Search Results: Authors starting with F from A Cappella Books

New York University Press, January 1966. Trade Paperback . Good.

Watson-Guptill Publications, November 1984. Oversize Softcover . Very Good. Each of these handsome volumes contains 32 large color plates reproduced with superb fidelity on special paper. The informative text and detailed captions will provide inspiration and fresh insight for all who admire great painting. A beloved painter is celebrated in a book devoted exclusively to his watercolors, including all Homer watercolors in The Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art collections. Donelson F. Hoopes devotes a beautiful volume exclusively to the most popular of all American watercolorists. Published in cooperation with The Brooklyn Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the book includes virtually the entire Winslow Homer collection of both museums.

London: Hogarth Press, 1985. Trade Paperback . Very Good. Octavo (Five-inches x Eight-inches). 2nd printing of this trade paperback edition. Remainder mark top textblock edge. Else, sound, without internal markings. No underlining. No notes.

Hogarth Press, January 1986. Paper Back . Very Good. Octavo (Five-inches x Eight-inches) UK paperback edition. No internal markings. No underlining. No side-notes. Spine is sound, not creased, not crackd. (532 pp.)

Hogwarth Press, January 1989. Reprint. Paper Back . Good. Octavo. Damp stained. 2nd printing.

North Point Press, July 2009. Trade Paperback . Good. Some notes in pencil on the verso of the front cover.

Doubleday, January 1954. Mass Market PaperBack . Very Good. Mass market paperback with light shelf wear. [430 pages]

Scribner Book Company, August 2001. Trade Paperback . Good. Now in paperback, this impassioned, no-nonsense account of the dangerous and potentially fatal practices of the cattle and dairy industries is told by a man uniquely qualified to blow the whistle--a former cattle rancher who has become a high-profile advocate for vegetarianism.

Little Brown and Company, April 1989. Paper Back . Very Good. Cllean text. Solid binding. Very good overall.

Little Brown and Company, November 1989. Paper Back . Very Good. Clean, sound, without underlining or side-notes.

Free Press, October 1992. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. Of all the towering figures of the Civil War, none is more infamous than General William Tecumseh Sherman. Widely hated as the cruel military genius who led the devastating March to the Sea, this gruff, charismatic man's motives are now revealed in this definitive biography. 24 pages of photos; 1 map.

Palgrave MacMillan, March 2006. First Edition. Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. <P>The dramatic tale of the man who created the modern city--and ended up at the center of America's first corporate scandal Library stamps on the top and bottom edges of the print block. Small scar and a lightly bumped corner on the back board.

Dublin, Ireland: Wolfhound Press, January 1988. Paper Back . Good. {7' x 9 & 3/4'} Curled textbloc, Well worn with a few stray scratches. Previous owner's name inked on half title page. [96 pages]

Hill & Wang, August 1978. Trade Paperback . Good. Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. 'Amusing the Million' examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing social and economic conditions formed the basis of a new mass culture. Exploring it afresh in this way, John Kasson shows Coney Island no longer as the object of nostalgia but as a harbinger of modernity--and the many photographs, lithographs, engravings, and other reproductions with which he amplifies his text support this lively thesis.<BR>

Stephen Daiter Gallery, January 2002. Soft Cover Soft Cover. Good. Exhibition catalogue from the 2002 exhibit. Stapled, good condition.

University of California Press, July 2001. Oversized Hardcover . Very Good/Very Good. In September 1879, James McNeill Whistler boarded the Venice-bound night train in Paris. He was forty-five years old and bankrupt. What was to be a three-month stay in the Italian city--long enough to complete a set of twelve etchings--stretched to fourteen months. When Whistler returned to London, he brought back over fifty magnificent etchings and a hundred pastels, far in excess of the original commission. In 'Palaces in the Night, 'Margaret F. MacDonald looks at this key period in Whistler's career, examining his unique vision of Venice and his development of the medium of etching. She shows how he reestablished himself in the art world of London and Paris, turning disaster and disgrace into profit and prestige. Lavishly illustrated with some of the most beautiful and intriguing images Whistler ever produced, this book provides a fascinating account of a pivotal period in the artist's long and… Read More

Princeton Architectural Press, November 2004. Oversized Hardcover . Good/No Jacket. From its birth as a remote trading outpost on the fringes of the Dutch empire to its current status as the so-called Capital of the World, New York has always captivated visual artists. The extraordinary prints collected by the New-York Historical Society over the course of its history vividly preserve these impressions on paper. In this handsome volume more than 150 of these views of the city -- including two spectacular gatefold panoramas -- speak eloquently of the surging power of this dynamic urban center. At the same time, they present an intimate portrait of everyday life as it has been lived and savored in this great city for more than three centuries.<BR>The companion to an exhibition celebrating the New-York Historical Society's bicentennial anniversary, this beautifully printed volume presents a full range of historic images, from 1672 to the present. In the lively essay and information-filled… Read More

New York, N.Y.: Grove / Evergreen Original, 1961. First Thus. Trade Paperback . Very Good. First U.S. paperback edition. Edgewear. Foxing, especially heavily to cover verso front and rear and likewise heavy foxing to first & last pages of textblock. [94 pp.]

'Empire Press,', January 1924. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Green cloth back boards. Clean & solid. No markings. Front free end page appears to be missing. 12mo.

Routledge, April 2008. Trade Paperback . Very Good.