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Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Illustration insert of 16 gloss-laminated pp between pp 278 & 279 in addition to title page & other illustratons (illustrator). 1st Edition. NEW: ENTHRALLING: COMPLEX: GRIPPING: PARADOXICAL: VITAL: PASSIONATE: PROVOCATIVE: First Edition (Orig.2012) First Printing: NEW strikingly-designed unclipped mylar-protected jacket, NEW black paper-over-boards cover w/ titles strikingly stamped on spine in "electric-blue", IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE cream-white card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed on EXCELLENT paper * Illustration insert of 16 gloss-laminated pp between pp 278 & 279 in addition to title page & other illustrations * 6.24" x 9.24" x 1.78", 0.94 kg, viii+596 (604) pp * ABOUT THE BOOK: THE BIG SCREEN tells the ENTHRALLING story of the movies: their rise & spread, their remarkable influence over us, & the technology that made the screen--smaller now, but ever more ubiquitous--as important as the images it carries. "The Big Screen" is not another history of the movies. Rather, it is a wide-ranging narrative about the movies & their signal role in modern life. At first, film was a waking dream, the gift of appearance delivered for a nickel to huddled masses sitting in the dark. But soon, & abruptly, movies began transforming our societies & our perceptions of the world. The celebrated film authority David Thomson takes us around the globe, through time & across many media--moving from Eadweard Muybridge to Steve Jobs, from 'Sunrise' to 'I Love Lucy', from John Wayne to George Clooney, from television commercials to streaming video--to tell the COMPLEX, GRIPPING, PARADOXICAL, story of the movies. He tracks the ways we were initially enchanted by movies as imitations of life--the stories, the stars, the look--& how we allowed them to show us how to live. At the same time, movies, offering a seductive escape from everyday reality & its responsibilities, have made it possible for us to evade life altogether. The entranced audience has become a model for powerless & anxiety-ridden citizens trying to pursue happiness & dodge terror by sitting quietly in a dark room. Does the big screen take us out into the world, or merely mesmerize us? That is Thomson's question in this grand adventure of a book. Books about the movies are often aimed at film buffs, but this PASSIONATE & PROVOCATIVE feat of storytelling is VITAL to anyone trying to make sense of the age of screens--the age that, more than ever, we are living in. * HIGHEST PRAISE: "David Thompson has composed a grand aesthetic, spiritual, & moral account of cinema history assembled around the movies & artists that have meant the most to him. As Thompson reconstructs film history, movies bring us close to reality & deliver us into ecstatic dreams. A pungently written, brilliant book." -David Denby, author of 'Snark' & film critic of the New Yorker. "David Thompson is, I think, the best writer on film in our time. If "Have You Seen . . . ?" was his most succinct & entertaining book, "The Big Screen" is a large & vivacious map of 'the screen', beginning w/ Muybridge & tracing careers from Korda to Renoir to Hawkes to Mizoguchi, to David Lynch & Tarantino before swerving over to television. Thompson has created a marvelous plot for the history of film, w/ insights & revelations on every page. He is our most argumentative and trustworthy historian of the screen." -Michael Ondaatje * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: DAVID THOMPSON, renowned as one of the great living authorities on the movies, is the author of "The New Biographical Dictionary of Film", now in its 5th edition. His books include a biography of Nicole Kidman & "The Whole Equation: A History of Hollywood". Thomson is also the author of the acclaimed "Have You Seen . . . ? : A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films". Born in London in 1941, he now lives in San Francisco. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps & packages this fine book w/ our greatest care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the United States & its territories or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a below cost fee, w/ international shipping at our posted rates.

Hardcover. Condition: tadellos. aus Insel- Bücherei Nr. 278 (illustrator). S. 71.

Hardcover. 278 b/w, 26 tipped in color. (illustrator). 1st likely. FINE book, VG DJ. B/w illus on last 150pp. 1st 70pp w tipped in color plates. DJ w 2" chip @ bottom front & three 1" tears. FINE book, VG DJ. Very nice cream colored DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. with 278 illustrations, 128 of which are in full colour (illustrator). 1st Edition. Firmly bound, decorated embossed green cloth boards without a jacket, gilt perch on the front board, Clean and firmly bound with a couple of ownership labels inside, very small tear at the top edge of the spine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 278 Drawings, 128 in Full Colour (illustrator). First Edition. Dust jacket complete, unclipped, slight creasing to edges. Green cloth with bright gilt titling on spine. Bumped to top of spine. No ownership inscription. 192 pages clean and tight. Over 800 genera and 2000 species with 278 drawings, 128 in full colour. The phenomenal new interest in house plants owes a great deal to the loss of green space and the increasing urbanization of our lives. Numbers of exotic varieties become available every year and more and more space is devoted to the subject in newspapers and magazines. Even so, the average town dweller and his suburban counterpart can probably count the number of plants they know on the fingers of one hand. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Indoor Plants is a systematic work describing some 800 genera and around 2000 species. These have been selected on the basis of their practicality as indoor plants, of their availability, and of their popular appeal throughout the world. With such a large number of useful species described, the Encyclopedia is undoubtedly the most comprehensive book of its kind. The most interesting and most colourful of the species are illustrated among the 528 full-colour botanical paintings done especially for this book. And to help in identifying the distinctive forms and features of many of the other species there are hundreds of line drawings throughout. Entries are arranged alphabetically according to their scientific names, but there is a complete cross reference system which makes it possible to start with any popular name or `nickname' and make one's way to the right plant. Behind the Encyclopedia's practical approach is the authority of its authors. Kenneth Beckett is a specialist on questions of habitat and plant environment, and therefore ideally suited to say what will flourish, how and where. His descriptions of plants are straightforward and precise; his advice is concise and to the point. Size: Lge 8vo.

Halbleinen. Condition: Gut. m. 278 Bildern (illustrator). S. 291. alle 3 Beilagen vorhanden, sehr ordentlich. kleiner Stempel auf Titel.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Fully Illustrated, 155 Aircraft with 278 illustrations (illustrator). Reprint. 5/- net. Eleventh edition, January 1962 .Gift inscription inside. Some surface wear to the jacket and wear to the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fully Illustrated, 155 Aircraft with 278 illustrations (illustrator). Reprint. 5/- net. Eleventh edition, January 1962 . Forward leaning, otherwise in near fine condition. Clean and fresh specialist collectors copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fully Illustrated, 156 Aircraft with 278 illustrations (illustrator). Reprint. 5/- net. Thirteenth edition, January 1964 . Clean and fresh specialist collectors copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fully Illustrated, 154 Aircraft with 278 illustrations (illustrator). Reprint. 5/- net. Fourteenth edition, January 1965 . Clean and fresh specialist collectors copy.

Disbound. Condition: Good. 28TH CONGRESS, 1ST SESSION. HOUSE OF REPS. EXECUTIVE, DOC. NO. 278. ROUGH RICE. MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMITTING COPIES OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THIS GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN, RELATIVE TO ROUGH RICE EXPORTED FROM THIS COUNTRY. June 15, 1844. This pamphlet has been dis-bound from a larger volume, and as such, has wear to the spine. The binding is holding solid and tight. The contents are bright and clean. President John Tyler, J. C. Calhoun, Trade, Exports, Government Document, Great Britain. Overall Good condition.

Condition: Fine. 1931. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. SECOND EDITION. 126 PAGINAS, CON 16 FOTOS EN BLANCO Y NEGRO, ILUSTRACIONES A COLOR EN EL TEXTO POR MIGUEL COVARRUBIAS SEGUNDA EDICION EL AUTOR TRATA EL TEMA DEL CONOCIMIENTO DEL ESPIRITU EN LOS AZTECAS, ES DE GRAN UTILIDAD PARA INTERNARSE CON ACIERTO EN EL SENTIDO DE LA VIDA ADQUIRIDO ENTRE ELLOS EL FORRO ESTA MALTRATADO, NO ASI LA CUBIERTA ORIGINAL Y EL TEXTO. VERSION EN ESPA?L.VER IMAGEN 0.0.

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Paperback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition, Limited Edition. SIGNED by Mary Paulson-Ellis to a tipped in page . GOLDSBORO Limited edition 278 of 600 . Front/Back Boards: New . Spine: New . Pages: New . Page Edges: New - sprayed light blue edges . Jacket: New - in a mylar protected cover . Printing: First Impression (Print): 13579862. Year: 2019. Signed by Author(s).

Soft Cover / Pictorial Binding. Condition: Good Clean Cond. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Cover Illustrated (illustrator). 18 pages. In good condition, some wear to edges, as normal for age. Overall good copy of this scarce title. Excellent read. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand. Or would make a great gift for the fan / reader in your life. Please send us a note if you have any questions. Thank you. Book.

Unbound. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Leonard Shortall (illustrator). 1st Edition. , You are all thumbs, John. That was what his family said every time he was clumsy. John loved to help out in his Father's store & at the gas Pumps in front of it, but he knocked down cans, spilled water, & was no help at all. Then Grandfather came to John?s Rescue, & after John helped him set out some Pepper Plants, Grandfather said he had a Green Thumb. That meant John was a good farmer. He gave him 2 boxes of Tomato plants for his Own & John tended them carefully.

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Couverture souple. Livre en français. Je suce mon pouce - L'éruption d'un volcan. Par Maurice Mess. Brochure de 32 pages. Enseignement : Divers. Livre.

278 col. plates (illustrator). Babi Nobis was barely 11 years old when he had his first chance encounter with a tiger in the jungles of Hazaribagh The experience not only left an indelible impression on his young mind but also instilled in him a deep reverence for this majestic animal Thereafter his love for nature?s creatures would only grow with each visit to the wilds as would his passion for photography Over the last twenty-five years Babi and Tina Nobis have explored the incredible wilderness of both the Indian and African game reserves from Kanha and Bandhavgarh to the Serengeti the Masai Mara and more with Babi photographing either spectacular events charged with power and drama in the animal kingdom in both continents or animals in their most human emotions and circumstancesBe it is the sheer dominance of the tiger in its habitat a leopard carrying its prey a cub frolicking in front of the camera giraffes sparring to mark their territories a million wildebeest on their annual migration trail a pride of hungry lion cubs feasting on a dead elephant a stunning landscape or the majestic Baobab tree that has silently witnessed the co-existence and tussle of man and beast over millennia Babi Nobis captures the transcendent beauty of the wild bringing together the uniqueness of the two continentsWith a foreword by well-known wildlife photographer and conservationist Belinda Wright On Safari The Tiger and the Baobab Tree presents a rich visual and textual account of two continents and the majesty of those that stock and rule its forests and jungles 232 pp.

8°. 61 S., 1 Bl. Violett-schwarz floral illustr. OPappband - Überzugspapier 348b nach Jenne. Einband gering berieben und bestoßen; Rücken etwas verblasst; Besitzvermerk auf dem Vordervorsatz. Die vorliegende letzte Auflage dieses Bändchens der Insel-Bücherei erschien in einer recht hohen Auflage (12.000 Exemplare), allerdings auch in 9 unterschiedlichen Einbandvarianten bzw. Bezugspapiervarianten (hier das etwas seltenere Überzugspapier 348b nach Jenne).

Halbleinen. Condition: Gut. Münchener Bilderbogen Nro. 242, 248, 278, 286, 291, 292, 300, 301, 308, 316, 317, 325, 327, 330, 342, 350, 354, 361, 367, 370, 376, 387, 390, 405, 406, (illustrator). Gr-8° sehr ordentlich erhalten, nur geringe Gebrauchsspuren am Einband.