Literature anglais
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Andy Grundberg
Crisis of the Real : Writings on Photography 1974-1989
Aperture, 1990. 1. Hardcover, 258 pages, ENG, 245 x 170 mm, dustjacket, grey linen with silver imprint, book is in very good condition, with images in b/w . ISBN: 9780893814007
Articles argue that photography has changed perceptions of the relationship of art and life and discuss the works of individual photographers...... His interpretations and critical views have helped shape a broad understanding of photography's complex roles in art and in the media. This volume is the first compilation of his work.
Référence: 60127 | Prix: EUR 25.00
Avedis Krikor Sanjian,
A Catalogue of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts in the United States ENG / ARM
University of California Press, 1976. 1. Paperback, 863 pages, ENG / ARM(enian), 260 x 170 x 60 mm, in reasonable condition, . ISBN: 9780520095052
University of California Press, 1976-01-01. Paperback. Good. Berkeley, 1976; English and Armenian text; green paper covers; cover edges and spine faded; mild edge wear; corners bumped; bottom corner of front cover creased; large scuff on spine; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; interior clean and unmarked; 863 pages. Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.
Référence: 60253 | Prix: EUR 220.00
Barber, Charles
The English Language : A Historical introduction
Cambridge University Press / Canto 2000, 2000. 1. Paperback, 299 pages, ENG, 215 x 140 mm, in fine order, . ISBN: 9780521785709
Référence: 58669 | Prix: EUR 10.00
Beerbohm, Max
Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet
Portfolio. 41 x 29.5cm. Number 193 of an edition of 900 copies.
Mounted facsimile manuscript note by Max Beerbohm and five mounted colour prints each in a separate folder. Caricatures of Peggy Wood, Noel Coward, Charles B. Cochran, Ivy St. Helier and Georges Metaxa.
Référence: 61067 | Prix: EUR 65.00
Beth Irwin Lewis ;
George Grosz: art and politics in the Weimar Republic
University of Wisconsin Press, 1971. 1. Hardcover, 328 pages, ENG, 240 x 165 x 25 mm, in very good condition, no dustjacket / cover, illustrated in b/w. ISBN: 9780299059019
George Grosz (German: born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 - July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity groups during the Weimar Republic. He immigrated to the United States in 1933, and became a naturalized citizen in 1938. Abandoning the style and subject matter of his earlier work, he exhibited regularly and taught for many years at the Art Students League of New York. In 1959 he returned to Berlin, where he died shortly afterwards.
Référence: 60425 | Prix: EUR 35.00
BOON, Louis Paul;
SUMMER IN TERMUREN,
London, Dalkey Archive Press, 2006. Pictorial softcover, 150 x 230mm., 492pp. ISBN: 9781564784148
Spanning two world wars and anticipating a catastrophic future, Louis Paul Boon captures the history of the 20th century by exploring the twisted, corrupt lives of the inhabitants of one small town - a microcosm fot the changing world. Netherlandic Literature Series. Translation by Paul Vincent. Book is new.
Référence: 16277 | Prix: EUR 15.00
BUYSSCHAERT JOOST.
CRITERIA FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF ENGLISH ADVERBIALS.
Brussel, Paleis der Academien, 1982. Paperback, original wrappers, 26x18cm, 176pp. ISBN: 9065693211
Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten, van Belgie. Klasse der Letteren, Jaargang 44, Nr 99.
Référence: 2675 | Prix: EUR 18.00
Catherine Millet ; Paul Holberton ; translation : Trista Selous
Dali and Me
Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008. 1. Hardcover, 184 pages, ENG, 225 x 165 x 20 mm, NEW, dustjacket, illustrated in b/w. ISBN: 9783858817112
Salvador Dalí's surrealist masterworks are admired worldwide for their eccentric metaphors. Far lesser known, though, are his fascinating writings, where he occupies himself with verve and in bewilderingly unrefined style with the human body and sexuality. The French art critic and writer Catherine Millet has studied Dalí's artistic oeuvre and his writings for years. Her essay is the expression of a very personal reading of his self-reflecting texts. This pivotal book explains Dalí's influence on his contemporary artist colleagues and reveals the narcissism, the constraints and the visual inventiveness of the most famous - and the most notorious - of the surrealists. The text is completed by rarely published photographs and paintings by Dalí and others that illustrate Millet's ideas.
Référence: 61585 | Prix: EUR 8.00
Cattle, P.C.
Down the road, in Belgium a volley of verse, signed + dedication
Antwerp : Lloyd anversois, 1964. Original binding, paper, limited edition of 400 copies numberd; HC signed.
With had written dedication of the author Cattle.
Référence: 50212 | Prix: EUR 50.00
Cecil Hilton ; Monk Gould
The Sixteenth-century Italian Schools : National Geography Catalogs
1987. 2 ed.. Paperback, 358 pages, ENG, 250 x 155 mm, in very good condition,. ISBN: 9780947645229
The National Gallery catalogues are among the essential reference works for an art-historical scholarship. Each picture is examined, with a discussion of subject matter, authorship, provenance and art-historical significance. This volume describes Italian schools from the 16th century.
Référence: 60124 | Prix: EUR 25.00
Chambers.
Chambers's readings in English Literature.
London, W. and R. Chambers, 1879. Bound with gilt title on spine, 450pp., 19x12.5cm., good copy, some foxing.
A collection of specimens from our best writers from the earliest times to 1860 with bigraphical notices and explanatory notes.
Référence: 43587 | Prix: EUR 20.00
CLARK, John R.;
THE MODERN SATIRIC GROTESQUE AND ITS TRADITIONS,
Kentucky, University Press, 1991. Bound, black cloth, illustrated dustjacket, 155 x 240mm., 212pp. English ISBN: 0813117445
Deadly laughter - Satiric Gothic, Satiric Grotesque - Degrading the hero - Debunking the author - Dislocating the language - Gaming with the plot - Further Intrusion and Obstruction - Discordant Endings - Infernal Repetition - Ennui - Scatology - Cannibals - Dystopias and Machines - Entropy and Armageddon - The Death of the Humanities. Book is in excellent condition.
Référence: 21022 | Prix: EUR 40.00
Colen A.
A SYNTACTIC AND SEMANTIC STUDY OF ENGLISH PREDICATIVE NOMINALS.
Brussel, Paleis der Academien, 1984. Bound, in-4?°, 224pp. ISBN: 9065693424
Verhandelingen van de Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten, van Belgie. Klasse der Letteren, Jaargang 46, Nr 112.
Référence: 2676 | Prix: EUR 20.00
COX, C. B. ( ed.)./ DYSON, A. E. (ed.).
POEMS OF THIS CENTURY.
Bath, The Pitman Press, 1975. Paperback, original wrappers, 14x21,5cm, 149pp.
Référence: 9114 | Prix: EUR 6.00
David King ; H. Daiber ; D. Pingree
World-maps for Finding the Direction and Distance to Mecca : Innovation and Tradition in Islamic Science
Brill, 1999. 1. Hardcover, 638 pages, ENG, 295 x 230 x 40 mm, book is in very good condition !, dustjacket is included but in bad shape, however the book is better without it, illustrated in colour / b/w . ISBN: 9789004113671
Two remarkable Iranian world-maps were discovered in 1989 and 1995. Both are made of brass and date from 17th-century Iran. Mecca is at the centre and a highly sophisticated longitude and latitude grid enables the user to determine the direction and distance to Mecca for anywhere in the world between Andalusia and China. Prior to the discovery of these maps it was thought that such cartographic grids were conceived in Europe ca. 1910. This richly-illustrated book presents an overview of the ways in which Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca (qibla) and then describes the two world-maps in detail. The author shows that the geographical data derives from a 15th-century Central Asian source and that the mathematics underlying the grid was developed in 9th-century Baghdad.
Référence: 61421 | Prix: EUR 375.00
DAVIS, John.
WALKER'S CRITICAL PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY.
London/Belfast,Simms & Mintyre, 1851. Bound, half-cloth, marbled plates, 14x22,5cm, 630pp.
The English language: in which the meaning of every word is clearly explained, and the sound of every syllable distinctly shown; to which are prefixed, principles of english pronociation; rules to be observed. The whole intersprersed with observations, etymological, critical, and grammatical.
Référence: 5229 | Prix: EUR 25.00
DICKENS, Charles,
KERSTBOOM,
Antwerpen, De Vries - Brouwers. Paperback. ISBN: 9789076347332
Charles Dickens leefde het grootste deel van zijn leven in Londen. Hij had al veel korte verhalen gepubliceerd toen hij beroemd werd met The Posthumus Papers of the Pickwick Club, dat eerst als feuilleton verscheen. Daarna volgden onder meer Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities en David Copperfield. Hij is beroemd geworden vanwege zijn zogenaamde Dickensiaanse karakters en om zijn zorgvuldige intriges en expressieve stijl. Het persoonlijke verhaal Een kerstboom verscheen oorspronkelijk in de Morning Chronicle in 1836. Nieuw.
Référence: 29993 | Prix: EUR 10.50
Edward Norgate ; Jeffrey M. Muller ; Jim Murrell
Miniatura or the Art of Limning
Yale University Press 1997, 1997. Hardcover, 312 pages, English, 240 x 165 mm, cover has some traces of being used before, book however is in very fine condition, and not unimportant, with a signature and greeting from the author, !!. ISBN: 9780300069136
Edward Norgate, aristocratic friend of Charles I and the Earl of Arundel, made his mark in seventeenth-century England as musician, herald, and courtier. He also wrote Miniatura, a widely circulated study of miniature painting in his era that serves today as both a guide to materials and techniques and a record of the artistic knowledge and taste of Charles' court. This new edition of Norgate's treatise, the first since 1919, introduces and fully annotates the text from technical and art historical perspectives, firmly establishing the prime importance of Norgate's work. The book provides a detailed account of Norgate's life and many interests, his readership, and his technique. The editors-a noted scholar of seventeenth-century art and an authority on the techniques and materials of miniature painting-closely examine Norgate's text and compare it with other contemporary treatises, placing his techniques in the context of the period. The treatise itself, first written in 1627-28 and then substantially revised in 1648, sets forth in great detail the methods of English miniaturists, from the composition and preparation of pigments and brushes to lighting in the studio. Norgate acknowledges indebtedness to Hilliard, comments on other artists' styles and techniques, and reveals through his own views the English aristocracy's interest in and assimilation of European artistic culture.
Référence: 57440 | Prix: EUR 45.00
ELIOT, George.
SILAS MARNER.
Paris, Henri Didier, 1939. Stapled, original editor's jacket, 18.3x13.5 cm., 74 pp., illustrated in b/w.
Tales from England 3rd Degree No. 29.
Référence: 29723 | Prix: EUR 5.00
Forster, E.M.
A passage to India. De echo van de Marabar.
Vianen, ECI, 1985. Softcover, 303pp., 12.5x20.5cm., goede staat. ISBN: 9070038781
Référence: 29198 | Prix: EUR 5.00
GOLDSMITH (Oliver) Dr.
The Vicar of Wakefield.
Boulogne / Paris, Letellier bookseller, 1818. Relie l'epoque, 8x14cm. 446 pages,.
Leroy-Berger printer.
Référence: 56288 | Prix: EUR 100.00
GOMBRICH, E.H. & WOODFIELD, Richard (edit.).
THE ESSENTAIL GOMBRICH. SELECTED WRITINGS ON ART AND CULTURE.
London, Phaidon, 1996. Paperback, original editor's jacket, 24.5x17.12 cm., 624 pp., illustrated in b/w. ISBN: 0714834874
This work introduces the reader to the whole range of Gombrich's thought. With his commitment to reason and tolerance, Gombrich is a true humanist, whose abiding concern is to understand and interpret our cultural heritage and its values. In this rich and illuminating collection, a wide range of fundamental issues are presented with force and clarity.
Référence: 34156 | Prix: EUR 35.00
HAERINGEN, van, C.B.
NETHERLANDIC LANGUAGE RESEARCH.
Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1945. Original wrappers, 16x24,5cm, 108pp.
Men and works in the study of Dutch. Table of contents, abbreviations, index.
Référence: 4412 | Prix: EUR 7.00
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel.
TWO TALES FROM "A WONDER BOOK".
Paris, Henri Didier, 1932. Stapled, original editor's jacket, 18.5x13.9 cm., 36 pp., illustrated in b/w.
Tales from England 1st Degree No. 11.
Référence: 29728 | Prix: EUR 7.00
Heriot, Guy,
Changi Interlude: leaves from the diary of a third class internee. *** SIGNED
Lewes, Sussex:, by W.E.Baxter, 1946. Original publishers cloth-covered boards, original binding of blue cloth, 120 pages, First and only edition.
*** SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY HERIOT
Référence: 51862 | Prix: EUR 125.00
JAMES, Henry;
WASHINGTON SQUARE,
London, Wordsworth, 2001. Pictorial cardboard cover in colour, 125 x 195mm., 154pp. ISBN: 9781840224276
In perfect condition.
Référence: 25473 | Prix: EUR 10.00
Jeroen De Keyser, Noreen Humble, Keith Sidwell
Henri Estienne : On Books
LYSA Publishers, 2022. 1. Hardcover, 488 pages, English & Latin, NEW, 240 x 170 mm, rounded spine, sewn, dust jacket, reading ribbon. ISBN: 9789464447675
Henri II Estienne (1531-98) was the most outstanding member of his family?s long-lived publishing dynasty. He continued the work of his father, Robert, by publishing many unedited Greek texts and completing the Thesaurus linguae Graecae (1572), an expensive venture from which his business never fully recovered. His versatility? as publisher, scholar, corrector, lexicographer and poet ? can be seen in the paratextual material in his many editions, and in his own original works. This anthology presents a sample from Henri Estienne?s writings across his career and from different genres. These range from letters, to poetry, to essays, to his Encomium of the Frankfurt Fair. They reveal him as a remarkable scholar with an astonishing grasp of Latin and Greek literature, while highlighting also his problems both as a publisher and as a scholar. Estienne?s elaborate essays on the ancient Greek historians Xenophon and Herodotus use ancient examples to support contemporary arguments. His verses preserve a strong sense of the life of a scholar turned businessman, both at work and at play. In remarkably fluid Latin, Estienne reveals in these writings his aspiration to be worthy of his father?s legacy, his affection for family and friends, his humour, and his gripes with other scholars and publishers.
Référence: 59713 | Prix: EUR 39.00
Jerry Brotton
The Sale of the Late King's Goods : Charles I and his Art Collection
Pan Macmillan, 2006. 1. Bound cover, 436 pages, ENG, 240 x 160 mm, in very good condition, with illustrations in colours. ISBN: 9781405041522
So wonderful and glorious a collection, that the like will never again be met with.' This is how one awed and wistful observer described King Charles' artworks. As an acquirer of paintings by Europe's great masters and patron of Rubens and Van Dyck, Charles's extravagance in amassing his collection only exacerbated the parliamentary disapproval that led to civil war and the King's own execution. After his death, one of the Commonwealth's first decrees was to sell off his treasures to raise money for the new regime. After the Restoration, one of Charles II's first resolutions was to get the collection back.
Référence: 59698 | Prix: EUR 23.00
John Berger ; Tom Overton
Portraits : John Berger on Artists
Verso Books, 2015. 1. Hardcover, 512 pages, ENG, 240 x 160 x 50 mm, as new, in perfect condition ! illustrations in b/w. ISBN: 9781784781767
One of the world's most celebrated art writers, John Berger takes us through centuries of art in this distinctive history that will enlighten and inspire. In Portraits, Berger connects art and history in revolutionary ways, from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to Cy Twombly's radical work. In his penetrating and singular prose, Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about art history, and artists both canonized and obscure,from Rembrandt, to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. A beautifully illustrated walk through many centuries of visual culture from one of the contemporary world's most incisive critical voices.
Référence: 60386 | Prix: EUR 45.00
Jonathan Brown
Images and Ideas in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Painting : Princeton Essays in the Arts, 6
Princeton Univ Press, 1978. 1. Hardcover, 169 pages, ENG, 240 x 165 mm, dustjacket, black linen with goldcoloured imprint, with 55 b/w images, in good condition. ISBN: 9780691039411
Art historians have often minimized the variety and complexity of seventeenth-century Spanish painting by concentrating on individual artists and their works and by stressing discovery of new information rather than interpretation. As a consequence, the painter emerges in isolation from the forces that shaped his work. Jonathan Brown offers another approach to the subject by relating important Spanish Baroque paintings and painters to their cultural milieu.
Référence: 60126 | Prix: EUR 25.00
JONES, Mansell, P.
EMILE VERHAEREN. A STUDY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIS ART AND IDEAS.
Cardiff/London, The University of Wales Press Board/Humphrey Milford, 1926. 1st. Bound, original editor's jacket, 14x21.5 cm., 15x22.7 cm., pages vii-xx and 246 pp., photograph Emile Verhaeren in b/w.
Référence: 25434 | Prix: EUR 20.00
JOYCE, James;
GENS DE DUBLIN,
Club Francais du Livre, 1952. Relie, toile decoree, pages de titre en noir et rouge, 135 x 210mm., 232pp., decore.
Traduit de l'anglais par Eva Fernandez, Helene du Pasquier et Jacques Paul Reynaud. Preface par Valery Larbaud.
Référence: 16992 | Prix: EUR 15.00
Julian Barnes
The Only story
2018. 1. Bound cover, 213 pages, ENG, 225 x 145 mm, the dustjacket has a little water damage, the book itself is in new condition. ISBN: 9781787330696
The brilliant new novel from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of THE SENSE OF AN ENDING. First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn?t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he?s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention. As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.
Référence: 59696 | Prix: EUR 14.00
Lee, Sydney.
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare in forty volumes. Volume XXVI: King Henry VIII.
New York, George D. Sproul, 1908. Bound, half cloth ( spine, coins), original frontispice by Cowper, F.C. b/w, 21,5x29,5cm, 155pp, Illustrateur Cowper, F.C.
Numbered Edition. The University Press Shakespeare. Volume XXVI. nr. 117 from the 250 sets limited for sale in America and England, Volume XXVI. With annotations and a general introduction by Sidney Lee.With a special introduction by Edward Dowden and an original frontispice by Cowper, F.C.
Référence: 320 | Prix: EUR 50.00
Leslie A. Marchand ,
BYRON. A PORTRAIT,
London, Pimlico, 1993. Pictorial carboard cover, 125 x 215 x 45 mm., 518(XXXIV)pp. (552) ISBN: 9780712656597
Good condition.
Référence: 32550 | Prix: EUR 20.00
Marius de Zayas, Francis M. Naumann
How, When, and Why Modern Art Came to New York
The MIT Press, 1996. 1. Hardcover, 260 pages, ENG, 235 x 190 mm, dustjacket, as good as new !, black linen with red imprint, illustrated in b/w. ISBN: 9780262041539
Marius de Zayas (1880-1961), a Mexican artist and writer whose caricatures of New York's theatre, dance and social elite brought him to the attention of Alfred Stieglitz and his circle at "291", was among the most effective propagandists of modern art during the early years of the 20th century. His writings were the first to provide the American public with an intellectual basis upon which to understand and eventually appreciate the newest artistic developments. "How, When and Why Modern Art Came to New York", originally written in the late 1940s, is a chronicle assembled from de Zaya's personal archive of photographs and from newspaper reviews of the exhibitions he discusses, beginning with those held at the Stieglitz gallery and including important shows mounted in his own galleries: The Modern Gallery (1915-1918) and The de Zayas Gallery (1919-1921).;An appendix added by the editor provides detailed information on the various exhibitions. Additional appendixes contain transcriptions of the de Zayas and Stieglitz correspondence, as well as an account of de Zayas's unique relationship with Picasso, a Spaniard with whom he felt a special kinship and whose work he would be among the first in America to promote and defend.;Among the press reviews included here are many important documents coming to light for the first time since their original publication. Moreover, the photographs de Zayas selected specify which works were shown in the exhibitions he discusses (as opposed to vague titles in catalogue listings), and many of the photographs illustrate works that have been lost or destroyed since they were first shown.
Référence: 60140 | Prix: EUR 39.50
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK,
Heinemann, London,, 1949. Original publishers boards, No D/J. The book is in good used condition.
This edition issued on first publication by The book society, in association with william Heinemann (oct 1949) reprint, 2e edition
Référence: 52194 | Prix: EUR 15.00
MAUGHAM, W. Somerset.
Christmas Holiday. 1939
London, William Heinemann., 1939. Original publishers boards, No DW. Blue cloth, gilt. No date [1939].
First Edition.
Référence: 52193 | Prix: EUR 20.00
Max Porter
The death of Francis Bacon
Faber & Faber. 1. Hardcover, 74 pages , ENG, 185 x 115 mm, New condition, dustjacket, . ISBN: 9780571366514
Madrid. Unfinished. Man Dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed. Max Porter translates into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind.
Référence: 60133 | Prix: EUR 14.00
McNEILLY, MILDRED.
EACH BRIGHT RIVER. **** SIGNED and inscribed by the author
New York, William Morrow, 1950. Bound, original cloth, gilt title on spine, 14,5x21,5cm, 308pp.
A novel of the oregon country. **** SIGNED and inscribed by the author
Référence: 8933 | Prix: EUR 30.00