27 résultats
1979réf. 21294New York: Thomas Y. Crowell 1979. Hardcover. xi 176p. first edition very good condition; dj with minor tear on front flap repaired by piece of tape. Thomas Y. Crowell hardcover books
1970réf. 300095New York / Tokyo: Weatherhill / Tankosha 1970. Hardcover. vii 207p. profusely illustrated in both b&w reproduced in rotogravure and colorphoto very clear. Hardbound first American edition in 8.5x6 inch openweave raw linen boards decorated in gilt and blind and enclosed in its glossy blue dust jacket. As new; obtained from a collector who had purchased multiple copies when issued. Perfectly sound clean and unmarked. Performing arts of Japan: III. Weatherhill / Tankosha hardcover books
2020réf. 303356New York: Lee & Low Books Inc 2020. Paperback. 80p. illustrated in realistic b&w softbound first edition in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps. A Library of Congress Duplicate ergo never accessioned with its rubberstamp to title page and top edge and its copyright sticker to back cover. Otherwise unmarked and entirely sound and clean. Lee active competitor well into the 1950s coached Greg Louganis for a couple years. Lee & Low Books Inc paperback books
1999réf. 310977Melbourne Australia: Ocean Press 1999. Pamphlet. 44p. plus publisher's menu of related items wraps shelf worn with minor creasing else good condition 5.5x8.5 inches. Ocean Press unknown books
1981réf. 253840Boston: GCN 1981. Newspaper. 12p. 8p. Book Review section folded tabloid newspaper on newsprint news opinion articles events ads photos services and resources toned edges and folds. Atlanta Murders linked to gays Kopacz acquitted Group Material Theatre Collective interview. Boston's LGBTQ newspaper which started in 1973. More political than entertainment. GCN unknown books
1964réf. 296610New York: A Studio Book / The Viking Press 1964. Hardcover. xiii 60p. illustrated with 27 full page color plates on high-gloss alkaline stock a respectful production in 8.5x6.5 inch splendid blue cloth boards gilt and glossy dust jacket. Dust jacket is price-clipped neatly else virtually as-new: sound clean and unmarked. A Studio Book / The Viking Press hardcover books
2000réf. 332257Boston: Bedford/St.Martin's 2000. Paperback. xiii 226p. illustrated with scattered b&w period graphics plus two line-maps softbound in 8x5.5 inch glossy green decorated wraps. The only flaw we see is immediately apparent: a deep large corner crease to front cover and also adjacent rumplings of the first ten or so leaves. Otherwise sound and undamaged entirely clean and unmarked in any way. The Bedford Series in history and culture. Bedford/St.Martin's paperback books
2005réf. 338975London: Verso 2005. Paperback. xviii 440p. no illustrations first issue of Verso's reprint of Zed's 1975 true first. Softbound 6x8 inch wraps a fine copy: perfectly sound clean and free of markings. Verso paperback books
1929réf. 1379096New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1929. Fifth Edition. Hardcover. 10mo iii vi viii 320 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine deep beige with black lettering. Exterior has mild age toning and soiling with minor edge wear. Boards have slight wear including sparse whitish spotting and light wear to the head/tail edges. Text block has moderate age toning to the edges. Previous bookshop's small sticker to the rear pastedown. Illustrated. Fifth edition. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column H ND-H. 1379096. FP New Rockville Stock. G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover books
1967réf. 191418Berkeley: Institute for Local Self Government 1967. Pamphlet. Unpaginated preliminaries x 32p. text reproduced from typescript; softbound pamphlet in 11x8.5 inch plain printed wraps. Item is somewhat edgeworn with faint silverfishing and ownership ink to front cover staining and sunning to back; a 3-inch split has developed at the tail. A fair to good copy. The 'amparo' is a simple grievance mechanism practiced in Mexico that grants due process does not vacate any laws and that could be easily adopted by Hispanics in California. Institute for Local Self Government unknown books
1997réf. 332259Boston: Bedford/St.Martin's 1997. Paperback. xii 228p. illustrated with a short group of b&w period facsimiles plus other scattered graphics and the portrait cover collage of Wells & a mass oration. Softbound in 8x5.5 inch glossy grey decorated wraps with slight edgewear to front cover: sound entirely clean and unmarked in any way. The Bedford Series in history and culture. Item opens with an example of Wells' powerful daring in fact writing skill. Bedford/St.Martin's paperback books
2020réf. 327210New York City: Spuyten Duyvil 2020. Paperback. xvii 198p. plus acknowledgments softbound first edition in 8x5 inch decorated glossy wraps. An as-new copy: perfectly sound clean and unmarked. Author Simon has major chops; her epigraphs are taken from Cavafy and Rukeyser and she can handle the job of prose-writing. "I grew up in a home full of stories a house lined with bookshelves. a radical home where I read the poetry of Brecht and Neruda." Find background of and first-hand experience in Gaza a minute state 4x25 miles in area she describes as the most densely-populated state-unit in the world. Spuyten Duyvil paperback books
1965réf. 299409The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff 1965. Paperback. xxix 250p. no illustrations a handsome softbound in 9.5x6 inch frenchfold wraps. Mildest signs of handling a sound square exemplar covers bear a little dust-soil and numerous mystery flecks a very good copy: text perfectly clean and unmarked. Based on fieldwork conducted in 1959. Martinus Nijhoff paperback books
1973réf. 109046New York: John Wiley and Sons 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Foreword by J. Allan Beegle. Fine in fine dustwrapper. John Wiley and Sons hardcover books
1948réf. 332499London: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1948. Hardcover. First of all textblock was bound upside-down; there we've said it. Back to the book: 216p. hardbound first edition trade issue not Left Book Club in Gollancz' pinkish boards 7.5x5 inches spine- and cover-titled black. Except that the cover's behind.the cover. Spine panel's a little sunned and dusty corner-tips and one rim mildly turned hinges good but the text was printed on seriously acidic stock and is badly toned verging on fragility no tears so far. No markings clean as clean as badly toned paper gets and sound if upside-down. The appendix is insider stuff by the way and the Mussolini-Dollfuss letters a trifle amusing. Victor Gollancz Ltd hardcover books
1981réf. 277007Bangkok: White Orchid Press 1981. Paperback. xi 128p. largely the facsimile texts photocopied from both the French and the British translations. Softbound in glossy 10x7 inch strawberry-red wraps illustrated with a few facsimile woodcuts. Lower corner mildly bumped general mild edgewear to covers and text corner-tips otherwise sound and entirely clean and unmarked. Itineraria Asiatica. Korea volume I / Coree tome I. White Orchid Press paperback books
2007réf. 178081Chicago IL: Hyde Park Art Center 2007. First edition. Softcover. 34 pages. Exhibition catalog. Printed in an edition of only 750 copies. Text by Pat Swanson and Mia Ruyter. Includes color illustrations and artist statements by Lisa Barense Lucy Baxandall Brian Dettmer Stephanie Brooks Kathryn Kucera Material Exchange Mark Rospenda and Rhonda Wheatley. A fine copy in stapled wrappers. Uncommon. Hyde Park Art Center unknown books
2006réf. 278881Paris: Chandeigne 2006. Hardcover. 302p. illustrated with three line maps a few b&w period vignettes and a longish series of color facsimiles pp.227-247. Hardbound in 8.5x6 inch matte-white boards printed in pale green a lovely design choice and enclosed in a pictorial green dust jacket. A perfect as-new copy. Chandeigne hardcover books
1982réf. 265004Rome: Jouvence - Viella 1982. Various paginations nice clear reproduction of texts and facsimile maps the doublespreads mounted on stubs so these open fully a small folio in rather utilitarian decorated papered boards 12x8.5 inches. Mild edgewear spine rims slightly crimped with a touch of paper-fray to topmost generally sound and entirely clean and unmarked. Find laid in xeroxed materials on this map-atlas on the cartographer and his era and a torn-out leaf annotated in ink from a catalog advertising an original copy. Forts fortified cities inland and coastal. "Renovationes" n. 1. Jouvence - Viella unknown books
réf. 24741No binding. Very Good. Bust-length portrait of the noted American silent film actress. Notated in black ink. Ca. 240 x 194 mm. Light bumping silvering browning and soiling; in excellent condition overall. Together with the original envelope from Fazenda at Warner Bros. Studio in Hollywood. Ca. 200 x 250 mm. With the recipient's name Bernice Thibodeau and address typed to upper panel. Worn with tearing and some loss at corners; significant browning. unknown books
1920réf. 171416N.p.: Mack Sennett Comedies 1920. Three vintage borderless double weight reference photographs from the 1920 film all showing Teddy the Dog an animal actor. "King of Comedy" Mack Sennett founded Mack Sennett Comedies Corporation in 1917 in order to produce more ambitious comedy shorts as well as feature-length films. Teddy appeared in several Sennett comedies most notably "Teddy at the Throttle" 1917. Approximately 10 x 8 inches trimmed irregularly. Two Very Good toned with light wear and rubbing at the corners and one Poor with creasing and splashes affecting the recto. Mack Sennett Comedies unknown books
1905réf. 288351New York: United States History Company 1905. Leather Bound. Leather backstrips and leather corners a "half leather" item in bookseller parlance good condition allowing for outer-joint abrasion an aesthetic matter having fully operational undamaged hinges & endsheets bright spine-titling and top-edge gilding. A touch of watercolor and a couple of coats of leather dressing would make this set stand out with the single uncorrectable flaw being raggedness to top rims of all three parts. Pagination runs 503 515 544 all volumes illustrated with fullpage tissue-guarded steel-engraved portraits of ugly public servants. Clean and unmarked throughout. As said casings are physically quite sound pace the scraping to all joints which are of either morocco or pressed calf in either case of poorly-prepared animal hide and to top rims where losses average one-eighth of an inch. The set of three together. United States History Company unknown books
1987réf. 211250Philadelphia: Temple Art Gallery 1987. Softcover. VG NOT A NEW BOOK AND CASE! This is almost 40 years old and will show light signs of wear and age and handling. If you are looking for a copy with no signs of use or ownership don't be a jerk and order this and then complain. Find a different copy! BY any reasonable measure this is a great copy. Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Temple Gallery 1619 Walnut Street Philadelphia held from October 1st November 14th 1987. It includes essays by Donald Kuspit Michael Ratner Margaret Ratner and Hon. Bruce McM. Wright. Consists of various printed materials laid-in to a box. The first is a single folded-sheet title-page; followed by a single-sheet followed by a staple-bound collection of the Critical Essays 20 pp. by one art crritic and three Constitutional Scholars; followed by 10 single-sheet thickstock color plates of the installation; followed by a staple-bound Catalogue of 8 pp. numbered essentially from 23 to 38 with some pages not numbered. Brown cardboard box has the Pre-amble to the Constitution printed on its cover. Temple Art Gallery paperback books
1964réf. 1409335New York: The Viking Press 1964. First Edition Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo xvii 347 pages plus 12 leaves of captioned photographs. In Very Good minus condition lacking dust jacket. In yellow cloth quarter binding with orange cloth boards with blind stamped decoration on front cover and green titling to spine. Some light wear and scuffing to boards with rubbing along the edges. Light bumping to fore corners. Mild sunning/toning to spine. Text block shows moderate toning and scuffing along edges. Sparse pen underlining and marginalia throughout. Inscribed in blue pen by Oswald White Bear Fredericks on verso of front flyleaf: "In friendship and brotherhood / from Hopiland -- / White Bear / Hopi / 1968". Shelved in Room A. 1409335. Special Collections. The Viking Press hardcover books
1944réf. 280115Boston: Privately Printed 1944. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. An exhaustive history of the ancient English family of the House of Gorges. With a presentation slip from Mrs. Raymond Gorges to J. C. Metcalf attached to the half-title page. Metcalf was the dean of graduate studies at The University of Virginia. The title page has some offsetting from the tipped-in color frontispiece of Sir Arthur Gorges of Chelsea; otherwise nearly a fine copy. In the publisher’s terra-cotta cloth with gilt titling to the spine. 277 pages with quite a large folding pedigree chart at the rear. Very Good binding. Privately Printed unknown books
