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19182431Couverture souple Librairie des Tablettes 1918 Saint-Raphaël 16x16 cm
1 vol. in-8 br., Flammarion, Paris, 1990, 232 pp. Bel envoi d'Alain Duhamel "pour Monsieur Jacques Chaban Delmas qui a quelques idées sur le sujet et une familiarité intéressante avec les deux protagonistes de cet essai. En respectueux et amical hommage". Bel exemplaire, exceptionnel par la personnalité du dédicataire. Français
18670101Paris, Librairie Tross, 1867. Seule et unique édition. Un fort in-8, 202 x 143 mm, 443 pp. Relié demi-cuir grainé lie-de-vin, dos à 5 nerfs, nom d'auteur et titre frappés en caractères d'imprimerie doré sinon dos janséniste. Plats marbrés obscurs à l'avenant. Pages de garde colorées à motifs fauves de dominante rougeoyante, tranchefile. Sceau "Deus Spes A Juventute Mea" entourant une carte sur la page de titre, Préface de quelques pages. Chapitres : Les marins de Normandie aux côtes de Guinée avant les Portugais, Les deux Indes au XVe siècle et l'influence française sur Christophe Colomb, La navigation du Capitaine de Gonneville et les prétentions des Normands à la découverte des terres australes sous Louis XII, Le chemin de la Chine et les pilotes de Jean Ango, L'hydrographie d'un découvreur du Canada et les pilotes de Pantagruel. Appendice en quatre parties, Table des matières et mention des Errata à la fin. Bien complet des deux planches dépliantes hors-texte, la première représentant un fac-similé de Christophe Colomb en revers de la p. 356 et la seconde en revers de la p. 370 représentant les bas-reliefs de l'église Saint-Jacques à Dieppe.
197928602New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy with light sunning to the boards in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with a closed edge tear and toning to the extremities. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Simon & Schuster, hardcover
197928906New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy with light sunning to the boards in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with a closed edge tear and toning to the extremities. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Simon & Schuster, hardcover
195342814Jerusalem; Youth Dept. Of The Zionist Organisation 1953. 1st edition. Clothbound with dust jackets. 4to. 215 10 288 pages. 28 cm. In Hebrew. With 14 black and white illustrations. Title translates as: "House of Israel in Poland; from the earliest days to the Holocaust. " A two volume Yizkor for Polish Jewish community history. Bound in red cloth. Subjects: Jews - Poland - History. Light shelf wear to cloth jacks show wear very good condition in good jackets. YIZ-15-20A-E. Jerusalem; Youth Dept. Of The Zionist Organisation unknown
185323842New York: Harper and Brothers 1853. First American Edition. Hardcover. 560. Two volumes in original cloth bindings pp. xii 651; 654. Spined sunned but legible with slight fraying to cloth; corners rubbed light scattered foxing. Bremer 1801-1865 was a Swedish writer and champion of women's rights. Her domestic novels were very popular both at home and abroad and earned her the sobriquet "the Swedish Jane Austen." In 1849 Bremer visited the United States where she was welcomed in New England as a kindred spirit for her antislavery sentiments. There she met with Ralph Waldo Emerson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow James Russell Lowell and Nathaniel Hawthorne among others. She went on to visit Shaker and Quaker communities in the mid-Atlantic to view the conditions of slaves in the South and to tour Scandinavian communities in the Midwest. Sabin 7713 Howes B-745. Harper and Brothers hardcover
1926DEMO013369ILondon: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd 1926 . First Limited edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 383 pages clothbacked boards untrimmed leather label nicked partly unopened. <br/><br/>Copy 90 of only 200 numbered Large Paper copies signed by John Buchan. Wilmot Checklist of Works by and about John Buchan in the John Buchan Collection Douglas Library Queen's University Kingston Ontario 133; Blanchard A71. Essays topics: Edmund Burke Scotland Walter Scott Robert Burns Catullus Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd hardcover
1999308841MILWAUKIE: WEST WIND ARTS. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1999. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. SIGNED by Christopher Burkett on title page. Fine in price-clipped by publisher fine dust jacket. 11 3/4" X 13" Astonishing depth of color captured by this modern master of nature photography. ; 11 3/4" X 13" . WEST WIND ARTS. hardcover
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
18500006137London: John Murray 1850. Third edition. Hardcover. Good. 17 illustrations the costume drawings were made by a Maltese artist. Octavo lv 420 pages original covers new spine endpapers and paper label. <br/><br/>Part 1 in six chapters is "Egypt in 1833". Other monasteries in the Turkish Empire and also Jerusalem. Appendix II is "Recipes of Turkish Cookery 5pp." 17 illustrations the costume drawings were made by a Maltese artist . With a folding plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Curzon aka Lord Zouche travelled the Middle East in search of Biblical manuscripts. "I will write down some account of the most curious of these manuscripts and the places in which they were found as well as some of the adventures which I encountered in the pursuit of my venerable game - Preface." John Murray hardcover
2001170828Baker Street Irregulars 2001. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. x 191 pages. True FIRST EDITION published in 2001 not the later 2002 reprint also out-of-print. Black cloth hardcover boards with gold foil stamping on spine. Black and green dust jacket. REPORTEDLY FEWER THAN 500 COPIES PRINTED most purchased by Sherlock Holmes collectors and Arthur Conan Doyle scholars. This is a play in which Arthur Conan Doyle focused on and expanded upon the Mormon intrigue contained in his very first Sherlock Holmes story A Study in Scarlet. UNKNOWN FOR YEARS AFTER CONAN DOYLE'S DEATH this is the FIRST TIME it was ever published. Includes a 29-page photo-reproduction of the manuscript a typescript of the full play showing all text changes in the manuscript and 4 original essays: Clifford S. GOLDFARB History of the Manuscript of Angels of Darkness: A Drama in Three Acts at the Toronto Public Library /// Christopher RODEN Angels of Darkness and the Absence of Sherlock Holmes /// Don B. WILMETH Angels of Darkness and its Theatrical Context /// Michael W HOMER The Mormon Subplot in A Study in Scarlet and Angels of Darkness. Dust jacket in an archival Brodart protector. <br /> Baker Street Irregulars hardcover
199789168Minocqua WI: Willow Creek Press 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Chet Reneson paintings and drawings. 23.5 x 31 cm. Oblong. 128pp. Blue boards in dust jacket. Limited to 200 copies signed by Chet Reneson along with a large pencil sketch covering the front endpapers this being copy 111. Third volume in the "Images" series. Willow Creek Press hardcover
199230373New York: Christie Manson and Woods International. 1992. Limited Edition. Hardcover Boxed. Fine in Fine dust jacket. An absolutely pristine copy of this magnificent production which is filled with detailed information all carefully documented in detailed photos. There are no signs of any use to book jacket or slipcase. Fast shipping careful packing. Surcharge on International orders due to the enormous size and weight of this mighty book.; Oversize . Christie, Manson and Woods International hardcover
1995011849Hard Press Editions West Stockbridge MA 1995. Book. Very Good. Cloth. Inscribed by the Artist with an Additional Sketch. Slim unpaginated book with approximately 30 illustrations of one artist's portraits of another artist as he neared and crossed over into death. Hardcover general trade edition bound in red cloth covered boards with gold stamping to the cover and spine wrapped in an illustrated paper dustjacket. A warm inscription signed by the artist and accompanied by an ink sketch of a rooster on the copyright page. The corners of the book are bumped--the lower corners a bit more so than the upper ones--and the dustjacket has a bit of wear although now encased in a Mylar protective sleeve. Hard Press Editions, West Stockbridge MA Hardcover
1996311451WEIL AM RHEIN: VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM. Fine with no dust jacket. 1996. First Edition. Softcover. 398040708X . Fine in plain beige-colored stapled wrappers with orange printed titles. 11 1/4" X 8 1/2" 70pp. Illustrated in b&w throughout. Features a small flat cardboard replica of a Gehry chair laid-in loosely. . VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM. paperback
198619093<p>Minneapolis / New York: Walker Art Center / Rizzoli 1986. First edition / First printing. Blue cloth. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. <em><strong>Frank O. Gehry is the Pritzker Prize Winner for 1989. </strong></em>Early monograph on the architect released in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Walker Art Center.</p> Walker Art Center / Rizzoli, hardcover
20032212D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers 2003. 2003 Oblong 4to. Unpaginated. Color photographic illustrations. Grey cloth boards lettered in black at spine. Photographic dust jacket. Light rubbing and shelf-wear. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. In archival mylar sleeve. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2003. hardcover
198717665New York / Cambridge MA: The New Museum of Contemporary Art / MIT Press 1987. First edition / First printing. Gray cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Rare in hardcover. The New Museum of Contemporary Art / MIT Press, hardcover
1896DEMO002606IBoston: Houghton Mifflin 1896. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 388 pages green cloth short tears at head of spine top edge gilt <br/><br/>Ex libris Northwestern University Law Professor John H. WIGMORE. He has gently glossed the chapter on "The Genius of Japanese Civilization" which may have influenced his PANORAMA OF WORLD LAW. BAL7928 -state A of spine imprint with terminal period. Houghton Mifflin hardcover
19124435Indiana Society of Chicago 1912. Deluxe Limited Edition. soft cover. Very Good. 16mo 42 pages ; full green suede leather with the metallic inlay of the Society's medallion green satin front pastedown marbled endpapers; fragile ooze leather worn edgeworn <br/><br/>This is copy no. 57 of a reported only 100 Deluxe signed sets known as The Hoosier Set . After the first edition by Bobbs-Merrill in 1911 this was issued as volume no. 9 of the set of 12 volumes that had been issued in red cloth for members of the Indiana Society of Chicago with other titles by Gene Stratton-Porter Meredith Nicholson John T. McCutcheon and others. Illustrated by the Author. Indiana Society of Chicago paperback
1995B58420London: Alpine Fine Arts 1995. Hardcover. Near fine/Very good. Inscribed by Krasovec! White stamped white cloth boards in dust jacket small square quarto 9" x 9" illustrated in color. Book has faint bump to foredges of boards binding tight text clean bright and unmarked. DJ has mild toning rubbing now in archival mylar wrap. Alpine Fine Arts hardcover
200373616New York: Rizzoli 2003. Hardcover. near fine/very good. Quarto. 11 1/2" x 12' 371pp. pp.very nice sharp hardcover copy in dust jacket and slipcase. Limited to 6000 copies. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by Jamali and dated 2004 on half-titl page. Sun-toning to spine of dust jacket. Rizzoli hardcover
200950971Stockholm: Arvinus 2009. First edition. Softcover. Near fine. Quarto 9-1/2" x 8-1/2". 223 1pp. Text in English and Swedish. Light gray wrapper with color photo on front cover spine lettered in black. Profusely illustrated with photos and drawings most in color along with architectural elevations and ground plans. A survey of the work of this Swedish architectural firm. <br /> <br /> Contents: Restaurant box -- House Karlsson -- Snowcrash -- Tiles -- Archipelago house -- Double house -- House K -- Kalmar Museum of Art -- Söderöra -- Double houses -- The Middle Kingdom -- Garden house -- Humlegården -- School of architecture -- Tellus -- Botanic garden house -- Ordos 100 -- Moderna Museet Malmö -- Tree hotel -- Emergency architecture -- Naturum Laponia -- Västra Kajen -- Vertical Village -- Just architecture -- Tower of Babel. Arvinus unknown
191023366New York: John Lane Company 1910. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 10" x 8" xiii 202 pp beautifully illustrated with 40 color plates by the author. Bookplate on front pastedown with another underneath it light edgewear to boards some light discoloration to rear board; binding sound contents clean. Liddell 1860-1925 was a British landscape painter who traveled extensively in China where his family had business interests. A contemporary advertisement for this book says that "the author was actually admitted to parts of the Imperial Palace never before opened to a European and his work in China is absolutely unique. John Lane Company hardcover
