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1962479New York, 1962, United Nations. First and only edition. In-4, 225 x 295 mm, 169 pp. One the 820 copies bound in cloth. Comes with a protective slipcase. Hardbound with Bradel-style hinges, turquoise cloth, gilded title on the spine. The cover panel features the UN logo and book title in gold above and below a stylized drawing of the front view of the library building. Navy blue endpapers. Black and white portrait of Dag Hammarskjold in frontispiece. Numerous black and white and color pictures throughout. Text printed on two columns. With forewords by U. Thant, then UN secretary-general, and Andrew W. Cordier, under-secretary. Five chapters: 1. Proceedings of the 14th Session of the General Assembly about the Ford Foundation Gift, 2. Proceedings of the 16th Session of the General Assembly about the naming of the library, 3. Dediication of the Dag Hammarskjold Library, 4. The Library Symposium, 5. The Library Building. This library was made possible by a $6.2 million gift by the Ford Foundation in 1959. The building, a modern-style construction, was designed to host over 400.000 books with ample space. This UN Library was named in honor of Dag Hammarskjold (not to be confused with Ragnar Danneskjold!), late secretary of the United Nations. This book was the honorary publication of the UN celebrating the opening of the library. It was NOT sold to bookshops or resellers, only given to various UN members and public libraries worldwide and finding a copy for sale is a rare event.
19371024Faber & Faber. London. [1937]. Album grand in-8 (26 x 20 cm). (64) pp., gardes illustrées : plats illustrés en couleurs, jaquette à l’identique.
199963183Compiled by Edward W. Burke, S. J., Professor Emeritus of Classics, Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1 vol. in-4 cartonnage éditeur, J. P. Heim, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1999, XIII pp., 1 f., 358 pp. et 1 f.
1974506931 vol. 4to, printed hardcover, Stanford Law Association, 208 pp.
2017QZI-22London, Hodder & Stoughton, 2017. First UK edition. Hardback in dark blue cloth with dust jacket. SIGNED by Owen King on a tipped-in paper stuck on the half-title page, below an ex-dono by a previous owner. Interestingly, the paper King signed refers to a bookstore localized in Bangor, MA, so in the USA. The colored endpapers feature a butterfly design in clear blue over navy blue. A brick of a book with its 16 x 24 cm and 718 pp. size! An interesting collaboration between Stephen King and his son.
1936612434to, paperback, The Camera Pictorialists of Los Angeles. 19th Annual Salon of Pictorial Photography. Los Angeles Museum Januray 1st to 31st 1936. Catalog, 14 leaves
1960633528vo paperback, Linguistic Society of India, Deccan College, Poona, 1960,
1983595051 vol. grand in-8 br., Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Te Leiden, 1983, VII-348 pp. avec 19 planches hors texte
1906570938vo, full editor's cloth, The Engineering Magazine, Copyright 1906, 1234 pages
19070181Lepizig, Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1907. In English. A hardcover in-12 volume. 167 x 119 mm, 287 pp. + 31 pp. of editor's catalog at the end. Half-bottle green leather with corners, raised bands, bright green title piece with author's name and book title, green endpapers on the covers and inside. "Book I of this volume consists in matter written four years ago, but not hitherto published in book-form. I have now corrected these to the best of my ability and later knowledge. Book II was written at the beginning of the 1903, and has not until now appeared in any form. In it my purpose has been to present a character portrait of Mrs. Eddy, drawn from her own acts and words solely, not from hearsay and rumour; and to explain the nature and scope of her Monarchy, as revealed in the Laws by which she governs it, and which she wrote herself." (Preface)
1981540Neville Spearman, Sudbury, UK, 1981. First edition. Hardcover, dust jacket with flaps. 8vo, 182pp. plus two sections of black and white photographic plates. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Discrete stamp of the former owner on the first white endpaper. Yellowed paper, though all the plate pages are crisp and clear. DJ slightly soiled. In good condition, complete, spine is solid. A rare find of continuing interest on a topic (Nazi occultism) which remains both fascinating and controversial.
19800132This is the complete 3-volume hardcover set published in the 80s by S. L. Mayer at Bison Books / Magna Books about Nazi Germany's illustrated, pan-European magazine. These volumes are usually sold separately and are very hard to come by all together. All in-folio, 307 x 230 mm with dust jacket. All with original Signal articles translated to English, lavishly illustrated, printed on couché paper. First volume: Signal. Years of Triumph, 1940-42, second impression, 1978. Unpaginated. Second volume: Signal. Years of Defeat, 1943-44, second edition, 1979. Unpaginated. Third volume: The best of Signal, [1984], 1987 reprint. Unpaginated.
18930495Chicago, Published for the R. P. Trade, 1893. En anglais. Album de photos de l'Exposition universelle de 1893, réalisée à Chicago pour célébrer le 400e anniversaire de la découverte de l'Amérique par Colomb. Un livret oblong de 25 x 16 cm, relié pleine percaline rouge ornée de nombreux motifs noirs et dorés à l'allure presque art nouveau. Gravure du débarquement de Christophe Colomb en frontispice. Non paginé. Seul le frontispice et la dernière page (représentant un plan de Jackson Park), collées aux contreplats, adhèrent à la reliure, le reste du bloc de feuilles en est détaché. Il forme une frise à déplier pour consulter les nombreuses gravures de pavillons et constructions, affichées avec leur nom et leur coût en dollars de l'époque. Les deux dernières pages du bloc sont détachées du reste. ******************************************************************** Chicago, published for R. P. Trade, 1893. Photo album of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago celebrating the 400th anniversary of Columbus's discovery of America. An oblong booklet measuring 25 x 16 cm, bound in full red percaline decorated with numerous black and gold motifs in an almost art nouveau style. Engraving of Christopher Columbus's landing as a frontispiece. Unpaginated. Only the frontispiece and the last page (a map of Jackson Park) are glued to the inside covers while the rest of the paper block is loose. It forms a frieze that can be unfolded to view the numerous engravings of pavilions and buildings, displayed with their names and costs. The last two pages of the block are loose.
197859595With drawings and contributions by Suzanne Chapman, Nicholas Thayer, Lynn Holden and Timothy Kendall, In collaboration with the Pennsylvania-Yale Archaelogical Expedition to Egypt, 1 vol. in-4 reliure pleine toile sous jaquette illustrée, Department of Egyptian and Ancient near Eastern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1978, 34 pp. , 47 plates and 75 figures
19756956921 vol. 12mo. softcover, Early Music, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1975 to 1989, rd. 200 pp. fr the whole.
1956595261 vol. in-4 cartonnage éditeur, Printed for The Griffith Institute, At the University Press by Charles Batey, Oxford, 1956, XV-44 pp. et 25 planches
1973553681 brochure in-8, National Climatic Center, Asheville, NC, August 1973, 5 feuillets
2006520Johannesburg, Art and Ubuntu Trust, 2006. In-8 booklet, 17 x 24 cm, 126 pp. Softcover with rigid silver metal-like covers. Handwritten mention "NEW AFRICAN ARTISTS - ERNEST MANCOBA" on the spine. Book is SIGNED by curator Bridget Thompson on the back of the front cover: "Dear Milton, With great appreciation for our work together and [illegible] for images, with love, Bridget". Printed on coated glossy paper, numerous artworks by Ernest Mancoba showcased, texts by various authors including the Ambassador of Denmark Torben Brylle and the "Funeral Oration" said in honor of the artist on November 2, 2022. "In the Name of All Humanity: The African Spiritual Expression of E. Mancoba" was a landmark 2006–2007 exhibition and catalogue curated by Bridget Thompson, highlighting South African artist Ernest Mancoba's synthesis of African spirituality, humanity, and Western modernism. It showcased his life's work as a vision of global unity rooted in the proverb “umuntu ngumuntu ngabanye abantu” (a person is a person because of other people).
1855530998vo, editor's blue cloth richly gilted, edges gilted, John Van Voorst, London, 1855, 306 pp.
19980109London, Phaidon, 1999. A hardbound in-quarto volume with dust jacket and protective mylar, 278 x 200 mm, 146 pp. SIGNED by Mario Testino at the top of the title page. "Provocative and unexpected, Any Objections? is a lightning roller-coaster of unpublished images which brilliantly illuminates the vision of one of photography's shrewdest eyes. Fashion and the gutter, nature and artifice, high life and low, jostle for his attention. Faces of the very famous in the least expected places, bodies of the very beautiful, landscapes and cities, close friends and extraordinary passersby all find their place in a pattern which is held together by Testino's evident sense of the absurd. The book is an insight into the raw material of fashion, where a glimpse of life from a street in Tangier can be the inspiration for a fashion story in New York. At once diary and commentary, picture after picture (all reproduced full-page) provoke reactions as diverse as their subject-matter: from shock to amusement and from surprise to delight. Whether or not you have any objections, you can't help being intrigued by Testino's very personal view of the world that surrounds him." (Front flap)
1835POE474MJohn Macrone, London, 1835. Six volume set. Small 8vo. Full green binding 1,957 pp in toto. Illustrated with engravings by J. M. W. Turner. John Macrone, London, 1835. 6 volumes Petit In-8°. Reliure chagrin vert. 1957 pp. l'ensemble. Illustré avec gravures de J. M. W. Turner.
19830119Los Angeles, Jeremy P. Tarcher / Houghton Miffin, 1983. First edition, second printing. Boldly signed by Nathaniel Branden on the first free endpaper (not a tip-in). In-4, 23 x 27 cm, 271 pp. Original dust jacket with flaps. Table of contents at the beginning. A small defect at the top of the DJ and at the bottom of the spine, otherwise VG. Pages are crisp and clear. Nathaniel Branden's Honoring the Self is a cornerstone of self-esteem psychology. The author was a long friend of Ayn Rand before launching his own, close yet unmistakably his, brand of worldview and knowledge of the human mind. "Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem," says pioneering psychologist Nathaniel Branden, "and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence--and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself--your self-esteem--is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life." (Inside flap)
1920548801 brochure in-8, s.d. [circa 1920 ?], 31 pp. avec 3 photos.Rappel du titre complet : Mathias Loras first bishop of Dubuque, Iowa U.S.A. and his friend Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney The holy parish priest of Ars. Their share in the beginning of the parish and church of Saint-John the Baptist of Rive-de-Gier, Loire, diocese of Lyon (France)
19930455London, The Folio Society, 1993. A big octavo volume of 253 x 182 mm and (xx) 417 pp. Hardcover, quarter leather, green upper edge, pictorial cloth and endpaper maps. 72 illustrations by Francis Cleyn engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar (from a 1654 edition). With an introduction by Peter Levi. Includes Dryden's Notes and a Glossary. The slipcase is a bit faded, otherwise excellent condition, the book itself being like new.
1974595151 vol. in-8 br., reprint from : American Oriental Society, New Haven, Connecticut, 1934, Kraus Reprint Co, Millwood New York, 1974, 67 pp.
