Explanatory Text (39 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good hardcover copy with d/j and plastic overlay, 261 pages with many B/W illus and text throughout.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Bishop, Richard E. (illustrator). First Edition. R6 - Book has heavy chipping, wear and tear on the top cover corners, chipping, wear and some tears on some edges, sides and corners, adhered dust stains on the cover with rubbing and some wear, long tears, wrinkling, crease and soiling on the top corners near the spine from page 269 to the back loose endpaper, long peeling/tear on top right corner of page 268, some soiling on the hinges of the endpapers, chipping, wear and some stains on the edges, sides and corners of the endpapers, some stain and wear on the page edges, discoloration and moderate shelf wear.Limited Edition. A collection of etching and oil painting reproductions by Richard E. Bishop. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1974 1st ed. unpaginated. illus. orange cloth 4to: ex lib. copy; dj = tipped down in poly cover public library style; usual markings from a deletion; else a very nice clean, complete & tight copy. 14 black & white sketches of structures in Roswell, Georgia, with accompanying descriptive text. Bulloch Hall, for example, built in 1840, was the home of Mittie Bulloch Roosevelt, mother of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. DJ nicely in archival wraps with mended tears and soiling; pages dusty with light age toning. Less common collection.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Good copy hardcover with dustjacket and mylar overlay, 192 pp, 4 pp intro, 86 B/W plates, includes a catalog raissone of 600 works.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 262pp. Orig published in 1914. First Grafton edition 1977. This copy from the 19th Grafton printing. Pages lightly age-tanned. Tiny remainder star to bottom edge. V/light wear. The spine is uncreased and the binding is firm.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Full Page Color Illustrations, Extended Explanatory Text On Facing Pages. (illustrator). First American Edition. 242 Pp. Yellow Cloth. Very Large Format, First American Printing, With "A" In Letter Line On Copyright Page. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket. International Shipping At Higher Than Stated Rate.

Hardback. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition first printing Large octavo hardback xxxviii + 112 pp. Folding chart at rear Near Fine condition in Very Good price-clipped dust jacket. No inscriptions.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition. Book has very light wear. DJ has fading of the light blue color on the spine, folds and edges of the front panel. Contains two drawings and an index. Contains Conze's translations of the Diamond Sutra and the Heart Sutra and "explains all the terms and most of the arguments for students of Buddhism, and those interested in comparative religion and the traditional wisdom of mankind." Solid copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Decorative red leather boards. 143 pages; hinged plates, Text in German The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Moderate shelf handling wear. c1870s [ref oclc] 2 preliminary leaves, [3]-141, [1] pages 16 of 22 mounted photographs (including front.: portrait). Nach original-cartons von Wilhelm v. Kaulbach, C. Ja?ger, A. Mu?ller, Th. Pixis, R. Beyschlag, W. Lindenschmit. [Based on original drawings by Wilhelm v. Kaulbach, C. Jäger, A. Müller, Th. Pixis, R. Beyschlag, W. Lindenschmit.].

Hardcover. Condition: VERY GOOD ++. 1st Edition. One of 550 Copies. xiii, [1], 45pp, [3], printed on watermarked Hazelbourn deckle edge paper, bound in half cloth and decorative paper over boards, spine label intact [not chipped], with binding and hinges tight, illustrated throughout, includes the two folding maps. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS. Covers show light edge/corner wear, slight darkening to free endpapers.

Condition: Very Good. Brown and Bigelow 1948 Binding: Trade Paperback first edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. iv, 72 p. Series: Vajirarama publication series ; no.11. Edgewear to original printed boards, front hinge cracked; binding cracked but holding between pages 8-9, contents clean. 160 grams.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Second printing. Beige cloth boards, age toned, head of spine chip and rip, else sharp cornered. No dust jacket. Book is firm in binding, b&w plate illustrations of section close ups of Rivera's murals, inscription to front free endpage. Bookplate on front paste down page. Murals illustrated are the Stock Exchange mural and the School of Fine Arts mural in San Francisco, MoMa's Exhibition Frescoes, Rockefeller Center's mural, Institute of Fine Arts in Detroit, and the New Workers' School murals in New York. Free of any markings, not ex-library.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 232 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Thus. Selected by Daniel George.1 lightly bumped crnr.

Cloth Spine. Condition: Very Good+. Early maps and Towns from California Lithographs Reproductions (illustrator). First Edition. One of 550 copies of the Limited First Edition. Lightly aged textblock, else clean and tight. Peeling to the board corners, rubbed edges, light wear to head and foot of spine. Very bright and clean spine label, unfaded, unlike most other copies; 45p. Size: 4to - Over 9 ¾" -12" Tall. Hardcover.

No Binding. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Double record set. Fine dark blue labels printed in silver on glossy black vinyls. Original clear inner sleeves. Very Good illustrated outer jacket with moderate edge wear & toning. Spoken Word in Russian. Text sheet in Russian & English.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Cloth-backed laminated boards, spine label. Limited to 550 copies. Board edges rubbed, boards faintly scuffed. Contents fine but for faint toning to endpages. Publisher's broadside note "to Subscribers" included, slightly toned. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 45 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of 5,000. Unclipped dust jacket protected by archival mylar. Text in English and German with 247 color plates.John Heartfield, born Helmut Herzfeld, is best known as a founder of dada in Berlin along with George Grosz, and a satirist who used his photomontage art to oppose fascism.

Softbound. Condition: Very Good. Quarto, blue velvot covers with an embroidered illustration of Jerusalem on the front board, covers ahve a gold colored metal edge, free front endpaper is soiled and has an upside-down inscription in pen, 4, 78, 64 pp., color illustrations and hand doen calligraphy in the Hebrew section A Hebrew language Haggadah which incorporates a hand-written version of the Hebrew text all of which are original. Includes the English language text with type-set Hebrew stolen entirely from a pre-War Haggadah by Loewy and Guens. A rather shameful breach of copyright.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition Thus. An apparently unused copy, near fine in slipcase. Spine and edge of slipcase a wee faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Enlarged edition. Octavo bound in full calf with raised bands, dark red spine label and gilt lettering and ornamentation; marbled endpapers. Frontispiece portrait. Condition: minor rubbing and light wear to binding; armorial bookplate inside front cover; else very good. Pages: xxiii, 514,vii.

Soft cover. Condition: VERY GOOD ++. Third Edition. xiv, 367pp, with a plastic comb binding. Contents include: *80 Compositions & 150 pages of music *10 ragas from the basic scales *Full explanation of notation *Description of talas with drum patterns *Vocal and instrumental music *Complete list of exercises *Complete explanation of raga theory *History of the music of India *Explanation of musical forms *Introduction to Indian languages *Description of cultural patterns *Full glossary and index. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 1 book Size: 31x11cm.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 1 book Size: 31x11cm.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 1 book Size: 31x11cm.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 1 book Size: 31x11cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Wilhelm von Kaulbach. (illustrator). Very handsome book in clean fresh red buckram covers with a striking design in glowing gilt red and black colours to the front; titles in black; ; similar pattern to spine but colours somewhat sunned; the rear board has a blind stamped border with a foliar pattern. Internally very good and free of inscriptions; illustrated with over twenty full page plates with pasted-on engravings ; title page in red and black; plates and text pages all have a double red border line; binding sound; scattered variable foxing; end papers have a lovely foliar pattern on a muted gold background; all edges gilt; 88pp + plates; except for the last page all text pages and plates are on the rectos only. No date c. 1880. On the covers 'Gallerie' is spelt with two 'l's but on the title page it is spelt with one.