Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Book Selection and Collections: A Comparison of German and American University Libraries

Danton, J. Periam · 1963

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Columbia University Press, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Bookplate of the previous owner, the bookseller extraordinaire, Mr. Richard L. Press, of Sacramento, inside front flap. Attractive green cloth boards, with gilt lettering to spine. Ti...

English Printed Books

Meynell, Francis · 1948

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

London, Collins, 1948. Second Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Splendid copy of the stated Second Edition, printed red and white paper over boards, sympathetic dust jacket in Fine condition, protected further by Brodart dust jacket. Another fine contribution to the seri...

Everyman: A Morality Play

Sidgwick, F[rank]., ed. · 1902

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,027)

London, Horace Hart, Printer to the University, for A.H. Bullen, 1902. Handmade Paper Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The only copy such available to the trade currently, being a sturdy, attractive copy of the Handmade Paper Edition, flexible hardcover wraps, and ...

Second International Directory of Private Presses

Westreich, Gerald · 1980

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Sacramento, California, Press of Arden Park, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Budd Westreich provides the Foreword to this invaluable reference tool for the student and historian of printing and typographer. Simple printed wraps, perfect-bound, yellow printe...

Tinguely: L'Energetique de L'Insolence, Complete in Two Volumes

Lacoste, Michel Conil · 1989

$28.80 (€26.13 | £21.80 | ¥4,600)

Paris, Editions de la Difference, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. . But for some minor crimping to bottom edges, leaving text-block untouched, two fine-looking, tightly bound, internally clean softcover copies, in French, published in Paris by Editions de la Difference. Sans o...

The Lures of the Bronze Age: An Archaeological Technical and Musicological Investigation

H. C. Broholm, William P. Larsen, Godtfred Skjerne · 1949

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Copenhagen, Denmark, Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1949. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Though 72 years old, virtually pristine of interior, being handsomely printed in publisher's original illustrated softpaper wraps, with original glassine wraps, and still in...

Come, Take This Lute: A Quest for Identities in Italian Renaissance Portraiture

Ramsden, E. H. · 1983

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

London, A Nadder Book, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A sturdy, attractive hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear beyond a short range of crimped upper tips at rear, not a...

By Chance: Serendipity and Randomness in Contemporary Artists' Books

Price, Robin and Jae Jennifer Rossman, Guest Curators. · 2004

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New Haven, Connecticut, The Jenny-Press, 2004. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. No additional copies available on-line, a fine and due homage to the convergence of artists' books and purposeful chance, the focus of the exhibit from which this became the cata...

Insects and Flowers: The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian

Brafman, David and Stephanie Schrader · 2008

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. An extraordinary little museum exhibit catalog and presenting details from an original text in Dutch, published in 1719, that came into the museum through extraordinary means in ...

King Herod's Dream: Caesarea on the Sea

Holum, Kenneth G., Robert L. Hohlfelder, Robert J. Bull and Avner Raban. · 1988

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Stated First Edition, with "1" in number line present, penned by Kenneth G. Holum, Robert L. Hohlfelder, Robert J. Bull and Avner Raban, a profound contribution to the archaeology and ...

Daily Bread

Kaminsky, Marc · 1983

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

Urbana, Illinois, University of Illinois Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs but for crease to a single endpaper; not ex-library, wit...

Words to Outlive Us: Eyewitness Accounts from the Warsaw Ghetto

Grynberg, Michal, ed. · 2002

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Metropolitan Books, by Henry Holt, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. The Warsaw Ghetto and the place of anti-Semitism in pre-W.W.I.I. Poland under fascism is the subject of Michal Grynberg's fine and sobering account of the prelude to the Holo...

Meyer Schapiro: His Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture

Schapiro, Meyer; Lillian Milgram, John Russell; Lillian Milgram Schapiro and Daniel Easterman, eds. · 2000

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. The fine black-and-white and full color photographs of John Bigelow Taylor really makes this Meyer Schapiro artist monograph really sit up and bark. Edited and with extensive commentaries fro...

Ballet, New Developments 3

Hall, Fernau · 1947

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

London, The Bodley Head, 1947. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy, printed red and black and white paper over boards, with light wear along edges, toning to endpapers, else clean and unmarked. Bright ...

Technology and the Making of the Netherlands: The Age of Contested Modernization, 1890-1970

Schot, Johan [Editor]; Lintsen, Harry [Editor]; Rip, Arie [Editor]; · 2010

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The M.I.T. Press, 2010. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. 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 underli...

The Borzoi Book of Ballet

Robert, Grace · 1949

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Stated fourth printing of this fine and accessible survey of ballet, choreographers and dancers. Bound handsomely in red cloth, with stamped illustration of a ballet dancer at frontcover, wit...

Classic Dances of the Orient

Xenia Zarina · 1967

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, Crown Publishers, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Xenia Zarina is that rare Western dancer who has studied and written about non-Western dances and from extensive personal experience. Hermann Goetz has provided a Foreword, and over 200 illust...

World of Ballet

Geraghty, Anne, ed. · 1972

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, St. Martin's Press, 1972. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine looking copy in oversized, Imperial octavo hardcover format, being a First American Edition, bound quite handsomely in a purple linen cloth, with still sharp and distinct gilt le...

The Gettin Place

Straight, Susan · 1996

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Hyperion, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Flat-signed by the author at first free endpaper. A fine and probing narrative of the effects of violence in America intergenerationally, beginning in the 1920s of the Tulsa, Oklahoma race war whites ...

Fonteyn & Nureyev: The Great Years

Money, Keith · 1994

$30.40 (€27.58 | £23.01 | ¥4,855)

London, Harvill Press, an imprint of HarperCollins, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volume, a comprehensive, impressive survey and deploying many fine illustrations and photographs including some that have not been publishe...