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Arthur Ransome


Hunt, Peter

Hardcover. Boston, Twayne, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Twayne's English Author Series. Ed. by Lois R. Kuznets with bibliography

Record # 56382


Price: $25.00 

 

Arthur Rimaud


Starkie, Enid

New York, New Directions, Reprint, 1961 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 491 pages.

Record # 305352


Price: $18.00 

 

Arthur Schopenhauer's English Schooling


Bridgwater, W. P.

Hardcover. London ; New York, Routledge, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 392 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 453675


Price: $40.00 

 

Artist in Iowa - A Life of Grant Wood


Garwood, Darrell

NY, Norton, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping

Record # 201231


Price: $30.00 

 

Artist was a Young Man, The: The Life Story of Peter Rindisbacher


Josephy, Alvin M.

Hardcover. Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum, unknown, 1970, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Exhibition catalog. 101 pages, color frontispiece portrait, and 41 plates, some in color. Gtay cloth, pictorial dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new. In shrinkwrap.

Record # 606010


Price: $32.00 

 

Artists of America, The: A Series of Biographical Sketches of American Artists; with Portraits and Designs on Steel


Lester, C. Edwards

Hardcover. New York, Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1846, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations on steel (by artist only mentioned in Preface as Mr. Burt) with tissue guards throughout. Cover boards bound in dark brown leather, gilt title on spine, raised bands and embossed design on covers and spine. Some chipping to top and bottom of spine, as well as corners of covers. Tanning from age and foxing to pages and edges, but doesn't affect legibility of text or illustrations. Beautiful old volume. Biographical sketches of eight American painters.

Record # 31725


Price: $63.00 

 

Artists of America, The


Lester, C. Edwards

Hardcover. New York, Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1846, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Includes biographical sketches of Thomas Crawford, Rembrandt Peale, James DeVeaux, John Trumball, Gilbert Charles Stuart, Benjamin West, Henry Inman, Washington Allston. Brown cloth covers with embossed decorative borders, gilt titles decorative illustration to spine and cover, green patterned endpapers, all edges gilt, 9 b&w tissue-protected engravings. Previous owner's pencil inscription to blank preview page, wear and rubbing to cover edges and spines, cloth covering partially detached from lower portion of spine, noticeable foxing to most pages. A rare book in good condition.

Record # 806049


Price: $80.00 

 

Artists of the American West: A Biographical Dictionary Volumes I, II, III


Dawdy, Doris Ostrander

Hardcover. Chicago, The Swallow Press, First, 1980, 81, 85, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Three volumes. Pages: 275+345+568. Volume III contains the three-volume index. This three-volume set is intended as a reference for those studying the American West. All artists included were born before 1900. Black cloth-bound with blue uniform dust jackets. All three volumes well-bound, clean copies. The dust jackets range from very good to near fine with some edgewear and rubbing/scratching.

Record # 806954


Price: $150.00 

Artists' Video: An International GuideZippay, Lori (editor)
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Artists' Video: An International Guide


Zippay, Lori (editor)

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Record # 469990


Price: $31.00 

 

As Time Goes By - The Life of Ingrid Bergman


Leamer, Laurence

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illus.

Record # 52709


Price: $15.00 

 

Aspects of E.M. Forster - Essays and Recollections Written for His 90th Birthday


Stallybrass (Ed.), Oliver

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Contributions by E. Bowen, Plomer, D. Garnett, others. Dust jacket price clipped, chipped, short tears

Record # 55238


Price: $15.00 

 

Assassin, The - A Story of Race and Rage in the Land of Apartheid


Van Woerden, Henk

New York, Henry Holt, 1st US, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardbound, 176 pages. Top corners a bit bumped. Dust jacket with rubbing, minor edgewear.

Record # 500891


Price: $18.00 

 

Assault on Mount Helicon - A Literary Memoir


Barnard, Mary, Illust. by: Illustrated

Berkeley, CA, University of California, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, 331 pages. B&W illustrations.

Record # 302801


Price: $15.00 

 

Assembling My Father - A Daughter's Detective Story


Oliver, Anna Cypra

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 355 pages. SIGNED BY OLIVER on title page. Illustrated with black & white photos.

Record # 509230


Price: $25.00 

 

Assisi of Saint Francis


Goff, Mrs. Robert

Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 1st, 1908, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 290 pages. Color plate illustrations by Colonel R. Goff. Gilt top edge. Also The Influence of the Franciscan Legend on Italian Art by J. Kerr-Lawson, with reproductions after the Old Masters. Some light foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscription to back of front end paper. Foxing to endpapers. Spine faded. Corners bumped. Light soiling to covers.

Record # 503896


Price: $18.00 

At Any Cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of ProfitO'Boyle, Thomas F.

At Any Cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit


O'Boyle, Thomas F.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 449 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket price clipped. Some soil to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468343


Price: $13.00 

 

At Home on the Prairie: The Houses of Purcell & Elmslie


Legler, Dixie; Korab, Christian

Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy with color pictures throughout.

Record # 2233373


Price: $23.00 

 

At the Breakfast Table and Other Reminiscences


Lewis, C.S.

NY, Macmillan Co., 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Ed. by James T.Como. 299 pages. Light fade to dust jacket spine. Dust jacket price clipped.

Record # 62343


Price: $25.00 

 

At the Pines - Swinburne and Watts-Dunton in Putney


Panter-Downes, Mollie

hardcover. Boston, Gambil, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 196 pages.

Record # 64592


Price: $20.00 

 

At the Sign of the Rainbow: Margaret Calkin James 1895-1985


Miles, Betty

Softcover. Warwickshire, Felix Scribo, Reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 84 pages. Softcover with slight edgewear. Former price sticker on back wrapper. Clean, unmarked copy. Color images throughout. Foreward by Alan Powers.

Record # 470778


Price: $19.00 

 

Atat

Hardcover. London, England, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, Reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 542 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has a touch of age wear at top of back cover (see image), unclipped, very good. Top edge dyed. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. In great shape. This important and absorbing biography will fill many gaps in our knowledge of the man who created modern Turkey and changed the course of European history.

Record # 32185


Price: $23.00 

Atom EgoyanDesbarats, Carole/Daniele Riviere/Jacinto Lageira/Paul Virilio
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Atom Egoyan


Desbarats, Carole/Daniele Riviere/Jacinto Lageira/Paul Virilio

Softcover. Paris, Editions Dis Voir, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages. Softcover. Full color and black & white photographs. Slight toning to page edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613915


Price: $38.00 

Attic, The: Memoir of a Chinese Landlord's SonCao, Guanlong
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Attic, The: Memoir of a Chinese Landlord's Son


Cao, Guanlong

Hardcover. California, University of California Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Slight edge fading to boards and spine. Otherwise clean inside and out. From dust jacket front flap: "In this exquisite memoir, novelist Guanlong Cao sketches the tale of growing up in Shanghai during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution."

Record # 30190


Price: $19.00 

 

Au Fur et a Mesure: Tel Que Raconte a Micheline Simard (SIGNED)


De Preist, James

Softcover. Quebec, Heritage Plus, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY DE PREIST on half-title page. French text.

Record # 404683


Price: $35.00 


  
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