Search Results: Titles starting with V from Browsing Is Arousing

Guadalajara, Jalisco: Centro Metropolitano, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, black cloth covers stamped in gilt with a photographic label on front. A study of the Mexican artist's sculpture. Illustrated in b&w and color, 194 pages plus index. Clean copy. Record # 383165

Munich: self-published, 1959. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 80 pages, bound in stiff paper wrappers illustrated by Edward Gorey. In an age-toned glassine wrapper. The paper spine has separated from the binding but sound and very repairable. Limited to 300 copies, this copy INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR to Nora and Roger(Roger Shattuck, literary historian and critic, and his wife). Record # 403398

NY: Random House, 1975. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. This is Lurie's tribute to Lang after Lang died of cancer at the age of 32. Lang was a gifted poet who was one of the founders of the Poet's Theatre in Cambridge, MA in the early 1950s. She also helped promote the works of young writers and artists including John Ashbery, Edward Gorey, Kenneth Koch, James Merrill, Frank O'Hara and Richard Wilbur. Book includes Lang's work as well as a lengthy memoir written by Lurie, an acclaimed author in her own right. Record # 382241

London: Hard Case Crime, 2007. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Gregory Manchess. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Gregory Manchess. What beautiful 18-year-old would want to spend her life taking care of an invalid? Not Shirley Angela. But that’s the life she was trapped in—until she met Jack.Now Shirley and Jack have a plan to put the old man out of his misery and walk away with a suitcase full of cash. But there’s nothing like money to come between lovers—money, and other women. Like new. Record # 372479

Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 240 pages. Only a few months after the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor and the same year that Albert Camus offered the world his bleak vision of man’s existence by introducing his philosophical dictum of The Absurd, Virgil Partch burst onto the scene with his own twist on the phrase. Partch was a cartoonist who offered comic counterpoint to the grim headlines and a unique perspective on human nature in the pages of the nation’s most popular magazines. Known to millions by his jazzy signature, VIP, this comic genius ushered in a new era of the gag cartoon―zany, sometimes surreal, always hilarious―that inspired a generation of fellow cartoonists starting in the 1940s and ’50s. His madcap style of humor was reflected in the cutting-edge comedic sensibilities of Burns & Allen, Jack Benny, Ernie Kovacs, Bob & Ray, Stan Freberg, and Jean Shepherd, and would position Partch as one of the most prolific “gag-men” of his… Read More

New York: Oxford, 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 201 pages. Beautiful copy in clear brodart cover. Like new. Record # 450476

Palo Alto CA: Jim Vadeboncoeur, 2003-14. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Seven softcover magazines, all 40 pages each, filled with lavish reproductions of illustrations from the early 20th Century. Record # 359500

Palo Alto CA: Jim Vadeboncoeur, 2003. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover magazine, 44 pages, features many rare color illustrations and lavish production. This issue concentrates on the work of just two artists, Gustaf Tenggren (1896-1970) & Frank Brangwyn (1967-1956). Tenggren originated in Sweden but emigrated to the USA in 1920, where he continued to provide illustrations for Swedish illustrated editions. Frank Brangwyn hailed from Bruges, Belgium. He moved to England with his English family to complete his education. Both artists work is illustrated with detailed texts to accompany the many illustrations. Clean copy. Record # 359499

NY: Harper & Row, 1977. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 435 pages, b&w illustrations. An illustrated world history of the Yiddish theatre covering five continents and more than 300 years. Mild wear to rear panel of dust jacket, clean copy. Record # 384813

London: Edinburgh House, 1936. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Mabel R. Peacock. Hardcover, 3-color frontispiece, b&w Illustrations by Mabel R. Peacock. Illustrated cardboard covers. Light soil. Record # 56807

Gainesville FL: University Press of Florida, 2005. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 267 pages, b&w photos. Biography of the Russian ballet dancer and teacher Agrippina Vaganova (1879-1951). Record # 359505

NY: George H. Doran, 1915. 1st. Hardcover. Hardcover, black cloth covers with gilt title, top edge gilt. 523 pages, b&w photos. The author wrote this book to depict and commemorate "leading representatives of the Stage". He writes about: William Warren, laura Keene, Matilda Heron, Lester Wallack, James W. Wallace, Mark Smith, Edward Adams, Henry J. Montague; Edwin Booth, Augustin Daly, Henry Irving, Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Edward H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe. Index. Clean, bright copy. Record # 359772

NY: Doubleday Doran, 1939. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, clothbacked pictorial boards with map endpapers, color and b&w illustrations by Tousey. Val lived at Robidoux Landing, on the Missouri River, when his family joined a wagon train to Astoria. Record # 377839

New York : Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, illustrated in color by Burkert, folding poster laid in. Very good in a bright dust jacket. Traveling players act out a folk play about twin brothers separated at birth, one raised by King Pepin and the other by a bear. Record # 351556

New York: Rizzoli , 2009. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 280 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Valentina was the twentieth century’s first American fashion designer celebrity, working and living on equal social footing with the clientele she dressed (Greta Garbo, Gloria Swanson, Katharine Hepburn, Millicent Rogers, and Audrey Hepburn, among others). One of the few designers who proved that America could live without the Parisian haute couture, her career is a much needed missing link in the history of American fashion. Beyond merely turning out show-stopping evening gowns, Valentina’s exotic beauty, dramatic personality, and incomparable style earned her a legendary reputation. Kohle Yohannan explores the carefully constructed persona and lore of this designer who helped define American Couture. Published in association with the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibition Valentina: New York Couture and the Cult of Celebrity, this book includes photographs,… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 320 pages illustrated in color. The sumptuous fashions of Valentin Yudashkin, the first post-Soviet designer to bring a contemporary Russian look to the international fashion world. Record # 353192

Boston: Little Brown , 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Record # 108280

NY: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, illustrated in color by Burkert, folding poster laid in. Very good in a bright dust jacket. Record # 351557

US: Rizzoli, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 110 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Valentino: Master of Couture is an exhibition at the Somerset House co-organized by Valentino himself, who selected over 130 dresses for the exhibition. The book focues as much on Valentino and his glamorous lifestyle as it does on his legendary dressmaking techniques and atelier. Record # 350457

Kenosha WI: John Martin's House, 1946. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Dolli Tingle. Hardcover, color illustrated boards. A Bonnie Book illustrated in color by Dolli Tingle. Light wear to top and bottom of spine. Otherwise clean and bright. No dust jacket. Record # 375126