Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Story of Early Mono County: Its Settlers, Gold Rushes, Indians, Ghost Towns

Ella M. Cain · 1961

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

San Francisco, California, Fearon Publishers, 1961. . Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. SIGNED by the author at title page, a sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, furling to, sunning of the edges of but no great wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining n...

Modern Fine Glass

Skelley, Leloise Davis · 1942

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Garden City, New York, Garden City Publishing, 1942. Second Printing. Hardcover. Size: 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 u...

The Carpets and Rugs of Europe and America: A People's History of the Third World

Sarah B. Sherrill · 1996

$26.40 (€23.95 | £19.98 | ¥4,216)

New York, Abbeville Press, Incorporated, 1996, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 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 edg...

A Book of Tapestries

Blazkova, J. · 0

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.37 | ¥4,088)

, Spring Books, . First English Edition. . . Bound handsomely in an illustrated brown and tan cloth over boards, reproducing one of the illustrations internal. Still sharp, distinct gilt lettering to spine. Big, tall quarto hardcover format. Housed in a battered, tape-repaired...

Neo-Classicism to Pop: Late 18th & 19th Century Textiles

Kerry, Sue · 2007

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.37 | ¥4,088)

London, Francesca Galloway, in association with the Antique Collectors Club, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; no...

Ancient Synagogue Excavations at Khirbet Shema', Upper Galilee, Israel, 1970-1972

Meyers, Eric M., A. Thomas Kraabel, James Fr. Strange · 1976

$21.60 (€19.60 | £16.35 | ¥3,450)

Durham, North Carolina, Published for the American Schools of Oriental Research by Duke University Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Another fine contribution to the Meiron excavation project for the digging seasons 1970-1972, representing the J...

The Wonders of America: Reinventing Jewish Culture 1880-1950

Joselit, Jenna Weissman · 1994

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Hill & Wang Pub, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" 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 highlight...

Abraham Mapu: The Creator of the Modern Hebrew Novel

Patterson, David · 1964

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

London, East and West Library, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine contribution to the series Studies in Modern Hebrew Literature, by David Patterson, Cowley Lecturer in Post-Biblical Hebrew at the University of Oxford. Fine frontis portrait of Abra...

Arabic Materials in English Translation: A Bibliography of Works from the Pre-Islamic Period to 1977

Anderson, Margaret · 1980

$21.60 (€19.60 | £16.35 | ¥3,450)

Boston, G.K. Hall & Co., 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Another fine contribution to the series, A Reference Publication in Middle Eastern Studies, edited by David H. Partington. Sections devoted to Philosophy, Music, Materials in the History of Scien...

Under the Canopy : The Story of a Friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer That Chronicles the Awakening of Jewish Identity

Straus, Dorothea · 1982

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, George Braziller, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" 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 highligh...

The Loves of Franz Kafka

Glatzer, Nahum N. · 1986

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Schocken Books, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A short, accessible, fascinating account of the general and specific absence of romantic loves in the life of Franz Kafka. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, ...

Hand in the Darkness: The Autobiography of a Refusenik

Nudel, Ida · 1990

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Warner Books, 1990. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" 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 high...

To Paint Her Life: Charlotte Salomon in the Nazi Era

Mary Lowenthal Felstiner · 1994

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, HarperPerennial, 1994. First American Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Mary Lowenthal Filstiner has penned a due homage to the Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon in the midst of Nazi Germany and the context of anti-Semitism and misogyny that affected Jewish ...

Seeing His Way: Louis le Brocquy, a Painter

Le Brocquy, Anne Madden · 1994

$30.40 (€27.58 | £23.01 | ¥4,855)

Dublin, Gill & Macmillan, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A superior copy inside and out of this fine and loving homage to the Irish painter Louis Le Brocquy, born in Dublin in 1916, by his wife Anne Madden Le Brocquy. "This book traces the growth of l...

Ruskin and Turner: A Study of Ruskin As a Collector of Turner, Based on His Gifts to the University of Oxford; Incorporating a Catalogue Raisonne of the Turner Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum

Herrmann, Luke · 1969

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Frederick A. Praege, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Presumed First Edition, though not so stated, the copyright from the previous year being held by Luke Herrmann in London. Fine and due homage to the collecting skills of John Ruskin of the ...

It Never Dies: A Collection of Notes and Essays 1940-1946

Farleigh, John · 1946

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

London, Sylvan Press, 1946. Second Impression. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated second impression of this fine collection of musings and essays on wood-engraving, craftsmanship, and the artist's life. Chapters on art education, wood-engraving, painting, artist exhibi...

Samuel Pepys, Esquire

Barber, Richard · 1970

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Square 8vo 8" to 9" tall. Four essays inscribe Samuel Pepys, Esquire, the man, as depicted in 1970 at an exhibition of the same name. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling c...

Landscapes of Memory: Turner As Illustrator to Scott

Finley, Gerald E. · 1980

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Berkeley, California, Univ of California Press, 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and accessible social history of the friendship and working relationship between J.M.W. Turner, the noted English landscape artist, and Sir Walter Scott, Sterling co...

Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna

Bunzl, Matti · 2004

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine and probing social history of Vienna and of Austria more broadly in late 19th-century, discoursing upon queer theory and studies of homosexuality to reveal ant...

Light Within the Light: Portraits of Donald Hall, Richard Wilbur, Maxine Kumin, and Stanley Kunitz

Braham, Jeanne · 2007

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Boston, David R. Godine, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A particularly fine copy of a thoughtful rumination on the life and poetry of Donald Hall, Richard Wilburg, Maxine Kumin and Stanley Kunitz. Augmented with the engravings of Barry Moser. A superi...