Berty, Adolphe and H. Legrand

Topographie Historique Du Vieux Paris: Region Du Louvre Et Des Tuileries, Volume I, Volume II

Paris, Imprimerie Nationale / Imprimerie Imperiale, . . Hardcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Scarce in the trade. Complete in two volumes, I and II, published in Dieuxieme Edition in 1868 and Premier Edition in 1885, respectively, by Imprimerie Nationale and Imprimerie Imperiale, respectively. Bound handsomely in hardcover folio format, measuring 10 1/4" x 13 3/4" wide and tall, respectively. I: xxxi, 336 pp., and including 11 appendices, 22 full-page black-and-white engravings each with tissue guards as issued. Another 10 black-and-white woodcuts in the text. Volume II has xii, 323 pp. and features 23 appendices, 10 double-page black-and-white engravings, 27 full-page black-and-white engravings all with their original tissue guards. 11 black-and-white woodcuts in the text. Bound quite handsomely in the original publisher's green printed, illustrated paper over boards. Unopened volumes, with unexploded top edges to both volumes. Internally quite bright and clean and unmarked. The binding for Volume I is simple, that for Volume II shows a little wear, some chipping of paper at spine head and foot. Bruising to some tips especially front bottom of Volume I. Second volume is co-authored with H. Legrand, Architect Topographie. Two additional fine contributions to the Histoire Generale de Paris.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 348968

Catalogue: French history and culture

Keywords: French language|H. Legrand|Adolphe Berty|French history|French culture|Paris|topography|urban planning|archaeology

Adriani, Bruno

Pegot Waring: Stone Sculptures

New York, Nierendorf Editions, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in publisher's original black cloth, with white lettering to cover and spine. SIGNED and inscribed warmly the author/illustrator at verso of first free endpaper. With 19 black-and-white plates that exemplify the artist's renderings of the theories of stone carving and sculpture as an art medium by the artist, Pegot Waring. Her Wikipedia entry notes: "Pegot Wolf Waring (1908–1983) was an American sculptor, known especially for her work with direct carving. Born in Dallas, Waring attended Washington University in St. Louis before marrying an attorney from Chicago; later she traveled to Cranbrook Educational Community to work with Carl Milles. In 1936 she moved to California with her daughter, and in 1939 she showed work at the World's Fair. It was around this time that she became acquainted with Bruno Adriani, who introduced her to the world of pre-Columbian art. In 1945 his book Pegot Waring: Stone Sculptures was published by the Nierendorf Gallery. In 1950 Waring became the first woman to be granted a one-person show at the Pasadena Art Institute; nevertheless, as a carver of animals and other figures she found herself increasingly at odds with Abstract Expressionism later in her career. Waring is represented in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as well as in numerous private collections. 41 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . Signed by Illustrator. . Good

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Book number: 355931

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: signed Bruno Adriani stone sculptures Pegot waring sculptors sculpture

Adriani, Götz

Toulouse-Lautrec

New York, Thames and Hudson, 1987. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Particularly nice-looking copy in tall, heavy quarto hardcover format, and laid in is a typed, signed letter from the Publicity Associate, Ed Gunn. 336 pp., with well over 217 illustrations including nearly 100 in full, glorious color Published originally on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Kunsthalle Tübingen 8 November 1986-15 March 1987. Illustrated endpapers (featuring a stark, evocative black-and-white photograph of Toulouse-Lautrec. Bound handsomely in dark burgundy heavy cloth, with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . As New/Fine,

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Book number: 349069

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Gotz Adriani|Ed Gunn|Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec|French painters|artist monograph

Terentius Publius Afer

Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae

Birmingham, England, Typis Johannis Baskerville, 1772. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Technically, this would qualify as the First Edition Thus, having been preceded slightly (in the same year) by the duodecimo version. The so-called Baskerville Edition collects together plays such as Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphi, Phormio and Hecyra all and each of which have their own separate titles and menu of actors. Johannis (John) Baskerville (1706-1775) began in about 1750 to become a typographer and typefounder. 307 pp. Overall, quite a nice copy, still solid text-block, though front board is detached, having been rebound but perhaps incorporating some of the original boards. Four raised bands to spine, gilt-tooled fleurs-de-lis, gilt ruled borders to both covers, and gorgeous new endpapers. The spine has been rebacked in a red Morocco-style leather. A heavily waffled text-block, but with signs of neither odor nor moisture. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered, at first free endpaper. Internally, early, period, previous owners name on first blank, faint remains of a paper bookseller's label inside front board at bottom near fore-edge, "Sollers Bookseller Blanford." Pages in good clean condition no matter the waffling, and beautiful decorated, marbled endpapers front and rear.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 345748

Catalogue: Drama & Theater

Keywords: Johannis Baskerville|plays drama|play-writing|theater

Agee, James

A Death in the Family

New York, Grossett and Dunlap, 1967. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy of the reprint edition of the 1958 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Simple black cloth boards, sharp and distinct lettering to spine. Fully intact dust jacket, but showing moderate wear to spine head and foot, split to one inch of bottom front flap, else not price-clipped. Classic story of the Follett Family in a small town. 339 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good/Good,

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Book number: 350175

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: James Agee|Pulitzer Prize|The Follett Family

Drake, Christopher; Thos. Agnew and Sons, Ltd.

Ambroise Vollard, Editeur: Les Peintres-Graveurs 1895-1913

London / Tokyo, Thos. Agnew and Sons, in association with ARCADIA, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Fine condition catalogue following the exhibit sponsored by Agnew's London 18th June - 26th July 1991, an exhibit of the French artist Ambroise Vollards paintings and engravings and etchings. Simple, stiff card stock wrappers, printed title to cover and spine. Faint shadow from prior sticker to front cover. Fine portrait of Vollard by Bonnard at frontis. Acknowledgements, Foreword, Introduction, Catalogue, Illustrations, Selected Bibliography, Appendix A, Appendix B, Index. Several score fine duotone and full color illustrations. [4], 5-148 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 346850

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: Ambroise Vollard|French artists|engravers|painters|etchers|French art history

Department of Agriculture and Commerce

Japan in the Beginning of the Twentieth Cnetury

London, John Murray, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Comprises the Imperial Japanese Commission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Rebound in a brownish brick-red buckram cloth laid over original brick-red buckram cloth meant for library use, probably, bruising to but not breaking of tips, scuffing to edges, tips, joints, extremities, "Withdrawn from University Library" ink-stamp inside front flap, title page, most other pages, but clean and unmarked of interior. Preface by Haruki Yamawaki, Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, and Japanese Commissioner for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Uber-comprehensive compendium of Japan's history and development as regards geography and agriculture, industry and transportation, trade relations and economic systems, presented during the 1805-1905 Centenary of the Louisiana Purchase. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. viii [1], 828 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Book number: 346622

Catalogue: Japanese History and Culture

Keywords: Imperial Japanese Commission|The Louisiana Purchase

Garcia-Aguelera, Carolina

Bloody Shame: A Lupe Solano Mystery

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at half-title. 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. 275 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: 350710

Catalogue: Mysteries

Keywords: signed|Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

Garcia-Aguelera, Carolina

A Miracle in Paradise: A Lupe Solano Mystery

New York, Avon Books, 1000. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at half-title. 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. 277 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: 350709

Catalogue: Mysteries

Keywords: Carolina Garcia-Aguilera|signed

Ahearn, Allen

The Book of First Books

Bethesda, Maryland, Quill & Brush, 1983. Third Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Third Printing of this important check-list, a price guide and plentiful advice for book collectors by an acknowledge master. 191 pp. Plentiful black-and-white illustrations of books, signatures, editions, artwork and authors.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine

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Book number: 351344

Catalogue: Books and Bookbinding

Keywords: bibliography checklist price guide first editions Allen Ahearn

Aiken, Conrad

Thee

New York, George Braziller, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The publisher's blurb has it that "Thee is a metaphysical work--a spare, cryptic, inspired, religious statement of the mystery of existence, of man's relation to God, or to the unknowable." A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Green paper, printed, over boards, with black lettering to cover and spine. Dust jacket present, Brodart-protected, but moderately worn and toned, and a bit soiled along bottom edges. Published in First Edition state by George Braziller, New York, 1967, and with the incomparable Leonard Baskin as illustrator including of the dust jacket itself. Conrad Aiken was a mensch and poet and in 1954 won the National Book Award for his Collected Poems published also in 1954.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good/Good,

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Book number: 346115

Catalogue: Poetry

Keywords: Conrad Aiken|Leonard Baskin|poetry|lithographs|woodcuts

Ainsworth, Ed

Pot Luck: Episodes in the Life of W. Parker Lyon

New York, George Palmer Putnam, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. He grew hair on History's chest." Irving S. Cobb provides the Foreword for this rousing and quite readable homage to the founder of the Pony Express Museum. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound hardcover, clean, if toned, minimal rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's inscription, neatly rendered. Bound in rust-colored cloth, black lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, moderately worn, a bit chipped, protected by a plastic coat, not price-clipped. Seven fine black-and-white photographs augment the text.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good/Good,

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Book number: 351985

Catalogue: Americana/Regional Interest

Keywords: W. Parker Lyon Ed Ainsworth Irvin S. Cobb Pony Express Pony Express Museum Western Americana

Mana, Abdelkader, in collaboration with Georges Lapassade, Frederic Damgaard, Abdellah Akharraz and Abdelkabir Namir

The Gnawa and Mohamed Tabal

Casablanca, Morocco, LAK International, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Extremely scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available currently on-line. Superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear to the bright red cloth covers, blind-stamped title to cover and spine, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Stated First Edition, First Printing. A fine and engaging social history and art historical account of the social rituals of the Essaouiran Gnawa (also known as "Gnaoua"), an Afro-Moroccan group whose music and culture are the heartbeat of Essaouira (in Western Morocco). Gnawa, broadly Moroccan and other North African Islamic religious songs and rhythms are featured here and displayed prominently in a Gnawa-devoted music festival held annually in Essaouira, Morocco. Non-African and Western artists and "mystical" Gnaouan musicians meet in glorious dialogue here. Mohamed Tabal (1959- ) is a prominent Moroccan painter, and his work augments the music greatly, and are printed on high-gloss paper. Preface by Georges Lapassade, and contributions by heavy-hitters in musicology and Moroccan history. [13], 14-177 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: 353641

Catalogue: Music

Keywords: Abdelkader Mana The Gnawa Mohamed Tabal Morocco Moroccan music ethnomusicology Islam Islamic music Gnaoua

Ouaknin, Marc-Alain and Francoise-Anne Menager

Bar Mitzvah: A Guide to Spiritual Growth

New York, Assouline Publishing Company, 2005. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Drawings by Gerard Garouste and photographs by Laziz Hamani augmenting this superior copy, gift-quality condition, inside and out, no discernible wear, bright and shiny dust jacket, protected. Sections on The Jewish Identity, The Kippah, Tefillin, Receiving the Torah, The Ascent to the Torah, the Speech, The Bar Mitzvah Party and others. Stated First English Edition, translated from the original French by Nicholas Elliott and Molly Stevens. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [6], 7-367 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: 352421

Catalogue: Religion::Judaism

Keywords: Bar Mitzvah Jewish history Jewish culture Marc-Alain Ouaknin Francoise-Anne Menager Judaism

de Leiris, Alain and Carol Hynning Smith

From Delacroix to Cezanne: French Watercolor Landscapes of the Nineteenth Century

College Park, Maryland / Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Maryland Art Gallery and the Art Department, College Park / University of Michigan, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" 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. Oblong hardcover format, bluish-gray cloth over boards, gilt lettering to cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Foreword by George Levitine, "Growing Pains," and then Carol Hynning Smith provides the Catalogue of the Exhibition. Complete with full bibliography. [3], 4-205 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: 349868

Catalogue: Art and Artists

Keywords: French art history|French painters|Eugene Delacroix|Paul Cezanne|French watercolor landscapes