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Pathfinder - Abstract Map - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media by George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1960s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

The Kite - Late 20th Century Oil on Wood Abstract - Dalí Style by George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1970s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Wood, Oil

"Lendas Africanas Da Bahia" from the suite.
Located in San Francisco, CA
–1942 — Study trip around several South American countries. 1942 — Illustration for the book La Carreta
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Woodcut

"Lendas Africanas Da Bahia" from the suite.
Located in San Francisco, CA
–1942 — Study trip around several South American countries. 1942 — Illustration for the book La Carreta
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Woodcut

"Lendas Africanas Da Bahia" from the suite.
Located in San Francisco, CA
–1942 — Study trip around several South American countries. 1942 — Illustration for the book La Carreta
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Woodcut

"Lendas Africanas Da Bahia" from the suite.
Located in San Francisco, CA
–1942 — Study trip around several South American countries. 1942 — Illustration for the book La Carreta
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Woodcut

The Pennsylvania-German Decorated Chest by Monroe H. Fabian, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
. Stated 1st Ed hardcover. With more than 250 illustrations, this book is a visual feast of decorated
Category

1970s American Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Paper

Deuteronomy - Late 20th Century Mixed Media on Wood Abstract by George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1970s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media, Oil

I - Ching Hexagram 4 Meng - 20th Century Oil on Wood Abstract by George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1970s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Wood, Oil

S. A. Kilbourne "Game Fishes of the United States" 4 Framed Chromolithographs
Located in Morristown, NJ
artist Samuel Kilbourne died in May of 1881, he had just completed a series of illustrations for his book
Category

1970s American American Classical Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paper

Abstract Piece - Late 20th Century Unicorn Man and Chicken by George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1970s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Paper, Ink

Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor, Drawing - "The Dressers"
By Gary Hansmann
Located in Surfside, FL
hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject
Category

1980s Surrealist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Paper, India Ink, Watercolor

Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor Painting, Drawing - Women On The Beach
By Gary Hansmann
Located in Surfside, FL
hundreds of poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject
Category

Late 20th Century Surrealist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Paper, India Ink, Watercolor

Hungarian Modernist Judaica Etching Print Kiddush, Jewish Rabbi at Shabbat Feast
By Janos Kass
Located in Surfside, FL
-animated films, Dilemma, with John Halas. He had already won recognition with his illustrations and book
Category

1990s Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Etching

Hungarian Modernist Judaica Etching Print Teffilin, Jewish Rabbi in Prayer
By Janos Kass
Located in Surfside, FL
film director and teacher. Hungary's foremost graphic artist and book illustrator. Born in Szeged, he
Category

1990s Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Etching

Virgin Islands Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
. After one of her husband’s illnesses, she quit her work in New York in commercial art and book and
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Masonite, Paper, Alkyd

Pierre Bonnard Ltd Ed Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Father and Son
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
of illustrations for the music books of his brother-in-law, Claude Terrasse. In 1895 he became an
Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph

Pierre Bonnard Ltd Ed Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Sail Boats, Lake
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
of illustrations for the music books of his brother-in-law, Claude Terrasse. In 1895 he became an
Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph

Pierre Bonnard Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Mosque Minaret, Swan
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
1920s, he produced illustrations for a book by Andre Gide (1924) and another by Claude Anet (1923). He
Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph

Pierre Bonnard Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Mosque Minaret, Village
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
1920s, he produced illustrations for a book by Andre Gide (1924) and another by Claude Anet (1923). He
Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph

Pierre Bonnard Ltd Ed Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Chickens and Swan
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
of illustrations for the music books of his brother-in-law, Claude Terrasse. In 1895 he became an
Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph

Pierre Bonnard ltd edition Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Chicken, Egg
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
of illustrations for the music books of his brother-in-law, Claude Terrasse. In 1895 he became an
Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph

Pierre Bonnard ltd edition Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Young Boy
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
1920s, he produced illustrations for a book by Andre Gide (1924) and another by Claude Anet (1923). He
Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph

Modern Figurative Surrealism Watercolor, Drawing - "You Must Die For Yours"
By Gary Hansmann
Located in Surfside, FL
poems. His interest in bullfighting led to a book of poetry and illustrations on the subject, “La
Category

1980s Surrealist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Paper, India Ink, Watercolor

Pierre Bonnard ltd edition Lithograph Printed at Mourlot Paris 1958 Double Page
By Pierre Bonnard
Located in Surfside, FL
of illustrations for the music books of his brother-in-law, Claude Terrasse. In 1895 he became an
Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph

Jean Cocteau, Seated Bacchante, Wines, from Flowers, and Flames, 1956 (after)
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Southampton, NY
illustrations of the book and the variant and an original etching by Bertin. Issues from LI to CCCLXXX examples
Category

1950s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Football Team Sports Action Painting Abstract Expressionism, Sports Illustrated
By Bob Peak
Located in Miami, FL
. Unsigned. - Reproduced in the seminal book on illustration by Walt Read, The Illustrator in America
Category

1960s Abstract Expressionist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Charcoal, Acrylic

Homeward Bound Dream - Late Mid 20th Century Oil Abstract Piece - George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1970s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Oil, Board

The Death of the Minotaur - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media Abstract by G. De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1960s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

Analphabetogramme - Signatur Objekt Nr. 23 (Collages, Assemblages, Surrealism)
By Jiri Kolar
Located in Kansas City, MO
numbered, number 756 of 990. 28 pages in block book form, texts and colored illustrations of collaged
Category

1990s Surrealist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Copper

THE BIG PARADE Hand Drawn Lithograph, Surrealist Tree, Black Mask
By Michael Hasted
Located in Union City, NJ
painting and produced over 300 book jackets and magazine illustrations including for Playboy with whom he
Category

1980s Surrealist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph

RANDOM SELECTION 2, Hand Drawn Lithograph, Surrealist Landscape, Window View
By Michael Hasted
Located in Union City, NJ
photographer. It was in the early 1970s when he took up illustration and painting and produced over 300 book
Category

1980s Surrealist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph

Call Girl - Vintage Poster by Jan Młodożeniec - 1973
Located in Roma, IT
designer. He worked in posters, drawing, book and publication design, and illustration.He studied from 1948
Category

1970s Contemporary Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Paper, Offset

Mirage - Mid 20th Century Oil on Wood Abstract - Dalí Stye by George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1970s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Wood, Oil

Vintage Poster of the Biennale Plakatu - Lithograph by Mlodozeniec - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Warsaw, Poland; died 2000) was a Polish graphic designer. He worked in posters, drawing, book and
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph

Pencil Portrait of a Young Man by 20th Century British Artist John Sergeant
By John Sergeant
Located in London, GB
in Kent and worked on commissions including book jacket designs and illustrations and series of ‘room
Category

1960s Realist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Pencil

I - Ching Hexagram 2 K un - 20th Century Oil on Wood Abstract by George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1970s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Wood, Oil

Battle Scene At Sea World War II . Dead Soldiers and Blood Red Sea
By Mort Künstler
Located in Miami, FL
magazine, True Book Bonus story illustration, April 1964 Signed lower left Signed, titled, dated and
Category

1960s American Realist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Gouache

Blue Black and Orange - Mid 20th Century Oil on Wood Abstract by George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1970s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Wood, Oil

Genesis - Late 20th Century Mixed Media on Wood Abstract by George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1970s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media, Oil

Abstract Composition - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media by George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1950s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Overlooking the Bay - Coastal Maine Landscape in Oil on Masonite by Lydia 1957
Located in Soquel, CA
personal abstract sketches, and working on a book of illustrations to her own haikus that had been set to
Category

1950s American Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Icarus - Screen Print After Henri Matisse - 1970s
By (after) Henri Matisse
Located in Roma, IT
–44 and it was the plate VIII for the illustrated book Jazz (1947). The illustrations derives from
Category

1970s Fauvist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Screen

Pierre-Yves Tremois, Initiation, from Wines, Flowers, and Flames, 1956 (after)
By Pierre-Yves Trémois
Located in Southampton, NY
illustrations of the book and the variant and an original etching by Bertin. Issues from LI to CCCLXXX examples
Category

1950s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Pre-Columbian Art, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
, pottery, textiles and much more. The book includes 270 illustrations and a catalogue of the 373 pieces
Category

20th Century American Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Paper

1966 Woodcut "Fleet" Modernist Print
By Roger Martin
Located in Surfside, FL
returned to Cape Ann he entered the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where he majored in book
Category

1960s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Woodcut

Abstract Oil Piece - Mid 20th Century Mixed Media by George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1970s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Oil Pastel

Sketches of Auden: black drawing based on Auden poetry and Yorkshire landscape
By Henry Moore
Located in New York, NY
passing: “When I heard of Auden’s death I was finishing one of the illustrations for his book – I had been
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph

British Art Pottery by A.W. Coysh, First Edition
By A.W. Coysh
Located in valatie, NY
to the outbreak of World War II. Many Illustrations, the book also lists the pottery firm, artists it
Category

20th Century English Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Paper

Folk girl. Paper, watercolor, 110x76 cm
Located in Riga, LV
the middle of 1950s she also became recognized for her book and magazine illustrations. During 1960s
Category

1970s Post-Modern Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Watercolor

Threads. Paper, watercolor, 100x72 cm
Located in Riga, LV
the middle of 1950s she also became recognized for her book and magazine illustrations. During 1960s
Category

1970s Post-Modern Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Watercolor

Abstract Oil Faces Eyes Glasses - Mid 20th Century Oil Pastel by George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1970s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Oil Pastel

Andre Derain, Golden Age and Promised Land, 1956 (after)
By André Derain
Located in Southampton, NY
book, a suite on Japon from the variants of Uzelac, and two original etchings, one signed by Bertin and
Category

1950s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Andre Derain, Abduction of Dionysus, Wines, Flowers, and Flames, 1956 (after)
By André Derain
Located in Southampton, NY
Uzelac. Numbers of XXXI in examples with a continuation on Japon of the illustrations of the book and the
Category

1950s Modern Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

The Old Church
Located in San Francisco, CA
quaint farmhouses and small towns. A major achievement was 100 illustrations for a book titled Farmland
Category

Late 20th Century American Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Watercolor

Abstract Piece - Mid 20th Century Animal Abstract Piece by George De Goya
By George De Goya
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
1956 where he taught history of art and art appreciation. Started receiving commissions for book and
Category

1950s Abstract Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Mixed Media

Sailboats in the Harbor Seascape
By Ramona Hammerly
Located in Soquel, CA
BS in Physics from University of Washington. Ms. Hammery gained high acclaim for her illustration of
Category

1980s Impressionist Vintage Book Illustrations

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

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Vintage Book Illustrations For Sale on 1stDibs

There is a broad range of vintage book illustrations for sale on 1stDibs. There are many Art Deco, Modern and Contemporary versions of these works for sale. These items have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 20th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. Vintage book illustrations available on 1stDibs span a range of colors that includes brown, beige, gray, black and more. There have been many well-done artworks of this subject over the years, but those made by Paul Wonner, "Gaspano ""Gus"" Ricca", Albert Al Hirschfeld, Calvin Anderson and Antoni Clavé are often thought to be among the most beautiful. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in paint, board and watercolor — can elevate any room of your home.

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Vintage book illustrations can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $1,273, while the lowest priced sells for $24 and the highest can go for as much as $79,000.
Questions About Vintage Book Illustrations
  • 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 27, 2025
    The illustrator for the Madeline books was Ludwig Bemelmans. He also authored the series. The first book was published in 1939, and five more followed. Find a range of Ludwig Bemelmans art on 1stDibs.
  • 1stDibs ExpertJanuary 10, 2025
    The most famous book that Jessie Willcox Smith illustrated is arguably Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. However, the American artist also produced illustrations for numerous other books. Among them were A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson, The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley, The Seven Ages of Childhood by Carolyn Wells, The Rhymes of Real Children by Frances Hodgson Burnett, Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and An Old-Fashioned Girl, also by Louisa May Alcott. Explore a range of Jessie Willcox Smith art on 1stDibs.