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Vendor: S. H. 1850-1910 Butcher
Aristotle's Theory of Poetry and Fine Art
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $39.95
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Vendor: Honoré Daumier Erich Klossowski
Honoré Daumier
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Vendor: Gustave 1832-1883 Doré
The Doré Bible Gallery
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $38.95
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Vendor: Desiderius Erasmus
Erasmus in Praise of Folly
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Vendor: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Table Talk and Omniana of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $26.95
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Vendor: Anonymous
Letters And Notes on the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians; Volume II
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $26.95
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Vendor: David Stewart
Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland: With Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments;
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $27.95
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Vendor: David Stewart
Sketches of the Character, Manners, and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland: With Details of the Military Service of the Highland Regiments;
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $39.95
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Vendor: Edgar J. Banks
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $22.95
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Vendor: Lady
Willie's First Drawing Lessons: Simple Lines Of Nature
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $26.95
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Vendor: Jackson Holbrook
The Eighteen Nineties; a Review of art and Ideas at the Close of the Nineteenth Century
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $23.95
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Vendor: Max Eastman
Journalism Versus Art
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $17.95
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Vendor: Clive Bell
Since Cézanne
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Vendor: Roger Fry
Vision and Design
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Vendor: George Santayana
The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory
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Vendor: Iris Brooke
A History of English Costume
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...- $22.95
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Vendor: Genevieve Sheets
Art Fiction: Stories
A newly married couple surrounded by the beauty of Paris, each in their own way struggling to define what marriage could and should look like. A high school teacher confronting echoes of his past as his current love negotiates the place of art in...- $25.00
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Vendor: Kurt Slauson
Incunabulae: Collected Works, 1990-2015
Like the chance meeting of Spy vs. Spy and Rimbaudian synesthesia on Maldoror's operating table, Kurt Slauson's Incunabulae registers an intuitive logic in word and image that lurks just beneath the surface of lived experience. This logic, as it emerges in these pages, is...- $35.95
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Vendor: Elizabeth Jacobson
Everything Feels Recent When You're Far Away: Poetry and Art from Santa Fe Youth During the Pandemic
Together, Santa Fe Poet Laureate Elizabeth Jacobson, Axle Contemporary, YouthWorks, Santa Fe Community Screenprinting, and The New Mexico School for the Arts produced and directed this project of youth poetry and art. Sixty high school students have crafted poems, designed excerpts from their poems...- $14.00
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Vendor: Rick Sikes
Discovery
When life, as he knew it, was stripped away, left with NO freedom except in his mind, Rick Sikes journeyed deep inside seeking to discover his true self. It took time, but he eventually found the man he'd forgotten existed. Even though they confined...- $24.95
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Vendor: Chazen Museum of Art
Visions and Revisions: Robert Cumming's Work on Paper
This volume presents on paper the work of Robert Cummings which depicts ordinary objects such as chairs, cups, birdhouses, light bulbs and rulers.Author: Chazen Museum of ArtISBN-10: 0932900291ISBN-13: 9780932900296Publisher: Chazen Museum of ArtLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1991Pages: 48Format: Paperback- $14.00
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Vendor: Andrew Laking
The Empire City: Songs of Wellington
The Empire City traces the history of Wellington, from the middle of the 19th Century till the present day. Stories are told through song, text, paintings and photographs and offer a creative insight into the history of life in the capital city. The book...- $24.99
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Vendor: Ernest B. Gilman
Near Miss: A Study of Wyndham Lewis (1909-1930)
The pictorial and literary works of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) are among the great Modernist achievements. From 1918 to 1926 Lewis wrote an unusually large work to be called The Man of the World. Expediency and the vagaries of the trade forced this intended omnibus...- $62.95
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Vendor: Margaret Katy Aisenberg
Ravishing Images: Ekphrasis in the Poetry & Prose of William Wordsworth, W. H. Auden, & Philip Larkin
This major study of Wordsworth, Auden and Larkin proposes that we read the history of contemporary poetry as the history of a war between words and images. This book argues that the desire for transparent clear poetry, in the 19th and 20th centuries, led...- $55.95
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Vendor: A. T. Peacock
Cultural Economics and Cultural Policies
Cultural Economics and Cultural Policies offers a unique guide to the state of the art in cultural economics. First, it alerts scholars and students to the necessity for careful definition and measurement of the cultural sector'. Second, it affords examples of how economic analysis...- $169.99
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Vendor: Marquonda Wyatt
Poetical Sensations: A Random Creative Fusion of Tasteful Poems
Feed and soothe your mind with the complete masterpiece of poetry. Poetry meets world when dishing into present world events, spirituality, inspiration, life, philosophy, and positivity. However, you won't be able to resist the good nature of a sincerely great book that expresses a...- $24.99
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Vendor: John Kinsella
Saussure's Kaleidoscope: Graphology Drawing-Poems
John Kinsella has been working on his series of Graphology Poems for almost thirty years, and published the first of these in the mid-1990s. Concerned with issues of orthography, handwriting, typing, modes of discussing and conveying experience, and with issues of perception and modes...- $43.99
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Vendor: Pablo La Roche
Going to Zero 2019
This book collects the work of 115 Architecture students in the first of two required Environmental Control System courses at Cal Poly Pomona University. The project introduced students to the design of zero net energy buildings with energy modeling as an important part of...- $56.43
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Vendor: Arami Walker
Story 400
Story 400 is a collection of poetry written by writer and musician, A.C. Walker. In August 2019, she began writing this book at 25 years old with the intention of reflecting on history and modernity. In 1619, the first group of African people were...- $16.19
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Vendor: Jongmin Shin
Kimbop
A full color art book that features a collection work from emerging and talented artists from Korea.Author: Jongmin ShinISBN-10: 0557708990ISBN-13: 9780557708994Publisher: Lulu PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/31/2011Pages: 34Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d- $22.96
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Vendor: Marsden Hartley
Adventures In The Arts: Informal Chapters On Painters, Vaudeville And Poets
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...- $42.95
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Vendor: William Blake
The Poems: With Specimens Of The Prose Writings Of William Blake
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...- $43.95
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Vendor: Pavel Machotka
Painting and Our Inner World: The Psychology of Image Making
That painting is at least in part an expression of the painter's personality is obvious from the differences between very impulsive and very controlled painters - between the paintings of a Picasso, for example, and a Piet Mondriaan. But these differences have not been...- $109.99
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Vendor: John C. Grant
The Kilmarnock Collection
"Life is short - it has to be. It is every spark that illuminates our skies - gone, all too quickly, sometimes without warning - and leaving constellations of darkness within our souls. This book is a scliff of life, a moment from Kilmarnock,...- $30.88
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Vendor: Dean C. Gardner
The Calling
"The Calling" addresses issues regarding the form and substance of ideation, as well as the source of thought as the process of connectivity and juxtaposition leads to the poetic leap. It is an adventure into the unknown where mind leaves the here and now...- $12.99
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Vendor: Raymond D. Viechweg
Grenada Uncovered: An uncommon view of the island's geocultural beauty (Black and White Edition)
Grenada Uncovered distinguishes Grenada-a 120 Square-mile tropical, Caribbean island- beyond the obvious notion that it is a tourist's paradise. It is the pictorial representation of an island with a rich history, pristine natural habitat, unmistakable developmental potential, and a people boldly desirous of progress....- $14.99
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Vendor: Dean C. Gardner
The War of Principalities
THE WAR OF PRINCIPALITIES is a pRoem documenting the conflicts of a number of levels in the experiential. It explores the realities of the mystery of life.Author: Dean C. GardnerISBN-10: 195595514XISBN-13: 9781955955140Publisher: Goldtouch Press, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/29/2021Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...- $10.99
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Vendor: Raymond D. Viechweg
Grenada Uncovered: An uncommon view of the island's geocultural beauty
Grenada Uncovered distinguishes Grenada-a 120 Square-mile tropical, Caribbean island- beyond the obvious notion that it is a tourist's paradise. It is the pictorial representation of an island with a rich history, pristine natural habitat, unmistakable developmental potential, and a people boldly desirous of progress....- $42.99
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Vendor: Allen Frank McNair
From Checkered Cloth: A Collection of Poetry 1990 Through the Present
This current anthology is the product of years of my extensive experience with the written word. The original anthology contained the black-and-white illustrations included in this book. The writings in that book evolved from my brief time as a homeless person after my graduation...- $20.99
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Vendor: Allen Frank McNair
From Checkered Cloth: A Collection of Poetry 1990 Through the Present
This current anthology is the product of years of my extensive experience with the written word. The original anthology contained the black-and-white illustrations included in this book. The writings in that book evolved from my brief time as a homeless person after my graduation...- $30.99
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Vendor: Linda Larson
Country Garden Colouring Book
This is a Collection of Country Garden drawings from the work of International Award Winning Artist Morgan Fitzsimons. She has combined the exquisite beauty of nature with her images from country gardens that are a delight for adults to enjoy colouring.Author: Linda Larson,Morgan FitzsimonsISBN-10:...- $12.95
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Vendor: Linda Larson
Pocket Cameo Colouring Book
This is an Collection of Cameo drawings from the work of International Award Winning Artist Morgan Fitzsimons. She has combined the exquisite art design depicting timeless beauty with her distinctive style; creating images that are a delight to colour for crafter's creations and for...- $10.95
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Vendor: Jennifer Franklin
Lily Poetry Review Issue 15
Author: Jennifer FranklinISBN-10: 1957755768ISBN-13: 9781957755762Publisher: Lily Poetry ReviewLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2026Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d- $18.00
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Vendor: David Nalin
Spring and Fall Scenes in Chester County, Pa
Author: David NalinISBN-13: 9798318829772Publisher: Palmetto PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2026Pages: 82Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 8.50h x 11.00w x 0.38d- $36.99
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Vendor: Shilo Niziolek
Scavengers 3
Author: Shilo NiziolekISBN-10: 1963943503ISBN-13: 9781963943504Publisher: QLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2026Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.27d- $16.00
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Vendor: A. Cort Sinnes
More Mad About Meyer Lemons
Award-winning author and artist A. Cort Sinnes has written more than 18 books on gardening and outdoor living and six cookbooks, including the James Beard-nominated The Grilling Encyclopedia. Following in the footsteps of Katsushika Hokusai with his Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji and Henri...- $22.00
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Vendor: Marilyn Isabel Yurick
Emily the Country Mouse
Little ones from the city or the country will enjoy the adventures of a little country mouse named Emily, who has happy life and lots of fun with her brothers and sisters in a little village called Murillo.Author: Marilyn Isabel YurickISBN-13: 9798295632761Publisher: 101 PublishLanguage:...- $9.99
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Vendor: Jennifer Romine Chandler
The Collected Works of Toss Chandler
Artist Lucie Cross "Toss" Chandler (February 7, 1934 - January 10, 2023) is a beloved Kentucky painter. This collection is a celebration of her works, including acrylics, oils, watercolors, charcoals, pastels and more. Her daughter-in-law, editor, Jennifer Chandler has compiled as many of her...- $40.00
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Vendor: Kinfolk
Kinfolk 61
Since 2011, Kinfolk has set the standard for independent publishing in art, design, aesthetics, architecture, homes and interiors. Our quarterly lifestyle magazine is sold in over 100 countries, published in three languages and makes the perfect coffee table magazine or gift for a creative....- $22.00
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Vendor: Claudio Parentela
The Sea Lion Pipe
The opposite side is inserted into the right eye breaking up into a thousand streams of coloredstars, which sometimes fall one on top of the other confusing and confusing me. It's strangeand beautiful, this continuous fall, it's whirling, I can't stop it in any...- $100.00
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Art Books
Art books are collections of written content and visual imagery that focus on various aspects of art, including history, techniques, movements, artists, and specific mediums. Art books serve as valuable resources for art enthusiasts, students, professionals, and anyone seeking to deepen their understanding and appreciation of the diverse world of art.
One of the fundamental purposes of art books is to provide an in-depth exploration of different art movements throughout history. These books cover significant periods such as the Renaissance, Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, and contemporary art, shedding light on the context, characteristics, and prominent artists within each movement. By studying these books, readers gain an understanding of the evolution of art and how societal, political, and cultural influences shape artistic expression. Art books also offer valuable insights into the lives and works of celebrated artists. Biographies and monographs provide detailed examinations of individual artists, offering glimpses into their personal lives, inspirations, techniques, and artistic philosophies. Through these publications, readers can delve into the fascinating stories behind the masterpieces and better understand the motivations and creative processes of these iconic figures.
Moreover, art books often showcase various artistic techniques, mediums, and materials. From painting and sculpture to printmaking and photography, these books offer valuable instructional content, step-by-step demonstrations, and practical tips to artists looking to enhance their skills. They can be instrumental for both beginners and experienced artists, providing inspiration and guidance on aspects like composition, color theory, perspective, and more. Beyond historical and instructional content, art books offer a curated selection of images, showcasing artworks from renowned museums, private collections, and exhibitions. These visual collections allow readers to appreciate the diversity and brilliance of artistic creations firsthand, with high-quality reproductions that capture the nuances, textures, and details of the original works.
Art books serve as valuable resources for individuals interested in exploring different facets of art. Offering historical context, biographical insights, instructional content, and visual collections, these books provide readers with a deeper understanding and appreciation of the artistic world. Whether as educational tools, sources of inspiration, or cherished collectors' items, art books contribute significantly to the enrichment of art lovers and the wider cultural community.
Popular Art Books
Art books are a beloved category among book enthusiasts, offering an exploration of various art forms, artists, movements, and techniques. With their striking visuals and insightful texts, art books have a universal appeal that transcends cultural boundaries. Within this vast collection, there are several popular books that have captured the hearts and minds of readers around the world. Let's delve into some of these captivating titles.
1. "The Story of Art" by E.H. Gombrich: Widely considered a masterpiece in art education, this book presents a comprehensive overview of art history. Gombrich's engaging writing style and accessible language make it an ideal choice for beginners and experienced art lovers alike.
2. "Ways of Seeing" by John Berger: This seminal work explores the ways in which we perceive and interpret art. Berger's thought-provoking essays, combined with captivating imagery, challenge traditional notions of art and offer a fresh perspective on the subject.
These are just a few examples of the popular books within the art book collection. Whether you are an art enthusiast, a student, or simply someone who appreciates beauty, there is an art book out there that will captivate and inspire you with its stunning visuals and profound insights.
What sets White Rain Book House apart from other bookstores is its commitment to acquiring rare and limited-edition art books. Acquiring these treasures is an incredibly meticulous process, involving extensive research, collaborations with reputable publishers and dealers, and attending art fairs and exhibitions to ensure a distinctive collection that cannot be found elsewhere. Art collectors and aficionados flock to White Rain Book House, knowing they can find unique editions that enhance their collections and deepen their knowledge of the art world.

