David C Ward Editors (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Lillian B. Miller and David C. Ward, Editors. New Perspectives on Charles Willson Peal. 250th Anniversary Celebration. (Pittsburgh): University of Pittsburgh Press, for the Smithsonian Institution, (1991). First Edition. Lg 8vo. xvii,317pp, Index. Over 100 illustrations. Cloth. Fine in fine dj. Collection of 15 essays by 11 distinguished scholars representing "the best scholarship on Charles Willson Peale from the past twenty years." ISBN 0822936607 ; Over 100 illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 317 pages. …

Cloth. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 316 pgs., colour frontis, 103 b&w illustrations. In publisher's shrink-wrap. Size: Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+/VG+. Black cloth. xviii, 316 pp. 1 color, 103 bw repros. ".the collection of fifteen essays by eleven distingushed scholars provides stimulating assessment of Peale's life and achievements. Some essays were commissioned for the book, while others previously published have been updated.The essays summarize the artists life and work, from his beginnings as a student of Benjamin West in London, through the painting of his major works-examined in close detail-his museum, his mechanical inventions, and his artistic creation of a popular garden and experimental farm in Belfield." Any reading on Peale is bound to be stimulating, and this new book adds some fresh insights. He epitomized the multifaceted self-education common of the scientific men of the early republic, and the way they interweaved so many different disciplines into their daily activities and studies. 14 page index at rear.…

Hardcover. Condition: Publisher's cloth. Jacket not priced or clipped. First Edition. Houston / New York: The Museum of Fine Arts / Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1987. 9.25" wide by 11.75" tall. Fine condition in bright, shiny Fine Dust Jacket. No chips. No tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder marks. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Clean, square, tight, and unmarked. Illustrated with 225 photos, including 60 plates in full-color. Chapter notes. Bibliography. Index. From the Dust Jacket: "This book and the exhibition on which it is based make an important contribution to our understanding of the nature and function of presentation silver. Each object illustrated and discussed is a rich source of information on American values, assumptions, craftsmanship, and technology. The beauty and variety of American presentation silver are amply revealed by the more than 200 superb illustrations in color and black and white.". First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Publisher's cloth/Jacket not priced or clipped. 208pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket. dj. First Edition. Large 8vo. 316 pp. Indexed and illustrated. Published in conjunction with the 250th anniversary of the birth of Charles Wilson Peale in 1741, the work contains over a hundred illustrations and a collection of fifteen essays by eleven distinguished scholars on the life and work of the distinguished American painter.…

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. pp. xviii, 316, [1]. colour frontis. & 103 b/w illus. on 44 double-sided b/w plates. index. cloth. dw. First Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First printing. Fine paperback original with French flaps. Signed by the editors and poets Tracy K. Smith, John Koethe, Geoffrey Brock, Yusef Komunyakaa, Michael Schmidt, Paul Muldoon, Steve Scalifi, Jr., Nikki Giovanni, Eavan Boland, and CD Wright at their section headings. Koethe signature a bit smudged. Event program included. Signed by Author(s).…

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Quarto. Illiustrated self-wrappers. Fine. Prints poetry by several: John Koethe, Geoffrey Brock, Yusef Komunyakaa, Michael Schmidt, Jorie Graham, Eavan Boland, Dave Smith, C.D. Wright, Paul Muldoon , Steve Scafidi Jr., Tracy K. Smith, and Nikki Giovanni. This copy Signed by editor Ward and by most of the represented poets. Laid in is a flyer for a poetry reading at the National Portrait Gallery, commemorating the book. Scarce thus. Signed.…