Morris 1969 (5 results)

Soft cover. Paperback; minor shelfwear w/ lightly bumped corners and light soiling of wraps and edges; o/w in good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Revised and enlarged ed. ; 8th printing ; xix, 236 p., 45 p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm. ; LCCN: 51-12030 ; "Concerned only with the clams and snails occurring on the eastern coast of North America, from Labrador to Texas" ; name on front ep ; green cloth with blue lettering, in color pictorial, worn dustjacket ; over 400 illustrations, 102 in full color ; VG/G. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains frontispiece, 268 pp with monochrome illustrations throughout. From the private library and estate of Frank Williams. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper, not price clipped, 3/6. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. STORIES FOR BOYS.

First Edition. Poor copy bound in the original cloth boards with a worn dust wrapper. Wear and tear with the main text detached from the spine bands and boards, now loosely inserted. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 383, [1] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Notes; Date of publication from copyright date on title page verso. "Printed and bound in Chicago"-- title page verso. "452 illustrations, some in color"--dust jacket blurb. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Acknowledgements -- Foreword / John E. Burchard -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Art and science -- II. Image, form, symbol -- Art and science / Naum Gabo -- Domesticating the invisible / S.I. Hayakawa -- The esthetic motivation of science / Bruno Rossi -- III. The industrial landscape -- Inner and outer landscape / Richard J. Neutra -- Poetry and landscape / Richard Wilbur -- The new landscape / Fernand Leger -- Notes / Jean Helion -- Universalism and the enlargement of outlook / S. Giedion -- Reorientation / Walter Gropius -- Man-cosmos symbols / Charles Morris -- IV. The new landscape -- Magnification of optical data -- Expansion and compression of events in time -- Expansion of the eye's sensitivity range -- Modulation of signals -- V. Thing, structure, pattern, process -- VI. Transformation -- Transformation / Jean Arp -- VII. Analogue, metaphor -- Pure patterns in a natural world / Norbert Wiener -- Design and function in the living / R.W. Gerard -- On physiognomic perception / Heinz Werner -- VIII. Morphology in art and science -- IX. Symmetry, proportion, module -- Organic design / C.F. Pantin -- Art in crystallography / Kathleen Lonsdale -- Form in engineering / Paul Weidlinger -- X. Continuity, discontinuity, rhythm, scale -- Contributors biographies -- Name index. Subjects; Kepes, György (1906-2001). Nature (Aesthetics). Art Philosophy. Photography Scientific applications. Aesthetics. Art and science. Art - Theory. Art and science. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 3 Kg.

First Edition. Poor copy bound in the original cloth boards with a worn dust wrapper. Wear and tear with the main text detached from the spine bands and boards, now loosely inserted. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 383, [1] p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Notes; Date of publication from copyright date on title page verso. "Printed and bound in Chicago"-- title page verso. "452 illustrations, some in color"--dust jacket blurb. Includes bibliographical references. Contents; Acknowledgements -- Foreword / John E. Burchard -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Art and science -- II. Image, form, symbol -- Art and science / Naum Gabo -- Domesticating the invisible / S.I. Hayakawa -- The esthetic motivation of science / Bruno Rossi -- III. The industrial landscape -- Inner and outer landscape / Richard J. Neutra -- Poetry and landscape / Richard Wilbur -- The new landscape / Fernand Leger -- Notes / Jean Helion -- Universalism and the enlargement of outlook / S. Giedion -- Reorientation / Walter Gropius -- Man-cosmos symbols / Charles Morris -- IV. The new landscape -- Magnification of optical data -- Expansion and compression of events in time -- Expansion of the eye's sensitivity range -- Modulation of signals -- V. Thing, structure, pattern, process -- VI. Transformation -- Transformation / Jean Arp -- VII. Analogue, metaphor -- Pure patterns in a natural world / Norbert Wiener -- Design and function in the living / R.W. Gerard -- On physiognomic perception / Heinz Werner -- VIII. Morphology in art and science -- IX. Symmetry, proportion, module -- Organic design / C.F. Pantin -- Art in crystallography / Kathleen Lonsdale -- Form in engineering / Paul Weidlinger -- X. Continuity, discontinuity, rhythm, scale -- Contributors biographies -- Name index. Subjects; Kepes, György (1906-2001). Nature (Aesthetics). Art Philosophy. Photography Scientific applications. Aesthetics. Art and science. Art - Theory. Art and science. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.