foreword biddle (28 risultati)

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 4th Printing. 383 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. New York: American Legacy Press, 1983. 208 pages; 100 plates, most color. First published in 1972 when conservationists were demanding attention to the pollution and other misuse of the Hudson and its surrounds: the book, a brainchild of the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference. Paintings are organized south to north from the Hudson's spill into New York Harbor to its beginning in the Adirondacks. Included also are reproductions of The Hudson By Daylight map, a 19th-century panorama of the Hudson. Clean throughout; tight binding. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 12" x 9.5". Language: ENG.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Good. Celine Brandes, Photo Plus Art (Book and Jacket Design) (illustratore). 539 pp. Solid and tight binding with unmarked pages. Cover and edges are worn. An excellent study/work copy. Crease on cover page center.

HC. B&W photos by Mary Mitchell (illustratore). 212pp This volume shows the old and the new in this charming little State capital--18th century houses in soft light, quaint narrow streets built for carriages, fishing and pleasure craft brilliant on the waters of the harbor, midshipment at the Naval Academy, and students at St. John's College. good w/good dustjacket (light stain top edge of dj and cloth).

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 2nd. [xii], 420 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. First edition thus. Dust acket protected in a mylar cover. *** "A unique window into the anatomy and survival of an American institution with all its tribulations, intrigues, gossip, mini-dramas, and ultimately its triumph. Until Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney opened her studio on Eighth Street in Manhattan in 1914 - which almost two decades later evolved into the Whitney Museum - contemporary American artists had little or no outlet for their work. Throughout the nineteenth century, as America expanded its borders from coast to coast, tilling the land and building industry were far greater priorities for Americans than art. Yet, especially in the latter half of the century, vast fortunes were amassed by many who built themselves extraordinary mansions that cried out to be embellished with works of art. In those days, however, the only place art was to be found and collected was Europe. American artists more often than not sought inspiration and recognition in Europe. Thus, at the dawn of the new century the relatively few museums and galleries in the United States focused primarily, if not exclusively, on foreign art. It was, therefore, all the more remarkable when Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, scion of America's wealthiest family and herself a sculptor, opened her own studio in Greenwich Village for exhibitions of contemporary American artists. After twenty-two years on Eighth Street, the Whitney moved uptown to Fifty-fourth Street next to the Museum of Modern Art. With the Whitney's ever expanding collection and growing attendance, space once again became an issue. When a desirable plot of land was located and purchased on Madison Avenue and Seventy-fifth Street in 1964, the famed architect Marcel Breuer was commissioned to build the new Whitney Museum. The imposing granite structure of the Whitney Museum of American Art, as we know it today, opened its doors in 1966 and has become one of America's most prominent cultural institutions. When Gertrude died in 1942, her daughter Flora Miller took over as head of the Whitney. Like her mother, she dedicated her all--her time and fortune--to the museum. In 1977, the third-generation Whitney woman, Flora Biddle, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's granddaughter, became president. As time went on, the size and scope of the Whitney and its increasing financial demands led it to pass from a family-run museum to a trustee-run business. The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made is a tale in which high ideals, extraordinary altruism, and great dedication increasingly come face to face with large egos, big business, intrigue, and the harsh realities of today's world. Flora Biddle's sensitive and insightful memoir is, despite all these obstacles and problems, a success story of three generations of forceful, indomitable women. / Flora Miller Biddle was president of the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1977 to 1995. She has four children. Her daughter, Fiona, following her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, has been elected to serve on the Whitney board of trustees. Flora and her husband, Sydney, live in New York City." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. First Edition. owner's name.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Covers have a slightly browned spine and are slightly smudged. Very slight bumping to upper outer corners. ; "Decorative arts, paintings, and prints of the Colonial and Federal Periods, from private collections." Errata slip in the front.

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Like New. Brooches from Grave (Front Cover Illustration) (illustratore). 172 pp. Book and dj are flawless.

Soft Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Published in Penguin Books 1978. 208 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Reprint. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with minor nicks to the edges; light shelf wear; interior clean. Illustrated.

First edition; 4to.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; 208 pages; black and white and color illustrations; maps; edgeworn bottom board else very good in an edgeworn and rubbed dust jacket with a sunned spine.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Originally published by Viking Press in 1972. 208pp; Index. Over 100 reproductions, 70 of them in full color. Contents clean and unmarked. No ownership or library markings. DJ with vertical surface laminate striations.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. New York: The Viking Press , A Studio Book, 1972. 208 pages; more than 100 color plates, the artwork of many artists. Published when conservationists were demanding attention to the pollution and other misuse and abuse of the Hudson and its surrounds: the book, a brainchild of the Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference. Paintings are organized south to north from the Hudson's spill into New York Harbor to its beginning in the Adirondacks. Included are reproductions of The Hudson By Daylight map, a 19th-century panorama of the Hudson. At the back are full labels of commentary of each painting. Bibliography and Index. Clean throughout; tight binding. First Edition. Red cloth . Fine/Fine. 12" x 9.5".

Hardcover. Limited to 1500 copies. Gray cloth inlaid with an image mounted on the covers. Over 100 pages, unpaginated. Color portrait images throughout. Commissioned for a husband's 80th birthday, this is a quite unusual and complex tribute to the couple by superimposing portraits in many ways. From the foreword: "The two faces, dislocated and deformed to make a new coherence, do not represent a caricature of a face, but an eerie conglomeration. The Photographs make visible the hidden possibilities in a face, with hints of all that is potentially unknowable." VG, several small lighter spots and slight curve to front cover. O.w. near fine.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 207 pages : illustrations [some colour] ; 32 cm.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. 208pp; Index; color plates and maps. Contents clean and textually unmarked. No library stamps; no bookplate. Owner's name written on front blank endpaper.

Photographs (Black & White) (illustratore). First Edition. Princeton: Pyne Press. Very good condition: jacket lightly frayed/No Dustjacket. 1971. First Edition. 4to., x, 244 pp. . Very good condition: jacket lightly frayed/No Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Part of the Mercer Library of Biblical Studies. 26 x 18.5 cm. 477pp. Indices. Grey cloth in dust jacket. Some of the pages show some mild edge wear, not effecting readability.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. First edition. Quarto. Near fine in lightly stained wrappers.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Oblong Folio, 92 pages. Printed wrappers, ring bound. - First edition.

hardcover. Condizione: very good(-). 8vo, grey cloth, extremities worn. New York: Alliance Book Company, 1941. First Edition. A very good(-) copy. Inscribed by Francis Biddle on the fly-leaf.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. Cloth hardcover, xvi + 358 pages, NOT ex-library. Age-spotted outer page edges; spotting and faint foxing on the front and rear endpapers. Pages are clean, bright, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. Boards show rubbing to edges. Aged and worn dust jacket with extensive edgewear and sunned spine; torn along the front flap. -- In the years that immediately preceded the beginning of the Second World War and during the initial phase of the conflict itself, Poland was to play a central role in the tense drama of international affairs. Uncertain diplomats speculated on the policies the beleaguered nation would likely adopt once the full pressure of Hitler's Germany had been felt in Warsaw, where an ambivalent government was seen to vacillate between allegiance to the Western democracies and an apparent disposition to enter into partnership with the Third Reich. Alarmed political observers in Europe and elsewhere expressed deep concern and grave misgiving over the ability of the Polish political system, economy, and social structure to withstand the tremendous stress of supporting a major war effort. The selection of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., as the ambassador of the United States to Poland signaled a significant increase in official American concern over the impending crisis. Although he was not a career diplomat, Biddle had been an extremely successful businessman, a leading personality in high social circles, and a close personal friend and political ally of the president. He served in Warsaw from the summer of 1937 until the outbreak of the war between Germany and Poland, when he accompanied the government on its flight into exile through Romania into France and finally to London.

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 233 pages. 9.75x6.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 9½'' x 7¼''. Contains 126 printed pages of text with monochrome figures and maps. The covers have been laminated and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Professor William S. Hanson's copy [Roman Archaeology, University of Glasgow], with his name inside. Member of the P.B.F.A. TOWN & RURAL PLANNING.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 1st edition. 233 pages. 9.50x6.75x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: Good /Nice/Clean. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Some b/w Illustrations (illustratore). Previous Owner Name. Hardback : hard cover edition in good or better condition, some slight wear to edges, as normal for age of book. Overall good copy of this title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Book.

Hardcover. 545 pgs total. Very attractive two volume set bound in leather. Near fine hardcover copies.