Search results 460 Found

Barcelona, , 1866. . 24x16 cm. . Libreria Española de I. López Bernagosi, editor, Frontispicio grabado. 712 páginas, 4 hojas de catálogo de obras publicadas. Ilustrado con 160 grabados en el texto, de Tomás Padró. Encuadernación de la época en pasta española con hierros dorados en el lomo. Buen estado. Primera edición. Roberto Robert y Casacuberta (1827 - 1873) fue un escritor, periodista, político y traductor español.

Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1932. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 7 7/8" Tall. 367 Pp. Original Blue Cloth, Gilt, Endpapers With Illustration By Carlos Merida. First Printing, 1932 Date On Title Page, Seal On Coyright Page. Light Wear, No Fraying, Spine Gilt Partly Rubbed Away, Hinges Cracked, Small Bookstore Symbol Stamped On Front Endpaper. With A Loose Photograph With Text In White "From The Bookroom Of Nada And Carl", With Photo Of Home Library Shelving, Wood Office Chair And Desk, Probably Circa 1932. Per Wikipedia, Carleton Beals (1893 - 1979) Was An American Journalist, Writer, Historian, And Political Activist With A Special Interest In Latin America. He Was A Grandson Of Carrie Nation. A Major Journalistic Coup For Him Was His Interview With The Nicaraguan Rebel Augusto Sandino In February 1928. In The 1920S He Was Part Of The Cosmopolitan Group Of Intellectuals, Artists, And Journalists In Mexico City. He Remained An Active, Prolific, And Politically Engaged Leftist Journalist And Is The Subject Of A Scholarly Biography. In 1918, He Spent A Brief Period Of Time In Jail As A World War I Draft Evader. Upon Release, He Decided To Go See The World, And With What Little Money He Had, Beals And His Wife Lillian Drove To Mexico. There, He Founded The English Preparatory Institute In 1919, Taught At The American High School During 1919 To 1920, And Was On The Personal Staff Of President Carranza (1920). They Left Mexico In 1921 For Europe Where Beals Studied At The University Of Madrid, And Then The University Of Rome. Back In Mexico, He Became A Correspondent For The Nation, Separated From His Wife, And Became Romantically Involved With Photographer Tina Modotti's Sister, Mercedes. In February 1928, Oswald Garrison Villard, Editor Of The Nation, Sent Beals To Nicaragua To Write A Series Of Articles. He Became Notable As The Only Foreign Journalist Who Interviewed General Augusto Sandino During Nicaragua's 1927-33 War Against Us Military Occupation. In All, Beals Wrote Over 200 Magazine Articles For Publications Such As The New Republic And Harper's Magazine. Beals Also Wrote More Than 45 Books, Including On History, Geography, And Travel. Some Of His Books Are Written For A Juvenile Audience. His Autobiography, Glass Houses, Was Published By J.B. Lippincott Company In 1938. In 1931, Beals Was Awarded The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship For Biographies.] His Biography Subjects Included Porfirio Díaz, Huey P. Long, Roberto De La Selva, Stephen F. Austin, John Eliot, Carrie Nation [His Father Was Her Step-Son], And Leon Trotsky. During His Career, Beals Witnessed Mexican Revolutions, Lectured On Shakespeare, And Was Held Incommunicado By A Mexican General.[10] His Travels Took Him To French Morocco, Tunisia, Algiers, Greece, Turkey, The Soviet Union, Germany, And The Caribbean. He Was A Ford Hall Forum Speaker In 1936, And A Member Of The American Committee For The Defense Of Leon Trotsky In 1937. The Following Year, Time Magazine Called Beals, "The Best Informed And The Most Awkward Living Writer On Latin America." During The 1960S, He Supported The Fair Play For Cuba Committee. Beals Was A Hero To The Young People Of Cuba. Carlos Mérida (1891 - 1985) Was A Guatemalan Artist And Naturalized Mexican Who Was One Of The First To Fuse European Modern Painting To Latin American Themes, Especially Those Related To Guatemala And Mexico. He Was Part Of The Mexican Muralism Movement In Subject Matter But Less So In Style, Favoring A Non-Figurative And Later Geometric Style Rather Than A Figurative, Narrative Style. Mérida Is Best Known For Canvas And Mural Work, The Latter Including Elements Such As Glass And Ceramic Mosaic On Major Constructions In The 1950S And 1960S.

: Destiny Books, 1987. Classic text contains the world reknown author's exploration into diverse traditions and unveiling the importance of sound in shaping cultural and spiritual life; including the new physics, Tantra, cybernetics, Sufism, Zen, Yoga, cosmology, philosophy, musicology, etc. 258 pgs. Prior owner's name on front endpaper. Dustjacket in mylar.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London John Murray. 1852. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo. 20cm, the First Edition, vi,320,32p., publisher's ads., 2 maps on one folding sheet, in the original blind decorated green cloth, gilt spine tit les, top spine edges a bit frayed, expertly restored, mainly unopened, fin e copy T.P.L. 3220. Lande 847. Tremenheere writes extensively on natural re sources, transportation, politics, education and social life in the two cou ntries, but a large part of the book is concerned with the development of r ailways in both Canada and the United States. The map is one of the earlies t to show the routes of all the railways in North America, both extant and projected.

Presto Art, 2012 A simply fabulous SIGNED first printing of the first edition, with the addition of SEVEN EXCLUSIVE STICKERS. This is pretty rare and getting rarer. The artist's signature is boldly scrawled across the title page.. Illus. by Jeral Tidwell. Signed by Illustrator. 1st Edition.. Hardcover. New.

Madrid: A De San Martin. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1864. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good+, edges & extremities worn hardback; Marbled boards & 1/4 leather, 424 pp. .

Rome: Fondazione Memmo, 2011. 2nd Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine. Photographs Throughout. Very Light Grey Cloth, Paste On Label On Front Cover, Black Endpapers. Second Edition, One Of 3000 Copies, To Accompany The Exhibition In Rome In 2011. Fine.

New York: Pantheon Books, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Near fine/near fine. Signed first edition of The Blue Devils of Nada by Albert Murray.. Octavo, viii, 238pp. Black hardcover, title in gilt on black cloth spine. Stated "First Edition" with full number line on copyright page. Solid text block, bumped corners, near fine. In the publisher's dust jacket, $23.00 retail price on front flap, light shelf wear, a near fine example. Signed by Albert Murray on the half-title.

(Frankfort, Kentucky): Gnomon Press, (2006). First edition, limited issue, one of 50 numbered copies signed by the photographer and with an original signed and numbered print ["Juana Paloma, 1998"] enclosed in a separate envelope and laid in. By the author of The Neugents (Jargon Society, 1993). As new. 4to, illustrated, original cloth, matching cloth slipcase. As new.

A scarce signed first edition of this wonderful study of the photography of Mario Testino, examining the juxtaposition of his clothed and nude images of women. A scarce first edition of this work, of which only five-thousand copies were produced. Inscribed by Testino to the title page: 'To Dear Malcolm, with best wishes, Mario'. Published to coincide with a touring exhibition of Testino's work, 'Todo o Nada' presents fifty-four colour and monochrome portraits, of celebrities and models including Nicole Kidman, Kate Moss, and Shalom Harlow. Also present is an interview with Testino, with text provided in both English and Spanish. Â A wonderful example of the work of a man identified as 'the John Singer Sargent of our times' by the photography curator of London's National Portrait Gallery. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, fine, with just a touch of fading to the head of the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Flat signed to the title page. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Fine.