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1964rif. 42109México: Ediciones Botas 1964. First edition. Cloth with gilt titles original wrappers bound in. A near fine copy. No dust jacket. 185 pp. 8vo. Covers 10 travelers. Provenance: Library of Alberto Parreño with his gilt initials on spine. Issued as the author's thesis Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México 1963. Ediciones Botas hardcover books
2004rif. 195086London: Scala Publishers 2004. Softcover. VG scuffs scratches to wraps. rubbing to spine ends & corners. very tightly bound; likely unread. grey-tan illustrated wraps w/ white printing. 240 pp. w/ primarily color illustrations. Published for the exhibition of the same name held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon from June 8-September 5 2004. Scala Publishers paperback books
1940rif. 186269Mexico: Museo Nacional 1940. Softcover. VG- light shelfwear to wraps; light age toning to pages but text and illustrations are otherwise clean. Glassine dj is worn and torn. Off-white wraps with burgundy lettering and mounted color illustration on front cover; glassine dj; 4 preliminary leaves 244 pages 2 leaves portraits some color. At head of title: Secretaría de educación pública Instituto nacional de antropología e historia. Text is in Spanish. "Portraits of notable figures in the colonial history of Mexico existing in the National Museum with notes collected from various authors and ordered by the Head of the Department of History of the same Institution" -translated from the title page. Museo Nacional paperback books
2004rif. 165374London: Scala Publishers 2004. Hardcover. VG/VG-. Minor wear to dust jacket. Contents clean and tight. Black cloth over boards with silver lettering on spine. Gray and color-illustrated dust jacket white lettering. 240 pp. Numerous color illustrations. Published for the exhibition of the same name held at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon from June 8-September 5 2004. Scala Publishers hardcover books
2010rif. 153277Burgos Spain: Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos 2010. Hardcover. VG- Ex-art library with label remnant on front cover and i.d.mark on first page; boards are slightly scuffed; otherwise clean. Smooth black boards with illus. 58 pp. color & BW illus. Majority of text is in Spanish with essays also in English. Issued in conjunction with a 2010 exhibition of light-inspired sculpture and other artwork rendered by Chilean-born artist Iván Navarro b. 1972. With an illustrated essay by Tatiana Flores and an introduction by Caja de Burgos. Includes an exhibitions and collections history in addition to the colorful artwork reproductions. Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos hardcover books
2007rif. 139612Tallahassee Florida: Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts 2007. Softcover. VG Light wear to extremities. Color illus. wraps; 64 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color. Accompanied the exhibition of the same name which featured works by Gael Stack Rosson Crow Dan Sutherland Emilio Perez Robert Williams and others; Extensive text. Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts paperback books
1953rif. 131823Cowles Magazines Inc 1953. Hardcover. VG. Quarto. Hardcover. Red cloth with gilt motif/die-cut boards; gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated red end papers by Federico Pallavicini who designed the book. 227 pages full of every kind of illustration including booklets images hidden behind paper flaps gatefolds color illustrations bw images etc. A fabulously entertaining romp through travel Americana art communications sentiment and more: Rudolf Bing and the Met Opera by Virgil Thomson; The Public Life of Walter Winchell; The Great Paris Polyglot; In Praise of Sentiment by Ruthven Todd; The Flower of Flowers by Katherine Anne Porter; Place Vendome; London; New York by Saul Steinberg; Sears and Roebuck; Tamayo; Mimicry in Nature by Salvador Dali; and ending with The Door of Paradise Ghiberti by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer. The follower of the defunct Flair Magazine by the same company. Cowles Magazines, Inc hardcover books
2011rif. 127809Padua: Guariento e la Padova Carrarese Guariento 2011. Softbound. VG. Color pictorial wraps 235pp numerous color plates. Text is in Italian. Exhibition catalog--The volume is the catalog of the exhibition of Padua Palazzo del Monte April 16 31 July 2011 dedicated to Guariento. Of this Italian painter known especially the angels even the angelic hierarchies composed of angels archangels mayor seraphim cherubim thrones and dominations who played everywhere have become part of the iconography of the universal so widespread as to forget who painted them and what actually represent those wonderful figures. For the first time all major works of the Master of the angels Guariento the one who after Giotto was the greatest interpreter of the painting of the fourteenth century in Padua will be collected in the catalog of this major exhibition in Padua. Dozens of tables and precious frescoes final document the absolute magnitude of an artist who has been able to anticipate the elegance of the International Gothic style. Besides the masterpieces of Guariento the catalog presents works by Giotto Pietro and Giuliano da Rimini Vitale da Bologna Paolo and Lorenzo Veneziano Just Menabuoi Altichiero Vivarini Nicholas Peter Giambono. Guariento e la Padova Carrarese Guariento paperback books
1951rif. 530781London: Cowles Magazines Inc. 1951. Softcover. Very Good. Periodical. Quarto. 120pp. Heavily illustrated. A bit musty. Cover with a split and a bit of loss at the spine staples somewhat oxidized modest interior toning very good. Signed by John Steinbeck editor Fleur Cowles and contributor William Ward Beecher. The final issue of this very interesting magazine sent by editor Fleur Cowles along with a warm Typed Letter Signed to artist William Ward Beecher to commemorate the collaboration. Fleur has Signed the magazine on the first page. Beecher allowed the use of a black and white reproduction of a Steinbeck-themed trompe l'oeil painting to illustrate the article "Tortilla B Flat: A Serenade to John Steinbeck Composed on the Typewriter" by Eddie Condon also illustrated with a portrait of Steinbeck by Robert Capa. A note in Beecher's hand laid in says: "N.B. this copy autographed by Fleur Cowles is also signed by John and me-" and indeed Steinbeck has Signed above the painting and Beecher beneath it. Also laid in is a Typed Letter Signed from a Flair employee to Beecher asking him to sign an agreement to reproduce the artwork. A 2001 letter from Steinbeck's son Thom written to supply details about sitting for a portrait by Beecher called the artist a family friend and that his father "maintained an abiding fascination for Beecher's work through the years. A half-dozen examples of the artist's best canvases still brighten our house in New York." A nice association. Cowles Magazines, Inc.) unknown books
1970rif. 38377New York: Coward-McCann 1970. Very Good/Very Good -. New York: Coward-McCann 1970. First Edition. Octavo 22 cm; 256pp. Boards in light red cloth with gilt and blind stamping wrapped in publisher's intact pictorial dust jacket $5.95. Jacket chipped creased and toned at extremities with scuffing to surface and minor loss to head of spine. Board margins lightly soiled and binding slightly cocked but firm. Some pages finger smudged but most clean. A Very Good copy overall of Charles Flowers' first and award winning novel. Signed and inscribed by Flowers at the half title page to friends Barbara and Jim. Coward-McCann unknown books
2005rif. 73912np: np 2005. First edition. 12 pp. Fine in sewn wrappers and fine dust jacket with printed cover label. Three poems and two tipped-on photographs. One of 50 copies printed letterpress on Fabriano Umbria paper for private circulation. Uncommon OCLC does not locate a copy. (np): (np) unknown books
1950rif. 281689Highland Springs Virginia: Masonic Home Press Inc 1950. Soft Cover. Very Good binding. A substantial record with the Proceedings of the Grand Annual Communication 298 pp.; a Memorial to the Beloved Dead 5 pp.; Roster of the Working Lodges Under the Jurisdiction of the Grand Lodge of Virginia 389 pp.; List of Elective Grand Officers 4 pp.; and an Appendix containing Report of Committee on Fraternal Correspondence 56 pp. and Report of the Board of Governors of the Masonic Home of Virginia for 1949 35 pp. plus an Index. With a frontispiece photographic portrait of Grand Master Enoch Flowers. In the publisher’s blue wrappers with some repair to the bottom of the spine and the front panel. An uncommon Virginia masonic item. Very Good binding. Masonic Home Press, Inc unknown books
2006rif. 126494New York: Atria Books 2006. 302p. 16p. photos first printing very good condition dj. Autobiography by the San Diego-born activist a key member of the Panthers' Oakland chapter in the 1970s. Atria Books unknown books
1952rif. 333066New York: Cowles 1952. hardcover. very good-. Hundreds of illustrations in color and black and white throughout some folding and three dimensional. 229 pages. Thick 4to gilt-stamped patterned red cloth with die-cut window binding worn at extremes of spine and corners. New York.: Cowles Magazines 1953. Some pages toned still a very good- copy. Artists writers & photographers include Walker Evans Dali Steinberg & Katherine Anne Porter. Printed and bound at The Lakeside Press designed by Federico Pallavicini. Cowles unknown books
1994rif. 255888Barcelona: Francis O. Pathey 1994. First. hardcover. very good/very good-. Many photo Illus. mostly in color. Volume One only. Oblong 4to brown cloth d.w. lightly soiled d.w. creased near bottom edge of back portion. Barcelona: Francis O. Pathey 1994. One of 600 copies. Laid in is the color poster loose as issued. The text of volume one consists of: 1. The Andean Camelids. 2. Man's Relationship with the Camelids. Francis O. Pathey unknown books
1967rif. 113775Brussels: Editions Arcade 1967. hardcover. very good. 90 tipped-in plates including 81 in color. 180pp. small folio gilt-lettered cloth. Brussels: Editions Arcade 1967. First Edition. Very good . Text in English and French. This book was "presented by the Commissioner of Belgium at the Universal and International Exhibition of 1967 Montreal Canada" to visting dignitaries at the Fair. Editions Arcade unknown books
1952rif. 40708NY:: Cowles Magazines 1952. First Edition. Periodical. 4to 229. Articles on various subjects heavily illustrated; some with fold-out or cut pages. Red cloth with cut-out on front. A nice copy. Designed by Federico Pallavicini and printed and bound at the Lakeside Press. An annual issued after the demise of the magazine. In her "Editor's Note" the magazine's founder/editor calls this volume "my reply to those who wrote since the magazine's demise and to the many others I hope still wonder with some yearning about Flair. I bring it back as a book in which you will find in the separate folios which follow each an entity in itself each in fact like a slim separate book subjects in which I believe many people will share a common interest with me. You will see them presented with the same physical attributes which distinguished Flair Magazine -- the same beauty and invention and the element of surprise imitations of which have flattered Flair since its suspension. Cowles Magazines unknown books
1952rif. 10780Garden City: Doubleday 1952. First edn. 8vo pp. 286. VG in dj. OP. A biography of the wife of the dictator of Argentina. Doubleday unknown books
1997rif. 501965Cambridge Massachusetts: The MIT Press 1997. Softcover. Near Fine. Rerint. Octavo. 222pp. Light wear and a gentle bump at the crown near fine in wrappers. The MIT Press unknown books
1991rif. 207181New York: Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College 1991. Paperback. 120p. texts in English and some Spanish illustrations photos tables figures very good bulletin/journal oversized trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College paperback books
1988rif. 207180New York: Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College 1988. 104p. paperback journal; texts in English and some Spanish illustrations photos in very good condition. Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños at Hunter College unknown books
1937rif. 125095New York: Critics Group 1937. Paperback. 93p. wraps edge worn pages toned else in good condition. Critics Group Series no. 3. Critics Group paperback books
1891rif. 871711891. BIRDS & FLOWERS Imao KEINEN. KEINEN KACHO GAFU. Kyoto: Tanaka Jihei. Meiji 24-25 1891-2. 4 vols. each approx. 35.5 x 25.1 cm. Stringbound fukuro-toji Japanese style. Vol.1 Spring has 31 color woodblock prints of birds and flowers of which 7 are huge double page prints. Vol.2 Summer has 32 plates of which 8 are double page. Vol.3 Autumn has 38 prints of which 4 are double page. Vol.4 Winter has 34 plates of which 4 are double page and one is a four page spread. These original Tanaka Jihei issues which preceded the Unsodo versions have become quite scarce complete sets even more so and sets with the western number captioning the true first printing almost impossible to find. The covers are original with the titles directly printed there and the gold flecking. The summer issue has a single worm track in the margins else it and the other volumes are impeccable the printing excellent the colors subtle and lovely. The nicest set we have ever handled. All in a clasped chitsu case which itself is quite rough. 4 vols. complete as issued by Tanaka Jihei very unusual thus. unknown books
1878rif. 1040834to original printed wrappers 27 separate installments incomplete and 108 full-page chromolithograph plates. Wrappers are a little soiled and have a few chips and tears one top cover is missing a few corner folds some aging and browning plates are generally clean and bright but sometimes show some browning along margins; overall a decent set of plates. Meehan 1826-1901 was a noted botanist of his day. While he wrote a number of serious scholarly works on the subject this book was an attempt to reach a wider more popular audience. Meehan goal for this work was to improve popular comprehension of the subject without sacrificing good science and by the way at a price people could afford. The concept of bringing more sophisticated botanical knowledge to a wider audience was rare. However Meehan received a lot of critical success for this effort at that time Nissen Botany 1331. Although incomplete this format of Meehan's work is somewhat scarce. It includes installments from the first and second series and was published by the Prang and Robson firms. Sold as a set of plates. Nissen Botany 1331. L. Prang & Co./Chas.Robson & Co., books
1957rif. 613408New York: Rinehart 1957. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Printed wrappers. Dampstains on page edges and margins tiny tears on wraps good only. Rinehart unknown books
