Goya: Order & Disorder
MFA Publications - The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2014. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. 11.24 x 9.5". As a large, heavy book, this order may require additional shipping charges.
MFA Publications - The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2014. Hardcover. New in publisher's shrink wrap. 11.24 x 9.5". As a large, heavy book, this order may require additional shipping charges.
Thames & Hudson, 2012. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Like new softcover with reproductions and description of a series of wall paintings from the Lukhang, the private meditation chamber of the Dalai Lamas. With 180 illustrations, 150 in color. 216pp. 12.5 x 9.5". As a larger book, this item might require.....
Kimbell Art Museum, 2019. Hardcover. Building on the Kimbell Art Museum's exhibition, with images of more than 60 of Monet's paintings after 1913, and a scholarly appraisal of Monet's late years. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. One dog-eared page. 214 pp. 11.5 x 10.5". As a large.....
San Francisco, California: Privately Printed for His Friends by Harry W. Porte, 1935. Soft cover. An idiosyncratic work of California history, beautifully printed by Harry W. Porte, with a gift inscription from the same (Sincerest regards, Hen. Porte). [4], 1-12 pp, with reproductions from manuscripts then held in private collections.....
West Nyack, N.Y. Parker Publishing Company, 1966. Hardcover. Hardcover, without a dust jacket, stated third printing. 'CYCLOMANCY (another name for White Magic) is simply the use of certain hidden powers that we all possess. Powers given to us long before books were invented. Forgotten powers. For example, like most people.....
Quakertown, Penna: The Philosophical Publishing Co., 1949. Hardcover. Reuben Seinburne Clymer promises 'A full explanation of the laws governing the inner development necessary to attain to Philosphic initiation or mastership together with a detailed account of the priests of AEth or priesthood of Melchizedek'. Minor bumping and scuffs to the.....
SRI International, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition (revised) history of the Stanford Research Institute, with a focus on a selection of influential projects. Minor wear to jacket, minor bumping of corners, interior is clean, bright, and unmarked.
DC Comics, 2011. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Near fine copy, with minor bumping to the corners. From the back panel: 'Finally available in trade paperback form, this is the tale that brought comics legend Neal Adams to the forefront of a revolution in the world of super-hero storytelling!'. [1]-172 pages.....
Tokyo: Ikeda Publishing Co., 1959. Hardcover. The first, limited edition of Dr. Soichi Ichida's study of the Dragon Stamps of Japan, with a sheet of 'Addenda and additional explanations' and an envelope with eleven loose plates. Previous owner's bookplate on the front pastedown (Benjamin Mark Landis), fading to the paper.....
Paris: Editions Du Chene, 1946. Soft cover. Portfolio of 16 plates mounted on individual numbered leaves. The paper wrappers are protected by the original glassine jacket, which shows some wear, with losses to the front panel and spine, and is secured at each corner with the label of 'Libraire Fischbacher.....
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. Salg, Bert. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The complete Tuffy Bean series, with all four jackets featuring Bert Salg's illustrations. Narrated by Tuffy Bean himself, the series follows the humorous adventures of the little dog and his friends. As in his 'Jerry Todd' series, Edwards included.....
Chapman & Hall, 1922. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Volume 1, no.1-4, of the literary magazine edited by Clifford Bax and Austin Osman Spare, bound the publisher's boards. While the boards show a century of wear, they have protected the interior wonderfully, including the original front wrappers of each number and the.....
Rochester, N.Y. Yawman and Erbe Mfg. Co., 1916. Hardcover. Scarce early guide to changing filing techniques and equipment. From the introduction: 'An up-to-date knowledge of filing systems is indispensable to the competent office assistant, bookkeeper or stenographer. If this knowledge has not been secured at some time during the student's.....
London: John Murray; John Hunt; James Cawthorn. Hardcover. Three volume 'set' of Byron's works assembled by the nineteenth-century English politician John Hodgetts Hodgetts Foley. Having acquired the third volume of John Murray's 1819 three volume 'Works of Lord Byron' he bound later works (and one earlier) to almost match. While.....
New York: Slote, Woodman & Co., 1878. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Second state of Twain's collection of sketches. The original brick-red paper wrappers are bound in a sturdy early hardcover binding, and so remain remarkably bright and clean. Collated with Johnson's 'Bibliography of Mark Twain'. Twain's name on the title.....
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1869. Hardcover. Josiah Gilbert's richly illustrated combination of travel book and art history, building upon his previous travels in the Dolomite Mountains. From his preface: 'The charm is due to a touch of Italian softness tempering Alpine severity and Dolomite grandeur. The interest centres in.....
Street and Smith, 1935. Soft cover. Clues Detective Stories, June 1935, with one novel, two novelletes, five short stories, a 'perfect crime' contest and delightful period advertisements. Chipping to the soft covers, with tears to the edges of the back panel (promoting Camels as the cigarette of choice for champion.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Hardcover copy of Douglas Frame's work on Early Greek Epic. Minor scuffs to blue cloth covers, interior clean and unmarked. 178 pages. 8.5 x 5.5"
1951: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1951. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition of The Presidential Cookbook. From the jacket: 'The Presidential Cookbook is not only an interesting, anecdotal account of the managing of what we, in its time, the most important household in the world, but also a sound cookbook.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. Hardcover. This Knopf reissue of the novel first published in 1962 reproduces Gray Foy's painting for the jacket, while substituting a new photograph of Bradbury on the set for the film adaptation on the back panel. The unclipped jacket, now in protective plastic, is.....
1931. Soft cover. Copy of the Strand Magazine from 1931, containing then newly discovered letters of Charles Dickens, illustrated with photographs and occasioning an unusual alteration to the cover, fiction by Sapper and others, drawings, puzzles, and many advertisements. 36 pages of ads, [431]-534, 37-52. 10 x 6.5". Covers are.....
London: Martin Secker, 1926. Hardcover. In the original dust jacket, now darkened with age and showing minor wear to the corners and top edge, but otherwise intact, a rare survival from this date. Green cloth binding is clean and bright, with minor bumps to the corners. Bookplates of two previous.....
Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardcover. Fine copy in a fine jacket (now in protective plastic cover) of Turner's work on the English stage. 326 pages. 9.75 x 6.5"
University of Chicago Press, 1993. Hardcover. The translation into English of the groundbreaking work on proto-cuneiform. From the jacket: 'Using the latest philological research and new methods of computer analysis, the authors have for the first time deciphered much of the numerical information. In reconstructing both the social context and.....
Brill, 2004. Hardcover. Ten interdisciplinary essays exploring 'Ways of Knowing'. Hardcover with minor scuffs, sticker with ISBN barcode, interior is clean and unmarked. 219 pages. 9,25 x 6.25"