Titles starting with M from Left Coast Books

Corte Madera, CA: Pomegranate Artbooks, 1987 57 pp., 17 folded leaves of plates), illus. (some col.), biblio.; 29 cm. Near fine. Wraps fine, clean copy. Age toning.. Revised Edition. Wraps. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... (more information)

Subjects: ART / Individual Artist; ART / Techniques / Drawing;

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Cologne: Taschen, 2000 96 pp., 77 plates (some col.); 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. "M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher's innate graphic talents. From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design in Haarlem, where he was instructed in graphic techniques by S. Jessuru... (more information)

Subjects: ART / History / Contemporary (1945-); ART / Individual Artist; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers;

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New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2000 570 pp., illus., biblio., index; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Please note: SOFTCOVER. "A bold, fresh biography of the world's first modern painter. As presented with 'blood and bone and sinew' (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The of the sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of i... (more information)

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New York: Picador USA; Henry Holt and Company, 2001 570 pp., illus., biblio., index; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "As vividly and unflinchingly presented herein with 'blood and bone and sinew' (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The end of the sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological war against which, despite all odds, brilliant feats of... (more information)

Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers;

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New York: Henry Holt and Company; A John Macrae Book, 2000 570 pp., illus., biblio., index; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. One corner lightly bumped, else fine. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "A bold, fresh biography of the world's first modern painter. As presented with 'blood and bone and sinew' (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The of the sixteenth century was marke... (more information)

Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers;

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Hong Kong: Hong Kong Heritage Museum, 2006 52 pp., col. illus.; 17 cm. Text in English and Chinese. Exhibition held April 6-November 27, 2006. AS NEW. The installation was designed by 4 architects: Steven Chu, Anson Tsang, Kenneth Tse, and Humphrey Wong. . First Edition. Wraps. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Exhibition Catalogue. ... (more information)

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Philadelphia, PA: Running Press, 1996 208 pp., illus., index; 23 x 28 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. First Edition, First Printing. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Oblong. Collectible. ... (more information)

Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General;

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Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1987 xvi, 384 pp., illus., ports., biblio., index; 23 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Authorial signature/half-title page & highlighting/one page only, otherwise tight & clean. "She was 'the most peculiar common denominator that society, literature, art and radical revolutionaries ever found in New York and Europe.' So claimed a Chicago newspaper reporter in the 1920s of Mabel Dodge Luhan, who attracted leading literary and intellectual figures to... (more information)

Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General;

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Rome: De Luca Publisher, 1982 113 pp., illus. (some col.), biblio.; 30 cm. Exhibition held at the Manchester City Art Gallery, 9 June-24 July 1982, Edinburgh City Art Centre, 6 August-25 September 1982. Tight, clean text. Wraps rubbed. Small stain/p. 13. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. First English Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue. ... (more information)

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Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1982 Rebound in library boards, 268 pp., illus. (some col.), bib. notes; 28 cm. Studies in the History of Art, vol. 10. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings, otherwise very good. No writing in text. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Contents: Preface, by J. Carter Brown; Foreword, by Henry A. Millon; Introduction, by Beryl Barr-Sharrar and Eugene N. Borza; The History and Archaeology of Macedonia: Retrospect and Prospect, by... (more information)

Subjects: ARCHITECTURE / History;

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Glasgow: Hunterian Art Gallery [c. 1980] 32 pp., illus.; 21 cm.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Exhibition Catalogue. ... (more information)

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New York: Brooklyn Museum of Art; Harry N. Abrams, 2001 376 pp., illus. (some col.), bib., index; 29 cm. Exhibition travelled to Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. "More Than 400 Illustrations, Including 55 Plates in Full Color." BRAND NEW. Shrinkwrapped. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. Hard Cover. NEW/NEW. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue. ... (more information)

Subjects: ARCHITECTURE / Decoration & Ornament; ARCHITECTURE / History; ART / Design / General;

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New York: Museum of Modern Art: Distributed by H.N. Abrams, 1994 Sixtieth-Anniversary ed. 1 vol. (unpaged), illus.; 26 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Reprint. AS NEW.. Soft Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue. ... (more information)

Subjects: ARCHITECTURE / Decoration & Ornament; ARCHITECTURE / History;

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New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1968 216 pp., illus. (part col.), bib. notes, index; 25 cm. Stamped, lithographed tin covers, with riveted metal spine. Catalogue of an exhibition to be held at the Museum of Modern Art, Nov. 25, 1968-Feb. 9, 1969; University of St. Thomas, Houston, Mar. 25-May 18, 1969; and San Francisco Museum of Art, June 23-Aug. 24, 1969. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Some loss of the silver, used for the windows of the MoMA building (depicted on the front cover). Scratches on reverse.... (more information)

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Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1995 1 v. (unpaged), illus. (some col.); 27 cm. VG. Previous owner's blind stamp, else fine. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... (more information)

Subjects: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Comics & Cartoons;

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New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002 302 pp., illus. (some col.), index; 27 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/top edge. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. ... (more information)

Subjects: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Graphic Novels / General;

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New York: Viking Press, 1971 296 pp., illus., ports.; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Edges lightly soiled. Dust jacket price-clipped on front flap, with a slightly sunned spine.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ... (more information)

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New York and Evanston: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968 Cloth, gilt, 304 p. illus. (part col.), maps, ports. (part col.), biblio., index; 26 cm. Topstained purple. First published, 1954. Firm binding, clean text. Previous owner's signature/paste-down endpaper (inside front cover), hidden by front flap/DJ. Pages browning at extremities. Dust jacket, with tanned flaps & light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. Profusely illustrated.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾"... (more information)

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 viii, 310 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 24 cm. First published, 2000. Translated from the French. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First American Edition." Dust jacket, with a small corner crease/back flap, protected in a mylar book cover. "A sumptuous new biography of one of the most famous dangerous liaisons. When Jeanne Antoinette Poisson was a child, a fortune-teller predicted that she would one day be the mistress of a king. Born into the financial b... (more information)

Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical;

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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002 viii, 310 pp., illus., bib. notes, index; 24 cm. First published, 2000. Translated from the French. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First American Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "A sumptuous new biography of one of the most famous dangerous liaisons. When Jeanne Antoinette Poisson was a child, a fortune-teller predicted that she would one day be the mistress of a king. Born into the financial bourgeoisie that was a world apart from ... (more information)

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