Search Results: Authors starting with P from Camphor Bookstore

Atlante di Roma: La forma del centro storico in scala 1:1000 nel fotopiano e nella carta numericaby Paolo Marconi, Eugenio Baldari, Bruno cussino, Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi, Gabriella Maltese, Daniele Tinacci, Licinio FerrettiMarsilio, Venice, 1996. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Square (11 1/2" x 11 1/2"). 621pp. Black Cloth. An aerial view of the historic areas of Rome in 276 square color plates. Each plate is accompanied by schematic of the section photographed. There are 45 black and white illustrations which are comprised of ancient maps of Rome as well as Technological renderings of the architecture. Accompanied by essays (i.e. A New Tool for an Improved City) bilingual- in Italian in front and English in the back. Condition: The book is lacking the jacket and embossed white titles on the spine are mostly gone - but otherwise the book and slipcase are as new. A heavy oversize volume (9 pds.) which may require additional shipping cost.

The Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer by Kenneth PatchenNew Directions, New York, 1945. First edition. Blue cloth hardcover. Octavo, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 242 pp. A nice copy of the first edition - in very good condition, age toned, unmarked, without the jacket. Kenneth Patchen's comic masterpiece is the hilarious saga of Albert Budd of Bivalve, New Jersey-a Candide-like innocent and part-time pornographer.

Jean-Michel Basquiat Vrej Baghoomian, 21 October to 25 November 1989. Vrej Baghoomianm Inc., 1989 1st edition exhibition catalog printed 1989. 153 pages. Hardcover, Cloth binding with dust jacket. 10 x 12 inches. Color reproductions throughout. This book was published from an edition of 4,000 at the retrospective exhibition held in 1989 just over one year after the after the death of Basquiat. 69 key works are featured including CPRKR, Red Warrior, untitled Skull and Horn Players. Text by: Francesco Pellizzi and Glenn O'Brien. Condition: near fine / as new book and jacket.

E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., New York, 1932. Hardcover. First Edition (stated) in English. Green cloth, paper label w/ title affixed to the spine. After Six Characters in Search of an Author and Each His Own Way, the final volume of the author's trilogy of the theatre in the theatre. 231 pp. with an introduction by the translator, Samuel Butler. In excellent condition, no marks or signatures. lacking the dustjacket.

Dodd, Mead and Company,, New York, 1929. Hardcover 3/4 cloth/buffed brown boards. Book Condition: VG+, lettering on the spine is faded. No Dust Jacket 158 p. + 50 plates, including original etched frontispiece, "Cattaro (Kotor): Ancient Venetian House", with printed tissue overlay, and 20 additional illustrations from etchings and drawings by the author; also works by Frank W. Benson, D. Shaw MacLaughlan, John Taylor Arms, Will Simmons, Lionel Lindsay, Katharine Cameron, and others; 2 additional ill. in text. Bibliography. p. 149-151. Plowman (1869-1932) was born in Le Sueur, Minnesota and received a Bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Minnesota in 1892; he gave up his architectural practice in1911 in Berkeley, where he had worked since 1904, to take up etching full time.

Plutarch's Lives, translated from the original Greek; with Notes Critical and Historical and a Life of Plutarch by John Langhorne, D.D. and William Langhorne, A.M. in Six Volumes.Printed for J. Mawman et al., 1819. lx,394 & 532 & 526 & 453 & 532 &488pp., engraved frontis engraved portrait. Original tooled calfskin binding. A Complete set all volumes in VG condition, - any gilt or titles have completely worn off, the calfskin and the binding is sound and strong, and the books are clean, unmarked and very clear.

Dutch Treat: The Artist's Life, Written and Painted by Himselfby Rien Poortvliet
Harry Abrams, Inc., NY , 1981. Translated from the Dutch by Maria Milne. Color illustrations throughout. First edition thus. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket; 212 pages.
About the book and the author:
Luckily for everyone, the famous artist Rien Poortvliet, who from his pastoral retreat in Holland has charmed millions with his books Gnomes, The Living Forest, and The Farm Book, felt the urge to make another book. Here, in his own words and in his inimitable sketches and paintings, is the story of the artist's life, by turns matter-of-fact and sentimental, serious and comic.

HarperCollins, New York, 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Signed by the author on the title page. 416 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A look at Hester Thrale, Alice Liddell, Elizabeth Siddal, Lou Andreas Salome, Gala Dali, Lee Miller, Charis Weston, Suzanne Farrell, and Yoko Ono.The book and jacket are both in VG condition. The book has a gift inscription on the front blank endpaper. About the Book: National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse.