Imazighen; The Vanishing Traditions of Berber Women
Courtney-Clarke, Margaret Bound in publisher's original illustrated vinyl. Illustrated with hundreds of color photographs. Two small chips and one short closed tear to folded edges of dust jacket. 11 x 11 inches. 192 pages. Better than it sounds.- $43
- $43
Zorach Explains Sculpture: What It Means And How It Is Made
Zorach, William Presentation signed by the artist on the front free endpaper. Illustrated throughout in black-and-white. Bound in the publisher's original cloth. The dust jacket has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities and is lightly sunned. Internally clean and bright.- $108
- $108
Lola Alvarez Bravo; In Her Own Light
Debroise, Olivier English translation by James Oles. Preface by Terence Pitts, introduction by Trudy Wilner Stack. Bound in publisher's original illustrated wrappers. Beautifully llustrated with 36 duotone photographic prints. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. 88 pages.- $72
- $72
A Dictionary of the English Language; in which The Words are deduced from their Originals and Illustrated in their Different Significations by Examples from the best Writers; To which are prefixed A History of the Language and An English Grammar
Johnson, Samuel Includes introductory essay in separate pamphlet by John Mullan. Two volumes. Hand-bound in publisher's original, mottled, half calf with marbled paper boards. In buckram-bound box with scalloped edges. Each volume measures 16 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches and contains 1,164 pages. One of 1000 numbered copies. When we bought this set we unpacked it from its original shipping container with molded styrofoam inserts. It had scarcely seen the light of day prior to our purchase of it. We have retained the box and inserts for future shipping. A spectacular fascimile!- $2,880
- $2,880
Assignment Shanghai; Photographs on the Eve of Revolution
Carolyn Wakeman and Ken Light, editors Photography by Jack Birns. Foreward by Orville Schell. Bound in publisher's original grey cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Strikingly illustrated with roughly 100 previously unpublished black and white photographs. 9 x 13 1/4 inches. 130 pages.- $54
- $54
The Art of Illustration
Translated from the French by James Emmons. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. Beautifully illustrated with 110 color and 240 black and white photographic reproductions. Some light underlining and bracketing in margins, in pencil. 9 1/2 x 13 1/8 inches. 268 pages. Better than it sounds. Oceanic Art; Ozeanische Kunst; Art Océanien. In two volumes.
Two volumes. Photographs by Olaf Wipperfürth. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine and cover stamped in gilt. With illustrated slipcase. Features 730 photographs, nearly all in color. Each volume 10 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches. 640 total pages. The Changing Garden; Four Centuries of European and American Art
Exhibition catalog. With essays by Paula Deitz, Elizabeth S. Eustis, Diana Ketcham, Claudia Lazzaro and Carol M. Osborne. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine stamped in black. Illustrated with roughly 200 color and black and white images. 8 1/2 x 11 inches. 239 pages. For the Friends of Nature and Art; The Garden Kingdom of Prince Franz von Anhalt-Dessau in Age of Enlightenment
Catalog Exhibition. With essays by Michael Stürmer, Ursula Bode, and Thomas Weiss. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine and cover stamped in black. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. 8 7/8 x 11 3/4 inches. 176 pages. Civilization; A Personal View
First Folio edition. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine stamped in gilt, front cover stamp-illustrated in gilt, silver and red, and back cover in red. Blue board slipcase stamped in gilt. Illustrated with 280 images, mostly in color. 8 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches. 276 pages. The Making of Americans; being a history of a family’s progress
Complete version. Bound in publisher's original cream cloth with spine stamped in black and maroon. Top of text block stained grey. Signed on title page by previous owner. Dust jacket chipped at head and heel, and extremities. Water stain to back cover and to the dust jacket not affecting the text block. 6 1/4 x 9 1/4 inches. 925 pages. Accounts and Letters of the Second, Third, and Fourth Voyages
Two volumes. Bilingual. Edited by Paolo Emilio Taviani, Consuelo Varela, Juan Gil and Marina Conti. Translated by Luciano F. Farina and Marc A. Beckwith. Bound in publisher's original illustrated matte vinyl. Illustrated slipcase. Each volume 8 1/4 x 11 3/4 inches. 874 total pages. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889); A Study of Poetic Idiosyncrasy in Relation to Poetic Tradition
Two volumes. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spines stamped in gilt. Both volumes signed on flyleaf by previous owner. Sun fading to spines of both volumes. Each volume 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. 718 pages total. An elusive title with a good description of sprung rhythm.