Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 113 pages, b&w illustrations. When architects create a landscape or building, when artists depict a landscape, and when poets write of nature, they recreate certain aesthetic elements observed in nature. Jay Appleton asserts in an insightful analysis that these aesthetic values in landscape are not found in an elevated philosophy of aesthetics or in a culturally bound artistic symbolism but in the biological and behavioral needs that we share with other animals. Thus, the aesthetics of landscape may be approached through other areas of human experience and science, especially the natural and behavioral sciences. They are expressed in symbolism drawn from a primal habitat in which all animals seek survival. Clean copy.
With variorum notes, and numerous illustrations by Gustave Doré. Hardcover. Privately Printed, circa 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with faded gilt lettering, 640 pages. Circa 1920's (there is no date of publication stated). Many pages toward second half are unopened. Solid binding, paper tanning slightly. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Doré's beautiful b&w drawings throughout.
Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in decorated red leather. This limited first edition has been signed by Arthur Miller exclusively for members of the The Signed First Edition Society. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, sewn-in silk bookmarker. Clean, fresh and bright. His aurobiography. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller tells his life story with humor, passion, and candor. Beginning with his childhood and continuing through his life and career telling of both successes and failures. Miller gives colorful portraits of those people who touched his life, such as Marilyn Monroe, Orson Wells, Lucky Luciano, Clark Gable, Tennessee Williams, John F. Kennedy, Mikhail Gorbachev, and many more. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Textiles were the Incas' most prized possessions. Their first gifts to European strangers were made not of gold and silver, but of camelid fibre and cotton. They believed that the highest form of weaving was created expressly for the sun, which they considered the greatest of the celestial powers. This book uses this image to symbolize Andean tradition as a whole and documents the collection of ancient and Colonial Andean textiles in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which is among the most comprehensive of its kind in the world. Described and illustrated here, in many cases for the first time are the finest examples from the collection: weavings of astonishing virtuosity with striking geometric designs, elaborate carpets and covers, mantles, tunics, featherwork, woven shoes with metal decoration and intriguing figural sculptures with tapestry faces - representing the major cultures of the pre-Columbian period as well as the achievements of Spanish Colonial times. Mild wear to outer wraps, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format. Replete with photographs and reproductions of Tony Smith's work. 200 pages including 237 illustrations (108 in color), Chronology, Selected Bibliography, and Exhibition History. Tony Smith (1912-1980) was an American sculptor, architect, and painter best-known for his abstract, large-scale sculptures. As an architect, he worked with Frank Lloyd Wright and founded his own architectural firm during the 1940s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 14th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Story of the Santa Fe trail, presented in a charming production with full color plates and marginal line drawings presenting learning lessons on a variety of Western history subjects. Stated 14th printing, rear of DJ is review for just the Paddle to the Sea. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth covers stamped in blue. Story of the Santa Fe trail, presented in a charming production with full color plates and marginal line drawings presenting learning lessons on a variety of Western history subjects. No printing stated but an obvious reprint of a book first published in 1942. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Amsterdam, Meulenhoff International , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Large oblong hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY JOOF JOOSTEN on the front fly leaf. 84 pages with B/W reproductions of the sketchbooks on each page. Hand-written text transcribed in both Dutch and English. This book makes clear how the abstract art of Mondrian was conceived. A classic book, published in 1969, Measuring an impressive 14.3 x 11 inches. Published on the occasion of adding these TWO SKETCH BOOKS to the collection of the Haags Gemeentemuseum. Tape repairs to reverse of dust jacket, previous owner's embossed stamp and small sticker to front fly leaf. Otherwise a clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. NY, Crown Publishers, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, BW-photographic and navy blue dust jacket with gold lettering. 128 pages, 115 b&w photographs. Official U.S. Navy and Marine Corps photographs of combat in the Pacific and the Atlantic. Edited by Edward Steichen; text by Tom Maloney. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E. Weyhe, 1st US, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large folio, ( over 12" - 15" tall ), red cloth stamped in gilt. 56 pages of German text, comprising introduction and detailed catalogue of plates, the origins of objects (textiles, ceramics and wood) which demonstrate the origins and continued use of traditional design in the folk arts of Europe. Followed by 132 color plates of the objects mostly from Eastern Europe, most pasted in. First published in Germany in 1926, this appears to be the first US edition produced the same year. Architect Albert Kahn's copy with his ownership signature in pencil and date of 1926 on the front fly leaf. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Reynal and Hitchcock, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a tattered and chipped dust jacket. Off-white cloth with black spine title. 217 pages, b&w drawings by the author. Translated from the French, Quand les Cathedrales Etaient Blanches, by Francis E. Hyslop, Jr. Dj is poor with tape repair to the reverse side. Book has a small stamp to the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, Franklin Library, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, This is a memoir from the acclaimed author of "The Princess Bride" and numerous other books and screenplays. Includes a special message from Goldman not present in the trade edition. A fine copy in decorated full leather binding with all page edges gilt and a bound in silk book marker. SIGNED BY GOLDMAN. Something odd, if predictable, became of screenwriter William Goldman after he wrote the touchstone tell-all book on filmmaking, Adventures in the Screen Trade (1983), he became a Hollywood leper. Goldman opens his long-awaited sequel by writing about his years of exile before he found himself--again--as a valuable writer in Hollywood. Fans of the two-time Oscar-winning writer ( Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , All the President's Men ) have anxiously waited for this follow-up since his career serpentined into a variety of big hits and critical bombs in the '80s and '90s. Here Goldman scoops on The Princess Bride (his own favorite), Misery , Maverick , Absolute Power , and others. Goldman's conversational style makes him easy to read for the film novice but meaty enough for the detail-oriented pro. His tendency to ramble into other subjects may be maddening (he suddenly switches from being on set with Eastwood to anecdotes about Newman and Garbo), but we can excuse him because of one fact he is so darn entertaining. An as new copy and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY EISENSTAEDT on the half-title page. The 1966 classic; printed in rich and exquisite gravure. Eisenstaedt photographed for Life magazine from it's beginning in 1936 until 1980. Everyone came before his lens at some point and he covered many of the major news events of the century. Photographs & texts by Alfred Eisenstaedt; foreword by Henry R. Luce; portrait of Eisenstaedt by Gordon Parks. 343 pages; hundreds of b&w and color, gravure-printed illustrations; 10 x 13 inches. Index. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. University of Pennsylvania Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 238 pages. Women's inclinations to identify with television characters varies with their assessment of the realism of these characters and their social world.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Westminster Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 47 pages. Story set in Hong Kong. An orphan raised by nine caring uncles, Yin Sun longs to become a kite maker like his best friend. Illustrated in green, maroon, blue and black by H. Tom Hall. Clean copy.
Softcover. Paris, G. San Lazzaro, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Folio; magazine; 64 pages, with black and white illustrations. Several essays. B&w plates throughout. FRENCH TEXT. Spine paper chipping.