Search Results: Authors starting with U from Shapero Rare Books

1930 . Hammer and two nails on wood board, 1930, signed in pencil, from an unknown edition size, published by Edition VICE-Versand, Remscheid, Germany, overall sizes: 34 x 16.5 x 7.8 cm. (13.4 x 6.5 x 3 in.)

Paris, Buttner-Thierry for J. Danguin, 1929. . Limited edition, one of 50 copies, numbered 36 on the justification page; folio (33 x 25 cm); 16 plates hors-texte tipped in with tissue guards after watercolours by Loukomski, 64 photographic reproductions as well as numerous illustrations in the text, very fresh internally; original printed thick wrappers with design in blue, green and gilt detail, small repairs to spine with tape stains, otherwise a very good copy. misc23 The scarce deluxe edition of this important work on Kyiv and the art of the Ukrainian capital simultaneously also published in German. Richly illustrated with 16 coloured plates after Lukomskii and numerous photographic plates recording much of what no longer exists. Foreword by Charles Diehl.

Kyiv, S.V. Kulzhenko, 1898. . Folio (34 x 25 cm.); vii, 137pp., chromolithographed title-page, titles and initials in red, 105 illustrations in the text, 42 plates (2 double-page, of which one in colour and gilt), small water stain to bottom margin of a few rear leaves; original decorative blue colth gilt, blue slipcase with blue morocco entry, a fine example. An exceptionally fresh example of the first edition in the original binding. In 1884 Viktor Vasnetsov, Mikhail Nesterov and a number of other artists were commissioned to paint frescos in St Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv, which had recently been constructed to celebrate a 900 years since Vladimir's Christianisation of Kiev Rus in 897. The somewhat controversial results of this undertaking are documented in this profusely illustrated guide.

Paris, Cuchet, 1788. . First edition; 2 vols, 8vo; [4], xvi, 328 (i.e. 330) [2]pp.; [6], 384, [5]pp., some browning to margins of half-titles, water stain to lower margin of second half of vol.II; contemporary mottled calf, spine in compartments gilt, green morocco labels, marbled edges, paper labels with library inventory numbers to bottom of spines, skilfully rebacked retaining original spines, repairs to corners and losses at bottom of both vols, scratch to upper cover of vol.I, edges rubbed, a good set. One of the earliest works in Western Europe on Ukrainian history and geography. Jean-Benoît Scherer (1741 - 1824), a German and French historian who spent some time in St Petersburg as an attaché in the French embassy, rightly notes that the history of the Ukrainian Cossacks is 'more celebrated than known' and even a list of the Cossacks' hetmans, i.e. leaders, is not known to be available. Thus, in his work Scherer attempts to acquaint the European public with the history of the Ukrainian… Read More

Paris, Lebegue, 1814. . First French edition, 8vo (22 x 14 cm); engraved frontispiece of Cossack soldiers, 94pp., numbering in ink to corner of each page; 19th century quarter green calf over marbled boards, flat spine gilt ruled, red morocco label with gilt title, a fine copy. A fine example of a very scarce early 19th-century account of the origin and history of Ukrainian Cossacks. Karr's work covers the building of fortifications along the banks and islands of the Dnipro river, the defence of Ukraine against Poland, Bohdam Khmelnytskyi and the Pereiaslavska Rada. It also details the cultural aspects of Cossack life including customs, clothing, funerals and marriages. From the library of Comte d'Olliamson, a French aristocrat and staunch monarchist. He refused to serve under Napoleon but after the Bourbon restoration was made a Commander and awarded with the Cross of Saint Louis in 1825.

London, Hammond, Hammond & Company. 1961. . First edition, first impression. Presentation copy to Edith Sitwell. 8vo. Publisher's burgundy boards, device to upper board in blind, titles to spine in yellow. With the pictorial dust jacket. Some partial browning to the terminal leaves, a near-fine copy in the price-clipped dust jacket. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'To Dame Edith Sitwell, with best wishes from "Michael Underwood" September 1961'. The quotation marks denote Underwood to be a pseudonym: the author's real name being John Michael Evelyn. Evelyn was in fact a barrister.

Milan, M'Arte Edizioni, 1971. . Number 6 of a limited edition of 124, folio (40 x 30 cm), 48 pp., unnumbered, with 2 original colour lithographs by Hans Richter, numbered and signed by the artist (loose as issued), text in parallel Italian and German, reproduction of the original manuscript of the poem, in fine condition, publisher's printed grey paper wrapper, loosely held within grey paper covered folder, housed in a matching slip-case, a little marked and dust-soiled. MODIFY Volume 7 of the Images and Texts series by Luigi Majino and Roberto Sanesi. A finely printed work with 2 signed Richter lithographs.Guiseppe Ungaretti (1888 -1970) himself described poetry as the ability to express oneself 'with absolute candor, as if it were the first day of creation.' In this quest for purity and attempt to restore to words their original virginity, Ungaretti was following the paths traced out by the French symbolists, Rimbaud, Mallarme, and Apollinaire. Like them, he believed that a poem should suggest… Read More

[c.1875]. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition, pasted on original mount.

[c.1875]. . Albumen print. Fair tonal range and in good condition, pasted on original mount.

[c.1875]. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition, pasted on original mount, title in manuscript.

[c.1875]. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition, pasted on original mount.

[c.1875]. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition.

[c.1875]. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition, pasted on original mount.

[c.1875]. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition, pasted on original mount.

[c.1875]. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in fair condition, pasted on original mount.

[c.1875]. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition, pasted on original mount, Photographers title, number and blind stamp in negative.

[c.1875]. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition, pasted on original mount.

[c.1875]. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition, pasted on original mount.

[c.1875]. . Albumen print. Good tonal range and in good condition.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1960-90. . First editions, first printings, each signed by the author on the title-page; 4 vols, 8vo; minor spotting to terminal leaves of third vol., overall internally fine; publisher's cloth-backed boards or cloth, dust-jackets, slight edge-wear around spine of first vol., second vol. price-clipped, otherwise all near fine to fine; presented in 2 matching cloth drop-back boxes lettered & ruled in gilt. A great set of this classic of modern American literature, uniformly signed by John Updike to the title-page of each of the four volumes. Updike's sweeping epic serves as an oft discomfiting mirror to America through the 1960s, '70s & '80s, chronicling the country's shifting moods & impulses via the prism of poor old Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, an anti-hero of sorts...