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Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1984. Softcover. Spine is sunned, typical of this edition, and the edges of wraps a bit less so.; A concise, well-written history of the life and career of Thomas R. Reding (1807-1852), a stonecutter of gravestones in Indiana. Initially a cabinetmaker, then a saddle maker, he found his calling as a stonecutter, essentially a folk artist, cutting gravestones in several Indiana counties. Includes 39 monochrome photographs that illustrate the evolution of his style. In four sections: I, Thomas Reding: Beginnings; II, The Carvings; III, Epilogue; IV, Finding Thomas Reding. Line drawn map with a table of the locations of cemeteries with Reding's stonework. Includes a 12 pages directional guide to the cemeteries. Bibliography of primary and secondary sources for this book. Acknowledgements. In pale green wraps with illustrated front cover. Includes ephemera: c.1985-1990 Indianapolis Star (IN) newspaper clippings…
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Indiana Stonecarver : The Story of Thomas R. Reding
by Nolan, Ann and Buckley, Keith
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Intimate Journals
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Hollywood: Marcel Rodd. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1947. Hardcover. The spine is sun-lightened and the gilt title is very pale. Rear cover has a tiny, light mark or two and two faint scratches. Tiny mark to front endpaper. Creases to corner of the half title. Lacks the dust jacket.; Charles Baudelaire was a poet, translator, and critic in 19th century France. He was known for his "prose poetry" and dark, sometimes controversial subject matter. His works were often judged as obscene and their publication suppressed. His journals, excerpted in this book, reveal a often lost, questioning man with contempt for others and for himself. The Translator's Preface by Christopher Isherwood is apt, describing Baudelaire's life of vice, absinthe, opium, debt to the point of financial ruin, contempt for ethics, instability, anger, madness, and brilliance as an author. Isherwood's friend W. H. Auden provides the Introduction which takes a high-level view of the philosophies…
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