Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket under clear, mylar cover. Essays by Xavier Blanc-Jouvan (France), Gino Giugni (Italy), Thilo Ramm (West Germany), and Folke Schmidt (Sweden). Index. Measures 9.5x6.5 inches.
Part of a comparative study of European and American Procedures for settling certain types of labor disputes organized as an international research project. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Separating at spine. Smudges, tears, and chips on unclipped dust jacket under mylar cover. Anthropological study of Mailu, tribal people of south-east coast of papua. Includes index. Bibliography. Maps on end papers. 208p. Measures 5.75x8.75 inches. View More...
Unmarked text. Dust jacket under clear archival mylar cover. Beautifully illustrated in color and black-and-white. Measures 7x10 inches. 232p. An illuminating collection of essays from the preeminent scholar of architectural history and theory View More...
Unmarked text. Pieces missing on edge of rubbed dust jacket. Jacket under clear, archival mylar. Back of jacket lists the "complete list of Modern Library books". Corner tear on one page and a corner crease on a few others. 516p. Measures 5x7.25 inches. The autobiography of Henry Adams, grandson of John Adams. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. No dust jacket. Index. 226p. Remainder mark on edge. Topics include Oedipus Rex and The Bacchae, two plays by Ibsen, Trompe-l'Oeil in Shakespeare and Keats, Cervantes, Swift, Kafka, Romantic openness, the unconscious, and more. • • • View More...
Signed by Gord Peteran and Glenn Adamson. Unmarked. 192p. Foldouts. Exhibition catalog.
Contributions by Glenn Adamson, Gary Michael Dault, David Dorenbaum, and Gord Peteran. Presents 21 pieces of furniture by Peteran.
Gordon Peteran has been creating site-specific works of art and furniture for private and public spaces since 1979. He uses: fine cabinetry, found objects, assemblage and sculptural techniques to create a series of works that do not function as furniture, that are quite distinct from craft and which are not quite classifiable as design. • • • View More...
Factory sealed. Features Beijing-born Yun-Fei Ji 's (b. 1963) acclaimed scrolls, sculptures, and drawings. In his stunning impressionistic works, Yun-Fei Ji takes on the thousand-year-old practice of Chinese scroll painting, employing ink on paper as his primary medium, and landscape as his central subject. Rather than adopting the idealism characteristic of traditional scroll painting, Ji presents the gritty reality of life in contemporary China. • • • View More...
Finalist for the 2022 Pen/Faulkner Award for fiction, Finalist for the Publishing Triangel's Edmund White Debut Fiction Award, Winner of the 2022 Gina Berriault Award.
An examination of family, sacrifice, and empathy. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Index. 409p. Measures 7.25x10.25 inches. Essays, originally delivered as the 2010 Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library, encompass more than two centuries and three continents--Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Ranging from the late eighteenth century through the mid-twentieth. Topics include mapping and national identity in late colonial Mexico, the enduring complications created by the partition of British India, the racialized organization of space in apartheid and post-apartheid Sout... View More...
Unmarked text. Signed by artist. 58p. 7.25x7.25 inches. Includes sewn in gold page marker/ribbon. An imaginary narrative created as a photographic tableau by Stephen J. Albair with an introduction by Liam Passmore.
A visual presentation of unique Images that highlight the idea, of gardens, as a visual metaphor.
Stephen Albair (b. 1942) is an American artist who specializes in tableau photography, metal work and narrative jewelry. • • • View More...
Authors include Liliana Albertazzi, Ohad Ben-Sahar. Ernest Edmonds, Timothy L. Hubbard, Amy Ione, Jan J. Koenderink, Ilona Kovacs, Rainer Mausfeld, Baingio Pinna, Shinsuke Shimojo, Gert J. van Tonder, Dhanraj Vishwanath and Stephen W. Zucker. • • • View More...
Factory sealed. Painting in Latin America, 1550-1820: From Conquest to Independence surveys the diverse styles, subjects, and iconography of painting in Latin America between the 16th and 19th centuries. While European art forms were widely disseminated, copied, and adapted throughout Latin America, colonial painting is not a derivative extension of Europe. The ongoing debate over what to call it--mestizo, hybrid, creole, indo-hispanic, tequitqui--testifies to a fundamental yet unresolved question of identity. Measures 12x9.5 inches. Illustrated in color and black/white. 477p. • • •... View More...
Factory sealed. Color and black-and-white illustrations. 268p. Measures 7.5x10.25 inches. Ten distinguished scholars of history, literature, music, theatre, and art to explore the political and cultural implications of the court's transgressive new character with the return of Charles II to the English throne. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Tears and folds on dust jacket. Bump on edge. 167 illustrations in color and B/W. Topics include creation myths, natural forces, men and women, funeral myths, and more. Bibliography. Index. 304p. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket with some bends on the flaps. Some chipping on jacket. Woody Allen's third collection of comic writings. 149p.
These essays appeared in The New Yorker during the late 1970s. Volume includes Remembering Needleman, The Kugelmass Episode, Confessions of a Buglar, and more. • • • View More...
Factory sealed with slight tear in shrink wrap. 272p. 330 illustrations, 325 in full color. Measures 2.5x10.25 inches. Durer and Beyond presents a selection of 100 works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's outstanding collection of German, Swiss, Austrian, and Bohemian drawings. Artists include Durer, Martin Schongauer, Albrecht Altdorfer, Urs Graf, Hans Holbein the Younger, Friedrich Sustris, and Wenceslaus Hollar and other artists from fourteenth to the end of the seventeenth century. Richly illustrated and fully documented with artist biographies, comparative illustrations, and enlighteni... View More...
Unmarked text. Book text in German. Lain in booklet with English and French translation of the text. 104p. 42 color plates. Dust jacket under clear archival mylar cover.
A pioneer of techniques, a gifted teacher, and early architectural photographer, Le Gray was also the founder of artistic photography. His seascapes and cloud studies, today among the market's most valuable prints, earned him overnight fame and admiration by the Impressionists. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Unclipped dust jacket. 104p. Measures 9.5x11 inches. Photography by Paolo Pellegrin.
Tells the catastrophic story of how the Arab world has descended into chaos since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Includes personal stories and haunting black and white photographs. • • • View More...
Unmarked. Text in English, Francais and Italiano. Arranged by years, with a section on periodicals. Covers the years 1959-73 in an annotated form. Index. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Copy 210 of a limited edition of 500 copies. 115p. Index. 2 illustrations. 3 maps. Bibliography. Index.
Steven van der Hagen (1563-1621) was the first admiral of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). He made three visits to the East Indies. • • • View More...
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Compiled and edited by Arthur Lynn Andrews. 364p. Authors include Thomas Henry Huxley, Samuel Colcord Bartlett, T.B. Macaulay, Richard G. Moulton, John Fox, Jr., Bret Harte, Frank Norris, and others. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Dust jacket has a bumped corner soft corner crease. Notes. Index. 291p. Standard of Care explores the fundamental value conflicts confronting medicine and society through the late 20th Century by examining courtroom resolutions of real bioethical disputes, often of constitutional dimension.
This case-based approach, which ranges from abortion to euthanasia, from AIDS to organ transplantation, from genetic research to the artificial heart and rationing, illuminates the value choices with which the power (and impotence) of medicine confronts us. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. Illustrated in black-and-white. Fourth printing. Some glue toning inside cover. This book offers a complete course in the art of retouching examining the tools and their usage, various techniques, and more. 138p. Measures 7.5x10.75 inches. • • • View More...
Unmarked text. A colorful introduction to Aztec culture provides young readers with a wealth of background information about the establishment of their civilization around 1300 AD at Tenochtitlan, where they built magnificent pyramids and temples. • • • View More...
