Search Results: Titles starting with X from Bibliope by Calvello Books

Buenos Aires: Argentine Association of Art Critics, 1978. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Paperback. Extremely gently rubbed corners, extremely light soiling to rear cover, faint paper residue to rear cover, light crease to front-top edge, bright pages in tight binding, else Near Fine(+).. Black octavo, 31 pages, b&w illustrations ; 22 cm. Contents: Art criticism in Argentina / by Horacio Safons --Organizational aspects of art in Argentina / by Fermin Fèvre -- Theory of institutions / by Jorge Glusberg. Art criticism -- Argentina.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. Very good(+) in about very good jacket with faint edge-wear and spine sunning. Jacket now in archival mylar. Please see photos./near fine. Quarto in black and grey illus jacket: 464 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm index. "Set against a background of drugs and sexual obsession, X-Rated is a shocking contemporary Cain and Abel story. It bares the roots of a dark family conflict that exploded into tragedy when sex impresario Jim Mitchell killed his brother and partner, Artie ... and re-creates the gripping murder trial that followed. The Mitchell Brothers of San Francisco were icons of the sexual revolution, fighting and winning hundreds of legal battles to keep the doors open at their. World-famous O'Farrell Theatre, dubbed "the Carnegie Hall of Sex" by Hunter S. Thompson. Their film Behind the Green Door made them millionaires in their twenties, and changed the billion-dollar adult-film industry forever. But… Read More

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First edition, first printing (full number line). Hardcover. About fine in about fine jacket with faint edge wear in parts to both. Jacket now in archival mylar. Please see photos./near fine. Quarto in black and grey illus jacket: 464 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm index. "Set against a background of drugs and sexual obsession, X-Rated is a shocking contemporary Cain and Abel story. It bares the roots of a dark family conflict that exploded into tragedy when sex impresario Jim Mitchell killed his brother and partner, Artie ... and re-creates the gripping murder trial that followed. The Mitchell Brothers of San Francisco were icons of the sexual revolution, fighting and winning hundreds of legal battles to keep the doors open at their. World-famous O'Farrell Theatre, dubbed "the Carnegie Hall of Sex" by Hunter S. Thompson. Their film Behind the Green Door made them millionaires in their twenties, and changed the billion-dollar adult-film industry forever. But money… Read More

Tokyo: The Organizing Committee for the Games of the XVIII Olympiad, 1964. Paperback. Near fine.. Large octavo in white wraps; 59 p., illus (mainly b/w photos, maps and a few diagrams) ; 21 cm. Scarce. In English and French with some Japanese. Three mimeographed sheets of game / event cancellations (in English, French and Japanese) laid in. || Olympics, Olympic Games.

Paris: Société d'étude du XVIIe siècle, 1983. Paperback. Fine. Large octavo in pale green printed wraps; p 313-430; 21 cm. Scholarly journal in French. Quarterly Four scholarly essays on 17th century Fance by Viguerie, Poli, Waquet and Dandrey. / Seventeenth century -- Periodicals. Dix-septième siècle -- Périodiques. Civilization. Seventeenth century. Geschiedenis.

Bogotá, Colombia: La Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos, 2006. Hardcover. Fine in fine jacket. Small black ink dot to top outer orner of FFEP; very gentle shelf-wear to jacket, with a few small superficial scratched to rear of jacket.. Small folio in glossy black illus dust jacket; 260 pages : chiefly color illustrations, plans ; 29 cm. Chiefly color photos and illustrations, with text in English. A handsome, lavish production. Heavily illustrated and well designed work. The catalogue of the 20th edition of the Biennale presenting the most outstanding architectural projects in all the different regions of the country of the past two years.|| Architecture -- Colombia -- Exhibitions. Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions. Architecture. Architecture, Modern. Exhibition catalogs. Colombia.

Santa Cruz de Tenerife: El Vigía, 2006. Paperback. Fine, tight and clean.. Octavo in multi-color illus yellow & white wraps; 153 p. 21 cm. In Spanish. Variation: Colección Zafir; No. 4. Short storeis.

Chicago, Illinois: Will Ransom, 1923. Unknown. Hardcover. Damp staining to front paste-down; colophon leaf appears to have been neatly removed. Overall about good+ thus. Binding tight; leaves clean. A few nicks to spine of acetate jacket, two of which have a barely felt presence on book 's spine. Personal gift inscription to front free end paper dated 1975.. Large octavo in red with white ilus and titles to front; 40 pages ; 22 cm. Text in blue. In original transparent acetate jacket. Beautifully written if in an antiquated style. This is most likely the 1970 facsimile reprint by 93 Pub., Montreal.

Donostia: Lur, 1984. Paperback. Barely scuffed spine head & foot, barely rubbed corners, else near fine(-).. Small red octavo; 228 p ; 20 cm. In Basque. || Fiction.

Palo Alto: Books of the West, 1949. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Hardcover. Very little wear and light foxing to DJ protected in mylar sleeve, barely rubbed corners, faint foxing to fore-edge, else very good+ in very good+.. Octavo in white DJ; 312 p, b&w plates; 23 cm. Biography.

London: Chester Music, 1991. Second edition. Paperback. Very faint red marks to rear edges, else fine.. White octavo; iv, 28 p ; 21 cm. Music; Opera; Theater.

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. First edition (presumed; no earlier dates stated). Paperback. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, small coffee stain to fore-edge, faint soiling to fore-edges, else near fine(-).. Dark red octavo, xxii, 250 pages, b&w illustrations, 24 cm. "A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant political and cultural critique, the writer, activist, teacher, dramatist, mother, daughter, comadre, and lesbian lover looks back on the first ten years of the twenty-first century. She considers decade-defining public events such as 9/11 and the campaign and election of Barack Obama, and she explores socioeconomic, cultural, and political phenomena closer to home, sharing her fears about raising her son amid increasing urban violence and the many forms of… Read More

Palo Alto: Books of the West, 1949. 1st. hardcover. Very good(-) Some foxing on edges and shelf wear to jacket, otherwise clean and tight.. Quarto, white jacket illus in b&w, with no printing to spine; mylar sleeve; 312 pages : plates, portraits ; 23 cm. Xántus, János, 1825-1894.

北京 [Beijing]: 人民美術出版社 : 新华书店北京发行所发行 = Ren min mei shu chu ban she : Xin hua shu dian Beijing fa xing suo fa xing, 1958. First ed., presumed. Hardcover. Very good with slight external edge-wear. Laid in booklet is stapled. Binding tight (neat tape reinforcement to front and rear hinges; unclear is this is as issued; it is well done);leaves clean. Small personal chop to front free endpaper. Laid-in, stapled booklet may be incomplete.. Folio in orange-brown polished stamped cloth boards; 10 unnumbered pages, 113 plates (some color): illustrations (some color), portrait; 37 cm + 1 booklet of 6 p. Prefatory matter in English with added title page: Hsu Pei-hung album sketches. Uncommon. In Chinese with some English. Excellent drawings in the realism style. Chiefly full-page b&w drawings of people and objects. Realism. Stapled leaves are a list of the paintings in English. ¶  One of the most important… Read More

(Burlingame, Calif.): (Buddhist Text Translation Society), 1995. Hardcover. Fine in near fine jacket. See photos.. Volume Two only (of two total). Small folio in sky-blue jacket and blue gilt-titled paper-backed boards; 506p, illustrations, portraits. photos in b&w and color ; 28 cm; 3lbs 12 ounce (1.7 Kg). Parallel text in Chinese and English. Includes biographical articles, tributes, and memoirs about Xuan Hua; also includes articles by him. // "Venerable Master Hsuan Hua (1918-1995) was a Chinese Buddhist monk and teacher who founded the Dharma Realm Buddhist Association (DRBA) and the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, a Buddhist monastery and community located in Mendocino County, California. Master Hua was born in Shuangcheng, Heilongjiang, China and became a monk at the age of 19, studying and practicing in various temples throughout China. In 1949, he founded a Buddhist association in Manchuria and later established the Buddhist Lecture Hall in San Francisco, California in 1962. In 1976, he… Read More

Moskva [Moscow]: Izd. Iskusstvo, 1964. Presumed first edition. Hardcover. Front outer board tips gently bumped; else near fine(-) to very good (++) thus, in original good jacket with several closed tears and small upper portion of rear flap lacking. Now in archival mylar.. Medium folio in pictorial jacket, 142 p.; numerous tipped in plates in color and some black & white. Scarce. Striking imagery. Text in Russian with...résumé en français. Titre trad. en français: Monument de l'ancienne peinture russe de la fin du XVe siècle: l'icône de l'Apocalypse de la cathédrale de l'Assomption du Kremlin de Moscou. Pamjatnik drevnerusskoj sivopisi konca XV veka: Ikona-Apokalipsis uspenskogo sobora moskovskogo Kremlja / M. V. Alpatov. / Apocalypse of Mary Art Marie, Sainte Vierge ArtMary, Blessed Virgin, SaintMary, Blessed Virgin, Saint Artworks of art Iconography of the Apocalypse from the Kremlin. Paintings.