Media / Stonework from LEFT COAST BOOKS

Santa Barbara, CA: Viejo Press, 2012. 46 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 x 28 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. Oblong.

New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980. Cloth, x, 289 pages, [8] leaves of plates, illustrations (some colour); 27 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed and inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Expected browning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. . SIGNED. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.

Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 2010. Cloth, 256 pages, colour illustrations; 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "Joe Dan Lowry is world-renowned for his knowledge about turquoise and is sought after for… Read more about this item

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. Cloth, 256 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with moderate shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. CONTENTS: What is jade?; Nephrite: stone of heaven, earth, and man; The world of jade; The stone of immortality; The jade dynasties; The prescious jade of Ho; Jadeite: the… Read more about this item

Los Angeles and Cambridge, MA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; distributed by the MIT Press, 1977. 264 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition shown at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, October 25, 1977 to January 15, 1978 and other venues. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/air,… Read more about this item

New York: Andre Emmerich Gallery, 1968. 103 pages, illustrations (some colour), folded colour maps; 24 cm. With photographs by Lee Boltin. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. . 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo. Collectible.

Glasgow: Burrell Collection; Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, 1979. 28 pages, illustrations, portraits; 21 x 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. Ancient Roman marble vase.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong.

Snape, Suffolk: Memorials by Artists, 2008. 44 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy.. 4th. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New Haven, CT: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Los Angeles County Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2010. Cloth, 272 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 31 cm. Published by the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on the occasion of the exhibition Olmec:… Read more about this item

Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1964. [143] pages, illustrations, map; 23 cm. Exhibition held at the M. H. deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, May 29 to July 19, 1964; Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, August 14 to October 4, 1964; the Cleveland Museum of Art, November 25 to January 3, 1965; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 9… Read more about this item

Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1999. viii, 128 pages, illustrations, facsimiles, portraits; 26 cm. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Chambers Hall Gallery, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England, July 11 to September 14, 1997. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Neo-classical portrait bust sculptures by the great Italian artist Antonio Canova. With scholarly essays by Katharine Eustace, James Fenton, Donna Kurtz, Mark Norman… Read more about this item

New York: Macmillan, 1999. 212 pages, illustrations (some colour); 23 cm. Photographs by Linda Quartman Younker. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "'Stone is eloquent, and it speaks in many voices. For gardeners stone is an… Read more about this item

San Francisco and New York: HarperSanFrancisco; American Museum of Natural History, 1993. Cloth, 239 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 32 cm. Illustrated History of Humankind, Vol. 1, Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Folio.

Hong Kong: Christie's, 1995. Cloth, unpaged, colour illustrations; 27 cm. Text in English and Chinese. Code: QINGHUA. Date of sale: 30 October, 1995. Place of sale: J. W. Marriott Hotel in the Grand Ballroom, Hong Kong. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Lots 655-1278.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 4to.… Read more about this item

New York: Center for Inter-American Relations, 1976. [48] pages, illustrations; 21 x 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Art works from the American Museum of Natural History, the Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of Primitive Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

London and Singapore: Spink & Son Ltd., 1997. 48 pages, colour illustrations; 30 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps. Price list inserted.. 1st. Paperback. Very Good. 4to.

Santa Fe and Washington D.C.: Glen Green Galleries; Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992. Cloth, 263 pages, illustrations (some colour); 32 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the artist Allan Houser on the title page, with a personalized inscription. (Note: The signature on the preceding flyleaf is printed.) A near-fine copy, age toning. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar book… Read more about this item

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1973. Cloth, 192 pages, illustrations (some colour); 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket chipped at the crown, with a closed tear. CONTENTS: Prince of Han; China before the Han Dynasty; Mind over matter: from Confucius to Lao Tzu; The Han Dynasty; The court of the son of… Read more about this item

Tucson, AZ: Treasure Chest Books, 1995. 48 pages, colour illustrations; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy.. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.

Lausanne, Switzerland: Editions du Grand-Chene, Henri Kaeser, 1950. 87 pages, illustrations (some colour); 30 cm. Text in French/Texte en francais. Cover title: Maillol: sa vie, son amitie, son art. TRES BON ETAT. Legerement use. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Illustre de 55 dessins inedits = Illustrated with… Read more about this item