Museums World, First Edition (186 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardcover, 120 pages in fine condition. Dustjacket near fine, 1 repaired tear. 60 color illustrations. 1st North American edition. 20 projects from the world's great museums. Degas, Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir and others. Accurate color charts, step by step instructions and detailed diagrams for each design.; 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Condition: Very Good. 1st. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing and/or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First American Edition. Color illustration on cover and dj. Dj in mylar wrap. Int. good. Paintings in color. 45 pages. Usual library markings.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Various (illustrator). This is a pristine and unread copy from the first printing of the first edition, a book which has been stored flat in archival conditions since it was issued while I worked for the publisher. Slight signs of wear on the back side of the dust jacket. Priced accordingly.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This is a pristine and unread copy from the first printing of the first edition, a fine copy for gift-giving.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. Red buckram like cloth with gold lettering on spine. top edge red, clean unmarked copy, looks unused. In a tan mylar protected DJ. MEDIA SHIPPING ONLY ON THIS HOSS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Newsweek/Mondadori, New York, 1968. A volume in the Great Museums of the World series. Book is 11-1/2" x 9-1/4", 172 pages; Olive cloth boards with gilt titles to front board and spine. Exterior is very good with slight warp to boards: it is square, with no corner bumps or edge dings, head and heel of spine undamaged. Interior is pristine: it is completely free of writing, stray marks, stains and page damage of any sort, save prior owners name in neat pencil on front pastedown. First signature with four pages of front matter just loosening. Like all the books in this series, this one is lavishly illustrated with color photos of paintings and other items in the museum's collection. The jacket has only very mild wear at the head of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xx, 379 pages, [8] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's card index detailing his deals and dealers. It reveals the existence of a web of tombaroli tomb raiders who steal classical artifacts, and a network of dealers and smugglers who spirit them out of Italy and into the hands of wealthy collectors and museums. Peter Watson, a former investigative journalist for the London Sunday Times and author of two previous expose;s of art world scandals, names the key figures in this network that has depleted Europe's classical artifacts. Among the loot are the irreplaceable and highly collectable vases of Euphronius, the equivalent in their field of the sculpture of Bernini or the painting of Michelangelo. The narrative leads to the doors of some major institutions: Sothebys, the Getty Museum in L.A., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York among them. Filled with great characters and human drama, The Medici Conspiracy authoritatively exposes another shameful round in one of the oldest games in the world: theft, smuggling and duplicitous dealing, all in the name of art. / Peter Watson writes for the New York Times and has written weekly columns on the art market for the London Sunday Times, Observer and Evening Standard. In June 1997, he was appointed Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in the University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Caravaggio Conspiracy, From Manet to Manhattan,and Sotheby's: The Inside Story. Cecilia Todeschini is a researcher and translator who has worked for the BBC, ITV, CBS, ABC, and NBC. She has covered papal conclaves as well as the great mafia trials in Italy among many other subjects." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Prologue on Fifth Avenue; Sotheby's, Switzerland, smugglers; Connoisseurs and criminals: the passion for Greek vases; Corridor 17; Forensic archaeology in the Freeport; The paper trail, the Polaroids, and the "Cordata"; The Getty: the "Museum of the Tombaroli"; The Metropolitan in New York and other rogue museums; "Collectors are real looters"; The laundries of London and New York; Phone taps and the great rumor; The Paris raid on Robert Hecht; Raids in Zurich and Geneva, arrest and interrogations in Cyprus and Berlin; Interrogations in Los Angeles and Manhattan; The puzzle of the "orphans"; The "Cordata" continues in Egypt, Greece, Israel, and Oxford; The fall of Robin Symes; The woodcutter's archive; The trial of Giacomo Medici; Trading with Japan, trials in Rome; Operation eclipse; Conclusion: 500 million dollars + 100,000 looted tombs; Chippendale's Law; Epilogue on Fifth Avenue; Dossier. Size: 8vo. Collectible.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. x, 405 pages; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Size: 8vo. Collectible.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Small rub on title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Twenty of the best loved pictures that tell the tales of the Saints.

HB 4to G+/-- 1st Ed. Illustrated. Index. 247 pages. 1st ed. Green cloth boards with gilt lettered spine (faded). Cloth partially loose from board at top front corner; light sunning along upper front edge of cover.

paperback. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Colorful wraps are uncut; lightly rubbed at edges. Boards are firmly bound; unmarked pages throughout. Light foxing along textblock edge & along upper margins.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 8 color and 130 black and white illustrations. First edition. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

Quality Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. As new. Glossy, colour illustrations. [Montreal Books rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair.]. Book.

HARDCOVER. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. 304pp, quarto. tight binding, clean throughout, Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. Light green cloth binding with gold colored print on cover and spine. Only defect is a small pressmark on each lower cover edge. Tight, sound and unmarked. 173 pages including indexes. 125 color illustrations of Prado collections. Dust jacket has wear at tips and spine ends plus a few chips along edges. Dj is in mylarand not price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. 1st. pp 184.