Hardcover. London, Routledge, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 198 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, England, built in the early 1800s by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Sir John Soane. The book maps the influences, references, connections, extensions, and productions at play in Soane's house-museum. The house, still a public museum, was highly original in its period, and it continues to influence and impress architects and historians alike. Today's visitor is confronted by a dense, complex series of spaces, a strange aCCU1mulation of rooms, objects and effects. This book examines the ways in which Soane enlisted light, shadow, color, fiction and narrative, vistas, spatial complexity, the fragment, and the mirror to produce a spectacular space. No dj issued, clean copy.
Hardcover. Leicester UK, Brown Watson, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Novelty pop-up book with all 6 pop-ups in excellent condition. Originally published in Czechoslovakia in 1971
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 211 pages. Hardcover. Not ex-library. Black and white illustrations by Paul Brown. Front and rear endpapers illustrated in red. Part of the Clara Ingram Judson "They Came From" series. Green cloth covers with title in black on front cover and spine. Dust jacket with chipping and some tape repaired tears along edges - Jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Book listed on rear inside flap is "The Lost Violin". A few rough page edges from closed pages being opened by original owner. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY PRONZINI on the title page. Discussion of the really bad English and American crime novels of 20th century. Introduction by Ed McBain. Index, bibliography. Clean copy.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 255 pages. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Second paperback printing. Bright and clean. Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543), one of the most versatile and admired painters of the Northern Renaissance, trained under his father in Augsburg and then worked for leading patrons in Switzerland before settling in England as Court Painter to Henry VIII. To commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of the artist's birth, Oskar Batschmann and Pascal Griener offer this richly illustrated book the first comprehensive monograph on the artist to appear in more than forty years which is a major advance in our understanding of Holbein's contribution to European art.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound volume of every issue for 1863. Profusely illustrated, Exceptional condition. Clean. Extra shipping charges may apply. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Konemann/Aperture, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 95 ages, 41 B/w plates. Essay by poet Jonathon Williams; notes-comments interfaced with photos by Callahan.
Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 314 pages, hardcover, b&w photographs. Fascinating account of the Strikebreaker King who was hired by manufacturers in the 1930s to cripple (sometimes literally) the efforts of striking workers. Frontispiece loose, ex-library copy, light soil to covers, overall good.
Hardcover. Washingtonb, DC, Philip Wilson, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A hardcover exhibition catalog. 75 color, 70 black & white illustrations, 240 pages. Clean, bright copy in a similar dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co., 5th Ed., 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, illustrated with b&w photographs and maps (some fold-out). Navy blue cloth with gilt titles on spine, gilt battleship on front covers, top edge gilt. Vol. 1 with frontispiece and title page loose (easily repairable), rear hinges cracked, Vol. 2 opened roughly at page 80-81, otherwise a clean, sharp set.
Hardcover. Greenwich CT, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket. 322 pages. 100 B&W and color plates and 56 B&W illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket with edgewear. Light brown cloth. Auction stamp on front pastedown. Otherwise, a clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Leicester UK, Brown Watson, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Novelty pop-up book with all 6 pop-ups in excellent condition. Originally published in Czechoslovakia in 1971
Softcover. Seattle WA, Seattle Art Museum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 235 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Red end papers. Marking on copyright page. Light edge wear to wrappers. Very light foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Jane's Information Group, 19th, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 920 pages, photographs and illustrations throughout. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 364 pages, b&w illustrations. As the most learned and eminent public lawyer in Germany, a busy administrator, and a prolific writer, Moser (1701-85) lived and breathed the political order. His correspondence, memoranda, and manuscript autobiography reflect the intricate day-to-day operations of the empire, and his fascinating life is a microcosm of the life and style of the empire itself. The biography provided a comprehensive picture of the empire between the Thirty Years War and the revolutionary era. Dust jacket spine faded otherwise very good, clean.
Softcover. New York, Kennedy Galleries, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Unpaginated, illustrated throughout with 86 plates in color and b&w. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Slight wear to edges and spine, else a very nice, tight copy.
hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st thus, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, first printing with all numbers present, no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Taback. Winner of the 2000 Caldecott Award. Clean, unmarked copy with with the die-cut holes in pages. Joseph begins the story with a little overcoat but when it gets old & shabby he cuts it down into a jacket. The bright and delightful artwork is done in watercolor, gouache, pencil, ink & collage and aided by die-cuts throughout. Taback did a book about this song in 1976 and re-illustrates it here.
Hardcover. New York, Wiley & Halsted, 2nd Ed., 1822, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 246, 256 pages, two volumes bound as one. A total of 6 engraved plates - 2 illustrations in vol. I and 4 illustrations in vol. II, but lacks the map, an illustration at page 20, fold-out chart and frontispiece portrait that some dealers describe. Polished brown calf with leather label, gilt lettering still very readable. Previous owner's small stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Canberra AU, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages, b&w illustrations. The author became interested in Karo Araua when she heard for the first time the 'Song about Karo', the poem in traditional form in which he was the hero. Most writings about Papua New Guinea deal with the successful people who managed the colonial encounter. Karo, hanged in Port Moresby in 1938, was not successful, but his name lives on among his own people. Clean copy.
Softcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 227 pages, b&w illustrations. A self-made woman with no formal art training, Rose O'Neill (1875-1944) was not only hugely financially successful through her illustration work and the production of Kewpie dolls, but also through her exhibited drawings and sculpture in solo shows in Paris and New York. Kewpie made her a famous figure commercially, but few recognize her today as a serious artist and a political subversive who expressed sympathy for minorities, suffragettes, and victims of intolerance and who struggled with her own expression in a male-dominated field. Clean, bright copy.