Search Results: Authors starting with R from Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books

240 pages.
A sumptuous collection, based on an exhibition hosted by the Phillips Collection in Washington, examining the themes and traditions at play in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist still life.
Hardcover

Dogs in English Porcelain, by Dennis G. Rice. Woodbridge, UK: Antique Collector's Club, 2002. First Printing. A well-illustrated history of the Porcelain Dog as produced in England in the 1800's. The book looks at different breeds, the factories making the ceramics and the history and development of the designs. The book includes a full factory by factory list of all the known models. 186 pages. Hardcover.

New York: Bantam Books, 1990. First printing. Hardcover. As New/near fine. Very slight fading to jacket spine, otherwise immaculate copy of one of Tom Robbins' more brilliant novels, with animated sacred vessels from Solomon's Temple attempting to return to the Holy Land. Their journey takes them to New York, where a restaurant run by an Arab and a Jew features belly dancing that will heal all rifts; meanwhile, Southern Baptists and Zionists are trying to provoke Jesus' second coming with a well-placed bomb...

New York: Knopf, 1978. First paperback edition. Paperback. Near Fine. This large format paperback accompanied a major retrospective of Steinberg's drawings and collages at the Whitney Museum. 256pp. with hundreds of black and white illustrations and 64 color plates with some fold-outs, including variations of his famous New Yorker covers.