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Fredox Presente LES DOSSIERS NOIRS DE L'HISTOIRE (The Black Files of History)

By: N/A

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Marseilles, Le Dernier Cri: 2005

Seller ID: 018393

Binding: Stiff Card Stapled Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

A collection of hellishly graphic and generally gruesome compilations of images depicting every nightmare any drug-addled, criminally insane human ever experienced. This stuff is like H.R. Giger on krokodil, sampling Hannibal Lector's menu and blessed with Quentin Tarantino's self-control. "Weird" doesn't begin to describe it. Even "vile" and "disgusting" and "repugnant" don't really do it justice. Let's just say it's not for the squeamish. Or your mother. Or anybody under 18. Or over 18. Or 18 bang on. It's probably what Jeffrey Dahmer's flipping throu...
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Picturesque Loveliness on The Lawn

By: Archibald, Wm. Chas.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Summerside, Self-published (printed by The Journal Publishing Co. Ltd.):

Seller ID: 017040

ISBN: 0-7748-0089-5

Binding: Stapled Wraps

Condition: Good

No date (circa 1916). Contains: an address by Archibald (a consulting landscape architect with Earnscliffe Gardens Nurseries in Wolfville, Nova Scotia) delivered to the mayor and councillors of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, on January 10, 1916; an excerpt from The Charlottetown Guardian newspaper reporting on the address; and a piece dealing with Summerside and its potential for proper landscaping. 16 pages (including advertisement), illustrated w/two photographs, one of the author's son, killed "somewhere in France, June 6th, 1915," and the other of Birchdale, the Charlottet...
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Coaches and Trains (Golden Ariels No. 7), (19th Century Transport Prints Vol. 2)

By: Cadfryn-Roberts, John (editor)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Princeton, Golden Ariels/D. Van Nostrand Company: 1965

Seller ID: 016307

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

The second volume in the publisher's "19th Century Transport Prints" series. Decorated boards, 12 pages + 20 pages of colour plates by a variety of 19th-century artists and engravers. Moderate edge/corner wear, in lightly rubbed jacket w/a couple of quite short tears.
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The Blue of Distance

By: Carson, Anne, Kevin Finneran and Rebecca Solnit

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Aspen, Aspen Art Press: 2015

Seller ID: 018511

ISBN: 0934324700

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: New

Text by Finneran, Carson and Solnit, and photography and art by Vija Celmins, Jason Dodge, Flix Gonzlez-Torres, Roni Horn, Marie Jager, Catherine Opie, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Cy Twombly and Cerith Wyn Evans examine the colour blue's distinctive connection to such things as absence, distance and desire. 120 pages. An unread copy still sealed in publisher's shrink wrap.
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Echoes of the Remnant (signed print)

By: Coupar, Regina

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Truro, Gamaliel Publications: 2003

Seller ID: 016322

ISBN: 0-9695837-2-9

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good to Fine

From the back cover: "...presents new metaphors which are helpful for discussing spirituality in the language of our time." This edition contains a signed original print by Coupar, bound in near the front. 120 pages, illustrated. A bit of slant, light general wear.
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ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE, An Illustrated Glossary

By: Curl, James Stevens

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Markham, Fitzhenry & Whiteside: 1987

Seller ID: 014233

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

"Fulfills a longstanding need, providing a glossary of architecture that is illustrated in a way that the layman can instantly understand." Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 192 pages (including Bibliography, Acknowledgements). Remainder stripe across bottom edge, in lightly worn dust jacket. (C/BT)
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The Abstract Edge

By: Davidson, Robert (edited by Karen Duffek)

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Vancouver, Museum of Anthropology, University of British Columbia: 2004

Seller ID: 018400

ISBN: 0-88865-237-2

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

A catalogue published "to accompany an exhibition held at the Museum of Anthropology at the Uiversity of British Columbia from June 22, 2004, to January 30, 2005, and touring from 2005 to 2007." Foreword by Michael M. Ames, with essays by Karen Duffek and Robert Houle. 64 pages (including notes, list of works in the exhibition, and artist biography). Some scuffing, scratches/impressions, light edgewear.
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CATALOGUE NUMBER 5, Civil Engineering, A Miscellany of Books with a section on Fire-proofing & Iron Architecture

By: Elton, Julia

Price: $12.50

Publisher: London, Elton Engineering Books: 1990

Seller ID: 014353

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

A superior bibliographical and technical reference offering ninety-eight items, many of them rare and much sought-after. 55 pages, illustrated. Moderate general wear.
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SUNRISE COUNTY ARCHITECTURE, Significant Buildings of Washington County

By: Fernald, Anne (prepared by)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Machiasport, Sunrise Research Institute: 1979

Seller ID: 018397

Binding: Stapled illustrated wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

A collection of black-and-white photographs, with accompanying text, of various buildings in a number of Maine towns, among them Steuben, Milbridge, Cherryfield, Harrington, Columbia, Columbia Falls, Addison, Jonesport, Roque Bluffs, Whitneyville, Marshfield, Northfield, Machias, East Machias, Machiasport, Plantation No. 14, Lubec, Dennysville, Edmunds, Pembroke, Charlotte, Perry Eastport, Robbinston, Calais, and Princteon. 79 pages, including bibliography. Internally tight and clean, w/handling wear/partial creasing throughout.
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MOCA Focus

By: Haendel, Karl (essay by Gloria Sutton, interview by Gabriel Ritter)

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA): 2006

Seller ID: 017990

ISBN: 0-914357-95-6

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Haendel is an artist who "makes precise pencil drawings of appropriated source materials, whether New Yorker cartoons, advertisements, news stories, photojournalistic pictures or fine artworks." This particular tome was produced to accompany the exhibition "MOCA Focus: Karl Haendel," which was presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art from January 26 through April 17, 2006. 96 pages. Scuff to fore-edge of front cover, otherwise mild general wear. Not a particularly common item.
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American Indian Lives: Artists and Craftspeople

By: Hirschfelder, Arlene

Price: $18.50

Publisher: New York, Facts On File / Infobase Holdings: 1994

Seller ID: 016208

ISBN: 0-8160-2960-1

Binding: Illustrated Boards

Condition: Near Fine

First printing w/complete number sequence. A title from the publisher's American Indian Lives series, this one taking a look at a number of native craftspeople, including Allan Houser, Oscar Howe, Dat So La Lee, Bill Reid, Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Rhonda Holy Bear, and many others. 150 pages (including selected bibliography, index), illustrated. Light rubbing, light general wear. An unread copy.
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THE KOREAN RELICS IN JAPAN, Volume 4 (Book 7)

By: Joungwon Kim (editor)

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Seoul, The Korea Foundation: 1997

Seller ID: 015051

ISBN: 89-860-9014-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

This is the seventh of eight volumes published between 1989 and 1998 in the "Korean Relics in Overseas Collections" series, containing "a list of Korean relics and approximately 360 illustrations with descriptions, consolidating information on Korean relics preserved in the Tenri University Central Library and the Tenri University Sankokan Museum." Text in English and Korean. Advisory Committee members included Kim Kwang-on, Yun Yong-i, and You Hong-june. Since they were not intended for sale to the general public, books in the series can be pretty tough to find. Blue cloth...
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Installation

By: Jung, Dieter

Price: $35.00

Publisher: New York, Museum of Holography: 1985

Seller ID: 017269

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

The catalogue for an art holography exhibition held from September 17, 1985, until February 16, 1986, at the Museum of Holography in New York City. Rene Paul Barilleaux was the curator. Eberhard Roters contributes an introduction (translated by Rosemary Kunisch) to Jung Unpaginated. Scuffing, impressions, moderate soil, general wear. Uncommon.
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Llantwit Major in Camera

By: Kelly, Vivian

Price: $17.50

Publisher: Llantwit, Major Local History Society: 1979

Seller ID: 014425

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

A pictorial record of a stone-built town Welsh town "whose appearance and way of life have changed enormously in the last hundred years." Preface by Professor Glyn Daniel. Brown cloth w/gilt lettering, unpaginated, illustrated. Dust jacket w/light edgewear, some sunning.
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PRIDE OF PLACE, The Life and Times of Cape Breton Heritage Houses (signed)

By: MacLeod, Mary K., James O. St. Clair

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Sydney, University College of Cape Breton Press: 1994

Seller ID: 017553

ISBN: 0-920336-56-6

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Near Fine

MacLeod and St. Clair take a look at 25 historic Cape Breton buildings, one of which was built in the late 1780s, nineteen of which were erected in the 1800s, and the rest constructed in the 1900s. 175 pages, illustrated, cover illustration by Barry Gabriel. Light wear to edges/corners, light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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NORTHWEST COAST INDIAN PAINTING, House Fronts and Interior Screens

By: Malin, Edward

Price: $29.50

Publisher: Portland, Timber Press: 1999

Seller ID: 011798

ISBN: 0-88192-471-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good to Very Good

The author "explores the various styles, history, mythology, materials, and technology of house painting from all the tribal groups along the west coast of what is now Alaska and Canada: Tlingit, Coast Tsimshian, Haida, Northern and Southern Kwakiutl, Bella Coola, Nuu chaa nulth, and Coast Salish." Brown cloth w/gilt spine lettering, 288 pages (including Bibliography and Index), illustrated. Wear to corners/spine ends, small abrasion to top edge of front cover, previous owner's lengthy gift inscription to top left corner of front end paper, in dust jacket w/edgewear, scratches/impressi...
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Canadian Art (signed)

By: McInnes, Graham

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Toronto, The Macmillan Company of Canada: 1950

Seller ID: 016186

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

From the front flap: "In 1939 Graham McInnes produced A SHORT HISTORY OF CANADIAN ART, the first attempt to portray Canadian art on a brief but comprehensive scale. Now comes CANADIAN ART, a revised, completely up-to-date and expanded version, which is virtually a new book." Contains material on all aspects of Canadian art, with sections on "art institutions, public opinion in relation to art and the growth of public art bodies. Special mention should be made of the chapter on the war artists of World War II." This copy inscribed and signed ("Inscribed for Pauline Mont...
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Collins Street Sketchbook

By: McKay, Andrew, and Haddon, George

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Adelaide, Rigby: 1975

Seller ID: nf.00194

ISBN: 0 7270 0035 7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Text by McKay, illustrations by Haddon, concerning Melbourne, Australia's Collins Street. 63 pages. Light spine end/corner wear, in dust jacket w/light edgewear, light soil to rear panel.
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Hope

By: Merenmies, Elina

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Marseilles, Le Dernier Cri: 2003

Seller ID: 018408

Binding: Stapled illustrated wraps

Condition: Near Fine

Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Galerie Anhava in Helsinki in the year of publication, this is a collection of sometimes ominous, sometimes disturbing, sometimes unfathomable illustrations woven firmly into the tapestry joining the worlds of the bizarre and the tormented, with a heavy emphasis on the nightmarish, and the occasional firm hands of creepiness and perversion making their contributions. If you are familiar with Merenmies, you already know that this is weird stuff; if you are not, the chances are pretty good that you might not want to be. Unpaginated (44). Light s...
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Jim Olson Houses

By: Olson, Jim

Price: $95.00

Publisher: New York, Monacelli Press: 2009

Seller ID: 018347

ISBN: 1580932525

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

Features 16 houses and apartments in California, Colorado, Georgia, Hawaii, Hong Kong, Oregon, and Washington, all designed by an award-winning Seattle architect. Introduction by Michael Webb. 255 pages [1], copiously illustrated w/colour photographs. A pristine, unread copy still in publisher's shrink wrap. This weighs more than the average book, so additional postage will be required.
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ACCOMODATIONS: The Old Hotels of Newmarket and the Prohibition Movement 1819-1911

By: Playter, Wes

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Newmarket, Privately published: 2014

Seller ID: 018426

ISBN: 0969970560

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

Playter provides brief histories of numerous hotels/drinking establishments in Newmarket, Ontario, with information on the advent of Prohibition, which saw them all closed by 1911. Forewords by Dan MacPherson and L. Keith Taylor (misspelled in both instances as "foreward"). Black cloth, 20 pages, illustrated. Light scuffed cloth in similar dust jacket. A nice copy of an uncommon item.
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FOUNDATIONS: Heritage Landmarks of Downtown Newmarket

By: Playter, Wes

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Newmarket, Privately published:

Seller ID: 018429

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good to Fine

No date (circa 2010). Featuring 18 historical photographs of various buildings, Playter promotes the history and architecture of his small Ontario community. Foreword (misspelled as "foreward") by Dan MacPherson. Black cloth, 20 pages, illustrated. Light scuffing to covers, a couple of wrinkles to front cover (printing flaw), in lightly scuffed dust jacket. A nice copy of an uncommon item.
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Manet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets

By: Rubin, James H.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Harvard University Press: 1994

Seller ID: 008449

ISBN: 0-674-54802-7

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

a title from the publisher's 'Essays in Art and Culture' series; offering a number of insights into Manet's work, the author examines the silence in the artist's "flattened, sometimes fragmented forms [which] appear to exist absentmindedly in a world removed from speech."; sand cloth, 256 pgs. incl. Appendix/References/Bibliography/List of Illustrations; rubbed dj w/mild edgewear, thin scratches; an unread copy;
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John Downton, 1906-1991, Temperas and Drawings, 1928-1940

By: Russell-Taylor, John, and Leonie Heywood (introduction)

Price: $15.00

Publisher: London, The Fine Art Society: 1993

Seller ID: 016209

Binding: Stiff Card Wraps

Condition: Very Good

A catalogue published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by Stirrup & Company from May 4-28, 1993. 48 pages. Impressions/thin scratches, light corner wear, light general wear. Internally tight and clean.
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Pieter de Hoogh

By: van Thienen, Prof. Dr. Fr.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, H.J.W. Becht:

Seller ID: nf.00057

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good to Very Good

No date (circa 1950). One of 36 Dutch-language titles from the publisher's Palet Serie, "Een Reeks Monografieen Over Hollandsche En Vlaamsche Schilders," examining the painter's work. Pale blue wraps, 60 pages (including bibliography), illustrated. Edgewear, lightly smudged covers, moderate general wear.
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Category: Art & Architecture