335 pages; several reproductions of b&w photographs. Signed by Flexner. Previous owner's label on the front pastedown; a ghost of the label on the facing endpaper. Moss green cloth boards with paper title labels on the front board and on the spine. Head of the spine is worn. View More...
16 pages followed by 124 b&w illustrations, most are photos. "Aircraft" was the publisher's title, Corbusier added his own, "L'avion accuse ..." "The airplane indicts". He loves the airplane for itself (form and function, material use) and as a metaphor for what it and its like will do for humanity. He extolls "The Birds-Eye View" of what man has created and what man must change. Clean throughout. The front free-endpaper is missing; its removal has caused the hinge to be roughened with some loss of paper over the hinge at the bottom. Also, the pastedown endpaper has some surface loss at a corn... View More...
356 pages; 27 illustrations, including frontispiece; index. Well told. Light blue paper boards with dark blue cloth backing, paper titles label on the spine. Spine darkened; titles label cracked but whole; innards clean and tight, about fine. View More...
128 pages; 104 songs with music scores. Edges of the boards are worn; backstrip solid, binding tight; paper covering the front board shows frequent handling but is whole and all titles are clear; pages are bright and clean; some corners are creased. View More...
295 pages; 158 text illustrations. One of the Press' "Centennial Books", examples of the Press' "finest publishing and bookmaking traditions" celebrating the beginning of their second century. A beautiful printing of this classic on ecru paper using black and green inks, decorative endpapers, green cloth boards, gilt titles. Dustjacket lightly shelf-soiled. View More...
230 pages; numerous full-page illustrations, some color, most b&w. Potters, weavers, dyers, Sendai weaver, Lacquer Maki-e, Choshitsu, Swordmakers, metal casters, Bamboo craftsman, Japanese doll craftsmen. Clean throughout, pages and illustrations bright; boards faded at edges and with light wear at the bottom of the spine. Dustjacket worn at edges; 1-inch paper loss at bottom. View More...
204 pages; 82 b&w illustrations, 5 color illustrations. First signature opened at the hinges between pp. 14 and 15, but still tied-in to the binding. Asian calligraphic stamp on the front endpaper. Boards' edges and corners are worn. Backstrip worn and soiled; discoloring suggests label removal. No library markings are found within the book. Paper label with titles on the backstrip is darkened and worn. View More...
218 pages; 88 illustrations (black and white drawings); frontispiece photograph; floral-decorated boards. Clean and tight, nearly unblemished within; paper boards darkened and titles on spine rubbed off. View More...
394 pages; numerous b&w illustrations plus two tipped-in color reproductions with tissue guards. Of a Series of publications by this publisher recounting Esposizioni. Clean. Hinges are open at some signatures but still bound-in. The preliminary title page on card paper with advertisements on the verso is detached, as is the next page, customary paper, with publisher's advertisements. Following is the main title page, which is tight. Though some hinges are open the remainder is bound-in. All pages and plates are present. Boards are soiled and worn at corners. Backstrip appears washed, gilt t... View More...
296 pages; 2 illustrated portraits. Original softcover issue bound in colorfull stippled boards; marbled endpapers. Entire original wrappers present Paper label with gilt titles on the spine; a piece of the label is torn away. Occasional blue marks in the margin of selected poems (see image). . Otherwise, clean throughout; tight binding View More...
86 pages. Printed for Random House by Bremer Presse, Munich. Printed by hand on Zanders hand-made paper. 250 numbered copies (i-ccl) for Random House; 280 numbered copies (1-280) for subscribers of the Bremer Presse. This is Nr. cvi. Title and Initials by Anna Simons. Boards and text clean, bright and tight. Dustjacket repairs to the joints at the spine; spine darkened with some small loss of material and wear to head and tail as well as corners. Jacket protected by a Brodart cover. Previous collector's bookplate on the front pastedown. View More...
95 pages; 77 illustrations, most in color, many full page. Bright red boards with impressed white "signature" title. Clean and bright throughout; the plates on glossy paper; tight binding; bright, clean boards. View More...
50 pp.+ 2 adverisements; 16 color plates laid-on with tissue guards; text and plates on heavy paper stock. Leaves unopened. First signature, including frontispiece and title page is loose. Boards are soiled and worn at spine extremeties. Inman calls for "top edges gilt"; these ar not. Leaves are unopened and page edges are uncut. View More...
125 pages. The essay followed by 50 songs put down in English. The appendix offers explanatory notes on each of the songs often including the native words based on their phonetic sound. Clean throughout; well bound with rich textured paper. The boards lightly worn at the corners and lightly soiled. View More...
124 pages; dramatically illustrated throughout. Large format, good paper, good font, exciting illustrations, nice layout: readable for young eyes. Blue crayon marks on page 9 (in keeping with the illustration); edges and corners of the boards are worn. View More...
347 pages; 66 colour plates. Custom bound with red silk over boards and handwritten paper titles on the spine; original enpapers with maps. Contents complete, clean throughout, in fine condition. Two water spots on the silk-covered boards have left darkened areas on the front board. View More...
