Search Results: Titles starting with C from LEFT COAST BOOKS

New York: Pantheon Books, 2002. xvi, 224 pages; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "A long-overdue critical appreciation of the West Indian historian and political activist who played a towering role in the cause of Pan-Africanism in the twentieth century. Born in Trinidad in 1901, Cyril Lionel Robert James was a precocious polymath all his life. By the time he was a teenager and already a certified teacher, he had embarked on a lifelong advocacy for the Trinidadian oppressed. He embraced Marxism while living in England during the 1930s, during which time he published, among other works, The Case for West Indian Self Government and his masterpiece, The Black Jacobins. James lived in the United States from 1939 until he was expelled during the McCarthy terror for his political activities. Thereafter he divided his time between London and Trinidad (where he served as Secretary of the West Indies Federal Labor Party) and, until his death… Read More

Los Angeles: Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, 2008. [86] pages, colour illustrations; 26 cm. Exhibition held at the Municipal Art Gallery of Los Angeles, May 16 to July 13, 2008, and performances held at Grand Performances, June 13 to 14, 2008. Firm binding, clean inside copy. "This catalog accompanies an exhibition and performance series sponsored by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs featuring its C.O.L.A. 2008 Individual Artist Fellowship recipients in the visual arts, literary arts, and performing arts." Includes: Judie Bamber, Erin Cosgrove, Joyce Dallal, Lewis Klahr, Suzanne Lacy, Timothy Nolan, Stas Orlovski, Louise Sandhaus, and Alex Slade.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Illus. by Silton, Susan (Designed by). 4to.

New York: Wildenstein, 1965. [6] pages, 87 pages of plates, chiefly illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. "Loan exhibition under the patronage of Monsieur Michel Legendre . . . and Monsieur Edouard Morot-Sir . . . for the benefit of Recording for the Blind, Inc., March 25th to May 1st, 1965." Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. 499 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Charles Robert Ashbee was a major force behind the arts & crafts movement. Inspired by the anti-industrialism of Ruskin & Morris, he was the founder of the Guild of Handicraft. This biography describes a multi-faceted career that also encompassed conservation and town planning." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Cities of youth and thought 1863-1886; East London 1886-1891; The nineties 1891-1897; Success 1897-1902; The Cotswolds 1902-1908; Where the great city stands 1908-1918; Jerusalem 1919-1922; In a Kentish garden 1923-1942; The elements of design; Architecture; Furniture and interior decoration; Metalwork; Jewellery; The Essex House Press; Reputation and influence; Conclusion.. 2nd. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Cloth, 152 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Essays in Art and Culture Series. Tight, clean copy. First American Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Between 1896 and 1906 Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) produced a series of buildings and interiors in and around Glasgow of such startling invention that he immediately established himself as one of the truly great figures in early twentieth-century architecture and design. David Brett argues that Mackintosh's originality was grounded in a highly subjective 'poetics of workmanship,' in which the structure, features, interiors and furnishings of each individual. Building became subject to a unifying system of forms, metaphors and unconscious associations. The system Mackintosh evolved--which began with his early drawing shaped by the Victorian tradition of art botany--allowed for the formulation of an almost infinite series of ensembles. After focusing on the… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 2004. 224 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "CGI: The Art of the Computer-Generated Image is the first comprehensive collection of three-dimensional CGI images from the most renowned film studios, animation and special-effects houses, and independent digital artists working today. It is also the first book to present these images as art. The tools that CGI artists use are so sophisticated that it would be easy to believe that computers 'make' this art, but nothing is further from the truth. As with all art techniques, it is the artist who wields the tools that determines the quality of the work. / Peter Weishar is Professor and Dean of the School of Film and Digital Media, Savannah College of Art and Design." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible. Read More

Odense, Danmark: Kunsthallen, Brandts Kl defabrik, 1988. 240 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Text in Danish and English. Catalogue of an exhibition of K. van Stuijvenberg's COBRA collection, held at Kunsthallen, Brandts kl defabrik, Odense, Denmark in March 1988. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Edition of 1000 copies. Numbered "532". OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. COBRA is an acronym using the first two letters of the following cities: Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam--where the adherents of this post-war movement and their followers reside. Most painted or sculpted in a neo-expressionist, primitivist style, sometimes associating their cultural productions with larger social and cultural goals. Some, notably Asger Jorn and Constant, were affiliated with the politically radical and iconoclastic Situationists in France, whereas Karel Appel developed a kind of aestheticized… Read More

London: Methuen, 1984. 192 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. A good+ reading copy, with highlighting on a few pages, chiefly clean. Profusely illustrated.. 2nd.. Paperback. Fair. 4to.

Vancouver: BlueImprint, 2005. 116 pages, chiefly colour illustrations, colour portraits; 24 x 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates of Canadian vacation homes.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Oblong.

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Millbrae, CA: Celestial Arts, 1980. Cloth, 152 pages, chiefly illustrations; 23 x 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. First printing. Dust jacket with light edgewear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Oblong.

New York and London: Pegasus Books, 2018. xvi, 576 pages, [32] pages of plates, illustrations (chiefly colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. "Napoleon is one of history's most fascinating figures. But his complex relationship with Rome--both with antiquity and his contemporary conflicts with the Pope and Holy See--have undergone little examination. In The Caesar of Paris, Susan Jaques reveals how Napoleon's dueling fascination and rivalry informed his effort to turn Paris into "the new Rome"--Europe's cultural capital--through architectural and artistic commissions around the city. His initiatives and his aggressive pursuit of antiquities and classical treasures from Italy gave Paris much of the classical beauty we know and adore today. Napoleon had a tradition of appropriating from past military greats to legitimize his… Read More

Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2011. liii, 370 pages, illustrations, maps; 23 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Ancient Roman author Suetonius's Books on the Life of the Caesars, biographies of the first Roman emperors and their forerunner, Julius Caesar, are rich in information and detail. Suetonius preserved much that was said and written about the emperors during the time they lived and not long afterwards. This translation is based on the 1908 edition of Maximilian Ihm (Teubner). It includes an introduction giving background on the life of Suetonius, his writings in the context of ancient biography, and background on the book itself, exploring sources, composition, organization, style, and historical value. The book also contains an introduction to the history and social context of the period, with details on social distinctions, government institutions, family, courts, the military, religion, and education. Also included are maps, a chronology of major events, a family tree, and a… Read More

White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2001. 58 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Printing. Fine DJ. "Throughout the Dominican Republic and Central America it is a household ritual to offer a 'cafecito' (a small cup of dark, rich, potent coffee) to any visitor, especially a stranger. Now, in a story spanning Latin America and Nebraska, Julia Alvarez offers us A Cafecito Story. In North America, coffee is the morning lifeline between waking and working. In Central and South America, coffee is an economic lifeline, after oil the most important export commodity. Especially when coffee is grown sustainably, it links the First and Third Worlds in ways that are surprising and often delightful. For instance, North American songbirds winter in southern habitats where their survival is directly dependent on coffee farming practices. With lyric simplicity, A Cafecito Story tells the complex tale of a social beverage that bridges nations and unites… Read More

Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs M. Smith, Inc.; Peregrine Smith Books, 1984. 94 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. Stated First Edition. Profusely illustrated.. 1st. Paperback. Good. 4to.

North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2012. 287 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the author Barbara Bocher, with a personalized inscription. A fine copy. "The startling memoir of Barbara Bocher, once 14-year-old baby ballerina of George Balanchine's New York City Ballet... Recounts Barbara's meteoric career, working with the greatest cultural icons of the mid-20th century, but mentally and physically tormented for years by the dancing king of Broadway, 'West side story' choreographer Jerome Robbins." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Dancing for Jerome Robbins; Cowboys, Indians and Shirley Temple; The audition; A passion to dance; Dancing for Balanchine and Stravinsky; Dancing for Leonard Bernstein; Dancing for Frederick Ashton; The girl in the painting; High tea with Lord Mountbatten; The Apollo of my love's awakening; Swan Lake and Benny Goodman; Post Paris Opera scandal; Eternity five floors below; The House of Chanel; In the shadow of the Third Reich; The… Read More

Dublin: D chas, 1999. 40 pages, colour illustrations, plan; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo. Guidebook.

Paris: Connaissance des arts; Ediciones El Viso, 1994. 82 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 29 cm. Text in French/Texte en francais. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, 1994-95, of the works of the French Impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894).. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Serial.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1991. Cloth, 341 pages, illustrations (some colour), maps; 31 cm. Translation of: Caillebotte au jardin. With excerpts from Treatise on the design and decoration of gardens by Louis-Eustache Audot, Paris, 1859. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Dust jacket, with a slightly sunned spine (bold & legible lettering), protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

London and New York: Architectural Design; St. Martin's Press, 1984. 88 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Architectural design profile, 56. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. The exhibition coincides with the 15th Congress of the UIA in Cairo, January 1985.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Serial.