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Voyaging by Rockwell Kent
Booksplease Price: £15.00Rockwell Kent is one of America's most famous graphic artists. He was also an avid traveler. Kent was especially fascinated by remote Arctic lands and often stayed for extended periods of time to... -
N by E by Rockwell Kent
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £16.11When artist, illustrator, writer, and adventurer Rockwell Kent first published N by E in a limited edition in 1930, his account of a voyage on a 33-foot cutter from New York Harbor to the rugged... -
World Famous Paintings by Rockwell Kent 9781494105891
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £37.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781494105891Author Rockwell KentFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Literary Licensing,... -
World Famous Paintings by Rockwell Kent 9781258974138
RRP: £51.95Booksplease Price: £48.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258974138Author Rockwell KentFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher... -
Moby-Dick: Illustrated by Rockwell Kent by Herman Melville 9781938938269
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £21.19Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938938269Author Herman MelvilleFormat HardbackPage Count 656Imprint Top Five BooksPublisher Top... -
Trouble in Paradise: Twenty-Four Essays on the Social History of American Art by Alan Wallach 9798888905593
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £31.53A collection of engaging and highly readable essays from a leading scholar of the social history of American Art. In these essay, spanning from 1977 to 2023, Alan Wallach explores the art of... -
The Aries Press of Eden, N.Y. by Richard Kegler
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.68A concise history of the Aries Press, founded in the 1920s by philanthropist, Spencer Kellogg Jnr. The Aries Press was an American private press founded by Spencer Kellogg, Jr., in the 1920s. A... -
Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking by Mitra Abbaspour
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.20Focusing on the vital role of literature in the development of the artistic practice of Frank Stella (b. 1936), this insightful book looks at four transformative series of prints made between 1984... -
Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling by Jamie L. Jones 9781469674827
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.89Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum... -
Rendered Obsolete: Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling by Jamie L. Jones 9781469674810
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £67.40Through the mid-nineteenth century, the US whaling industry helped drive industrialization and urbanization, providing whale oil to lubricate and illuminate the country. The Pennsylvania petroleum... -
New York Scene: 1906-1913 John Sloan by John Sloan
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.74One of "The Eight"-a major group in the history of American painting-John Sloan was also an illustrator and cartoonist. Sloan kept an almost daily diary for eight years, for the most part to... -
Tolstoy's 'What is Art?' by Terry Diffey
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63With its demand that works of art be judged according to the their morally didactic content, Tolstoy's reviled aesthetics has seemed to exclude from the canon far too many works widely accepted as... -
The Sea Voyage Narrative Robert Foulke 9780415938945
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £37.52From The Odyssey to Moby Dick to The Old Man and the Sea, the long tradition of sea voyage narratives is comprehensively explained here supported by discussions of key texts.About the AuthorRobert... -
A Mingled Yarn: The Life of R.P.Blackmur by Russell A. Fraser
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £49.89R. P. Blackmur was an American critic and poet, as well as a professor of English literature and creative writing at Princeton University. At the time of his death, he had completed five books and... -
Future Possible: An Art History of Newfoundland and Labrador by Mireille Eagan
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £31.95Winner, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award and The Critical Eye AwardHonourable Mention, Canadian Museums Association's Outstanding Achievement in ResearchIn Future Possible, Mireille Eagan and... -
The Art of American Book Covers: 1875-1930 by Richard Minsky 9780807616246
Booksplease Price: £17.16At the turn of the nineteenth century, book covers were revered as works of art. Publishers commissioned distinguished artists such as Maxfield Parrish and Rockwell Kent to create exquisite covers... -
Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 9781435166707
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.80First published by Walt Whitman, in 1855, Leaves of Grass is the landmark poetry collection that introduced the world to a new and uniquely American form. Alive with the mythical strength and... -
The Art of the Reprint: Nineteenth-Century Novels in Twentieth-Century Editions by Rosalind Parry 9781009272049
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £83.49The Art of the Reprint is a vivid and engaging history of the nineteenth-century novel as it was re-imagined for everyday readers by four extraordinary twentieth-century illustrators. It focuses... -
Electrifying Time: Telechron and GE Clocks 1925-55 by Jim Linz
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £25.62Telechron and General Electric pioneered the application of machine age, art deco styling to clock designs, starting with the Paul Frankl designed Modernique. So impressive are many of the designs... -
Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands Barry A. Logan 9780847836727
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £33.98With its rugged shoreline, magnificent Cathedral Woods, and rustic cedar-shingled homes, Monhegan Island is quintessential Maine. This historic fishing village situated 10 miles off the coast has... -
Grolier Club Bookplates: Past and Present by Alexander Lawrence Ames 9781605831046
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £57.55A lavishly illustrated volume showcasing some of the most important bookplates produced in America from the collection of the Grolier Club. A miniature work of art, a bookplate may be viewed as a... -
Gifts from the Fire: American Ceramics, 1880-1950: From the Collection of Martin Eidelberg Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen 9781588397324
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £42.93This illustrated history highlights the diversity and innovation of American ceramics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as artists responded to historical precedents and emerging... -
The Art of the Reprint: Nineteenth-Century Novels in Twentieth-Century Editions by Rosalind Parry 9781009272056
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.53A genuinely original work, The Art of the Reprint establishes the reprint as a vital area of study. In tightly curated encounters between extraordinary twentieth-century artists and beloved... -
Paul Landacre: California Hills, Hollywood, and the World Beyond: A Catalogue Raisonné Jake Milgram Wien 9780789214928
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £80.20The long-awaited definitive work on master wood engraver Paul Landacre (1893-1963), a key figure of California modernism. With his virtuosic prints of rolling California hills, classically inspired... -
Graphic Witness: Five Wordless Graphic Novels by Frans Masereel, Lynd Ward, Giacomo Patri, Erich Glas and Laurence Hyde by George Walker 9780228103349
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.55""If you care about graphic novels, you need this book." - Bestselling author Neil Gaiman Graphic Witness features rare wordless novels by five great 20thcentury woodcut artists from Europe and... -
From Sea to Stormy Sea: 17 Stories Inspired by Great American Paintings by Lawrence Block
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.55Seventeen stories by seventeen brilliant writers, inspired by seventeen paintings. That was the formula for Lawrence Block's two ground-breaking anthologies, In Sunlight or in Shadow and Alive in...