Osborn frederick j (10 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st. 1st American edition; dj w/lite wea ronly, unclipped price, in mylar; blac c w/gilt spine titles; 493 clean, unmarked pages/index.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st. 1st American edition; dj w/lite wea ronly, unclipped price, in mylar; blac c w/gilt spine titles; 493 clean, unmarked pages/index.

First edition (not stated per publisher's usual practice). x, 246 pages. Hardcover: H 23.5cm x L 15.75cm. Dust jacket lightly rubbed; slight sunning to spine; rear flap's top corner is creased. Pale yellow cloth boards. Ink ownership inscription (name|date) on front free endpaper; interior pages are otherwise bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. With Acknowledgements, Introduction by editors Carolyn Calloway-Thomas and John Louis Lucaites, Notes, References, Contributors, and Index. Features nine essays: "Alabama as Egypt: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Religion of Slaves" by Keith D. Miller; "The American Dilemma in King's 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'" by E. Culpepper Clark; "Reconstruction of the Rhetorical Situation in 'Letter from Birmingham Jail'" by Judith D. Hoover; "Covenanted Rights: The Metaphoric Matrix of 'I Have a Dream'" by Martha Solomon; "Universalizing 'Equality': The Public Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr." by John Louis Lucaites and Celeste Michelle Condit; "'I Have a Dream': The Performance of Theology Fused with the Power of Orality" by John H. Patton; "When 'Silence Is Betrayal': An Ethical Criticism of the Revolution of Values in the Speech at Riverside Church" by Frederick J. Antczak; "The Last Mountaintop of Martin Luther King, Jr." by Michael Osborn; "The Call from the Mountaintop: Call-Response and the Oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr." by Robert D. Harrison and Linda K. Harrison. ISBN 0817306897.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. New Edition. Clean book, 203 pages.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Wrappers. 185-352pp. Wrappers age-toned and wrinkled, very good in the original manilla envelope addressed to fellow author and contributor Daniel Hoffman. Poetry, stories, articles and reviews by W.D. Snodgrass, Kenneth Burke, Philip Levine, Harold Witt, Daniel Hoffman, Mary Louise Willey, Theodore Roethke, Irving Howe, Neal J. Osborn, B.H. Haggin, John Simon, Vernon Young, Mary Evans, Marvin Mudrick, Robert Martin Adams, Roger Sale, Anthony Hecht, Sigurd Burckhardt, J. Mitchell Morse, and Jack Behar.…

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. Wrappers. 185-352pp. Spine and edges age-toned, very good. Poetry, stories, articles and reviews by W.D. Snodgrass, Kenneth Burke, Philip Levine, Harold Witt, Daniel Hoffman, Mary Louise Willey, Theodore Roethke, Irving Howe, Neal J. Osborn, B.H. Haggin, John Simon, Vernon Young, Mary Evans, Marvin Mudrick, Robert Martin Adams, Roger Sale, Anthony Hecht, Sigurd Burckhardt, J. Mitchell Morse, and Jack Behar. …

Blue Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine Dustjacket. First Edition (stated). 1218 Pp. First Edition. Near Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket. A Massive Reference Anthology. State Of The Art Fifty Years Ago, But Now We Would Prefer "Urban De-Planning" To Undo All That Crap. Photographs, Maps, Plans Throughout (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 3rd Edition. 3rd Edition. Good Condition. Moderate wear. Binding fairly tight, pages clean. Dust jacket in good condition with moderate wear, small tears, chips and rubbing present. Pictures available upon request.

28pp, + 4 plates. Pamphlet 22x14. Fine copy.

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. OSBORN, Frederick J. The future of large metropolitan areas (London-New York); an address . introductory remarks by Paul Windels . as presented at the eighteenth annual meeting of the Regional Plan Association, December 16, 1947, with editorial comment from the New York Herald Tribune. Self wrappers, staple-bound. 11"x 8.5", 11 leaves. MIMEOGRAPHED. [++] WorldCat Locate on 3 copies (Toronto, Michigan, Harvard). [++] Original wrappers. Provenance: Library of Congress. Good copy of a scarce work. [++] "If Howard is the "father" of Garden Cities, then Frederick J. Osborn is certainly his "son" predecessor and champion of the New Towns. Osborn was born in 1885 and spent the majority of his life arguing the case for New Towns. Like Howard, he had quite a modest education, having never attended a university. But what he lacked in formal education, he made up for with ambition and wise career choices. In his early 30s, after meeting Howard through his job at the Howard Cottage Society, he took to the campaign for Garden Cities, though they were now referred to as New Towns.  The initial campaigns for the establishment of New Towns failed. Although housing was built, it was often in the form of a "garden suburb", or located on the edge of the existing cities the antithesis of the Garden City idea. With an increasing lack of faith in the government to take up the flag for public housing and new towns, Howard suggested to Osborn that he was wasting his time lobbying government, and that he would be "as old as Methuselah" waiting for action."--Wikipedia (Osborn).…