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This book is number 33 of edition limited to 50. Signed by author. He gave us the word 'jingoism'. Includes Title and Subject Index to Bibliography. lxxxii, 118 pages. Top page edges gilt. Inscription by previous owner on front free endpaper. Front and back endpapers browned. Light foxing to spine and small white mark on front cover.
92 pages. Features: Nice color-photo ad for the ill-fated Ford Pinto inside front cover; Nice Long Distance ad features photo of Miss Mary Ann Van, Executive Secretary, Arthur Godfrey Productions; Victory for the Press - Supreme Court rules in favor of the press re: government secrecy 'in the national interest'; Joe Columbo is shot in Manhattan; Indonesia moves toward stability; Three cosmonauts die aboard Soyuz 11; Saab 99 car ad; John W. Snyder; Le Duc Tho and Henry Kissinger - a way to end the Vietnam war?; Daniel Ellsburg - the man who started it all; The Secret History of the Vietnam War (Cont'd) - major coverage; Sexy Smirnoff ad features young couple in small boat; Plugging the leaks at the Rand Corporation; Large color photo of Jim Collier in Chase-Manhattan Bank ad; Richard Speck; Soviet Union and Israel discuss resumption of diplomatic relations?; Victor Louis; War in Pakistan; One-page color ad for Chevrolet's disastrous Vega (red); Jim Garrison arrested in New Orleans (with photo); The Vietnam Vogue - fashion article; Photo of Eddie Kasko with Carl Yastrzemski; Muhammad Ali is vindicated by Supreme Court; Dr. Jacob A.O. Preus; GMC Truck ad; Digital Equipment (DEC) and its popular minicomputers; Two-page Ford ad features airbag testing; Switach shoplifting prevention product; NYPD corruption investigation; New younger breed of prostitutes; Semen storage; New Light on Cold Sores; Jane Fonda; The Fillmore East and the Fillmore West are closed by Bill Graham; Golda Meir Has the Masada Complex; and much more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
124 pages. Short Stories: Hero with a Past; Surprise on the Desert; Night Ferry; The Lady and the Brute. Articles: Why Auto Insurance Costs So Much; The Doctors Who Make Children Grow - pediatric endocrinologists; Act of Compassion - F. de Sales Meyers, a WWII submariner,destroyed Japanese merchant shipping; Golden Isles of the Aegean - lovely Greek isle color photos; A Visit With boss of the Chicago White Sox, Bill Veeck; The Untold Story of Little Rock (part 3) - Faubus makes his move - photo-illustrated article on the first day of school when the National Guard ringed Central High and kept Negroes out; He Knows Where Your Money Goes - Secretary of the Treasury, Robert Anderson; Photo of Conductor Jacob Avshalomov at work. Serials: Island of Hate (part 1 of 5); The Case of the Mythical Monkeys (part 6 of 8). Ads: Movie "Say One For Me"; Graceful Chrysler Imperial ad features a maroon Le Baron 4-door Silvercrest Landau; GE Air Conditioners; Dutch Boy House Paint; Huge two-page Marlboro ad promotes their flip-top box; Dial Soap; Kraft Cracker Barrel Cheese; Campbell's Bean with Bacon Soup; AC Oil Filter ad featuring color photo of Victor Borge at the piano; Pall Mall cigarette ad; De Soto ad featuring its push-button transmision and a Firedome 4-door Sportsman; General Telephone; Band-Aid; Palmolive; Great two-page color photo 7up ad shows boy in backyard recliner; Kodak cameras; Swimquip pool equipment; Mopar parts; Vauxhall; L&M cigarette ad features James Arness in his 'Gunsmoke' attire offering a light to Miss Kitty(?); Nice two-page color photo Chevrolet ad features a silver Kingswood station wagon - with young boy hanging out back window as his mother drives!; Whitman's chocolates; Florida tourism; Mazola; Bulova; Johnson Outboards; Schlitz Beer; Smith-Corona Typewriters; Caterpillar ad features color photo of Al C. Church, Florida State Highway Engineer at Miami Beach; Norelco shavers; Nice color ad for McGregor sportswear; Nice color Coke ad on back covers features icy class and small image of soda fountain below. and more. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
58 pages. Features: Full-page ad for 'Airport 1975'; ad for 'The Man With the Golden Gun'; 'Earthquake' - photos; The Cool Bonanza - Photo-illustrated article with Paramount Production Chief Robert Evans; Karel Reisz's 'The Gambler' - photos; 'Breezy' - photos; Son of the Last Fifites Picture Show - part 5 of this series of photos; Films & Filming Honours for 1974; Reviews - 'Murder on the Orient Express', 'Pain in the A__', 'The Mother and the Whore', 'Fantastic Planet', 'Crystal Voyager', 'The Mad Adventures of 'Robbi' Jacob', 'When Taekwondo Strikes', 'Sixty Glorious Years'; 'Alfie Darling' - photos; The Cult Movies - part 3; 'Death Wish' - photos. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
80 pages. Features: Vincent van Gogh; "My Friend Stephen" - oil painting by Jerry Farnsworth; John Averill - illustrator with a whimsical pen; The Weathervane - painting in the U.S. 1949; How to become a Michelangelo; American Furniture Design; Roger Duvoisin; The Hurst Page; "Grandma and Baroque" a caseine painting by Jacob Getlar Smith; and more. Average wear. A sound copy. Book
pp. xviii, 262. +Plus 24 leaves of color illustrations including frontis. 12mo. 180mm. Original publisher's full cream cloth binding. Cover ornately decorated and lettered in gold gilt. Cover designed by Rachel Robinson with her monogram. Spine stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Corners slightly bumped. Small marking on front cover. Spine gilt dulled. Book Plate belonging to Jacob Bates Abbott on inside flyleaf. Unusual bookplate depicting a naked woman riding on a ear wearing a princess hat and a night in full armor standing at her rear. Jacob Bates Abbott (1895-1950) was a prolific book illustrator who lived in California and Pennsylvania. His son Jackson Miles Abbott (1920-1988) followed in his father's footsteps and was also an accomplished artist, best known for his bird studies. Hardbound. Very Good. NW58
Features: Indians and Treasures don't mix! - Jacob Snively's search for fortune; Monument to Bitterness - in the cemetery of Hiawatha in northeast Kansas; The Lost Butte Gold; New Show in Town - the troupes who played the communities of the West; Gold in the Bottom of the well; Cass County Poor Farm - to be on charity in pioneer times held a special dread; El Dorado - from 'Oregon and California in 1848"; Drop in, cut loose, and dance in earnest - ranch life's bright side; Kang's Gold - a young Chinaman in Arizona; A rope for Mary Rose - townspeople avenge her death; Ghosts of the Star Range - along the Nevada border; and more. Clean, bright and unmarked with very light wear. Excellent copy. Magazine
Features: Henry Plummer's Second in Command - a responsible member of the Oregon Volunteers degenerates; Booze, Bets, and Babes - Gay and Gory episodes on Whiskey Row, Prescott, Arizona; Bad Water and Bad Indians - conflict between sailors and natives on the Pacific Coast; Mesa Negra's Golden Statues; Camel Driver in Colorado? - Jacob Acabajal's gravestone is a puzzle; The Blue Roan Mankiller - outlaw horse in Idaho; Mormons versus Navajos - Pipe Spring; The Mysterious Old Woman; Legend of Coyote Peak; Frontier Freighter; and more. Moderate wear. Binding intact. Please note: Bits of writing on front cover and moderate quantity of writing and high-lighting to contents, otherwise a sound vintage copy. Magazine
This is a fine hardcover copy with a near fine dust jacket. Completely clean. Text in Haitian Creole. This is the Haitian Creole version of Walter Dean Myers's Toussaint L'Ouverture: the Fight for Haiti's Freedom. Illustrated in color by Jacob Lawrence, who had his first big success, at the age of 21, in the late 1930's with a series of paintings depicting Toussaint L'Ouverture and Haiti's fight for freedom. Rare in this Creole language version. 11" high X 9" wide. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Walford, E. John: Jacob van Ruisdael. The Perception of Landscape. Yale University Press, 1991. 288pp with 50 colour plates and 150 monochrome illustrations. Cloth. 29.5 x 25.5cms. The first major study of Ruisdael in over sixty years, this comprehensive and well researched volume provides an in-depth examination of the works and various aspects of Ruisdael's artistry. With bibliography, index. The first major study of Ruisdael in over sixty years, this comprehensive and well researched volume provides an in-depth examination of the works and various aspects of Ruisdael's artistry. With bibliography, index.
cm. 17 x 24, xiv-558 pp. Biblioteca di ?Nuncius? Il contributo che Hermann diede alla diffusione del calcolo leibniziano in Italia emerge attraverso l?esame di numerose fonti edite e inedite. Sono riportati i suoi carteggi con gli scienziati italiani, vengono ricostruite le strategie messe in atto per far affermare la scuola leibniziana e si valutano gli effetti che tali strategie ebbero sugli sviluppi dell?analisi nel primo trentennio del Settecento. Hermann?s contribution to the diffusion of the Leibnizian calculus in Italy emerges through an examination of numerous published and unpublished sources. His correspondence with Italian scientists is related, strategies to promote and affirm the Leibniz school are reconstructed and the effects these strategies had on the development of analysis during the first three decades of the eighteenth century are taken into consideration. Inglese 1020 gr. xiv-558 p.
Book is in excellent condition with a smudge of black oil paint in the upper back corner and some very light handling marks. Binding is solid and square, covers have sharp corners, exterior shows no other blemishes, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Reprint of the 1914 publication in large format with the typographical errors left in. Contents include: Ezra Pound poems, several manifestos, story by Ford Maddox Hueffer, by Rebecca West, Botrices and notes by Wyndham Lewis: Futurism, magic and life, Notes on some German woodcuts, Policeman and artist, Orchestra of media, Melodrama of modernity, Exploitation of vulgarity, Our vortex, etc. Illustrated by Edward Wadsworth, Wyndham Lewis, Frederick Etchells, W. Roberts, Jacob Epstein, Gaudier Brzeska, etc. copyright Pistil Books, 2011
Book shows light cover wear only. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. Retrospective for the year at the publisher's gallery, featuring works over 9 shows including work by C.T. CHEW, RANDY HAYES, WILLIAM IVEY, R.Alfredo Arreguin, Francis Celentano, Allen Jensen, Andrew Keating, Fay Jones, Howard Kottler, Michael Dailey, Karen Guzak, Alden Mason, Johsel Namkung, Dick Weiss, Sherry Markovitz, Alden Mason, Ries Niemi, Bill Ritchie, Patti Warashina, Elizabeth Sandvig, Michael Spafford, Mim Ball, Mary Dill Henry, Andrew Keating, Elise Lazarri, Robert Maki, Phillip Schwab, Joh, Zylstra, Jacob Laurence, et al.
248 pages. Author relates his experiences as a child on a homestead located at the foot of the Pembina Hills. His move to the village of Reinland in the early 1920's immediately followed the migration of the Mennonites to Mexico. Growing up was difficult during the dirty thirties. The came the life-changing trauma of World War II and a brief sojourn in Paraguay. Eventually the author was called to the ministry. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Excellent copy. Book
A CURA DI Pompeo Giannantonio, Francesco Pugliese Carratelli LIGUORI 1969 673 PP. FONDO DI MAGAZZINO: NEL CELLOPHANE EDITORIALE
Hulst, R. A. D', et al: Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). Volume I: Paintings and Tapestries. Exhibition: Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1993. Soft covers. 30x24.5cms.
Mm 245x285 Prefazione di Nicola Spinosa - Volume rilegato in tela con titolo al piatto e al dorso, sovraccoperta originale, 295 pagine profusamente illustrate in nero e a colori. Copia eccellente, spedizione in 24 ore dalla conferma dell'ordine.
Paris, Editions Odile Jacob, 1993. in-8, broché, 400 pp. Nombreuses planches illustrées, notes. Ouvrage traduit et publié avec le concours du centre national des Lettes. Important essai de cet auteur qui enseigne à l'Institut de sciences politiques de Hambourg.
239 pages. Index, bibliography, footnotes, chronology. Many black and white reproductions of photos. "Offers readers a chance to share factual and fascinating accounts of people who, for centuries, have ventured into these awe-inspiring central Arizona mountains." - back cover. Gift greetings atop title page, otherwise clean with light wear. Binding tight. A nice copy. Book
261 pages. This revolutionary new look at vision will broaden your understanding of how you see and how you can see without your glasses or contact lenses. "I can attest to its effectiveness. It's fabulous: It opened my eyes" - Ray Floyd, Professional Golfer. Contents unmarked and lightly worn. Binding open at page 113. Spine leaning. Average wear. Decent working copy. Book
8 pages. Black and white reproductions of photos of rifles and ammo with supporting text. Fascinating history of the conversion from muzzle-loaders to breech loaders. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy. Book
31 pages. Extensive contemporary bibliography. Black and white illustrations which illustrate flint bayonet and grenade military exercises circa 1730. Above-average wear. Usual library markings. Binding intact. A worthy copy of this very informative early military reference. Book
in-8, 124-VIII p., broché, couv.— Rare. Très bel exemplaire [CL-6] Textes de : P. Seghers, M. Lecomte, M.-P. Fouchet, A. Frénaud, R. Guiette, H. Juin, Scutenaire, B. Pasternak, etc.
8vo., First Edition thus, with coloured frontispiece and plates; pictorial green cloth blocked in black, gilt back,green endpapers, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.