ITEM # 8014 ARTS OF FRANCE NEW YORK TUESDAY , 21 OCTOBER 1997 453 PGS 8 1/2 X 12 HARD BACK THE CATALOG OF THE AUCTIUON AT CHRISTIE'S OF VERY FINE ANTIQUE FRENCH FURNITURE, PAINTINGS, GLASS , SILVER ,AND MORE . BOOK AND DJ IN VERY GOOD CONDITION CLEAN BRIGHT , NO MARKS OR TEARS BEAUTIFIL COLOR PHOTOS AND TEXT ABOUT EACH ITEM [ AUC. CAT. ] View More...
Very nice book of glossy black and white unused real photo postcards dating from WWII. Mild wear to cover, but cards are tighly bound and without fault. 20 cards featuring scenes of French Army activity. Captions at back in French. Also available is a similar book focusing on De Tunis A Sienne View More...
Very nice book of glossy black and white unused real photo postcards dating from WWII. Mild wear to cover and flat crease to upper front corner, but cards are tighly bound and without fault. 20 cards featuring scenes of French Army activity. Captions at back in French. Also available is a similar book focusing on De Sienne A Belfort. View More...
Beautiful book with a print run of just 3000. Only fault is flat crease to upper front cover. Measures 8-1/2"x12". Illustrated at face and inside with black and white Chagall art. FRENCH language text. View More...
Very nice catalog featuring pink and grey cover with strong graphic at face. Clean and tightly bound with no names or writing. Measures 6-1/4"x9-1/2" and contains 98 pages featuring 477 lots. Some photo illustration in black and white in addition to descriptions for each work. Sale was held January 26, 1954. Fine bindings were the order of the day, but collection also included illustrated art books of merit. Binders represented include Pierre Legrain, Jacques-Anthoine Legrain, Paul Bonet, Rose Adler, Therese Moncey, Madeleine Gras and Louise Leveque. View More...
Very clean, attractive booklet measuring 5"x7" and illustrated lavishly throughout its 23 pages. Photos are predominately in full color with a few in black and white. Color photos large -- full page. Dense text offers full details, history and description. View More...
Lovely, postally unused collection of 20 vintage postcards in their original green box which is bordered in gilt with black printing to face only. There is no date, but they appear to be from the 1930's. We also believe this to be true because they were purchased as part of a larger collection amassed by a relative of the former's owner's during the early 1930's while touring France. Many items had dates from the early 30's. All cards and box are very good with no errant marks and nice crisp clean corners and paper. Each scene is tinted a very handsome green to match the attractive original bo... View More...
Very handsome small book with a pleasing design to spine and front board. The binding is tight and there are no cracks to gutters and no names or writing. Hortense was the daughter of Josephine and the mother of Napoleon Bonaparte. The book is illustrated witholut with fill page steel engravings. Book measures 5" x 7" and has 379 pages plus a couple pages advertising Abbott books. View More...
Crisp, beautiful book -- no bumps to boards, no names or writing and pristine pages and page edges. Jacket is likewise very clean and handsome with one small tear slightly visible at top oif spine through mylar cover. Measures 10"x12" and has 288 pages includiing index. Published to accompany an exhibition coordinated by The National Gallery (London), the Boston Museum of Fine Art abnd the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Test consists of essays wirtten by severl authors on the following topics: Paris as the proving ground for artists; artists at home in Paris; summers in the country; assimilation ... View More...
These books are exquisite nestled in a bright red slipcase. The boards are white and the jackets are colorful and beautiful with the works of Matisse. The only fault is a couple tears to top edge of the spine. It was taped on both back and front, but I placed it in a mylar cover which helped quite a bit. The second volume has a few tiny tears at the same place, but it was not taped. I used a bit of archival tape on the back only. The books and the slipcase are clean and attractive. There isa great deal to read and hundred of picturesto enjoy in both black and white and color. The author took ... View More...
Very nice clean softcover book with its own dustjacket. The book itself is very clean and tightly bound. The jacket shows only minor wear and some flat creasing at edges as well as light tonging also to edges. Photographs are beautiful on every page with commentary in FRENCH LANGUAGE. Book measures 9-1/4" x 11-1/2". Pages are not numbered. View More...
Crisp, clean book with laminated pictorial boards. No DJ, as issued, but is missing slipcase. No bumps to boards, no names or writing,. Measures 9"x12" and is printed on coated paper, resulting in a heavy book with 543 pages. Illustrated profusely with historical photographs. Text consists of explanatory captions, some extensive, all in both French and English. View More...
Crisp, BRAND NEW book sans jacket. The author examines the link between French documentary realism and colonial humanitarianism, revealing and anaylzing how remaking the colonies in the image of France was integral to its national identity. A scholarly work on French film making. Photo illustrated in black and white. 265 pages. Indexed. View More...
There's a lot of reasons to love this exhibition catalog. First of all, the text is in ENGLISH. Secondly, its an exhibition catalog replete with color and sepia art printed on coated paper. Then there's the fact that it's brand new and has pretty two-tone blue maps printed inside both covers. What's remarkable though is the art depicting fireworks from 1644 which had pyrotechnics for the King's Feast on Place de Palais in August, 1644 to the marriage of Napoleon I and the Archduchess Marie-Louise in 1810. The Booklet measures 8-1/4" x 10-1/2" and has 77 pages. The exhibition spanned October 11... View More...
Book is very clean and tightly bound. Laminated pictorial boards show only a small flat crease to corners. Pages have toned around the margins, but are not brittle. Former owner's name is written on the back of the front free endpaper ,but no other writing. Book is one of a series about three little girls -- Milly, Molly and Mandy. Book is nicely illsutrated with black and white drawings, plus full color art. Book measures 5--1.2" x 6" and has 199 pages.. View More...
Book is not as perfect as one would like, but is clean and tightly bound and most resepectable, especially given how seldom it is seen with its colorful, attractive jacket. Boards show light fading and farkening to exterior gutter at front spine, as well as some discoloration to front pastedown. But book is tightly bound with clean pages and no names or writing. The jacket has darkened uniformly and shows wear to all extemities with chipping to corners and spine. Has not been price-clipped and is handsome in brand new mylar cover. A coming of age novel by Gabrielle Colette, author of the fam... View More...
Book does not have the dustjacket, but it does have a see-through plastic cover. There are no names or writing and no cracks to hinges. Faults are these -- light dust stain to top edge (the other two edges are very good) and two small spots of foxing to back pastedown. Endpapers show the genealogy of the Bourbon Dynasty. The secret author was named as C. de B., a political informant to the head of the House of Rothschild. Book is illustrated with black and white drawings and 12 black and white plates, all of which are present. Measures 5-3/4" x 8-1/2" and measures 237 pages including index. View More...
Very handsome book, part of a larger set, but a stand-alone title in excellent condition -- even retains its scrace blue dustkacket. This shows two 1" closed tears to top front edge, but are hardly visible in brand new mylar. The dark blue boards have a moire appearance and the paste-on title box at spine is crisp and clean with no chips. Top edges are gilded and side pages rough-cut. Book is a limited edition of 1000 numbered copies of which this is #516. Books are illustrated with images printed on Japan paper. These are photogravures, but the portrait at frontis is in color. Though bi... View More...
Books are very clean and tightly bound with no names or writing. They were published sequentially in 1959, 1960 and 1961. The jackets show uniform toning. All have been price-clipped, but are very gently used and most attractive in brand new mylar. A social history which traces the trajectory of eros in Spain, France and England. All are indexed. An especially nice touch is the inked top edge of all three. 974 collective pages. Serious information with compelling prose. Extra postage required for three volumes. View More...
ITEM # 7993 THE GLORY OF THE LOIRE BY JEANBRAU and PEPIN PUB BY VIKING 1971 ABOUT 260 PGS 9 X 1O HARD BACK EXTENSIVE TEXT AND A WEALTH PHOTOS , MANY IN COLOR , TELL OF THE LOIRE RIVER IN FRANCE AND THE REGION IT FLOWS THROUGH . A 600 MILE JOURNEY THROUGH THE HEART OF FRANCE . LANDSCAPE , TOPOGRAPHY CASTLES , AND TOWNS BOOK AND D.J. IN MYLAR IN FINE CONDITION CLEAN BRIGHT AND TIGHT [ TRAVEL SHELF 1 ] View More...
