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Best.-Nr. DADAX0935112588Brand: Callaway Editions 0000-00-00. Rei/Com. hardcover. New. 10.25x0.50x13.25. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Brand: Callaway Editions hardcover
1880Best.-Nr. 10014London: Frederick Warne and Co 1880. 8vo 653pp. Portrait frontis plates. Full green morocco with elaborate gilt design and lettering gilt turn ins all edges gilt. With a fine fore-edge painting by Martin Frost with his monograph lower left of two riding gentlemen jumping horses. Rebacked with original spine laid down joints worn and rubbed. Stamp to title page few smudges here and there else clean. Painting bright. Beautiful equestrian scene rendered by Martin Frost one of the foremost artists in fore-edge painting over the last 50 years. Frederick Warne and Co unknown
1959Best.-Nr. N4933Shanghai: Shanghai People's Fine Arts 1959. Limited Edition . Orig. Cloth. Good. Large Folio. Elephante folio. 545 x 395cm. Cover decorated with Chinese letters. With 100 full page mostly coloured hand-tipped plates. TEXT IN CHINESE ONLY.Some plates with small handwritten private translations of plates into English mostly on verso near Chinese description A VERY BEAUTIFUL PRODUCTION. Limited edition of 1000 Ex. - Edges with some wear spine at ends rubbed and with some loss. Some light foxing on binding. INSIDE CLEAN AND FRESH. A very heavy item with additional shipping fees Shanghai People's Fine Arts hardcover
1986Best.-Nr. KOS06200869Yabu Honjo Goro 1986. Soft Cover. Fine. KOS06200869 Yabu Honjo Goro paperback
Best.-Nr. Selvaggio, Rita & EckhoffIn Pristine Condition. unknown
1981Best.-Nr. 74497New York: Hammer Publications 1981. First edition. One of 300 numbered copies. Folio 19 x 23 inches. Introduction sheet by Carl Sagan and 10 serigraphs of cave art with each print having a leaf of explanatory text. Housed in the original brown box with cover lettering. Pinholes to corners professionally and invisibly repaired. A very good copy. Oddly only 2 copies recorded by OCLC.The finest and most beautiful reproductions of European cave paintings ever published. Every major continent has cave paintings by prehistoric man and they have long fascinated the modern world. There has been a plethora of books and theories about these cave painting starting from the work of Abbé Henri Breuil and extending to today. Perhaps one of the most finely executed works on the subject is the title offered here. This suite of prints was created in conjunction with an exhibition at Hammer Galleries in NYC in the fall of 1982. Mazonowicz who lived in Spain spent time visiting Altamira and Valltorta and Gasulla and also traveled to the caves of France and the Sahara. He created 20 life sized reproductions of cave paintings ten of which are included in this portfolio. Titles include: Bowmen and Deer Two Figures in Finery Engraved Frieze Hunter and Ibex Head of a Horse Giraffe Prancing Horse Crouching Bison Group of Antelopes and Helmeted Warrior.Douglas Howcroft Mazonowicz a graphic artist helped preserve some of the world's most famous prehistoric cave paintings by recreating them on silk. Born in Swindon in Wiltshire England Mr. Mazonowicz spent 15 years in France Spain North Africa and North America seeking prehistoric art. Mazonowicz wrote several books about prehistoric art including: Prehistoric Rock Paintings of Tassili n’ Ajjer 1969; In Search of Cave Art 1973; Voices from the Stone Age 1974 and The Hand of Man 1981. "Mazonowicz photographed the works he reproduced using a slide projection of the work on drawing paper. Over the slide projection he drew black outline details of the painting. He then began to transfer the image using a silkscreen technique. A new screen was prepared for each color application. Mazonowicz used modern oil based colors instead of the mineral-based colors of the stone age artists. His goal was to faithfully preserve the rock paintings since they are subject to modern day pollution and vandals" Rogallery. Hammer Publications unknown
2003Best.-Nr. 307005GOTTINGEN: GAGOSIAN GALLERY/STEIDL VERLAG. Fine with no dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Gathered Signatures. UNCORRECTED PROOF consisting of unbound folded and gathered signatures. One of 3 sets produced prior to publication for purposes of final proofing sent by the printer to Ruscha's office. The recipients included the artist the editor & the designer. The contents are fine. Card slipcase it came with is broken at one corner while still serviceable. First volume in a projected five-volume series. Features 137 paintings in full color. Also bibliography exhibition history & biographical chronology. ; 10" x 12"X 11 1/2" . GAGOSIAN GALLERY/STEIDL VERLAG. unknown
1951Best.-Nr. 68965E-402: Doubleday & Company. 1951. First thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. Hardcover. 8vo. Doubleday & Company Inc Garden City New York. 1951. Illustrated with color plates. Xiv 494 pgs. Signed by Herman Wouk on the FFEP. Laid in Doubleday Christmas card present. First thus. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic brilliantly entertaining novel of life-and mutiny-on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater. It was immediately embraced upon its original publication as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of the Second World War. In the intervening half century this gripping story has become a perennial favorite selling millions throughout the world and claiming the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author . Doubleday & Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 30108578Konemann Koln 1997 . 32.0 x 30.0cms c 2000pp in toto colour illusts 4 fine hardback volumes & dustwrapper in fine decorated slipcases. These are 4 very heavy books so expect extra freight costs Tapies collaborated on the presentation of this pubication and had the final word on its content giving it 'utmost rigour and documentary value'. Each entry has the work's medium dimension notes collection exhibitions and bibliography. It does not include his book covers posters graphic works circumstantial dedications and small sketches. Konemann Koln 1997 hardcover
1830Best.-Nr. ST20481-05London: John Murray 1830. FIRST EDITION. 220 x 130 mm. 8 5/8 x 5 1/8". 2 p.l. ii v-xix 1 411 1 pp. Agreeable contemporary black morocco covers with an elaborate border in gilt and blind of numerous straight and decorative rules and scrolling foliate cornerpieces raised bands gilt in compartments with a central ornament in blind turn-ins tooled in gilt all edges gilt. Carefully rebacked retaining original spine hinges neatly reinforced with buckram. WITH A FORE-EDGE PAINTING DEPICTING A LANDSCAPE WITH A VERY LARGE CASTLE AND LAKE. With 13 pages of charts. Corners bumped and exposed a handful of scratches to the front cover; occasional spots and soiling internally other trivial defects but still quite a good copy the bulk of the text extremely clean and fresh with a well-preserved fore-edge painting. This is a pleasing copy with an attractive fore-edge painting of the final work of Scottish mathematician and economist Robert Hamilton 1743-1829. A professor at the University of Aberdeen and one of the founders of Edinburgh's Royal Society Hamilton wrote this work of political economy shortly before his passing and it was published posthumously. It treats of the relationship between economic principles and the development of social life and is considered perhaps second in importance only to his "Essay on the National Debt" issued in 1813. The fore-edge painting depicts a serene landscape with sailboat gliding across a smooth lake in front of a castle and tree-studded hills. The artist has rendered the details with subtlety for example the castle is faintly reflected in the lake and the scene as a whole is brigher and richer in color than might be expected. John Murray unknown
1852Best.-Nr. 2111902158903354Bunkado 1852. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Bunkado paperback
1900Best.-Nr. 164294No date. circa1900. 11 original hand painted fan designs approximately 40 x 15cm laid down on archival sheets 51 x 38cm. Each design is unique some are brightly coloured whilst others are more sombre and some have a lacquer or metallic overprinting and silver flecking. Each of the designs has been backed with Japanese paper. Undated and in very good condition apart from some very minor spotting to the backing sheets not affecting the image they appear to be early 1900s. The collection is housed in a custom-made clamshell case. The earliest recorded sighting of the Japanese fan was in the 6th century CE where burial tombs were adorned with pictures of fans. Drawing on the fan began around the Heian period 794-4485 and became such a hit that laws were created to restrict their use to particular social classes. Historically Japanese hand fans were tools of aristocrats and the samurai class. They were a way to signify social standing and even communicate messages. Japanese fan designs enchanted westerners when they first became exposed to them. Those influenced include the Australian artist Charles Conder who in the 1890s inspired by Japanese fan designs made a speciality of painting them on silk. Various images painted on these fans have symbolic or seasonal meanings. One shows an array of golden origami cranes on a red background symbolizing long life. Another is decorated with peonies symbols of fertility and nobility whose flowering marks the end of spring and beginning of summer. A third is decorated with images of pine bamboo and plum blossom - a combination representing health and longevity because all three plants can withstand cold weather. Others have more abstract images based on the flow of rivers the sheen of silk and other themes. . unknown
1993Best.-Nr. 310667NY: THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART/THE PHILLIPS COLLECTIO/HARPER-COLLINS PUBLISHERS. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1993. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First trade edition after a limited edition of 100 copies. SIGNED & dated in year of publication by artist Jacob Lawrence on title page. Fine in brown boards & quarter black cloth binding in fine dust jacket. Unpaginated 9 1/4" X 11 1/4" Uncommon signed. ; 9 1/4" X 11 1/4" . THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART/THE PHILLIPS COLLECTIO/HARPER-COLLINS PUBLISHERS. hardcover
1882Best.-Nr. 2092902138300026Junzaburo Morimoto Edition 1882. Soft Cover. Fine. The book is in fine condition. Junzaburo Morimoto Edition paperback
1962Best.-Nr. KOS02200067Asahi press 1962. Soft Cover. Fine. KOS02200067 Asahi press paperback
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1840Best.-Nr. ST20481-06Paris: Chez L. Hachette 1840. 224 x 131 mm. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4". 2 p.l. 822 pp. 1 leaf title 1-259 1 pp. Attractive contemporary scarlet morocco covers ruled in blind central panel with an elaborate gilt-tooled cross surrounded by a scrolling frame raised bands spine gilt in compartments tooled with small fleurons turn-ins tooled in gilt all edges gilt.features a well-executed and historically important fore-edge painting that depicts a famous tribute to one of the most celebrated figures in French Catholicism. The fresh richly painted scene here shows the Place de la Pucelle in Rouen with the fountain of Joan of Arc featured prominently in the foreground. This view inspired works from a number of artists and writers such as watercolorist Samuel Prout and American poet Maria White Lowell whose poem "Rouen Place de la Pucelle" was published ca. 1858. Visual records like this of the square and fountain are historically important because they were destroyed in the Red Week bombings of 1944. WITH AN EXCELLENT FORE-EDGE PAINTING DEPICTING LA PLACE DE LA PUCELLE ROUEN. Occasional early pencil marginalia. Corners a bit bumped edges and joints with a little rubbing but this well disguised with dye spine very slightly sunned and dried. Occasional scattered spots mostly marginal other trivial defects but generally fine internally very fresh and quite bright. An attractive binding with a very lovely painting. This attractive French-language Bible features a well-executed and historically important fore-edge painting that depicts a famous tribute to one of the most celebrated figures in French Catholicism. The fresh richly painted scene here shows the Place de la Pucelle in Rouen with the fountain of Joan of Arc featured prominently in the foreground. This view inspired works from a number of artists and writers such as watercolorist Samuel Prout and American poet Maria White Lowell whose poem "Rouen Place de la Pucelle" was published ca. 1858. Visual records like this of the square and fountain are historically important because they were destroyed in the Red Week bombings of 1944. Chez L. Hachette unknown
2009Best.-Nr. 311068LONDON/NY: HAYWARD PUBLISHING/D.A.P. Fine with no dust jacket. 2009. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover in slipcase. 1853322741 . Boldly SIGNED by artist Ed Ruscha on the title page. Fine in pictorial boards in matching publisher's pictorial slipcase with the original plastic shrinkwrap. Published on the occasion of the exhibition: "Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting" at Hayward Gallery London 14 October- 10 January 21010. LR . HAYWARD PUBLISHING/D.A.P. hardcover
2017Best.-Nr. ABE-1605632473460Easton Press USA 2017 Pardon the paraphrase but while all books are equal some are more equal than others. This is most definitely one such; perhaps the only limited edition ever issued of Orwell s great parable of the Totalitarian State. The paintings are by Bill Mayer and he has signed and numbered the edition. It is a typical small press production. The gorgeous acid free paper is specially made for the Easton Press. The signatures are sewn not glued. The text block edges are gilt. The binding is full leather. This magnificent edition will last hundreds of years. The allegorical masterpiece of power and corruption is now available in a signed and numbered Limited Edition of just 1200 copies.Personally signed by artist Bill Mayer who has created 10 paintings - it is an injustice to just call them illustrations - each of which is tipped in and then protected by a translucent page. All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. Orwell s brilliant allegory of the rise of the Soviet state is compellingly envisioned in this FULL LEATHER Limited Edition Mr. Mayer also illustrated the colophon page which he has signed. The book comes in a custom-crafted clothbound slipcase which is also sturdily constructed. A limited hand-numbered edition of 1200 of which this copy number 592. It is signed by the artist. Signed by Illustrator. Limited Edition. Hardcover. New. Easton Press USA hardcover
1868Best.-Nr. 12840London: Longmans Green and Co 1868. First Edition. Leather bound. Near fine. Decorated with two fore-edge paintings first edition of A Memoir of Baron Bunsen as collected by his wife Frances Baroness Bunsen. Octavo two volumes 8 1-637pp; 8 1-616pp. Three-quarter dark green leather with marbled paper boards and matching endpapers. Silk bookmarks. All edges gilt. Gilt-ruled trim on covers title within a double gilt-ruled border on spines. No additional printings listed on copyright page. Solid text blocks light rubbing to corners joints and marbled boards. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf of Volume I. Complete with three lithographs and two woodcuts in Volume I five lithographs and three woodcuts in Volume II. Each volume with frontispiece portrait and tissue guard. Volume I has fore-edge painting of Strand-on-the-Green Volume II of Kew Bridge. Strand-on-the-Green is a medieval village in Chiswick England that still stands today previously used as a trading location for businesses due to its access to the River Thames. Kew Bridge crosses the Thames and connects the districts of Kew and Chiswick. The bridge depicted in the fore-edge of Volume II is the second of three bridges at this location. This one being opened in 1789 and demolished in 1899. Longmans, Green, and Co unknown
1809Best.-Nr. ST14310fLondon: J. Hatchard 1809. 210 x 133 mm. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4". xvi 291 pp.Translated by Louisa A. Marshall. Contemporary dark blue straight-grain morocco covers bordered with gilt rule flat spine with simple gilt rules and titling gilt-ruled turn-ins all edges gilt and WITH A FINE FORE-EDGE PAINTING OF A SCENIC RIVER VIEW FEATURING CHRIST CHURCH PRIORY in Hampshire. Front free endpaper with owner signature of E. A. Fetherston. Slight variation in color of boards half title with one inch trimmed away at head probably removing owner inscription leaves a shade less than bright occasional minor foxing or offsetting in the text bed but still an excellent copy the text clean and fresh the pleasant binding entirely sound and the lovely fore-edge painting very well preserved. The typically bucolic fore-edge scene here--boat in tranquil water stately building occupying center stage trees all around puffy clouds--stands out for the level of achievement in execution by the artist. The clouds are painted in a delicately applied range of shades so that they are very convincing; there is considerable architectural detail visible on the side of the church; and it seems as if one can almost see individual leaves in the trees. These features are all hallmarks of the work of the so-called "Dover Painter" the name given by Jeff Weber to the artist who produced very high quality painted fore edges in the 1920s and 1930s. He did work for the famous London bookseller Marks & Company for Dawson's Bookshop in Los Angeles and for J. W. Robinson Company the Los Angeles department store. Estelle Doheny 1875-1958 whose library comprised one of the great collections of the 20th century bought actively from Dawson's and Weber estimates that approximately half of the very considerable number of especially fine fore-edge paintings in the Doheny collection in Camarillo California were done by the Dover Painter. As the fore-edge painting here evokes a feeling of serenity so too does the content religious meditations by François Fénélon 1651-1715 priest writer and tutor to King Louis XIV's grandson for whom he composed his best-known work "The Adventures of Telemachus.". J. Hatchard unknown
Best.-Nr. 18236probably Italian 19th Century. 2 vols. Oval images each 10 x 8 inches vividly matted in gold and framed and glazed to 20 x 16-1/2 inches. Very good. 2 vols. Oval images each 10 x 8 inches vividly matted in gold and framed and glazed to 20 x 16-1/2 inches. Decorative studies probably from a larger series of classical divinities. unknown
1860Best.-Nr. 27912China 1860. Good overall. A later album of portraits of Chinese Court dignitaries. The turquoise paper borders bear captions in English. The coats of the dignitaries are quite detailed. The first image is of the Emperor followed by Empress both seated Prime Minister his wife Governor General his wife Manchu Tartar General his lady Mandarin of 3rd Rank his lady Inferior Mandarin his wife. The other dignitaries are standing. The images have no background painting. Most have corner cracks not affecting the images. In red silk binding 8vo 9 x 6" with Western opening. The colors vibrant. unknown
1864Best.-Nr. 54488Montreal: W. Notman 1864. First edition. Hardcover. g to vg-. Elephant folio. 18x13". 14 leaves including 12 plates unpaginated. Period brown cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover. All edges in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Title page with decorative text printed in a number of different period typefaces. All addition text throughout is finely printed in a cursive typefont. An album consisting of a series of 12 mounted albumen photographs reproducing original paintings of landscapes in New England and Northeastern Canada by British artist C.J. Charles Jones Way 1835-1919. During his career Way was noted for his depictions of North American and European landscapes and seascapes. From 1858 Way settled in Montreal where he established an art studio and often collaborated with pioneering Montreal-based photographer William Notman 1826-1891 who had set up one of the most noted early photography studios in the city. Here Notman photographs Way's work with a keen eye and attention to detail. Locations depicted in the images include: the White Mountains New Hampshire Mount Desert Island Maine The Gaspe Coast Quebec Levis/Quebec City Montreal and Niagara Falls. The final five images show areas in the vicinity of Saguenay River Quebec. Each of the 12 plates is tissue-guarded with the images and text caption below in landscape orientation. Plates measure approx. 17 3/4 x 12 3/4". The photographs themselves vary slightly in size but most measure approx. 10" x 6". Table of plates at the front. Binding with light sunning to the spine and edges of the covers. Covers with some light scratches and a few small stains. Head of spine rubbed with some light cracking along the front hinge. Interiors mostly clean with a few sporadic instance of light smudges and/or stains to the endpapers and/or margins of plates. Images throughout clean and vibrant. Binding in good interior in very good- condition overall. W. Notman hardcover
1822Best.-Nr. ST21092London: Printed for T. Cadell by T. Bensley 1822. 170 x 105 mm. 6 5/8 x 4 1/8". 4 p.l. 319 1 pp. Quite nice period honey-brown straight-grain morocco covers with frame of decorative blind rolls gilt armorial supralibros of William Carr Viscount Beresford at center raised bands densely blind-tooled panels gilt lettering gilt-framed turn-ins vellum endleaves leather hinges all edges gilt. WITH APPEALING DOUBLE FORE-EDGE PAINTINGS one depicting Richmond Bridge the other Kingston upon Thames. Joints expertly strengthened. Numerous small illustrations in text. Light wear to spine covers just slightly marked title and last leaf a little foxed intermittent trivial foxing elsewhere other insignificant defects but an excellent copy the binding sturdy and lustrous the contents fresh and clean and the fore-edge paintings well preserved. This volume of Romantic poems comes adorned with two atmospheric fore-edge paintings. English poet Samuel Rogers 1763-1855 the scion of a wealthy banking family first achieved fame with the publication in 1792 of "The Pleasures of Memory" and was later greatly inspired by his Italian travels during which he met Shelley and Byron in Pisa. The present collection of his works is decorated with pleasing fore-edge paintings of sights closer to home. Fanned to the right the fore-edge depicts Richmond Bridge in London its graceful stone arches framing the reflections of trees and bobbing boats. Fanned to the left a scene of Kingston upon Thames is revealed a fishing boat with two silhouetted figures in the foreground and the tower of All Saint's Church rising over the red-roofed cottages. Both scenes are executed in cheerful though muted colors with lush greenery and serene waters. It is difficult to tell the age of the paintings but we can at least say that they convey a convincing expression of quietude. As often happens with authors whose works are greatly popular and then suddenly not so much Rogers' poetry fell abruptly out of fashion later in his life at roughly the time our volume was issued. As a consequence his books became a popular target for fore-edge adornment as a way to encourage the sales of volumes that otherwise might languish on the bookstore shelf. Our copy is from the library of William Carr Beresford 1768-1854 the first Viscount Beresford. He distinguished himself as a general in the Peninsular War fighting alongside the Duke of Wellington. He was elevated to the peerage in honor of his military achievements and invested in the Order of Bath whose motto "Tria Juncta in Uno" "Three Joined in One" circles his crest here. Printed for T. Cadell by T. Bensley unknown
