Ultramarine Books

Woodworking Techniques, Tips, and Shortcuts

AMERICAN WOODWORKER EDITORS · 1995

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Emmaus, PA, Rodale Press. 1995. Pictorial Card Wrappers, 10 3/4" x 8". 104 ages. Tools, equipmet and skills. Router, saw blades, sharpening, bench planes, veneering, woodworking joints, jigs, "all about drawers". Very Good.

Islamic Glass: A Brief History

JENKINS, MARILYN · 1986

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1986. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover), 4to. Art periodical, 56 pages; 80 items illustrated in color photographs. The MMA Bulletin Fall 1986. Clean and tight; front cover a bit rubbed. Very Good.

The Artist's Handbook of Materials and Techniques. Fifth Edition, Revised and Updated

MAYER, RALPH; STEVEN SHEEHAN (REVISED AND UPDATED) · 1991

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,512)

New York, Viking Press. 1991. (ISBN: 0-670-83701-6). quarter-cloth and paper boards, 9.25" x 6". 761 pages. grounds and pigments and oils; how to use an egg yolk for tempera; .home making watercolors; solvents and thinners. "The first and last word on the technical side ogf pa...

Visions of Love and Life, Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England

WILDMAN, STEPHEN WITH JAN MARSH AND JOHN CHRISTIAN · 1995

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

Alexandria, Virginia, Art Services International. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 0883971135). Pictorial Card Wrappers, 12" x 9.5". Exhibition Catalogue, 372 pages; 118 catalogue items, numerous illustrations color and b&w.; Artists' Biographies; Chronology. Sumptuous catalogue wi...

Paper Museum: Writings About Painting, Mostly

GRAHAM-DIXON, ANDREW · 1997

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf. 1997, First American Edition. (ISBN: 0679455205). orange boards, 8vo. 383 pages; b&w illustrations; several color. The author, a gifted English art crtic, it is said, offers a set of essays that followed a number of western-art exhibitons in Europe. ...

A Book of Hours: Music, Literature, and Life. A Memoir

LEE, M. OWEN · 2004

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

New York, Continuum. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 0826415865). Cloth, 8vo. 284 pages. A fascinating memoir. Perhaps it should be first read by students who are just moving-up from high school. Lee's teaching in Rome, his love of opera and his travel to opera hotspots; his imagi...

Old-Fashioned Nautical Illustrations - Ready to Use, Copyright Free Designs

GRAFTON, CAROL BELANGER (SELECTED AND ARRANGED) · 1991

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

New York, Dover Publications. 1991. (ISBN: 0486268802). Pictorial Card Wrappers, 4to. 64 pages; Over 400 b&w illustrations printed on only one side. Nautical, marine, maritime, naval, seaside, sealife, seaborne, in-the-sea. They're all here. Very Good.

The London Oratory, 1849-1949

ANONYMOUS · 1949

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

London, The Oratory of St. Philip Neri. 1949. Pictorial Card Wrappers, 10" x 8". 24 pages; color and b&w illustrations. The 100th anniversary of the founding of the London Oratory, which followed the establishment of the Oratory in England in 1947 by John Henry Newman. Corners...

The Performance Today Basic Record Library

GOLDSMITH, MARTIN · 1995

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

National Public Radio. 1995. Ringbound decorative wrappers, 9" x 6". 70 pages. Classical Music Starter Set; Orchestral; Concertos; Chamber Music; Solo Keyboard; Solo Vocal and Choral; Opera; Other, How many? Hundreds; maybe more. Clean and well bound. Very Good.

Turn This Book Into a Beehive! and 19 Other Experiments and Activities That Explore the Amazing World of Bees

BRUNELLE, LYNN · 2018

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

New York, Workman Publishing. 2018, First Edition. (ISBN: 9781523501410). Printed Wrapper (softcover), 4to. 92 pages followed by as many activity pages; thoroughly illustrated. Clean throughout; tight binding. Very Good.

St. Philip Neri

JOUHANDEAU, MARCEL; GEORGE LAMB (TRANSLATED) · 1960

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

London, Longmans. 1960, First Thus. Glossy Printed Boards, 7"x 5". 129 pages. The author, "I am no historian. All I shall try to do is to give some sense of the exceptional being St. Philip was, and to make him palpable.." "With his character and teaching, he left a great name...

The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings

ROSENBERG, JOHN D. (EDITED AND INTRODUCTION) · 1963

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, George Braziller. 1963, First Printing. quarter cloth, thick 8vo. 560 pages. No illustrations. Chronology; Selected Bibliography. Chosen from Ruskin's writings: Art, Architecture, Society, Solitude, Self. Clean throughout; tight binding; mild wear to edges of the dus...

Guy Pène Du Bois, Painter of Modern Life

FAHLMAN, BETSY · 2004

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

New York, James Graham & Sons. 2004. Blue cloth, 12" x 10". 176 pages; thoroughly illustrated in color. Brooklyn born with Creole roots in Louisiana; a French connection through his father. The narrative of the text enhances the numerous color plates. Clean throughout; tight b...

Ancient Egyptian Art in the Brooklyn Museum

FAZZINI, RICHARD A.; ROBERT S. BIANCHI; JAMES F. ROMANO; DONALD B. SPANEL · 1989

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,193)

The Brooklyn Museum. 1989. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 12" x 9". xv pages followed by 100 mostly color plates of objects in the collection. Introductory essay by Mr. Fazzini on the history of gifts and acquiitions that came to the collection. Previous owner's name on the f...

The Power of the Center: A Study of Composition in the Visual Arts (the New Version)

ARNHEIM, RUDOLF · 1988

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.06 | ¥1,277)

Berkeley, University of California Press. 1988. (ISBN: 0520062426). Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 8vo. 239 pages; more than 150 b&w illustrations. Bibliography; Index. "What determines the overall organization of visual form in works of painting, sculpture, and architecture?...

The CIVIL War: The Artists' Record

WILLIAMS, HERMANN WARNER, JR. · 1961

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

Boston, Beacon Press. 1961, First Edition. quarter cloth / paper boards, 10" x 7". Exhibition Catalogue, 251 pages followed by the Catalogue listing all the 236 artworks with full descriptions and the Index of Artists. The exhibition was mounted at the Corcoran Gallery of Art,...

Rayyane Tabet / Alien Propertyt

BENZEL, KIM; RAYYANE TABET; CLARE DAVIES · 2019

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2019. Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 11" x 8.5". 48 pages; well illustrated. The Met Art Bulletin, Fall 2019. The story of the archaeological site Tell Halaf beginning in the Sixth Millennium B.C. through to early Twentieth Century wh...

A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States (3 Volumes)

DUNLAP, WILLIAM; JAMES THOMAS FLEXNER (INTRODUCTION); RITA WEISS (EDITED BY) · 1969

$17.00 (€15.42 | £12.87 | ¥2,714)

New York, Dover Publications. 1969, Reissue. (ISBN: 0486216950). Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), 8vo. Vol.I 435 pages; Vol. II, Part One 1- 275 pages; Vol. II, Part Two 275 - 513 pages. 394 b&w illustrations. Three volumes, all clean throughout except for previous owner' s rub...

Champlain's Dream

FISCHER, DAVID HACKETT · 2008

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

Canada, Vintage Canada. 2008. (ISBN: 9780307397676). Pictorial Wrappers (softcover), thick 8vo. 834 pages. b&w illustrations, maps. Champlain, the adventurer, spy, mariner, explorer, settler and founder of Quebec and builder of New France. A thorough biography. Clean and tight...

The Transcendentalists

MILLER, PERRY (EDITED BY) · 1978

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

New York, MJF Books. 1978, First Thus. (ISBN: 1567312152). quarter-cloth / paper boards, 8vo. 521 pages. Originally published by Harvard in 1950 this is by arrangement with Harvard University Press. An anthology of early-nineteenth-century American writers of whom the author f...