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1972043677Toronto: Anansi 1972 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Can Edition. "The most startling book ever written about Canadian literature.It is simultaneously a book of criticism a manifesto and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: "What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction" Her answer is "survival and victims." Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant witty and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives.287p. Crisp copy looks unread. Anansi hardcover
1988000584Oxford 1988. Book. Hardcover. Volume lll Volume lV and Vl of this Six volume set which was originally printed 1923 except Minor Works and has facsimile text of contemporary printings. The Minor Works volume includes "Juvenilia" "Lady Susan" fragments of novels "The Watsons" and "Sanditon" also at the end some Austen opinions. Each volume has early prefaces and then notes at the end such as "manners" of the period or descriptions of coaches or a play from the era. NEAR FINE COPY except Mansfield Park DJ has a wrinkle and small tear at top of cover o/w near fine. Oxford Hardcover
196927541New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1969. Hardcover. 8vo. Lavender cloth dust jacket. xv 283pp. Very good/very good. Mild jacket edgewear. First edition tight and quite nice -- and an interesting copy bearing the ownership signature/address on the front flyleaf in blue ballpoint of noted Chicago photographer ARCHIE LIEBERMAN 1926-2008 of "Farm Boy" fame. Farrar, Straus and Giroux hardcover
1900biblio283<p>13 x 19 cm. 388 pp.</p> Lampel R. (Wodianer F. es Flai) hardcover
2006004161Salzburg: Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg 2006. Paperback. Very Good . Large 8vo. 118 pp. Bound in illustrated stiff card wrappers. Full-color illustrations throughout. Includes biography list of exhibitions and bibliography. Very Good with light wear and rubbing to extremities of wrappers internally clean and sound. <br/><br/> Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst Salzburg paperback
2008007353Taschen. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Taschen 2008. 8vo. 351pp. lavishly illustrated with full-color photos. Fine in near fine dust jacket. . Fine. Hard. 2008. Taschen unknown
1973002947Cape Town: A. A. Balkema 1973. Hardcover. Very Good /fair. 8vo. xvi 304 pp. Bound in half brown leatherette over brick red boards in pink dust jacket printed in black. Edited and with an introduction by Dr. A. M. Lewin Robinson. Black and white frontispiece portrait of Barnard and black and white illustrations throughout. Includes index. Very Good minor wear and rubbing to extremities of binding some age-toning to pages particularly endpapers in Fair age-toned dust jacket with some water stains to spine chipping and wear to extremities and overall soiling and rubbing. <br/><br/> A. A. Balkema hardcover
2008003382New York: Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College 2008. Paperback. Very Good . 4to. 124 4 pp. Perfect-bound in illustrated wrapper. Illustrated with full-color frontispiece and plates throughout black and white map. Includes a bibliography and checklist. Catalog from an exhibition held at Hunter College from February 7-April 26 2008. Very Good with scuffing and rubbing to wrappers internally bright and clean. <br/><br/> Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College paperback
2019003840Atlanta: High Museum of Art 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. 4to. 152 pp. Bound in blue boards title stamped in white on cover and spine in illustrated 3/4 height dust jacket. Profusely illustrated in full color. Includes checklist of the exhibition. Catalogue for the exhibition held at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta from September 14 2019 - February 2 2020 and at the Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio from February 28 - May 24 2020. Near Fine bump to head of spine otherwise bright clean copy in Fine 3/4 height dust jacket. <br/><br/> High Museum of Art hardcover
175817Paris: B. Brunet 1758. Abridged ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 16mo 374 i pages contemporary full sprinkled calf extra-gilt spine; ex libris Eardley. <br/><br/>De Fontenelle was an honored member of the French Academy. This volume contains 38 of his 69 "eloges" including one on Isaac Newton and also Boerhaave Fay Bianchini B. Brunet hardcover
1998biblio372<p>Collected essays on writing</p> Little, Brown & Company hardcover
196040138New York: The Dial Press 1960. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Black cloth spine with white lettering and striped paper over boards dust jacket. 188pp. Near fine/very good. Mild jacket edgewear and bit of rubbing. A tight and nice first edition of the third novel by this American writer 1922-93 whose style critics often placed somewhere between Hemingway and Camus. Laid in is an unlined index card bearing pencilled notes about this title by academic and literary critic Joseph J. Waldmeir 1923-2013 -- presumably jottings for one of his many published book reviews. The Dial Press hardcover
20080008741Paris: Sotheby's 2008. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 4to 113 pages glossy pictorial wrappers a few dog-eared page corners otherwise fresh <br/><br/>38 losts excellently photographed in full color. The essays by Brown and Johnson appear in French and English. Marie Mauze's essay "On the Border of the Supernatural World" is in English. Sotheby's paperback
198310582Tarrytown NY: Sleepy Hollow Press 1983. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. 11.3x8.8x1.0in. The book is arranged in three sections. The first section describes the collections at Phillipsburg Manor Upper Mills & Van Cortlandt Manor divided into five chapters: Paintings Drawings & Prints with 29 illustrations; Furniture Woodenware & Ivory with 88 illustrations; Ceramics & Glass with 77 illustrations; Metals with 82 illustrations; and Textiles with 22 illustrations. The second section shows room views: Philipsburg Manor Upper Mills with 6 color plates Van Cortlandt Manor with 14 color plates and Washington Irving's Sunnyside with 10 color plates. The third section describes the collection at Washington Irving's Sunnyside divided into five chapters: Paintings Drawings & Prints with 36 illustrations; Furniture Woodenware & Ivory with 32 illustrations; Ceramics & Glass with 21 illustrations; Metals with 29 illustrations; and Textiles with 9 illustrations. Each object is described with measurements and includes provenance references and where applicable exhibitions. In total there are 425 black and white plates and 30 color plates. <br>310pp 3.26lb 11.3x8.8x1.0in Sleepy Hollow Press hardcover
1998WA6807Art Gallery of New South Wales 1998. First edition. Paperback. Fine. 4to 186 pages pictorial wrappers <br/><br/>An exhibitrion catalogue opf 82 works for this show which only appeared in NSW. Color plates with text. Art Gallery of New South Wales paperback
199816920-1<p>Seattle: Portland Press 1998. S<i><b>igned on the front cover of the dust jacket by Dale Chihuly</b></i>. First edition / First printing. Pictorial laminated boards. Very fine in about fine dust jacket with slight rippling usually found with this vellum jacket and tiny tears to the edges of the jacket.</p> Portland Press, hardcover
2007239New York: Little Brown and Company 2007. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Tan hardcover in dustjacket. Signed and inscribed by the author on the title page "For Terry There is a scent a line of tracks. Follow them. Craig." And then signed in full again above his name on the title page. Upper corners bumped and a bit of bending at the spine ends. Large previous owner's gift inscription on the front free endpaper otherwise a clean unmarked copy. Unclipped jacket with matching edgewear and corner bumps still bright and attractive. 322 pp. some black and white illustrations. A great collection of essays on encounter native animals in the North American wilderness. Little, Brown and Company hardcover
1959000485Rutgers University 1959. Book. Hardcover. Sixth book of poems by Ciardi SIGNED by author on front endpaper VERY GOOD COPY owner bookplate on front pastedown. Rutgers University Hardcover
1988000429Cambridge University Press 1988. Book. Hardcover. Pioneering study of the Ethiopian Revolution of 1974 with emphasis on the institutionalization of the revolutionary regime from 1978 onward. Sunning to DJ spine and a few pages of underlining in first chapter only owner signature of front endpaper o/w VERY GOOD COPY FIRST PRINTING. Cambridge University Press Hardcover
1917DEMO009101IBoston: Houghton Mifflin 1917. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. engravings. 8vos 3/4 brown morocco scuffed at head of spine. <br/><br/>BAL 6074. Bound by The Atelier Bindery for Charles Scribners. Biography of noted historian and philosopher and Harvard professor John Fiske. He also helped to popularize Darwin's ideas. Illustrated with engravings. Houghton Mifflin hardcover
193416868Paris 1934. paperback. very good. Baudelot. Epitres d'un Imprimeur Bibliolatre & les Regles qui Conditionnent le Beau Livre Typographique; Choix de Poesies du General L.N.M. Carnot; Lettres de La Fontaine a sa Femme. Illustrated. Loose as issued in printed wrappers uncut and unopened. Paris 1934-37. Very good.<br/> <br/> unknown
19461750N.Y.: Macmillan. 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on endpaper. 8vo; red cloth in dust jacket. Moderate soil to jacket; fading at spine; minor wear at jacket edges. Reprinted from English plates with misspelling of American names. Fine condition in Very Good dj in Mylar Wrap First U. S. Edition Third printing.; Signed by Authors . Macmillan hardcover
196647532Stanford CA: Black Mack the Handpress 1966. First edition . Wrappers. Fine. Printed 31 July 1966. Gordon an astronaught to the moon recited a prayer while in the presence of the Vice President Ambassadors Ministers the Chief Justice members of the Cabinet of the President and a joint session of Congress. The first of the "Great Psose of Our Time" series. Eight pages. Printed at The Pigtail Press Murphys CA. A fine and bright copy. <br/> <br/> Black Mack, the Handpress unknown
19256277N.Y.: George H. Doran. Good. 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. 190 pp.; 8vo; blue cloth lettered in gilt. Cloth with moderate soil & wear light blotching to cover. The author's posthumous 'confession' regarding ideal love and its denial as a result of her unrequited love for the artist Arthur Severn. . George H. Doran hardcover
2002009365Berkeley: University of California Press. First edition. Trade softcover. Published Berkeley: University of California Press 2002 first printing. Small 4to. wrappers with French flaps 8" x 10" 285pp. illustrated with over 100 images in b/w and color taken from original negatives. "Louise shot about one hundred thousand negatives that distilled the glamour drama and excitement of MGM's feature productions. Louise's original photographs were circulated to millions of moviegoers magazine and newspaper readers and fans. The movies and publicity machine that these photographs supported shaped the basic notions of stardom glamour and fashion in the 1920s and still affect our ideas today." A fine copy. . Fine. Soft cover. 1st. 2002. University of California Press paperback