FS: 1st Miscellany of 25 NEW ARRIVALS, Sat., Dec 23rd 2000

[Acorn Books]

1. Albright, Thomas. ART IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, 1945-1980: An
Illustrated History. 349 pgs with index. Color & black & white photos
& reproductions throughout. Very dark green paper wrappers. Quarto.
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1985). Very sparse pencil
underlining; cover lightly sunned; otherwise, very good+ condition. In
print 2000 @ $45.00 Our price: $27.50 [132716]

2. Aragon, Louis & Jean Cocteau. CONVERSATIONS ON THE DRESDEN GALLERY.
166 pgs. Color reproductions throughout. Cloth in black dust jacket,
in publisher's chipboard slipcase. Quarto. NY: Holmes & Meier, (1982).
1st U.S. Edition. Fine condition with like jacket . Conversation of
two giants in art history as they stroll through the Dresden galleries
and discuss the works of artists such as Vermeer, Rubens, & Titian,
among others. $30.00 [132719]

3. [Bonnard] Whitfield, Sarah & John Elderfield. BONNARD. 269 pgs with
index. Color & black & white reproductions throughout. Cloth in
pictorial blue dust jacket. Quarto. (NY): Abrams, (1998). Fine
condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. The work of
twentieth-century painter Pierre Bonnard. In print 2000 @ $60.00 Our
price: $36.00 [132695]

4. Buksbazen, John Daishin. TO FORGET THE SELF: An Illustrated Guide
to Zen Meditation. [The Zen Writings Series]. 76 pgs. Photos. Tan
paper wrappers. Oblong octavo. LA: Zen Center of Los Angeles, (1978).
Very good+ condition. $30.00 [132712]

5. [Caravaggio] Konig, Eberhard. MICHELANGELO MERISI DA CARAVAGGIO,
1571-1610. 140 pgs with bibliography. Color reproductions throughout.
Cloth in blue dust jacket. Quarto. Koln: Konemann, (1997). Fine
condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $40.00
[132702]

6. Carrier, Jim. THE SHIP & THE STORM: Hurricane Mitch & the Loss of
the Fantome. 264 pgs with index. Photos. Cloth in pictorial grey dust
jacket. Octavo. Camden, ME: International Marine, (2000). Fine
condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. In print 2000
@ $24.95 Our price: $15.00 [132671]

7. Crane, Beryl. REFLEXOLOGY: The Definitive Practitioner's Manual.
443 pgs with index. Drawings. Cloth in blue dust jacket. Imperial
octavo. Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element, (1997). Fine condition with like
jacket in protective mylar wrapper. New 2000 @ $59.95. Our price:
$36.00 [132693]

8. [Dalí] Gibson, Ian. THE SHAMEFUL LIFE OF SALVADOR DALI. 798 pgs
with bibliography & index. Color & black & white reproductions
throughout. Cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Norton,
(1998). 1st U.S. Edition [so stated]. Remainder mark on bottom edge;
otherwise, near fine condition with like jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. Biography of the famous surrealist. In print 2000 @ $45.00.
Our price: $25.00 [132700]

9. [Demuth] Haskell, Barbara. CHARLES DEMUTH. 240 pgs. Color & black &
white reproductions throughout. Cloth in brown dust jacket. Quarto.
NY: Whitney Museum, (1987). Fine condition with like jacket in
protective mylar wrapper. $85.00 [132699]

10. Druett, Joan. ROUGH MEDICINE: Surgeons at Sea in the Age of Sail.
270 pgs with index. Illustrated. Cloth in pictorial dark dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: Routledge, (2000). 1st Edition. Fine condition with like
jacket in protective mylar wrapper. In print 2000 @ $27.50 Our price:
$17.50 [132670]

11. DuPlessis, Hugo. FIBERGLASS BOATS. 288 pgs with index. Photos &
drawings throughout. Cloth in off-white dust jacket. Imperial octavo.
Camden, ME: International Marine, (1996). 3rd Edition. Fine condition
with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. In print 2000 @ $39.95
Our price: $24.00 [132686]

12. Eisner, Joel. THE OFFICIAL BATMAN BATBOOK. 171 pgs. Candid photos
& film stills. Blue paper wrappers. Octavo. Chicago: Contemporary
Books, (1986). Very good condition. "Complete guide to all TV episodes
& the Batman movie, interviews with famous Batvillains." Also
includes comprehensive list of all of Robin's "Holy-what-have-you!"
sayings. $15.00 [132710]

13. Elkington, Steve. FIVE FUNDAMENTALS OF GOLF. 174 pgs with index.
Photos. Cloth in red dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Ballantine, (1998). 4th
printing. Fine condition with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper.
"Revealing the secrets of the best swing in golf." In print 2000 @
$27.00 Our price: $16.50 [132678]

14. [Exhibition Catalog]. 20TH CENTURY MASTERS: The Thyssen-Bornemisza
Collection. 79 pgs. Color reproductions throughout. Red paper
wrappers. Quarto. Washington, DC: International Exhibition Foundation,
(1982). Near fine condition. $15.00 [132717]

15. Fuller, R. Buckminster. OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH. 143
pgs with index. Cloth in black dust jacket. Octavo. Carbondale:
Southern Illinois University, (1969). 2nd printing. Fine condition
with like jacket in protective mylar wrapper. In print 2000 @ $26.00
Our price: $15.00 [132665]

16. Fuller, R. Buckminster & Robert Marks. THE DYMAXION WORLD OF
BUCKMINSTER FULLER. 245 pgs with index. Photos & drawings throughout.
White paper wrappers. Imperial octavo. Garden City, NY: Anchor,
(1960). 5th printing. Very good+ condition. $30.00 [132666]

17. Gerdts, William H. IMPRESSIONIST NEW YORK. 224 pgs with
bibliography & index. Color reproductions throughout. Cloth in
price-clipped white dust jacket. Oblong octavo. NY: Abbeville, (1994).
1st Edition. Fine condition with like jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. New York city as seen in Impressionist paintings. In print
2000 @ $24.98. Our price: $15.00 [132721]

18. Grosz, George. ECCE HOMO. Unpaged. Color & black & white
illustrations throughout. Boards in lightly chipped white dust jacket
with spine sunned to tan. Folio. NY: Jack Brussel, 1965. 1st Edition.
Very good+ condition with very good jacket in protective mylar
wrapper. "Though not an Expressionist in the strict sense, George
Grosz (1893-1959) must be included in any review of German
illustration at this time..He illustrated a number of books, including
works by Bertolt Brecht, Ernst Toller and Upton Sinclair, but was
primarily a caricaturist, a twentieth-century Gillray, who produced
albums of drawings which were ferocious comments on the middle classes
of Germany in the 1920s. The most notorious was Ecce Homo (1923) which
led to court proceedings. Grosz's savage indictments of the unsavoury
face of Berlin in the 1920s, his hatred of the bourgeoisie and his
close involvement with Communism and Dadaism, cannot, one may think,
have contributed to the stability of the fragile Weimar Republic, but
his work documents a decade of ferment with great concentration of
vision." $55.00 [132715]

19. Hayman, D'Arcy, et al. THE ARTS & MAN: A World View of the Role &
Functions of the Arts in Society. 175 pgs. Color & black & white
photos & reproductions throughout. Blue cloth, without dust jacket.
Quarto. Paris: UNESCO, (1969). 1st Edition. Lacking front free
endpaper; otherwise, very good+ condition. $15.00 [132718]

20. Jones, Thomas Firth. MULTIHULL VOYAGING. 202 pgs with index.
Photos. Cloth in yellow dust jacket. Octavo. (Dobbs Ferry, NY):
Sheridan House, (1995). Fine condition with like jacket in protective
mylar wrapper. $17.50 [132674]

21. Kahmen, Volker. EROTIC ART TODAY. 282 pgs with index. Color &
black & white photos & reproductions throughout. Cloth in lightly
chipped, sunned & creased off-white dust jacket. Octavo. Greenwich,
CT: New York Graphic Society, (1972). 1st U.S. Edition. Very good+
condition with good jacket in protective mylar wrapper. $30.00
[132714]

22. [Kandinsky] Vezin, Annette & Luc. KANDINSKY & DER BLAUE REITER.
223 pgs. Color reproductions throughout. Cloth in white dust jacket.
Quarto. Paris: Terrail, (1992). 1st Edition. Fine condition with like
jacket in protective mylar wrapper. Exploring the group of artists
known as Der Blaue Reiter, led by Wassily Kandinsky & Franz Marc.
$33.50 [132711]

23. LaChapelle, David. LACHAPELLE LAND. 150 pgs. Color photos on
glossy paper throughout. Multicolor pictorial boards in matching box.
Folio. (NY): Simon & Schuster, (1996). 1st Edition. Fine condition
with like box. A showcase of more than 160 of the photographer's most
outrageous images. $45.00 [132704]

24. Livesey, Anthony. GREAT COMMANDERS & THEIR BATTLES. 200 pgs with
bibliography & index. Color illustrations throughout. Very dark grey
cloth, without dust jacket. Quarto. Philadelphia: Running Press,
(1993). 1st Edition. Very good+ condition. "Brings 20 famous victories
won by history's outstanding field commanders spanning more than 2,000
years of warfare. Commanders include Alexander the Great, Scipio
Africanus, Genghis Khan, Henry V, Marlborough, Frederick the Great,
George Washington, Napoleon, Allenby, Rommel, Dayan, & others. $20.00
[132698]

25. McHose, Allen Irvine. THE CONTRAPUNTAL HARMONIC TECHNIQUE OF THE
18TH CENTURY. [Eastman School of Music Series]. 433 pgs. Green cloth,
without dust jacket. Imperial octavo. NY: Crofts, 1947. 2nd printing.
Very good+ condition. $15.00 [132691]

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