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1781réf. 1409442London; Edinburgh: W. Strahan and T. Cadell; W. Creech 1781-1785. First English Edition. Hardcover. Small quartos Nine Volumes. In Very Good minus condition. In fine matching tree-calf bindings with elaborate gilt decoration along board edges and spines and gilt roll along the turn-ins; spines with gilt titling on colored morocco labels; with bound-in ribbon bookmarks. Boards show moderate shelf wear with small scuffs to covers rubbing along edges and mild bumping to fore corners. Fore corners often show small areas of exposed board. Splitting to joints and hinges of most volumes. Light shallow chipping to heads and tails of spines; heavier on Vol. I with some loss of material. Some rubbing to gilt elements on spines. Text blocks show moderate rubbing and wear along edges with dust soiling to top edges. All volumes moderately age toned and foxed throughout. Some pencil and pen numbering/notation on verso of the front flyleaves; a single mark in most volumes with more notes in Vol. I. CONTENTS: Vol. I 2 iii 2 iv-xxi 3 514 pages plus frontispiece and plates i-ii; Vol. II 4 517 pages plus plates iii-x.; Vol. III iv 4 524 pages plus plates xi-xv1 xv2 xv3-xxiii; Vol. IV vii 352 pages plus plates xxiv-liii1 liii2-lxxvii lxxix lxxviii lxxx-xcix; Vol. V vii 440 pages plus plates c-clxii; Vol. VI 4 443 plus plates clxiii-cxcvii; Vol. VII vii 452 pages plus plates cxcviii-ccxl1 ccxl2 ccxl3-ccli; Vol. VIII v 2 352 pages plus plates cclii-ccxcv; Vol. IX viii 422 2 pages plus plates cccii-cccvii. Shelved in Room A. 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. This is an excellent first edition of William Smellie's influential English translation of the Comte de Buffon's monumental work the Histoire Naturelle which was a comprehensive multi-volume treatise on the most current natural science of the time. 1409442. Special Collections - Upstairs. W. Strahan and T. Cadell; W. Creech hardcover books
2017réf. 132337Plains PA: Boss Dog Press 2017. paste-paper covered boards paper label on cover and spine slipcase. Boss Dog Press. 9" x 12". paste-paper covered boards paper label on cover and spine slipcase. 68 3 pages. Limited to 96 copies of which this is one of 50 numbered and signed copies. The Bone Folder is the fifth and most ambitious publication of the Boss Dog Press. A letterpress edition of Ernst Collins Der Pressbengel translated from the original German by Peter D. Verheyen the text is a dialog between a fictional bookbinder and his equally fictional patron with the goal of educating bibliophiles about the processes of hand bookbinding. The dialog is carried out over six days Monday through Saturday with a different subject each day. Monday covers forwarding; Tuesday is decorated papers leather and vellum; Wednesday paper case bindings; Thursday quarter leather bindings; Friday is full leather binding; Saturday describes gold tooling.The original edition was published in 1922 and has been reprinted in other languages; the first English translation was made available in the 2009 Guild of Book Workers Journal and also as a downloadable pdf from Peters Pressbengel Project blog. The text is augmented by a bio-bibliographical study of the history of the Collin family three generations of whom were bookbinders of significance in Germany from the mid-1800s to World War II. In addition the text is complemented by the inclusion of seven photographic images a frontispiece and an enlarged image of Ernst Collins handwritten signature. Boss Dog Press unknown 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
1995réf. 349429St. Petersburg: Pushinsky Fond 1995. 270p. text in English illustrated throughout by b&w dance photos illustrated endpapers introduction memoirs by various dancers and choreographers articles from the Soviet Press roles performed first edition hardcover bound in brown buckram cloth and gilt lightly-worn dust jacket. Pushinsky Fond unknown books
1831réf. 1414564Philadelphia: John Grigg 1831. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Quarto 4 xix 2 18- 584 pages. In Good condition. In full brown leather binding; black leather label with gilt titling to spine. Scuffing to boards with rubbing along all edges and at the fore corners. Some peeling to leather along the top board edges. Significant scuffing along spine. Text block is moderately toned and worn with scattered foxing. Lighter age toning and variable foxing throughout. Penciling and small bookplate on front endpaper. Tidemarks in gutters of endpapers and on bottom edges of p. 541 through the end of the book. Ownership inscription on title page. Leaves of p. iii-v are somewhat loose. Shelved in Room F. 1414564. Special Collections - Upstairs. John Grigg hardcover books
1922réf. 1414709New York: William Wood 1922. First American Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii 60 pages plus 13 plates. In full yellow cloth binding with gilt titling to front cover. Boards show moderate shelving wear along edges and at corners. Smudging to covers and spine with small stain on the back cover. Sunning to spine. Text block is moderately age toned foxed and worn along edges with dust soiling to top edge. Some worming to the fore edge. Lighter age toning and scattered foxing throughout. Bookplate of former owner on front pastedown. Shelved in Room F. 1414709. Special Collections - Upstairs. William Wood hardcover books
1910réf. 1410503Berlin: August Hirschwald 1910. First German Edition. Hardcover. Octavo 485 pages. In Good minus condition. In publisher's gray paper wraps with black lettering to covers and spine. Wraps are moderately worn and soiled with rubbing along joints and edges and creasing at corners. Spine is cracked and split with moderate sunning. Text block edges are lightly toned and worn with heavier wear on the bottom edge. Interior clean with light penciling in the top margin of the title page. Significant splitting in the gutter of pg. 208-209 through spine; text block is nearly in two. Shelved in Room A. 1410503. Special Collections - Upstairs. August Hirschwald hardcover books
1910réf. 1410556Berlin: August Hirschwald 1910. First German Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xii 485 pages. In Very Good minus condition. In black leather quarter binding with brown marbled paper boards; spine is paneled sunned to brown with gilt titling. Rubbing along board edges and at the fore corners. Small scratches and scuffs on covers. Some areas of peeling along the joints. Text block edges are lightly toned and worn with some dust soiling to top edge. Interior clean with light penciling on front free endpaper and in the top margin of the title page. Shelved in Room A. 1410556. Special Collections - Upstairs. August Hirschwald hardcover books
1787réf. 1410559Paris: Chez Froullé 1787. First French Edition. Hardcover. Octavo xxii 23-406 2 pages with 3 fold-out plates. In Good condition. In full contemporary leather binding; spine with gilt decoration and a leather label with gilt titling. Boards show significant chipping along all edges and at head/tail of spine exposing board and signatures. Splitting to joints and hinges. Major scuffing to covers. Text block is moderately toned and worn along edges. Interior is lightly age toned and sparsely foxed. Bookplate and some light penciling on front pastedown; publication year written in pencil on title page. Small closed tear in the gutter of the first plate. Shelved in Room A. 1410559. Special Collections - Upstairs. Chez Froullé hardcover books
1962réf. 12576n.p. 1962. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. photos & illustrations 100p. Clear acetate jacket present. Thin card slipcase. 32cm. Slipcase soiled. German text. Edition limited to 800 copies of which 500 including this copy were not numbered and signed. hardcover books
1976réf. 281459Berkeley & Peking: Commercial Press 1976. Pamphlet. 43p. 5.5x8.5 inches photos footnotes booklet in stapled cream pictorial wraps. Staples are rusted tear to head of front cover; covers have some minor abrasive damage. Imprint address on copyright page has been updated. Translation of pamphlet written for workers and peasants in China. Commercial 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
1971réf. 54639Mt. Vernon New York: Limited Editions Club 1971. Limited edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shipping box. 1/1500. Octavo 6½" x 8½" xii 117 1pp. White vellum stamped in gold with a drawing by Eric Fraser. Original glassine wrap and publisehr's gilt golden slipcase. This edition features a translation introduction and notes by B.P. Moore accompanied by 20 black-and-white part-page and 10 two-color full-page pen-and-ink drawings by Eric Fraser. The book is bound in full imported natural vellum over heavy beveled boards with a Cupid design stamped in pure gold leaf on both covers and gold lettering on the spine. It is limited to 1500 numbered copies each signed by the artist and includes a monthly letter laid in. Copy number 60/1500. Signed by Eric Fraser on colophon in rear. Limited Editions Club hardcover books
1965réf. 54238New York: Tudor Publishing Company 1965. First edition. Hardcover. Good- to very good condition. Large Folio. 46pp. 1 32 plates. Original blue cloth with gilt lettering in original color-illustrated dustjacket black lettering on white spine. Housed in gray cardboard slipcase. "Painting- he thought- should be for everybody and it should be socialist in tone with which this principle theoretically- fortunately only theoretically- was linked with the deplorable socialistic realism of the Soviets." Enrique Gual. Illustrated with twenty full page b/w reproductions in the Spanish text section and thirty-two full pagecolor plates of Sequeiros' work at rear. Text in Spanish and English. Dustjacket with minor wear. Inside cover with light wavyness due to water exposure else in very good condition. Tudor Publishing Company hardcover books
1971réf. 53362Leiden: E. J. Brill 1971. Hardcover. Near fine. 4to. viii1311pp. Text in French. Green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine. Fascinating translation of the book of Job according to the groundbreaking Qumran scrolls. Beautifully illustrated with 32 pages of b/w photograph of both the excavation site and the scrolls itself. Also contains introduction list of abbreviations notes on the translation and an index of words. In French and Hebrew. Excerpt of publisher's dust jacket blurb mounted on front pastedown. An ex-library copy with a rubber stamp on title page & bottom of text block and a library pocket on rear pastedown. Published in cooperation with the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschaften Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands. E. J. Brill hardcover books
1912réf. 51619Berlin: A. R. Meyer 1912. First edition. Softcover. Very good- condition. Small Octavo. 15 1pp. Original wraps with woodcut by Carrà and black lettering on cover. Authorized translation by Else Hadwiger with introduction by Rudolf Kurtz and a title portrait by the Futurist "Carrà." Like all vivacious dogmatists Marinetti is not ironic and the hymn is his natural form of expression. He produces a heroic stance which in its obstinate unswayable monumentality invokes Schiller's shadow. He is continuously mired in that boisterous music of the spheres; a bow finger of the eternal ocean glorious sunsets the valiant death. An enthusiast observing from the furthest edge of his time vom äußersten Kap seiner Zeit schauend; advanced to the beauty of iron constructions and by no means recoils from the hymn to the automobile.' Translated from Robert Kurz. Contains Marinetti's poems "An das Rennauto" Addressing the Race Car "Der Abend und die Stadt" The Evening and the City "Die Fanfare der Wellen" The Fanfare of Waves "Gegen die Syllogismen" Against Syllogism and "Hymnus an den Tod" Hymn to Death. Lists previously published works on back cover including works from Frank Wedekind Max Brod Arno Holz Else Lasker-Schueler René Schickele Alfred Lichtenstein Paul Zech Gottfried Benn and others. Text in German. Front and back cover detached but present. Some age-toning else in very good condition. A. R. Meyer unknown books
1723réf. 47525Lugduni Lyon: Jacobum Certe 1723. Editio Novissima New edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Quarto. 20 412 62 table and indices 11 plates 10 folding bound in 1 folding alphabet 11 plates at rear. Full vellum with brown lettering on spine. Title page with publisher's device. Decorative head- and endpieces historiated initials. In this work Bernard Lamy the renowned French Oratorian mathematician and theologian calls in question the historical character of the book of Tobias and book of Judith and maintains that even after the Council of Trent a difference of authority should be recognized between the proto-canonical and deutero-canonical books of the Bible. This study examines also such subjects as the history of the Hebrews and the Holy Land a description of the Tabernacle and Temple a history of the scriptures and a great many tangential matters like the plants animals minerals diseases and customs mentioned in the Bible. This book is exquisitely illustrated with 22 fine copper plate engravings ten of them folding in block one folding plate with Greek and Hebrew alphabet and eleven plates bound at rear. The eleven plates at rear depict animals and plants the others include two maps a plan of Jerusalem a detailed temple plan a priest with garments a rabbi with tefillin and 3 charts of coinage and measurements. Text in Latin. Binding with some wear few small chips slightly wavey some staining and light scuffing at spine. Some parts of book with stains at top margins due to water exposure. Binding in overall good- interior and plates in very good condition. About the author: Bernard Lamy 1640-1715 was a French Oratorian mathematician and theologian. Jacobum Certe hardcover books
1887réf. 51661Tokyo æ±äº¬: Kyoshundo ä¹æ˜¥å ‚ 1887. First edition. Softcover. Very good. Quarto. 22 leaves double-sided fukuro-toji syle. Tan paper string-bound Asian-style wrappers. Black lettering in English on a white paper label pasted on the front cover. This scarce work intended primarily for an English-speaking readership in the West contains biographical text for 10 different Japanese historical and legendary figures. The text for each is accompanied by a beautiful Japanese woodblock-printed illustration in color ukiyo-e. The prints which total 10 double-page images throughout were created by four different Meiji-era woodblock artists and are captioned above bilingually in English and Japanese. Each print includes the artist's signature. The acclaimed artist Ogata Gekko 尾形月耕 1859 - 1920 created 4 prints "Yamato Takeru" "Wake no Kiyomaro" "Taira no Shigemori" and Saigo Takamori the prolific artist Toyohara Chikanobu 豊原周延 1838-1912 created 2 prints "Empress Jingu" and "Kato Kiyomasa" Mizuno Toshikata 水野年方 1866-1908 created 2 prints "Takenouchi no Sukune" and "Kusunoki Masashige" and an as yet unidentified fourth artist created the other 2 prints "Minamoto No Yoshiie" and "Hojo Tokimune". We believe that all images here were created specifically for the book and have found no other external examples or other references for them. The figures covered here are in order: Yamato Takeru Prince Ousu a semi-legendary prince of the Yamato dynasty - the legendary Empress Jingu - the legendary hero statesman and Shinto priest of the first century Takenouchi no Sukune - Wake no Kiyomaro 733-799 an important government official - Minamoto No Yoshiie 1039-1106 among the most acclaimed samurai in Japanese history - Taira no Shigemori 1138-1179 a samurai of the Taira clan during the Heiji Rebellion - Hojo Tokimune 1251-1284 ruler of Japan and leader of the Japanese forces against the Mongol Invasions of Japan - Kusunoki Masashige 1294-1336 an acclaimed samurai - Kato Kiyomasa 1562-1611 a famous daimyo of the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods - famed samurai Saigo Takamori 1928-1877 who was one of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration. As stated in publisher's advertisement in English at the front of the book this is the first volume of what was intended to be larger series of 10 volumes 日本å¤ä»Šå家圖解 Nihon Kokon Meika Zukai illustrating the lives of notable and famous figures in Japanese history. The set was to cover a total of 100 figures 10 per volume. Ultimately only the first two volumes were ever published 1887 and 1890. A third related book also from Kyoshundo was published during this time illustrating famed locations in Japan. This variant of the work contains the main text throughout only in English although the final two pages containing publisher's advertisements and publication information are printed in Japanese as well as the image captions. The other known version of the book which was issued simultaneously has the main text of the book printed trilingually in English Japanese and Kanbun a form of Classical Chinese read in Japan which is no longer used. The first printed page of the book credits "Miki Tecki" Miki Teiichi 三木 貞一 1861-1933 with "Japanese and Chinese" text and Goro Takahashi 高橋 五郎 1856-1935 with English translation. The book contains a number of English typographical errors throughout including on the front cover. Covers with some light smudges and a few small stains. Light pencil markings on the front cover. The string binding has partially come loose with only the middle two strings of four still present and holding. A few leaves have some minor rippling. All images throughout mostly clean. In very good condition overall. The work in is known by a number of variant titles in English: Short Biographies of Emeni Japanese in Ancient and Modern Times - The Pictures and Biographies of a Hundred Eminent Japanese - Nihon Kokon Meika Zukai - Pictures of a Hundred Eminent Japanese Ancient and Modern with Their Biographies - Map of Japan's Ancient and Modern Families literal translation. Kyoshundo (ä¹æ˜¥å ‚) unknown books
1971réf. 50025Leiden: E. J. Brill 1971. Hardcover. Near fine. 4to. viii1311pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to cover and spine in original dust jacket. Fascinating translation of the book of Job according to the groundbreaking Qumran scrolls. Beautifully illustrated with 32 pages of b/w photograph of both the excavation site and the scrolls itself. Also contains introduction list of abbreviations notes on the translation and an index of words. In French and Hebrew. Previous owner's small label at top corner of front free endpaper. D.j. spine lightly sunned & dusted otherwise a fine copy. Published in cooperation with the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschaften Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands. E. J. Brill hardcover books
2005réf. 50244Mexico City: Editorial RM 2005. First edition. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. Quarto. 93.1pp. consisting chiefly of color Polaroid photos. Red cloth lettered in blue mounted color photo on front cover. A fine as new copy. Previously unpublished Polaroid photographs by Manuel Alvarez Bravo reproduced in the original Polaroid's dimensions. Editorial RM hardcover books
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
1864réf. 50647Krotoschin Krotoszyn/ Vienna/ Frankfurt am Main: Printed by B.L. Monasch/ Jacob Schlossberg's Buchhandlung/ Printed by Ferdinand Hauch 1864. First German translations. Hardcover. g to vg-. Octavo. 3/4 black morocco over buckram boards. Gilt lettering and ruling on the spine. Red speckled edges of book block. A complete set of the three parts of Maimonides acclaimed work The Guide for the Perplexed in German and Hebrew bound in one volume. All of the editions included here contain the first German translations of their respective parts of the text. Maimonides' intention with this work was to reconcile Aristotelian thought and logic with traditional Rabbinical Jewish theology. Originally written circa 1190 in Judeo-Arabic as Dalalat al-Ha'irin these writings takes the form of a lengthy three-part letter to his student Rabbi Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta and are seen as the main source for understanding Maimonides' philosophic view rather than his strictly being his views on Jewish law. It is the most known of his works in the non-Jewish world. The work's first translation into Hebrew was in 1204 by Rabbi Samuel ben Judah ibn Tibbon c.1150 - c.1230 a contemporary of Maimonides. Content: Moreh li-Tsedakah. Hu Sefer Moreh Nevukhim FIRST PART. 1839. Second German-language edition. 19 double-sided leaves with Hebrew pagination. 392pp. 3. In 1835 the first part of Maimonides acclaimed work was first translated into German with added commentary in Hebrew by Jacob Raphael Fürstenthal 1781-1855. That first edition featured the German translation printed in Latin script to accompany the Hebrew text. However for this second edition of that translation it is interesting to note that the text of the German is printed in Hebrew script. Content finely printed in double and single-column layouts with commentary printed in Rashi script. Divided in 76 chapters this part of the work contains discussions of an understanding and definition of the nature of God and divine anthropomorphism in the Hebrew bible including a detailed analysis of the Biblical Hebrew of the text to these ends. The final three pages included here contain and index in both Hebrew and German. BOUND WITH More Nebochim. Wegweiser für Berirrte SECOND PART. 1864. First German-language edition. x 99pp. This is the first German translation of the work's second part taken from the original Arabic text by way of the French translation by Salomon Munk 1861. The original Hebrew translation of the text is accompanied throughout by a translation and commentary in German by Max Emanuel Stern 1811-1873. Divided into 48 chapters the second part involves Maimonides discussion of proof of the existence of God the nature of creation the concept of prophecy and an examination of the 26 propositions for Aristotle's metaphysics. The initial pages contain introduction and foreword by Stern. Also included is a fold-out plate containing facsimile text from an original signed manuscript note from the hand of Maimonides himself written in Japhet son of Solomon's corrected manuscript copy of the Mishneh Torah held at Bodleian Library at Oxford MS Hunt.80 leaf 165a. AND WITH Dalalat al Haiirin Burechtweisung der Verirrten. Dritter Theil. THIRD PART. 1838. First German-language edition. viii 9 454pp. 5. This is the first German translation of the work's third part. Simon B. Scheyer 1804-1854 provides the translation and scholarly commentary in German to accompany the Hebrew of the text. This third and final part of Guide for the Perplexed is divided into 54 chapters and is considered the climax of the work and the culmination of Maimonides' previous analysis. Discussed are concepts including Jewish mysticism the Chariot of Ezekiel the moral aspects of the universe the problem of evil free will and the 613 mitzvot of the Torah. The final pages contain a scholarly index in German. Binding tight with some rubbing to extremities including the hinges of the spine. Spine and covers lightly sunned. Text throughout with some sporadic minor to light foxing. Much of the text is quite clean. A very few instances of underlining or notes in pencil. Binding in good interior in very good- condition overall. Hebrew title: מורה לצדקה .×”×•× ספר מורה × ×‘×•×›×™×/ מורה × ×‘×•×›×™×/ מורה × ×‘×•×›×™×. ×•×”×•× ספר דל×לה ×לח×ירין .חלק שלישי Author: משה בן מימון רפ×ל בר"י ×¤Ö¼×™×¨×©×˜×¢× ×˜×”×ל Publication: פרנקפורט/ קר×ט×שין תקצ״ט Alternate titles and transliterations: Moreh Nevukim Doctor Perplexorum Bibliographic references: PART 1 Vinograd Krotochin 14. PART 3 Vinograd Frankfurt 578 Provinence: Previously owned by Oxford religion scholar O.H.M. Lehmann dated 1949. Printed by B.L. Monasch/ Jacob Schlossberg's Buchhandlung/ Printed by Ferdinand Hauch hardcover books
1988réf. 49432Moscow: Iskusstvo Art Publishers 1988. First edition. Hardcover. Good to near fine condition. Oblong Folio. Original marine blue cloth with black spine gilt purple design on cover and spine gilt and purple lettering on spine housed in slipcase white lettering on spine. Gray endpapers. Frontispiece. Illustrated title page. Design by N. I. Kalinin. "On the 6th of May 1908 with the premiere of "Boris Godunov" the Russian Season started their march over Western Europe. That night Chaliapin Moussorgsky and Golovin triumphed. The unique timbre of Chaliapin's voice his natural and concentrated acting without a trace of stiltedness which one usually finds in the opera stage was full of tragic depth and power." Pozharskaya in her report on the 20 years of Russian Ballet in Paris. Profusely illustrated with color and b/w reproductions of drawings set designs and costumes including those by Leon Bakst Picasso M. Larionov José-Maria Sert Georges Braques among others. Contains abbreviations and bibliographic references list of operas and ballets annotated list of artists and list of illustrations at rear. Text in Russian and English. Slipcase with some wear along edges small chips and scuffing. Binding and interior in near fine condition. Iskusstvo Art Publishers hardcover books
2004réf. 48509Basel: Galerie Kämpf 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine condition. Inscribed "Stefanie Schneider meinem Dominique in Liebe" on colophon at rear. 35/100 numbered and signed edition of 400 total. Quarto. 28pp. stiff unnumbered boards including covers. Original photo-illustrated boards with black lettering on cover and spine housed in photo-illustrated stiff paper slipcase; cover and slipcase protected by modern mylar. Slipcase with printed text in handwriting: "Stefanie Schneider's 1st Book Do Not Sell! It Is Sold Out Handle With Care!" Published on the occasion of the exhibition "29 Palms CA" from January 15 - February 14 2004 at the Gallery Kämpf in Basel. Design and lithography by ArtnetworX GmbH Hannover. A collection of photographs taken in the "dazzling California sunshine or in not exactly comfortable rooms" depicting Radha and Max not a man seemingly exhausted lost empty or insecure; the emptiness of their gaze reminds us of the loneliness of people in the paintings of Degas so Stefan Gronert in his text. He likens the Schneider motifs to B-Movies showing people who don't want to succumb to the Hollywood dream. Memories of Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills" flair up he writes though Schneider's photos are soft a picture language with pale artificially garish color scales tying into the stereotypes of Hollywood films. A Polaroid story turned into magnified C-prints giving us the impression of a story without a plot. Minor wear along edges of binding. Galerie Kämpf hardcover 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
