• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Facebook Twitter Google-plus

USED

OUT-OF-PRINT

Browsing is Arousing ™ words surrounding shape of eye around books on shelves.

RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS 

  • books@browsingisarousing.com
  • Your Cart
  • Home
  • *Book Beat Archives
  • About Us
  • Glossary
  • Policies
    • How to Pay
    • Returns
    • Shipping
  • Subscribe to Browser’s Book Beat
You are here: Home / Shop Online

Edit My Account  |  View Shopping Cart  
Sort By:  
Search Results for Keyword(s):term Art term  (matching all words)
Search found 9343 matching products.
Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstockby: Searl, Marjorie B./Ronald Netsky

Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock
by: Searl, Marjorie B./Ronald Netsky

Softcover. Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery University of Rochester, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Softcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611851

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Leaving Home: A Conducted Tour of Twentieth-century Music with Simon Rattle by: Michael Hall

Leaving Home: A Conducted Tour of Twentieth-century Music with Simon Rattle
by: Michael Hall

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Music's confrontation with modernity has been difficult, and has often involved the artist leaving his country for political and social reasons. In the company of a range of performers,this work reflects the difficulties encountered and the audiences' often reluctant attitude towards them.

Record # 378638

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics, and Astronomyby: Ferguson, James/C. F. Partington

Lectures on Select Subjects in Mechanics, Hydrostatics, Pneumatics, Optics, and Astronomy
by: Ferguson, James/C. F. Partington

Hardcover. London, Sherwood and Co., Later Edition, 1825, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 463 pages. Hardcover. Reprint edition dated 1825 - "A New and Improved Edition, Adapted to the Present State of Science by C. F. Partington". Illustrated with black & white drawings, diagrams. Body of book rebound in current covers at some point. Front hinge cracked, cloth tape along spine is weak, with faint remains of title label. Top 2" of title page missing. Light to moderate foxing to some plates/pages. Sold 'As-Is'.

Record # 612231

Price: $70.00 
Quantity:

Lee Friedlander - Dressing Up: Fashion Week NYCby: Lee Friedlander, Kathy Ryan

Lee Friedlander - Dressing Up: Fashion Week NYC
by: Lee Friedlander, Kathy Ryan

Hardcover. New Haver CT, Yale University , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages, 59 plates in duotone, large format. Friedlander ventures into new territory, turning his eye to the rarefied world of fashion and revealing precisely what is commonplace about it: behind the glamorous spectacle of the runway are many people hard at work. The photographs, commissioned by the 'New York Times Magazine,' were taken in 2006 during New York Fashion Week, when the artist spent time backstage at the Marc Jacobs, Donna Karan, Calvin Klein, Zac Posen, Oscar de la Renta, and Proenza Schouler shows. The resulting images, many of which are published here for the first time, depict a flurry of toiling stylists, dressers, makeup artists, photographers, and models--all of them preparing, but not quite prepared, for an image to be taken.

Record # 358034

Price: $40.00 
Quantity:

Lee Friedlander The Nudes: A Second Lookby: Friedlander, Lee

Lee Friedlander The Nudes: A Second Look
by: Friedlander, Lee

Hardcover. New York, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. 168 pages. 84 black and white photos. Edited by: Sharon Helgason Gallagher. "Lee Friedlander`s exploration of one of photography`s most enduring genres began almost by chance, in the late 1970s, when a teacher colleague at Rice University in Houston lined up a regular schedule of nude models for his students. Almost immediately, Friedlander found that he preferred to photograph the models at their homes, and ingeniously deployed household objects such as bedside lamps, potted plants and sofa fabrics to play off against the angular poses of the models and the emphatic framing of the overall composition. "

Record # 352182

Price: $85.00 
Quantity:

Lee Miller and Roland Penrose: The Green Memories of Desireby: Slusher, Katherine

Lee Miller and Roland Penrose: The Green Memories of Desire
by: Slusher, Katherine

Softcover. Prestel, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Roland Penrose met Lee Miller's lips a year before he met the rest of her - in a painting by Man Ray. It was a fitting introduction for two artists who were linked by an art movement that delighted in chance encounters. Together they forged a life joined by a common cause - surrealism. This illustrated joint biography tells the story of how a fashion model turned photographer and an English Quaker turned art collector and surrealist painter influenced modern art with their vision and passion, and created a life together that was in itself a work of art.

Record # 362716

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Lee Miller: Photographs by: Penrose, Antony

Lee Miller: Photographs
by: Penrose, Antony

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale rose boards with photo label on front cover. Over one hundred of the most outstanding photographs taken by photographer, model, and surrealist muse Lee Miller, Introduced to photography at an early age, Lee Miller honed her craft in Paris, where she associated with the Surrealists and avant-garde artists including Jean Cocteau and Picasso. Together with Man Ray she accidentally discovered the distinctive technique of solarization to create mesmerizing halo effects. After establishing her own photographic studio in New York, where she became a prominent commercial photographer, she then moved to the Middle East and Europe before becoming the official war photographer for Vogue, a period during which she took many of her most iconic photographs. This evocative book collects Lee Miller's most famous documentary, fashion, and war works, as well as photographs of Miller, all carefully compiled by her son the photographer Antony Penrose, with a foreword by actress Kate Winslet, Cllean copy.

Record # 385905

Price: $60.00 
Quantity:

Legends of Arzach: Gallery Two - The Whit Pteronby: Lofficier, R.J.M.

Legends of Arzach: Gallery Two - The Whit Pteron
by: Lofficier, R.J.M.

Softcover. Northampton MA, Tundra, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover folder. A series of 8 individual full color plates from a talented line-up of artists, including Moebius, Frank Kelly Freas, Leo Duranona, Will Eisner, Eric Shanower, Kevin O'Neill, Mike Zeck. Jaime Hernandez & Michael Zulli , which depict scenes from a story by R.J.M. Lofficier. This edition is part one of a six part series. Portfolio, 8 illustrated plates, Title plate, & 4 page story Booklet.

Record # 411107

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Leibniz (Classic Thinkers)by: Arthur, Richard T. W.

Leibniz (Classic Thinkers)
by: Arthur, Richard T. W.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Polity, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 231 pages. Few philosophers have left a legacy like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He has been credited not only with inventing the differential calculus, but also with anticipating the basic ideas of modern logic, information science, and fractal geometry. He made important contributions to such diverse fields as jurisprudence, geology and etymology, while sketching designs for calculating machines, wind pumps, and submarines. But the common presentation of his philosophy as a kind of unworldly idealism is at odds with all this bustling practical activity. In this book Richard. T. W. Arthur offers a fresh reading of Leibniz's philosophy, clearly situating it in its scientific, political and theological contexts. He argues that Leibniz aimed to provide an improved foundation for the mechanical philosophy based on a new kind of universal language. His contributions to natural philosophy are an integral part of this programme, which his metaphysics, dynamics and organic philosophy were designed to support. Rather than denying that substances really exist in space and time, as the idealist reading proposes, Leibniz sought to provide a deeper understanding of substance and body, and a correct understanding of space as an order of situations and time as an order of successive things. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386490

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Leni Riefenstahl-Five Lives: A Biography in Picturesby: Walk Ines; Leni Riefenstahl

Leni Riefenstahl-Five Lives: A Biography in Pictures
by: Walk Ines; Leni Riefenstahl

Hardcover. Koln GR, Taschen, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages. One remarkable woman, five remarkable careers: Leni Riefenstahl is the exception to the rule. From dancer to actress to film-maker to photographer to diver, she has excelled in each field and is one of the most important and controversial artists of the 20th century. Her contributions to the art and technique of film-making were vast, most notably in her epochal film "Olympia" (1938). Critically acclaimed during the 1930's for her work under the Hitler administration and harshly criticized after the war, Riefenstahl surged on, completing the famous "Tiefland" in 1954. In the 1960s and 70s she traveled to Africa and extensively photographed East Africa and the Nuba tribes in Sudan, publishing three books. Ready for yet another change, she took up deep-sea diving at the age of 71, beginning a new chapter as an underwater photographer. Though she has attracted much attention throughout her life and has been the subject of many books, articles, and films, Leni Riefenstahl Five Lives is the first book to showcase her entire career in pictures. Produced in collaboration with Riefenstahl herself, the book includes her most famous images as well as many previously unpublished pictures from her private archives.

Record # 360923

Price: $40.00 
Quantity:

Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahlby: Bach, Steven

Leni: The Life and Work of Leni Riefenstahl
by: Bach, Steven

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages. The definitive biography of Leni Riefenstahl, the woman best known as "Hitler's filmmaker," one of the most fascinating and controversial personalities of the twentieth century. It is the story of huge talent and huger ambition, one that probes the sometimes blurred borders dividing art and beauty from truth and humanity. Relying on new sources--including interviews with her colleagues and intimate friends, as well as on previously unknown recordings of Riefenstahl herself--Bach gives us an exceptional work of historical investigation that untangles the past and is also an objective but unsparing appraisal of a woman of spectacular gifts corrupted by ruthless personal ambition.

Record # 362412

Price: $25.00 
Quantity:

Leon Battista Alberti: on Painting: A New Translation and Critical Editionby: Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti: on Painting: A New Translation and Critical Edition
by: Leon Battista Alberti

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st thus, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 214 pages, b&w illustrations. In this volume Rocco Sinisgalli presents a new English translation and critical examination of Alberti's seminal text. Leon Battista Alberti was one of the most important humanist scholars of the Italian Renaissance. Active in mid-fifteenth-century Florence, he was an architect, theorist, and author of texts on perspective and painting. Alberti's On Painting is a cardinal work that revolutionized Western art. In this volume, Sinisgalli reverses the received understanding of the relationship between the Italian and Latin versions of Alberti's treatise by demonstrating that Alberti wrote it first in Italian and then translated it into a polished Latin over the course of several decades. This volume is richly illustrated to help demonstrate how Alberti understood optics and art.

Record # 386912

Price: $80.00 
Quantity:

Leon Knoll: A Spoken Memoirby: Hale, Nancy & Fredson Bowers

Leon Knoll: A Spoken Memoir
by: Hale, Nancy & Fredson Bowers

Hardcover. Charlottesville, NC, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 140 pages + 163 b&w prints. Monograph of a painter who carried the standard of realism through the 20th century while the artistic movement raced toward abstraction. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine and white pictorial dust jacket. Like new, in shrinkwrap.

Record # 805408

Price: $40.00 
Quantity:

Leonardo Da Vinci: Engineer and Architectby: Theberge, Pierre

Leonardo Da Vinci: Engineer and Architect
by: Theberge, Pierre

Hardcover. Monteal, Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages plus 8 pages in rear. Large, hardcover exhibition catalog profusely illustrated with DaVinci's drawings. Some color fade to the dust jacket spine otherwise very good.

Record # 406638

Price: $50.00 
Quantity:

Leonardo Da Vinciby: Isaacson, Walter

Leonardo Da Vinci
by: Isaacson, Walter

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, First Edition, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 599 pages. Hardcover. Wine cloth boards with gilt titles to spine & illustrated, sepia toned endpapers. Profusely illustrated in full color & black & white, images beautifully presented to accompany text. Bright dust jacket with marginal wear. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 750729

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Leonardo da Vinciby: Zubov, V. P.

Leonardo da Vinci
by: Zubov, V. P.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with black printed titles to mustard cloth spine. Dust jacket with moderate toning & light wear to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Illustrations in bw throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751105

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamerby: Byrd, Robert

Leonardo: Beautiful Dreamer
by: Byrd, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated cardboard covers, illustrated throughout in color by Byrd, 48 pages. Famous in his time as a painter, prankster, and philosopher, Leonardo da Vinci was also a musician, sculptor, and engineer for dukes, popes, and kings. What remains of his work-from futuristic designs and scientific inquiry to artwork of ethereal beauty-reveals the ambitious, unpredictable brilliance of a visionary, and a timeless dreamer. Robert Byrd celebrates this passionate, playful genius in a glowing picture book replete with the richness and imagination of Leonardo's own notebooks. Twenty lavish spreads, including side drawings, supplemental texts, and quotes from Leonardo's writings, highlight distinct periods and make the master's art, jokes, explorations, and inventions wonderfully vivid and accessible. A striking tribute to an irrepressible mind and to the potential within all who are curious.

Record # 370890

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Leonardo: The Last Supperby: Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla/Pietro C. Marani

Leonardo: The Last Supper
by: Barcilon, Pinin Brambilla/Pietro C. Marani

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 440 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase. Full color and black & white illustrations. Beautiful copy with light sunning to dust jacket spine, Clean, tight copy. The technical problems with the Last Supper began as soon as Leonardo started to paint it. He jettisoned the traditional fresco technique of applying paint to wet plaster, a method unsuited to Leonardo's slow and thorough execution, and created the work instead with an experimental technique that involved painting directly on the dry plaster. With this renegade method, Leonardo rendered one of the most enduring painting techniques volatile and unstable. Added to this initial complication have been centuries of pollution, tourists, candle smoke, and the ravages of age, not to mention food fights in the refectory staged by Napoleonic soldiers and Allied bombs in 1943. By the middle of the twentieth century, the Last Supper was in desperate need of a complete restoration. Pinin Brambilla Barcilon was chosen to head this twenty-year project, and Leonardo, The Last Supper is the official record of her remarkable effort. It first documents the cleaning and removal of the overpainting performed in the other attempts at restoration and then turns to Barcilon's meticulous additions in watercolor, which were based on Leonardo's preparatory drawings, early copies of the painting, and contemporary textual descriptions. This book presents full-scale reproductions of details from the fresco that clearly display and distinguish Leonardo's hand from that of the restorer. With nearly 400 sumptuous color reproductions, the most comprehensive technical documentation of the project by Barcilon, and an introductory essay by art historian and project codirector Pietro C. Marani that focuses on the history of the fresco,

Record # 458394

Price: $80.00 
Quantity:

Leonardo; A Study in Chronology and Style by: Pedretti, Carlo

Leonardo; A Study in Chronology and Style
by: Pedretti, Carlo

Hardcover. NY, Johnson Reprint Corporation, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages, illustrated with 22 color plates and 177 in b&w. Contents: 1). Preface. 2). Major events in Leonardo's life. 3). The river. 4). The fiction. 5). Hercules. 6). Leda. 7). Bacchus. 8). Epilogue. 9). Bibliography. 10). Index. Smaller ownership sticker on inside front cover otherwise bright and clean.

Record # 385934

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Leonid Lerman: The Last Manby: Leonid Lerman

Leonid Lerman: The Last Man
by: Leonid Lerman

Softcover. NY, McKee Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 48 pages illustrated in color. Essay by Randy Rosen.

Record # 398922

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

LeRoy Neiman - Art & Life Style by: Neiman, LeRoy

LeRoy Neiman - Art & Life Style
by: Neiman, LeRoy

Hardcover. New York, Felicie, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 285 pages. Lavishly Illustrated with 300 color and 50 black & white plates. Previous owners stamp embossed on title page. Light sun fading along top edge. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 510470

Price: $30.00 
Quantity:

Leroy Neiman 2015by: Leroy Neiman

Leroy Neiman 2015
by: Leroy Neiman

Softcover. San Francisco, Franklin Bowles Galleries, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 128 pages illustrated in color. Features over 150 works of art on paper by the famous Playboy illustrator.

Record # 363175

Price: $35.00 
Quantity:

LeRoy Neiman Retrospective 1949-1975by: LeRoy Neiman; Malcolm E Lein; Minnesota Museum of Art

LeRoy Neiman Retrospective 1949-1975
by: LeRoy Neiman; Malcolm E Lein; Minnesota Museum of Art

Softcover. St. Paul MN, Minnesota Museum of Art, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages. Paintings; Drawings; Watercolors; Prints 1949 - 1975. 50 color and b&w illustrations.

Record # 371772

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Les 3 Formules du Professeur Sato - Tome 1 Les Adventures de Blake et Mortimerby: Jacobs, E.P.

Les 3 Formules du Professeur Sato - Tome 1 Les Adventures de Blake et Mortimer
by: Jacobs, E.P.

Hardcover. Bruxelles, Dargaud, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 48 pages illustrated in color by Jacobs. Clean, bright copy. FRENCH TEXT.

Record # 410878

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Les 3 Formules du Professeur Sato - Tome 2  Les Adventures de Blake et Mortimerby: Jacobs, Edgar P.

Les 3 Formules du Professeur Sato - Tome 2 Les Adventures de Blake et Mortimer
by: Jacobs, Edgar P.

Hardcover. Bruxelles, Dargaud, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards, 48 pages illustrated in color by Jacobs. Clean, bright copy. FRENCH TEXT.

Record # 410879

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Les Dessins Tex Avery: 1908-1980by: Brion, Patrick

Les Dessins Tex Avery: 1908-1980
by: Brion, Patrick

Softcover. Paris, Nathan Image, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Unpaginated. Approximately 175 pages, mostly color reproductions of Avery's storyboard drawings from his glory years at Warner Bros. and MGM. FRENCH TEXT. This lavishly illustrated reference is shot from the original storyboards of Avery's various cartoons shorts. These are annotated by Avery in pencil. For any fan of American cartoon shorts & Tex Avery in particular, this is an essential guide.

Record # 404721

Price: $40.00 
Quantity:

Les Maitres de l'Affiche Cassandreby: Weill, Alain

Les Maitres de l'Affiche Cassandre
by: Weill, Alain

Softcover. Bibliotheque de l'Image, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oversize softcover, 63 pages, French text with color illustrations throughout. Cover edge and spine fade and previous owner's embossed stamp on title page, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Record # 853895

Price: $30.00 
Quantity:

Les Miniatures russes du XIe au XVe siecleby: Popova, O.

Les Miniatures russes du XIe au XVe siecle
by: Popova, O.

Hardcover. Leningrad, Aurora Art Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 170 pages. Brown cloth w/ color pictorial label on front. Color pictorial slipcase shows minor edgewear. Text in French, captions next to pictures also in English. Beautiful color plates throughout. Tight, clean, unmarked.

Record # 804213

Price: $40.00 
Quantity:

Les Peuples De La Nuit. Aux Frontieres De L'Impossible Une Aventure D'Haxtur by: Victor de la Fuente

Les Peuples De La Nuit. Aux Frontieres De L'Impossible Une Aventure D'Haxtur
by: Victor de la Fuente

Hardcover. FR, Dargaud, 1st thus, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 48 pages illustrated in color. FRENCH LANGUAGE, graphic novel. Clean copy.

Record # 385953

Price: $22.00 
Quantity:

Les Picasso d'Arles /The Arles Picassos by: Picasso, Pablo/Moutashar, Michele

Les Picasso d'Arles /The Arles Picassos
by: Picasso, Pablo/Moutashar, Michele

Softcover. Collection du Musee Reattu , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 110 pages, 4to in French wraps. Color and b&w reproductions. Clean, bright copy. FRENCH TEXT.

Record # 374270

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Les Vacances De Zephir (FRENCH EDITION)by: Jean De Brunhoff

Les Vacances De Zephir (FRENCH EDITION)
by: Jean De Brunhoff

Hardcover. Paris, Hachette, 1st, 1936, Hardcover Copyright page date of 1936. Printed by Buttner, Saint-Ouen. Large format edition. 40 pages. Book in very good condition. Original Pictorial boards with Ivory cloth spine. Pages in nice condition with bright colors, French text in calligraphy. Charming large color art on almost every page to accompany the story. Yellow endpapers illustrated with a long chain of gray elephants. Title page illustrated with vignette of a monkey family sitting at their dinner table. Some wear to edge of boards, especially corners. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, some spotting to rear cover, otherwise clean.

Record # 372579

Price: $100.00 
Quantity:

Lessons in Classical Drawing: Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier by: Aristides, Juliette

Lessons in Classical Drawing: Essential Techniques from Inside the Atelier
by: Aristides, Juliette

Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards with a gray cloth spine. The practice of drawing distilled to its essential elements. The companion DVD enclosed inside, beautifully filmed in Florence, Italy, provides real-time drawing lessons so that any gaps in the learning process are filled in with live instruction. In this elegant and inspiring primer, master contemporary artist and author Juliette Aristides breaks down the drawing process into small, manageable lessons; introduces time-tested principles and techniques that are easily accessible; and shares the language and context necessary to understand the artistic process and create superior, well-crafted drawings. Clean copy.

Record # 382124

Price: $18.00 
used 
1125654:+:0
Quantity:

Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublimeby: Jean-Francois Lyotard

Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime
by: Jean-Francois Lyotard

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st transl., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 246 pages. Philosophical aesthetics has seen an amazing revival over the past decade, as a radical questioning of the very grounds of Western epistemology has revealed that some antinomies of aesthetic experience-and in particular of the limits of the aesthetical-can be viewed as a general, yet necessarily open model for human understanding. In this revival, no text in the classical corpus of Western philosophy has been more frequently discussed than the complex paragraphs modestly inserted into Kant's Critique of Judgment as sections 23-29: the Analytic of the Sublime. This book is a rigorous explication de texte, a close reading of these sections. First, Lyotard reconstitutes, following the letter of Kant's analysis, the philosophical context of his critical writings and of the European Enlightenment. Second, because the analytic of the sublime reveals the inability of aesthetic experience to bridge the separate realms of theoretical and practical reason, Lyotard can connect his reconstitution of Kant's critical project with today's debates about the very conditions-and limits-of presentation in general.

Record # 374382

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Lester Beall: Trailblazer of American Graphic Designby: Remington, R. Roger

Lester Beall: Trailblazer of American Graphic Design
by: Remington, R. Roger

Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Lester Beall, who died in 1969, was the first graphic designer to receive a one-man exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art (in 1937) and was awarded the 1993 Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Institute of Graphic Artists, a sign of his importance in American graphic design. In full color, this book documents the work of his pioneering 44-year career-advertising, corporate-identity programs, product styling, packaging, exhibits, murals, annual reports, posters, books, and magazines for a wide range of clients, including the U.S. government, the International Paper Company, Martin Marietta Corporation, and many others.

Record # 351270

Price: $50.00 
Quantity:

Let Freedom Swing: Collected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Gospel (SIGNED COPY)by: Reich, Howard

Let Freedom Swing: Collected Writings on Jazz, Blues, and Gospel (SIGNED COPY)
by: Reich, Howard

Softcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 390 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. A swing note is, to the listener of the rhythm, an unexpected note, and it is the spark of life in jazz and its relatives. Whether playing the standards or the most experimental piece, it is how a musician handles these notes--fearlessly or safely--that determines the fate of the performance. Howard Reich's critical writing is similarly unexpected and fearless, and Let Freedom Swing is a collection of the articles from the past three decades that best capture this spirit. Each section of Let Freedom Swing composes a suite, focusing on either a person, place, or scene. Reich gives new life to the standards with his profiles and elegies for such giants as Gershwin, Ellington, and Sinatra. A profile of Louis Armstrong brings out the often angry side of Satchmo but also reveals a more remarkable musician and human being. His open-mindedness makes Reich a particularly astute observer of the experimental and new, from Ornette Coleman to Chicago experimentalist Ken Vandermark. And his observations about street music open our ears to the songs of everyday life. Reich's fearlessness is evident in his writing about daunting subjects, such as the New Orleans music scene after Katrina, the lost legacy of jazz in Panama, and the complicated legacy of "race music" in America. Clean copy.

Record # 381583

Price: $18.00 
Quantity:

Let It Shine : Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collectionby: Spriggs, Lynne E.

Let It Shine : Self-Taught Art from the T. Marshall Hahn Collection
by: Spriggs, Lynne E.

Hardcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 172 pages, filled with impressive folk art in full color on just about every page. Three essays on the collection by Marshall and Lynne E. Spriggs, High Museum of Art's Curator of Folk Art, Joanne Cubbs, the museum's first curator of folk art, and Lynd Roscoe Hartigan, Chief Curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Forword by Michael E. Shapiro, director of the High Museum of Art. In a bright dust jacket.

Record # 351948

Price: $35.00 
Quantity:

Let the Tiger Dieby: Manning Coles

Let the Tiger Die
by: Manning Coles

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, dark blue cloth lettered in red, spine lettering red, leaves tanned. In a worn and chipped dust jacket, 224 pages. Tommy Habledon is both the pursued and the pursuer in this fascinating bit of international intrigue that starts in Sweden and ends on an island off the coast of Spain. No markings.

Record # 382008

Price: $18.00 
used 
1125458:+:0
Quantity:

Letterheads: 100 Years of Great Design 1850 - 1950by: Cabarga, Leslie

Letterheads: 100 Years of Great Design 1850 - 1950
by: Cabarga, Leslie

Softcover. San Francisco , Chronicle Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A history of American typography and graphic design throughout the industrial age. 200 color illustrations throughout.

Record # 353319

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Lettering (SIGNED COPY)by: Anderson, Charles R.

Lettering (SIGNED COPY)
by: Anderson, Charles R.

Hardcover. New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 174 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Yellow cloth covers, dark yellow dust jacket, 207 b&w illustrated figures. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, light edgewear to covers, pages crisp and unmarked, tight binding.

Record # 851270

Price: $25.00 
Quantity:

Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Movemakingby: Rocky Lang and Barbara Hall

Letters from Hollywood: Inside the Private World of Classic American Movemaking
by: Rocky Lang and Barbara Hall

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. Rare notes, memos, and telegrams from Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, Frank Sinatra, Jane Fonda, and more. Letters from Hollywood reproduces in full color scores of entertaining and insightful pieces of correspondence from some of the most notable and talented film industry names of all time--from the silent era to the golden age, and up through the pre-email days of the 1970s. Culled from libraries, archives, and personal collections, the 135 letters, memos, and telegrams are organized chronologically and are annotated by the authors to provide backstories and further context. While each piece reveals a specific moment in time, taken together, the letters convey a bigger picture of Hollywood history. Contributors include celebrities like Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Katharine Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Elia Kazan, Cary Grant, Francis Ford Coppola, Tom Hanks, and Jane Fonda.

Record # 371149

Price: $30.00 
Quantity:

Letters from the East and from the West by: Frederick Hall

Letters from the East and from the West
by: Frederick Hall

Hardcover. Washington DC, F. Taylor and Wm. Morrison, 1st, 1840, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 168 pages in original tan cloth covers with paper spine label. A collection of letters by a college professor written during his travels from 1837-38. They're divided into two parts: Letters from the Valley of the Connecticut River and Letters from the West addressed to the author's wife, then in Baltimore. ( the "West" he visited include Ohio, West Virginia and Kentucky). Three-page preface by author. Covers with light soil, bottom of spine frayed, front endpaper gone so volume opens to title page. No markings.

Record # 381659

Price: $80.00 
Quantity:

Letters of Delmore Schwartz by: Phillips, Robert (Ed.)

Letters of Delmore Schwartz
by: Phillips, Robert (Ed.)

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Ontario Review Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages. An intimate account of the sudden rise to literary fame and long, inexorable decline of Delmore Schwartz, a complex and deeply troubled man who was keenly aware of his own inner contradictions, as revealed by his correspondence. Clean copy.

Record # 397594

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

Letters of Edwin Lutyens to His Wife, Lady Emily, Theby: Lutyens, Edwin/Clayre Percy & Jane Ridley (Editors)

Letters of Edwin Lutyens to His Wife, Lady Emily, The
by: Lutyens, Edwin/Clayre Percy & Jane Ridley (Editors)

Softcover. London, Hamish Hamilton Ltd., Reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 454 pages. Softcover with moderate wear to edges, creases to cover & spine. Light foxing throughout & to top edge. Toning to edges. Includes drawings in bw by the author, decorating his letters, memoirs. Over 20 additional portraits in black & white. Clean copy.

Record # 750717

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

Letters of Horatio Greenoughby: Greenough, Frances B.

Letters of Horatio Greenough
by: Greenough, Frances B.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, Reprint, 1970, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None,

Record # 805225

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Letters of John Cowper Powys to His Brother Llewelyn Volume 1: 1902-1925 by: John Cowper Powys

Letters of John Cowper Powys to His Brother Llewelyn Volume 1: 1902-1925
by: John Cowper Powys

Softcover. London, Village Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 367 pages. Volume 1 only. Selected and edited by Malcolm Elwin. With his younger brother Llewelyn, to whom he had been an impressive protective figure since childhood, he spoke almost without reserve, although the tow brothers were fundamentally so different, one from the other, as brothers can be. John's imaginative ability to put himself in another's place, together with his acute awareness of human suffering, made it impossible for him to wound. Llewelyn's vivid, spontaneous and sensual response to life was sometimes not so sensitive to the feelings of others.Had their understanding not been so deeply rooted he might have wounded John by his outspoken criticism of his brother's undisciplined and torrential writing power. But in literary criticism he did not surpass John, who could and did point out flaws in Llewelyn's own work. The Mutual criticism was only one aspect of the constant exchange, when they were apart, of their thoughts and feelings in an unending flow of letters. Spine faded, a clean copy.

Record # 385601

Price: $15.00 
Quantity:

Letters of John Ruskin To Charles Eliot Norton [2 Volumes] by: Ruskin, John

Letters of John Ruskin To Charles Eliot Norton [2 Volumes]
by: Ruskin, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 3rd pr., 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Two hardcover volumes in worn, soiled dust jackets. Dark green cloth covers with gilt titles to upper covers and spines. As a result of djs, both volumes are bright and clean, 261. 243 pages. No markings.

Record # 398038

Price: $70.00 
Quantity:

Letters to Children from Beatrix Potterby: Taylor, Judy (collected and introduced by); Beatrix Potter

Letters to Children from Beatrix Potter
by: Taylor, Judy (collected and introduced by); Beatrix Potter

Hardcover. UK, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white and color . Charming collection of personal letters written by beloved author Beatrix Potter. The collection begins with an 1893 letter to a young friend, Noel Moore, when the youngster was ill; Potter would go on to write many letters, most often to children (particularly to the family of her former governess, Annie Moore), told funny anecdotes about her pets and her holidays, and copiously illustrated them with witty drawings. Clean copy.

Record # 397550

Price: $20.00 
Quantity:

Letters to Horseface: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Journey to Italy 1769 1770 When He Was a Boy of Fourteenby: F. N. Monjo

Letters to Horseface: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Journey to Italy 1769 1770 When He Was a Boy of Fourteen
by: F. N. Monjo

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1975, Book: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Illustrated and designed by Don Bolognese and Elaine Raphael. Ex-library with light marking, residue to endpapers. An epistolary narrative of the musical prodigy's first year in Italy, composed from his detail-laden letters to his younger sister Nannerl. Although the letters themselves are fictional they are based on detailed research and on the hundreds of letters which Mozart and his father both wrote home during their trip. A map of the trip is also included as well as a little biography on some of the main characters.

Record # 380255

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

Letting Loose the Houndsby: Udall, Brady

Letting Loose the Hounds
by: Udall, Brady

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The author's first book. Ten quirky, big-hearted tales from the contemporary West. Clean copy.

Record # 399077

Price: $12.00 
Quantity:

Lewis Carroll's Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The Pennyroyal Edition as designed and illustrated by Barry Moser)by: Lewis Carroll; Barry Moser (Designer &

Lewis Carroll's Alice: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (The Pennyroyal Edition as designed and illustrated by Barry Moser)
by: Lewis Carroll; Barry Moser (Designer &

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st trade, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 146 pages. In "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" the "calculated pandemonium" of the splendidly irrational kingdom of Wonderland is what Barry Moser set out to capture in illustrating the Lewis Carroll classic. In his seventy-five wood engravings, Moser depicts with consummate invention, wit, and skill the quite exceptional inhabitants and sights of Wonderland-the March Hare, the Queen of Hearts, the Cheshire Cat's grin-as reviewed through Alice's eyes. The result is startlingly original.

Record # 362788

Price: $50.00 
Quantity:


Page [ 1  |  2  |  3  |  4  |  5  |  6  |  7  |  8  |  9  |  10  |  11  |  12  |  13  |  14  |  15  |  16  |  17  |  18  |  19  |  20  |  21  |  22  |  23  |  24  |  25  |  26  |  27  |  28  |  29  |  30  |  31  |  32  |  33  |  34  |  35  |  36  |  37  |  38  |  39  |  40  |  41  |  42  |  43  |  44  |  45  |  46  |  47  |  48  |  49  |  50  |  51  |  52  |  53  |  54  |  55  |  56  |  57  |  58  |  59  |  60  |  61  |  62  |  63  |  64  |  65  |  66  |  67  |  68  |  69  |  70  |  71  |  72  |  73  |  74  |  75  |  76  |  77  |  78  |  79  |  80  |  81  |  82  |  83  |  84  |  85  |  86  |  87  |  88  |  89  |  90  |  91  |  92  |  93  |  94  |  95  |  96  |  97  |  98  |  99  |  100  |  101  |  102  |  103  |  104  |  105  |  106  |  107  |  108  |  109  |  110  |  111  |  112  |  113  |  114  |  115  |  116  |  117  |  118  |  119  |  120  |  121  |  122  |  123  |  124  |  125  |  126  |  127  |  128  |  129  |  130  |  131  |  132  |  133  |  134  |  135  |  136  |  137  |  138  |  139  |  140  |  141  |  142  |  143  |  144  |  145  |  146  |  147  |  148  |  149  |  150  |  151  |  152  |  153  |  154  |  155  |  156  |  157  |  158  |  159  |  160  |  161  |  162  |  163  |  164  |  165  |  166  |  167  |  168  |  169  |  170  |  171  |  172  |  173  |  174  |  175  |  176  |  177  |  178  |  179  |  180  |  181  |  182  |  183  |  184  |  185  |  186  |  187  ]
  
Sitemap

Primary Sidebar

Browsing is Arousing Online Bookstore: Used Books, Rare Books, Out of Print Books, Antiquarian Books, Arts, Photography, Children's, Illustrated Books, on-line, web, internet shopping

Search by Title, Author, or Keywords


See our INDEXED CATALOGS

Popular Search Catalogs

  • Agriculture
  • American History
  • Animals & Nature
  • Antiques & Collectibles
  • Architecture
  • Art
  • Biography*
  • Black Studies
  • Building, Constuction, Engineering
  • Children's
  • Cooking & Food
  • Countries (World History)
  • Crafts
  • Economics
  • Fiction*
  • Film & Movies
  • Gardening
  • Graphic Arts
  • Health & Medicine
  • Illustrated
  • Law
  • Literature
  • Math & Physics
  • Mid-East
  • Military
  • Music
  • Mysteries*
  • Philosophy
  • Photography
  • Poetry *
  • Religion
  • Science Fiction & Fantasy*
  • Sciences
  • Social Sciences
  • Sports
  • Transportation
  • Travel
  • * Inventory in the thousands. Please search by author, title or subject.

Copyright © 2025 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in