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1871BIO2249London: Strahan & Co. Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1871. First Edition. Half-Leather. Volume 1 - 431 pp. Volume 2 - 503 pp. Both volumes: frontis. Prev owner's name on the rear endpaper. Half-leather binding. Spine ends corners bumped and worn. 4 raised bands on the spine highlighted in gilt. Gilt lettering. Volume 1 has no title pastedown Volume 2 has half the leather title pastedown on the spine. Miller was a prominent Victorian scientist geologist and palaeontologist credited with many new discoveries. A pioneer of the new scientitif age he wrote about everything he found making it acessible to the public. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Strahan & Co. hardcover
19723112608New York: Delacorte Press. Very Good. 1972. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0-440-02041-7 . Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Short edge tear at head of front panel of dust jacket. Screenplay with numerous photo illustrations from the film starring Marlon Brando. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 224 pages . Delacorte Press hardcover
20074951mint oversize pb expedited and international shipping not available--COURBET Reunion Des Musees Nationaux paperback
201441467Mingei International Museum 2014. Signed by Bob Stocksdale's wife and master weaver Kay Sekimachi. Signed by author Signe Mayfield. Additionally signed and inscribed by Melissa Leventon. Fine as new. " With 125 full-page color reproductions and 70 illustrations this handsome book celebrates the artistic achievement of two of Americas most significant pioneers in contemporary craft. Essential to their legacy in their respective fields of fiber and wood Kay Sekimachi has been recognized as the weavers weaver and her late husband Bob Stocksdale has been celebrated as the father of American woodturning. Their work reflects a reverence for materials from nature. Stocksdales lathe-turned works reveal a dazzling array of rare woods while the succession of forms in Sekimachis multiple-layered weavings and ethereal vessels are comprised of hornets nests translucent skeletal leaves simple grasses found corals natural flax and linen. She has additionally drawn inspiration from the forms of flowing rivers marine creatures clouds nests and lunar formations. This publication charts the couples artistic developments within their creative lives including formative experiences in the unexpected setting of incarceration during World War II. In the publication essays John C. Lavine Melissa Leventon and Mingei International Museum guest curator Signe Mayfield have contributed insightful observations and fresh perspectives on over 50 years of work by Bob Stocksdale and Kay Sekimachi." large and heavy International orders will require extra shipping. Signed. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine. Mingei International Museum Paperback
198229709Milano: Edizioni Lybra Immagine 1982. 1st. Hardcover. As New/As New. 9.8x8.8x1.6in. appears unread. Dust jacket in clear protector. <br>Covers projects from Italian designers Mario Bellini Antonio Citterio and Paolo Nava. Gian Franco Frattini Ludovico Magistretti Gaetano Pesce Paolo Piva Richard Sapper Afra and Tobia Scarpa Kazuhide Takahama and Marco Zanuso. With 1200 illustrations. Text in Italian. <br>480pp 4.18lb 9.8x8.8x1.6in Edizioni Lybra Immagine hardcover
187223453London: Sampson Low Marston Low & Searle 1872. Hardcover. Good. Third edition issued in the same year as the first edition. x 388 pp with folding map as frontispiece and 6 plates in original dark red cloth with decoration in black and gilt. Spine slanted map has some creasing from being mis-folded contemporary owner's signature on title page. Text and plates clean. "Butler's accounts of his adventures are the most poetic and the most personable of the 19th-century Canadian travel narratives. His lyrical descriptions of landscape climate and seasonal change testify to his deep admiration for the sheer unpopulated expanse and beauty of the Canadian West. Sent by the English in 1870 to gather intelligence about the Red River Resistance Butler actually met with Louis Riel at Ft Garry; his description of the encounter remains one of the most vivid portraits of Riel in our literature" Canadian Encyclopedia. Sampson, Low, Marston, Low & Searle hardcover
198453413Palermo: Sellerio Editore 1984. Quarto 34cm. Black cloth-covered boards titled in gilt on spine and front cover with applied pictorial label; 61pp text 120 unnumbered pages of plates. Illustrated in b&w in text 61 leaves of plates containing 187 color reproductions. Publisher's price sticker inside rear cover. Mild external wear; internally clean fresh and unmarked; Near Fine. Text entirely in Italian.<br /> <br /> A history of the Sicilian lemon exporting industry in the 19th and early 20th centuries richly illustrated with reproductions of crate labels stencils and marketing designs. A beautifully- produced book. Number 5 in publisher's series "I cristalli" a uniform series documenting various aspects of Sicilian cultural history. Uncommon. Sellerio Editore unknown
23343<p>New York: Abrams 2008 1st ed. 383pp. illus. hardback folio: Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. An enormous magnificent volume of art photography portraits covering 95 years by such masters as Edward Steichen Cecil Beaton Annie Leibovitz et al. Owing to its size the book cannot be shipped internationally. Extra shipping charges will apply.</p> New York: Abrams hardcover
1999211087New York: Harry N. Abrams Inc. Publishers 1999. 143 pages illustrations chiefly colour; 31 cm. Firm binding clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Barbara Chase-Riboud first captured the attention of the art world in the 1970s with elegant powerful sculptures in which she merged the hardness of bronze with the lush softness of woven silk and wool. Her work is represented in major surveys of Western art and in important private and public collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. This book presents the first comprehensive overview of the sculptures and drawings of this talented artist. Two eminent art historians join forces to provide a critical evaluation of Chase-Riboud's thirty years of artistic creativity." - Publisher. CONTENTS: All that rises; Sculpture by Peter Selz; Cleopatra; The monument drawings by Anthony F. Janson; Harrar/Africa rising. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers Hardcover
20013117603Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Signed Limited Book & Print. 0226112942 . SIGNED Ltd. Edition. Copy 28 of 50. Photographer has SIGNED title page. 130pp. 9 1/2" X 10 1/4" Comes with 5" x 5" b&w SIGNED print from 1994. Death Camps/Buchenwald. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Couple small hints of shelf-wear to jacket. ; 9 1/2" X 10 1/4"; 130 pages . University of Chicago Press unknown
1902DEMO003083IChicago: C.L. Ricketts 1902. First edition thus. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 160 pages decorated boards & white cloth untrimmed edges worn spine darkened <br/><br/>Author's first book and proof of his activity in the Chicago Literary Renaissance. Hunsberger 44. These essays present a Chicago view of literary realism. In "Realism in Literature and Art" he rejects 'thesis novels' because they falsified human nature in order to teach a theoretical lesson. "The true man neither guiltily conceals nor anxiously explains nor vulgarly parades. He simply lives his life the best he can and lets it stand for what it is." Includes essays on Omar Khayyam Walt Whitman R. Burns etc. C. L. Ricketts was a calligrapher who designed this book and published it. C.L. Ricketts hardcover
19241403955London: John Castle 1924. Limited edition 114/200; Edition-de-luxe. Hardcover. Quarto xxxviii pages 80 leaves of plates. In Fair plus condition. Spine is black with gold print raised bands. Boards quarter bound with black leather to spine and blue cloth to boards mitred edges; wear to spine caps hinges and corners light shelf wear to cloth. Text block has gilt top edge; name in ink and embossed owner stamp on front endpapers tanning to end papers. Illustrated: b&w and color plates; includes “frontispieces signed proofs of an original lithograph by Frank Brangwyn R.A. and an original etching by W.P. Robins R.E.â€â€” limited edition page. Special features frontispieces signed by artists. <br /> <br /> Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates.<br /> <br /> <p>NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex Quarto and Folio Case. 1403955. FP New Rockville Stock. John Castle hardcover
1898DEMO004841INo place: Printed for Private Circulation 1898. Limited edition. Hardcover. Good. Quarto full parchment gilt soiled bookplate embossment on title-page rear pocket unused. <br/><br/>Only 200 copies: 10 on vellum 190 on Whatman hand-made paper this is copy no. 171. Contains five of Franklin's facetious letters including one to Dr. Priestley one to the Royal Academy of Brussels and the infamous "Advising a Young Man as to the Selection of a Mistress." N.B. The original ms. of this once belonged to Charles F. Gunther of Chicago. This edition is not cited by the introduction to this letter in vol. 3 of THE PAPERS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. However the final two letters may be even saucier as indicated by the fact that they appear here in their original French tongue without benefit of translation. Scarce. Printed for Private Circulation hardcover
20113114205Highlands: The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 2011. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover in slipcase. First edition. Near fine in printed wrappers with colored bands laid-into black card slipcase. Couple mild creases at edges of covers. 45pp. 8 1/4" X 12 1/4" Color throughout. ; 8 1/4" X 12 1/4"; 44 pages . The Bascom: A Center for the Visual Arts. paperback
20116qjdcSanlam Life Insurance 2011. Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Signed by Clare Menck. Publication of 122 pages. Landscape. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Sanlam Life Insurance paperback
2018x09434<p>Kris Graves 2018. Oblong 4to. Blue cloth. Near Fine. Front endpaper warmly inscribed by Diggs to Abby Robinson photographer and former teacher of photography at the School of Visual Arts and additionally signed on the title page.</p> Kris Graves hardcover
20031411077Winter Park Florida: Rizzoli International Publications Inc. / Art & Peace Inc 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 37 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket and housed in publisher's scratched and worn black paper slip case. Spine white with black lettering. Light tearing to corners of dust jacket. Minor shelf wear to boards. Textblock clean. Shelved in Artist Monographs. 1411077. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. / Art & Peace, Inc hardcover
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
20073539Louisville: Butler Books 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Folio 314pp. illustrated. A fine crisp copy in like dust jacket. SIGNED and INSCRIBED on the half-title page by Lindy Hart the artist's widow. Butler Books hardcover
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
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
196811631-2<p>London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1968. First British edition / First printing. Pale green cloth. Very fine with publisher's cancellation on the CIP page in fine dust jacket. An exceptional copy. <i><b>Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.</b></i></p> Weidenfeld & Nicolson, hardcover
1981005499United States Golf Association. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. 0941774007 . Hardcover; Hardcover. Limited edition. Beautiful two toned green cloth boards with gold accents. Title in gold on spine. Text is clean and crisp. Limited edition of 1400 copies of which this is number 1336. Encased in a very nice unadorned marblized slipcase. Facsimiles of three editions of the Heroi-comical poem by Thomas Mathison. ; 8VO . United States Golf Association hardcover
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
1989016115Americas Society Art Gallery New York 1989. Book. Fine Condition. Wrappers. 72 page paperback exhibition catalogue bound in stiff printed paper covers joined by seven separately printed essays all encased in a silk lined burlap satchel style bag. The entire production is in crisp tight and clean condition with an uncreased spine and unmarked interior. Texts are in English. Illustrations are in full color in the bound catalogue and printed in red in the separately printed essays. Checklist of the exhibition published at the rear. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held October6 1988-January 14 1989. Americas Society Art Gallery, New York Paperback