Search Results: Titles starting with E from Rare Books Honolulu

London: Unit Editions, 2021. 1st ed. Paperback. New/no dj as issued. A long overdue book examining the extraordinary life and work of artist/designer Ed Fella. Ed Fella is revered by many of the leading names in contemporary design. Now, at long last, there is a book that charts Ed's journey from the commercial design studios of 1950s Detroit to his current position as a widely celebrated artist/designer. Ed Fella: A Life in Images makes extensive use of his vast treasure store of visual delight: it showcases flyers, posters, original sketches, drawings, Polaroids and collages, as well as items from Ed's collection of vernacular design. The book makes unrestricted use of Ed's vast archive. David Cabianca, the book's co-author and its instigator, has surveyed the archive in depth. He writes: "Ed Fella's archive is legion. It branches into numerous streams while sustaining a robust trail of examples along the way. Fella's archive exhausts the possibilities one might find in graphic design. Ed Fella… Read More

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. Deluxe Issue, one of five copies specially bound and designated for the author, artist, binder, publisher, and printer, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by Roditi on the colophon. Hardcover. Fine/in clear acetate jacket. Hernandez, Jose. EMPEROR OF MIDNIGHT - THE BINDER'S COPY, SIGNED by Roditi, Edouard (poems); Hernandez, Jose (illustrator) Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1974. First Edition. Deluxe Issue, one of five copies specially bound and designated for the author, artist, binder, publisher, and printer, this one marked "Binder's Copy" and signed by Roditi on the colophon. Octavo (23.5cm); pictorial paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with title label mounted to spine; [6],7-146,[6]pp. An etching signed by artist Jose Hernandez is tipped in opposite the title page. Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. A late but substantial collection of verse by the noted poet and translator, his first published by the Black Sparrow Press.

Wellington, New Zealand: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1981. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Quarter leather; housed in clamshell. Very Good. EARLY SKETCHES AND CHARTS OF BANKS PENINSULA 1770-1850. published in Wellington, NZ 1981 by renowned company A.H. & A.W. Reed, First Edition. large format, 103 pages, numerous maps, charts and drawings, with 82 plates, of which 27 plates are beautifully colored and tipped-in from publisher. Hardcover Folio in boxed case. Blue cloth boards with leather spine. Page dimensions: 390 x 271mm. Contents: Cook to D'Urville (1770-1840); Stanley and the Arrival of the French Settlers (1840); An Unknown Artist and the Infant Settlement at Akaroa (1841); Charles Meryon and the Rhin (1843-46); A Trio of Journal Artists: Selwyn, Barnicoat and Mantell (1844-49); William Fox and the Canterbury Settlement (1848-50); Richard Aldworth Oliver (1848-50); Notes on Sources; Index. Spectacular illustrations and plates in a quality production, decorative endpapers, fine paper and blue… Read More

Pre-Echo, 2021. First Edition. Softcover. NEW/no dj as issued. Pre-Echo Press, Nov 2021, 10.5 x 12.25 inches, portrait, Softcover, 176 pages Pre-Echo Press presents Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax, an artist book by New York City based, English artist, Nick Relph. "Nick Relph's new book, "Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax," collects years of digital street scans of New York City construction posters, an eerie portrait of a supersizing metropolis." New York Times. Amounting to a sort of unofficial and urgent index of a new city quickly replacing an old one, the book is a collection of scans made over the past decade, using a library wand scanner, clandestinely collected from building sites' public postings, all over New York City. Extreme high resolution butts up against the handheld nature of the scanning process, and the uncanny irreality of manufactured light and space of the construction renderings, to create an ominous dictionary of the dystopian present of urban cities around the world. A mysterious… Read More

Tokyo: Miki Shobo Co, 1975. Hardcover in box and slipcase. Miki Shobo Co., 1975, 'Edo Common Folk Customs Illustrations - with separate commentary book.'. In Japanese. 446 pages, 8 x 105 x 2 inches, Title page, 9pp. intro and index, 7pp with tipped in color illustrations, over 400pp with full-page b/w illustrations , no text. Commentary vol.122pp text with some in-text illustrations. Hardcover in box and slipcase. Like new due to the closed protection of solid card board box plus slipcase.

Chicago: Richard Edwards, 1872. Hardcover. good/no dj as issued. Full title: "Edwards' Fifteenth Annual Directory of the Inhabitants, Institutions, Manufacturing Establishments and Incorporated Companies of the City of Chicago; Embracing a Complete Business Directory for 1872." 1194, [6], 9 pp. Advertisements on endpapers, sections at front and back, and on several inserted leaves. (8vo) 23x14.5 cm (9x5¾"), original blue with gilt lettering. Previously in the collection of the Massachusetts Historical Society, with bookplate. Cloth rubbed, a bit soiled, loss to half of spine cloth; hinges cracked, a few small tears to a few pages, some damp stains at page edges; good.

Santiago de Chile: Empresa Letras, 1933. Wrappers. good - very good/no dj as issued. Santiago de Chile, Empresa Letras, 1933, Wrappers Empresa Letras, 1933 in: "Cuadernos de poesía", No. 2, 8to, 34 pages. in wrappers, Second edition. Spine with some damage, front cover separated. Plates browned, but clean and without markings. Translaton f]rom Neruda's introduction: "The poems collected in this book were part of a cycle of my production developed nearly ten years ago. The influence they show of the great Uruguayan poet Carlos Sabat Ercasty and his general accent of eloquence and verbal arrogance made me remove the vast majority of them from publicity. Now, after the period in which the publication of "El Hondero Entusiasta" would have hurt me intimately, I have delivered them to this publisher, as a document, valid for those who are interested in my poetry..." Neruda. January 1933. Pablo Neruda (Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto). "El hondero entusiasta", Neruda's first cyclical poem, was… Read More

Honolulu, HI: Bishop Museum Press, 1979. 1st. very good. VERY SCARCE. Bishop Museum Press, 1979. White wraps with illustration. 10" x 7". 18, [1] pages : 5 pages introduction, 11 pages illustrations with descriptions. Includes bibliographical references (page 19). Catalog of an exhibition at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu 1979. Very Good condition, with very light shelf wear to the cover. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority upgrade worldwide.

teNeues, 2012. Multilingual edition. over-sized Hardcover. Fine/Fine. TeNeues, 2012, Hardcover. Fine. Orig. cloth binding. Dustjacket. 244 pages. Elephant folio (25.2 x 19.8 inches (64x50 cm.) and weighs 23.5 lb). -- Elliott Erwitt has shot many images that have become modern masterpieces. His unparalleled visual talent captures something special that transcends the moment, making it live on and develop a life of its very own. This collector's edition gathers some of his most memorable works in a landmark collection. From his image of Marilyn in that white dress to his portrait of a dressed Chihuahua in proportion with a pair of woman's legs and that of a Great Dane-in each instance it was Erwitt's faultless sense of timing and his eye for the remarkable. Whether a glance, a movement, or an interaction-that made the work unique. Each of these icons is a representation of how we live, a lasting symbol of the age and its vitality, that will represent our world to future generations. so- called display… Read More

Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover Very Good Emek Habacha (Vale of Tears) von R Joseph ha Cohen, Aus dem Hebraeischen ins Deutsche uebertragen, mit einem Vorworte, Noten und Registern versehen und mit hebraeischen handschriflichen Beilagen bereichert Schilderung der Vertreibung und Unterdrückung der Juden in Portugal und Spanien bis Ende des 15Jahrhunderts A desription of the oppression and expulsion of the Jews in Portugal and Spain at the end of the 15th century original hardcover published in 1858 by leiner in Leipzig, Germany 226 pages in German + 24 pages in Hebrew tight binding, name of author and title in gilt on spine, Pages very clean, some numbers next to the text written in pencil Small dampstain on top of the last 30 pages, not affecting the text In all amazing condition for the age Ships from Hawaii.

‎The Center for Art in Wood, 2018. Limited First Edition. Hardcover in etched wood slip case. The LIMITED EDITION in a masterfully made wooden slipcase.This is no. 77 NEW, in original shipping case. Ships from Hawaii (with free Priority Mail upgrade within the US). Please ask for international shipping rates) The limited edition version of the book is a true work of art worthy of Milan's level of craftsmanship, style, and beauty. Cherry veneer wood slip case with laser cut bird shape and laser-etched Emil Milan quote. Perfect gift idea for the woodworker, maker, designer, or mid-century modern lover. Hand numbered in a limited edition Hand signed by the members of the Emil Milan Research Team Hand stamped with an impression of Milan's own signature, carefully reproduced from the base of one of his artworks. 272 pages illustrated in full color with nearly 300 artworks and historical photos Over 35,000 words of text with end notes and index 9 x 11 inches 157gsm high-end, heavy weight art quality… Read More

Hampshire UK: Enitharmon Editions, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. NEW/NEW. NEW, still in publisher's shrink wrap. Out-of-print and hard to find! Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade within the US. Enitharmon Editions, Hampshire, UK, 2018, 224 Pages, Dimensions: 228 x 300mm. From the moment the Pennsylvania-born Duane Michals (born 1932) settled in Manhattan in 1956 the metropolitan environment in which he found himself exerted a powerful spell on his creative imagination. In 1964 he began to document New York City in a tantalisingly unfamiliar guise, virtually empty of inhabitants at dawn or dusk. In deeply evocative black-and-white images he depicted storefronts and interiors; deserted stations, subway cars, funfairs and arcades; derelict markets, vacant theaters and diners. Day after day Michals would rise at dawn to capture unpeopled sidewalks, bridges and parking lots, architectural fragments, the Hudson River, cityscapes in the mist, skyscrapers and urban nature reflected in… Read More

Lakewood, Colorado: Centipede Press, 2021. Hardcover. NEW/NEW. Illusrations: Cristina Bencina, Rob Rey. Ships from Hawaii with free Priority Mail upgrade worldwide! NEW, Unsigned. Book size 6¼ × 10 inches. (comes not in it's original slipcase, but an original case in the exact same, fitting size that has 'Speaker for the Dead" as title on one spine. The spine on the other side is just black. Excellent protection for the book. This large collection of Ender-related short stories is 416 pages, with 13 stories, including "Governor Wiggin," which was written especially for this collection. Each story has a stunning black & white full page illustration by Cristina Bencina, as well as a frontispiece illustration, and a wraparound dust jacket by Rob Rey.

Honolulu: Hawaiian Mission Childrens Society, 2014. Hardcover. New, in publisher's shrink wrap. Ships from Hawaii. Weight 3.2 pounds, Dimensions 10.7 x 0.9 x 10.7 inches Between 1834 and 1844, a remarkable collection of copperplate engravings issued forth from the Lahainaluna Seminary, a school on the island of Maui run by the Hawaiian Mission. Collectively, these engravings―views of the Hawaiian Islands,including towns and rural settlements, portraits, objects of natural history, and original maps and charts―form one of the most important visual records of nineteenth-century Hawaii before the age of photography. Although most of the drawings on which the engravings are based were done by members of the Hawaiian Mission, the actual engravings are all the work of young Hawaiians, many of them students at the Lahainaluna Seminary. This is the first study of the entire body of engraved work produced by Hawaiians at Lahainaluna Seminary and includes biographical information on the young engravers.

Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover Very Good Hardcover with dust jacket Beautiful book unread - like new, only leafed through once binding and cover pristine Dust jacket with very slight shelf wear to edges Ships from Hawaii.

Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, Awaiaulu, Inc, 2021. 2nd edition 2021. Paperback. New in shrink wrap. Solomon Enos. New, new printing. Sept 2021,still shrink-wrapped.Paperback, illustrations by Solomon Enos. 496 pages. Ships from Hawaii. This ancient saga begins with the goddess Pele's migration to Kīlauea and her spirit's search for a lover. The story then details the quest of Pele's younger sister, Hi'iakaikapoliopele, to find the handsome Lohi'auipo, and bring him back to their crater home. It is a very human account of love and lust, jealousy and justice, peopled with deities, demons, chiefs and commoners. This version by Ho'oulumāhie-hie ran from 1905 to 1906 as a daily series in the Hawaiian-language newspaper Ka Na'i Aupuni. It is the most extensive form of the story ever documented, offering a wealth of detail and insights about social and religious practices, poetry and hula, healing arts, and many other Hawaiian customs.

Stuttgart: Edition Medicina Rara, 1970. Fascsimile, De Luxe edition with additional prints. Hardcover. Fine/no dj as issued. Medicina Rara Stuttgart, 1970. Edition originale. De Humani corporis fabrica librorum Epitome. Luxusausgabe. Von Andreas Vesalius. Stuttgart 1970. 20 x 14.5 inches (39 x 52 cm)   24 pages, printed on Fabiano Rug, half-leather binding with leather corners, extra suite of 4 sheets with woodcut illustrations in a folder, numbered in Roman numerals, limited (500 copies). At the age of 23, the author became a professor of surgery in Padua with an obligation to teach anatomy and created his anatomical life's work during this time. With the work »De humani corporis fabrica« (»On the structure of the human body«), published in 1543, he represented the attitude against the general belief that only the human corpse offers a reliable way of finding out about the body structure and in this context he prepared the mortal remains of a criminal, the so-called "Vesal's skeleton", which… Read More

Germany: Parthas Verlag, 2014. Hardcover. Fine. Die erste bibliophile Ausgabe der Erinnerungen und Gespräche des berühmten Pariser Kunsthändlers, Autors und Entdeckers der Avantgarde. Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939) wird als ältestes von zehn Kindern von französischen Auswanderern auf der Insel Réunion geboren. Als er zum Studium der Rechtswissenschaft ins Mutterland zurückkehrt, zieht er 1887 nach Paris, wo er sich 1890, am Fuße von Sacre Coeur, mit ersten Ankäufen von Zeichnungen Félicien Rops' als Kunsthändler selbstständig macht. Hier, in einer bescheidenen Zweizimmerwohnung, fällt ihm in der Folgezeit die Rolle eines Pioniers unter den Kunsthändlern sowie Förderers moderner Kunst zu. Dank seiner Intuition, einer Ader für den Markt und seiner kühnen Entscheidungsfreude erlangt er, der sich für unbekannte oder gar »ausgestoßene« Künstler begeistert, an der Schwelle des 20. Jahrhunderts eine besondere Stellung im Kunsthandel. Er organisiert 1895 die erste Paul Cézanne… Read More

Wienand, 2007. Hardcover. New. New.

Zurich, Switzerland: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2010. 4 hardcover in slipcase. NEW/no dj's as issued. Scheidegger & Spiess, 2010. IN GERMAN. Editor/Hg. Hans Delfs. Four hardcover books in printed slipcase, 17 x 24 cm each, 2360 pages, with 13 color and 203 b/w illustrations, register volume includes around 30,000 references Ships from Hawaii. Throughout his life, Kirchner corresponded very actively with a wide variety of his contemporaries. The correspondence, published in its entirety, comprises almost 3,600 documents: including previously unpublished letters to his sponsors and patrons Eberhard Grisebach and Helene Spengler, Gustav Schiefler, the art critic Will Grohmann, the art dealers Curt Valentin and Ferdinand Möller, to museum directors, publishers, friends and in particular to his partner Erna Schilling. Letters from Erna Schilling were also included because they almost always concern Kirchner's work. This edition of letters provides a comprehensive insight into Kirchner's life and work and… Read More