1972rif. WB17130New York: The Limited Editions Club 1972. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Copy 81 of a total edition of 1500. Signed by illustrator Rene ben Sussan. Excellent copy in publisher's slipcase. The Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1970rif. 54666New York: Harry N. Abrams 1970. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shipping box./as new. Quarto 9½" x 12" 654pp. Burgundy cloth boards gilt spine titles white dust jacket with color illustration in mylar cover. 102 color plates 232 b&w ilustrations. The Definitive study of Romanesque muyral painting in Italy France Spain England Germany and Austria by the outstanding authority on byzantine art. Although Romanesque painting has suffered heavily from destruction gamage and poor restoration an enormous amount still survives and displays amazing variety nobility and imaginative power. The fine photographs were specially made fo this by the celebrated Max Hirmer. Frontispiece Sant' Angelo in Formis. Apse. Christ Enthroned. Harry N. Abrams hardcover books
1922rif. 139418Paris: Les Éditions G. Crès & Cie 1922. 32p. 48 b&w plates text in French pencil notes denoting country/region of origin of the artworks first edition in worn 10x7 inch paper boards with inkstains rough chipping to spine else good condition. Questo Volume è Apparso Nello Serie Orbis Pictus. Les Éditions G. Crès & Cie unknown books
1957rif. 1397551Bloomington Indiana: Indiana University Press 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 119 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Spine is cream with orange and black. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering price partially cut from front flap with only "$3" visible has mild general age-toning shelving wear along extremities a 1in. closed tear along head edge moderate soiling along covers and open tearing along spine head head joints and rear head fore corner. Boards have mild discoloration along front tail edge and moderate shelving wear along extremities; spine moderately cocked. Textblock has moderate age-toning along fore and tail edges head edge dyed red/pink and moderately sun-faded; mild foxing to endpapers. Shelved in Room Z. 1397551. Special Collections - Upstairs. Indiana University Press hardcover books
1994rif. 233311The Easton Press 1994-01-01. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Full black leather with gilt board design and page edges. Sic raised bands to the spine. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Includes the Easton Press Collector's Notes sheet. 394 pages. The Easton Press hardcover books
1991rif. 84478New York and London: Marion Boyars 1991. First American Edition. Bilingual edition. Octavo 22cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 160pp; 16 glossy pages of black and white photographic halftone illustrations. Light rubbing to lower board edge else Fine. Dustwrapper designed by Susi Mawani unclipped priced UK £12.95 / US $21.95 with light creases and rubbing to spine ends and lower rear panel else Near Fine. This bilingual edition includes Green's French text alongside Underwood's English translation as Green describes the culture of Paris France and his memories prior to leaving during WWII. 84478. Marion Boyars unknown books
1953rif. 88242Paris: Éditions du Seuil 1953. First French Edition. Softcover. Octavo 19cm; pictorial paper wrappers; fore-edge untrimmed; 120pp. Publisher's purple wrap-around band laid in. Text in French. Some pages of text unopened. Soil and foxing to spine with light ripple effect to wrappers; Very Good. Laid in wrap-around band is torn into two pieces with tiny chips and tears; Good. Collection of essays with themes of Catholicism. 88242. Éditions du Seuil unknown books
2011rif. 301752Paris: Maison de la Poésie Rhône-Alpes/Le Temps des CeRises 2011. Paperback. 138p. 6x11.75 inches text in French personal inscription signed by the poet illustrations very good first edition limited to 1000 copies paperback in Frenchfold pictorial wraps. Four holdings located in OCLC as of 4/2023. Maison de la Poésie Rhône-Alpes/Le Temps des CeRises paperback books
1986rif. 86862Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press 1986. First Edition. Octavo 21.5cm; light brown cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xviii23-1935pp; figures and tables throughout. Monographs of the Center for Southeast Asian Stduies Kyoto University. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Bookshop sticker to lower front pastedown with a pencilled note to upper rear pastedown else Near Fine. Dustwrapper lightly spine-faded with trace rubbing to rear panel; Very Good. Text includes "Part I. The Structure of a State Religion" and "Part II. A State Religion in History" with a list of abbreviations and a concluding index. 86862. The University of Hawaii Press unknown books
1984rif. 88227New York: St. Martin's Press 1984. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 20cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 222pp; map illustration. Light shelf-wear with faint creases to upper margins; Very Good. Dustwrapper designed by Michael Booth unclipped priced $12.95 with mild shelf-wear and light rubbing to extremities; Very Good. First published in German 1981; this translation originally appeared in Great Britain in 1982. Science fiction featuring time travel and a battle for world domination. A nice copy of Jeschke's first published novel. 88227. St. Martin's Press unknown books
1912rif. 84333New York: Hodder & Stoughton / George H. Doran 1912. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19.5cm; blue cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in black and gray on spine and front cover; 301pp. Modest rubbing to spine ends and board edges with shelf-soil; Very Good. Also published as La Frontière the French author's novel explores nationalism and patriotism prior to to WWI. 84333. Hodder & Stoughton / George H. Doran unknown books
1922rif. 84396New York: The Macaulay Company 1922. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19cm; brown cloth-covered boards with titling and decorations stamped in orange on spine and front cover; 313pp; frontispiece illustration. Modest rubbing to cloth with tanning to edges of textblock and light wear to hinges; Very Good. Includes eight retellings of Prince Renine's adventures as told to Leblanc by Arsene Lupin including "On the Top of the Tower" "The Tell-Tale Film" and "The Lady with the Hatchet". 84396. The Macaulay Company unknown books
1965rif. 87915Ljubljana Slovenia: Slovene Writers' Association 1965. Octavo 17cm; black spine over lavender cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on front cover; dustjacket; ii45-1504pp. Light shelf-wear with trace shelf-soil; Very Good. Dustwrapper lightly tanned with light shelf-wear 0.5" tear to lower rear flap fold and tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. Collection of verse with contributions including Matej Bor's "The Encounter" Cene Vipotnik's "Burial" Janez Menart's "Bread and Butter" and Veno Taufer's "The Melancholy of the Second Echleon" and a preface by Filip Kalan. 87915. Slovene Writers' Association unknown books
1974rif. 86303New York: Atheneum 1974. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 24.5cm; black cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and author's initials embossed onto front cover; red topstain; dustjacket; xii23-6873pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $13.95 with the printed price crossed-out and re-priced $3.50 in pen with light surface wear and a faint crease to upper spine panel. Second memoir by the Russian-Jewish author translator and educator following her 1970 memoir Hope Against Hope. Both books chronicled her life with Russian poet Osip Mandelstam. 86303. Atheneum unknown books
1955rif. 55086Warsaw: L'Institute de L'Histoire Juive 1955. First edition. Softcover. Good- condition. Octavo. 24pp. Original tan stiff wraps with black lettering and ruling on cover. French language variant of the noted text by Bernard Mark 1908-1966 who served as director of the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw. Illustrated with b/w photographs of German soldiers setting fire to the Warsaw Ghetto from the album of SS General Stroop mass terrorism applied by "Hitlerites" in Poland from the collection of the Institute of Jewish History murdered insurgents in the Warsaw Ghetto from the album of SS General Stroop and an old woman jumping from a burning house collection SS General Stroop. "Barely thirteen years have passed since the greatest crime known to history the attempted extermination of peoples: Jewish and non-Jewish. And now the Nazi brute raises its head again. Warmongers are resurrecting this destructive force and in order for it to be more successful this time they have decided to enthrust thermonuclear weapons to those who in the past destroyed Warsaw and the Ghetto Coventry Oradour and Lidice and Marzabotto." Translation of first part of French text. Front cover detached but present. Block browned due to paper-quality. Protected in modern mylar. L'Institute de L'Histoire Juive unknown books
1983rif. 26590New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1983. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine and in blind on front cover; dustjacket; 120pp. Fine in a Near Fine First State dustjacket One Hundred Days of Solitude printed on front flap unclipped with mild wear to extremities. The Nobel Prize-winning author's powerful short novel about "a spectacular wedding a sudden scandal a perhaps reluctant murder to which an entire town appears to be an accessory before the fact and the exotic manifestations of guilt. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1924rif. 87738Amsterdam: Privately Published 1924. Errata slip laid in. Quarto 33cm; tan cloth spine over tan paper-covered boards with colorful pictorial illustration pasted to front cover and titling in red and black on covers; 67-32pp; one tissue-guarded colorful plate with black-and-white illustrations throughout. Text in Dutch and English. Previous owner Clem Cramer's bookplate to front pastedown. Modest shelf-wear and -soil to covers and interior with slight loss of paper to cover edges occasional creases to text margins and foxing to text pastedowns endpapers and errata slip; Good. Text explores history of Tibetan temple paintings with a focus on artistic changes throughout time. 87738. Privately Published unknown books
1975rif. 89150Kraków Poland: Wydawnictwo Literackie 1975. Bilingual Edition with text in Russian and French. Octavo 24cm; white cloth-covered boards with decoration stamped in black on front cover; pictorial endpapers; dustjacket; 55pp; colorful illustrations. Shelf-wear and -soil with trace foxing to covers and edges of textblock lower edge nudged with slight loss of cloth and crack starting at gutter of p.40/41; Good. Dustwrapper has shelf-wear and -soil with rubbing and tiny tears and chips to extremities; Very Good. Collection of verse includes "Cisza Morska" / "Paix Marine" "Mogily Haremu" / "Les Tombes du Harem" and "Pielgrzym" / "Le Pélerin" and concludes with illustrated poetry. 89150. Wydawnictwo Literackie unknown books
1978rif. 88041Peking: Foreign Language Press 1978. Third Edition. List of Principal Characters laid in. Octavo 21.5cm; white cloth spine over red paper-covered boards with titling stamped in blue and on spine and in black on front cover; dustjacket; vi23-6131pp; black-and-white illustrations throughout. Light rubbing to board edges with foxing to spine and edges of textblock; Very Good. Dustwrapper has modest shelf-wear and -soil with several tiny nicks and tears; Very Good. Mo's semi-autobiographical novel was first published in 1964 with its film adaptation Qing Chun Zhi Ge 1959 directed by Huaiai Chen and Wei Cui and starring Fang Xie Tai Kang and Zengyin Cao. 88041. Foreign Language Press unknown books
1977rif. 88139New York: Kodansha International/USA Ltd / Harper & Row Publishers Inc 1977. First American Edition. Quarto 26.5cm; brown and black paper-covered boards with titling stamped in black and white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 78-150pp; colorful and black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Japanese Arts Library 2. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Light rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped with price sticker to front flap and trivial surface wear; Near Fine. Originally published in Japanese as Shozo chokoku volume 10 in the series Nihon no bijutsu 1967 this edition includes the translator's introduction on the history and purpose of a portrait. 88139. Kodansha International/USA Ltd / Harper & Row Publishers, Inc unknown books
1976rif. 89382Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press 1976. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the author and translator this being copy no.197. Octavo 23.75cm; pictorial paper-covered boards and dark orange cloth backstrip with title label mounted to upper spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 89-999pp. Some mild discoloration to backstrip foxing to text edges and board edges; Very Good in a rubbed and cloudy dustjacket. A collection of folk tales featuring the character Hadidan Aharam. MORROW & COONEY 243c. 89382. Black Sparrow Press unknown books
2005rif. 85317New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2005. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.25cm; glossy pictorial card wrappers; vi2-4366pp. Some trivial surface wear else very Near Fine. The Japanese author's eighth novel published in the U.S. winner of the World Fantasy Award for 2006. 85317. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
2001rif. 85318New York: Alfred A. Knopf 2001. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 22cm; purple and dark orange paper-covered boards titled in black and pink on spine; dustjacket; viii3-2106pp. Hint of foxing to upper edge of textblock else Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket unclipped priced $23.00 with a tiny tear to upper rear flap fold. The Japanese author's seventh novel published in the U.S. originally published in Japan in 1999. 85318. Alfred A. Knopf unknown books
1977rif. 88137New York: Kodansha International/USA Ltd / Harper & Row Publishers Inc 1977. First American Edition. Quarto 26.5cm; maroon and purple paper-covered boards with titling stamped in white and purple on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 78-2013pp; colorful and black-and-white photographic halftones and illustrations throughout. Japanese Arts Library 4. This copy is from the library of noted poet translator and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn 1928-2024 with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Light rubbing to board edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper unclipped with price sticker to front flap; Near Fine. Originally published in Japanese as JÅdo kyÅga volume 43 in the series Nihon no bijutsu 1969 this edition includes the translator's introduction on the genesis and development of the Pure Land Faith. 88137. Kodansha International/USA Ltd / Harper & Row Publishers, Inc unknown books
1934rif. 87984Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan 1934. Fourth Edition softcover. Octavo 23cm; pale green paper wrappers; glassine dustwrapper; viii4382pp. Some pages of text unopened. Text in French. Tanned with modest shelf-soil and -wear and pencilled to wrappers and first page; Very Good. Glassine dustwrapper is tanned with tiny tears to extremities; Very Good. First published in German as Buddha: Sein Leben seine Lehre seine Gemeinde 1881 this text focuses on the life and efforts of Buddha. 87984. Librairie Félix Alcan unknown books
