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Publicado por Sports Publishing LLC, 1991
ISBN 10: 0915611171ISBN 13: 9780915611171
Librería: Revaluation Books, Exeter, Reino Unido
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Hardcover. Condición: Brand New. 9.25x6.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.
Publicado por Lea & Febiger, 1974
ISBN 10: 081210434XISBN 13: 9780812104349
Librería: dsmbooks, Liverpool, Reino Unido
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Hardcover. Very Good Dust Jacket may be missing.CDs may be missing. book.
Publicado por Harrisburg, Pennsylvania : Stackpole Sons ; The Telegraph Press, 1946., 1946
Librería: Joseph Valles - Books, Stockbridge, GA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. xxxviii, 361 pp. ; purple cloth with green lettering on paper paste-down labels ; OCLC reports no copies held by any library ; top edge colored blue ; foxing ; name on front ep ; extremely rare John Dos Passos item features writings from disabled veterans of World War II who studied English composition while attending American University in Washington, DC under Professor Don M. Wolfe, who asked them to write about home, friends and family, the war or whatever came into their minds. THe results were so moving and impressive that Wolfe had 2,000 copies printed at his own expense, while all the profits from Doubleday's edition went directly to the men ; "We cannot state too emphatically that this books is presented not as a literary effort but as a series of social documents."--foreword ; "If a foreigner should ask me what Americans were like in 1946, I would hand him this book. Naturally it is not the whole story. It is only the story of a fairly small group of young men among those most hurt in body and mind by the accidents of war. But somehow, putting down the war experiences that affected them most, these young men have uncovered a much larger segment of the reality of our time than they themselves seem to have been aware of."--John Dos Passos ; details of each serviceman and his unit included ; authors include: Joe V. Adair, Rosario Joseph Aloisio, Herbert Newton Bair, Edgar Benjamin Benson, Paul Getter Bruce, Frank Louis Calderala, Howard Price Carter, Robert Irwin Clark, Anthony Paul Coulis, Robert Francis Dove, Richard Houston Frazee, Morris Aaron Garber, John Otto Goelz, William George Gontcharuk, Thodore Karl Hammill, Ellerton Vinnie Harmer, Bruno Joseph Hassen, Gerald Sterling Kelsey, Orlie Alden Kennerly, James Bernard King, Melvin Bernard Linton, John T. Marshall, Floyd Roann Mauk, Lowell Marshall McGowan, Daniel Archie McDonald, Kenneth Ray McMurry, Frank S. Mercurio, Arthur Wallace Miller, William E. Murphy, Charles LeRoy Neely, John N. Nemeth, Verne Maurice Nygaard, Joseph Michael O'Connell, Irving Peltz, Frank Jerome Phillips, Edward Otto Podell, John James Regan, Wallice Irvin Redi, Nicholas Rezar, Philip Irvington Robrecht, Robert Shore, Pat Martin Smith, Walter Burton Spencer, Glee H. Stevens, Robert Lee Stevens, George J. Veach, Ralph Theodore Warren, Carl Thomas Welch, Alma Mary Wilhelm, John Edgar Williams, Jr, Milton Kimball Williams, and Norman Myer Witkin ; truly horrific remembrances recounted here underscore the frailness of humanity and transcendent bravery ; rare ; VG. Book.
Publicado por Cadell & Davies, London, 1815
Librería: Madoc Books (ABA-ILAB), Llandudno, CONWY, Reino Unido
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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. TURRELL E. RAWLE S. WARNER J. PORTER S. ROLFE J. WOOLNOTH W. KEUX H Le. SHURY J. etc. Ilustrador. In contemporary full red morocco, decorative gilt tooling, corners & edges bumped & worn. Spine, raised bands, lavish gilt tooling, edges worn. Internally, engraved title page & introduction, [1], 2-21 pp, [1], 102 engraved plates (including 1 double page), lower corner of title torn away, ffep repaired, red marbled endpapers, book plate to fpd (HAM Van Son), some light spotting, first 2 text leaves with vertical crease. Title states 1813, publishers details show 1815, 3 plates are dated 1815, so possibly 1816 or a little later. Plates and text describe the mosque at Cordoba (pl 1-9) and Alhambra and the Generalife at Granada (pl 10-97). (Cicognara 2536; Graesse IV, 631; Palau 186308; RIBA 2220). (655*485 mm) Probably issued serially in 12 monthly parts between July 1815 & mid 1816. Lavish work on the Moorish architecture of Southern Spain. Cork-born Irish architect and antiquary James Cavanah Murphy (1760-1814) travelled to Cadiz in 1802 and spent seven years studying the Moorish style, which was serialised in 1815-16 and followed by a one-volume edition with 98 plates of the buildings, ornaments, plans, fountains, views, gardens and Arabic inscriptions of the Alhambra complex and the Mosque at Cordoba. The publishers continued publishing the work until 1820, when their partnership was dissolved and publisher H.G. Bohn acquired the plates producing an additional four (starred) plates as in the present work. "Many interesting instances of gothicised distortions of the Alhambra can be found in The Arabian Antiquities of Spain. By distorting the proportions of the halls and courts, Murphy transforms the Alhambra into a 'sublime' building - to use Edmund Burke's term. In the Court of the Lions for example, the length of the patio is greatly extended, giving the impression of a long and narrow space. This contrasts with the patio as it actually is, smaller, more compact, and somewhat square in its proportions. Furthermore, and what is peculiar to Murphy, the portico in the foreground is magnified in length and height thereby 'gothicising' its features. And it appears that Murphy deliberately distorted these proportions to make them more palatable to Gothic taste, as is made clear in the text accompanying this illustration, where we find the following: 'A beautiful portico, not unlike the portals of some Gothic churches projects into this court'." (The Burlington Magazine, volume CXXVIII, number 1001, August 1986).