Search Results: Authors starting with K from Brillig Books

New York: Harmony Books, 1974. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Tall quarto, maroon cloth covered boards with gilt titles. Unpaginated. Foreword by Roger Peyrefitte. Full color, full page photographs of male nudes accompanied by selections from the sonnets of Michelangelo. Last two are double page photographs of Rudolf Nureyev (not in nude). Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket, else fine..

Alexandria, Virginia, U.S.A.: Art Services International, 2001. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Quarto, brightly illustrated stiff wraps (trade paperback). 263 pp. plus exhibition list, biographical chronology. Very generously illustrated throughout with brilliant color reproductions of 87 of the works of self-taught painter Grandma Moses (plus many small detail illustrations). A tight, clean, crisp, square, unmarked volume with a flat uncreased spine. FINE..

New York: Atheneum, 1989. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Small quarto, blue cloth covered boards. 432 pp. Illustrated with black and white drawings and full color photographs. Crisp, tight, clean, bright, unmarked and unread. Fine in fine dust jacket..

Delhi: Panchal Press, 1959. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Tall octavo, mustard yellow glossy textured paper covered boards. 138pp. The teachings of Bhagwan Dev Atma as recorded in "anecdotal" form by one of his "leading disciples". Fine..

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Book. As New. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth spine over steel blue paper covered boards. 353pp. including extensive index and references. An exhaustive study of the specific issues affecting women and addiction in the United States. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, tight, sparkling dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

Seoul: Art Space, 1996. Book. As New. Soft cover. First Edition. First printing. Quarto, vividly illustrated stiff wraps (trade paperback). Unpaginated. Catalogue of Whitney Museum exhibition. In Korean and English with essay on Kang in English at back. Includes list of performances and exhibitions. Generously illustrated throughout with color and black and white photographs and reproductions. A beautiful collector's copy, very tight, crisp, stiff, sharp, clean, unmarked, unblemished and unread, with a flat uncreased spine. UNCOMMON..

New York: Henry Regnery, 1956. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, red cloth covered boards. 364 pp. including notes. A history of the most notorious military contingent of modern colonial times. A very tight, clean volume with very fresh cloth and bright white pages, unmarked and apparently unread in a crisp, very tight, sharp dust jacket with some minor superficial dust/soil on white rear panel which also had two mintue nicks at edge. Very fine in near fine dust jacket..

New York: Harry N Abrams, 1989. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, turquoise cloth covered boards with blindstamp title on front and violet spine title. 240 pp. including index, bibliography, list of pieces in museum collections and list of marks. Very generously illustrated throughout with 200 photographs with over 140 plates in stunning full color. A definitive study. A very tight, clean, bright, fresh, unmarked, unblemished and unread volume in a heavy crisp, double fold, glossy, bright dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..

New York: Bonanza, 1966. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. First Printing. Oblong quarto, white cloth covered boards. 255 pp. Very generously illustrated throughout with full page black and white photographs of design details of historic American homes in wood. A tight, clean bright, unmarked volume with a hint of yellowing at some top page edges, else fine in a tight, clean, bright, unclipped dust jacket with again a hint of yellowing at top edge or rear panel and one very short very closed edgetear. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket..

New York: Shepherd and Derom Galleries, 2006. Book. New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. BRAND NEW BOOK. Large thin octavo (6.5" X 9"). Illustrated pale beige stiff wraps (trade paperback). 79 pp. Generously illustrated throughout with 48 color plates and some black and white etchings. Includes poems by Yves Bonnefoy, Alfred Brendel and Charles Simic's "Wonders of the Visible World". Each of the works in the exhibition is inspired by the poetry of one of the named poets. Laid in is an invitation card to the exhibition, with a color reproduction on one side and details of the exhibit and the books available for sale at the exhibition on Tuesday, February 28th, 2006. The catalog is bright, fresh, clean, squiare, unmarked, unblemished and unread with a flat uncreased spine. The invitation card is also in perfect condition. MINT. BRAND NEW AND FLAWLESS. Scarce.

New York: Stein and Day, 1969. Book. Fine. Cloth. F. First Edition. Octavo, black cloth covered boards with gilt spine titles. Top edge stained red. 255pp. with index and extensive references. Illustrated with 15 black and white illustrations and portraits. Appendix I includes transcript of trial proceedings and Appendix II a list of biographies. Fine in fine dust jacket. A very clean, tight, fresh and unread copy..

Kyoto: Kyoto Shoin, 1983. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Square quarto, (11.75 x 12"), white cloth covered boards with gilt titles and spine titles, in white dust jacket with full color photographs of garden landscapes. 107 pp. including afterword by the author. TEXT IN JAPANESE AND ENGLISH. A gorgeous photographic study by renowned photographer Mizuno Katsuhiko, presenting full color, full page (and some double page edge-to-edge) photographs of the most famous historical traditional gardens of these three areas of Kyoto. (The book is one in a series of three). With photographs of gardens and buildings in shrines, temples and imperial villas in all four seasons. At the rear of the book are comprehensive descriptions of the gardens photographed (in Englsih). A carefully crafted study of the landscape gardens that have made Japanese gardens (and especially those in Kyoto) famous around the world. This volume is in excellent condition; clean, bright, fresh, unmarked and unblemished in… Read More

New York: E P Dutton, 1985. Book. Fine. Original Wraps. Small quarto, stiff wraps (paperback) illustrated with brilliantly colored rug reproduction of rug.150pp. including index, selected bibliography, glossary and notes. Very generously illustrated throughout with many vivid, striking, richly colored photographs of rugs as well as color and black and white photographs of the landscape, the weavers etc. A remarkably comprehensive concise treatment of this essential Native American craft tradition. Tiny bump to top forecorner, else fine. Very near fine..

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997. Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Edition. Octavo, illustrated green and black stiff wraps (papeback). 291pp. including index, notes and extensive bibliography. A very tight, clean, bright, square, crisp, stiff, unmarked and unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. A couple of spots of lamination separation at very top edge, else fine. Near fine..

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Large thick octavo, plum colored cloth spine over charcoal grey paper covered boards. 606pp. indcluding biographical note on author, including extensive index and glossary of Japanese terms and Japanese and Chinese names. Donald Keene, one of the twentieth centuries most distinguished Western scholars of Japanese literature produces here his most ambitious work on the period leading up to the Meiji restoration of Western influence on Japanese literature. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and unread volume in a very crisp, sharp, tight, dust jacket. with just a few small flecks of soil and one or two tiny edge nicks. Fine in near fine dust jacket. A handsome copy..

New York: Columbia University Press, 1973. Book. As New. Cloth. 1st Edition. Octavo, blue cloth covered boards with white spine titles. 302 pp. including indes and Check List from 1641 to 1907. A selection of representative forms of this satirical (and at one time quite popular) form which began with the Roman author Lucian and lasted until the 20th century. A scholarly history and reference work with invaluable source information and check list. This copy is fine, unmarked, and apparently unread with bright white fresh interior. The dark blue dust jacket is unfaded although the white rear panel shows a patch of sunning and some specks of soil. Overall an excellent and very presentable copy. AS NEW in Very Good Plus dust jacket..

Cambridge, MA.: Bradford Books (1989)., 1989. Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, tan cloth covered boards. 325pp. including index, references and appendices. A very tight, clean, bright, fresh and unmarked volume in a crisp, bright dust jacket with one short closed edge tear, else fine. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Uncommon in the hardback edition..

Pittsburgh: Edgeworth Club, 1993. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, forest green cloth covered boards with gilt title and spine titles. 225 pp. including appendix listing officers and stewards of the club by year throughout its history. Illustrated throughout with black and white historical photographs, illustrations, reproductions, maps, plans etc. Full page color frontispiece portrait of "Mr. Edgeworth". Errata slip laid in. A very tight, clean, unblemished volume with very fresh cloth, sparkling gilt and bright white interior. Unmarked and apparently unread. Without dust jacket as issued. Fine. Pristine. AS NEW..

NY: Watson-Guptill/Whitney Museum, (1987). Book. As New. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Quarto, brown paper covered cloth boards. 175pp. with index and list of sources for materials. Generously illustrated throughout with beautiful color photographs of interiors and details. Fine in fine dust jacket. A fine, crisp and fresh copy. AS NEW..

Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press, 1994. Book. As New. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Octavo, black paper covered boards. 302pp. including extensive index. A comprehensive and historical survey of the uses, effects and studies on monoamine oxidase inhibitor therapies for (inter alia) bipolar depression, agoraphobia, social phobia and bulimia. A pristine unread copy just out of the shrink wrap. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..