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1992Best.-Nr. 035778Cape Town: Fernwood Press 1992. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 4to. pp. 272 pages colour frontispiece numerous colour plates and maps. Dust jacket near fine with just some fading to the spine now protected in a removable sleeve. Contents clean and tight owners attractive plate to the reverse of the front free endpaper no inscriptions no marks. A near fine clean copy. Fernwood Press Hardcover
1998Best.-Nr. 1001150NEW ~ An early title in the CIESAS ethnohistorical collection "Historia de los pueblos indigenas de Mexico" 340 pp. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Primary source appendix - Apendice Documental. Edition of 2000 / 2000 ejemplares. "En este libro Barbara Cifuentes a traves de un recorrido por la historia aborda algunos aspectos que han caracterizado al multilinguismo en Mexico tales como los interpretes la introduccion de la letra latina la evangelizacion las lenguas generales la legislacion y la educacion y la ciencia entre otros de tal manera que encontramos que un buen numero de las preocupaciones actuales en torno a las lenguas indigenas se derivan de los acontecimientos y las ideas de los siglos anteriores." CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES Y ESTUDIOES SUPERIORES EN ANTROPOLOGIA SOCIAL paperback
2012Best.-Nr. 546BUmberto Allemandi & C. Turin 2012 Book. Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. English text; Paperback; 2.1 kg 24.5 x 32.5 cm; 2.1 Kg; 348 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; Used with signs of wear namely on the exterior which has edgewear and signs of wear on the front cover spine and back cover. The interior is in good condition except for a dedication on front free endpaper from the authors to a previous owner.; This volume illustrates the remarkable collection of East Asian ceramics put together by Luigi Anton and Nera Laura during fifty years of passionate research. For the first time a selection of the most representative pieces from a historical/artistic viewpoint of this collection which is to be counted among the most important in Italy are presented to both experts in the sector and the interested public alike: Chinese ceramics and porcelain produced from the Song to the Qing dynasty from about the tenth to the nineteenth century as well as items from Korea Japan and other South-East Asian countries. Alongside the ceramics the volume offers an overview of the principal artworks that make up the "section of East Asian art" in Vila San Luca at Ospedaletti Imperia in western Liguria Italy the splendid house/museum that the Lauras with great far-sightedness donated to FAI-Fondo Ambiente Italiano and that is destined to become a leading museum of decorative arts open to the public. Umberto Allemandi & C., Turin paperback
2011Best.-Nr. DADAX3642221157Springer 2011-09-30. 2011. hardcover. New. 8.25x0.75x11.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Springer hardcover
1970Best.-Nr. 13776Los Angeles California: Bun-Bmp Publishing 1970. 9.5 x 4.5" two leaves of card stock including illustrated cover plus 32 leaves of thick colored paper printed to rectos only for a total of 36 pp ring bound at upper corner. An unusual Chinese cookbook written by a "Mrs. Bun" in collaboration with Davis Lee the proprietor of the Golden Dragon restaurant in Los Angeles. Undated but the introduction references the 1972 trip to China by President Nixon. The recipes are accompanied by illustrations done by "Geza Rolly and Christine Lam." Recipes include Thousand Year Old Egg Omelet Peking Duck Crab Omelet Bunn Style pigeon's egg soup and more. There is also a reference page of Chinese cooking tools a glossary of Chinese cooking terms and a list of companies selling Chinese ingredients. Seven in OCLC. Wear to covers couple of tears to front cover bit of soiling to rear cover area of old sticker residue to front cover. Bun-Bmp Publishing unknown
1924Best.-Nr. 620541New York: Republic Publishing Company 1924. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Small octavo. 200pp. Printed wrappers. Tiny chip at bottom margin of approximately the first 40 pages small chips at edge of of wraps very good. An exposé on the practice of hiring spies to infiltrate labor unions. Republic Publishing Company unknown
1969Best.-Nr. 553789New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Large quarto. 599pp. Remainder mark corners lightly rubbed very good being Antonio Alfredo Giarraputo's copy with his name and date penned on the front fly in a very good lightly rubbed dust jacket with short tears and neat internal tape repair. Giarraputo was a gay Boston poet who went to Harvard with Frank O'Hara and Robin Blaser. Although he did not become a well-known poet he did teach poetry to the young black community which the mayor of Boston eventually proclaimed a day named in honor of Giarraputo. McGraw-Hill Book Company hardcover
1923Best.-Nr. 562780Altoona Pennsylvania: Times Tribune Company 1923. Softcover. Very Good. Second edition. Octavo. 228pp Table of Contents. Frontispiece portrait. Printed illustrated gray wrappers. Small creases and tears on the wrappers very good or better. Times Tribune Company unknown
1992Best.-Nr. 540296Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press 1992. Softcover. Near Fine. First edition. Trade paperback. 183pp. Fine. Daniel Hoffman's copy with a typed letter laid in with an Inscription by Harteis and Signed by Harteis and Meredith. Carnegie Mellon University Press unknown
1936Best.-Nr. 421381London: John Hamilton 1936. Hardcover. Good. First edition. 276pp. Pages moderately foxed lacking the rear fly owner's name marked out on front pastedown spine sunned good only lacking the dustwrapper. The Australian 67 Squadron in Palestine during WWI. John Hamilton hardcover
2020Best.-Nr. 24797London/New York: Phaidon Press Limited 2020. hardcover illustrated boards. no flaws or wear.clean. no markings. no bumps tears creases. tight binding.; english text.; 239pp. over 250 color illustrations of space-race era soviet graphics posters books ephemera covering several decades. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Phaidon Press Limited Hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. 24174Paris/Gottingen: Musee D'art Moderne De La Ville De Paris and Steidl Publishers 2003. seven softcover books in slipcase as issued. negligible hand-soiling to white slipcase. no flaws or wear. no markings. no bumps tears creases. sewn bindings. complete set. english text with some french . none are paginated. illustrated in color. First Edition. Soft Cover. Near Fine Plus/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Multi-Volume Set. Musee D'art Moderne De La Ville De Paris and Steidl Publishers Paperback
2001Best.-Nr. 24175Gottingen: Steidl 2001. hardcover pale green linen covered boards in cardboard slipcase with publisher's label. very slight wear to slipcase negligible impact. no flaws or wear to book. clean. no markings. no bumps tears creases. tight binding.; this copy is number 837 from the edition of 4000 and is pencil signed by tacita dean and dated 2001; unpaginated. photos reproduced throughout including at least one gatefold. Signed by Artist. First Edition - Limited. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Artists' Book. Steidl Hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. Fiction-Japanese-SetouchiKodansha Tokyo and New York 1989 New York: Kodansha International 1989. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Full blue cloth with silver spine lettering and light-blue endpapers. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Publisher's original price intact on front flap $17.95. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. A tight clean copy. Octavo 151 pages. Translated from the Japanese by Janine Beichman in collaboration with Alan Brender. Five stories. "The End of Summer" portrays a married woman's affair and its emotional aftermath a frank exploration of love and conscience that challenged postwar Japanese social conventions. Originally published in Japan as "Natsu no Owari" it won the Women's Literary Award in 1963 and appears here as the first English translation of any of Setouchi's novels. This volume also includes four additional stories: "The Overflowing" "Lingering Affection" "Spring Chill" and "The Pheasant" Harumi Setouchi 1922-2021 was one of Japan's most distinguished novelists and later a Buddhist nun celebrated for her bold depictions of women's inner lives. Her later novel "Beauty in Disarray" translated by Sanford Goldstein and Kazuji Ninomiya Tuttle 1993 is a historical portrait of anarchist writer Ito Noe. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Kodansha, Tokyo and New York hardcover
Best.-Nr. Ferry-18Maruzen Co. Ltd. 1958 Tokyo: Maruzen 1958. First edition first printing. Hardbound. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A tight clean copy without any marks. Book has prior owner's neat stamp on FEP and bottom of title page. Jacket is complete but has a few puncture holes and edge wear at gutters. NOT price-clipped. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box. Translated and Introduced by Robert Schinzinger in collaboration with I. Koyama and T. Kojima. International Philosophical Research Association of Japan. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Maruzen Co. Ltd. hardcover
1964Best.-Nr. F-4300-07Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis London 1964 Hogarth Press London 1964. First edition first printing. Cloth. A fine bright copy with slight old-book scent in a very good dust jacket that is slightly faded on spine and has some edgewear and a couple of closed tears and small chips. The text is clean and unmarked. This edition was first published in English in 1964. This is the first printing. Prior owner's name on front paste-down. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis, London hardcover
1949Best.-Nr. 563232New York: Museum of Modern Art 1949. Softcover. Very Good. Exhibition catalog. Cover by Paul Rand. Slim octavo. Heavily illustrated in black and white. Wrappers lightly toned with a light diagonal cover crease first page modestly foxed close to near fine. The exhibition was the second show held by MoMA to celebrate their 20th anniversary. Museum of Modern Art unknown
1958Best.-Nr. SKU1021089William Heinemann 1958-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. William Heinemann Ltd.; London 1958. Hardcover. Very Good binding sturdy minimal shelf wear lightly sunned pages 2 discolored rectangle marks on title page due to decorative tape on copyright page else unmarked and clean some foxing/soiled spots to text block edges/fore-edge in a Good to Very Good some wear/scuff marks/soiled spots to panels some foxing to verso panels/flaps few small tears to top spine edge 1" tear to top front panel edge and rear top panel edge Dust wrapper. 8vooctavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches 289pp. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. William Heinemann hardcover
1941Best.-Nr. 13043New York: Reynal & Hitchcock Inc 1941. Limited Edition. Hardcover with slipcase. Very Good/Very Good slipcase. 8vo. Pp. xii 339 suite of photographs. Top edges gilt. Illustrations by the author. Quarter red leather over tan cloth spine lettered in gilt with gilt device to compartments illustration stamped in red on front board short gift inscription pen doodle to limitation page. In original red paper-covered slipcase with title label soiled and stained though sturdy and complete. From an edition of 550 numbered copies signed by the author #214. Account of author's life among the Inuit on King Edward Island in 1938-39. Due to the fall of Paris the author returned to France prior to his finishing signing the limited editions far fewer than the stated limitation where actually signed. Scarce thus. Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc hardcover
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1979Best.-Nr. 5593London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1979. First Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. Fine/Very Good. 4to. Pp. 287. Amply illustrated with black-and-white and color photography. Index. Bound in white cloth with red and black lettering stamped on spine. Dust jacket with a bit of age-toning to edges and slightly more to to spine. Signed by Hicks in his distinctive style on the front free endpaper. A fine contribution to Hicks' body of work presenting a continuation of his deployment colors and patterns mixed in a brazen and often arresting richness. Although he published some-eight or nine books in both England and the US signed copies are scarce. Dust jacket is now enclosed in a removable clear archival sleeve. Weidenfeld and Nicolson hardcover
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1940Best.-Nr. 64000Tokyo: The Kairyudo Press 1940. First edition 8vo pp. 6 453 1; dampstain at the bottom of the first three or four leaves else very good and sound in later black cloth gilt-stamped spine. Proverbs present in Japanese with English equivalents. The Kairyudo Press unknown
Best.-Nr. ria9781855660816_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; N/A paperback
1961Best.-Nr. 2144My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House The Unforgettable Memoir That Opened the Doors to the White House's Most Private Moments A phenomenal bestseller upon its release in 1961 My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House is a landmark work of American history and a captivating piece of insider storytelling. Told by Lillian Rogers Parks in collaboration with Frances Spatz Leighton this memoir offers an unprecedented intimate glimpse into the lives of the presidents and first families from the perspective of those who served them. Lillian Rogers Parks who followed in her mother's footsteps had a unique vantage point. She began as a seamstress and maid in 1931 under Herbert Hoover and continued her service through the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower retiring just as John F. Kennedy took office. Crippled by polio and standing at just four feet tall she moved through the halls of the Executive Mansion with a quiet observant eye becoming a trusted confidante and a keeper of its secrets. FLEET PUB. CORP. paperback
