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2012Best.-Nr. 265943New Haven: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale University 2012. Hardcover. xv 216p. exhaustive color reproductions and indispensable diagrams and discussion hardbound in brown cloth boards gilt and interesting dust jacket. A fine big 11.5x9 inch art book in fine condition: entirely sound clean and unmarked. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 21423Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Very good. Early reprint title page undated copyright page states "Published February 1913." 338 pp indexed and illustrated including double-page map in original blue cloth binding. No dust jacket. Light shelfwear to boards; binding sound text clean with the exception of some foxing to the first few leaves. Previous owner's raised stamp on front free endpaper. As described in contemporary review in the Missionary Herald "the earlier part of Miss Kendall's journey brings out vividly the life of such unfamiliar regions as French Tonking and the provinces of Yunnan and Szechuan in West China and includes such unusual experiences as a peek into Lolo Land a stop at Tachieniu--gateway to Tibet--and a remarkable sojourn at the monastery of Omei Shan that ancient and mysterious mountain shrine of Buddhist China. The middle part of the journey follows the more usual highways down the Yangtze and north to the Wall but the route becomes adventurous again as it crosses the Gobi Desert and pushes northward through Mongolia to Siberia. Houghton Mifflin hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 1793New York: Thomas Nelson & Sons. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Undated; owner's signature dated 1959 on front endpaper. 264 pp illustrations with map index. Light wear to edges top corners and spine lightly bumped; else clean and sound. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear. The "living world of Athos" described by "an honored guest" who "knew it as few laymen do" dust jacket having lived there for thirty years. Typed letter regarding the condition of the Serbian monestary on Mt. Athos and its collection of Byzantine art laid in. Thomas Nelson & Sons hardcover books
1982Best.-Nr. 14969Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press 1982. Hardcover. x 350p. very good second edition in yellow cloth boards titled black. 4282 entries. The primary reference book for literature featuring gay characters. Revised and updated. The Scarecrow Press hardcover books
Best.-Nr. 16813Girls' Education Handwritten original essays on literary figures from a female high school student. 25 illustrations of literary historical figures and their homes including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Greenleaf Whittier Charles Dickens Paul Revere Sir Walter Scott and James Russell Lowell. c. 1912. Original black boards and red cloth spine. 84 pages. 9 3/4 x 8 inches. Illustration all 8 x 5 1/2 in. "Freshman English and Sophomore English Note-book. Mildred Benjamin" written on first page in blue pen. Handwritten biographical reports of all those with aforementioned portraits. Also includes incomplete entries for Tennyson and George Eliot. "John Greenleaf Whittier was born in Haverhill Mass.the house still stands in which Whittier was reared.Whittier was taken with illness while visiting at the home of his friend.he had a slight paralytic stroke which produced a difficulty in taking food o medicine and it was plain that he could not be removed to Annesbury where he had always hoped to die. He was conscious to the last and was grateful to everyone. He had little acute pain. He lay all night in peace and died in the morning."Charles Dickens: "The boy Charles was not strong but nevertheless before he was ten years old he was obliged to earn his own living. He was placed in a blacking warehouse an old ramshackle house near the Thames. The scenes in which he was brought up were the most degrading ones possible.During this time he spent much of his time in the reading room of the British Museum.In 1842 he made his first trip to America. Just before going he wrote Oliver Twist in which he exposed the abuses of the poor law system." Press clippings on final pages for articles on Charles Dickens and John Greenleaf Whittier. Images of Longfellow's birthplace in Maine Whittier's birthplace and homes in Massachusetts "Gadshill" Dickens's home Sir Walter Scott's estate and "Elmswood" Lowell's home in Cambridge MA. Final press clipping contains a chapter of Ralph D. Paine's novel The Cross and the Dragon published 1912. Cover and spine detached from pages. First and last page toned foxing on first portrait of Longfellow else clean. Very good condition. unknown books
1981Best.-Nr. 52294Tucson: Center for Creative Photography/University of Arizona 1981. First edition. Crane Barbara. Oblong 8vo. x 124 pp. chiefly illustrated from b&w and color photographs with Pictorial stiff wrappers. SIGNED by the photographer on the half-title page. A near fine copy. Barbara Crane born 1928 has worked with the photographic image as a multiple throughout her career. That is to say her photographs are comprised from multiple images printed from more than one negative via overlays combinations sequenced and serially all to expand the possibilities of the space beyond the frame. She has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and and numerous other places of her long career. Published upon the occasion of the exhibition first held at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Photography Columbia College Chicago April 17 - May 30 1981. Center for Creative Photography/University of Arizona unknown books
1988Best.-Nr. 51590Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press 1988. First edition. Pfahl John. Oblong 4to. xii 133 pp. 87 b&w and color full-page photos. Fine in the photo-illustrated dust jacket that is lightly scuffed. In a survey originally funded by the National Endowment for the Arts these five photographers not only documented the sites of rock art of prehistoric Indians but explored the form and content of the ancient markings. University of New Mexico Press unknown books
1909Best.-Nr. 13051New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xvi 368 pp with two maps one folding and many illustrations from photographs. Original red cloth boards stamped in gilt and black. Spine slant slight sunning to upper board previous owner's name on front free endpaper else clean and sound. Decima Moore 1871-1964 was a successful stage actress and singer in London before marrying Sir Frederick Gordon Guggisberg an officer in the Royal Engineers. He was appointed director of surveys in the Gold Coast in 1905 and upon returning from their travels three years later the couple recounted their experiences in alternating chapters. Charles Scribner's Sons hardcover books
1988Best.-Nr. 9019326Minneapolis: Walker Art Center / MIT Press 1988. paperback. Near fine. Bound in the publisher's original illustrated wraps. Profusely illustrated throughout. Walker Art Center / MIT Press paperback books
1996Best.-Nr. 9014529New York: Thames and Hudson 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. With 757 illustrations 216 in color. Bound in publisher's original navy blue cloth with the spine stamped in silver. Thames and Hudson hardcover books
1987Best.-Nr. 9014221Boston: New York Graphic Society / Little Brown & Co. 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. New York Graphic Society / Little, Brown & Co. hardcover books
1965Best.-Nr. 9013967New York: Abrams N. D. 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. The rear inner hinge is weak. The dust jacket has minor chips and closed tears to the extremities. Errata slip tipped-in on front paste-down. Abrams hardcover books
1994Best.-Nr. 9013969New York: McGraw-Hill 1994. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. McGraw-Hill hardcover books
1989Best.-Nr. 9013588Newark NJ: Newark Museum 1989. Paperback. Fine Condition. Bound in publisher's original wrappers. Newark Museum paperback books
1980Best.-Nr. 9013650New York: Museum Of Modern Art 1980. paperback. Fine Condition. Museum Of Modern Art paperback books
1992Best.-Nr. 9011593Boston: Bulfinch Press 1992. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. 81 tritone photographs. Bound in publisher's original charcoal gray cloth with the front cover stamped in blind and the spine stamped in silver. Bulfinch Press hardcover books
1992Best.-Nr. 9011963New York: Harper Collins 1992. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Harper Collins hardcover books
1974Best.-Nr. 9011951Greenwich Connecticut: New York Graphic Society 1974. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. The dust jacket is price clipped has a chip to the head of the spine and has other minor chips and closed tears to the extremities. New York Graphic Society hardcover books
1991Best.-Nr. 9009322New York: Stewart Tabori & Chang 1991. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with the front cover stamped in blind and the spine stamped in gilt. The dust jacket has a small chip and a closed tear. Stewart, Tabori & Chang hardcover books
1998Best.-Nr. 9008977New Haven: Yale University Press 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Cloth with gilt letters on the spine color illustrations throughout. Yale University Press hardcover books
1977Best.-Nr. 9008723New York: Museum of Modern Art 1977. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. 416 pages427 illustrations icluding 50 in color. Bound in publisher's original cloth. The dust jacket has sun fading to the edges and spine and a closed tear. Museum of Modern Art hardcover books
2000Best.-Nr. 9008556Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Publishers 2000. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. 248 pages; 231 illustrations including 167 in color. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in blue. English edition. Hatje Cantz Publishers hardcover books
1993Best.-Nr. 9008449New York: Abrams 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. 269 illustrations including 100 plates in color. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with the spine stamped in gilt and the front cover stamped in blind. The dust jacket's spine is sunned. Abrams hardcover books
1990Best.-Nr. 9007657Berkeley: University of California Press 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. University of California Press hardcover books
1997Best.-Nr. 9006765New York: Random House 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 195 pages illustrated throughout in color. A historical survey of church architecture. Random House hardcover books
