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1962rif. 146956Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1962. Octavo 464 pp. illustrations cloth. First edition. Comprises selected chapters from Semmes' MEMOIRS OF SERVICE AFLOAT DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES 1869. Some tanning to spine panel and along inner hinges a very good copy in very good dust jacket with some wear and shallow fraying at edges. #146956 Indiana University Press unknown books
1981rif. 18903New York: Doubleday 1981. First Edition. Limited Issue one of 500 numbered copies signed by the author with a numbered signed color print by the illustrator laid in. Octavo; maroon cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; original paper-covered slipcase; 259pp; illus. Some trivial rubbing to spine gilt else Fine in a Fine slipcase. An semi-autobiographical novel set in New York richly illustrated throughout. Doubleday unknown books
1996rif. 145258New York: Tor 1996. Octavo boards. First edition. "THE FORTUNATE FALL 1996 which -- though its basic premise derives from D. G. Compton's THE CONTINUOUS KATHERINE MORTENHOE 1974; rev vt THE UNSLEEPING EYE 1974; vt DEATH WATCH 1981 -- intensely presents a cyberpunk world two centuries hence; the female protagonist a news reporter with a computer-driven camera wired into her sensorium finds herself deeply involved in an ancient conspiracy involving zombie Russian soldiers and mean streets. The world she inhabits is described with color and verve." - John Clute and David R. Langford SFE online. "Carter's brio and inventive spin on all the cyber tropes apparently exhausted in the 1980s and early 1990s is fun speedy if never quite as wrenchingly moving as the writer clearly wishes it to be . But the artificial life speculations are exactly right in their quicksilver detail: species and genera and entire phyla of viruses and grander alife creatures that prey on each other in grayspace the realm of virtual reality." - Broderick and Di Filippo Science Fiction: The 101 Best Novels 1985-2010 #45. The author's first novel. A John W. Campbell Award nominee for best new writer. Sargent British and American Utopian Literature 1986-2009. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #145258 Tor unknown books
1971rif. 140061New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1971. Octavo cloth-boacked boards. First edition. Signed by Lafferty on the half title page. The author's second collection of short fiction. Collects sixteen stories including "Continued On Next Rock" a 1970 Nebula nominee. See Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-622. Review slip laid in. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #140061 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1974rif. 140062New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1974. Octavo cloth. First edition. Signed on the title page by Lafferty. The author's third collection of short fiction "sixteen stories by a satirist whose fantasies are peopled with appealing grotesqueries. R. A. Lafferty's unique imaginative world sardonic and strange is shown to its best advantage in his short fiction . In DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE SOMETHING FURTHER TO ADD we are treated to a full complement of Lafferty's malicious virtuosity and sly tomfoolery." - Greta Eisner. Includes "Mad Man" a tale of the future in which the creation of robots depends on a chemical produced only by people in furious rages and "Maybe Jones and the City" a parody of the utopian impulse in which the protagonist searches the universe for the Perfect Place. Survey of Science Fiction Literature II pp. 574-78. See Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-622. Review slip laid in. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #140062 Charles Scribner's Sons unknown books
1982rif. 139237Minneapolis Minnesota: Corroboree Press 1982. Octavo cloth. First edition. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is one of 970 numbered copies signed by Lafferty. Collects sixteen stories. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. #139237 Corroboree Press unknown books
1934rif. 134628London: Hutchinson & Co. Publishers 1934. Octavo 1024 pp. cloth. First edition but possibly a later printing. Nautical stories from forty-seven authors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a three-page preface by Sabatini positioning the material with its emphasis on plot as a reaction to modernism. Spine panel a bit faded cloth a bit dusty page edges dusty a sound reading copy. #134628 Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers unknown books
1939rif. 134448Boston: Bruce Humphries 1939. Octavo 207 pp. four inserted plates cloth. First edition. Refers to the 1870s. A half-dozen humorous stories recited live by a successful music hall performer. A nearly fine copy in good dust jacket with wear and chipping at edges and dust soiling to rear panel. #134448 Bruce Humphries unknown books
rif. 2550A grouping of sixteen holiday cards sent by the famous artist Raphael Soyer. Some of them have inscriptions inside by Raphael or his wife. Most of these appear to have been sent in the Sixties and Seventies. All are in fine condition. unknown books
1971rif. 3056New York: Walker and Company 1971. Octavo boards. First edition. First book of "The Coscuin Chronicles." A fine copy in fine white dust jacket. A sharp copy. Scarce thus. #3056 Walker and Company unknown books
1976rif. 3072Indianapolis / New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1976. Octavo boards. First edition. "The author's fertile imagination gets the better of him for once -- this weird novel of a man who survives after death by reincarnating himself in a succession of alternative realities approaches both incomprehensibility and brutality at times." - Pringle The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction second edition p. 260. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #3072 The Bobbs-Merrill Company unknown books
1985rif. 3079Polk City Iowa: Chris Drumm 1985. Small octavo printed wrappers. First edition. Collects four stories. A fine copy. #3079 Chris Drumm unknown books
1968rif. 88020New York: A Berkley Medallion Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation 1968. Small octavo pictorial wrappers. First edition. Berkley Medallion X1528. A family of Pucas human-like creatures from an alternate world are on Earth persecuted and misunderstood. Earth's inhabitants are in peril for if the Puca children can make up an appropriate death-rhyme they can destroy their persecutors. The author's second book. Anatomy of Wonder 1981 3-460. A fine copy. #88020 A Berkley Medallion Book published by Berkley Publishing Corporation unknown books
1972rif. 3059London: Dennis Dobson 1972. Octavo boards. First British and first hardcover edition. "Nowhere is Lafferty's devout Catholicism more evident than in this strange mélange of a novel which incorporates elements of fantasy and science fiction while being indefinable as either. The book's madcap characters and bizarre settings are typical Lafferty as is the uncertainty about whether the wild plot essentially a secret history of the world amounts to a complete allegory or simply a crazy game -- or perhaps both. No matter since the result is also typical Lafferty in being highly entertaining and absorbing." - Barron ed Fantasy and Horror 1999 7-217. The earlier American paperback original was published as part of the highly regarded Ace "Specials" series. 1970 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder 2004 II-621. Barron ed Fantasy Literature 4A-157. Pringle Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 45. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #3059 Dennis Dobson unknown books
1990rif. 1951Buenos Aires: Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. Original hardback binding. Signed by Kosice. Heavily illustrated monograph documenting the primacy of Kosice's contributions to the international art world. Ediciones de Arte Gaglianone hardcover books
1929rif. 643991929. Buenos Aires: J. Lajouane & Cia 1929. 3 vols. Buenos Aires: J. Lajouane & Cia 1929. 3 vols. Important Treatise on the Administrative Law of Argentina Argentina. Bielsa Rafael 1889-1966. Derecho Administrativo y Ciencia de la Administracion Legislacion Administrativa Argentina. Buenos Aires: J. Lajouane & Cia 1929. 3 volumes. Softbound volumes bound into contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards. Some shelfwear and soiling light toning to text internally clean. Ex-library. Location labels to spines stamps to versos of title pages. $100. Second edition. First published in 1921 this treatise on the administrative law of Argentina was a standard work for decades. It remains a valuable reference. unknown books
1772rif. 3753Rome 1772. Large folio. 29 3/4 x 17 1/4 inches. 2pp. letterpress text in French "Aux Amateurs des Beaux Arts" with uncoloured engraved head-piece and initial and colophon at foot of second page. One small format folding plate "Ordine tenuto nel disporre le stampe de pilastri delle logge Rafaele." 7 x 19 1/32 inches 34 hand-coloured engraved leaves comprising: 1 general perspective view with title and portrait of Raphael by Volpato after Pietro Camporesi strip attached at lower edge to bring up to size; 2 folding plates of doorways by Ottoviani after Gaetano Savorelli and Camporesi each on two sheets joined 36 x 17 1/4 inches overall; 14 views of pilasters on 28 plates by Ottoviani after Savorelli and Camporesi the first plate of each view cut to edge of image with strip attached to lower edge to bring up to size; general plan "Spaccato per il longe del seconde piano del loggia" on three plates by Ottoviani after Savorelli and Camporesi designed to form a single panoramic image . Lower blank margin of text leaf torn and repaired small tears to folds of the doorway plates. Bound with: RAPHAEL. - Nicolas DORIGNY 1648-1746 engraver. Psyches et Amoris nuptiae fabula a Raphaele Sanctio Urbinate Romae in Farnesianis hortis Transtyberim ad veterum aemulationem ac laudem colorum luminibus expressa a. Dorigny. delineata et incisa et a Ioanne Petro Belloriio notis illustrata. Rome: Domenico de' Rossi 1693 or later. Large folio 29 3/4 x 17 1/4 inches. 10 hand-coloured engraved plates by Dorigny titles and imprints printed in gold. 2 works in one volume. Late 18th-century Roman red morocco gilt contemporary with the first work covers with elaborate border of dog-tooth roll double-fillet and repeated use of a three-flower spray a heart and a rococo drawer-handle tool the same tool massed to form a lozenge shape at the corners and forming a triangular motif mid-way up the long sides with stars birds and small and large flower-spray tools all enclosing a large central lozenge formed from an outline of a simpler variant drawer-handle tool and large flower sprays enclosing a center of massed scrolling foliage with pomegranates and acorns the spine in seventeen sections with raised bands lettered in the second the others with repeat decoration of a central flower spray with smaller sprays at the corners patterned paper pastedowns. Ties lacking light worming to head and foot of spine with resultant small tears and loss modern cloth solander box morocco lettering-piece on the spine. A very fine collection with richly hand-coloured plates of the best of the decorative interior work carried out by Raphael in Rome. The album is hand-coloured and bound in Rome in the fourth quarter of the 18th-century. It is clearly as it was delivered to its original owner perhaps a Grand-Tourist perhaps a local dilettanti and perfectly echoes his wishes: the first part of Ottoviani's excellent work on Raffaello's Logge frescoes that is the part on the pilasters and including Maitre Dorigny's engravings but only the Loggia of Psyche set all hand-coloured and uniform in size. The first work part one of three concentrates on the decorative pilasters executed by Raphael and his assistants as part of a larger scheme of redecoration between 1518-1519 in the Logge on the main storey of the Vatican apartments. The remarkable prints the first to be carried out of the decoration of the Logge were probably planned as early as 1760 but were not executed until 1774 to 1776. The project was carried out by the painter Gaetano Savorelli the draughtsman Ludovico Teseo the architect Pietro Camporesi and the engravers Giovanni Ottaviani and Giovanni Volpato. The plates were remarkable not just for their size and magnificent colouring but also because of the influence they had on contemporary taste. The decision was made to borrow elements from Raphael's Vatican tapestries and insert them where the original frescoes were in too poor a state to be legible. The finished plates therefore represented an amalgam of design elements presented with a crisp freshness of colour that held enormous appeal and did much to stimulate the taste for the grotesque in the neo-classical period. The second work is of Raphael's Cupid and Psyche series of frescoes carried out by Raphael between 1516 and 1518 in the Loggia of Psyche in the villa Farnesina in Rome. The series also comes with a title and an eleventh plate of the ceiling fresco in the adjoining Sala di Galatea executed in 1512: neither the plate nor the title were ever bound in the present collection. Originally published by the Rossis it is the work of Nicolas Dorigny 1658-1746 who lived and worked in Rome between about 1690 and 1719. The painter classicist and art historian Giovanni Pietro Bellori 1613-1696 provided the text at the foot of the plates appropriate excerpts from Apuleuis's Golden Ass. "Raphael Invenit: Stampe da Rafaello" 1985 Volpato 1; Ottaviano 2-19 and Dorigny 37-46. Brunet IV cf.1110 & 1111; Berlin "Kat". Cf.4068 & 4066; "Raphael: Reproduktions-graphik aus vier Jahrhunderten Coburg 1984 p.104 & no.245; "Giovanni Volpato 1735-1803" Bassano del Grappa 1988 173. unknown books
1776rif. 27836Rome 1776. Large folio. 29 1/4 x 26 3/4 inches. 12 of 13 hand-coloured engraved plates each printed on two joined sheets by Ottaviani after Gaetano Savorelli and Pietro Camporesi. Interleaved with blanks. Bound without the engraved title soft vertical center crease light abrasions in the images some marginal chips and edge tears to a few plates. A very fine set with particularly fine contemporary hand-colouring of the second part of this great work which concentrates on the quadrants above the windows and doors in the Vatican Logge. The work was completed in three parts and depicts the decorative work executed by Raphael and his assistants between 1518-1519 in the Logge on the main storey of the Vatican apartments. The remarkable prints the first to be carried out of the decoration of the Logge were probably planned as early as 1760 but were not executed until 1774 to 1776. The project was carried out by the painter Gaetano Savorelli the draughtsman Ludovico Teseo the architect Pietro Camporesi and the engravers Giovanni Ottaviani and Giovanni Volpato. The plates were remarkable not just for their size and magnificent colouring but also because of the influence they had on contemporary taste. The decision was made to borrow elements from Raphael's Vatican tapestries and insert them where the original frescoes were in too poor a state to be legible. The finished plates therefore represented an amalgam of design elements presented with a crisp freshness of colour that held enormous appeal and did much to stimulate taste in the neo-classical period. Raphael Invenit: Stame da Rafaello 1985 Ottaviani 18 21-33; cf. Brunet IV 1110; cf. Berlin Kat. 4068; Raphael: Reproduktions-graphik aus vier Jahrhunderten Coburg 1984 p.104. unknown books
1803rif. 607371803. Granada 1803. Granada 1803. Remarks by the Recently Appointed President of the Supreme Court of Grenada Vasco del Campo Don Rafael. Discurso Pronunciado en la Real Chancilleria de Granada el Dia 2 de Enero de 1802 por El Exmo. Sr. Don Rafael Vasco Caballero del Orden de Santiago y de las Reales Maestranzas de Ronda y Granada; Regidor Perpetuo del Aquel Ilustre Ayuntamiento; Teniente General de los Reales Exercitos; Gobernador y Capitan General del Exercito Costa y Reino de Granada y Presidios Menores de Africa; Presidente de Esta Real Chancilleria De la Junta de Reales Obras de la Plaza de Malaga De la Mayor de Caminos de Este Reyno Los de Cordoba y Jaen; Superintendente de los del Obispado de Malaga Y de las de Sanidad Establecidas en el y su Costa; Inspector de las Companias de Invalidos Las de Infanteria Fixa y Torreros del Distrito Etc. Etc. Granada: En la Imprenta de Moreno 1803. iv xix pp. Quarto 8" x 5-1/2". Contemporary mottled sheep gilt frames to boards. Light rubbing to extremities with minor wear to spine ends and corners a few minor scuffs to boards tiny manuscript label to rear cover marbled endpapers crack between front free endpaper and following endleaf which is detached text notably fresh. An attractive copy. $250. First edition. This book reproduces the text of a speech given by military leader Don Rafael Vasco del Campo shortly upon his elevation by the King of Spain to the Presidency of Granada's Supreme Court of Justice. Don Vasco who distinguished himself in the service of the Spanish Crown in Mexico proclaims his humility before the office of his charge never before entrusted to a military man and invokes education as an antidote to envy hate revenge and thoughts of theft lies and deception. He also challenges the need for capital punishment and other legal injustices. During his short-lived presidency over Granada's highest court the region enjoyed peace and a flowering of the arts which ended with Napoleon's invasion of Spain and the subsequent popular uprisings against the Spanish Crown. No copies located on OCLC. Palau Manual del Librero Hispano-Americano 353024. unknown books
1995rif. 123846Essen Germany: Klartext 1995. First edition. Softcover. Text in German. Includes numerous color photographs by Candida Hofer. A close to near fine in wrappers with a small crease to the top corner of the front panel. Klartext unknown books
1991rif. 122563Santa Monica CA: Santa Monica College Photography Gallery 1991. First edition. Softcover. 20 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 19 through November 16 1991. Essay by David Pagel. Includes numerous color images. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers with a rubber stamp from the SF Camerawork Reference Library they sold their books to the verso of the title page. Uncommon. Santa Monica College Photography Gallery unknown books
1982rif. 122073De Kalb IL: Swen Parson Gallery - Northern Illinois University 1982. First edition. Softcover. 31 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 11 through March 5 1982. Interview of Ferrer with Michael Flanagan and Joshua Kind. Essay by Kind as well. Includes a number of black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. Swen Parson Gallery - Northern Illinois University unknown books
1964rif. 120976Madrid Spain: Gallery Bique 1964. First edition. Softcover. Text in English and Spanish. Includes numerous black and white illustrations from Alfonso Fraile Julio Martin-Caro Angel Medina and Jose Vento. A close to near fine copy in printed wrappers that have some very minor wear. Uncommon. Gallery Bique unknown books
1998rif. 119415Overland Park KS: Johnson County Community College - Gallery of Art 1998. First edition. Softcover. 4 pages. Exhibition brochure for a group show that ran July 12 through August 26 1998. Essay by Raphael Rubinstein. Includes 11 small color illustrations. A very near fine copy. Uncommon with 3 copies listed in OCLC. Johnson County Community College - Gallery of Art unknown books
1905rif. 63026NY:: Grosset & Dunlap. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1905. Hardcover. A reprint edition. Very good in a very good light edge wear and age toning dust jacket. ; 286 pages . Grosset & Dunlap, hardcover books