Introduction by john leonard (17 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reissue edition. 512 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reissue edition. 512 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reissue edition. 512 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.

8vo; black and white pictorial stiff covers; softcover; black and white photographic illustrations; book designed by Burt Kleeger; sunned and edgeworn covers with lightly sunned pages else a very good clean tight copy.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 512 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 512 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.75 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 512 pages. 8.25x5.50x1.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. everyman's library children's classics edition. 1160 pages. 8.50x5.50x2.25 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. everyman's library children's classics edition. 1160 pages. 8.50x5.50x2.25 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. American Imperialism, A Celebration And Obfuscation. Nine Volumes, First 8 Volumes Copyright 1907 And First Editions, Ninth Volume On Alaska Is Copyright 1910, Lacking The 10Th Volume On India. Three Quarter Brown Morocco, Pebbled Black Cloth, Gilt, All Edges Gilt, Marbled Endpapers. Wear At Edges, Fraying At Some Tips, Bindings Sound But Alaska Volume Has Cracked Front Joint. No Marks, Contents Immaculate. Shipping By Media Mail In Us, No International Orders As Insured Shipping Would Be Well Over $155. Engravings And Photographs, Color And B/W, Throughout (illustrator).…

Zustand: Very Good. Second printing, two volumes, 8vo., pp.xvi,402;vi,366, navy cloth, gilt; neat ownership inscription to front free endpapers, offsetting to endpapers, a very good set, in very good price-clipped dust-jackets.

Hardcover. Limited facsimile edition. SIGNED. Elephant folio [58 cm] Thirteen single suites housed in a boxed portfolio, covered in a Bugra laid paper, and created at the bindery of Richard Mayer, Stuttgart, West Germany. The portfolio is in near fine condition, with a previous owner's bookplate on the portfolio's front pastedown. The illustrated suites are in fine condition. The slipcase is in very good condition, with rubbing and light staining. The spine ends are bumped, and the underlying boards are exposed at the head of the spine. Complete. With the publisher's leaflet tucked in. An anatomical portfolio by a major contemporary artist. Signed by Leonard Baskin on the limitation page. This is copy number 1261 in an edition limited to 2800 (2500 single suites) portfolios printed for the members of Editions Medicina Rara, Ltd. at the Curwen Press Ltd., London, England, on specially made paper bearing the private watermark of Medicina Rara and manufactured by E. Towgood & Sons, Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England. The plates for the printing were produced from thirteen original drawings, commissioned by Medicina Rara specially for this purpose.…

Early printing of this Everyman's Library's compilation of the author's collected non-fiction work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Joan Didion on the title page. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by John Leonard. "I have been trying forever to figure out why [Didion's] sentences are better than mine or yours . . . Something about [their] cadence. They come at you, if not from ambush, then in gnomic haikus, ice pick laser beams, or waves. Even the space on the page around these sentences is more interesting than it ought to be, as if to square a sandbox for a Sphinx" (John Leonard). …