Structure, Verses, Agency Books

Photographs of Mother Teresa's Missions of Charity in Calcutta, India

Mark, Mary Ellen; James Alinder, ed. · 1985

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Carmel, California, The Friends of Photography, 1985. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A particularly nice-looking copy of the 39th volume in the series published by The Friends of Photography, published prior to Christopher Hitchens' take-down of the pover...

Marjorie Content: Photographs

Quasha, Jill · 1994

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

New York, W.W. Norton & Co., 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 highlig...

Constance Stuart Larrabee Wwii Photo Journal

Larrabee, Constance Stuart; Susan Fischer Sterling · 1989

$24.00 (€21.77 | £18.16 | ¥3,833)

Washington, D.C., The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1989. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Constance Stuart Larrabee was a South African woman photographer of the first rank, and the South African magazine Libertas sent her to the front of W.W.I.I. ...

Constance Stuart Larrabee: Tribal Photographs

Larrabee, Constance Stuart; Jane Livingston · 1984

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Good-looking, staple-bound exhibit catalog devoted to a show held April 7 - June 3, 1984 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and with an Introduction to the work of Constance...

The Brazilian Photographs of Genevieve Naylor, 1940-1942

Levine, Robert M. · 1998

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Durham, North Carolina, Duke University Press Books, 1998. . Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. The author was a Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies at the University of Miami, Coral Gables when he penned this loving homage to the personal photograph...

Theatre: Portrait de Dora Suivi de la Prise de L'Ecole de Madhubai (French Edition)

Cixous, Helene · 1986

$19.20 (€17.42 | £14.53 | ¥3,066)

Paris, Editions Des Femmes, 1986. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Two volumes bound as one, two mass market-sized, but full-length plays, in French, bound together in slate-gray wraps, pictorial, and in gate-fold. Complete with several black-and-white photog...

Paul Gauguin. Life and Work

Hoog, Michel · 1987

$72.00 (€65.32 | £54.49 | ¥11,499)

New York, Rizzoli, New York, 1987. First English Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Stated First American Edition, Constance Devanthery-Lewis providing the translation from the original French, which led to the first English edition, published in the same year by T...

The New Berlin: 1912-1932

Rossi-Schrimpf, Inga, ed. · 2019

$32.00 (€29.03 | £24.22 | ¥5,111)

Belgium, Lannoo Publishers / Royal Art Museums of Belgium, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Inge Rossi-Schrimpf has edited a fine collection of essays about social and art history in Berlin overlapping the era of the Weimar Republic, a period of wrenc...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Rendered Into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, First and Last Version

Khayyam, Omar · 1938

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Illustrated Editions Company, 1938. . . Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A particularly lovely copy of the definitive translation, and illustrated beautifully by Hamzah Abd-Ullah Kar with tipped-in, full color plates mounted to heavy card stock, being handsomely bound in a...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Rendered Into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald, First and Last Version

Khayyam, Omar · 1938

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

New York, Illustrated Editions Company, 1938. . Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A particularly lovely copy of the definitive translation, and illustrated beautifully by Hamzah Abd-Ullah Kar with tipped-in, full color plates mounted to heavy card stock, being handsomely b...

The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Voss, Richard, as translated by Gustav Adolf Danziger, and adapted by Ambrose Bierce · 1967

$10.40 (€9.44 | £7.87 | ¥1,661)

New York, The Heritage Press, 1967. . Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fascinating Introduction to the back story here and to the life and work of Ambrose Bierce provided by Maurice Valency, with lovely full color illustrations by Michel Ciry, initials and heads and tails,...

A Lot of Seven Dave Eggers Novels: 1) a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; 2) Zeitoun; 3) a Hologram for the King; 4) the Circle; 5) Heroes of the Frontier; 6) What Is the What?; 7) Your Fathers, Where Aree They? and the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?

Eggers, Dave · 2000

$76.00 (€68.95 | £57.52 | ¥12,138)

, , . First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine-looking set of seven (7) Dave Eggers works, all in hardcover, six being novels, one being a quasi-journalistic account, Zeitoun, about Hurricane Katrina. Each is a stated First Edition but for one that is a Fourth...

Spirit Faces: Contemporary Masks of the Northwest Coast

Gary Wyatt · 1998

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1998. . Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Signed by the author at the title page, a Curator since 1987 of the Northwest Coast Collection at the Inuit Art Gallery. 75 masks from 23 First Nations artists, all depicted in full, glorious...

Pablo Picasso: A Modern Master

Leslie, Richard · 1996

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

New York, Todtri, 1996. 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; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting any...

The Picture History of Photography from the Earliest Beginnings to the Present Day, Revised and Enlarged Edition

Pollack, Peter · 1969

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1969. Revised and Enlarged Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Bound handsomely in black buckram cloth and with white lettering to spine. Virtually pristine interior, binder's sticker inside rear flap. Fifty five chapters devoted the entir...

A Broken Beauty

Prescott, Theodore L., ed. · 2005

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,300)

Grand Rapids, Michigan, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Bruce Herman contributes the Foreword to this fine and accessible work of art history, focused on Classical and Modern works devoted to beauty and h...

Rabbit Boss

Sanchez, Thomas · 1973

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,811)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the author at title page. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlin...

Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting

McFadden, David Revere, Guest Curator, Museum of Arts & Design · 2008

$16.00 (€14.52 | £12.11 | ¥2,555)

New York, Museum of Arts & Design, 2008. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. A fine and fine-looking exhibition catalog from a show of the same name, held in 2007. Foreword by Holly Hotchner, then an Introduction by David Revere McFadden, and then contributi...

Oriental Carpets in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Ellis, Charles Grant · 1988

$15.20 (€13.79 | £11.50 | ¥2,428)

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1988. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Square 4to 9" - 11" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy bound in tall square quarto format, brilliantly illustrated card stock wraps, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean...

Early Kingdoms in Madagascar 1500-1700

Kent, Raymond K. · 1970

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,789)

New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A classic social history of precolonial Madagascar, focusing on the dynastic tribal kingdoms. The publisher's dust jacket has it that "Professor Kent began his detailed research into t...