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1977réf. 50511Tokyo New York San Francisco: Kodansha International LTD 1977. First edition. Hardcover. near fine. Oblong Quarto. 182pp. Original silky-gray textured cloth with blind-stamped Japanese lettering on cover. Spine lettered in silver and faded to light brown with a small spot of fraying. Housed in publishers gray-green paper covered cardboard slipcase spine lettered in black. Black endpapers. First 82 pages entirely illustrated with color photographs most full-page. The remainder of the text is illustrated with numerous black & white photographs and topographic ground plans plus 14 pages of architectural drawings. Laid in at front is a 20" x 27" color folding map of "The Katsura Palace and Garden Today" scale: 1 inch = 12 meters. Double column text. Index and bibliography at rear. Slipcase with light sunning along edges. "In 1933 the German architect Bruno Taut 1880-1938 who had fled from the Nazis the year before arrived in Japan where he stayed for three years.Taut wrote "In Katsura denkt das Auge" - "At Katsura the eyes think." He was struck by the simplicity of the building by its apparent lack of ornamentation by its just proportions and by its spatial integration with the surrounding garden. These features seemed to him to accord perfectly with the aesthetic ideals of twentieth-century functionalism. Yet when one considers the Katsura Palace in the context of the Japanese architectural tradition it is difficult to say that Taut's assessment of it was adequate.In preparing this book we have attempted to rid ourselves of this preconceived notion and examine Katsura as it is. Our aim has been to start from scratch and arrive at an objective appraisal which would put the palace in proper perspective with regards to Japanese architecture as a whole. Takeshi Nishikawa spent nearly five years taking the photographs reproduced here. Kodansha International LTD hardcover books
1848réf. 47660Krotoschin Krotoszyn: B. L. Monasch & Sohn 1848. First German edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Octavo. viii 315 1 558 392pp. Bound in modern brown half-cloth over decorative paper-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorative ruling on spine. Light brown endpapers. The author Isaac Aboab lived in Toledo at the end of the 14th century. His Hebrew work Menorath HaMe'or "The Candelabrum of Light" is a classic ethical work. It became immensely popular among the Jews in the Middle Ages with more than seventy editions printed. Originally written in Hebrew it was translated into Spanish Ladino Yiddish and German with the 1st edition printed in Constantinople in 1514. "Developing the image of the seven-branched candlestick cf. Num. 4:9 Isaac divides his work into seven nerot "lamps". These in turn are subdivided into main divisions parts and chapters. Using the three parts of Psalms 34:15 as general headings he assigns the seven lamps to them in the following manner: a "Depart from evil" 1 guard against envy lust ambition; 2 be wary of sins attendant upon speech. b "Do good" 3 observance of mitzvot such as circumcision rearing of children prayer festivals honoring parents founding a family charity justice; 4 study of Torah; 5 repentance. c "Seek peace and pursue it" 6 peace and love for fellowman; and 7 humility. Into this rather loose framework lsaac fitted a wealth of aggadic material culled from the Talmud and the vast midrashic literature. His use of passages from aggadic works now lost and the variants in the talmudic and midrashic texts he cites make the Menorat ha-Ma'or of great importance for establishing the text of the Talmud used in the Spanish-North African academies as distinct from that of the Franco-German school. Isaac is selective in using esoteric texts and he fights shy of statements that may provoke doubt and heresy." -see:encyclopedia dot com. The translation by R. J. Fürstenthal was completed by Benzion Behrend. Block somewhat browned with sporadic light foxing. Water stain at lower foredge and bottom visible for about fifty pages. Binding in overall very good interior in good condition. B. L. Monasch & Sohn hardcover books
1964réf. 84741Garden City: Doubleday & Company Inc 1964. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; black cloth-covered boards with titling and decoration stamped in gilt on spine; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 242pp. Inscribed by author on front endpaper: "For Alice and David Halliday with affection and esteem from their friend Guillaume / June 1976". Signed by translator William Meredith on title page. Light rubbing to board edges else Near Fine. Dustwrapper designed by Harry Ford unclipped priced $4.95 with trivial surface wear and rubbing to extremities pencilled note to front flap and 1" tape mend to tear at verso of lower rear panel; Very Good. Collection of verse with English translations appearing opposite the original French including "La Chanson du Mal-Aimé" / "Song of the Poorly Lived" "Crépuscule" / "Twilight" and "L'Ermite" / "The Hermit". Concludes with notes section which examines each poem. 84741. Doubleday & Company, Inc unknown books
1929réf. 48631Berlin - Leipzig - Wien: Friedrich Ernst Hübsch 1929. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg. Quarto. xxvi 74pp. 2 plates. Original yellow clothe with modern design and typography in red and blue on cover blue lettering on spine. protected by modern mylar. Frontispiece drawing of F. A. B. by Orlik. Publisher's device on title page. With essays by Herbert Eulenberg A Personal Sketch and Max Osborn and a statement "On Living" by Fritz August Breuhaus. A Critique. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w offset illustrations of architectural drawings plans and b/w photographs of exteriors and interiors including accessories of impressive architecture by Breuhaus including an extensive section on The Bremen." Photographs by August Sander Hugo Schmölz Hans Finsler Karl Rogge J. Becker Rud. Stickelmann J. Söhn H. Engelke Anton Sahm Luftverkehr Strähle and Photo Worsinger. Contains list of architectural projects between 1909 and 1929. Text in English and German. Binding with light sunning along edges and spine. Two very small stains on front one on back cover. Small closed tears at joints at head and tail of spine. Previous owner's nicely penned signature on front free endpaper. Binding in overall good interior in very good condition. Friedrich Ernst Hübsch hardcover books
1887réf. 81552Benares: Kama Shastra Society for Private Subscribers 1887. First edition. vi 183 pp. Previous owner’s inked name and note to first leaf else very good plus in full vellum that is a little soiled with a vertical crease down the spine. English translation by Burton with his introduction. One of several translations done by Burton for the Society founded by him and others to circumvent the Obscene Publications Act of 1857. Benares: Kama Shastra Society for Private Subscribers, hardcover books
1976réf. 18838New York: Living Hand 1976. First Edition. First Printing one of 500 numbered copies. Octavo; pale gray wrappers with French flaps with titles printed in crimson on spine and front panel; 75pp. Signed by Auster on the title page. A Fine copy without flaws. Collection of poems by Du Bouchet translated by Auster from the original French. Living Hand unknown books
2006réf. 48140Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum 2006. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap partially. Folio. 264pp. Original black cloth with blind-stamped lettering on spine in original color-illustrated dustjacket white lettering on spine. Glossy orange endpapers. Color frontispieces. "From the ancient history of decorative stonework comes a very special artistic phenomenon and this richly illustrated large-format volume tells its fascinating story. The phenomenon is is pietre dure or polychrome hardstone marquetry which resurfaced in Rome in the sixteenth century during the artistic flowering of the Italian Renaissance. Rome where art took its inspiration from the cult of antiquity fell in love with the evocative power of hardstones such as verde antico from Thessaly breccia from the island of Skyros and imperial porphyry. The stones decorated table tops were inlaid into delicate floral panels and shone from ovals of opalescent alabaster." Publisher. Extraordinary volume with stunning color photographs throughout many of them double-paged or full page capturing the beauty and craftsmanship of this ancient technique brilliantly. Contains bibliography index and photo credits at rear. J. Paul Getty Museum hardcover books
1920réf. 28553London: Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press 1920. First English language edition. Hardcover. vg. Octavo. XXII 161pp English 59pp Hebrew. Original blue cloth with gold lettering on spine. Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan "ha-Nakdan" meaning "the punctuator" or "grammarian" commonly known as Berachya 13th century was a Jewish exegete ethical writer grammarian translator poet and philosopher. His most famous works are Mishle Shualim Fox Fables and Sefer Hahibbur The Book of Compilation. Very little is known for certain about his life and much discussion has taken place concerning the date and native country of Berachyah. It is possible that he was a descendant of Jewish scholars of Babylonia. He is thought to have lived sometime in the 12th or 13th century with some placing him about 1260 in Provence. Other theories give Northern France as his home while Joseph Jacobs arrived at the conclusion that Berechiah should be located in England toward the end of the 12th century. This was confirmed by Neubauer's discovery that in the preface to his fables Berechiah refers to the "turning of the wheels of fate to the island of the sea = England for one to die and the other to live" clearly a reference to the English massacre of 1190 From WIKIPEDIA. Very minor age-toning on spine. Previous owner's sticker on free front endpaper Abraham Steinmeier. Binding in overall good to very good interior in very good condition. Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press hardcover books
1970réf. 1411262Moscow: State Publishers Music 1970. First Thus. Hardcover. Quarto xvii 278 2 pages. In Very Good condition. In full brown cloth binding with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Very light wear to boards with mild bumping to fore corners. Text block shows light age toning and small sparse scuffs along edges. Lightly age toned throughout. Interior clean. Shelved in Room A Oversized. 1411262. Special Collections - Upstairs. State Publishers Music hardcover books
1964réf. 1403097Milan: Fratelli Fabbri Editori 1964-1965. First Thus. Hardcover. Quartos Seven Volumes plus box of photograph prints. In Very Good condition with Very Good dust jackets. In full leatherette binding with gilt decorations and lettering to boards and spine. Dust jackets are pictorial black lettering on spine. Mild shelf wear and moderate edge wear to dust jackets with some peeling/wrinkling at the fore corners and along the top edges. Small closed tear in bottom edge of back cover of Vol. IV jacket. Jacket spines show varying levels of sunning which is heaviest on Vol. I IV and VII. Boards show light shelf wear with mild rubbing at corners and along board edges. Small scrapes on bottom edge of front board of Vol. I. Heads and tails of spines very lightly bumped. Vol. II shows light bumping to fore corners with more moderate bumping along the top and bottom edges of the rear board. Text blocks show light shelf wear on edges. Box of photographic prints is designed to look like the other volumes in the set and shows minor wear on its board. The top edge of the box bows outward slightly. Prints are in excellent condition. Shelved in Locked Annex Area Multi-Volume Area ND-MV. Oversized books. Additional postage necessary for expedited/international orders. Economy International shipping unavailable due to size/weight restrictions. For international/expedited customers please inquire for rates. . 1403097. FP New Rockville Stock. Fratelli Fabbri Editori hardcover books
1993réf. 85261Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press 1993. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; red cloth spine over blue paper-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; ix2211pp; illus. Signed by author with 2009 date on title page. A Fine copy. Dustwrapper unclipped priced $22.50 with trivial surface wear else Near Fine. First published as Le Rêve Mexicain ou la Pensée Interrompue 1965 Clēzio explores 16th century Mesoamerica and the disappearance of indigenous cultures. 85261. The University of Chicago Press unknown books
1898réf. 55799London: H. S. Nichols Ltd 1898. Second edition carefully revised and considerably expanded. Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. 12 xlii 320pp. Original three-quarter red Morocco with gilt ruling on covers gilt lettering ruling and tooling on spine. Top edge gilt. Textured red endpapers. Beautiful frontispiece engraving in three colors with tissue guard. Original title page printed in red and black beautifully decorated and framed in red and black. Second edition title page printed in red and black. Decorative head- and endpieces. A facsimile of the manuscript in the Bodleian Library. Contains English translation and 42 plates with reproductions of the original manuscript printed to glossy paper. Edited with notes bibliographical references and a comparative study of the original texts rendered lithographically and an introduction by Edward Heron-Allen. Printed by H. S. Nichols LTD in London. Binding with light wear along edges lightly rubbed with small scuff in upper foredge corner of back cover. Tissue guard for frontispiece with small hole. Block lightly age-toned. H. S. Nichols Ltd hardcover books
1820réf. 5871New Haven: Howe & Spalding 1820. First English Edition. Original blue paste paper boards. Very good; a small piece torn from the blank margin of the title page; spotting & toning. 8vo xv 1 17 - 86 2 - adverts pp. printed recommendation slip signed in type by Eli Ives and Benjamin Silliman. A detailed account of the author's experiments with the compound as a drug. Tipped into the book is a printed recommendation by B Silliman. Austin #1183. Howe & Spalding hardcover books
1960réf. 147350N.p.: N.p. 1960. Draft script for an unproduced three-act play. With a few editorial manuscript ink annotations throughout. Based on Marcel Pagnol's 1934 script "Le premier amour" about the first true love between a man and woman leading the pair to defy the practices of polygamy common to their tribes and set out to make a new life together. Intended for production many times over two decades in 1946 1947 and 1969 but ultimately never realized. Set in the Stone Age. White titled wrappers with credits for screenwriter MARCEL PAGNOL and playwright ROBERT WYLER on the front wrapper. Title page present with credits for screenwriter MARCEL PAGNOL and playwright ROBERT WYLER. 117 leaves with last page of text numbered 3-4-12. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock rectos only. Pages Very Good plus wrapper Very Good plus bound with three gold brads. N.p. unknown books
1987réf. 168328Santa Monica and San Francisco: Lapis Press 1987. Limited Edition one of 150 copies SIGNED by translator Michael Taylor and artist Sam Francis. A collection of prose-poems first published in 1912 written in French and Chinese inspired by inscriptions author Victor Segalen saw on stones along the road during a stay in China. Fine in a lightly rubbed Very Good plus transparent dust jacket. Lapis Press unknown books
1901réf. 008011London: Downey & Co. Limited 1901. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE in fine binding and such lovely condition. Both volumes stamped "Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe London England for Gelber Lilienthal Inc.". Handsomely bound in half polished blue calf ruled in gilt over marbled boards the backs with two calf labels lettered in gilt and four gilt stamped fleurs-de-lys in gilt ruled boxes top edges gilt marbled end papers. Near Fine light rubbing to boards at edges. Interior pages quite clean. Downey & Co., Limited Hardcover books
1828réf. 1409024Philadelphia: John Grigg 1828. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto x 272 pages. In Good condition. In full contemporary leather binding with gilt roll to board edges; spine with gilt titling on a black leather label. Scuffing stains and shelving wear to boards. All edges rubbed. Exposed board at bottom fore corners. Water damage along fore edge of rear board. Text block is moderately worn and soiled along edges. Foxed throughout heaviest at endpapers more moderate towards the center of the book. Faint penciling on front flyleaf. Water damage affects the corners of p. 135 onward growing in severity toward the end. Top margin of title page is trimmed with inscription still partially present: "by the Author". Shelved in Room A. . This translation of Bayle and Hollard is the first publication of renowned American surgeon Samuel Gross. 1409024. Special Collections. John Grigg hardcover books
1966réf. 85293London: Hamish Hamilton Ltd 1966. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo 20cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling and blocking stamped in gilt and red on spine; dustjacket; 239pp. Signed by author with 2009 date on title page. Light sunning to board edges with indentation to upper front board and ripple effect to upper margin of first pages; Very Good. Dustwrapper designed by Juliet Kindersley unclipped priced 21s. net lightly tanned with tiny scratch to front wrapper titling and tears and creases to extremities; Very Good. First published in France as La Fièvre 1965 this collection of tales includes "Fever" "It Seems to Me the Boat is Heading for the Island" and "The World is Alive". 85293. Hamish Hamilton Ltd unknown books
1983réf. 1418040Boston: G.K. Hall & Company 1983. Hardcover. Tall Octavo xiii unpaginated pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Bound in gray cloth with green titling to spine and front board. Jacket is gray with green titling. Jacket has toning to spine shelfwear and a few small closed tears to edges a chip to center of spine and small areas of chipping throughout. Spine and boards have light shelfwear to edges and light rubbing throughout. Text block has "NOT FOR RESALE" stamped to fore edge and light scuffing to edges. Text in English and French. Shelved in Locked Annex ND-HV. 1418040. FP New Rockville Stock. G.K. Hall & Company hardcover books
1983réf. 85376New York: Monthly Review Press 1983. First American Edition. First Printing cloth issue. Octavo 21.5cm; navy blue paper-covered boards with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 1011-194pp. Inscribed by the author on the front endpaper: "From Eduardo to David / Seattle / April 27/88." Base of spine gently bumped else a clean Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped priced $16.00 with light wear to extremities; Near Fine. "Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of Uruguayan-born writer and political activist Eduardo Galeano. It is both journal and history spanning more than two decades of the lives and struggles of the Latin American people from Guatemala and Cuba in the north to Chile and Argentina in the south" from front flap. Uncommon signed. Monthly Review Press unknown books
1968réf. 86025New York: Atheneum 1968. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 21cm; off-white canvas cloth boards and beige cloth backstrip with titles stamped in green and orange on spine and front cover; blue-grey topstain; dustjacket; viii3004pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a Very Good dustjacket unclipped priced $5.95 showing mild surface wear two spots of bubbling to the laminate along the front joint with some wear tiny nicks and small tears and creases to spine ends. The French Nobel Prize-winner's second novel originally published as La Déluge in 1966. "It is a meditation on death anguish and the disintegration of human possibility a fantasy in the mind of Francois Besson the disengaged youthful hero of the novel as he descends deeper in the everyday world where the demarcations between reality and hallucination slowly dissolve through his experiences love crime vagabondage" Kirkus Reviews January 25 1967. 86025. Atheneum unknown books
2011réf. 71639Stanford CA: Stanford University Press 2011. Later printing of the Pritzker Edition. Hardcover. Very Good /Very Good. First 6 volumes only. Quarto 26 cm 1/2 brown cloth with tan cloth over boards. Extremities gently bumped here and there. Internally fresh and bright. Books in very good to near fine condition. In dust jackets with general mild surface wear. A foundational work of Jewish mysticism. "This is the first translation ever made from a critical Aramaic text of the Zohar which has been established by Professor Daniel Matt based on a wide range of original manuscripts. The work spans twelve volumes. The extensive commentary appearing at the bottom of each page clarifies the kabbalistic symbolism and terminology and cites sources and parallels from biblical rabbinic and kabbalistic texts." - Stanford University Press. Stanford University Press hardcover books
2024réf. 38301Barcelona 2024. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. Number 16 of 40 numbered copies. There were also four copies numbered I through IV for the "Heirs of Joana Raspall." Printed in parallel text on Gmund cotton paper. It is a leporello structure which is an accordion- or concertina-style folded book booklet or pamphlet where a continuous sheet of paper is folded in alternating front and back pleats. In original black cloth lettered in gray to upper board in a white card portfolio with ribbon ties. The poem by Joana Raspall is a meditation on war illustrated ingeniously by printer Elies Plana using contrasting wood typefaces to recreate warring factions that advance in opposite directions to reach an inky melée at the central point. In fine condition. Measures 9 x 13 inches. Unpaginated. PRI/092426. hardcover books
1930réf. 41643Paris: Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner 1930. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Folio 15 1/2 x 11 3/4". 67 1pp Text uncut and unopened in blind wrappers XXXVII 17 loose leaves Plates. Original half tan cloth over marbled paper covered portfolio with black lettering to spine and red and black lettering to front cover. String ties. In this work Swiss archaeologist and field director of the Abydos excavations Edouard Naville 1844-1926 reproduces some spectacular bas-relief details found in the Egyptian Temples located at Abydos and Behbeit-El-Hagher. Abydos: The fragments of bas-reliefs found in the Temples of Seti I and Ramses II are reproduced in 5 in-text vignettes one color plate and 36 photolithographic plates. Behbeit-El-Hagher: Details of bas-reliefs found in the Temple of Isis are reproduced in 6 in-text vignettes 11 photolithographic plates and 6 phototype plates including Samanood Samanood Appendix: The last two plates 16 and 17 depict fragments of two corner stones 16 and fragments of a naos in dark green diorite 17 found in Samanood. Minor shelf wear. Text in French and English. Portfolio and interior in very good condition. Librairie Orientaliste Paul Geuthner hardcover books
1982réf. 24110703New York: Targ Editions William Targ at The Grenfell Press 1982. First and Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good . First edition in English one of 250 copies small quarto size 49 pp. Marguerite Yourcenar 1903-1987 born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie Ghislaine Cleenewerck de Crayencour was the first woman elected to the the Académie française 1980. She was the winner of the Prix Femina and Erasmus Prize and in 1965 was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. This collection of her poems are primarily from her 1956 book "Les Charites d'Alcippe" "The Alms for Alcippe" "the one book of original verse published in the author's maturity containing only those poems she had saved from many years of writing.They represent a crystallization of the most important subjects and themes that have preoccupied her throughout her career" n.b. from the Introduction p. 7. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter blue cloth over grey paper-covered boards debossed on the front board is Yourcenar's signaure in blind gilt lettering on the spine blue endpapers with the fore- and bottom edges of the free endpapers uncut frontispiece a black-and-white reproduction of a photograph of the author title page in blue and black; Centaur type on Frankfurt paper small quarto size 10 5/8" by 6 1/2" pagination: 1-6 7-47 1 blank 1 colophon one of 250 copies signed by Yourcenar at the colophon. With the original glassine wrapper. ___CONDITION: Volume fine overall the boards clean straight corners without rubbing a strong square text block with solid hinges the interior is clean and bright and entirely free of prior owner markings; a hint of sunning to the top few inches of the blue cloth on the front board else fine. The glassine wrapper better than very good clean with some offsetting where it meets the blue cloth and light edgewear mostly at the head and tail of the spine with a small chip at the bottom of the back panel near the spine. ___POSTAGE: International customers please note the following: i additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs please inquire for details; and ii any taxes duty or tariffs charged by your country will of necessity be your responsibility. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Targ Editions [William Targ at The Grenfell Press] hardcover books
