Search Results: Titles starting with F from Structure, Verses, Agency Books - Member, I.O.B.A.

Oxford, England: The Antique Collectors' Club, 2008. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. A superior copy inside and out, 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. 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. Replete with lovely black-and-white illustrations and plates reproducing his finest works. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xii (1) + 290 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 Publishers, 1985. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 4to 11" - 13" tall. [Fernand Leger]. 42 photographs in full color, and another 22 in black-and-white, augment this fine and accessible artist monograph. Bound handsomely in an oatmeal cloth, "F. Leger" with accent stamped to front cover, black lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. 96 pp. and complete with notes, chronology and list of exhibitions. Alice Sachs and A. Clarke have translated the tome from the original French.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, France: Galerie Louise Leiris, 1985. First Edition. Very Good. Square 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Fernand Leger. Nice-looking, structurally sound condition softcover copy of an artist exhibit catalog following from the 1985 show in Paris, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy illustrated wraps, in gate-fold. Louise Leiris Gallery displayed and sold fine art works from leading artists of the 1940s and 1950s all the way into the 1980s. Nearly square softcover format, measuring 6 1/2" tall by 6 3/4" wide, respectively. "Ce catalogue (no 34 - Serie A) a ete acheve d'imprimer sur les presses des Maitres-Imprimeurs Draeger Freres, le 22 Avril, 1985." List of distributors inside front flap, introductory essay by Pierre Reverdy, then 62 illustrations in mostly black-and-white, many more in duotone and a few being in color, printed on high-gloss paper. Exhibit check-list at rear. Text in French.… Read More

Paris, France: Galerie Louise Leiris, 1981. Very Good. Square 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Fernand Leger. Structurally sound, colorfully illustrated 1981 reprint of an artist gallery catalog of paintings, drawings and objets d'art by the French painter Fernand Leger. Bound in stiff, thread-stitched wrappers, lightly creased, with tri-color covers. Louise Leiris Gallery displayed and sold fine art works from leading artists of the 1940s and 1950s all the way into the 1980s. Nearly square softcover format, measuring 6 1/2" tall by 6 3/4" wide, respectively. "Ce catalogue (no 30 - Serie A) a ete acheve d'imprimer sur les presses des Maitres-Imprimeurs Draeger Freres, le 4 juin, 1981." List of distributors inside front flap, introductory essay by Pierre Reverdy, then 75 illustrations mostly in black-and-white but a few in color, printed on high-gloss paper. Exhibit check-list at rear. Text in French. Roughly 61 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical… Read More

Paris, France: Galerie Louise Leiris, 1981. Near Fine. Square 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Fernand Leger. Structurally sound, colorfully illustrated 1981 reprint of an artist gallery catalog of paintings, drawings and objets d'art by the French painter Fernand Leger. Bound in stiff, thread-stitched wrappers with tri-color covers. Louise Leiris Gallery displayed and sold fine art works from leading artists of the 1940s and 1950s all the way into the 1980s. Nearly square softcover format, measuring 6 1/2" tall by 6 3/4" wide, respectively. "Ce catalogue (no 30 - Serie A) a ete acheve d'imprimer sur les presses des Maitres-Imprimeurs Draeger Freres, le 4 juin, 1981." List of distributors inside front flap, introductory essay by Pierre Reverdy, then 75 illustrations mostly in black-and-white but a few in color, printed on high-gloss paper. Exhibit check-list at rear. Text in French. Roughly 61 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards.… Read More

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography, complete in two volumes, being both Bruccoli's original descriptive bibliography, published in 1972, and the Supplement thereto, published in 1980. Ex-library copies with accession number stickers to spine bottoms, ink-stamps to fore-edges and first free endpapers, check-out pockets inside rear flaps, else, with uber-tightly bound, bright interiors, minimal rubbing to extremities. Handsomely produced in blue linen weave cloth over boards, black cloth-backed, and with uber-sharp gilt lettering to front covers, including over blocked black cloth label, and to spine. Black-and-white photographs illustrate the text, augmented with a frontispiece black-and-white portrait photograph of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Much bibliography ensues. Descriptive bibliography: xxiii [1], 369 pp.; Supplement: xvi [1], 3-219 pp.Member,… Read More

New York: Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap, neither shelf- nor edge-worn, neither sunned nor marked as a remainder, and housed in a simple cardboard case. Unread, spines will still crackle. From the publisher's blurb, "The definitive three-volume history that FDR did not live to write: the story of World War II from his perspective, showing his mastery of strategy, his vision, and how he overcame resistance from Churchill and his own generals to set the course for victory. Mantle of Command, Commander in Chief, and War and Peace have been celebrated as 'masterly' (The Wall Street Journal)In his deeply-researched, sweeping trilogy, Nigel Hamilton rewrites the history of FDR's role in World War II. First, Mantle of Command offers a radical new perspective on FDR's masterful-and underappreciated-personal charge of military direction following the disaster of Pearl Harbor. Then, in… Read More

London: Faber & Faber, Ltd. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. No publication date, but presumably 1957. Light wear to illustrated heavy card stock wraps, front wrapper present but detached, rear wrap missing, else clean and unmarked of interior. Some learned pencil marks here and there, quite helpful. 24 pp., plentiful full-color tipped-in plates, long essay by the author, big, double-column texts. This volume is part of The Faber Gallery of Oriental Art, covering East Asia, South Asia, and Island Southeast Asia and including Rajput art, Buddhist art, Japanese art, Persian, Mughal and other art traditions.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: Faber & Faber, Ltd. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. No publication date, but presumably 1957. Light wear to illustrated heavy card stock wraps, in gate-fold, some learned pencil marks here and there, quite helpful. 24 pp., plentiful full-color tipped-in plates, long essay by the author, big, double-column texts. This volume is part of The Faber Gallery of Oriental Art, covering East Asia, South Asia, and Island Southeast Asia and including Rajput art, Buddhist art, Japanese art, Persian, Mughal and other art traditions.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: Faber & Faber, Ltd, 1957. First Edition. Softcover. Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Original publisher's glassine wraps still present, light wear to illustrated heavy card stock wraps, some learned pencil marks here and there, quite helpful. 24 pp., plentiful full-color tipped-in plates, long essay by the author, big, double-column texts. This volume is part of The Faber Gallery of Oriental Art, covering East Asia, South Asia, and Island Southeast Asia and including Rajput art, Buddhist art, Japanese art, Persian, Mughal and other art traditions.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.

Middletown, Connecticut: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Nice-looking, structurally sound copy in First Edition state, with 111 pp. and replete with illustrations, augmenting the exhibition that was held April 27 to June 9, 1974. Includes text and translation of the original German text Der kranke Lewe from the old Latin fable, Leo Aegrotans. Scuffing to spine head, with some paper loss, else clean and unmarked of interior. Trilingual texts in German, English and Latin. Exquisitely well researched and complete with notes and bibliographies. The author includes a comprehensive history of block-books and discussion of the different versions of The Sick Lion that have the tradition behind the story and possible origins for the production of the book itself. Contains many reproductions of illustrations from several blockbooks.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be… Read More

London: Mitchell Beazley, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. A superior copy inside and out, 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. 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. Illustrated endpapers. [5], 6-176 pp. Hundreds of gorgeous illustrations. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.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: B.T. Batsford, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to The Face of Britain series, and with chapters devoted to each of the counties named in the sub-title, with introductory chapters about Ulster's peculiar history, customs, traditions, climate, topography, geography, zoology and botany. Bound simply in bright red cloth, with only faint wear to the tips and spine bottom, else sturdily bound, bright, clean and unmarked of interior, and not ex-library. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. viii-136 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.

Los Angeles, California: Nash Publishing Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fair. Oblong 32mo 4" - 5" tall. Ron Rubinstein . Fancy duotone pictorial paper over boards of this short oblong hardcover format collection of poetry, a stated First Edition, with a Good condition illustrated paper dust jacket, clipped and chipped and with a couple of short closed tears. Unpaginated, but roughly 40 pp. Augmented with the duotone photographs of Ron Rubinstein.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: Universe Books, 1960. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Philippe Luzuy. A profoundly moving photographic portrait of the peoples and cultures of the Amazon Basin but in primitivizing language and narratives, of various kinds of Indians whose "faces of bronze, marked neither by the lassitude nor the nightmare of existence in our own dreary cities." Seventy-five photographs by Philippe Luzuy, Preface by the artist Paul Morand, texts by Philippe Luzuy and Pierre-Andre Boutang as translated by Douglas J. Gillam. Bound handsomely in brown linen cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to front cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, little worn save for one-inch chip at front spine head, protected by a plastic coat. 74 fine photographs. 101 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: Maecenas Press / Random House, 1970. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. As New/Near Fine. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Signed by Author. Limited Edition: no. 1019 of 2500 copies, signed by both author Michener and artist Levine, TWICE. Fine condition overall. Two folios (Parts One and Two) housed in a custom-built clamshell box made of beige-watered silk with a black leather strap and holder. Gilt lettering on spine of the box. Some very light soiling to and soiling of the outer cover along edges. Part One comprises unbound leaves and four full-color lithographic plates in a beige- watered silk folio with black leather strap and holder. Part Two comprises unbound leaves with facsimiles of sketches in black and white and color in an unlined black Morocco leather folder. Glassine leaves are laid in between each facsimile.Part One: xxxii (text) (4 (colophons)). Part Two: unpaginated, but 54 pp. Box measures 20” x 13 1/2.” Each folio measures… Read More

Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1997. Softcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial wraps. Additional essay provided by Ellen Smith, and with research assistance provided by Elizabeth Lamb Clark. xvi, 112 pp., and sumptuously illustrated with black-and-white and full-color illustrations and photographs. Covers Early American Jewish History (1585-1830), Jews during the Revolutionary War, genealogies of influential families such as the Levy-Franks and the Etting/Gratz families. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.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.

Santa Rosa, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1996. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. As New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Edition Thus, being a reprint of the original 1959 true First Edition, published here by Black Sparrow Press in hardcover format. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, little discernible wear, bright interior, unmarked. Illustrated paper over orange cloth boards. viii, 273, [5] pp. A bBiographical sketch of the author follows at end, with photograph.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.

Berlin: Jovis, 1998. First Edition. Softcover. As New. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Signed by Author. Uber-rare to the trade, this being the only signed copy, inscribed to and from the personal library of the Lake Forest, Illinois-based former architect and Lake Forest College-based art historian and critic, Professor Franz Schulz, the author inscribing this copy fondly at title page. 152 pp., and lavishly illustrated throughout, and complete with notes and bibliography. Fine and scholarly account of the main building of the Fagus shoe factory in Anfeld, Germany and its relationship to the Bauhaus movement. Augmented with facsimile correspondence, blue- prints, the company letterhead, period advertisements, and over 100 archival photographs.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: Tate Publishing, 2017. First Edition. Softcover. New. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the personal library of the feminist art historian extraordinaire, Dr. Whitney Chadwick, a giant across many fields. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the glossy pictorial wraps, in gate-fold. Fahrelnissa Zeid's work is told in great detail here by the editor, Kerryn Greenberg, and in contributions by her, Vassilis Oikonomopoulos, Sarah Wilson, Adila Laid-Hanierh and Necmi Sonmez. From the publisher's blurb, "Fahrelnissa Zeid (1901-1991) was one of the most influential Turkish artists, best known for her large-scale abstract paintings. Marrying influences from Islamic, Byzantine and Eastern art with the bold colour of the Fauvists, the geometrical dissonance of the Cubists and the precise lines of Mondrian, Zeid developed an abstract vocabulary that was a synthesis of East and West and… Read More