Creator: Benedikt Taschen
Edition: Champ's ed.
Publication date: 2004-04-01
Dewey code: 770
Price: $15,000.00
Review Goat: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali (Greatest of All Time) / Taschen:The Champ's Edition: No. 1-1,000- The "Champ's Edition" has a white silk cover with pink lettering. - Limited to 1,000 individually numbered copies, each one signed by Muhammad Ali and Jeff Koons. - Four gallery-quality silver gelatin prints signed by photographer Howard L. Bingham and Muhammad Ali. Jeff Koons has created an original art piece for the "Champ's Edition. "- Over 3,000 images - photographs, art and memorabilia, much of it published for the first time - from over 150 photographers and artists. Original essays and the best interviews and writings on the Champ of the last five decades, from hundreds of writers, totaling nearly 600,000 words. - XXL Format: 792 pages, including two gatefold sequences measuring 200 cm x 50 cm (80" x 20") and nine gold-metallic double-page spreads printed in silkscreen, opening each chapter. Measuring 50 cm x 50 cm (20" x 20"), GOAT tips the scales at 34 kgs (75 lbs). [+]- Each copy comes in a silk-covered box illustrated with Neil Leifer's iconic 1966 photo, "Ali vs Williams. "- Bound by the official bindery for the Vatican, in pink leather, the color of Ali's first Cadillac. The bindery specializing in the most elaborate and oversized editions of the Koran and the Bible enforces the strictest standards of quality control and only several hundred copies can be assembled per week. - Utilizing state-of-the-art digital technology, no expense has been spared to restore the original photographic materials to the highest possible standards. The results of this effort create unparalleled intensity and range in the colors, and exquisite tone and density within the duotone images. - Eight-color printing on Galaxi Keramik 200gsm semi-matte paper with gloss varnish on all images.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2002-11-28
Dewey code: 809
List Price: $2,390.00
Price: $2,390.00
Review The Notebooks of Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Routledge:During his adult life until his death in 1834, Coleridge made entries in more than sixty notebooks. Neither commonplace books nor diaries, but something of both, they contain notes on literary, theological, philosophical, scientific, social, and psychological matters, plans for and fragments of works, and many other items of great interest. This fourth double volume of the Notebooks covers the years 1819 through 1826. The range of Coleridge's reading, his endless questioning, and his recondite sources continue to fascinate the reader. Included here are drafts and full versions of the later poems. Many passages reflect the theological interests that led to Coleridge's writing of Aids to Reflection, later to become an important source for the Transcendentalists. Another development in this volume is the startling expansion of Coleridge's interest in "the theory of life" and in chemistry-the laboratory chemistry of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and the theoretical chemistry of German transcendentalists such as Oken, Steffens, and Oersted. Also contained in this volume is an important section on the meaning of marriage.
Authors
- William Clark
- Meriwether Lewis
Publication date: 2002-09-01
Dewey code: 970
List Price: $1,100.00
Price: $1,100.00
Review The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 13-Volume Set / University of Nebraska Press:Since the time of Columbus, explorers dreamed of a water passage across the North American continent. President Thomas Jefferson shared this dream. He conceived the Corps of Discovery to travel up the Missouri River to the Rocky Mountains and westward along possible river routes to the Pacific Ocean. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led this expedition of 1804–6. Along the way they filled hundreds of notebook pages with observations of the geography, Indian tribes, and natural history of the trans-Mississippi West. This complete set of the celebrated Nebraska edition incorporates the journals along with a wide range of new scholarship dealing with all aspects of the expedition, including geography, Indian languages, plants, and animals, in order to recreate the expedition within its historical context.
Creator: Dietrich Von Engelhardt
Publication date: 2005-12
Dewey code: 920.043
List Price: $3,437.00
Price: $3,437.00
Review Dictionary of German National Biography / K. G. Saur:
Creator: Ringo Starr
Publication date: 2003-01
Price: $2,500.00
Review Playback / Genesis Publications:
Edition: 2
Publication date: 2005-10-17
Dewey code: 011
List Price: $3,648.00
Price: $3,648.00
Review Deutsche Biographische Enzykeopadie, 2005-2007/dictionary of German Biography / K. G. Saur:
Authors
- Yelena Ptushkina
- Svetlana Dubova
- Galina Losinskaya
Review Golden Lilia / Phoenix Publishing:This book tells the story of 1996 all-around gymnastics champion Lilia Podkopayeva. A modest girl from a suburb of a coal mining town in Ukraine, Lilia devoted a dozen years of her life to reach the Olympic throne, earning the royal nickname "Lady Pod" from her many American fans. The book also protrays the loyal coaches and family members who guided Lilia to triumphand fulfillment in and out of gymnastics.
Publication date: 1906
Review John Clay,: A Scottish farmer, / Priv. Print:
Creator: Ganesha Publishing
Edition: Facsimile Ed
Publication date: 1997-01-01
Dewey code: 031
List Price: $1,225.00
Price: $1,225.00
Review Great British Book Collectors and their Libraries (Bookcollecting & Bibliomania) / Thoemmes Continuum:It was Dibdin who gave us the word bibliomania, and so it is fitting to build this collection around him. His Bibliomania, here reprinted from a revised edition, is an affectionate personal history of book-collecting through the ages. Bibliographical descriptions are complemented and expanded in The Library Companion, a book full of detail designed to bring out the book-collector in every educated person. Merryweather, Burton, Elton, Fletcher and Hazlitt relate their own and other collectors' passions through the ages, both in Britain and abroad. Together they form an extraordinary biographical dictionary of pioneers in the accumulation of culture and learning. Without these book-collectors' devotion of time, money, knowledge and taste, and the subsequent wholesale bequest or sale of their collections, public libraries as we know them would be greatly impoverished. -Informative accounts of British bibliophiles -Valuable biographical and bibliographical documentation on the British book trade.
Authors
- Kathy Halbreich
- Paul Schimmel
- Neal Benezra
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1994-04
Dewey code: 700.92
Price: $110.00
Review Bruce Nauman: Exhibition Catalogue and Catalogue Raisonne / Distributed Art Pub Inc (Dap):Bruce Nauman's art has ranged across a variety of media that includes drawings, sculpture, performance, photography, neon, film, video, holograms, texts, and large-scale mixed media installations. This book features a comprehensive catalogue raisonne with illustrated entries for more than five hundred works, including films, videos, performances, and photographic pieces.
Creator: David Bowie
Publication date: 2007-05-01
Review From Station to Station / Genesis Publications:
Creator: Victor Herrero Mediavilla
Edition: 4
Publication date: 2007-12-13
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $3,904.00
Price: $3,904.00
Review Indice Biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica / K.G. Saur:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1997-05-06
Dewey code: 031
List Price: $2,590.00
Price: $2,590.00
Review Collected Works of Henry Fielding (Collected Works) / Routledge:During his brief lifetime, Henry Fielding turned his hand to virtually every genre. Along with Tom Jones and the other novels, this set includes works from his prolific playwrighting career, essays on crime and social reform that arose from his experience as a Justice of the Peace in London, miscellaneous poems, articles from the Anti-Jacobite, and other pieces of Whig journalism. Admired by writers and readers alike, Fielding's concern with the injustices of England's social structure and legal system and his fascination with-and delight-in "Human Nature" profoundly influenced the course of the English novel, from his own time well into the era of Dickens and Thackeray. The novels in this collection are illustrated by William Small.
Creator: James Spedding
Edition: 1
Publication date: 1996-12-01
List Price: $3,050.00
Price: $3,050.00
Review Collected Works of Francis Bacon / Routledge:Sir Francis Bacon, statesman, essayist and philosopher, studied law and rose to high office as Lord Chancellor. He had enormous influence on the change of direction for scientific method from being speculative and philosophical in the Aristotelian tradition to making it experimental and factual. Bacon's philosophical influence extended to Locke and through him to subsequent English schools of psychology and ethics. Abroad, his influence also extended to Leibniz, Huygens and Voltaire who called him "la pere de la philosophie experimentale". This edition contains all Bacon's philosophical works as well as translations, plus literary and professional works and includes illuminating introductions and explanatory footnotes by the three editors as well as a new introduction by Graham Rees.
Creator: Edson Arantes Do Nascimento
Publication date: 2006-07-31
List Price: $3,000.00
Price: $2,999.00
Review Pele / Gloria Books, Ovais Naqvi:Pelé is the greatest soccer player in the history of the sport. Thirty years after his retirement, he is a unique global ambassador for the beautiful game and a living testament to where sporting brilliance, determination and humanity can take you. The giant, limited edition 'Pelé' is a genuine piece of sporting memorabilia. Limited to only 2,500 copies globally, each is individually numbered and personally hand-signed by Pelé. Covered and embossed in Italian fine silk and presented in ultra-large format, 'Pelé' is the ultimate testament to soccer's greatest legend. Gloria has spent two years creating the greatest ever limited edition celebration, which includes an introduction and exclusive new writings from the man himself. 'Pelé' is lavishly illustrated with over 1,700 images, many never previously published together with classic and newly commissioned work from some of soccer's greatest living writers. The images and text cover every key moment of Pelé's life from early childhood to the modern day. Most of the material has been collected from unseen, personal and library archives in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janiero, London, New York and Paris including rarely seen art by Andy Warhol. 'Pelé' was published in summer 2006 to global acclaim. [+]It has been described by the Daily Telegraph in the UK as 'the most comprehensive book on [soccer] football there has ever been'. Sports Illustrated said 'Every page presents a new treasure'. It is the definitive book about the sport and the central figure within it over the last half century.
Creator: Tommaso Nappo
Edition: 3
Publication date: 2008-03-15
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $3,437.00
Price: $3,437.00
Review British Biographical Index / K.G. Saur:
Publication date: 1954
Review THE LIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, A SHORT ILLUSTRTED BIOGRAPHY / New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. 1954:
Creator: L. C. Rookmaaker
Publication date: 2004-01
Price: $2,362.35
Review Franois Le Vaillant and the Birds of Africa / Brenthurst Press:
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-02-03
Dewey code: 031
List Price: $5,248.00
Price: $5,248.00
Review International Encyclopedia of Pseudonyms / K. G. Saur:
Publication date: 1999-10
List Price: $2,640.00
Price: $2,395.00
Review The Works of William Carlyle / Classic Publishers:
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