Introduction by bill katz (3 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. First Edition. Hamden, Connecticut: Archon Books, 1968. A beautiful, pristine copy in perfect condition. Brand New in a Brand New dust jacket. NOT price clipped ($6.00). NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NOT a library discard. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. First Edition. 1968. Here are four essays which, according to the introduction by Bill Katz, "will appeal to the bookish minded and anyone fascinated by the foibles of man." The first three topics are bibliokleptomania, book curses, and bibliopegia fantastica (bookbindings of tortoise shell, stock certificates, skin of fish, rats, baseballs, etc). The final chapter details the history of human skin bookbindings from ancient times to the Nazi concentration camps. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in shiny gold. Complete with dust jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo. 160pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. …

Condizione: Very good. Very good dust jacket, lightly shelf worn with occasional nicks and short tears, 1" tear to head of spine, beginning stages of peeling to tail of spine Hardcover, folio, lavender cloth boards with silver lettering in glossy pictorial dust jacket, 241 illustrations with 171 plates in full color, navy blue end papers, 320 pp. Red Grooms with photography by Bill Lafevor (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first numberline printing. As new/unread. Illustrated. Yvonne Jacquette (born 1934 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American painter and printmaker known in particular for her depictions of aerial landscapes, especially her low-altitude and oblique aerial views of cities or towns, often painted using a distinctive, pointillistic technique. She was married to Rudy Burckhardt (1914, Basel - 1999), a Swiss-American filmmaker, and photographer, known for his photographs of hand-painted billboards which began to dominate the American landscape in the nineteen-forties and fifties. On his 85th birthday, Burckhardt ended his life by drowning in the lake on his property. …