cheney sheldon martha (16 resultados)

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Very mild shelfwear. No jacket as issued. I note every flaw I find, so buy with confidence.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good hardcover in black boards. First Edition, First Printing. Overall a bright and attractive copy. No markings to the text. B&W photographs throughout. Former owners' names to the front end page, dated in the year of publication. Minor aging to the exterior. 307 pp.

Condición: Collectible; Good. [FIRST EDITION] New York: Whittlesey House, 1936. Hardcover in black boards with silver lettering. No dust jacket. 1st edition, 1st printing (no additional printings noted). An early account of Industrial Design in 20th c. America. 307 pages with over 100 illustrations featuring designs by Raymond Loewy, Kem Weber, Donald Deskey, Gilbert Rohde, Walter Dorwin Teague, Frederick Kiesler, Henry Dreyfuss, Norman Bel Geddes, Buckminster Fuller, Otto Kuhler, A. Lawrence Kocher, Albert Frey, Raymond Hood, Edward D. Stone, Richard Neutra (Lovell Health House, VDL Research House, Kun House, von Sternberg Residence and Sten-Frenke Residence), William Lescaze, George Sakier, Lurelle Guild, Eleanor LeMaire, and others and many photos by Margaret Bourke White, bibliography and index. Minor soiling, spotting to boards and prelims, else very good overall condition. No markings, NOT EX-LIBRARY. (fprw2).

hardcover. Condición: Very Good. first edition. cover shows minor wear and rubbing. pages tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Some edge wear and a hairline crack on the surface of the spine. Shipped from the Calico Cat Bookshop, a brick and mortar bookshop established in 1975. Size: Quarto. Book.

Condición: Good. Second Printing. 307 [5] pp. Large 8vo. Black cloth boards with white stamped lettering to the front and spine. Moderate shelf wear with rubbing at corners and spine ends; spine lettering remains clear. No dust jacket. Text block noticeably toned with age. Rear endpaper and back board partially detached from spine with mull exposed; binding loose but holding. Interior otherwise clean. A study of the intersection of art, machinery, and mass production, tracing the evolution of industrial design in the early modern era. Illustrated throughout. An important early design-history work, frequently cited and increasingly scarce in collectible condition, offering valuable context for scholars of modernism and industrial design. .

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. First Edition. Original black cloth titled in silver. Textblock edges spotted. Minor corner wear. In sunned/creased/chipped DJ with tear along flap fold. DJ rear flap detached, laid in. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; xvii,307 pages.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. First reprint of an edition originally published in 1936 by Whittlesey House. 7.25" x 9.25" hardcover book in black cloth boards with silver titling to front and spine. No dustjacket. 307pp illustrated in black and white. Clean and unmarked. Book in protective mylar covering. Corners sharp, tiny bit of rubbing to rear and traces of wear to silver titling which remains very bright. Binding sound if rather limber, especially at first signature. Rectangular sticker ghost to front free endpaper, quite subtle. Page interiors bright, a modicum of age-toning to page block. Overall very good condition of this early attempt to define and lay out the aesthetic principles and historical significance of the rise of industrial design.

Hardcover book. Condición: Very good condition. Second Printing. A book that describes and defines Industrial Design as a new art form. 8vo, 307pp, black cloth with silver titles on front and spine. Covers dusty, spine ends worn, internally clean and bright.

Cloth. Condición: Very Good. Not Stated Ilustrador. First edition. A smart second printing of this copiously illustrated account of industrial art. The second printing of the work.In publisher's original half cloth binding.Illustrated with a frontispiece, and an abundance of in text illustrations throughout.A work by Sheldon Cheney, one of the most significant pro-modernist theatre and art critics of the early twentieth century, and Martha Candler Cheney.A volume created after an intensive study of industrial design, with a background of the art and industry, as well as chapters on areas such as trains, ships, and streamlines. In publisher's original half cloth binding. Externally, smart. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Light rubbing to boards. Library book plate to front paste down, with a library pocket and barcode to rear paste down. Stamp to front free endpaper. Archival reinforcements to hinges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Blind stamp to title page. Stamp to preface. Very Good. book.

Cloth. Condición: Near Fine. A handsome copy of the 1936 stated 2nd printing of this major examination of 20th century Industrial Design in America. Clean and Near Fine in its dark boards, with bright, unrubbed titling at the front panel and spine. Thick octavo, generous black-and-white photographs throughout.

hardcover. Condición: near fine. no jacket. 7 1/4 x 9 1/4" 307 pages. neat previous owner's name on inside front cover dated 1937. light foxing to some pages. slight bump to upper corners of front and rear covers.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth stamped in silver. Small quarto. 307pp. No dust jacket. Illustrated. A pioneering analysis of industrial design in the mid 1930s by the noted author and art historian and his wife. A very good copy with some light rubbing and spotting to the covers and some wear to the spine tips. The text is very good with some light soiling and wear. Scarce. Foreign postage extra on this heavy book.

Decorative Cloth. Condición: Very Good +. First Edition. A sharp, very presentable copy of the 1936 1st edition. Tight and VG+ in its dark cloth, with bright, unrubbed silver-titling along the front panel and spine. Very light blotching at the rear panel, otherwise clean as could be. Internally, free of any markings or writing as well. Octavo, showcases the work of giants in the field such as Otto Kuhler, Norman Bel Geddes, Raymond Loewy, Henry Dreyfuss, Frederick Kiesler, Eleanor LeMaire, Russel Wright, etc.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Seminal early consideration of Machine Age design and architecture in America, tracking the rise of the industrial design profession, written by Sheldon and Martha Cheney and published by Whittlesey House in 1936. Hardcover first edition, 8vo, 307 pages replete with black-and-white illustrations. Chapters include "Industrial Design Emerges," "Backgrounds in Art and in Industry," "Handicraft and the Machine," and "The Streamline as Symbol." Featuring work by Raymond Loewy, Margaret Bourke-White, William Lescaze, Frederick Kiesler, Norman Bel Geddes, Henry Dreyfuss, Walter Dorwin Teague, Gilbert Rohde, KEM Weber, Kurt Versen, Donald Deskey, Lurelle Guild, Richard Neutra, Albert Frey, and George Sakier. A must-have for scholars and collectors interested in the period. Prescient in its curation of designers and designs, it reads like a museum catalog done much later. Slight lean to spine. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.