Rare books from JimsOldBooks

Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1959. No dustwrapper, some discolouration to cream cloth-covered boards, some foxing to outer pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy of this large hard-cover book. Deals with the graphic works of the Catalan surrealist artist Joan Miro i Ferra. Originally published in the US as ''Joan Miro: his Graphic Work'' in 1958, this is the Spanish language edition published a year later. Limited edition of 500, this copy being number 482. A heavy book, packaged weight is about 1700g, so extra postage will be required from buyers outside the UK. Pages not numbered but about 138pp, pictorial endpapers, numerous b&w and some colour illustrations of Miro's work, some gate-fold, some double page. . Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Miro, Joan. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Oxford: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1981. Ex university (Royal College of Art) library copy with paper label inside front board and bar-code label on f/ep, ink stamp on f/ep; minor creasing to top edge of unclipped dustwrapper, book smells a bit of being kept in a garage or shed, thugh this should fade. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this hard-cover book, part of the publisher's ''Oxford Studies in the History of Art and Architecture'' series, looking at the works of the Italian renaissance painter Sebastiano del Piombo. This was the first detailed assessment of del Piombo's work to have appeared in English. A heavy book, packaged weight would be about 1400g, so extra postage will be required from buyers outside the UK. 175pp plus 144pp showing 204 b&w illustrations of the artist's work.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

Strasbourg: Karl J Trubner, 1908. No dustwrapper. Ex library copy which has been re-bound in dark blue boards with gilt titles on spine and with new endpapers. Two small labels at bottom of spine, card pocket and ink stamp inside front board, another label and ink stamps on f/ep and another stamp on what would have been the original title page. Otherwise a good clean tight copy of this German language book (full title is "Die Melodien der Troubadours, Nach dem gesamten handschriftlichen Material zum erstenmal bearbeitet und herausgegeben, nebst einer Untersuchung uber die Entwickelung der Notenschrift (bis um 1250) und das rhythmisch-metrische Prinzip der mittelalterlich") dealing with the music and songs of the Mediaeval Troubadours. 202pp.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library.

London: Hutchinson Benham, 1978. Quite a few small tears to the edges of unclipped dustwrapper, minor wear to spine ends and corners of green cloth-covered boards, the book smells faintly of being kept in a shed, also the covers are bowed. Otherwise, still a good clean tight copy of this not-very-common hard-cover book. Deals largely with the work of the Dutch marine salvage company Smit International. 270pp, 7 colour and 31 b&w illustrations.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Kristiania og Købenavn: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1919. Large format paper-covered edition published by Gydendalske Boghandel in 1919. An edition of 1000 copies, of which this is number 1080. A previous owner has stuck purple cloth tape along the edges of the covers and on the spine, writing "Pan - - Hamsun" on the spine in white lettering edges in black. Some foxing to outer pages and yellowing to the pages, but otherwise a good clean tight copy of this early novel by the author. Printed in old-style Dano-Norwegian or Riksmål. 213pp, b&w frontispiece,.. Numbered. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1900. No dustwrapper, some bumping and minor shelf-wear to spine ends and corners of blue cloth-covered boards, binding just starting to split at the page between the black free front endpaper and the half-title, which has a previous owner's name in pencil. Minor foxing to outer pages, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with gilt titles on spine and front board all still bright, of this hard-cover book. A tale of revolution in a (fictitious) Mediterranean country, this was Churchill's only novel. This is the first UK edition, one of 1500 copies, published by Longman, Green & Co on 30th January 1900 (a larger {4000 copies} edition was published earlier in the US in November 1899). 345pp, 2pp adverts.. First UK Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.