White h p ed (6 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: VERY GOOD. 46pp. In teal publisher's wraps. Small stain to front cover, otherwise clean and crisp.

Capital Transport, Harrow 1994. 4to. 96 pages. Illustrated in b/w. Orig. boards. Near fine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. x, 429 p. diagrs., facsim., tables. 25 cm. LCCN 58009397 LC GV53 .L3 Dewey 790.0973 OCLC 477253 brown cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; Contents: "Leisure" / Oxford English Dictionary -- "Leisure" / Encyclopedia of the social sciences -- The pattern of leisure in contemporary American culture / Margaret Mead -- Accidie / Aldous Huxley -- The sedentary society / Herbert Collins -- How to make a civilization / Clive Bell -- Work and leisure under industrialism / Clement Greenberg -- The spread of reading / Richard D. Altick -- Farm and countryside / Foster Rhea Dulles -- Explanation of play / Jean Piaget -- The play element in contemporary civilization / Johan Huizinga -- The emergence of fun morality / Martha Wolfenstein -- In praise of idleness / Bertrand Russell -- The right to be lazy / Paul Lafargue -- The great emptiness / Robert MacIver -- Time and silence / Max Picard -- The ideology of privacy and reserve / Paul Halmos -- The pathology of boredom / Woodburn Heron -- The workweek in American industry 1850-1956 / Joseph S. Zeisel -- The changing length of working life / Seymour L. Wolfbein -- $30 billion for fun / editors of Fortune -- The amount and uses of leisure / George Lundberg, Mirra Komarovsky, and Mary Alice McInerny -- Social class differences in the uses of leisure / R. Clyde White -- Leisure and occupational prestige / Alfred C. Clarke -- Industrial workers' worlds / Robert Dubin -- Society: status without substance / E. Franklin Frazier -- Tuxedo park, black tie / Cleveland Amory -- American sports, play and display / Gregory P. Stone -- Money, muscles, and myths / Roger Kahn -- What's happening to hobbies? / Eric Larrabee -- The do-it-yourself market / U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- Vacations / "a cynic [Leslie Stephen] -- Camping in the wilderness / Gregory P. Stone and Marvin J. Taves -- Notes on a natural history of fads / Rolf Meyersohn and Elihu Katz -- Voluntary association memberships of American adults / Charles R. Wright and Herbert H. Hyman -- The motivational pattern of drinking / John W. Riley, Jr., Charles F. Marden, and Marcia Lifshitz -- Sex as play / Nelson N. Foote -- Leisure as contemplation / Joseph Pieper -- Time on our hands / Russell Lynes -- Less work, less leisure / Harvey Swados -- Work and leisure in post-industrial society / David Riesman -- Comprehensive bibliography on leisure / Rolf Meyersohn ; FINE/FINE. Book.…

Softcover. Zustand: Gut. 444 S., CD-Rom in einer Lasche am hinteren Buchdeckel; Original-Karton; Gr.8°. Gutes Exemplar.

Zustand: Good. 8vo. 134 pp. Original Printed Wraps, Good with marginal tears, faint stains & creasing to covers, else VG+. Illustrated, B&W Photographs, maps. Photograph of Mountain Hemlock, by Ansel Adams, featured. First Edition.

Leather. Zustand: Very Good. Handsomely illustrated with carbon-processed photographs of birds, this is an impressive two volume large paper edition of Rev. Gilbert White's important work of natural history, First published in 1789, this work is a collection of letters documenting the natural history of the area surrounding Selborne.This large paper edition is complete in two volumes, with notes from Frank Buckland, and a chapter on antiquities by Lord Selborne.Illustrated by P.H. Delamotte with engravings after drawing, and mounted photographs. With fifteen 'photographs by the carbon process' to volume I, alongside a map, and with a colour frontispiece and eight carbon photographs to volume II, alongside further vignette illustrations to both volumes. Collated, complete.The work was well received upon its publication, and has continued to be widely read well into the twentieth century.Fans of the work include the likes of Virginia Woolf, John Ruskin, Charles Darwin, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.Rebacked, with back strips laid down, central portion of publisher's cloth laid down to centre of boards, and with endpapers renewed, with the bookplate of Henry Webb to the front pastedown.It is generally considered to be a classic of nature and antiquarian writing. Rebacked, in morocco backed boards with publisher's morocco back strips laid down, and central portion of publisher's cloth laid down to centre of boards, and with endpapers renewed. Light rubbing to back strip heads and tails and joints, with boards clean and bright. Bookplates to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright. Major tide marks throughout volume I, to the head of each page up to 50, and to pages 240 to the rear of the work. Instances of light tide marks to fore edge of text leaves of volume I. Very Good. P. H. Delamotte (illustrator). book.…