Search Results: Authors starting with D from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

Pierpont Morgan Library, 1934 4to (31.5 cm), [12], XXII, [2], 85, [5] pp, 100 plates. Publisher's cloth (binding little rubbed at extremities, bttom corner scuffed, end-papers slightly toned). Illustrated catalogue of an exhibition held November 1933 - April 1934. 152 entries. Limited to 350 copies privately printed at the Plantin press.

Bibliographical Society, 1952 8vo (22 cm), 284 pp. Publisher's cloth-backed boards (ownership signature on the front free end-paper). 404 items described, 16 figures in the text.

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988 8o (21.5 cm), XVIII, 219 pp. Hardcover in dust jacket. From the blurb: "The Modern Social Conflict offers a concise, authoritative, and accessible account of where the Western democracies stand today, how they got there, and where they must go if they are to retain their political and social freedom. Part history, part social analysis, part deeply committed prescription, this "essay on the Politics of Liberty" is a timely and important contribution to our understanding of the modern world by one of the most noted social and political thinkers of our day. The Modern Social Conflict offers a concise, authoritative, and accessible account of where the Western democracies stand today, how they got there, and where they must go if they are to retain their political and social freedom. Part history, part social analysis, part deeply committed prescription, this "essay on the Politics of Liberty" is a timely and important contribution to our… Read More

Yale University Press, 2010 4to (33.5 cm), 368 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj frayed at extremities, two tears top near the spine, binding and text fine). "
The works that Henri Matisse (1869-1954) executed between late 1913 and 1917 are among his most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic. Often sharply composed, heavily reworked, and dominated by the colors black and gray, these compositions are rigorously abstracted and purged of nearly all descriptive detail. Although they have typically been treated as unrelated to one another, as aberrations within the artist's oeuvre, or as singular responses to Cubism or World War I, Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913-1917 reveals the deep connections among them and their critical role in an ambitious, cohesive project that took the act of creation itself as its main focus. This book represents the first sustained examination of Matisse's output from this important period, revealing fascinating information about his working method,… Read More

Harper, 1959 8vo (20.5 cm), X, 275 pp.Printed wrappers (wrappers little foxed at top).

Shire Publications, 1986 8vo (21 cm), 32 pp. Printed wrappers.

London : The Bookman's Journal, 1921 8vo (23.5 cm), XI, 212, [8] pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket in mylar, deckled edges (dj little frayed at extremities, top of the spine and bottom corner missing). Printed on laid paper. Included 15 bibliographies: Beerbohm, Brooke, Crackanthorpe, de la Mare, Drinkwater, Dunsany, Elroy Flecker, Gissing, Ledwidge, Compton Mackenzie, Masefield, Merrick, Middleton, Athur Symons and Hugh Walpole

The Monacelli Press, 2008 4to (29.5cm), 352 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. "Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America's most important figurative painters. His paintings, many of which show a single intense moment, compel the viewer to participate in a world of middle-class suburban ambiguity and drama. In Fischl's engaging distinctly American canvases, narrative, morality, sexuality, and psychology are preeminent. This volume, an expanded edition of Eric Fischl 1970-2000, is the most comprehensive examination of this important contemporary painter. More than 250 works, selected in conjunction with the artist, present the full scope of Fischl's career: the formative work of the 1970s; the breakthrough paintings of the 1980s, including the controversial Sleepwalker and Bad Boy; and the mature work, often of a personal and contemplative nature, of the 1990s and 2000s. In his most recent paintings, Fischl has turned to multipiece cycles: The Bed, The Chair series,… Read More

Carousel Books, 1977 12mo (19.5 cm), 110 pp. Laminated wrappers (stamps of the Royal Institution).

Martino Publishing, 2005 8vo (23 cm), XVI, 428 pp. Publisher's cloth. The first volume of a facsimile reprint of the classical Bible bibliography originally published in 1903.

Balitmore: Strategic Investment Ltd, 1994 12mo (17.5 cm), 128 pp. Laminated wrappers (canceled stamp of an institutional library on the title). From the blurb: "Wealth and freedom are increasing for 30% of Americans, but for the other 70% -- those dependent on government promises -- life is getting worse. That's the word from the eerily accurate publication that predicted the Soviet break-up, the Tokyo crash, the devaluation of sterling, the 1993 plunge in oil prices and the Whitewater scandal."

John Wiley & Sons, 2000 8vo (22.7 cm), XX, 540 pp. Laminated wrappers. "Carl Sagan was one of the most celebrated scientists of his time - the leading visionary of the Space Age. He was also a highly controversial figure who inspired wildly opposed opinions. His enthusiasm and eloquence about the wonders of space, the marvels of the human brain, and the mysteries of life captured the imagination of millions. Yet one scientist was so enraged by Sagan's scientific pronouncements that he compared him to the Black Plague, and William F. Buckley, Jr. likened him to circus huckster P. T. Barnum." (from the publisher's description)

The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1960 8vo (20.5 cm), VII, 159 pp. Publisher's cloth. paper cover-label, original wrappers bound in (lacking title-page, some browning of end-papers). An attempt to give the essential facts of the history of the Elsevier family of printers and to show the relations of the printers to the world around them. Printed as a souvenir from Martinus Nijhoff for those attending the 13th Congress of the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers in Holland.

London: Holland Press, 1962 2 volumes 4o (28.5 cm), [4], XXII, 462 pp, 18 plates; PP. 463-818, LXII pp, 12 plates. Publisher's cream and maroon cloth, gilt-lettered spines (bindings little dusted). A facsimile reprint of 1913 edition published in 100 copies. The catalogue of the "German" part of the collection of a British painter, dealer, collector, art historian Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919) who belonged to the second generation of the Pre-Raphaelites. It comprises illustrated book printed in what is now the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria and Germany, whose "style of printing and illustration essentially different from those of Latin countries". "The period in which these books fall is c. 1455 to 1680, the first date being approximately the earliest allowed for the Blockbooks and the Gutenberg specimen, and the last that of the book containing Rembrandt's etching to Jan Six' Medea." (from the Preface) 495 editions are described.… Read More

York: Ken Spelman, 1988 8vo (24 cm), xiii, vi, 397 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Robert Davies' Memoir of the York Press was published in 1868 in relatively small edition. It was only the second history of a provincial center of printing in England. The book covers in great detail the authors, printers and stationers in York in the 16th - 18th centuries and gives full collations of books and pamphlets printed. Bernard Barr has written a new introduction to this reprint, with a memoir of Robert Davies and full bibliography of his works.

Colonial Williamsburg Fdn., 1976 4to (28.5 cm), VIII, 256 pp. Printed wrappers. The Williamsburg collection of English silver includes both exceedingly rare and every day examples. Examples illustrated and described are primarily from the 17th and 18th centuries and marks are photographed, making the book particularly useful. Descriptions are excellent and a comprehensive bibliography is included.

Longmans, Green & Company, 1958 8vo (22.5 cm), XXI, 182 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj frayed and rubbed at the top, some browning of edges of end-papers).

Oxford University Press/Humphrey Milford, 1927 8vo (24 cm), XXVI, 624 pp. Publisher's cloth (binding rubbed at extremities and lightly dusted, top edge and back end-papers little stained, internally fine).

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004 8vo (25 cm), 528 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little rubbed, some offset from blue end-papers). Signed by the author on the title. The book is a pilgrimage back through time; a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we and they converge on our common ancestors. The journey provides the setting for a collection of some 40 tales. Each explores an aspect of evolutionary biology through the stories of characters met along the way or glimpsed from afar. Together they give a deep understanding of the processes that have shaped life on Earth: convergent evolution, the isolation of populations, continental drift, the great extinctions.

London: Methuen and Co., 1907 4to (25.5 cm), front., XX, 292 pp., 11 plates. Publisher's cloth, gilt front cover and spine, top edge gilt, fore-edge untrimmed (binding little rubbed, light foxing and darkening of paper to few pages inside).