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200924624NY: Springer 2009. Paperback. Very good. 372pp. Internally fine with clean text that has no underlining highlighting or notes. <br/><br/> Springer paperback books
20101338636Tuscon: The University of Arizona Press 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Softcover. Octavo; VG/paperback; red spine with white text; first edition; first printing; covers very good minimal exterior wear; fully intact front and rear; only light crease to front tail edge; text block clean; illustrated; tight binding; pp 352. 1338636. FP New Rockville Stock. The University of Arizona Press unknown books
1996427515Artem-Brepols 1996. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small 8vo. Wraps. 541 pp. Text in French. Light wear to edges. Light sun-fading to spine. Old price sticker to rear cover. Light soiling to page edges. Very good. Artem-Brepols paperback books
1930WRCLIT59176New York: Charles Boni Paperbooks 1930. Pictorial cloth designed by Rockwell Kent paper spine label. Faint smudging to cloth and label small discoloration at top of fore- edge otherwise a very good or better copy without dust jacket as issued. First edition in this format clothbound issue. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. A chronological presentation of the poems awarded prize-status by significant periodicals including THE DIAL POETRY THE NATION etc. ranging from Sandburg's suite of "Chicago Poems" through "The Waste Land" to "Paterson" and on. Charles Boni Paperbooks hardcover books
1936WRCLIT83280New York: Albert & Charles Boni 1936. Cloth. A very good copy in modestly nicked and edgeworn pictorial dust jacket by Rockwell Kent with fading and a few small spots to the spine panel. First edition in this format. Introduction by Mark Van Doren. This collection was also published in the format of the Charles Boni Paper Books. A chronological presentation of the poems awarded prize-status by significant periodicals including THE DIAL POETRY THE NATION etc. ranging from Sandburg's suite of "Chicago Poems" through "The Waste Land" to "Paterson" and on. Albert & Charles Boni hardcover books
198520999Greenvale: Hillwood Art Gallery 1985. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. Softcovers. Various formats. Four issues sold here together. Catalogs from various exhibitions of artists at Hillwood Art Gallery. Illustrated in black and white. All isues in clean very good condition. Some of the artists featured include James Lee Byars Shigeko Kubota Robert Sussman Joan Japan Robert Seagall and Katherine Winn among others. <br/><br/> Hillwood Art Gallery paperback books
200929447Washington DC: Smithsonian American Art Museum 2009. First edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Wide clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 156 pp. Introduction by Roger G. Kennedy and with a foreword by Elizabeth Broun. Illustrated in both color and black and white. A study of art and FDR's New Deal. Lovely fine copy in dustwrapper. Smithsonian American Art Museum unknown books
199615269Berkeley: University of California Press 1996. First edition. Cloth. Good /very good. Quarto. 346 pp. Illustrated in color and b/w. Bit of a spine roll else a very good example in red cloth binding in very good illustrated dustwrapper. A feminist perspective on these three artists. <br/><br/> University of California Press hardcover books
200831463New York: Galerie Daniel Buchholz Andrew Kreps Gallery and Nathalie Obadia 2008. First edition. Cloth. Fine/fine. Thick clothbound quarto in dustwrapper. 286 pp. A monograph on this minimalist painter with essays by Thea West reich Ethan Wagner and Yve Alain-Bois. A brand spanking new copy still in original shrinkwrap. A large and heavy book. Additional shipping charges may apply. Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Andrew Kreps Gallery and Nathalie Obadia unknown books
19276877San Francisco: Harr Wagner 1927 First edition. 406pp. Tinted frontis portrait 19 plates 2 tipped-in color illustrations. Index. Green cloth gilt. Slight rubbing to edges and corners light offsetting to front endpaper. A very good copy. Biography of Frémont based on original source material supplied by Wagner; Bashford did the actual writing. The included illustrations are from old photographs prints and portraits; the two color illustrations are after paintings. Harr Wagner hardcover books
19275429San Francisco: Harr Wagner 1927 First edition. 406pp. Tinted frontis portrait 19 plates 2 tipped-in color illustrations. Index. Green cloth gilt. Minor damp stain to foot of spine light offsetting to front endpaper. A near fine copy. Biography of Frémont based on original source material supplied by Wagner; Bashford did the actual writing. The included illustrations are from old photographs prints and portraits; the two color illustrations are after paintings. Signature on inner cover of Helen Weber Kennedy direct descendant of Captain Weber founder of Stockton California. Harr Wagner hardcover books
04916London: G.G. Harrap 1913. A Superb Early Bayntun Inlaid Binding<br/>On One of Willy Pogany's Masterpieces<br/><br/>BAYNTUN binder. POGANY Willy illustrator. WAGNER Richard. ROLLESTON T.W. The Tale of Lohengrin Knight of the Swan after the Drama of Richard Wagner by T.W. Rolleston. Presented by Willy Pogany. London: G.G. Harrap n .d. 1913. <br/><br/>First trade edition. Quarto 10 x 7 1/4 inches; 254 x 184 mm. 192 unnumbered pages. Eight tipped-in color plates including frontispiece with original tissue guard numerous full page color illustrations calligraphic text head- tailpieces; an image on every page. Printed on heavy gray stock. Some minor discoloration to first three and last three leaves otherwise fine.<br/><br/>Bound ca. 1930 by Bayntun of Bath stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full black morocco covers with single gilt rule front cover with multi color morocco inlays reproducing the illustration on page 53. Spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. Decorative gilt board edges gilt ruled turn-ins blue cockerel endpapers all edges gilt. Housed in the original blue cloth over boards clamshell case.<br/><br/>The design on the front cover is taken from the illustration on p. 53.<br/><br/>"And then aloud spake she-<br/>"O King a champion waits<br/>the hoar<br/>To take my part with godlike power<br/>And my Deliverer be.<br/><br/>"In dreams I saw him; silver-bright<br/>His jewell'd armour shone.<br/>His sword was as a beam of light<br/>His crest a silver swan.<br/><br/>"He is my Lord he is my King.<br/>And his till death am I.<br/>Come Victor Lord the hoar is near-<br/>Oh hear thy poor maid's cry!"<br/><br/>William Andrew "Willy" Pogany born Vilmos Andreas Pogány August 1882 - 30 July 1955 was a prolific Hungarian illustrator of children's and other books. Pogany's best known works consist of illustrations of classic myths and legends done in the Art Nouveau style. He also worked as an art director on several Hollywood films including Fashions of 1934 and Dames.<br/><br/>The publication of Pogány's Lohengrin was the final act in his trilogy of masterworks focused on Wagner's Germanic tales and one of the quintet that is considered his finest work. Pogány clearly approached the commission to illustrate Lohengrin as an opportunity to improve and extend techniques that he had developed through his preceding work particularly The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Tannhäuser and Parsifal the other four books that immortalized his career as an illustrator. That commitment to ongoing innovation resulted in an incredible suite of illustrations including color lithographs monotone and marginal illustrations and the delightful tipped-in color plates produced with a four-color process included in Lohengrin. Themes of medieval chivalry erotic love and moral tests are illustrated in a lavish fashion by Pogány with an outstanding use of iconography form and color.'. London: G.G. Harrap, 1913 unknown books
187033347Leipzig: E.W. Fritzsch 1870. Octavo. Original publisher's dark ivory printed wrappers with titling within double-lined border. 1f. recto half-title verso blank 1f. recto title verso blank 1f. "Vorwort" 73 i blank pp. Colophon to verso of lower wrapper.<br/><br/>Wrappers worn slightly soiled and foxed; several small edge chips and tears; lower detached. Slightly worn; occasional foxing; margins slightly soiled and dampstained heavier to lower. First Edition. Kastner p. 76. Oesterlein I p. 6.<br/><br/>"In the essay Beethoven published in 1870 to coincide with the centenary celebrations of the composer Wagner completed a process of rapprochement initiated with 'Zukunftsmusik' ten years earlier between the aesthetics of Oper und Drama and those of Schopenhauer. In 'Zukunftsmusik' Wagner continued to elevate his own species of text-related musical discourse above pure instrumental music but the claim is modified by a reappraisal of the worth of symphonic music particularly that of Beethoven. In Beethoven he finally accepts that words and music cannot enjoy totally equal status: with Schopenhauer he maintains that music is the ultimate vehicle of expression." <br/><br/>" . Like all composers of his era Wagner grew up in the shadow of Beethoven and the Classical symphonic tradition. His obsession with Beethoven revealed both in the autobiographical writings and in fictional stories such as the novella Eine Pilgerfahrt zu Beethoven reflected a perceived need to confront that tradition acknowledging the legacy of Beethoven and at the same time staking a claim as his natural successor." Barry Millington John Deathridge Carl Dahlhaus and Robert Bailey in Grove Music Online. E.W. Fritzsch unknown books
2011149643Washington DC: Renwick Gallery 2011. Softcover. NF. Grey wraps with image of silver vessel. Black lettering on pale blue spine. French flaps. 104 pp. with 59 color figures and additional images. Features the work of four artists whose work explores the deep roots of contemporary American craft and decorative arts. Ubaldo Vitali is a fourth-generation silversmith and conservator of antique silver; Cliff Lee is a neurosurgeon who creates elegant porcelain vessels using medieval Chinese glazes; Judith Schaechter uses traditional stained glass practice to create her works from gothic to punk; and Mattias Pliessnig combines traditional boat-building technology with 3-D design to create innovative seating out of steam-bent oad strips that may have up to 7000 points of contact without the use of hardware. Beautifully-illustrated and unique works. Essays and bios on each artist and with a checklist of the exhibition. Renwick Gallery unknown books
1959132446London: Twentieth Century-Fox 1959. Collection of 8 vintage full-color British front-of-house cards from the UK release of the 1959 US film. <br/><br/>Father Conroy Crosby serves in a parish that supports the local theatre community but his daughter Holly Reynolds finds a job working for a dance club of questionable character. Nominated for two Academy Awards 1960. Stella Stevens' film debut. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. A few corners creases and light rubbing else Near Fine. <br/><br/>Hirschhorn p. 364. Twentieth Century-Fox unknown books
20053223Oxford: University Press 2005. First Edition. COMPLETE SET of all 6 vols. comprising more than 2965 pages sic! printed in two- and three-columes. Original publisher's blue cloth some scuffing to cloth covers ISBN stickers on lower right corner of back covers. Vertical creasing on half title of volume III occasional signs of use / thumbsoiling but overall the contents are clean fresh and unspoiled. NOT ex-library! Complete sets are rare in private ownership; only two complete set have appeared action and this was one of them -- the other one sold at Swann in 2013.<br/><br/>"Bod-Inc" as it is affectionately -- and reverentially -- known is so epic that it scarcely warrants any discussion whatsoever. Suffice it to say that more than 5600 incunables are EXHAUSTIVELY described with detailed listings of the contents of EACH EDITION. Arranged alphabetically the aims of Bod-Inc are summarized in the catalogue's introduction:<br/><br/>"The main aim of the catalogue has been from the outset to combine information about the individual copies in the collections of the Bodleian Library their bindings their provenance manuscript notes and other signs of use with a detailed analysis of the contents of each edition locating all texts in each edition identifying their authors and giving references to modern editions of each text where they exist. It is not the aim of the catalogue to replicate typographical information which is already available in one of the other detailed incunable catalogues such as GW BMC or Polain."<br/><br/>The sixth volume contains an indispensible 102-page "Index of Provenances Owners and Donors" pp. 2833-2935. Printed in 3 columns there must be 4000 names listed herein.<br/><br/>The Bodleian Library Bod-Inc database is NOT condusive to browsing and thus the user cannot experience the luxurious joy of bibliographic discovery namely browsing through the Bodleian's incunabula for months and years.<br/><br/>MUST BE SEEN TO BE FULLY APPRECIATED. University Press unknown books
20021907338Villard 2002. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first edition in a fine dust jacket First Edition stated on the copyright page and correct row of numbers signed by the author with message for you only!" but not mentioning any name. Villard hardcover books
200226223New York: The New Press. Fine in Fine dj. c.2002. First Edition. Hardcover. very nice as-new copy with no discernible wear to either book or jacket; apparently a review copy with the publisher's press release laid in. B&W photographs In this "the first comprehensive book about the Hollywood Left the authors describe the vibrant community in Hollywood that helped create the classics of American film from the dawn of sound movies to the early 1950s. The authors trace the political and personal lives of the screenwriters actors directors and producers on the Left along with the often decisive impact of their work upon American film's Golden Age. Full of rich anecdotes biographical detail and exploration of movies well-known unjustly forgotten and delightfully bizarre this is a highly readable affectionate history that invites a new appreciation of our most distinctly American cultural creations." NOTE that additional shipping charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book or for Priority Mail service to U.S. addresses. If this concerns you please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. . The New Press hardcover books
2001116763Berkeley: University of California Press 2001. Hardcover. x 275p. small splotch to top of text block some mustiness else very good condition in like dj. University of California Press hardcover books
2001044476Berkeley Etc.: University of California Press 2001. x 275p. b/w illus. dj. University of California Press unknown books
2002126492New York: The New Press 2002. Hardcover. xx 460p. Introduction photo-section of film stills epilogue index very good first edition in boards and unclipped dj. The New Press hardcover books
1976142140Austin TX: Fly-by-Night Printing Collective and Quizote Publishing Co 1976. First two issues of the journel 36 and 48p. respectively stapled wraps 5.5x8.5 inches wraps lightly worn No. 1 with lightly foxed front wrap else very good condition. Fly-by-Night Printing Collective and Quizote Publishing Co unknown books
1975111882Austin TX: Fly-by-Night Printing Collective and Quizote Publishing Co 1975. Magazine. 36p. wraps very good condition 5.5x8.5 inches illus. First issue. Fly-by-Night Printing Collective and Quizote Publishing Co unknown books
1976231704Austin TX: Fly-by-NIght Printing Collective and Quizote Publishing Co 1976. Magazine. 48p. wraps with pen markings small pen hole in front wrap 5.5x8.5 inches illustrations. Includes Paul Buhle on horror literature and feminism George Lipsitz on working people's music and more. Cover reproduces an old ad for Co-operators' Best Coffee in which a giant can with its hammer-and-sickle emblem shares a stage with nine women in shining attire and red star tiaras. Fly-by-NIght Printing Collective and Quizote Publishing Co unknown books
1976181682Austin TX: Fly-by-Night Printing Collective and Quizote Publishing Co 1976. Magazine. 48p. 5.5x8.5 inches illustrations very good in stapled red pictorial wraps with light soiling. Includes Paul Buhle on horror literature and feminism George Lipsitz on working people's music and more. Cover reproduces an old ad for Co-operators' Best Coffee in which a giant can with its hammer-and-sickle emblem shares a stage with nine women in shining attire and red star tiaras. Fly-by-Night Printing Collective and Quizote Publishing Co unknown books
