Search Results: Americana from Antiquariaat Jacob E. van Ruller

Berlin: NGBK/Medusa, 1980. Katalog zur) Ausstellung der Neuen Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst 1980/1981. Farbig illustr. OKart. 544 SS. mit hunderten Abbildungen (u.a. Farbtafeln), Biografien, Ausgewählte Bibliographie. Ausstellungskatalog. Beiträge von Josuah C. Taylor, Olaf Hansen, Warren Susman u.v.a. zu Kunst u. Kultur der 30er Jahre, zur Tradition der politischen Grafik, zu amerikanischer Wandmalerei im Regierungsauftrag, zum amerikanischen Film u.a.m. Mit zeitgeschichlichen Dokumenten. Mit Kurzbiographien der Künstler (mit Literaturhinweisen), Auswahl-Bibliographie u. Ausstellungsverzeichnis. GUTES EXEMPLAR. Text in German. Huge exhibition of American art between the wars, with introduction, "Kunst und Öffentlichkeit in Amerika" by Joshua Taylor, and sixteen additional essays by various contributors covering a variety of subjects: Precisionist painting, political cartoons, Regionalism, Photographers of the Farm Security Administration, the Federal Writers… Read More

Leipzig: K.F. Koehlers Antiquarium, 1923. 316 (4) pages with more than 1000 photos and accompanying texts. Fascinating photodocumentation on the United States during the 1920's. Orig. cloth with goldprinting. 1000 Photos depicting towns, streetscenes, factories, architecture, traffic, transport, villages, scenery etc. Presented with chapters on every single state of the United States. Text in German. Mit einem Vorwort von Graf J.H. v. Bernstorff. . EXCELLENT COPY, sehr gut erhalten. Contents (Inhalt) : Einleitung. Von der Chesapeake Bai bis Maine (u.a. Virginia, Washington D.C., Maryland, Delaware, östliches Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut , Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire). Stahl, Kohle und die grossen Seen (u.a. Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois). Die Farmstaaten im Mittleren Westen und Nordwesten ( u.a. Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota). Zu beiden Seiten der Rocky Mountains (u.a. Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Kalifornien, Nevada, Utah,… Read More

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1983. Decorative Cloth with d.j. 192 pp., with 233 illustrations, including 120 in full colour. Black cloth with silver image and lettering on front and silver lettering on spine. In original pictorial dusjacket .Nice selection of paintings, drawings, sculptures and prints by leading 20th century artists on the city of New York. Excellent copy, as new.. 1st edition. 34,5 x 26,5 cm.

München-Paris-London: Schirmer/Mosel, 1998. Or. Hardcover with Dustjacket 240 pp. with 183 plates, bibliography. Text in German. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Ursula Wulfekamp. "Zehn Jahre lang hat der renommierte Photohistoriker Michael Lesy die Verlagsarchive der Detroit Publishing Company durchforstet, die bis 1924 existierte. Die 183 Aufnahmen, die er für diesen Band auswählte, arrangierte er in feinsinniger Dramaturgie zu einem Bilderbuch, das die Geschicke Amerikas in der ersten Dekade des 20. Jahrhunderts erzählt." "William Henry Jackson, the most renowned Western landscape photographer of his day, travelled across the United States with a team of photographers recording images of the nation in all regions and environments. Photo-historian Michael Lesy has compiled 208 of these images and his writings contextualize them, finding the relevance of these still resonant images.". 1st edition. 31 x 24,5 cm.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1974. Hardcover cloth with dustjacket.Oblong. 204 pages. 202 illustrations including 39 full coulor plates. Notes, bibliography. Dustjacket slightly disoloured. This book "is, in effect, a pictorial history of the war as Homer saw it, and includes virtually his entire artistic production form 1861 to 1865 in all mediums -- oils, drawings, watercolors, wood engravings, and lithographs, superbly reproduced and accompanied by battle maps, contemporary photographs, quotations from Walt Whitman and other Civil War observers, and the author's own illuminating commentaries." . 1st UK edition, 1st printing. 27,5 x 30 m.

New Haven & London/New York: Yale University Press/The New-York Historical Society, 1995. Hardcover with dustjacket. (xxi) 1350 pages with illustrations, bibliograpical references, index. This voluminous book consists of more than 4000 entries in alphabetical order by more than 650 contributors, along with 680 illustrations and maps. Among the topics covered by the encyclopaedia are architecture, government and politics, business, religion, weather, the arts, education, transport, the law, science and medicine, and sports and recreation. NICE COPY, AS NEW.

San Francisco: Pomegranate Communications, 1999. 216 pages with references and index. 172 images of New York City, mainly dated late 19th en beginning 20th century, were carefully selected from the collection of more than 22,000 in the Byron Company archive, each beautifully printed in sepia tone and provided with extensive captions. Themes: street life; at work; at home; at play; city kids; the sporting life; the stage & popular entertainment; from stem to stern; the physical city. Exceptional fine printing technique has been used to make this beautiful book FINE COPY.. 1st edition. Ppbck with folded flaps. 4to.

Greenwich, USA: Bison Books, 1984. Hardcover with dustjacket 192 pages. The text is illustrated with a wealth of contemporary photographs, engravings and art-works. Index. . 1st edition. 35 x 24 cm.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Company,, 1988. Hardcover. with 200 pages.Grey cloth with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. Extensive illustrations (many in colour) and maps. Foreword by John Keegan. "Spectacular Computer Graphics & Battlefield Reconstructions Bring to Life the Greatest Battles of the Civil War. .. 31 x 25 cm.

New Brunswick, 1954, 5th Pr: Boy Scouts of America., 1955. Auteur: Hillcourt, William. 392 pages with drawings throughout. World Brotherhood edition. A fine softcover, withpicture of boy scout holding flag on cover. Contents: Chapter 1 The Patrol Leader and His Job. Chapter 2 Patrol Spirit Chapter. 3 The Patrol and the Troop. Chapter 4 Patrol Organization. Chapter 5 Patrol Meetings. Chapter 6 Patrol. Chapter 7 Patrol Camping. Chapter 8 Patrol Instruction. Chapter 9 Patrol Handicrafts. Chapter 10 Patrol Stunts. Chapter 11 Patrol Relationships. Chapter 12 The Patrol Lives On. Previous owner name on title page Good copy, goed exemplaar . 6th printing.

New York: The Easton Press/ Gramercy Books, 1992. 192 pages with fullpage and double page illustrations by Mort Künstler. Hardcovr wit fine dustjacket. Index. FINE, as new . 35 x 23,5 cm.

Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1978. Cloth bound, or. pictorial wrprs. 152 p. , numerous ills, bibliographical essay and index. 28 x 23 cm.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985. Or. Cloth with dustwrprs. 279 pp, with 231 photos. Photography as documentation is what Stimson achieved in rich quantity from his base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, beginning around 1890. The American West was settling down to "commonplace" growth and development. We see railroad trains and accommodations, broad agricultural prairies and farm equipment, both horse-drawn and mechanized, thriving sheep and cattle spreads, rising oil rigs and rugged mining and smelting grounds, The photos on these pages are crisp, clear, well-composed. and beautifully reproduced. Junge traces the parallel development of Stimson's handiwork and of the American Northwest corner he chose to live in. Background information accompanying the plates helps make this volume an excellent addition to U.S. social and photographic history. FINE COPY, as new. 1st edition. 25,5 x 27 cm.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001. Orig. Pictor. Brds. With d.j. 320 pp., profusely illustrated, with index. Pressphotos from the 1920's to the 1990's. More than 300 photographs from the archive of the New York Daily News capture life in New York City from 1920-1999 in images that depict the worlds of sports, poverty, nightlife, and celebrities. Fine copy, as new. Heavy book, possibly higher postage . 1st edition. 31,5 x 23 cm.