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ROCHER, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Le Livre des Symboles. Les Metamorphoses de L'Human Entre L'Orient et L'Occident. Allesandro Grossato. Rocher, 2000. Hardcover, 195 pages, illustrated. French text throughout. Very Good/Very Good. Bright, clean pages, very lightly tanned at the edges. Tightly bound. Top front edge of jacket is curling a little, more so on the rear, which also has an area of 10-12 shallow indentations, which have also marked the rear board. The Book of Symbols is an unusual text, ranging as it does through f art to archeology, the history of religions, literature, anthropology to depth psychology. It traces the history of images of East and West through the transmutation of the human body. The main protagonist of this work is, in fact, Man. He is transformed, changing skin or mask yet remains true to himself, even in the supreme attempt to turn into pure light. Many stunning images. Text is in French. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Myths, Legends &… Read More

Museum of Modern Art, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition. First Edition April 1936. No jacket. Soiling to boards, bumping to corners, fraying to top of spine, foxing/discolouration to top edge Grubbiness to endpapers and pastedowns, light water stain to the top and fore edge of most pages but not extending to the text or images which otherwise remain unmarked, occasional light foxing. 223 B&W images. Catalogue to this groundbreaking exhibition of 386 works, with brief biographies of the artists, extensive bibliography, and 180-page essay. MOMA Founding Director Alfred H. Barr, Jr. assembled a wide-ranging exhibition of nearly 400 works of painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, architecture, furniture, theater design, and typography. 249 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: dscf10829. .

Longmans, Green and Company, London, 1908. Fifth Impression. Hardcover. Good Condition. Signed by Author. SIGNED by the author to the title page. Fifth Impression, 1908. Dung beetle is shown to be pushing dung with front legs on pgs 65, 337 & 457 .Green cloth, gilt titles and vignettes. Colour frontis. B/w plates and text illustrations. 474 pages. Bumped and rubbed extremities, short splits at head and base of spine, surface markings to front and rear boards, light soiling and foxing to fore edge and top and bottom edges. Internally, the tissue guard is creased and the lower 2" has separated from the binding, occasional light foxing/soiling to page margins, binding somewhat loose but secure, pp. 193, 195 are 3mm. short on lower edge, binding visible at gutter of pp. 64-65, plus evidence of previous repair,the plate opp. p.213 has wear to edges, plus 2cm.x1cm. area of surface damage, probably from the white coloured material adhering to facing page and partially obscuring the… Read More