Berger Sidney E Ed (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. NF. Numbering sequence denotes 3rd Printing of the 2005 Norton Critical stated 2nd Edition thus, edited, with prefaces to both 1st and 2nd Editions and introductions, by Sidney E. Berger. Book is straight square tightly and evenly bound and free of markings, blemishes, and creasing at gutter, spine or hinges. Cover is clean and bright, with sharp corners and joints, straight head, tail, spine, hinges and edges, boldly legible lettering and crisply distinct design, artwork and Author image. (Please see Seller images.) ISBN 0393925358. ShiroBooks, independent bookseller, takes pride in accurate descriptions, careful wrapping and safe shipping; please contact ShiroBooks PRIOR TO ORDERING or for more information, details or photos.

Softcover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Illustrated by Alvin Lustig (illustrator). Sound binding. Clean, tanned pages. Wrappers have edge rubbing, handling wear, spine creasing, some tattering at spine. ; Contents: Johnson, Contemporary American drawings. Galbraith, The businessman as philosopher. Schwartz, The fiction of Ernest Hemingway. Cowell and Cowell, Charles Ives. Warren, The unvexed isles. Welty, Circe. Singer, The world of George Santayana. Warren, Three poems. Denney and Riesman, Football in America. Berger, Notes on recordings of contemporary American music. Dupee, Letter from New York. Reviews by Frederick Gutheim, Vivienne Koch, Telford Taylor. ; Cover Art; 9.0" tall; 176 pages.

Journal. Condition: Very Good. 132 p., clean and unmarked anywhere; ill.; binding tight; pictorial wrapper has minimal wear.

5.75 x 8 inches. cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 144 pages, 17 tipped-in marbling swatches. "Interested novices search for historical and instructional books on [marbling], which inevitably leads to Richard J. Wolfe, the person who has dedicated his life to the preservation of marbling knowledge. Josef Halfer and the Revival of the Art of Marbling Paper is Wolfe's final gift to the book history and marbling communities." -Amy L. Tigner, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Josef Halfer practiced and taught marbling roughly three centuries after the craft had appeared in Europe, at a time when paper marbling was in decline and being replaced by mechanically-produced substitutes. However, his innovations coincided with recent advances in chemistry, biochemistry and bacteriology, and he was able to apply those recent advances to solving problems that had long inhibited progress in the marbling art. The techniques that Halfer pioneered enabled marblers to take the craft to new artistic levels, allowing more detailed patterns to be achieved than ever before, and resulting in the most delicate, intricate and beautiful forms that the medium is capable of producing. Richard Wolfe had previously written about Halfer in his Marbled Paper: Its History, Techniques, and Patterns. (republished by Oak Knoll with corrections in 2018). In this book, Wolfe examines in more detail the contributions of one of the most important figures in the history of paper marbling, and he provides English translations of several of Halfer's "little texts." The author had written a draft of the Historical Introduction and roughly translated a number of Halfer's pamphlets on marbling before he died in October 2017. Sidney Berger agreed to take on the role of editor to help finalize the introduction and put the translations in publishable form. His efforts and the support of the Wolfe family have enabled Oak Knoll to bring Richard Wolfe's last major project to its intended readers. 250 copies only, with 17 tipped-in samples of Halferian marbling techniques executed by the author. cloth spine over paper-covered boards.