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Almost new condition. Black cover with gilt lettering on spine. Clean Copy
Good+ Paperback. Ex reference library with usual stamps & markings. Laminated cover. Library bookplate inside front cover. Taped in gutter between front cover & half - title page but binding is tight. Black & white illustrations & maps throughout. Clean text. xii. + 532p.
Volume Five: pp. vi, 568. Stamped ownership of Rev. William F. Kochel. Small 4to. Original full dark blue cloth binding. Original priced dust jacket worn. Hardbound. Very good. First Edition. Kenneth Scott Latourette (1884-1968) was an American historian of China, Japan, and world Christianity. His formative experiences as Christian missionary and educator in early 20th century China shaped his life's work. Although he did not learn the Chinese language, he became known for his magisterial scholarly surveys of the history of world Christianity, the history of China, and of American relations with East Asia. - From Wiki RELIGION BOX 3
Volume Four: pp. vii, 568. Stamped ownership of Rev. William F. Kochel. Small 4to. Original full dark blue cloth binding. Original priced dust jacket worn. Hardbound. Very good. First Edition. Kenneth Scott Latourette (1884-1968) was an American historian of China, Japan, and world Christianity. His formative experiences as Christian missionary and educator in early 20th century China shaped his life's work. Although he did not learn the Chinese language, he became known for his magisterial scholarly surveys of the history of world Christianity, the history of China, and of American relations with East Asia. - From Wiki RELIGION BOX 3
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, creasing to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Original manuscript printed on about 150 pages plus 347pp. A 17th century Russian-German MS vocabulary is reproduced in this book in facsimile. The remainder of the book is explanation, discussion, translation, bibliography and an attempt to trace the manuscript's provenance and history. Very scarce in the UK.
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with unmarked maroon cloth boards, very slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. Page fore-edges untrimmed. 251pp. Biographical account of the author, daughter of a Russian Charge d'Affairs who spent time in England and France after her family escaped the Russian Revolution. Whilst in England she met Queen Victoria a number of times. Photographic illustrations.
160 pages. Profusely illustrated in color and black and white. "A look at this confused and exciting decade, seen through the eyes of the most stylish and important magazine of the time." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. A sound working copy. Book
This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with some wear. The jacket is all there not price-clipped but has minor soiling, a few small closed tears and one tiny repaired hole at the lower edge of the front panel. Completely clean inside. Four pages have an indentation or wrinkle, at the lower edge, probably from the binder. Illustrated throughout in color and black & white. Classic study of the 'Theatre of Marvels' or popular street theater which was practiced in Europe from 1789 to the 1860's. This study grew out of the author's work at Harvard and later the Sorbonne on this fascinating subject. Profusely illustrated in color and black & white with about 200 prints and engravings. Preface by Marcel Marceau. Bibliography. 12" high X 9" wide, 208 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and sent with tracking.
152 pages. Features: A Manifesto for Earth; Return of the Plains Bison to the prairies and the return of honor; An ecological ethos in presocratic thinking - can we really learn anything new from the past?; The reflecting pool - place of the ten thousand things; Can universities promote an ecological ethos?; Archtiecture and the global ecological crisis - from Heidegger to Christopher Alexander; Art and the Big Picture; The Road past the selfish landscape; Philosophical urbanism and deconstruction in city-form - an environmental ethos for the twenty-first century; Biocentrism and the Bauhaus; An imaginary trialogue on abstract art - Kandinsky, Kupka, and Mondrian in conversation; For a dialogue on the future of abstract art; book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
144 pages. Features: A new biology for a new century?; Sustainability and Morphogenesis - the rebirth of a living world; Gaining liberty to save the planet; Walking and thinking in urban design; Leberecht Migge and everyman's garden; Organic - a brief history of the concept; Biology and art; The biological roots of meaning in the visual arts; The logic of abstract art; Frantisek Kupka - creation in nature and art; Excerpts from Frantisek Kupka - Creation in the Plastic Arts (1923); An imaginary trialogue on the nature of nature with Klee, Kupka, and Henri Bergson; Art and Healing; Art and Healing - a few thoughts; book reviews. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. An excellent copy. Book
pp. xi, 155 + Plus Frontis and full page color plates by Pierre Brissaud. Pictorial decorated title page. Top edge decorated brown-red. 4to. Original pig skin leather spine and French marbled paper boards. Spine lettered in gold. Original slip case. Hardbound. Excellent copy. A beautifully printed and affordable version of the original Limited Editions Club publication. THESE HERITAGE PRESS BOOKS MAKE GREAT GIFTS. W85
This is a very good hardcover copy in blue marbled paper-covered boards and brown leather ruled in gilt. Spine with fine gilt title and decorations. Very clean inside and out. This is volume 2 only of this two volume set. No date but ca. 1870's. This volume is about St.James Park and the Green Park. With several hand-colored plates and many black & white figures in the text. 8" high X 5" wide, 272 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.
259 pages including index. "In a complex world which many face with feelings of ambiguous and divided loyalties, the role of secrecy and intrique in fantasy has grown progressively more significant. This work shows how some writers, by understanding and exploiting the public's need for such fantasies, have created successful novels - and, sometimes, major works of art." - from dust jacket. Average wear. Usual library markings. Book
No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Very sunned dust jacket not price clipped or marked with nicks and small tears and light creasing to edges. 238pp. Novel set in the late 19th century in Spain.
679 pages. Index. Footnotes. Black and white illustrations. "Does full justice to a man who for nearly half a century was an advisor to presidents - from Woodrow Wilson to Lyndon Johnson. For anyone seriously concerned about economic mobilization and the relation of twentieth-century wars to public policy, this book is indispensible." - W.E. Leuchtenburg, Columbia University. Usual library markings with front free endpaper removed. Somewhat above-average wear. A sound reference copy. Book
Book in as new condition. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Slipcase in very good condition with small bump one corner and two small pressure marks to one edge. 363pp. An updated approach to the events and actions from the 14th century under the Holy Office of the Spanish Inquisition, based on recent historical research.
Paris, A. and W. Galignani and C., 1845, in-8, legatura coeva in mezza pelle verde, titolo e filetti in oro al dorso (spellature), pp. VIII, 357. Asportati in margini bianchi superiori dell'occhietto e del frontespizio. Stesso anno della prima edizione di Londra.
4to. 176pp, b&w photographs and illus.index. Original cloth with dustwrapper . isbn stated inside the book: 0-262-22034-5. Van Leeuwen postulates that the skyscraper grew out of the American myth that men can create a new city and a new order while echoing the Tower of Babel and the Temple of Jerusalem. He discusses the most eminent proponents of the genre (1870-1935), including Richardson, Sullivan and Saarinen