Barbara jones intro (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Over-sized hardbound in an oblong format. No wear to the binding. No slope, no twist, no distortion from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No musty odor. No tobacco odor. No water stains. No soiling. The priced, not clipped, dust jacket shows light wear, no sun fading.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good with no dust jacket. Facsimile Reprint. Facsimile Reprint. Exlibrary marks. Sound binding and hinges. Clean, bright pages. Cloth over boards is lightly shelf worn with label at lower spine. Memoir of artillery soldier from Surry County, Virginia. Facsimile; Ex-Library; 22; Endpaper map; 8.25" tall; 425 pages. Illustrated by Barbara Long (illustratore). …

Condizione: Good. Edgeworn jacket with scuffs & scratches. Worn board edges & bumped corners. Tanned textblock edge & endpapers. Content is in good, clean condition with light tanning to pages.

Landscape quarto; paperback, with illustrated wrappers; 96pp., with many monochrome and full-colour illustrations. Light foxing to preliminaries; previous owner's ink inscription to the half-title; wrappers worn and curling with some creasing, and the lacquer lifting along the hinges. Good. Postage quoted is for a standard format octavo book. Final charges may vary depending on size and weight. In this extraordinary album of postcards dating from the late Belle Epoque through the Great War, William Ouellette has chosen from his own collection rare marvels of the fanciful, the erotic and the bizarre. Among the more than 250 postcards reproduced in colour and in black and white are dreamlike images the likes of which later influenced the Surrealists, fantasies created by the sender, and serious, straightforward documents which reveal today layers of meaning not intended or recognised in their time. The author's witty juxtapositions and notes reveal an artist's insight into this new point of view, whereby the accidental, the ambiguous and the illogical stimulate a modern fantasy interpretation of past reality. Fantasy Postcards is both a revelation of the boundless imagination of the anonymous popular artist, and a guide to the delightful possibilities of reverie, encouraging us to discover, believe and enjoy fantasies of our own creation.…