thelma chait (5 resultados)

Mass Market Paperback. Condición: Good. A Good mass market paperback copy of Piaget's pedagogical treatise on time. Light wear to wraps. Light age toning to pages. Light pencil underlining to front endpaper. Binding is tight. This copy is notable for the bookplate affixed to the cover identifying it as having been the personal copy of Thelma Chait, noted South African author and artist (1918-2009) who passed away in Seattle.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. First Edition. Limited edition, number 101/500. Contains all 28, tipped in, colour plates. The jacket is a bit marked and worn, there are small closed tears and minor edge fraying at the spine and corners. The boards are white leather bound with gold gilt, there is a knock on the back bottom edge. There is foxing on the front and back end pages and on the edge block. There is a previous owners dated inscription. the pages are clean and bright. The binding is sound. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condición: Near fine. First printing. Scarce first edition children's book on the dawning "infinite possibilities" of assistive computer technologies for children with disabilities, written in both English and the alternative ideographic writing system Blissymbolics. The subject of Chait's story is Julius van der Wat, a real teenager whose photograph and fuller biography follow the main text. As an adult, Van der Wat became an artist and computer assistant, and was later profiled in Michele Shusterman's THE CEREBRAL PALSY TOOL KIT (2015) praising the further advances in assistive computing since the relatively basic interface described in JULIUS: "I use a computer pen that is fastened to my helmet to paint with on the iPad screen [.] I can paint, Facebook, read books and I can even do my own banking now." Artist Thelma Chait was one of the first female architecture graduates from the University of Cape Town; the illustrations in JULIUS are characteristic of the line drawings in pen and colored inks she became known for in the 1960s and onward. Chait's text is accompanied by interlinear translation in Blissymbolics, a constructed language developed by Charles Bliss as a written auxiliary system with no corresponding spoken language, designed to permit communication between different linguistic groups and first published it in SEMANTOGRAPHY (1949). Blissymbolics was further developed in the 1970s for use as an augmentive and alternative communication (AAC) in disabled children's education, notably in Canada and Sweden; translator Annalu Waller is a professor of computer science at the University of Dundee and leader of the university's AAC Research Group. Rare. OCLC notes just three locations. None in the US. 8'' x 7''. Original glossy color pictorial wrappers. Illustrated in color by Chait. Unpaginated. Minor toning and edgewear.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. limited edition, no. 115 of 500 copies. inscribed and signed by all 3 authors. shelf wear on the boards. some usage markings. soundly bound and presentable. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

LIMITED EDITION OF 500 COPIES - COPY No.407. Contains 28 mounted color full-page plates and many b&w plates. 310x220mm. Unpaginated. White leather Hardcover with illustrated dust-jacket. Gilt lettering on front cover and spine. Jacket rubbed/scratched and slightly stained. Jacket edges and corners worn. Jacket spine wrinkled. Cover corners and spine edges Bumped. Some pages corner/s slightly bumped. Else in good condition. The book is in : English.