translated violet macdonald (7 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. with a frontispiece portrait (illustratore). First UK Edition. Firmly bound, red cloth boards. Minor handling wear on top and base of the spine. Tear of papers on inner hinges exposing webbing. No jacket, a little scuffing on the front end paper where pencil inscription rubbed out.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Missing. Little, Brown and Company, Boston [Published date: 1936]. [From title page] "translated from the original French manuscript by Violet M. MacDonald and now first published in any language. With thirty-two plates in collotype". Hardcover, viii, 321 pp; frontispiece portrait of Ambroise Vollard; 32 collotype plates reproducing works by Bonnard, Degas, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and others; 23 cm. First American edition. Beige linen boards with blue printed paper title label on front cover and matching spine label. In good condition / no dust jacket. Spine and label moderately darkened with some small stains; title label on front cover lightly rubbed; minor bumping to corners. Binding tight. Endpapers lightly toned with previous owner's address label on front pastedown. Interior pages lightly toned but otherwise clean and unmarked. Printed in Great Britain by Richard Clay & Sons, Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk. Ambroise Vollard (1866-1939), legendary Parisian art dealer and publisher, recounts his life among the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists - Manet, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Degas, Gauguin, Renoir, and Picasso - with candid anecdotes and first-hand recollections. His memoir reveals both the personalities of the artists and the emerging modern art market in late 19th- and early 20th-century Paris. Contents include: From the Island of La Reunion to the Faculte de Droit in Paris; Arrival in Paris: the Quartier Latin and Montmartre; A Golden Age for the Collectors; My Apprenticeship at the Union Artistique; Cezanne and Van Gogh; The Street of Pictures; Alfred Jarry and Guillaume Apollinaire; The Steins and Other Americans; The Studios of Meissonier and Others; Georges Rouault, Douanier Rousseau, Picasso; My Portraits; Ambroise Vollard, Publisher; Ambroise Vollard, Author; The War; Painting After the War.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Spine head sunned, otherwise light wear; Dust Jacket 1" spine head chip, spine lettering faded, light tone, edgewear. Solid hardcover. ; First Edition, First Printing of this new collection of German poet Rilke's letters to Baladine Klossowska, whom he affectionately called Merline. The lyrical letters reflect Rilke's craving of personal intimacy conflicting with his need for isolation while completing his major poems including The Duino Elegies. ; 149 pages.

First edition hard back publisher's original light blue cloth covers, silver stamping to spine. 8vo 8¾" x 6" 286, 2 [pp]. Jacob Tsur was Israel's ambassador in Paris at the time of the Suez crisis. Fine in Nr. Fine dust wrapper with light surface grazes to spine tip, not price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. PALESTINE.

Condizione: Poor. Previous owner was a smoker - strong smell of smoke. No dustjacket. Fading/yellowing to cover/spine. Tanning to pages, darker at edges. Some marks to pages. Text good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. John Minton (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition hardback with dustjacket illustrated by John Minton. DJ is price clipped and chipped to top edge in a couple of places. Some foxing to reverse of DJ. Internally clean, no damage. Very good condition.

First edition in English, first printing. The publisher's retained copy. Original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. With 4 illustrations. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents spotted to the text block edge and with the publisher's "Archive Copy" stamp to the title page are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the original dustwrapper which has a small nick without loss at the head of the lightly faded spine and the publisher's "File Copy" stamp to the upper panel. Scarce in the first UK edition. Provenance: From the archive of the publisher Victor Gollancz. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.