Europe

Hardcover. Lannoo, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. 365 images at the western front of World War One give the reader a unique view on the battlefield and the daily life in and around the trenches.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Domestic shipping only. 8 Volumes. Hardcovers. Autograph edition is limited to five hundred signed and numbered copies printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, U.S.A. Number 187. SIGNED BY BUCHAN in volume 1, reverse of title page.2268 total pages within 8 volumes:Color frontispieces in each volume and b/w illustrations throughout with tissue page guards and fold-out maps. Blue cover boards, navy blue quarter cloths with gilt title on blue paste downs on spines. Covers show very light shelf wear with some slight tanning and a touch of rubbing to bottom of spines (Vol. 3 has small spot on front cover board). Pages offset, some tanning to pages and edges from age. Binding very good. Spines straight. Pages and edges have a touch of tanning from age. Beautiful, historical set perfect for the WWI enthusiast. 

Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1993, Hardcover in brown cloth, 170 pages. No dust jacket. Beginning as a series of scattered rural riots in late 1323, peasant insurrection escalated into a full-scale rebellion that dominated public affairs in Flanders for nearly five years. Following their own leaders, peasants defied the authority of the Count of Flanders by driving his officials and their aristocratic allies from the countryside. In A Plague of Insurrection, William H. TeBrake has written the first full-length account of the rebellion. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Roman Vishniac's A Vanished World is an extraordinary record of the lives of German and Eastern European Jews in the years immediately preceding the Holocaust. Vishniac, a Russian Jew, began to take photographs of village life during World War I, when Russian Jews who lived near the front were accused of being German spies and were deported to Siberia. He later moved to Germany, where he witnessed the horrible events of Kristallnacht and the anti-Jewish legislation that allowed Hitler to declare his enemies stateless and therefore unworthy of international protection. As we study Vishniac's photographs--a surviving fraction of the more than 16,000 he took--we are aware that we are seeing the faces of those soon to die, witnessing a world that has all but perished. Yet that world, of shops and schools, of busy streets and quiet farms, remains with us if only as a ghostly memory, thanks in part to Vishniac's compassionate eye.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A revelatory history of the transformational decade that followed World War II, when Germany raised itself put of the ashes of defeat, turned away from fascism, and reckoned with the corruption of its soul and the horrors of the Holocaust.

Hardcover. Ten Speed Press, 5th pr., 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 348 pages. A lushly photographed cookbook and travelogue showcasing the regional cuisines of the Alps, including 80 recipes for the elegant, rustic dishes served in the chalets and mountain huts situated among the alpine peaks of Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and France.A passionate exploration of all things Alpine . . . this one is a must-have for every ski bum foodie. Like new condition. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages, 132 plates in duotone and color. Light wear to dust jacket. This book focuses on surprisingly atypical choices from the oeuvres of 125 seminal artists, such as Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alexander Rodchenko, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Ulrich Tillman. Over 130 images in duotone and color illustrate the aesthetic differences between various styles, genres, and authors, and show diversities and affinities among different continents, cultures and periods. This extraordinary recombination of photographs by master artists offers viewers a fresh look at the world of photography.

Hardcover. New York, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages, 132 plates in duotone and color. Light wear to dust jacket. This book focuses on surprisingly atypical choices from the oeuvres of 125 seminal artists, such as Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alexander Rodchenko, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Ulrich Tillman. Over 130 images in duotone and color illustrate the aesthetic differences between various styles, genres, and authors, and show diversities and affinities among different continents, cultures and periods. This extraordinary recombination of photographs by master artists offers viewers a fresh look at the world of photography.

Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A monograph focusing for the first time exclusively on Kertesz's early Hungarian prints; selected from more than 1,000 contact prints in the artist's estate and reproduced actual size. Photographs by Andre Kertesz; introduction by Bruce Silverstein; essay by Robert Gurbo. 160 pages; 66 duo-toned b&w plates + 11 text illustrations; 5.25 x 5.25 inches.

Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 83 pages, issue devoted to Sudek. Edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Smudges to inside front cover and first page. Else clean and tight.

Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, September 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Edge wear, rubbing to wrappers. Sticker on front cover. Else pages clean and tight.

Softcover. NY, Aperture Foundation, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages. A large, beautifully designed photography publication with many full page photographs in black and white and color. Glossy wraps. A new generation of Czech and Slovak photographers--heirs to the legacy of such modern masters as Josef Sudek and Frantisek Driktol--will be the subject of the August 1998 issue of Aperture, featuring images never before published in the West. In the Aperture tradition of investigating the contemporary photography of individual nations, Crossing Borders probes the cultural, social, and emotional climate of the post-Communist era as experienced by twenty-three photographers.

Softcover. Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 79 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. Very good.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 231 pages. Aristocratic Experience and the Origins of Modern Culture explores a crucial moment in the history of European selfhood. During the seventeenth century, French nobles began to understand their lives in terms of personal histories and inner qualities, rather than as the products of tradition and inheritance. This preoccupation with the self accompanied a critical view of society, monarchy, and Christian teachings. It also shaped a new understanding of political realities and personal relations. Drawing from a combination of memoirs, literary works, and archival sources, Jonathan Dewald offers a new understanding of aristocratic sensibilities. In detailed fashion, he explores the nobles' experience of war, career, money, family, love, and friendship. In all of these areas, nobles felt a gap between social expectations and personal needs; in the seventeenth century this tension became increasingly oppressive. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Paris, Bernard Giovanangeli Editeur, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Hardcover. French text only. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 306 pages, b&w illustrations. This book is an introduction to the history of work in general and of artisans in particular in Europe from 1300 to 1914. It focuses on many aspects of artisan culture, including economic and guild life, and discusses social, rebellious, ceremonial and leisure experience as well. Women, masters, journeymen, apprentices, and non-guild workers all receive substantial treatment, and the text is illuminated with fascinating illustrations. Mild crease to first 8 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, b&w illustrations, 257 pages. Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. This is the second volume in a series that traces, century by century, the role of Asia in the making of Europe. The rise to world dominance of the Western nations in modern times and the rapid industrial growth of the West, which outpaced the East in technical and military achievements, have led to a historical eclipse of the ancient and brilliant cultures of Asia. Light foxing to dust jacket, edge of text block. No markings.

Hardcover. Brussels, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in dark blue, 58 pages. An illustrated history of the Belgian financial institution. Tipped in color frontis of founder Samuel Lambert, b&w photos and illustrations. Text in English. A promotional piece. Clean copy.

Middlesex, Baltimore, Victoria, Penguin Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, burgundy cloth covers in an edgeworn dust jacket. 370 pages, 200 black-and-white illustrations, 32 figures as drawings (floor plans, sectional and frontal views, etc), maps. Translated from the German by Elisabeth Hempel and Marguerite Kay. Clean. No slipcase.

Hardcover. Prestel, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 288 pages. profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This book assembles key works by leading artists such as Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Max Ernst, Oskar Kokoschka, and Alfred Kubin, and artists less familiar to audiences in the United States including Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Albert Paris GA 1/4 tersloh, Karl Hubbuch, Richard Oelze, Franz Sedlacek, Josef Scharl, and Rudolf Wacker, who will each be represented by small groups of significant works. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan & Co., reprint, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, two-volume set, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Rebecca West, 1892-1983, wrote Black Lamb & Grey Falcon after spending 6 weeks in Yugoslavia. Publication occurred at the same time as the Nazi invasion of the state. West pays tribute in the book's epigram to the thousands of civilians who lost their lives in the horrific events that followed; "To my friends in Yugoslavia, who are now all dead or enslaved." 32 black and white photographic plates, map endpapers to both volumes. Clean, tight bindings. Tattered dust jackets laid in. No markings. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London, A. & C. Black, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth decorated in two-colors and gilt. 20 color plates by Amedee Forestier with captions on tissue guards. 127 pages. Top edge gilt. The tissue guard on Waterloo has a pencil notation, light foxing to pages otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Berlin, Brasch & Rothenstein, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. Hardcover. Includes 2 of 3 fold-out maps. Note: Rear fold-out map is missing. Previous owners name in pencil at top of title page. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. US, British Library, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 176 pages, illustrated in color. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Breaking the Rules draws upon the British Library's unrivalled collection of artists' books, manifestos, little magazines, literary manuscripts, sound recordings, and posters from across Europe in order to explore the rapid exchange of ideas through printed matter that marked the avant-garde movement--and led to its presence in cities as diverse as London, Brussels, Munich, Zurich, Florence, Rome, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Warsaw, Prague, Tbilisi, Budapest, and Belgrade, among others.