Genre & Subject / Trades & Professions from LEFT COAST BOOKS

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1972. Cloth, 224 pages, illustrations, portraits; 23 cm. Translation of La Vie quotidienne des artistes francais au XIXe siecle. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Small open tear in the bottom margin of p. 223 (no loss of text). First UK Edition. Dust jacket, partly sunned, protected in a mylar book cover. Another copy available.… Read more about this item

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1969. Pictorial boards, 40 pages, illustrations (some colour); 33 cm. Firm binding, unmarked. Expected browning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates.. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. Folio.

New York: Dorset Press, 1967. Cloth, 448 pages, illustrations (part colour), facsimiles; 34 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Gone are the days, by Nell Kimball; My short and lively stay in Ancona, by Giacomo Casanova; Galerie Fille de Joie;… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago, 1959. 90 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Second Edition. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 2nd. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

New York: Macmillan Pubilshing Company, 1980. Cloth, 144 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, edges & endpapers lightly soiled. Dust jacket with light shelfwear. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. 1st.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Leon Amiel Publisher [c. 1981] Cloth, 134 pages, illustrations 33 cm. Translated from the French. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine (bold & legible lettering). OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Folio.

Los Angeles: Stephen Longstreet, 1967. 1 portfolio (4 pages, 12 leaves of plates), illustrations; 34 cm. A very good copy with light wear to the outer wrapper. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Reproductions from the original prints (actual size) in the Stephen Longstreet collection. Suitable for framing.. Paperback. Very Good. Folio.

London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1972. Cloth, 224 pages, illustrations, portraits; 23 cm. Translation of La Vie quotidienne des artistes francais au XIXe siecle. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. First UK Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.

New York and London: A. S. Barnes and Company; Thomas Yoseloff Ltd., 1963. Cloth, 188 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Sticker shadow/front free endpaper. Age toning. Dust jacket with light shelfwear/rubbing. A solid copy, in a well-preserved DJ. "The purpose of this book is to recall the old-time occupations and epithets and to picture the neighbors… Read more about this item

New York: Crown Publishers, Inc., 1972. viii, 341 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with a creased front flap, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. Workers of the World, Unite! CONTENTS: 1607-1760: A nation is founded on hard work; 1630-1790: Building a democratic foundation; 1790-1820:… Read more about this item

New York and Boston: Bulfinch Press, 2006. 108 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Fine DJ. "People on every step of the corporate ladder will identify with the 100 hilarious business cartoons from New Yorker cartoonist Barsotti. / Charles Barsotti, formerly the cartoon editor of the The Saturday Evening Post, has been a staff cartoonist at… Read more about this item

Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1966. Cloth, 296 pages, illustrations (part colour), maps; 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Price-clipped dust jacket, with moderate edgewear & toning, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: Introduction, by Gervis Frere-Cook; Vessels of the ancient world, by… Read more about this item

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1998. x, 126 pages, illustrations; 28 cm. Originally published: 2nd ed. London: J. Richardson, 1819. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. "Widely used among young 19th-century officers in the Royal Navy and East India Company, this now-rare volume offers clear definitions and copious illustrations of the principles of rigging and other aspects… Read more about this item

London: Spring Books, 1960. Cloth, 24 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Photographs by K. & L. Neubert. Firm binding, unmarked. Light foxing/boards & endpapers. Expected browning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement.. Hardcover. Good/No DJ. 4to.

Japan: Unsodo, 1880. 2 volumes. colour illustrations; 31 cm. An attractive 2-volume Meiji period (1880) reprint of Minko Tachibana's 1771 classic Saiga Shokunin Burui (Various Classes of Artisan in Colored Pictures), with stunning woodblock illustrations in which the colors have been applied by stencils (a hybrid technique known as kappazuri-e). The outer wraps have moderate rubbing and one has a… Read more about this item

St. Louis, MO: C. V. Mosby, 1985. Cloth, xiv, 508 pages, illustrations (some colour); 31 cm. Near fine. Gently browsed, clean copy. Dust jacket, with a hairline tear/tail edge, front cover, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated with images of nursing through the ages. With 405 illustrations including 169 in full… Read more about this item

Paris and New York: Leon Amiel Publisher, 1975. Cloth, 139 pages, chiefly illustrations; 33 cm. First published under title: La Chasse et la peche. Translated from the French. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement.. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. Folio.

Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum; Getty Museum Studies on Art Ser., 2000. 92 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. First Edition. "Jean-Baptiste Greuze's diminutive picture of a rosy-cheeked girl wringing out her linen was one of fourteen works that he exhibited at the Salon of 1761 in Paris. This lively and engrossing book traces the… Read more about this item

New York: Golden Press, 1961. Buckram, 130 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 x 27 cm. Translated from the French. General editor Robert Laffont. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Minor staining along the top and bottom edges of the boards. Dust jacket with light edgewear. OVERSIZE! No priority/air, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated with genre scenes.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very… Read more about this item