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2011171685Woodbridge: ACC Editions 2011. Hardcover. New though shrinkwrap is torn. Black cloth boards BW-photographic dust jacket with white lettering. 208 pp. Mainly illustrations in BW and some color. Brian Duffy defined the image of the 1960s and was as famous as the stars he photographed. In 1979 Duffy decided to give up photography burning many of his negatives in his back yard. Many negatives were lost but in 2009 Duffy resumed work as a photographer and shot images of people he had photographed in the '60s and '70s. -FirstSearch. ACC Editions hardcover books
2004177477Paris: Somogy / Centre historique des Archives nationales 2004. Hardcover. VG. scuffs/shelf-wear to lower textblock edge. shelf-wear to lower cover edges. corners have some bumping & creasing. pgs edge-toned. dustjacket scuffed & scratched. grey cloth boards w/ black printing. 485 pgs w/ color illustrations. pictorial dustjacket. Text in French. Wonderfully brightly illustrated. Somogy / Centre historique des Archives nationales hardcover books
2015174068New York: Abbeville Press 2015. Hardcover. VG/VG. Blue stamped boards with cream spine lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with yellow and red lettering. 384 pp. Color illustrations. Contents: Introduction -- Origins of the Golden Age: The Invention of an Art Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries / Thea Burns -- A Fashion for Independent Chalk Drawing in Italy and France -- The Early Market for Painting in Pastel and Its Place in the Académie Royale -- Rosalba Carriera and 'The Game of Appearances' -- Maurice Quentin de la Tour and the Triumph of Pastel Painting -- The Golden Age of Pastel Painting: France at Midcentury -- The Turkish Painter: Jean-Etienne Liotard of Geneva 1702-1789 -- Women Pastel Painters of Late Eighteenth-Century France -- British Pastel Artists in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- John Russell 'Prince of Pastelists' -- Pastel in the British Periphery: Ireland Scotland and America -- An Audacious Era: The Nineteenth Century / Philippe Saunier -- A Lengthy Exile -- The Past Rediscovered -- The Quest for Legitimacy -- Outside the Walls: Pastel Landscapes -- The Revelation of Jean-François Millet -- The Impressionist Pastel -- Manet and the Parisian Women of His Time -- Degas and Cassatt: Advocates of Truth -- The Nuances of Whistler -- The Last Word in Elegance -- International Renewal -- The Exaltation of Color -- The Symbolist Pastel -- Odilon Redon and the Reinvention of Pastel. Abbeville Press hardcover books
2007212887Geneva: Aubanel 2007. First. paperback. fine. Profusely illustrated in color. Small slim 4to stiff pictorial wrappers. Geneva: Aubanel 2006 - 2007. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> The titles are Jardins de Campagne de Feuillages d'eau. de Fleurs Urbains Les Allees Les Clotures et Les Escaliers et les Murets.<br/><br/> Aubanel unknown books
20101300489Firenze Florence Italy: Giunti Editore 2010. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto 429 pages G; blue gloss paper boards white lettering: spine cocked boards somewhat shaken binding strong; bumping to head tail and corners; small tear to top corner of back board; slight wave to text-block light scuffing to bottom of text-block top and fore-edge clean; mild liquid staining with buckling to margins of endpapers and interior text and graphics unaffected; interior replete with full-color graphics and plates gloss leaves; text in Italian; shelved Front Table. 1300489. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Giunti Editore hardcover books
200277057NY:: North Point Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0865476519 . Black and white photographs and drawings throughout. First printing. INSCRIBED by the author - simply "To Judy- / Philippe Petit." Fine in a fine dust jacket. ; 244 pages . North Point Press, hardcover books
201134490Farnham: Ashgate 2011. Octavo. Hardcover. 574 pp. In like-new condition. In the series "A Library of Essays on Renaissance Music" edited by Stanley Boorman. Ashgate unknown books
200941854Cambridge: The MIT Press 2009. First edition of this comprehensive rigorous and up-to-date introduction to growth economics that presents all the major growth paradigms. Quarto original illustrated boards. Presentation copy inscribed by both authors on the front free endpaper "John with best wishes Peter Howitt" and "Wishing you lots of success!! Philippe Aghion." Written in collaboration with Leonardo Bursztyn. Cover art by Sara Chaillet. In fine condition. This comprehensive introduction to economic growth presents the main facts and puzzles about growth proposes simple methods and models needed to explain these facts acquaints the reader with the most recent theoretical and empirical developments and provides tools with which to analyze policy design. The treatment of growth theory is fully accessible to students with a background no more advanced than elementary calculus and probability theory; the reader need not master all the subtleties of dynamic programming and stochastic processes to learn what is essential about such issues as cross-country convergence the effects of financial development on growth and the consequences of globalization. The book which grew out of courses taught by the authors at Harvard and Brown universities can be used both by advanced undergraduate and graduate students and as a reference for professional economists in government or international financial organizations. The Economics of Growth first presents the main growth paradigms: the neoclassical model the AK model Romer's product variety model and the Schumpeterian model. The text then builds on the main paradigms to shed light on the dynamic process of growth and development discussing such topics as club convergence directed technical change the transition from Malthusian stagnation to sustained growth general purpose technologies and the recent debate over institutions versus human capital as the primary factor in cross-country income differences. Finally the book focuses on growth policies-analyzing the effects of liberalizing market competition and entry education policy trade liberalization environmental and resource constraints and stabilization policy-and the methodology of growth policy design. The MIT Press hardcover books
2005252237San Francisco / Paris: Alex R. Arthur early nos. / Primedia Inc. later 2005. Magazine. Very fine copies commencing from "Issue I - March 1994" in a run to and through "Volume III - Number 4 - Spring 1997" the first dozen perhaps more consecutive thereafter a slightly broken run up to and through the "Spring/Summer 2005" issue which has a variant titling that reads "English Art Tribal Traditional Arts from Africa Asia Oceania and the Americas". This magazine began as a quarterly but variation is the rule and we cannot quite figure out a precise sequence; as stated all are fine no excisions nor any other sort of defacement. Included are a half-dozen related brochures and cards from same publishers. We are close to the subscriber/consigner a circumstance that consolidates our confidence und vee know vare he liffs. So to confirm: 36 unduplicated numbers unmolested and fine. Postscript: we catalogued 34 such items then two more turned up from the same lot still unduplicated so we have added these 35 36 both 21st century "for the pot" without changing the price. Alex R. Arthur [early nos.] / Primedia, Inc. [later] unknown books
2005160172Toulouse: Universite de Toulouse 2005. Softcover. All VG. Doctoral thesis. 3 volumes identically bound with acetate covers and black cloth spines. 1157 pages across the 3 volumes. Volume I: 428 pp. with no illustrations the main thesis. Volume II: pp. 429 - 1019; documents appendices bw photos. Volume III: The works of Villon listed and pictured. The works studied constitute the period from 1947 to 1963. It retains 943 letters from Villon to Espic and attached documents: biographical historiographic theoretical. The letters and documents are reproduced in the 2nd volume. These sources contribute to a better understanding of the production of the artist as a whole. The first part deals with the correspondence the guiding thread. Analysis description and methodological propositions are stated and lead to a reflection on the relations between the epistolary and the "writings of artists". Next comes a monographic study. The great stylistic passages of the graphic and painted work are studied. The role of Villon in cubism the "Golden Section" is reconsidered. The transition to abstraction and the return to figuration around 1935 are evaluated. After 1945 Villon's representative abstraction embodies the reassuring values of a traditional French painting supported by the art market and the institutions of the Fourth Republic. Universite de Toulouse paperback books
2004140941314New York and London: Bloomsbury 2004. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Signed by Anthony Bourdain on the title page in black marker; with notation in an unknown hand at the top of the title page denoting where the signing took place "a Sur la Table dimanche le 17 Octobre 2004". Near Fine with light shelf wear in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light crimping and light shelf wear. Bloomsbury unknown books
2004120979New York and London: Bloomsbury 2004. First edition of Bourdain's classic French bistro cookbook. Octavo original pictorial boards pictorial endpapers illustrated with photographs by Robert Discalfani. Signed by the Bordain on the title page with an original drawing of a chopping cleaver "To Blair Merry Christmas! Cooks Rule! Anthony Bourdain." Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Helicopter. Jacket photograph by Robert Discalfani. Before stunning the world with his bestselling Kitchen Confidential and A Cook's Tour Anthony Bourdain spent years serving some of the best French brassiere food in New York. With its no-nonsense down-to-earth atmosphere Les Halles matched Bourdain's style perfectly: a restaurant where you can dress down talk loudly drink a little too much wine and have a good time with friends. Here Bourdain has put together a cookbook like no other: candid funny audacious and full of his signature charm and bravado. Bloomsbury hardcover books
2012330Huger Philippe UG Philippe. <i>Les Recordmen. </i>2012 29 cm. x 21.5 cm. Also known as Philippe Huger the author-artist produced this book using silk-screen printing creating five pop-up plates representing five different competitive athletic events "Action d'éclat"; Le Passage du Témoin"; untitled sans titre; "Exploit du Haut Niveau"; "La Poursuite Contre la Montre" in three dimensions without any additional text. Of 100 copies made this is copy number 26 of 100. This copy is also signed by the artist and inscribed "à Nicole." Fine. Philippe UG books
