Search Results: Authors starting with S from Brillig Books

NY: New York University Press, 1969. Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Quarto, brown cloth covered boards. 68pp. text plus additional pages of 21 black and white photographs and 12 drawings, elevations and plans. Series: Monographs on Archaeology and the Fine Arts (sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America and the College Art Association of America), 19. Fine in fine dust jacket. A flawless and unread copy in the original parchment glassine dust jacket. A beautiful copy..

New York: Little Simon, 1996. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First printing. Small square quarto, green cloth spine over red, white, green and purple decorative paper covered boards with gilt spine title. 6 double page pop-ups and 6 flap pop-ups make the 12 days of Christmas from the Christmas carol. All pop-ups in excellent condition. (Swans are a bit stiff!). A clean, bright, fresh, unmarked and unblemished volume. Fine..

New York: Little Simon, 2004. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Small thick quarto. glossy shiny paper covered boards. 7 incredibly elaborate pop-ups. First edition, first printing. A very tight, clean volume with all pop-ups in excellent working condition. Golden gate bridge pop-up has tiny crease at top of one bridge tower. Very near fine..

London: J. M. Dent & Sons, (1942). Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. Octavo, red cloth covered boards. 505pp. including index and extensive references. Illustrated throughout with reproductions, black and white photographs and line drawings. Ex-lib. with usual markings on pastedown, prelims and title page. Tight, square and sound in dust jacket with no markings beyond the copyright page and internally very clean thereafter..

Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1966. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition. Small octavo, red cloth covered boards with black flaming sun cover decoration. 188pp. Dust jacket and interior wood block illustrations by M. Kuwata. Stories by five important Japanese writers who experienced the Second World War, including Nobel Prize Winner Kenzaburo Oe. Fine (with errata slip) in dust jacket with a tinge of dusting, else fine. A beautiful tight fresh copy in a crisp sharp dust jacket which shows the very slight dust at white portions but is very near fine..

New York/Rutland/Tokyo: Japan Publications Trading Company, 1965. Book. As New. Cloth. Second Edition. Second Edition. Quarto (12' X 8.25"), dark brown burlap covered boards over white cloth spine with titles and spine titles in red, white and brown. 282pp. including index, bibliography, glossary and appendix. Very generously illustrated throughout with 200 black and white gravure photographic illustrations and many line drawn plans and charts for garden layout and construction. This book covers every aspect of the classic formal Japanese Garden, from the symbolism of different stone and plant arrangements, to the construction of bridges and fences, placement of ponds and streams, trees, shrubs, moss and lichens, stone paved and gravel paths, stone lanterns, pagodas and basins etc. With separate treatments of the Kitchen Garden, the Interior Courtyard Garden, the Tea Garden, the Rooftop Garden, etc. An exhaustive and authoritative study. The bibliography includes what the authors consider to… Read More

Pittsburgh, PA: Duquesne University Press, 1973. Book. As New. Cloth. 1st Edition. Octavo, turquoise cloth covered boards with gilt titles and spine titles. 120 pp. including index. The author was Professor of Philosophy at Duquesne University and founder of the journal Research in Phenomenology. This volume is very clean, tight, unmarked, unblemished and apparently unread, with bright gilt and birgh unblemished interior. AS NEW. Uncommon..

Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Bradford Books, 1993. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth covered boards. 357 pp. including name index, subject index, extensive references and glossary. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, crisp, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, sharp, tight, glossy unclipped and unblemished dust jacket. Very fine in very fine dust jacket. Pristine. AS NEW..

New York: Harcout, Brace, Jovanovich, 1978. Book. Fine. Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, maroon cloth covered boards with blindstamp cover decoration and gilt spine titles. 175 pp. plus notes. A collection of poems unpaublished in Sandburg's lifetime by Margaret Sandburg. A very tight, clean, bright, unmarked volume with fresh cloth and bright gilt in a tight, clean, bright, crisp dust jacket. Very faint speckling to top edge. Near fine in fine dust jacket..

New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1907. Book. Illus. by Griselda Marshall McClure. Fine. Decorative Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, decorative red cloth covered boards with gilt titles surrounded by a gilt garland with white roses blindstamped rules and gilt rules and gilt spine titles. Fore edge untrimmed. .270 pp. Illustrated with glossy plates in black and white with green borders with frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and children. A paean to motherhood and the family with a wealth of advice and a snapshot of the traditional American view of marriage at the turn of the century. A remarkably fine copy with very bright gilt, and fresh cloth. Absolutlely bright with no loss to gilt or white roses. A slight dulling which is only actually visible when examined under bright light at an angle and a faint spot on rear board which is likewise only visible when veiwed angled to the light.Giftr inscription on free front endpaper. Near fine and quite scarce in such excellent condition..

Berkeley, California, U.S.A.: Pub Group West, 1993. Book. Fine. Cloth. Reprint. Quarto, brown cloth covered boards. 127 pp. Very generously illustrated throughou with full color paintings by Ciruelo Cabral and text by Montes Sant. A vivid illustrated review of dragons in history, myth and legend up to the modern tales of Ursula Le Guin and J.R.R. Tolkien, vividly illusttrated in full color. A very tight, clean volume with fresh cloth and pristine interior, unmarked and unread, in a crisp, sharp, bright, glossy dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. Virtually as new..

New York.: Simon & Schuster, (1991). Book. Fine. Hardcover. F. First Edition, first printing. Small quarto, burgundy cloth spine over ivory blindstamp decorated paper covered boards. Illustrated throughout A cookbook of classic midwestern farm kitchen recipes combined with a reminiscence of growing up on the farm. A very tight, clean, fresh, unmarked volume in a crisp, sharp, bright dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket..

New York: Phaedra, 1966. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. First Edition. Octavo, green cloth covered boards. 130pp. A tight copy with a touch of spotting to fore edge in a dust jacket with light soil overall and a few short closed edge tears. A near fine copy in an about very good dust jacket..

NY: Harcourt, Brace, (1944)., 1944. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, pink and grey decorated cloth covered boards. 117pp. Near fine (slight bumps to forecorners) in a very good plus or better dust jacket with very slight superficial soil and minor edgewear..

New York: W W Norton, 1961. Book. Fine. Original Cloth. First Edition. Octavo, green cloth covered boards. 144pp. A collection of Sarton's early verse. A very tight, clean, volume unmarked but for prior owner signature and date on ffep. In a clean, crisp, price-clipped dust jacket with a couple of nicks at top edge and a very inconspicuous small tape repair at base of spine. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket..

NY: W.W. Norton, 1965. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, putty colored cloth cloth spine over black paper covered boards. 220pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. A crisp fresh and clean copy in dust jacket with very short closed edge tear at top of rear panel, very minimal touches of soil to same and short clip to bottom of front foldover, (price still intact at top). Despite these very minor flaws, a solidly near fine dust jacket..

Boston: Beacon Press, 1968. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Small octavo, black cloth spine over charcoal grey paper covered boards. 85 pp. Book and interior clean, tight, and unmarked. Dust jacket shows edge wear with minor chipping and front and back panel show rubbing and staining. Despite the dust jacket's faults, it is intact and without loss of anything except the minor chipping at eges. Near fine in fair dust jacket. VERY SCARCE Sartre title in first edition in English.

Calcutta: Writers Workshop/ P. Lal, 1985. Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, decorative cloth covers in emerald green with woven multi-colored patterned fore edge. Original paper title wrap around band. 105 pp. The author's first collection of short stories. Tiny notation at top edge of free front endpaper (gift from author and date). A tight, clean, square volume with very fresh cloth. In original heavy clear plastic dust cover. Near fine. SCARCE..

New York/Tokyo: Weatherhill, 1973. Book. Fine. Original Wraps. First Edition. Small square quarto, color photo-illustrated self-wraps. 133pp. including index and glossary and a chapter on authenticating Kyo-ware. Generously illustrated throughout with 110 photographs of the pottery of Kyoto, with special emphasis on the renowned works of Kenzan in color photographs. A very tight, clean, fresh, bright, unmarked and apparently unread volume with a flat uncreased spine. The barest tinge of yellowing at top edge but still a lovely copy. FINE..

London: Gurney and Jackson, 1927., 1927. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Third revised and enlarged edition. Very thick octavo, green cloth covered boards with gilt titles and spine titles. Top edge gilt and uncut page edges. With 404 steel engraved figures of birds. 834pp. with index. A very good plus or better copy with a couple of very minor dark spots on back panel and a 1.5" closed tear to cloth at rear spine hinge. Preliminaries have a bit of red stain at lower corner from endpapers. The defects noted are in fact quite minor and this is a very sound clean copy and very good plus or better overall..