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.
Publication date: 1999-10
List Price: $2,640.00
Price: $2,395.00
Review The Works of William Carlyle / Classic Publishers:
Creator: David Bowie
Publication date: 2007-05-01
Review From Station to Station / Genesis Publications:
Creator: L. C. Rookmaaker
Publication date: 2004-01
Price: $2,362.35
Review Franois Le Vaillant and the Birds of Africa / Brenthurst Press:
Creator: Ringo Starr
Publication date: 2003-01
Price: $2,500.00
Review Playback / Genesis Publications:
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.
Publication date: 1998-10
Dewey code: 746.92092
Price: $65.00
Review The Givenchy Style / Vendome Press:Hubert de Givenchy's style is a magical alchemy of background, training, friends, travels around the world, visits to museums, and most important, his collections of painting, furniture, and decorative arts. This fascinating book, created in close collaboration with the designer of the rich and famous, explores the sources of inspiration of a brilliant artist who created a look that was the very essence of Paris chic. Filled with the fragility of Audrey Hepburn and the frivolity of the Duchess of Windsor, the book visits Givenchy's chateau outside Paris, his seaside house in Cap Ferrat, and his magnificent townhouse on Paris' venerable Rue de Grenelle. It follows Givenchy to his office, his atelier, and his fittings, while personal albums and never-before-published pictures illustrate how a very private life has influenced the way the whole world looks and dresses.
Edition: Collector's ed.
Publication date: 2004-02-01
Dewey code: 796.83092
List Price: $4,500.00
Price: $3,825.00
Review Goat: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali (Greatest of All Time) / Taschen:The Collector's Edition: No. 1,001-10,000- The "Collector's Edition" shows Ali's torso with pink lettering. - Limited to 9,000 individually numbered copies, each one signed by Muhammad Ali and Jeff Koons. - Jeff Koons has created a photo-litho for the "Collector's Edition," to be seen at http: //www. taschen. goat. com- 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 200 gsm semi-matte paper with gloss varnish on allimages. - Prioritized delivery of GOAT commences in the Spring of 2004. As copies are completed they will ship to customers in the order in which the pre-orders were received.
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.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1999-05
Dewey code: 364.15230974485
Price: $49.95
Review Lizzie Borden: Past & Present / Al-Zach Press:
Publication date: 1990-08
Dewey code: 790
List Price: $100.00
Price: $2,063.18
Review Marilyn: A Hollywood Farewell : The Death and Funeral of Marilyn Monroe / Seventy Four Ten, Incorporated:
Authors
- Galina Losinskaya
- Svetlana Dubova
- Yelena Ptushkina
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: 1999-01
List Price: $2,112.00
Price: $2,112.00
Review The Collected of Works of William Morris / Classic Publishers:This definitive edition of the works of William Morris, (1834-1896)-poet, artist, manufacturer, socialist, author and one of the most remarkable men of recent times-was lovingly edited by his daughter May. Originally published by Longmans, Green and Company in 24 volumes (1910 to 1915), the collection is exhaustive and includes Morris' poetical works, prose romances and essays on art and politics as well as his translations from the classics, Early English, French and Icelandic Sagas. Handsomely produced and printed in an elegant and easily-readable typeface, the original editions were limited to a total of just 1,050 copies. The highly-informed and sympathetic introductions by May Morris make a substantial contribution to the value of this collection for both the general reader and scholar.
Creator: Brian Harrison
Publication date: 2004-09-23
Dewey code: 920.041
List Price: $6,500.00
Price: $2,077.00
Review Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Plus Index of Contributors (60 Volumes) / Oxford University Press, USA:The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of men and women who have shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000, from the ancient (explorer Pytheas of the 4th Century BC) to the modern (Princess Diana). For this new edition, all 36,000 lives from the first edition have been completely rewritten or revised-with over 13,500 new biographies added representing all historical periods and including 3,000 new entries on women.
Creator: Richard B. Sher
Publication date: 1997-01-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $995.00
Price: $2,108.99
Review Lives of the Literati (Thoemmes Press - Scottish Thought and Culture, 1750-1850) / Thoemmes Continuum:At the heart of the Scottish Thought lay a few dozen literary and scientific figures who distinguished themselves in fields as diverse as medicine, belles-lettres, poetry, drama, philosophy, religion, political economy, and history. Some of the best biographies of these literati were published in the nineteenth century, often by personal friends who were prominent men of letters in their own right. This set collects together seven of the most important of those biographical accounts. Each title is extremely rare today, and most have never before been reprinted. Each includes a new introduction, specially commissioned for the series.
Creator: Madeline House
Publication date: 2002-12-26
Dewey code: 820
List Price: $1,395.00
Price: $2,150.37
Review The Letters of Charles Dickens: 12 Volume Set (British Academy/Pilgrim Edition) / British Academy:The widely acclaimed Pilgrim edition of The Letters of Charles Dickens has contributed vastly to our knowledge of Dickens's life, personality, friendships, and preoccupations. The complete 12-volume set is now available at a specially reduced price.
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.
Publication date: 1908
Review The romance of modern sieges,: Describing the personal adventures, resources and daring of besiegers and besieged in all parts of the world / J.B. Lippincott company; [etc., etc.]:
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:
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:
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