Search Results: Titles starting with A from Denominator Books (IOBA)

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Fair. Fair, ex lib. with usual markings. 233pp. 28 (ex 29 plates). Well used, rebound in quarter library morocco gilt.

London: John Murray, 1916. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (12) 175 (1) pp., blue green cloth, gilt titles on cover and spine with gilt design bottom of upper board. Very good, light shelf wear, corners bumped.PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY WILLIAM OSLER, "With Xmas Greetings from Wm. Osler, 1916." Charles Sayle was a poet, as well as a bibliographer and librarian at Cambridge University. Osler's encouragement is acknowledged in the preface, his "Aequanimitas" is quoted on pp. 83-84. In Cushing's life of Osler, his letter to Sayle is quoted: "I send books at Xmas to about 100 of my old students, and this year I have selected your 'Ages'..." Osler 4526. Bibliotheca Osleriana 5421.

Tokyo: Kodansha, 1977. Advanced Reading Copy. Softcover. Good. ARC from uncorrected proofs. Paperback, good, some light coffee stains on front cover otherwise tight and text clean. The Akutagawa prize-winning debut novel. Translated by Nancy Andrew. 104244

London: Chapman & Hall, 1907. Third printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Oblong quarto, 12 1/4" x 9 3/4", bound in brick-red cloth. An updated abridgement of Muybridge's innovative 11-volume study Animal Locomotion (1887) selected "with a view of supplying the demand of art and of science students, and others" with over 90 plates each illustrating multiple gait phases of men, livestock, birds, and exotic animals such as the sloth, kangaroo and ostrich -- as well as six different gaits of the horse, including the gallop, which Muybridge definitively proved to leave the ground in his Palo Alto experiments of 1878, thus beginning his career as a photographer of motion. "...although Muybridge's stop-action photography is often claimed to be an antecedent of motion pictures, it is better understood as a treasure trove of figurative, often erotic, imagery." Early editions of Muybridge are uncommon, and his earliest publications are truly rare and priced accordingly. This copy is in very good condition, rebound… Read More

New York: Wittenborn and Co. / Art-Press, 1970. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Very good+ in very good dust jacket. First edition, first printing, US issue; the book was published simultaneously in Germany and America. Unpaginated quarto, black and white photography, text in German, French, and English. A tight, clean and unmarked copy that presents very well. Dust jacket has edgewear, now protected by mylar wrapper. The first publication of the Bechers' landmark typological approach to documentary and architectural photography. Parr & Badger, The Photobook 1, 193 & II, 261; Roth Book of 101 Books p. 194.

New York: Graphis, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. 288 pages, lavishly illustrated with over 400 large color photographs. Near fine condition.

Cosanti Press, 2019. Fifth Edition. Spiral_bound. As new. Like new. Vinyl laminated softcover with wire-o binding. 19" x 11.75", 136 pages.The fifth edition is the first well printed edition of this book since the now rare first edition. It uses a spiral binding, which is essential for this huge architectural book, and restores the book to nearly its original size.

n.p. [USA]: Urban & Schwarzenberg / Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, 1983. Hardcover. Near fine. Near fine set. Volumes 1-18 are stapled leaflets, in a hardcover slipcase. 288 page abridgement of the second (1980) edition that contains the essential plates, and was printed and distributed to doctors to advertise a pharmaceutical.

Moscow: Gos.transportnoe zheleznodorozhnoe izd-vo., 1946. First edition in Russian. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good, bound in contemporary green buckram with stamped illustration on lower front. Light wear and chipping to cover page, which also has previous owner's name. A few underlines in text. Inside clean, bright. Octavo. 276pp, illustrated. 104150