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By: Abbott, Lyman, Dr.; L.W. Betts; Elizabeth Bisland; H.C. Candee; ]et al]
Price: $100.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1896
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004485
ISBN: no
Condition: Good
pp. 400; 397. 400 illustrations, color and b&w. Two volumes that aspire to cover all knowledge an adult may need for the beginning of the twentieth century: home; social life; garden; dress; education; books and reading; house building; furnishing; rugs; hygeine; housekeeping; children; china; occupations; outside opportunities; business affairs. Chapter One is "Occupations for Women" of which of which Art, Architect; Physician, Lawyer, Dressmaking, the Stage are some that are considered. Clean text block; tissue guards on most color illustrations; tight binding. Removal of bookplates... View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Washiington, D.C., National Geographic Society: 1975
Seller ID: 002369
ISBN: 0-87044-176-0
Condition: Very Good
200 pages; thoroughly illustrated in color. An appreciation for the artists commonly called craftsmen. They work with wood, metal, glass, fiber, clay, etc. View more info
By: Barnett, Alan W.
Price: $95.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, The Art Alliance Press: 1984
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001610
ISBN: 0-87982-030-6
Condition: Fine
516 pages; numerous illustrations in color and in b&w. A history and a study of the urban wall art that emerged in the 1960s. The study includes the artists' social expressions as well as its place in the broad history of art. The jacket is rubbed on its face and torn at the head of the spine with a small loss of material on the back panel. View more info
![Image for Orpheus, Modern Culture and the 1913 Renaissance [ Painting & Sculpture, Architecture & Crafts, Music-The Novel, Poetry & Drama, Cinema-Radio-TV, Education-History] A Panoramic Survey, Commemorative Edition-1960](/assets/images/product/004572.jpg)
Price: $600.00
Publisher: Henri Martin Barzun: 1960
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by the author
Seller ID: 004572
ISBN: no
Condition: Very Good
148 pages. Dr. Barzun was a poet and a founder-director of arts groups in France and the United States. Here he offers analysis and opinion on the several areas mentioned within the title. Orpheus. "As a Commemorative Book not meant for the public, it also intends to express the author's indebtedness and gratitude to the Institutions which sponsored his cultural labors in France and America over the years, as well as the many co-workers, artists, writers, educators, critics and patrons, whose invaluable contributions are gathered or recorded in the very pages of the Survey. To all of them,... View more info
By: Berger, Maurice
Price: $13.00
Publisher: New York, HarperCollins Publishers (harper collins): 1994
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002132
ISBN: 0-06-4302288
Condition: Very Good
310 pagesb&w illustrations. 15 essays from such as Cornel West; Linda Nochlin; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.; Ann Gibson. Clean and tight, nearly fine. View more info
By: Bernstein, Richard; Nigel Cameron;; David Bonavia; [et al].
Price: $20.00
Publisher: New York, Exeter: 1982
Seller ID: 001782
ISBN: 0-89673-106-5
Condition: Very Good
382 pages; illustrated throughout with color photography. Ten essays by ten authors with intimate familiarity of the "new" China. Essays cover such as, tourism, minorities, sports, politics, cookery. Book and jacket are nearly fine save for a small gift inscription on the half-title page. View more info
By: Black, C.F.; Mark Greengrass; David Howarth; [et al.]
Price: $35.00
Publisher: New York, Prentice Hall: 1993
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001999
ISBN: 0-671-86523-4
Condition: Fine
240 pages; densely illustrated in color with photographs, artworks, maps. Not ignoring the art, the book aims to inform about the social, political and intellectual environment of the time. View more info
By: Black, Mary
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The New-York Historical Society:
Seller ID: 003927
ISBN: no
Condition: Very Good
c. 1970. 48 pages; more than 50 b&w and color illustrations. There are 322 catalgued items. Sponsored by the Central Synagogue to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Laying of its Cornerstone. Clean throughout; small tape repair to the head of the spine. View more info
By: Brainerd, George
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, Southwest Museum: 1954
Seller ID: 000305
Condition: Good
93 pages; b&w illustrations; foldout maps of Mesoamerican archeological sites and a perspective drawing of the monument at Tikal. Previous owner's name on front pastedown; ghost of blue pencil writing on the front free endpaper ( about 1 sq. in.) View more info
By: Caldwell, Erskine; Margaret Bourke-White
Price: $150.00
Publisher: New York, The Viking Press: 1939
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 002338
Condition: Very Good
128 pages; b&w photo reproductions. In 1939, a tour through Czechoslovakia, east to west, stopping along the way breaking bread with locals, conversing with them, understanding the threat of Germany, observing and taking pictures. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Hyperion: 1997
Edition: Stated first edition
Seller ID: 004942
ISBN: 0786863218
Condition: Fine
223 pages. Strategies for organizing life and making good choices. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Chiera, Edward; George G. Cameron (Edited by)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press: 1938
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004380
ISBN: no
Condition: Very Good
235 pages; b&w illustrations throughout.; endpaper maps. Decyphering the written languages of the ancient Mesopotamian people. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Clarke, Mike; Daniel M. Fox; Peter Langhorne
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Milbank Memorial Fund: 2001
Seller ID: 005056
ISBN: 1887748474
Condition: Very Good
200 pages. Collaborative case studies. "The proper purpose of collaboration between researchers and policymakers is to use evidence from research to inform judgments for which policymakers are accountable." Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
Price: $13.00
Publisher: New York, Abbeville: 1989
Seller ID: 001801
ISBN: 1-55859-159-1
Condition: Fine
224 pages; illustrated throughout in color and in b&w. View more info
By: Douthat, Ross
Price: $10.00
Publisher: New York, Simon & Schuster: 2018
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004983
ISBN: 1501146920
Condition: Fine
234 pages. Liberal or conservative. Orthodoxy or change. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Emory, Michael (Edited by); Carl Barile (Designed by); Dennis Sanders (Introduction)
Price: $650.00
Publisher: Chicago, Contemporary Books: 1978
Seller ID: 005085
ISBN: 0809276496
Condition: Good
not paginated. Numerous photos color and b&w. The early text pages (8) are wrinkled; pictorial pages are flat and clean. Binding tight; spine worn at edges. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York / Tokyo, Weatherhill / Heibonsha: 1980
Edition: First English Edition, Second Printing
Seller ID: 003890
ISBN: 0834810255
Condition: Very Good
186 pages; 200 illustrations color and b&w; 3 foldouts. Foldouts 1 and 2 are the verso and recto of the same sheet; foldout 3 is a stand-up model of a teahouse, which may be removed and assembled though it would destroy the book. Volume 15 of The Heibonsha Survey of Japanese Art. Light foxing to the top edge; clean throughout; both book and jacket are nearly fine. View more info
By: Herdan, Innes and Gustav (translated from the German and introduction)
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Cambridge, The Riverside Press: 1966
Edition: First Printing
Seller ID: 002247
Condition: Very Good
297 pages; 26 b&w full-page illustrations. "A Harlot's Progress"; "Marriage-à-la-Mode": "Strolling Actresses Dressing in a Barn"; "A Midnight Modern Conversation or The Bacchanalians"; "A Rake's Progress"; "The Four Times of the Day". Boards lightlly soiled; clean within; tight binding. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: New York, Weidenfeld and Nicolson: 1986
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001337
ISBN: 1-55584-017-5
Condition: Fine
256 pages; 35 color and 170 b&w illustrations. The Ancient City; The Developing City; The Modern City: this is Hibbert's general outline. Recommended. View more info
By: Johnson, Paul
Price: $18.00
Publisher: New York, Atheneum: 1978
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 001696
ISBN: 0-689-10921-0
Condition: Fine
240 pages. Well illustrated in color and in b&w, including the Hieroglyphic alphabet, Determinatives, heiroglyphs for Numerals, Weights and Measures, and Pharaohs. View more info
