Search Results: Authors starting with W from Ultramarine Books

San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1998. 192 pages; numerous color illustrations. Step-by-step guide to revamping furniture, not just paint. Clean throughout; tight binding.. First Edition. Decorated Vinyl Wrappers . Very Good. 11" x 6.5".

Waterville, Maine: Thorndike Press, 2002. 347 pages. Large print edition inscribed on the title page.. Inscribed by the author. Large Print Edition. Decorated paper boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: Oresko Books, 1976. 88 pages; 86 illustrations, 8 in color. Clean and tight; some light fading to the wraps (covers). Bibliography.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good.. 4to.

Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005. 346 pages; b&w illustrations; bibliographic essay. Vicksburg was overshadoed by Gettysburg. Yet, the author states it was a more important battle. He reports on how the battle was and is remembered and the legacy of African-Americans who fought with the North or who were in slavery at the time and later lived through Reconstruction. Clean throughout; tight binding. First Edition. Paper covered boards. Fine/Fine. 8vo.

New York: The American Federation of Arts, 1969. 159 pages. 111 full-page plates, including 55 in color. At the back, "Notes on the Artists" and "Catalogue Notes" offers details on each painting. Front panel of the wrapper has a 1-inch tear at the spine top; edges lightly bumped. Clean within; binding tight.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Good. Large 8vo. Exhibition Catalogue.

New York: Time Inc., 1966. 192 pages; numerous illustrations of Leonardo's works.. quarter-cloth and paper boards. Fine/Fine slipcase. 4to.

San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1978. 132 pages; 14 illustrations by Roger Bayless. A sunset to sunrise narrative from the foothills of the Yolla Bolly mountains to peaks and alpine meadows. Bibliography; Index to Animals and Plants. Clean and tight inside and out; dustjacket lightly faded.. First Edition. quarter-cloth with paper board. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Roger Bayless. 4to.

New York: Time Inc., 1966. 192 pages; numerous color and b&w illustrations. Well done, enjoyably readable primer on the subject; one of the series Time-Life Library of Art in a sturdy paperboard slipcase with applied color illustration: book and slipcase "as new".. quarter-cloth w/ paper boards. Fine/No Jacket but a Slipcase. 4to.

New York: National Writers Union, 2000. 252 pages. A to Z: Essays by experienced freelance writers provide real-world information and recommendations about practices, working conditions, major markets, including books, journalism, electronic, technical, etc. Also, information on rights, contracts, fees, negotiating, etc.. First Edition. Printed Wrapper (softcover). As New. 8vo.

University of Richmond Museums, 2003. 72 pages; 21 color reproductions; chronology; bibliography; exhibition checklist of 35 works. The exhibition showed paintings and works on paper mostly created or finished since the year 2000.. First Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. Exhibition Catalogue.

New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. 283 pages. A history of moble homes, or manufactured housing, and a defense of their importance as primary housing for a large segment of the American population and the quality of construction of modern units.. quarter cloth / paper boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

Col;ogne: Benedikt Taschen, 1988. 95 pages; illustrated throughout.. First English Edition. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine.. 4to.

New York: HarperCollins Publishers (harper collins), 1993. 174 pages. Dozens of contemporary color photographs and earlier black-and-whites. An overview of the effort to conserve the tiger population and the effort's leading individuals, the Tiger-Wallahs. The author has been a prominent screenwriter for PBS as well as a book author.. First Edition. quarter-cloth and paper boards. Fine/Fine. 4to.

New York: Richard York Gallery, 2001. 56 pages; 51works illustrated, color and b&w; frontispiece b&w photo-portrait of Marin. "Thus the whole city is alive - buildings, people, all are alive - and the more they move me the more I feel them to be alive. It is this moving of me that I try to express so that I may recall the spell I have been under and behold the expression of the different emotions that have been called into being." - Marin.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Small 4to. Gallery exhibition catalogue.

New York: Michael Ward, Inc. no date. 75 catalogued items; 38 are illustrated in color or b&w photographs. Each catalogued item is well described. Short bibliography. Axes, spear heads, bracelets, dress pins, neck rings, armbands, handles, and other. Clean throughout, no tears or marks; light smudge on the front panel.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Slim 4to. Exhibition Catalogue.

The University of Kansas, Lawrence: The Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, 1978. 128 pages; 16 color plates; more than 50 b&w illustrations. A thorough historical and place-of-origin overview of the subject. A Catalogue of the Collection. American Museums Listing of Reverse Paintings on Glass identifies, locates, and briefly describes 759 reverse paintings on glass. A final section addresses conservation followed by bibliography. A biographical sketch of the author is loosely inserted.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good. Tall 4to.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004. 48 pages; well illustrated, mostly in color. Paintings, engravings, decorative arts, armor, and more . MMA Bulletin Summer 2004. Clean throughout; tight binding.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Fine. 4to. Museum Bulletin.

Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, 1907. 49 pages; numerous b&w illustrations, usually 4 to 6 to the page. Architecture and ornament from Ancient Egypt through Greece and Rome to Germany from the Renaissance to the 19th-Century. Clean throughout; tight binding; small tear at the margin of one leaf. Backstrip worn, boards discolored and worn at corners and edges; . Sixth Enlarged Edition. quarter-cloth w/ card boards. Very Good/No Jacket. 13.5" x 10.5".

Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1989. 90 pages. 6 essays on Neoclassicism. The centrepoint is Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces by Joshua Reynolds. Other essays focus on specific neoclassic masterpieces of painting, sculpture, furniture, porcelain, and textiles.. Pictorial Wrapper (softcover). Very Good.. 4to.

New York: Atheneum, 1986. 248 pages. Photographic illustrations. The author, a miltary historian, served in the British Army through WW II and later was a senior lecturer at the Roysl Military Academy. Jacket is price-clipped. The book clean and bright throughout.. First American Edition. quarter cloth / paper boards. Fine/Very Good. 8vo.