Seller: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. bumped/creased, some shelfwear/edgewear, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - still NICE! Standard-sized.
Seller: Better World Books Ltd, Dunfermline, United Kingdom
Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
Language: English
Published by Carcanet Press, Manchester, 1984
ISBN 10: 0856354724 ISBN 13: 9780856354724
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 1st UK Edition. There is some light discoloration around the edges of the dustjacket.
Language: English
Published by Benedikt Taschen, Cologne, 1992
ISBN 10: 382289639X ISBN 13: 9783822896396
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Fine. 95 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. This is the large softcover edition. *** "After starting a career as a bank broker, Paul Gauguin (born 1848) turned to painting only at age twenty-five. After initial successes within the Impressionist circle, he broke with Vincent van Gogh and subsequently, when private difficulties caused him to become restless, embarked on a peripatetic life, wandering first through Europe and finally, in the search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature, to Tahiti. The paintings created from this time to his death in 1903 brought him posthumous fame. In pictures devoid of any attempt at romantically disguising the life style of the primitive island peoples, Gauguin was able to convey the magical effect that both the landscapes and life of the natives - their body language, charm and beauty - had on him. Wearying of his reputation as a South Sea painter, Gauguin finally determined to return to France, but died of syphilis on the Marquis Islands before his departure." - Publisher. Size: 4to.
Published by The Harvill Press, 1993, 1993
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Near fine stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Always fine work by this author.
Published by Benedikt Tachen, Cologne, 2006
ISBN 10: 382285977X ISBN 13: 9783822859773
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 95 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 23 cm. Translated from the German. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Spine lightly bumped at the heel. Another copy available. *** "Translations of Matisse's own words in the main and marginal texts of this book have been newly made for this edition"--Colophon. Size: 8vo.
Published by Benedikt Taschen, Cologne, 1995
ISBN 10: 3822859710 ISBN 13: 9783822859711
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Good. 96 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits; 30 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Top right corner bumped. Age toning. A good reading copy for the thrifty scholar. *** CONTENTS: Munch's artistic background: Christiania, Paris, Berlin; The frieze of life: A poem of life, love and death; Recognition late in life: Portraits, landscapes and self-portraits; Edvard Munch 1863-1944, a chronology. Size: 4to.
Published by Benedikt Taschen, Cologne, 1988
ISBN 10: 3822801143 ISBN 13: 9783822801147
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 95 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. This is the large softcover edition. *** "After starting a career as a bank broker, Paul Gauguin (born 1848) turned to painting only at age twenty-five. After initial successes within the Impressionist circle, he broke with Vincent van Gogh and subsequently, when private difficulties caused him to become restless, embarked on a peripatetic life, wandering first through Europe and finally, in the search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature, to Tahiti. The paintings created from this time to his death in 1903 brought him posthumous fame. In pictures devoid of any attempt at romantically disguising the life style of the primitive island peoples, Gauguin was able to convey the magical effect that both the landscapes and life of the natives - their body language, charm and beauty - had on him. Wearying of his reputation as a South Sea painter, Gauguin finally determined to return to France, but died of syphilis on the Marquis Islands before his departure." - Publisher. Size: 4to.
Published by Benedikt Taschen, Cologne, 2000
ISBN 10: 3822859869 ISBN 13: 9783822859865
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Fine. 95 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "After starting a career as a bank broker, Paul Gauguin (born 1848) turned to painting only at age twenty-five. After initial successes within the Impressionist circle, he broke with Vincent van Gogh and subsequently, when private difficulties caused him to become restless, embarked on a peripatetic life, wandering first through Europe and finally, in the search for pristine originality and unadulterated nature, to Tahiti. The paintings created from this time to his death in 1903 brought him posthumous fame. In pictures devoid of any attempt at romantically disguising the life style of the primitive island peoples, Gauguin was able to convey the magical effect that both the landscapes and life of the natives - their body language, charm and beauty - had on him. Wearying of his reputation as a South Sea painter, Gauguin finally determined to return to France, but died of syphilis on the Marquis Islands before his departure." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.
Published by Benedikt Tachen, Cologne, 2006
ISBN 10: 382285977X ISBN 13: 9783822859773
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.
Paperback. Condition: Fine. 95 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 23 cm. Translated from the German. Firm binding, clean inside copy. *** "Translations of Matisse's own words in the main and marginal texts of this book have been newly made for this edition" - Colophon. *** CONTENTS: In quest of pure colour, 1869-1905; Realism and decoration, 1906-1916; The intimacy of the Nice period, 1917-1929; Beyond spatial limits, 1930-1940; Matisse's second life: an art of grace, 1941-1954; Henri Matisse 1869-1954: a chronology. Size: 8vo.
Published by Benedikt Taschen, Cologne, 2000
ISBN 10: 3822859710 ISBN 13: 9783822859711
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st. 96 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour), portraits; 23 cm. English translation, Michael Hulse. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. *** "For Edvard Munch (1863-1944), painting was an act of self-liberation. His treatments of fear, desperation, and death still exert a powerful visual and psychological effect on modern viewers. Of all Munch's paintings, The Scream (1893), representing a figure tortured by horror, is the most well-known-and certainly one of the most expressive. The artist reflected his innermost feelings in his work. . Although Edvard Munch cannot be clearly identified with any single movement, he is deemed a pioneer of Expressionism." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Munch's artistic background: Christiania, Paris, Berlin; The frieze of life: A poem of life, love and death; Recognition late in life: Portraits, landscapes and self-portraits; Edvard Munch 1863-1944, a chronology. . Size: 8vo.
Language: English
Published by Published by Benedict Taschen, Koln, Germany, 1989., 1994
ISBN 10: 3822802980 ISBN 13: 9783822802984
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Very good condition. This is a tall 4to size softcover book. Bottom cover edges are rubbed. Minor bump at back cover fore edge. A few small spots on page edges. Sticky spot at top corner of half title page. 224 pages with many color illustrations.
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reissue edition. 144 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reissue edition. 144 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reissue edition. 144 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.
Seller: Bingo Books 2, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. soft cover in fine condition,cover art is detail from- when will you marry? [nafee fae ipoipo?] 1892.
Language: English
Published by The Harvill Press, London, 1999
ISBN 10: 1860466249 ISBN 13: 9781860466243
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK edition with full number-string sequence including the no. "1": 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. This paperback edition was published simultaneously with a scarcer hardback edition. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout the text. ***Very good in monochrome photo-illustrated card covers with integral folding French flaps, with silver titles to the spine and front cover. There are some light creases to the edges, mainly on the back cover, but the covers are clean and only lightly marked. No major creases or tears, and no reading creases to the spine. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. There is a light abrasion to the bottom of the fore-edge of the page block, and some creasing and marking to the bottom corner of the last few pages (please see scans). No inscriptions. Apart from the aforementioned creasing and marking to the last few pages, the interior pages are clean and bright. No tears. ***210mm x150mm. 263 pages. ***Contents: I. Beyle, or Love is a Madness Most Discreet, II. All'estero, III. Dr K. Takes the Waters at Riva, IV. Il ritorno in patria. ***'"Vertigo" is the book in which W. G. Sebald first employed the spell-binding blend of personal narrative, investigation, fiction, history and ravel writing that has since won him international acclaim for "The Emigrants" and "The Rings of Saturn". ***In the first of four linked narratives following the young Stendhal (at that time still Marie Henri Beyle) as he revisits the battlefields of Napoleon's Italian Campaign, Sebald announces his theme: the vertiginous unreliability of memory. In the second and third narratives, the frescoes of Pisanello, the imprisonment of Casanova in Venice, the trials of Franz Kafka in Italy, and the narrator's own uneasy journeyings, develop the theme. In the final movement, motifs sketched in the earlier parts of the book are synthesised into one mesmerising autobiographical quest as Sebald returns to his childhood roots in southern Germany to discover the dizzying otherness of his own past. ***Line by line we are drawn into a symphonic labyrinth from which escape seems impossible, until Sebald introduces his final theme: the delight the creative process takes in blending, transforming and refashioning past experience into a new and consoling whole.' (Quote taken from the front flap) ***First impression of the first UK edition of W. G. Sebald's "Vertigo", published as a paperback original (simultaneously with a scarcer hardback edition). A good reading copy of the original printing of this Sebald classic. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Language: English
Published by The Harvill Press, London, 1999
ISBN 10: 1860466249 ISBN 13: 9781860466243
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK edition with full number-string sequence including the no. "1": 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2 on the printer's page. This paperback edition was published simultaneously with a scarcer hardback edition. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout the text. ***Very good in monochrome photo-illustrated card covers with integral folding French flaps, with silver titles to the spine and front cover. There are some light creases to the edges, but the covers are clean and unmarked. No major creases or tears, and no reading creases to the spine. Corners sharp. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. There is some light staining to the top of the fore-edge of the page block, but this doesn't really affect the interior pages. Internally also very good with no inscriptions, but please note that a previous owner has neatly clipped the top corner of the front free endpaper (probably removing an old ownership name). Interior pages clean and bright. No creases. ***210mm x150mm. 263 pages. ***Contents: I. Beyle, or Love is a Madness Most Discreet, II. All'estero, III. Dr K. Takes the Waters at Riva, IV. Il ritorno in patria. ***'"Vertigo" is the book in which W. G. Sebald first employed the spell-binding blend of personal narrative, investigation, fiction, history and ravel writing that has since won him international acclaim for "The Emigrants" and "The Rings of Saturn". ***In the first of four linked narratives following the young Stendhal (at that time still Marie Henri Beyle) as he revisits the battlefields of Napoleon's Italian Campaign, Sebald announces his theme: the vertiginous unreliability of memory. In the second and third narratives, the frescoes of Pisanello, the imprisonment of Casanova in Venice, the trials of Franz Kafka in Italy, and the narrator's own uneasy journeyings, develop the theme. In the final movement, motifs sketched in the earlier parts of the book are synthesised into one mesmerising autobiographical quest as Sebald returns to his childhood roots in southern Germany to discover the dizzying otherness of his own past. ***Line by line we are drawn into a symphonic labyrinth from which escape seems impossible, until Sebald introduces his final theme: the delight the creative process takes in blending, transforming and refashioning past experience into a new and consoling whole.' (Quote taken from the front flap) ***First impression of the first UK edition of W. G. Sebald's "Vertigo", published as a paperback original (simultaneously with a scarcer hardback edition). A good reading copy of the original printing of this Sebald classic. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Language: English
Published by The Harvill Press, London, 1998
ISBN 10: 1860463991 ISBN 13: 9781860463990
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK paperback edition with number-string sequence as follows: 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 2. The paperback edition was published simultaneously with a scarcer hardback edition. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. ***Very good in illustrated card covers with integral French flaps, with black titles to the spine and front cover. Edges of covers just slightly rubbed, but without any creases or tears. Corners quite sharp, with corner tips just slightly creased. There is a slight bump to the top outer corner of the page block - affecting the top corners of some of the pages (please see scans). No reading creases to the spine, but the spine colour is severely bleached, also affecting the front and back covers near the spine (please see scans). Fore-edge of page block slightly marked. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Internally also very good with pages clean and bright. No previous ownership inscriptions. No creases or tears - just the aforementioned creases at the top outer corner of the page block. ***210mm x150mm. 296 pages. ***'"The Rings of Saturn" follows the trail of destruction that human beings have wrought on themselves, and yet it is an unremittingly fascinating blend fiction, autobiography, and history. Its narratives are unfolded with a melancholy ever the domain of Saturn and, like its rings, created from the fragments of shattered worlds.' ***'"The Emigrants" was one of the great books of the last few years and now "The Rings of Saturn" is a similar and as strange a triumph.' - Michael Ondaatje (Quote and review quote taken from the front flap and the back cover respectively) ***A good reading copy of the first impression of the first UK wrappers issue of W. G. Sebald's "The Rings of Saturn", published simultaneously with a scarce hardback edition. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Language: English
Published by Benedikt Taschen, Koln., 1993
ISBN 10: 3822805432 ISBN 13: 9783822805435
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, STAFF, United Kingdom
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 96 pages inc a chronology of his life. colour illustrated, semi-stiff card covers. large slim quarto. Only point to mention on this is the inscription of John J. Gibson, his signature inside cover. He was an art lecturer at the Courtauld Institute in the late 1980's-90's. Near Fine.
Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1987
ISBN 10: 0374148899 ISBN 13: 9780374148898
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American edition. Light foxing on page edges, else fine in fine dustwrapper.
Language: English
Published by Harvill Press, London, 1998
Seller: Frances Wetherell, Cambridge, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. Large format paperback with French fold wrappers. Third printing with number string 3579864. Virtually as new. Appears unread.
Published by Ivanhoe, Australia: Helix, 1981
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG+. 4to, viii+136pp, printed wrappers. Contributor copy (from the collection of Opal Louis Nations) of this uncommon 1981 Australian literary and artistic review. Includes letters of Percy Grainger. Unmarked copy, minor wear. Not Signed.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Paperback Edition. Near Fine Pp 296.
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. Near Fine Pp 237 Illustrations.
Language: English
Published by ARC Publications, Todmorden, 2001
ISBN 10: 1900072432 ISBN 13: 9781900072434
Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Thus. Lightly worn copy. 115 pp.
Language: English
Published by Harvill Press (Panther), London, 1997
ISBN 10: 1860463495 ISBN 13: 9781860463495
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
First Edition
Original Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, as Issued. First UK Paperback Edition. First impression of the first UK paperback edition, with the full number-string sequence including the no. "1" on the printer's page: 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1. Translated from the German by Michael Hulse. Illustrated with black and white photographs throughout. ***Near fine in illustrated card covers. The covers are clean and unmarked - just very lightly rubbed at the edges. No bumps or creases. Page block edges tanned - top edge lightly foxed and discoloured. No reading lean. No reading creases to the spine. No fading. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Interior pages clean - paper stock lightly tanned. Tiny unobtrusive 1mm nick to outer edge of pages 109-112. ***198mm x128mm. 237 pages plus eight pages of publisher's adverts to rear. ***'"The Emigrants" at first appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish exiles or emigres in the twentieth century. Gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose works its magic, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.' (Quote taken from the back cover) ***The first work by W, G. Sebald to be translated into English. Published initially as a hardback in 1996 by Harvill Press, this is the first impression of the first UK paperback edition of "The Emigrants". Uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Language: English
Published by New Directions, New York, 2000
ISBN 10: 0811214303 ISBN 13: 9780811214308
Seller: David Kaye Books & Memorabilia, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. Minor softening to jacket edges and board corners, fading to jacket spine else a tight square unmarked copy in clean unclipped dust jacket wrapped in archival mylar sleeve; first printing with no later statements.
Published by Macmillan, London, 1987
Seller: Muir Books [Robert Muir Old & Rare Books], PERTH, WA, Australia
Boards. Translated by Michael Hulse (illustrator). 8vo, pp. viii, 151, original boards, slightly rubbed bottom edge otherwise very good, in like d.j. The German authors WWII experiences. Rinser, a journalist, was arrested in 1944 on a charge of high treason. She was imprisoned in Bavaria and kept a journal during her ordeal.