Search Results: Titles starting with M from RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA

Tehran: Taraghijah Gallery / Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance , 2005. An exquistitely produced folio size book in dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. Silver cloth with silver gilt lettering to cover and spine. 240 pages illustrated in full color. An overview of this exceptional contemporary Iranian artist who has been widely exhibited and represented in major museum collections. His unique style of painting is characterised by stylized horses that became his trademark. Dual language book with the English text by France-Marie Haeger. Bright and fine in the publisher's slipcase. . First Edition (Stated). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.

Published for Private Distribution , 1917. Handsomely bound in brown quarter leather, gilt titled and ruled with five raised spine bands. Photo frontispiece of M. Morris White with tissue-guard. This copy INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR "To my dear friend Mary Osborne Lamb from the author with love. April 22 - 1918." The subject of the book was of old and honorable Southern ancestry. The family was among the earliest settlers of Virginia. The Whites were Quakers and the ancestors were among the first who joined the Carolina colony. . Quarter Leather. Very Good.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1967. Black cloth covere boards decorated and lettered in silver gitl. Red top-edge stain. Fine in dustjacket. Scarce. . First Edition (Stated). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

New York: Japan Publications, 1989. Oversize trade softcover in stiff illustrated wraps. 300 pages, illustrated with photographs and diagrams. Clean and tight with crisp text, appears unread. . First Edition (Stated). Soft Cover. Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

NY: Weinstein Books, 2008. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR: "To --, Hope you enjoy the tale from the bad old days of Brooklyn, Tom Folsom.". Signed. First Edition (Stated). Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Glendale, California: Heritage Press, 1984. Collector's name and small gift note in front otherwise fine. Clean and bright with crisp text. Illustrated. . Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: Robert Hale, 1958. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

NY: Random House, 1956. First edition, preceding the English edition. Quarter bound in black cloth with pink and grey striped paper-covered boards. Fine unmarked copy in a very good dust jacket with mylar wrap. . First Printing (Stated). Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Rouben Ter-Arutunian. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

L/C Publishing, 2001. Soft Cover. Fine.

New York: New York Book Company , 1918. First and apparently the only edition of this scarce illustrated children's book. Original blue cloth with full front cover paste-on color plate. With wonderful color text illustrations by Jo. L. G. McMahon. Light rubbing to spine ends and corners. Small brown stain on edge of last two endpapers. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by Jo. L. G. McMahon . 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1949. The author's Utopian masterpiece and one of the outstanding works of 20th century European literature. The basis for Hesse's 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature. First US edition, first printing of the novel "Das Glasperlenspiel" in an English translation by Mervyn Savill. Published a full 20 years before the more recent translation by Richard and Clara Winston. There is no "First Edition" statement, because the book was printed using British sheets. The copyright page states "Copyright 1949 by Francis Aldor 2 Mount Row, London, W.1" with the name and address of the London printer at bottom of the page. No additional printings are noted. The book is near fine in full black cloth. Clean, tight, no markings. The unfaded black jacket is very good, price-intact, with some shallow chipping at the extremities. Included with the book is a printed invoice from prestigious Heritage Book Shop of Los Angeles dated 1996 when the book sold… Read More

NY: McGraw-Hill, 1987. Complete three volume set. Clean and nice. . Hard Cover. Very Good.

London: South Bank Centre, 1992. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket. Major exhibition catalog of the famous surrealist artists work. 320 pages, 168 color plates and numerous black and white text figures. With chronology and bibliography. This copy as new still in the original publisher's shrinkwrap. [No International shipping on this item] . First Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

NY: Artabras, 1988. Large folio volume in blue boards with color pictorial dust jacket reproducing Magritte's art. "In this comprehensive and provocative study, the art historian Jacques Meuris traces the artist's life and work, surveying his training at the Brussels Academy of Fine Arts; his encounters with Cubism, Dada, Futurism, and the Belgian Surrealists; his discovery of Giorgio de Chirico; and his associations and activities in Paris. Four hundred exquisite illustrations, 110 in colour, show the full range of his work, not just the canvasses for which he is famous but also some lesser-known murals, photographs, sculpture and commercial art. Jacques Meuris's insightful text illuminates Magritte's art, his place among the Surrealists, and his influence on modern painting, particularly Pop art. [will require extra shipping for our international customers]. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Budapest, Hungary: Muszaki Konyvkiado, 1977. Original white and yellow glossy pictorial boards. 387 pages, profusely illustrated with photographs. An illustrated history of aviation in Hungary. Some rubbing to corners and spine ends otherwise very good. Scarce. [International orders will require extra shipping]. Hard Cover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

London: David Marlowe Limited , 1948. Second Edition Enlarged. "New edition with glossary, bibliography and index." Fine in full black cloth, gilt titled spine. xvii, 146 pages. No markings. In a fine and scarce dust jacket with protective mylar cover. See photos.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine.

Overlook Press, 2001. The first full authoritative edition. As new in as new dust jacket. Purchased new by this bookseller and never read. Until 1990 Maiden Castle was only available in an abridged version, because Powys original typescript of Maiden Castle had been reduced by about one-fifth of its original length for the previous editions. This "first full authoritative edition" edition was published under the editorship of Ian Hughes. . First American Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New.

Avon, Connecticut: The Heritage Club / Cardavon Press, 1970. Tan cloth spine over blue linen covered boards. Contains a special Introduction by the author for this edition. With the illustrations of Grant Wood. A fine copy in slipcase with the Sandglass newsletter laid in. . Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A.: Morningside House , 1983. Gilt stamped and decorated blue cloth in pictorial jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR in blue ink on the title page. 8 maps, 91 illustrations. Laid in is a handwritten note addressed to a Dr. Palumbo signed by Ruth Ragos and a brochure for the Carthage College Civil War Museum exhibit of the author's collection. . Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good.

New York: Duffield and Company, 1916. Translated with an introduction by Marian Fell. Very good in full green cloth with gilt titled cover. Portrait frontispiece of Korolenko. xiii, 297 pages. Clean and tight, no markings. See photo.. First Edition Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good.