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Carmel: Carmel Art Association, 2001. Paperbound. VG Very Good. Demy folio, [9 by 9 inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 125. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Euphemia Charlton Fortune (1885–1969) was a European trained California Impressionist artist. She painted many portraits as well as landscape views of California and European sites. In midlife she turned to liturgical design. She signed her paintings "E. Charlton Fortune, ... In 1910, after a trip to Paris where she was exposed to modern French art, Fortune re-emerged in San Francisco. Through the help of Luis Mora, she gained a position as an illustrator for Sunset Magazine. From 1913 through 1920, she and her mother spent summers in Monterey. In 1914 William Merritt Chase taught a summer painting class in nearby Carmel; Fortune took credit for having invited him, although the collected documentary evidence shows that the artist Jennie V.… Read More

Portland, Oregon: Pomegranate, 2017. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], full gilt-embossed cornflower blue cloth with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 235, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Euphemia Charlton Fortune, (1885–1969), was an American Impressionist artist from California. She was trained in Europe, New York and San Francisco. She painted many portraits as well as landscape views of California and European sites. In midlife she turned to liturgical design. She signed her paintings "E. Charlton Fortune," which helped conceal her gender. ... A play about Fortune, "Fortune's Way, or Notes on Art for Catholics (and Others)", by Steve Hauk, premiered in California in staged readings in 2010 at the Carmel Mission. The play featured Teresa Del Piero in the title role and John Brady as… Read More

Minneapolis: Voyageur Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy Table, [10.25 by 10.25inches], full cream-embossed brick-coloured cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp.176, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ,.. Electro-Motive Diesel traces its roots to the Electro-Motive Engineering Corporation, a designer and marketer of gasoline-electric self-propelled rail cars founded in 1922 and later renamed Electro-Motive Company (EMC). In 1930, General Motors purchased Electro-Motive Company and the Winton Engine Co. and in 1941 expanded EMC's realm to locomotive engine manufacturing as Electro-Motive Division (EMD). ... 1. Soloman, Brian. EMD Locomotives kk oversize AS NEW september2020 33 abe. Minneapolis: Voyageur Press, 2006. First Edition.In exceptionally good condition. (25085) $24.00

London: The Society of English Bibliophilists, 1900. No. 15 of a limited edition of 100 . Hardcover. in exceptionally good condition. Demy octavo, [17.5cm/7inches], full gilt-embossed half-bound leger green and chestnut-brown coloured calf/marbled boards, t.e.g., with silk place ribbons. Translated into English by James Mabbe, writing under the pseudonym "Don Diego Puede Ser," [ Spanish for Don James Maybe], and published in 1640. The illustrations are by Sir Frank William Brangwyn, R. A., [who later painted murals for the 1915 San Francisco Exposition and in the Thirties worked with Diego Riveria on Rockefeller Center]. Volume I: pp. xxii, 220, annotated. Illustrated w/ frontis and four sepia-tinted plates. Includes: "The Two Damsels," "The Lady Cornelia" & "The Jealous Husband" … Volume II: pp. vii, 208, annotated. Illustrated w/ frontis and six sepia-tinted plates. Includes: "The Liberal Lover," "The Force of Blood" &… Read More

New York: Liveright, 1937. First Impression. Hardcover. Reading Copy/no. Octavo, [23.75cm/9.5inches], full gilt-embossed slate-blue cloth sans dust jacket, pp. ix, 347, annotated and indexed. Illustrated with frontis and 6 b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Deal with correspondence from Sprin 1876, -(Age 9, Bell to Florence Olliffee, her future stepmother)-, to October 28, 1892, (to her father on her return from Persia, (Iran).

New York: China Institute in America, 1991. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No . Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 109. Fully illustrated with b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The Preface notes: "Early Chinese ceramics from New York State Museums" highlights the richness of the collections in upstate and western New York. This exhibition, quite happily, ties together recurring themes in the history of the Gallery and is a reflection of the maturing of public appreciation of Chinese art. Early ceramics was the subject of the first exhibition mounted by the Committee of Art and Exhibits at China Institute in 1944."

Fremont, CA: Toucan Valley , 1998. Ring Binder. In exceptionally good condition. 40 separate fact sheets on heavy card stock, all within a standard ring binder. Ex-library, with one small sticker and two library stamps, all on the title page (card). Otherwise perfect: clean and crisp, with no marks, tears, or bent cards. The ring binder is also in primo condition, with no marks or stickers.

Carmi, Illinois: White County Historical Society, 1998. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 84. Fully illustrated with photocopies of various wills. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

London: Macmillan and Co, 1901. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [18cm/7.5inches], full gilt-embossed maroon-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 205. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861–1923), was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist. Hewlett married Hilda Beatrice Herbert on 3 January 1888 The couple separated in 1914, partly due to Hilda's increasing interest in aviation. In 1911, Hilda had become the first woman in the UK to gain a pilot's licence. He settled at Broad Chalke, Wiltshire. His friends included Evelyn Underhill, and Ezra Pound, whom he met at the Poets' Club in London. He was also a friend of J. M. Barrie, who named one of the pirates in Peter Pan "Cecco" after Hewlett's son. Hewlett's 1900 novel The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay , about Richard the Lionheart, was a favourite novel of T. E. Lawrence. Lawrence said he had read… Read More

Paduca, Kentucky. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full pictorial cloth with dust jacket, pp. 208, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Bill Swank is a local baseball fanatic who at Christmastime, plays Santa Claus in Balboa Park's Spreckles organ pavillion

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1949. Third Impression Before Publication. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy octavo, [19cm /7.25inches], full gilt-embossed Dutch-blue clth, sans dust jacket, pp. 191. Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC (12 June 1897 – 14 January 1977) was a British Conservative politician who served three periods as Foreign Secretary and then as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1955–57. Achieving rapid promotion as a young Member of Parliament, he was Foreign Secretary at the early age of thirty-eight, before resigning in protest at Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini's Italy. He again held that position during the last five years of the Second World War, and a third time in the early 1950s. Having been Churchill's undisputed deputy for fifteen years, he succeeded him as Prime Minister in 1955, and a month later won a general election. Fleming also authored a book of historical fiction cocrning the… Read More

Jerusalem: Massada Press Ltd., 1968. 2nd. Edition. Hardcover. VG Very Good/Lightly chipped. Octavo, [26.25cm/10.5inches], full gilt-embossed sea-blue cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 579, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, maps, sketches, &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Born in Germany, Netanel Lorch (1925-1997) emigrated to Palestine in 1935. At age 16, Lorch joined the Haganah and, within two years, was in command of the Gadna (Youth Battalion) of the village where he taught school. In 1944, he served in the Jewish Brigade, part of the Allied Forces, in Egypt and Western Europe. After his release in 1946, he was a scriptwriter with the Palestine Broadcasting Service before reenlisting full-time in the Haganah. During the War of Independence, he served as Platoon and later Company Commander in Jerusalem. After the war he was appointed aide-de-camp to General Yigael Yadin, Chief of the General Staff. ... In human terms, the… Read More

Honolulu: Honolulu Academy of the Arts , 1994. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 183. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Utrecht,: Bruna , 1986. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy-folio, [27,75 cm / 11 inch], volledig picturale stof zonder stofomslag, pp. 64. Geïllustreerd met kleurenplaten. Aarzel niet om te vragen naar bijzonderheden en / of extra foto's. ... Édouard Manet was een Franse modernistische schilder. Hij was een van de eerste 19e-eeuwse kunstenaars die het moderne leven schilderde, en een cruciale figuur in de overgang van realisme naar impressionisme. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 64. Illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Édouard Manet was a French modernist painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

Alicante y Velencia, Spain, 1985. Sala de Exposiciones - Alicante y Circulo de Bellas Artes. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Demy table, [9.5 by 8.75inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated. fully illustrated with b-w laftones as well as colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. 

Claremont, California: Pomona, College, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Octavo, [22.75cm/9.25inches], full ebony-embossed taupe cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 29. Illustrated with b-w halftone fronti portrait of Marston. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... George White Marston, (1850 – 1946) was an American politician, department store owner, and philanthropist. He was involved with establishing Balboa Park, the San Diego Public Library System, and San Diego Presidio Park.

London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp.160. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Edward John Burra (1905 – 1976) was an English painter, draughtsman, and printmaker, best known for his depictions of the urban underworld, black culture and the Harlem scene of the 1930s.

London: Penquin, 2000. First Penquin Edition . Paperback. In quite good condition.. Royal octavo [25cm/9.75inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 302, indexed. Fully illustrated withb-w half-tone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional snapshots. First published in 1970 by Wm. Heinemann. Among Priestley's serious novels was LOST EMPIRES, to be followed later by one of his favourites THE IMAGE MEN. In his later writing life he did write several lighter novels, comedies like LOW NOTES ON A HIGH LEVEL and detective stories like SALT IS LEAVING, written for his own enjoyment as well as the readers'. His two last significant plays were THE GLASS CAGE, written for a company in Canada, which was long forgotten till successfully revived in Northampton England and the Mint Theatre, NY, and his adaptation of Iris Murdoch's novel A SEVERED HEAD, which had a good run in London. He returned to non-fiction with his brief memoirs MARGIN RELEASED, and his… Read More

Osceola, Wisconsin: Motobooks International, 1994. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 192, indexed. Fully illustrated with b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd , 1909. Hardcover. In quite good condition. (Frontispiece missing)/No . Octavo, [20,5cm/8.5inches], full gilt and ebony-embossed adobe-coloured cloth sans dust jacket, pp. vii, 309, indexed. Illustrated with 7 colour plates by A., (Augustus), Lamplough. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Philae is an island located near the expansive First Cataract of the Nile in Upper Egypt and was the site of an important Egyptian temple complex. These rapids and the surrounding area have been variously flooded since the initial construction of the Aswan Low Dam circa 1898-1902. The temple complex was dismantled and moved to nearby Agilkia Island as part of the UNESCO Nubia Campaign project in the 1970s. Herein, Loti discusses the lose of the Ancient Egyptian temples. and gives us an admiable travelog, One critic noted: "Pierre Loti remains, in the mechanism of style and cadence, one of the most original and most perfect French… Read More