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About the Author
George Pelecanos is the author of several highly praised and bestselling novels, including The Cut, What It Was, The Way Home, The Turnaround, and The Night Gardener. He is also an independent-film producer, an essayist, and the recipient of numerous international writing awards. He was a producer and Emmy-nominated writer for The Wire and currently writes for the acclaimed HBO series Treme. He lives in Maryland.
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PRAISE FOR THE NIGHT GARDENER:
"Like Drama City it is heart-in-your-throat gripping from beginning to end, The Night Gardener is another of Mr. Pelecanos's beautifully delineated moral tales, filled with gut-wrenching turns of fate and razor-sharp, boisterously vivid characters." (New York Times Janet Maslin)
"The Night Gardener can be read as a police procedural hipper but just as good as those of the late, great Ed McBain. But it is also a wise, textured examination of life in urban America, as sophisticated as the best work of Richard Price....[Pelecanos's] last book, Drama City, is a masterpiece of American crime fiction; The Night Gardener is even better." (Associated Press)
"Mr. Pelecanos...is part of a fraternity of writers, including Dennis Lehane and Richard Price, who push the boundaries of crime writing into literary territory, exploring character more deeply than many crime novelists dare, introducing challenging social themes and bucking expectations that everything will come out all right in the end." (New York Times Motoko Rich)
"Perhaps the greatest living American crime writer." (Entertainment Weekly Stephen King)
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The work of Atget / John Szarkowski, Maria Morris Hambourg: volume II: The Art of Old Paris
ISBN 10: 087070205X
ISBN 13: 9780870702051
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Illus. With Photos (illustrator). First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Series; Springs Industries series on the Art of Photography. Physical description; vol. 2 (only): 190 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; v. 1. Old France -- v. 2. The art of old Paris -- v. 3. The Ancien Régime -- 4. Modern times. Subjects; Atget, Eugène (1857-1927). Atget, Eugène (1857-1927) Museums and collections. Photography, Artistic. Photography -- Landscapes. France -- Description and travel -- (1800-1918) -- Views. Landscape gardening France ; Pictorial works. Photography France ; Exhibitions. Castles France ; Pictorial works. France ; Pictorial works. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. Photography, Artistic. Pictorial works. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 291654
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The work of Atget / John Szarkowski, Maria Morris Hambourg: volume II: The Art of Old Paris
ISBN 10: 087070205X
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Illus. With Photos (illustrator). First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Series; Springs Industries series on the Art of Photography. Physical description; vol. 2 (only): 190 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references. Contents; v. 1. Old France -- v. 2. The art of old Paris -- v. 3. The Ancien Régime -- 4. Modern times. Subjects; Atget, Eugène (1857-1927). Atget, Eugène (1857-1927) Museums and collections. Photography, Artistic. Photography -- Landscapes. France -- Description and travel -- (1800-1918) -- Views. Landscape gardening France ; Pictorial works. Photography France ; Exhibitions. Castles France ; Pictorial works. France ; Pictorial works. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. Photography, Artistic. Pictorial works. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 291654
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The Work of Atget: Old France, The Art of Old Paris, The Ancien Regime, and Modern Times (First Edition, complete in four volumes)
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The Museum of Modern Art [MOMA], New York, 1985
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Illus. With Photos (illustrator). First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, complete in four volumes. All four volumes Fine in Near Fine to Fine dust jackets. Oversize volume, shipping billed at cost. Seller Inventory # 165868
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The Work of Atget - Four volume set
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The Work of Atget - Four Volume Set Volume I: Old France; Volume II: the Art of Old Paris; Volume III: the Ancien Regime; Volume IV: Modern Times
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Museum of Modern Art, EB, 1981
ISBN 10: 087070205X
ISBN 13: 9780870702051
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Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. With Photos (illustrator). Hardcover. 4to. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1985. Condition: Vol. I: Old France. 177 pgs. Vol. II: The Art of Old Paris. 190 pgs. Vol. III: The Ancient Régime. 185 pgs. Vol. IV: Modern Times. 182 pgs. Illustrated throughout. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "In 1968 The Museum of Modern Art acquired a collection of some five thousand prints and plates which the American photographer Berenice Abbott had purchased from Atget's estate in 1928. For the past twelve years, the Museum's Department of Photography has carried on the work first of organizing the collection to the point where its contents became available for analysis and study, then of attempting the reconstruction of both Atget's own complex record system and the chronology of his production. For the first time it is now possible to date with reasonable accuracy almost all of Atget's work and to speculate, with objective support, as to the function that individual pictures were meant to serve. The four volumes in this series correspond to the author's sense of the principal issues, defined in terms of subject matter, that are presented in Atget's work. The illustrations are printed with three offset impressions, to insure the utmost fidelity to the original photographs. New prints have been made by the historically appropriate albumen process from Atget plates for which no satisfactory print existed." EB. Seller Inventory # 63990