Displayed below are some selected recent viaLibri matches for books published in 1982

Greene, Graham
        Monsignor Quixote
      London: The Bodley Head, 1982. First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by the author, "For Deacon with love from Graham." Deacon was a long-time companion and correspondant of Greene.A powerful late work... a mixture of entertainment and deep human awareness" (Malcolm Bradbury). In 1985, Greene and Christopher Neame adapted Monsignor Quixote as a film starring Alec Guinness and Leo McKern.

      [Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books, ABAA/ ILAB ]

JOHNS, Jasper (Artist); Judith Goldman (Text)
        JASPER JOHNS: 17 Monotypes
      (West Islip, NY): (ULAE [Universal Limited Art Editions]), (1982). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 4to. Original grey cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket slightly chipped at spine tip, mild rubbing, wear. SIGNED and dated by Jasper Johns to front endpaper: "For Mark / Jasper Johns / 30 March ' 82. 17 full-color monotype variations of Johns' famed Savarin coffee can beautifully reproduced. Also includes color frontis and black-and white illustrations throughout the text, with a selected bibliography. Unpaginated. While Johns did a handful of signed limited editions, Johns is a reluctant signer and inscribed trade editions of his work are very scarce. Only the second we've handled.

      [Bookseller: Brian Cassidy, Bookseller]

Kazuo Ishiguro
        A Pale View of Hills - in completely unfaded wrapper with review ephemera
      Faber 1982 - A first edition, first printing published by Faber in 1982. A fine book (one small date to rear end-paper) - this is a review copy and comes with related ephemera for the release of the book. A trace of spotting to the page edges and a little to the front endpaper. In COMPLETELY UNFADED dust wrapper. This is very rare as the book is prone to sunning of the spine. This copy has no fading whatsoever and is unclipped. A superb copy. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: John Atkinson Fine & Rare Books PBFA]

Ishiguro, Kazuo
        A Pale View of the Hills
      Faber & Faber 1982 - FIRST EDITION of Ishiguro's highly acclaimed first novel. Winner of the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. LONDON: FABER & FABER, 1982. Octavo, original cloth, original dust jacket; custom half-morocco box. Book fine, a touch of fading to dust jacket spine, otherwise fine. A beautiful copy. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: CollectorsFolio]

CLARKE, Arthur C
        2010: Odyssey Two
      New York: Ballantine Books,, 1982. Octavo. Original blue cloth backed blue boards, titles to spine in silver, space ship design to upper board in blind, blue endpapers. Title pages on black paper. With the dust jacket. Spine rolled, minor bump to edge of upper board, rear endpapers tanned from inserted material. An excellent copy in the jacket that is just a little rubbed at the extremities. First edition, first printing. Presentation copy inscribed by the author in silver ink on the title, "To Pip & Fred with all my love and thanks for thirty years of friendship – It's nice to be back – Carl (failed recluse)". The recipients were Fred Durant III, a leading US rocket scientist during the 1950s and 60s, and his wife. In addition to working for a number of private aeronautics firms, Durant served as the assistant director of aeronautics for the Air and Space Museum and was also a highly respected independent advisor to the US government on aerospace issues. In 1954 Durant "penned an article for Aviation Week magazine titled 'Space Flight Needs Only Money, Time'. As president of the IAF, he told delegates at its 1954 convention in Innsbruck, Austria, 'The feasibility of space flight is no longer a topic for academic debate but a matter of time, money, and a program.' That same year, he was recruited to participate in the first civilian-oriented effort to put a satellite into orbit. Led by Wernher von Braun, the team developed a concept called Project Orbiter, which later served as the foundation of the successful Explorer I mission launched on 31 January 1958" (IEEE Spectrum, 2007). Clarke was good friends with the Durants, staying with them on several occasions when his work took him to Washington D. C., and Durant became the first executive director of the Arthur C. Clarke foundation when it was formed in 1983. A superb association.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

Leonard, Elmore
        Gold Coast (First UK Edition, signed)
      London: W. H. Allen, 1982. First UK edition, and the first hardcover edition. INSCRIBED by the author on the title page: "For Al / Very best wishes / Elmore Leonard." & & Near Fine in an about Fine dust jacket. A touch of foxing at the top page edges, else lovely. Splendid jacket photograph by Oliver Hatch. Basis for the 1997 television movie directed by Peter Weller and starring David Caruso and Marg Helgenberger.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

Stephen King
        The Gunslinger
      US: Grant. West Kensington, RI, Grant, 1982. Hardback first edition and first impression. The book is near fine with some bumping to the spine tips and some light soiling. The jacket has wear to the spine tips and a short closed tear. . Near Fine. Hardback. 1st Edition. 1982.

      [Bookseller: Hyraxia]

Merrill, James
        The Changing Light at Sandover: Including the Whole of the Book of Ephraim, Mirabell's Books of Number, Scripts for the Pageant and a New Coda, the Higher Keys (Changing Light at Sandover CL)
      Scribner, 1982-09-01. Hardcover. Like New. SIGNED FIRST EDITION. New York: Atheneum, 1982. 560 pp.(Stated "First Edition" on copyright page, errata slip laid in at pg. 232. The three books appeared first separately, without coda.) Signed by the poet in blue ink on the half title. Fine hardcover in very Near Fine dust jacket. Book itself in great shape: clean and sturdy binding. Jacket presents well, light wear at tail and tips, else fine. Price intact ($25). Jacket is mylar-protected. A handsome copy.A signed copy James Merrill's occult poetry masterpiece in its first complete edition.

      [Bookseller: Odd Duck Books]

Ondaatje, Michael
        Tin Roof (Signed)
      Lantzville: Island Writing Series, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. First, limited edition of this scarce book of poems. Issued in an edition of five hundred copies, of which only 50 were clothbound and supposedly numbered and signed. This hardbound copy is unnumbered, but SIGNED by Ondaatje. The author's scarcest book.

      [Bookseller: Derringer Books, Member A.B.A.A.]

LOCCI, Bruno
        Archivio
      Milano: Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1982. Near fine in printed white wrappers, printed glassine overlay, slightly yellowed and nicked at the edges.. Limited Edition. Folio. Number 36 of 150 SIGNED copies. Text in Italian and English. Locci's reinvention of the archive of Roberto Pavese, broken into sections or stories introduced by a brief statement, and presented in a washed-out greenish tint. Very interesting and little-known artists' book comprised of found or reinterpreted photography. No copies in OCLC.

      [Bookseller: Harper's Books, Inc.]

Abbey, Edward
        Down the River
      New York: Dutton, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 242pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/4 white cloth with blue paper covered boards. Very good. The front cover is very slightly concave. The edges of the covers are subtly faded, bumped and rubbed. The underlying boards are peeking through at the bottom corners. The dust jacket is in very good condition, with a small tape repair to the head of the spine. Lightly rubbed. Inscribed by the author on the front free endsheet.

      [Bookseller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA]

Photography - Shore, Stephen
        Uncommon Places
      Aperture New York: Aperture, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition of the artist's first book of photographs. A fine clothbound copy in near fine unclipped dustwrapper with some light fade to spine area as commonly found. A sharp example of this Parr and Badger selection.

      [Bookseller: Derringer Books, Member A.B.A.A. ]

SHORE, Stephen.
        Uncommon Places. Photographs.
      New York: Aperture, 1982 - Oblong quarto. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and front cover in brown. With the dust jacket. A bright copy, dust jacket with Sellotape strengthening and small tear to head of spine. 49 plates from photographs. First edition, first printing. Uncommon in the cloth. Parr & Badger p35.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington. ABA member]

Carter, Jimmy
        Keeping Faith - 1st Edition/1st Printing (Limited)
      New York: Bantam Books. Fine+. 1982. First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author. Hardcover. 0553050230 . A special Limited Edition in Very Fine condition in the original dark blue cloth in Fine matching slipcase, SIGNED by US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter with his full signature "Jimmy Carter" on the limitation page; The problems that Jimmy Carter faced in the White House were tremendous. This book gives a very thorough and honest review of the major challenges confronting President Carter in the late 1970s. He brought to the Oval Office a habit he shared with two of his 20th century predecessors, Nixon and Truman - that of writing daily entries in a diary. This he maintained, thankfully, throughout his presidency. It is from these entries that his memoirs are constructed .

      [Bookseller: Books Tell You Why]

"Carter, Jimmy (1924-)"
        Keeping faith : memoirs of a president / by Jimmy Carter
      Toronto ; New York : Bantam Books, 1982. Linited Edition. "Description: xiv, 622 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Carter, Jimmy (1924-) -- Presidents --United States --Biography --Politics and government --1977-1981." "Fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong in original cloth slipcase. Signed by the author."

      [Bookseller: MW Books Ltd.]

Carter, Jimmy
        Keeping Faith - 1st Edition/1st Printing (Limited)
      New York: Bantam Books. Fine+. 1982. First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author. Hardcover. 0553050230 . A special Limited Edition in Very Fine condition in the original dark blue cloth in Fine matching slipcase, SIGNED by US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter with his full signature "Jimmy Carter" on the limitation page; The problems that Jimmy Carter faced in the White House were tremendous. This book gives a very thorough and honest review of the major challenges confronting President Carter in the late 1970s. He brought to the Oval Office a habit he shared with two of his 20th century predecessors, Nixon and Truman - that of writing daily entries in a diary. This he maintained, thankfully, throughout his presidency. It is from these entries that his memoirs are constructed .

      [Bookseller: Books Tell You Why]

Parkinson, C Northcote
        Original Artwork for the Dustwrapper of The Guernseyman
      London: John Murray, 1982. Val Biro's finished artwork for the first edition d/w of this book, image 13.5" x 9.5", in gouache on artboard, a beautiful maritime scene, signed by Biro. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition Artwork. No Book/Original Dustjacket Artwork. Illus. by Val Biro.

      [Bookseller: David Schutte]

Walker, Alice
        The Color Purple
      Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. New York: Harcourt Brace Javanovich, 1982: First Edition, First Printing with statement of "First Edition" on copyright page as well as the proper "BCDE" letter string denoting a first printing. In first state dust jacket with original price of $11.95 in tact. In Near Fine condition. Clean text, crisp pages. Sound binding. Unmarked. Spine cloth shows faint sunning at ends; faint reading crease to spine. The dust jacket shows faint rubbing, with a few faint, small dents in the surface, as well as a nick to the top edge of the front panel. A very lovely copy.

      [Bookseller: Odd Duck Books]

PETTIBON, Raymond and Black Flag
        16 Black Flag Flyers
      California 1982 - Sixteen original flyers for the American punk rock band Black Flag, various sizes, in very good to near fine condition with some tape abrasions, slight creasing, and tiny chips from removed staples. Eleven of the flyers are confirmed as having artwork by Raymond Pettibon. Black Flag, widely regarded as one of the first hardcore punk bands, was formed in 1976 by its only continuous member, guitarist Greg Ginn. They were innovators of the West Coast punk sound and were influential in the counterculture of punk both in the U.S. and overseas. From 1981-1984 they were fronted by singer Henry Rollins, arguably their most notorious member. Raymond Pettibon, a highly collected American artist, is noted for his comic-like drawings, ink on paper, and his association with Black Flag and the mid-1970s to late 1980s punk scene. Pettibon, Ginn's younger brother, started as a bass player for the band. He suggested the band's name (changed from the original name, Panic, in late 1978) and also designed their logo of vertical bars, with which the band gained notoriety by spray painting it all around the Los Angeles area. Pettibon was also the unofficial artist for Ginn's record label, SST Records, which released influential recordings from other alternative bands such as the Minutemen, Husker Du, the Meat Puppets, Sonic Youth, and Dinosaur Jr. Details of the collection available upon request. [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA]

BECKETT, Samuel
        Solo suivi de Catastrophe
      Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit,, 1982. Octavo. Original white wrappers printed in black. With the original glassine dust jacket. Contents unopened. A fine copy. First edition, first impression. Number 57 of 99 copies. Inscribed by Beckett on the title page, "For Rosette Lamont, with all good wishes, from Sam Beckett. Paris 20.5.83". The recipient, Rosette Lamont, was an eminent theatre critic and authority on the works of Beckett and Ionesco who developed friendship with both authors.

      [Bookseller: Peter Harrington]

        Islamic Criminal Justice System
      Oceana Publications, 1982. Paperback. Very Good. NOTE: PAPERBACK edition. London: Oceana Publications, 1982. Paperback. 255 pp. Near fine. Slight toning at edges, no markings. Compliments of the author card laid in at front.

      [Bookseller: Stick Figure Books (ABAA/ILAB)]

Stephen King
        Different Seasons - SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR.
      Macdonald, London 1982 - HARDBACK - A near fine book in a near fine dust wrapper. The book has been boldly signed by the author to the title page. The book is made up of four short stories, three of which have been made into films, including Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me. A most difficult title to acquire, signed by the author. [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A.]

King, Stephen
        Different Seasons
      New York: Viking Press, 1982. First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by Stephen King. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Different Seasons is a collection of four novellas. The novellas are titles: Apt Pupil, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, The Body, and The Breathing Method. The collection is notable for having had three of its four novellas turned into films, one of which, The Shawshank Redemption, was nominated for the 1994 Academy Award for Best Picture.

      [Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books, ABAA/ ILAB]

Eikoh Hosoe
        Human Body (First Edition with Original Shipping Case)
      Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha, Tokyo 1982 - This is a first edition, first printing of Human Body published by Nippon Geijutsu Shuppansha, Tokyo in 1982. Featuring 94 full page duotone photogravures, Human Body is a gorgeously designed retrospective of Hosoes inimitable nudes and includes work from his critically acclaimed Man & Woman and Embrace series as well as many previously unpublished images. Commenting on the images, Galleria Carla Sozzani wrote, this is a continuation of Hosoe's ongoing explorations of the male and female bodies. It focuses on the dialogue between men and women and extracts the essence of life by cleverly abstracting the flesh. The images are erotic, but not affectionate and show physical angst, the struggle of the genders. Hosoe's camera never captures the bodies from a dominant angle, therefore, the series of works in this exhibition are not merely expressing the bodies of the opposite sex, but are depicting the discovery of the equal and diverse relationships, such as the dialogue. Measuring approximately 12 x 12 inches, the book is bound in black cloth-covered boards with a white dust jacket that is housed in a black printed slipcase and comes with the original shipping carton. The book and dust jacket are in FINE condition. The original shipping carton is in Near Fine condition and has minor wear. Overall, this is an exceptional copy of one of the scarcer titles by Eikoh Hosoe. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Franklin Books]

Caro, Robert A.
        The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path To Power, Means of Ascent, Master of the Senate, Passage To Power.
      New York: Knopf, 1982-2012. - First editions of each volume in the historian's ground-breaking biography on President Lyndon Johnson. Octavo, 4 volumes. Original cloth. Each volume is signed by Robert Caro and each are fine in near fine to fine dust jackets, with Path To Power and Means of Ascent price-clipped. A very sharp set. "A monumental political saga . . . powerful and stirring. It's an overwhelming experience to read The Path to Power." (The New York Times). "Stands at the pinnacle of the biographical art" (Donald R. Morris, Houston Post). [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books, ABAA/ ILAB]

Hovhaness, Alan
        One-page musical quotation from Sonata on the Long Eclipse of the Moon, July 6, 1982 (Opus 367 for Piano) (Signed by Hovhaness)
      None, 1982. One page musical manuscript quotation, 11x14 inches, from "Sonata on the Long Eclipse of the Moon, July 6, 1982. (Opus 367 for piano)." INSCRIBED by Hovhaness at the bottom of the page: "To the Word Book Store / To Mr. V.E. Moody: from Sonata on the Long Eclipse of the Moon / July 6, 1982 / Alan Hovhaness / Copyright 1982, By Fujihara Music Co., Inc." A 6-line autograph quotation, with each line bearing two treble clefs, totaling 12-lines, written out in the composer's very neat hand. Entire manuscript pages by the composer are extremely uncommon.

      [Bookseller: Royal Books, Inc.]

Walker, Alice
        The Color Purple
      New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982. First edition. Octavo, original half cloth. Signed by the author in a contemporary hand. Fine in a fine price-clipped dust jacket. Her third novel, The Color Purple won Alice Walker the 1983 Pulitzer Price, making her the first African-American woman to win one. "While Walker's first two novels end in the promise of good, The Color Purple ends in happiness, reunion and celebration. Walker has said that she took her great-grandmother's life, which included rape and childbearing at age 11, and gave it a happy ending. Once again she had begun with one of her ancestors' stories, completing and transmuting it through her art" (African American Writers, 351). "Critics have both praised and attacked Walker's use of black folk English to capture [protagonist] Celie's perspective. Walker responded, 'Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. And, amazingly, it has sustained us more securely than the arms of angels'" (New York Public Library, Books of the Century, 135).

      [Bookseller: Raptis Rare Books, ABAA/ ILAB]

John Dunning
        Deadline
      London - Victor Gollancz 1982 - A first UK edition of this novel by John Dunning. A new talent from America cannily combines some highly unusual suspense elements in a novel that is at once fresh, original & unputdownable. John Dunning (born January 9, 1942) is an American writer of non-fiction and detective fiction. He is known for his reference books on old-time radio and his series of mysteries featuring Denver bookseller and ex-policeman Cliff Janeway. Condition: In a red cloth binding in an unclipped dustwrapper in an acetate protective covering. Externally, smart with just minor shelfwear. Dustwrapper is smart with just minor edgewear. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Overall:FINE in a FINEdustwrapper. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Rooke Books PBFA]

Abbey, Edward
        Down the River
      New York: E.P. Dutton., 1982. First edition. Hardcover. 242pp. Octavo [21.5 cm] 1/2 white cloth over blue boards. Illustrated by the author. Fine/Fine. Signed by the author in black ink on the front free endsheet. First appearance of these philosophical and autobiographical essays by the father of the modern environmental movement. Notes and musings on the American west from the author of Desert Solitaire and Monkey Wrench Gang.

      [Bookseller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA]

Brennan, Joseph Francis
        The Sound of Poetry
      Regency Press, London 1982 - New edition. 32 pp. Covers a little foxed inside. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Dublin Bookbrowsers]

        Wayzgoose Anthology. A collection of signatures produced by Private Press Printers & bound by Hand Bookbinders taking part in [the] Wayzgoose. held in the Grimsby Public Art Gallery.
      Grimsby Public Art Gallery., Grimsby, Ontario - 1982-2012; thirty-one volumes in all. Octavo. Individual issues are mostly bound in buckram, but also cloth, leather and fabric; universally in Fine condition, as issued. A near complete run (unfortunately lacking the first three issues) of this fantastic anthology, issued in annual editions of between one hundred and one hundred fifteen copies. Sold as a set, only. Additional images and more detailed list of contents and contributors available upon request. // The earliest issues of these compilations included only a handful of contributors - sometimes only six or seven or ten - but even then contained notable printers and presses, such as Will Reuter's Aliquando Press, Bill Poole's Poole Hall Press, Hugh Walter Barclay's Hell Box Press and George Walker's Pancake Press. The most recent years of the anthologies have included thirty contributors! Individually -- but most certainly taken as a whole -- these books are both a fantastic tribute and reflection of small & private press printing at a specific time & place. Image or additional images available upon request [Attributes: Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers ABAA]

        Wayzgoose Anthology. A collection of signatures produced by Private Press Printers & bound by Hand Bookbinders taking part in [the] Wayzgoose... held in the Grimsby Public Art Gallery
      Grimsby, Ontario: Grimsby Public Art Gallery.. Hardcover. 1982-2012; thirty-one volumes in all. Octavo. Individual issues are mostly bound in buckram, but also cloth, leather and fabric; universally in Fine condition, as issued. A near complete run (unfortunately lacking the first three issues) of this fantastic anthology, issued in annual editions of between one hundred and one hundred fifteen copies. Sold as a set, only. Additional images and more detailed list of contents and contributors available upon request. // The earliest issues of these compilations included only a handful of contributors - sometimes only six or seven or ten - but even then contained notable printers and presses, such as Will Reuter's Aliquando Press, Bill Poole's Poole Hall Press, Hugh Walter Barclay's Hell Box Press and George Walker's Pancake Press. The most recent years of the anthologies have included thirty contributors! Individually -- but most certainly taken as a whole -- these books are both a fantastic tribute and reflection of small & private press printing at a specific time & place. Image or additional images available upon request

      [Bookseller: Wessel & Lieberman Booksellers ABAA]

Grafton, Sue
        A IS FOR ALIBI - WITH SIGNED BOOKPLATE LAID IN
      Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York 1982 - First Printing. Octavo; dark gray paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in red foil on spine; 274pp, [1]. Bookplate signed by Grafton loosely laid in. Fine in a Very Good+ dustjacket, unclipped, with a single 1.5" tear to lower front flap fold, with some discreet attendant creasing. First book in the author's best-selling Kinsey Millhone series. [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books]

Douglas Adams
        Life the Universe and Everything
      Arthur Barker, London 1982 - HARDBACK - A very good book with clean, un marked blue boards. The corners are free of knocks and the spine tips are sharp. The book is tightly bound with no spine lean. The inner pages are clean with just a few light marks to a couple of pages. The book is free of any previous owner names or Inscriptions. The dust wrapper is in very good or better condition. There is a small closed tear to the bottom corner of the front flap, and there is light creaming to the white of the spine, but overall the dust wrapper's colours are bright and fresh. Not price clipped, but with no price, as published. [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A.]

(ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS - EARLY, FACSIMILES)
        DAS GOLDENE EVANGELIENBUCH VON ECHTERNACH. CODEX AUREUS EPTERNACENSIS. [THE GOLDEN GOSPEL BOOK OF ECHTERNACH]
      Coron Verlag Zurich: Coron Verlag, 1982. No. 8 OF 150 SPECIAL COPIES in the deluxe binding (of 850 total copies) . Hardcover. 457 x 324 mm (18 x 12 3/4"). 136 leaves (in the facsimile volume). Two volumes (including commentary volume in German). Companion volume by Rainer Kahsnitz. No. 8 OF 150 SPECIAL COPIES in the deluxe binding (of 850 total copies). Facsimile attractively bound in the publisher's gold slubbed silk, both covers with brass corner plates featuring a stylized quatrefoil leaf, front cover with the same plate used, on the diagonal, as centerpiece, wide raised bands; FACSIMILE VOLUME HOUSED IN A STRIKING LEATHER BOX WITH cork lining and a top in which is set A CONVINCING 8 x 5" REPRODUCTION OF THE ECHTERNACH GOSPEL COVER, FEATURING THE 10TH CENTURY OTTONIAN IVORY CRUCIFIXION, AROUND WHICH IS A WIDE FRAME WITH JEWELS set in gold filigree between intricately decorated enamelled plaques; companion volume with vellum spine and rose boards depicting in 28 squares roaring lions of Medieval style. Text in 23 1/2 karat gold, more than 500 initials in colors, gold, and silver, full-page initial at the opening of each Gospel, four "carpet" openings adorned with the colors and patterns of Byzantine fabrics, and 60 miniatures illustrating Christ in Majesty with the Evangelists and the Prophets, parables told by Jesus, and scenes from the life of Christ. Prospectus with folder containing sample leaf laid in. The corners of the box showing a hint of wear, but the facsimile volume in virtually mint condition. The monks of Echternach, a community founded in Luxemburg in the late seventh century by the English missionary St. Willibrod, produced outstanding illuminated books, one of the grandest of which is this Golden Gospel, named for the golden lettering of the text. Our marvelous facsimile, which does not stint the use of gold leaf, effectively reproduces the delicate colors of the original, in which orchid pink and mint green predominate. The Gospel dates to the early 11th century (the ivory used on the cover of the original book is from a few decades earlier) and is executed in the style of illumination developed during the so-called Ottonian Renaissance of the 10th century, when the German Empire (in which Echternach was then included) was ruled by one Saxon Otto or another: Otto I (936-973), Otto II (973-983), or Otto III (983-1002). One interesting feature of these Gospel illustrations is that the influence of Byzantine Greek art is noticeable; this is due to the arrival in Germany in 972 of the 12-year-old Greek princess Theophano to marry the future Otto II. The Greek influence is particularly strong in the depictions of the evangelists, seated at their desks, surrounded with a classicizing architectural frame, and surmounted by their winged symbols. The four creatures reappear, along with four prophets at their desks, in the eight tondos surrounding the Christ in Majesty, also Greek in style. Whereas these scenes are formal and hieratic, the narrative scenes are done in a lively, vernacular style, and clearly more than one artist worked on this masterpiece. Christ is shown with long black hair, his large hands often raised in a gesture of healing and teaching, followed by disciples wearing a rainbow of garments. Our very substantial and heavy facsimile--the box and two volumes together weigh almost 40 pounds--is an extraordinary piece of work, and it represents facsimile production at its finest, especially in our strictly limited version that reproduces the late 10th century binding done in Trier, considered to be the finest book cover of the Ottonian era.

      [Bookseller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Mediev]

Pollock, Jackson:
        The last sketchbook. (Reprint). Introduction by William S. Liebermann.
      Johnson Reprint Corporation, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers., (New York). 1982 - 2 Hefte. (New York). Johnson Reprint Corporation, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Publishers. 1982. 35x22 cm. Reprint: 84 n.n. S.; Einführung: 20 S. Blockbuch (15x33 cm) und Originalbroschur (33x15 cm) in schwarzer Leinwandkassette mit Rücken- und Deckelschild. Eines von 525 numerierten Exemplaren. - Schönes Exemplar. Sprache: Englisch Blockbuch (15x33 cm) und Originalbroschur (33x15 cm) in schwarzer Leinwandkassette mit Rücken- und Deckelschild. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: Daniel Thierstein]

Kazuo Ishiguro
        A Pale View of Hills - in completely unfaded dust wrapper
      A first edition, first printing published by Faber in 1982. A fine book (one small date to rear end-paper) - this is a review copy and comes with related ephemera for the release of the book. A trace of spotting to the page edges and a little to the front endpaper. In COMPLETELY UNFADED dust wrapper. This is very rare as the book is prone to sunning of the spine. This copy has no fading whatsoever and is unclipped.A superb copy.

      [Bookseller: John Atkinson Books]

Ishiguro, Kazuo
        A Pale View of Hills
      Faber and Faber, 1982. First British (and true first) Edition (first printing),. The debut novel by the author of THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, a story in which the sorrows of war-torn Nagasaki reach deep into the English countryside. Fine/Fine but for a "shadow" running down the right side of the front dust jacket panel -- the result of a thin light water stain visible only on the reverse side of the jacket. Overall, a bright, clean copy. . 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine.

      [Bookseller: Bill Leone, Bookseller ABAA]