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Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Virtually pristine copy of the fine exhibition mounted in 1980 by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and with fine essays by P.R.S. Moorey, Emma C. Bunker, Edith Porada, and Glenn Markoe. Fine essays about ancient bronzes, ceramics and seals in Central Asia, Mongolia, and Siberia, the Ancient Near East, the Eastern Mediterranean, China, Korea and the U.S.S.R. Double-columned text and with hundreds of images, captions, and details. Complete with Index and Select Bibliography. Images printed on high-gloss paper. [5], 6-271 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Flammarion, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Oblong 4to 11" - 13" tall. De Wilde, Patrick. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Big, tall, oblong quarto format, and replete with stunning black-and-white and full-color photographs. From the publisher's blurb, "The vast terrain covering the Earth's southernmost continent-extending from the islands off the tip of Argentina to the underbelly of the Australian continent-is home to some of the planet's most awe-inspiring landscapes. In this book, two of the foremost experts on the region present the intriguing and often surprising realities behind Antarctica's panoramas. Photographer Patrick de Wilde first ventured into the arctic circle some 25 years ago; celebrated explorer Yves Paccalet's fierce passion for the Antarctic led him to the South Pole onboard the Calypso as part of marine biologist Jacques Cousteau's team. While there,… Read More

New York: Pacewildenstein, 2000. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers beyond crimp to bottom tip, less to text-block, virtually pristine interior, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. 20 pp. and with 10 glossy reproductions in full color, full page, listed inside rear flap.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Montreal, Canada: Canadian Pacific, 1931. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Imagine preparing to take a "world cruise" that will span 128 days and visit 81 different ports . . . and in a ship that hadn't yet hit the water . . . In the 1930s, several cruise-ships were traveling globally, but Canadian Pacific’s Empress of Britain outshined them all in promise and potential. The Empress of Britain set new standards of efficiency and luxury. The itinerary is comprehensive: "sight-seeing, pleasure and education considerations have all been taken into account." The ship was to stay in many ports for days on end, giving the passengers a chance to really see the sites and learn from locals. 42,500 tons in weight, 758 feet in length, with luxury options including mail and cables, wireless and telephone, photography, a gift shop, laundry, and entertainment. This brochure was produced prior to the ship sitting water. The brochure was… Read More

Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 4to 11" - 13" 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. Preface by Pamela M. Packard and Paul A. Clement, noting that this fascicule contains "all the Corinthian, Attic red- and black-figured, and South Italian vases in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art." 67 pp. of Fascicule one, bound in simple light tan wraps, including a list of plates and a full bibliography. 52 plates comprised of black-and-white photographs of all manner of vessels. All housed in a beautiful wing-folder, cover in light tan paper, and then within a tan paper-covered, printed portfolio, with reinforcing library tape to spine. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.Member,… Read More

Self-Published, by The Schauer Press of Santa Barbara, California, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. Seventy poems 48 of which have been published elsewhere. Signed affectionately by the author from Santa Barbara, February 11, 1961. Sterling condition hardcover copy, bound handsomely in two-tone, green cloth over boards, lime-green cloth-backed, with green stamped lettering to front coverand spine, 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.ix [1], 81 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois-Champaign, 1965. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. The April 20, 1966 issue of The Daily Illini features mention of a poetry circle-reading at a local coffee club and the stand-up poetry performance of Roger Ebert (!) reading the poetry of e.e. cummings. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Crimp to bottom tip, lightly furled and toned, else with a clean and bright interior. 11" x 8 1/2" tall and wide, respectively. Staple-bound. Edited by Vicki Packer, and with contributions by her and by Roger Ebert (a short story and a poem), and Martha Wagner, Dan Sessions, Robert Jung, John QUirk, William A. Meis, Joe Allen, David Sligar, Arthur Chandler, Daniel Cook, Gale F. WIley, Hunter Heath III, David Mangurtan, Bayard Coll, Craig Brown, Robert Engler, B. People. 40 pp. and with plentiful black-and-white illustrations and photographs.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the… Read More

Saxonville, Massachusetts: A Michael Neugebauer Book / Picture Book Studio, 1991. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Oblong 12mo 7" - 7. Published first as Der Kleine Blumenkonig, this being the first U.S. edition. Oblong format with glossy pictorial boards, protected in stiff Mylar, and with cameo cut-out that goes all the way to the likeness of the King about half-way through. Cameo cut-out also at rear panel, showing that what the King needed was his Queen, quite lovely. Winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Medal and rightly so.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Nancy Graves. A superior copy inside and out of a catalogue raisonne, 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. Handsomely produced in very dark blue cloth over boards, white lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. 203 illustrations, 188 in full color. Foreword by J. Carter Brown. List of patrons, an exhibition check-list, a chronology and then captioned and detailed, date plates, printed on high-gloss paper.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and… Read More

Barcelona, Spain: El Masnou, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Manel Padura. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder. Massively heavy, oversized item, two volumes housed in a slipcase. Special focus on Spanish architects and the housing projects they designed and built. This is Volume 3 of the series, comprising two volumes (number 5 and 6). Illustrated editorial hardcover bindings, pictorial slipcase. Bilingual texts in Spanish and English, and with full color photographs, technical specifications, elevations, sections, plans and sections of 18 types of houses built in recent years by as many architects and their teams. 317 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Paris: Musee D'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Renate Anger. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the bright, printed, illustrated wraps, just a touch of wear and sunning thereto. Translated from the original German by Nicole Casanova, augmenting the exposition that was held 17 janvier au 8 mars 1981 in France, this being the catalogue raisonne thereof. Introduction by Suzanne Page, an Introductory essay by Wolfgang Siano and Rene Block, and then essays by Michael Erhoff, Nicole Casanova, Antje von Graevenitz, Dieter Schnebel, Rene Block, a section devoted to film and video, and a list of exhibitors. Contributions to this exhibition included from Renate Anger, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Dieter Hacker, Wolf Knoebel, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Dieter Roth, Tomas Schmit, Barabra Schmidt Heins, Norbert Wolf, and many… Read More

Paris: Musee d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 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 glossy, illustrated wraps, stiff card stock, in gate-fold. Augments an exhibition held 18 novembre 1992-14 mars 1993, sponsored by the Musee d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, curated by Annie Perez and Suzanne Page. 463 pp., with plentiful illustrations in black-and-white and full color exhibiting the work of Erich Heckel - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner - Max Pechstein - Karl Schmidt-Rottluff - Emil Nolde - Alexej von Jamlensky - Kandinsky - Paul Klee - August Macke - Franz Marc - Gabriele Münter - Marianne von Werefkin, among others.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Las Vegas, Nevada: Nevada Publications, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. Large 8vo 9" - 10. 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. Bound handsomely in maroon buckram cloth and with uber-sharp and -distinct gilt lettering to cover and spine. "The 2,544 listings include privately printed bound materials covering every aspect of the Nevada experience: discovery and exploration, the journals of California-bound immigrants, the first mineral discoveries, patterns of settlements, the growth and decline of mining, agriculture, transportation, government, travel, etc." Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xxv-558 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and… Read More

London, England: Robson & Kerslaker, 1882. First Edition. Softcover. Good. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Frederick W. Pailthorpe. Quite uncommon to the trade, there being only a single additional suite of these 24 illustrations available on-line. Housed in illustrated bluish-green wraps, a bit worn and chipped, 24 black-and-white engravings to accompany Charles Dickens' beloved The Pickwick Papers, each page being a black-and-white engraving by Frederick W. Pailthorpe (1838-1914). Measures nearly 11 inches by seven and a half inches. Slight wear and chipping to a few plate edges, light sunning and toning to a few others, light soiling to wrappers, else housed in two plastic sleeves. The suite consists of Front wrapper panel illustration; title illustration; then 1) Reception of the Pickwickians at Eatanswill; 2) Can we put this horse up here, good woman?; 3) Comfortable quarters; 4) What do you think I see in this very arbour last night? Bless us! What?; 5) Governor in?; 6) Its the old'un; 7)… Read More

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. First Edition. Near Fine. 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition softcover copy, having been protected in a plastic sleeve in the personal library of a noted Altadena, California bookman, Mr. Robert Allen. Unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the red card stock wraps, with paper title label, beyond a bit of waffling, probably from the label's glue. Biographical sketch by Albert Bigelow Paine, and then tributes by famous authors, from Joseph Conrad to Booth Tarkington, and then a bibliography of Twain's work. 63 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Crown Publishing, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Signed by Author. Autobiographical book about the author's life in Portland, Oregon, author of Fight Club and other popular works. 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, not price-clipped. 175 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

San Francisco: David Sandberg, for the author, 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. A curious, uncommonly available blending of poetry and erotica in First Edition state, with 18 pp., staple-bound light blue card stock wraps, with black lettering to front cover, sunned lightly along spine. One of 750 copies printed for the author, an oddly collected set of poems drawn from found erotic black-and-white woodcut images and a tattered book of Spanish erotica he found in a basement, plus his own poems from 1965.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. Ninth Impression. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated Ninth Impression of this fabulous and inspiring biography of Alice Freeman Palmer (born Alice Elvira Freeman; February 21, 1855 – December 6, 1902), an American educator and eventually, President of Wellesley College from 1881 to 1887, when she left to marry the Harvard professor George Herbert Palmer, the author here. Her Wikipedia entry notes that, from 1892 to 1895, "she was dean of women at the newly founded University of Chicago." She advocated for women's and girls' education and sponsored the founding of the eventual American Association of University Women. A sumptuous rebinding of red marbled paper over boards, calf leather over tips and spine, five raised bands thereover, five fleurs-de-lis and gilt ruling to spine. Mild rubbing to joints, tips, spine head and foot. Marbled endpapers. Fine duotone portrait of subject at frontis, tissue-protected,… Read More

New York: Cue Art Foundation, 2005. First Edition. Softcover. As New. 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Augusta Talbot. Sterling condition softcover copy of an artist exhibit catalog, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Illustrated in full color. Augusta Talbot was born in New York and traveled and studied in Greece in the late 1960s before attending the Maryland Institute of Art and eventually Tyler School of Art. 16 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Printed by Tho. Hodgkin, for R. Bonwicke, W. Freeman, T. Goodwin, J. Walthoe, M. Wotton, S. Manship, J. Nicholson, R. Packer, B. Tooke, and R. Smith, 1710. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. At least four prior owners, including Goodwin Louch (1741), Mr. Smith (1829), and L. Walker (1876) who have inscribed themselves in pen nicely, and than bookplate inside front flap (Frances Emma Watkins). Rebacked most handsomely in a light brown calf leather, five raised bands to spine, blind-stamped title to brown leather label at spine, perhaps incorporating original paneled calf boards, which appear sympathetic to/contemporary with the period (Miller, Books Will Speak Plain). Printed for a number of booksellers quite attractively by Tho. Hodgkin, and in apparent First Edition state, London, 1710 (Allibone, Volume II, 1454). xxxi, 1-384, [xvi pp. of Content and Errata]. Text-block is predictably waffled but yet yet and unmarked, still bright. The author was born at Bedford,… Read More