Matila Simon (25 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. White glossy pictorial boards with black lettering. Light surface soiling and scratches to back board. No Jacket. Illustrated throughout with colorful replicas.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Yellow cloth boards with orange lettering on face and spine. Binding is tight and square. Previous owner's name has been blackened out on inside page. The dust jacket has mild shelf wear and soiling. Travel guidebook.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Binding is moderately loose. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Square hardcover, 30 pages with full colour full page illustrations. See also our other title in this series, Artists of the American West, and for more of Italy, and who can get enough?, see also our listing for Sarah Blake McHam's very scarce Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture, and for Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century (buy two or more and save on postage!).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The book and contents are clean and tight. Dust jacket has some scuffing and light soil.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 30pp. HARDCOVER. Clean copy. No inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 73/4" - 93/4" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Library stamps and markings.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. ***Please Read*** 1st edition - Interior is tight and clean - size is 27.8x33x2.8 cm - 169 pages - my shelf location - 24-c.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. For those who plan to make Europe their temporary home. Clean interior. Pictures on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. The French Impressionists (Library of Fine Art)Matila Simon And Wendy Shore.Condition:used but clean and tidy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Harry N. Abrams, 1972. Folio. Burgundy cloth boards stamped in gold. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with shelf wear and some smudges. 168 pages. ISBN: 0810900238. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.…

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Cloth, 168 pages, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 33 cm. Translated from the French. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** A lavish publication with 107 illustrations, including 65 hand-tipped plates in full colour. *** CONTENTS: The Hermitage; The growth of the collection; All the wealth of Russia; The museum makers. Size: Folio. Collectible.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Account of the efforts by the Louvre's curators to protect and hide the gallery's works from the Nazi invaders. Jacket shows wear and tear, and discolouration. Ffep has stamps and stickers from former owners, and a rust stain which permeates the first few pages. Otherwise in sound condition. pp. 214. Please note that, depending on size and destination, we may request a payment to cover any extra shipping & postage charges. Proceeds to Amnesty International. Abe2628. This item is being sold under the Retail Gift Aid scheme to support Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust. Gift Aid enables us to increase the value of donations by 25%. Amnesty International UK Section is acting as an agent selling this item on behalf of one of our Gift Aid Donors.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Printing [Stated]. x, 214 pages. There are some tears and chips to dust jacket edges. Pencil erasure residue on fep. Includes Foreword by Joseph Anthony Horne, Footnotes, Acknowledgments, Bibliography, and Index. Also includes 26 black and white photographs. Eight days after France fell to the Germans on June 22, 1940, Hitler sent out an order demanding "the placing in security of all objects of art, whether they belong to France, to private owners, or to Jews." For the next four years, Nazi leaders schemed, squabbled, and defied each other in a stubborn struggle for the possession of French art. The curators of the Louvre had been prepared for the edict, and had made elaborately detailed plans in advance to save France's artistic heritage from falling into German hands. The author was a noted French artistic authority. She has been the Director of the International Print Exchanges and was part of the ownership team of a major French Art Gallery. She was the author of the Shorewood Art Reference Guide and was the translator of numerous French works into English. As an Art Historian, Ms. Simon obtained access to previously classified document during her research on The Battle of the Lourve. She also interview many of the American, French and Germans who were participants or knowledgeable observes of the events described in this important and impressive work. This information was derived from on-line sources: Art theft and looting occurred on a massive scale during World War II. It originated with the policies of the Axis countries, primarily Nazi Germany and Japan, which systematically looted occupied territories. Near the end of the war the Soviet Union, in turn, began looting reclaimed and occupied territories. "The grand scale of looted artwork by the Nazis has resulted in the loss of many pieces being scattered across the world." (Minyard, 2007) A large plan was drafted by the Nazis for much of the stolen art to be featured in a so-called Führermuseum, which would display much of the art plundered by the Nazis. This museum would feature works that were not considered to be "degenerate art" and would instead solely focus on the aesthetics that Hitler considered to be "good", and was to be created in the city of Linz. However, this museum was never created, and much of the art that may have been on display there is still missing today. The Nazis were so vehemently against the loss of the art that they had plundered for this museum that there was a plan to destroy a stockpile of art saved for the Führermuseum at the Altaussee salt mines, which held over 12000 pieces of stolen art, using eight 500-kilogram bombs. Nazi plunder refers to art theft and other items stolen as a result of the organized looting of European countries during the time of the Third Reich by agents acting on behalf of the ruling Nazi Party of Germany. Plundering occurred from 1933 until the end of World War II, particularly by military units known as the Kunstschutz, although most plunder was acquired during the war. In addition to gold, silver and currency, cultural items of great significance were stolen, including paintings, ceramics, books and religious treasures. Although most of these items were recovered by agents of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program (MFAA, also known as the Monuments Men), on behalf of the Allies immediately following the war, many are still missing. While the Nazis were in power, they plundered cultural property from every territory they occupied. This was conducted in a systematic manner with organizations specifically created to determine which public and private collections were most valuable to the Nazi Regime. Some of the objects were earmarked for Hitler's never realized Führermuseum, some objects went to other high-ranking officials such as Hermann Göring, while other objects were traded to fund Nazi activities. In 1940, an organization is known as the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg für die Besetzten Gebiete (The Reichsleiter Rosenberg Institute for the Occupied Territories), or ERR, was formed, headed for Alfred Rosenberg by Gerhard Utikal The first operating unit, the western branch for France, Belgium and the Netherlands, called the Dienststelle Westen (Western Agency), was located in Paris. The chief of this Dienststelle was Kurt von Behr. Its original purpose was to collect Jewish and Freemasonic books and documents, either for destruction or for removal to Germany for further "study". However, late in 1940, Hermann Göring, who in fact controlled the ERR, issued an order that effectively changed the mission of the ERR, mandating it to seize "Jewish" art collections and other objects. The war loot had to be collected in a central place in Paris, the Museum Jeu de Paume. At this collection point worked art historians and other personnel who inventoried the loot before sending it to Germany. Göring also commanded that the loot would first be divided between Hitler and himself. Hitler later ordered that all confiscated works of art were to be made directly available to him. From the end of 1940 to the end of 1942 Göring traveled twenty times to Paris. In the Museum Jeu de Paume, art dealer Bruno Lohse staged 20 expositions of the newly looted art objects, especially for Göring, from which Göring selected at least 594 pieces for his own collection. Göring made Lohse his liaison-officer and installed him in the ERR in March 1941 as the deputy leader of this unit. Items which Hitler and Göring did not want were made available to other Nazi leaders. Under Rosenberg and Göring's leadership, the ERR seized 21,903 art objects from German-occupied countries.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 041021; Simon, Matila The Battle of the Louvre: The Struggle to Save French Art in World War II.

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