bonni leon (11 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Bonni Leon-Berman (Design) (illustratore). 326 pp. Nearly flawless book with minimally worn corners and solid binding. Dj missing. Pen markings/underlingings on few pages.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Stated first ed.; 352 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong paper only faintly age-toned; drawings; binding tight; despite absence of d.j. the beige boards are clean, gilt lettering legible, corners lightly bumped and slight rubbing at crown and foot of spine. Small splatter on lower fore-edge.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Barbara Brandon (Illustrations); Bonni Leon-Berman (Design); Anthony E. Blow (Hieroglyphs) (illustratore). February 1997. 233 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Light foxing on page edges.

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. Bonni Leon-Berman (Design); Elsie Lyons (Jacket Design); Shutterstock (Jacket Images) (illustratore). 1st Edition. 427 + pp. Stated second printing of the first edition! A true collectible gem! An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, spotlessly clean text, and very light shelf wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Leon-Berman, Bonni (designer); Holland, Joel (bird illustration) (illustratore). 1st Edition. As new condition textured black boards with red spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland; Author Dedication; Authors' Note; Acknowledgments; Cast of Characters; Glossary and About the Authors. Illustrated with a repeating black-and-white bird drawing. ". a captivating and complex near-future thriller combining history, science, magic, mystery, intrigue, and adventure that questions the very foundations of the modern world. My name is Melisande Stokes and this is my story. I am writing in July 1851 (Common Era, or -- let's face it -- Anno Domini) in the guest chamber of a middle-class home in Kensington, London, England. But I am not a native of this place or time. In fact, I am quite desperate to get out of here. I intend to write everything that explains how I came to be here, no matter how far-fetched or hallucinatory it may sound. To quote Peter Gabriel, a singer/songwriter who will be born ninety-nine years from now: This will be my testimony. When Melisande Stokes, an expert in linguistics and languages, accidentally meets military intelligence operative Tristan Lyons in a hallway at Harvard University, it is the beginning of a chain of events that will alter their lives and human history itself. The young man from a shadowy government entity approaches Mel, a low-level faculty member, with an incredible offer. The only condition: she must sign a nondisclosure agreement in return for the rather large sum of money. Tristan needs Mel to translate some very old documents, which, if authentic, are earth-shattering. They prove that magic actually existed and was practiced for centuries. But the arrival of the Scientific Revolution and the Age of Enlightenment weakened its power and endangered its practitioners. Magic stopped working altogether in 1851, at the time of the Great Exhibition at London's Crystal Palace - the world's fair celebrating the rise of industrial technology and commerce. Something about the modern world "jams" the "frequencies" used by magic, and it's up to Tristan to find out what. And so the Department of Diachronic Operations (D.O.D.O.) gets cracking on its real mission: to develop a device that can bring magic back, and to send Diachronic Operatives back in time to keep it alive .and meddle with a little history at the same time. But although Tristan and his expanding operation master the science and build the technology, they overlook the mercurial - and treacherous - nature of the human heart. Written with the genius, complexity, and innovation that characterize all of Neal Stephenson's work and steeped in the down-to-earth warmth and humor of Nicole Galland's storytelling style, this dazzling, vividly realized novel will make you believe in the impossible, and take you to places - and times - beyond imagining." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Fred Marcellino (Jacket Design);Michelle Vignes/Gamma/Liaison (Front Jacket Photo); Ginsberg Collection (Back Jacket Photo); Victor Bockris (Author Photo); Bonni Leon (Design) (illustratore). 588 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Leon, Bonni (book design); Zahedi, Firooz (author photograph) (illustratore). 1st Edition. As new condition green boards, black cloth spine and pink spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quotes by Anne Sexton and Acknowledgments. "Now that she's conquered rehab and romance, best-selling novelist Carrie Fisher boldly goes where no man has gone before: motherhood. Hollywood screenwriter Cora Sharpe has taken to writing letters to the unborn child she's tentatively dubbed Esme - even though it sounds like a noise your nose makes. But then, Cora has what one of the endless intimates she thinks of as her Committee calls "a big loud life," and recent events have been no exception. Her confidant and writing partner, Bud, has been on a bipolar roller coaster. Her dear friend William, AIDS-ridden, has fiinally taken leave of his life, with the aplomb befitting "a suburban show business sultan." And in the vacuum that follows his departure, Cora's romance with quiet, gentle Ray has suddenly flickered and expired. Then Cora finds out she's pregnant, and even the Committee can't steer her through this one. In a fight-or-flight confrontation with maturity, flight seems to have the upper hand. So when her mother, Viv, tries to rally support for her latest madcap scheme - to kidnap her Alzheimer's-stricken father from a nursing home and take him back to Whitewright, Texas, the place of his birth - Cora, for once, is game. With Bud in tow, she signs on for what turns out to be a cosmic (not to mention comic) exploration of the urges that drive us to feather our nests and fill them, to flee them and find our way home. With singular deftness, Fisher captures the ambivalence and absurdity of modern maternity, in her wittiest and wisest novel to date." - from the inner front jacket flap. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Carrie Fisher has been a dictator in her teens, an actor in her twenties (The Star Wars trilogy, Hannah and Her Sisters, etc), a screenwriter and novelist in her thirties (Postcards from the Edge, Surrender the Pink). She anxiously anticipates whatever ghoulish incarnations await her. In the meantime, she and her daughter, Billie, divide their time between Beverly Hills and Florence, Italy" - from the inner rear jacket flap.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Leon-Berman, Bonni (book design); Johnson, Caaroline (jacket design); MacWeeney, Alen (jacket photographs); Gosfield, Josh (author photograph) (illustratore). 1st Edition. As new condition white boards, grayish black spine, and silver spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote by Emily Dickinson; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Illustration Credits; Index and About the Author. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographic plates. "Imagine the offspring of Marcel Proust and the Energizer Bunny - that's who Richard Avedon was, a crhonicler of fashion, an analyst of social types, the author in pictures of his era. And Philip Gefter captures him." - Louis Menand, Pulitzer Prize-winning author. "Mesmerizing . Like Avedon's blank white backgrounds, blasted with light, Gefter's pages expose in a controlled and intelligent manner all the bigness and littleness of one of the greats." - Brad Gooch, New York Times bestselling author. "A compelling, beautifully written examination of Avedon's life as it reflects the larger cultural milieu of post-World War II New York, and, more importantly, an argument for the role of the artist in contemporary society. " - Stephen Shore, photographer. "The first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning photography critic Philip Gefter. In his acclaimed portraits, Richard Avedon captured the icononic figures of the twentieth century in his starkly bold, intimately minimal, and forensic visual style. Concurrently, his work for Harper's Bazaar and Vogue transformed the ideals of women's fashion, femininity, aand culture to become the defining look of an era. Yet despite his driving ambition to gain respect in the art world, during his lifetime he was condescendingly dismissed as a "celebrity photographer." What Becomes a Legend Most is the first definitive biography of this luminary - an intensely driven man who endured personal and professional prejudice, struggled with deep insecurities, and mounted an existential lifelong battle to be recognized as an artist. Philip Gefter builds on archival research and exclusive interviews with those closest to Avedon to chronicle his story, beginning with Avedon's coming-of-age in New York between the world wars, when cultural prejudices forced him to make decisions that shaped the course of his life. Compounding his prvate battles, Avedon fought to be taken seriously in a medium that itself struggled to be respected within the art world. Gefter reveals how the 1950s and 1960s informed Avedon's life and work as much as he informed the period. He counted as close friends a profoundly influential group of artists - Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Harold Brodkey, Renata Adler, Sidney Lumet, and Mike Nichols - who shaped the cultural life of the American twentieth century. It wasn't until Avedon's fashion work was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the late 1970s that he became a household name. Balancing glamour with the gravitas of an artist's genuine reach for worldly achievement - and not a little gossip - plus sixteen pages of photographs, What Becomes a Legend Most is an intimate window into Avedon's fascinating world. Dramatic, visionary, and remarkable, it pays tribute to Avedon's role in the history of photography and fashion - and his legacy as one of the most consequential artists of his time." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing ; 276 p. ; 22 cm. ; ISBN: 0767903501; 9780767903509; LCCN: 00-31233 ; LC: ML410.B4; Dewey: 780/.92 ; OCLC: 44016338 ; brown and grey cloth in color pictorial dustjacket ; name on front endpaper ; "The unusual journey of a locket of the great composers hair, taken shortly after his death, and what it reveals about the man's life and death" ; Contents: Prelude --; 1770-1792 --; The Boy Who Snipped the Lock --; 1792-1802 --; A Gift in Gilleleje --; 1803-1812 --; Hair for Sale at Sotheby's --; 1813-1824 --; Che Guevara's Hair --; 1824-1826 --; Very Modern Microscopes --; 1826-1827. ; "Ludwig van Beethoven lay dying in 1827, a young musician named Ferdinand Hiller came to pay his respects to the great composer. In those days, it was customary to snip a lock of hair as a keepsake, and this Hiller did a day after Beethoven's death. By the time he was buried, Beethoven's head had been nearly shorn by the many people who similarly had wanted a lasting memento of the great man. Such was his powerful effect on all those who had heard his music. For a century, the lock of hair was a treasured Hiller family relic, and perhaps was destined to end up sequestered in a bank vault, until it somehow found its way to the town of Gilleleje, in Nazi-occupied Denmark, during the darkest days of the Second World War." ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Leon-Berman, Bonni (book design); Manns, William (jacket photograph) (illustratore). 1st Edition. Fine condition green linen boards with silver spine lettering contained in a near fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Richard Paul Evans; Acknowledgments; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote; Prologue; Epilogue; A Gift For My Readers; and About the Author. All pages are in very fine condition and the spine/binding is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). Signed, inscribed, and dated (11-10-2000) by the author with black pen on the full title page. "This is the love story of Michael Keddington and Faye Murrow, a love story that takes place not in seclusion but in the real world, with the challenges that all lovers must face. No relationship is an island: There are threads that bind us all and pull at our lives - the demands of family, of friends, of work, and social obligation. And there are times that the pull of those threads becomes greater than the strength of the relationship. In these times, no matter how much two people love each other, a relationship must grow strong or be torn apart. The Carousel is about whaqt happens when life doesn't turn out the way that we planned. Beyond a love story, it is about faith, loyalty, and sacrifice. My hope is that you, and those with whom you share this book, might find the message of this story meaningful and applicable to your own life. And that in some way you might feel changed. Sincerely, Richard Paul Evans" - from the inner front jacket flap. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Leon, Bonni (book design) (illustratore). 1st Edition. As new condition blue cloth boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Richard Paul Evans; Acknowledgments; Author Dedication; Preliminary Page Quote; Prologue; Epilogue and About the Author. Signed by the author, Richard Paul Evans, with thin blue ink on an author bookplate neatly affixed to the center of the blank first free front endpaper. " "Dearest Child, That I did not know you, my loss is greatest. Forgive me for the pain I have brought to those who love you. So gladly would I trade my sad life for your realm. Angel, watch over this little one." On a wintry October night a mysterious letter was left at the base of the angel monument which overlooks the grave of Andrea Parkin, the only child of David and MaryAnne Parkin. In The Letter, the unforgettable conclusion to the Christmas Box collection, Richard writes, "I discovered the letter in the winter of 1949 pressed between the pages of a diary that belonged to the child's father, and at first glance, I regarded it as of little consequence. It was only after I had read the diary that I learned of the letter's great significance and the events it set in motion." It is within the final pages of this beautiful novel that David and MaryAnne Parkin face love's greatest challenge. And in finding love's truest meaning, they learn the lessons that are echoed throughout the Christmas Box story." - from the rear outer jacket. "The Letter, the final book of the Christmas Box collection, is, most simply stated, the love story of David and MaryAnne Parkin. But it is also everyone's love story, for it is about the storms that all relationships must face when the blissful state of romance vanishes into one of real-life challenges and difficulties. We often forget that it is in the hard times that we truly see what is best in love as well as in life. Though love may be temporarily darkened, true love never gives in, or up. but holds tight to noble ideas, which transcend this earth and all time. The Letter is also about our pasts and our individual quests to discover who we are. In The Letter, David Parkin sets out on a journey to find his mother, a woman who abandoned him when he was a child. In truth, however, David is searching for himself as he seeks to free himself from the pain of her rejection and his fear that he was somehow unworthy of her love. In a sense, David's search is the same journey we are all pursuing. We are all seeking love. My hope is that you will feel what I felt as I wrote this book -- the divine nature of loyalty and the understanding of why we must share love whenever and wherever we can. One final note. I am saddened to finish the Christmas Box trilogy and to bid good-bye to the Parkin family. I do not know if I shall ever visit them again, but I am glad for this last story -- a story which I think is a fitting send-off for the characters I've grown to love. I hope that the message you find in their lives is meaningful to your own. And, most of all, that in reading the Christmas Box collection, you, and those with whom you share my books, will never be the same. With my love, Richard Paul Evans." - from the inner front jacket flap. Signed by Author(s).