Boorstin David (8 results)

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. History. The book is straight and tight with no marks noted and minimal shelf wear. The jacket shows some fading, minimal edge wear and no tears. Edited by Taylor Littleton. The lectures talk about the intertwining of our existence with the powers of science and the ecology of our imagination and character of our national life within the University set in the turbulent times of the 1960s and 70s. Proceeds from the sale of this book benefit environmental restoration and education.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket. Sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Wraps have very light overall wear. Based on symposium held by the Center for the Book, Library of Congress. Contents: Boorstin, "Welcome." Vaughan, "The Question of Biography." Morris, "The Art of Biography." What is Biography? A Discussion. Flexner, "George Washington in Print and on Television." 8McCullough, "Biography in the City of Washington." Biographers and Their Subjects: A Summary of Discussion and Comment. Notes on Contributors, symposium participants, reading list. ; 9.0" tall; 76 pages.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. xxxi, 448 pp. Prepared by arrangement with the Massachusetts Historical Society, The Adams Papers, and Harvard University Press. LCC: 7534422 Good condition; on covers: slight color toning and touches of wear on edges; previous owner's name on inside of front cover; some pen underlining through page xxii; light spotting on edges of papers.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Unpaginated. Published in 1987. Landmark collection of photographs. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only by a Japanese gallery. The Exhibition Catalog is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Gallery Min: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers with white titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Eileen Cowin. The texts consist of brief quotations from a wide array of sources, from David Byrne to Daniel Boorstin to Gustave Flaubert. Essay, "Real Images of An Illusory World", by Mark Johnstone. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Tokyo, Japan to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Eileen Cowin: Photographs". Which amounts to a fragmentary photo-narrative/"docudrama" involving a couple and their family members, who include elders and children. Since there is no accompanying text, the images, which demand to be seen in the sequence the photographer presented them, can be said to be about a lot of things. Even the basic "storyline" is wide open to interpretation. The couple seem to be going about their daily life: They eat, date, have fun, go shopping, quarrel, make love. There is an illness in the family; there is an adulterous affair. Towards the end, the images take on an otherworldly, fantastic quality that departs from the realistic, documentary look of everything that came before it. Because each image is described technically at the bottom, we are constantly reminded that these are staged photographs. Eileen Cowin's point is akin to Jean Cocteau's famous one about art as proof: "I do not narrate the passing through mirrors; I show it, and in some manner, I prove it. The greatest power of a film - or a photograph - is to be indisputable with respect to the actions it determines and which are carried out before our eyes" (Jean Cocteau). By showing something, all photographs exist as proof, an "assertion of accuracy in the spirit of maximum vehemence" (Susan Sontag). Cowin quotes The Master himself: "All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry" (Gustave Flaubert). Every artist and photographer's worldview is, precisely, visual: Photography = Reality is visible. Whereas, in contrast, Philosophy = Reality is invisible. And the more staged the photograph, the more it paradoxically has the look and feel of reality, which fact enhances and does not negate the photographer's privileged position as both storyteller and truth-teller. An absolute "must-have" title for Eileen Cowin collectors. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few copies of the Exhibition Catalog still available online and despite its imperfection (Publisher's flaw: slight rubbing and peeling on the black-dominant softcovers) is still in near-fine condition overall: Every single internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: This is an Import title, always difficult and now nearly impossible to obtain from Japan. Copies available online have even more serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine copy. ISBN 4906265154. no.

Hardcover. Condition: VERY FINE +. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover with slip case. Slip case has a minor amount of wear on the spine, shows signs of slight discoloration due to age. Cover to the books are clean, stiff, and in brand new condition. Pages are clean, bright, unmarked, and firmly bound. This two-volume set is in very fine plus condition with a fine conditioned slipcase.

Early printing of the final volume in Boorstin's The Americans series. Octavo, original cloth. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Jim Wooley - fellow Oklahoman and explorer of American history - with warm regards from Dan Boorstin July 30, 1973." Fine in a near fine dust jacket. American historian at the University of Chicago Daniel J. Boorstin wrote on a wide variety of topics in American and world history and was instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. Boorstin's writings emphasized the unity of the American people and especially praised inventors and entrepreneurs as central to the American success story. The Americans: The Colonial Experience explores the years between the arrival of the Pilgrims and America's Declaration of Independence.

Later printing of the final volume in Boorstin's The Americans series. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "For Lydia A. Bogdoyan with admiration and warm regards from Daniel J. Boorstin Sept 23, 1976." Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket. American historian at the University of Chicago Daniel J. Boorstin wrote on a wide variety of topics in American and world history and was instrumental in the creation of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. Boorstin's writings emphasized the unity of the American people and especially praised inventors and entrepreneurs as central to the American success story. The Americans: The Colonial Experience explores the years between the arrival of the Pilgrims and America's Declaration of Independence.