Design anne chalmers (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 289 pp. Clean, fresh, sharp copy with minor shelfwear. Dj shows minor wear and a tear on back flap center bottom. Michaela Sullivan (Cover Design); Craig MacCormack (Cover Illustration); Anne Chalmers (Book Design & Illustrations) (illustratore). …

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Coyright © 1999 by Kathryn Davis. 264 + pp. Author's Note and Inscription!!! Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Pictures of actual copy -not displayed here!- available upon request. Marion Ettlinger (Author Photo); Thea Schrack (Jacket Photo); Archie Ferguson (Jacket Design); Anne Chalmers (Book Design) (illustratore). ***Author's Note and Inscripti. …

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. 1st Edition. As new condition dark blue boards, dark blue spine, and gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Kathryn Davis; Author Dedication and Preliminary Page Quote by Jean Le Rond d'Alembert. "Versailles is the story of an expansive spirit locked in a pretty body and an impossible moment in history . As the novel begins, fourteen-year-old Marie Antoinette is traveling from Austria to France to meet her fiance, the mild, abstracted Louis. He will become the sixteenth Louis to reign in France, and Antoinette will be his queen, although neither shows a strong inclination toward power, politics, or the roles that they have been summoned to play. Antoinette is hemmed in by towering hairdos, the xenophobic suspicion of her subjects, the misogyny of her detractors, the larger-than-life figures of Mirabeau, Du Barry, and Robespierre, and the manifold twists and turns of the palace she calls home. The novel moves from room to room, from garden to fountain, occasionally breaking into playlets in which we glimpse characters struggling to mind their step in the great ballroom of the world. Driving our tour is the relentless engine of time, that friend to youth, for whom anything is possible. Antoinette gives birth to four children, two of whom will outlive her; she falls in love; she dies at the guillotine. A meditation on time and the soul's true journey within it, Versailles is at once wittily entertaining and astonishingly wise." - from the inner front jacket flap. "Kathryn Davis's brilliant new novel is a meditation on fate, that intersection between history and the self. How is it that we find ourselves in the inescapable, singular adventure of a life? Davis captures the vain splendors of the French court, and the vain horrors of the Revolution, in prose that's headlong and startlingly alive. From the first chapter and ever after, this novel's readers are going to be a little in love with Marie Antoinette - foolish, hopeless, heartbrokern queen that she is - and with the great fever-dream of a house that lends this marvelous tale its name." - Mark Doty. Chalmers, Anne (book design); Ferguson, Archie (jacket design); (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 372 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm ; ISBN 9780618055906, 0618055908 ; OCLC 9780618055906, 0618055908 ; LCCN 99054110 ; LOC No SB473 .B737 2000 ; Dewey 712/.6 ; black cloth in color photographic dust jacket ; "A Frances Tenenbaum book." ; Contents: The basics of home landscaping -- Designing with plants -- Landscaping around your house -- Outdoor rooms -- Pavings and edgings -- Walks, paths, bridges and steps -- Fences, walls and hedges -- General care of landscape plants -- Caring for trees, shrubs and vines -- Caring for lawns, ground covers and perennials ; Developing your landscape is one of the pleasures of owning a home. It's an opportunity to surround yourself with beauty and provide for your comfort and convenience. In a well-designed yard, kids have room to play and adults have an attractive area in which to relax and enjoy the surroundings. Your guests find a safe, welcoming path to the front door, and you don't have to struggle to bring in the groceries and take out the trash. TAYLOR'S MASTER GUIDE TO LANDSCAPING is a stunning and useful book on a subject that even experienced gardeners find intimidating. It is essential reading if you plan to do all or most of your own landscaping work, but it's equally important if you intend to hire the work out. Buchanan's description of what to expect from landscape and gardening professionals is an eye-opener that will save a lot of disappointment and a great many dollars. In TAYLOR'S MASTER GUIDE TO LANDSCAPING, you will learn how to - choose plants that will thrive in your climate and growing conditions - avoid common mistakes with foundation plantings - plan and plant for future growth - create an outdoor living room - design and build walks, paths, and steps - create privacy with fences, walls, and hedges. Separate chapters explain how to care for landscape plants -- trees, shrubs, vines, lawns, groundcovers, and perennials. -- Source: Publisher ; Rita Buchanan is the coeditor and co-author of TAYLOR'S MASTER GUIDE TO GARDENING as well as many other books. A botanist, horticulturist, and passionate gardener and designer, she turned a featureless cow pasture into a glorious garden landscape surrounding her home. She resides in Connecticut. ; FINE/FINE. Book.…