Hardcover. Tokyo/ New York , Bijutsu Shuppan-sha/Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 554 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Very good in an excellent acetate dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. New York, Dover Publications, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Heroes, villains, and damsels in distress abound in these richly colored, dramatic images from the Japanese equivalent of dime-store novels. These illustrations were selected from woodblock-printed covers and frontispiece illustrations from 64 popular books published in Osaka from 1898 through 1903. They include samurai and strong men, demons and detectives, courtesans, sumo wrestlers, and other vivid characters in scenarios ranging from romantic to grotesquely violent. Printed in the color woodblock method in use since the late eighteenth century, they provide a link between an ancient storytelling tradition and the beginning of mass-published popular literature.
Softcover. London, The Warburg Institute, 1st Edition, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Softcover. Light foxing to a few pages & edges. Heavy toning to covers & spine. Black & white illustrations throughout, including foldout image of the Lintel, Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. Commentary by Simplicius on Euclid's Elements is illustrated in Arabic, with accompanied translations. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Clean unmarked copy.
Softcover. Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Foundation, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog of the Kimbell Art Museum. 275 pages; color cover; mostly black & white plates; some color plates. Introduction by David M. Robb, Jr., chief curator of the museum. Art collection includes ancient, medieval, British, Dutch, Flemish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, 20th Century, South Asian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, African, and Pre-Columbian art. In very good condition.
Softcover. New Haven CT , Beinecke Library/Yale University, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 83 pages, softcover with dark blue paper wraps. Illustrated with reproductions of manuscripts. Clean, tight. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Revised, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 445 pages. Illustrated. Maps. 8vo. Top edge gilt. Black cloth, gilt. Previous owner's sticker back paste down.
Softcover. New York, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 5000 copies printed. Quarto, 11" tall, 110 pages with four-color and B&W plates throughout, stiff illustrated wraps. Catalogue from the exhibition of 1968. Included is an introductory essay and the 775 works on view, each annotated, and many pictured. With examples of pottery (glazed and unglazed), carved stone, textiles, gold figures, copper and more. Charts showing chronology/regions and eras/regions are helpful in understanding the types of arts and when/where they were created. 22 color and 71 b&w plates; map end papers. Clean.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. 102 full page plates in full color. Beautifully illustrating a vast collection of the finest glass in the Corning museum ranging from ancient Egyptian, Roman, Frankish, Islamic and Bohemian through to Studio glass, with commentary to 102 plates. Folio. Cream cloth with slight yellowing to upper and lower edges, gilt lettering to spine and gilt decoration to front cover. Pictorial dust jacket with minor wear. Clean, crisp and tight copy.
Hardcover. Greenwich, CONNECTICUT, New York Graphic Sociewty, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Approx. 210 pages. 96 color plates. Tipped-in color frontispiece. Pictorial dust jacket with edgewear. Blue boards. Slipcover with soiling.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 263 pages. Oversized. Red cloth cover, embossed design, gilt lettering, small nicks on bottom edge. Dust jacket is price clipped, worn and bumped on edges. With 254 plates in full color. Photographs by Lee Boltin. Foreword by Andre Malraux. Introduction by Nelson A. Rockefeller. From the Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection. A bright, clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Slight bump to upper right corner. Clean, tight copy. International orders require additional postage due to the size and weight of this book.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, First Thus, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 311 pages. Hardcover. Black cloth covered boards with embossed illustration to cover & gilt titles to spine. Previous owners' signature front flyleaf. Frontis illustration, Head of Niobe, Florence, Italy. Black & white illustrations, light toning, clean & unmarked pages throughout.
Softcover. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st Edition, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 366 pages. Softcover with bright covers, black & white printed titles & decoration to cover & spine. Title page b/w illustration, Inside of red-figured cup showing a running figure in bronze, Musee de Louvre, Paris. Clean, unmarked copy.
Softcover. New York, American Museum of Natural History, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Sterling Publishing Corporation, First Edition, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages. Hardcover. Peat cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Dime sized bump to front board corner, small blemish to gutter of front flyleaf. Otherwise very clean & unmarked. Stunning full page photography in black & white, beautifully presented to accompany text. Dust jacket with light marginal wear to edges. A very nice copy.
Hardcover. New York , Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages, 36 b&w plates, 2 color. Three lectures given at The Museum of Primitive Art.
Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, Reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages of text followed by 117 black & white plates. Slight fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press , 1st US, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 186 pages of text + 117 pages of b&w plates. Severe rubbing and wear to dust jacket with several tears along edges and tape-repair to spine. previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Reading copy only.
New York, Braziller, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Titles include: Greek Culture - The Adventure of the Human Spirit, Roman Culture - Weapons and the Man, Medieval Culture - The Image and the City, and Renaissance Culture - A New Sense of Order. Spines sunned. 380 pages each. Black & white photography and art. Box sunned with light wear.
Hardcover. New York , Museum of Primitive Art, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 77 pages, 42 b&w plates. Three lectures given at The Museum of Primitive Art.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine, white cover boards and inside very clean. Dust jacket in good shape, covered in protective plastic. From the front flap: "The Tragedy of Arthur explores the tension between storytelling and truth-telling, the thirst for originality in all of our lives, and the act of literary mythmaking, both now and four centuries ago, as the two Arthurs -- Arthur the novelist and Arthur the ancient king -- play out their individual but strangely intertwined. ...Includes Shakespeare's (?) lost King Arthur play in its five-act entirety...."
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