‘Nina Chanel Abney’ (Monacelli, $69.95)

This definitive monograph of over 300 images captures both the political urgency and the sheer razzle-dazzle engagement of the contemporary art star’s work — a riot of Pantone shades and playful shapes, executed in several mediums and often daubed with onomatopoeic pops of text.

‘Richard Avedon Immortal: Portraits of Aging, 1951-2004,’ edited by Paul Roth (Phaidon, $79.95)

Avedon’s photographs graced the pages of Vogue and other 20th-century fashion bibles for decades. Here, though, his portraits of various luminaries (Duke Ellington, Dwight Eisenhower, Francis Bacon) in their senescence expose something more than skin deep; whole worlds are contained in these well-earned crags and crevices.

‘Oasis: Trying to Find a Way Out of Nowhere,’ by Jill Furmanovsky and Noel Gallagher (Thames & Hudson, $65)

Maybe you caught the gods of ’90s Brit-pop on their reunion tour, and are hankering for one more splash of “Champagne Supernova.” These images, alternately intimate and epic, capture the band at their bratty, modishly coifed peak.

‘Feline: Tim Flach’ (Abrams, $70)

While Flach’s latest animal tome offers a cabinet of cat curiosities — hairless! Persian! polydactyl! — and brisk, erudite lessons in their subjects’ evolution (thanks to the accompanying text by Jonathan Losos), the primary takeaway here is the marvelous, almost surreally detailed photographs; you won’t miss a whisker.

‘Comics: 1964-2024,’ edited by Anne Lemonnier and Emmanuèle Payen (Thames & Hudson, $60)

The case for comics as more than a dime-store distraction is assertively made by this comprehensive but not-too-scholarly compendium, which examines the continuing expansion of the form via some of its most gifted practitioners.

‘Lee Friedlander: Christmas’ (Eakins Press Foundation, $65)

Have yourself a very realistic Christmas with these wonderfully quotidian images of the holiday, decked in tinsel and plastic dross. Seven decades of sex-store mannequins, suburban lawns and tired-eyed mall Santas all become rich (if questionably festive) fodder for seasonal drapings, captured by Friedlander’s quietly sardonic eye.

‘Banksy: The Prints,’ by Roberto Campolucci-Bordi and Paul Coldwell (Thames & Hudson, $50)

The art-world provocateur has long championed the democratization of both creative expression and its ownership — as evidenced by the screen prints showcased here, from an image that impishly portrays a chimpanzee as Queen Elizabeth to the somewhat self-explanatory “Christ With Shopping Bags.”

‘The Contemporary Garden,’ by Annie Guilfoyle et al. (Phaidon, $64.95)

From a concentric monument located in a Japanese cemetery to a verdant lavender and rosemary hillscape overlooking the Côte d’Azur and an artful swirl of rock-studded Australian sand, these enviable green spaces traverse the globe and all manner of flora with their thoughtful, site-specific designs.

‘Hiroshige,’ by Henri-Alexis Baatsch (Thames & Hudson, $125)

Considered the last great artist of the Ukiyo-e (which translates as “images of the floating world”) tradition, Hiroshige, a fire warden turned printmaker who died in 1858, captured the world of pre-industrial Japan via his atmospheric woodblock prints. (His influence is widespread; Vincent van Gogh, among others, produced direct tributes to his work.)

‘E Is for Edward: A Centennial Celebration of the Mischievous Mind of Edward Gorey,’ by Gregory Hischak (Black Dog & Leventhal, $60)

A quarter-century after his passing, the impish transgression of the writer and illustrator remains fresh. This lively book traces Gorey’s career peaks and personal obsessions, from his piquant A-to-Z of doomed children, “The Gashlycrumb Tinies,” to his abiding fandom of George Balanchine and New York City Ballet.

‘Wild Ocean: A Journey to the Earth’s Last Wild Coasts,’ by Peter and Beverly Pickford (Thames & Hudson, $65)

A vast, salty underworld of sea urchins, octopuses and other oceanic creatures fills the pages of the latest work by the Pickfords, a husband and wife who spent four years traversing waterways from Australia’s Ningaloo Coast and the Galápagos Islands to the coral reefs of Cuba to capture the images here.

‘Dear New York,’ by Brandon Stanton (St. Martin’s Press, $42)

Having turned his popular photo blog “Humans of New York” into a small multimedia empire over the past 15 years, Stanton returns with his fourth physical book — a combination of on-the-street portraiture and micro-storytelling most recently displayed (naturally) in a major installation this fall at Grand Central Terminal.

‘Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley’ (Monacelli, $79.95)

A cast-bronze love seat upholstered in tufts of reindeer fur; glass-beaded creatures of impossible provenance; purple porcelain mushrooms: This is the world of the twin multimedia artists Nikolai and Simon Haas, captured here in vibrant, tactile images (even the padded hot-pink cover feels squeezable).