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1925868921925. BIRDS & FLOWERS Tsuchida EISHO Takeuchi SEIHO artists. EISHO HYAKUCHO GAFU. 4 vols. complete 22.7 X 33.1 cm. Kyoto Unsodo Taisho 3 3 12 14 1914 14 23 25. Profusely illustrated set of images of birds often quite surreal renderings ostensibly after design by Tsuchida Eisho the mid-19th century painter here re-interpreted by Seiho the 20th century master and subtly printed by the Unsodo. Very unusual work complete in a clasped chitsu case. Very good colors impressions condition. A brief notice can be seen at Mitchell p. 249 referencing Brown p.202. unknown books
1933895941933. FLOWERS. KANJI SHÔHIN GASHÛ Kyoto MARIA Gabo Showa 8 1933 29.5 x 41.6 cm. 15 oblong color woodblock prints of flowers many in fan format. Maria Gabo was a very skillful woodblock printing house in the 1930s. Their aesthetic sense differs from others of the period the pallette is subtler the printing more "boneless" - overall a more painterly effect is achieved in this group of prints by two of the most celebrated Kyoto artists of the day Kobayashi Kanji 1892-1974 and Matsumura Suiho. Here MARIA has created prints embellished with all the effects of a deluxe production bokashi mica overprinting etc. etc. The original ribbon-bound boards with printed papertitle label are worn the prints themselves are very good. Very unusual collection MARIA Gabo productions have almost always been broken up for the prints. Complete. unknown books
1975280806New York: Grove Press Inc 1975. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Near Fine dust jacket. A modernist as well as Uranian novel winner and of the 1973 Prix Medicis and translated from the French for this Grove Press Edition. Uncommon. The text block has browned a bit and there is minor toning to the endpapers. The dustjacket is reasonably bright; it has not been price-clipped and is now protected with a new mylar cover. Very Good binding / Near Fine dust jacket. Grove Press, Inc unknown books
198318324London: A5 Albany Piccadilly 1983. 1 vols. 8vo and 4to. To her friend Isabel Leighton Bunker. Primarily concerning personal matters and opinions. The first responds to Mrs. Bunker's earlier letter congratulating her on her "brilliant son-in-law" hoping that Iran is not a powder keg and regretting that the Bunker's wouldn't be going to Europe for the summer. The second written while she is recovering from a leg injury "the cast is off and I'm left in bandages which replace it from toes to knee" and mentions a letter received "I went back to tears when I read the long and sorrowful letter sent me by Prince Ranier. The pain and anguish he feels is heartbreaking.I've alwas loved her but isn't it sad that I didn't know how much until she was gone After 30 years of close friendship sisterly this is a sad truth." And the last letter commences with business stating that she's fired her agent and was looking for another then describes how she snapped off four teeth biting on an English muffin and needed "pinning all together. 1 vols. 8vo and 4to. Fleur Cowles was the editor and publisher of the elaborate fashion magazine "Flair." Her husband Gardner Cowles was the editor of "Look." Isabel Leighton later Mrs. Arthur Hugh Bunker was a war correspondent playwright actress radio personality and author and very active with various social responsibilites. She was the author of "Where Away" and her short story "Fat Girl" was chosen for inclusion among the "100 Best Stories to Come of the War." Her theatrical successes include "Spring Again" and "Mercenary Mary" and as a war correspondent she covered both Asia and Europe with her articles appearing in most of the leading periodicals in the country. A5 Albany, Piccadilly unknown books
1924260689Mexico City: Grupo Cultural 1924. 68p. slender paperback 5.25x7 inches paper toned and fragile mild handling wear very good. Third edition. Vida y Obra tomo VI. A play by the Mexican revolutionary who had died in Leavenworth Prison two years earlier. The play was first performed in Los Angeles in 1915 when Flores Magón and other members of the Mexican Liberal Party were based in the area. Grupo Cultural unknown books
1924260690Mexico City: Grupo Cultural "Ricardo Flores Magón 1924. 83p. slender paperback 5.25x7 inches paper toned mild handling wear very good. Third edition. Vida y Obra tomo VII. A play by the Mexican revolutionary who had died in Leavenworth Prison two years earlier. The play was written in Los Angeles when Flores Magón and other members of the Mexican Liberal Party were based in the area. Grupo Cultural "Ricardo Flores Magón unknown books
1993165329Lima Peru: Banco de Credito del Peru 1993. Hardcover. VG/G. Dust jacket has some creases through center rips along edges shelf wear. Some soiling on cloth along bottom edges. Pages slightly creased along bottom near gutter. Clean and tight interior. Orange cloth over boards with red lettering. Color pictorial dust jacket with white spine. xxii; 359 pp. A plethora of color illustrations. Coleccion Arte y Tesoros del Peru. Text in Spanish. Banco de Credito del Peru hardcover books
1982129045Culver City CA: Columbia Pictures 1982. Early Draft script for the 1995 film "Screamers" seen here under its working title "Dragon's Teeth." The script itself is dated 1982 over ten years between script writing and the film's release. Bound at the rear are appendices and a colored map of Soviet and United Nations territories during World War III. Shot on location in Canada. <br/><br/>Based on the 1953 short story "Second Variety" by Philip K. Dick the story takes place in the year 2078 on a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war WWIII where scientists have created the perfect weapon: a self-replicating army of killing machines called "Screamers." They have continued to evolve without any human guidance and eventually seek to destroy all of life. Joe Hendricksson Weller leads a group of soldiers still alive on the mining planet Sirius 6B and decides he must negotiate a peace treaty with enemy forces. To do so he will have to cross a wasteland full of Screamers. <br/><br/>Pale gray titled wrappers dated October 29 1982 with credits for screenwriter O'Bannon and for writer Dick. Title page present dated October 29 1982 with credits for screenwriter O'Bannon and for writer Dick. 126 leaves mimeograph duplication. Pages Fine wrapper Fine bound with three gold brads. <br/><br/>Lentz p. 1494. Columbia Pictures unknown books
1940186269Mexico: Museo Nacional 1940. Softcover. VG- light shelfwear to wraps; light age toning to pages but text and illustrations are otherwise clean. Glassine dj is worn and torn. Off-white wraps with burgundy lettering and mounted color illustration on front cover; glassine dj; 4 preliminary leaves 244 pages 2 leaves portraits some color. At head of title: SecretarÃa de educación pública Instituto nacional de antropologÃa e historia. Text is in Spanish. "Portraits of notable figures in the colonial history of Mexico existing in the National Museum with notes collected from various authors and ordered by the Head of the Department of History of the same Institution" -translated from the title page. Museo Nacional unknown books
195240708NY:: Cowles Magazines 1952. First Edition. Periodical. 4to 229. Articles on various subjects heavily illustrated; some with fold-out or cut pages. Red cloth with cut-out on front. A nice copy. Designed by Federico Pallavicini and printed and bound at the Lakeside Press. An annual issued after the demise of the magazine. In her "Editor's Note" the magazine's founder/editor calls this volume "my reply to those who wrote since the magazine's demise and to the many others I hope still wonder with some yearning about Flair. I bring it back as a book in which you will find in the separate folios which follow each an entity in itself each in fact like a slim separate book subjects in which I believe many people will share a common interest with me. You will see them presented with the same physical attributes which distinguished Flair Magazine -- the same beauty and invention and the element of surprise imitations of which have flattered Flair since its suspension. Cowles Magazines unknown books
19751322694New York: Grove Press Inc 1975. First US Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo 265 pages; VG-/VG; spine green with black and blue lettering; dust jacket protected by a mylar cover; price uncut "$7.50"; minimal wear to edges of dust jacket age-toned pages; shelved in case 6. 1322694. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Grove Press, Inc hardcover books
197945320Kent England: Dawson 1979. 1st Edition. Quarter bound with maroon cloth spines over grey linen boards. Gilt stamped spine lettering. A Fine unused set. 4 volumes; 4000 pages. Vol 1: Generalities Philosophy & Religion. Vol 2: Social Sciences Pure Sciences Technology the Arts. Vol 3: Language Literature. Vol 4: Geography & History. Imperial 8vo. 12" x 8-3/8" <br/><br/> Dawson hardcover books
1971140939243San Francisco: Last Gasp Eco-funnies Co 1971. First Edition. Fine. First edition. Black and white photo illustrated wraps. 48 pp. including covers. Printed on rectos only. Staples a bit rusted else Fine and unread. An attractive copy. A souvenir celebration of the Haight Ashbury performance troupe that anticipated many facets of glam rock as well as modern drag and gay performance culture. Last Gasp Eco-funnies Co unknown books
1950012157NY: Cowles Magazines 1950. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near Fine. First issue of the very expensive very short-lived and very highbrow magazine conceived and edited by Fleur Cowles socialite all around swell and wife of magazine magnate John Cowles who published - and financed. Covers a wee dusty remarkably well-preserved. Cowles Magazines unknown books
1972150118020New York: Taplinger Publishing Company 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. 418 p. Very Good in About Very Good dust jacket Name penned on top edge else fine. Jacket has some chips and wear front panel torn and missing chunk chip at back panel rubbing price intact. Nice condition overall. Taplinger Publishing Company hardcover books
19527819New York. Cowles Magazine. 1952. Gilt decorated cloth with date inset to front cover and gilt titled spine. Folio. Hugely illustrated in colour and black & white including many fold-outs. Covers the slightest bit rubbed. Previous owners small book label to front free endsheet not obstructing page decorations. A Fine copy. Cowles Magazine. hardcover books
195035628La Habana: Edit. Marcha 1950. 15cm. Viñetas de René Portocarrero 62p. 1 b/w plate plus ind. pict. wrps. Presentation copy signed by author. One full page illustration and cover illustrations by Portocarrero. Edit. Marcha unknown books
1952D17549Chicago: Cowles Magazines 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Red cloth decorated in gilt with die-cut window; 4to; illustrated throughout in full-color and b/w with several gatefolds. Excellent copy of this book filled with cut-outs and fold-outs and twists and turns that surprise the reader with every turn of the page. Includes a tipped-in book by Katherine Anne Porter entitled "The Flower of Flowers" and an interactive art piece by Salvador Dali entitled "Mimicry of Nature." A gem of avant-garde mixed media. <br/><br/> Cowles Magazines hardcover books
196366403México: INBA Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno 1963. 23cm. Textos de Paul Westheim Justino Fernández José Julio Rodríguez. Prologo y Edicion: Horacio Flores-Sanchez. Segunda Edicion 35p. b/w illus. plus 24 b/w and black and blue plates latter on tracing paper loose as issued in color pict. folio. Wonderful collection of plates of Posada's prints. Plus critical essays in the in honor of the 50th anniversary of Posada's death. Second Edition is really a second printing done in the same year as the first edition. INBA, Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno unknown books
1950281689Highland Springs Virginia: Masonic Home Press Inc 1950. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. A substantial record with the Proceedings of the Grand Annual Communication 298 pp.; a Memorial to the Beloved Dead 5 pp.; Roster of the Working Lodges Under the Jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Virginia 389 pp.; List of Elective Grand Officers 4 pp.; and an Appendix containing Report of Committee on Fraternal Correspondence 56 pp. and Report of the Board of Governors of the Masonic Home of Virginia for 1949 35 pp. plus an Index. With a frontispiece photographic portrait of Grand Master Enoch Flowers. In the publisher's blue wrappers with some repair to the bottom of the spine and the front panel. An uncommon Virginia masonic item. Very Good binding. Masonic Home Press, Inc unknown books
1995174219New York: Abbeville Publishers 1995. Hardcover. VG/VG museum label inside front cover. Teal cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine glossy color illustrated dj 383 pp profusely illustrated in bw and color illustrations. Oversized. Professor Francesca Flores d'Arcais's chronological survey of Giotto's life and work incorporates an impressive range of sources from fourteenth-century Latin and Italian documents to the most recent art-historical investigations. Her international research leads her to important re-attributions of Giottesque paintings and to new insights regarding the execution and dating of famous and less well-known works. The engaging text is illustrated by hundreds of oversize superbly reproduced photographs - some on double gatefold pages. The illustrations are drawn from new photography of Giotto's paintings many of which have been recently restored to their original brilliance. Includes bibliographical references pages 375-379 and indexes. Abbeville Publishers hardcover books
19732445LEICESTER COG PRESS 1973 1973. Fine first edition. 5 monotype plates by Rigby Graham. Green cloth stamped in red. Acetate dust jacket. Number 65 of 150 numbered copies. F. Hardcover. LEICESTER, COG PRESS, 1973 hardcover books
1942WRCLIT52065Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1942. Cloth. First edition. Translations by various hands. About fine in very good slightly edgeworn and modestly darkened dust jacket featuring a pictorial design by Covarrubias. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
19961337542New York: HarperCollins 1996. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Folio; 329 pages; VG-/VG- housed in publisher's red clamshell; Red spine with no text; Clamshell has minor bumping to corners; Dustjacket has minor edgewear; Boards have slight bumping to corners; Textblock has a few brown marks on last printed page otherwise clean; Shelved front table. 1337542. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. HarperCollins hardcover books
199946166NY: Rizzoli 1999. Hardcover. Very good. Second Edition. Very good hardback in a lightly worn jacket. <br/><br/> Rizzoli hardcover books
