Oliver Larkin (221 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book is in Very Good condition. Cover is clean with no marks or stains. Binding is tight, edges are square, corners are sharp. Pages are clean with no writing or highlighting. Pictures are in Very Good condition. Book appears to be unread. A Great Copy! An Awesome Buy! *SHIPPING IS ADJUSTED FOR THS TITLE*. None.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, 215 pgs., pages clean and tight. Bound in blue cloth clean and tight. Wrapped in a very good dust jacket. A little sunning on upper back panel, otherwise a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Mylar protector included. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4th.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Good.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Closed tear in dust jacket, which is price-clipped, otherwise book and dust jacket in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover, 246 pages, very good condition, no internal marks, with color and b/w reproductions.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good -. No Jacket. (1960), 559pp, illus., white cloth, revised ed., slight soiling & shelfwear to cover, top corners lightly bumped, a bit of darkening to spine, owner's name to fep, no dj, contents clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good hardcover. No DJ. Text is clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelf wear. Bindings tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

hardcover. Condition: Good. stated first edition Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, viii, 215 pages, illustrations, portraits; 21 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust spotting/top edge. Age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket price-clipped on front flap. *** A monograph of the American painter Samuel F. B. Morse (1791-1872). perhaps best known as the inventor of the telegraph and the eponymously-named Morse Code. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

First 4to, stiff pictorial wrappers. x+245 pp, 108 illustrations (8 in color), bibliography, index. Freitag 2081; Lucas, p. 138. Very good except for moderate cover edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition, 1st Printing. A very good copy in a poor dust jacket. Front board has a couple white spots and the corners are bumped, spine slightly leaned. Jacket intact but significantly torn and with some tape repairs. (loc: 36).

Hardcover. Condition: USED Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardover, xvii and 559 pp., 30 4/c plates, hundreds of b/w illus. and text throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 245 pages, with index, list of illustrations (100 b&w, 8 color plates). Written after the author's retirement as Professor of Art at Smith College, the book combines biography with discussion of Daumier's works, both cartoons and his scupture and paintings, in the context of 19th century French history. Super 8vo (7-1/2" x 9-3/8"), brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 1/2" tear to cloth along top edge of front board, scant shelf wear, touch of dust soil to top edge, faint tan stain and foxing to end papers, very faint foxing to fore-edge, in unclipped DJ with chips and tears (up to 1/2") and dust soil along top edges, lighter wear at bottom, crease to back flap. Pages unmarked.

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

Condition: Good. 1968. First Published. 245 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Contains colour illustrations. Well bound and clean pages, with mild tanning to text block edges. Cracking to front hinge. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable forward lean. Book is slightly curled.

Hardcover without dustjacket, 108 pages, fair condition: spine is slanted with moderate wear / abrasions; moderate rubbing to covers; light foxing to outer page edges; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and minor tears.

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

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

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Small penned date and small business label on front free endpapers, in edgeworn/tape-repaired/price-clipped dust jacket (in protector) ; Beige cloth hardcover, Color and B&W illustrations, indices, bibliography. History of art in America; 4to; xviii + 559 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Quatro, hardcover, VG in beige cloth boards with red lettering no dj. 559 pp., index, many illustrations, 30 in color. This book went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for history. Consists of six separate books on art from Colonial Times to the age of Roosevelt and mid-20th C. art. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Various Artists (illustrator). Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Third Printing. Over 400 black & white illustrations and photos. Gilt lettering on original blue cloth spine and front board. Hard to find. 551 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition Thus. 8vo; 486 pages; Clean and secure in original publisher's pictorial wrappers with folded-over flaps in the French manner, plain glassine overlay, as issued. This is an excellent copy of the first French language edition of a standard monograph of American Art -- Oliver W. Larkin's 'Art and Life in America.' The most interesting thing about this is the typed letter laid in, on "United State Information Service / Paris" stationery. This is a "MEMORANDUM" Addressed to "All American Officers" [i.e., the American Foreign Service Officers posted to the U.S. Paris Embassy]. From Gwen Barrows [USIS/Paris Book and Publications Unit]. This letter, addressed familiarly to "Dear Steve" [who we have not yet identified] -- reads: "You might like to have for presentation this copy of our latest publication under the translation program, "L'Art et la vie en Amà rique" by Oliver W. Larkin. This, as you know, is the first book of its kind to be published in French, and we expect a warm response to it. If you should like additional copies for special presentation, please send us your requests. [signed, in blue ink] Gwen." This interesting memo was dated "October 24, 1952" (twelve days after the official publication date of this edition). It also happened to be eleven days before Dwight Eisenhower won the U.S. Presidential election on November 4, 1952. This election had consequences for the United States Information Service, which was soon transformed into the United States Information Agency, with an even larger budget. The newly-enlarged agency was tasked with a mission "to understand, inform and influence foreign publics in promotion of the national interest, and to broaden the dialogue between Americans and U.S. institutions, and their counterparts abroad." From the beginning, the new American President was frank about propaganda, and the secrecy which his administration made its mission more effective -- âaudiences would be more receptive to the American message if they were kept from identifying it as propaganda. Avowedly propagandistic materials from the United States might convince few, but the same viewpoints presented by the seemingly independent voices would be more persuasive.â Also in the new atmosphere of Eisenhower's Republication administration, forces on the political right became concerned that tinges of leftist thought in the American government, and sought to root out these left-leaning Americans and eliminate them from positions of authority, particularly in the State Department and the new United States Information Agency. One result of this effort was soon felt in Paris, with the arrival of two young Americans, Roy Cohn and David Schine. Cohn, at that time was Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel; G. David Schine was attached by his friend Roy Cohn to McCarthy's staff as an unpaid "chief consultant." These two young men (both in their mid-twenties at the time) arrived in Paris for the official task of examining libraries of the United States Information Agency for books written by authors they deemed to be Communists or fellow travelers. The very first thing they found objectionable upon arrival in Paris was that the pair of expensive suites which the U.S. Embassy had reserved for them at the Hotel Crillon, were not adjoining. Cohn and Schine immediately withdrew to the Georges V, where they proceeded to run up a staggering bill on the Embassy's account. The results of their search for subversive elements in the USIA libraries and staff were inconclusive. I cannot imagine that the distinguished professor Oliver W. Larkin was thought by anyone, even this pair of idealogues, as a danger to American ideals and values. The original English version of Larkin's book won the 1950 Pulitzer Prize for History, the first such award for a study of the visual arts. I can find no other evidence, apart from the extraordinary typed memo inserted in this copy, that the United States Goverment provided the impetus and funding for the F.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Two tipped-in color plates: "Out of the Fog" is in excellent condition, "Turmoil" has a crease on the lower corner.