Titles starting with M from Design Books

Hannover: Kestner-Gesellschaft, 1964 This is a very good softcover copy in the original illustrated wrappers with just light wear. Completely clean inside. Text in German. Essay by Wieland Schmied. This catalog was prepared to accompany the exhibition at the Kestner-Gesellschaft in the summer of 1965. The exhibition surveys the work of Zero, the artists Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, and Gunther Uecker. Section on each artist, with a photo portrait of each. Illustrated in black & white with some color. Dozens ... (more information)

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Milan: Foto Camera , 1983 This is a fine hardcover copy in red printed glazed boards, with virtually no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in English and Italian. Illustrated in black & white with hundreds of small photographs of cameras. 367 cameras catalogued and reproduced in the photographs. Essays by the authors. Lots of technical information about the cameras. 10" high X 7" wide, 187 pages. . ... (more information)

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1927 This is an about very good hardcover set in black cloth with the titles and simple decoration printed in red. This is a two volume set of the first American edition. Very clean outside, just some light scuff marks, spines faded. Very clean inside. Both volumes have a small bookplate of the original owner inside the front cover, and volume 1 has her initials and the date 1927 neatly placed on the top edge of the front pink and gray endpaper. Volume two has repaired inside hing... (more information)

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New York: Universe Books, 1962 This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. Just a bit of wear to the corners and spine tips of the jacket. This is the first American edition. Text by Umberto Zanotti-Bianco and photographs by Leonard Matt. This is still one of the best general works on the Greek colonies in Southern Italy. The sites of Paestum, Tarentum, Metapontum, Sybaris, and many others are discussed and illustrated in black & white with 4 color plates. 12"... (more information)

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New York: Sotheby's, 2005 This is a fine softcover copy with no wear at all. Completely clean inside and out. Spine not creased, binding firm. This is a sale catalog. Essay by Vivienne Becker. 8 lots in the sale. All illustrated in full color detailed photographs. Estimates ranged from $50,000 to 150,000 per lot. 10 1/2" high X 8" wide, 44 pages. The sale was on December 8, 2005 in New York. . ... (more information)

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Paris: Alexandre Jolas , 1964 This is a very good softcover copy with almost no wear. Very clean inside and out. Just very faintly toned covers. Text in French. English translation insert laid in. Text by Andre Breton. 38 works in the exhibition (25 paintings and 13 gouaches). One tipped-in color plate + 6 black & white illustrations + a photograph of Magritte at work as frontispiece. 8.5" high X 6.5" wide. Scarce. . ... (more information)

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Gloucester,MA : Red Crow , 1971 This is a very good softcover copy with only light wear. Very clean inside and out. Poetry by John Crawford, Robert Hellman, John Lobb and Bernard Horn among others. 11" high X 8.5" wide, 80 pages. . ... (more information)

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Lausanne: Editions Du Grand-Chene, 1950 This is a near fine softcover copy in stiff printed card covers with a glassine covering. The glassine is chipped a bit around the spine and lower back edge. Completely clean inside and out. Spine not creased. Text in French. This study of Maillol's drawings, concentrates on his nudes. Illustrated in color and black & white. Large 4to, 11" high X 9" wide, 87 pages. A beautiful production. . ... (more information)

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Italy: Roberto Bosi/Galeati , 1974 This is a very good hardcover copy, in a very good dust jacket. The jacket has a small piece missing from the front top edge. Completely clean inside, the front endpaper is price-clipped. Text in Italian. Illustrated with many full-page color plates also smaller details in color, and black & white. Also a fold-out map of the old city of Faenza. Basically a study of 25 pieces from Faenza, shown with usually 2 photos each, often the underside and marks. Extensive notes a... (more information)

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Paris: Berggruen & Cie. , 1981 This is a fine softcover copy with no wear whatsoever. Completely clean inside and out. Binding firm and tight. The covers are an original colorful lithograph designed by Henry Moore specially for this catalog. The lithograph depicts several cream-colored reclining nudes, against a tan, blue, gray and black background. Price list laid in. 8 1/2" high X 4 1/2" wide. Illustrated throughout in black & white. . ... (more information)

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London: The Studio Limited, 1936 This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light soil. Very clean inside and out. This is not the first printing, as the publisher's list of titles in this series includes one title after Wengenroth. Illustrated in black & white with a number of tipped-in plates. 10" high X 7 1/2" wide, 79 pages. . ... (more information)

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Varsovie: American Joint Distribution Committee , 1946 This is a very good softcover reference copy. Bound in tan paper covers. Apparently front cover missing, spine tips chipped, and a few black felt pen marks to rear cover. Paper browned and preliminaries brittle. Text in French. Full title is 'Maladie de Famine, Recherches Cliniques sur la Famine Executees dans le Ghetto de Varsovie en 1942'. Illustrated with some black & white photos, tables, charts, etc. 10" high X 6 1/2" wide, 26... (more information)

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London: Cambridge University Press, 1974 This is a very good softcover copy with only light wear. Very clean inside and out. Text by Monkhouse and Hardy describes the effects of various kinds of man-made landscapes. Includes examples of agriculture and forestry, mining and quarrying, power and utilities, manufacturing and industry, communications, towns and settlements. Maps. Illustrated in black & white with many photographs. 10" high X 7" wide, 96 pages. . First Edition. ... (more information)

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Schirmer/Mosel, 1983 This is a very good softcover copy in stiff card covers with only light wear. Very clean inside and out. Spine lightly creased, binding tight. Text in German, translated from the English. Illustrated in black & white. Index. 9" high X 6.5" wide, 368 pages.. ... (more information)

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Paris: Ch.Massin & Cie., Editeurs This is a very good hardcover copy in white and brown and pale blue printed boards with grey cloth spine, with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. Text in French. Brief text and list of buildings in the region. The subject is manor houses, or country estates. The buildings are small chateaux, not large like Chantilly, but still rather imposing structures. Some of the buildings are country homes of the wealthy, in the French Norman style. All date from the ... (more information)

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Stockholm, 1992 This is a very good hardcover copy in black embossed , perhaps stiff, rubber boards, containing a spiral ring binder with text and illustrations printed on stiff card stock. This book was prepared to accompany Ulf Rollof's work in Documenta IX in 1992. Text in English, German and Swedish. Essay by Hans Ruin. Divided into three sections: 1) 9 black and red illustration plates of flies; 2) 9 color illustrations of paintings of flies; 3) 11 black & white photographs of Rollof's scul... (more information)

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London: H. Grevel and Co., 1889 This is a very good hardcover copy in the original publisher's elaborated gilt-decorated dark green cloth covers with light wear. Completely clean outside, the gilt design very bright. Inside very clean but occasional foxing to the soft paper, hinges cracked, but binding firm. 241 black & white illustrations in the text: all line drawings. Top page-edge gilt. 8" high X 6" wide, 312 pages. . ... (more information)

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Paris: Auguste Picard, Editeur , 1926 This is an about very good softcover copy with light cover wear, in the original tan printed covers. Spine creased, but binding firm. Completely clean inside. Pages uncut. Text in French. This is volume 2 only of this two volume set. This is the 2nd revised and expanded edition. 219 black & white illustrations. 9" high X 5 1/2" wide, 464 pages. (Both pages and illustratrations are actually numbered consecutively from volume 1) This is volume 2 only. . ... (more information)

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Paris: Imprimerie Nationale/ Librairie d'Amerique et d'Orient , Adrian Maisonneuve , 1950 This is a very good softcover copy in the original publisher's brown printed wrappers with just very light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Binding firm, spine not creased. Text in French. Most pages uncut, appears unread. 10" high X 6" wide, 108 pages. . ... (more information)

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Paris: Editions Auguste Picard , 1929 This is a very good two volume set in stiff, tan, printed card covers, with only light wear. Very clean inside and out. Text in French. Volume 1: Architecture Civile. Volume 2: Architecture Militaire et Navale. 38 black & white plates + 328 figures in the text. Most pages uncut. 9" high X 5.5" wide, 926 pages. . ... (more information)

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