Mark harris foreword (7 resultados)

hardcover. Condición: Like New. Like New. 2018. Black cloth covered boards with gold spine titles; jacket has light shelf wear; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; inscribed to previous owner and signed by the author on half title page; interior is clean and unmarked; 178 pages. Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condición: Good.

Hardback. Condición: Like New. Like New. 1st Editon / 1st Printing - LIKE NEW in a like new Mylar protected dust jacket. Appears unread. xlii, xiv, 461, 29 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. . . . . . . . FROM THE DUST JACKET: A serious, impassioned, meticulously researched story about a compelling heroine, the Maid of Orleans, Twain viewed the work both as a bid to be accepted as a serious writer and as a gift of love to his favorite daughter, Susy, who would die tragically three months after Joan of Arc was published. Susy declared to her sister Clara that Joan of Arc was *perhaps even more sweet and beautiful than The Prince and the Pauper,* which she had earlier called *unquestionably the best book* her father had ever written. Modeled in part on Susy herself, the figure of Joan is a celebration of Twains ideal woman: gentle, selfless, and pure, but also brave, courageous, and eloquent. Although set in fifteenth-century Europe, Joan of Arc is a key text for anyone who would understand the ambivalence that greeted the *New Women* in turn-of-the-century America. Twains novel, as Susan Harris notes in her afterword, illuminates *some of the major currents, and contradictions, of turn-of-the-century life and thought.*.…

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st. 206 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "The Islamic Republic of Iran is at the center of world attention politically, socially, and culturally but it remains largely a cipher to the West. Award-winning photographer Mark Edward Harris has traveled throughout Iran to produce the first contemporary photographic book on a place seldom seen or understood. His images of daily life offer a fascinating look at a society of juxtapositions ancient and modern, commercial and spiritual, serene and intense, political and personal. With chapter introductions and extended captions providing context for the images, Inside Iran is a crucial look at a country whose future is likely to influence our own." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: About photography; Foreword, by Abbas Kiarostami; Introduction; 1. Tehran; 2. Heart of Iran; 3. Isfahan: half the world; 4. Mashhad and Eastern Iran; 5. Western Iran; 6. The Caspian Sea; 7. Kish Island and the Persian Gulf; 8. The Shatt al-Arab Waterway. Size: Folio. Collectible.…

hardcover. Condición: Like New. Like New. First Edition. Publisher: Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 2007. FINE hardcover book in FINE mylar-protected dust-jacket. Remainder marked, otherwise as new. First Edition, First Printing.

Full-Leather. Condición: Near Fine. No Jacket as issued. Deluxe Limited Hardcover. 340 pp, full color frontis, Foreword by Mark Harris, Preface, 11 titled chapters, Sources, Notes, Index. includes 8 unpaginated b&w photos, 6.5" x 9.3" brown leather boards, gilt design, gilty spine letters, raised bands on spine, gilt textblock all around, silk moiré e.p.'s. Size: Octavo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition stated. Number line beginning with 1. Near fine plus, if not fine hardback in near fine plus, if not fine unpriced, unclipped dust jacket. Dust jacket has a 1/2 inch closed tear to top edge of front panel near spine. Only trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use to book and dust jacket.…