Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.
hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 2nd Edition. the jacket is worn and torn. ownership plate. some mild foxing and usage markings. soundly bound. quite heavy, may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: DeVorss & Co., 1939
Anbieter: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, USA
hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Missing. Los Angeles, 1939; covers not as pictured in stock photo; Limited Edition Numbered #1160; brown cloth covered boards; corner and edge wear with scuffing; covers discolored; no dust jacket; 4to,9 3/4" to 12" tall; hinges split with webbing exposed; tide mark at rear pages; back strip separated from spine; no interior notations; 336 pages; Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: Kessinger Publishing Co Okt 2004, 2004
ISBN 10: 141797673X ISBN 13: 9781417976737
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: House-Warven, Publishers, Hollywood, 1951
Anbieter: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, USA
Verbandsmitglied: IOBA
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Brown Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good Dustjacket. 57 Illustrations By the Author (illustrator). First Edition. 360 Pp. Brown Cloth, Gilt. Brown Endpapers. First Printing, With 1951 Date On Title Page .Near Fine, A Clean, Solid Book, Small Rubs At Corners. Dust Jacket Priced $5.50Some Wear At Edges With Small Losses And Lower 2 1/2' Of Spine Entirely Chipped Away. Inscribed By Author To Screenwriter Albert De Pina. Bookplate Of Southwest Museum Archaelogist Bruce Bryan. Inscribed by Author(s).
Erscheinungsdatum: 1951
Anbieter: Ouromantiq Books, Brewster, NY, USA
Hardcover. Zustand: Good. House-Warven 1951. Jacket in fair condition, considerably worn, torn and chipped. Book closer to very good condition, with light wear, clean pages (occasional smudge, index has a few notes), firm binding.
Verlag: Day and Son, Lithographers to the Queen, London, 1856
Anbieter: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, USA
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Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First edition of one of the greatest illustrated books of the 19th century. Imperial folio, bound in publisher's brown half morocco over brown cloth boards, Egyptianate pictorial stamping to spine and matching gilt-stamped morocco panel to the front board, all edges gilt. 22.5 x 15 x 2". Illustrated with 101 chromolithographic plates including title, some tinted but most in full color, protected by tissue guards. Very Good with moderate to heavy rubbing to extremities, staining and toning to cloth, 2 inch loss to cloth on rear board, and splits to joints including 8-1/4 inch split to upper end of front joint. Two 20th century owner inscriptions to front free endpaper, one from the architect Robert Stacy-Judd. Heavy foxing to first and last few pages, including final plate; occasional light foxing throughout, mainly affecting tissue guards; plate 46 tissue guard detached and worn at edges. Plates overall clean and bright. Owen Jones, the son of a wealthy Welsh antiquarian, was apprenticed to a London architect at the age of 15 and embarked on the traditional young man's Grand Tour at 23. He traveled through Italy, Greece, Turkey, and Egypt before arriving in Spain, recording and analyzing the decorative patterns common to each country. Jones and his traveling companion were so taken with the Spanish Moorish palace El Alhambra they spent six months drawing and painting its details. Jones' determination to do justice to the work upon his return to England led him to postpone its publication to study the new art of chromolithography, in which brilliant color images were produced by carefully layering impressions from multiple stones, each inked in a different color. Plans, Elevations and Details of the Alhambra made Jones' reputation after it was finally published in the 1840s, and he was appointed Superintendent of Works for the Great Exhibition of 1851, designing the Crystal Palace's interior decoration. The Exhibition's display of art and industry from around the world enthralled the six million people who came to see it, priming the public to appreciate the monumental study of ornamental design that Owens published five years later. About 700 stones were used to print its hundred numbered plates at enormous expense, an undertaking that few publishers but Day and Son could have carried out. The patterns were taken from the architecture, ceramics, textiles, and stained glass of Europe, Asia, and Oceania (the last unfortunately titled "Ornament of Savage Tribes"). Design manual, treatise, and luxury art object, The Grammar of Ornament became a standard reference for design schools and played a key role in bringing the process of chromolithography to the attention of the wider public. Jones sought to prove the existence of fundamental design principles across cultures, and began his work with thirty-seven propositions for decorative artists, the most quoted of which is Proposition 2: "Architecture is the material expression of the wants, the faculties, and the sentiments, of the age in which it is created." This copy is from the library of Robert Stacy-Judd (1884 - 1975), an English architect who incorporated Mayan designs into his buildings, most famously in the Aztec Hotel on Route 66. His work is a tribute to the book's timelessness: the Art Deco gem on America's most famous highway is very much a product of its fast-paced age, but the dense ornamentation is applied in the spirit of Owen Jones. Jones' groundbreaking work has never gone out of print, but it has never been printed on such a scale and with such care as in its glorious first edition.