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19763072Indianapolis / New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1976. Octavo boards. First edition. "The author's fertile imagination gets the better of him for once -- this weird novel of a man who survives after death by reincarnating himself in a succession of alternative realities approaches both incomprehensibility and brutality at times." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition p. 260. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #3072 The Bobbs-Merrill Company unknown books
198923136Toronto: Lumiere Press 1989. Fine in quarter bound natural linen and paper over boards. Limited Edition. Octavo. Number 155 of 170 numbered copies; SIGNED by the photographer Rafael Goldchain the book's publisher and designer Michael Torosian and finally by anthologist and author Alberto Manguel who contributes the introduction. With 12 tipped-in color plates shot in Mexico and Central America between 1986-1987. The seventh book published by Lumiere; perhaps the most underrated title in the series. Toronto: Lumiere Press unknown books
2000156516Milano Milan Italy: The Estate of Norman Bluhm / Mazzotta 2000. Paperback. Near Fine. rubbing to front covers. Color illus. wraps; French flaps 134 pp.; 18 bw figures; 72 color plates. Bright beatuiful & clean. Text is provided in both English and Italian. Considers the life and work of American abstract expressionist Norman Bluhm 1921-1999. With essays by James Harithas Luigi Sansone and Raphael Rubinstein. Covers paintings from his entire career from 1947-1998. Includes biography exhibition history bibliography and many colorful examples of his work. The Estate of Norman Bluhm / Mazzotta paperback books
18016589London: Published by John Raphael Smith 1801. Mezzotint with roulette coloured by hand. Image size: 17 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches. A touching scene after Morland: 'a master of genre and animal painting an artist worthy to be placed in the same rank as the best of those Dutch masters whom he studied as a boy' DNB<br/> <br/>This print is a wonderful example of the manner in which Morland perfectly conveys the hardships and beauties of country life his depiction of a poor country family battling the hardships of winter shows the bitter side of the pastoral life with grace and sympathy. George Morland was one of the most successful genre painters of his time creating during his industrious career some of England's most cherished paintings. At an early age Morland displayed his artistic genius he learned to paint at three and exhibited his first work at the Royal Academy at the mere age of ten. Morland was a prodigious painter producing more than 4000 paintings during the entirety of his career and sometimes painting two or three works in a day. His beautiful idealistic scenes were a favorite source of inspiration for contemporary engravers and as many as 250 separate engravings were done of his paintings during his lifetime. One such engraver was John Raphael Smith who throughout his career translated many of Morland's paintings to print. Smith was a highly influential figure in the late eighteenth-century British art world he quickly became an impresario of the print-publishing trade producing nearly 400 prints during his lifetime 130 of which were of his own design. This beautiful print refelects both the talents of the engraver and the genius of the artist in its sentiment and execution it demonstrates the best of English genre. Published by John Raphael Smith unknown books
1957148716Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1957. Vintage One Sheet poster for the 1957 film. <br/><br/>Tragic melodrama following three young men Robert Vaughn Roger Smith Tom Pittman who attempt to rob a supermarket as a solution to their discontented lives. <br/><br/>26.75 x 40.75 inches. Folded as issued. Very Good closed tear on bottom right crease and splitting at creases faint tape shadow to image and tape shadow to title with light soiling.<br/><br/>Selby US. Spicer US. Columbia Pictures unknown books
42636Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. Dobbs Ferry NY: Morgan & Morgan 1981. Interior is bright and clean. Glossy pictorial paper covers are crisp and lightly rubbed. Overall a very good copy. . Other hardcover books
196419901New York: Friendship Press 1964. Paperback. 127p. preface glossary illustrated with photographs first edition trade paperback in lightly-worn pictorial wraps with small ownersip label on bottom of front cover. Cover design by Rafael D. Palacios. In this American paperback original the Cuban American author discusses the Hispanic contribution to North American culture. Friendship Press paperback books
1963291182Nardina Publishing Company 1963. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. A history with maps and drawings throughout. This copy from the library of the late Civil War historian James I. "Bud" Robertson with his blindstamp on the title page along with the sticker of a bookstore in Natchitoches. In orange wrappers which have curled a bit at the bottom corner; with paper spine which has some minor loss; still a sturdy and serviceable copy. Very Good binding. Nardina Publishing Company unknown books
2001166378Barcelona: Sa Nostra Caja de Baleares / Àmbit 2001. Paperback. VG-. Light edge wear to covers. Ex-library with some usual marks otherwise clean and tight. Red-brown wraps with white lettering color illustration; French flaps. 301 pp. Profuse color plates. Text in Spanish. Various essays and a selection of works from colonial art turn of the century modern and contemporary arts. Sa Nostra, Caja de Baleares / Àmbit paperback books
2002174885Havana Cuba: Artecubano Ediciones Consejo Nacional De Las Artes Plasticas 2002. Softcover. VG--includes 2 editions of Arte Cubano/Revista de Artes Visuales. slight edge wear to corners. pgs clean & unmarked. includes portfolio. glued wraps w/ cover illustrations & black printing. 2 volumes. 151 pgs w/ color illustrations. includes black portfolio. In Spanish. Lavisly illustrated editions spanning artists and museums throughout Cuba Puerto Rico and Latin America. In Spanish. Artecubano Ediciones, Consejo Nacional De Las Artes Plasticas paperback books
19928626Fondo Editorial De La Plastica Mexicana 1992. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A crisp clean copy of the 1992 3rd edition limited to 3000 copies. Solid and Near Fine in a bright Near Fine dustjacket. Massive elephant folio 316 pgs. striking color reproductions thruout. <br/><br/> Fondo Editorial De La Plastica Mexicana hardcover books
1948147739Los Angeles: Twentieth Century-Fox 1948. Final Draft script for the 1948 film. <br/><br/>Based on Raphael Blau's unpublished story. Widow Abby Abbott Loretta Young and her teenage daughter Susan Betty Lynn support themselves on a trust fund started from her late husband. In order to get Susan the needed funds to pay for college tuition Abby must enroll as well to get a needed scholarship and both end up falling for English professor Richard Michaels Van Johnson.<br/><br/>Nominated for an Academy Award.<br/><br/>Shot on location at the University of Nevada-Reno.<br/><br/>Blue titled wrappers noted as FINAL on the front wrapper rubber-stamped copy No. 186 and production No. 241 dated July 15 1948. Distribution page present with receipt removed. Title page present dated July 15 1948 noted as Final Script with credits for screenwriters Mary Loos and Richard Sale. 153 leaves with last page of text numbered 151. Mimeograph duplication rectos only. Pages Near Fine wrapper Very Good plus with creasing and closed tears at the outer edges bound internally with three gold brads. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
2010124345Cinncinati OH: David Robert Books 2010. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 105 pages. Presentation from the author on the title page. Acknowledgements table of contents notes and a short biography. A collection of poems of various topics with each having a distinct feminine tone to them. David Robert Books unknown books
177420168Rome 1774. Copper engraving on two joined sheets by Ottaviani after drawings by Savorelli and Camporesi printed in light brown coloured ink with contemporary hand-colouring. Neat marginal restoration. A stunning plate from "Logge di Rafaele nel Vaticano": with contemporary colouring of the highest quality from the golden age of the hand-coloured print. The main panel shows Moses coming down from Mount Sinai holding the tablets bearing the ten words of the Covenant his face "horned from the conversation of the Lord". Aaron and the children of Israel seeing the face of Moses "horned" are afraid to come near.<br/> <br/>A very fine image from the second part of a work titled "Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano" depicting the decorative work executed by Raphael and his assistants between 1518-1519 in the Vatican. They were drawn by Gaetano Savorelli a Roman painter and draughtsman best known for his Raphael drawings and Pietro Camporesi a Roman architect who worked for Pope Clemens XIII and Pius VI on rooms for the Vatican Museum. The first to illustrate the famous frescoes these beautiful plates were probably planned as early as 1760 but were not executed until 1772 to 1776. The plate is remarkable not only as the first important visual record of Raphael's work but also for the quality of the hand-colouring - the work on this image is in our opinion some of the greatest to be produced in Europe during the whole of the eighteenth century: the golden age of the hand-coloured print. They were remarkable not just for their size and magnificent colouring but also because of the influence they had on contemporary taste. The decision was made to "borrow" elements from Raphael's Vatican tapestries and insert them where the original frescoes were in too poor a state to be legible. The finished plates therefore represented an amalgam of design elements presented with a crisp freshness of colour that held enormous appeal and did much to stimulate the taste for the "grotesque" in the Neo-classical period. A year after the death of his principal patron Julius II Raphael succeeded Donato Bramante in 1514 as the official Vatican architect. Having previously adorned the "Stanze" or chambers of Julius on the second floor of the papal apartments in the Vatican palace he was commissioned by Leo X in 1517 to decorate the adjacent Logge. He designed an elaborate cycle of ornamental frescoes for the room's ceiling vaults doors and auxiliary pillars which were executed by his assistants Giulio Romano and Giovanni da Udine. Twelve of the quadrilateral ceiling vaults were adorned with murals of familiar Old Testament scenes and one with a scene from the New Testament while the more decorative frescoes painted on the pilasters by Udine were covered with imaginative compositions of 'grotesque' motifs like foliage fruit and chimerical beasts.<br/> <br/>Cf. Brunet IV 1110 & 1111; cf. Berlin "Kat". 4068 & 4066; "Raphael Invenit: Stampe da Rafaello" 1985 Ottaviano 22; cf. "Raphael: Reproduktions-graphik aus vier Jahrhunderten" Coburg 1984 104 & no. 245. unknown books
1916608341916. Paperback. Good. 37p. Original wrapper. 19cm. Cover worn at fold. Name on title-page. Spanish text. <br/><br/> paperback books
36275NOTER Raphael de. MONOGRAPHIE HORTICOLE DES PLANTES BULBEUSES TUBERCULEUSES ETC. Paris: Librairie des Sciences Agrigoles 1905. 8vo. Quarter-morocco with original wrappers bound-in. xxviii 385 pages. First edition. A scarce monograph on amaryllis lilacs irises and other plants which come from bulbs. Scarce. OCLC cites four copies in American libraries. Illustrated. Very good. unknown books
194444355Printed by Tipografia La Union 1944. Paperback. Fair. photo tables 225 4p. Original wrapper. 24cm. Covers chipped and detached. Newspaper articles mounted inside front cover and on last blank page. Internal library markings. Spanish text. Newspaper articles by a Salvadoran writer. <br/><br/> Printed by Tipografia La Union paperback books
197721781London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Books 1977. Paperback. Very Good. 348pp indices. Internally fine with clean text that has no underlining highlighting or notes. <br/><br/> Routledge & Kegan Paul Books paperback books
2012157043Valencia: IVAM Institut Valencia d'Art Modern 2012. Hardcover. VG. Black & color illus. boards 161 pp. color and BW illus. Main text is in Catalan with essay translations into Spanish and English at the rear. Issued in conjunction with a 2012 exhibition of artwork by Spanish landscape painter Menchu Gal 1919-2008. With a variety of thematic essays and full-color views of examples of her work. A good introduction to an artist you may not know. IVAM, Institut Valencia d'Art Modern hardcover books
19962304905Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1996. Reissue. Reissue. Very Good. 1996 reissue of 1868 original. Two creases to wrappers. 894 pp. With new introduction and notes by John M. Taylor. "Published in 1869 Raphael Semmes's Memoirs of Service Afloat was the first major southern memoir issued after the Civil War written by the most important Confederate naval figure to emerge from the conflict. It appears here in its first indexed and professionally edited version with an introduction and notes by Semmes's biographer John M. Taylor. According to Taylor Semmes's impressive military performance would not be rivaled by any sea raider until the advent of the submarine. Commanding two cruisers first the Sumter and then the famous Alabama Semmes engineered a rout of the Federal merchant marine burning or bonding a total of sixty-four vessels with the Alabama alone before its dramatic defeat by the USS Kearsarge off Cherbourg in 1864 an event that nonetheless served to enhance his reputation - as a pirate in the North and a hero in the South. His memoir is a rollicking account of the voyages of the Sumter and the Alabama with digressions on his natural surroundings and sociopolitical topics. Written soon after the war Semmes's work conveys a zeal for the Lost Cause and an unrelenting bitterness toward the Yankees that ironically tend to obscure his own deeds of skill daring and humanitarianism. Louisiana State University Press unknown books
186935191London 1869. Color and b/w plates. xiv-833 pp. First edition of the great Confederate sea-raiders memoirs of his adventures aboard the dauntless Alabama. The book was first issued in London because of Great Britains sympathies with the Confederacy. This edition is famous for its handsome colored lithograph plates. A good copy in lightly worn original cloth with gilt cover decoration. Pages are somewhat tanned but the color lithographs have retained their brilliance. books
1869WN31324Baltimore: Kelly Piet & Co. 1869. A solidly rebound title in maroon buckram with gilt titling. Prior owner signature on preliminaries. Frontispiece tape repaired on top edge. Browning and foxing throughout and especially on top edge of appoximately first 60 pages not interfering with text. 6 full color chromo-tint nautical plates and 2 plates of officers. Text block slightly cut down in rebinding. First Edition. Buckram. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Allan C. Redwood. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Kelly, Piet & Co. Hardcover books
2009183800Versailles: Établissement public du musée et du domaine national de Versailles 2009. Softcover. VG light shelfwear to wraps and block. Burgundy and gray wraps with French flaps illustrated on front spine and rear white and burgundy lettering; 319 pp; color portrait frontispiece; illustrated throughout in color. Text in French with one contribution in Italian. Festschrift presented to Pierre Arizzoli-Clémentel on the occasion of his retirement from the Établissement public du musée et du domaine national de Versailles on 22 July 2009. Includes bibliographical references. Établissement public du musée et du domaine national de Versailles unknown books
1894m2327Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie. 1894. 1st edition. Duodecimo quarter sheep & cloth ix 316 pp. Very Good. Librairie Hachette et Cie., 1894. hardcover books
1940325438Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company 1940. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Very good with a tanned spine some wear at the spine ends and corners light soiling lacking the dustwrapper. An uncommon title late in the author's career. Houghton Mifflin Company hardcover books
