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197221645Paris: Berggruen & Cie 1972. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Matta. 33 x 11.5 cm. Cover is an original lithography in five colors specially designed by Matta for this catalogue. Laid-in a price of list of the 600 Plaquettes Berggruen and Affiches Berggruen. Berggruen & Cie unknown books
198121644Paris: Berggruen & Cie 1981. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. Moore Henry. 33 x 11.5 cm. Cover is an original lithography in seven colors specially designed by Henry Moore for this catalogue. Laid-in a price of list of the 541 and Affiches I - XX. Berggruen & Cie unknown books
2006135539Paris: Galeries nationales du Grand Palais 2006. Softcover. VG Ex-library with few markings small tear at heel of spine otherwise in Like New condition. Illus. wraps French flaps 357 pp. more than 100 color illus. Text is in French. Issued in conjunction with the 2006 exhibition at the Galeries nationales du Grand Palais in Paris. Showcases the work of dozens of veteran and emerging artists including Giacomo Balla Umberto Boccioni Carlo Carra Tullio Crali Fortunato Depero Enrico Prampolini Luigi Russolo Gino Severini Massimo Campigli Felice Casorati Giorgio de Chirico Filippo de Pisis Antonio Donghi Achille Funi Virgilio Guidi Arturo Martini Giorgio Morandi Ublado Oppi Alberto Savinio Mario Sironi Alberto Burri Pietro Consagra Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni. With an introduction by Gabriella Belli. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais paperback books
199548296Paris: Studio Schwarzhaupt 1995. 1st Printing. White card stock self wrappers. Lettering printed in blue and orange. Floral decoration printed in a mix of blues purples pinks and greens. Small slip clipped in yellow paper printed in blue. Now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG/VG copy. Some rubbing to edges and corners very light soiling. Overall a clean and bright copy. 4 pp. unnumbered. Bifolium. Including one slip. Color photograph of the interior of the restaurant. Ornate floral art deco style decorative borders throughout. Folio. 16-1/2" x 11-1/2" <br/><br/>A historical French restaurant that is still there today. Extensive wine list to rear wrapper. Studio Schwarzhaupt unknown books
1927WN625151New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company 1927. Full green morocco 5 raised bands with gilt lettering and elaborate borders and dentelles. AEG. Wear and splitting of joints and edges though book is very tight. Patterned green endpapers. Number 391 of 600 copies personally signed by General Dubail Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor. Following page 232 is page indicating this book to be the Personal Record of S.M. Vauclain chief excecutive of Philadelphia's Baldwin Locomotive Works whose name appears in the America's Roster of recipients of the French Legion of Honor. Tissue guarded full color portrait of Napoleon and many other illustrations and photographs. Limited Numbered. Full Leather. Good/No Dust Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Funk and Wagnalls Company Paperback books
19005747Boston: Noyes Platt & Company 1900. Hardcover. VG. Red cloth. 110 48 pp. 48 bw plates. Includes biographical paragraphs on every American artist who was represented at the 1900 Exposition. Lists 255 paintings 160 drawings and illustrations 41 miniatures 69 works of sculpture 56 architecture entries and 3 mural decorations. Quite rare. Noyes, Platt & Company hardcover books
190310648Paris and London: Ernest Leroux Editeur Rue Bonaparte 28 1903. 462 pages; many signatures unopened; French text; list of members of the Section des Sciences Economiques et Sociales at back; articles and discussions notices include: Des Rapports Entre La Sociologie et Le Droit M. Duprat; Memoire De M. De la Grasserie; Observations De MM. Emile Bouvier Pascaud Leon Duguit; Memoire De M. Maurice Le Gouix; De La Theorie De La Valeur et Des Consequences Economiques Des Diverses Definitions Qu'on Donne De La Valeur; Etude Economique De L'administration d'Aubert De Tourny Memoire De M. Joseph Benzacar; Etude Sur Les Relations Commerciales De Bordeaux Avec La Cote Occidentale d'Afrique Congo exclu Memoire de M. Philippe Delmas; La Navigation Su l'Ariege et Le Commerce Des vins a Pamiers Aux XIIIe et XIVe Siecles Communications de M. Le Chanoine Ferran; Note Sur Les Relations Coloniales De Bordeaux a L'epoque De Charles IX; L'Emigration Des Basques et La Colonisation De l'Afrique Du Nord Memoires De M. Henri Lorin; more; a few owner's notes laid-in; original printed paper wraps binding; some edgetips wear to covers front wrap detached; contents in very good condition and clean. Soft Cover. Good. Ernest Leroux Editeur Rue Bonaparte, 28 Paperback books
2000352012000. Softcover. VG Small sticker on back cover; Sticker residue on spine; Otherwise as new. Pictorial wraps. 528 pp. 343 bw and color plates`. Text in French. Includes critical analysis of oeuvre and chronology. paperback books
2006133390Paris: Editions Gallimard 2006. Hardcover. VG. Purple boards with color pictorial front. 375 pp. Many color plates. In French. 2007 exhibition at l'Institut du monde arabe Paris and Metropolitan Museum of Art New York exploring the connections between Venice and its Mediterranean neighbors. Editions Gallimard hardcover books
1991196541991. Softcover. VG exlib but clean withdrawn stamp. Color wraps. 409 pp. Profuse color and bw plates. Text in French. After a preface and two essays one biographical there follows a selection of letters documents and manuscripts as well as a lengthy and well-illustrated catalogue. A rich reference work. paperback books
199540819London: Longman Rees Orme Brown & Green 1827 Brattleboro VT: Optical Toys 1995. 12mo 15.3 cm 6.02". 28 pp. incl. pr. wrappers. <br><br>This is a faithful reproduction of a set produced in France over 100 years ago": Modern facsimile of the chapter on thaumatropes from the first edition of Dr. Paris's Philosophy in Sport => accompanied by 14 working examples and instructions for their use. The 1827 text uses an elaborate fictional frame story about the Seymour family and friends to teach about conducting experiments and examining scientific principles via "the common toys which have been invented for the amusement of youth" p. 25 including the thaumatrope or wonder turner a spinning-disk optical illusion serving as an early form of animation and often considered a part of cinematic history. The French "jeu du thaumatrope" set reproduced here was originally published circa 1891; 12 of the present thaumatropes have preprinted illustrations while two have been left blank for a user to decorate.<br>Â Â Â Â Provenance: Inside box lid with bookplate of Vance Gerry of the Weather Bird Press; later in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard with small booklabel "AHA". Publisher's printed paper wrappers housed in the original printed papercovered box with color-printed "Jeu du Thaumatrope" illustration; box edges and corners with minor rubbing. => Booklet and toys clean absolutely fresh and ready for fresh experimentation! Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1827 [Brattleboro, VT: Optical Toys unknown books
1996D11328Delegation a l'Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. As new in dust jacket. Still in shrinkwrap so we can't tell you more! <br/><br/> Delegation a l'Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris hardcover books
1985D4486New York: Harry N. Abrams 1985. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Cloth full-color illustration mounted to upper board; illustrated dust jacket. With 794 illustrations including 176 plates in full-color diagrams plans and 3 maps. Head of spine bumped and soiled otherwise an excellent copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket. <br/><br/> Harry N. Abrams hardcover books
1989105164New York: Harry N. Abrams 1989. Hardbound. VG/VG. White cloth with color plated tipped-on Bluish color-illustrated dustjacket. 630 pp. 178 full-color plates 757 bw plates. A comprehensive guide for art history students and Gothic period enthusiasts alike! Not just architecture but sculpture paintings manuscripts tapestries and more. A whopper of a resource. The author leads us beyond architecture through the whole range of the fine and decorative arts of an entire era from sculpture and painting to illuminated manuscripts sumptuous tapestries stained-glass windows and exquisite masterpieces of metalwork the last specimens of which mark the twilight of the Middle Ages. from dj. Harry N. Abrams hardcover books
339513 vols.: I. Livres anciens Editions originales et Livres illustrés des XVe XVIe et XVIIe Siècles Très beaux Livres à figures du XVIIIe siècle. II. Livres de la Période Romantique .Très Riches Reliures Mosaiquées. III. Editions Originales. Très Beaux Livres Illustrés Modernes. 98 203 247 pp. descriptive auction catalogue of hundreds of fine and rare books dozens of plates throughout a few in fine color mainly showing bindings. 4to. 1/2 calf orig. wrpps. bd. in one front hinge reattatched. Paris/Lille Carteret/Roust-Leleu 1925. Ex-libris copy. unknown books
196429902Paris: Librairie Larousse 1964. First Edition. Quarto 28.75cm.; original cloth in white decorative dust jacket; 8591pp.; illus. throughout text in double column. Minor soil to jacket especially flap folds; textblock edges and preliminaries a bit foxed else Very Good and sound. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Shahn with their estate label tipped to front pastedown. Librairie Larousse unknown books
198619901Paris: Editions Herscher 1986. Hardcover. VG. Forest green cloth green & illus. dust jacket 183 pp. hundreds of color and bw plates. Text is in French Moments of Fashion. Issued in conjunction with a 1986 exhibition celebrating the opening of the Musee des Arts de la Mode in Paris. Features fashion styles from 1600-1940 both through photography of the dresses on mannequins and through the line drawings of Fabio Palamidese. With essays by Edmonde Charles-Roux Dominique Fernandez Patrick Mauries and Francois Nourissier. Editions Herscher hardcover books
185530824.1Paris 1855. Hardcover. G Average wear to edges and corners; opening page has separated and is present; pages have aged evenly and are clean. Brown textured boards gilt letters on spine lx 591 pp. No illus. Text is in French. On spine: Exp. Univ. 1855. A text list only of the paintings sculptures engravings lithography and architecture that were presented in this 1855 exhibit. hardcover books
194222608ENew York: Random House 1942. First Edition First Printing. With a New York Herald Tribune clipping laid-in dated April 26 1942 reviewing this book. Decorative endpapers. Near fine copy with just a trace of rubbing to the lettering at the spine without dust jacket. Elliot Paul was one of the noted American Paris expatriates of the 1920s co-editor of Transition magazine and knew all the notables of the period. Of the flowering of writing that came out of 1920s Paris Paul is the only American to write a lengthy memoir of what it was like to interact and immerse oneself in the people of his Paris neighborhood. This book is basically the story of the lives of the people of the street on which he lived the Rue de la Huchette. Paul lived there for the better part of 18 years until the Nazi occupation of France prevented his return. A genuine classic. Random House unknown books
1997135589Paris: Paris-Musees Gallimard/Electa 1997. Softcover. VG Ex-library with few markings and label bookplate at front inside cover pages are slightly tanned at top margin otherwise very nice. Black & white wraps 236 pp. many color & BW illus. Text is in French. Issued in conjunction with a 1997 exhibition in Paris. Illustrations are supplemented by explanatory text. "If you love love you'll love the surrealism" is the focus. Paris-Musees, Gallimard/Electa paperback books
195021483Paris: Editions Philibert 1950. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in worn original case lacking top. 9.5 x 6 cm. Complete deck of cards. Two jokers and face cards in a variety of designs. Editions Philibert hardcover books
188019276Washington DC: GPO 1880. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Very good. Vols. 1-4. 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Voluminously illustrated: plates some folding and diagrams. Vol. I: Report of the commissioner general list of exhibitors and awards. Vol.II: Fine Arts. Vol. III: Iron and steel ceramics and glassware. Vol. IV: Chemical processes mining machinery clocks and watches. Backstrip extremities chipped a few corners worn gilt front cover medallions generally sound. GPO hardcover books
19899008788New York: Abrams 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. 935 illustrations including 178 in color foldouts map ground plans elevations. Bound in publisher's original white cloth. <br/><br/> Abrams hardcover books
19319265Paris: Harrison of Paris 1931. The eighth book of the press one of 495 copies on Satanized paper from a total issue of 570. Page size: 9 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches. Designed by Monroe Wheeler hand set in 10-point Stempel Baskerville this book was printed by L.C. Vittich in Darmstadt Germany. The frontispiece is a full page portrait of the heroine by Berard who along with Tchelitchew exhibited at the Pierre Loeb Gallery and had impressed the Paris art world in their rebellion against the cubist vogue. Both artists often joined the company of the Harrison partners. The book is bound in black silk and housed in grey paper-over-boards slipcase with a green paper label on the spine a near fine copy. Harrison of Paris unknown books
11773Sepia toned albumen 11 x 8.25". 19th century photograph of Paris France. Image of a busy street scene. People in period dress and horse drawn carriages are seen on the "avenue de l'opera." In excellent condition. unknown books
