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New York, NY: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0394494776 . This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust j… Plus…

New York, NY: Random House. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1974. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0394494776 . This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. There is an ink stamped remainder mark on the bottom edge of the text block. The white covers have some generalized light toning aan occasional spot of ground-in dirt. "Eugene Luther Gore Vidal was an American writer and public intellectual known for his epigrammatic wit, erudition, and patrician manner. Vidal was bisexual, and in his novels and essays interrogated the social and cultural sexual norms he perceived as driving American life. Beyond literature, Vidal was heavily involved in politics. He twice sought office—unsuccessfully—as a Democratic Party candidate, first in 1960 to the U. S. House of Representatives (for New York) , and later in 1982 to the U. S. Senate (for California). A grandson of a U. S. Senator, Vidal was born into an upper-class political family. As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's primary focus was the history and society of the United States, especially how a militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a deHis political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. And Norman Mailer. " (from Wikipedia) ., Random House, 1974, 3, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-04-13. Paperback. Used:Good., Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-04-13, 0, Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-04-13. Paperback. Good., Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-04-13, 2.5, New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1994. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in very good dustjacket), cloth binding along spine, edges lightly foxed, reverse slide jacket moderately foxed (minor edgewear). Heavy, and extra postage may be requested to destinations outside Australia. . 370 pp. For many people, the 1960s was a period of reawakening. The political and cultural upheavals of the time had a tremendous effect on the spiritual lives of Americans. In this epic survey, he pulls together the changes that occurred in organized and disorganized religious life during this turbulent decade, and shows where those changes came from, following in a chronological manner the religious news and events of the day. He recalls the unusual role religion played in the 1960 and 1964 presidential elections, the stunning results of the Second Vatican Council, the place of religion in the civil rights and antiwar movements, the emergence of Death of God theology, and the impact of religion on the counterculture. He also interprets what happened spiritually as an important and perhaps permanent shift in the character of American religion, from an institutionally determined to a more subjective experience of the divine., Rutgers University Press, 1994, 0, Printed for the Camden Society by John Bowyer Nichols: 1844. Book. Good. Hardcover. Thick small post 4to., 23 cms., pp l, 496, uncut and mostly unopened. The society's original decorative cloth, large blind-stamped decoration on boards, gilt title on backstrip (cloth damp marked, backstrip chipped), internally a clean copy. Preserved and nicely presented by the previous owner in custom made dustjacket with printed title label and preserved in an archival sleeve. Nichols page 22 'This large and important volume is derived partly from a MS. placed at the disposal of the Camden Society by Frederic Ouvry ... and partly from original letters contained in various volumes at the British Museum ... Mr. Bruce in his Introduction has developed in a masterly manner the historical value of the documents here printed.' MILNE C 27. READ 907 'A valuable collection of documents upon Leicester's first visit to the Low Countries.'., 2.75, Könemann 2017. Hardcover, 216 pages, multilingual, 190 x 190 mm, dustjacket, NEW, illustrated in colours. ISBN 9783955881009. Thomas Gainsborough was one of the great English portrait and landscape painters of the eighteenth century. His modern manner of painting based on emotions was criticized by contemporaries such as Joshua Reynolds, but it gave Gainsborough a special position in an art world dominated by academic rigor and earned him the greatest appreciation from English society., Könemann 2017, 0, US,12mo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn.[Although copyright date is 1913 for US,UK+CANADA edns,believed that US (definitely) and Canadian (possibly) edns precede the UK edn.] VG+.Two previous owner inscriptns,both to front pastedown,minus dw/dj.Bright and generally clean,publisher's original,olive green cloth boards,with bright,crisp,stamped gilt panel+lettering to front board,and oxidised gilt letters to spine/backstrip which is also slightly dulled - as usual/normal.Minimal shelf-wear and bumping to edges and corners,with usual miniscule bumping to both head+foot of spine/ backstrip,clean endpapers.Top edge coloured(?) or darkened+ slightly dust-soiled/aged(?),fore-edges although lightly aged,are brighter,cleaner and untrimmed; contents bright,tight and clean, virtually unfoxed,no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners.US,12mo HB,minus dw/dj,1st edn,11-195pp [paginated] includes 6 sections/chapters of short fictional sketches,humorous essays,by an this acknowledged English-born,Canadian by residence,master in the field,16 b/w Art Deco 'Aubrey Beardsley-esque' style illustrations by A.H. FISH - all called for; plus [unpaginated] half-title,b/w vignette illustrated title page,coloured frntis by FISH,contents+illus lists/tables. This collection contains: Behind the Beyond,Familiar Incidents: With the Photographer,The Dentist and the Gas, My Lost Opportunities,My Unknown Friend,Under the Barber's Knife. Parisian Pastimes: The Advantages of a Polite Education,The Joys of Philanthropy,The Simple Life in Paris,A Visit to Versailles,Paris at Night.The Retroactive Existence of Mr Juggins.Making a Magazine and Homer and Humbug. Anne Harriet Fish (d.1964.).Worked as 'Fish'.Married name: Mrs Sefton.Born Bristol,UK.Studied under John Hassall and at the London School of Art and in Paris.She lived in London,at East Grinstead,Sussex and at St Ives,Cornwall.She was a mainstay of 'The Tatler' during the 1920's and 1930's,contributing drawings and caricatures in a mannered Art Deco idiom somewhat resembling the work of Aubrey Hammond,but deriving ultimately from Aubrey Beardsley's work. Cornelius Veth regarded her as one of the most important social satirists of the day.He wrote that she depicted modern society with modern boldness,using its own weapons to attack it with cynical understanding - 'the mock naivete of her drawings makes the shamelessness of the subjects acceptable. . . .It is a world where the girls,emancipated in the wrong way,are masters of a piteous situation.'He saw her drawings as 'morally speaking. . . . cruel, almost perverse,without however being wholly vicious.' Today her economical and polished designs come across as amusingly sharp,satirical commentaries on the flapper lifestyle.In graphic style and often in subject,her book illustrations resemble her magazine drawings. Please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,because of the lighter weight and value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, USA,NY.JOHN LANE COMPANY,1913., 3, Oxford Bibliographical Society, Oxford, first edition, 1980. Cloth-backed boards, 8vo, 24 cm,. viii, 163 pp. 5 plates, many line ills. From a contemporary review: "There is very much more to this volume than a reproduction in modern French of Nicolas Contat's manuscript, Anecdotes Typographiques and the burlesque poem on the wretched experience of an idealistic young printing apprentice by Defresne. Each work is provided with an introduction, that for Contat's work extending to over twenty pages, there are several plates, copious notes, and three important appendixes. The first reproduces in two-dozen pages of line blocks poems addressed by printers to their master or his family, most often on the occasion of a marriage, but sometimes because of an honour bestowed on the master. Bibliographical details and a short note are provided for each of the seventeen examples…All in all, a most valuable book, especially read in conjunction with other such accounts, and combining in a most commendable manner, scholarship and delight. Bookplate on front pastedown endpaper and place and date (presumably of acquisition) in ink at foot of front pastedown endpaper, otherwise Near Fine., Oxford Bibliographical Society, Oxford, first edition, 1980, 1980, 0, Oxford Bibliographical Society, Oxford, first edition, 1980. Cloth-backed boards, 8vo, 24 cm,. viii, 163 pp. 5 plates, many line ills. From a contemporary review: "There is very much more to this volume than a reproduction in modern French of Nicolas Contat's manuscript, Anecdotes Typographiques and the burlesque poem on the wretched experience of an idealistic young printing apprentice by Defresne. Each work is provided with an introduction, that for Contat's work extending to over twenty pages, there are several plates, copious notes, and three important appendixes. The first reproduces in two-dozen pages of line blocks poems addressed by printers to their master or his family, most often on the occasion of a marriage, but sometimes because of an honour bestowed on the master. Bibliographical details and a short note are provided for each of the seventeen examples…All in all, a most valuable book, especially read in conjunction with other such accounts, and combining in a most commendable manner, scholarship and delight. Top edge spotted, boards a little bumped, otherwise Very Good., Oxford Bibliographical Society, Oxford, first edition, 1980, 1980, 3, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard, 1991. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Revised. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 630pp.incl.index; HB quarter-bound; bkue w/blk.&gilt; fine condition w/clean,tight pgs. DJ gray w/white spine-color pic.cover; fine. " ...charts the remarkable inner history of our times from the tumult of World War I to the present day, when personal identity was released from its moorings... " illus.., Belknap Press of Harvard, 1991, 5, Binding is sound with markings.This is a revised and updated edition of a highly acclaimed history of the early modern Habsburg monarchy. Charles W. Ingrao challenges the conventional notion of Habsburg state and society as peculiarly backward by tracing its emergence as a military and cultural power of enormous influence. The Habsburg monarchy was undeniably different from other European polities: geography and linguistic diversity made this inevitable, but by 1789 it had laid the groundwork for a single polity capable of transcending its uniquely diverse cultural and historic heritage. Charles W. Ingrao unravels the web of social, political, economic and cultural factors that shaped the Habsburg monarchy during the period, and presents this complex story in a manner that is both authoritative and accessible to non-specialists. This edition includes a revised text and bibliographies, new genealogical tables, and an epilogue which looks forward to the impact of the Habsburg monarchy on twentieth-century events., Cambridge University Press, 2000, 2.5, UK,slim,oblong 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[The first UK HB edn/ issue, but preceded by the first US,8vo HB+dw/dj,a year earlier,1980 - by The Viking Press (NY).] FINE/FINE-.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by Maurice Boutet de Monvel,illustrated dw/dj panels with b/w lettering to front and white lettering to spine/backstrip; with negligible shelf-wear, bumping or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Minor,minimal scoring/indents to either panel of dw/dj,but without penetration or affecting the boards beneath.Top edge with faint,but minimal,sporadic dust-soiling,fore-edges bright and clean without foxing/spotting or thumbing; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered,publisher's original navy blue cloth bds with bright,crisp,stamped gilt fleur-de-lys design with an ovoid,ribbon-tied, leaved wreath and gilt lettered title within same,to the front board, bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and bright,crisp, blocked,similar front board gilt fleur-de-lys design but without any lettering or wreath,a black/navy blue headband and immaculate plain red endpapers.UK,slim,oblong 8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus,6-55pp [paginated] includes a page-edge coloured illustrated introduction by Gerald Gottlieb (Curator of Early Children's Books,The Pierpont Morgan Library,New York City),juvenile biography/story with profuse full-colour artwork illustration by Maurice Boutet de Bonvel to each page; plus [unpaginated] colour double wreath (one of leaves,the other of thorns) vignetted half-title page,colour pictorial illustrated title page,a coloured armorial shield illustrated separator page,and at rear,reverse of last paginated page with publishing+printing details. Boutet de Monvel was born in 1850 in Orleans,a city that had been obsessed with Joan of Arc ever since the Maid delivered it from siege in 1429 and she subsequently became France's national heroine.As a boy in Orleans he saw the name of the young heroine everywhere - on streets and squares,on public statues,on boxes of candy.He became an art student,and by 1874,at the age of twenty-four,he was an academic painter,exhibiting at the Paris annual Salon.Early in his career he turned to the illustration of magazines and books for children,and here he enjoyed success both financial and artistic.(At the same time he pursued another career,with even happier financial results,becoming international society's painter of choice for portraits of children.) Among the children's books he illustrated in the 1880s was 'La Civilite puerile et honnete',a work on etiquette for the young in the manner of the French courtesy books,which has a history going back to the Middle Ages (though his treatment was somewhat tongue-in-cheek) He also illustrated a selection of La Fontaine's 'Fables'. In 1896 he set out to celebrate Joan of Arc's achievements in a book for children.By then,of course,Joan had been revered in France for nearly five centuries.There had been countless illustrated versions of her story, for children of every age.But he now managed to create a masterpiece.His 'Jeanne d'Arc' would be more admired and loved,and would influence more artists and illustrators,than any other children's book of its era.He produced a series of pictures that would be his 'chef-d'oeuvre',his own monument to the Maid.For this new children's book he not only painted the pictures but also wrote the text. Originally published in 1896,in Paris,a copy of that first edition is among the rare early children's books in the collections of The Pierpont Morgan Library in New York.The present edition,prepared from the Morgan copy,is the first edition since the 19thC which faithfully reproduces de Monel's extraordinary colours and compositions. The French text written by himself was first translated into English in 1897,by A. I. du Pont Coleman.The English text of the present edition is an adaptation of that translation.It has been modified for modern readers,but an effort has been made to retain the flavour of the 19thC original. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always., LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,1981., 5, U.S.A.: Voice, 2008. 1st Edition 4th Printing. Hardcover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition-Fourth Printing. Synopsis: "ONE FIFTH AVENUE is a modern comedy of manners -- a landmark novel, if you like. Its observations about money, the Internet, the function of art in society as wellas sex romps, social climbing and snobbery enhance Bushnell's reputation as an astute observer of modern life....Carrie Bradshaw wannabes as well as women (and men) near Bushnell's age -- she turns 50 this year -- will be pulled into this refreshing and highly entertaining novel about the power of money, sex and celebrity." --USA TODAY, Voice, 2008, 6<