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8vo., First Edition; cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy. SCARCE.
Soft cover in a very good condition with light wear to spine head and tail. Contents sound and good, text bright and tight throughout. Used
22.5x18.5 cm. 53+31 pages. Hardcover. Cover slightly dirty and yellowing. Spine slightly worn and tuned. Pages yellowing and with aging stains. Pen written on first white page corner. Else in good condition.
RARE publication of an open letter IN HEBREW WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION to the renowned British financier and banker, activist, philanthropist and Sheriff of London Sir Moses Haim Montefiore, 1st Baronet, FRS (1784-1885) on the occasion of his visit in the Holy Land, together with an account IN ENGLISH of his visit by Montefiore himself. 250x160mm. 148+40 pages. Blue cloth embossed gilt Hardcover. Gilt text block edges. Cover stained and rubbed. Cover edges and spine rubbed. Cover corners and spine edges bumped and peeling. Spine partly tattered, hinges rubbed. Text block edges stained/dirty. Ex-libris sticker on inner cover. Inner cover, whitepages, title pages and several extreme pages slightly stained/dirty - NO damage to text. Binding slightly visible between several pages. Binding visible between pages 80-97. Pages 81-96 partly detached from binding. Pages slightly yellowing. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare book has sustained some wear, but is still in good reading condition.
230x150 mm. XLV+399 pages. Softcover. Cover curved. Front cover upper edge and spine edges slightly rubbed. Front inner cover and page I slightly stained - no damage to text. Few pages wrinkled. Pen inscription on page I. Else in good condition.
23x15 cm. XLV+399 pages. Softcover. Cover slightly stained and rubbed. Else in good condition.
200x140 mm. viii+450 pages. Gilt hardcover. Cover corners and edges bumped. Spine edges slightly worn. Binding exposed at inner cover. White pages and title page age-stained - No damage to text. Pen inscription on title page - No damage to text. Else in good condition.
THREE VOLUME SET. Includes black and white plates. VOL. I contained a folded map. [ALL VOLUMES]: 16.5x26.5 cm. x+332+viii+336+ix+317 pages. Gilt hardcover. Cover slightly chafed. Spine is faded. Ex-Libris sticker in inner cover. Several pages slightly age stained. [VOL. II]: First and last white pages are yellowing. [IN CONCLUSION]: Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
RARE first edition of Parfit's book which describes his journey through southern Lebanon in a highly narrative form. Parfit was a missionary in Baghdad and later a Chaplain in Beirut; His journey among the Druze during World War I includes descriptions of the locals, the geography and wildlife, as well as the progress of the war in the Middle East. Accompanied by multiple (unattributed) photographs of the people and lands of southern Lebanon. 190x130mm. VIII+252 pp. Green cloth hardcover with (slightly faded) gilt lettering on spine. Cover edges, spine edges and hinges slightly worn. Pencil markings and ex-libris sticker on inner front cover. Endpapers browned. Few pages and photographs mildly age-stained, otherwise clean. [SUMMARY]: This unique and personal description of Lebanon during the first World War is in good condition.
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96 pages. Features: The Structure Needed in Painting - Jimmy Sanders; Tin Cans, Fractured Light, and Lavish Paint - The Art of Nancy Switzer; The Ideal Classicist - Nicolas Poussin and Nature; Painting the Mouth; Freely Interpreting Nature - Peter Fiore; A Successful Career in Portraiture - Robert Carter Clark; Joe Remillard - Visual Diaries of the Classical World; Colored Pencil Techniques Related to Painting - Arlene Steinberg. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Magazine
unp., illus. Signed by the author. Hardcover Very good condition
582p., illus. Hardcover Good condition; stains on top edge in worn d.j. fair
RARE out-of-print memoirs of Alvin A. Hanish, a Jewish infantryman in the U.S. Army who served in Europe during WW2. The book is ripe with information on the period, both military and personal. The book includes several b&w photographs. 240x160mm. 184 pages. Black leather Hardcover with photographic dust-jacket. Jacket slightly worn. Jacket edges slightly bumped. Cover corners and spine bottom edge slightly bumped. This extremely rare account of military life during WW2 is otherwise in very good condition.
215x140 mm. 207 pages. Hardcover. Cover edges slightly rubbed. Pages slightly yellowing. Else in good condition.
A clean, unmarked book with a tight binding. 350 pages. Many b&w photographs.
205x265mm. 156 pages. Hardcover. Cover corners and spine edges slightly bumped. Else in good condition.
17.5x24.5 cm. 149+226 pages. Includes color plated. Gilt hardcover. In good condition.
22X13.5 cm. 354 pages. Gilt hardcover. Cover slightly rubbed. Small pen inscription on front inner cover. Else in good condition.
LIMITED EDITION - COPY No.94. RARE Festschrift on the occasion of Adolf Loos' 60th birthday. Adolf Franz Karl Viktor Maria Loos (1870-1933) was an Austrian and Czech architect and influential European theorist of modern architecture. Among the contributors to this volume are many illustrious figures of the period, such as Stefan Zweig, Karl Kraus, Else Lasker-Schüler, Tristan Tzara, Alban Berg, Arnold Schönberg, Anton Webern, Rudolf Serkin, and many others. 235x150mm. 68 pages. Softcover. Cover and spine stained. Cover corners/edges and spine edges tattered. Pen inscription on front whitepage bottom corner and page 5 upper corner. Title-page upper edge cut-out - NO damage to text. Small undelining near text on pages 34-35. Some pages upper edge and/or corner bumped. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare Festschrift dedicated to one of the pioneers of modern architecture is otherwise in good condition.
80p. Illustrated with drawings and paintings, some in color. Signed by Carolyn D. McCreesh on title page. Small 4to. Original color pictorial wraps. Includes Chronology of paintings. Crisp Copy. PA PAMPH 20_14 BX3
RARE Italian translation of "Rak Etmol" ("Only Yesterday"), memoirs of an Israeli jurist who served as Israel's first Military Advocate General. The author narrates the story of nine cases which he handled prior to the establishment of the State of Israel. 215x140mm. 161 pages. Yellow board Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Jacket browning, edges torn/tattered. Cover wavy. Spine edges bumped. Pages slightly yellowing. Otherwise in good condition.