Moe's Jumble O' Books
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books. If you are looking for a gift and none of these fit, let us know and
we'll see what we can come up with. (Quantities on some of these are
limited.)
You can reach us at m...@moesbooks.com -- and ordering information is
at the end of this file.
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McGrew, Patrick. LANDMARKS OF SAN FRANCISCO (Abrams) Large format cloth.
Fine. A guidebook to 200 landmark buildings and 10 historic districts by
the Pulitzer Prize winning Architecture Critic of the S.F. Chronicle. List:
$49.95 Our Price: $24.75
Halliday, James. WINE ATLAS OF CALIFORNIA (Viking, 1993). Large format
cloth. New with Dustjacket. James Halliday explores all of Califonia's nine
wine -producing regions, highlighting their scenic attractions, winemaking
history, and variations in grapes produced. He provides coverage of 300
wineries and 1,500 wines. List: $50.00 Our Price: $25.00
Ernst, Max. MAX ERNST COLLAGES: THE INVENTION OF THE SURREALIST UNIVERSE
(Abrams, 1991). Cloth, fine. A seminal collection of the woks of Max Ernst,
with 850 black and white and 120 color illustrations of his work. List:
$95.00 Our Price: $47.50
Edison, Laurie Toby photographer. WOMEN EN LARGE: IMAGES OF FAT NUDES (Books
in Focus, 1994). New, large format paper. Black and white photo study of
large women. With text provided by Debbie Notkin. List: $25.00 Our Price:
$22.46
Gauguin, Paul. NOA NOA: THE TAHITI JOURNAL OF PAUL GAUGUIN (Chronicle,
1994). New Cloth. The work in which Gauguin describes his disgust of
european culture as well as his observations and experiences of life in
Tahiti. List: $17.95 Our Price: $16.16
Dawson, Barry and John Gillow. THE TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE OF INDONESIA
(Thames and Hudson,1994). New cloth. Typically in-depth study from a great
pulisher. List: $45.00 Our Price: $40.50
Partridge, Elizabeth ed. DOROTHEA LANGE: A VISUAL LIFE (Smithsonian, 1994).
New, large format paper. List: $25.00 Our Price: $22.46 A major
retrospective, with concentrations on: the Japanese relocation,
Depression-era migrant life, WWII, and third world life.
RUTH BERNHARD: THE ETERNAL BODY: A COLLECTION OF FIFTY NUDES (Chronicle,
1994). New, large format paper. Long out of print, this book contains fifty
of her finest black and white nudes, reproduced beautifully. List: $29.95
Our price: $26.96
LADY COTTINGTON'S PRESSED FAIRY BOOK (Turner, 1994). New, boards with a faux
3/4 leather look. My favorite book of the season. The "diary" of a
Victorian girl who captured and pressed fairies the way you or I would press
flowers. A touch of dark humor and a huge amount of whimsey. List: $21.95
Our Price: $19.76
THE ART BOOK (Phaidon, 1994) New cloth. This volume presents samplings from
the most notable and influential artists of history, alphabetically by
artist. List: $35.00 Our Price: $31.50 --Menzel, Peter.
MATERIAL WORLD: A GLOBAL FAMILY PORTRAIT (Sierra Club, 1994). New cloth.
Presented here are the works of 16 photographers who travelled to 30
countries in order to perform photographic studies of the statistically
average family, inevitably complete with photos of their possessions, laid
out on the equivalent of their front lawns. You can try this one at home!
List: $30.00 Our Price: $27.00
Van Der Meer, Ron and Michael Berkeley. THE MUSIC PACK (Knopf, 1994). New,
boards. This book is filled with paper instruments you can take out,
instructive pop-ups, 3-D models, and glorious sound(includes a cd with
twenty masterpieces of Western music). It provides a stimulating way to
learn about every aspect of musical history, about great composers and
performers, and about performance style. List: $55.00 Our Price: $45.00
Frayling, Christopher and Helen, and Ron Van Der Meer. THE ART PACK (Knopf,
1994). New, boards. Filled with pop-ups, pullouts, and mobiles, THE ART PACK
is a completely new way to experience artists' use of color, line,
composition, perspective, and optics. List: $45.00 Our Price: $40.50
JAPANESE PRINTS (Taschen, 1994). New paper. This volume reproduces139
japanese color woodblock prints from 43 artists, accompanied by sensitive
commentary. The dominant theme is woman's beauty, the grace of her posture,
and the decorative aesthetics of her flowing garments. The works span three
centuries, and many of them are Japanese National Treasures. $20.00
Manchester, William. IN OUR TIME: THE WORLD AS SEEN BY MAGNUM PHOTOGRAPHERS
(Norton/AFA, 1989). New cloth. A collection of powerful photographs of life,
culture and death in the first and third world cities and rural areas.
List: $65.00 Our Price: $30.00
Bugialli, Gugliano. FOODS OF TUSCANY (Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1992) New
cloth. This book features more than 160 recipes from the homeland of an
international authority on Italian cooking. List: $50.00 Our Price: $30.00
Zerbst, Rainer. ANTONI GAUDI (Taschen, 1993). New paper. This volume offers
a complete collection of Gaudi's buildings: 372 full-color photos, 17 ground
plans, and 2 location maps. $20.00
Ellridge, Arthur. MUCHA: THE TRIUMPH OF ART NOUVEAU. (Terrail, 1992). New
cloth. A beautiful survey of the poster art of the man whose style is
synonymous with Art Nouveau. $25.00
Maybeck, Bernard. FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST, BERKELEY (Phaidon,
1994). New paper. Photographs and floor plans for the Maybeck church here
in Berkeley -- in fact, about a long block away from our store. List:
$29.95 Our price: $26.95
Busch, Heather, and Burton Silver. WHY CATS PAINT: A THEORY OF FELINE
AESTHETICS (Ten Speed Press, 1994). New paper. Ever wonder what your cat
is thinking when it picks up that paintbrush and starts at it? Neither do
I, but Burton and Heather's cats are painting like crazy and they want to
find the deeper meanings. A great parody of Modern Art criticism and our
most popular book this year. List: $14.95 Our price: $13.46
Yang, Belle. BABA: A RETURN TO CHINA UPON MY FATHER'S SHOULDERS (Harcourt
Brace, 1994). New cloth. Yang, a visual artist and writer, paints her
father's memories of his youth and coming of age. List: $27.95 Our price:
$25.16
Lewis, Samella. AFRICAN AMERICAN ART AND ARTISTS (UC Press, 1990). New
paper. Starting in 1619 and following the couse of expression through the
present day. Illustrated with a generous number of black-and-white and
color plates, this is the first revision of a classic study. List: $25.00
Our price: $22.50
Rochfort, Desmond. MEXICAN MURALISTS: OROZCO, RIVERA, SIQUEIROS (Universe,
1994). New cloth. Covcering the years between the 1920's and 1970's, with
244 illustrations (150 in color), this is the first study to illustrate the
subject to this depth. Impressive in its accessible text and coverage of
the greatest works of the greatest muralists. List: $50.00 Our price:
$45.00
Leary, Timothy. CHAOS & CYBERCULTURE (Ronin, 1994). New paper. Last of a
dying breed, the 72 year old Leary interviews with William Gibson, William
Burroughs, David Byrne, and Winona Ryder -- well, at least it wasn't Winona
Judd. List: 19.95 Our price: $17.95
James, Peter and Nick Thorpe. ANCIENT INVENTIONS: FROM GREEK STEAM ENGINES
TO ROMAN FIRE ENGINES... AZTEC CHEWING GUM TO ETRUSCAN FALSE TEETH...
EARTHQUAKE DETECTORS IN CHINA TO ELECTRIC BATTERIES IN IRAQ... STONE AGE
BRAIN SURGERY TO MIDDEL AGE HAND GRENADES... THE PHARAOHS' CANALS TO THE
CRETANS' LAVATORIES... HERE'S A LIVELY AND FASCINATING LOOK AT THE GENUINE
WONDERS OF THE PAST (Ballentine, 1994). New cloth. I am too tired after
that subtitle to say much -- but the book is great. List: $29.95 Our
price: $26.95
Grigson, Sophie. GOURMET INGREDIENTS (Van Nostrand, 1991). New cloth. A
James Beard Awards nominee, the book is a discussion, with recipes on over
250 ingredients, grouped by type. Nicely photographed and presented. The
perfect book to have when you have some extra nopale or mizuno. List:
$30.95 Our price: $18.00
Wittmer, Pierre. CAILLEBOTTE AND HIS GARDEN AT YERRES (Abrams, 1991) New
cloth. With excerpts from TREATISE ON THE DESIGN AND DECORATION OF GARDENS
by Louis-Eutashe Audot (1859). Huge survey, with 321 illustrations,
includes 170 plates in color. Not as famous as Monet's garden, but equally
as beautiful. An underappreciated Impressionist. List: $95.00 Our price:
48.00
Twain, Mark. COLLECTED TALES, SPEECHES, & ESSAYS: 1852-1910 (Library of
America, 1993). Two volumes, cloth. Over 2100 pages of text, an exhaustive
collection of some of Twain's less known works. The definitive text, with
notes, based on the California/Iowa texts. List: $75.00 Our price: $35.00
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