Wilson francis introduction (13 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Near fine/Near fine. Bright and attractive hardcover with dust jacket. Very nice copy. Gahan Wilson (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: VG/VG. Revised. Red cloth boards with gold text, color-pictorial dust jacket. xi, 116 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Since the Middle Ages Europeans mounted oriental porcelain in settings of precious or semiprecious metal as a tribute to the value of the pieces. And beginning in the 18th century, it became increasingly fashionable in Parisian society to decorate the interiors of houses with Far Eastern materials such as lacquer and mounted porcelain. This revised catalog features thirty-two examples from the Getty's collection of lacquer and porcelain mounted in settings of silver, gold, and gilt bronze, ranging in date from 1665 to 1785. -Amazon.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. No Dust Jacket. 228 pp. Original blue cloth covers w/ title in gilt. Binding very bright and clean. Light foxing to edges of text block. Illust. w/ maps. Very nice copy.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN 9781582407579. Trade Paperback. First Printing. Very good to near fine condition, with slight shelfwear to cover corners. Tight, bright, attractive copy with no markings to the book except for William Harms' inscription on title page. Inscribed by Authors. …

First edition. Square 4to., xviii, 186 pp., numerous b&w photos. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Near fine. Photo essays by twenty South African photographers. Prepared for The Second Carnegie Inquiry in to Poverty and Development in Southern Africa.

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Limited edition. Limited edition of 350, this being hand numbered 256, 1896. A Very Good book. 12mo., (53) pp., bound in publishers green cloth spine and tan paper covered boards. Ex-library with limited faults. Call numbers on front cover, blind stamp on title page. Covers are soiled with rubbing to the tips. Previous owners bookplate inside front cover. Previous owner hand numbered each page, otherwise text is unmarked, binding is sound. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Hardback copy in brown cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 44pp. B/w frontispiece and illustrations throughout. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (13/5).

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Reprint. Softcover has soiling and cover wear. Signed by James Wison Bright who co-wrote the introduction. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Anecdotes etc by Galvin Trillin, Kay Nolte Smith, Frederick Forsyth, Patricia Highsmith, Ira Levin ETC, HBDJ, 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing, VG+/VG, AS-IS, Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition VG/HC in VG Dustjacket with small Light stain on front; light wear to spine ends, edges and corners of both book and jacket. Tight binding with unmarked internals. A nice solid copy. 1.11 x 9.13 x 6.57 Inches, DJ Protected Clear Mylar, 287 pgs, Index , Green cloth backed, paper covered boards with Beige Spine cvr Titled in Black. Minor bumpingGreen Endpapers, Inner DJ Flap Original Price Intact $18.95,anecdotes on cooking writing by John Ball, Gavin Black, Lilian Jackson Braun, Aaron Elkins, Stephen King, Elmore Leonard ETC This book contains recipes and antidotes from the mystery writers of America, spiced with their wit, leavened with their malice, and served with their own distinctive style. Cook Book. Spine-Chilling Salads & Appetizers Blood-warming Soups & Entrees, Desserts to Die For.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Dust Jacket Included. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 24 x 31.5 cm.; 1.1 kg.; 116 pages with black and white and colour illustrations; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust jacket shows edge wear, scuffs and scratches on the front cover, spine and back cover and a small scratch on the back cover. Minor signs of wear on the interior.; The Getty Museum's large and exceptional collection of oriental porcelain embellished with Parisian gilt bronze or silver is comprehensively illustrated in this revised catalogue. The European practice of mounting exotic objects such as oriental porcelain dates from the Middle Ages and found its height of expression during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when Chinese and Japanese porcelains reached the West in considerable quantities. To meet the growing taste for such objects in fashionable Parisian society, marchands-merciers-guild members who combined the functions of the modern interior decorator, antique dealer, and picture dealer- devised ingenious settings in silver and gilt bronze for oriental porcelains, adapting their exotic character to the French interiors of the period. With the publication of this catalogue, the beauty and rarity with which buyers of these pieces were so enamored is vividly brought to life.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in tan cloth boards with gold gilt lettering to spine. No dustjacket. 276pp + 40pp book catalogue to rear. Not library copy, no inscriptions. SOme page foxing. (63/3).