2018, ISBN: 9781620402030

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. Y5 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Gregory Pardlo to previous owner on the title page in very good condition in very goo… Mehr…

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. Y5 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Gregory Pardlo to previous owner on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. An extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition from the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. 9.5"x6.5", 324 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Gregory Pardlo's father was a brilliant and charismatic man - a leading labor organizer who presided over a happy suburban family of four. But when he loses his job following the famous air traffic controllers' strike of 1981, he succumbs to addiction and exhausts the family's money on more and more ostentatious whims. In the face of this troubling model and disillusioned presence in the household, young Gregory rebels. Struggling to distinguish himself on his own terms, he hustles off to Marine Corps boot camp. He moves across the world, returning to the United States only to take a job as a manager-cum-barfly at his family's jazz club. Air Traffic follows Gregory as he builds a life that honors his history without allowing it to define his future. Slowly, he embraces the challenges of being a poet, a son, and a father as he enters recovery for alcoholism and tends to his family. In this memoir, written in lyrical and sparkling prose, Gregory tries to free himself from the overwhelming expectations of race and class, and from the tempting yet ruinous legacy of American masculinity. Air Traffic is a richly realized, deeply felt ode to one man's remarkable father, to fatherhood, and to the frustrating yet redemptive ties of family. It is also a scrupulous, searing examination of how manhood can be fashioned in our cultural landscape.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Alfred A. Knopf, 2018, 3, New York: Berkley Books, 2001. First Printing. Paperback. fair. pocket paperback, 387 pges. Wraps, somewhat cocked, covers worn and soiled. Signed by the author (with his pseudonym, John Sandford). John Sandford is the pseudonym of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. Scandal and taboo surround the lusty but lovable Lucas Davenport as he tries to pin down the murderer of a young fashion model., Berkley Books, 2001, 2, London : Allen & Unwin ; New York : Humanities Press, 1967. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8"" - 9"" tall; 436 pages; Physical description: 436p. ; 23cm. Subjects: Space and time -- Time -- Metaphysics -- Physics -- Philosophy. Series: Muirhead library of philosophy. Note: The Muirhead Library of Philosophy was a crucial landmark in the history of modern philosophy and represents a salutary example of commitment to the most important philosophical themes, regardless of methodology or approach. It refused to be swayed by the philosophical fashion of the day and defied classification into 'analytic' or 'continental' camps, foreshadowing the major questioning of this division happening in philosophy today., London : Allen & Unwin ; New York : Humanities Press, 1967, 0, New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. First U.S. Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Very good. x, 273, [5] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Signed and Inscribed by the author on the title page. Signature under author's printed name. Below which is the inscription: For Susie, With best wishes, Bob Oct. 15, 2014. Includes Introduction, Acknowledgments, Notes, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Chapters cover "A Craving for Light"; "This Great National Map;' 'In Daguerreotypes...We Beat the World," "Large Copies from Small Originals"; "Startling Likenesses of the Great"; "Wonderful Strangers"; "Last Place...to See the Nation Whole"; "Illustrations of Camp Life"; "A Continuous Roll of Musketry"; "More Eloquent Than the Sternest Speech"; "The Terrible Reality and Earnestness of War"; "Brady and the Lilliputians"; "Rebel Invasion"; "That Memorable Campaign"; "The Ball Has Opened"; "A Photographic Pantheon"; "Familiar as Household Words"; and "The Stings of Poverty". Wilson's 2013 book, Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation, is a biography of the pioneer photographer Mathew Brady. Reviewers noted the difficulties of writing a biography of Brady, about whom many details are unknown. Washington Post reviewer Michael Ruane thought the book's best aspect was "its fascinating account of how the business of photography worked in the mid-19th century", and The Economist similarly commented that the book was "more a portrait of an age than of a man". He also wrote The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax; Clarence King in the Old West, about the flamboyant 19th century geologist Clarence King, who was the first director of the U. S. Geological Survey. Robert S. Wilson (born 1951 is an American magazine editor and author. He is the editor of The American Scholar, the literary journal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He took that position in 2004, after having previously been the literary editor at Civilization magazine and the editor of Preservation magazine. Wilson has also written two biographies set in nineteenth-century America, and he has edited a collection of essays from Preservation. He worked at The Washington Post and at USA Today, where he was a book columnist as well as an editor. He was a founding literary editor at Civilization, a magazine published under the auspices of the Library of Congress. Civilization won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1996. In 1996, Wilson became the editor of Preservation, the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Under Wilson, Preservation won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1998. In 2004 Wilson briefly served as editor of the AARP Bulletin,then became the seventh editor of The American Scholar. Wilson took steps to increase the journal's focus on current events. The American Scholar's writers have won a number of awards during Wilson's tenure, and the magazine has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2015. Mathew B. Brady (May 18, 1822 - January 15, 1896) was one of the earliest photographers in American history. Best known for his scenes of the Civil War, he studied under inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln, among other public figures. When the Civil War started, his use of a mobile studio and darkroom enabled vivid battlefield photographs that brought home the reality of war to the public. Thousands of war scenes were captured, as well as portraits of generals and politicians on both sides of the conflict, though most of these were taken by his assistants, rather than by Brady himself. After the war, these pictures went out of fashion, and the government did not purchase the master-copies as he had anticipated. Brady's fortunes declined sharply, and he died in debt. Congress granted Brady $25,000 in 1875, but he remained deeply in debt. The public was unwilling to dwell on the gruesomeness of the war after it had ended, and so private collectors were scarce. Depressed by his financial situation and loss of eyesight, and devastated by the death of his wife in 1887, he died penniless in the charity ward of Presbyterian Hospital in New York City on January 15, 1896, from complications following a streetcar accident. Brady's funeral was financed by veterans of the 7th New York Infantry. He was buried in the Congressional Cemetery, which is located in Barney Circle, a neighborhood in the Southeast quadrant of Washington, D.C. Brady is credited with being the father of photojournalism., Bloomsbury, 2013, 3<

2017, ISBN: 9781620402030

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Philip Wilson Publishers, 2017. Hardcover. New/New. A beautiful catalog of a private collection of gemstones. New tightly bound hardcover in like DJ. Black cloth on boards with gilt let… Mehr…

Philip Wilson Publishers, 2017. Hardcover. New/New. A beautiful catalog of a private collection of gemstones. New tightly bound hardcover in like DJ. Black cloth on boards with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. 4to. Color photos throughout the text. Index's. xxxi, 384 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. Alnwick Castle, ancestral seat of the Earls of Northumberland-the House of Percy-was built as a border fortress against the Scots in the twelfth century, if not earlier. Substantially enlarged in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and remaining in Percy family hands to this day, it stands now as a prime example of robust stone defensive architecture. Much visited and admired for its impressive exterior and interior, this dramatic stronghold and stately home is the setting for one of the most distinguished assemblages of gems in Great Britain still in private hands. The Beverley Collection reflects the longstanding interest of the English nobility in both accumulating and commissioning gemstones. The Collection was begun by the First Duchess of Northumberland in the early eighteenth century; but the greater part of it was made later in the century by Algernon Percy, First Earl of Beverley, during a Grand Tour of Europe while in the company of his mentor and tutor, the writer Louis Dutens. Their success in France and Italy was such that it incited the jealousy of the Empress Catherine of Russia, herself a passionate collector. The range of objects in the Collection-cameos, intaglios and finger rings of the highest quality-is considerable: Greek, Roman and Etruscan, as well as a notable assembly of neoclassical signed gems by British artists. One remarkable group of cameos (made, it seems, for the Roman Emperor Octavian/Augustus) was owned by Cardinal Grimani, who encouraged artist friends to draw the figures on them. One jewel clearly provided inspiration for Michelangelo's painting of Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling in the Vatican. The Beverley Collection has been little known, except by connoisseurs. This lavishly illustrated volume, written by three principal authorities on gems and semi-precious stones, brings it to the attention of a wider audience as a demonstration of the finest products of one of the oldest arts of the western world., Philip Wilson Publishers, 2017, 6, New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. First U.S. Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Very good. x, 273, [5] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Signed and Inscribed by the author on the title page. Signature under author's printed name. Below which is the inscription: For Susie, With best wishes, Bob Oct. 15, 2014. Includes Introduction, Acknowledgments, Notes, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Chapters cover "A Craving for Light"; "This Great National Map;' 'In Daguerreotypes...We Beat the World," "Large Copies from Small Originals"; "Startling Likenesses of the Great"; "Wonderful Strangers"; "Last Place...to See the Nation Whole"; "Illustrations of Camp Life"; "A Continuous Roll of Musketry"; "More Eloquent Than the Sternest Speech"; "The Terrible Reality and Earnestness of War"; "Brady and the Lilliputians"; "Rebel Invasion"; "That Memorable Campaign"; "The Ball Has Opened"; "A Photographic Pantheon"; "Familiar as Household Words"; and "The Stings of Poverty". Wilson's 2013 book, Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation, is a biography of the pioneer photographer Mathew Brady. Reviewers noted the difficulties of writing a biography of Brady, about whom many details are unknown. Washington Post reviewer Michael Ruane thought the book's best aspect was "its fascinating account of how the business of photography worked in the mid-19th century", and The Economist similarly commented that the book was "more a portrait of an age than of a man". He also wrote The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax; Clarence King in the Old West, about the flamboyant 19th century geologist Clarence King, who was the first director of the U. S. Geological Survey. Robert S. Wilson (born 1951 is an American magazine editor and author. He is the editor of The American Scholar, the literary journal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He took that position in 2004, after having previously been the literary editor at Civilization magazine and the editor of Preservation magazine. Wilson has also written two biographies set in nineteenth-century America, and he has edited a collection of essays from Preservation. He worked at The Washington Post and at USA Today, where he was a book columnist as well as an editor. He was a founding literary editor at Civilization, a magazine published under the auspices of the Library of Congress. Civilization won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1996. In 1996, Wilson became the editor of Preservation, the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Under Wilson, Preservation won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1998. In 2004 Wilson briefly served as editor of the AARP Bulletin,then became the seventh editor of The American Scholar. Wilson took steps to increase the journal's focus on current events. The American Scholar's writers have won a number of awards during Wilson's tenure, and the magazine has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2015. Mathew B. Brady (May 18, 1822 - January 15, 1896) was one of the earliest photographers in American history. Best known for his scenes of the Civil War, he studied under inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln, among other public figures. When the Civil War started, his use of a mobile studio and darkroom enabled vivid battlefield photographs that brought home the reality of war to the public. Thousands of war scenes were captured, as well as portraits of generals and politicians on both sides of the conflict, though most of these were taken by his assistants, rather than by Brady himself. After the war, these pictures went out of fashion, and the government did not purchase the master-copies as he had anticipated. Brady's fortunes declined sharply, and he died in debt. Congress granted Brady $25,000 in 1875, but he remained deeply in debt. The public was unwilling to dwell on the gruesomeness of the war after it had ended, and so private collectors were scarce. Depressed by his financial situation and loss of eyesight, and devastated by the death of his wife in 1887, he died penniless in the charity ward of Presbyterian Hospital in New York City on January 15, 1896, from complications following a streetcar accident. Brady's funeral was financed by veterans of the 7th New York Infantry. He was buried in the Congressional Cemetery, which is located in Barney Circle, a neighborhood in the Southeast quadrant of Washington, D.C. Brady is credited with being the father of photojournalism., Bloomsbury, 2013, 3<

2015, ISBN: 9781620402030

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Houghton Mifflin (T), 1999. Hardcover with. Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Photographic Reportage: Good Ex-library Hardcover with Dust Jack… Mehr…

Houghton Mifflin (T), 1999. Hardcover with. Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes Photographic Reportage: Good Ex-library Hardcover with Dust Jacket, contains pocket, stamps, label, Library Binding, Clean Pages, Prompt shipping with tracking., Houghton Mifflin (T), 1999, 2.5, New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. First U.S. Edition [stated]. Hardcover. Very good. x, 273, [5] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Signed and Inscribed by the author on the title page. Signature under author's printed name. Below which is the inscription: For Susie, With best wishes, Bob Oct. 15, 2014. Includes Introduction, Acknowledgments, Notes, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Chapters cover "A Craving for Light"; "This Great National Map;' 'In Daguerreotypes...We Beat the World," "Large Copies from Small Originals"; "Startling Likenesses of the Great"; "Wonderful Strangers"; "Last Place...to See the Nation Whole"; "Illustrations of Camp Life"; "A Continuous Roll of Musketry"; "More Eloquent Than the Sternest Speech"; "The Terrible Reality and Earnestness of War"; "Brady and the Lilliputians"; "Rebel Invasion"; "That Memorable Campaign"; "The Ball Has Opened"; "A Photographic Pantheon"; "Familiar as Household Words"; and "The Stings of Poverty". Wilson's 2013 book, Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation, is a biography of the pioneer photographer Mathew Brady. Reviewers noted the difficulties of writing a biography of Brady, about whom many details are unknown. Washington Post reviewer Michael Ruane thought the book's best aspect was "its fascinating account of how the business of photography worked in the mid-19th century", and The Economist similarly commented that the book was "more a portrait of an age than of a man". He also wrote The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax; Clarence King in the Old West, about the flamboyant 19th century geologist Clarence King, who was the first director of the U. S. Geological Survey. Robert S. Wilson (born 1951 is an American magazine editor and author. He is the editor of The American Scholar, the literary journal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He took that position in 2004, after having previously been the literary editor at Civilization magazine and the editor of Preservation magazine. Wilson has also written two biographies set in nineteenth-century America, and he has edited a collection of essays from Preservation. He worked at The Washington Post and at USA Today, where he was a book columnist as well as an editor. He was a founding literary editor at Civilization, a magazine published under the auspices of the Library of Congress. Civilization won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1996. In 1996, Wilson became the editor of Preservation, the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Under Wilson, Preservation won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1998. In 2004 Wilson briefly served as editor of the AARP Bulletin,then became the seventh editor of The American Scholar. Wilson took steps to increase the journal's focus on current events. The American Scholar's writers have won a number of awards during Wilson's tenure, and the magazine has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2015. Mathew B. Brady (May 18, 1822 - January 15, 1896) was one of the earliest photographers in American history. Best known for his scenes of the Civil War, he studied under inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln, among other public figures. When the Civil War started, his use of a mobile studio and darkroom enabled vivid battlefield photographs that brought home the reality of war to the public. Thousands of war scenes were captured, as well as portraits of generals and politicians on both sides of the conflict, though most of these were taken by his assistants, rather than by Brady himself. After the war, these pictures went out of fashion, and the government did not purchase the master-copies as he had anticipated. Brady's fortunes declined sharply, and he died in debt. Congress granted Brady $25,000 in 1875, but he remained deeply in debt. The public was unwilling to dwell on the gruesomeness of the war after it had ended, and so private collectors were scarce. Depressed by his financial situation and loss of eyesight, and devastated by the death of his wife in 1887, he died penniless in the charity ward of Presbyterian Hospital in New York City on January 15, 1896, from complications following a streetcar accident. Brady's funeral was financed by veterans of the 7th New York Infantry. He was buried in the Congressional Cemetery, which is located in Barney Circle, a neighborhood in the Southeast quadrant of Washington, D.C. Brady is credited with being the father of photojournalism., Bloomsbury, 2013, 3<

2013, ISBN: 1620402033

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[EAN: 9781620402030], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Bloomsbury, New York], PHOTOGRAPHERS, MATHEW BRADY, CIVIL WAR, PHOTOJOURNALISM, ANTIETAM, ALEXANDER GARDNER, GETTYSBURG, SAMUEL F… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781620402030], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Bloomsbury, New York], PHOTOGRAPHERS, MATHEW BRADY, CIVIL WAR, PHOTOJOURNALISM, ANTIETAM, ALEXANDER GARDNER, GETTYSBURG, SAMUEL F. B. MORSE, TIMOTHY O'SULLIVAN, x, 273, [5] pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Signed and Inscribed by the author on the title page. Signature under author's printed name. Below which is the inscription: For Susie, With best wishes, Bob Oct. 15, 2014. Includes Introduction, Acknowledgments, Notes, Selected Bibliography, and Index. Chapters cover "A Craving for Light"; "This Great National Map;' 'In Daguerreotypes.We Beat the World," "Large Copies from Small Originals"; "Startling Likenesses of the Great"; "Wonderful Strangers"; "Last Place.to See the Nation Whole"; "Illustrations of Camp Life"; "A Continuous Roll of Musketry"; "More Eloquent Than the Sternest Speech"; "The Terrible Reality and Earnestness of War"; "Brady and the Lilliputians"; "Rebel Invasion"; "That Memorable Campaign"; "The Ball Has Opened"; "A Photographic Pantheon"; "Familiar as Household Words"; and "The Stings of Poverty". Wilson's 2013 book, Mathew Brady: Portraits of a Nation, is a biography of the pioneer photographer Mathew Brady. Reviewers noted the difficulties of writing a biography of Brady, about whom many details are unknown. Washington Post reviewer Michael Ruane thought the book's best aspect was "its fascinating account of how the business of photography worked in the mid-19th century", and The Economist similarly commented that the book was "more a portrait of an age than of a man". He also wrote The Explorer King: Adventure, Science, and the Great Diamond Hoax; Clarence King in the Old West, about the flamboyant 19th century geologist Clarence King, who was the first director of the U. S. Geological Survey. Robert S. Wilson (born 1951 is an American magazine editor and author. He is the editor of The American Scholar, the literary journal of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He took that position in 2004, after having previously been the literary editor at Civilization magazine and the editor of Preservation magazine. Wilson has also written two biographies set in nineteenth-century America, and he has edited a collection of essays from Preservation. He worked at The Washington Post and at USA Today, where he was a book columnist as well as an editor. He was a founding literary editor at Civilization, a magazine published under the auspices of the Library of Congress. Civilization won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1996. In 1996, Wilson became the editor of Preservation, the magazine of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Under Wilson, Preservation won a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 1998. In 2004 Wilson briefly served as editor of the AARP Bulletin,then became the seventh editor of The American Scholar. Wilson took steps to increase the journal's focus on current events. The American Scholar's writers have won a number of awards during Wilson's tenure, and the magazine has been a finalist for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence in 2009, 2012, 2014, and 2015. Mathew B. Brady (May 18, 1822 - January 15, 1896) was one of the earliest photographers in American history. Best known for his scenes of the Civil War, he studied under inventor Samuel F. B. Morse, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln, among other public figures. When the Civil War started, his use of a mobile studio and darkroom enabled vivid battlefield photographs that brought home the reality of war to the public. Thousands of war scenes were captured, as well as portraits of generals and politicians on both sides of the conflict, though most of these were taken by his assistants, rather than by Brady himself. After the war, these pictures went out of fashion, and the government did not purchase the master-copies as he had anticipated. Brady's fortunes declined sharply, and he died in debt. Congress granted Brady $25,000 in 1875, but he remained deeply in debt. The public was unwilling to dwell on the gruesom, Books<