SPLIT SECONDS HONG KONG.
Petaluma, Ca: Cameron & Company, 2020. Hardcover. Folio. 14 x 11 1/2". 285pp. Beautiful b&w photography of this densely populated city. Very heavy book, no overseas shipping.
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HALLELUJAH TOSCANA.
Rome: Contrasto, 2017. Hardcover. Quarto. 11 3/4 x 9 1/4. Text, poems (by Alba Donati) and many b&w photographs celebrating Toscana. Text in Italian and English. Pictorial cover with original wrap-around. Small bump to one corner.
HUNTING WITH EAGLES: In the Realm of the Mongolian Kazakhs.
London: Merrell, 2015. Hardcover. Quarto. 11 1/4 x 10". 128pp. Beautiful, dramatic b&w photographs by Mohan. Lightly bumped top corners, light wear to dust jacket.
THE SOCIAL LIVES OF FIGURINES. Recontextualizing the Third-Millennium-BC Terracotta Figurines from Harappa (Pakistan).
Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum of Archaelogy and Ethnology. 2016. First edition. Hard cover. 11'' x 8''. 346pp. Without dust jacket, as issued.
MINGEI OF JAPAN. THE LEGACY OF THE FOUNDERS.
San Diego: Mingei International Museum. 2006. First edition. Hardcover. 11 1/4'' X 9''. 298pp. Illustrated in color throughout.
EDWARD BOREIN THE UPDATE.
Santa Barbara. Harold G. Davidson. 1991. First edition. Hard cover. 11 1/2'' x 9''. 219pp. Edition limited to 500 copies. Inscribed by Davidson. Toning to pages, some foxing to dust jacket. A must for collector's and dealers in western art.
ALFREDO RAMOS MARTINEZ 1872-1946.
Beverly Hills. Louis Stern Galleries. 1991. First edition. Soft cover. 10'' x 8''. 104pp. Illustrated in color.
HISTORIC SANTA BARBARA. An Illustrated History.
San Antonio, Texas. Historical Publishing Network. 2010. 11'' x 8 1/2''. 208pp. SIGNED and dated by Graffy. Illustrated.
SANTA BARBARA NEIGHBORHOODS.
Santa Barbara. Santa Barbara Board of Realtors. 1989. Second printing. Softcover. 8 1/2'' x 5 1/2''. Compiles Tompkin's Santa Barbara Neighborhood history series, complete with index. 150pp. Illustrated from old photographs. Nice bright copy.
WORDPLAY: The Life of Script in Paintings and Sculptures.
Addis Ababa: National Museum of Ethiopia, 2010. Softcover. Quarto. 11 x 9 1/2'. Nicely illustrated with color plates. SIGNED and dated 2010.
THE LATER ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. A DEFINITIVE TEXT.
Norwalk, Connecticut. The Easton Press. 1980. Full leather. 9'' X 6 1/2''. 767pp. to 1222pp.
THE FINAL ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. A DEFINITIVE TEXT.
Norwalk, Connecticut. The Easton Press. nd. Full leather. 9'' x 6 1/2''. 1225 to 1777pp.
THE PAINTINGS OF FRED GRAYSON SAYRE [1879-1939].
Laguna Beach, CA. Redfern Gallery, 1987. First edition. Softcover. Quarto.76pp. Illustraded throughout in color. Pictorial wrappers. General light wear, rubbing to edges.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SMITH. Architect of the Spanish Colonial Revival.
Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith, Publisher. 2005. First edition. Hard cover. 11'' x 9''. 178pp. Illustrated with color photographs and detailed drawings, the book also contains a complete catalog of Smith's work. General wear; dust jacket toned and worn.
GEORGE WASHINGTON SMITH: An Architect’s Scrapbook.
Los Angeles. Tailwater Press. 2001. First edition. Hard cover. 12 1/4'' x 9 1/2''. 182pp. Illustrated. Wear to top of dust jacket.
LUTAH MARIA RIGGS. A Woman in Architecture. 1921-1980.
Santa Barbara. Capra Press. 1992. First edition. Soft cover. 10 1/2'' x 8 1/2''. 132pp. with index. Illustrated. Some wear and creases to covers.
SANTA BARBARA-THE CREATION OF A NEW SPAIN IN AMERICA.
Santa Barbara. The University Art Museum. University of California, Santa Barbara. 1982. First edition. Soft cover. 8'' by 8 1/2''. 114pp. Previous owners inked signature on title page. Silverfishing to back cover.
KEM WEBER. THE MODERNE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 1930 THROUGH 1941.
Santa Barbara. The Art Galleries University of California Santa Barbara. 1969. First edition. Soft cover. 8'' x 8''. 108pp. Edition limited to 600 copies. Some wear to covers, as is usual with this book.
HISTORIC SANTA BARBARA. An Illustrated History.
San Antonio, Texas. Historical Publishing Network. 2010. Second edition. Softcover. 11'' x 8 1/2''. 208pp. INSCRIBED by Graffy. Illustrated.
SANTA BARBARA THEN AND NOW. A Historical Picture Book of Santa Barbara, California from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century.
Santa Barbara. El Barbareno Publishing. 2012. First Edition. Soft cover. 9'' x 11 1/2''. 160pp. Signed by Neal Graffy. Illustrated.
TALES FROM TORO CANYON AND BEYOND.
Santa Barbara. Privatley printed. 2019. First edition. Soft cover. 11'' X 8 1/2''. 369pp. Illustrated.
Prix Pictet 06: DISORDER.
Munich: teNeues, 2015. Hardcover. Quarto. 13 x 10 1/4". 135pp. Illustrated from full-page, full color photographs. Grey cloth with pictorial dust jacket. Some light rubbing to botttom edge of cloth. "Founded by the esteemed Pictet Group in 2008, the Prix Pictet has quickly established itself as the leading.....
VULNERABLE / Verletzlich.
Munich: teNeues, 2020. Hardcover. Quarto. 12 3/4 x 10". 239pp. Beautifully illustrated from full-page, full color photographs. Pictorial boards, issued without dust jacket. Very light bump to spine corner. " Olga Michi, award winning photographer and documentarian, has traveled the world and lived with different ethnic groups; during.....
NEAR EAST TO FAR WEST: Fictions of French and American Colonialism.
Denver: Denver Art Museum / Yale University Press, 2023. Hardcover. Quarto. 285pp.11 3/4 x 9 3/4". Incl. index. Profusely illustrated. Images of the American West juxtaposed with exotic images of North Africa and the Mediterranean in the 19th century. Pictorial boards, issued without dust jacket. A couple bumped corners and.....
THE ART OF HOKUSAI IN BOOK ILLUSTRATION.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. Hardcover. lg. quarto. 12 1/4 x 10". 288pp. Incl. appendix, glossary and index. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This volume is the first monograph to deal exclusively with Hokusai's prints in book form. Orange silk cloth in pictorial dust jacket. Spotting to fore-edge.....