Lan Nelson (12 results)

Hard Cover (no dust jacket). Condition: Very Good. Color, B/w Illustrations (illustrator). Wonderful descriptive writing on the life of renowned artist Lester Rayner, along with dozens of paintings and art pieces by Rayner (most in color). Also includes archival photographs of the artist, his family, and friends. Includes bibliography. 201 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Color, B/w Illustrations (illustrator). The Raymer Society / Red Barn Studio, Published 1998. Hardcover, 201 pp.; 29 cm, oversize quarto; illustrated throughout with color and black-and-white reproductions of paintings, woodcuts, prints, and the artist's Christmas toys, plus archival photographs. In Very Good condition, no jacket as issued. Glossy pictorial boards reproducing Raymer's painting of a drummer boy (Untitled, oil on board, 1962); mild shelf wear and edge wear. Binding tight. Interior clean. Otherwise unmarked. Biography and retrospective of Kansas artist Lester Raymer (1907-1991), the painter, printmaker, metalworker, and toymaker at the center of the Lindsborg art colony and his own Red Barn Studio. Six essays by Bruce R. Kahler, Diane Thomas Lincoln, Lan Nelson, Carla Scott, and Don Weddle survey his life, his place in the Lindsborg community around Birger Sandzen, his religious and spiritual imagery, his work across media, and the handmade Christmas toys he created for his wife Ramona each year from 1960 onward. Contents: The Life and Times of Lester Raymer; Lester Raymer and his Art World (Bruce R. Kahler); Lester Raymer, Pilgrim Artist (Diane Thomas Lincoln); Themes and Variations: Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations and Prints (Don Weddle); The Christmas Toys (Lan Nelson); Transformations (Carla Scott); Acknowledgments, Author Biographies, Bibliographies and Notes.

Paperback. very good - fine digest size,

Hardcover/Hardback. Condition: Fine. Raymer, Lester (illustrator). Fine condition, unread clean and very tight. Very minor shelfwear includes some scuffing gloss coverboards, and bumped top outside corner.

Paperback. near fine digest size,

Softcover. Sound binding. Clean and bright pages. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contents: Editors' Introduction. Sebastian, Reading Archives from a Postcolonial Feminist Perspective: "Native" Bible Women and the MIssionary Ideal. Nelson, Breaking the Dynamic of Control: A Feminist Approach to Economic Ethics. Xu, Poststructuralist Feminism and the Problem of Femininity in the Daodejing. Pritchard, Faith-Based Patriarchy and the Rhetoric of "Choice." Whitson, At Kildare. McCaslin, Tara. Brettschneider and Rose, Introduction to special section, Meeting at the Well: Multiculturalism and Jewish Feminism. Plaskow, Dealing with Difference Without and Within. Marcia Falk, My Father's Riddle, or Conflict and Reciprocity in the Multicultural (Jewish) Self. Herron, Pastel Meetings. Cohler-Esses, A Common Language between East and West. Levine, Multiculturalism, Women's Studies, and Anti-Judaism. 9.0" tall; 138 pages. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.

Audio. Condition: Good. Audio Tape.

Hardcover. Condition: near fine. Color, B/w Illustrations (illustrator). Quarto. 11' x 8". Glossy color pictorial covers. 201pp. Signed by all of the contributors on the table of contents next to their essay and also signed by Lester Raymer on last page.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Oversize hardcover in glossy illustrated boards, no jacket as issued. A biography and retrospective of this versatile Kansas artist. A bright nice copy. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. Oversized. 201 pages. Light discoloring; tight very good book; no jacket. Signed by five authors on the table of contents page. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; Signed by Author. ISBN: 0966703200. Inventory No: 197286.

Hard Cover. Fine. First Edition. Signed by all five of the contributing authors on the table of contents page. 204 pages, with color illustrations.

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original colour illustrated period science fiction super art work paper covers. 8vo. 7½'' x 5½''. Monochrome illustrations throughout. Slight tanning to the page margins, a little rubbing of the paper to the spine tips and in Very Good clean and sound condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. SCIENCE FICTION MAGAZINES.