The old runic letters were much used in the Viking Age. Runes have been found from the Black Sea in the South to Russia in the east, all over Europe and Scandinavia, and in Greenland. Runes on memorial stones, weapons, tools, calfskin, wax plates, wooden boards and pins. They were used to send messages, mark possesions, make calendars, write law-books and love letters. This concise and readable book tells the story of the viking runes, and each letter is explained with the help of a runic verse dating from the Viking Age. A quick guide to a fascinating world, for the general reader.

Language: English
Pages: 59
Illustrations: 32 Color Illustrations. 8 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 7”x 4 1/2”
Binding: Hardbound
Subcategory: None
Edition:
Weight: 1
ISBN: 9979856386
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Code: 5790
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: New

Price: $17.50

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Language: English
Pages: 32
Illustrations: Some B&W Illustrations.
Size: 7”x 5”
Binding: Softbound
Subcategory: Survey
Edition:
Weight: 1
ISBN: 9519939482
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Location of Exhibition:
Miscellaneous: Cat. of exh.


Code: 6363
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: New

Price: $9.50

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Facsimile edition of a sales catalogue for Artek originally printed in 1935. This booklet includes a variety of chairs, tables, desks, bookcases, tables cabinets, bedroom and children’s furniture, dressers designed by Alvar Aalto. An important publication for collectors of modernism.

Language: English/ Finnish No Text
Pages: 22
Illustrations: 103 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 12”x 9 1/2”
Binding: Softbound
Subcategory: Furniture Design/Wood Carving Monographs
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Weight: 0
ISBN: 9525371115
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Miscellaneous: Cat. of exh.


Code: 5498
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: New

Price: $19.50

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This booklet is published by Finmar Company in England. The company worked in close cooperation with the architect Alvar Aalto and with Oy Artek Ab, which was founded in Helsinki in 1935. The Finnish architect has succeeded in perfecting a method of woodworking especially well adapted to the making of chairs. The chairs are extremely comfortable; they are light and take up very little room. In appearance they are elegant, their flowing lines lending them a personal, modern character. As the chairs are only waxed and polished, the excellent craftmanship can be examined without difficulty. These described chairs, together with other articles of furniture, have been christened Aalto products. This booklet presents pictures of stackable chairs and stools, more comfortable chairs, tables, bookcases, children’s furniture, a desk and Aalto’s famous tea-trolley.

Language: English
Pages: 54
Illustrations: 33 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 4”x 8”
Binding: Softbound
Subcategory: Furniture Design/Wood Carving Monographs
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Weight: 0
ISBN: 9525371107
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Code: 5497
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: New

Price: $19.50

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Sigsgaard’s interest in children’s folklore inspired him to write this book that has become a classic in Denmark. The starting point for this book is a collection of 2000 rhymes by Copenhagen school children. A wonderful children’s book fully illustrated told in this unique poetic verse.

Language: Danish
Pages: 28
Illustrations: 15 Color Illustrations. 11 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 10 1/2”x 7 1/2”
Binding: Hardbound
Subcategory: None
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Weight: 1
ISBN: 8700613916
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Code: 5681
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: New

Price: $27.50

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Essays: The Great Source of Inspiration by Lars Berglund; The African Enchantment by Katia Samaltanos-Stenström. A beautiful, richly illustrated book on African sculpture covering 15 African countries very thoroughly.

Language: English/ Swedish
Pages: 159
Illustrations: 53 Color Illustrations. 159 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 11”x 8 1/2”
Binding: Hardbound
Subcategory: None
Edition:
Weight: 2
ISBN: 9177040163
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Location of Exhibition: Exh. Cat.: Africa
Miscellaneous: Cat. of exh.


Code: 0391
Condition: All damaged
Status: Web Site Only

Price: $49.50

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This book includes a couple of selected fairy tales including “The Little Mermaid” and “The Ugly Duckling”, which established Andersens fame after he wrote and became known for his fairytales. This volume is also the debut of Aurelie Blanz illustrations, an illustrator who studied in Paris and Hamburg.

Language: German
Pages: 79
Illustrations: 52 Color Illustrations. 4 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 10” x 11 1/2”
Binding: Hardbound
Subcategory: None
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Weight: 2
ISBN: 3936681023
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Code: 5923
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: New

Price: $39.00

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Andy Pape, born in California in 1955, came to Denmark at the age of fifteen. With his chamber opera The Great Houdini, Pape had an unusual musical breakthrough in 1988. His catalogue as a composer includes instrumental theatre compositions as well as orchestral and chamber music with a fondness for distinctive instrument combinations and frequent use of percussion. This opera was conceived after Pape was captivated by the sound of two women’s voices together, Maria Stenz and Edith Guillaume. Although they were trained in seperate traditions (classical opera and the chanson/cabaret tradition), he thought they sounded extraordinarily good together.

Language: English/ Danish
Pages: 87
Illustrations: 4 B&W Illustrations.
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Binding: CD Disc
Subcategory: None
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Weight: 0
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Code: 5910
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: New

Price: $16.50

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The early Medieval aristocratic setting in Järrestad, south-east Scania, Sweden is in focus for this doctorial dissertation in archaeology about the emergence of political structures immediately preceding the south Scandinavian state formation. The site with its sequence of halls shows a conspicuous resemblance especially to the Danish site Tisso is interpreted as part of an aristocratic network involving these and other sites.

Language: Swedish/ some English in Summary and Captions
Pages: 518
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 89 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 9 1/2”x 8”
Binding: Softbound
Subcategory: None
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Weight: 3
ISBN: 9172093811
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Miscellaneous: Bibl.


Code: 6165
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: New

Price: $59.50

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47 drawings and water colors, which are in the Ethnographic Museum at Oslo University. These drawings have never been published as a whole previously. They convey the lifestyle of the eskimo people and touch on political, religious and moral symbolism.

Language: Danish
Pages: 122
Illustrations: 51 Color Illustrations. 0 B&W Illustrations.
Size: 8”x 8 1/2”
Binding: Clothbound with Jacket
Subcategory: None
Edition:
Weight: 2
ISBN: 8789985389
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Code: 4844
Condition: In Pristine Condition
Status: Backlist

Price: $75.00

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