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Tucson, AZ: American Rock Art Research Assn. , 2007. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. B&W photos, drawings illustrate throughout. CONDITION: NEW 2007 ARARA large paperback, first edition, no printing given. B&W photos, drawings, & charts illustrate. CONTENT: For over 6,000 years traders, hunters, and farmers visited and lived in Nine Mile Canyon in Utah. The perennial creek and springs provided year-round water for agriculture. The evidence of this long history of human habitation is a forty-mile rock gallery following Minnie Maud creek to the Green River. This corridor is one of the world's longest and most magnificent rock art panels. When the Barrett Corporation was granted permission to drill for oil and gas in Nine Mile Canyon, most of the great panels were impacted by dust and chemical from this industrial endeavor. This book seeks to save, at least via drawings and photos, what is left of this great art work. The permission to drill was… Read More

Titan Books / Hard Case Crime, 2018. 1st Paperback Edition Printing Unknown. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Paul Mann cover art painting. CONDITION: NEW 2018 Hard Case Crime/Titan Books trade paperback, first PB edition, printing unknown. Wonderful Paul Mann cover art painting. CONTENT: A sharp and funny tale of a daring art heist gone wrong-inspired by the same real-life, still-unsolved crime depicted in the Netflix hit series "This Is A Robbery." A group of criminals in 1946 pull off the heist of the century, stealing a dozen priceless works of art from a Boston museum. But while the thieves get caught, the art is never found. Forty years later, the last surviving thief gets out of jail and goes hunting for the loot, involving some innocent college students in his dangerous plan - and thirty years after that, in the present day, the former college kids, now all grown up, are drawn back into danger as the still-missing art tempts a deadly new generation of treasure hunters. A… Read More

Prestel/Pegasus Library, 1999. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. New/As New. Marc Chagall paintings. CONDITION: NEW Book, 1999 Prestel hardcover (blue boards), first edition, assumed first printing but don't hold me to it. DUST JACKET (in mylar cover) is "As New" due to a short repaired "tear" top edge at fold. Color illustrations are Chagall's lithographs originally produced in 1948. Norbert Nobis Introduction. CONTENT: Inspired by the powerful magic of the tales in A Thousand and One Nights, Marc Chagall created a series of stunning coloured lithographs to illustrate four of them, perfectly mirroring the colourful splendour of the Orient, with its mystery and poetry. The original translation by the British explorer, linguist and Orientalist Sir Richard F. Burton (1821-90) captures the very essence of the tales, and reflects the fascinating experience gathered by the translator during his extensive travels. Marc Chagall: Arabian Nights reproduces the subtle, iridescent colours of the original… Read More

Smithsonian Books, 2004. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. Color photo section; B&W repros, charts, photos throughout. CONDITION: UNREAD 2004 Smithsonian Books hardcover (brown boards) & dust jacket, first edition, first printing. Color photo section. B&W reproductions, charts, photos throughout. CONTENT: Leonardo da Vinci was one of history's true geniuses, equally brilliant as an artist, scientist, and mathematician. Readers of The Da Vinci Code were given a glimpse of the mysterious connections between math, science, and Leonardo's art. Math and the Mona Lisa picks up where The Da Vinci Code left off, illuminating Leonardo's life and work to uncover connections that, until now, have been known only to scholars. Bülent Atalay, a distinguished scientist and artist, examines the science and mathematics that underlie Leonardo's work, paying special attention to the proportions, patterns, shapes, and symmetries that scientists and mathematicians have also identified in nature. Following… Read More