Search Results: Authors starting with M from AARDWOLF Fine Books

Lucien Vogel / Conde Nast, Paris, 1921; First Edition; octavo (7 1/2" x 9 3/4"); 4 pages; Illustrated. Commentary on style and fashion by Pierre Mac Orlan for Lucien Vogel’s trend-setting Parisian fashion journal, La Gazette Du Bon Ton, recognized world wide as the epitome of good taste and style. The Gazette was issued monthly between November 1912 and December 1925, minus a hiatus during The First World War. It employed the foremost designers, artists, writers, and critics of its age, and each of the magazine’s illustrated articles was impeccably designed and finely printed in individual single-fold folios on heavy handmade paper, then loosely laid into an outer printed folder. All artwork was produced using the costly pochoir, or stencil, technique of hand coloring. Fine, with six beautiful in-text Art Deco illustrations by Charles Martin. From the 1921 issue of the Gazette. Not a reproduction. Text in French.

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, NY, 1977; First Edition; large 8vo, 240 pages. A look into some of the most significant and haunting architectural ruins from around the world, with text by novelist Rose Macaulay. Embellished with 156 photographic plates by Roloff Beny, 16 in color, plus 26 maps and site plans. Previously published in a text-only edition in 1964, and republished here in the first illustrated edition under direction of author and photographer. Very Good Plus in a Very Good Plus dust jacket. No chips, tears, signatures, or price-clipping. Crisp, clean, bright, and sharp.

Collins, St. James Place, London, 1965; First Edition; Signed; 4to, 285 pages; illustrated. Magnificent photographic study of the wildlife of Kenya, with informative text by Malcom MacDonald, former Kenyan Governor/ High-Commissioner and dedicated conservationist. Profusely illustrated with beautiful full-page color photographs by noted wildlife photographer Christina Loke. Inscribed and signed on the title page by MacDonald. Very Good Plus, clean, crisp, and bright, in a VG- dust jacket which is rubbed along the right and left margins of the front panel, and with a small chip at the lower extremity of the spine panel.

Country Life Ltd./ Charles Scribner’s Sons, London and New York, 1924; First Edition; folio (16 1/8 x 11 1/2"); green cloth; gilt titles and rules; top page edges gilt; marbled end papers; photo illustrated. Percy Macquoid and Ralph Edwards’ monumental work on English furniture, the enduring authority on the subject. Profusely illustrated with photographs in black and white plus 52 full-page color plates. All volumes Fine. Extraordinarily clean, crisp, bright, glossy, corners sharp, bindings tight, sound, and square, titles brilliant. Volume II and III have a single minuscule (1/8") cloth fray at the outermost tip of the lower right corner of the front board. No ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. Small engraved bookplate at front of each volume. A sparkling set in first edition, complete with original dust jackets which bear some edge chipping and aged tape ghosts. Learned twenty-four page introduction by Henry Avray Tipping, notable designer and longtime… Read More

Cuaderno de Arte del Ataneo de Madrid, Madrid, 1960; square 8vo, 34 pages; illustrated. Catalog of the work of Jose Jardiel exhibited at the Prado in May of 1960. Text by Cesar Gonzales-Ruano, accompanied by 21 full-page reproductions of the artist’s work, plus a complete show catalog. Very Good, in illustrated stiff wraps.

Cuadernos de Arte del Ataneo de Madrid, Madrid, 1959; square 8vo, 36 pages; illustrated. Exposition catalog for the show at the Prado, October, 1959, featuring 25 oils and gouache works by Spanish artist Maria Antonia Dans. Text by Manuel Frago Tribarne. Very Good, in illustrated stiff wraps.

Libraire Hachette et Cie., Paris, 1902; Second Edition; large 8vo, 317 pages; illustrated. Exciting juvenile adventure novel taking place on an exotic island, authored by Pierre Mael, collective pseudonym for Charles Causse and Charles Vincent, popular French authors who together wrote over 90 adventure stories for boys and girls. Beautifully illustrated with fifty-two engravings by Alfred Paris, over 20 of them full-page. Ornately bound in red cloth with elaborate designs in gold and black. All page edges gilt. Very Good, binding tight, sound, and square, corners sharp, text clean, crisp and bright. Brief inscription in attractive cursive hand on half-title page ("A ma petite mlle ____, 1st Janvier, 1903"). The gilt in-fill of the spine titles has faded. Text in French.

Librairie Hachette et Cie., Paris, 1905; Nouvelle Edition; Large 8vo, 311 pages; illustrated; decorated red cloth boards. "Off To The Land Of Mystery," exciting juvenile adventure novel by Pierre Mael, collective pseudonym for Charles Causse and Charles Vincent, prolific late 19th century French authors who together wrote over 90 popular stories of romance and adventure for boys and girls. Fifty-eight magnificent illustration plates by Alfred Paris, eight of them in full color. Ornately bound in red cloth with elaborate floral designs in black and gold. All page edges gilt. Very Good, binding tight, sound, and square, corners sharp, text clean, crisp and bright. Brief inscription in a neat hand on half-title page dated Jan. 1, 1906. Spine lightly sunned. Page-edge gilding brilliant. Text in French. A wonderful book.

Gourmet,, NY, 1978; First Edition; 4to, 632 pages; blue cloth, white titles and decorations. Gourmet Magazine’s exhaustive gastronomic tour of France, with formidable text by such authorities as Gerald Asher, Naomi Berry, Doone Beal, Lillian Langseth-Christensen, Peter and Fanny Todd Mitchell, Elizabeth Lambert Ortiz, and Joseph Wechsberg. The updated follow-up to "Bouquet de France," published some 26 years earlier. A wealth of detailed information revealing the astonishing variety and texture of the geography, history, and cuisine of France by region, plus 200 pages of enticing recipes for everything from soups to desserts. Profusely and tantalizingly illustrated with color photographs by Ronny Jacques and b&w illustrations by Mario Micossi. Fine condition, no dust jacket. Clean, crisp, bright, and sharp. No ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. A sparkling copy.

Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, 1961; First Edition; quarto, 127 pages; orange and white cloth with front board photo illustration. Pioneer study of Adam Clark Vroman, dedicated photographer and devoted historian of the American Southwest, whose prolific photographic work had been almost entirely forgotten before publication of this book in 1961. Edited by Ruth I. Mahood, Curator of the History Division at Los Angeles County Museum, who together with Lawrence Clark Powell at the Library at University Of California, Los Angeles, was the driving force behind the discovery of the original Vroman negatives, 2400 in all, in a storage facility at the Visual Education Department at Los Angeles County Schools. Lengthy Vroman biography at the front by Beaumont Newhall, a full account of the discovery of the Vroman negatives by Ruth Mahood, and details of the printing of the negatives, by William Webb. Strikingly illustrated with 104 photographs reproduced from contemporary contact prints made from the… Read More

RAM, Tokyo, Japan, 1993; First Edition, limited to 2,300 copies; square octavo (9" x 9"), 47 pages; black velvet boards; gilt titles. A series of dreamlike photographs captured in travels throughout the United States and Japan by California artist/photographer Matt Mahurin. Forty images in all, both black & white and color. Edited by Maya Ishiwata and Theresa Luisotti. Printed in Japan. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket.

Chartwell Books, Secaucus, NJ, 1978; 4to, 112 pages. Over 100 delicious authentic Greek recipes for everything from appetizers to desserts. Beautifully illustrated with full page color photography by Howard Jones. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket.

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1945; First Edition; 8vo, 64 pages; green cloth; gilt spine, gilt front board graphics, red topstain. Thomas Mann’s compelling novella on the life of Moses, which first appeared in 1943 as part of a larger collection of ten novellas edited by literary agent Armin L. Robinson and published by Simon & Schuster under the name "The Ten Commandments, Ten Short Novels Of Hitler’s War Against The Moral Code." The stories were written by ten different authors chosen from around the world, each of whom was assigned an individual Commandment, the overall purpose being an international condemnation of Nazi atrocities. Mann was assigned the First Commandment and his piece was entitled "Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me" ("Das Gesetz," or "The Law" in German). In 1945 Alfred A. Knopf published Mann’s novella separately here, in book form, as "The Tables Of The Law." Design by Paul Rand, translation into English by Helen T.… Read More

Harry N. Abrams, NY, 1952; First Edition; quarto, 23 pages; illustrated. Authoritative study of French expressionist Georges Rouault, by legendary philosopher and aesthete Jacques Maritain, accompanied by 10 beautiful full page tipped-in color plates of Rouault paintings. Fine, in color illustrated wraps, no chips, tears, or staining. All plates brilliant. Clean, crisp, bright, sharp, no ownership signatures or any other markings of any kind. Text in English.

Harper & Row, New York, 1984; First Edition; 8vo, 311 pages; blue cloth; gilt titles. Twenty-six remarkable short stories, translated into English and published for the first time in one volume. Arranged in chronological order of their first publication in Spanish, dating from 1947. Fine, in a Very Good Plus dust jacket that has a single 1/4" closed edge tear at top of the spine panel, not affecting titles or graphics. Clean, crisp, bright, corners sharp

Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1957; First Edition; 4to, 141 pages. Photographer Andre Martin’s essay of the mystical spirit of Andalusia, Spain-- its land, culture, religion and people, with the life and death struggle of the Spanish bullfight as guiding vehicle. Text by Jose Bergamon in both French and Spanish. Over one hundred compelling b&w photographs, most of them full-page, reproduced in rich gravure. Publisher’s English-translation leaflet for picture captions laid-in. Very Good Plus, in a VG- dust jacket that has a few small closed edge tears and a chip with associated tape repair at the upper left corner of the front panel.

Lucien Vogel / Conde Nast, Paris, 1921; First Edition; 7 1/2" x 9 3/4". Color pochoir print by Charles Martin, depicting two fashionably attired young lovers in the evening shadows of a sheltering tree, bathed by the light of a tropical moon. The young man sports a hat by Camille Roger. From La Gazette Du Bon Ton, Lucien Vogel’s legendary fashion journal which was known for its uncompromising print quality and choice of artists and illustrators, who formed a veritable Who’s Who of the Art Deco period, with George Barbier, Pierre Brissaud, Andre Marty, Charles Martin, Edouardo Garcia Benito, Erté, Thayaht, Georges Lepape, Pierre Mourgue, and Robert Bonfils listed among them. Likewise, its articles were authored by the leading Parisian writers, academics, and critics of the day, and its opinions highly influential. Vogel signed exclusive contracts to showcase the lines of Paris’s leading couture houses in the pages of his Gazette, and the magazine was regarded by fashion conscious… Read More

Viking Press, NY, 1950; First Edition; 8vo, 192 pages; illustrated. Western novel for juveniles by California cowboy/ writer/ rancher Chuck Martin, who was much beloved for teaching young people how to ride, rope, shoot, and care for horses and dogs at his "Boot Hill Ranch" near Oceanside. Illustrated by Jay Hyde Barnum. Nicely inscribed and signed in year of publication by the author on the front free end paper. Laid in are a publisher’s promotional bulletin for Martin’s upcoming book "Monsters of Old Los Angeles," and a newspaper clipping with a captioned photo of Martin at work at his typewriter. Two of Martin’s early books were adapted for shoot ‘em up Westerns, directed by and starring popular Western screen idol Buck Jones. Very Good Plus, in a Very Good dust jacket that has a small surface chip at the lower right corner of the front panel.

Doubleday & Co., New York, 1957; First Edition; 8vo, 288 pages. Colonel North mystery which takes him from Bermuda to exotic Macao in pursuit of the solution. Very Good Plus, in a clean and bright Very Good dust jacket. Previous owner tiny name stamp on front paste down, beneath the flap.

Lucien Vogel / Conde Nast, Paris, 1922; First Edition; octavo (7 1/2" x 9 3/4"); 3 pages; Illustrated. A look at fashionable children’s bath wear, authored by Georges Armaud Masson for Lucien Vogel’s trend-setting Parisian fashion journal, La Gazette Du Bon Ton. Recognized world wide as the epitome of good taste and style, the Gazette was issued monthly between November 1912 and December 1925, minus a hiatus during The First World War. It employed the foremost designers, artists, writers, and critics of its age, and each of the magazine’s illustrated articles was impeccably designed and finely printed in individual single-fold folios on heavy handmade paper, then loosely laid into an outer printed folder. All artwork was produced using the costly pochoir, or stencil, technique of hand coloring. Fine, with six charming in-text color illustrations by Helen Smith. From Gazette No. 7, 1922. Not a reproduction. Text in French.