Lawrence Robert Ad (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Slight rubbig to covers. Some cracking and chipping to spine. Ex Libris sticker on front free endpaper. Interior of book is in especially good condition with bright, beautiful illustrations. Binding is tight. Spine is straight. Pages are bright and unmaked.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book has noticable shelfwear: rubbing to covers, boards slightly show at corners, spine has very small chipo at top. Remnants of sticker to inside front board. Binding is still tight. Spine is straight. Pages are unmarked. A solidly good copy.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near Fine green paperback about 8½x11 inches with very slight cover edgewear. 82 pages, unmarked; ECR OV17-3; 11 X 8.50 X 0.30 inches; 82 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Book has shelfwear with boards showing to edges are corners of covers. Inscription on front free endpaper. A 2.5" scribble in crayon to back cover. Pages are clean and the illustrations are bright. Binding is tight. Spine is straight. Pages are unmarked.

Condition: New. pp. xvi + 298.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Portfolio. 1st Edition. (32) Pp. Booklet, Staple-Bound, Illustrated, In Card Covers. 27 Loose Plates. In Portfolio With $7.50 Price. Booklet And Plates Fine, Portfolio Dusty And With Many Small Chips Right Along Fore Edge And Upper Folds. The American Social Artist William Gropper's Copy Although Not Marked As Such; He Furnished One Of The Tributes In The Booklet. 27 Plates (illustrator).…

Condition: Good. Quarto. Trade Paperback. Mostly B&W Images. 82 pp. Very GoodProvenance: Jerry Kamstra ephemera from the estate of Dr. Stevanne Auerbach, including numerous photographs, a large collection of correspondence, manuscripts in various states, a spiral notebook with numerous original drawings, and various other ephemera. In all, about 2 full banker's boxes worth of material. Stevanne Auerbach (1938-2022), also known as Dr. Toy, was an American educator, child development expert, writer and toyologist, best known for being an expert on as well as an advocate of toys, play, and the toy industry. She was named one of seven Wonder Women of Toys in 2007 by Women in Toys and Playthings magazine. She made several public appearances each year to promote her causes, which include building greater awareness in parents of their essential role as play tutors for their children, the educational, and many other benefits of play, and encouraging the enhancement of play value and high standards of quality, safety, and protection of creativity in toys within the toy industry. She was friend and correspondent of R. Crumb as well as Jerry Kamstra, Walter Mondale, and others.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. II ed. della raccolta (I ed.: 1965 (?). A Theory of Pictorial Perception by James J. Gibson is reprinted from Audio-visual Communication Review, I:1, Winter, 1954 - The Painter's Handwriting by J. P. Hodin is reprinted from The Journal of Aesthetiscs and Art Criticism, VII:3, March, 1949). Vision + Value Series. Testo in inglese. VIII grande/ (6)+282/ crat./ sovraccoperta in carta liscia con grafica in b/malva/salvia/n e con titoli in nero. Illustrazioni in b/n nel testo e f.t. Stato buono (usura della sovraccoperta, in particolare ai margini - sovraccoperta, fogli di guardia e pagine brunite e con qualche piccola fioritura). Contents: Lawrence K. Frank: The World as a Communication Network-Signs, Images and Symbols - Heinz Von Foerster; From Stimulus to Symbol: The Economy of Biological Computation - Rudolf Arnheim; Image and Thought - S. Giedion; Symbolic Expression in Prehistory and in the First High Civilizations - James J. Gibson; A Theory of Pictorial Perception - Rudolf Modley; Graphic Symbols for World-Wide Communication - Henry Dreyfuss; Case Study: Symbols for Industrial Use - Abraham H. Maslow; Isomorphic Interrelationships between Knower and Known - Charles Morris and Frank Sciadini; Paintings, Ways to Live, and Values - J. P. Hodin; The Painter's Handwriting - Werner Schmalenbach; The Problem of Reality in Mid-Century Painting - Ad Reinhardt; Art in Art is Art as Art - Robert Osborn; The Hangover - Saul Bass; Movement, Film, Communication - Edmund Carpenter; Image Making in Arctic Art - Paul Riesman; The Eskimo Discovery of Man's Place in the Universe - John E. Burchard; The City as Symbol - Ernesto N. Rogers; The Image: The Architect's Inalienable Vision - P. A. Michelis; Form in Architecture: Imitation and Abstraction - Ludwig von Bertalanffy; The Tree of Knowledge - Biographical Notes on the Autors.…