Search Results: Authors starting with A from Bountiful Books

Mexico: Arquine. Text in Spanish and English. Minor rubbing to bottom edge of boards, else a fine copy, clean and sound. Dust jacket is clean and bright, with just a touch of rubbing to corners. Collects the best works of Mexican architects Alfonso Lopez Baz and Javier Calleja, who in a partnership of more than thirty years, have produced over 150 projects. Their work is a bridge between contemporary minimalism and the serenity of Luis Barragan, combining the expressiveness of walls and patios, reflecting pools, and a freehanded use of space. 184 pages, with 164 full page color photographs. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 2003.

Panama: Fergusen & Fergusen. Warmly INSCRIBED and dated 1947 by Aguilera on front free end paper. "Nada expresa mejor que el lenguaje los distintos modos de pensar, sentir, y actuar de los individuos". Dr. Aguilera sets out to prove her point in this intimate look at Panamanian Spanish. Soiling/foxing to tan wraps, age toning to pages, else a sound, unmarked copy. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing.

Israel: Steimatzky. Includes ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH bound-in between fep and title page. Clean, sturdy boards show lightly bumped spine ends, else fine with fresh, unmarked interior. Bright, attractive dust jacket. 191 pp. Illustrated with over 90 remarkable plates, 50 in radiant color. This lovely volume tells and shows how Chagall rose to the challenge of transforming the blank walls and floors of the State Reception Hall of the Knesset, and envisioned windows as jewels of translucent fire for the Synagogue of the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, and produced some of the most beautiful original works in modern art. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1983.

London: Saunders and Otley. Red cloth boards show bumped/rubbed corners and spine ends, darkened spine, minor soiling, else sound. Book plate and sticker on front paste-downs, occassional foxing, else interior is unmarked. A first hand account of the Crimean War by an anonymous "Amateur", part travel narrative and part military history. 284 pages + 4 pages adverts. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1855.

Madrid: Libro de Oro. Tooled brown calf boards are clean and sound, bronze clasps present and in working order, minor scratches to gilt edges. Frontispiece painting of Cristo Crusifixado. A touch of soiling to first few pages, else unmarked. 582 pages + Indice. . Very Good. Full Leather. 1870.

London: Hodder & Stoughton. (1911) First trade edition. Decorated tan cloth boards, stamped in teal and gilt. Minor soiling on rear board, chipped spine ends with 3/4" chip at corner of spine head, else boards are clean and sound . Cloth split at front hinge, but hinge remains solid. Name inked in upper corner of title page, else interior is pristine. Contains 50 illustrations by Edmund Dulac, including 23 gorgeous tipped-in colored plates with tissue guards, and decorated endpapers. Originally issued in glassine dust jacket and slipcase, both missing. The stories, as retold by Laurence Housman, include Ali Babba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp, and much more. Heavy book. Extra postage required outside U.S. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition Thus. 1st Printing.

Paris: Firmin Didot Freres. Black leather spines with raised bands and gilt trim are sound and and attractive, but for chipping at the head of volume 2. Green marbled boards are clean and sturdy. Pages show intermittent foxing, else unmarked. Part 3 of Arbanere's "Universal" history, covering the period from the barbarian invasions to the colonization of Algeria. . Very Good. 1/2 Leather. 1st Edition Thus. 1846.

Paris: Librarie d'Amyot. Brown calf spine with gilt and red stamping, and corners are rubbed, with a 1" chip to leather at spine foot. Hinges tender, marbled boards rubbed at edges. Foxing throughout, inked name on ffep, else unmarked. A frontispiece illustration shows the various medals containing elephants that are cited in the book. "Avec des observations critiques sur quelques-uns plus celebres faits d'armes de l'antiquite". . Very Good -. 3/4 Leather. 1st Edition. 1843.

Oajaca, Mejico Mexico. Tan wraps show light soiling, edge-wear, else sound. XCIX + 322 pages + Index + Bibliography. Interior is clean and unmarked, with most pages un-opened. Section 1 deals with Oaxacan civilization before the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Section 2 presents biographies of the missionaries. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1958.

Lisboa Lisbon Portugal: Agência Geral do Ultramar. 1957 - 58. Tan wraps are clean and sound with foxing to spines and to covers of Vol. I. All 3 volumes price clipped and with inked name on front free end paper. Ex-library, with markings on top edge of all 3 volumes, number stamp on last page of Volume I. Otherwise, interiors are clean and unmarked. Vol. I: LXVII (Introduction and Notes by Comandante Humberto Leitão) + 300 pages + Corrections & Index; Vol. II: 273 + Corrections & Index; Vol. III: 222 (Appendix) + 3 fold-out maps + Corrections & Index. . Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition Thus. 1st Printing.