Diana starr cooper (16 resultados)

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. "Seen from across a field at night, with its swags of white lights scalloped from mast to mast against the sky, it looks like an ocean liner far out on the water. Yet it is still a tent. It appears on Monday, in what was an empty field on Sunday. While it's there, it forms the landscape around it in a new way, transforming its meanings just as horses do when they walk into a pasture. A week later, there's an empty field again. The tent is gone, and so is the little village of trucks and trailers that clustered around it as if it were a castle. Did I dream it?" --from Night After NightNight After Nightis an enrapturing meditation on a small, traditional, one-ring circus. Diana Cooper delights us with the realization that circus is more than mere entertainment. It is a splendid classical art form, grounded in venerable skills and traditions, with its deepest sources in the vitality of myth, ritual, fantasy, fear, wonder, laughter, and awe.Throughout the book, Cooper raises important issues such as human/animal communication and coexistence, permutations of fantasy and reality, the beauties of diversity, and notions about what is, and is not natural. Her love of and respect for the culture of circus -- the forms and understandings that enable it to bring joy to all it touches- infuse every page of this literary treasure. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).…

Hardback. Condición: Very Good. "Seen from across a field at night, with its swags of white lights scalloped from mast to mast against the sky, it looks like an ocean liner far out on the water. Yet it is still a tent. It appears on Monday, in what was an empty field on Sunday. While it's there, it forms the landscape around it in a new way, transforming its meanings just as horses do when they walk into a pasture. A week later, there's an empty field again. The tent is gone, and so is the little village of trucks and trailers that clustered around it as if it were a castle. Did I dream it?" --from Night After NightNight After Nightis an enrapturing meditation on a small, traditional, one-ring circus. Diana Cooper delights us with the realization that circus is more than mere entertainment. It is a splendid classical art form, grounded in venerable skills and traditions, with its deepest sources in the vitality of myth, ritual, fantasy, fear, wonder, laughter, and awe.Throughout the book, Cooper raises important issues such as human/animal communication and coexistence, permutations of fantasy and reality, the beauties of diversity, and notions about what is, and is not natural. Her love of and respect for the culture of circus -- the forms and understandings that enable it to bring joy to all it touches- infuse every page of this literary treasure. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).…

Condición: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Island Press, 1994. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).

hardcover. Condición: Collectible; Like New. First Edition; First Printing. 173 pages. Illustrated by Ivy Starr. A fine copy protected in a new Mylar cover. No inscriptions. No remainder mark. Not price clipped. Not ex-library. The book appears unread and looks New. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR - A near fine 1st edition hardcover in quarter-bound boards slightly faded to the upper edge and lightly bumped to the spine ends/corners, SIGNED WITHOUT DEDICATION BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT ENDPAPER, clean pages in a near fine unclipped dustwrapper a touch creased to the edges supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and despatched within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.; Signed by Author. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).…

Hardcover. Condición: Like New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. Vividly depicting the colorful lives of the clowns, acrobats, and performing animals that make up the Big Apple Circus, this observation of classical circus traditions discusses the mutual coexistence that can occur between people and animals. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).…

Condición: New. Satisfaction Guaranteed or your money back. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Hardcover in very good condition with a mylar wrapped dust jacket. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket.; 0.72 x 7.28 x 5.23 Inches; 173 pages. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).

Hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title. Starr, Ivy (ilustrador).