Search Results: Titles starting with S from Odyssey Books

Simon & Schuster, 2000. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/Very Good +. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Type: Book 192 pp., oatmeal cloth bdg. with blind-stamped front board. Published to mark the 100th anniversary of the beginning of Curtis's 30 year odyssey to document and photographn the lives and traditions of the Native peoples of North America, this book contains almost 200 of the finest examples of his photographs reproduced with startling fidelity to his original prints. An absolutely FINE copy in a fine un-priclipped D/J protected in a freash Mylar cover. .Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

James A. Sadler, 1886. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Book 192 pp. brown cloth and illustated apple green paper covered boards. No dust jacket as issued. School primer published for use in Catholic schools. (scuffed and chipped edges of boards, soiled and yellowed edges, inscribed inner front board and top title page, paper yellowed at edges, remarkably clean and tight copy) Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Oxford University Press, 1968. 1st Edition. Buckram. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 248 pp. 1997 Sandpiper Re-issue. Black buckram with gilt stamp on the spine. DJ in mylar.Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 140 pp., black cloth bdg. with red foil-stamped titling on spine. How the Medieval Church instilled its codex of values and reinforced its control of an illiterate people in a dark period in the human voyage, biblical dramas held the public's attention and elicited compassion, a social virtue, and devotion to the perceived spiritual and sacred vision.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 359 pp., dark forest green leather spine and corners and marbled paper boards bdg with 4 raised bands on gilt-stamped spine, all edges speckled. Illustrated with tissue-guarded frontispice and several other reproductions of portraits. Professionally beautifully bound copy. (light shelf wear with tiny worn through spot at top front corner, paper slightly yellowed and showing in few places traces of having been exposed to a humid environment but well prior to being bound)Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Byzantine Fresco Foundation, 2004. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Book 170 pp., white cartonage bdg. with black titling on front board. A public program presented jointly by the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum, the Rothko Chapel, and the Menil Collection on May 4, 2003. Planned in conjunction with the opening of "Scantuaries: The last works of John Hejduk", the event took the form of a physical and conceptual processional to these sites on the Menil campus in Houston. FINE copy.Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Tinsley Brothers, 1869. Later Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Type: Book 352 pp. purple cloth bdg. with blind-stamped boards and gilt-stamped spine, aec. Contents are the combined creative output of the Victorian aesthetes, members of 'The Savage Club' founded in 1859 in honour of Dr. Samuel Johnson and includes stories with titles like, ex.: 'Love's Gifts' J. R. Planché,'After Dinner' by T. W. Robertson, 'The Triumph of Vice' by W. S. Gilbert, even two scored musical composition: C. Furtada's 'Early Days, and 'Love's Seasons' words by William Brough and music by T. German Reed; in all 32 varied artistic efforts from serious literary novellas, humourous stories, stories in verse, and poems, all beautifully illustrated with 31 plates of b/w illustrations the works artists like William Brunton, W. S. Gilbert, Paul Gray etc., and of engravers such as 'Dalziel… Read More

London: Max Reinhardt Ltd, 1959. Reprint of the 1958 First Editio. Soft cover. Fine/Very Good +. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall. Sine. Type: Book aprox.: 90 pp., now a scarce humorous little illustration book with cats as subjects matching words with fun illustrations. The first edition of 1958 went to a reprint in 1958, then 2 reprints in 1959, testimony of its popularity. Born in 1928, Sine, who was a trained typographer, was at the first sight of Steinberg's works immediately began to draw cartoons himself . He suceeded brillantly not only in this field but also as a book illustrator. 'Scatty' was his first English book and another success. This book is FINE with DJ very slightly scuffed edges, price clipped, otherwise unfaded, clean in mylar cover.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1962. 1st English Language Ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 210 pp., cobalt blue cloth bdg. with gilt-stamped spine. (very slight shelf wear, owner small paper label pasted top front end paper, paper slightly yellowed, otherwise pristine copy)DJ(slightly scuffed edges, otherwise VG)Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Greece: Patras, 2010. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Type: Book xiii pp., 597 pp., dark grey cloth bdg. with gold-stamped titling on front board and spine.Text in english language. Numerous charts, graphs, and diagrams. From the jacket: "This volume covers research work carried out by Christos Menemenlis and his associates during the [1970s and early 80s] at Hydro Quebec Institute of Research (IREQ) in Canada." The book brings together all of Menemenlis' public works during this period, including 25 journal publications (24 in English, one in French), and 24 conference papers and working group reports (23 in English and one in Greek). The jacket has some dents and some stretching along the top edges.The Introduction is presented in both Greek and English. The dust jacket is illustrated with photo-portrait of Menemenlis and A full colour photograph of the vierw of the IREQ Research Institute, in Varennes, Quebec. AS NEW in AS… Read More

Montreal, Kingston - London - Ithaca: McGill - Queen's University Press, 2007. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 342 pp., dark grey paper covered hardback bdg. with black-stamped titling on spine. An insightful overview of documantary photography and photo-based art over the past 3 decades, how impressive the range of sources that puts Canadian photography in a new light. FINE in FINE DJ.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

L' Édition d' Art H. Piazza & Cie, 1909. Limited Numbered Ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Type: Book Type: Limited Edition Limited ed: 150/275 - 121 pp., crimson silk cloth spine and corners withgilt-stamped title in black box on spine, marbled paper covered boards, all edges deckled. Rare book, absolutely beautifully illustrated with 40 mostly full colour engravings and a few monochromes, printed on high quality 'papier Hollande', all with annotated tissue-guards; text in French. weight: 2.57 kgs or 5 lbs 9 1/2 ozs. (lightly scuffed edges spine & corners of boards with tiny worn through spots, spine slightly faded, slightly soiled boards, paper very slightly yellowed at edges, no foxing, very clean and tight book) In made to measure high gauge mylar dust jacket. Photo-scans available on demand.Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books… Read More

A. Fullarton & Co. No Date. Hardcover. Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Type: Book 1 Vol. 208 pp., burgundy cloth bdg. with black and gilt-stamped boards and gilt-stamped spine. Being a prospectus for the projected printing of this work, therefore abridged to wet the appetite of subscribers; illustrated with 3 b/w tissue-guarded engravings and 4 full colour gloss tipped-in tissue-guarded plates of tartans as frontispices, and some b/w in text figures. (suffed edges with chipped edges spine and worn through spots at corners of baords, soiled edges bdg. & spine, slightly foxed edges of plates, paper yellowed at edges, othrerwise clean and tight)Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Gabriele Mazzotta Editore, 1974. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Very Good +. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book 246 pp., b/w phototype illus. cartonage bdg. with black titling on front board & spine. Illustrated with b/w phototypes, sketches and drawings all on plates; with essays by Guido Ballo, Alberto Boatto, Gillo Dorfles and a conversation with Francesco Leonetti. (very slight shelf wear, paper edges very slightly yellowed, super clean & tight copy) In a custom-made high gauge mylar DJ.Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Cassell & Company, Ltd. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Type: Book No date/circa 1890s. Rebound 4 vols. in 2 vols.: vol.#1 & 2 640 pp. vol.#3 & 4 640 pp. 10 5/16" brown cloth bdg. gilt-stamping on spine. Maritime history written in the early days of steamship travel. VG.Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Garden City - New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Later Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Dust Jacket. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Illustrated By Donald Maxwell. Type: Book 74 pp., sky blue cloth bdg. with gilt-stamped titling on front board and spine, teg, fore and bottom edges deckled. Illustrated with 24 coloured paintings pastedown on plates as evocations for each poem. A VG+ copy in a custom made high gauge mylar DJ.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Methuen, 1986. 1st Edition. Buckram. Very Good/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Type: Book 143 pp., cadmium red buckram bdg. with gilt-stamped spine. Illustrated throughout with b/w phototypes, both plates & in text. (slightly yellowed edges of paper, owner inscribed front edn paper, otherwise FINE copy) DJ(slighty yellowed edges and spine, otherwise FINE dj)Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

The Ryerson Press, 1955. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s)I. Signed by Author(s) Type: Book Signed by Author 57 pp. cream paper covered hard bdg. with bordeaux stamped front board & spine, deckled edges. With this book a loose leaf of paper with a typed original poem signed in red pencil by author. (lightly scuffed edges spine & corners, slightly soiled edges, paper slightly yellowed at edges)DJ(scuffed edges with tiny chips at edges spine & corners, smoked spine & edges, lightly soiled)Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

W. W. Norton & Company, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. 8vo - over 7. Type: Book 245 pp., nut brown spine and beige boards paper covered hard bdg. with blind-stamped front board and gilt-stamped spine. A haunting, prize-winning Latin American novel about a guilt-wracked mother and her inquisitive daughter, both coming to terms with an unspeakable past. Ms Sagastizabal won Argentina's Premio La Nacion Prize.Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.

Felix Meiner Verlag, 1929. Repinted Edition. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Type: Book No Jacket. 1st Ed. 7th Printing. 44 pp. grey-brown paper bdg. with red & black stamped front cover, black on spine. Illustrated with b/w frontispice phototype portrait of Schweitzer on glosspaper plate. In glassine envelope.Please contact us directly for a full description. Photo scan available upon request.Photo scan available upon request. Books sold to the USA are shipped USPS out of Champlain NY.