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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. The Art and the Story of the World's Best-Loved Comic Strip by Schulz. Good+ to very good condition with mended dust jacket. 0.0.

HC. 240pp ISBN 0395634164 very good+ w/very good dustjacket (hardcover). color illustrations (illustratore).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 238 pages, illustrations (some colour), colour maps; 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket with light shelfwear, slightly sunned. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. *** "Roger Kennedy is very much a historian for our time. Never content with a mere sequence of facts, figures, and events, he brings to his subject the voice of an interpreter and storyteller, ranging back and forth in time and space, blending the many and various aspects of human endeavor into the pattern we call history. This fascinating story of the missions of North America traces the long trail of 'the friars [who] went forth from Catholic Europe to gain converts among the American Indians . . . to colonize America for Spain and thereafter to deny its riches to any other power.' The missions themselves represent a unique example of building on a frontier, memorializing a 'grand endeavor': the westward extension of the great Crusades to the East. The book begins with a discussion of the religious context of the mission-building period and goes on to draw vivid historical portraits of the participants, both European and American. Kennedy describes the specific architectural features - domes, cloisters, ribats - that resulted from the merging of cultural forces. Finally, Kennedy serves as a witty and urbane tour guide through each of the most important mission buildings, from the traces of ruins in Florida to the glory of the restoration of La Purisima Concepcion in California." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Part I: the religious mission; Part II: the participants; Part III: the architectural mission; Part IV: along the mission frontier. Size: 4to.…

Fine and bright glossy stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Beautifully illustrated with color photographs on location. With descriptive photographs and text on how to build high in the tree.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Front cover has fading.

First edition; 4to.; embossed paper covered boards with illustrated endpapers, hardcover; 254 pages; black and white and color illustrations; very good in a very good unclipped dust jacket with some light soiling to back of jacket.

First Australian edition (from the sheets of the US Abrams edition published the same year, in the same format). Hardcover. Quarto-size. Fine in fine dustjacket. Described and illustrated ( profusely, in colour and b/w) by Froud and Lee. This heavy book will cost considerably more to send overseas, than any default postage rate noted. …