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Paperback. Condition: Good. 340 pages, illustrations; 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Moderate edgewear to wraps. Age toning. Remainder mark/tail edge. Another copy available. *** Architecture critic of the New York Times. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. 126 pages, [127] pages of plates, illustrations; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. First Printing. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 527 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Reprint, 1984. Tight, clean text. Wraps with light edgewear, age toning. Top edge lightly soiled. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st. x, 546 pages, [40] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Good+. Firm binding, with one slight spine crease. Clean inside copy. Age toning. First paperback edition. Another copy available. *** "Almost 24 years his junior, Georgia O'Keeffe became for Alfred Stieglitz a near icon of American art--as well as his wife. In a marvelous, multileveled biography, Benita Eisler traces the epic and stormy relationship of these incomparable artists, from their consuming ambition to their sexual experimentation." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 221 pages, illustrations; 20 cm. A good reading copy with scattered pencil marks. Browning. *** Arguably the best introductory survey on Neo-Classicism. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 245 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. One leaf dogeared. Browning. Another copy available. *** "The chief art critic for The New York Times writes on the creative impulse that emerges in all of us when we realize that the art of making art starts with the art of living. This wide-ranging book explores art as life's great passion, revealing what we can learn of life through works of art and the people who make them. It assures us that art--points of contact with the exceptional that are linked straight to the heart--can be found almost anywhere if only our eyes are opened enough to recognize it. Kimmelman regards art, like all serious human endeavors, as a passage through which a larger view of life may come more clearly into focus. His book carries the message that many of us may not yet have learned how to recognize the art in our own lives." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The art of making a world; The art of being artless; The art of having a lofty perspective; The art of making art without lifting a finger; The art of collecting lightbulbs; The art of maximizing your time; The art of finding yourself when you're lost; The art of staring productively at naked bodies; The art of the pilgrimage; The art of gum-ball machines, and other simple pleasures. Size: 8vo.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 171+[4 ad] pages with diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 4 1/2") bound in original publisher's pictorial wrappers. First published in 1973. There are diagrams from actual chess games here, followed by hints on what to play, and solutions at the back. Then at the last chapter you rate yourself whether you are an ordinary or a good club player. Condition: Edge wear, corners bumped, rubbed and creased, some foxing else very good.

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. vii, 371 pages, [12] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour), maps; 24 cm. First published, London: Chatto & Windus, 2002. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Another copy available. *** "In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Four years earlier, at the age of twenty-nine, Michelangelo had unveiled his masterful statue of David in Florence; however, he had little experience as a painter, even less working in the delicate medium of fresco, and none with the curved surface of vaults, which dominated the chapel's ceiling. The temperamental Michelangelo was himself reluctant, and he stormed away from Rome, risking Julius's wrath, only to be persuaded to eventually begin. Michelangelo would spend the next four years laboring over the vast ceiling. He executed hundreds of drawings, many of which are masterpieces in their own right. Contrary to legend, he and his assistants worked standing rather than on their backs, and after his years on the scaffold, Michelangelo suffered a bizarre form of eyestrain that made it impossible for him to read letters unless he held them at arm's length. Nonetheless, he produced one of the greatest masterpieces of all time, about which Giorgio Vasari, in his Lives of the Artists, wrote, 'There is no other work to compare with this for excellence, nor could there be.' Ross King's fascinating new book tells the story of those four extraordinary years. Battling against ill health, financial difficulties, domestic problems, inadequate knowledge of the art of fresco, and the pope's impatience, Michelangelo created figures depicting the Creation, the Fall, and the Flood - so beautiful that, when they were unveiled in 1512, they stunned his onlookers. / Born and raised in Canada, Ross King has lived in England since 1992. His writing career began in 1995 with the publication of a historical novel, Domino, about the world of masquerades and opera in 18th-century London. Its successor, Ex-Libris, was a novel about bookselling, codes and spies in 17th-century Europe. King is best known to American readers as the author of the nonfiction Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. {Penguin Books; Harmondsworth, Middlesex; 1978; Mass Market Paperback; Good/No Jacket; ISBN: 0-14-004741-7.} Covers rubbed, slightly soiled, with light creases, wear along edges and at corners; initials, date, previous price written on first page; darkening with age. Interior clean and unmarked. Copyright 1976. Listing updated 5-7-2009.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 128 pages, colour illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. *** Nice colour plates of Persian miniatures accompany the text. Size: 8vo.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. {Penguin Books; Harmondsworth, Middlesex; 1979; Mass Market Paperback; Good/No Jacket; ISBN: 0-14-005270-4.} Covers rubbed, creased, with wear along edges and at corners; spine creased; small ink "x" at head of title page; darkening with age. Interior clean and unmarked. Listing updated 5-7-2009.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd. 274 pages, illustrations, facsimile, portrait; 20 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, expected browning. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fair. Q2 - Book has crease on the front and back, label on the back, wrinkling on the bottom corners opposite the spine, chippings, discoloration (browning, stains, fading) and normal shelf wear. In this sophisticated comedy E. M. Forster takes a group of well-bred English people and esposes them to a situation which rouses each of them to violent and unxpected reactions. The. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fair. Q2 - Book is wrinkled at the bottom right corner, crease on the spine, some chippings on the top and bottom edges and sides, label on the back, writings on some pages, discoloration (browning, stains) and normal shelf wear otherwise fair. On its publication in 1910 Howards End was instantly and widely recognized as a classic.'The word Forsterian is demanded,' wrote one reviewer. Another. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Color Photographs (illustrator). Revised Edition. Wear to spine and wraps. Size: Mass Market Paperback. Book.

soft cover, 125 pages, 6 7/8 x 9 1/2 inches, 1978 reprinting very good ++ book condition, no dust jacket, juvenile picture book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. A classic penquin crime novel. Some wear to this softcover and the previous owner put his name on the back cover. We ship fast.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 526 pp in wraps. Light toning to page edges. Size: Mass Market Paperback. Book.

Condition: VeryGood+ unmarked. Reprint. 300 wry & unuusal quotes: "When I want to read a good book, I write one. - Disraeli." Clean tight PB copy. 71 pp, b/w illus. MM Paperback in yellow illus wraps.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 245 pages, illustrations; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean text. Remainder mark/tail edge, near spine. *** "The chief art critic for The New York Times writes on the creative impulse that emerges in all of us when we realize that the art of making art starts with the art of living. This wide-ranging book explores art as life's great passion, revealing what we can learn of life through works of art and the people who make them. It assures us that art--points of contact with the exceptional that are linked straight to the heart--can be found almost anywhere if only our eyes are opened enough to recognize it. Kimmelman regards art, like all serious human endeavors, as a passage through which a larger view of life may come more clearly into focus. His book carries the message that many of us may not yet have learned how to recognize the art in our own lives." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The art of making a world; The art of being artless; The art of having a lofty perspective; The art of making art without lifting a finger; The art of collecting lightbulbs; The art of maximizing your time; The art of finding yourself when you're lost; The art of staring productively at naked bodies; The art of the pilgrimage; The art of gum-ball machines, and other simple pleasures. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Good. xxiii, 161 pages, illustrations, 1 map; 20 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. *** "In Tilt, author Nicholas Shrady reveals how the campanile, or bell tower, in Pisa's Campo dei Miracoli became the iconic Tower of Pisa. Even standing straight and true, the tower's marble and lime fa ade would be instantly recognizable the world over. Yet its distinctive tilt, which measured 1.6 degrees from vertical when construction was completed in 1370, has long been a mystery. Was it the result of shoddy workmanship or the brainchild of a hunchback maestro who skewed the tower to avenge his own condition? Nearly a millennium since its construction, the tower still stands (more than 4 meters -- or 5 degrees -- askew) in defiance of logic, gravity, and soaring odds -- a mute witness to history as it has unfolded. Envisioned as a display of wealth and power in Pisa's medieval heyday, the tower was revolutionary in its design. Architectural sleight of hand lent the campanile the appearance of weightlessness even as it supported seven colossal bronze bells. Technical achievements and rare beauty aside, it is the tower's glaring folly that has attracted legions of admirers and would-be saviors -- even as it alarmed engineers. In addition to having defied the known laws of physics, the tower's cylindrical masonry has concealed a storied past. Galileo was said to have launched his experiments on the velocity of falling bodies from atop its heights. Lord Byron, the Shelleys, and their Romantics frolicked in its listing shadow. Benito Mussolini tried to right the tower by ordering that cement be injected into its foundation. During World War II, the "Tiltin' Hilton" was a suspected enemy hideout and narrowly escaped being bombed. Following a $30 million stabilization and restoration effort lasting more than a decade and into the twenty-first century, Pisa's Leaning Tower has been preserved for the ages as an architectural marvel and a paragon of modern tourism. Tilt encapsulates the tower's singular history in a hugely entertaining and informative narrative, by turns learned and whimsical, reverent and surprising. Here is a 'biography' that, like its subject, is all the more delightful for its thorough improbability. It is a celebration of inspired vision and human machinations, of supreme ambition and spiritual enlightenment, of science and superstition, of faith and miracles. / Nicholas Shrady is the author of Sacred Roads: Adventures from the Pilgrimage Trail. His articles have appeared in Architectural Digest, The New York Times Book Review, Travel & Leisure, Forbes, and Town & Country. Since 1986, he has made his home in Barcelona. His wife, Eva Ortega, and his sons divide their time between Barcelona and their olive grove in the hills above the Ebro Delta." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 224 pages, illustrations, facsimiles, map, plans, portrait; 23 cm. Good+. Tight, clean copy. Browning. *** "This text discusses the mummification processes used in ancient Egypt and their relevance and importance to the religious beliefs and elaborate funeral rites of the Egyptians." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: The background; Mummification; Funerary equipment; Funerals and tombs; Tomb robbers; Amarna, Tutankhamun, and Tanis; The mummies and Europe. Size: 8vo.

Condition: Good. Good condition. 1986 edition. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

Paperback. First Edition Thus [1991], so stated. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of light use: very slight spine lean; light wear to extremities; mild rubbing and faint soiling to wrapper covers; one of the dates on the copyright page has been circled in pen and the book shows UNDERLINING on four other pages in the text; binding secure. No longer 'As New', but remains sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 176pp. Originally published by Frontier Publishing in 1990. Trade Paperback.