Amis, Kingsley

Stanley and the Women

New York, Summit Books, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Bound in two-tone light gray cloth over boards, red cloth-backed, remainder mark along bottom edge. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" or "a" in "number" line present. 255 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 356131

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Kingsley Amis First Edition First Printing

Amis, Martin

Yellow Dog

Miramax Books, Miramax Books, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition. SIGNED by the author at title page, inscribed "To John." Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present. By the James Tait Black Memorial Prize- and Somerset Maugham Award-winning author of London Fields and Time's Arrow and House of Meeting and Night Train and other fine novels. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Bound handsomely in a two-tone, black paper over boards, black cloth-backed, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. 340 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 350987

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Martin Amis signed modern first editions literature novels

Ammann, Jean-Christophe Francesco Clemente

Francesco Clemente: Works 1971-1979

New York, Charta/Deitch Projects, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound quite handsomely in illustrated buckram cloth, oatmeal in color. Glorious evocative full-color, black-and-white and duotone illustrations throughout. 254 pp. Published to augment of the exhibition held at Deitch Projects, New York, in 2007, with texts in English and Italian, befitting the life and work of the Italian-born painter Francesco Clemente. This work features "skewed self-portraiture, witty wordplay and gestural figuration" in view of nearly a decade's worth of artistic production.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 348394

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Francesco Clemente|Jean-Christophe Ammann|painters|catalogue raisonne

L'Amour, Louis

The Collected Short Stories of Louis L'Amour: The Frontier Stories, Volume Seven

New York, Bantam, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, some rear panel wear and a short, closed tear there, but not price-clipped. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Good,

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Book number: 356101

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: short stories Louis L'Amour literature Frontier Stories Westerns

Amplecas, Germain, ed.

L'Oeuvre Libertine Des Poã¨Tes Du XIX Siã¨Cle.

Paris, France, Bibliotheque des Curieux, 1910. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. An acceptable copy in First Edition state, housed in a plastic bag since becoming the property of the former owner, the noted bibliographer and bibliophile, literary sleuth and erotophile, Gershon Legman, as conveyed to me from his widow, Judith Legman. Masters of erotic poetry and prose in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Contributions by and about Berenger, Roger de Beauvoir, Theodor Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Leon Gozlan, Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine, Theophilie Gautier, Stephane Mallarme and others. Black and red printed wrappers, soiled and worn, joints exposed, a bit foxed of interior but lightly so, and still quite bright. Fine black-and-white frontispiece engravnig of Theophile Gautier. 295 pp. .Published by , Paris, 1910Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Book number: 356792

Catalogue: Erotica

Keywords: Berenger Roger de Beauvoir Gautier Baudelaire Monselet Verlaine Germain Amplecas|.|Published by , Paris, 1910

Amsden, Dora, with the assistance of John Stewart Happ

The Heritage of Hiroshige: A Glimpse at Japanese Landscape Art

San Francisco, Paul Elder and Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Compiled by Dora Amsden in collaboration with John Stewart Happer, and then illustrated with prints from the Happer Collection. Quite handsomely rebound in textured paper over spine, stamped lettering to cover and spine, and with lovely, textured endpapers front and rear. Interior else clean, pages toned, text unmarked. Published in First Edition state by Paul Elder (1912), San Francisco. viii of frontis matter, and then 84 pp., including an index and full bibliography, plus 16 full-page monochrome illustrations, including at frontis, being "The Moonlit Saru Hashi" (Monkey Bridge). Printed at the Tomoye Press under the direction of John Swart, type hand-set by William Albert Johns, and the plates are quite lovely. Fore-edges being uncut, as each leaf has been folded and then loose edges bound in. Else and withal, quite a lovely item.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 344919

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Dora Amsden|John stewart Happar|The Happer Collection|prints|printmaking|Japan|Japanese art|Hiroshige|Japanese landscape art

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam

Vieira Da Silva. Germaine Richier

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, 1955. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Penned notes in margins to the artist biographies included in this Catalogue #127 of the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam, printed in brown printed wraps, staple-bound, lightly sunned along edges, a few spots of discoloration to front cover, else clean and bright of interior, with many black-and-white illustrations and photographs of the work of both da Silva and Richier. Photographs printed on high-gloss paper. Dutch language texts, unpaginated.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 349683

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Vieira da Silva|Germaine Richier|artist exhibit catalog

Amyx, D. A.

Corinthian Vase-Painting of the Archaic Period, Volume II: Commentary: The Study of Corinthian Vases

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound most handsomely in tan cloth, with sharp and distinct blue lettering. Stated First Edition, with "1" in the number line present. Preface by the author. Full bibliography. xviii + 355-700 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 346506

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: D.A. Amyx|COrinth|Corinthian vase-painting|archaic painting

Andel, Jaroslav

The New Vision for the New Architecture: Czechoslovakia 1918-1938

Zurich, Switzerland, Scalo Verlag, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with a single bruised tip, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Handsomely bound in gray cloth and with black lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. "This lavishly illustrated volume is the first presentation of the significant group of architectural photographs made as a collaboration between avant-garde architects and photographers in the 1920s and 1930s," and features the work of Czech architects and artists such as Sandalo, Janak, Plicka, Fragner, Funke, Gocar, Sudek, Fuchs, Wiskovsky, and Krejcar. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [4], 5-278 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 347076

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Jaroslav andel|architecture|Czechoslovakian art history|Sandalo|Janak|Plicka|Fragner|Funke|Gocar|Sudek|Fuchs|Wiskovsky|Krejcar

Andersch, Martin

Symbols, Signs and Letters

New York, Design Press, 1989. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Translated into English from the original German by Ingrid Li, a magnum opus of social history and deep typographical analysis of handwriting and calligrahy. The color photographs drawn from the work of German students in handwriting seminars and calligraphy workshops from the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, have greatly augmented this tome. According to the publisher, Andersch "makes visible the process of teaching and learning" the various scripts, his philosophy and methods expounded in italic side-notes, quite accessible and interesting. Full index, bibliography, and glossary. German books on book-arts galore. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in a tall quarto format, oatmeal cloth over boards. Measures 8 1/2" x 12 1/2" in width and height, respectively. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Hundreds of gorgeous reproductions in black-and-white and duotone, monochrome and full color. [3], 4-255 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Fine,

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Book number: 348852

Catalogue: Books and Bookbinding

Keywords: symbols|signs|letters|martin andersch|handwriting|calligraphy|interpretation |texts|Ingrid Li

Andersen, Johannes C.

Myths and Legends of the Polynesians

Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle Co., 1969. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition Thus, published by Tuttle first in 1969. Superior copy, near gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected, but price-clipped, then housed in the original publisher's stapled cardboard slipcase, thick, heavy, lightly abraded, with original paper label wrap-around intact. Bound handsomely in a bright red fine-weave cloth cover, with gilt lettering over black cloth label over spine. Accessible, influential "account of the history, art and mythology of the Polynesian races," with 16 full-color plates, 13 line illustrations, and 32 half-tone plates and 44 other black-and-white illustrations. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Prelims + 3-513 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 351670

Catalogue: Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific

Keywords: Johannes C. Andersen polynesia|Polynesians myths legends mythology

Anderson, Wayne

American Sculpture in Process, 1930-1970

Boston, New York Graphic Society, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bound in reddish cloth over boards, some rubbing to gilt lettering over spine, else clean and unmarked of interior. Published in First Edition state in Boston by the New York Graphic Society, 1975, bound in tall format and measuring 8" x 11". 278 pp. and with several hundred black-and-white illustrations and another eight in full color.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 345857

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: sculpture|sculptors|Wayne Anderson|art history|American sculpture|American art history

Anderson, Margaret

Arabic Materials in English Translation: A Bibliography of Works from the Pre-Islamic Period to 1977

Boston, G.K. Hall & Co., 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, A Reference Publication in Middle Eastern Studies, edited by David H. Partington. Sections devoted to Philosophy, Music, Materials in the History of Science, History, Geography, Social Science Materials, Modern Arabic Literature, and Non-Islamic Religious Materials. Bound in brown buckram cloth, gilt lettering to spine, with some light brushings along front fore-edge and what appear to be a few miniscule spots of white paint. The interior is unmarked, bright, virtually pristine. xiii + 1-249 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 349902

Catalogue: Religion::Islam and Eastern

Keywords: Margaret Anderson|Arabic|bibliography|pre-Islamic

R.C. Anderson

Oared Fighting Ships: From Classical Times to the Coming of Steam

London, Percival Marshall, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Published in First Edition state by Percival Marshall, a sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities copy exemplar. Printed, intact dust jacket, moderately worn, price-clipped. Table of Contents: Introduction; Galleys Before The Trireme; The Greek Trireme; Quinqueremes And Polyremes; Liburnians And Dromons; English Galleys In The Middle Ages; Southern Galleys Alla Sensile; Henry VIII's Oared Men-Of-War; Southern Galleys Al Scaloccio; The Galeass; Hybrids Of The 17th And 18th Centuries; Oared Men-Of-War In The Baltic. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations and fine photographs, including a tri-fold illustration, printed on high-gloss paper. 65 black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiv, 1-99 [3] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Good,

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Book number: 353012

Catalogue: Military History

Keywords: fighting ships military history R.C. Anderson Galleys Before The Trireme The Greek Trireme Quinqueremes And Polyremes Liburnians And Dromons English Galleys In The Middle Ages Southern Galleys Alla Sensile Henry VIII's Oared Men-Of-War Southern Galleys Al

Anderson, Maxwell

The Star-Wagon: A Play in Three Acts

Washington, D.C., Anderson House, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Dust jacket, illustrated, present, but showing moderate wear, chipping to spine head and foot, small chip missing at spine, but now protected by a plastic coat, not price-clipped. Stated First Edition. Octavo format, bound in gray cloth with title and author's name embossed to front cover and spine. Previous owner's name inscribed inside front flap. First performed at the Erlander Theatre in Buffalo September 16, 1937 with Russell Collins, Lillian Gish, Burgess Meredith. [6] 130 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Good,

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Book number: 345707

Catalogue: Drama & Theater

Keywords: Maxwell Anderson|science fiction|literature