james taylor yates (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. 1958. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over green cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. End papers are more notably tanned. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Boards have minor damp and dust stains. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Moderate tanning to spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. xiv, 256pp, with numerous maps and charts, etc., some coloured. In emerald cloth-covered boards with gilt tiles on spine. 8vo. Cloth is a little marked, gently rubbed at edges and lightly rounded on corners and spine ends. Some tanning to endpapers; gift inscription, dated 1963, on front free endpaper, else internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket, toned and tanned at edges and spine, lightly bumped on edges with small nick at spine base.

Zustand: Very Good. Appears unread. Minor wear at extremities. Faint storage marks/scratches to cover. Text excellent.

Relié. Zustand: Etat moyen. in-8 Description :315 pp. Second edition. Tampons de bibliothèque. Reliure toile bleue tachée. Pas de jaquette. Langue : Anglais Nb de volumes : 1.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. 1958 Hardcover of British Weather in Maps by James A. Taylor and R.A. Yates. This book is in a good used condition with some wear and tear to the dust jacket, a pen inscription and some staining on the end pages, but an otherwise good and clean interior.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. 272 pp. ; profusely illustrated with artwork, drawings, and photographs ; red decorative cloth, no dustjacket ; ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PSYCHIC OCCURENCES is preserved in this yearbook. A member of the graduating January class of 1933, GENEVA ABBOTT PATTERSON, (1916-2011) was asked at age 16 to imagine the city of St. Louis in the future, and she amazingly created a watercolor depicting the St. Louis cityscape and INCLUDED THE ST. LOUIS GATEWAY ARCH 15 YEARS BEFORE IT BECAME A CONCEPT IN THE MIND OF ITS DESIGNER, EERO SAARINEN IN 1947! The Gateway Arch was not completed until 1963. ; She added the following prophetic text spoken by Ulysses's wife Penelope from line 24 of Tennyson's Ulysses (1842): "Yet all experience is an Arch wherethro' gleams that untravell'd world, whose margin fades for ever, and for ever when I move" ; Geneva Abbott furthered her art studies at the Hadley Vocational School and became a member of the St. Louis Artists Guild. She worked as a commercial artist for International Shoe Company, and then turned to work as a watercolorist in St. Louis, Hilton Head, South Carolina and Vero Beach, Florida; the previous owner of the yearbook has added commentary and newspaper clippings of happenings to many of the senior class, some documenting the deaths of several in World War II, or by violence in St. Louis. Marriages of many of the women are recorded. Updated addresses and phone numbers of many former students are also added ; The yearbook has numerous articles written by students and show photographs and drawings in illustration. Subjects feature historical information about St. Louis, lists of artists, musicians with details of their lives and work are included ; all the artwork by the students reflects the then current Art Deco trends ; a very rare and historically important volume; and an exceedingly difficult-to-locate Saarinen collectible ; FINE. Book.