Laura Miceli (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. As new condition silver gray boards with gold front cover and spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Geraldine Brooks; Author Dedication; Author's Note and Afterword. Also includes a fine condition vintage Sunday, May 15, 2011 New York Times Book Review article by Jane Smiley re: Caleb's Crossing Illustrated with a black-and white preliminary page map plus illustrated front and rear endpapers. "In her new novel, Caleb's Crossing, Geraldine Brooks once again takes a shard of little-known history and brings it vividly to life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American graduate of Harvard College. From the few facts that survive of this extraordinary life, Brooks creates a luminous tale of passion and belief, magic and adventure. The voice of Caleb's Crossing belongs to Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny island settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneering English Puritans. Possessed of a restless spirit and a curious mind, Bethia slips the bounds of her rigid society to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native inhabitants. At twelve, she meets Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret bond that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's father is Great Harbor's minister, who feels called to convert the Wampanoag to his own strict Calvinism. He awakens the wrath of the medicine men, against whose magic he must test his faith in a high-stakes battle that may cost his life and his very soul. Caleb becomes a prize in this contest between old ways and new, eventually taking his place at Harvard, studying Latin and Greek alongside the sons of the colonial elite. Bethia also finds herself in Cambridge at the behest of her imperious elder brother. As she fights for a voice in a society that requires her silence, she also becomes entangled in Caleb's struggle to navigate the intellectual and cultural shoals that divide their two cultures. What become of these characters - the triumphs and turmoil they endure in embracing their new destinies - is the subject of this riveting and intensely observed novel. Like Brook's beloved narrator Anna in Tear of Wonders, Bethia proves an emotionally irresistible guide to the wilds of Martha's Vineyard and to the intimate spaces of the human heart. The narrative travels from the sparkling harbors of Martha's Vineyard to the mean, drafty dormitories of early Harvard and, as ever, Brooks buttresses her richly imagined fiction with the fascinating and meticulously researched detail that has brought her legions of readers and a Pulitzer Prize." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Miceli, Jaya (jacket design); Belanger, Francesca (book design); Maestro, Laura Hartman (title-page illustration and map) (illustrator). …

N. PAG.252 - CARTONATO CON SOVRACCOPERTA ILL. - OTTIMO.

N.PAG.253 - CARTONATO CON SOVRACOPERTA - MODESTI SEGNI DI USURA.

Condition: NEW.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Condition: Good. Condizioni dettagliate: Più che buone, firma del pittore, esemplare numerato N. 863, fioriture sparse, copertina flessibile.

Prefazione di Giuseppe Mersica, rilegato, similpelle, fregi e scritte in oro al piatto e al dorso, sovracoperta, formato 23x32, pagine 254, illustrato con numerose tavole in nero e colori fuori testo, alcune applicate, ottime condizioni - 49064 ISBN non applicabile 1.

31x20,5 cm; 253, (1) pp.e 23 c. di tav. a colori. Legatura coeva in similpelle con titolo e autore impressi in oro al piatto anteriore e sopraccoperta editoriale illustrata. Ottimo esemplare. Prima edizione. Uscito nella collana "Arte antica e contemporanea" della Rebellato. Prefazione di Giuseppe Mesirca e testi critici di Luigi Mattei e Laura Miceli per questa monografia dedicata all'opera medaglistica del celebre scultore ed incisore originario di Cittadella (PD), Luciano Mercante. Ottimo esemplare.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.