Search Results: Titles starting with B from Gotcha By The Books

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1945. Signed 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w photo illustrations Tells the backstage story of the overseas production of The Barretts of Wimpole Street, for the entertainment of US WWII troops; signed with gift-inscription by Margalo Gillmore, author and member of the overseas Barretts Company; 16 pages b&w photo illustrations to rear of text; mild toning to endpapers and text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, tanned to spine (titling faded), o.w. Good.

London: Secker & Warburg, 1957. 1st UK Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. Sm 8vo. b&w illustrations 1st UK Edition of the script for the film Baby Doll by Tennessee Williams; 4 pages b&w film stills showing Carl Malden, Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach from the Warner Brothers movie; small bookshop label to front pastedown; medium offset to endpapers, lighter to prelims, occasional mild foxing, o.w. Very Good; dustwrapper rubbed and lightly edgeworn, price clipped, and with short closed tear top rh corner.

Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2018. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Published in conjunction with the exhibition addressing correspondences in the work of Bacon and Giacometti, Fondation Beyeler April 29 - September 2 2018; texts by Catherine Grenier, Ulf Kuster, Michael Peppiatt, Hugo Daniel, and Sylvie Felber; full-page colour plates throughout (including some gate-fold), b&w photo illustrations; Very Good clean copy; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING DEPENDING ON DESTINATION..

Milano: Skira, 2008. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Published to accompany the major Bacon exhibition, Palazzo Reale Milan 5 March - 29 June 2008; edited by Rudy Chiappini, with texts by Chiappini, Fabrice Hergott, Christoph Heinrich, Jean Louis Schefer; copiously illustrated with full-page colour plates, including some gate-fold; includes a section of Bacon's works on paper, Chronology, list of exhibitions, and select bibliography; black cloth boards with blue titling to front and spine; Very Good clean copy in like dustwrapper; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING DEPENDING ON DESTINATION..

Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collection of essays referencing genre theory in Biblical Literature and the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, ranging from general discussions of genre through the reading of specific biblical texts; number 63 in the Society of Biblical Literature Semeia Studies; covers a little curled at edges, o.w. Very Good.

London: Geoffrey Bles, 1947. 1st Edition. hardbound. G-VG in chipped & rubbed dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. sm 4to. b&w illustrations Madame Legat presents the essentials by which the Russian Ballet was developed: Origins of the Russian Ballet, Prerequisites, Anatomical, Technical, Exercises without the Bar, Adagio, Allegro or Pas Sautes; b&w frontispiece plate of the author, b&w text drawings throughout; includes a poem by John Masefield, preface by Sir Paul Dukes; endpapers, prelims and text block foxed, scattered foxing in text, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, price clipped, minor loss to head and tail of spine

Ballymoney: Impact Printing for the Ballymoney RFC, 2003. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Illustrated history of the Ballymoney (Antrim, Northern Ireland) Rugby Football Club, covering 50 years from 1952-2002; includes numerous articles on the history and culture of the club, and b&w photo illustrations throughout of teams, club personalities, social functions, etc; VG tight clean copy.

Paris: Galerie Claude Bernard, 1976. paperback. Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. colour and b&w illustrations Catalogue for the exhibition of drawings and watercolours by Balthus, galerie Claude Bernard Paris; numerous b&w drawings throughout, and including 5 full-page hand-tipped colour plates; introduction by Jean Leymarie (in French no English translation); knock to head of spine, with minor creases to inside corners of pages, text block foxed, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper rubbed and a little foxed, some wear to folds of flaps.

Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1980. 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good in rubbed/foxed wraps. 4to. colour and b&w illustrations Catalogue for the exhibition of drawings by Barnett Newman, covering the period between 1944-1969; 2 colour plates, numerous b&w illustrations; text by Barbara Rose (please note French catalogue - text in French with no English translation); foxing to title page and last page, o.w. Very Good throughout; wraps rubbed and with medium foxing.

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2002. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Published in conjunction with the Barnett Newman exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art March 24 to July 7 2002 (and Tate Modern London September 19 2002 to January 5 2003); edited by Ann Temkin, essays by Temkin and Richard Shiff, with contributions by Suzanne Penn and Melissa Ho; copiously illustrated with full page colour and b&w plates (including some gatefold) and colour and b&w text illustrations; includes chronology, exhibition history, select bibliography; handsome black cloth boards with silver titling to spine; Very Good tight and clean throughout; dustwrapper lightly rubbed, o.w. Very Good; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK WILL INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING DEPENDING ON DESTINATION

New York: The Pace Gallery, 1988. 1st Edition. stiff card. Very Good . 4to. colour plates Catalogue for the Barnett Newman show, The Pace Gallery New York April 8 - May 7 1988, with essay by Yves Alain-Bois; 12 full-page colour plates (including one gate-fold), b&w frontispiece photo illustration of Newman; red card wraps with french flaps; wraps very lightly rubbed, and with mild wear along front at fold, some offset from b&w photo, o.w. Very Good.

Houston: The Menil Collection , 2015. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good /no dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Illustrated study of the late work of Barnett Newman, covering a period from 1965-1970; published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Barnett Newman The Late Work 1965-1970', The Menil Collection Houston March 27 - August 2 2015; texts by Bradford A. Epley and Michelle White, with a contribution by Sarah K. Rich; illustrated throughout with full-page colour plates (including some gate-fold) and colour and b&w text illustrations; handsome publication with white cloth boards and Newman black and white painting inset to front board, black titling to front and spine; includes Chronology; mild toning to edges of some pages, and to folds of gatefolds plates, boards lightly rubbed, o.w. Very Good; no dustwrapper (as issued).

New York: The Barnett Newman Foundation/Yale University Press, 2004. 1st Edition. hardbound in slipcase. Fine in like Dustwrapper in Very Good Slipcase/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Definitive Barnett Newman Catalogue Raisonne, published by The Barnett Newman Foundation (and Yale University Press); texts by Richard Shiff, Carol C. Mancusi-Ungaro, and Heidi Colsman-Freyberger; edited by Ellyn Childs Allison, photography by Bruce White; extended essays on Newman (by Shiff and Mancusi-Ungaro) followed by the Catalogue, with sections on Paintings, Drawings, Graphics, Sculptures, Architectural Model, Unidentified Works/Unfinished Paintings/Ephemera, Exhibition History, Bibliography; includes a list of all books in Newman's library; a superior publication in every way, in vivid red cloth boards, with luminous yellow endpapers; three colour dustwrapper (adapted from Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue IV); blue cloth slipcase with 3 colour gloss papered sides (as per dustwrapper); Fine with no… Read More

London: Collins, 1952. Signed Limited Edition. leather. Good/no dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Deluxe Edition of Baron Encore, being No. 216 of 250 copies bound in red full morocco with gilt titling to spine and gilt border, Signed to edition page by Baron, and Arnold L. Haskell; illustrations mostly monochrome photogravure, but also with 5 full-page colour plates (including frontispiece of Margot Fonteyn); bookplate to front pastedown; heavy foxing to endpapers and prelims, lighter scattered foxing, o.w. Good throughout; leather with some scattered indentations to front board, and one deeper (small) indentation to spine; lacking the original slipcase.

Oxford: Clarendon Press Oxford, 1989. Signed 1st Editions. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Documents the series of British concert tours undertaken by Bela Bartok between 1904-1938, recording the views of Bartok and his British contemporaries on issues such as pianism, composition, and social questions, and also covering the relationship between Bartok and British critics Philip Heseltine and Cecil Gray, and with his performing associates the Aranyi sisters; 14 b&w plate illustrations, b&w text illustrations; this copy signed and with gift-inscription by the author; Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

New York : Kodansha, 2013. 1st US Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good Dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations The complete Haiku of Matsuo Basho, translated by American Haiku poet Jane Reichhold, a project to which she devoted over a decade of work; Reichhold also provides a lengthy critical introduction, notes and appendices; b&w text illustrations, and chapter dividers by Shiro Tsujimura; first US edition (6 5 4 3 2 1); Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2010. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 4to. profusely illustrated Published in conjunction with the Basquiat exhibition, Fondation Beyeler Richen/Basel May 9 - September 5 2010, being the 1st Trade Edition (there being also a Museum edition); over 150 full-page colour plates, and including b&w photo illustrations; texts by Glenn O'Brien, Dieter Buchhart, Robert Storr; and with a Basquiat Chronology; Very Good clean copy in like dustwrapper; PLEASE NOTE: HEAVY BOOK MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING DEPENDING ON DESTINATION..

Sydney: Phase Three Posters, 2007. Limited Edition. hardbound. Very Good/no dustwrapper. landscape 8vo. profusely illustrated Profusely illustrated history of the Holden A9X Torana at Bathurst, covering the years 1977, 1978 and 1979; foreword by Bob Morris, interview with Jim Richards; b&w and colour photos throughout; being No. 228 of a limited edition of 750 copies; illustrated, laminated boards, no dustwrapper as issued; Very Good throughout, boards very lightly rubbed.

Brisbane: Winston Oliver Parry, 2007. Signed 1st Edition. paperback. Very Good. 8vo. b&w illustrations Series of essays/stories written by soldiers recounting true stories from their military service in Korea, Vietnam, Malaya, and Borneo, edited by Winston Oliver (Bill) Parry; b&w photo illustrations; signed and with gift-inscription by the author; Very Good throughout; wraps lightly rubbed.

Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press , 1992. 1st Edition. hardbound. Very Good tight and clean in Very Good dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. b&w illustrations Study of Baudelaire's essays on Caricature, with focus on their significance for Baudelaire's conception of modernity, and on his wider theory of the comic; references Daumier, Hogarth, Pigal, Grandville, Bruegel, etc; numerous b&w illustrations.