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196114387London: The Adventurer's Club 1961. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 186 pp with map photographs. A clean tightly bound copy with no visible wear. Dust jacket is sunned at the spine and has light dust soiling to the rear panel but remains quite attractive; in a new mylar cover. At the age of 17 the author ran away from her school in Rome to join her uncle a member of the White Squadron--a multinational group of men who "battled against the ruthless Arab drug and slave traffickers in the remote areas of the Sahara and Libyan deserts." She remained with the Squaron for 4 years patrolling the desert on camel-back living "the tough life of a trooper" amd experiencing a variety of hardships and adventures which are recounted here. The Adventurer's Club hardcover books
19871327560Boston: Published in association with the Brandywine River Museum a New York Graphic Society Book Little Brown and Company 1987. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo oblong; First edition; VG/VG-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine white with black print; DJ has slight edgewear small blemish on front else clean and bright; Boards in brown cloth with gold print clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; "Published in connection with the exhibition organized by the Brandywine River Museum"; xii 209 pages frontispiece illustrated color. Shelf: American Art. 1327560. FP New Rockville Stock. Published in association with the Brandywine River Museum, a New York Graphic Society Book, Little, Brown and Company hardcover books
2007264027Washington DC: Library of Congress 2007. Hardcover. xxii 236p. top of the line book production sensitive color reproductions captioned amidst a running text hardbound in 12.5x9.5 inch openweave cloth boards gilt and laminated color dust jacket. As new perfectly sound clean and unmarked. The cartography element of Kislak's gift is given some forty pages of text and facsimiles. facsimile. Library of Congress hardcover books
2001227903Philadelphia & Cambridge: Philadelphia Museum of Art and Yale University Press 2001. Paperback. xli 446p. 10x12.5 inches preface essays notes selected bibliography chronology illustrated with 290 color plates and 220 b&w illustrations fine first edition paperback exhibition catalogue in pictorial wraps. Philadelphia Museum of Art and Yale University Press paperback books
200144259Philadelphia / New Haven: Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale University Press 2001. First Edition. Quarto 31.5cm x 26cm. Blue-gray cloth boards hardcover with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 446pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to corner tips; faint soiling to bottom textblock corner else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to extremities else clean and sound. This volume was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Thomas Eakins: American Realist" organized by Darrel Sewell at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2001-2002 which traveled to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York in 2002. Features essays by 11 prominant art historians and scholars. More than 250 reproductions of Eakins' paintings watercolors drawings photographs and sculpture. Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale University Press unknown books
2004254612Kamloops British Columbia: Kamloops Art Gallery 2004. 55p. wraps 6.75 x 7.75 inches illus. very good condition signed and inscribed by Edelstein as "Susan" on inside front wrap. Catalog of an exhibition of work by the Korean-Canadian video artist held at the Kamloops Art Gallery from October 17 to November 28th 2004. Kamloops Art Gallery unknown books
200757945El Paso Texas: El Paso Museum of Art. Very Good. 2007. Softcover. 54pp. paperback Exhibition Catalogue Very Good. . El Paso Museum of Art paperback books
19976106Boston: Beacon Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. Hardcover. 0807073105 . First printing. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Beacon Press hardcover books
200344276London: National Gallery Company Ltd 2003. First Edition. Quarto 33cm x 25cm. Black cloth boards hardcover with title embossed in black on cover and spine; pictorial dustwrapper; 320pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to extremities else clean and crisp. Extensively addressing the full range of the 16th-Century master El Greco's artistic production and exploring the artist's life through philosophical and religious perspectives this volume was published to accompany the exhibition "El Greco" organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York and the National Gallery London in 2003-2004. Hundreds of illustrations including color reproductions and details of 83 of Goya's paintings. National Gallery Company Ltd unknown books
198964383New York: Hudson Hills 1989. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Lavish production with 65 color plates and 389 duotone reproductions. Hudson Hills unknown books
102308Albuquerque NM: Harwood Museum University of New Mexico. Softbound. As New. Yellow color illustrated wraps. 48 pp. many color and bw plates. Harwood Museum, University of New Mexico unknown books
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
180277225Edinburgh: Mundell 1802. First Edition. paperback. 80 pages. 8vo re-bound in modern wrappers. Edinburgh: Mundell 1802.<br/><br/> This work is "replete with historical details and original clinical histories with postmortem findings." Abt p. 84.<br/><br/> Mundell unknown books
200216583Berkeley CA: Gingko Press Gallimard/Centre Pompidou 2002. Original wraps. Near Fine. SIGNED BY ELLSWORTH KELLY on the half-title. A crisp very sharp copy to boot of the March 2002 1st American edition. Tight and Near Fine in its thick laminate wrappers with just a touch of very light soiling along the rear panel. Octavo lovely reproductions thruout. Essays by Remi Labrusse and Eric de Chassey published by arrangement with Editions Gallimard and Centre Pompidou who had issued the original French edition several months earlier. <br/><br/> Gingko Press (Gallimard/Centre Pompidou) paperback 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
199129161Berkeley: Dialogue Press Inc 1991. 1st separate edition. Limited to 1500 cc. Wrappers. Nr Fine. 52 2. 8vo. <br/><br/>Essays on the war from the Yale class of 1964 which first appeared in their 1989 reunion yearbook. This the first book from the Dialogue Press. Dialogue Press Inc unknown books
1999131013Zurich / New York: Edition Stemmle 1999. Hardcover. VG/VG- some edgewear to book on tail edge edge curling along head of DJ 2-inch tear at lower fold. White boards light gray illustrated dust jacket. Approx 60 pp. 62 BW plates. Large. In these large-scale works Sandi Fellman has managed to capture both the immediate sensuality of flowers and their lamentable transience. At once romantic and contemporary her unique interpretation of a favorite photographic subject rides the cutting edge of an artworld sensibility that is once again embracing beauty. -- Book jacket. Edition Stemmle hardcover books
1946404080Annapolis Maryland: F.L. Ferrero 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. Gilt-stamped blue cloth. Some edgewear corners bumped a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. F.L. Ferrero hardcover books
198640550Boston:: Godine. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0879236191 . First edition. SIGNED by the author. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Godine, hardcover books
1985185610Saskatoon: Mendel Art Gallery 1985. Paperback. 56p. 8.5x11 inches essays chronology bibliography checklist illustrated with in-text b&w thumnails and color plates very good catalog of the exhibition in trade paperback wraps. Mendel Art Gallery paperback books
19061566New York: The Spice Mill Publishing Company 1906. Hardcover. Green boards title and illustration in gilt. Very good. 86 pages A byproduct of the baking powder wars fought at the end of the 20th century. After a stable rising agent was established baking powder became a profitable commodity with over hundred manufacturers popping up across the country. To win over the public still wed to their old cookbooks baking powder companies issued their own cookbooks and pamphlets. This book which is annotated throughout by a hungry observer is a scientific observation of the product and how to make it. Crisp clean copy. <br/><br/> The Spice Mill Publishing Company hardcover books
1928344Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Good . 309 pp 4 full color illustrations with frontispiece. Spine significantly sunned and fraying at head and foot; book store label on rear pastedown; contents clean and sound. No dust jacket. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
1986285NY: Farrar Straus Giroux. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0374135088 . Author's first book. First edition. Fine in a near fine slightly age-tanned about the edges dust jacket. . Farrar Straus Giroux hardcover books
192113800London: William Heinemann 1921. First Edition. First UK edition. 380 pp illustrated with 48 black and white photographs. Signed "Lewis R. Freeman Grand Canyon 1923" on the front free endpaper. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Lower corners rubbed some offsetting to endpapers otherwise minimal wear. Binding tight and square. Laid in are the front flap of the original dust jacket and a prospectus/order form for the book. Freeman who was raised in California traveled extensively all over the world and wrote a many engaging works about his adventures. His publisher touted the journey that forms the subject of this book as "the most successful from a yachtsman's standpoint of any of the South Sea pleasure voyages including those of Lord Brassey in the Sunbeam Stevenson in the Equator and Casco Lord Crawford in the Valhala and Jack London in the Snark." William Heinemann hardcover books
19889019326Minneapolis: Walker Art Center / MIT Press 1988. paperback. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated throughout. <br/><br/> Walker Art Center / MIT Press paperback books
