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2015Best.-Nr. 112258BIS Publishers. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer-- . 2015. 9063693737 . BIS Publishers paperback
2002Best.-Nr. 85620Indiana University Press. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - FLAWLESS COPY BRAND NEW PRISTINE NEVER OPENED -- - Corresponds to ISBN: 0253215692. 336 pages. -- with a bonus offer--; Contrary to those who insist that the Holocaust defies representation Image and Remembrance demonstrates that artistic representations are central to the practice of remembrance and commemoration. Including essays on representations of the Holocaust in film architecture painting photography memorials and monuments this thought-provoking volume considers ways in which visual artists have given form to the experience of the Holocaust and addresses the role that imagination plays in shaping historical memory. Contributors include James Young Susan Rubin Suleiman Daniel Libeskind and Marianne Hirsch. . 2002. 0253215692 . Indiana University Press paperback
2011Best.-Nr. 96164Ashgate. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 182 pp. ; 17 illus. -- with a bonus offer--; Ashgate Studies in Architecture; As Ruskin suggests in his "Seven Lamps of Architecture": 'We may live within architecture and worship without her but we cannot remember without her.' We remember best when we experience an event in a place. But what happens when we leave that place or that place no longer exists This book addresses the relationship between memory and place and asks how architecture captures and triggers memory. It explores how architecture exists as a physical entity and how it registers as a place that we come to remember beyond the physical site itself. It questions what architecture is in the broadest sense assuming that it is not simply buildings. Rather architecture is considered to be the mapping of physical mental or emotional space. The idea that we are all architects in some measure - as we actively organize and select pathways and markers within space - is central to this book's premise. Each chapter provides a different example of the manifold ways in which the physical place of architecture is curated by the architecture in our 'mental' space: our imaginary toolbox when we think of a place and look at a photograph or visit a site and describe it later or send a postcard. By connecting architecture with other disciplines such as geography visual culture sociology and urban studies as well as the fine and performing arts this book puts forward the idea that a conversation about architecture is not exclusively about formal isolated buildings but instead must be deepened and broadened as spatialized visualizations and experiences of place. . 2011. 140940871X . Ashgate hardcover
1998Best.-Nr. 54010Yale University Press; Et Al. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - 272 pages. Book Description: This beautiful book reproduces more than 120 paintings drawings pastels sculptures and prints of horses and scenes at the racecourse-all created by Edgar Degas. Examining for the first time Degas`s lifelong interest in the world of jockeys and horses the book discusses the artist`s portrayals of people at the racing grounds and the importance of the horse as a source of his inspiration. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1998. 0300075170 . Yale University Press; Et Al hardcover
2015Best.-Nr. 116806Schiffer Craft. New. Hardcover. IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer; 9.25 X 1 X 12.25 inches; 224 pages . 2015. 0764349945 . Schiffer Craft hardcover
2012Best.-Nr. 102252Thames & Hudson. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 208 pages; 391 illustrations most in color. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2012. 0500290350 . Thames & Hudson paperback
2010Best.-Nr. 88753Princeton University Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 328 pages. -- with a bonus offer--; As an artist Edgar Degas 1834-1917 defies easy description. Allied with the French impressionists through his commitment to portraying modern life he also took an independent course preferring line over color and the visible brushstroke and working in a studio instead of out-of-doors. He is perhaps best known as a painter but his most widely known work is a sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. Executed in wax near life-sized dressed in a ballerina's tutu with real ballet slippers and real hair the sculpture caused a sensation when it was exhibited in 1881. It is the only sculpture Degas ever showed publicly though more than one hundred--of dancers horses and bathers--were found in his studio after he died all dusty some fallen apart. For almost forty years after his death these works were known only through the bronzes his heirs had cast from the originals.Then in 1955 the waxes themselves appeared on the art market. Thanks to the discernment and generosity of Paul Mellon the majority are now preserved at the National Gallery of Art Washington most on permanent display. This groundbreaking volume honors this extraordinary gift by linking art and science. It brings together the insights of a distinguished art historian of nineteenth-century painting and sculpture and the specialized knowledge of National Gallery conservators and scientists who have published pioneering technical studies. Including essays on Degas' life and work his sculptural technique and materials and the story of the sculptures after his death it features art-historical and technical discussions of every work in the collection as well as indispensable concordances and bibliography. The richly illustrated text is intended for both art lover and specialist. Was Degas the sculptor technically inept or unusually inventive How do we understand his sculpture in light of his paintings prints and photographs These questions and many others are explored with originality and depth adding immeasurably to our understanding of the artistic avant-garde in the late nineteenth century and to our appreciation of this controversial artist. . 2010. 069114897X . Princeton University Press hardcover
2009Best.-Nr. 79446Museum. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 260 pp. 29 x 23 cm. -- with a bonus offer--; Between September 7 and 9 2006 25 scholars of Italian Renaissance art gathered at the Georgia Museum of Art to honor Andrew Ladis Franklin Professor of Art History at the University of Georgia s Lamar Dodd School of Art. Sponsored by the museum the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences the Lamar Dodd School of Art the Willson Center for the Humanities and Arts and the President s Venture Fund the conference represented the fulfillment of more than 10 years of similar gatherings in Athens that Ladis had helped to organize. The scholars and audience that came to Athens in September 2006 had all participated in one or another of these earlier events. They gathered to honor Ladis s scholarship and to celebrate his generosity his enthusiasm and his joy at sharing art history with others. "The Historian s Eye: Essays on Italian Art in Honor of Andrew Ladis" comprises many of the papers presented at that conference from scholars including Paul Barolsky Norman E. Land Perri Lee Roberts and the editors of this volume Hayden B.J. Maginnis and Shelley E. Zuraw. Subjects addressed range from maps of Rome to chalices and guild regulations the history of the Madonna delle Grazie motif in Renaissance Naples and the echoes of the Divine Comedy in the murals of the Chiostro Verde. The book concludes with a collection of tributes to Ladis by his former students and his academic bibliography. More than the usual compilation of essays resulting from a conference "The Historian s Eye" is a true Festschrift and a worthy tribute to Ladis as scholar and teacher. . 2009. 0915977699 . Museum hardcover
2014Best.-Nr. 110680University of Notre Dame Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer-- . 2014. 0268038430 . University of Notre Dame Press hardcover
2007Best.-Nr. 89357Schirmer/Mosel. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English and Portuguese. 128 pp. ; 83 color illustrations. -- with a bonus offer--; Portugal is a small country with a great past. Vasco da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India turned the independent kingdom of Portugal into the leading sea and colonial power in the Western world. Lisbon presumably founded by the Phoenicians was one of Europe's richest cities in the heyday of the Age of Discovery. Today Portugal's monasteries and churches its palaces libraries opera houses and museums which have survived evoke past glory with immense murals composed of colored tiles and ornate sculptural décor. We are publishing the volume to coincide with Candida Höfer's exhibition of her Portugal photos at Centro Cultural de Belém Lisbon. Portuguese writer and 1998 Nobel Prize Winner for Literature José Saramago has written an essay for this catalog. . 2007. 3829602790 . Schirmer/Mosel hardcover
1967Best.-Nr. 90841Univ of Nebraska Pr. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - -- with a bonus offer-- . 1967. 0803204612 . Univ of Nebraska Pr hardcover
1908Best.-Nr. 38923London: Henry Frowde / Oxford University Press. As New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - -- with a bonus offer--; T-Shel; Shelley Percy Bysshe; Edited with Textual Notes By Hutchinson Thomas The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Including Materials Never Before Printed in Any Edition of the Poems . 1908. Henry Frowde / Oxford University Press hardcover
2010Best.-Nr. 92983Archetype Books. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 220 pages; 119 illustrations. Description: "The three one-day conferences from which the papers in this title are taken were jointly hosted by Paintings Group of the Institute of Conservation ICON and the British Association of Painting Conservators-Restorers BAPCR and held at the Courtauld Institute in London in 2007. The conferences explored egg tempura retouching resin retouching and retouching complex surfaces. The papers in this volume discuss various approaches to retouching paintings and the challenges that they present to the conservator. They cover the history behind techniques used today and also the scientific basis of conservation and restoration techniques." -- with a bonus offer--; Papers from a BAPCR/ICON conference on the methods of retouching paintings . 2010. 1904982506 . Archetype Books paperback
2008Best.-Nr. 93714Gallery. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 16 pages; beautifully illustrated. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2008. 0915057956 . Gallery paperback
2010Best.-Nr. 81702Gallery. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 26 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . 2010. Gallery paperback
1996Best.-Nr. 76124Museum; Et Al. New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- Text in English. 96 pp. one foldout with 44 ills. 24 col. . 28 x 24 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1996. 091597729X . Museum; Et Al paperback
1931Best.-Nr. 080595New York: Grosset & Dunlap 1931. Book. Good. Hardcover. Photoplay Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The first page has two quarter inch circular size tears as well as some browning wear. The last page has some light browning wear and the spine is broken along the back inside cover. The jacket has small tears chips creases and scuffing along the edges. . Grosset & Dunlap Hardcover
1835Best.-Nr. 37723New York: Wallis and Newell Publishers 1835. First American Edition. Original purple cloth with gilt title at spine octavo. Novel of a mother and daughter who navigate difficulties after their father and husband Lord Lodore is killed in a duel. Nearly Very Good contemporary previously owner signature at front endpaper stain to first half of pages at lower inside corner fading to cloth Wallis and Newell Publishers hardcover
1821Best.-Nr. 244926London: C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street 1821. Second edition but the first to appear in England; the book was first printed in Livorno Italy in 1819 in an edition of 250 copies. xvii 103 pp. Printed by C.H. Reynall. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full blue morocco spine gilt t.e.g. others uncut by the Rose Bindery Boston. Fine copy. Small booklabel. Second edition but the first to appear in England; the book was first printed in Livorno Italy in 1819 in an edition of 250 copies. xvii 103 pp. Printed by C.H. Reynall. 1 vols. 8vo. One of Shelley's most important works prompted by learning the lurid story of Beatrice Cenci and Guido's portrait of her. He began the play in May 1819 in Rome and finished it in September; he had stage production in mind from the start and he asked Thomas Love Peacock to arrange for it to appear at Covent Garden. As a play by an atheist however and dealing with incest it stood no chance with the censor. The Cenci was never performed in Shelley's lifetime. Ashley Library V p. 69; Wise: A Shelley Library p.51 C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street unknown
1892Best.-Nr. 318687Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press 1892. Large Paper Edition limited to 250 numbered copies inscribed by the editor on the ffep of Volume I: "To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Bigelow/ from their friend/ G.E.R. Woodberry/ April 13 1901. 8 vols. 8vo. Bound in modern half brown morocco over marbled boards spines gilt with burgundy and green calf title labels some foxing to endpapers uncut and largely unopened else fine. Large Paper Edition limited to 250 numbered copies inscribed by the editor on the ffep of Volume I: "To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Bigelow/ from their friend/ G.E.R. Woodberry/ April 13 1901.". 8 vols. 8vo. Printed at the Riverside Press unknown
1880Best.-Nr. 310723London: Reeves and Turner 1880. hardcover. near fine. Edited by Buxton Forman. 4 volumes tall thick 8vo gilt doublures full red French levant red silk end papers top edges gilt bound by Zaehnsdorf One hinge slightly dry. Portrait and facsimilies. London: Reeves and Turner 1880. Near Fine. Previous owner's name on fly-leaf. Reeves and Turner unknown
1821Best.-Nr. 244926London: C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street 1821. Second edition but the first to appear in England; the book was first printed in Livorno Italy in 1819 in an edition of 250 copies. xvii 103 pp. Printed by C.H. Reynall. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in full blue morocco spine gilt t.e.g. others uncut by the Rose Bindery Boston. Fine copy. Small booklabel. Second edition but the first to appear in England; the book was first printed in Livorno Italy in 1819 in an edition of 250 copies. xvii 103 pp. Printed by C.H. Reynall. 1 vols. 8vo. One of Shelley's most important works prompted by learning the lurid story of Beatrice Cenci and Guido's portrait of her. He began the play in May 1819 in Rome and finished it in September; he had stage production in mind from the start and he asked Thomas Love Peacock to arrange for it to appear at Covent Garden. As a play by an atheist however and dealing with incest it stood no chance with the censor. The Cenci was never performed in Shelley's lifetime. Ashley Library V p. 69; Wise: A Shelley Library p.51 C. and J. Ollier Vere Street Bond Street unknown books
1892Best.-Nr. 318687Cambridge: Printed at the Riverside Press 1892. Large Paper Edition limited to 250 numbered copies inscribed by the editor on the ffep of Volume I: "To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Bigelow/ from their friend/ G.E.R. Woodberry/ April 13 1901. 8 vols. 8vo. Bound in modern half brown morocco over marbled boards spines gilt with burgundy and green calf title labels some foxing to endpapers uncut and largely unopened else fine. Large Paper Edition limited to 250 numbered copies inscribed by the editor on the ffep of Volume I: "To Mr. and Mrs. Lewis S. Bigelow/ from their friend/ G.E.R. Woodberry/ April 13 1901.". 8 vols. 8vo. Printed at the Riverside Press unknown books
1880Best.-Nr. 310723London: Reeves and Turner 1880. hardcover. near fine. Edited by Buxton Forman. 4 volumes tall thick 8vo gilt doublures full red French levant red silk end papers top edges gilt bound by Zaehnsdorf One hinge slightly dry. Portrait and facsimilies. London: Reeves and Turner 1880. Near Fine. Previous owner's name on fly-leaf. Reeves and Turner unknown books
1839Best.-Nr. 191840London: Edward Moxon 1839. Giving the productions of a sublime genius to the world First collected edition uniformly bound by Root & Sons. Mary Shelley's collected edition of her husband's poetical works established him finally and irreversibly amongst the great poets of the English language. The appearance of pirated editions of Shelley's works persuaded his father Sir Timothy that hope of obscurity had vanished and Mary was permitted to prepare a proper edition provided she kept biographical detail to a minimum. "Mary Shelley brought Shelley into the mainstream of the national culture. He was no longer the author of a notorious banned poem Queen Mab only obtainable from shops specializing in blasphemy sedition and advice on birth control. He was the prophet of Prometheus Unbound one of the most ambitious attempts ever made to uplift life by literature and of other works such as the "Ode to the West Wind". The notes that Mary added are masterpieces of editing adding so immeasurably to the reader's understanding that nobody would now consider printing Shelley's poems without them" St Clair p. 492. 4 vols octavo 165 x 104 mm. Bound with half-titles. Engraved portrait frontispiece in vol. I as issued. Near-contemporary polished calf by Root & Sons for Charles E. Lauriat Boston twin spine labels compartments decorated in gilt covers with triple gilt rule borders and fleur-de-lis cornerpieces gilt roll to turn-ins marbled endpapers top edges gilt orange silk bookmarkers. Christmas gift inscription to Anne Lockwood Putnam Jr 1926-2015 from her grandmother Elizabeth Lowell Putnam 1862-1935 dated 1927 on first blanks. Spines uniformly browned shallow wear to vol. IV spine head couple of partial splits to inner hinges light foxing to outer leaves splash mark to edges. A very good set. Dunbar Shelley Studies 345; Granniss 88; Wise p. 87. William St Clair The Godwins and the Shelleys: The Biography of a Family 1989. unknown
