BERNARD, BRUCE (EDITOR)

Century. One Hundred Years of Human Progress, Regression, Suffering and Hope

London, Phaidon. 1999. (ISBN: 0714838489). Hard, 4to. Hard cover in laminated boards. Published London: Phaidon, 1999, reprinted 2000. Thick, square 4to. 10 1/4" x 10 1/4", 1120pp. illustrated with nearly 1,000 b/w and color photographs to present a comprehensive visual document of the twentieth century. Very good plus, clean, strong copy. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 009994

Catalogue: England & Europe

Keywords: History 0714838489

BESSEL, RICHARD

Germany 1945 : From War to Peace

NY, Harpercollins. 2009, 1st. (ISBN: 0060540362). Hard, 8vo. First U.S. edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: HarperCollins, 2009, first printing. 8vo. x+maps+522pp. illustrated with b/w photos. Black cloth with gilt titles. "Explores the devastation and remarkable rebirth of Germany at the end of World War II." Very good in very good, age toned dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 010388

Catalogue: England & Europe

Keywords: History 0060540362

BETTENS, EDWARD D

Painter and Patron

NY, Privately Printed. 1918, 1st. Hard, 8vo. Limited Edition, First edition. Hard cover. Limited to 650 copies printed on heavy laid paper. Published NY: Privately Printed, 1918. Gilt stamped green cloth. 64 pp. illus 14 b/w plates - Whistler, Copley, La Farge, Homer..Large 8vo. Bettens was collector of American art and patron of Fogg Museum. A near very fine copy, with his calling card laid in. Near Very Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 000206

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: Bettens Edward Painter Patron First Edition Limited Art Collectors Profile Portrait Sketch

BEYENBURG, EDMUND (EDITOR)

Internationaler Geologen und Mineralogen Kalender 1937

Stuttgart, Ferdinand Enke. 1937. Soft Cover, 12mo. Multi lingual edition. Text in German, English, French, Spanish and Dutch. Published Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke, 1937. 12mo. printed wrappers, 587pp. plus ads. Paper uniformly age toned. Very good. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 009334

Catalogue: Science

Keywords: Geology

BIBLE (ARTHUR SZYK, ILLUS)

The Book of Ruth with Pictures by Arthur Szyk

NY, Heritage Press. 1947, 1st. Hard, 4to. First edition. Hard cover in glassine dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Published NY: Heritage Press, 1947. 4to. 8 1/2" x 11 1/4", 44pp. illustrated with full color tipped in plates by Arthur Szyk. Cream cloth with gilt reverse spine title, brown cover pictorial. Two color title page and chapter heads, recto printed on smooth cream parchment. Some darkening to the cloth along edges, else very good in scarce, very good glassine dust jacket creased on the panels. In very good slipcase. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 009925

Catalogue: Literary & Modern First Editions

Keywords: Religion

BIDARI, BASANTA

Kapilavastu the World of Siddhartha

Lumbini, Author. 2007. (ISBN: 9994632205). Soft Cover, 8vo. Softcover. Published Lumbini: Author, 2007, second impression, 1,000 copies. 8vo. wrappers, 285pp. illustrated with b/w plates and reproductions. Very good. Very Good/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 009905

Catalogue: Far East

Keywords: Ancient World 9994632205

BIDDULPH, JOHN

The Nineteenth And Their Times - Being An Account Of The Four Cavalry Regiments In The British Army That Have Borne The Number Nineteen And Of The Campaigns In Which They Served

London, John Murray. 1899, 1st. Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth. Published London: John Murray, 1899. 8vo. xxi+330pp. illus frontis. and 12 plates (4 color, 5 maps). Blue cloth with gilt titles and gilt cover crest/insignia in white block, printed on laid paper. Wear at the spine ends and lower edges of boards, mild toning to the paper, bookplate on pastedown. Good, sound copy. Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 010459

Catalogue: England & Europe

Keywords: Military History

BIERCE, AMBROSE

The Monk And The Hangman's Daughter

NY, Heritage Press. 1967. Hard, 4to. Hard cover in slipcase. Published NY: Heritage Press, 1967. 4to. 7 1/2" x 10 1/2", xiv+80pp. full color illustrations by Michel Ciry. Translated from the German of Richard Voss by Gustav Adolf Danziger and Adapted by Ambrose Bierce, with an Introd. by Maurice Valency. Gold cloth with brown titles. Name on half title, else fine in near fine slipcase. Sandglass Number VIII: 33 laid in. Near Fine.

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Book number: 009444

Catalogue: Heritage Press

BIERCE, AMBROSE

Tales of Soldiers & Civilians

NY, Heritage Press. Hard, 4to. Hard cover in slipcase. Published NY: Heritage Press, 1943. small 4to. xxx+222pp. illustrated with wood-engravings by Paul Landacre. Printed on laid paper. Minor soil stain top of spine, previous owner bookplate on pastedown. Very good plus, clean, attractive. Very Good Plus/Very Good.

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Book number: 009941

Catalogue: Heritage Press

BILSKI, EMILY

Objects of the Spirit: Ritual and the Art of Tobi Kahn

Manchester, Vermont, Hudson Hills Press. 2004, 1st. (ISBN: 155595247x). Hard, Folio. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills, 2004. Folio, 9 1/2" x 12 1/4", 160pp. 133 illustrations, 113 in full color. Burgundy cloth with blind embossed and gilt titles. Inscription on flyleaf. Fine in fine dust jacket. Fine/Fine.

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Book number: 009849

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 155595247x

BINDLOSS, HAROLD

By Right of Purchase

NY, Burt. 1908. Hard. Hard cover. Published NY: Burt (1908). 8vo. vi+345pp. Red linen cloth with red titles in block reverse. Very good. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 009121

FOSTER, BIRKET & TAYLOR, TOM

Birket Foster's Pictures of English Landscape. Engraved by the brothers Dalziel, with pictures in word by Tom Taylor. India Proof Edition.

London, George Routledge and Sons. 1881, 1st. Hard, Folio. Ill.: Foster, Birket. First edition thus. "New Edition: India Proof Edition, printed at hand press from the original wood blocks." Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, number 362. Full vellum and gilt. Published London: George Routledge and Sons, c1881. Folio, 11 3/4" x 15 3/4", unpaginated, 30 full page illustrations - lovely views of rural England, wood-engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, with verses and poems by Tom Taylor, plus two Dalziel advertisement leaves and a colophon leaf of Camden Press. Bound in full vellum over beveled boards, with gilt and brown titles, gilt, brown and orange cover designs. Slight loss and rub at the heel, minor rub/soil to covers, else very good plus. Internally near fine, pages and plates, clean, bright with only light, occasional foxing. Very Good Plus/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 008526

Catalogue: Literary & Modern First Editions

Keywords: Foster, Birket

BISHOP, ROBERT

American Folk Sculpture

NY, Dutton. 1983, 1st. (ISBN: 0525480609). Soft Cover, 4to. First edition thus. First paperback edition. Trade softcover. Published NY: Dutton, 1983, first printing. 4to. 8 1/2" x 11", 392pp. 726 illustrations in b/w and full color. Flattened creasing to corner of a few pages, else near fine, clean, attractive. Near Fine/No Jacket, As Issued.

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Book number: 010016

Catalogue: Art

Keywords: 0525480609

BISKIND, PETER

Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film

NY, Simon & Schuster. 2004, 1st. (ISBN: 068486259x). Hard, 8vo. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Simon & Schuster, 2004, first printing. 8vo. x+544pp. illustrated with b/w plates. Mild, uniforming toning to paper, small stain on edge of page block. Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 010071

Catalogue: Performing Arts

Keywords: 068486259x

BISWAL, ASHOK

Mystic Monpas of Tawang Himalaya

New Delhi, Indus Publishing Company. 2006. (ISBN: 8173871949). Hard, 8vo. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published New Delhi: Indus Publishing Company, 2006. 8vo. 232pp. illustrated with full color plates and b/w reproductions. Burgundy cloth with white spine titles. Very good plus in very good dust jacket. Very Good Plus/Very Good.

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Book number: 009904

Catalogue: Far East

Keywords: 8173871949