O/P Book CALIFORNIA 1930s SCENE PAINTING Oldfield, Post Start Price USD 39.99 Current Price USD 39.99 Time Left 28 days 18 hours 43 minutes Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, November 09, 2008 End Time Saturday, February 07, 2009 Location LA See more about 'O/P Book CALIFORNIA 1930s SCENE PAINTING Oldfield, Post' Description E N T H U S I A S T ART BOOKS & FINE ART We purchase Artist Estates as well as art libraries and our goal is to provide, through eBay, a constantly replenished veritable "candystore" of rare and out-of-print books, catalogs and fine art for the lover of American & European prints and paintings... The item you are bidding on is: ARTISTS AND PEOPLE, by Yvonne Greer Thiel, Philosophical Library, New York, 1959. Cloth Hard Cover w/ Dust Jacket. VERY GOOD+ Condition [previous owner's name and address inscriber upper corner of front flyleaf] in a Good++ Dust Jacket. 8vo size - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 330+ pages + 6 plates. SCARCE and little known book containing important and otherwise scarce biographical information [as well as critical commentary] on twenty-eight contemporary San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles area California regionalist and modernist oil and watercolor painters and sculptors of various ethnic and national backgrounds, many from the WPA 1930s era ( INDIVIDUAL CHAPTERS on Victor Arnautoff, Peter Blos, Ray Boynton, Brents Carlton, Dorothy Puccinelli Cravath, Ruth Cravath, Misha Dolnikoff, Eugene Ivanoff, Sargent Johnson, Dong Kingman, Lucien Labaudt, Tom E. Lewis, John Mottram, Jose Moya del Pino, Alexander Nepote, Otis Oldfield, Miné Okubo, Theodore Polos, George Post, Raymond Puccinelli, Zygmund Sazevich, Jacques Schnier, Antonio Sotomayor, Ray Strong, Charles Surendorf, Robert Watson, Emilie Sievert Weinberg and Hamilton Wolf ). This is such a little known resource that we recently sold a copy to the daughter of of one of these artists who was not aware that her father was so profiled. One of those out of print art books that we love to bring forward that somehow slips through the cracks when originally published and is a great joy to rediscover!.  ********** See below for our COMBINED SHIPPING DISCOUNTS! PLEASE READ the description provided above carefully prior to purchase, and please examine the photo or photos provided, since those detail exactly what you are purchasing.  If you have any questions please email us prior to purchase since all sales are FINAL (subject to our return policy described below in the event of an inadvertent material misdescription of item sold).   We have thousands of happy customers all around the world! Thank you for your WONDERFUL Feedback! We are downsizing a large art library and large art collection--please see our other listings by checking out our other items! and visit our Enthusiast Books eBay Store by clicking >>  PAYMENT IS EXPECTED WITHIN 7 DAYS FROM END OF AUCTION. SHIPPING: We ship only via USPS. Although our standardized information indicates a shipping/handling time of several days [in case we take a long weekend and such], generally we ship next business day following payment.  PayPal will send you an email with tracking information, so keep same so you can check up on status in the event of any Postal delay.  Charges for domestic and international shipping are set forth elsewhere in this listing. OPTIONAL CHARGES: If buyer wishes delivery to be signed for, please also contact us for additional cost. Books and catalogs purchased will be shipped media mail [typically 2-9 business days], or in the case of light packages, first class [2-5 business days typically].  Original art works are typically shipped Priority Mail.  If buyer wishes a more expedited postal delivery, please contact us and we will advise as to the additional charge. COMBINED SHIPPING DISCOUNTS: If shipment will be within the United States, purchases of eBay items made from us on the SAME DAY may be combined for shipping cost savings if the items to be combined are of the same general type [examples-books and catalogues with books and catalogues; oil painting with other oil paintings; unframed works of art on paper with other unframed works of art on paper etc.]. In that case, email us following your purchase for a special COMBINED invoice pursuant to which a 25% discount off posted shipping price for the second item will be extended, and a 50% discount off the posted shipping price(s) will be extended for the third and subsequent items so purchased that same day. Again, the foregoing applies only to domestic shipments. It is possible that in some cases a similar courtesy can be extended for international shipments, but, because of the Post Office limitations on package size, weight, content etc., an international buyer must contact us in ADVANCE to confirm whether any such courtesy may be extended for the particular items desired. WE THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR PATRONAGE OVER THE PAST MANY YEARS! Place a Bid!