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178223249London: Printed for J. Dodsley 1782 1782. First edition. ESTC T130218; NCBEL II 554; Lowndes page 1197. Very good copy. Small 8vo contemporary sprinkled calf skillfully rebacked red leather spine label gilt rules and lettering. ¶ A collection of eight essays by the accomplished poet essayist and wit Soame Jenyns 1704-1787 who here writes about among other things universal being cruelty to animals civil liberty and religious establishments. "This little volume is very highly commended in the Retrospective Review" - Lowndes. <br/><br/> London: Printed for J. Dodsley, 1782 unknown books
184920650Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x 13-386 in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends corners rubbed through slightly shaken but still a better than average copy of this title which is often found in poor condition. Hill 1910: The ships made port in Rio de Janierio Valparaiso Callao Paita the Marquesas Honolulu Monterey Mazatlan Manzanillo Acapulco and Gayamas. Extensive visits were made in Rio Lima California the Gulf of California and Mexico. Woods was traveling in central Mexico when the Mexican War began and he escaped via Vera Cruz. The intelligence gathered by Wood in Mexico was instrumental to the U.S. seizure of California by Commodore Sloat in that war. Carey and Hart hardcover books
2015170025Philadelphia PA: The Barnes Foundation 2015. Hardcover. As New in slipcase. Three volumes in Blue Orange and Green cloth all contained in a yellow cloth slipcase with printed imagery. Profusely illustrated. Contents as follows: Volume 1 : Foreword -- Matisse in the laboratory of Dr. Barnes : how and why Barnes collected Matisse / Claudine Grammont -- Ensembles -- Matisse's awakening / Yve-Alain Bois -- Henri Matisse according to Dr. Barnes / Karen K. Butler ; Volume 2 : Catalogue nos. 1-5 -- Le Bonheur de vivre : 'the work of a superb colorist' / Barbara A. Buckley and Jennifer Mass -- Catalogue nos. 6-49 ; Volume 3 : Catalogue nos. 50-51 -- The dance process -- Catalogue nos. 52-59 -- Notes -- Correspondence around the dance. Publisher states "Despite the reknown of the Matisse holdings at the Barnes Foundation these works have long remained uncatalogued and elusive to many given the Foundation's restrictions on loans and color photography. Generations of scholars have lamented the black-and-white slides of Le Bonheur de vivre that anticlimactically accompanied lectures on the riot of Fauvre color. Matisse in the Barnes Foundation . grew out research on the collection initiated in the 1990s . . Goals for the Matisse project included gathering comprehensive information on the works from external sources the tremendously rich and recently catalogued Barnes Foundation Archives and the insights of curators and conservators and creating for each work an internally consistent record in the Foundation's database part of which could eventually migrate to the Foundation's website"--Foreword pages 21-22. A landmark compendium - the first authoritative publication to cover in its entirety one of the most significant holdings of Matisse in the world. Here is a vibrant celebration - slipcased and beautifully produced - of the Barnes' extraordinary Matisse collection. Composed of fifty-nine works from every stage of the artist's career it is among the most important in the world. At its heart are Matisse's most historically significant paintings Le Bonheur de vivre also called The Joy of Life and The Dance the monumental mural that Albert C Barnes commissioned to fill the lunettes of the Foundation's main gallery transforming both the space and the artist's career. An essay by Yve-Alain Bois addresses the evolution of The Dance and its role in Matisse's career; Karen Butler looks at what Barnes thought of Matisse; and Claudine Grammont's considers how and why he collected his work. The artworks themselves sumptuously reproduced are the subjects of interpretive analyses that tell the stories of their acquisition and address their critical reception. The book includes major contributions by Barbara Buckley and Jennifer Mass on the artists technique and a report on the latest findings on the pigments used in Le Bonheur de vivre. The Barnes Foundation hardcover books
200220824London: Belmont Press 2002. First Limited Edition. One of 100 standard copies numbered 101 to 200 of a total edition of 226 copies signed by the author and illustrator this being copy no.131. Octavo; 3/4 illustrated paper over quarter brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; 66pp 2; illus. A Fine copy without dustjacket as issued. Collection of four essays by the Booker Prize-winning author illustrated throughout by Eileen Hogan. Belmont Press unknown books
190913051New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xvi 368 pp with two maps one folding and many illustrations from photographs. Original red cloth boards stamped in gilt and black. Spine slant slight sunning to upper board previous owner's name on front free endpaper else clean and sound. Decima Moore 1871-1964 was a successful stage actress and singer in London before marrying Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg an officer in the Royal Engineers. He was appointed director of surveys in the Gold Coast in 1905 and upon returning from their travels three years later the couple recounted their experiences in alternating chapters. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
183314907Edinburgh: William Blackwood 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes 8vo pp. ix 393; 402. Contemporary half morocco and marbled boards top edges gilt spines in six compartments. Bookplates joints rubbed leather chipped at head of Vol. I archival tape repair to ffep of Vol. II. Very good. A Scotsman visits the United States and finds the Americans somewhat lacking not least because of slavery. His critical but colorful account of his travels to the major East Coast cities Upper and Lower Canada and along the Ohio and Mississippi was a popular success and was translated in to French and German. Hubach p. 68 comments that Hamilton "had a good sense of humor but he echoed Mrs. Trollope's satirical tone and warned England against imitating American institutions although he admitted he might be guilty of English prejudice." Howes H-138; TPL 1649; Sabin 30034. William Blackwood hardcover books
2006012285Cody Wyoming: Buffalo Bill Historical Center 2006. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 225p. The essential work for Ranney's body of work. Essential for the scholar collector and art gallery personnel. Buffalo Bill Historical Center unknown books
19401931Connecticut/California 1940's-1960's. Cards. Decorated covers green yarn binding. Good. 21 pages. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Handcrafted recipes book made up of decorated envelopes. Each envelope is decorated with pasted-on photos of food items which are labeled and filled with recipes. Both handwritten recipes and recipes cut from magazine periodicals and food packaging. Some envelopes empty. Front cover decorated with a photo of a 1950's dining room. Laid in: a page from The Lassez-Faire what appears to be a mock newspaper for humorous purposes; a pink tissue paper party hat; a black and white photo of a house circa 1940's and an invitation to a wedding - Nancy Jane Franklin Hopper. Recipes from both California periodicals and Connecticut periodicals. One envelope is detached. <br/><br/> unknown books
1993240662Daytona Beach Florida: The Museum of Arts and Sciences 1993. First. hardcover. fine. Chihuly. Beautifully illustrated in color throughout. 142pp 4to orange silk cloth dust wrapper. Daytona Beach Florida; The Museum of Arts and Sciences 1996. First Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Large presentation by the artist on the half-title.<br/><br/> The Museum of Arts and Sciences unknown books
1982219416Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press 1982. Hardcover. x 350p. personal inscription to Hugh Hagius signed by Ian Young very good second edition revised and updated in original yellow cloth boards titled black. 4282 entries. The primary reference book for literature featuring gay characters. Hagius is author of "G.I. Hustlers of World War II The Scarecrow Press hardcover books
1993292553Daytona Beach Florida: The Museum of Arts and Sciences 1993. First. hardcover. fine. Chihuly. Beautifully illustrated in color throughout. 142 pages 4to orange silk cloth. Daytona Beach Florida; The Museum of Arts and Sciences 1996. First Edition. A fine copy lacking the dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Large presentation by the artist on the half-title.<br/><br/> The Museum of Arts and Sciences unknown books
19822500Le Havre France: Jobin et. Co. 1982. Hardcover. Green cloth covered boards title in gilt. Very good in very good slip case. 463 pages. 25.5 x 17 cm. Technical but informative presented in list format with 36 color photographs. Bilingual in both English and French. Publishers letter laid in. Interior clean and crisp spine sunned. <br /> Jobin et. Co. hardcover books
188914049New York: Welch Fracker Company 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. First edition in English. 12mo 343 pp illustrated by Benjamin Constant and Aime Marot. Publisher's green cloth with decoration in gilt image of a warrior on horseback on front board. Mild rubbing to extremities a few pages chipped at the upper edge else fine. Loti traveled from Tangiers to Fez in the company of the French minister to Morocco and was most enthusiastic about his experiences delighting in the people and culture. Welch, Fracker Company hardcover books
2012265027New York: Rizzoli 2012. Hardcover. 238p. 11x12.25 inches essays b&w and color nude photos of young men and women near-fine first edition first printing stated in pictorial boards illustrated with a color photo of blue jeans splashed with semen in unclipped bright dj. Somewhat of the Van Sant/Larry Clark milieu. Rizzoli hardcover books
190619319New York: New York Historical Society 1906. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Number 12 of a limited edition of 200 copies. Octavo 121 pp with appendix and index frontis portrait of the author and a facsimile page of the manuscript. Original maroon cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine NYHS monogram in gilt on front board top edge gilt. Spine lightly sunned corners bumped else a very attractive and sound copy. An American woman's narrative of a sea journey and life in London during the Revolutionary War. The second volume in the NYHS Histories and Memoirs series. New York Historical Society hardcover books
177521457London: T. Cadell 1775. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition. 8vo 411 pp with folding map as frontispiece. Bound in early full calf with gilt spine in six compartments red spine label. Front joint rubbed and partially cracked; binding otherwise sound text very clean. Armorial bookplate of Johnathan Pytts Esq. on front pastedown. "Wraxall's travelogue is elegantly written and its Scandinavian and Russian itinerary was novel and therefore of great interest to the reading public.The narrative is self-consciously chivalric and testifies to Wraxall's lifelong interest in tales of intrigue and distress although Queen Caroline Matilda's predicament does not figure in the text presumably in the interests of diplomacy" ODNB. T. Cadell hardcover books
20009008556Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Publishers 2000. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. 248 pages; 231 illustrations including 167 in color. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in blue. English edition. <br/><br/> Hatje Cantz Publishers hardcover books
19969014529New York: Thames and Hudson 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. With 757 illustrations 216 in color. Bound in publisher's original navy blue cloth with the spine stamped in silver. <br/><br/> Thames and Hudson hardcover books
200517052002New York: Aperture Foundation 2005. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. The first printing of the Aperture Foundation publication oblong folio 164 pp. "In 1997 my family and I moved to a home in the Berkeley hills with an extraordinary view of the Golden Gate Bridge. These pictures were taken from our porch. RM" opening lines of book at the half-title page. <br/><br/>Richard Misrach b. 1949 is "one of the most influential photographers of his generation. In the 1970s he helped pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation that are in widespread practice today" with one of his best-known works being this " the study of weather time color and light in his serial photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge." n.b. from the web site of the Fraenkel Gallery.<br/><br/>This the second edition the first having been published by Arena Editions in 2001 the first printing with full number line beginning with "10" and ending with "1". <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full silver-grey cloth blind-debossed lettering on the spine grey endpapers replete with full-colour photographs with many although not all printed on the recto only; oblong folio size 13.25" wide by 11.25" tall 164 pages. In a dust jacket with different images by Misrach on the front and back panels silver lettering on a black background on the spine jacket unclipped although no printed price present summary of book on the front flap bios of Misrach Clark and Walker on the back flap.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine overall with clean boards straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; a very shallow crease to the rear free endpaper and a hint of dustiness to the bottom edge of the text block else fine. The dust jacket near fine to fine unclipped with a few areas of extremely light edgewear and a few very light marks to the panels.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an unusually heavy volume and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Aperture Foundation hardcover books
199160848NY: Farrar Straus Giroux 1991. First US edition first prnt. Signed by Milosz on the front free endpage. Laid-in is a 4"x6" black and white publicity portrait photo of Milosz signed by him. Spine cloth ends lightly pushed; otherwise in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed By Author with Photo. First Edition. Hardcovers. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Farrar Straus Giroux Hardcover books
1947149099New York: Grolier Club 1947. First Edition. First Edition one of 600 copies. Catalog of an exhibition held at The Grolier Club from April 18 through June 16 1961. Photo-illustrated throughout with examples of the books. <br/><br/>Very Good plus without dust jacket. Small dampstain to the bottom edge of some pages. Boards lightly soiled with light toning to the spine. Grolier Club unknown books
183621534London: John Murray 1836. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. xi 378 38 Appendix with folding map 8 plates and additional illustrations in the text. Marbled boards with later leather spine new endpapers. Stamp of the Isle of Wight Insitution on several pages. Title page frontispiece and some plates foxed as often found the remainder of the text quite clean. Map has a section meanuring about 1.5 x 3 inches missing from lower left with some loss of content. A good reference copy. The author was the son of Sir John Barrow who traveled and worked in China and South Africa and served in the British Admiralty where he was a great promoter of Arctic voyages of exploration and discovery. The younger man followed in his father's footsteps as a traveler and writer producing popular and well-received works on his travels in Ireland Iceland Northern Europe and Austria Lombardy and Bavaria. John Murray hardcover books
189914880New York and London: Longmans Green 1899. Hardcover. Very good. First edition American issue. 8vo. pp. xxiv 490; with two folding maps 20 full-page plates many other illustrations in the text. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt top edge gilt. Very mild spine slant rubbing to extremities; internals clean and sound. Lady Brassey was a skilled photographer and botanist and also had an interest in medicine. She and her husband a Member of Parliament and accomplished sailor traveled extensively on their yacht "Sunbeam" and Annie's lively books about their adventures found an eager audience. This book published after she died of malaria at age 48 recounts travels in India Sri Lanka Indonesia Malaysia and Australia. Longmans, Green hardcover books
1934013523Constable 1934. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine Copy First Edition Slightly Faded at Spine Very scarce Classic About Books on Books. Constable Hardcover books
200622491New York/London: Thames & Hudson. Fine in Fine dj. 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. 050051318X . very nice copy as-new with no significant wear to either book or jacket. color photographs and other illustratiions Published in connection with the exhibition of the same title presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and the National Art Center Tokyo this lavishly-illustrated volume examines "the many visual and conceptual principles that unite fashion and architecture" post-1980 and draws from the work of about 40 architects and fashion designers from the United States Europe and Japan among them Alexander McQueen Olivier Theyskens Frank Gehry and Rem Koolhaas. Additional shipping charges for this heavy book will apply for non-U.S. customers; please inquire before placing your order. Please forgive the somewhat wonky quality of the scanned image of this book which reflects some misbehavior on the part of my camera; the book itself as described is flawless. . Thames & Hudson hardcover books
