john macrae iii editor (4 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. Eliot Porter (Photographer) (illustratore). First Edition, First Pinting. Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed maroon linen boards w/pictorial pastedown/Fine. DJ/None. Front endpaper removed. Melding of the wordless-visual and the literary all prose-and-poetry to create a human and natural history of North America --- bringing together of the landscapes of Eliot Porter (1901 - 1990) who taught himself how to photograph, with musings of historian and 'dean of American Western writers' Wallace Stegner (1909 - 1993), and his son and heir, Page Stegner (1937 - ). What is heritage is in these United States but the bringing together of human endeavors with that which nature bestowed, and how one influenced the other.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Eliot Porter (Photographs) (illustratore). First Edition. 224 pp. Original tan cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Spine ends and corners of front cover bumped. Edges of leaves age toned. DJ lightly soiled w/ mild edge wear. Faint sunning to edges. Price clipped. Illust. w/ 89 dazzling color photos taken especially for the book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Eliot Porter (Photographer) (illustratore). First Edition, 3rd Printing. Text/BRAND NEW. Sienna-brown linen boards w/gilt spine lettering/Fine. DJ/NF; price-slipped, else fine. Gift inscription to front endpaper. A study of how the American people and the American land have interacted. The story is told through photographs (89 plates) of Eliot Poter (1901 - 1990) and the prose of Wallace Earle Stegner (1909 - 1993), author of The Big Rock Candy Mountain (1943) and Angle of Repose (1971, Pulitzer Prize), and his writer, novelist, and historian son Page Stegner (1937 -). The chapters and photographs can be construed as "illustrating a stage in the process of adaptation and naturalization). Chapters 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, & 13 are written by Wallace Stegner; chapters 9-12 are by Page Stegner. Chapter 14 is jointly written by father and son.