Biographical essay (78 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. In an effort to grow Lou Gehrig's star (today we would call it His Brand), pioneering sports agent Christy Walsh arranged for Lou's tale of baseball greatness to syndicate in newspapers across the country. Until now, those columns were largely forgotten and lost to history. Here you have those accounts followed by an insight biographical essay by historian Alan Graf. Both the non price clipped Dust Jacket and the book are in very good condition. I have around 215 baseball biographies and more than 90 books on Yankee players and teams in stock. Discounts are available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.…

Softcover. Zustand: Fine+. An Exhibition at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, February 22, 1985 to June 28, 1985.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Price Cl'd, Else Very Good. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Price Cl'd, Else Very Good. 2nd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Corner tips lightly rubbed. D/j has top and bottom front flap corners clipped, light edgewear. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. 366 pages.…

Cloth w/DJ. Zustand: G/FR. First Printing. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. G/FR. (1975). First Printing. Cloth w/DJ. REVIEW COPY. Has an inserted photograph that is indicated to be used in the publication. . 8vo., xiii, 366pp., tears in Dj, Dj rubbed, ink and pencil markings . Not Illustrated (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Navy blue cloth binding with light blue p[rint on spine. Very Light wear at spine ends. Light grey endpapers. Light black rubbing at top area of hinge in front endpapers. Tight, sound and otherwise unmarked. 142 pages including bibliography. Book published in conjunction with " Lewis Hine Retrospective" by the Brooklyn Museum, 1977. Dust Jacket Has closed tear in top corner of rear cover. and small tear on top edge. Wear at both spione ends with small divot on top. Ligght tatter on top edge of front panel near foredge. In mylar and not price-clipped ($22.50)_. Slightly larger than standard book, S&H may be adjusted. Photo - Illustrated (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Acceptable. Worn with tears and edge wear. Second Printing, January 1972. The book is in a hardcover format with a dust jacket that shows noticeable wear. There are tears and edge wear on the jacket, indicative of its age. The binding remains intact and the pages are clean, making it a solid reading copy despite the jacket's condition. Designed by Bea Feitler (illustrator). …

First edition (not stated). xxvi, 198 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 15.5cm. Orange dust jacket; some color fading to spine; nicks/scuffs, short tears, and some bumping at edges; front flap is not price-clipped. Muted yellow cloth. Light foxing to text block edges and endpapers; interior leaves are mostly clean. Binding is firm. ISBN 0292750072.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 142 pages, illustrations; 25 x 30 cm. Design by Marvin Israel. Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Previous owner's blind stamp/back flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Profusely illustrated. Another copy available. *** "A compassionate realist in the tradition of Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Hine had the rare gift of being able to transcend the assignments he received as a documentary photographer by investing the most topical subject with lasting human quality. Seventy years after they were made, his Ellis Island pictures are still intensely moving: the newly arrived immigrants caught in all their bewilderment-- uncertain as to whether they will even be admitted to the promised land. How bitterly ironic that this artist and social reformer, after devoting his life to working people, should end up as so many of his subjects did-- on a welfare line. Decades earlier, he had written: "For many years I have followed the procession of child workers winding through a thousand industrial communities from the canneries of Maine to the fields of Texas. I have heard their tragic stories, watched their cramped lives, and seen their fruitless struggles in the industrial game where the odds are all against them." Like Walt Whitman before him, Lewis Hine viewed his work and art as grounded in the fluid movements of everyday lives, of history, the present and the future, expressing with vividness and responsiveness the hope for America revived in a sense of great community, and democracy as a life of free and enriching communion." - Publisher. Size: Oblong.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Dust Jacket.

1988. South America. University of Iowa, 246 p., very good -fine cloth and dust jacket still in original shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 863pp; Index. Blue cloth, gilt stamped; gilt lettering on red spine blocks. DJ front cover affixed to front pastedown; dj blurb affixed to front blank endpaper. Owner's name written in pencil on front endpaper: W.K. Bracken. Former college library volume with customary stamps and labels. Contents clean, tight, textually unmarked. DJ: By far the largest single-volume collection of Lincoln papers and the only one completely annotated for the guidance of the general reader.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Slight foxing inside the front cover and on the title page. ; Original wrappers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Rubbed. Library stamp on inside front cover. No DJ. Clean, no writing, no marks.

HARDCOVER. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VERY GOOD Condition,; cover has large photo of Winston in dark bow tie. ; 14pg pages; picture history,well written text with large selection of pictures, white hard covers. Illustrated by UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL UPI Photos (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Slight foxing inside covers and on opposite pages. ; Two items including May 1970 Supplement "Consisting of Some Works 1968-1970." original wrappers, 64 & 16 pages.

Hardcover. Zustand: Like New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 214 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Henry Vaux (Cover Illustration); George Mackie (Jacket Design) (illustrator).

Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. 142 pages, illustrations; 25 x 30 cm. Museum Edition. Design by Marvin Israel. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Profusely illustrated. *** "A compassionate realist in the tradition of Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Hine had the rare gift of being able to transcend the assignments he received as a documentary photographer by investing the most topical subject with lasting human quality. Seventy years after they were made, his Ellis Island pictures are still intensely moving: the newly arrived immigrants caught in all their bewilderment-- uncertain as to whether they will even be admitted to the promised land. How bitterly ironic that this artist and social reformer, after devoting his life to working people, should end up as so many of his subjects did-- on a welfare line. Decades earlier, he had written: 'For many years I have followed the procession of child workers winding through a thousand industrial communities from the canneries of Maine to the fields of Texas. I have heard their tragic stories, watched their cramped lives, and seen their fruitless struggles in the industrial game where the odds are all against them.' Like Walt Whitman before him, Lewis Hine viewed his work and art as grounded in the fluid movements of everyday lives, of history, the present and the future, expressing with vividness and responsiveness the hope for America revived in a sense of great community, and democracy as a life of free and enriching communion." - Publisher. Size: Oblong.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in original blue cloth-covered boards with light rubbing.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1942. First (1st) Printing of the "First Modern Library Giant Edition" (stated at top of copyright page). Very Good+ condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, lightly tanned, tight, straight and square with no markings of any kind. The Binding is full blue cloth, Modern Library Toledano Binding Style G4, colors uniform but a little dulled at the spine, unmarked off-white endpapers, and corners bumped, with abrasion wear to the top edge. No Jacket. See the photos. xxvi, 683 pages. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Included are letters, addresses, orders, memoranda and other writings from 1832 to April 14, 1865. Edited with a Biographical Essay by Philip Van Doren Stern, and an Introduction by Allan Nevins. NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 842 grams / 29.7 ounces, and, when packaged, may require extra postage for international shipment. …

paperback. Zustand: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good+. First Printing. Retired library copy, usual stamps, stickers, and labels; Some light rippling to top edge of ffep, else textblock is clean and tight. Maroon top page edges. Light blue cloth in great condition, some faint sun toning to spine and library label on foot. 863pp., including index. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Frontispiece (illustrator). Ex-Library Hardcover. …

Paperback. 99p., various running texts illustrated with colorphoto and b&w exhibit and site photography, softbound in 8x8 inch color wraps, tail of spine is scuffed one inch otherwise slight general edgewear, partially erased seller's marking on the first blank, a good copy.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xxiii, 198 pp, portrait frontispiece. A very good copy in a dust wrapper with some small tears.

44 pages. Paperback: H 27.75cm x L 21.5cm. Paper covers lightly rubbed with slight scuffing at edges. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. Laid-in at rear is Mississippi Museum of Art "Perspective" newsletter for January-February 1988 which promotes the upcoming Rockwell exhibition.…

134 pages. Hardcover: H 21.5cm x L 21.25cm. White dust jacket lightly soiled, some nicks and a few short closed tears at edges, 2cm deep chip at spine head shallowly extending into adjacent panel corners, slight residue from removed price sticker at front flap's top right corner; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Black cloth with dark orange stamped lettering, tearing and slight curling at spine head. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good- copy in a good+ dust jacket. With b/w illustrations and color plates, essay "Calder" by James Johnson Sweeney (pages 5-10), biographical chronology titled "The Artist, The Work" by Daniel Lelong (pages 11-28), "Sculptures, Mobiles, Stabiles, Gouaches" (pages 29-131). Sweeney was curator of the Museum of Modern Art from 1935 to 1946 and director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from 1952 to 1960. ISBN 084352023X.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Second printing. 366pp. Faint dampstain on rear board near the bottom edge, very good in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with corresponding dampstain.

Full Leather. Zustand: As New. Collector's Edition. unused. Nichols, David - Edited with Biographical Essay (illustrator).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. [4], i-xlii, 43-484 pages. Hardcover: H 22cm x L 14cm. Original full black leather binding. Boards rubbed with spots of abrasion particularly along board edges with board corners worn; shallow chipping at spine heel and head of front joint; vertical scuffing lengthwise along joints; spine decorated with five fractionally raised bands with gilt tooled compartments; spine's dark brown title label has fractional chipping at right and left edges but retains "Pope." in bright gilt. Text block edges toned with original marbling quite faded along with scuffs and negligibly shallow nicking; leaves worn at their bottom fore-edge corners; several leaves slightly pulled resulting in shallow wear at their top edges and fore-edges. Blue marbled endpapers; some pencil writing as well as antiquarian six-line ink gift inscription to Miss A.M. McCall from L.G. Tompkins dated Jan. 1836 on front flyleaf with ink carrying through several adjoining leaves; similar pencil inscription on second flyleaf; pencil signature "John G. Smith" at top of frontispiece's blank recto; three eye pencil doodles on pictorial title page; yet another pencil inscription (Miss Belle Meytes?) at top of text title page; "Miss McCall" in antiquarian ink on rear free endpaper recto; moisture stains at margins (particularly gutters) of early and late leaves diminishing inward; foxing/toning strongest on early leaves but with mostly light occurrences to interior pages; tear to bottom fore-edge corner of pages 473-474; some scattered soiling, corner creases, etc. Age-toned newspaper clipping circa 1882 laid-in between pages 192-193. Binding is firm. Double-column text. Opposite unpaged b/w frontispiece portrait of Alexander Pope is unpaged b/w pictorial title - "The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esqr. Including his Translation of Homer. Complete in One Volume. With the Life of the Author, by Dr. Johnson." which differs from the text title page - "The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. To Which Is Prefixed the Life of the Author, By Dr. Johnson." Pages iii-xlii feature Samuel Johnson's THE LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ. Pages 43-208 are a collection of Pope's POETICAL WORKS including Pastorals, An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, The Temple of Fame, Thebais of Statius, Essay on Man, Moral Essays, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, The Satires of Dr. John Donne, Epilogue to the Satires, The Dunciad, etc. Pages 209-363 are THE ILIAD OF HOMER translated by Alexander Pope. Pages 365-479 are THE ODYSSEY OF HOMER with Pope's Postscript. Pages 480-484 is THE BATTLE OF FROGS AND MICE by Archdeacon Parnell corrected by Mr. Pope. {RB2 Shelf_BindingsBookcase-#1830|CMS-02605}.…

Subtitle reads: Facsimile reproduction of 21 coloured paintings, each accompanied by a page of hand-written notes, covering the period 28 March 1918 to 4 April 1920. Oblong 4to; original cream boards with lettering to spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper and matching laminated pictorial slipcase; unpaginated (but pp. 95); colour illustrations to rectos and author-artist's descriptive text in manuscript facsimile to facing versos. Occasional fox spot, else fine. "A Celebration of Birds is the showcase for C.G. Finch-Davies's final twenty-one paintings, and judging by the exquisite detail appearing in the finished works he was, without doubt, at the height of his artistic powers. Publication of the volume - in association with the British Museum (Natural History), London - is intended to perpetuate the memory of one of the world's truly gifted bird artists.". …

Trade Paperback. First Edition. 56 pages. Exhibition catalogue. Artist's name embossed on front cover. Full-page B/W illustrations of sculptures. Text in English and Spanish First edition (first printing). A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback).