Search Results: Authors starting with I from Armadillo & Dicker Books & Ephemera

New York: Lippincott Story Press Book. 1944. Good+ copy; clean and sound except for upper corners of binding r ubbed and frayed. No toning or staining to pages or boards. Jacke t has a ½”x2” open tear and several smaller tears along top front; similar tears on back cover and a 1”x3/4” open tear at bottom of spine. Some edgewear to jacket along spine and lower e dge. Suspense thriller taking place in one evening, young couple races against the clock to find a murderer and lest they be accus ed of the crime. Subject for 1946 Film Noir classic of the same n ame starring Susan Hayward and Paul Lukas. .

1st ed., small 4to. Hand-pulled silkscreen on cardboard covers with metal bolts, [48] pp. 15 color plates. Limited to 1000 copies. Appreciation by José Luis Cuevas; introduction, "Anverso y Reverso en la Obra de Ignacio Iturria / The Obverse and the Reverse in the Work of Ignacio Iturria" by Damián Bayón; title essay, "Soñar con los Ojos Abiertos / Dreaming with Your Eyes Open" by Hugo Achugar; exhibitions; bibliography. Text in Spanish & English. Published in conjunction with exhibition of paintings by Uruguayan artist Ignacio Iturria at the Museo Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexico City.
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Iturria, who represented his country at the 1995 Venice Biennale, was trained in commercial art and graphic design before turning to painting full time. His palette is dominated by muddy browns and earth tones that reflect the colors of the Plate River and the southern Atlantic Ocean, which formed the backdrop to his childhood in Montevideo. He merges representation and surrealism concentrating on the domestic… Read More

1st ed., small 4to. Hand-pulled silkscreen on cardboard covers, [52] pp. 15 color plates. Limited to 1000 copies. "Exhibition of works by one of the most outstanding representatives of Uruguayan painting, carried out under the auspices of Praxis International Art, from February 18 to April 3, 1993." Texts : Belgium Rodríguez. Bilingual English-Spanish edition. Presentation : João Clemente Baena Soares.

Drawings and cover by Vera Mikhailovna ErmolaevaThird edition. M.-L., Gosizdat, 1931. 5.6-7/8", stapled wrappers. 8 pp. Circulation 50,000 copies. Price 10 kop. In publisher's lithographed covers.
CONDITION: VERY GOOD. A particularly bright and clean copy of a scarce Soviet children's book. None online; none in WorldCat. We have located one auction record in 2010 for the second edition [1930], by Russian auction house, Imperia.
Interior is near fine with just a hint of toning typical to newsprint. Minor fading to outer covers, with just a hint of rubbing to spine and corners. Light dampstain inside front cover, not affecting the text block.
In this classic short fable, a monkey notices herself in the mirror. She begins to share her thoughts with a bear sitting next to her: contempt and disgust, calling the reflection a wimp and comparing her with gossiping-girlfriends. To which the bear hints, in vain, that she is looking at herself. The moral is that in her ignorance, the Monkey is ready to… Read More