ALVA; READ, HERBERT; COLLIS, MAURICE

Alva. Recent Paintings and Drawings.

London, The Bodley Head, 1951, cloth, dustj, large 4to, 40 pp., 20 plates (10 in color), fine and rare publication of the work of this abstract painter working ± 1950; good condition (no dustjacket, front of dustjacket clipped loosely inserted0. . .

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Book number: 20969

Catalogue: Art monographies

Keywords: Alva, painter

Alva; Read, herbert; Collis, Maurice

Alva. Recent Paintings and Drawings.

London, The Bodley Head, 1951, cloth, dustj, large 4to, 40 pp., 20 plates (10 in color), fine and rare publication of the work of this abstract painter working ± 1950; G/VG condition (dustj. sev. damaged but almost complete, binding and interior VG). . .

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Book number: 5435

Catalogue: Art monographies

Keywords: Alva, painter

(ALVA) COLLIS, MAURICE (INTRODUCTION), FOREWORD BY HEBERT READ

Alva Recent Paintings and Drawings (Signed Copy )

London, The Bodley Head. 1951. Hardcovers, Qto. Book, Illustrated with 20 tipped in colour plates. Inscribed and dated by the artist in 1955. Very crisp and clean copy. Born in Berlin in 1901, Alva moved to Galicia, and began to paint in Paris in 1928, prodcing some great lyrical abstracts. Alva also spent a 20 year period living in Britain, before returning to Paris in 1955. Bound in brown cloth. Very Good. Signed by the Artist.

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Book number: 18745

Catalogue: Limited Editions & Signed Copies

Keywords: Abstract German Artists Alva Signed Copy

CARRINGTON, DOROTHY/MAURICE COLLIS [INTROD.].

The Traveller's Eye.

London, The Pilot Press Ltd 1947. Original publisher's blue cloth hardback, gilt lettering spine, 8vo: frontispiece, xiv, 382pp. 32 plates, notes, list of illustrations, acknowledgements, bibliography, index. Original front and back dustjacket pasted in. The English traveller from Tudor times to the present day in his course over four continents and five oceans .

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Book number: 100427

COLLIS Maurice

Au service du roi de Siam. Traduit de l'anglais et présenté par Isabelle Landry.

Paris, JC Lattès, 1991 - Collection dirigée par Michel Le Bris.. fort in-8, broché, couverture souple éditeur, 355 pages, "illustré de planches de gravures sur papier couché ; couverture ornée d'une gravure en couleurs." Tranches brunies, ouvrage en bon état.

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Book number: HAY33011

Catalogue: Orientalisme / Proche et Moyen-Orient

COLLIS, MAURICE

British Merchant Adventurers (Britain in Pictures Series)

London: Collins, 1942. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, 1942. A pictorial history of the role played by privately-owned ships and their captains, which helped transform Britain from a small, weak island nation to the powerful Commonwealth of Nations. Such men as Sir Thomas Roe, Robert Clive and Mungo Park and others spread out across the globe, establishing Britain in those places. With 8 color plates and 24 illustrations in black & white, mostly showing examples of Asian art. An entry in publisher's "Britain in Pictures" series; W. J. Turner, general editor. --- In red paper-covered boards with image of a privateer to cover. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With publisher's rubberstamping to front free endpaper and tears & chafing along spine, else an otherwise unmarked tightly-bound copy.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; [6], 7-48 pages. Good+ with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 89316

Keywords: >>Travel / Exploration / Adventure >>England, Uk and Uk History

Maurice Collis

A Collection of Volumes from Maurice Collis

London; New York, Faber and Faber; Alfred A. Knopf, 1938-1948. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of four first edition volumes from British administrator for Burma Maurice Stewart Collis. Four volumes. Written by Maurice Stewart Collis, an administrator in Burma (now Myanmar) when it was part of the British Empire, and afterwards a writer on Southeast Asia, China and other historical subjects. This set contains: Trials in Burma, 1938. First UK edition. The author's own memoir of his time serving in Burma in the Indian Civil Service under the British Empire describing events from 1929 to 1930. In this work he gives special attention to the political trial of Jatindra Mohan Sengupta, Mayor of Calcutta. The Land of the Great Image: Being Experiences of Friar Manrique in Arakan, 1943. First US edition. Illustrated with twelve plates and one map. Collated complete. An authentic history of the seventeenth century Augustinian Friar, Manrique, and his journey to the independent kingdom of Arakan on the Bay of Bengal. The Motherly and Auspicious: Being the Life of the Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi in the Form of a Drama, with an Introduction and Notes, 1943. First UK edition. Illustrated with eight plates. Collated complete. A play presenting the life of Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi, a Manchu noblewoman of the Yehe Nara clan who effectively controlled the Chinese government in the late Qing dynasty as empress dowager and regent for almost fifty years. The First Holy One, 1948. First UK edition. Illustrated with sixteen plates and four maps. Collated complete. A history of the life and philosophy of Confucius, a Chinese philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period who is traditionally considered the paragon of Chinese sages. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with light wear to the extremities and minor fading. Original dust wrappers remain unclipped other than Trials in Burma which has been price-clipped. Wrappers are smart with light wear and the odd small closed tear to the panel edges. Light sunning to the spines with the odd small mark. Minor chipping to the extremities of The Motherly and Auspicious. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with minor age toning to the extremities. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 951T107

Catalogue: Plays

Keywords: Collis Burma Land Motherly Burma Holy Not Stated

COLLIS MAURICE

CORTEZ ET MONTEZUMA

Laffont 1956. In-8 broché sous jaquette de 302 pages illustrées. Bon état

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Book number: 33251

Keywords: MEXIQUE

COLLIS, MAURICE

The Descent of the God

London, Faber & Faber. 1948, First Edition. Hard Cover, 8.75 x 5.75 inches. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, slightly dusty page edges and very slightly softened corners. 147pp. Story set in Burma in the 16th century. Very Good/No Jacket.

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Book number: 020105

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Burma, Religion, Fiction History

Collis, Maurice

THE DESCENT OF THE GOD

Faber & Faber. Hardcover , Condition: Good.

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Book number: mon0000266485

COLLIS, MAURICE ( INTRODUCTION ) & ALVA

The Female Form, Paintings, Pastels, Drawings By 'alva'

London, W.H. Allen. 1971. (ISBN: 0491002491) Hardcover. Book, Qto.There are 24 colour plates, and 24 monochrome illustrations. The text, of which there is little, is in English, French and German. A Fine copy in a Very Good dust jacket. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 101295

Keywords: 0491002491 Alva Paintinfs

MAURICE COLLIS

The first Holy One

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1948, Relié, in-8. 280 pp. Reliure pleine percaline. Jaquette salie et très largement frottée, avec de petites déchirures. Quelques soulignements au crayon de bois. Un nom sur la page de titre. Condition: Etat moyen

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Book number: A144084

COLLIS, MAURICE

The First Holy One

London, Faber and Faber. 1948, First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard covers in tidy condition with a similar dust jacket, slightly browned at the edges, first edition. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 076707

COLLIS, MAURICE

Foreign Mud

London, Faber and Faber. 1946, First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hard covers in tidy condition with a chipped dust jacket, top edge a little browned, first edition. Good/Good.

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Book number: 076616

COLLIS Maurice

Foreign Mud. Being an Account of the Opium Imbroglio at Canton in the 1830's and the Anglo-Chinese War that followed. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY

Faber,, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition, with 24 plates, and 5 full-page maps in the text; original yellow cloth, gilt back, covers lightly dust-soiled else a very good, bright, clean copy.

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Book number: 36213

Catalogue: Travel & Exploration0

Keywords: travel, china, opium, collis, maurice collis, canton, anglo-chinese war