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paperback. Condizione: Good.

Condizione: good. Book is in good condition and may include underlining highlighting and minimal wear. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.

Condizione: good. Fast & Free Shipping â" Good condition with a solid cover and clean pages. Shows normal signs of use such as light wear or a few marks highlighting, but overall a well-maintained copy ready to enjoy. Supplemental items like CDs or access codes may not be included.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condizione: very_good. This books is in Very good condition. There may be a few flaws like shelf wear and some light wear.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers with light wear and modest sunning.

1-49, [2], [90] pages. Paperback: H 28cm x L 21.75cm. Paper dust jacket lightly soiled; several small patches of surface abrasion to front and rear panels; light stain at front panel's top left. White paper covers; light stain at front cover's upper left. Light stain and foxing to text block's top edge. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. This book, "Around the World With Kipling", was published in 1926 as an additional volume for inclusion in "The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling". It is an unidentified later printing of this title [The Map is bound in at the beginning of the first essay "Around the World with Kipling", rather than opposite page 78, as the illustrations list indicates. ] The book starts out with an anonymous introductory chapter , "Around the World With Kipling". There are a number of excerpts from various writings by Kipling. After this introduction, there are five essays on Kipling, which are as follows: * "Kipling at Home", by Irvin S. Cobb * "Rudyard Kipling - A Biographical Sketch", by Anice Page Cooper * Rudyard Kipling's Place in Literature", by Richard Le Gallienne * "Rudyard Kipling" by William Lyon Phelps * "Rudyard Kipling as a Frenchman Sees Him" by André Chevrillon. And, finally, the book closes with "The Kipling Index - Being a guide to the Mandalay Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Works ?" SERIES : Unnumbered last volume of "The Mandalay Edition of The Works of Rudyard Kipling" [The book has no volume number, but would be considered to be Vol. 26 of 'The Mandalay Edition'] TITLE : Around the World With Kipling AUTHORS : Rudyard Kipling (1865 -1936) [excerpts] ; Irvin S. Cobb; Anice Page Cooper; Richard Le Gallienne; William Lyon Phelps; Andre Chevrillon [ Essay contributors] IMPRINT : Doubleday, Page & Co. PLACE : Garden City, NY DATE : 1926 EDITION ; First year of Publication, but an unidentified later printing. [The folding map is at the beginning of the first essay, rather than opposite page 78 as stated by the illustration list.] DETAILS : Trade hardcover published as an addendum to the Mandalay Edition; contains one folding map; contains five plate illustrations (printed on calendered paper) - these include a frontispiece photo portrait of Kipling, a photograph of the title page of the First Edition of the "Jungle Book"; also displayed are a photo of Grand Banks schooner (ala "Captains Courageous"), and two photographs showing Kipling's home in England and the town of Simla, where he resided in India. Includes essays by five different individuals; Includes "The Kipling Index"; 121 pages; 5 3/8" x 7 7/8" (approximate 12mo); maroon cloth covered boards and spine; paper title label on spine; Kipling's initials stamped in blind on front board; front and rear end-papers printed in maroon and white, featuring the early Hindu & Buddhist symbol for good luck in each corner; gilt top text-block edge; fore- and bottom edges are rough-cut. Sans the printed dust-jacket. CONDITION ? VERY GOOD ? This is a previously owned book that remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted :: EXTERIOR : spine extremities are compressed and display modest fraying; title label on spine is toned and slightly weathered; front and rear boards are clean, but have bumped corner tis with a touch of fraying; top edge gilt is fairly bright; fore- and bottom text block edges are toned, else clean. BINDING : Solid ? no leaves are detached or loose. Gutter is slightly cracked between pp 58 & 59. INTERIOR : Clean and unmarked throughout. No writing, marginalia or signatures.

Unpaged - approximately 150 pages. Large paperback: H 30.5cm x L 22.75cm. Dark gray paper covers lightly soiled; chip to surface paper at spine head with shallow stain and minor loss at front cover's adjacent top left corner; light crease/bump at front cover's bottom margin with two leaves likewise affected towards book's rear. Some foxing to text block edges as well as to initial half-title page and concluding colophon page; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Still a very good copy. Prepared as the accompanying catalog for a touring exhibition opening at New York City's Japan House Gallery from September 20 to November 4, 1979, the Harvard University Fogg Art Museum from November 28, 1979 to January 13, 1980, the Denver Art Museum from February 9 to March 23, 1980, The Avery Brundage Collection-Asian Art Museum of San Francisco from April 9 to May 25, 1980, and Seattle Art Museum from September 25 to November 23, 1980. ISBN 093221603X.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. 202pp., xv. No printings or edition cited, presumed first printing. Marbled taupe boards with spine and front cover mauve title lettering, plus front cover illustration of sword-bearing man. Uniformly, lightly age-toned; rubbing to corners, else Fine. Soiled tan dustwrapper not price-clipped ($4.50) with olive lettering on spine and front cover; spine sun-darkened; assorted tears, small chips, missing pieces, small water stain at top of spine--but it still hangs together: Now in mylar which redeems the tattered dw mightily. No previous owner names. Clean text. Besides Editor's essay, these: E. T. Donaldson, " Idiom of Popular Poetry in the Miller's Tale" (1950); Frederick W. Sternfeld, "Troilus and Cressida: Music for the Play" (1952); Francis Fergusson, " Macbeth as the Imitation of an Action (1951); Cleanth Brooks, " Literary Criticism: Marvell's 'Horatian Ode'" (1946); Douglas Bush, "John Milton" (1946); David V. Erdman, "Blake; the Historical Approach" (1950); Lionel Trilling, "Wordsworth's 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality" (1941).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Illustrated throughout with BBC Wildlife Photography (illustratore). Reprint. Reprint of the 2001 first edition. Collection of 115 winning and commended pictures in the BG Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition 2001.

First trade edition (not stated - preceded by a limited edition produced by the University of Alabama's MFA Book Arts Program). x, 125, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 34.75cm x L 25.5cm. Lacks thin cardboard slipcase with which it was issued. Dust jacket rubbed with a few scuffs and slight nicks at edges. Dark olive cloth. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding is firm. A near fine copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Uncommon monograph regarding British ornithological painter Basil Ede with contributions by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Walter H. Annenberg, and Jack Warner plus an essay by Robert McCracken Peck. Includes 103 color plates including one foldout as well as 15 b/w illustrations. {C#2} Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 3.75 pounds (1.7 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0810939606.

First trade edition (not stated - preceded by a limited edition produced by the University of Alabama's MFA Book Arts Program) INSCRIBED BY CONTRIBUTOR JACK WARNER. x, 125, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 34.75cm x L 25.5cm. Lacks the thin cardboard slipcase with which it was issued. Dust jacket rubbed with minor scuffing at spine and flap fold ends. Dark olive cloth. Number notation in partially erased black wax pencil at top of front pastedown; three-line blue ink inscription (plus another one-line name correction in black ink) by The Warner Collection (later the Westervelt-Warner Museum of American Art) founder Jack Warner; interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy in a very good+ dust jacket. Also laid-in at front endpapers is a fourteen page (including covers) 1993-94 Collector's Catalog for Basil Ede prints available via The Warner Collection (catalog lacks new release sheet and prices/order form which should be present in front and back pockets respectively). Uncommon monograph regarding British ornithological painter Basil Ede with contributions by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Walter H. Annenberg, and Gulf States Paper Corporation Chairman Jack Warner (authoring essay "The Wild Birds of Basil Ede" on pages 1-4) plus an essay by Robert McCracken Peck. Includes 103 color plates including one foldout as well as 15 b/w illustrations. {C#4} Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 4 pounds (1.81 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0810939606.

First trade edition (not stated - preceded by a limited edition produced by the University of Alabama's MFA Book Arts Program). x, 125, [2] pages. Hardcover: H 34.75cm x L 25.5cm. Thin cardboard slipcase with some toning and foxing; seams are firm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed. Dark olive cloth. Touch of foxing to edges; past owner's personal bookplate on front free endpaper; interior pages are clean. Binding retains some crispness. Else a near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Uncommon monograph regarding British ornithological painter Basil Ede with contributions by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Walter H. Annenberg, and Jack Warner plus an essay by Robert McCracken Peck. Includes 103 color plates including one foldout as well as 15 b/w illustrations. {C#3} Please note that this large book has an approximate shipping weight of 4 pounds (1.81 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0810939606.

Softcover. 52 pp. Catalogue of the exhibition: Waterhouse & Dodd, London, 13 June - 06 July 2007. Enclosed is an invitation card for the Private View on Tuesday, June 12. Softcover. Very good condition; touches of wear on covers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 4to. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Contributors include Zlatomira Dimitrova, Mercier Kinney, Angelica Poggi, Erich Schlier. ISBN: 9788896009055 Pages: 85 Slightly bumped otherwise NF/NF.

First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held from March 24 to July 7, 2002, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and from September 19, 2002, through January 5, 2003, at the Tate Modern in London. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. First impression of the true first edition with full number-string sequence including the no. 1: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 on the publisher's copyright prelims page. (Simultaneously published by St. Martin's Press, New York). ***Near fine in black cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. Owner's name and address printed label to top of front free endpaper. Unobtrusive, very small 'coffee' splash mark to outer margin of page 177, and tiny splash mark to a tiny section of the fore-edge of text-block. Spine tight. In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper. Extremities of dustwrapper slightly creased and rubbed. Tiny closed tear to top edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Spine and front and rear panels of dustwrappers bright. ***222mm x 144mm. 218 pages including notes to the end of each chapter and index to rear. ***Contents: Reference Key to Nietzsche's texts; Introduction; Part One: Nobles and Exemplars: 1. Nietzsche, Enlightenment and the Problem of Noble Ethics by David Owen; 2. Annunciation and Rebirth: The Prefaces of 1886 by Daniel W. Conway; 3. Stendhal's ecstatic embrace of History as the Antidote for decadence by Brain Domino; Part Two: Laughter and Comedy: 4. Nietzsche's Best Jokes by Laurence Lampert; 5. Waves of Uncountable Laughter by Kathleen Marie Higgins; 6. Laughter: a Tool in Moral Perfectionism? John Lippitt; Part Three: Art, Nature and the Transhuman: 7. A Pessimism of Strength: Nietzsche and the Tragic Sublime by Jim Urpeth; 8. Creating the Future: Legislation and Aesthetics by Gary Banham; 9. Staying Loyal to the Earth: Nietzsche as an Ecological Thinker by Graham Parkes; 10. Loving the Poison: On the 'Meaning' of the Transhuman Condition by Keith Ansell Pearson. ***'This wide-ranging collection of essays, explores various aspects of Nietzsche's thought, centered upon the general issue of futurity. It asks such questions as: What are the roles of human exemplars, moral perfectionism and noble ethics in our 'self-overcoming'? What place does laughter have in Nietzsche's vision of the future? What contribution can Nietzsche make to the issue of humanity's relation to the natural world in an age of ecological crisis? Or to questions about the "transhuman condition" arising from contemporary views of evolution? ***John Lippett has published numerous articles on Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and theories of humour and laughter.' (Quote from inside front and rear of dustwrapper blurb). ***An extremely hard to find first impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper in very nice bright condition. ***An extremely detailed and scholarly collection of philosophical essays of interest to academics and existentialists studying the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. xviii, 787 pp.

Softcover. 795 pp. Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi, Venezia. Softcover. Good condition; touches of wear on covers; a patch of foxing on top edges of papers.

Condizione: Very good condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. xviii, 787 pp.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Excellent Condition.Excels in customer satisfaction, prompt replies, and quality checks.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Volumes 1 - 3 complete, oversized full colour hardcovers within beautiful decorative slipcase. The first authoritative publication to cover the most significant works of Matisse. Composed of fifty-nine works from every stage of the artist's career. Light shelf wear to the slipcase, and remainder marks on each page block head. Otherwise, as unread. LW. Used.

HARDCOVER. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Large 8vo in black and brown printed faux vellum covered boards, pages numbered 487 - 644, index to volume one at rear . [CONDITION: An unusually well preserved FINE clean and tight unmarked copy (front cover, spine and most of rear cover mildly and uniformly tanned) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Numerous 20th Century Contributors (illustratore). 1st Edition. Second printing. Spiral-bound in soft covers, squarish format, not paginated, profusely illustrated with illustrations (color and b & w). Scarce book on 20th-century art, mostly US. Nearly Fine copy with very slight wear and few tiny spots, not that noticeable, no owner's markings. A rare book on the subject.