Hardcover. NY, The John Day Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 361 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition due to multiple chips and tears, and has been price clipped on the inside front flap. Cloth covers have some minor discoloration but are still in very good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout, The first night spent in an American home by D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda was spent in that of Witter Bynner. Soon afterward, they went together to Mexico on a memorable visit, which this book records in rich detail. This memoir is not just about the Lawrences, but is about a whole era in the intellectual and artistic life of the American Southwest. Previous owner's paste-down and markings in blue pen are present on the first front and last rear end pages, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34215
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Dana Estes & Company, Publishers, Illustrated Cabinet Edition, circa 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 393 pages volume 1, 492 pages volume 2, 425 pages volume 3, 495 pages volume 4, and 467 pages volume 5, hardcovers. Green cloth cover boards with gilt leaf embellishments have some edge wear and rubbing. Interior pages are clean and bright, with deckled outside edges and gilt top edges. Bindings are solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This set of art criticism features Ruskin's arguments on landscape painting, Turner, and nature. Due to the size and weight of the package, this 5-volume set is available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copies. Record # 34514
Hardcover. London, U.K., Grafton Books, Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, blue cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains a bind-in halfway through with some B&W photography. This book is a biography which presents the life and career of the Irish novelist O'Nolan, including his childhood, his days as a newspaper columnist, his marriage, and his final days. It is rich in background, anecdote, and social history, informing the reader not only about O'Nolan, but also about the country of Ireland in which his lot was cast. Clean copy. Record # 34324
Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 284 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains more than 100 B&W and full-color photographs and illustrations throughout. This wide-ranging book is the first to explore the visual culture of Russia over the entire span of Russian history, from ancient Kiev to contemporary, post-Soviet society. The book examines the ways that Russians have represented themselves visually and used visual images in social and political contexts. Expert contributors discuss images and objects from all over the Russian/Soviet empire, including consumer goods, architectural monuments, religious icons, portraits, news and art photography, popular prints, films, folk art, and more. Clean copy. Record # 33975
Softcover. Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, Reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. Must poetic form be, as Yeats demanded, "full, sphere-like, single," or can it accommodate the impurities Yeats and his Modernist generation found so problematic? Sixty years later, these are still open questions, which Marjorie Perloff addresses in these essays. Clean copy. Record # 34249
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 215 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has several ex-library stickers, with minor staining and light bumping. Black cloth covers and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is slightly loose, due to a cracked front hinge. Contains full-color photography throughout. This book by two widely recognized specialists on Velazquez shows exactly how Spain's most famous painter realized his artistic vision. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. It is an ex-library book with the standard exterior markings, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34304
Softcover. London, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Reprint, 2024, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages, soft cover. Covers are in good condition, despite some minor edge wear. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W photography throughout. This intellectual biography of outspoken public activist, professor, and architectural historian and critic Vincent Scully's life and career traces the formative moments in his thinking, mapping his relationships with a constellation of architects, artists, and cultural personalities of the past one hundred years. Previous owner's signature on front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33883
Hardcover. Chicago, IL, A. C. McClurg & Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 293 pages, hardcover. Green cloth covers with raised bust and gilt text have minor discoloration, with bumping and rubbing to the corners and edges. Interior pages are clean and bright, with a gilt top edge. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This volume compiles poems and letters from 1818 to 1822, tracing Percy Bysshe Shelley's creative, emotional, and physical journey during his Italian exile. The selection showcases his responses to Italian landscapes and his personal hardships. Clean copy. Record # 34336
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