Search Results: Titles starting with A from John Nichols Gallery

The Anatomy of Melancholy, What It Is, With All The Kinds Causes, Symptomes, Prognostics, and Several Cures of It In Three Partitions. With Their Several Sections, Members, & Subsections, Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically Opened and Cut Up by Democritus Junior. With A Satyrical Preface Conducing to the Following Discourse.Burton, Robert

1826
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Octavos. Two volumes. Volume I: [1], xii, 461 pages, [2]. Engraved title page. Volume II: [3], 612 pages, [2]. Brownish marbled paper covered boards. Brown leather corners and spine. Spines still attached but splitting. Marbled end sheets. . . Damp staining to pages in back both volumes. Light occasional spotting to the text. A good set. Comes with an interesting typed letter from 1938 telling about why it is a gift and what the recipient will get out of it. Entertaining.

Tom Leonard was one of this country's outstanding photographers of industrial and architectural subjects. His studio was on New York's West 56th Street but most of his photographic activity took place in the outdoors on location.
Tom Leonard saw his subjects in terms of mass and line, light and shade. These were the important components to him and their inter-relationship determined the outcome of his photographs. Leonard had an artist's eye and seldom found it necessary to crop the finished print at all. So careful was his original composition that the bottom edge of the ground glass in his 5X7 inch Deardorf view camera was slightly masked to match exactly the final print proportions he preferred. Leonard's versatility with this somewhat cumbersome camera was surprising. Judging from his photographs' depth of focus and variety of subjects, one would sooner imagine he used a Rolleiflex 2 ¼ inch camera that so many professionals of his day used.
He used two Goerz lenses with his view camera; one of 8… Read More

The Art of Doug Sneyd: A Collection of Playboy Cartoons with Reflections by the Artist
Sneyd, Doug et al
Published by Dark Horse Books, Milwaukie, OR, 2011
- HardcoverCondition: Fine
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Sneyd, Doug (illustrator). 1st. 247pp.incl.index HB color cartoon covers; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ orange,yellow,white&blk.-cartoon cover; slgith rub. "This collection features nearly three hundred of the most sumptuous, striking, and hilarious of Doug's full-page, full-color cartoons.".

Peter Case
As Far As You Can Get Without A Passport
Peter Case
Published by everthemore books/For Now, 2006
ISBN 10: 097438772XISBN 13: 9780974387727
5.5x 8.5. 51 pages
paperback. Condition:Fine. Signed. Signed inscription by Case to title page. Pages bright and unmarked. Binding tight.
Interesting signature. I attended a concert he did in a small club in Ventura, Ca and we were joking around about religion and he signed this book to me with a not "Also, yours in Christ". Neither of us was a Christian though.