Search Results: Authors starting with F from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Florence: Casa Editrice Bonechi, 2000. 159 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), maps; 28 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Profusely illustrated. "The city of Romeo and Juliet, a love story" - Cover.. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Guidebook.

Wien = VIenna: Osterreichisches Fotoarchiv im Museum moderner Kunst, 1991. 80 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Text in German and English. SEHR GUT+. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards. Abstract photography. Includes: Adam Fuss, Herwig Kempinger, Nikolaus Koliusis, Ines Lombardi, Allan Mccollum, Christiane Richter, Andres Serrano, Patrick Tosani, and James Welling. . 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

San Diego and Munich: San Diego Museum of Art; Prestel, 1989. 119 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Exhibition held at the San Diego Museum of Art, October 22, 1989 to January 7, 1990, and the Armory Museum, State Museums of the Moscow Kremlin, January 30 to March 15, 1990. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First paperback edition. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

San Francisco and New York: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Thames and Hudson, 1996. 366 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 27 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and made possible by Faberge Co.; exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 16 to April 28, 1996 and four other art museums, May 16, 1996 to May 11, 1997. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "The outstanding legacy of the Russian goldsmith and jeweler Carl Faberge has captured the public's imagination for many years. During his lifetime, Faberge's exquisitely made jewelry and fantastically extravagant objets d'art brought him patronage from the world's most affluent people, including royalty - and throughout this century his work has been avidly collected. Faberge in America is… Read More

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998. vii, 133 pages, colour illustrations, colour map; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Original paintings accompany the 1879 work "Souvenirs Entomologiques," offering vivid depictions of insects in their natural surroundings.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Milan: Electa, 2003. 1 volume (316 pages), colour illustrations; 22 cm. + 1 CD-ROM. Issued in tinfoil take-away food tray. Firm binding, clean inside copy. The accompanying tray has light wear from opening & closing. The volume within is fine. . 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1998. Cloth, xviii, 234 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 26 cm. A good reading copy, with penciled underlining & marginalia. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. "This richly illustrated book is a lucid introduction to a largely neglected manifestation of Modernism that came out of fin-de-siecle Sweden. Michelle Facos presents the first study in English to seriously examine the movement known as Swedish National Romanticism. Her work is especially valuable in showing how the movement's primitivist tendencies were related to, but different from, similar cultural forces in Germany and other parts of Europe at that time. Facos shows how a small group of Swedish artists espoused a politically progressive, culturally conservative form of nationalism. These artists--among them Carl Larsson, Bruno Liljefors, and Hanna Hirsch Pauli--produced a specifically national Swedish art by focusing on indigenous history, legends, and folk tales as well as… Read More

Barcelona: Ediciones Poligrafa, 2002. Cloth, 9 pages, [55] pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. English Edition. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Spanish Impressionist.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio. Collectible.

Saskatoon: Mendel Art Gallery, 1987. 59 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, 2 October to 15 November, 1987 and the Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, 12 December, 1987 to 17 January, 1988. Withdrawn from library collection, with usual markings, otherwise very good. No writing in text.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.

New Orleans: New Orleans Museum of Art, 1989. 120 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the New Orleans Museum of Art, March 11 to April 16, 1989; the University Art Museum, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, La., June 3 to July 23, 1989; and Meadows Museum of Art at Centenary College, Shreveport, La., September 10 to November 12, 1989. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Profusely illustrated. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. 288 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. CONTENTS: The inconspicuous oasis; "Where he got his head smashed in"; The Chumash; Abu Hureyra on the Euphrates; Anasazi; The enigma of Flag Fen; Searching for Eden; Vintages of pharaohs; Uluburun; Glyphs of the forest; Footplows and raised fields; A wall against Barbarians; Annapolis, Maryland.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Cambridge, MA: Westview Press, 2004. xv, 303 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Remainder mark/tail edge. "The scandalous rape of Ancient Egypt is a historical vignette of greed, vanity, and dedicated archaeological research. It is a tale vividly told by renowned archaeology author, Brian Fagan, with characters that include the ancient historian Herodotus; Theban tomb robbers; obelisk-stealing Romans; Coptic Christians determined to erase the heretical past; mummy traders; leisured antiquarians; major European museums; Giovanni Belzoni, a circus strongman who removed more antiquities than Napoleon's armies; shrewd consuls and ruthless pashas; and archaeologists such Sir Flinders Petrie who changed the course of Egyptology.This is the first thoroughly revised edition of The Rape of the Nile - Fagan's classic account of the cavalcade of archaeologists, thieves, and sightseers who have flocked to the Nile Valley since ancient times. Featured in… Read More

Wakefield, RI, and London: Moyer Bell Limited, 1992. xiv, 407 pages, illustrations, map; 24 cm. First published, 1975. Firm binding, gently creased spine. Clean inside copy. Profusely illustrated.. Paperback. Good. 8vo.

New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2008. xvii, 282 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Top right corners bumped. Fine DJ. "From the 10th to the 15th centuries the earth experienced a rise in surface temperature that changed climate worldwide--a preview of today's global warming. In some areas, including Western Europe, longer summers brought bountiful harvests and population growth that led to cultural flowering. In the Arctic, Inuit and Norse sailors made cultural connections across thousands of miles as they traded precious iron goods. Polynesian sailors, riding new wind patterns, were able to settle the remotest islands on earth. But in many parts of the world, the warm centuries brought drought and famine. Elaborate societies in western and Central America collapsed, and the vast building complexes of Chaco Canyon and the Mayan Yucatan were left empty. Anthropologist and historian Brian Fagan reveals how subtle changes in the environment had far-reaching effects on human life,… Read More

New York: Basic Books; Perseus, 2004. xvii, 284 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with a small corner crease/front flap. "For more than a century we've known that much of human evolution occurred in an Ice Age. Starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to rise, the glaciers receded, and sea levels rose. The rise of human civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, known as the Holocene.Until very recently we had no detailed record of climate changes during the Holocene. Now we do. In this engrossing and captivating look at the human effects of climate variability, Brian Fagan shows how climate functioned as what the historian Paul Kennedy described as one of the 'deeper transformations' of history--a more important historical factor than we understand. / Brian Fagan is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A former Guggenheim Fellow,… Read More

New York: Basic Books; Perseus, 2006. xxv, 338 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author Brian Fagan, with a personalized inscription in the year of publication. A near-fine copy, edges lightly soiled. Fine DJ. "What gave Christopher Columbus the confidence in 1492 to set out across the Atlantic Ocean? What persuaded the king and queen of Spain to commission the voyage? It would be convenient to believe that Columbus and his men were uniquely courageous. A more reasonable explanation, however, is that Columbus was heir to a body of knowledge about seas and ships acquired at great cost over many centuries. Fish on Friday tells a new story of the discovery of America. In Brian Fagan's view, that discovery is the product of the long sweep of history: the spread of Christianity and the radical cultural changes it brought to Europe, the interaction of economic necessity with a changing climate, and generations of unknown fishermen who explored the North Atlantic in… Read More

New York: Newsweek; Great Museums of the World, 1969. Cloth, 171 pages, colour illustrations, plans; 30 cm. Reprint, 1981. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 1998. xiv, 400 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Steve Fagin is an artist whose videos incorporate, challenge, and cross over into the realm of literary and cultural studies. Talkin' with Your Mouth Full includes not only scripts of Fagins works but critical responses to - and meditations on - a variety of his influential videos by a distinguished, if intriguingly disparate, group of artists and scholars. Combining elements of criticism with various modes of artistic expression, these responses take the form of reviews, letters, interviews, and in one case an imaginary TV programming schedule. Interspersed with - and sometimes literally interrupting - the video scripts, these contributions interact with one another on multiple levels and complement Fagin's scripts. Historical, political, and theoretical issues dovetail, ricochet, and interplay in this book, revealing a multiplicity of voices, concerns, and cultural revelations.… Read More

Florence: Scala, 1981. 77 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Text in Italian. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. A monograph on the Italian Baroque sculptor and architect. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates (art, architecture).. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993. 287 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely-illustrated 1993 LACMA exhibition catalogue of Hollywood celebrity photography.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Collectible.