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DJ is in a protective sleeve, it shows wear with some taped tears, a few price stickers and marks on the back, and spine sunning. The cloth-covered boards in excellent condition with light rubbing along top and bottom edges, the binding is tight, textblock pages are unmarked. Includes French text, 93 full and double-page B&W photographs, Description of Photographs, Bibliography, and a map of "The Ivory Coast Republic".
This beautifully printed oversized book is an in-depth "portrait" of Ghana, a project of the master photographer known for helping to solidify the medium as an art form.
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Ex-Library, cover is a bit curled, slightly soiled and scuffed with some edgewear and bent corners. The binding is tight, the textblock pages are clean of marks besides library numbers and stamps. There is a wetstain on the first flyleaf top corner and a crease on the bottom of pg 63/64.
This rare book is a collection of provocative, critical and autobiographical essays on photography. The author, a photography critic, struggles to find what is and what lies behind any photograph. He recalls family members through the frozen reality of pictures taken at different times. He offers a compact history of the Polaroid, and informative remarks on noted photographic travel journals. And he ponders the differences between visual erotica and pornography; his own occasional role as model causes ambivalence.

The covers and spine show very little wear, the binding is tight, pages are clean.
This illustrator's first book is a collection of previously published illustrations (New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, CBC, The New Yorker) as well as new drawings and comics. Included is a reprint of her mini-comic, City of Champions, as well as a new comic, The Tapemines--a wordless scroll about feral children in forests of cassette tape. With inspirations including Japanese and Inuit printmakers, as well as German expressionists, the illustrator's unique style often celebrates the inherent beauty in the grotesque, while remaining character-driven and focused on observational narrative.

Quarter Bound book, gilt lettering and design on spine, some edgewear of corners and head and foot of spine, dampstained cover. Inside is fair for age, there is expected foxing and tanning, the pages are free of marks and notations, there is a small tear on the front free endpaper.

The cover has light surface. spine and edge wear. The perfect binding is tight but the spine is broken and the tops of pages 53-56 are loose. There is no marginalia or highlighting. Includes B&W portrait photographs throughout, with some visual poetry, and a list of contributors with short bios.
A literary and arts-related publication.

DJ shows slight wear, tear on top edge, surface scuffed, front creased. Burgundy covered boards with gilt letters on spine and front cover are in fine condition, binding is intact. Fly title page creased, text block slight foxing on top, scuff marks on bottom; pages are clean with over 1,000 reproductions, including a large number of color plates, and an extensive bibliography and index of artists.A seminal book on the subject, one of the most intensely creative periods of artistic activity. Painters of this era include Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, Ruisdael, Jan Steen and hundreds of artists of merit. This book includes more than 400 Dutch artists, some with one representative work, some with many.The text is a guide through Dutch cities and towns where painters were at work; the historical circumstances of their art; and their painting style using light, color, and movement with greater freedom than had ever been done before.
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No DJ, cloth-covered boards and spine show little wear, the bottom front corner is lightly bumped. The binding is tight, text block pages are clear of marks, but the first end paper is embossed with a personal library stamp. Includes an index.
A wide-ranging, comparative…and controversial study of mythology and religion, written in 1890 (the single volume 1922) by a Scottish anthropologist. The work was aimed at a wide literate audience; the author offered a modernist approach to discussing religion as a cultural phenomenon rather than from a theological perspective.

Contemporary new spine and corner repairs, minor fading of tan cloth covered boards, dark brown decorative titles. Previous owner's signature on front pastedown, pages clean--text and pictures are clear of markings and notations. Illustrated frontispiece and profusely illustrated with b/w drawings, photos and graphics; glossary; annotated bibliography; index.
"An international historical survey of graphic design, which emphasizes work from the 20th century."
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The DJ is in a protective sleeve; it has surface wear and edge chipping, it is soiled and toned with age. The cloth hardcover has an area of surface wear on upper front near spine, otherwise in fine condition. The binding is tight, text block pages are clear of marks. 21 Fairy Tales accompanied with full-color illustrations throughout, including the frontispiece. A previous owner's signature is on first flyleaf.
From the book's DJ: "Gentle tomtes and malicious trolls, knights in search of princesses, elks and bears and other creatures of the deep northern forests stream through this enchanted world." And, the illustrator's work "reflects his knowledge of historic costumes, architecture and heraldry, and also his close familiarity with the Swedish landscape, the dark forests carpeted with moss and mushrooms, the tarns, the mountains and the lichen-covered boulders.

Rare book, DJ and paper-covered boards are in excellent condition; the binding is tight, the text block pages are clear of marks. Includes Contents, Glossary, Bibliography, Index, Acknowledgments, Editors Preference, Prologue, Introduction, and a few B&W photographs and illustrations.
From the book's jacket: "This book examines contemporary environmental issues and movements in independent India as well as Hindu conservative ideology and politics. It includes the first thorough investigation of Anna Hazare's movement in Maharashtra…The author discusses fascist appropriations of environmentalism in Europe to contextualize Hindu nationalists within a larger universe."
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