Search Results: Authors starting with L from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

Klon Colone: Koneman, 2000. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [26.5cm/10.5inches], full chrome-embossed ebony-coloured cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 349. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. As the photographic archive of Picture Post expanded through the Second World War, it became clear that its vast collection of photographs and negatives, both published and unpublished, were becoming an important historical documentary resource. In 1945, Sir Edward Hulton set up the Hulton Press Library as a semi-independent operation. He commissioned Charles Gibbs-Smith of the Victoria and Albert Museum to catalogue the entire archive using a system of keywords and classifications. The Gibbs-Smith system was the world’s first indexing system for pictures, and it was eventually adopted by the Victoria and Albert and parts of the British Museum collections.… Read More

San Diego: Mingei International Museum of Folk Art, 2001. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed teal-coloured cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp.189. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The L. A. Times Obituary noted: Armand J. Labbe, the chief curator and director of research and collections at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Arts, has died. He was 60. Armand J. Labbe, the chief curator and director of research and collections at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Arts, has died. He was 60. Officials at the Santa Ana museum said Tuesday that Labbe, whose scholarship in ancient and native cultures of Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Pacific Islands was manifested for 27 years in dozens of exhibitions, succumbed to cancer on April 2. "He was a whirlwind of activity, with a very powerful desire to contribute. He woke the place… Read More

Annapolis, Maryland: U. S. Naval Academy, 1938. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [31cm/12.5 inches], full fancy, gilt-embossed ivory & ebony coloured cloth, sans dust jacket, pp. 563, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftone photographic plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots

Annapolis, Maryland: U. S. Naval Academy, 1938. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [31cm/12.5 inches], full fancy, gilt-embossed coloured cloth, sans dust jacket, pp. 563, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftone photographic plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots.

México: Larousse, 2003. First Edition. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [18cm/7.5inches inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 126. Fully Illustrated with colour plates b-w halftones, graphs &tc. Traducción del Francés por Gloria Roset Arissó. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. 

Hollywood, California : American Music Company, 1949. Sheet Music. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 4. Fully illustrated with . Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Orofino, Idaho: Orofino Press, circa 2000. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [22.5cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp.235. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Chicago, Illinois: The Mahogany Association, 1939. Third Edition. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Royal octavo, [25.5cm/10.25inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 64. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1936. First Impression. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [20.5cm/8.25inches], full pictorial covers sans dust jacket, pp. 60. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. The NT Times announced on July 12, 1936: " The first New York TimesNational Book Fair will be held at Rockefeller Center from Nov. 5 to Nov. 19 under the joint auspices of the National Association of Book Publishers and New York Times. The Book Fair is designed to present to the book public an interesting and comprehensive exhibition of what is being achieved both in American letters and in book publishing. ... Special Trains will leave Pennsylvania station every half". ... In 1910, Doubleday, Page & Co. moved its operations, which included a train station, to Garden City. The company purchased much of the land on the east side of Franklin Avenue, and estate homes were built for many of its executives on Fourth Street.… Read More

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press, 1875. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [25cm/10inches], full gilt-embossed Delft-blue cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 192, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute Press, 2011. First American Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed ebony-coloured cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 224, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs.

Chestertown, Maryland: Chesapeake Seaglass Publishing, 2005. Second Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy table, [9.25 by/9.25inches], full pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 224, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. Sea glass and beach glass are similar but come from two different types of water. "Sea glass" is physically and chemically weathered glass found on beaches along bodies of salt water. These weathering processes produce natural frosted glass.[1] "Genuine sea glass" can be collected as a hobby and can be used to make jewelry or make for decoration."Beach glass" comes from fresh water and in most cases has a different pH balance, and has a less frosted appearance than sea glass. Sea glass takes 30 to 40 years, and sometimes as much as 100 years, to acquire its characteristic texture and shape.

New York: Bantam, 2005. hardcover. New/New. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed grey cloth w/ dust jacket, pp. 434. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Includes: Riding for the Brand • Four-card Draw • One Last Gun Notch • Shandy Takes the Hook • A Night at Wagon Camp • Six-gun Stampede • Valley of the Sun • Fork Your Own Broncs • Pardner from the Rio • The Guns Talk Loud • Squatters on the Lonetree • That Slash Seven Kid • Home in the Valley • Red Butte Showdown • Jackson of Horntown • Ride or Start Shootin' • Regan of the Slash B • Lonigan • Lit a Shuck for Texas • West of Dry Creek • There's Always a Trail • We Shaped the Land with Our Guns • To Hang Me High • West of Dodge • Monument Rock • A Gun for Kilkenny • In Victorio's Country • That Packsaddle Affair

Madrid: Centre Pompidou, 2015. Editorial Palacios y Museos. Pictorial Cloth. Fine. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 235, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Produced and organized by CentroCentro, the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Arthemisia Group , the exhibition, curated by art historian Angela Lampe , curator of the National Museum of Modern Art Center Pompidou, is conceived as a monographic retrospective that presents around 100 paintings, drawings and photographs taken from the rich holdings of the Center Pompidou. Almost all of these extraordinary works were part of the artist's personal collection and were donated by his widow, Nina. The exhibition could be seen in 2014 at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, where it was enjoyed by more than 200,000 visitors, before traveling to Milwaukee and Nashville, in the United States. ... The exhibition takes place in… Read More

London & New York: Frontline & Skyhorse, 2011. North American Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full gilt-embossed ebony-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. xiv, 237, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Arlington, Virginia: American Anthropological Association , 2002. First Impression. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 290. Fully illustrated with graphs, schematics &tc.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... American Anthropologist is the flagship journal of the American Anthropological Association published quarterly. The "New Series" began in 1899 under an editorial board that included Franz Boas, Daniel G. Brinton, and John Wesley Powell. The journal publishes research articles from all four subfields of anthropology as well as book reviews and obituaries, and includes sections on Public Anthropologies, Multimodal Anthropologies, and World Anthropologies. The journal also maintains a website with essays, virtual issues, teaching resources, and supplementary material for print articles. 

Los Angeles: Sotheby, Parke-Bernet , 1972. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [2cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 49; lots 442. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

London: South Kensington Museum, 1886. Disbound. DISBOUND All pages present and accounted for/No Dust Jacket. Octavo, [2ocm/8inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 172,- 312, indexed. Fully Illustrated with photograuved engravings, &ct. Disbound Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Lane-Poole noted: "In this account of the Egyptian development of Saracenic art, I have worked an almost unexplored vein. The only previous attempt to describe the art of Cairo, as a whole, is M. Prisse d'avennes' l'art Ambe, a magnifiéent work, unapproached in its coloured illustrations; but its volume of text is of slight value. M. Prisse, who was not in a position to consult the Arabic historians, or to decipher the inscriptions which so often determine the date of an object of Saracenic art, is naturally an uncertain guide when it is a question of anything beyond draughtsmanship. We must not trust his facts; but for his plates we cannot be too grate ful.… Read More

London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 2002. Paperbound. As new/No . Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 143, indexed. Fully illustrated with schematic drawings. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Robert W. Lang is the editor of American Period Furniture, the annual journal of the Society of American Period Furniture Makers, former executive editor and project illustrator for Popular Woodworking Magazine and the author of several books about furniture and interiors of the American Arts & Crafts period of the early 20th century. He is also the author of several books about 3D computer modeling with SketchUp

Carmi, Illinois: The Genealogical Society of White County, Illinois, 2009. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [2cm/9inches], paperbound with blue pictorial covers, pp. 132. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.