Beker, Israel

Israel Beker-Stage of Life

Tel Aviv, Israel, Privately published for the author by Keter Enterprise, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. SIGNED by the author and featured artist, the Israeli painter, Israel Beker, in February of 1983. Text in both English and Hebrew. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound handsomely in cloth, a moderately worn dust jacket that is taped over flaps, but not price-clipped. Published by Keter Enterprise, Jerusalem, 1979, being a First Edition, and bound in a tall quarto format. Illustrated profusely. Gilt lettering on spine and front cover. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Author. . Collectible: Very Good

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Book number: 345815

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Israel Beker|signed|Hebrew language|painters|Israeli painters

Sam Hanna Bell

Erin's Orange Lily: Ulster Customs and Folklore

London, Dennis Dobson, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine introduction to the history, culture, folklore and customs of the nine counties that make up historic Ulster. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in black cloth, a bit bumped to spine head and foot, else with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Toning to endpapers, light foxing here and there to page-edges else clean and unmarked. Dust jacket present, moderately worn and with some creasing to and chipping of tips, spine head, rubbing to joints. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [6], 7-144 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good/Good,

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Book number: 350118

Catalogue: Ireland

Keywords: Sam Hanna Bell|Ulster customs|Ulster folklore|Irish culture|Irish history

Bell, Clive

Landmarks in Nineteenth-Century Painting

New York, Harcourt Brace & Co., 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs but for a fine bookplate and being tone; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bumping to spine head and foot, a bit of scuffing to tips, spine head and foot. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. List of 20 plates featuring the works of Ingres, David, Constable, Geicault, Delacroix, Chasseriau, Millet, Corot, Guys, Burne-Jones, Daumier, Courbet, Turner, Manet, Renoir, Degas, Monet and Seurat. xv [1], 2-214 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Book number: 346884

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Clive Bell|art history|painting|painters|19th-century painting|19th-century art history|Ingres|David|Constable|Geicault|Delacroix|Chasseriau|Millet|Corot|Guys|Burne-Jones|Daumier|Courbet|Turner|Manet|Renoir|Degas|Monet|Seurat

Bell, C. F., with notes by

A List of the Works Contributed to Public Exhibitions by J.M. W. Turner, R.A.

London, George Bell and Sons , 1901. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover in Imperial octavo format, clean, if lightly toned interior, minimal rubbing to extremities. The back-strip has been recently glue-repaired, but the remainder of the volume is clean, the covers and brown buckram cloth binding are sturdy Broken into sections covering paintings in water colors, oil paintings, landscapes, etc. Some fore-edges remain unopened. Top edges gilt, bottom edges rough-cut Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Protected in a stiff Mylar jacket. xi [3], 1-184 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Good

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Book number: 345487

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: J.M.W. Turner|artists|British artists|landscape artists|exhibit catalogues

Bell, Michael

Scouts in Bondage: And Other Violations of Literary Propriety

New York, Simon and Schuster, 2006. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Deliciously scurrilous compilation of literary titles that clank or mesh perfectly against the contents, depending. "Scouts in Bondage." "The Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk." "The Humour of Germany." Superior copy of a First Simon and Schuster edition, near gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated in black and red. 95 [1] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 355375

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Michael Bell Boy Scouts

Bellefroid, Madame de

Liliane Gerard: Papiers Kromekote Peints a la Main Pour Des Reliures Creees Et Executees Par L'Artiste

Bruxelles, Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. French language artist catalog devoted to the paintings exhibited by the gallery of Liliane Gerard, with a fine long essay by Madame de Bellefroid. Fine glossy pictorial card stock wraps, in gatefold and near pristine interior, printed on high-gloss paper, the paintings of artists such as Nathalie Sarraute, Jean Anouilh, Simone de Veauvoir, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Blaise Cendrars and others.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New

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Book number: 349799

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Madame de Bellefroid|Liliane Gerard

Beller, Steven

Vienna and the Jews, 1867-1938: A Cultural History

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge University Press, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out of a probing social history of fin-de-siecle Vienna, Austria, being a 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, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. x + 1-271 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/As New,

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Book number: 349207

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Steven Beller|Vienna|Austria|Jewish history|Jewish culture|anti-Semitism

Bellosi, Luciano

I VIVI Parean VIVI: Scritti Di Storia Dell'Arte Italiana Del Duecento E Del Trecento

Firenze, Italy, Centro di, 2006. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volume surveying art history of 2nd and 3rd century Italy. A fine and fitting homage to the art exhibition held between two Italian universities to contribute to the series Prospettiva Rivista di Storia dell'arte Antica e moderna. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright, glossy cloth over boards, clean, unmarked interior. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated with a famous Giotto e Bottega painting hanging still in the Basilica SUperiore. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Over 600 illustrations, many being full-page and full-color. 485 pp. including photography credits.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 357577

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Italian language Italian art history Luciano Bellosi artist monograph

Bellot, Hugh H.L.

Texts Illustrating the Constitution of the Supreme Court of the United States and the Permanent Court of International Justice

London, Sweet and Maxwell, 1921. . Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Grotius Society Publications seres, being No. 8. Unique to the trade, there being no additional copies of this item available on-line. Comprises the Rhodes Lectures delivered at University College, London, on 2nd and 9th May, 1921. Bound in simple brown printed wraps, some abrasion to spine, ink-stamp to front cover, else clean and unmarked of interior. Hugh Hale Leigh Bellot (26 January 1890 – 18 February 1969) was an English historian, being "a Professor of American History and Vice-Chancellor of the University of London from 1951 to 1953" (Wikipedia). 64 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 357075

Catalogue: Law

Keywords: Hugh H.L. Bellot the Supreme Court Permanent Court of International Justice law legal

Bellow, Saul; Rosenberg, Harold

Abstract Expressionism: A Tribute to Harold Rosenberg

Chicago, The University of Chicago, 1979. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Fine-looking catalog from an exhibition of Paintings and Drawings from Chicago Collections, The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, The University of Chicago, October 11 - November 25, 1979. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Foreword by Edward A. Maser, introductory essay by Saul Bellow, then Harold Rosenberg's own writings, complete with chronology and checklist. 48 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fine

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Book number: 350040

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Saul Bellow|Harold Rosenberg|Abstract Expressionism

Bellow, Saul

The Dean's December

New York, Harper & Row, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated First Edition, First Printing, with "1" in "number" line present. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities, if very lightly sunned along edges. Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 - April 5, 2005) was a Canadian-born American writer and who earned the Pulitzer Prize, the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the National Medal of Arts (and the National Book Award three times!). This novel takes place between Chicago, Illinois and Bucharest, Rumania, as the protagonist becomes a Professor of Journalism and faces administrative, intellectual and especially legal troubles on and off campus. 312 pp., and with a fine black-and-white photograph of the beloved novelist on back.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Near Fine,

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Book number: 356185

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Saul Bellow modern first edition

Nathan C. Belth

A Promise to Keep: A Narrative of the American Encounter with Anti-Semitism

New York, Times Books, 1979. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and disturbing social history of bigotry in Skokie, Illinois against German-American Jews. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn beyond chipping to spine head. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xiv [1], 3-305 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Very Good,

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Book number: 352407

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Nathan C. Belth antisemitism The Holocaust American history bigotry

Niles - Bement - Pond

Niles Electric Traveling Cranes

New York, Niles, Bement, Pond Company, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Oblong 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, bound in dark blue, oblong format softpaper wraps with red lettering to front cover, rubbed, and chipping to spine. The Shepard Electric Crane and Hoist Co. joined with the Sprague Electric Hoist Division to make electric cranes for construction in the 1910s and '20s from their headquarters in Montour Falls, New York. Niles, Bement, and Pond were a key manufacturer of industrial equipment and mechanical machinery (including supplies and components). This kind of trade literature is available only at the American History Museum Library. Electric cranes and hoisting machinery catalogues offer a unique lens through which to view U.S. manufacturing history. 90 pp., with previous owner's bookplate inside rear flap, penned inscription at first free endpaper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 357333

Catalogue: Science::Engineering/Technical

Keywords: trains railroads traveling cranes Niles Bement Pond engines motors engineering

Benedict, Burton

The Anthropology of World's Fairs: San Francisco's Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915

Berkeley / London, The Lowie Museum of Anthropology, in Association with Scolar Press, London and Berkeley, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy bound in tall quarto format, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the gate-fold wraps. Preface by the editor, Guest Curator, Burton Benedict, Glossy pictorial covers, with contributions by Marjorie M. Dobkin, Gray Brechin, Elizabeth N. Armstrong and George Starr. xv [1], 1-175 pp. Lovely illustrations, many full-page, full-color, and with scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Used: Very Good

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Book number: 346901

Catalogue: Americana/Regional Interest

Keywords: Burton Benedict|expositions|world fairs|world's fair|Panama Pacific International Exposition of 1915|1915 World's Fair|Marjorie M. Dobkin, Gray Brechin, Elizabeth N. Armstrong|George Starr

Nicolson, Benedict & Wright, Christopher

Georges de la Tour

London, Phaidon Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A 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. Very handsomely bound in blue denim cloth, with just a touch of wear to/discoloration of spine bottom tip, else gorgeous of interior. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. 112 plates, including 34 in colour and 130 comparative illustrations. vi + 234 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: 347437

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Georges de la Tour|French artists|French art history|Benedict Nicolson|Christopher Wright