8vo, black and gray cloth. 148 pp, illustrations. Bound in black and gray cloth with red titling. In an edition of 500 numbered copies this is number 209, specially inscribed by Armitage to Enid and Earl Stendahl, owners of the Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles. In very good -near fine condition with some sunning to top and bottom edges and spine. Interior is pristine. In plain mylar cover which appears trimmed, but our understanding is that this is normal and it was not intended to fully cover the book vertically. Ex-libris the Stendahl Art Gallery, Los Angeles, one of America's oldest contin... View More...
1st ed., limited to 212 signed and numbered copies. Softcover, 50 pp. This brief monograph written and designed by Merle Armitage is still the major work on the Southern California-based artist Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano. An Italian-American figurative modernist, he is best known for his New Deal-era mural commissions for the Los Angeles Museum of Art and other Los Angeles area public works. CONDITION: Good; the text block, plates, and signed lithograph are near fine; the covers are damaged, as usually the case with this notoriously fragile publication: both flaps split at the folds, lacking... View More...
