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300p. Hardcover Very good condition
pp. xvi, 560. Unopened. Age stained. 4to. Original full green cloth binding, decorated in silver. Gilt lettered spine. Binding dust spotted. Hardbound. The papers include: The Railways and the State, by W. Stanley Jevons; The Peace of Europe, by A. W. War; Solar Physics, by Balfour Stewart; The Talmud, by T. Theodores, etc. John Owens, a successful Manchester cotton merchant, held strong views on the relationship between education and religion. A firm Nonconformist, he objected to the dominate role that the Church of England played in education. Owens, who never married, decided that he would leave most of his wealth to help establish a further education college for men that would not have: "to submit to any test whatsoever of, their religious opinions". Most interesting. PA69/STACK LEFT
... SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. First American edition, first printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket, now in a new Mylar protector. Though the latest book from Nobel Prize-winning Pamuk (Istanbul, Snow) is a standard late-career essay collection, it
245x160 mm. 247 pages. Gilt hardcover with dust jacket. Cover corners slightly bumped. Spine edges slightly bumped. Pen inscription on front whitepage. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
pp. (3), 144. 12mo. 204 mm. Original blue cloth binding. Spine lettered in gold gilt: "The Stanhope Miscellanies." On the front flyleaf there is a author's manuscript inscription: "With Lord Mahon's Compliments." Viscount Mahon, the 5th Earl Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope (1805-1875), was an English historian, politician, and antiquary. He was undersecretary for foreign affairs (1834-1835) in Sir Robert Peel's first ministry and secretary of the board of control (1845-1846). As a legislator he favored repeal of the corn laws and secured passage of the Copyright Act of 1842. As a founder of the National Portrait Gallery (1859), and a prime mover in organizing the Historical Manuscripts Commission (1869) he left a lasting legacy to the nation. In addition, the various histories he wrote provide us with insights no available elsewhere. W148 Rear
8vo., First and Sole Edition, on laid paper, with a fine portrait frontispiece of Smith by Bone, small neat contemporary signature on front paste-down; original blue buckram, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in the dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 1250 COPIES. Smith was Merton Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford. This wonderful encomium includes a bibliography of his works. Collects nineteen extended essays by many of Smith's most eminent literary contemporaries. 'Addison' (C.S. Lewis), 'The Conciseness of Swift' (Herbert Davis), 'Deane Swift, Hawkesworth, and the Journal to Stella' (Harold Williams). 'Pope at Work' (George Sherburn), 'The Inspiration of Pope's Poetry' (John Butt), 'Where Once Stood their Plain Homely Dwelling' (Collins Baker), ''Some Aspects of Eighteenth Century Prose' (James Sutherland), 'Note on the Composition of Gray's Elegy' (H.W. Garrod), 'John Langhorne' (Hugh MacDonald), 'Notes on some Lesser Poets of the Eighteenth Century' (W.L. Renwick), 'The Formal Parts of Johnson's Letters' (R.W. Chapman), 'Mrs. Piozzi's Letters' (James L Clifford), 'The Power of Memory in Boswell and Scott' (F.A. Pottle), 'Robert Burns' (R. Dewar), 'Fanny Burney's Novels' (Lord David Cecil), 'Elegant Extracts' (Edmund Blunden), ''The Old Cumberland Beggar and the Wordworth Unities' (H V D Dyson), 'Matthew Arnold and Eighteenth-Century Poetry' (Geoffrey Tillotson), 'A List of the Writings of David Nichol Smith 1896-1945' (F P Wilson), 'Index' (Arthur Tillotson).
8vo. First Edition thus; blue cloth gilt back blue top a fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 350 COPIES (THIS COPY NO. 68). Collects twenty-five pieces including essays on Montaigne Browning and Woolf. The wartime dustwrapper is printed on the reverse of another.
Roberta Smith called him the “madcap bad boy of contemporary German art” and also “one of the three or four best German artists of the postwar period.” Martin Kippenberger disrupted the status quo throughout his brief, excessive life, not just by making art of every variety and medium but also by conducting an extended performance in the vicinity of art that involved running galleries, organizing exhibitions, collecting the work of his contemporaries and overseeing assistants. He published books and catalogues, played in a rock-and-roll band and cut records, ran a performance-art space during his early years in Berlin, became part owner of a restaurant in Los Angeles during six months he spent there preparing for an exhibition, and collaborated extensively with other artists. This particular volume considers his output of artist's books, as well as his exhibition catalogues and all the publications whose content he either created or edited. More than just documentation, this publication makes accessible for a wider public the multiple aspects of Kippenberger's books, with all the complexity and consequence of his oeuvre intact. — Testi: Koch Uwe, Ohrt Roberto et al. F.to: 21x27,5; pagg. 368; 150 COL e 460 BN; rileg. brossura. Editore: D. A. P., New York, 2002.
Un des 60 exemplaires sur alfa numérotés (après 40 Lafuma), 1 vol. in-12 br., Plon, Paris, 1950, 286 pp. Bel exemplaire de l'édition originale. L'auteur évoque successivement : Pie IX, Léon XIII, Pie X, Pie XI et Pie XII Français
Deuxième édition, 1 vol. in-12 br., P. Lethielleux, Paris, s.d. (circa 1908), VI-244 pp. Bon état. Par Th. Delmont, Docteur ès Lettres et Professeur aux Facultés Catholiques de Lyon. Français
1 vol. in-12 reliure pleine toile bleue, couv. cons., Librairie Académique Perrin et Cie, Paris, 1913, 340 pp. Etat très satisfaisant (dos passé avec rouss.) Français
THREE VOLUME SET. Volume III includes a CD. [ALL VOLUMES]: 285x220 mm. [XIII+338] + [XIII+389] + [XIII+500] pages. Hardcover. Spine edges slightly bumped. Else all volumes in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
216p. Hardcover Very good condition good
Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1960, 2 tomos, 23,5 x 16,5 cm., rústica editorial, 730 págs. = 2 h. + pág. 731 a 1.456.
Book is in excellent condition with some scuffing a bit of edge wear to creaseless covers only. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 165 pages, contents include: Machine tools, The historical attempt by man to convert his evolution from a subjective to an objective process, Universal requirements of a dwelling advantage, The Fuller research foundation, 1946 - 51, A comprehensive anticapatory design science, Omnidirectioal halo, etc.
rilegato in mezza pelle con angoli e piatti marmorizzati, nervi, titolo e fregi in oro, spellature agli angoli e alla cuffia sup., fioriture principalmente ai margini dei fogli
VOLUME II ONLY. IN YIDDISH WITH ENGLISH SUMMARY. 310x235 mm. XXVII+515 pages. Hardcover. Cover scratched. Cover edges worn. Cover corners worn. Spine slightly stained. Spine edges worn. Stamp on second white page. Several pages slightly age-stained. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.
240x165 mm. XIII+576 pages. Hardcover with dust-jacket. In good condition.
THREE VOLUME SET. VOLUMES X-XII ONLY. [ALL VOLUMES]: 255x170 mm. [192] + [140] + [130] pages. Softcover. Cover and spine yellowing and slightly stained. Cover corners and spine edges slightly wrinkled. Spine slightly wrinkled. Spine edges slightly worn. Few pages slightly stained - no damage to text. Pages yellowing. [VOL. X]: Front cover upper edge slightly torn. [VOL.XI]: Rear cover bottom edge slightly torn. Spine partly detached from few pages. [VOL.XII]: Few page edges slightly worn. [SUMMARY]: Else all volumes in good condition.
14.5x22 cm. xii+245 pages. Hardcover. In good condition.
19x14cm. 191 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly yellowing and rubbed. Spine edges worn. Pen inscription on few pages - NO damage to text. Else in good condition.
pp. (16) [Including a list of subscribers], 392. Decorative initials and printer's devices. 8vo. Foxed. Contemporary full leather binding, tooled in blind. Back and joints worn and tender. Manuscript ownership of "Walter Getty, March 1899." Extensive subscriber's list which includes some notable names. RELIGION; THEOLOGY; ETHICS; CHRISTIAN LIFE; 1729 **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W138 Rt/R
TWO VOLUME SET. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 24.5x17 cm. 697 pages (pagination: 373/374-697). Softcover. Cover slightly yellowing. Pages slightly yellowing. [VOL.I]:Cover corners slightly wrinkled. [VOL.II]: Cover edges slightly worn. [SUMMARY]: Else both volumes in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. Full black cloth boards. Small tears on worn dust jacket. Full black cloth boards. 308 pages. ""In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, she explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. Krauss uses the analytical tools of semiology, structuralism, and poststructuralism to reveal new meanings in the visual arts and to critique the way other prominent practitioners of art and literary history write about art." [publisher]
24.5X16.5cm. XXII+351 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pen writing on first white page. Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
