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1986ABE-1488994777030Victoria & Albert Museum 1986 The Toshiba Company sponsored the production of this wonderful catalogue of the Victoria & Albert Museum's stunning collection of Japanese Art. Great portrait of the wonderful Japanese art that has been accumulated in this museum over the years. HARD to find in this fine condition. Large format lavish illustrations authoratative expert texts. Language: eng. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New. Victoria & Albert Museum paperback
2016ABE-1493309199371Gollancz London 2016 SUPERB - SIGNED IN RED INK & DATED 6/6/16 on the title page without dedication. First printing of the hardback first edition with exclusive lyric sheet enclosed and the Fireman bookmark. What is so impressive is the book itself a masterpiece from this writer. This is a first rate collectable. Protected perfect jacket unclipped of course. As one reviewer Joanne Harris wrote; 'A LORD OF THE FLIES FOR THE TWITTER GENERATION.' Language: eng. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Gollancz London hardcover
2012ABE-1492759302517IDW Publishing 2012 FIRST PRINTING of the FIRST EDITION. This is Volume FIVE in the stunning series from IDW. A great collection of John Prentice's brilliant work faithfully following Alex Raymond's style. This is the graphic novel at its best. Unread new carefully stored in a dedicated book room. This is a prime collectable copy of this great example of American graphic excellence. Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. IDW Publishing hardcover
1956ABE-12464103437Eyre & Spottiswoode London 1956 First printing of this celebrated study of Twentieth Century masters such as Stanley Spencer Lowry Nash Gertler Nevinson Henry Moore. Superb essays beautifully printed. Jacket is unclipped and protected. Minor chip pings which affect nothing live. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Eyre & Spottiswoode London hardcover
1984ABE-15391254486British Museum London 1984 Fine copy of this first edition in colour and mono. Sublime work from Fra Angelico to Henry Moore. Two hundred drawings illustrated with eighty eight of them in colour. Clean and tight looks unread. First printing of the large format softcover no owner marks not ex library. A great collectable. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Illus. by Profusely Illustrated. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. British Museum London paperback
1984ABE-15391254481British Museum London 1984 Fine copy of this first edition in colour and mono. Sublime work from Fra Angelico to Henry Moore. Two hundred drawings illustrated with eighty eight of them in colour. Clean and tight looks unread. First printing of the large format softcover no owner marks not ex library. A great collectable. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Illus. by Profusely Illustrated. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. British Museum London paperback
1995ABE-19266353350BBC Books 1995 A superb look at the Royal Opera House. This is a first printing of the hardback first edition and it looks unread. Jacket is unclipped and Fine. Large format many photographs. Language: eng Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. BBC Books hardcover
2010ABE-1538388208044Cambridge University Press 2010 A vigorous and fascinating collection from this wonderful series. Clean and tight first edition looks unread. An essential book for Stoppardists!. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Cambridge University Press paperback
1998ABE-14983889427V & A Publications 1998 Anyone interested in this supreme art form will want this enchanting and yet scholarly book. Stunning work beautifully shown and with an affectionate text that is not the usual dry recitation of familiar facts. Clean and tight possibly unread this is a perfect first printing. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. V & A Publications paperback
2003ABE-15556528266Drawn & Quarterly Canada 2003 Large format graphic novel. New and unread first printing of the first edition. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New. Drawn & Quarterly Canada paperback
2006ABE-7993431123Yale USA 2006 Looks to be an unread copy of this wonderful book. Typical of Yale it has useful bibliography and index. This is a volume in the Henry McBride series on Modernism and Modernity. Near as new protected perfect jacket. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Yale USA hardcover
2007ABE-14596471288Phaidon Press 2007 Wonderful book in an excellent first edition hardback copy. Protected jacket is unclipped. One tiny mark on the fore-edge of the text block and no names or inscriptions or anything whatever to denote hard usage. If it has been read it was carefully done. A stunning collectable with an engaging and worthwhile text and 300 photographs in mono and colour. Essential to anyone interested in the history of photography. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Phaidon Press hardcover
19212082702114600812Hoshino shoten 1921. Soft Cover. Fine. Number of books: 1 Hoshino shoten paperback
191505601THE STRANDING OF THE WHITE ROSE Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ca. 1915 first edition rear hinge starting else a vg copy in pictorial cloth. A story of adventure and hunting for gold treasure in Australia. Most uncommon to be sure. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge 1915 hardcover
2023ABE-1713944457165Bodleian Library 2023 First printing of the UK hardback first edition. A celebration of this great wood engraver. This Bodleian Library production is exemplary and this copy is new and unread. Please note this was issued without a jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New. Bodleian Library hardcover
2021ABE-1621548751600V&A 2021 V&A catalogue FIRST PRINTING OF THE FIRST EDITION HARDBACK. This is already being reprinted. Illus. by Williams Kristjana S. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New. V&A hardcover
1940ABE-1488970974492Nonesuch Press Random House 1940 This attractive compendium has black and white illustrations by John Tenniel. Red buckram boards securely bound. Slight foxing on some pages and a contemporary and neat name is on the FEP. An even neater blind embossed seal is on the half title. A great and collectable series the Nonesuch Complete volumes are highly collectable. This copy has no jacket but it is fitted with a clear wraparound which has obviously kept the book in great condition. Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Nonesuch Press Random House hardcover
1998ABE-1643449235501Grolier Club 1998 This highly sought after Grolier Club First Edition has been reprinted but this is the FIRST edition from 1998. It has a slight crease on the stiff card wrap but otherwise it is Near Fine. I was lucky to see this brilliant exhibition and it is typical of the Grolier Club to produce so thorough a work. Written before the absurd puritans attacked this gentle mathematician it has a proper respect for the man who gave the world such enchantment. Clean and tight without inscriptions or marginal notes this is collectable. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. Grolier Club paperback
1995ABE-1710003113176Jonathan Cape 1995 Superb first edition hardback. Made into a film serialised on the radio and I defy you not to have a weep at the end. A tale that is true and a tale well told. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Jonathan Cape hardcover
2010ABE-4544010124392107293Faber & Faber 2010 Louis MacNeice is increasingly recognised as one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century and his work has been a defining influence upon a generation of Irish poets that includes Derek Mahon Michael Longley and Paul Muldoon. The Selected Letters is indispensable as a resource for an understanding of the intellectual culture of the mid-twentieth century. A Classics don poet playwright and globetrotting BBC producer the medley and blend of MacNeice s cultural influences seems exemplary in its modernity. He kept up a significant correspondence with E. R. Dodds Anthony Blunt and T. S. Eliot to name but three prominent figures of the time. During his time at the BBC MacNeice witnessed many key events including the partition of India in 1947 and the independence of the Gold Coast from Britain in 1957 and these are recorded in two long sequences to his wife the singer Hedli Anderson. NEW FIRST PRINTING OF THE FIRST EDITION HARDBACK. UNREAD PERFECT COLLECTABLE Protected perfect dustjacket. Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Faber & Faber hardcover
1994ABE-12470186693Abrams New York 1994 A gorgeous book assembled with care and offering relief from the overblown artspeak of most 20th Century art commentators. Here is a retort to those who say modern art is absurd; yes much of it is especially in Britain where superstar celebs get fame and money for stunts. This book reveals art based on aesthetics and abilities. Most refreshing. UNREAD first edition hardback in as new condition with a perfect jacket. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Abrams New York hardcover
2010ABE-15019592016University of California Press 2010 "When editors at the University of California Press pondered the possible demand for Autobiography of Mark Twain a four-pound 500000-word doorstopper of a memoir they kept their expectations modest with a planned print run of 7500 copies. Now it is a smash hit across the country landing on best-seller lists and going back to press six times for a total print run so far of 275000. The publisher cannot print copies quickly enough leaving some bookstores and online retailers stranded without copies just as the holiday shopping season begins ." Julius Bosman New York Times November 19 2010 Well here is an AS NEW UNREAD copy of that hard to find FIRST PRINTING! Protected perfect as new jacket too. Very hefty volume will need extra postage depending on destination. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. New/New. University of California Press hardcover
195827889<p>Hastings House NY 1958 HBDJ NF/VG 1958 First Edition First Printing NOT a Weekly Reader. NOT EX-LIBRARY .Interior NOICE TIGHT CELAN LIGHT WEAR FOX Tiny Chip Spine DJ Ends 126 pgs Bibliography FADE to DJ Spine in each 1 he solves a different Mystery which is an actual natural phenomenom Meadow & Woodlands Look Peaceful & serene but many of the Animals were upset because of strange happenings they could not Understand. Jonathan Crow Mystery Nature Stories. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Marie C. Nichols.</p> Hastings House, NY hardcover
196827888<p>Hastings House NY 1968 HBDJ 1968 First Edition First Printing NOT a Weekly Reader NOT EX-LIBRARY. 116 pgs NF/VG CONDITION: Near Fine in Very Good Plus jacket; stip of glue foxing on fixed endpaper; dw a little rubbed scuffed. Juvenile hardcover gray cloth cvr with red tiltes & Illustration 125 pgs Long after the authorities have given up the children continue to search. By a nature writer. 2 boys & 2 Girls age 9 TO 12 WHO LIVE ON THE REFUGE return home from school to find that 2 rare trumpeter swans disappeared from their favorite Nesting Place. An official search is carried on but dropped for Lack of Evidence Thbe children though keep going on the Hunt for the Missing Birds & use their ingenuity & Knowledge of Nature in some exciting & unusual ways. Kite Flying comes into the plot too in a unique manner really suspenseful reading. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Lloyd Coe.</p> Hastings House, NY hardcover
195027891Houghton Mifflin 1950 HBDJ 1950 First Edition NOT a Weekly Reader. 1950. Hard Cover. Fine- in a NF- NOT price clipped dust jacket $2.25. dust jacket has not been price clipped and is beautiful with only a light crinkle back dj & wear to top of rear panel DJ. Minor wear tiny chips to extremities DJ. when his own grandfather was accused of starting a fire in the museum where he worked Toby set out by himself to track down the real criminal. Many strange things happened to Toby. hE DISCOVERED SOME FACTS NOT EVEN THE Police knew about as well as learning a lot about Fires Fire Fighting. learned how City Fire Dept works. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Anne Vaughan. Houghton, Mifflin, hardcover