Larry Curry (131 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Molnar, Albert; Bialke, Gary (illustrator). …

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Great book in excellent condition.DJ complete but one inch chip in upper right front cover. DJ newly wrapped in mylar. Clean and tight. Shelf 1043. smoke free. PHOTOS POSTED WITH OUR BOOKS ARE STOCK AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT CONDITION OR EDITION OF BOOK OFFERED FOR SALE. WE DO NOT POST THE PHOTOS.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. clean covers-no marks or names-130+ plates color and b/w.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Catalog of an exhibition held Mar. 21-May 28, 1972, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 9-Sept. 17, 1972, at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, and Nov. 2-Dec. 31, 1972, at the St. Louis Art Museum. Bibliography: p. 192-195. Foreword by Archibald Hanna. Chronologies of 24 artists, Bibliography. Twenty-two paintings in color; many more in black and white. An important survey of the art of the American West, showcasing the magnificence of the untamed American landscape & its wholesale destruction in the 18th & 19th centuries.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Pages are crisp and clean, no marking. Cover is good. Binding is tight/good. First page has a name.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. PHOTO AND VIDEO OF PAGES TAKEN TO SHOW CONDITION PRIOR TO SHIPPING; Small tear out of dj on back Stored new Photos of book emailed upon requestPHOTOS EMAILED FOR MORE SPECIFICS WHEN REQUESTED; Book. Book.

Paper Back. Condition: Acceptable.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A3 - A first edition hard cover book in good condition. Book has fading on the spine, 1" x 1" of the top left corner of the front fixed endpaper missing, 1" red oval and some residue on the top right corner of the front loose endpaper, light discoloration and shelf wear. Picture is of the title page front cover of book is blank. Painters from Catlin to Russell. With a Foreword by Archibald Hanna. 10"x8.75". 198 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. First Edition. Oblong soft cover on 1972 exhibition. Front wrap has slight curl to right bottom corner. Front wrap has a 2 inch cut. Viking in Association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

19 color & 115 black & white plates. Slight edgewear otherwise near fine paperback book in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

Paperback. Condition: Good. The Viking Press in association with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, New York, Published 1972. Paperback, 198 pp.; 22 x 24 cm (oblong); 133 plates, some in color; double-page reproduction of Colton's 1874 map of the states and territories west of the Mississippi. Foreword by Archibald Hanna. In Good condition. Illustrated paper covers reproducing Walter Shirlaw's Buffalo Hunt, cream lettering on front cover and spine; light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild shelf and edge wear with some scuffing, and slight peeling at corner tips. Binding tight. Mild dampstaining to bottom edge of text block near gutter, extending into lower half inch of margins on most pages. Pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked. Laid in: American Association of Museums benefit folder (single sheet folded to four pages). Catalogue of a loan exhibition held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco and the St. Louis Art Museum in 1972, organized as a benefit for the American Association of Museums. Curry's introduction surveys nineteenth-century painting of the trans-Mississippi West, and illustrated chronologies give the careers of the artists, among them Catlin, Karl Bodmer, Alfred Jacob Miller, Bierstadt, Moran, Remington and Russell. Pacific Northwest subjects include James Madison Alden's 1857 watercolors of the Columbia River and British Columbia. Check list of works with media, dimensions and lenders. The laid-in benefit folder lists the AAM officers and honorary councilors (among them Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson and Mrs. Aristotle Onassis), and the benefit committee, patrons and sponsors. Contents: Acknowledgments; Foreword: A West for Americans (Archibald Hanna); Introduction: Painters from Catlin to Russell (Larry Curry); Chronologies of the Artists; Plates; Check List; Bibliography; Artists Bibliographies. …

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Published 1968. Paperback, [90] pp.; 20 x 23 cm (oblong); illustrated with color and black-and-white plates. In Very Good condition in the original glassine dust wrapper. Textured cream paper covers, title printed in blue-green watercolor-wash lettering on front cover, black lettering on spine; mild edge wear, with foxing and toning along top edge of covers and light spotting along bottom edge of rear cover. Binding tight. Inner covers mildly toned and mild foxing along top edge of text block; pages otherwise unmarked. Glassine wrapper quite toned, with chipping and tearing along top and bottom edges of front flap and at tail of spine. Catalogue of an exhibition of 109 watercolors by eight American painters, shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (April 23 to June 16, 1968), the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, and the Seattle Art Museum. Compiled by Larry Curry, associate curator at LACMA, with an essay tracing the medium from its English origins to its acceptance in America and a section on each artist. Lenders include the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Phillips Collection, the Dove Estate through the Downtown Gallery, and Andrew Wyeth, who lent five works. Plates include Homer's "The Adirondack Guide," Sargent's "Muddy Alligators," Prendergast's "Piazza di San Marco," Demuth's "Still Life: Apples and Green Glass," and Wyeth's "Coon Dog." Includes a full catalogue list giving dimensions, signatures and lenders, a chronological bibliography by artist, and general references.…

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket Former Library book. A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

Greenwood Press first edition (per Greenwood's "First published" statement upon copyright page). xx, 348 pages. Hardcover: H 21.75cm x L 14.25cm. No dust jacket. Dark mustard cloth. Text block edges foxed; foxing to several initial and rear leaves but with interior text leaves mostly clean. Binding retains some crispness. With Preface, Editor's Introduction, and Index. Five sections feature eighteen essays which were first published in the academic journal "Civil War History." ***** [PART I. HISTORIOGRAPHY OF THE CIVIL WAR.] "Civil War Synthesis in American Political History" by Joel H. Silbey. "Causes of the American Civil War: Recent Interpretations and New Directions" by Eric Foner. "Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877: A Critical Overview of Recent Trends and Interpretations" by Richard O. Curry. "John Brown and His Judges: A Critique of the Historical Literature" by Stephen B. Oates. [PART II. POLITICS AT THE GRASS ROOTS: ELECTIONS AND VOTERS.] "Northern Democratic Party and the Congressional Elections of 1858" by David E. Meerse. "Ethnic Voter and the First Lincoln Election" by Robert P. Swierenga. "Rejected Republican Incumbents in the 1866 Congressional Nominating Conventions: A Study in Reconstruction Politics" by Lawrence N. Powell. "Rout of Radicalism: Republicans and the Elections of 1867" by Michael Les Benedict. "Republicans and Black Suffrage in New York State: The Grass Roots Response" by Phyllis Frances Field. [PART III. "SPIRIT OF PARTY": CONGRESS AND ROLL CALL VOTING.] "Party and Section: The Senate and the Kansas-Nebraska Bill" by Gerald W. Wolff. "Unconscious "Spirit of Party" in the Confederate Congress" by Richard E. Beringer. "Bloc and Party in the United States Senate: 1861-1863" by Alan G. Bogue. "Who Were the Senate Radicals?" by Edward L. Gambill. "'Radical' Political and Economic Policies: The Senate, 1873-1877" by Glenn M. Linden. [PART IV. PATRONAGE, RELIGION, AND RACE: THE ETHNORELIGIOUS DIMENSION OF POLITICS.] "Political Patronage and Ethnic Groups: Foreign-born in the United States Customhouse Service, 1821-1861" by Leonard Tabachnik. "Religious and Occupational Roots of Party Identification: Illinois and Indiana in the 1870's" by Richard Jensen. "Negroes in the First and Second Reconstructions of the South" by August Meier. [PART V. IDEOLOGY AND POLITICS.] "Slavery and the Slave Power: A Crucial Distinction" by Larry Gara. "William Lloyd Garrison and Antislavery Unity: A Reappraisal" by Bertram Wyatt-Brown. "Aims and Impact of Garrisonian Abolitionism, 1840-1860" by James B. Stewart. ISBN 0837179602.…

Condition: Good. This book has smudging and light staining from use on both covers most notable on the back cover, light shelfwear to the edges and corners of the covers, foxing to the edges of the textblock and throughout the first 5 pages, loose hinges, a gentle crack in the binding at the publishing page, a slightly shifted spine, and light toning to the edges of the pages throughout, otherwise this book is in good condition with crisp, unmarked pages, a tight binding, and vibrant, attractive images throughout.…

Condition: New.

1st printing of 1st edition. Catalog to the traveling exhibit tracing the development of American painting from Colonial times to the beginning of the 20th Century. Slight darkening of front cover otherwise very good+ paperback in decorative wrappers (soft cover book).

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 143 pages, illustrations (part colour); 23 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Handling-storage soil/wraps & edges. Age toning. Another copy available. Size: 8vo.

Condition: Very Good. Viking Press Inc. New York 1972 hardcover.

Condition: Very Good. Viking Press Inc. New York 1972 Binding: Hardcover.

Soft cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. 198pp. Biblio. Checklist. 133 plates, some color. Still sound. Promoting global literacy for over 30 years.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st edition. Very Good. Used with NO markings in text. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.