Jacques Constance (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. As new book lacking DJ. The author information portion of the DJ has been neatly attached to the front pastedown endpaper. No ownership or other marks in book. Not a remainder. ; 8.3 X 5.8 X 1.1 inches; 176 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. DJ rubbed with wear to extremities. Price intact. Turquoise cloth boards. Bottom front corner tip bumped. Illustrated with black and white photos.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages; Trade sized paperback in glossy illustrated covers. Soundly bound copy with light shelf rubbing to covers at edges and with light to moderate sun fading at spine and cover edges. G+.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condition: very good. Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

Condition: Good. 1970. No edition remarks. 176 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Black and white photographs. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with some small tears, chipping and creasing. Some rubbing and marking to surfaces.

Condition: Good. Good condition. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and creasing.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Owner's name and date. Otherwise clean, tight, and unmarked. A sound and handsome copy, very neat. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st English Edition (softcover issue). [nice clean copy, virtually as-new with no significant wear]. (Theories of Representation and Difference) Series Trade PB (B&W photographs) Blurbed as "one of the most important studies of Eisenstein to have appeared in any language," this volume (first published in French in 1979) draws on "the recent discovery and publication (in Russian) of thousands of pages of his theoretical writings [which] have led to the realization that he was also one of the most prolific and one of the most consistent theoreticians of cinema." The author "interrogates the writings and films for an understanding of the aesthetic, social, and psychological assumptions underlying the concept and practice of montage.".

Softcover. Color-illustrated wraps with black lettering. 79 pp. Color illustrations. Introduction by Constance Schwartx, essays by Jean-Jacques Fernier and Clement Greenberg, catalogue of 34 works, illustrated, and biographic chronology. VG (May have label & few marks from previous gallery owner.).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 176pp, bw ills. Or blue cloth in jacket. Jacket rubbed at folds, light toning to endpapers. When her husband Canon John Jacques went to act as temporary Anglican Chaplain in Istanbul the author accompanied him. This is an account of their adventures. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Minimal wear to book. Rubbed jacket with tear to rear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. 176pp plus numerous black and white plate illustrations. In bright turquoise cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. 8vo. Very gently pushed at spine ends, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original illustrated dust jacket, a little rubbed at extreme edges with a few minor chips and a little shelf wear. Dust wrapper now protected in an archival quality Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape of adhesives. A travel book recording the experiences and observations of the wife of a missionary living in Istanbul, giving a flavour of the city and an exploration of its past told through its buildings and bustling culture. Hard to find title.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good_. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good in Sleeve. John Barnes (illustrator). First Edition. 176pp. 8.7 inches. Turquoise buckram, gilt titles. Covers vg. Internally, exlib traces to epp, stamp on titlepage, otherwise contents vg. In original pictorial dw, vg in its sleeve. Illustrated with b/w photographs. A travel book with a difference. The wife of a temporary Anglican Chaplain in Istanbul, she records a personal journey of exploration into the past and present of a strange, old and enchanted city. (Turkey, Travel, Biography, Roman, Women) 500g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good. Très bon état. in8. 1990. broché. 128 pages. Ouvrage de Harry Mathews portant sur la célèbre revue littéraire française La Nouvelle Revue Française (NRF) probablement une analyse un hommage ou une ?uvre s'inspirant de cette institution éditoriale majeure du XXe siècle. Very Good.

A compact tract volume documenting the heated 1865 debate over André Dupin's denunciation of women's supposed addiction to luxury, which he blamed for moral decline and for fuelling prostitution in Second Empire Paris. The six pamphlets - Dupin's speech and five spirited rejoinders - capture both sides of a controversy that unfolded amid campaigns against prostitution and the wider "crinoline" panic, when anxieties about female consumption, commercial modernity, and republican civic virtue converged. Dupin cast women's taste for luxury as socially corrosive, claiming that prostitutes had set a ruinous model emulated by respectable women. His accusation prompted forceful replies from writers across the political and social spectrum, who defended luxury as a legitimate expression of individuality and modern freedom. Olympe Audouard's two counter-pamphlets are the most pointed: in one she rebuts Dupin's claims from a feminist, cosmopolitan perspective; in the other she inverts his thesis by accusing men of their own "unbridled luxury" in pursuing costly masculine ideals. She ends by proposing a "society of good fathers" to rival Dupin's imagined temperance movement, urging men to adopt frugality, break with mistresses, and support their illegitimate children. Constance Aubert, a prominent fashion journalist, likewise champions women as discerning consumers; Louise Laurent-Martin contributes a humorous domestic riposte; and the publisher Jules Tardieu offers a satirical defence of women's extravagance. Together these tracts chart the clash between republican moralists and advocates of commercial modernity at the moment when the figure of the female shopper became a focal point of political and cultural anxiety. A full list of the pamphlets is available on request. Miranda Gill, Eccentricity and the Cultural Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Paris, 2009; John House, "Curiosité", in Richard Hobbs, ed., Impressions of French Modernity: Art and Literature in France 1850-1900, 1998; Lisa Tiersten, Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siècle France, 2001. 6 pamphlets bound in 1 vol., of varying sizes, the largest 170 x 110 mm and the smallest 100 x 65 mm, the vol. itself octavo. Manuscript title in ink on first blank reading "Du luxe effréné des femmes par Dupin et de St Germain". Late 19th-century red pebble-grain quarter sheep, spine lettered and ruled in gilt and blind, marbled boards and endpapers, blue silk bookmarker. Bookseller's ticket, A. Aubry of Paris, on front free endpaper verso. Binding rubbed, corners bumped, pamphlets generally clean (see note for individual condition remarks). Overall in very good condition.

FIRST EDITION. 290 x 220 mm. (11 1/2 x 8 3/4"). Two volumes. Excellent contemporary calf, raised bands, spine lavishly gilt in compartments with unusual architectural centerpiece, intricate scrolling cornerpieces with lancet accents, two red morocco labels, marbled endpapers. Title pages with engraved vignette of the council, dedication page with engraved royal arms of Frederick William of Prussia, decorative engraved initials, and 19 ENGRAVED PORTRAITS BY BERNARD PICART. A Large Paper Copy. Front pastedowns with private library shelf label of Bessinge. Title pages of both volumes with signature of Charles Richard Tronchin. Brunet III, 976. âVolume II with half-inch split at head of front joint and small patch of lost patina (from insect activity) on front board, joints and extremities of both volumes a little rubbed, boards with light chafing or faint scratches, isolated mild browning or other trivial imperfections but still AN EXTREMELY APPEALING SET--entirely clean and fresh internally with especially ample margins, with sharp impressions of unusually bright plates, and with bindings showing no significant signs of use and looking very attractive on the shelf. This is a handsomely illustrated history of the Council of Constance, the 15th century ecumenical council that resolved the Western Schism, elected a new pope for the unified Roman Catholic Church, and condemned reformer Jan Hus as a heretic. It is enlivened with beautiful portraits of the participants by an artist Ray considers "the outstanding professional illustrator of the first third of the eighteenth century." Our author, French Protestant divine Jacques Lenfant (1661-1728), drew heavily on writings by those present at the council for this account, which is considered a fair recording of the proceedings. Lenfant likely felt some sympathy for Hus, tried and burned at the stake for heresy, and for his countryman Jerome of Prague, who came to support Hus and ended up meeting the same fate. Picart has referenced their martyrdom in his portraits, depicting Hus' execution in a vignette beneath his portrait, and balancing the tondo portrait of Jerome on a pile of burning logs. Similarly, the radical English theologian John Wycliffe, posthumously convicted of heresy at the council, is pictured over a stack of burning books, his writing having been condemned to this fate. But in addition to the harsh reality of burning execution, Picart employs gentler details: Parisian Jean Gerson, the formidable Chancellor of Paris, is in sober robes, but the adorable fluffy puppy beneath his portrait softens his image considerably. The cardinal of Foix, who had negotiated the end of the schism involving rival popes in Rome and Avignon, is flanked by a cherub holding an olive branch, looking askance at a slain dragon which has been relieved of his many heads. The new pope, Martin V, is shown with the insignia of the papacy and a dove clasping an olive branch in its beak. The portrait of Italian humanist Poggio Bracciolini is shown hanging in an open window that looks out on his city of Florence, with a stack of books by Quintilian and other classical authors Poggio had rescued from obscurity on the windowsill. Throughout, Picart's facial images are strikingly individuated--these are convincing portraits that project history from the book's pages. Picart (1673-1733) was born in Paris, where he learned engraving from his father, Etienne, and from Sébastian Le Clerc, and "early acquired a reputation both as an artist and engraver." He moved to the busy publishing city of Amsterdam sometime before 1712, and established himself as both printseller and illustrator/engraver. There, he designed and engraved an impressive body of illustrations for Dutch printers at a time when, in Ray's words, "designs for the finest illustrated books were typically drawn by leading painters." Our previous owner Charles Richard Tronchin (1763-1835), was a Swiss politician of great wealth who donate very substantial sums to relieve the sick and destitute.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1727 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 730 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 730 Volume 1 Language: French.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1727 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. Pages: 624 As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 624 Volume 2 Language: French.