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2013198322London: Verso 2013. Paperback. vii 216p. softbound a clean sound very good copy. Verso paperback books
19919001304New York: Harry N Abrams Inc 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First Edition. With 105 illustrations including 52 plates in full color. Fine condition in fine dust jacket. <br/><br/> Harry N Abrams Inc hardcover books
171206Unidentified: Claude-Michel Grosjean Unidentifed. Hardcover. VG-/VG- ex-museum library copy with stamps and markings. moderate wear and light discoloration to dust jacket. Beige cloth boards with orange stamped lettering. BW-photographic dust jacket with orange and black lettering. 114 pp. Color illustrations. Claude-Michel Grosjean hardcover books
1957144103France: Regina 1957. Collection of 6 original still photographs for the 1957 French-Italian film here under the original French title. Actress Feuillere is prominently featured in glamour poses and answering the phone. All with ditto-style mimeo snipes on the verso crediting the original title Feuillere Servais Blier and Allegret. Also included is a business card for starring actor Lefebvre here as Lefevre with an inscription in French and initials by him in holograph ink. Housed in a manila envelope with French film title and a credit for director Allegret in holograph ink. <br/><br/>Based on the 1956 novel "Sans Attendre Godot" by Jean Amila Meckert who wrote mostly science-fiction and mystery novels. Noirish crime thriller about night-club owner Godot Servais who hires hitman Jo Delon to rub out an enemy convinced of his wife Angele's Feuillere adultery. Angele might be the femme fatale as she moves in on the hitman. <br/><br/>5 x 7 inches envelope twice as large and business card a third smaller. Near Fine overall with slight curl to the photographs light foxing to the business card. <br/><br/>Selby Worldwide. Regina unknown books
1994012508Boston: Little Brown 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. An apparently unused copy fine in near fine dustjacket. Remainder strip bottom edge. Little Brown hardcover books
2015170025Philadelphia PA: The Barnes Foundation 2015. Hardcover. As New in slipcase. Three volumes in Blue Orange and Green cloth all contained in a yellow cloth slipcase with printed imagery. Profusely illustrated. Contents as follows: Volume 1 : Foreword -- Matisse in the laboratory of Dr. Barnes : how and why Barnes collected Matisse / Claudine Grammont -- Ensembles -- Matisse's awakening / Yve-Alain Bois -- Henri Matisse according to Dr. Barnes / Karen K. Butler ; Volume 2 : Catalogue nos. 1-5 -- Le Bonheur de vivre : 'the work of a superb colorist' / Barbara A. Buckley and Jennifer Mass -- Catalogue nos. 6-49 ; Volume 3 : Catalogue nos. 50-51 -- The dance process -- Catalogue nos. 52-59 -- Notes -- Correspondence around the dance. Publisher states "Despite the reknown of the Matisse holdings at the Barnes Foundation these works have long remained uncatalogued and elusive to many given the Foundation's restrictions on loans and color photography. Generations of scholars have lamented the black-and-white slides of Le Bonheur de vivre that anticlimactically accompanied lectures on the riot of Fauvre color. Matisse in the Barnes Foundation . grew out research on the collection initiated in the 1990s . . Goals for the Matisse project included gathering comprehensive information on the works from external sources the tremendously rich and recently catalogued Barnes Foundation Archives and the insights of curators and conservators and creating for each work an internally consistent record in the Foundation's database part of which could eventually migrate to the Foundation's website"--Foreword pages 21-22. A landmark compendium - the first authoritative publication to cover in its entirety one of the most significant holdings of Matisse in the world. Here is a vibrant celebration - slipcased and beautifully produced - of the Barnes' extraordinary Matisse collection. Composed of fifty-nine works from every stage of the artist's career it is among the most important in the world. At its heart are Matisse's most historically significant paintings Le Bonheur de vivre also called The Joy of Life and The Dance the monumental mural that Albert C Barnes commissioned to fill the lunettes of the Foundation's main gallery transforming both the space and the artist's career. An essay by Yve-Alain Bois addresses the evolution of The Dance and its role in Matisse's career; Karen Butler looks at what Barnes thought of Matisse; and Claudine Grammont's considers how and why he collected his work. The artworks themselves sumptuously reproduced are the subjects of interpretive analyses that tell the stories of their acquisition and address their critical reception. The book includes major contributions by Barbara Buckley and Jennifer Mass on the artists technique and a report on the latest findings on the pigments used in Le Bonheur de vivre. The Barnes Foundation hardcover books
198847421988. Softcover. VG. Red wraps. appx. 40 pp. 12 large color plates. Lengthy essay with notes written by Yve-Alain Bois. 12 works illustrated. Very crisp plates. Printed for exhibition at Pace Gallery NY: Apr. 8 to May 7 1988. unknown books
1991179637New York: Macmillan 1991. Hardcover. VG/VG. some wear on DJ. Hard cover dk green cloth. Pictorial DJ 160 pp : illustrations some color. "First published in Great Britain in 1991 by Little Brown and Company UK Limited . London"--Title page verso./ Includes index. Macmillan hardcover books
2007198014New York: The Body Pro 2007. Magazine. 32p. includes covers 8.5x11 inches overview introduction references tables mailing label and remains of tape at edges for maing otherwise very goodmagazine format in stapled pictorial wraps. The Body Pro unknown books
1981144589N.p.: N.p. 1981. Vintage photograph of William Burroughs and John Giorno at the Fifth International Convention of The Freudian Movement at The Plaza Hotel New York 1981. With a typed description on the verso.<br/><br/>Giorno was an American poet and performance artist best known for his early multimedia poetry experiments and events including "Dial-A-Poem." He was also the subject of Andy Warhol's 5-1/2 hour 1963 film "Sleep."<br/><br/>12 x 8 inches Near Fine. N.p. unknown books
1974133135Bloomington: N.p. 1974. First Edition. Archive of research materials used by William F. Van Wert in preparing his dissertation "The Theory and Practice of the Cine-Roman" Arno Press 1978. Included are responses to a questionnaire and an album of film stills. <br/><br/>Focusing on the filmmakers of the Rive Gauche movement which slightly preceded the French New Wave and ran parallel through the 1960s Van Wert wanted to explore the literary influence on the works of the movement's principle filmmakers an aspect he felt separated them from their "Cahiers" counterparts. He sent the directors a twenty-question survey to which he received four amicable responses from Alain Robbe-Grillet Henri Colpi and Jean Cayrol. <br/><br/>Alain Robbe-Grillet provides a generous response directly on the questionnaire with his comments in blue and red holograph ink throughout. He describes his reactions to contemporary filmmakers how Godard's works were influential but the work of Truffaut and Chabrol were absolutely not and numerically ranking the importance of each aspect of filmmaking such as the editing soundtrack and directing actors and signs his form "bien cordialement / Robbe-Grillet" at the top right corner of the first leaf. <br/><br/>Jean Cayrol responds with a two-leaf typed letter signed. Cayrol who collaborated with Alain Rensais on "Night and Fog" 1955 and "Muriel" 1963 invites Van Wert to tape a conversation in Paris because of an expressed difficulty in easily articulating his ideas in writing. <br/><br/>Henri Colpi responds with a four leaf six page autograph letter signed on his printed stationery some leaves recto and verso some recto only. Colpi was the director of the 1961 Palme d'Or winning "Une aussi longue absence" and writes the most thorough response addressing each of Van Wert's questions in detail. <br/><br/>Included are 142 original 4 x 6 inch vernacular photographs taken during screenings held by Van Wert using prints obtained from Grove New Yorker Films and others. The photos were ostensibly used as visual references by Van Wert while researching the films referenced in his book. Included are photographs from three films: "L'Immortelle" Robbe-Grillet 1963 "L'Opera mouffe" Agnes Varda 1958 and "Night and Fog" Resnais 1955. Photographs Fine housed in the photo binder used by Van Wert binder Very Good plus with minor chipping and light soiling. <br/><br/>Letters 8.5 x 11 inches to 8.5 x 11.5 inches. Very Good overall housed in a supplied binder. <br/><br/>Also included as reference are Van Wert's books "The Theory and Practice of the Cine-Roman" First Edition Near Fine with minor rubbing and a later printing of "The Film Career of Alain Robbe-Grillet" Very Good in wrappers. <br/><br/>Criterion Collection 238. Redemption Films 39. Vogel US. N.p. unknown books
1992289461992. Wijffels Alain. Late Sixteenth-Century Lists of Law Books at Merton College. Cambridge: LP Publications 1992. xxvi 122 1 pp. Paperback. Fine. $45. unknown books
193714381Pasadena CA: Abbey San Encino Press 1937. Hardcover. Very good. First volume of the second edition. pp xvi 407 23 index with many illustrations both color and b/w and folding map. Blue buckram boards are rubbed at the edges. Binding is sound text clean. Bookplate on front free endpaper errata slip tipped in at front blank. Due to size shipping charges will be more than standard for priority or international orders. Abbey San Encino Press hardcover books
1935C1031Alain Campbell White letters to Frederick Gamage cover the years from April 4 1935 to September 15 1944. For this ten year period there are 364 dated letters and 28 incomplete letters lacking front date page. The letters are an ongoing correspondence between White and Gamage which covers all aspects of problem chess. The letters show a development of mentor White encouraging ad occasionally prodding his protégé Gamage in developing skills in problem construction. As the letters progress over this ten year period the reader can observe the relationship develop between the two men from a formal intercourse to a more comradely banter. White offered suggestions comments and themes for problems. White's vast and profound technical knowledge his artistic appreciation his ability in expressing himself and his enthusiastic and friendly encouragement were the great inspiration of many problems Gamage constructed and he was lucky enough to be among his host of correspondents. Some of the letters were multiple pages hand typed but often hand written some unsigned or just initialed usually with the location White was residing and the date written. Included with the letters are the limited edition work by Alain White on Gamage Frederick Gamage: An Artist in Chess Problems and Mike Prcic's book Frederick Gamage. The letters in the latter work have been reproduced from the original letters offered now.<br /><br />Newman Guttman was one of a few problemists to visit Frederick Gamage. After the passing of Gamage the letters from Alain White along with Gamage's other chess papers were given to Guttman. He in turn gave these papers to Edgar Holladay. Holladay came into the possession of what problemists would consider as "treasures" one-of-a-kind items from famous and well-known problemists. Robert Moore and Holladay were good friends and these were passed to him by Holladay's wife Rita.<br /><br />Serious buyers may inquire about more information regarding this collection.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />The letters have folds for postage some occasional stains and occasional edge wear else a very good collection. They are housed in individual archival holders held in a multiple three ring binders. Self Written books
19070000562 volumes: 510 pages with diagrams; lx231 pages with diagrams and index. Duodecimo 6 1/2" x 5" bound in original publisher's red cloth with black and gilt lettering and decoration to cover and gilt lettering to spine. A C White's Christmas series Betts: 40-7 Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana: 2589 First edition.<br /><br />Volume one contains a collection of 1001 self-mates by various composers mainly in 2 3 and 4 moves but also including some with longer solutions up to 8 moves. Volume two contains the introduction to the collection in French English and German solutions in French given fully "A list of self-mate problem tourney and index to prize winner's in volume one in French.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Recased with new spine and original front covers laid on last page volume with some repair lightly soiled else about very good issued without jackets. Numa Preti hardcover books
1942C12662 volumes. 4138 pages with frontispiece diagrams and index; 4163 pages with frontispiece diagrams and index. Duodecimo 6 3/4" x 4 3/4" bound in original publisher's beige cloth with brown lettering to spine in original onion skin wrappers with original slipcase. Overbrook Chess Series number 2. Betts: 32-32 First edition limited to 250 copies.<br /><br />The two volumes contain 166 problems mainly direct mates in 2 or 3 by 84 American composers accompanied by short accounts of their lives and their work in problem composition the text forming a continuous historical narrative of problem composition in the United States since 1845. Volume two includes an epilogue by Vincent L Eaton: A sketch of the life and activities of Alain White with 12 of his compositions. Solutions at the end of each volume. A wonderful summary of early American composition with special note of the wonderful compositions of Sam Loyd and W. Shinkman both geniuses in chess problems along with a survey of the contributions of Orestes Brownson and his iconoclastic and scarce chess magazine.<br /><br />Condition:<br /><br />A fine set in a slightly rubbed slipcase. Overbrook Press hardcover books
1913C0672123 pages with diagrams and indexes. Duodecimo 6 1/4" x 5" bound in original publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. A C White's Christmas series with Christmas greetings tipped in. Betts: 35-3 First edition.<br /><br />100 examples of blocks by various composers classified in 4 main sections: Block sub-divided by king key queen key <i>etc</i>. Changed-mate blocks sub-divided by type of key. Added-mate blocks sub-divided by type of key. Block-threats sub-divided by type of key. There is a 10 page introduction by White solutions and an index of composers.<br /><br /><b>Condition:</b><br /><br />Old book seller's tag to front inner hinge paste down spine ends bumped else a very good copy. Chess Amateur hardcover books
40965Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Compiled for the Litchfield Historical Society by Alain C. White. Litchfield: Enquirer Print 1920 1st Edition. 9 1/4" x 6" maroon cloth 361 pages; lacks front free endpage; back enpage has genealogical notes written in pen and mainly pencil; a solid and clean copy of a heavy book. . Other hardcover books
1920TB31840Litchfield Conn.: Enuirer Print 1920. First Edition. Very good in dark red cloth covered boards with gilt text on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches with light wear and rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine and to the tips of the boards. Without a dust jacket. 360 pages of text including an appendix. Laid-in at the rear of the book is a staple bound 24 page index and errata compiled by Arthur E. Bostwick for this book. White's book is illustrated with a two page map at the front of the book and numerous plates from black and white photographs. Enuirer Print hardcover books
193713621Pasadena CA: n.p. 1937. Second edition. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jackets. Pasadena CA: n.p. 1937. 3 vols. Second edition. Several full color and numerous b/w photographs and one fold-out map at rear of volume one. 1184 pp. Hardcover. Small 4to. Coarse woven blue cloth. Gilt lettering to spine. Light general wear to covers; head of volume one repaired; former ownerÕs bookplates to front paste-downs. Interiors clean and bright; quite sound. Strong shelf presence. Very good/No dust jackets. Multiple volumes - extra shipping charges apply n.p. hardcover books
306430Pasadena California 1933. First edition so stated. 4to. One page foreword by James West. 12 page introduction. Tipped-in color frontispiece; over 250 b/w illustrations; folding map by William E. Rudolph. Bibliographical references. Dust jacket unclipped; several short tears few small chips; rubbing. Very good. 206 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Printed at the Abbey San Encino Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pasadena, California [1933]. hardcover books
1999170540Hanover: Sprengel Museum 1999. First edition. Hardcover. 52 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran September 26 1999 through January 2 2000. Text in English French and German with an essay by Alain Cueff. Includes 16 black and white illustrations. A very near fine copy and with a very near fine wraparound band. No dust jacket as issued. A nicely printed catalog. Sprengel Museum unknown books
200050407Paris: Bibliotheque de L'image 2000. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Paris: Bibliotheque de L'image 2000. Copious full color illustrations. 189 pp. Text in English French & German. Hardcover. Large 8vo. Dark gray cloth backed paper covered boards. No indication of having been read; very good in like dust wrapper. Very good/Very good. Bibliotheque de L'image hardcover books
1984237188Boston: Hall 1984. hardcover. near fine/very good. Profusely illustrated in both color and black & white. 422pp. tall thick 8vo yellow cloth d.w. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co. 1984. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.<br/><br/> Hall unknown books
19859016668Boston: G.K. Hall 1985. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth cover and spine stamped in red. Profusely illustrated throughout in black & white and color. <br/><br/> G.K. Hall hardcover books
