Search Results: Titles starting with G from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1961. Cloth, 32 pages, illustrations, 68 plates (part colour), portrait; 36 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Boards lightly soiled, expected browning. First American Edition. Dust jacket, with a sunned stripe on the front cover (near the spine), protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. A major publication on the French Cubist painter Georges Braque (1882-1963) by a leading authority on the subject.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio. Collectible.

Paris: Flammarion, 1977. Cloth, 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Text in French/Texte en fran ais. TRES BON ETAT. L g rement us . Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards, age toning. Dust jacket, toned, protected in a mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1977. Cloth, 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Translated from the French. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1983. Leather, gilt, 96 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Collector's Edition. Raised bands on spine, all edges gilt. Silk ribbon book mark. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to.

London: National Portrait Gallery, 2004. 176 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour); 28 cm. Accompanies a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery from 14 October 2004 to 9 January 2005. SIGNED. Boldly signed by the author Barbara Bryant on the title page in the year of publication, no dedication. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Well-illustrated survey of the Victorian painter George Frederick Watts (1817-1904), with many colour plates of his portraits. Sitters include poet Alfred Tennyson, Ellen Terry, aristocracy.. SIGNED. Paperback. Fine. 4to. Collectible.

New York: David McKay Company, Inc., 1954. Cloth, 304 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Topstained blue. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top corners mildly bumped. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear & a slightly faded spine, protected in a mylar book cover. A solid copy. CONTENTS: Acknowledgments; Foreword, by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt; "Art claims no citizenship!"; A boy and his hero; A studio on Federal Street; Tragedy at the atelier; Friends, new and old; Grosvenor Square; English romance; Audobon in London, 1837; The coronation; King Louis-Philippe, 1839; At Windsor Castle, 1840; Back in Paris; At the White House, 1842; The American scene, 1842-1844; A sitting at the Hermitage, 1845; Henry Clay at Ashland, 1845; John Quincy Adams in Boston, 1845; An English wife in America; "Webster replying to Hayne"; Cultural pioneer; An artist's faith; The Civil War; War portraits; The captain falls; Reconstruction; A French wedding; "The peacemakers"; Roman interlude; Holocaust… Read More

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1948. 83 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Edition of 9500 copies. A fragile copy with worn outer wraps. Clean inside copy, age toning.. 1st.. Paperback. Fair. 4to.

New York and Paris: Frick Collection; Musee du Louvre; Somogy Art Publishers, 2008. 319 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Frick Collection, New York, October 30, 2007 to January 27, 2008; Musee du Louvre, Paris, February 28 to May 26, 2008. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Paperback. Fine. 4to.

Cambridge, MA: MIT Press; An October Book, 2009. x, 204 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Remainder mark/tail edge. "Gabriel Orozco's work is sometimes considered uncategorizable; but his sculpture, photography, drawing, collage, and installations are unified by their devotion to the antispectacular, to the everyday, and to the explorations of complexities that are not immediately obvious. Orozco (born in Mexico in 1962) pays meticulous attention to what he calls the 'liquidity of things' as seen in mundane and evanescent objects and elements of everyday life--the momentary fog on a polished piano top, a deflated football, tins of cat food balanced on watermelons, light through leaves, the screech of a tire, chess pieces on a chessboard. 'People forget that I want to disappoint,' he has said. 'I use that word deliberately. I want to disappoint the expectations of the one who waits to be amazed. When you make a decision someone is going to be… Read More

Dresden: Verlag der Kunst, 1957. Cloth, 66 pages, 48 plates; 27 cm. Text in German/Text in Deutsch. SEHR GUT. SIGNED by the artist Gabriele Mucchi on the front free endpaper, with another signature inked on the same leaf. Expected browning. Dust jacket toned, with an open tear/back cover, protected in a mylar book cover.. SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to. Collectible.

San Francisco: Pomegranate, 2001. 110 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This volume displays the modern style of mandala designed by artists Bell and Todd in which they photograph details of nature, scan them, and then create dazzling color digital images." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

London: British Museum Publications, 1978. xi, 92 pages, [16] leaves of plates, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges lightly soiled.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Yosemite, CA: Flying Spur Press, 1981. 88 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning.. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Walker & Company, 2000. ix, 420 pages, illustrations, maps, index; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called 'the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science altogether.' Galileo's Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as 'a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me.' / Dava Sobel is an award-winning science writer and former New York Times reporter who has contributed articles to Audubon, Discover, and The New Yorker. As a contributing editor to Harvard Magazine, she covered scientific research and the history of science." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very… Read More

New York: Walker & Company, 2000. ix, 420 pages, illustrations, maps; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. "Inspired by a long fascination with Galileo, and by the remarkable surviving letters of Galileo's daughter, a cloistered nun, Dava Sobel has written a biography unlike any other of the man Albert Einstein called 'the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science altogether.' Galileo's Daughter also presents a stunning portrait of a person hitherto lost to history, described by her father as 'a woman of exquisite mind, singular goodness, and most tenderly attached to me.' / Dava Sobel is an award-winning science writer and former New York Times reporter who has contributed articles to Audubon, Discover, and The New Yorker. As a contributing editor to Harvard Magazine, she covered scientific research and the history of science." - Publisher.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Cloth, vi, 249 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. CONTENTS: Introduction; The poetry of early modern philosophy; Starry knights; Sarsi and the Saracens; Galileo's lesson on Don Chisciotte (1622-25); Shipwrecked, clueless, and Quixotic; Conclusion.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company, 1915. xii, 96, [2] pages, mounted frontispiece, illustrations (plan) mounted plates; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Tanned spine, sticker shadow/front cover. Expected browning.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. Illus. by Mouchette, Michael (Photographs by). 8vo. Collectible.

New York: Random House, 2021. Cloth, 304 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn collected and published their work, inspiring the Modernist movement that was coming into fashion just as a young Adolf Hitler arrived in Vienna to begin his brief, failed career as a painter. Hitler was alienated by the Modernists and what he called their 'degenerate' art that expressed the most primal human emotions. He saw it as a disease in the body politic and set out… Read More

London: William Collins, 2021. Cloth, 304 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "The little-known story of Hitler's war on modern art and the mentally ill. In the first years of the Weimar Republic, the German psychiatrist Hans Prinzhorn gathered a remarkable collection of works by schizophrenic patients that would astonish and delight the world. The Prinzhorn collection, as it was called, inspired a new generation of artists, including Paul Klee, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali. What the doctor could not have known, however, was that these works would later be used to prepare the ground for mass-murder. Soon after his rise to power, Hitler-a failed artist of the old school-declared war on modern art. The Nazis staged giant 'Degenerate Art' shows to ridicule the avant-garde, and seized and destroyed the cream of Germany's modern art collections. This action was mere… Read More

New York: Random House, 2021. Cloth, 304 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Small remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. Another copy available. "This is a tragedy that begins in the halls of psychiatry and modern art and ends in the Nazis' first gas chambers. In the early 1920s, Hans Prinzhorn, a psychiatrist and aesthete, sought insight from the art of mental patients such as Franz Buhler. Buhler was a brilliant, well-known ironworker until his schizophrenia diagnosis, and his work was compared to that of Munch and Duhrer. Prinzhorn collected and published their work, inspiring the Modernist movement that was coming into fashion just as a young Adolf Hitler arrived in Vienna to begin his brief, failed career as a painter. Hitler was alienated by the Modernists and what he called their 'degenerate' art that expressed the most primal human emotions. He saw it as… Read More