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. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A Giant Golden Book - Deluxe Edition. 1,500 items illustrated in color by Cornelius DeWitt. Bright, clean copy in a chipped & edgeworn dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, James Gopsill's Sons, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 581 pages, includes many ads. Black cloth spine with ad-illustrated cardboard covers. Covers edgeworn, interior bright and clean.
Hardcover. New Castle DE, Oak Knoll Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 500 pages plus CD. This bibliography documents all phases of Vidal's ongoing remarkable work. It focuses on Gore Vidal as a writer from 1940 through June, 2009. In two volumes (second on CD containing text and images plus 120 pages), this is the definitive, comprehensive, and descriptive bibliography of his work and is a valuable reference book for libraries, collectors, scholars, booksellers. Lacks dust jacket, a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, Bookman Associates, Inc., 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 242 pages. Page after copyright page torn out. Rubbing to corners and spine. Small tear to paper at front hinge.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, Reprint 1904, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription, Sgt. A. A. Niles, 9th Vermont Infantry, Civil War Veteran, Morrisville Vermont on front flyleaf. Gilt title to spine. Light foxing to edges throughout. Overall, clean tight copy.
Hardcover. University Park PA, Penn State University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. Graphic Passion recounts the publication history of nearly fifty books illustrated by Matisse, including masterworks such as Lettrew portugalises, Mallarme's Poisies and his own Jazz. A fantastic production executed with great care. Part of the Penn State series in the history of the book. From 1912 until his death in 1954, Matisse was involved in nearly fifty illustration projects, many of which rank among the greatest artists' books of the twentieth century. He directly participated in page layout, typography, lettering, ornament, cover design, and even the choice of text. Drawing on unpublished correspondence and business documents, this book pays scholarly attention to his illustration methods, typographic preferences, literary sensibilities, and opinions about the role of the artist in the publication process. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Graphis Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, 250 color plates featuring the best poster art of the year from all over the world. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Outstanding creative works by world-renowned designers, selected from thousands of entries and reproduced in full-color, large format reproductions. As a contemporary reference and source of inspiration for successful promotional graphic design, Poster Annual 2002 is conveniently organized into a range of client categories ? from sports, film, architecture, and fashion, to festivals, museums, retail, public service, competitions, and corporate communications. This edition features extensive captions, detailed indexes, and informative credits, making it a valuable resource for designers, art directors, and clients.
Hardcover. Portland, Collectors Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large hardcover, 319 pages. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy. Chronicles the growth of the paperback industry from its 19th century forerunners to its glory days of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Extensively illustrated in color with interesting commentary. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 330 pages. "In Ancient Greece, as today, popular moral attitudes differed importantly from the theories of moral philosophers. While for the latter we have Plato and Aristotle, this insightful work explores the everyday moral conceptions to which orators appealed in court and political assemblies, and which were reflected in nonphilosophical literature. Oratory and comedy provide the primary testimony, and reference is also made to Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and other sources. The selection of topics, the contrasts and comparisons with modern religious, social and legal principles, and accessibility to the non-specialist ensure the work's appeal to all readers with an interest in ancient Greek culture and social life." Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Oxiford University Press, Reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 2111 pages. Blue cloth cover. Gilt titles on spine. Extremely sun-faded spine. Slight wear and soiling to front and back cover. Overall a nice, tight copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Greenfield, Raymond & Co., 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages. Hardcover. Directory of Greenfield, Massachusetts for the years 1904-1905. Features Advertising, Events Calendar, Streets, Avenues, Roads, etc., Greenfield Resident Directory, Greenfield Business Directory, and more. Staining, soiling to covers. Rubbing along leather spine. Pages are clean, unmarked. Good reference copy.
Hardcover. London, Groombridge and Sons, NA, NA, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages. Hardcover. No date. Green cloth covers with gilt titles and decoration, wear along spine hinges, edges. Features 36 tissue guarded full color plates, and many black and white illustrations. Foxing to preliminary pages up to page 2 including full color front and one plate; light foxing scattered throughout book. Interior hinges tender with hinge cloth exposed. Clean, unmarked text.
Softcover. Belmont, CA, Wadsworth Thompson, 1st, 2003 , Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 378 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent, like new. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Looks nearly new and barely used. designed for both beginning and advances drawing classes, this best seller explores all topics, media, and techniques that guide students in mastering basic skills and using those skills creatively and expressively.
Hardcover. Williamsburg, VA, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 3rd pr., 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages, with photographs of original documents. Corner and spine edge fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
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. Burlington VT, The Horn Company, 2nd pr., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 75 pages, cream wrappers with black lettering, gun stock on cover. First published in 1975, this second edition has a glued binding that's not destined to last. All there and in good condition. Scarce reference.
Hardcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 186 pages, 116 illustrations. "The first serious study of the totality of Stickley's accomplishments, especially his architecture", and as a central figure in the American Arts and Crafts Movement as founder of The Craftsman and of the Stickley Workshops. Bibliographical references, pages 169-181. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 171 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor foxing to front flyleaf. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Black and white photographs throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF.
Hardcover. Great Britain, Octopus Publishing Group, Reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover, French Flaps. color illustrations throughout. Text and photography by Dan Lepard. Binding tight. Pages clean and bright. Wrapper glossy, very good. A collection of recipes, personal stories and photographs that capture the breads and home bakers of Europe.
Hardcover. Naperville IL, Sourcebooks MediaFusion, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 502 pages, b&w illustrations. For three decades after World War I, Harlem was the site of burgeoning racial and cultural awareness and ambitions among African Americans. In the opening section of this book, Wintz provides the historical context for what became known as the Harlem Renaissance. In separate sections devoted to poetry, music, politics, art, and the phenomenon of the New Negro, contributors profile many of the era's major figures, including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, W. E. B. DuBois, Paul Robeson, A. Phillip Randolph, and Marcus Garvey. The essays place the Harlem Renaissance in the broader context of an awakening of black culture throughout the U.S. The book contains references to the accompanying CD, which offers 60 minutes of music, poetry, interviews, performances, and speeches, giving voice to the vibrant life of Harlem. Photographs, drawings, book covers, and posters add to the richness of this collection. A fabulous resource on the Harlem Renaissance.
Softcover. Schiffer, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages. Harrison Fisher: Defining the American Beauty is the largest picturial guide to this popular artist ever produced. Nearly 450 color and black and white reproductions of his magazine covers and book illustrations document this important artist's career. Harrison Fisher enjoyed incomparable fame from 1905 to 1920, achieving celebrity status and holding the enviable position of national beauty judge. Fisher portrayed the American woman as an outgoing, lively personality, wealthy and healthy. She rode horses, played tennis, and motored in the new automobiles while holding court for admiring men. Fisher's portrayals of such beauties added market value to dozens of novels as well as hundreds of magazines which clamored for his art on both their covers and inside pages. With Fisher's work extremely hot on the collectibles market, new and seasoned buyers alike will benefit from the advice of antiques dealer and Price Guide author Bruce Magnotti.
Hardcover. Oxford, England, Clarendon Press, 1st Edition, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 627 pages. Hardcover. Sequel to Hegel's Development: Toward the Sunlight 1770-1801(Clarendon Press, 1972). Black cover boards, gilt title and design on spine. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, faded (shelfwear), light agewear, glossy. Harris distinguishes three main phases in Hegel's development over this period: the period of callaboration with Schelling (1801-3); the appearance of a three-part 'phenomenological' system (1803-50; and the emergence of the mature system.
Hardcover. New York, State University of New York Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean unmarked text.
Softcover. New York, Christie's, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover catalog, 234 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 2nd Ed., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 231 pages. (Essays in Judaism series) In this book, master Talmudist and scholar of the Greco-Roman world, the late Professor Saul Lieberman, elucidates words, texts, customs, and practices in either rabbinic or classical literature, often by reference to passages in the other. In Greek in Jewish Palestine, he demonstrates that almost every foreign word and phrase have their raison d'etre in rabbinic literature and that all Greek phrases in rabbinic literature are quotations. Hellenism in Greek Palestine is an inquiry into the spirit of many rabbinic observations and investigations of the facts, incidents, opinions, notions and beliefs to which the Rabbis allude in their statements. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, reprint, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 257 pages, This lavishly illustrated volume is the first comprehensive publication on the Brooklyn Museum's internationally renowned historic costume collection. The nearly 25,000-object collection comprises fashionable women's and men's garments and accessories from the 18th through the 20th century.
Softcover. Santa Monica CA, Arts & Architecture Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages. Building in the hills is an enterprise full of unpleasant surprises and traps just waiting to snare the inexperienced. Arthur Levin, a structural engineer and architect who has been involved in more than 2,000 hillside projects, offers a distillation of his 35 years of experience that will help the uninitiated to avoid the otherwise inevitable pitfalls and traps. The book has many real life examples of the unexpected encounters with unstable land, surface drainage problems, subterranean water, demanding owners, uncooperative building inspectors, inexperienced contractors, and other examples of the author's triumphs and occasional enlightening failures. All of these brief histories are instructive and guaranteed to be of invaluable help to the first or second time hillside designer and builder. More than 110 line drawings illuminate the text.
Hardcover. London, England, Cambridge at the University Press, 2nd Edition Reprint with corrections, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 596 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some agewear (see image). Binding very good. Spine straight. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age. In this book the development of Roman law is traced historically from the earliesst times until the age of Justinian.
Hardcover. Poona, Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1st Thus, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. V - Part II-only. Hardcover. 992 pages of main text plus Epilogue, and 269 page Index. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Waverly, Everett C. Benton, 1st, 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages plus section of ads. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON PRELIMINARY PAGE. Black & white illustrations. Four leaf clovers laid-in. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Munsell & Co., 1st, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 577 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles and decoration on brown cloth covers and leather spine. Illustrated with tissue guarded black & white portraits of prominent figures, residences, institutions, etc. Features full color fold-out map of Long Island. All edges gilt. Spine leather is dry, with moderate surface scuffs/rubbing. Clean, tight. A very nice copy.
Hardcover. Bellows Falls, VT, P.H. Gobie Press, 1st Edition, 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 700 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout including frontispiece. Hinge cracked on front and back endpapers, but binding good. Previous owner's ID stamp on front flyleaf. Brown cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Pages unmarked. History of leaders of the Vermont Baptist church.
Hardcover. Troy NY, William H. Young, 1st, 1876, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on inside front cover. Features black & white illustrations and fold-out maps. Short tear and wrinkle along bottom of fold-out map ('View from corner of Second & Congress Streets 1824') between pages 144-145. Leather covers with rubbing and peeling along edges. Bit of chipping to title label on spine. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York, Johnson Reprint Corporation, Reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Maroon cloth covers. Reprint edition by the Johnson Reprint Corporation 1968. Previous owners stamp embossed on title page. Light moisture spotting to covers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Rutland, Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1st Thus, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 454 pages. Hardcover. Limited to 700 copies this being hand numbered #513. Light foxing to edges. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket price clipped. Includes original slipcase.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1st, 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages plus 36 pages of ads. Hardcover. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Foxing to pages throughout. Small amount of cloth missing at very top of spine. Some minor chipping to cover cloth at edges. Clean, tight.
Hardcover. Weybridge, Weybridge Bicentennial Committee, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 244 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles in gilt. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Minor residue from local historians sticker at bottom edge of covers at spine - not ex-library - no stamping or library marking. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. 1st US, Bulfinch Press, New York, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in full color. Spine slightly cocked. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover set. Volume I: 558 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by Hogarth. Dust jacket quite worn along edges with some tape repair to small tears. Clean, tight copy. Volume II: 557 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by Hogarth. Fore-edge shows slightest foxing. Dust jacket worn along edges with small tears and creases. Clean, tight copy. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT AND SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Holiday House, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 152 pages. Hardcover with black & white illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket with closed tears to front cover. Protected by mylar cover. Clean, tight copy. History of this children's book publishing house followed by chronological listing of all their publications.
Hardcover. New York, Julian Messner, Inc., 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 320 pages plus section of black & white photographs. Light soiling to endpapers. Dust jacket with creases and closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. St. Louis MO, Wrought Iron Range Co., reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages, stiff black card covers. Reprint edition of this combined cookbook and trade catalogue, which changed slightly with each change in stove models. The Model "AB" is the most recent stove depicted on page 12 (circa 1924). Includes recipes for breakfast, beverages, bread, dinner, salads, puddings, and household hints. Prior to and following the recipes is a variety of promotional information about the Wrought Iron Range Company. Illustrated product lists for stoves and accessories, company history, features about prizes and awards, an illustration of their exhibit at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, as well as references for businesses currently using their products. Previous owner's name on last blank page. Otherwise clean. Binding a little shakey but holding.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, Page, and Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Volume to accompany the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 302 pp. Features 20 color plates in addition to 217 other black/white illustrations (mostly photographs). Covers beginnings of New England through the Early Days of the Republic. Development of Interior Architecture and House Decoration from craftsmen influenced by old world style and the evolution.Shows significant wear due to age and water damage. Discoloration throughout, though text still entirely legible and color still vivid in the plates. Edges show significant wear as well. Prior owner's name and date (1929) written in ink twice inside the cover.
Hardcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art]/Yale, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 249 pages, Illustrated throughout, including 386 in color. Publishers' oatmeal cloth with black and orange titles to spine and upper board, with pictorial endpapers, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket featuring Study for "Nighthawks". Clean and bright with no annotation or inscriptions. In-depth visual overview and study of the work of Edward Hopper (1882-1967), one of the greatest American artists of the twentieth century, and his working methods. Multiple illustrations on virtually every page, featuring working sketches, photos of the artist at work, notebooks and final artworks. A brilliant reference work to Hopper's art and methodology. Clean, like new. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six issues of the bi-monthly bound in tan cloth. Clean. Top edge gilt. Articles by and about Eric Kimmel, Margaret Hodges, Natalie Babbitt, Margot Zemach, Penelope Farmer, Virginia Hamilton, Isaac Bashevis Singer, many more. 744 pages. Dozens of book reviews, ads.