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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
1990169003Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art 1990. Softbound. New in shrinkwrap. Cream wraps with color illustration black lettering. 184 8 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and BW. The title "Three Worlds" derives from the fact that Clemente divides his time between Italy Madras India and New York. Index to illustrations at rear. Philadelphia Museum of Art unknown books
1990127585Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art 1990. Softbound. New shrink-wrapped. Color pictorial wraps. 184 8 pp. profusely illustrated in color and bw. The title "Three Worlds" derives from the fact that Clemente divides his time between Italy Madras India and New York. Index to illustrations at rear. Philadelphia Museum of Art paperback books
1990101613Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art 1990. Softbound. VG-. Covers tanned may have some soiling and shelf wear. Contents clean and tight. Cream wraps with color illustration black lettering. 184 8 pp. Profusely illustrated in color and BW. The title "Three Worlds" derives from the fact that Clemente divides his time between Italy Madras India and New York. Index to illustrations at rear. Philadelphia Museum of Art unknown books
20009008556Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Publishers 2000. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. 248 pages; 231 illustrations including 167 in color. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in blue. English edition. <br/><br/> Hatje Cantz Publishers hardcover books
19851341478Haertfod: Wadsworth Atheneum 1985. Softcover. Quarto; VG-; Paperback; Spine brown with black print; Cover has slight edgewear but is clean and bright; Text block has embossed owner stamp on rear flyleaf slight bump to bottom fore corner else clean and tight; 197 pages illustrated b&w some color. Shelf: French Art <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. 1341478. FP New Rockville Stock. Wadsworth Atheneum unknown books
2000120715Boston: Houghton Mifflin 2000. First edition first prnt. Signed by Theroux on the title page. Board corners tapped cloth backstrip ends lightly pushed. Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover books
20001200311Boston: Houghton Mifflin 2000. First edition first prnt. Signed by Theroux on the title page. Unread copy in Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Signed by Author. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.<br />The images are of the book described and not stock photos. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
20132392New York: Speigel & Grau 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Yellow boards black spine. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper. Eddie AKA the Human Panda explores the Asian-American immigrant experience through the eyes of a child and then as a brash young adult - "American Hustle - school piano or porn - the American experience was about the paper" $. Eddie explored America through social culture and food becoming a well known media personality chef author and bigger then life figure. Huang went on to open BaoHous restaurant with his brother hosted Huang's World for Viceland and later had this autobiography adapted to an ABC television series. This copy has extraordinary annotations by a food history professor in pencil with an additional page of notes laid in. <br/><br/> Speigel & Grau hardcover books
13110Boston: Small Maynard & Company. Hardcover. Very Good. Undated c. 1924. 303 pp indexed with 57 photographs and 2 folding maps. Publisher's green cloth shows light general wear; bookplate on front pastedown one plate and one map loose and laid in. Travel narrative of several months' journey on foot through the Congo with observations on Belgian administration village life and native customs. Small, Maynard & Company hardcover books
192913666London: Alfred A. Knopf 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 298 pp with 25 photographic illustrations and a folding map. Original blue cloth sunned at the spine. Binding sound text unmarked. No dust jacket. Account of the author's travels in West Africa with detailed and colorful if not always enthusiastic observations on local customs culture and commerce. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
198619920Portland: Timber Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1986. Hardcover. 0881920150 . Illustrated by Valerie Willson. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. . Timber Press hardcover books
20011327426Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press 2001. Hardcover. Quarto; VG/VG-; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine blue with white print; DJ has vendor labels on rear else clean and bright; Boards in black cloth with gold print clean and strong; Text block has slight surface tear at bottom of front pastedown else clean and tight; Exhibition: January 27-April 29 2001; 182 pages illustrated chiefly color; shelved in French Art. 1327426. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press hardcover books
16813Girls' Education Handwritten original essays on literary figures from a female high school student. 25 illustrations of literary historical figures and their homes including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Greenleaf Whittier Charles Dickens Paul Revere Sir Walter Scott and James Russell Lowell. c. 1912. Original black boards and red cloth spine. 84 pages. 9 3/4 x 8 inches. Illustration all 8 x 5 1/2 in. "Freshman English and Sophomore English Note-book. Mildred Benjamin" written on first page in blue pen. Handwritten biographical reports of all those with aforementioned portraits. Also includes incomplete entries for Tennyson and George Eliot. "John Greenleaf Whittier was born in Haverhill Mass.the house still stands in which Whittier was reared.Whittier was taken with illness while visiting at the home of his friend.he had a slight paralytic stroke which produced a difficulty in taking food o medicine and it was plain that he could not be removed to Annesbury where he had always hoped to die. He was conscious to the last and was grateful to everyone. He had little acute pain. He lay all night in peace and died in the morning."Charles Dickens: "The boy Charles was not strong but nevertheless before he was ten years old he was obliged to earn his own living. He was placed in a blacking warehouse an old ramshackle house near the Thames. The scenes in which he was brought up were the most degrading ones possible.During this time he spent much of his time in the reading room of the British Museum.In 1842 he made his first trip to America. Just before going he wrote Oliver Twist in which he exposed the abuses of the poor law system." Press clippings on final pages for articles on Charles Dickens and John Greenleaf Whittier. Images of Longfellow's birthplace in Maine Whittier's birthplace and homes in Massachusetts "Gadshill" Dickens's home Sir Walter Scott's estate and "Elmswood" Lowell's home in Cambridge MA. Final press clipping contains a chapter of Ralph D. Paine's novel The Cross and the Dragon published 1912. Cover and spine detached from pages. First and last page toned foxing on first portrait of Longfellow else clean. Very good condition. unknown books
200517052002New York: Aperture Foundation 2005. Second Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. The first printing of the Aperture Foundation publication oblong folio 164 pp. "In 1997 my family and I moved to a home in the Berkeley hills with an extraordinary view of the Golden Gate Bridge. These pictures were taken from our porch. RM" opening lines of book at the half-title page. <br/><br/>Richard Misrach b. 1949 is "one of the most influential photographers of his generation. In the 1970s he helped pioneer the renaissance of color photography and large-scale presentation that are in widespread practice today" with one of his best-known works being this " the study of weather time color and light in his serial photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge." n.b. from the web site of the Fraenkel Gallery.<br/><br/>This the second edition the first having been published by Arena Editions in 2001 the first printing with full number line beginning with "10" and ending with "1". <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full silver-grey cloth blind-debossed lettering on the spine grey endpapers replete with full-colour photographs with many although not all printed on the recto only; oblong folio size 13.25" wide by 11.25" tall 164 pages. In a dust jacket with different images by Misrach on the front and back panels silver lettering on a black background on the spine jacket unclipped although no printed price present summary of book on the front flap bios of Misrach Clark and Walker on the back flap.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine overall with clean boards straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; a very shallow crease to the rear free endpaper and a hint of dustiness to the bottom edge of the text block else fine. The dust jacket near fine to fine unclipped with a few areas of extremely light edgewear and a few very light marks to the panels.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: Please note that this is an unusually heavy volume and additional postage may apply; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Aperture Foundation hardcover books
1986126284Syracuse New York: Everson Museum of Art 1986. Softbound. VG covers show shelf wear. Color pictorial wraps unpaginated; approx. 24pp 14 BW plates. Foreword by Dominique Nahas. Exhibition catalog; brief biography. Everson Museum of Art unknown books
200120509Sagaponack:: Sagapress. As New in As New dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0898310784 . With notes on their design maintenance and plants. Illustrated by the author. First edition thus. As new in like dust jacket. . Sagapress, hardcover books
19401931Connecticut/California 1940's-1960's. Cards. Decorated covers green yarn binding. Good. 21 pages. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Handcrafted recipes book made up of decorated envelopes. Each envelope is decorated with pasted-on photos of food items which are labeled and filled with recipes. Both handwritten recipes and recipes cut from magazine periodicals and food packaging. Some envelopes empty. Front cover decorated with a photo of a 1950's dining room. Laid in: a page from The Lassez-Faire what appears to be a mock newspaper for humorous purposes; a pink tissue paper party hat; a black and white photo of a house circa 1940's and an invitation to a wedding - Nancy Jane Franklin Hopper. Recipes from both California periodicals and Connecticut periodicals. One envelope is detached. <br/><br/> unknown books
200133779Chicago: Triumph Books. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 1892049260 . First edition. INSCRIBED by the author to no one in particular in the year of publication. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . Triumph Books hardcover 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
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
1984269962New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1984. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Rosseau. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. 269pp. Square 4to black cloth d.w. New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1984. Fine.<br/><br/> The Museum of Modern Art unknown books
1984207670New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1984. paperback. very good/very good. Rosseau. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white. 269pp. Square 4to flexible boards. New York: The Museum of Modern Art 1984. Very good.<br/><br/> The Museum of Modern Art unknown books
19861328543New York: George Braziller Inc. 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto; pp 256; VG/G; greenish beige spine with black text; dust jacket has chip to front head edge; modest soiling to exterior; other mild wear to edges; cloth has mildly sunned tail edge; strong boards; text block exterior edges have slight shelf wear; profusely illustrated; arts-Asian; additional shipping may be added to items due to weight. 1328543. FP New Rockville Stock. George Braziller, Inc. hardcover books
20192204Athens Georgia: The University of Georgia Press 2019. Hardcover. Illustrated boards. Fine. 137 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Beginning in the early nineteenth century and continuing nearly to the present day African Americans have often been stereotyped as illiterate kitchen geniuses. Rafia Zafar addresses this error highlighting the long history of accomplished African Americans within our culinary traditions as well as the literary and entrepreneurial strategies for civil rights and respectability woven into the written records of dining cooking and weaving. Rafia Zafar is a professor of English African and African American studies and American culture studies at Washington University. <br/><br/> The University of Georgia Press hardcover books
