2011Best.-Nr. 005808Scarborough Toronto Ontario: Doris McCarthy Gallery University of Toronto Scarborough 2011. Hardcover. Fine. Catalogue of an traveling exhibition which began in 2010 in Scarborough moving to regional galleries across Canada to 2013. Sasaki is the recipient of the 2015 Canadian Glenfiddich Artists-in-Residence Prize. 77 pages with colour photos & essays. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto, Scarborough hardcover
Best.-Nr. 810Durham NC: Duke University Press 1987. First edition of the photographer's second major photobook. Quarto original cloth. Signed by Helen Levitt on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Not to be confused with the more common paperback edition. Helen Levitt and the author James Agee first collaborated in 1945 on a documentary film set in Harlem called "In the Street." Psychologist Robert Coles contributed the essays to this volume. Owen Edwards from The New York Times has noted that "in common situations Miss Levitt finds the glint of an often bizarre beauty that most of us-including photographers-do not notice. . . . She brings to her pictures an intensity that can be almost hypnotic." "There is no fundamental difference in the great landscapes and quiet portraits of Edward Weston and the profoundly revealing pictures of children by Helen Levitt. Both are photographic perceptions of the highest order" Ansel Adams. Duke University Press paperback
2002Best.-Nr. 502244Art Gallery of Ontario - National Gallery of Canada - Douglas McIntyre 2002. Book. Fine Book Condition. Hardcover. square 4to 386pp. As new. Our rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair . Art Gallery of Ontario - National Gallery of Canada - Douglas McIntyre Hardcover
1974Best.-Nr. 014828Bruxelles: La Connaissance: Exclusivité Weber 1974. Book. Near Fine / Bel. Hard Cover / Relieur De Toile. 4to/in-4o. Texte: Français Italiano and English. Arc légèrs au plats supérieurs. Jaquettes très légerement passées et jaquette de tome 1 avec un accroc 0.5". Autrement frais et propre. Slight bow to upper boards. Some very mild tanning to jackets and jacket to vol 1 with one half-inch closed tear to front. Otherwise a clean and solid copy. La Connaissance: Exclusivité Weber Hardcover
1994Best.-Nr. 015711Verlag Ritter Klagenrfurt 1994. Book. Near Fine. French-fold Covers. 4to 262pp. Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine 2. Near Fine 3. Very Good 4. Good 5. Fair. Verlag Ritter Klagenrfurt Paperback
Best.-Nr. PJH56909Art en Marges 2004. Near Fine in publishers decorated wrappers. 72pp. Illustrated throughout. Texts in French German anmd Italian. 1st edition exploring the unique interweaving of text and image within the field of outsider art. Art en Marges 2004 unknown
2001Best.-Nr. 93857Philadelphia & Seattle: : Philadelphia Museum of Art / University of Washington Press 2001. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in a fine dust jacket as new. First printing. Catalogue of an exhibition held in Philadelphia October 27 2001 - February 24 2002 with essays by John Ittmann David Brigham Cindy Medley-Buckner and Kymberly N. Pinder. "Dox Thrash came of age as an artist in the 1920s and 1930s a time when art in the United States began to offer accurate reflections of everyday life. The four essays in this volume open windows on different aspects of the artist's life offering a historical overview on his training and career as a printmaker; an examination of the inner workings of the Fine Print Workshop in Philadelphia the only WPA workshop devoted entirely to the production of limited-edition prints; a re-creation of the Pyramid Club Philadelphia's premier African American cultural and social institution in the 1940s and 1950s; and an investigation of Thrash's use of African American themes in his work." At the WPA workshop he launched a new print-making technique - the carborundum print - and he most known for these evocative prints. Includes a catalogue raisonee of all 188 prints which have been credited to him. Illustrated with 125 of his prints in bloth black and white and in color plus many photographs. A title in the Jacob Lawrence Series on American Artist. A beautiful large format book xi 176 pp. Philadelphia Museum of Art / University of Washington Press, hardcover
Best.-Nr. PJH56360Konig Koln 2008. Booklabel of Simon Lee Near Fine in oatmeal and purple publishers cloth. 244pp. Illustrated throughout. English Language Edition. 1st edition. ISBN 3865603521 Konig (Koln) 2008 hardcover
1993Best.-Nr. 1228E015Aldershot: Scolar Press 1993. 1st Edition . Hardback. Printed pages: 132. Very Good/Very Good. 10.25 x 15 inches 26 x 37.5 cm. Dust jacket: Light shelf wear and a few small marks. Preserved in a removable jacket protector. Overall jacket condition is Very Good. Book: Black cloth binding. Very slight dust marking to top edge of boards. Light foxing to top page edge. Good solid binding. Very clean text throughout. Overall book condition is Very Good. Please Note: This is a heavy item and international postage will be more than the standard rate for non-European destinations. Actual Royal Mail postage costs are: USA £21.00; Oceania £30.00; Rest of World £30.00. A postage supplement will be requested after the order has been placed. Size: 10.25 x 15 inches 26 x 37.5 cm. Scolar Press hardcover
2006Best.-Nr. mon0000216921Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 2006T. paperback. Very Good. 0.7283 8.4291 5.8504. Gorgeous produciton. Softcover. Clean text - NO writing NO highlighting. Very good. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum paperback
1968Best.-Nr. ABC_47745China Israel Russia USSR United States: various publishers 1968. Mainly works in their original publisher's printed paper wrappers occasionally in a hardcover binding. Several fold-out maps and some works with photographic plates. 16 publications. Including in chronological order:1 LANE-POOLE Stanley. Coins of the Amawi Khalifehs. Catalogue of the collection of Oriental coins belonging to Col. C. Seton Guthrie.Chicago Argonaut Publishers 1968.2 SOVIET REVISIONISTS versus the CHINESE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY. Title in Arabic: Down with the new tsars! Soviet revisionists' anti-China atrocities on the Heilung and Wusuli Rivers.Beijing Foreign Languages Press 1969.3 AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE. Title in Arabic: Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.Philadelphia 1970.4 AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE. Title in Hebrew: Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.Tel Aviv 1970.5 AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE. Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.New York Hill and Wang 1970.6 AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE. Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.New York Hill and Wang 1971. 7 MAO ZEDONG. Title in Arabic: On the correct handling of contradictions among the people.Beijing Foreign Languages Press 1971.8 MAO ZEDONG. Title in Persian: People of the world unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!Beijing Foreign Language Press 1971.9 MAO ZEDONG. Title in Persian: Talks at the Yenan forum on literature and art.Beijing Foreign Languages Press 1971.10 1972 NEW YEAR'S DAY EDITORIAL. Title in Arabic: Unite to win still greater victories.Beijing Foreign Languages Press 1972.11 RENMIN RIBAO editor. Title in Arabic: A vicious motive despicable tricks: a criticism of M. Antonioni's anti-China film "China".Beijing Foreign Languages Press 1974.12 NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS - CHINA. Title in Arabic: Documents of the first session of the fourth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China.Beijing Foreign Languages Press 1975.13 LENIN Vladimir Ilyich. Title in Arabic: A letter to American workers.Moscow Progress Publishers 1978.14 LENIN Vladimir Ilyich. Title in Arabic: Two tactics of social-democracy in the Democratic Revolution.Moscow Progress Publishers 1978. 15 ENGELS Friedrich. Title in Arabic: Anti-Dühring.Moscow Progress Publishers 1984.16 REVOLUTIONARY INTERNATIONALIST MOVEMENT. Title in Arabic: Declaration of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.1984. Unique collection of predominantly Marxist-Leninist works of the 1970s and 1980s mainly in Arabic and Persian. It provides an exceptional view into the efforts made to persuade the people of the Arabian Peninsula of leftist viewpoints. The works do not represent one common political viewpoint rather they showcase the conflicting strains of leftist realpolitik of the 1970s. The collection includes classical works by Lenin such as an Arabic translation of his Letter to American workers. These books contrast well with for example decidedly anti-Soviet works such as Down with the new tsars! Soviet revisionists' anti-China atrocities on the Heilung and Wusuli Rivers. This pamphlet deals with the conflict between Soviet and Chinese border guards on Zhenbao Island that emerged around 1969 as part of the Sino-Soviet border conflict. Photos in this work show troops arguing Chinese fishermen fighting with Soviet guards and piles of Soviet military gear left abandoned in the snow after their retreat. Some of the works in this collection are probably published by Arabic immigrant groups in the US. The Arabic edition of the Declaration of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement was published by the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement RIM that emerged in France and consisted of 17 diverse Maoist groups from around the globe. Its objective was to work towards establishing a new kind of "Communist International" organisation rooted in the Marxism-Leninism-Maoism political philosophy. The Revolutionary Communist Party USA was the American affiliate of this group. Marxist-Leninist bookstores in the Detroit area often stocked Arabic editions of classic communist texts like Lenins Two tactics of social democracy in the Democratic Revolution due to the large local population of Middle Eastern immigrants. This collection contains a rare Arabic edition of the text in published in Moscow by Progress Publishers in 1978. This book as well as others in this collection are rubberstamped May Day Books & Periodicals Detroit on their rear cover. Among the collection are other classics of communist and socialist literature such as Friedrich Engels Anti-Dühring in which he laid out his vision of socialism.A slight outlier in this collection is Stanley Lane-Pooles Coins of the Amawi Khalifehs with the text in English and Arabic and illustrated with black-and-white photographic plates. This reprint of the 1874 edition is still very useful for collectors learning to read the Kufic inscriptions on the coins of the Umayyad period as it contains transcriptions of coin legends in Arabic.With some blind- and/or ink-stamped information on the wrappers and/or flyleaves of several volumes. Some volumes are slightly browned and foxed and show some occasional minor tears not affecting the text. Overall the collection is in good condition. [various publishers], hardcover
Best.-Nr. 618802 ouvrages en 1 volume. 1. 6 feuillets. 282 pages. 1 feuillet. 2. 96 pages. 135x 8 Cm. Veau brun. Dos à nerfs orné. Reliure de l'époque. Charnières légèrement fendues. 1. Recueil d'écrits sur divers sujets de l'écrivain Paul Colomies né à La Rochelle d'une famille d'origine toulousaine. Il s'était lié d'amitié avec le savant Vossius et devint le bibliothécaire à Londres de l'archevêque de Cantorbery. 2. Un grand nombre des textes de ces "Mélanges" concernent les livres indications bibliographiques ou de bibliophile histoires ou anecdotes concernant des livres ou des auteurs souvent célèbres recherches sur des livres anonymes etc. Ex-libris manuscrit sur le premier ouvrage "C. Antonin ponti royanis". Taches et rousseurs éparses. Papier bruni. Bon exemplaire. unknown
Best.-Nr. 46053Paris Claude Barbin 1668-1669. 2 parties de 3 feuillets. 57 pages. 46 pages. 1 feuillet. 14x8 Cm. Plein veau moucheté. Dos à nerfs orné. Reliure de l'époque un peu restaurée. Coins et coiffes émoussés. Plats charnières et dos un peu frotté. Edition d'une grande rareté de la première publication de Saint-Evremont sous le titre : "uvres". Parue la même année que la première elle est aussi difficile à trouver et peu de bibliographies la citent. Quelques rousseurs. Petite mouillures sur les feuillets et une vingtaine de pages. Traces de plis. Exemplaire bien conservé. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1668-1669. unknown
1894Best.-Nr. 017759Various Locations : Theosophical Publishing Society 1894. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Fair. B00K: Fair/ $435.98 Reduced From. FIVE YEARS of THEOSOPOHY Mystical Philosophical Theosophical Historical and Scientific Essays selected from `the THEOSOPHIST`. UnStated Author Theosophical Publishing Society 1894 2nd and Revised Edition Various Locations Tall Wide Thick H/c Black Cloth Spine With Title In Polished Gold Letters Hard Cover B00K: Fair/ Shelf Edge And Corner Wear. Front Cover Is Detached From Spine And Included. 385 Numbered Pages Printed On Tan Paper Browning From Aging That Are Clean And Tight To The Spine Lightly Read In Very Good/ Condition. Gift Inscription Inside Front Cover To A Prior Owner. To Prevent Further Separation And Damage Held Together With A Copy Paper Band. D/j: None. This Item Will Be Sent Wrapped In Plastic Taped Shut And In A = Corrugated Mailing B0X. Padded Mailing Envelope = To Prevent Shipping Damage So That It Will Arrive In The Description Described Which Applies To This B00K Only. = No Odors No Writing No Names No Rippling Not Stuck Together No Book Plate Not X~Library No Other Marks. = Will Make It An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection Or As A Gift For The Discriminating Reader / Collector. = WORLD WIDE SHIPPING AVAILABLE Theosophical Publishing Society hardcover
2000Best.-Nr. B80128Ivry-sur-Seine France: Galerie Fernand Leger 2000. Softcover. Very good. RARE! Printed paper wraps small quarto 8.25" x 11" unpaginated illustrated in color. Book has faint foxing and rubbing to wraps binding tight text clean and unmarked. Text in French and English. Exhibition catalog. Galerie Fernand Leger unknown
Best.-Nr. 36925London Lund Humphries 1957. 4to 193pp. Original cloth in b/w pictorial dustwrapper exhibiting some wear and open tearing to top and bottom edges. Numerous b/w photographic reproductions of the works of Soviet contructivist sculptor Naum Gabo addition to a facsimile of the Realist Manifesto and reprints of other such ephemera. Rear board contains a compartment storing clear plastic 'realist' viewing glasses. . First editon. Contains viewing goggles. London, Lund Humphries, 1957. hardcover
Best.-Nr. 69067Mercatorfonds & Bozar Books 2026. couverture rigide 288 pages avec illustrations en couleur 305 x 23 cm texte en français Neuf. ISBN 9789462304024. La beauté et la laideur sont depuis lAntiquité des sujets qui ne cessent de fasciner et de questionner sagissant de thèmes universels dont les variantes sont déterminées selon les cultures et les époques. Comment la dialectique entre le beau et le laid sest-elle formellement exprimée entre la fin du XVe siècle et le XVIe période qui savérera charnière Les artistes de la Renaissance ont été les premiers à leur accorder une égale importance et cet intérêt ira croissant tout au long du XVIe siècle. Le présent ouvrage explore cette trajectoire déployant les thèmes de la beauté et de la laideur sous leurs aspects les plus saillants et les plus représentatifs. Une approche comparative entre les oeuvres de la Renaissance italienne et celles de lEurope du Nord en particulier des anciens Pays-Bas permet de saisir les constantes et les déclinaisons dans lhistoire des formes et du goût à lappui doeuvres accompagnées de notices entre autres de Sandro Botticelli Lucas Cranach lAncien Léonard de Vinci Frans Floris de Vriendt Albrecht Dürer Lorenzo Lotto Quentin Metsys Michel-Ange Titien Le Tintoret et Veronese. Sous la direction scientifique de Chiara Rabbi Bernard avec des essais de Cristina Acidini Christophe Brouard Elena Capretti Maria Clelia Galassi Yves Hersant Koenraad Jonckheere Catherine Lanoë Pietro C. Marani et Giandomenico Spinola. Mercatorfonds & Bozar Books 2026 unknown
2016Best.-Nr. 618010London: Alan Cristea Gallery 2016. Larger sized paperback in very good condition. Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Joe Tilson: Words and Images The Notebooks' held at the Alan Cristea Gallery London from 21 March to 7 May 2016. Two attractrive private view invitations a tribute article to the artist as well as an 'Arts Review' article laid in. Spine ends are a little rubbed. No other notable faults. LW. Paperback. Very Good. Used. Alan Cristea Gallery Paperback
Best.-Nr. 32958Salander-O'Reilly Galleries 1990. . 5 volumes. 4to. Original wrappers. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations; a very good set in publisher's slipcase. First editions. Text in English Spanish and French. Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, 1990. unknown
2002Best.-Nr. 0972766332Chihuahua MX: Graphic Arts Center Publishing 2002. Hardcover. As New/as new. 1st Edition. Folio - over 12" - 15" Tall. Die cut outer sleeve present. Text in Spanish and English. errata slip laid in. In near fine condition Graphic Arts Center Publishing hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0870702440.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1912Best.-Nr. 168131912. Girls' 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 Massachusetts 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
Best.-Nr. 43420Antique Collectors' Club . Size: 295 mm x 250 mm. Pages: 312. Illustrations: 260 colour 10 b/w. Hardback. New. ISBN 9781851497355. The worship of the orisha god Eshu continues to this day across the Black Atlantic in Brazil and the Caribbean and statues of him can also be found in towns and cities across the Americas. In Brazil Eshu is a national icon: every carnival begins with an offering to him; shrines sculptures and gifts can be found in many places including public parks museums on seashores in the middle of supermarkets and at crossroads. On the other side of the southern Atlantic Ocean Eshu has evolved in different ways; a Yoruba god has been refashioned in the pantheon of Haitian Vodou and in the Lucumi/Santeria traditions of Cuba. This is the first book to combine studies of Eshu past and present with a large number of vibrant and captivating illustrations of the spirit in his different guises. George Chemeche is an Israeli/American artist who has lived in New York City since 1971. In 2003 he published his book Ibejis: The Cult of Yoruba Twins which coincided with the show Doubly Blessed that he curated in The Museum of African Art in New York. His second book The Horse Rider In African Art ISBN: 9781851496341 was published in 2011. He gives lectures about the art and cult of the Ibeji twin figures in museums and colleges.Donald Cosentino ph.D. has done extensive fieldwork in Nigeria Sierra Leone Haiti Cuba and Los Angeles. He is the author of Defiant Maids and Stubborn Farmers: Tradition and Invention in Mende Story Performance and Vodou Things: The Art of Pierrot Barra and Marie Cassais. As a Guggenheim Fellow 2006 Cosentino completed fieldwork for Chasing the Dead an ethnographic novel on Afro-Angeleno Spiritism.Vagner Goncalves da Silva is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sao Paulo Brazil. He has written and edited various books and articles including Metropolitan Orixas 1995; Candomble and Umbanda Ways of Brazilian Devotion 2005 2nd edn and The Anthropologist and his Magic: Fieldwork and Ethnographic Text in the Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Religions 2000 Afro-Brazilian Memories Three volumes and Religious Intolerance 2005. He was a member of the committee for the foundation of the Afro-Brasil Museum Sao Paulo. Antique Collectors' Club hardcover
2014Best.-Nr. 3583245012Marian Goodman Gallery 2014. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More Spend Less.Minor shelf and handling wear overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Boards show scuffing and signs of wear. All pages intact binding is sound. Clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. Marian Goodman Gallery hardcover
1969Best.-Nr. 29646New York:: Cambridge University 1969. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Selected Literary Essays includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis's most important literary essays written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed in this volume range from Chaucer to Kipling from "The literary impact of the authorized version" to "Psycho-analysis and literary criticism" to Shakespeare and Bunyan and Sir Walter Scott and William Morris. Common to each essay however are the lively wit the distinctive forthrightness and the discreet erudition which characterize Lewis's best critical writing. Other works included in this uncommon collection are essays on John Donne Jane Austen Shelley Dryden & Eliot William Morris Kipling and other broader topics. Cambridge University, hardcover