Direct Democracy Practices in Taiwan: The Taiwan Referendum Act, Reports, and Analyses
Taipei: Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, 2005. Softcover. Beige wraps with brown lettering; 114 pp. with occasional tables and charts. More
Taipei: Taiwan Foundation for Democracy, 2005. Softcover. Beige wraps with brown lettering; 114 pp. with occasional tables and charts. More
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania: Brandywine River Museum, 1972, circa. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps, 14pp, 5 color plates inside an envelope affixed to inside cover, museum catalogue. On cover: N. W. Wyeth, Brandywine River Museum. A listing of the 137 works in an exhibit of the museum, date not listed, plus 5..... More
New York: Program Publishing Company, 1960. Softcover. Brown/black/green stapled wraps with white image of a Kabuki character and white lettering. Unpaginated with 28 pp. 15 bw illustrations, 2 color illustrations, and 6 bw photographs. Text in English. Foreword by Lincoln Kirstein, noted writer and cultural figure in New York, known..... More
Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1975. First edition. Hardbound. Blue cloth with color illustrated dustjacket. 283 pp., 97 color plates. "Margaret Klapthor has indeed opened a gateway to the past through the documentation of official presidential china presented in this volume. In this instance, 'official' applies to tableware purchased for..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007. First. Hardcover. Cream cloth/boards with blind-stamp spine lettering. Color-illus. dj with black/red lettering. 383 pp. with color and duotone images throughout. Showcases 36 "spectacular houses and gardens whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art and society." An irresistible voyage through some..... More
Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin, 1932. Limited, # 305 of 550 copies. Hardcover. Blue paper boards, tan cloth spine. 138pp, 15 b/w illustrations and maps. From intro: "The genius of General Washington as a naval strategist has too long escaped due recognition…He attained a proficiency worthy of the highest admiration and..... More
Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1961. first. Hardbound. Tan cloth spine with bw illustrated dustjacket. 255, [3] pp., some bw photographs. A remarkable and sad story. A signed first edition. More
American Federation of Arts / SCALA Publishers, 2003. Softbound. Color pictorial wraps, French flaps, 264 pp., profusely illustrated. Issued in conjunction with several 2003-2004 exhibitions of artwork by French Rococo painter Francois Boucher (1703-1770). The annotated and illustrated catalogue addresses 91 pieces. Includes excellent bibliography and index. Lots of fresh..... More
American Federation of Arts / SCALA Publishers, 2003. Softbound. Color wraps, 264 pp., profusely illustrated. Issued in conjunction with several 2003-2004 exhibitions of artwork by French Rococo painter Francois Boucher (1703-1770). The annotated and illustrated catalogue addresses 91 pieces. Includes excellent bibliography and index. Lots of fresh examinations,here. Contents as..... More
American Federation of Arts / SCALA Publishers, 2003. Hardcover. Black cloth, color dj. 264 pp., profusely illustrated. Issued in conjunction with several 2003-2004 exhibitions of artwork by French Rococo painter Francois Boucher (1703-1770). The annotated and illustrated catalogue addresses 91 pieces. Includes excellent bibliography and index. Lots of fresh examinations,here..... More
Hong Kong: Chinese Universtity of Hong Kong, 2007. Hardbound. White, silky embossed cloth in color-pictorial dustjacket, housed in a silky blue cloth slipcase. 400 pp., over 300 color plates of the highest quality. A sumptuous and lavishly illustrated volume published to accompany an exhibition. Contents: Director"s Foreword by Peter Y.K...... More
New York: Abbeville Press, 1980. Hardcover. Linen boards, white DJ with color illustration. 256 pp. with 282 illustrations, mostly large plates, mostly color. A very large and heavy book. Improvisation and essay by Jean-Clarence Lambert ; English version by Kenneth White ; foreword by Marshall McLuhan. "From his prodigious output..... More
Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame, 1970. Softbound. Brown illustrated wraps. [32] pp, profusely illustrated in two-tone. Includes essays on Ashanti Goldweights by Warren M. Robbins, and Senufo Bronzes by the collector, Eric de Kolb. A scarce catalogue on this most impressive collection. There are almost 635 Ashanti pieces listed..... More
Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Hardcover. Green wraps. 424 pp. Profuse bw plates. More
Savannah, GA: Compass Publishing, 2005. Hardbound. green cloth with color glossy illustrated dustjacket. 155 pp. with 119 color plates. The paintings illustrated in this volume span a three-decade long period of work by this artist. Lengthy essay. More
Boston: Bulfinch Press, 2003. Hardcover. Black boards, black ill. DJ. 127 pp. 100 color plates, one pop-up. Essay by Petra Ten-Doesschate Chu, conversation with Red Grooms. More
New York: Aperture, 1995. Hardcover. White cloth boards quarter-bound with black cloth spine. 128 pp. Illustrated throughout with large plates, some color. A traveling exhibition of "The People, Yes", which opened at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts in March 1995, and in Europe at the Photographers' Gallery, London in June..... More
NY: Clarkson N. Potter, 1980. Hardbound. Hardcover. ix, 202 pp. 22 color, 102 bw plates. Originally printed in 1968, with a New Foreword by John I.H. Baur to this edition, which accompanies this exhibition. Foreword by Gerard Piel, Preface by John I.H. Baur. The first full study of the 19th..... More
Cambridgeshire: Balding and Mansell, [1930]. Softcover. Dark Wedgwood blue paper boards w/ white lettering; 48 pp; family potter tree on inside back cover. More
Independent Curators International, 2003. third printing. Softbound. Cream colored illustrated wraps. 128 pp., very well illustrated, mostly in color. This catalogue accompanies the traveling exhibition (2003-2005) characterized by its focus on twenty-five remarkable works on paper, the oeuvre on which Lombardi (1951-2000) was working up until his death, and which..... More
Chantilly ; Paris: Musee Conde ; Draeger, 1970. Hardcover. Off-white boards, color illustration on cover, blue spine titles, mylar dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. 23 pp. of introduction, and approx 225 unnumbered pages. Text in French. Medieval book of hours, created by the Limbourg brothers, with illustrations representing each liturgical hour..... More
London: August Media in association with Benson & Forsyth, 1999. First. Hardbound. Photo-illustrated slip-case, black cloth on boards with white lettering on front and spine, 143 pp, BW illustrations, some color. Label presenting the volume to books previous owner, signed by the president of the board of trustees. A magnificent..... More
London, England: Collins, 1964. First (signed). Hardbound. Blue cloth on boards with red and gold stamp on spine, dust jacket, 189 pp, illustrative plates: 1 color, 5 BW. For ninety-nine years after the sale of the estate of Roderick Macneil, 41st Chief, the ancient castle of Kisimul on an islet..... More
Morgantown, West Virginia: Scotpress, 1984. Third. Softbound. Blue wraps, [iv] 190 pp, 5 BW illustrative plates, additional illustrations. For ninety-nine years after the sale of the estate of Roderick Macneil, 41st Chief, the ancient castle of Kisimul on an islet off the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides of..... More
Charlottesville: Thomasson-Grant, Inc., 1983. Hardcover. Navy cloth, white pictorial DJ. 112 pp. Profuse color plates. Photographic tour of Monticello. Commentary addressing American furniture by Charles Granquist, which provide insight into family life at Monticello. Gorgeous interior and exterior views of Jefferson's estate by photography Robert Llewellyn. More