WEIMAR CINEMA AND AFTER: Germany's Historical Imaginary
New York: Routledge, 2004. Trade paperback. Octavo. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A crisp, unread copy - fine. More
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NICOLAS SLONIMSKY: The First Hundred Years
New York: Schirmer Books, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. A tribute to his career as a conductor, composer, teacher, and writer, this compendium celebrates Slonimsky's life and work. Featuring selections from "Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians"... More
EPHRAIM GEORGE SQUIER AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. "Although Squier is best known today for the classic book he coauthored with Edwin H. Davis, Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, Terry A. Barnhart shows... More
THE BON VIVANT'S COMPANION ...or... How to Mix Drinks
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. Hardcover. First edition thus. "The father of American mixology," Thomas (1830-1885) was the principal bartender at the Metropolitan House in New York and at the Planters' House in St... More
THE HOLY LAND [and] EGYPT & NUBIA [with] THE LIFE, WORKS AND TRAVELS OF DAVID E. ROBERTS
New York: Rizzoli, 2000. Hardcover. David Roberts (1796-1864) is considered one of the most expressive painters and historical record keepers of the nineteenth century, and this publication collects his portraits of two of the world's... More
INDO-EUROPEAN LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY
Coral Gables, Florida: University of Miami Press, 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. The first edition in English, translated by Elizabeth Palmer. Summaries, table and index by Jean Lallot. Miami Linguistics Series No. 12. Octavo. Original burgundy... More
MIES IN AMERICA
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. Hardcover. This study of one of the 20th century's greatest architects re-evaluates the entire body of work undertaken by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe between his emigration to America... More
VISIONS OF NATURE: The Art and Science of Ernst Haeckel
Munich: Prestel, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. "This volume, which includes a number of Haeckel's drawings and watercolours which have never been published before, is the first detailed overview of the scientist and artist's vast output... More
ROBERT SMITHSON
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Hardcover. This fully illustrated 248-page book accompanies the first comprehensive American retrospective of Robert Smithson's (1938–1973) complex and highly influential career. Straddling the movements of minimalism and land art... More
GOYA'S LAST WORKS
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Hardcover. This beautiful book presents fifty-one key works from Goya’s late period along with two essays that illuminate his works of that time. Quarto. A fine copy in a.... More
THE BLUE FOUR: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky and Klee in the New World
Koln and New Haven: Dumont Buchverlag and Yale University Press, 1998. Hardcover. In 1924, Galka Scheyer brought the work of four fellow avant-garde artists, The Blue Four, from Germany to America. This beautiful book discusses... More
MATISSE ON ART
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995. Revised Edition. Hardcover. The major writings of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) are collected here along with transcriptions of important interviews and broadcasts given at various stages of... More
METAREPRESENTATIONS: A Multidisciplinary Perspective
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. First Edition. Trade paperback. Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science, Volume 10. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy. More
BYZANTINE ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1961. Hardcover. Reprint of the 1911 first edition. "Covering manifestations of Byzantine style throughout civilized Europe and the Near East from the 4th to the 15th century, Mr. Dalton's work... More
GERMAN MODERNISM: Music and the Arts
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with red titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. More
ANSEL ADAMS
Hastings-on-Hudson, New York: Morgan & Morgan, Inc., 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. A selection of images that show the growth and range of Adams' career across more than five decades. Edited by Liliane De Cock. Foreword... More
A PASSAGE OF HAWKS
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Compelling story about the marriage of a wealthy Southern belle to a wartime hero and the profound psychological struggle that results. Inscribed by Williams on the title page... More
THE FAR SIDE
New York: Horizon Press, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Loosely based on the early career of novelist James Jones, this roman a clef was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Inscribed by Williams on the... More
C. SILII ITALICI, VIRI CONSULARIS, DE BELLO PUNICO SECUNDO LIBRI XVII. Christophorus Cellarius recensuit, & Notis, & Tabulis Geographicis, ac gemino Indice, Rerum & Latinitatis, illustrauit.
Lipsiae (Leipzig): Thomas Fritsch, 1695. Hardcover. Silius (c.28–c.103) was consul in 68 and governor of the province of Asia in 69; he sought no further office but lived thereafter on his estates as a literary... More
THE HOLY BIBLE, Containing All the Books of the Old and New Testaments - King James Version
New York: Viking Studio, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. The first trade edition, reproduced from a limited letterpress edition published by Barry Moser's Pennyroyal Press. The first and only Bible of the twentieth century to be... More
TWO TALES: Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. The first trade edition, reproduced from a limited letterpress edition published by Barry Moser's Pennyroyal Press. A modern edition of Washington Irving's best... More
TARZAN OF THE APES
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1914. Hardcover. An early reprint (circa 1927), with the silhouette frontispiece, green top edge dye, and 34 titles listed on the verso of the dust jacket. The archetypal feral child... More
THE HELMET OF MAMBRINO, With an introduction by Francis Farquhar
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 350 copies printed at the University of California Press. The first separate publication of this essay which had originally appeared in the... More
BEYOND THE GAME: An Autobiography
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Memoirs of the American champion who played the sturdy foil to Helen Wills Moody's willowy star turn in the rivalry that captivated women's tennis in the 1930s... More