Genre & Subject / History & Myth from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Heritage Press, 1959. xii, 52, xviii, 62 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Text in English; translated from the Greek. Illustrations by Marian Parry and John Austen. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Sandglass (Heritage Club monthly newsletter) laid-in. Slipcase with light soiling. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Beautiful woodcut illustrations. . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Ballantine Books, 1998. Pictorial boards, 415 pages, map; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Stated First Edition. Glassine dust jacket toned, with light shelfwear. A near-fine copy of the first printing. The great Michelangelo sculpture of Moses graces the front board, visible through the semi-transparent glassine DJ. "Lawgiver and liberator. Seer and… Read more about this item

New York: PublicAffairs, 1998. xiv, 205 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Front free endpaper slightly creased. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. Focusing on the Aztec civilization of Mexico, describes the their deity Quetzalcoatl, and the myth of the plumed serpent. Profusely illustrated.. 1st.… Read more about this item

New York: Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art & Politics, 1978. 136 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Heresies, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Issue 5). Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Issue devoted to Goddess imagery in art & culture, from a feminist perspective. Heresies' most popular and controversiall issue.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Heritage Press, 1942. Cloth, xvii, 369 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear, age toning. No slipcase. Illustrated by Stanley William Hayter.. Hardcover. Very Good. Illus. by Hayter, Stanley William. 8vo.

Copenhagen and Paris: Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek; Bibliotheque nationale de France, 2018. 119 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), facsimile, map, plan; 22 cm. English Edition. Catalogue of an exhibition held at Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, March 14 to September 2, 2018. Tight, clean copy. "In 1830, near the village of Berthouville in France, a farmer discovered 25 kg of Roman silver service dating… Read more about this item

Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1984. 84 pages, illustrations; 21 x 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

Harmondsworth: Penguin Books; Penguin Classics Series, 2003. lxiii, 85 pages; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. "The eighteen chapters of The Bhagavad Gita (c. 500 b.c.), the glory of Sanskrit literature, encompass the whole spiritual struggle of a human soul. Its three central themes-love, light, and life-arise from the symphonic vision of God in all things and of all things in… Read more about this item

Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1971. xv, 234 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Reprint of the 1901 edition, issued as volume 2 of Books on Egypt and Chaldaea. Tight, clean copy. "Sums up all that is known about magic Ancient Egypt: the role of magic in controlling the gods, powerful amulets that warded off evil spirits, scarabs of immortality, use of… Read more about this item

Romsey, Hampshire: Romsey Fine Art, 1993. 42 pages, 70 illustrations; 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Melbourne: J. M. Dent, 1988. Cloth, 144 pages, colour illustrations; 35 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio. Collectible.

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982. Cloth, xvi, 349 pages, illustrations, map; 22 cm. Civilization of the American Indian series. Good+. Light marginalia on a couple of leaves. Stated First edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: The sky; The polymorphous God: Demiurge, culture hero, and ancestor; Quetzalcoatl as priest; Quetzalcoatl as a God… Read more about this item

New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, Inc., 1980. Cloth, xv, 360 pages, [11] leaves of plates, illustrations; 27 cm. Topstained red. Ribbon book mark. Issued in a slipcase. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Printing. Dust jacket, nicked at the crowm of the spine, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Illustrated by Barry Moser, with original wood… Read more about this item

Florence and New York: Scala; Riverside, 1984. 80 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 28 cm. Library of Great Masters, volume 11. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Harmony Books; Crown Publishers, Inc., 1990. Cloth, 161 pages, illustrations (some colour), plans; 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Maze gardens.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

London: Matthiesen Ltd, 2014. Cloth, 81 pages, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Ding on the centre of the back board. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Decodes the allegorical meaning of Dosso Dossi's mythological painting of Jupiter & Semele.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Smithmark Publishers, 1996. Pictorial boards, 128 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. United States Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Art and the war. "From the work of photographers Mathew Brady and Alexander Gardner to… Read more about this item

Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. xvi, 122 pages, illustrations, map, plan; 22 cm. Translated from the French by David Lorton. Tight, clean copy. CONTENTS: Sphinx. Sphinxes; The hybrid nature of the sphinx; The word sphinx.; The Modern History of the Sphinx. From Antiquity to the Twentieth Century; Era of excavations; Great excavations of the twentieth century.; Description and History… Read more about this item

Florence and New York: Scala; Riverside, 1995. 80 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 28 cm. Library of Great Masters. 11. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Free Press; Simon & Schuster, 2001. Cloth, xxii, 263 pages, colour illustrations, colour maps, portrait; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The Civil War legacy of Robert Knox Sneden is… Read more about this item