Search Results: Titles starting with B from Camphor Bookstore

Berlin: Ullstein, 1936. First Edition. 4to, pp. 96. Bound in stiff illustrated wraps. While the text is in German, the rear cover has the contents in French and English. Illustrated w/ black & white photos and some color illustrations. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15"Condition: This is folio size magazine in good condition. There's a corner piece of the cover that's torn, but laid in to the magazine. The back of the cover has some small tears and chips. Inside the magazine is in very good condition with one or two marginal small tears. (please see photos)About the 1936 Olyimpics in Berlin:Chancellor Adolf Hitler saw the Games as an opportunity to promote his government and ideals of racial supremacy. However, when threatened with a boycott of the Games by other nations, he relented and allowed Black people and Jewish people to participate, and added one token participant to the German team—a German woman, Helene Mayer, who had a Jewish father. To outdo the Los Angeles Olympics of 1932, Adolf Hitler… Read More

New York: Mysterious Press. 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Like New in a Very Good+ dust jacket; Dortmunder Novels; 9.10 X 6.10 X 1.10 inches; 352 pages. Inscribed/Signed by the Author on the title page. (Please see photos) Donald Edwin Westlake (1933 – 2008) was an American writer, with over a hundred novels and non-fiction books to his credit. He specialized in crime fiction especially comic ones, with an occasional foray into science fiction and other genres. Westlake is perhaps best-remembered for creating two professional criminal characters who each starred in a long-running series: the relentless, hard-boiled Parker (published under the pen name Richard Stark), and John Dortmunder who featured in a more humorous series. He Also wrote scripts (The Grifters and The Stepfather) and many of his books were adapted and turned into movies.

Ballades / VillonBy François Villon, Selected and edited by Andre Deutsch & Mervyn SavillLondon: Allan Wingate, 1946. [Late Mediaeval French Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.96. With occasional reproductions of the original fifteenth-century woodcuts. A dual-language edition, showing the original French on one side, and English translations on the other. One of 5000 copies on ordinary paper. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Songs of life and love by the famous French poet, scoundrel, and petty criminal. Translations provided by various authors, including Lewis Wharton; John Heron Lepper; A.C. Swinburne; Richard Aldington; H. de Vere Stacpoole; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and others. In very good condition with a prev owner's stamp ("ex libris, Clive A. Barnes," drama critic for the Times) in front, and no jacket.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1987. Hardcover w/ Dustjacket 4to., 282pp., 415 illustrations, 86 in color, index. Condition: Near Fine. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY June 4-September 8, 1987 and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA October 22, 1987-January 3, 1988. Red cloth with blindstamped titles to the cover, blue lettering to the spine. Includes a list of plate illustrations, chronology, biography of the artists, bibliography, and index.

Between Parentheses: Essays, Articles and Speeches, 1998-2003
by Roberto Bolaño

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2011. First printing. Hardcover. Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Black boards w/shiny magenta embossed lettering, no jacket as issued and in as new, pristine condition.

About the book: Between Parentheses collects most of the newspaper columns and articles Bolaño wrote during the last five years of his life, as well as the texts of some of his speeches and talks and a few scattered prologues. "Taken together," as the editor Ignacio Echevarria remarks in his introduction, they provide "a personal cartography of the writer: the closest thing, among all his writings, to a kind of fragmented 'autobiography.'"

Beyond the Brillo Box: The Visual Arts in Post-Historical Perspective by Arthur C. Danto
Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1992. First edition. As new condition. This copy appears to be inscribed to a prior owner and signed by the author (please see photos). 263 pages, some illustrations; 24 cm. About the book: "In Danto's view, Andy Warhol's Brillo Box was not only a radical attack on traditional definitions of the art work; it brought the history of Western art to a close. In this collection of interconnected essays, he grapples with this and many more of the most challenging issues in art today, from the problems of contemporary pluralism to the dilemmas of censorship and state support for artists." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Embodied Meanings: Critical Essays & Aesthetic Meditations by Arthur C. Danto
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1994. First edition. There is an embossed stamp, a prior owner's name at the front - otherwise the book and jacket are in as new condition. A selection of… Read More

The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace StegnerDuell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1943. 5-3/4" x 8-1/2", 515 pgs. First Edition, second printing, "war edition." Hardcover, light blue cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding but clean, unmarked and still in good condition. Without the jacket (as shown.) About the book: The Big Rock Candy Mountain is set in the Mountain West and Canada in the first three decades of the 20th century. A semi-autobiographical novel by the Pulitzer prize winning novelist Wallace Stegner, it follows the fortunes of the Mason family as they struggle to survive the lean years of the early twentieth century.

New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2012. Hardcover. Color illus. boards, 320 pp., many color illustrations. in near fine, as new condition.
About the book: Issued in conjunction with an exhibition of paintings rendered by Chöying Dorje (1604-1674), the 10th Karmapa, or head of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. With a number of thematic and illustrated essays that follow his artistic career and life, as well as specific aspects of his artwork. Includes many full-color, vibrant illustrations. Nice!

Blood Money by Dashiell HammettThe World Publishing Company, Cleveland, OH, 1943. First printing stated. Red cloth, black titles and tower mystery logo. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 188 pp. The book is unmarked and very good, and the vintage jacket is good a little edgeworn and protected in plastic. About the book: Hard-boiled mystery by a master - a classic Continental Op detective thriller first published in 1927 in two parts - 'The Big Knockover' and '$106,000 Blood Money'.

Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1973. First edition in the original jacket. The second book from these comedy geniuses, containing all deliberate smudges, ex-libris cards and the Tits n Bums decorated front cover. the book and jacket are unmarked (the smudges are part of the design) and in excellent condition.

Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1976. First edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. 8vo (136pp. ) Color & b&w illustrations and drawing reproductions; 6 1/2" x 9 1/2".The book and jacket are both in excellent condition. There's a prior owner's name written in the upper corner on the front blank endpaper - otherwise unmarked. Out of print.
About the book: This remarkable account of Irene Sharaff's star-studded career leads readers backstage and into the dressing rooms of a dazzling array of such stage and screen notables as Gypsy Rose Lee, Judy Garland, Yul Brynner, Elizabeth Taylor, Rex Harrison, Gertrude Lawrence, Gene Kelly, Barbra Stresisand, and many others.Full-color and black-and-white illustrations include reproductions of Miss Sharaff's working sketches, costumes, test stills, and photographs taken on the set and on location. Miss Sharaff's working sketches, professional notes, and keen observations will fascinate not only designers, but also every show-business buff -- from Broadway to Hollywood!