Bowles J M Editor (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDAcceptable trade, stains to some pages.

Paperback. Condition: As New. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDFine. *.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 252 pp., xi. Stated: "Published 1991". Following the Editor's Preface, Contents divided into 10 Essays in 4 sections: Part I: TERMS FOR A DIALOGUE (1) Michael Zweig, "Economics and Liberation Theology"; RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES ON ECONOMIC JUSTICE: (2) Norman K. Gottwald, "Values and Economic Structures"; (3) Gregory Baum, "An Ethical Critique of Capitalism: Contributions of Modern Catholic Social Teaching"; (4) Pamela K Brubaker, "Economic Justice for Whom? Women Enter the Dialogue"; (5) Michael Lerner, "Jewish Liberation Theology and Emancipatory Politics"; Part III: STRUCTURES OF MODERN CAPITALISM (6) Ann Seidman, "Man-Made Starvation in Africa"; (7) Amata Miller, IHM, "Global Economic Structures: Their Human Implications"; (8) Michael Zweig, "Class and Poverty in the U.S. Economy"; Part IV: POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS (9) Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, "The Economy Produces People: An Introduction to Post-Liberal Democracy"; (10) Frances Moore Lappe and J. Baird Callicott, "Individual and Community in Society and Nature". Notes on Contributors follow p. 252 (unnumbered). Glossy sky blue wrappers with sky blue borders on front cover, surrounding a large black, rectangular background for large white Title letters on top half front cover, Editor name lettering in smaller white letters at middle front cover. ONLY peccadillo is previous owner name, date and purchase location at top inside front cover, else unqualifiedly As New: Tight binding, NO remainder marks, sharp corners (NO bumps or curls), NO rubbing wear. Clean text. Essentially As New. 4 News items laid in: (1) Laurie Goodstein, "Many Churches Slow to Accept Government Money to Help the Poor" (NYT, 10 17 2000); (2) Boston Globe Editorial (5 22 2001), "God and the Tax Cut"; (3) "Tyler Cowen, "What Makes a Nation Wealthy?Maybe It's the Working Stiff"; (4) Rich Barlow, "Economist [Jonathan Gruber] sees value in religiosity" (Boston Globe, 2 10 2007). UNREAD copy. Classic Essays by distinguished Authors with contemporary relevance.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original pictorial paper boards, newly rebacked with matching paper. Illustrations throughout, featuring the work of 30 graphic designers, ranging from decorative initials and ornaments to reproductions of posters and magazine covers, many of them full-page (one double-page) mostly in color. Printed on specimens of 30 different types of paper made by Dill & Collins, seven of the leaves with multiple paper. Owner's signature of Jeanette E. Samuelson of the N.Y Herald Tribune, dated 1933, on front fly leaf, with her gift inscription. Rear paste-down with the bookplate/shelf label of Will Ransom. Corners and portions of edges of the paper boards somewhat worn, two-inch tape repair to rear in one leaf (crossing a very small portion of a border, without loss), first few leaves a bit spotted around margins, many leaves slightly darkened, a few additional trivial spots, otherwise an excellent copy, generally quite clean. Rare.…

Condition: Very good. First Edition. Quarto. [144] pp., mostly illustrations (some in color), reproducing advertisements, illustrations from books, and examples of typography; seven leaves with mounted paper samples showing different colored ink. With full-page biographies of the nearly thirty artists and designers whose work is compiled here. Also included is a list of the paper samples herein. Bound in original publisher's brown decorated boards printed red and black, gray endpapers (new spine almost imperceptible; bookplate removed from inside front cover; minor foxing and offsetting to versos of some leaves). Overall a very attractive copy. BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN PAPER AND GRAPHIC ARTS CATALOGUE; FEW OTHER COPIES HAVE SURVIVED IN SUCH GOOD CONDITION. OWING TO THE LUMINOUS QUALITY OF THE ILLUSTRATIONS AND THE TACTILE EXPERIENCE OF HANDLING THE PAPER STOCKS, DIGITAL SURROGATES WILL ALWAYS REMAIN AN UNACCEPTABLE ALTERNATIVE. While technically a "salesman's sample catalogue," the present volume offers extremely compelling graphic arts of the period, as well as paper and ink samples. There are designs by the two most famous American book designers of the era, namely Bruce Rogers and Frederic Goudy, as well as many who are little known today, including Louise Ames Norman, Charles B. Falls, Claire Avery, W.P. Schoonmaker, Edward Penfield, Adolph Triedler, Earl Horter, Robert Wildhack, Thelma Cudlipp, Noémi Peressin, and Ralph Fletcher Seymour. The editor, Joseph Moore Bowles, was himself well respected: he was a publisher, director of the NYC Art Center, and editor of periodical publications "Modern Art," "The Collector and Art Critic," and "Interior Decoration.".…