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1991330161991. Hardcover. VG/VG- book in very good condition DJ lightly chipped at edges. Pale green cloth pictorial DJ. 588 pp. 360 color plates. First major examination of the full range of French 18th century mythological painting. Works by Watteau Boucher Fragonard David and many others. Published in conjunction with the exhibition The loves of the gods . held at Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Paris 15 October 1991-6 January 1992 Philadelphia Museum of Art 23 February-26 April 1992; Kimbell Art Museum Fort Worth 23 May-2 August 1992"--Title page verso./ Includes bibliographical references pages 562-584 and indexes. Contents as follows: In defense of mythological painting / Pierre Rosenberg -- Myth and enlightenment : on mythology in the eighteenth century / Philippe Le Leyzour -- D'un siecle a l'autre : history mythology and decoration in early eighteenth-century Paris / Katie Scott -- Boucher's beauties / Donald Posner -- To see or not to see : the myth of Diana and Actaeon in the eighteenth century / Steven Z. Levine -- Catalogue of paintings / Colin B. Bailey. Scarce in hardcover. hardcover books
1988129282London: Thames and Hudson 1988. Hardcover. VG/VG light foxing to block. Dark brown cloth with gilt design on front cover gilt lettering on spine red glossy dust jacket with bw illustration 480 pp. 1840 illustrations including 41 color plates. From the dust jacket: Arranged chronologically from the earliest academic works through the great years of Cubism and abstraction to the final burst of undiminished energy in the last months of the artist's life. It includes many important sketches and studies for major paintings and sculptures. The illustrations are accompanied by scholarly commentaries that place Picasso's works in the context of his life and of the contemporary art-historical scene as well as by a list of exhibitions and a selected bibliography. Thames and Hudson hardcover books
192920898Paris & New York: At The Sign of The Pegasus 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. basket weave cream cloth gilt Bodoni logo front cover. Near fine in worn dust wrapper lacking small portion of lower spine. 80 pages. 30 x 21.5 cm. Limited edition copy 229 of 500 of the English edition on Lafuma Rag Paper in the original types of Giambattista Bodoni. Host of tipped-in specimen pages plus twelve full page woodcuts by Franz Masereel printed recto only which illustrate the operations of the press. Officina Bodoni began operation in April 1925 at Montagnola di Lugano. List of All Book Printed On the Hand-Press. Offsetting from the flaps of the dust jacket onto the endpapers slight lower corner bumps. At The Sign of The Pegasus hardcover books
1931WRCLIT40866Paris: Harrison of Paris 1931. Eight panels of text printed on folded folio sheet with ornamented borders. Near fine. An elaborate prospectus for the sixth through tenth publications with a mission statement and descriptions of the previous five publications. Harrison of Paris unknown books
1930WRCLIT40870Paris: Harrison of Paris 1930. Eight panels of text printed on folded folio sheet. Fine. The first prospectus for the fine press maintained by Wheeler Wescott and Harrison including a mission statement and descriptions of four forthcoming titles. Harrison of Paris unknown books
196822832San Diego: Greenleaf Classics 1968. Paperback. 143p. illustrated with drawings very good in camp pictorial wraps. Homoerotic poetry in pulp format. Young 2965 Greenleaf Classic GC 330. Greenleaf Classics paperback books
193110514JParis: Published and Edited by Edward M. Titus June 1931. First Edition. Contains first appearance work by Sherwood Anderson John Collier E.E. Cummings Rhys Davies Kenneth Fearing Josephine Herbst Ludwig Lewisohn Edward J. O’Brien J.B. Priestly Tess Slesinger Yvor Winters Humbert Wolfe etc. Paperbound. Very good copy. This Quarter was one of the leading Paris expatriate magazines. Published and Edited by Edward M. Titus unknown books
193110515JParis: Published and Edited by Edward M. Titus September 1931. First Edition. Contains first appearance work by H.E. Bates John Collier E.E. Cummings Hermann Hesse Meyer Levin Ludwig Lewisohn Harold Loeb Herbeert Read A.L. Rowse Jack Woodward Charles Williams etc. Paperbound. Very good copy. This Quarter was one of the leading Paris expatriate magazines. Published and Edited by Edward M. Titus unknown books
193210516JParis: Published and Edited by Edward M. Titus March 1932. First Edition. Contains first appearance work by E.E. Cummings Charles Beadle Rupert Croft-Cooke August Derleth A.L. Rowse Paul Valery etc. Paperbound. Very good copy. This Quarter was one of the leading Paris expatriate magazines. Published and Edited by Edward M. Titus unknown books
1978105021978. Softcover. VG but for museum lib. marks;. Color wraps. 42 pp. 2 color 14 bw plates. Text in French; with biographic material and a brief essay; includes a list of works in the exhibition. paperback books
199326186New York: William Morrow and Company Inc. Fine in Fine dj. c.1993. First Edition. Hardcover. lovely as-new copy with no discernible wear to either book or jacket. B&W photographs INSCRIBED with only the inscribee's first name and SIGNED by the author on the verso of the half-title page with some bleed-through. Bernie Schwartz of the Bronx tells his story "from his boyhood in the Depression-era New York streets -- back when he was a fast-footed quick-witted kid the son of Hungarian-Jewish immigrants -- through forty years as an eminent screen idol. The book pulls no punches: Curtis debunks myths of stardom and glamour with a raw uncensored street-honed New York bite." He rather negated the "The Autobiography" subtitle when he published another one in 2005 "American Prince" which was subtitled "My Autobiography." Signed by Author . William Morrow and Company, Inc. hardcover books
1978302265Paris: Robert Laffont 1978. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Original wrappers. Fine in half purple morocco slipcase and chemise. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed. Memoirs of the wife of the pretender to the French throne Henri d'Orléans. Inscribed by the author on the fly-title and with ANS laid in. Robert Laffont unknown books
19295848Great Neck 1929. unbound. Typed letter signed in full commenting on a watch she received from and an advertisement by the Helbros Watch Company. 1 page on personal stationery measuring 7" x 10.5" in part: ".I understand that you conceived and executed.this advertisement. It has been done extremely well and you are to be complimented on your work." Kenwood Great Neck NY November 9 1929. Very good condition.<br/><br/> Aviator with Curtiss Flying Services.<br/><br/> unknown books
1936023088Assisi: Collegio S. Lorenzo Da Brindisi Dei Minori Cappuccini 1936. xix 147 105p. burgundy buckram ex libris Bibliotheca Seraphico-apuccina. Section historica 2. Collegio S. Lorenzo Da Brindisi Dei Minori Cappuccini unknown books
196925781Paris: Eric Losfeld 1969. First edition. Wrappers very good. 343 p. 19 cm. <br/><br/> Eric Losfeld unknown books
1930WRCLIT57139Paris: Harrison of Paris 1930. Large octavo. Quarter parchment and decorated boards t.e.g. Some foxing throughout the spine shows some sunning otherwise a nice copy in slipcase with sunning along fore-edge. One of 440 numbered copies on Arches from a total edition of 475 copies designed by Monroe Wheeler and printed by Ducros & Colas. The inaugural publication of Harrison and Wheeler's imprint. Harrison of Paris hardcover books
19306159Paris: Harrison of Paris 1930. First Edition Thus/Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine Slipcase. Tight bright and unmarred. Slipcase shows very minor shelf/edge wear else tight and clean. Quarterbound black paper spine silver gilted paper boards black ink lettering teg; slipcase in black paper with silver paper label. 8vo. 71pp. Numbered limited edition this being 228 of 475. <br/><br/>Designed by Monroe Wheeler and printed by Decros & Colas. The first volume printed by Harrison of Paris. Harrison of Paris hardcover books
193918509Paris: Verve 1939. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth lettered in silver spotted and slightly worn. Very good. Original cover designs by Pierre Bonnard and George Rouault. No. 3 includes color lithographs by Chagall Miro and Klee and a host of color lithographs of The Indian Pantheon six in all. No. 4 contains three color lithographs by Matisse La Danse is double-paged and Andre Derain plus Tacuinum Sanitatus Fourteen Century Book of Health seven pages of color lithographs. Interior contents and original covers clean very fresh and housed in cloth binding. Text in English. Verve hardcover books
1991196262London: Meckler 1991. Softcover. Near Fine. Near fine in wrappers a paperback. Sticker on back cover. Slight shelf rubbing. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information. Meckler paperback books
190311115Paris: Imprimerie Nationale 1903. First edition. Leather Bound. Very Good . First edition. Large quarto. Handsome half-leather bound edition. Black and white photographs protected with tissue guards. 25 pp. Elaborate deco design to spine. Marble endpapers. Text in French. Book documents the visit of the King of France to the Hotel De Ville in 1903. Imprimerie Nationale unknown books
20009004664London: Reaktion Books 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in the publisher's original blue cloth with the spine stamped in silver. <br/><br/> Reaktion Books hardcover books
1998131516Brooklyn NY: Woodside Press 1998. items loosely laid in cloth clamshell box paper front cover label decorated endpapers. Woodside Press. folio. items loosely laid in cloth clamshell box paper front cover label decorated endpapers. unpaginated. Limited to 125 numbered copies signed by the author on colophon. List of contents. A set of eight engravings printed from the artist's original blocks on Cartiere Enrico Magnani Pescia paper. Published previously in Walt Whitman Selections from "Sands at Seventy New York: South Street Seaport Museum. Each item signed and numbered by the artist. Woodside Press unknown books