Alan Moore & David LloydLivre Rare Book
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20230067USA, DC Comics/Vertigo, 2023. Tall and heavy hardcover, in-folio book. 32 x 21 cm, 384 pp. Signed by David Lloyd on title page, with a sketch of V on blue pencil alongside signature. With dust jacket, a black silk signet and a slipcase nicely housing the book. "Alan Moore and David Lloyd's powerful epic about loss of freedom and individuality gets the Absolute treatment! Taking place in a totalitarian England following a devastating war that changed the face of the planet, V FOR VENDETTA was the inspiration for the hit 2005 movie starring Natalie Portman and Hugo Weaving. This amazing graphic novel spotlights a mysterious man in a white porcelain mask and his young protégé as they fight political oppressors through terrorism and seemingly absurd acts. It's a gripping tale of the blurred lines between ideological good and evil and details a world where political and personal freedoms are non-existent."
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.
2006516Salvador, Corrupio, 2006. First edition of the English and Spanish translation of Verger's original French and Portuguese book published in 1985. Wide in-8, 19 x 25 cm, 151 pp. Softcover. Green cover. Title in yellow and off-white. Illustrated with drawings by Carybé. Written in Spanish on the left pages and English on the right ones. Chapters: The Birth of Oraniyan; A Hunter becomes Orisha Oko; How Olokun Became Queen of the Waters; The Quarrel Between Oshala and Eshu; The War Between Oshala and Oduduwa; and many others.
20080420São Paulo, Embraer, 2008. In English. A wide 31 x 24 book with 311 pp. Hardcover, illustrated blue boards, title written in blue on the soft silver spine. Printed on couché paper. Contents listed at the beginning of the book, with a foreword of Maurício Novis Botelho, then chairman of the Board of Directors of Embraer. Lavishly illustrated throughout. Text written in two or three columns per page. This is THE reference book about Brazilian aircraft making. From Santos-Dumont's experiments in France and Brazil to Embraer's global successes in the 2000s, Aircraft Building describes it in painstaking detail while outlaying an engaging account.
19760185London, Dialogue Publications Ltd, 1976. in English. Rare 70s publication about the Amazon rainforest, few copies printed. "This is the tenth of a series of papers prepared by the Brazilian Embassy" after a few on the Brazilian development model, inflation control and economic growth, foreign policy, etc. A tall in-4 softcover booklet of 297 x 212 mm. 35 pp. Twelve chapters, many black-and-white pictures, colored maps of Brazil and the Amazon region. List of chapters: The World of the Amazon, the People of the Amazon, the Traditional Economy of Amazonia, the First seven years of the SUDAM project, the New Development Strategy of Polamazonia, the Free Zone of Manaus, the Amazonian Bank of BASA, Agriculture in Amazonia, New Roads in Amazonia, Modern Man in Amazonia, The Traveller in Amazonia and Science and the Amazon. "When the Brazilian Government launched 'Operation Amazonia' in 1966, it rekindled the country's concern for this vast region of forest and river. For most Brazilians, interest in Amazonia had faded since th collapse of the rubber boom and extravagant life that went with it in the early years of this century. But in the past ten years there has been a radical and continuing change in Amazonia's fortunes, the impact of which is already being felt. Today it is not only Brazilians who are interested in Amazonia. The Brazilian Embassy in London receives more requests for information about the region than about any other in the country. The booklet contains as much basic and up to date information on Amazonia as possible: it is intended to serve as a guide for those who are already acquainted with the region's resources and potentialities." This booklet is now almost impossible to find aside from a few higher learning libraries. Issued by a sovereign, developing country, while the rainforest was garnering interest yet had no political stakes as it does today.
20090271New Brunswick (NJ), Transaction Publishers, 2009. First edition. Octavo, 235 x 160 mm, (xiii) 265 pp. Hardcover with dust jacket. "The United States became a great power in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and a superpower during World War II without quite knowing it. Few Americans fully appreciate the fact today. How many people know that in recent years we have had 250,000 troops in 700 bases around the world? Consider our recent history of military operations in the Caribbean, East Asia, the Far East, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Africa, and the Balkans. In America Rising, David Felix attempts to explain how and why America became a superpower by examining the political and economic factors that have driven its ascendance and their relationship throughout history. Felix begins with the dawn of America, showing how America amassed wealth and political power from the start through wars, assertions of economic might, and the creation of a cultural and philosophical base. The nation began with a political order, derived from our British origins, which enabled our pragmatic culture to take advantage of the vast wealth of a near-virgin continent. Political and economic freedom were paired, authority yielding to both freedoms. Our farmers and businessmen were dreamers, manufacturing realities out of those dreams. Felix's account then makes a point of neoclassical economics as an anvil on which to hammer out a sharper sense of the content of our existence. This book, which demonstrates the author's zest for historical analysis and great story-telling ability, points to the central fact of a rising America--the intensely energizing interaction between polity and economy. The United States is the greatest power in world history, but the rise of another great power, China, is beginning to be increasingly apparent. One trusts that, drawing upon its deep resources, America will remember its history and traditions and continue as a superpower." (Front and back flap)
197255022Two 4to vol., paperback, U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 1972, pp. 56-9 to 56-27, 24 pp. ; pp. 56-1 to 56-9, p pp.
19470339New York, Henry Holt & co, 1947. One in-8 volume of 218 x 148 mm, 303 pp. First edition, mention of first printing. Green hardcover, no jacket, title written in gold on the spine with author's and editor's name above and below. Green vertical bands at the double title page. Table of contents at the beginning of the book. An interesting work on American entrepreneurs and the United Fruit company. Written before the smear campaign which tarnished the company's reputation, a true tale of human action and interactions amidst exotic places.
1975633661 vol. in-4 br., Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, Bulletin Supplement n° 35, 1975, 177 pp. and plates
19470273Rio de Janeiro, Charles Frank Publications, 1947. 3rd Edition. Wide in-4, 318 x 140 mm, 162 pp. Bilingual text written in two columns, English on the left and Portuguese on the right. No editor mentioned at the beginning, various women mentioned throughout the text and credited for all recipes and tips explained. Two star bands on the top and bottom of the front cover, title and collective authorship on the front. Detailed index (8 pp.!) at the beginning of the book. Many empty pages left as "Memorandum" to be filled with notes. This now rare book is full of interesting recipes and tips. It features typical Brazilian dishes such as broinhas, Bahia patties or cheese tartlets as well as English or even French dishes. Though no pictures are included, this should give a lot of inspiration when it's time to cook! Rio de Janeiro, Charles Frank Publications, 1947. 3ª edição. Un volume grande in-quarto, 318 x 140 mm, 162 pp. Texto bilíngue em duas colunas, inglês à esquerda e português à direita. Nenhum editor mencionado no início, diversas mulheres nomeadas ao longo do texto e creditadas por todas as receitas e dicas descritas. Duas faixas de estrelas na parte superior e inferior da capa, título e autoria coletiva na capa. Índice detalhado (8 páginas!) no início do livro. Muitas páginas vazias deixadas como “Memorandum” para serem preenchidas com anotações. Este livro raro está cheio de receitas e dicas interessantes. Apresenta pratos típicos brasileiros como broinhas, empanadas baianas ou tortinhas de queijo, além de pratos ingleses ou mesmo franceses. Embora nenhuma foto esteja incluída, isso deve dar muita inspiração na hora de cozinhar!
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)
19920199São Paulo, BM&F, 1992. Revised edition. In English. One hardcover volume, 285 x 225 mm, 254 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with flaps. Headbands. Printed on couché paper, well illustrated with black and white photographs and color prints of artworks, including a b&w photo of Victor Brecheret, Di Cavalcanti, Menotti del Picchia, Oswald de Andrade and Hélio Seelinger as frontispiece. Published as part of the celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the Modern Art Week of 1922. "This book has blazed new paths towards a comprehensive and fertile understanding. It was originally published in 1970 and now, after so many years, the abridged text of this edition still preserves a pioneering stamp that could only be achieved through sensitivity and a steadfast prospecting of sources. In the field of plastic arts, what would be the meaning of a cultural construction of Brazil? Would it imply highlighting certain subjects? The fundamental contribution of the modernists was precisely the fact that it posed the problem of national culture."
202001004United Kingdom, Scarlet Imprint, 2020. Limited to 51 copies of 278 x 192 mm, 261 pp. Half-bound in black goatskin, with yellow silk boards, black marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, finished with a silk ribbon and presented in a lined slip case, this copy being #50. "In Artaud and the Gnostic Drama, Jane Goodall offers a reappraisal of the importance of Antonin Artaud (18961948), mythologised as an icon of failure and madness, and examines the intricate parallels between his heretical dramaturgy and the heresies of ancient Gnosticism. The book situates Artaud, as the most extravagant of heretics, in company with the Gnostics whose speculations served to define heresy in the beginnings of the Christian tradition. Artaud subscribed to the Gnostic idea that the sensible world was created by a demiurge who was “imperfect, possibly evil and depraved.” His cosmology is inherently dramatic, setting creature against creator, force against form, matter against spirit, pious knowledge against heretical gnosis. Jane Goodall argues that major post-structuralist critics such as Derrida, Deleuze, and Foucault, who have enlisted Artaud in their own anti-orthodoxies, have refused to pay attention to the terms of his own heresy. In this refusal, they display an anxiety towards the gnostic drama and its heresies, which mount an assault that may be more powerful than their own upon the founding tenets of western thought." (Publisher's abstract) This work was first published by the Clarendon Press, Oxford in 1994. The text has been lightly revised for this second edition and is illustrated.
1836599461 vol. 8vo, contemporary binding, half leather, Published by A. and W. Galignani and Co., Paris, 1836, XVI-336 pp.
1933585971 vol. in-8 br., Atwater Tourist Agency, 1933, 258 pp. et 4 ff. avec planches couleurs et carte dépliante. Titre complet : Attractive Tours in Romantic North Africa with the Atwater Tourist Agency Algiers - Tunis - Casablanca 1933 - 1934 Les plus beaux circuits Nord-Africains par l'Agence de Voyages Atwater & Cie, Alger - Tunis - Casablanca
1996596061 vol. in-8 br., Published by British Museum Press for the Trustees of the British Museum, 1996, IX-98 pp. et 34 planches
18930063Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1893. In-quarto, 278 x 203 mm, 79 pp. Scarce first edition. Original publisher's red cloth with gilt stamped lettering to front board. Floral patterned paper eps 1st edition. Features an intriguing black stamp "Baldwin Locomotive Works / Unicos Azeites no Brazil / Rio de Janeiro" on the title page. Includes Baldwin's advertisement at the end of the book. Frontis, from a photograph, showing an interior factory view of the Baldwin Locomotive Works. Images, from photographs, of the 14 engines on exhibit. Woodcut of "Old Ironsides", 1832 locomotive built by Matthias Baldwin. 4to. 10-7/8" x 7-3/4" Baldwin exhibited 14 locomotives in the Exposition including an Express Passenger Locomotive, "American Pattern" [Class 8-34 C]; 3 Compound Express Passenger Locomotives, a "Double-Ender" Type, Wootten Fire-Box [Class 8 20/38 1/4 C, No. 694], an "American Type" [Class 8 20/38 C, No. 450] & a "Special High-Speed" Type [Class 8 20/38 1/4 C, No. 13,350]; a Passenger Locomotive, "American" Type [Class 830 C, No. 13,400] and other divers models such as a Logging Locomotive, "Double-Ender" Pattern [Class 8=22 1/4 C, No. 13,361].
19381275Retold by Pattie Price. With eighteen illustrations in three colors by Desmond Smith. New York E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1938. Petit in-8 (22,5 x 17 cm). 64 pp. : dos de toile chocolat, plats de papier vert illustrés, en continu, en blanc, marron et rouge, jaquette à l’identique, gardes illustrées.
19216137844 plats and 16 illustrations in the texte, 8vo paperback, Papers of the Peabody Museum of American Archaelogy and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Published by the Museum, 1921, VII-119 pp.
19810231London, Frederick Muller, 1981. First edition. Black cloth hardcover, 24 x 16 cm, 152 pp. No dust jacket (you can find one easily in the UK or USA if you wish so). With title, author's name and editor's name on spine. Signed by author on free end paper. Illustrated with numerous black and white pictures. This is a series of orchestra conductor's profiles sorted by alphabetical order. An interesting, perhaps even encyclopedical reading for the connoisseurs of classical music. Cloth shows some defect at the bottom of the spine and front cover, some foxing on the first pages, otherwise a good copy. Other pages are clean and the binding is sturdy.
197627923In english, with the arabic text 1 vol. in-8 br., Heidelberg, 1976, 94 pp.
1971500651 vol. 12mo. softcover, International House of Japan Library, 1971, 151 pp.
1899577673rd english edition improved, 1 vol. grand in-12 pleine percaline rouge éditeur, Féret & Fils, Bordeaux, Libraires Associés, Paris, 1899, 830 pp. avec 9 cartes dépliantes en couleurs
19850431New York, Alfred Kren Gallery, 1985. Seule et unique édition. En anglais. Grande brochure de 25,5 x 18 cm non paginée. Catalogue d'une exposition tenue à la galerie Alfred Kren de New York et consacrée aux ex-votos du nordeste brésilien, c'est-à-dire à des oeuvres fabriquées pour être données à un saint, à la Vierge, etc. en remerciement d'une prière ou d'un vœu réalisé. En noir et blanc, contient des photos de 54 ex votos ainsi que d'autres photographies. Textes de Fatima Bercht, photos de Glenn Steigelman et Giovanna et Francesco Del Brenna. Enrichi d'une ligne en portugais signée du galeriste Alfred Kren, qui consulte un libraire brésilien sur la viabilité d'une vente de plusieurs exemplaire de cette brochure au Brésil. Si Kren manifeste des doutes, en craignant que le prix au détail aux États-Unis devienne "une quantité exorbitante de cruzeiros brésiliens" après exportation, il apprécie suffisamment l'idée pour envoyer le présent exemplaire en cadeau au destinataire de la lettre. ****************** New York, Alfred Kren Gallery, 1985. One and only edition. In English. Large brochure of 25.5 x 18 cm. Unpaginated. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Alfred Kren Gallery in New York about the ex-votos of the Brazilian Northeast, e.g. sculptures made to be given to a saint, to the Virgin, etc. in gratitude for a prayer or a wish granted. In black and white, contains photos of 54 ex-votos as well as other photographs. Texts by Fatima Bercht, photos by Glenn Steigelman and Giovanna and Francesco Del Brenna. Enriched with a letter in Portuguese signed by the gallery owner Alfred Kren, who asks a Brazilian bookseller about the viability of a sale of several copies of this brochure in Brazil. While Kren expresses doubts, fearing that the retail price in the United States will turn into "an exorbitant amount of Brazilian cruzeiros" once the booklets get exported, he likes the idea enough to send this copy as a gift to the recipient of the letter.
19630296Rio de Janeiro, Gráfica Olímpia Editora, 1963. First and only English edition. Translated from the Portuguese by Anita Farquhar. Softcover. Octavo, 238 x 168 mm, 379 pp. Off-white cover and spine with author's name and book title. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white illustrations. Bibliography and index at the end. As the title shows, this book endeavors to show what Brazil did in matters of "tropical medicine". Here are a few chapter titles amongst the XV chapters: - Adolfo Lutz and the Bacteriological Institute of São Paulo - Vital Brazil and the Butantan Institute - Short History of Yellow Fever in Brazil - The tropical Medical Department at the Medical School of the University of Brazil - The National Institute of Rural Endemic Diseases
