New york library association (217 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Red-Brown cloth Covers with gilt lettering on spine and rubbed gilt decoration on upper right front cover; Black Endpapers; Right book edge is rough cut and top book edge is stained red by publisher; book interior is clean, tight, and bright; 8vo; 244 pages; bibliography; dustjacket is protected by a mylar wrapper and is very lightly soiled and fairly bright for its age; front panel of dustjacket is lightly rubbed at top and bottom edges and bottom edge has some heavier rubbing and creasing at left lower spine gutter and right lower corner; front panel of dustjacket has a few small scuffed areas; spine panel of dustjacket is rubbed with light creasing at top and bottom edges white rear panel of dustjacket is very lightly soiled.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. Softcover 1998 edition. Covers and text in fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. {535 pages} Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. "The Yellowstone Story" is a matching set of two trade paperbacks -- Volume One is unread with no spine creases; Volume Two has a double spine crease but is still square & tight, grade it "very good." No statements of edition or printing -- possibly firsts. We give the ISBN for Volume One; The ISBN for Volume Two is 0-87081-116-9. Volume One is 387 pp. with Index; Volume Two is 545 pp. with Index. American history, geography. Price is for the matching pair of trade paperbacks, now reduced from $21, plus for the hardcover 12-inch quarto "Yellowstone / A Century of the Wilderness Idea," 219 pp. including Index. Photos by Charles Steinhacker and Others (illustratore).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st. xiv, 213 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Small erasure mark-rubbing/front free endpaper. Fine DJ. *** "One hundred years ago, the crude realism of early cinematic exercises caused shockwaves among audiences - some even panicked. On one occasion, read a news report from the time, an old lady in the audience, quite unable to suppress a scream, started up in her seat and tried to scramble out, knocking over others on her way. This sort of reaction was not uncommon - on a screen that might have featured nothing more than minute-long dips of a running horse or a moving train, what modern viewers might see as a pale shadow of the explosive, full-colour blockbusters of 1995." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction, by James H. Billington; Foreword, by Martin Scorsese; 1. Pieces in a Puzzle: Prehistory of the motion picture; 2. Sorcerer and Apprentice: Edison, Dickson, and the Kinetoscope; 3. From Science to Show Business: Development of the Kinetoscope, as medium and commerce; 4. The Race to the Screen: Projecting the motion picture; 5. The Inherited Repertoire: Origins of motion picture content; 6. Finding a Home: The rise of the nickelodeon and the purpose-built cinema; 7. Wars and Order: Patents wrangles and industrial organization; 8. Production and the Way West: The migration to California; 9. Telling Stories: Development of film narrative; 10. International Rivalries: America and Europe struggle for market domination; 11. Features and Palaces: Revolutions in exhibition; 12. The Year 1913: The cinema comes of age. Size: 8vo.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Hardcover clean tight and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover clean tight and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover clean tight and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 209p, 98 plates, 9.4"x 12", paperback, VG+ [0486235483].

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Accompanies exhibitions at New York museums: Morgan Library, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute in Utica, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art in Ithaca, Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, Hyde Collection in Glens Falls; Dayton Art Institute in Dayton OH, Indianapolis Museum of Art, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. During December 1979 - June 1980.78 black & white illustrations with accompanying commentary, additional illustrations integrated with text, 4 full-page color plates. Prestigious publisher Stinehour Press participated in book design.Wraps show very light signs of age, small tear at top of spine secured on reverse with clear removable tape, light wear at edges of flap fold. Interior pages are clean and fresh. 210 pages, 9 1/2" x 10". Additional fee for expedited or international shipping. …

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Softcover reprint of the 1926 lecture, 33pps, NF. Part of the Reading with a Purpose series.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Paper. Condizione: Very Good in Softcover. First Edition. tear to top of spine. (10/26/19- 90092 ) Size: 7 x 10".

Oversized Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Published in conjunction with the exhibition @The New York Public Library, NYC, Nov.09.2007-Feb.10.2008. The book traces Kerouac's tumultuous and often traumatic journey from his working-class boyhood in Lowell, Massachusetts, to New York City, where he, Allen Ginsberg and William S. Burroughs would become the fathers of the Beat movement, and beyond. Drawing on journals, diaries, manuscripts, and typescripts in The NYPL's Jack Kerouac Archive - the book explores Kerouac's evolution as a writer and his spiritual passage. Though written in a mere three weeks (the famous scroll text), On the Road's creative process, here, receives a detailed analysis. Notes, Checklist of Works Illustrated, Suggested Reading, Index of Names. Color/b&w illus. 207p.…

Paperback. Condizione: Fine. Paperback. 4to. Fine in Grey paper wrappers with white title to spine. Index, 159 pages. BOB/101209. Profusely Illustrated (illustratore).

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good-. Front cover has some slight creasing to the outer margin. Private owner's name and the date written on the inside of the front cover. ; Bicentennial Bibliography.

Condizione: Very Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Fine condition. First Softbound Edition. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library in association with Dover Publications, 1976. Obviously never read. Fine condition but for just a tiny bit of rubbing on the cover. The spine is square and flat. NO creases. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NO remainder mark. Pages are creamy white. Fresh and crisp. A key reference. Listed in Katz (1994) as one of the best 30 books on the history of book illustration. Lavishly illustrated with 295 reproductions including 100 full page plates. From the preface: "It attempts in essays and illustration and by full bibliographical descriptions to give a comprehensive view of that time when England's illustrated books were as fine as any in the world." Among the artists and engravers profiled here are Blake, Turner, Rowlandson, Combe, Cruikshank, Bewick, the Danziel Brothers, Martin, Constable, Lear, Baxter, Fawcett, Thackeray, Phiz, Leech, Rossetti, Tenniel, Foster, Houghton, Evans, Crane, Caldecott, Greenaway, Ricketts, Pissarro, Craig, Thomson, Beardsley, Beerbohm, Rackham, etc. Artzen/Rainwater N108. Oversize Softcover. 8.5" wide by 11.25" tall. This large, heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. First Softbound Edition. Oversize Softcover. Fine condition. xxxiii, 336pp.…

1978 Edition. A near fine copy in the publisher's original gilt-blocked blue cloth with paste-on pictorial to front panel. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 116 pages; Subjects: Performing arts - Library resources - United States - Periodicals. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover clean tight and unmarked; contains Recollections of O. Smith, Comedian by O. Smith.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 32 PAGE BROCHURE.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. SOLD ONLY BY SUBSCRIPTION. FADED CLOTH.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Ex-library; blind stamp on the front cover and ink stamp on its back. Peeled library sticker on the bottom corner of the front cover and sun-faded edges.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Ex-lib. Ex-library; blind stamp on the title page and ink stamp on its back. Very light rubbing and sticker residue on the front cover.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards; corners faintly bumped. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright and clean, with text block especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color) ; 17 x 25 cm. Notes; Materials drawn from the Library of Congress' collections. Includes bibliography and index. Subjects; World War, 1939-1945 - Pictorial works, World War, 1939-1945 - Sources. 1 Kg.…

First Edition. Fine copy in a near fine dw. Particularly and uncommonly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 176 pages; Description: 176 p. : ill. (chiefly col. ) , col. Maps ; 27 cm. "Object list": p. 168-172. Includes index. Subjects: Library of Congress --Exhibitions. United States --Civilization --Sources --Exhibitions. 1 Kg. Profusely Illustrated (illustratore).…

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Covers have heavy wear, rubbing and soil. Corners bumped and rounded. Binding tight. no writing. Pages heavily foxed and glue discoloration inside covers and on end papers. 74 pages + 2 page letter from India about the annual laid in. Information and research in the arts and history of the theater. Articles in this issue include wartime drama in Britain, act and scene division in first edition of Shakespeare, student dramatic activities at Yale during the 18th century and the Pulitzer Prize. Black and white illustrations. Size: 6.25x 9.25.…

Soft Cover. Condizione: Good+. This has flexable cover which are faded a bit, rubbed and have light soiling. The pages are clean and there was something attached to the inside back cover which almost all is missing. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 92 pp., illustrated, 4to, card wrapper. Contents here are the same as that in APHA's Printing History journal, Issue 43/44 (except that the table of contents has been curiously omitted here). The ATF Collection is housed at Columbia University. Near fine copy; contents fine, couple of finger marks on rear of wrapper, bottom of spine very lightly soiled. …