Search Results: Titles starting with A from Christopher de Lotbiniere Rare Books

Split into six geographical sections, this is a wonderful collection of observations and travel pieces about India, written over a 10 year period.
Dalrymple expounds on the themes of change and decay, which characterize the rule of Kali. He observes the current cycle of violence that marks the dark side of India's painful emergence into a more modern world.
A beautifully observed and sobering assessment of sweeping changes across the sub-continent.
Hardcover with jacket. 384 pages.

London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. A scholarly examination of the first half of Pope's career, up to his open declaration of war with the London literary world with the publication of his Dunciad. A man of conflicting talents who could be passionate and generous as well as bitter and malevolent to friends and foes alike, Pope is presented in all his fascinating genius.

Lewis Carroll
Alicia in Terra Mirabili
Translated by Clive Harcourt Carruthers
A labor of love that feels strangely appropriate to the scholarly wit and devotion that Alice's adventures have often inspired.
With all the original illustrations by Sir John Tenniel.

First printing. Amis has written a satirical novel about an alternative religious future for Europe, where Luther was made a Pope and the Protestant Church never happened. In this society, the Church holds terrifying sway, controlling the singers it needs for services and encouraging the castrating of choir boys with particularly sweet voices.
A fine dystopian fantasy. Hardcover

London: Harvill Press, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Robert Hughes's monumental overview of American painting, from the earliest escapes from Europe to the creation of world dominance in the 1950s and beyond. By the 1980s, when speculative madness had completely overtaken the scene, he sees little hope for a society divided against itself in a welter of cynicism and greed. However, as he concludes, "Tomorrow is another day".

London: John Murray, 1999. First UK edition, third printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/very good. In between the quick, often unsympathetic portraits of Lees-Milne's myriad acquaintances are his comments about buildings, which seem to me much more interesting. Although he only covers two years here, his scathing perceptions are rather addictive. Some fading to bottom half of jacket spine, else well-preserved.

London: John Murray, 1998. Second edition, second printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First appearing in 1970, this is a re-issue of Lees-Milne's highly comic account of his early years, illustrated by a series of anecdotes, designed to show the struggle between his inner and outer lives. He has a supernatural knack of knowing all the right people and has lived through very interesting times as well as writing with a raconteur's ease.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. For those who had tired of the Kinkstah's autobiographical sleuth formula, set in New York, here is an adventure back in Texas, where little old ladies are dropping like flies. He is very funny, if a little world-weary.

Boston: David R. Godine, 1975. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. With 24 colour plates and 66 black and white plates, this is the first major reconsideration of Johns's place, after a prodigious early career and slow decline. His unusual skills as a portrait painter and ability to tap the bohemian spirit of his circle shine on to his death in 1960, however.

A re-issue of this wonderful tribute to the career of America's most famous illustrator, taking us to 1980. Containing dozens of masterpiece book projects, including the Little Bear series, the Night Kitchen and Where The Wild Things are, Sendak's extraordinary powers are displayed in 261 illustrations, 94 in color, with 3 double-fold-out features. Highly collectible. 278 pages.

New York: Knopf, 2006. . First printing. . Hardcover.. As New in fine, now in a DEMCO covered dust-jacket. . A perfect copy of Barnes' imagined life of Conan Doyle and his era. SIGNED in the author's tiny fashion, on the title page.

London: Jonathan Cape, 1933. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. An early, scholarly selection from the dozens of Elizabethan poets, whose outpourings reflect the confidence of their age, divided into three sections: Lyrical, Metaphysical and Devotional. Book and jacket show some age darkening, but are remarkably well-preserved

Accompanying one of the first major exhibitions in America, this catalog of 464 works by 40 artists was a ground-breaking revelation.Featuring unknown works by Mark Chagall, Naum Gabo, Vasilii Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevich, amongst many others, it also presented highlights from the collection of renowned Polish scholar Szymon Boyko, for the first time.