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1955544023Lausanne: Editions Clairefontaine 1955. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Introduction by Frigout Arlette. Quarto. 102pp. foldout with map. Near fine in very good dust jacket with some nicking and erosion at the spine ends. Nicely Inscribed by the photographer: "To Pamela & Reid Bird with the friendship of Pierre Verger. Bahia 13th of April 1969." With ownership signature of Pamela Bird. Editions Clairefontaine hardcover
198360734Museum. As New. 1983. Paperback. 096130460X . FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 32 pp. With 30 ills. 16 col. . 22 x 28 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Museum paperback
199668340Ars Nicolai Gmbh. New. 1996. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in German. 324 pp. With 272 ills. 115 col. . 28 x 22 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . Ars Nicolai Gmbh hardcover
1953201623New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket. Owner personalization on FEP. Rubbing along panel edges. Thomas Nelson & Sons hardcover
1953241114049Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited 1953. Hardcover. Very Good. 10x7x2. Please Read Dust Jacket has minor shelf wear - No marks on text - My shelf location - 62-f-6 Thomas Nelson and Sons Limited hardcover
200097762Hatje Cantz 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Volume one. Hatje Cantz hardcover
2000360194Koln Germany: Hatje Cantz 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Kurt Schwitters. The first of three volumes of the entire catalogue raisonne of the German artist Kurt Schwitters this tome covering 1905-1922. Massively heavy oversized volume bound handsomely in bright red cloth over boards with bluish stamped lettering to front cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket illustrated little worn. From the publisher's blurb "Kurt Schwitters was one of the most influential groundbreaking and forward-looking artists of Modernism yet only certain areas of his immensely diverse oeuvre have been thoroughly investigated and catalogued. With this massive first volume of a landmark three-volume catalogue raisonne that oeuvre has now been fully documented for the first time bringing to light many of Schwitters' previously unpublished collages drawings and paintings. This first volume covers the artist's early years from 1905 to 1922 with little-known works from the period prior to World War I as well as the earliest Merz pieces he created between 1918 and 1922. The works are organized chronologically and within years according to genre. The book also features a detailed and illustrated biography of the artist." German and English texts. "Words of Greeting" by Manfred Bodin Harald Quensen and Klaus Rather "Foreword" by Lola Schwitters Bengt Schwitters then an Introduction by Ulrich Krempel Karin Orchard and Isabel Schulz then Karin Orchard and Isabel Schulz contribute Explanatory Notes on the Catalogue Raisonne then followed by Catalogue proper Biography and an Appendix comprising a Glossary a set of Abbreviations Selected Bibliography Publications Used and Cited in Abbreviated Form Solo Exhibitions Exhibitions Cited in Abbreviated Form Index of Titles Index of Locations Index of Provenances Concordances and Photo Credit. Fine black-and-white photographic portrait of the artist at frontis. 636 pp. with 997 illustrations 104 being in black-and-white.Member I.O.B.A. C.B.A. and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes and for sets. Hatje Cantz hardcover
1933313G2857New York: Russell Sage Foundation 1933. Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 185 pages. Index. Bibliographical Note. "Shows the devices whereby the enterprise of moneylending has adapted itself to its changing legal economic and social environments." - Introduction. Prior owner's name and date atop front free endpaper otherwise contents clean bright and unmarked. Binding tight. Moderate wear to publisher's navy cloth adorned with bright gilt lettering. A well-preserved copy. Masui p.1526. Russell Sage Foundation Hardcover
19541301652New York: Thomas Nelson and Sons 1954. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 1312p. Quarto measuring 7 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. A red cloth hardcover book in near fine condition lacking the dustjacket. The spine and the covers are slightly sunfaded but the lettering is still legible. Former owner's name else unmarked. Clean and tight. Contains 12 maps in the back. Covers both the Old and New Testament. Classic commentary and one of the best which expresses a more traditional Catholic view of Holy Scripture. Thomas Nelson and Sons hardcover
1954534917Edinburgh House. GOOD- Reading Copy. 1954. Mass Market Paperback. OSA12 . Edinburgh House paperback
1985SONG0898387426Springer 1985-08-31. 1985. hardcover. Used: Good. 6.22x0.82x9.54. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Springer hardcover
1985DADAX0898387426Springer 1985-08-31. 1985. hardcover. New. 6.22x0.82x9.54. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Springer hardcover
195622459<p>VG OVERSIZE HC w/DJ frontispiece torn otherwise perfect in evrey regard--INDIENS</p> Delpire hardcover
199028832Brazil: Corrupio 1990. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Hardcover with complete Dj. Unpaginated. 249 b/w photo-reproductions. Tere is some indication of waterdamage to rear of Dj. does not affect rear cover or interior. Second edition limited to 1500 colpies. Oblong 4to. Corrupio hardcover
1998x-1850758840Sheffield Academic Pr 1998. Paperback. New. 1st edition. 293 pages. 9.25x6.75x0.25 inches. Sheffield Academic Pr paperback
1968039035United States: AMS Press Inc 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/NO Dustwrapper. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. And the Catalogue of His Library of Manuscripts. The private journals and spirit diaries compiled from the original manuscripts in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford and Trinity College Library Cambridge. Facsimile of 1842 edition. Edited and a short Preface by James Orchard Halliwell. First AMS Edition. Series No I 19. AMS Press Inc. New York USA 1968. viii 102 36pp hb No Dust-wrapper gilt blue cloth front cover marked excessive glue marks from binding otherwise near fine <br/> <br/> AMS Press Inc hardcover
1989BN140948Editorial Gredos 1989. 1989. Hardcover. Elegías <br/><br/>Elegías Antonio Ramírez de Verger ed. Propercio = Sextus Aurelius Propertius Editorial Gredos hardcover
1998BN77847Sprengel Museum 1998. 1998. Kurt Schwitters Werke und Dokumente. Verzeichnis der Bestände im Sprengel Museum Hannover deutsch/englisch <br/><br/> Sprengel Museum unknown
195393726Lausanne: Editions Clairefontaine 1953. First ed. Hardcover. Very good with slight external wear. See photos. Octavo in blue paper-backed illus boards; approx 30p unpaged profusely illus in color. Two-page musical score incuded. Beautifully illustrated! Editions Clairefontaine hardcover
1981109431Corrupio 1981. Hardcover. Good. Glossy harciver no jacket. Bumped corners at spine. Wonderful glossy color illustrations on every page. Corrupio hardcover
19583531<p>Cuba 196 photographies de pierre verger preface et notes de lydia cabreracuba 196 fotografias de pierre vergerprefacio y notas de lydia cabreracuba 196 photographs by pierre verger forewood an notes by lydia cabrera primera edicion la casa belga habana y les presses paris 1958 nueva encuadernacion buen estado el libro esta en tres idiomasfrancesingles y espanol.edicion original con bellas fotografias de pierre vergery con nota introductoria de lydia cabreralibro raro de coleccion.<strong>Pierre Edouard Leopold Verger</strong> nacido el4 de noviembre de 1902 en ParÃs Francia y murió el11 de febrero de 1996 en Salvador de BahÃa Brasil es fotógrafo y etnólogo francés .También llevaba el nombre de <strong>Fatumbi</strong> " Ifa lo hizo renacer"en el idioma Yoruba luego de su iniciación como Babalawosacerdote de Ifa Orunmila la deidad Yoruba de la creación .Dedicará la mayor parte de su obra a las religiones del Golfo de Guinea principalmente Fon y Yoruba y a las religiones afrobrasileñas principalmente Candomblé .Dejó la escuela a los 17 años. A los 30 años tras perder a su familia Pierre Verger inició su carrera como fotógrafo.Su especialidad fue la fotografÃa en blanco y negro las fotografÃas fueron tomadas con una cámara Rolleiflex actualmente en exhibición en el museo de la Fundación Pierre Verger pt en Salvador de BahÃa Brasil.Durante casi quince años viajó por los cuatro continentes y se interesó por muchas civilizaciones</p><p><strong>Lydia Cabrera </strong>La Habana Cuba 20 de mayo de 1899-Miami Florida Estados Unidos 19 de septiembre de 1991 fue una >etnóloga investigadora y narradora cubana. Sus estudios sobre la presencia y huellas de la cultura africana en la isla de Cuba en sus aspectos lingüÃsticos y antropológicos son de ineludible consulta</p><p>Fue asesora de la Junta del Instituto Nacional de Cultura bajo la dictadura de Batista. Trabajos suyos fueron publicados en las revistas francesas <em>Cahiers du Sud</em> <em>Revue de Paris</em> y <em>Les Nouvelles Litteraires</em> y en las cubanas <em>Revista OrÃgenes</em> 1945-1954 <em>Revista Bimestre Cubana</em> 1947 <em>Lyceum</em> 1949 <em>Lunes de Revolución</em> <em>Bohemia</em>.</p><p>Su libro <em>Por qué. cuentos negros de Cuba</em> fue también traducido al francés por Francis de Miomandre ParÃs Gallimard 1954. En <em>El Monte</em> 1954 se dedica por completo a estudiar los orÃgenes de la SanterÃa nacida de la mezcla de las deidades de Yoruba con los santos católicos. <em>Anago:Vocabulario Lucumi</em> es un estudio del lenguaje Lucumi y su adaptación al español.En 1955 publicó su recopilación de <em>Refranes de negros viejos</em> La Habana Eds. CR 1955. Al triunfo de la Revolución se marchó del paÃs​</p><p>En sus primeros libros etnológicos publicados entre 1954 y 1958 comenzando con <em>El Monte</em>; la autora recoge los más importantes fundamentos antropológicos religiosos y culturales del legado afrocubano. Para ello tiene que ganarse la confianza de sus informantes los cuales guardan celosamente el secreto de sus rituales mitos y costumbres. Por otra parte tuvo que desarrollar una profunda investigación de campo que la llevó a moverse por numerosos pueblos y ciudades sobre todo de La Habana Trinidad Las Villas y Matanzas. Para ella lo importante consistÃa en desentrañar "la huella profunda y viva que dejaron en esta isla los conceptos mágicos y religiosos las creencias y prácticas de los negros importados de Ãfrica durante varios siglos de trata ininterrumpida".</p> La casa belga,habana,presses de e aulard,paris france hardcover
1909H5388New York: The Neale Publishing Company 1909. First printing. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition 1909 bound in plain gray-blue cloth no lettering on spine hand-ruled black lines on covers -- possibly a publisher's trial binding as this seems utterly original to the book and not a rebind. Otherwise very good. 369 pp. A romance concerning the love affair between Gypta Levering of a large NY estate and Barron Baxter a dashing and chivalrous gentleman from South Carolina. RARE no copies currently for sale online and only 11 located by OCLC the vast majority in SC & NC libraries plus GA KY and the Library of Congress. The author 1865-1917 was a native of Columbia SC and part of a large family that included the greatest Southern chess player of his time. The Neale Publishing Company hardcover