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1964réf. 1383571New York: Modern Library 1964. First Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 305 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good Minus dust jacket. Spine tan bronze and black with tan bronze and red lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering with price uncut "$2.45". Minor shelf wear and soiling. Shelved in Poetry Anthology. 1383571. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Modern Library hardcover books
1950réf. 193370NY: MoMA 1950. Paperback. Good Light shelf/edgewear to wraps; light age-toning and foxing to pages; binding is solid. Black wraps/white lettering. 32 pp. Numerous bw plates. 1st edition. Selected pieces of furniture textiles pottery glass lamps and metalware by designers including Charles Eames J.J.P. Oud Mies van der Rohe Anni Albers Eva Zeisel Bernard Leach Josef Hoffmann Isamu Noguchi and others. Nice. MoMA paperback books
1979réf. 208220Confederate Stamp Alliance 1979. Staplebound. VG. Octavo. Staple bound softcover. Illustrated grey wraps. January-February 1978 Vol.23 No. 1 Whole No. 181; July-August 1978 Vol.23 No. 4 Whole No. 184; March-April 1979 Vol.24 No. 2 Whole No. 188; Ma-June 1979 Vol.24 No. 3 Whole No. 189; July-August 1979 Vol.24 No. 4 Whole No. 190; September-October 1979 Vol.24 No. 5 Whole No. 191. Confederate Stamp Alliance unknown books
1937réf. 28372New York: Dodd Mead & Co. 1937. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Good copy with sunned spine and edges owner's neat and small name at head of front free endpaper in very good dust jacket with many small tears and rubs at top edge rubbing and wear at edges. Includes chapters on Minstrelsy Blacks Blues and Jazz.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pp . Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover books
réf. 203673Paris France: Ministère de la culture Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux. Hardcover. VG-. Some light wear to the cover and an inscription on the false title. otherwise clean and unmarked. Quarto. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. 136 4 pages : illustrations some color ; 27 cm. Ministère de la culture, Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux hardcover books
1996réf. 79392Canberra: National Gallery of Australia 1996. First edition. 4to. 64 pp w/glossary & list of works. Near fine in illustrated wrappers. SIGNED by Newton on the half-title page. Canberra: National Gallery of Australia unknown books
1986réf. 68735New York: Abbeville Press 1986. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 190pp. Quarto 34 cm Ivory-white cloth over boards. The rear board is lightly warped. In the dust jacket with general light scratching to the surface. May require extra postage due to weight. Fallingwater is the most famous modern house in America. Indeed readers of the Journal of the American Institute of Architects voted it the best American building of the last 125 years! Annually more than 70000 visitors seek out Fallingwater in its remote site in southwestern Pennsylvania. Considered Frank Lloyd Wright's domestic masterpiece the house is recognized worldwide as the paradigm of organic architecture where a building becomes an integral part of its natural setting. Abbeville Press hardcover books
2014réf. 530856no place: Lulu Publishing Services / The Author 2014. Softcover. Fine. First edition. Quarto. 622pp. Fine in glossy wrappers. A science-fiction tale by an emeritus professor of English at the University of South Florida and author of two books on Norman Mailer. OCLC locates no copies. (Lulu Publishing Services / The Author unknown books
1968réf. 42516J.B. Lippincott 1968. KAUFMANN Myron S. THY DAUGHTERS NAKEDNESS. NY: J.B. Lippincott Co. 1968. Small 4to. cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. Signed by Kaufmann on the front endpaper. Very Good small bookseller's label front endpaper; moderate wear & soil shallow chip few short tears d/j. $75.00. J.B. Lippincott unknown books
1933réf. 325446Chicago: The Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation 1933. Softcover. Fine. Large quarto. Stapled color illustrated wrappers. Minimal wear else fine. Official photographs for the Exposition. The Reuben H. Donnelley Corporation unknown books
réf. 23603KAUFMANN Edgar Jr. editor. THE RISE OF AN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE. London: Pall Mall Press 1970. 8vo. Cloth dust jacket. x 241 pages. First English edition. Henry-Russell Hitchcock Vincent Scully Albert Fein and Winston Weisman contribute articles on nineteenth-century American architecture and city planning with illustrations. Very good in rubbed dust jacket. unknown books
réf. 10214KAUFMANN Edgar Jr. editor. THE RISE OF AN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE. New York: Praeger 1970. 8vo. Cloth dust jacket. x 241 pages. First edition. Henry-Russell Hitchcock Vincent Scully Albert Fein and Winston Weisman contribute articles on 19th-century American architecture and city planning with illustrations. Very good in rubbed dust jacket. unknown books
2004réf. 201754Belgium: Harvey Miller Publishers 2004. VG: A book in excellent condition with clean and readable pages. Looks like it was never taken off the shelf. A few scratch marks beneath the title on the cover but no tears or rips. A small section of the bottom front left corner is creased. This is a black clothbound hardback book with a gilted title on the spine and a small relief design on the front cover. Covered by a red dustjacket that shows an illustration on the front and has yellow and white text on the front and the spine. The back inside flap has an image of the Crocker Art Museum. Pages: vi vii-xxvi 22 2 3-308. 24 color plates at the beginning of the book; the rest is profusely illustrated with black-and-white images. Five centuries of drawing in Central Europe are surveyed in this interpretive and fully illustrated catalogue featuring one of the oldest public collections in the United States. Included are the works of well-known masters Albrecht Durer Johan Rottenhammer and Johan Georg von Dillis artists whose production influenced successive generations. This catalogue also offers a unique look at rare sheets by important figures such as Karel Skreta Wenzel Hollar and Johann Holzer. Overall Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann's achievement is realized in bringing this important collection of Old Master drawings from Central Europe together in a beautiful volume sure to provide an invaluable resource to scholars connoisseurs and art enthusiasts alike. Harvey Miller Publishers hardcover books
1968réf. 363855Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1968. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Bumped corners faint stains along the board edge else near fine in an about near fine age-toned dustwrapper with some yellowing. Inscribed by the author on the front fly. J.B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
1899réf. 38305Budapest: Adolf Alkalay & Sohn 1899. Special edition. Softcover. g- to g. Small Quarto. 4123 1pp. Original tan wrappers with black ruling ornament and lettering on cover. Special edition from the annual report of the "Landes-Rabbinerschule" in Budapest after the death of the author. Two page obituary at front. Studies on the Jewish philosopher and poet in 11th Century Spain by the Jewish-Austrian scholar and ordained Rabbi David Kaufmann. Includes chapters on Gabirol's influences his philosophical interpretations Abraham Ibn Daud's critique of Gabirol's major work "Libra de la Fuente de Vida The Source of Life" the knowledge of Gabirol's major work in the Jewish literature after Ibn Daud and a brief essay on a philosophical poem by Ibn Gabirol. Text in German and Hebrew. Wrappers with light staining and sunned along edges. Light wear along edges small chips. Block age-toned and uncut. Wrappers in overall good- interior in good condition. Adolf Alkalay & Sohn unknown books
1952réf. 12006New York: Wittenborn Schultz Inc 1952. First edition. Softcover. g. 4to. Oblong. Illustrated wrappers. Creasing some chipping and staining and wear to wrappers. One-inch split to covers along head of spine. Signature of previous owner to back of front wrapper. "This small book is the first one in over forty years to present the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright as it issues from his office in the form of drawings. Today the drawings turned out at Taliesin and Taliesin West his homes in Wisconsin and Arizona are entirely predetermined by him and often are touched and retouched by his own hand." Profusely illustrated with Wright's drawings. This is the sixth volume of the series "Problems of Contemporary Art." In good condition. Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc unknown books
1947réf. 33171Munich: Im Selbstverlag 1947. First edition. Hardcover. g. Ex-library copy. 8vo. 542 pp. Blue cloth library binding with gold lettering on spine. Blue speckled edges. Blue endpapers. Frontispiece b/w photograph of the author. A personal account of the destruction of the Jewish Latvian kibbutz including the history of the kibbutz life in the ghetto in Riga and the concentration camp Kaiserwald Riga Stuthof Walsheim and others. Illustrated with black and white photographs of cities. Preface translated into English otherwise text in German. Library stickers and stamps throughout. Overall in good condition. Im Selbstverlag hardcover books
1949réf. 170774Helsinki: Finnish Artists Asssociation 1949. Paperback. Good ex-museum library copy with stamp card pocket handwritten call number on front cover. light general wear to wraps including some small tears and chipping. Illustrated wraps with black lettering. 97 pp. Mainly BW illustrations. Text in Finnish Swedish and English. Finnish Artists Asssociation paperback books
1933réf. 10245New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1933. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1933. First Edition. Quarto 30cm.; publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket dark blue topstain; 111pp.; illus. throughout. Jacket extremities a bit toned marginal chipping occasionally touching text without loss of meaning faint damp staining along spine edge of front jacket panel; cloth also a bit faded at extremities corners bumped else Very Good internally sound. Signed by Kaufmann Hansl and Lupas on front free endpaper. Fifty short biographies of contemporary musicians each accompanied by a portrait by Lupas. Arguably the most famous composers and musicians honored in this collection are Sergei Rachmaninoff Paul Robeson and Arturo Toscanini. Grosset & Dunlap unknown books
1986réf. 473New York: Abbeville 1986. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Folio. Mostly illus. in color. Abbeville hardcover books
1974réf. 13323Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1974. Fourth Edition. Original Wraps. Very Good in Wraps. Fourth Edition. Original Wraps. Underlining by Oliver Sacks. Dr. Sacks often made comments in the margins or had conversations with the author in the text. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks the renowned neurologist author and educator. He was in his life celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Shelfwear/toning upper staining else tight bright and unmarred. Pictorial wrappers. 8vo. xviii 532pp. All underlining emphasis and notations are in the hand of Dr. Oliver Sacks. Princeton University Press unknown books
1914réf. 50299Leipzig und Wien: Bibligraphisches Institut 1914. Sixth edition. Softcover. Very good condition. Duodecimo. xiv 458 40pp. 23 plates incl. maps. Original brown pebbled soft cloth with gilt-stamped lettering on cover and spine blind-stamped decorative ruling on covers and spine with blind-stamped lettering on back cover. Color maps on inside covers and front and back endpapers. Contains thirteen color maps some of them folding thirty-six plans and numerous illustrations including photographs and drawings of ancient and modern sites in Egypt and the Sudan. Guide to major points of interest and their historical relevance with detailed descriptions of landscape and cities. With extensive introductory essays e.g. one on the Arabic language. Provides new maps of the Delta of the Nile the surrounding areas of Cairo plans of Heliopolis and old Cairo and a color sketch of the temple of Amon. With list of illustrations and maps and abbreviations at front index of places and subjects at rear. The guide concludes with forty pages of advertisements. Text in German. Very light wear and rubbing of binding. Four folding map reinforced with yellowed transparent tape. Bibligraphisches Institut unknown books
1933réf. 1414961New York: Encyclopedia Britannica Inc 1933. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 10 pages unpaginated black-and-white plates. In Very Good minus condition and housed in publisher's heavily worn silver cardboard slip case. Bound in maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Rubbing to head and tail of spine and to corners of boards. Mild scuffing to front board. Light age toning throughout textblock. Shelved on the Front Table. 1414961. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc hardcover books
1955réf. 9024921New York: Horizon 1955. 1st. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Bound in the publisher's original rust cloth covered boards cover and spine stamped in red blind and gilt. Rubbed edges and extremities. Front hinge has started but is holding. Dust jacket is rubbed chipped and torn at edges and extremities. With 250 illustrations throughout. Horizon hardcover books
1985réf. 166944Paris: Flammarion 1985. Hardcover. VG-/VG- ex-museum library copy with bookplate call number label on spine. minor corner bumping. general wear to dust jacket edges and corners including a couple small tears barcode sticker on back and call number on spine. Tan cloth boards with brown stamped lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with white lettering. 332 pp. Many illustrations in BW and some color. Text in French. Translated from English by Solange Schnall. Published with the assistance of the National Center of Letters. Includes bibliographical references. Flammarion hardcover books
