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1977RANNTOP00tpmMaran Press 1977. Very Good. Annenberg Maurice. A Topographical Journey through the Inland Printer 1883 - 1900. Baltimore Maryland: Maran Press 1977. 731pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 4to. Beige cloth with blue lettering and decoration. Book condition: Very good with lightly rubbed edges. Dust Jacket Condition: Good with lightly bumped and chipped edges a few short losses and faint soiling. In dust jacket protector. Abundant font and typeset reference images throughout. Maran Press hardcover
0916526046.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
197794341Maran Press 1977-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. Clean tight and unmarked large format hardcover in lightly shelf worn jacket oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Maran Press hardcover
1977209981Baltimore: Maran Press. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. 0916526046 . DJ edges have some chips and tears. . Maran Press hardcover
197721108Baltimore: Maran Press. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 732 pages . Maran Press hardcover
ANAIS-188471806XOak Knoll Pr. hardcover. Good. 9.1x1x11.5. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Oak Knoll Pr hardcover
19949028859New Castle DE: Oak Knoll Press 1994. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Signed presentation by Stephen O. Saxe on the half title page. Introduction and additions by Stephen O. Saxe and index by Elizabeth K. Lieberman. Profusely illustrated with examples of the type founder's art. Bound in publisher's original ivory cloth with spine lettered in black and illustrated endpapers. 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches. 286 pages. <br/><br/> Oak Knoll Press hardcover
1994SKU1163748Oak Knoll Pr 1994. hardcover. Like New. 9x1x11. 1994; Delaware; hard cover book with dust jacket still in manufacture's plastic wrap; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book. Oak Knoll Pr hardcover
1975024226Baltimore and Washington: Maran Printing Services 1975. A landmark in bookmaking Fine condition in a Good dust jacket soiled and with tiny edge tears all less than 1/4 inch. NOT price clipped $30.00. NOT a library discard. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are crisp clean and unmarked. 1975. First Edition. Limited to 500 numbered copies this being #137. An illustrated history of American type foundries and an annotated bibliography of the catalogs they issued. Based in part on the 37 largest private and public collections in the country. Essential for type catalog collectors. Pictorial endpapers depict numerous scenes of a type foundry at work. The dust jacket states that this is believed to be the first book in the graphic arts field to be produced without metal type having all text composed by the Mergenthaler VIP variable input phototypesetter. Bound in the original pictorial biege cloth stamped in blue. Complete with dust jacket that is illustrated to match the book's cover art. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. This large heavy book may require extra postage for Priority and International shipments but only the standard charge for media mail. First Edition Limited 500 copies. Oversize Hardcover. Fine condition/Good dust jacket. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 245pp. Great Packaging Fast Shipping. Maran Printing Services Hardcover
1975034485Baltimore and Washington DC: Maran Printing Services 1975. First edition 1975 no. 452 of 500 copies printed. Bibliography of American type specimen books. Includes promotional materials for this book along with 1976 receipt laid in loosely at the front. Tan cloth printed in blue matching dustjacket 11.25" tall 245 pages. Near fine firm binding very clean pages no names or other markings dustjacket in mylar protector. First Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Maran Printing Services Hardcover
BN329484Perrin. Softcover. Zénobie <br/><br/>Zénobie Annie Sartre-Fauriat et Maurice Sartre Perrin paperback
11962Without date and place but after 1943. 7pp. 4to. On three bifoliums and two single leaves of watermarked laid paper all loose with the bifoliums placed inside one another and the single leaves inserted after the title. Very good on lightly-aged paper. Written out in black ink with the titles in red ink in an excellent uncial hand. The five translations are 'My Own my Native Land' and 'The Family Dinner-Party' both by Bowra; 'This World is all a Fleeting Show' and 'This defileth a Man' both by Murray; and 'Whom the Gods love' by Byron. 'From the Greek' Higham and Bowra's abridgement of their 'Oxford Book of Greek Verse in Translation' was published in 1943. See Image trimmed a little by scanner. Without date and place, but after 1943. unknown
2664Paris: La Tradition / Paul Durupt 1948. A beautifully illustrated edition of this comic text with 44 ORIGINAL DRYPOINTS BY MAURICE LEROY many erotic. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies printed on fine Arches wove paper. Folio. BOUND IN PUBLISHER'S DELUXE FULL LEATHER BINDING DECORATED ON COVERS WITH GILT DESIGNS AFTER LEROY. Spine lettered in gilt. Very few copies were issued in this binding. Wraps and backstrip bound in. Top edge gilt other edges uncut. Tiny wisp of wear to extremities of binding else FINE AND BRIGHT WITH NO DEFECTS. <br/><br/> Paris: La Tradition / Paul Durupt, 1948 paperback
1800183542Paris.: Henrics. An 9 1800. Contemporary marbled boards red spine label speckled edges. Very good covers shelfworn at edges very light scattered foxing. 8vo. French text. Scarce. Henrics. hardcover
1160137935.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1167612116.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
232908689X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
2010Q-1846943663Mantra Books 2010-09-16. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Mantra Books paperback
194615734AND THE DARKNESS FALLS World 1946 first edition just about fine in in near vg color pictorial dust-wrapper with some wear and tear. Contributions by Maurice Level Oliver Onions E. F. Benson Guy Du Maupassant Lafcadio Hearn Ambrose Bierce Arthur Donan Doyle John Buchan Algernon Blackwood August Derleth F. Tennyson Jesse L. P. Hartley H. R. Wakefield Dorothy Sayers Somerset Maugham John Collier William Butler Yeats Edgar Allan Poe Upton Sinclair Cornell Woolrich Walter de la Mare W. W. Jacobs Thomas Burke Stephen Crane Lord Dunsany Clark Ashton Smith H. P. Lovecraft Joseph Conrad et. al. World unknown
1929ARC94118Cobden-Sanderson Ltd. London 1929. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition first printing. 8vo. xii 143pp. Cloth-backed patterned paper-covered boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine and with the publisher's black top edge stain. Errata slip tipped to the introduction verso as required. Free endpapers partially toned. A virtually fine copy in very good non-price-clipped Whistler dust wrapper lightly darkened and dust soiled with one short closed edge-wear and several tiny fractions of loss. A super copy of this star-studded anthology which includes contributions from Maurice Baring Max Beerbohm Clive Bell Hilaire Belloc Lord Berners Edmund Blunden Cyril Connolly Ian Hay Ronald Knox Rose Macaulay Raymond Mortimer Harold Nicolson Vita Sackville-West Siegfried Sassoon Edward Shanks J.C.Squire Christopher Sykes H.M.Tomlinson Hugh Walpole Dorothy Wellesley and nearly a score of others. Loose advertising flyer for Blunden's 'Undertones of War' issued a year earlier under the same imprint laid-in. Cobden-Sanderson Ltd., London Hardcover
19761320<p>New York the Great Cities<br /><strong>Authors:</strong> Anthony Burgess and Maurice Le Nan as co-author or contributor<br /><strong>Series:</strong> The Great Cities Series by Time-Life Books<br /><strong>Publisher:</strong> Éditions Time-Life<br /><strong>Publication Year:</strong> 1976<br /><strong>Language:</strong> Presumably French based on the publisher's name and location</p><p>Analysis and Context</p><p>This book is a volume from a well-known series of coffeetable books published by Time-Life focusing on a major global metropolis through a combination of scholarly essays and lavish visuals.</p><p><strong>1. The "Great Cities" Series by Time-Life:</strong><br />This context is key to understanding the book's nature. The Time-Life "Great Cities" series was known for:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Lavish Format:</strong> High-quality printing extensive color and black-and-white photographs maps and illustrations.</p></li><li><p><strong>Combined Approach:</strong> Blending historical analysis cultural commentary and visual tourism.</p></li><li><p><strong>Authoritative Voices:</strong> Hiring renowned writers historians and journalists to provide the text ensuring the books were both informative and engaging.</p></li><li><p><strong>International Appeal:</strong> The series was often translated and published in different languages for various markets as seen here with the French publisher.</p></li></ul><p><strong>2. Authors and Contributors:</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>Anthony Burgess:</strong> The primary author. This is a significant point. Burgess was a highly respected English novelist critic and composer most famous for <em>A Clockwork Orange</em>. His involvement suggests the book is far more than a simple guide; it will contain sophisticated literary and likely opinionated essays on the culture history and spirit of New York City. His perspective would be that of a brilliant outside observer.</p></li><li><p><strong>Maurice Le Nan:</strong> Likely a French writer or editor who may have adapted the content for the French edition provided additional material or co-wrote certain sections to ensure it resonated with a European francophone audience.</p></li><li><p><strong>Time-Life Books:</strong> The overall producer of the series responsible for the research photography and distinctive visual style.</p></li></ul><p><strong>3. Content and Scope:</strong><br />As a series volume from 1976 it would typically cover:</p><ul><li><p><strong>History:</strong> From its founding as New Amsterdam to its rise as a 20th-century metropolis.</p></li><li><p><strong>Architecture:</strong> Featuring the skyscrapers bridges and iconic landmarks like the Empire State Building and the then-recently opened World Trade Center.</p></li><li><p><strong>Culture:</strong> The arts scene theater Broadway music and the vibrant gritty cultural landscape of 1970s New York.</p></li><li><p><strong>Social Life:</strong> The diversity of its neighborhoods from Wall Street to Harlem capturing the city's energy and its challenges during a fiscally difficult decade.</p></li></ul><p><strong>4. The 1976 Perspective:</strong><br />This publication date is historically fascinating. It captures New York City at a specific turbulent time:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Near-Bankruptcy:</strong> The city had barely avoided financial collapse in 1975.</p></li><li><p><strong>Gritty Authenticity:</strong> The 1970s are often remembered as a decade of urban decay high crime and a raw creative energy that predated the extensive gentrification of the later decades.</p></li><li><p><strong>A Time Capsule:</strong> The photographs and Burgess's commentary would immortalize the city at this particular moment making the book a valuable historical snapshot.</p></li></ul><p><strong>5. Relevance Today:</strong></p><ul><li><p><strong>Historical Document:</strong> It is most valuable as a period piece offering a view of New York from the mid-1970s through the eyes of a major literary figure.</p></li><li><p><strong>Collector's Interest:</strong> For fans of Anthony Burgess completists of the Time-Life series or those interested in vintage photographic books about New York.</p></li><li><p><strong>Cultural Perspective:</strong> The fact that it was published in French by "Éditions Time-Life" highlights the enduring global fascination with New York City presenting it to a European audience as a quintessential modern metropolis.</p></li></ul><p>In essence <strong>"New York the Great Cities" is a visually rich literary exploration of New York City in the 1970s distinguished by the sharp and erudite commentary of author Anthony Burgess and presented as a premium volume in Time-Life's acclaimed series on the world's major urban centers.</strong></p> Time-Life Books hardcover
1989AME_9780387968353Springer 1989. 1st. Hardcover. New/New. Springer hardcover
6569050Sage Publications pp. 208 . Hardback. New. Sage Publications hardcover
2021Discovery-9783031006791Springer 2021. Paperback. New. Springer paperback
