Basil Gray Intro (7 results)
Published by New American Library, 1962
- Softcover
Seller: janet smith, Wheeling, WV, U.S.A.janet smith
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Soft Cover. Condition: Good. mentor-unesco art book. Cover shows some scuffing at top edge. No markings. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
Published by Mentor, New York, 1962
- Softcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Very good paperback. First edition. Pages are clean. Many fold-out illustrations. Cover lightly yellowing and rubbed.
Published by Faber and Faber 1955, 1955
- Hardcover
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New ZealandHard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd.
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Ex-library, quarto hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
Published by OCS, London, 1949
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Paper. Condition: Good, unless otherwise noted. 28x22cm, 15 pp. plus 4 pp b/w plates, illustrating 14 exhibits. // Catalogue of an exhibition, held by the Oriental Ceramic Society in London, 1949. 187 items were loaned. As ever with these OCS exhibitions, the names of all lenders are usefully given.
Published by OCS, London, 1953
Seller: Hanshan Tang Books Ltd, London, United KingdomHanshan Tang Books Ltd
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Paper. Condition: Good, unless otherwise noted. 28x22cm, 9 pp. plus 4 pp b/w plates illustrating 15 exhibits. // Catalogue of an exhibition of early unglazed wares and Han glazed wares held by the Oriental Ceramic Society in London, 1953.
Published by Ministry of the Imperial Court of Iran, Published by the Central Council of the Celebration of the 2500th Anniversary, Twenty-Fifth Shahrivar Printing House,, [Tehran, Iran]:, 1971
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Zephyr Used & Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.Zephyr Used & Rare Books
Contact seller5-star sellerAtlas folio. 14 x 18 in. 116 pp., printed on thick paper. Tipped-in colour frontisp., 34 tipped-in colour plates. Embossed blue publisher's cloth, gilt lettering in English, French & German (minor shelfwear, light rubbing), w/ d.j. (minor edgewear, slight scuffing), still VG/VG copy. First edition, 1 of 3000 copies printed, of t…his remarkable facsimile issued as part of the lavish 2500th Anniversary celebrations by the former Shah of Iran honoring the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. This sumptuous illuminated and gilded manuscript by Ferdowsi originally commissioned by the Timurid prince Giat-al-Din Baysongor b. Sahrok, was prepared by comparing several copies of the Sah-nama, and its extraordinary artistry richly reproduces the efforts of the Herat School of Painting. A version published in Farsi, English French & German in 5000 copies was also published.
More imagesPublished by Offset Press and Soroush Press, Teheran, 1990
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.Thorn Books, ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. Elephant Folios. The first work is bound in clue cloth, gilt spine title; blindstamping on the boards; blue endpapers. With 34 large mounted full color plates form the 15th century manuscript. Introduction by Basil Gray, who was the former Curator…of Oriental Antiquities at the British Museum. Text in English, French and German. One of 3000 copies. There is alight stain to the botom edge of the textblock not affecting the pages. The cloth is worn at the rear corner, else this is a very good copy. The duatwrapper is worn at the edges and has an inner repair at the rear corner, else is in very good condition. Together with: Tableaus from the Shahnameh of Hakim Abolghasem Ferdowi, Soroush Press, 1990. Black polished leather spine, gilt; blue cloth boards. Illustrated endpapers. 28 large mounted full color plates of miniatures by Karim Safaee with facing calligraphy by Amir Ahmad Falsafi. Introduction in English; calligraphy in Persian. A fine copy in a fine dustwerapper. .
