Search Results: Titles starting with L from Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller

Los Angeles: Fisher Gallery, University of California, 1998. First edition. Softcover. vg. Short oblong quarto. 55 pp. Original paper wraps displaying color facsimile photographs from the exhibition of Shulman's work at the Fisher Gallery of the University of Southern California which ran from March 4 - April 19, 1998. Entire book is illustrated from cover to cover with b/w facsimile photographs of the exhibition accompanied by descriptive text. Some minor age wear to wraps, but book is in very good condition.

São Paulo, SP: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2011. First edition. Softcover. very good + to near fine. Quarto (11" x 9"). 232pp. Text in Portuguese and English. White wrappers lettered in red, drawing on front cover in black. Illustrated throughout with color paintings, black & white drawings, and both candid & posed black & white photos. Library call letters taped to foot of spine (but no other library markings). "Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 24 de setembro a 20 de novembro de 2011."/ Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-181).

Leiden: Brill, 2004. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Octavo. vii, (3), 304, (4)pp. Indices and 14 page bibliography. Text in French with occasional elucidations of Greek & Hebrew. Blue cloth, gilt, publisher's device on front cover. An ex-library copy with minimal rubber stamping on title & at bottom of text block, otherwise a fine copy. This book analyzes how humanism was conceived of in different philosophical schools during the Hellenistic and early Roman period, and how these ideas were debated in ancient Jewish thought. The term humanism refers to the idea that every person has duties towards his/her fellow human beings, for the sole reason that they all share a common nature or are bound by a form of kinship. The book also tries to determine to which extent Gen 1:26-27 (creation of human beings in God's image) and Lev 19:18 (the commandment to love one's neighbour, who is like oneself) could be interpreted in a humanistic way by ancient Jewish writers. (Publisher) Volume 87 of the… Read More

Berlin: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1930. First edition. Softcover. Very good+ to fine condition.. Quarto. 60 (5)pp. Original photo-illustrated warps with black and yellow lettering on cover, black lettering on spine. Fototek 1. Moholy-Nagy played a decisive role in the history of the so-called "New Photography." He believed that the camera was the tool to satisfy the 'hunger for the object.' First monograph of Moholy-Nagy photographs. Cover and book design by Jan Tschichold. With a contribution entitled "Moholy-Nagy and New Photography" by Franz Roh in German, English and French. Illustrated with sixty full page reproductions of Moholy-Nagy photographs, photomontages, photograms and negatives, with captions in three languages. Four pages of advertisements at rear, including Fototek titles one through eight and publications by Franz Roh, Jan Tschichold , Ferdinand Mainzer and the title "photo-eye, 76 photos of the period," edited by Roh and Tschichold. Wraps with very light wear along edges and lightly… Read More

Zurich: London Gallery LTD, 1937. First edition. Softcover. Good condition.. Octavo. 37pp., incl. 11 plates. Original white wraps with red typography on cover, red spine. Catalog of the exhibition L. Moholy-Nagy at the London Gallery, December 31st 1936-January 27th, 1937. First exhibition of L. Moholy-Nagy in England. Moholy-Nagy's work included four transparencies, two aluminum pictures, two Galalith pictures, one enamel picture, one cork picture, two metal constructions, fifteen paintings, ten photograms and one portfolio with six constructions in lithography. With a contribution on the work of Moholy-Nagy by Siegfried Giedion. Contains bibliography and a list of films. Illustrated with b/w reproductions of photographs of Moholy-Nagy's work from 1924 to 1936 and a portrait photograph. Wraps with light wear, light scuffing with half an inch closed tear at head of spine and light sunning along edges. Starting at inside front cover.

Santa Fe, NM: Radius Books, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fine in publisher's shrink wrap. Tall folio (16-1/2" x 10-1/2"). 72pp. 2 volumes in 1, bound dos-a-dos, presenting different views of Los Angeles -- one during the day and one at night. Bound in b/w photo illustrated boards lettered in white. A fine, as new copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap. This is the second volume in Light's ambitious series of aerial photography.

Rome: DRAGO, 2015. First edition. Hardcover. Fine condition. Signed Estevan Oriol on page facing introduction. Quarto. Unpaginated. Original photo-illustrated glossy boards with white lettering on cover and spine. Photo-illustrated endpapers. "This is a collection of women's photographs that I have taken throughout the years here in the beautiful city of Los Angeles... in case you were wondering these photos were all shot on film and there is no photoshop. Old school-Baby!!!" (Oriol). Illustrated throughout with color and b/w photographs of Los Angeles women.

Rome: Ausonia, 1939. First edition. Softcover. g. Quarto. 39, [1]pp. Original printed wrappers. Scarce and remarkable study on da Vinci's painting, "The Adoration of the Magi." In 1481, Leonardo was given the commission by the Augustinian monks of San Donato a Scopeto in Florence, but departed for Milan the following year, leaving the painting unfinished. It has been in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence since 1670. Moderate age-wear on wrappers with spine and edges slightly sunned. Previous owner's ex-libris on inside of front cover. Minor age-toning along paper margin. Text in Italian. Wrappers in overall good, interior in good+ to very good condition.

Paris: NRF Gallimard, 1951. Later printing (7th edition). Softcover. g. Large octavo. 533, [3]pp. Full brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. Wolf Leslau's ex-libris on inside of front board. Original wraps bound in. Printer's device on title-page. Scarce and fascinating work being an ethnographic diary, in the style of Bronislaw Malinowski, the author kept during his two years as a member of the first Dakar-Djibouti trans-African ethnographic expedition in 1931-33. This work is profusely illustrated with 32 black and white photographic reproductions. Some age-toning along paper margin. Binding and interior in good to very good condition.

New York: Published for F. Rullman by R. H. Russell, 1900. First edition. Softcover. g+ to vg. Quarto. Unpaginated, 24pp. Original gray illustrated wraps with light gray lettering and ruling on cover, protected by modern mylar. Illustrated half-title. Frontispiece drawing of Bernhardt as L'Aiglon by Cheret. Title page with decorative publisher's device and double borders. Decorative initials. Correct and authorized edition of the American farewell tour of Mme. Sarah Bernhardt and Mons. Coquelin under the direction of Mr. Maurice Grau. Play in six acts. Advertisement of Weber Pianos on back cover. Text in English and French. Wraps with light wear along edges, light bumps and creasing. Wraps in overall good+, interior in very good condition.

NP: Gallimard Le Seuil, 1985. First edition. Softcover. g. Small Quarto. 600 (7)pp. original beige wrappers with red ruling and black lettering on cover and spine. A study on the systematic extermination of the Jews by the German Nazis featuring essays by some of the most renowned French historians. Illustrated with b/w photographs and reproductions of original documents. Mylar film of cover loosening and partly removed and light wear along edges. Wrappers in overall good-, interior in good condition.

Berlin: Reichsbahnzentrale für den deutschen Reiseverkehr, n/d. Softcover. g. 8vo. Original illustrated wraps. 44 bound double-page fold-outs. Profusely illustrated with reproductions in photogravure (duotone) by E. H. Börner, Julius Söhn, Hans Breuer, A. Rumbacher Jr., Rudolf Obigt, Dr. P. Wolff, Max Löhrich, August Zerle, K. Gundermann, Norddeutscher-Lloyd, Foglar, A. Dinges, Else Bäumer, National Film. Front wrapper almost detached. Minor creasing, scuffing and staining on wraps. Bottom right corner of front wrapper and and tiny area on fore-edge on rear wrapper chipped. Text in French. Wraps in fair, interior in very good condition.

Paris: S. E. P. E., 1945. First edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Quarto. Unpaginated. [64]pp. Original half cloth over illustrated decorative paper covered boards. Photo-illustrated title page. Striking photo-essay on the liberation of Alsace by the Free French forces of Generals de Lattre, Bethouard and de Monsabert. The French liberation army emerged victorious and Alsace-Lorraine* was restored to France in the spring of 1945. This volume is complete with its 3 maps and 68 in-text and full page photogravures. Binding sunned and slightly soiled. Text in French. Binding in overall fair to good-, interior in very good condition. * The Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine (German: Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, or Elsass-Lothringen), was a territory created by the German Empire in 1871 after it annexed most of Alsace and the Moselle region of Lorraine following its victory in the Franco-Prussian War. The Alsatian part lay in the Rhine Valley on the west bank of the Rhine River and east of the Vosges… Read More

Paris: Éditions du Sagittaire, 1931. First edition. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. 198 pp. Three quarter leather over cloth covered boards. Text in French. Ambroise-Paul-Toussaint-Jules Valéry 1871 - July 20, 1945) was a French poet, essayist, and philosopher. His interests were sufficiently broad that he can be classified as a polymath. In addition to his fiction (poetry, drama and dialogues), he also wrote many essays and aphorisms on art, history, letters, music, and current events. Minor age wear, but book is in very good condition.

Paris: NP, 1895. Limited First edition. Hardcover. g. Folio. Publisher's proof copy. Unpaginated. Original 3/4 blue cloth over marbled paper covered boards, with gold lettering and decoration on spine. Four-color lithograph title-page signed in pencil and numbered by the artist. Rare and fascinating illustrated work by Henri-Gabriel Ibels, depicting a Pierrot and a ballerina in love. Interior conists of five one-color lithographs (red; black ; yellow; green; blue) and one vignette. Henri-Gabriel Ibels (1867-1936) was a close friend of Lautrec and they both utilized Japanese motifs and the use of "crachis" in their lithographs. Ibels had been associated with the Nabis and was among the foremost printmakers in the 1890's (Color Revolution 94). Minor rubbing along edges of binding, and slight soiling on covers. Sporadic foxing throughout, especially on lower outer margin of pages. Binding in overall good, interior in good to very good condition.

Paris: Librarie Stock, 1925. Limited first edition. Softcover. vg+ to near fine. 1/300. Large folio. 15pp. [2]. (+ print). Housed in a beautiful custom clamshell box in blue pebbled leather, with white lettering on the spine, and a finely rendered inlaid illustration in white leather, based on the famous face designed by Cocteau, on the front cover. White loose leaf portfolio, with black lettering. Pages uncut and un-opened. #202 of 250 printed on "velin d'arches" paper from a total of 300 copies, numbered on the colophon. This finely printed work contains the complete text of Jean Cocteau's poem "L'Ange Heurtebise" (The Heurtebise Angel), based on the angelic/demonic figure, who reappears numerous times throughout the artist's work, and was sometimes noted as a reincarnation of the artist's former lover Raymond Radiguet. Cocteau claimed that he first encountered the figure when he spoke to Cocteau in an elevator, manufactured by the company Heurtebise, and thus was named as such. Following this,… Read More

Paris: Michel Levy Freres, 1873. Second edition. Hardcover. g. Sm. 4to. li,572pp. Linen backed paper covered boards, title label on spine, marbled edges. Text in French. History of the Origins of Christianity, focusing on the concept of the Antichrist. Head and tail of spine bumped and chipped. All edges rubbed. Binding in good, interior in very good condition.

Leiden: Brill, 2003. Hardcover. Fine. ix, (3), 469, (3)pp. Index and bibliography. Text mostly in French with some English and a smattering of Hebrew. Light blue buckram lettered in black. Illustrated with diagramatic representations of the Chamber of Deputies. A fine, as new copy. This volume principally deals with perceptions on Jews dating from the beginnings of their emancipation to the Dreyfus Affair. The title in French, and the original title of the colloquium in Hebrew, 'Enlightened Antisemitism' not only reflects the overall anti-religious (anti-Christian and, hence, by necessity, anti-Jewish) sentiments of an Enlightenment figure such as Voltaire, but also refers to those who justified either their philosemitism or antisemitism with erudition: Johann David Michaelis, Antoine Guénée, Charles Maurras, etc. With France as its focal point, the volume also contains essays that treat various perceptions of Jews during the same period in England, Germany, and Italy. Interdisciplinary in… Read More

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1962. First edition. Softcover. g. 12mo. 126, [2], 8pp. Original decorative wraps. Wolf Leslau's ex-libris on inside of front cover. Printer's device on title-page. Title-page inscribed by Fernand-J. Tomiche to Mr. and Mrs. Wolf Leslau. First edition of this compelling study on Saudi Arabia written by one of the foremost specialists of the Middle-East. Slight creasing and discoloration on wrappers. Some age-toning along paper margin. Text in French. Wrappers and interior in overall good+ condition.

Lyon: Marc Barbezat, 1944. Limited ed. Hardcover. vg. 1/2150 numbered. 4to. 266pp. White paper wrappers in pictorial cover. Printed on parchment. Page edges untrimmed. Some pages uncut. Binding starting to detach from inside block, but still attached. Announcements of book associated with L'Arbalete laid in to front end paper. Translations of some of the finest American writers, including Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe and Henry Miller. In French. Wrappers in very nice shape, sve for some minor bumping to corners, and a few minor stains. Book in very good condition.