Alisa Jaffa (23 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. G to VG Dust Jacket. First Edition By This Publisher. 77 pages, Loaded with illustration. >> Cover creasing. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Manfred Schluter illustrator. (illustrator). Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 286 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. Translated from the French. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. *** "A splendidly illustrated critical biography from Chagall's lifelong friend, Jean Cassou." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Chagall and his childhood; Memories; Memories become reality; Russia; Vocation; Chagall in France; Chagall and world events; Chagall as a religious painter; Chronology. Size: 8vo.…

Condition: Very Good. 1st UK edition. Paperback, VG. 192pp, b/w illustrations throughout, bookplate, fore edges & last few pp foxed. A guide to the historical & cultural background of Poland intended for the tourist or traveller who wants to get that little bit more out of their visit. The TLS called the books 'intelligent & lightly written'. 225 grams.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Very good condition. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and unmarked. Well-illustrated (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. soft cover, light rubbing to edges, 3cm pulled away bottom spine, clean condition, 192pp, illustrated throughout, pages clean and overall good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st in UK, hard cover glazed pict. bds, VG, contents nice and tight with b/w illustrations by Heine, school stamp crossed out to ffep and label removal signs, school stamp to rear pastedown. A nice sound copy in English.

Condition: Very Good. 1962. Paperback. Good clean copy showing light shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. RARE Advance Galley-Not For Sale. 1st Printing. New copy. Never read. Trade paperback format. Cover binding has a 5 tiny chips. Still a beautiful copy of book and cover. COLLECTOR'S COPY.

Condition: Near Fine. Pbk, 12mo, 191pp, profusely illustr b+w photos, light edgewear to covers, otherwise appears unread and a fine, clean, tight and unmarked copy, becoming harder to find.

Condition: Very Good. 1962. Paperback. Good clean copy showing light shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy. . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST UK EDITION - NEAR FINE IN A VERY GOOD COMPLETE DUST JACKET: Minuscule evidence of rubs to spine ends; excellent binding, being tight and secure, bright covers, pages and text block clean, light edge tone started. Free of inscriptions; in a pleasant dust jacket, with two small areas of flattened creasing. Handles and presets well. Notes : First published: Germany : Siedler Verlag, 1999. 359 p. : ill. . …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First UK Edition. First English edition 4to, illustrations in colour and mono. Edge-wear, closed tears to unclipped jacket, good decorative cream and brown boards, sound binding, very good internally. Extra shipping may be requested to post out of UK. Rolf Schrade (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 201 pages. 8.25x8.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Ex-library, quarto hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); Photos available on request. All our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Soft cover. 8vo. Pp: 56. First edition. Colour illustrated laminated paper covers. Copiously illustrated throughout in black and white.ISBN: 1871447119 Near fine in very good plus covers, with slightly faded top edge at front.

hardcover. Condition: Gut. 359 Seiten; 9780297645917.3 Gewicht in Gramm: 1.

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library book, usual marking. Clean copy in good condition. Bottom cover spine detatching from body. Cover faded. First page (contents) detaching at bottom. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st UK Edition. Hardback. 32.5x26cm. 275 pages with 190 mostly black & white illustrations, including 10 colour plates. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket has some edge wear. Dispatched with tracking securely boxed in cardboard. ref q41.…

Ril cm 21,7x26,6 pp 217,1 tavola a colori molte ill in b/n. Riedizione di un noto saggio di Titus Burckhardt filosofo e pensatore svizzero (nipote del più conosciuto esploratore) che dedicò la vita all'approfondimento del pensiero e dell'arte islamica.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. An excellent and insightful, like new, edition of The Arts of Ancient Georgia, filled with colour and black and white illustrations and photographs. This like-new edition of The Arts of Ancient Georgia includes 584 illustrations, 98 of which are in colour and is translated from the German by Alisa Jaffa.The book concentrates on the Middle ages and considers secular Buildings, art, religious buildings and fine arts and crafts from Georgia.Collated. Complete. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. Externally, excellent. In the unclipped dustwraper which is also in excellent condition. Internally firmly bound with very bright and clean pages. Fine. Rolf Schrade (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 275 p. illus. (some mounted color illustrations) facsimiles, maps. 33 cm. ; LCCN: 66-22138 ; LC: BX2321.S3; DC20; Dewey: 248.4/6 ; OCLC: 382701 ; beige cloth in photographic dustjacket ; price-clipped ; Contents : Origins of t he cult -- St. James and the reconquest -- Beginnings of the pilgimage -- The grandeur of Compostella -- Some pilgrims and visitors -- Life on the roads -- Consequences of the pilgrimage -- Dounts about the pilgrimage -- Decline and revival -- The history of the relics -- The plates and their descriptions -- Bibliography ; 190 illustrations including 10 color tipped-in plates ; maps on endpapers ; foxing ; VG/VG. Book.…

Large quarto hardcover; turquoise cloth boards with gilt spine titling and centre board gilt publisher's insignia; 500pp., 54 tipped in colour plates, 256 monochrome plates and 158 text figures, maps and tables. Minor wear; discolouration where a bookplate has been removed from front pastedown; offsetting to endpapers, scattered spotting to half-title page; toned text block edges with black mark on lower edges; creasing and two small tears to side page edges of last page. Illustrated green dustwrapper with a few tiny chips at corners. Very good otherwise and professionally protected by superior non-adhesive polypropylene film. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. In Spanish art, as in Spanish history, there is no peace. Produced under pressures more extensive than those which have affected almost any other nation, it possessed from earliest times those qualities that have characterized it ever since: violence, single-mindedness and a sense of intense religious devotion - the values of a people fighting for its survival in a never-ending crusade. Yet, paradoxically, it was from Islam that many of the finest features of the emergent art of Spain were derived. The evolution of early medieval Spanish art was complex. The first phase was represented by the Visigoths, of whose work little survives but that little of absorbing interest, notably the jewelled crowns found at Guarrazar. Then came the Moors, swallowing the whole of the peninsula except the tiny northern kingdom of Asturias, where an amazingly developed culture flourished, reaching its climax in the tenth century. Meanwhile, in 'occupied' Spain, the Christian communities evolved perhaps the strangest style in medieval art: the Mozarabic, a fusion of the Visigothic and Muslim styles. Its masterpiece is the illuminated Commentary on the Apocalypse, by Beatus, illustrated here in six colour plates and others in black and white. In the ninth century the nation took its place in the mainstream of European culture, and the great pilgrimage church of Santiago de Compostela became one of the most venerated shrines in Christendom. During the twelfth century, to a far greater extent than is widely assumed, Spain occupied one of the most prominent and independent places in the pattern of European art. And Catalan Romanesque art is fully comparable with French Romanesque; a large number of examples remain, not only buildings but frescoes and manuscripts. This definitive survey of early medieval Spanish art is profusely illustrated with plans and diagrams. The magnificent series of plates covers a vast range of architecture, frescoes, illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, ivory carving and gold and silver work. There are detailed notes on the plates, and genealogical tables and maps. As a reference, this book is indispensable; as a collection of superb illustrations, irresistible. …