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1899ref. 49301George B. Reed 1899. TUCKER George Fox. MILDRED MARVILLE. Boston: George B. Reed 1899. Small 8vo. navy-blue cloth stamped in gilt. First Edition. Signed presentation by Tucker on front blank page: "Mrs. Dutton with the compliments of Geo. F. Tucker. Dec. 27 1898." Very Good bright. $125.00. George B. Reed unknown books
1913ref. 36547Leipzig: Im Insel 1913. First edition. Quarter vellum over paper covered boards top edge gilt silk book mark sewn in. A very good or better copy light soiling on boards illustrated bookplate on free front endpaper foxing to endpapers otherwise contents fine. v 58 pp. plates. Illus. with 27 b/w plates. Folio. Series: Jahresgabe des Deutschen Vereins für Kunstwissenschaft1913. Überreicht vom Deutschen Verein für Kunstwissenschaft card laid in loose. Im Insel hardcover books
1905ref. 1410078Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company 1905. Physicians' Edition. Hardcover. Quarto four volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in maroon cloth with black text to spines. Boards have fraying to corners ink writing to the spine tail ends bumping to edges and discoloration throughout. Textblocks have library stamps to pages throughout minor splitting to the gutter throughout light age toning and foxing and scuffing throughout. The first volume contains loose black and white photographs. Shelved in Room F Elephant. 1410078. Special Collections. J. B. Lippincott Company hardcover books
2000ref. 214766Hanover / London: Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England 2000. Hardcover. As new. Small square quarto. Hardcover.Black cloth spine over white paper boards in white illustrated jacket with bronze titles. xiii 79 pages 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations some color ; 24 cm. Anni Albers 1899-1994 was one of the most influential textile designers of the 20th century. Born in Berlin in 1922 she became a student at the Bauhaus in Weimar where she met her husband Josef Albers. From 1933 to 1949 Albers taught at Black Mountain College. The fifteen essays gathered here illustrate Anni Albers's concept of design as the pursuit of wholeness -- "the coalition of form answering practical needs and form answering aesthetic needs." This beautifully illustrated book addresses the artistic and practical concerns of modern design and considers the ever-changing role of the designer. Wesleyan University Press / University Press of New England hardcover books
2016ref. 212168New York: Pratt Manhattan Gallery 2016. Softcover. VG. Close to new interior clean and unmarked besides a small stamp inside stating withdrawn from a research library. Small quarto. Softcover. Grey paper wraps with silver titles. 36 pages : illustrations chiefly color ; 26 cm. Pratt Manhattan Gallery paperback books
1982ref. 209257Washington DC: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden / Smithsonian Institution Press 1982. Softcover. VG. Light scuffing around edges of wraps. Quarto. Softcover. Grey wraps with color shifting block titles. 74 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Catalog of an exhibition held Dec. 17 1981-Feb. 28 1982./ Includes bibliographical references. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden / Smithsonian Institution Press paperback books
1973ref. 210157Syracuse NY: Everson Museum of Art 1973. Softcover. Contents VG box has seen better days but is not decrepit. White stapled and colored illustrated wraps with black lettering 20 pp. with 4 full-page color reproductions and 11 smaller bw and color illustrations. Laid into the flimsy box are three more full size color reproductions different than those found in the stapled catalogue. The cover of the box reproduces the cover of the stapled catalogue. Best known as a Washington painter Leon Berkowitz studied at the Art Students League before moving to Washington D.C. Berkowitz taught throughout much of his career serving as the chairman of The Corcoran Gallery’s School of Art department of painting. Along with his first wife he established the Washington Workshop Center for the Arts. After the closing of the workshop in 1956 Berkowitz’s work became more abstracted working with fields of color and light. His work can be found in the collections of the Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden the National Museum of American Art the Museum of Modern Art The Phillips Collection the Des Moines Museum and the Phoenix Art Museum among others. There are no copies of this boxed edition found in Worldcat. Published to accompany and exhibition which was held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art from Sept. 14 to Oct. 21 1973 and the Everson Museum of Art from Feb. 21 to March 21 1974. There is text professional information and a short poem excerpt within this catalogue. The boxed edition apparently quite limited contains an additional 3 full-size color plates 9" x 12". Very scarce. Everson Museum of Art paperback books
1973ref. 210158Syracuse NY: Everson Museum of Art 1973. Softcover. VG. White stapled and colored illustrated wraps with black lettering 20 pp. with 4 full-page color reproductions and 11 smaller bw and color illustrations. Best known as a Washington painter Leon Berkowitz studied at the Art Students League before moving to Washington D.C. Berkowitz taught throughout much of his career serving as the chairman of The Corcoran Gallery’s School of Art department of painting. Along with his first wife he established the Washington Workshop Center for the Arts. After the closing of the workshop in 1956 Berkowitz’s work became more abstracted working with fields of color and light. His work can be found in the collections of the Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden the National Museum of American Art the Museum of Modern Art The Phillips Collection the Des Moines Museum and the Phoenix Art Museum among others. There is one copy of this catalogue found in Worldcat and that copy is in Europe. Published to accompany and exhibition which was held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art from Sept. 14 to Oct. 21 1973 and the Everson Museum of Art from Feb. 21 to March 21 1974. There is text professional information and a short poem excerpt within this catalogue. Very scarce. Everson Museum of Art paperback books
1985ref. 210483Boulder CO: Pruett Publishing Company 1985. Hardcover. VG/VG-. bumping and one closed tear with flattened creasing near head of spine. Top edge has some wear and micro tearing. Oblong quarto. Hardcover. Red boards in illustrated jacket. 266 pages 16 pages of plates : illustrations some color ; 22 x 26 cm. Pruett Publishing Company hardcover books
1860ref. 206592Boston: H. Hoyt 1860. Hardcover. G: Wear to the edges and covers. Rubbing to the spine especially at the top and bottom; the bottom of the spine is worn away. Pencil on the front and back end pages. Tanning and foxing to the pages. A small purple casebound book with gilt text on the spine and debossed designs on the covers. 167 pages; contains several black-and-white illustrations. H. Hoyt hardcover books
1900ref. 207546New York: Dutton 1900. Hardcover. VG: Wear to the edges and corneers especially around the spine. Rubbing to the spine. Majority clean body pages and solid binding. Three-quarter binding with a red leather spine and pink marbled wraps over the boards. Gilt text and five bands on the spine. The end pages are marbled. 449 pages; black-and-white plates. Contents are as follows: Preface.--The schoolmaster: Henry Peacham.--The physician: Andrew Boorde--The parson: Henry Smith.--The bishop: Lancelot Andrewes.--The archbishop: George Abbot.--The poet: Abraham Cowley.--The traveller: Thomas Coryate.--The courtier: Sir Thomas Overbury--The diplomatist: Sir Henry Wotton.--The humourist: Robert Burton. Dutton hardcover books
1969ref. 199857New York: Da Capo Press 1969. Reprint of the first edition published in London in 1844-1846. Hardcover. Fair Ex-Library with white sticker on lower DJ spine markings on ffep and rear pastedown; DJ is edgeworn/scuffed/smudged/chipped; boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are lightly scuffed/smudged; inner hinges are cracked; interior is very clean but plates and their accompanying texts have detached from the spine and are loose; some tissue guards are not present. Brown DJ with illustration and brown light brown and red lettering; red cloth over boards with gilt lettering and design; 94 pp.; XXIV leaves of plates with mounted illustrations. Very nice plates in this volume. Da Capo Press hardcover books
1996ref. 196954Los Angeles California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art 1996. Paperback. Good EX-LIBRARY indicated only by a stamp on the ffep; wraps are sunned and worn lightly overall; texblock edges are lightly worn/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean; binding is solid. Pink illustrated wraps with yellow and black lettering; 87 pp.; richly illustrated in color. Lari Pittman's meticulously rendered paintings employ a complex mix of symbols and images to create dense and compelling narratives on love violence and desire. Drawing upon design folk art and decorative traditions Pittman's brightly colored paintings incorporate and rework a range of styles and genres--Victorian silhouettes social realist murals and Mexican retablos--to conjure a hallucinatory effect unique in contemporary painting. Pittman has earned numerous accolades in the art world and has been included in the Venice Biennale Documenta X and four Whitney Biennials. -- WorldCat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art paperback books
2022ref. 197455New York: Hollis Taggart 2022. Softcover. New/Sealed remains in publisher's wrap; may have bumping rubbing to corners edges etc. red wraps w/ bold white printing. 32 pgs w/ color illustrations. Exhibition held at Hollis Taggart New York January 6-February 5 2022. Hollis Taggart paperback books
1988ref. 188840Berlin: Nishen 1988. Hardcover. VG/G Dj has some tearing discoloration staining. Bookblock has some corner darkening and age toning. German language text. Black cloth boards. White dj with photograph. 159pgs Photographs. Nishen hardcover books
1971ref. 186272New York: Hacker Art Books 1971. Hardcover. VG- light shelfwear to boards light age toning but pages are otherwise clean. Red cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; iv 100 pp of bw illustrations. Reprint of the 1900 edition. "Obtained by the punitive expedition in 1897 and now in General Pitt Rivers's Museum at Farnham Dorset."-introduction. Hacker Art Books hardcover books
2011ref. 181650Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Library 2011. Softcover. Near Fine. light edge-wear to jacket. appears unread. textured light grey wrappers. book xv 205 pgs w/ color & bw illustration. grey & illustrated dustjacket. Includes the work of: Foreword / J. Howard Woolmer -- Introduction / Margaret Kelleher -- Transatlantic connections in the early nineteenth century -- Joseph Rezek -- Manuscript letter from Maria Edgeworth -- The Irish romantic novel / Claire Connolly -- Representing Ireland : the national tale / Renée Fox -- Manuscript letter from Mrs. S.C. Hall -- Salute of the Earth : Carleton Kiely McLaverty / Paul Muldoon -- Charles Joseph Kickham / Howard Keeley -- The Irish Gothic / Renée Fox -- Manuscript letter from Charles Robert Maturin -- Caroline Blackwood / Greg Londe -- Merrion Square / Renée Fox -- Telling Irish fairy tales / Renée Fox -- Manuscript letter from Samuel Lover -- Irish children's books / Renée Fox -- George A. Birmingham / Howard Keeley -- The Blasket Island writers / Tom Shea -- Reinventions of the Gaelic : a primer / Greg Londe -- A fulcrum for fun : Seosamh Mac Grianna / Paul Muldoon -- Walter Starkie / Mary Burke -- Comparing Colonies : Ireland and Africa / Greg Londe -- Manuscript letter from James Stephens -- 1916 : a year in prose / Greg Londe -- Liam O' Flaherty / Greg Londe -- On Somerville and Ross's "The whiteboys" Manuscript -- How to say yes : Quiet man and popular fictions / Greg Londe -- Kate O'Brien / Paige Reynolds -- Manuscript letter from Kate O'Brien -- Irish writing during World War II / Clair Wills -- Manuscript letter from Francis Stuart -- Irish pulp fiction / Greg Londe -- Elizabeth Bowen / Siân White -- Manuscript letter from Elizabeth Bowen -- The midcentury short story / Colm Tóibín -- Flann O'Brien gets away / Greg Londe -- O'Faoláin and The bell / Greg Londe -- Brian Moore / Terence Brown -- From across the Irish Sea / Colm Tóibín -- Iris Murdoch's working notebooks / Greg Londe -- J.G. Farrell / Marina MacKay -- Northern Irish fiction / Renée Fox -- Edna O'Brien Carlo Gébler / Anne Fogarty -- Rethinking endings : Irish women writers / Renée Fox -- The lens of the sentence / Colm Tóibín -- John McGahern / Kevin Whelan -- John Banville / Michael Wood -- Raven Arts Press : the new dissident Dubliners / Greg Londe -- Dermot Healy and Sebastian Barry / Colm Tóibín -- The art of the Irish essay / Shirley Lau Wong and Greg Londe -- Colm Tóibín / Kathleen Costello-Sullivan -- The art of the new Irish memoir / Colm Tóibín -- Transatlantic commuters in the twentieth century / Paige Reynolds -- Typescript letter from Colum McCann -- The bog Gothic / Ellen Scheible -- Emma Donoghue / Brian Cliff -- Queer novelists / Renée Fox -- Anne Enright / Claire Connolly.--WorldCat. Princeton University Library paperback books
1960ref. 173978Cambridge MA: Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts Harvard College Library 1960. Limited to 600 copies in three formats this being No. 75 of copies 51 to 150 that contain an extra set of lithographs. Hardcover. VG/VG case showing very mninor wear to the leather at the base of the spine. pale bluish green printed paper-covered boards with black leather spine with gilt title. 61 pp. 13 mounted lithographs along with a complete extra set of the original lithographs contained in the book separately cased and enclosed with the book in a box case. all contained in a linen covered clamshell case with matching black leather spine with gilt title. Numbered 75 on the limitation page and also signed by the artist and the translator. From a total edition of 600 this is number 56 of 100 copies 51-150 signed by both artist and translator printed on hand-made paper and containing an extra suite of 13 loose lithographs each signed or initialed by Stein in pencil. Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library hardcover books
2015ref. 170479London: Dominique Levy 2015. Hardcover. New. Gray boards with white stamped lettering. 134 pp. Mainly color illustrations. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Dominique Lévy Gallery London 9 Feb. - 18 Apr. 2015. Dominique Levy hardcover books
2007ref. 169894New York: Viking 2007. Hardcover. VG/VG signed on title page by Fox. Tan boards with black spine and gilt spine lettering. Color-photographic dust jacket with white lettering. xx 375 pp. 16 unnumbered pages of BW and color illustrations. The charismatic former President of Mexico offers a candid perspective on the state of world affairs. When Vicente Fox swept into office in 2000 he broke the dictatorial one-party rule that had strangled Mexico for over seventy years. Fox worked his way from ranch hand and truck driver to the youngest CEO in the history of Coca-Cola. As president he steered Mexico's fragile young democracy through turbulent times ushering in six years of economic stability and reform in health care education and housing with increased freedom of the press. This book interweaves his inspiring personal story with his bold ideas for the future of the planet. Fox speaks forcefully on hot global topics like immigration the war in Iraq racism globalization the role of the United Nations free trade religion gender equity indigenous rights and the moral imperative to heal the global divide between rich and poor nations.--From publisher description. Signed by Fox! Viking hardcover books
1999ref. 166844New York: Guggenheim Museum Publications 1999. Paperback. VG-. Color-illustrated and BW-photographic softcover with white lettering. 181 pp. Color and BW illustrations. "Among the foremost textile designers of the 20th century Anni Albers was a central figure of the Weaving Workshop at the Bauhaus in prewar Germany. Accompanying a centennial retrospective of her work this volume contains full-color reproductions of Albers's most important weavings drapery materials and wall coverings as well as scores of her highly influential commercial textile designs. Anni Albers had an enormous effect on the design of yard materials worldwide."--Amazon. Guggenheim Museum Publications paperback books
2002ref. 167282Stamford CT: Patinae 2002. Hardcover. VG/VG-. Color-illustrated boards with white and grey lettering with matching dust jacket. 79 pp. Mainly color illustrations. "These brilliant designs make us long to summon Don Giovanni back from his sulphurous pit to seek further adventures in this new Seville where clouds take the form of reclining lovers and mazes are fashioned from playing cards. This time he might be saved who knows But Mozart would surely jump at the chance of writing new music for him. Olbinski is one of those rare artists who are able to register the purpose of an image but then go beyond this to create enduring life." -Barry Unsworth jacket blurb. Patinae hardcover books
1937ref. 161991New York: MoMA 1937. Pamphlet. VG- clean and tight but with light cover shelf wear. White stapled wraps with black line drawing and lettering. 7 pp. with bw illustrations. This bulletin edition features an essay by Douglas C. Fox and was published to coincide with the opening of the exhibition on April 27 1937 of works from a collection in Frankfurt. MoMA unknown books
1974ref. 11332New York: M. Knoedler & Co. Inc 1974. Softcover. VG some wear and soiling to covers but clean interior. Oblong white and blue/green stapled wraps with white lettering. 32 pp. 14 color 33 bw plates. Catalogue of an exhibition held May 3 to June 9 1974. Lengthy essay by Deedee Wigmore and Nicholas Fox Weber with lovely plates throughout. Includes a list of 49 additional works in the exhibition that are not discussed in the catalogue text. M. Knoedler & Co., Inc paperback books
1923ref. 159253New York: The Macaulay Company 1923. Original American Edition. Hardcover. NF contents; VG covers; Good DJ with some fading to spine a bump to upper outer front corner and small tears to head/tail of spine. Moss green cloth/boards; black lettering. Moss green dj with black lettering including an excerpt from the dedication to H.G. Wells. All edges painted green. 308 pages with no illustrations. A scarce copy of the American English edition of Renard's early sci-fi novel originally published in France as Le Docteur Lerne. "The publication of Renard’s first sf novel in 1908 Le Docteur Lerne Doctor Lerne gained him rave reviews and launched him into the limelight of Parisian literary circles. Although strongly derivative of Wells’ The Island of Dr Moreau 1896—an influence openly acknowledged by Renard in his dedication—Le Docteur Lerne extrapolates the notion of biological engineering much further than Wells all the way into the fantastic. After years of experimentation in grafting animal parts to plants and vice-versa producing at times some quite amazing results Dr. Lerne begins interchanging brains between animals between humans and even between animals and humans. As a result of these experiments he ultimately learns how to project his own mind and spirit into other animate and not-so-animate objects like people trees and even an automobile. The narrative itself is recounted in the first person by Dr. Lerne’s visiting nephew Nicolas: he gradually in detective-like fashion uncovers the truth of his uncle’s experiments and his reactions to them range from morbid curiosity to outright horror. Part of the originality of the tale however is not in the sometimes outlandish plot sequences but in the manner in which they are told. The originality of this novel is two-fold: in its sf eroticism and in how it portrays the mind-body split through narrative point of view. One example: Nicolas is forced to have his brain exchanged with that of a bull. Following the surgery the young man must now struggle to acclimate himself to the alien: not only to his new bovine body and instincts but also to seeing his old self as the "other"—especially when the latter makes overtly sexual advances toward "his" mistress. Another example: later in the text after receiving his own brain back again the narrator is in the throes of a steamy sexual interlude with his aforementioned mistress when he suddenly feels the presence of another person’s identity intruding into his mind and taking over his body: it is Dr. Lerne who gazing through a peephole nearby decides to become a more-than-first-hand observer to the proceedings. Such risqué subject matter and offbeat points of view in Le Docteur Lerne—continually oscillating as it does between the vicarious and voyeuristic—make it a quite original sf text and one that foreshadows other erotic science-fiction works by writers like Philip José Farmer Robert Silverberg and Kate Wilhelm published over a half century later. Of course if one were to judge Renard’s Le Docteur Lerne from its only-available English translation New Bodies for Old one would never have the opportunity to read such passages. They are not there. In fact this translation seems to aptly exemplify the marketplace strategy known as "bait-and-switch." On its intentionally provocative dust jacket after the title "Maurice Renard’s Startling Novel New Bodies for Old or The Strange Experiments of Dr. Lerne" the publisher chooses to quote the most enticingly suggestive portions of the author’s dedication to Wells: "When Fortune.allowed me to discover the subject of this allegorical novel I felt bound not to set it aside because of a few audacities which a faithful rendering involved. Far from desiring to arouse.instinct in my reader and amuse him with scandalous descriptions my work is addressed to the philosopher." But when one then reads the actual narrative one discovers that all such "audacities" and "scandalous descriptions"—i.e. all passages of sexuality like those I have discussed—have been thoroughly and meticulously excised. Despite its cover’s subtle promises of titillation the content of Renard’s book has been truncated so as not to offend its anglophone audience’s supposed sense of moral propriety." - by Arthur B. Evans. The Macaulay Company hardcover books
