Hardcover. New York , Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 305 pages plus bibliography. The richest collection outside of Cyprus of Cypriot antiquities. Built up by General Luigi Palma di Cesnola as the first director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, he acquired most of the art between 1879 and 1900 with works dating from 2500 B.C. to A.D. 300. Over 450 color images with map of the regions from which the art was acquired, this represents an essential item for a knowledge of the art of Cyprus in antiquity in all its forms.
Hardcover. Dublin, Dolmen Editions, First Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 78 pages. Hardcover. Limited to 650 copies. Black cloth boards with white printed decoration & white titles to spine. Ink paintings by Louis le Brocquy in black & white throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to front endpaper. Clean, unmarked, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Harry Abrams, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 800 pages. 2-volume set. Hardcovers with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copies with only minor wear to dust jackets. This is an account of large-scale Greek sculpture from the Dark Ages to Augustus (c.1200-30 BC). Andrew Stewart not only describes and dates the sculpture but also places it in its full social and political context. He focuses on who the sculptors were, how their workshops were run, who commissioned and supported their work, and what the political, cultural, and natural settings were. The book consists of two volumes, Text and Plates, and contains more than 900 high quality illustrations and reconstructions. Also included are a glossary of Greek and Latin terms, and translations of ancient literary and epigraphical testimonies. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Germany, Gestalten, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Stelios Faitakis masterfully depicts modern subjects in a style reminiscent of iconic paintings of the Middle Ages. The young Greek artist's perspectives are unsettling, his content provocative. His art features the intensive use of the color gold and halos that has become his trademark.
Hardcover. Oxford, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1st Edition, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 689 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has significant agewear (see image). Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. some rubbing around the edges of boards. Light tanning to pages and edges throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 625 pages, 700 b&w plates. Light edgewear to dust jacket, small tear; previous price sticker on front flap. Foxing to top edge. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Geneva, Albert Skira, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean, bright copy with tipped-in color plates throughout, 193 pages.