Search Results: Titles starting with M from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Cologne: Taschen, 2001. 96 pages, 77 plates (some colour); 23 cm. English Edition. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. Another copy available. "M.C. Escher was born in 1898 in Leeuwarden (Netherlands). He received his first drawing lessons during secondary school from F.W. van der Haagen, who also taught him the block printing, thus fostering Escher's innate graphic talents. From 1912 to 1922 he studied at the School of Architecture and Ornamental Design in Haarlem, where he was instructed in graphic techniques by S. Jessurun de Mesquita, who greatly influenced Escher's further artistic development. Between 1922 and 1934 the artist lived and worked in Italy. Afterwards Escher spent two years in Switzerland and five in Brussels before finally moving back to Barn in Holland, where he died in 1972. M.C. Escher is not a surrealist drawing us into his dream world, but an architect of perfectly impossible worlds who presents the structurally unthinkable as though it were a… Read More

New York: Abradale Press; Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers in association with the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, 1992. Cloth, 349 pages, illustrations (some colour); 29 cm. Translation of: Leven en werk van M. C. Escher. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine slightly rolled at the crown. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Biographical chronology; Preface; Escher Senior 1843-1939; Early life 1898-1922; Italy and Spain 1922-1924; Rome 1924-1935; Switzerland and Belgium 1935-1941; Back in Holland 1941-1954; Letters to Arthur 1955-1957; Crystallographers' recognition 1958-1960; Voyage to Canada 1960; The final years 1961-1972; The vision of a mathematician; The regular division of the plane; Catalogue; Notes on the illustrations; Concordance.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.

Cobham, Surrey: TAJ Books, 2003. Pictorial boards, 11 pages, [84] plates, [1] pages chiefly illustrations (some colour); 36 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Back free endpaper crerased. Dust jacket with moderate shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Folio.

New York: Picador USA; Henry Holt and Company, 2001. 570 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "As vividly and unflinchingly presented herein with 'blood and bone and sinew' (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The end of the sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological war against which, despite all odds, brilliant feats of art and science were achieved. No artist captured the dark, violent spirit of the time better than Caravaggio, variously known as Marisi, Moriggia, Merigi, and sometimes, simply M. As art critic Robert Hughes has said, 'There was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same.' Robb's masterful biography 're-creates the mirror Cravaggio held up to nature,' as Hilary Spurling wrote in The New York Times Book Review, 'with singular delicacy as well as… Read More

New York: Henry Holt and Company; A John Macrae Book, 2000. Large softcover, 570 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. "A bold, fresh biography of the world's first modern painter. As presented with 'blood and bone and sinew' (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The of the sixteenth century was marked by the Inquisition and Counter-Reformation, a background of ideological cold war against which, despite all odds and at great cost to their creators, brilliant feats of art and science were achieved. No artist captured the dark, violent spirit of the time better than Caravaggio, variously known as Marisi, Moriggia, Merigi, and sometimes, simply M. As art critic Robert Hughes has said, 'There was art before him and art after him, and they were not the same.' Caravaggio threw out Renaissance dogma to paint with dazzling originality and fierce… Read More

New York: Vintage Books, 2016. 253 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Stated First Vintage Books Edition.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Hong Kong: Hong Kong Heritage Museum, 2006. 52 pages, colour illustrations; 17 cm. Text in English and Chinese. Exhibition held April 6 to November 27, 2006. Firm binding, clean inside copy. The installation was designed by 4 architects: Steven Chu, Anson Tsang, Kenneth Tse, and Humphrey Wong.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 16mo.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. xvi, 288 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: Book One: Daddy's little girls. Father knows best: Louis B. Mayer; Jazz babies: Mae Murray and Joan Crawford; The twenties; But not on the first date: Love and the MGM girls; Book Two: Crowned heads. Fool's gold: The great Garbo hoax; Her most exalted majesty: The story of Norma Shearer; Imperial concubine: Marion Davies at MGM; Book Three: Damsels in distress. Tragic muses: Judy, Jean, and the others; Friday's child: Lana Turner's story; Three's company: Debbie-Eddie, Eddie-Liz, Debbie; No sorrow now: The return of Connie Francis; Book Four: The survivors. They built 'em right: Ann Miller, Debbie Reynolds, Cyd Charisse, and Jane Powell.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1975. Cloth, 400 pages, illustrations (some colour); 33 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to boards, age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio.

New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2007. 280 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Produced by the Department of Publications, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1980. Cloth, 276 pages, colour illustrations 34 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour photographs by Carol Beckwith. CONTENTS: Maasai: land and people; Inkera: youth; Emorata: circumcision; Ilmoran: warriors; Ilpayiani: elders; A personal reflection; Acknowledgments.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio.

London: Collins Publishers, 1973. Cloth, 112 pages; illustrations; 28 cm. Reprint 1974. Firm binding, unmarked. Age toning, edges & endpapers lightly soiled. Price-clipped dust jacket with a sunned spine. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 4to.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1980. Cloth, 276 pages, colour illustrations; 34 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. Another copy available. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour photographs by Carol Beckwith. CONTENTS: Maasai: land and people; Inkera: youth; Emorata: circumcision; Ilmoran: warriors; Ilpayiani: elders; A personal reflection; Acknowledgments.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987. xvi, 384 pages, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Reprint 2000. Tight, clean copy. "She was 'the most peculiar common denominator that society, literature, art and radical revolutionaries ever found in New York and Europe.' So claimed a Chicago newspaper reporter in the 1920s of Mabel Dodge Luhan. Lois Rudnick's biography examines all aspects of Mabel Dodge Luhan's real and imagined lives, drawing on fictional portraits, as well as on Mabel's own memoirs, letters, and fiction." - Publisher.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Salt Lake City, UT: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2000. Cloth, 152 pages, illustrations; 29 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. "In December of 1917, Mabel Dodge Luhan, a wealthy patron of the arts, arrived in the very rural community of Taos, New Mexico. She arrived with an emotional need that drove her to be a focal point and a catalyst in the New Mexico art community. Although she died in 1962, she is still a controversial figure in Taos, where her spirit lingers in her house; now a Bread and Breakfast frequently used for artists retreats. Her personal artistic expression is found in the books she wrote, but she is best known for the amazing role she played in drawing painters, writers, and other artists to Taos and Santa Fe. 'Mabel's Santa Fe and Taos' gives a brief biography of Mabel and of many of the most famous… Read More

Bucharest: Oficiul de Expozitii, 1975. 28 pages, illustrations, portrait; 22 cm. Text in Romanian. Exhibition held at Sala Dalles, Bucharest, November to December 1975. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Scarce.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Free Press; Simon & Schuster, 2000. xi, 385 pages, illustrations, map; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Douglas MacArthur towers over twentieth-century American history. His fame is based chiefly on his World War II service in the Philippines. Yet Korea, America's forgotten war, was far more "MacArthur's war", and it remains one of our most brutal and frightening. In just three years thirty-five thousand Americans lost their lives -- more than three times the rate of losses in Vietnam. Korea, like Vietnam, was a breeding ground for the crimes of war. To this day, six thousand Americans remain MIA. It was Korea where American troops faced a Communist foe for the first time, as both China and the Soviet Union contributed troops to the North Korean cause. The war that nearly triggered the use of nuclear weapons reveals MacArthur at his most flamboyant, flawed, yet still, at times, brilliant.… Read More

New York, Boston, London: Little, Brown and Company, 2016. viii, 594 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "A Finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History at the New-York Historical Society. The definitive account of General Douglas MacArthur's rise during World War II, from the author of the bestseller The Admirals. World War II changed the course of history. Douglas MacArthur changed the course of World War II. MACARTHUR AT WAR will go deeper into this transformative period of his life than previous biographies, drilling into the military strategy that Walter R. Borneman is so skilled at conveying, and exploring how personality and ego translate into military successes and failures. Architect of stunning triumphs and inexplicable defeats, General MacArthur is the most intriguing military leader of the twentieth century. There was never any middle ground… Read More

Rome: De Luca Publisher, 1982. 113 pages, illustrations; 30 cm. Exhibition held at the Manchester City Art Gallery, 9 June to 24 July 1982, and Edinburgh City Art Centre 6 August to 25 September 1982. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Italian Impressionist painting. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York and London: Stair Sainty Matthiesen in association with Matthiesen, 1984. 122 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 25 cm. Exhibition held March 14 to April 20, 1984. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Italian Impressionist painting.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.