Books - "arts"
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The Illustrated Dance Technique of Jose Limon
Super 8vo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Harper & Row 1984
KEYWORDS: modern dance arts methoc technique Jose Limon 20th century
Inside Dance: Essays
Super 8vo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: St. Martin's Press 1980
KEYWORDS: modern dance dancing essays art arts criticism
Chronicles of the American Dance: From the Shakers to Martha Graham
Super 8vo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Da Capo Press 1978
KEYWORDS: modern American dance dancing arts art criticism history
Fanfare for Puppets!
Super 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: David & Charles 1985
KEYWORDS: puppets puppet hobby hobbies children arts
Manuale Tipografico
4to, pp. [16] + xxviii + lxxv + 272 + 279, 64 (pamphlet to rear); red cl bds, spine lettered in white, front board lettered in black & white, rear board lettered in blind; frontis., type specimens; VG+ (light scuffing & soiling to bds; light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light soiling to eps, prelims & terminals).
PUBLISHER: Taschen 2010
KEYWORDS: Giambattisata Bodoni type typography letterpress printing history bibliography print publishing letter cutting cutter design book arts
The Atlas of Rugs & Carpet
Imp. 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Tiger Books International 1996
KEYWORDS: rugs carpet guide atlas arts craft weaving buyers collectors
Aikido and the Dynamic Sphere: An Illustrated Introduction
Super 8vo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG) in slipcase (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Charles E. Tuttle Company 1977
KEYWORDS: martial arts Aikido spiritual spirituality self defense self-defense
Lost Wax Casting of Jewellery: An Introduction to Investment Casting
Imperial octavo, brown heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, frontispiece, 182pp, illus, VG+ (light bruising & discolouration to board edges, sl foxing to page edges, moderate foxing to eps) in d/w, VG (light to moderate creasing to edges, minor foxing to flaps, light chafing)
PUBLISHER: Mills & Boon 1974
KEYWORDS: crafts hobbies jewelry jewellery casting arts precious metals
After the End of the Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History
Super octavo softcover (VG+) highlighting to text; all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.
PUBLISHER: Princeton University Press 1997
KEYWORDS: contemporary art criticism A W Mellon lectures fine arts history
Typefaces for Books
Imp. 8vo, pp. 288; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals; sl cracking to front gutters; prev ownership inscription in blue to ht).
PUBLISHER: The British Library 1990
KEYWORDS: type typeface lettering founding book arts design letterpress printing history
Printer and Playground: An Autobiography
Super 8vo, pp. xvi + 156; grey cl bds, blue label to spine lettered in gilt; frontis., photos, illus.; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate to heavy tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev bookseller's stickers to front pastedown); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping; price clipped to front flap, price drawn over with black ink; moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Faber and Faber 1956
KEYWORDS: Simon Oliver printing printer typography type publishing history book arts design life lives biography autobiography
Contest Judo: Ten Decisive Throws
Super 8vo, pp. 100; black heavy card bds, spine & front board lettered in black; frontis., photos; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; to moderate light bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with moderate chipping; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev ownership inscription in black ink to ffep; light to moderate soiling throughout); in d/w, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling; moderate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping & some archival repairs; some tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: W. Foulsham & Co. 1961
KEYWORDS: martial arts judo contest technique methods photograph photographic guide practical instruction
My Method of Self-Defence
8vo, pp. 125 + [2 (advts)]; black heavy card bds, spine lettered in gilt; illus.; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev bookseller's stamp in blue ink to ffep; prev ownership inscription in black ink to ffep); lacking d/w.
PUBLISHER: W. Foulsham & Co. 1957
KEYWORDS: martial arts self defence self-defence method techniques judo
Rudolf Koch: ein deutscher Schreibmeister (A German Writing-Master)
4to, pp. 54 + [2 advts]; stiff wrapers; illus.; VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; moderate to heavy bruising to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping, esp to upper spine extrem; moderate tanning & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to prelims & terminals; final pg partially detatched).
PUBLISHER: Heintze & Blandertz N.D.
KEYWORDS: Rudolf Koch 19th 20th century German calligraphy book arts design Gothic
Bruce Lee Library Volume 1: Words of the Dragon: Interviews 1958-1973
Super 8vo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Charles E. Tuttle Co. 1997
KEYWORDS: 20th century martial arts actor Bruce Lee interview interviews
Bruce Lee Library Volume 3: Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way
Super 8vo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
PUBLISHER: Charles E. Tuttle Co. 1997
KEYWORDS: 20th century martial arts actor Bruce Lee commentary
The Penrose Annual: Volume 51, A Review of the Graphic Arts 1957
Quarto, green buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, mixed pagiantion, illus, VG+ (light bruising & soiling to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, sl foxing to prelims, occasional sl cracking to gutters) in d/w, VG- (moderaate creasing & chipping/tearing to edges, moderate tanning to spine, moderate foxing)
PUBLISHER: Lund Humphries 1957
KEYWORDS: penrose annuals past issues years 1957 graphic art graphics arts
Alonso Victor de Paredes' Institution, and the Origin of the Art of Printing, and General Rules for Compositors [Madrid: ca. 1680]
Imp. 8vo, pp. xvi + 449; black buckram bds, spine lettered in silver gilt; frontis., photos, illus.; NF (sl scuffing & soiling to bds; minor bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; minor tanning & soiling to pg edges); in d/w, VG+ (light scuffing & soiling; sl bruising & creasing to edges & extrems).
PUBLISHER: The Legacy Press 2018
KEYWORDS: Alonso Victor de Paredes Pablo Alvarez 18th century printing publishing history methods techniques book arts design letterpress bibliography
The Encyclopaedia of Type Faces
Super 8vo, pp. 358; blue cl bds, spine lettered in silver gilt, bds lettered in blind; illus.; VG (moderate scuffing & soiling to bds; moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems with light chipping; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; light to moderate tanning, soiling & foxing to eps, prelims & terminals; prev bookseller's sticker to front pastedown; bdg sl sloppy; peeled sticker to front board; light to moderate tanning throughout); in d/w, VG- (light to moderate fading, scuffing & soiling; mdoerate to heavy bruising & creasing to edges & extrems with moderate to heavy chipping and loss; lg closed tear along fold at spine; sm open tear along fold at spine; moderate tanning & foxing).
PUBLISHER: Blandford Press 1958
KEYWORDS: W Turner Berry A F Johnson w P Jaspert book arts design lettering letters words type faces typefaces printing publishing history bibliography foundry foundries alphabet typography
The Little ABC Book of Rudolf Koch
Obl super 8vo, unpaginated; yellow light card covers, covers lettered in black & red; illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light bruising to edges & extrems; moderate tanning, foxing & soiling to pg edges; sl tanning & soiling to prelims & terminal; prev bookseller's sticker to ht).
PUBLISHER: David R. Godine 1979
KEYWORDS: Rudolf Koch calligraphy letter forms language book arts design