ford Coppola.

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes

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Hajo Duchting

Painting Music

A talented violinist as well as a painter, Klee drew much of the inspiration for his abstract art from musical rhythms and structures. Like a composer, he developed and harmonized pictorial themes, weaving a complex series of signs and symbols into his painting. The book focuses on Klee’s decade long tenure at the Bauhaus, where the artist’s theories and practices first merged. Illustrated throughout with full-color reproductions of Klee’s paintings and etchings, as well as entries from his diaries, this unique study sheds light on an important aspect of Klee’s work while providing insights into his development as an abstract artist.

Paul Klee

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Gary Garrels

Jasper Johns

Richard S. Field

Joachim Pissarro

New Paintings and Works on Paper

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This is Dover Publication 1967, so this book has been around…saying that the binding is still tight and the b/w pictures that displayed Aubrey Beardsley talents are great! There is writing in pen inside cover of previous owner.

157 plates with 2 in color

The early work of Aubrey Beardsley

Gail Stavitsky

Katherine Rothkopf

Jayne S. Warman

Jill Anderson Kyle

Ellen Handy

Jerry N. Smith

Mary Tomkins Lewis

Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

The first in-depth look at Cézanne's powerful influence in shaping early 20th-century American art Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) is one of the great geniuses in the history of art, and his work has influenced a multitude of artists throughout Europe. Across the Atlantic, Cézanne's paintings had a similarly catalytic effect on artists emerging in the United States during the early 20th century. Cézanne and American Modernism is the first book devoted specifically to his impact on American art and its eager reception there. It shows how American painters and photographers cemented Cézanne's legacy by spreading their respect and admiration for his vision with their own art, writings, and exhibitions. Examining Cézanne's influence on more than a generation of American artists, this handsomely illustrated book features paintings and photography by Paul Strand, Marsden Hartley, Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Charles Demuth, Arshile Gorky, Charles Sheeler, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Maurice Prendergast, Morgan Russell, Max Weber, and many others. Cézanne's far-reaching transformative impact on each artist's aesthetic vision is explored, while extensive essays shed new light on a wide range of subjects from American collectors of his work and his shaping of modernism in the American West to the lasting resonance of his art on Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s. Published in association with The Baltimore Museum of Art Exhibition Schedule: Montclair Art Museum (9/13/09 - 1/3/10) The Baltimore Museum of Art (2/14/10 - 5/23/10) Phoenix Art Museum (6/26/10 - 9/26/10)

Cézanne and American Modernism

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Mark Rosenthal

Francisco Calvo Serraller

Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is a key presence in the history of modern art, and yet he is rarely seen or remembered in the context from which he initially emerged as an artist. When Calder became "Calder" - well known for his signature mobiles and stabiles - it was due to a unique variety of presiding influences. His artistic parentage consisted of Marcel Duchamp, who provided the name of and concept for the mobi≤ Piet Mondrian, who introduced pure abstraction to him; and Joan Miró, who communicated the central theses of Surrealism. Although Calder went on to play a major role in Surrealist manifestations during the formative years of the movement, including being shown in the defining 1936 "Exposition surréaliste d'objets" in Paris, he has since been separated from those beginnings. Indeed, at this point in time, Calder is never included in exhibitions of Surrealist art, even though he was incubated by that phenomenon and contributed mightily to it. This book will put the artist back in midst of Surrealism so that his achievement is more profoundly understood within that context. Works by artists such as Miró, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and René Magritte will delineate the Surrealist milieu and some of its chief aspects. The following theses are also explored: Calder's wit, caricature, and linear flights of fancy; his marvelous personages and fantastic creatures; biomorphic forms from an imaginary vision of nature; and his constellations, apparent views of celestial space.

The Surreal Calder

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Jerry Garcia

Bob Dylan

Mickey Hart

Published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of his passing, Jerry Garcia: The Collected Artwork is a profusely illustrated showcase of, and appreciation for, Jerry Garcia's art, life, and creative spirit. Opening with a foreword by Mickey Hart, the collection features more than 100 full-color reproductions of his paintings, drawings, and prints. This historic presentation of Jerry's distinguished body of work (which includes pen and inks, acrylics, watercolors, and digital media) is at once a stunning art book in an accessible, coffee-table format and an intimate and playful celebration of his creativity. Edited by April Higashi, art curator and archivist of the Jerry Garcia estate, each chapter opens with a commentary on the art presented in the context of Jerry's life and times. Punctuating these essays are "interludes," illustrated by candid photographs, featuring interviews, anecdotes, and remembrances by key cultural figures as well as those closest to Jerry. Participants include Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Herbert Gold, Donna Godchaux, Victor Moscoso, Carlos Santana, Baron Wolman, Paul Pena, and members of the Garcia and Grateful Dead families.

Jerry Garcia - The Collected Artwork

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Montse Aguer Teixidor

Hank Hine

William Jeffett

Very little wear on the exterior paper cover 

The Late Work

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Salvador Dali: the late work, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia August 7, 2010-January 9, 2011"--Colophon.

Salvador Dalí

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Francis M. Naumann

Wallace Putnam (1899-1989) burst upon the New York art scene in 1936 with a large assemblage provocatively entitled Agog, prominently displayed in the entranceway to a major exhibition of Dadaist and Surrealist art at The Museum of Modern Art. Though he went on to create a highly innovative body of work that was shown in major museums, Putnam remains underappreciated, deserving of the reassessment that this first study of his art will stimulate. Putnam's work is largely figurative, with elements of abstraction. Art lovers will relish this opportunity to discover a significant yet too-long-ignored artist whose paintings -- appealing, colorful canvases depicting the human figure, birds, animals, and landscapes -- can today be found in major private and public collections.

Wallace Putnam

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