Search Results: Titles starting with A from Royoung bookseller, Inc.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1930. First edition. Stif wraps. Orig. decorated covers. Very good. 29 pages. 14.5x 9 cm. One of 250 copies printed in Janson type on Chinese tinsel paper. Essays and poems by Alice Meynell. Clean, fresh copy, slight cover rubbing.

New York: Rizzoli, 1985. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brick cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 314 pages. 28 x 25 cm. 398 illustrations, ninety in color. Written by his son, this monograph presents Cassandre's manipulation of typography and image -- including work for the theater, the great typsetters of the time, as well as the posters.

Taliesin: Np, 1940. Wraps. Cream stationery with four folds. Near fine. Two leaves, 18 x 27. Musson was an architect at Taliesin from 1935-1937. Hand written letter in blue ink Mrs. Wright chastises Musson for going out on his own. She chides Musson: "This endeavor (Taliesen) is a great one. I would have liked to have seen you a part of it.

Nd: Np, Sunday. Wraps. Cream paper. Fine. 4 leaves, 23 x 15 cm. Letterhead: Newport House And Cottages, Bar Harbor, Maine -- Thomas P. Jones Proprietor. an undated ALS noted "Sunday." Manship discusses his stay in Maine was to arrange an exhibition of his works, and an offer to visit Mrs. Abbott with ideas for a set of scuptures for her garden. Paul Howard Manship was an American sculptor. He consistently created mythological pieces in a classical style, and was a major force in the Art Deco movement.

San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light blue boards, decorated canvas back lettered in gray on front cover. Very good. [4] 14 pages. 29 x 20.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 250 copies privately printed for Samuel L. Wormser in Goudy Modern type. GRABHORN 349. Front cover faded at head.

1930. Forty-two 7 x 9 inch black and white photographs with Russian photographic text and descriptive text in French mounted on versos. Includes images of the great Communist leaders past and present, and their written works with many quoting either Lenin or Engels. Most cite the earlier days of the proletarian efforts by Lopatine, Lavrov, Vera Zassoulitch, Arnold Ruge, the 1864 London meeting of the First International, the Paris Commune rising in 1871, Marx's expulsion from Germany in 1849, Cologne trial of Communists in 1852, Karl Marx's graduation certificate from college, the Paris insurrection of 1848, suspension of "la Gazette Rhenane," in Cologne (1849) a joint effort by Marx and Engels, et al. A few corners chipped or creased. Very good.

London & Paris: J.Thane & Chez Hannan et Potonant, 1785. Stiff Wraps. Very good. Kauffman, Angelica. Color stipple engraved on wove paper, plate 29 x 24 cm., total margin 51 x 38 cm. Sir Joshua Reynolds was one of her staunchest allies. As a woman and history painter, an unusual designation for a woman artist in the 18th century considering history painting was the elite and most lucrative category dominated by men. The genre required extensive learning in biblical and classical literature, a background in which most women were denied access. Engraved by John Ogborne. Margins dusty.

San Francisco: Cameron & Co, 1984. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Fine in very good dust wrapper.. Approx. 180 pages in text. Large landscape 4to, profusely illustrated with color photographs.

New York: Abrams, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Rattner, Abraham. 235 pages. 212 illustrations, with fifty tipped-in color plates. Bibliography. Monograph on one of America's leading Expressionist painters.

Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1959. leather_bound. Orig. brown morocco front cover decorated and lettered in gilt. Aeg. Fine. 38 pages. 7 x 5 cm. Frontispiece is a tipped-in one cent United States postage stamp of Lincoln. Printed on "Antiqua" paper by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland and bound by Proost and Brandt, Amsterdam, Holland. Marbled endpapers. As new copy.

London: Vernor, Hood, And Sharpe; Longman, Hurst, Rees, And Orme; J. Walker; And J. Harris, 1809. Hardcover. Three quarter black morocco, dark purple cloth. Near fine. 140 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Twenty-nine hand colored engravings by Thomas Rowlandson. Not in ABBEY LIFE or TOOLEY. Originally published, London, 1788 with Bunbury's illustrations. He was a contemporary of Gillray and Rowlandson, "a designer of humorous subjects and caricatures.....he obtained the praise of Sir Joshua Reynolds." [see: BRYAN, Vol.I, p.209]. Also listed in the MELLON COLLECTION. Bookplate of Woods Price, marbled endpaper, offsetting of plates to text, otherwise generally clean in very solid binding.

Rome: Pietro Piale & Mariano de Romanis, 1824. Third edition. leather_bound. Full modern antique niger. Near fine. 2 vols. (2) xvi, xxxii, 256' vi, 238 pages. 27.9 x 20.3 cm. Engraved vignette on title-pages, engraved portrait following title, 2 engraved head-pieces, large engraved folding map, 68 engraved plates after Piranesi, Morel, Rinaldi. Ferrerri, Duflos and others. Complete with 70 copper engraved plates of which 23 are by Piranesi. Included is a large fold-out map of Rome of Pirro Ligorio. An important work on the monuments of Rome. CICOGNARA 3905 (for 1st edition). Some marginal browning and spotting. Raised bands, spine decorations in blind, olive spine labels lettered in gilt.

London: The Seizin Press, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. pebbled white cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Near fine. 50 pages. 21 x 14.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 52 of 225. The Seizin Press was founded by Robert Graves and Laura Riding in 1927. Seizin One' was a work by Riding, this volume was Seizin two. Stein's signature slip pasted adjacent to the title page signed in Paris and returned to Seizin in London for insertion. Tiny Gotham Book Mart, NY bookseller label back cover paste-down. Cello adhesion remnants free front and back endpapers.

New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1983. First edition. Paperback. Orig. printed wrappers. Fine. 104 pp. Sixty-eight plates, many in full-color. Foreword by Thomas M. Messer. Index to Checklist. Works in the Exhibition. Artist biographies. One of 4000 copies.

NP: NP, 1914. Original Wraps. Orig. brown printed wrappers. Very good. 48 pages. 22 x 15 cm. The Bank of Japan Act. Promulgated by Imperial Ordinance No. 32 of June 27th in the Fifteenth Year of Meiji (1882). The Bank of Japan was founded in Meiji 15 (1882) after a Belgian model. This copy carries withdrawal stamp of Crerar Library on front cover.

London: J.W. Tomkins, 1791. Very good. Stipple engraved plate, image size 19.5 x 25 cm., mounted on board.

London: Beaumont Press, 1926. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth spine and decorated gray boards. Near fine. 43 pages. 24 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 104 of 210 on hand made paper. Signed presentation copy to H.D. Phillips. Color lithograph title page, and four full page black and white lithographs. Lloyd, English poet and satirist, dead at age 31, shortly after the death of his friend Charles Churchill. DNB notes that "Lloyd joined Charles Churchill in a reckless career of dissipation." Bookplate of Richard D. Friedlander and Marjorie & H.D. Phillips. Back cover head slightly toned.

Wien & Manz: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 1884. First edition. Hardcover. Modern light gray boards. Near fine. 48 pages. 24.5 x 16.5. Neurath, an Austrian political economist of the late nineteenth century: a professor of economics at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. Text clean but toned, lower corners bumped. Text in German.

New York: American Heritage, 1976. Hardcover. Orig. red cloth. Fine in near fine publisher's slipcase. 2 vols. 24 x 16.5 cm. Both volumes illustrated: photos, drawings, maps. Silouettes of Adams and Jefferson decorated in gilt front covers of both volumes with backstrips also gilt decorated.

Philadelphia: Art Alliance Press, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 78 pages in text. Introduction by George B. Tatum. With thirty-three photographs of Hutton's work, most of them by Cortlandt van Dyke Hubbard. Notes. Index. Chronological Commissions of Addison Hunter. A microcosm of most of the essential elements for a history of American architecture from 1850-1900. Orig. black cloth. KARPEL B1111. "...drawn upon her own memories...of his life and career.