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152829663X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1946006247New York : A.S. Barnes 1946 1946. Hardcover. Good/Good. ix 201 p. 12 leaves of plates : ill. diagr. part. folded ports. ; 23 cm. ; LC: ML3508; Dewey: 781.57 ; OCLC: 5176308 ; green cloth ; in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: Thirty years of Chicago jazz / Paul Eduard Miller George Hoefer -- Esquire's All-American Band / Esquire's Board of Experts -- Esquire's new Stars Band / Esquire's Board of Musicians -- Biographies of the winners / Paul Eduard Miller -- An analysis of the art in jazz / Paul Eduard Miller -- The collector's outlook / George Hoefer -- A survey of jazz today -- Perspectives for jazz -- Recorded jazz: A critical selection / Paul Eduard Miller -- The jazz scene : 1945 / Leonard Feather and Paul Eduard Miller ; huge fold-out stylized map of the jazz hot spots in the city of Chicago at back ; numerous black and white photographs of artists ; G/G <br/> <br/> New York : A.S. Barnes, 1946 hardcover
1978TN252978Southampton Art Gallery Southampton 1978. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. Tall 4to. in photo illustrated stiff glossy card covers unpaginated approx. 56pp on stiff art paper plates in colour and mainly b/w etc __CONDITION : A well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy rear cover very slightly tanned. . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Southampton Art Gallery, Southampton paperback
2014TN233358Berloni Gallery London 2014. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. With a lengthy inscription to Olivia Bax on the front blank fly-leaf and signed by the artist as Neil no other marks or inscriptions. 4to in stiff card covers unpaginated approx. 44pp on thick art paper colour plates etc. __CONDITION : A well preserved AS NEW copy. . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Berloni Gallery, London paperback
1991D08KS1007London Borough of Greenwich Borough Museum 1991. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. Large Quarto size 4to. in spiral bound stiff glossy card covers. Unpaginated approx. 60pp with interleaved text in braille on thick semi-opaque paper __CONDITION : NEW. . __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS London Borough of Greenwich Borough Museum paperback
2015T216799Arnd Kaestner / Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst Wien 2015. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. 4to in colour printed stiff card covers 112pp on stiff art paper colour plates etc. Dual text in English and German __CONDITION : NEW unread and unmarked copy. . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Arnd Kaestner / Verlag Fur Moderne Kunst, Wien paperback
mon0000300566Scheidegger & Spies 2016-06-29. Hardcover. Like New. Scheidegger & Spies hardcover
2006P18KS1402Hatje Cantz Ostfildern 2006. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. Large heavy 4to. in boards 255pp on thick art paper colour plates etc. Text in English throughout __CONDITION : An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW unmarked and unread copy merest hint of tanning to leaves. . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern hardcover
12922Addressed from Madden's home address of 23 Artillery Place City Road London with the business address of Madden and Malcolm 8 Leadenhall Street scored through. 4 June 1846. 2pp. 12mo. Bifolium. In fair condition on aged paper with wear to corners. The context of the letter is apparent from the following advertisement in The Times 29 June 1846: 'On the 30th of June will be published in 8vo. price 2s. 6d. the first number of THE MONTHLY PRIZE ESSAYS. Each number will contain six Essays in Prose and six in Verse. The first prize for prose will be £20; the second £15; the third £10; and the other three £5 each. There will be but three prizes for poetry - £5 £3 and £2. The Essays must be delivered by the 30th of the previous month. London Maddox sic for 'Madden' and Malcolm from whom or through any bookseller may be had a detailed prospectus.' Madden writes: 'Dear Sir Agreeably to your request I have had returned to me from the Director of the Prize Essays your paper "Cycles of Civilization". It is recommended for insertion in the first no & will probably gain the second or third prize - I observe some pencil marks have been made - let these claim your attention - and let the Mss be returned not later than the morng of the 9th address to my private residence as above'. He concludes in the hope that the recipient will use his 'best influence for the circulation of this novel & valuable periodical'. Signed 'J. Madden' with the letters D H and W in a cross pattern beneath the signature. The 'Monthly Prize Essays' bears all the hallmarks of a scam but it was positively reviewed in the October 1846 issue of the Eclectic Review. Addressed from Madden's home address of 23 Artillery Place, City Road, London, with the business address of Madden and Malcolm ( unknown
0914407066.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1863003349Boston: William H. Hill Jr. 1863 Book. Illus. by Uncredited Engravings. Good Plus to Very Good. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Original blindstamped purple cloth on boards with gilt spine decoration and lettering. Dull and dusty overall but securely bound and clean inside except for previous owner's name in pencil and two small name stamps. Eight admonitions and a question with an engraving beside each Never be Down-Hearted Be Cheerful Do it Well Be Orderly Be in Time Be Humble Make a Good Use of It Be Considerate and Is it Honest Advice all of us could "make a good use of." 93 pp. William H. Hill, Jr. hardcover
1994153765Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia 1994. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia between November 30 1993 and February 21 1994.<br /> <br /> Very Good plus in illustrated card wrappers with French flaps. Some creasing to front and rear wrappers. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia unknown
198522055<p>New York:: Viking Press 1985. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with two tiny indents to one board corner in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket. This collection of Ms. David's writings addresses such subjects as Norman Douglas in Antibes and Capri Christmas preparations in Spain the origins of the canned sardine industry at Nantes the debauchery of mayonnaise in Britain the story of her own cookery writing career and much more on white truffles wild hopshoot risottos and happenings during rain-drenched seaside holidays.</p> Viking Press, hardcover
198229124New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1982. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a small tear to the rear panel. In these widely praised essays Calvino reflects on literature as process the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Written between 1966 and 1982 these 31 essays are divided into two parts. The first 11 essays deal with theoretical questions such as the relation of philosophy and literature definitions of genres comedy eroticism fantasy and levels of reality in literature; the rest are introductions to or appreciations of specific works and authors mostly classics The Odyssey Ovid Candide Stendhal Balzac though there are also pieces on Montale Saul Steinberg Barthes and Marianne Moore. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, unknown
202128397<p>Essays Didion Joan. Let Me Tell You What I Mean. New York: Knopf 2021. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. These twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000 never before gathered together offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. Didion touches on topics ranging from newspapers "the problem is not so much whether one trusts the news as to whether one finds it" to the fantasy of San Simeon to not getting into Stanford. In "Why I Write" Didion ponders the act of writing: "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means."</p> Knopf, hardcover
200229187<p>New York:: Knopf 2002. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Tests of Time brings us fourteen witty and elegant essays by novelist and literary critic William H. Gass "the finest prose stylist in America" Steven Moore Washington Post. Whether he's exploring the nature of narrative the extent and cost of political influences on writers or the relationships between the stories we tell and the moral judgments we make Gass is always erudite entertaining and enlightening.</p> Knopf, hardcover
198928454<p>New York:: Knopf 1989. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The Outermost Dream brings together essays and reviews by William Maxwell one of America's foremost writers and editors. Maxwell chose deliberately to focus on biography memoir diaries and correspondence when reviewing books: In reading his reviews we are struck by Maxwell's skill in choosing the one particular the haunting moment that further illuminates our understanding of the power of an individual life. His discernment is equally telling whether writing about literary luminaries such as Virginia Woolf Lord Byron E.B. White Isak Dinesen or delving into the diaries of an unknown Victorian curate with vivid dreams of murder and mayhem.</p> Knopf, hardcover
1989168722Sewickley PA: International Images 1989. First Edition. Softcover. First Edition. Illustrated with 13 color plates. <br /> <br /> Near Fine in saddle-stapled wrappers. International Images unknown
199229433New York:: Ecco Press 1992. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight hardcover copy in a Fine dust jacket. In Dime-Store Alchemy the poet Charles Simic explores the surrealist art of Joseph Cornell through prose poems and essays creating a literary equivalent to Cornell's mysterious shadow boxes. Simic reflects on Cornell's use of found objects chance and the commonplace to create magic interweaving biography art history and personal meditation on beauty and imagination. The book is praised for its evocative dreamlike quality mirroring the enchanting and enigmatic nature of Cornell's work. Ecco Press, hardcover
198729114Harrisburg :: Stackpole Books 1987. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light sunning to the extremities. This is Rick Bass's second book. This copy is inscribed by Bass. The thirteen personal essays in this collection addresses Bass's love for the natural world and his search for the solace that that world provides him. Collectively they tell us much about the relationship between the wildness in ourself and the daily lives we live. Stackpole Books , unknown
198625402Ann Arbor::: University of Michigan Press 1986. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in grey cloth boards without dust jacket as Issued. This collection brings together fifteen of poet Tess Gallagher's essays on poetry writing and fellow poets. University of Michigan Press, hardcover
200227159<p>New York:: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2002. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a small dent to the lower of the front board in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Whether autobiographical topical or specifically literary these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write What is his relationship to be to his own voice his own place his literary heritage and the contemporary world" This collection includes Heaney's finest lectures and a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form ranging from short newspaper articles to radio commentaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets -- Irish and British American and Eastern European predecessors and contemporaries -- Finders Keepers is as its title indicates "an announcement of both excitement and possession."</p> Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, hardcover
19001198Portland Maine: Thomas B. Mosher. 1900-1914. Softcover. Very Good. Any defects are listed in the description.; This is a lot of 39 copies of The Bibelot: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers and 1 bound Volume IX which is a 1-year run from 1903. Further described as "Chosen in Part from Scarce Editions and Sources Not Generally Known." The Bibelot was publisher Thomas Bird Mosher's little literary magazine published monthly for subscribers and brought the short works of notable authors to the US public. Most works if not all are taken from Mosher's own library and the 20-year span of publication represents what's essentially an anthology of that collection. Mosher wrote most of the Forwards to accompany the short works.The 39 softcovers:The authors include William Morris Francis Thompson Andrew Lang J. M. Synge Arthur Symons Sir Thomas Browne Algernon Charles Swinburne Aubrey Beardsley Oliver Eton William Butler Yeats Walt Whitman David Gray and many others. Volumes from 1900 1906 1907 1908 1909 1911 and 1914 are in this lot which has no continuous run for any of these years. There are a few duplicates.Published under the imprint Thomas B. Mosher these were job printed by Smith and Sale of Portland Maine are 6" x 5" string bound in soft blue wraps and typically between 30 and 40 pages printed on Van Gelder paper. There are no illustrations and a few advertisements are present usually for other literary publications. An occasional leaf is unopened.These were ephemeral 5-cent publications and not meant to last through the ages. All are intact but have light soil and discoloration to varying degrees with sunning and wear to the edges. Some have minor chipping an occasional penciled or stamped ownership name to the cover and are the antithesis of pristine. Generally Very Good to Very Good. All would be perfect impulse buy items near the counter of your open shop. The 1 hardbound volume:This is volume IX from 1903 and contains all 12 numbers. These are the wraps edition bound together in blue paper over boards with a vellum or parchment spine. Title Volume and Year are on a paper label laid down to the spine.The bound volume has edge and corner wear and faint discoloration to the paper over the boards. The spine is darkened as typical. This book is about Very Good condition.All would be good for online stock or for impulse buys near the front counter of your open shop. They can be placed under your pillow at night and you'll have absorbed their fine literature by morning.; 24mo 5" - 6" tall; 35 pages . Thomas B. Mosher paperback
2001153736Sao Paulo: Museu de Arte Moderna 2001. First Edition. First Edition. Text in English and Portuguese. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museu de Arte Moderna de Sao Paulo between June 29 and August 12 2001.<br /> <br /> Near Fine in illustrated card wrappers with French flaps. Wrappers with light rubbing overall. Museu de Arte Moderna unknown
1997266715Point Richmond CA / Richmond CA: Richmond Art Center / King Pelican Press 1997. Hardcover. 96p. cloth-covered boards with gilt titles 8.5x10.5 inches illus. very good exhibition catalog in a worn and soiled unclipped dj. Richmond Art Center / King Pelican Press hardcover
