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The Recently Deflowered Girl: The Right Thing to Say on Every Dubious Occasion by Edward Gorey Synopsis An infectiously funny guide to post-deflowerment decorum, with illustrations by a master of the absurd. For more than half a century Miss Hyacinthe Phypps has been offering guidance on proper behavior. Her simple rules of propriety and common sense have... (read more) Your price: $12.00 New - Hardcover 
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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook Publisher Comments “Elegant and quietly important…Brook does more than merely sketch the beginnings of globalization and highlight the forces that brought our modern world into being; rather, he offers a timely reminder of humanitys interdependence.”... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook by Betty Edwards Publisher Comments Millions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards. Now, in an essential companion to her bestselling classic, Edwards offers readers the key to mastering this art form: guided practice in their newfound creative abilities... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Spiral
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The Secret Art of DR. Seuss by Dr. Seuss Publisher Comments These fabulous, whimsical paintings, created for his own pleasure and never shown to the public, show Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) in a whole new light. Depicting outlandish creatures in otherworldly settings, the paintings use a dazzling rainbow of hues... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self by Julia Cameron Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-229) and index.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera by Ron Schick Publisher Comments Norman Rockwell: Behind the Camera is the first book to explore the meticulously composed and richly detailed photographs that Norman Rockwell used to create his famous artworks. Working alongside skilled photographers, Rockwell acted as director... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to Present by Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 218) and index.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $32.00 Used - Hardcover
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Gil Elvgren: The Complete Pin-Ups by Charles G. Martignette Synopsis Post-depression America was in desperate need of a defining iconography that would lift it out of the black and white doldrums, and it came in theform of Gil Elvgren's Technicolor fantasies of the American dream. His technique-which earned him a... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Hardcover 
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Or, After the Outing by Edward Gorey Publisher Comments A new, small-format edition of one of Gorey's "dark masterpieces of surreal morality" (Vanity Fair) - a witty, disquieting journey through the alphabet.<BR>... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky Publisher Comments Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader in the movement to free art from traditional bonds. 12 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price: $1.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Titian: The Last Days by Mark Hudson Publisher Comments A compelling portrait of the life, work, and meaning of one of the greatest artists of all time. Toward the end of his long life, Tiziano Vecelli--known to the world ever since as Titian (circa 1488- 1576)--was at work on a number of paintings that he... (read more) Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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The Art of the Bookstore: The Bookstore Paintings of Gibbs M. Smith by Gibbs M Smith Synopsis The Art of the Bookstore is romantic, poetic, charismatic, and enduring, and independent booksellers around the world thrive on creating this unique culture and ambiance. In this lavish limited-edition gift, the words of many of these booksellers are... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $25.00 Used - Slipcase
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Good Faeries/Bad Faeries by Brian Froud Publisher Comments "Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon my life as vibrant, luminous beings, permeating my art and my everyday existence, causing glorious havoc...." In the long-awaited... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Tim Burton by Tim Burton Publisher Comments Tim Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking over the past three decades. With a visual style inspired by the aesthetics of animation and silent comedy, Burton's work melds the exotic, the horrific and the comic, manipulating expressionism and... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican with Poster by Benjamin Blech Publisher Comments Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world—the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, which is the largest... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life by Todd Oldham Synopsis Charley Harper was an American original. For over six decades he painted colorful and graphic illustrations of nature, animals, insects and people alike, from his home studio in Cincinnati, Ohio until he passed away in 2007 at the age of 84. Renowned New... (read more) Your price: $49.95 New - Hardcover
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Herge: The Man Who Created Tintin by Pierre Assouline Publisher Comments One of the most beloved characters in all of comics, Tintin won an enormous international following. Translated into dozens of languages, Tintin's adventures have sold millions of copies, and Steven Spielberg is presently adapting the stories for the big... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Glorious Nosebleed: Fifth Alphabet by Edward Gorey Synopsis The Glorious Nosebleed, an alphabet created with Edward Gorey's inimitable sense of the weird and the macabre, trips from A to Z with illustrations that are both strikingly funny and a bit weird, all the way from She wandered among the trees Aimlessly to... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Turner and the Masters by David (edt) Solkin Publisher Comments Turner and the Masters juxtaposes J.M.W. Turner's greatest paintings alongside works by old masters and contemporaries that he hoped to imitate, rival, and surpass. Published to accompany a major international exhibition, it explores for the first time... (read more) Your price: $55.00 New - Hardcover
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The Eclectic Abecedarium by Edward Gorey Synopsis Edward Gorey's first miniature book, The Eclectic Abecedarium is an illustrated adventure through the English alphabet, accompanied by rhyming adventure through the English alphabet, accompanied by rhyming couplets penned by Gorey, who described his... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Hardcover
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