Beckerdite Luke Editor (72 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good with clean, unmarked interior and covers.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. From the library Dr. Owen Hannaway. Hannaway was director of the Center for the History and Philosophy of Science at Johns Hopkins University. He authored numerous books and served as an editor of academic magazines in the history of science. Partial list of publications: Chemists and the Word: The Didactic Origins of Chemistry (1975); Observation, Experiment, and Hypothesis in Modern Physical Science (1985); The Evolution of Technology (1989); Science and the Practice of Medicine in the Nineteenth Century (1994); and The Foundations of Modern Science in the Middle Ages: Their Religious, Institutional and Intellectual Contexts (1996).…

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. 1994 Softcover Edition. Light handling wear to cover. Pages unmarked. No Expedited Shipping.

Unknown. Condition: Used - Good. Used copy with some wear to the front and back cover. Paperback edition. Some underlining.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Book is in very nice condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.

Condition: good. This book is in good condition. The cover has minor creases or bends. The binding is tight and pages are intact. Some pages may have writing or highlighting.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Oversized softcover. Pictorial paper wraps are crisp and clean with very mild edge wear. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Images are printed in full color and B&W. Chipstone Foundation. No publication date on title page. Copyright page dated 1996. 344 pages. A very nice copy. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. first printing. 239 pp, 11-in tall, extensive bibliography of recent writing on American furniture. Articles on the furniture of Christopher and Job Townsend, Potthast brothers of Baltimore, John Cadwalader's commode-seat side chairs, cabinetmaker Edward Priestly, neoclassical style in Baltimore furniture, and more. Fine condition. …

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. first printing. 282 pp, 11-in tall, extensive bibliography of recent writing on American furniture. Essays on early Rhode Island turning, the sack-back Windsor armchair, New York card tables, and more. Fine condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Stiff card covers, 260 pages, 11-in tall, index, many illustrations. Legacy of Nathaniel Gould; shaved post- and rung-chairs; Philadelphia pier tables; written evidence of furniture repairs.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 292 pages, 11-in tall, index and bibliography, profusely illustrated. Six essays including early American furniture makers' marks; reading Japanned furniture; cabinetmaker George C. Wright; board-seated turned chairs; Benjamin Randolph revisited; and more.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Oversized softcover. Pictorial paper wraps are crisp and clean with very mild edge wear. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Images are printed in full color and B&W. Chipstone Foundation. No publication date on title page. Copyright page dated 2001. 279 pages. A very nice copy. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

Softcover. Pictorial wraps. x, 311 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. Some of the essays included are: "Early Carving in the South Carolina Low Country: The Career and Work of Henry Burnett ", by John Bivins, Jr.; "Everyday Things: From Rolling Pins to Trundle Beds," by Nancy Goyne Evans ; "Tilt-Top Tables and Eighteenth-Century Consumerism," by Sarah Neale Fayen; "Provenance, Patronage, and Perception: The Morris Suite of Baltimore Painted Furniture," by Lance Humphries; "The Long Shadow of William Morris: Paradigmatic Problems of Twentieth-Century American Furniture," by Edward S. Cooke, Jr.; "From New Bedford to New York to Rio and Back: The Life and Times of Elisha Blossom Jr., Artisan of the New Republic," by Peter M. Kenny. Also includes book reviews. A lovely book. VG- (Slight scuffs to covers, slight tinges of red along bottom book block from a previous shelf; interior quite clean.).…

Softcover. Pictorial wraps. xii, 289 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. Some of the essays included are: "Survival of the Fittest: The Lloyd Family's Furniture Legacy, by Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley; "The Claypoole Family Joiners of Philadelphia: Their Legacy and the Contet of Their Work" by Andrew Brunk; and "An Early Cupboard Fragment from the Harvard College Joinery Tradition", by Robert Trent and Michael Podmaniczky. A lovely book. VG (May be ex-library with spine label and few interior marks, otherwise clean.).…

Softcover. Black pictorial wraps. xii, 239 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. Some of the essays included are: "The Early Furniture of Christopher and Job Townsend" by Luke Beckerdite, "A New Suspect: Baltimore Cabinetmaker Edward Priestly" by Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley, "New Insights on John Cadwalader's Commode-Seat Side Chairs" by Leroy Graves and Luke Berckerdite, and others. A lovely book. VG (Ex-library, with spine label, bookplate, and few marks).…

Softcover. Black pictorial wraps. xi, 264 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. "In recent years American furniture history has become a vital, evolving, and increasingly popular area of inquiry focusing not just on furniture as objects but on the economic, social, and political contexts in which furniture was produced and used. Promising to be the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presetns new research on furniture, design, production, use, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this annual provides a forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted exclusively to furniture made of used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present. American Furniture will become a standard reference for collectors, dealers, appraisers, auctioneers, academics and students in decorative arts and American studies, museums, historial societies, and libraries." - from back of book. VG- (spine glue slightly loose but all pages are intact and clean, light wear to covers.).…

Softcover. Pictorial wraps with white lettering, bw illustrated end pages. vii, 301 pp. 308 illustrations (230 color). 10 figures. Some of the essays included are: "A Table's Tale: Craft, Art and Opportunity in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia" - Luke Beckerdite and Alan Miller "The Account Book of Benjamin Baker" - Dennis Andrew Carr "High Craft Along the Mohawk: Early Woodwork from the Albany Area of New York" - Robert F. Trent, Alan Miller, Glenn Adamson, and Harry Mack Truax II "John Singleton Copley's Furniture and the Art of Invention" - Jonathan Prown "Southern Sophistication on the Early Frontier: The Inlaid Furniture of Washington County, Ohio, 1788-1825" - Andrew Richmond "Opulence Abroad: Honoré Lannuier's Gilded Furniture in Trinidad de Cuba" - Peter M. Kenny. A lovely book. VG (light bumping to corners and light wear to wraps).…

Softcover. Condition: VG (very minor shelf wear). Black with color pictorial wraps. xiii, 279 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. "Acknowledged as the journal of record in its field, American Furniture presents new research on furniture, design, use, production, and appreciation. Begun in 1993, this award-winning annual provides a comprehensive forum on furniture history, technology, connoisseurship, and conservation by the foremost scholars in the field. It is the only interdisciplinary journal devoted excluseivly to furniture made or used in the Americas from the seventeenth century to the present." - from back of book Includes six essays, in addition to book reviews; Essays include: "When Good Cabinetmakers Made Bad Furniture: The Career and Work of David Evans" by Eleanore P. Gadsden, "A Salem Cabinetmakers' Price Book" by Dean Thomas Lahikainen, "Two Early Eighteenth-Century Schranke: Rare Survivals of the German Joiner's Art in the Hudson River Valley" by Peter M. Kenny, and others.…

Softcover. Condition: VG. Black wraps. xiv, 407 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. Some of the essays included are: "Origins of the Rococco Style in New York Furniture and Interior Architecture" by Luke Beckerdite, "THe Stock-in-Trade of John Hancock and Company" by David H. Conradsen, "American or English Furniture? Some Choices in the 1760s" by Graham Hood, and others. A lovely book.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Oversized softcover. Pictorial paper wraps are crisp and clean with very mild edge wear. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Images are printed in full color and B&W. Chipstone Foundation. No publication date on title page. Copyright page dated 2002. 289 pages. A very nice copy. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Oversized softcover. Pictorial paper wraps are crisp and clean with very mild edge wear. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Images are printed in full color and B&W. Chipstone Foundation. No publication date on title page. Copyright page dated 2005. 282 pages. A very nice copy. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Oversized softcover. Pictorial paper wraps are crisp and clean with very mild edge wear. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Images are printed in full color and B&W. Chipstone Foundation. No publication date on title page. Copyright page dated 2008. 260 pages. A very nice copy. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Pages are clean with no markings,stickers or stains.Fast shipping with tracking number.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Oversized hardcover with dust jacket. Pictorial DJ is crisp and clean. Book is bound in tan cloth over boards with embossed lettering on the front cover and silver lettering down the spine. Binding is tight and secure. Corners are square. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Images are printed in full color and B&W. Chipstone Foundation. No publication date on title page. Copyright page dated 2011. 336 pages. A very nice copy. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…

Softcover. Black pictorial wraps. xiii, 319 pp. Numerous bw & color plates. This volume features articles on The Palladian style in Rhode Island furniture, eighteenth-century Newport cabinet shops and the furniture-making trades, the influence of Windsor chairmaking in early Federal Rhode Island, Rhode Island influence in the work of two North Carolina cabinetmakers, the accounts of Job Townsend, Jr., Providence provenances and pitch-pediments, serpentine furniture of colonial Newport, plus the usual book reviews, and bibliography of recent writing. VG (in excellent condition, minor shelf wear). …

Hardcover. Cream/red cloth/boards. White lettering on spine. Color-illustrated dj with white lettering on green spine and cute little green pig on front cover. Mylar cover. 232 pp. color and bw images throughout. The 2009 of this interdisciplinary journal examining the role of historical ceramics in an American contexts contains 9 papers on various aspects of early modern pottery. This issue's special focus is the pottery of North Carolina, including Moravian pottery. Fine/Fine but with remnant of museum ex-lib. sticker on lower spine of Mylar cover.…

paperback. Condition: Like New. Trade paperback. Square Tight Binding. Clean interior. A superior edition.

Softcover. Black pictorial wraps. bw illustrated end pages, vii, 282 pp. profusely illustrated in color and bw. Features articles on: 'Early Rhode Island Turning' by Erik Kyle Gronning & Dennis Andrew Carr; 'Mannerism in Early American Furniture: Connoisseurship, Intention and Theatricality' by Glenn Adamson; 'Structure, Style, and Evolution: The Sack-Back Windsor Armchair' by David R. Pesuit; 'New York Card Tables, 1800-1825' by Philip D. Zimmerman; 'Fashioning Furniture and Framing Community: Woodworkers and the Rise of a Connecticut River Valley Town' by Joshua W. Lane & Donald P. White III; plus book reviews. A lovely book. VG (light rubbing to covers and with museum ex-lib. stickers on spine and back cover and with inside pocket. Pages are otherwise clean.).…

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Oversized softcover. Pictorial paper wraps are crisp and clean with very mild edge wear. Binding is tight and secure. Pages are crisp, clean, and bright. Images are printed in full color and B&W. Chipstone Foundation. No publication date on title page. Copyright page dated 2003. 311 pages. A very nice copy. This is an oversized book, so extra shipping will be necessary for priority or international shipping. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…