Phillips Travers (3 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Poetry, apparently self-published. Inscribed by the author: "Especially for Pauline Kael/ with the warmest regard of the author and in keen appreciation of your own remarkable literary accomplishments/ Travers Phillips/ 2nd April, 1985." Slightly sunned and spotted; very good in wrappers. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. v, 224 pp. ; illustrated, portraits ; 26 cm. ; ISBN: 1903071089 (hbk.); 9781903071083 (hbk.) ; OCLC: 76350731 or OCLC: 76797328 ; green cloth with gold lettering in color photographic dustjacket ; "What risks did early plant collectors take to bring us the plants we know and love? Who found what and where? And how similar are their finds to the plants we grow today? Christian Lamb has been to extraordinary lengths to find out, as we soon discover.Christian also gaily recounts her own intrepid adventures following in the footsteps of the early collectors: around New Zealand in the wake of Joseph Banks, up the Yangtze after Robert Fortune, to North, South and Central America in the paths of Lewis and Clark, the Lobb brothers, and other s." ; filled with color photographs of rare plants and reproductions of illustrations from important botanicals ; FINE/FINE. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; xix, 127 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm ISBN 9780252015533, 0252015533 OCLC 17676686 LCCN 88004825 LC KF5692 .C67 1989 Dewey 346.73045 and 347.30645 ; grey cloth in pictorial dustjacket ; Contents : Aesthetics in the Museum and in the Courthouse -- East side, west side all around the town (and nation) -- The case for coherence -- Aesthetics at any price opr no aesthetics at all -- The case for legal aesthetics -- Aesthetics and the Legal System -- The swinging pendulum -- A blessed union? -- A return to first principles -- Legal Aesthetics and legal institutions -- Icons and Aliens -- A format for aesthetics controversies -- The aesthetics impulse: Beauty as a nonstarter -- Aesthetics and Process Values -- Legal language and lay language -- Process and end-state values: Pathways to accommodation -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index ; Discusses issues surrounding the daily war being fought in cities across the country--developmental change and business growth versus historic preservation. Can there be a meeting of the minds beween those who strive to preserve our environment and historical landmarks and those who continue to try to meet the needs of a changing society? publisher's promotional materials laid in, associated with a Kiwanis Club presentation to Memphis area Law alumni ; SIGNED letter to attorney Richard W. Foster from the author with comments upon the city of Memphis, laid-in with envelope ; John Costinis was dean of the Vanderbilt Law School who previously taught in the urban design, historic preservation and property fields on the law faculties of New York University and Illinois. A frequent contributor of essays on design and land use topics to legal and lay publications, Costonis was also the author of Space Adrift, Landmark Preservation and the Marketplace, a seminal study of the use of incentive zoning to finance the preservation of endangered urban landmarks. ; Allan Jacobs was was a professor of environmental design, University of California at Berkeley and the former director of planning, Department of City Planning, San Francisco ; includes discussions about the Zucchini on Park Avenue, East Side buildings on Manhattan's West Side, Billboards along a scenic Arizona highway, Sodium vapor lamps in downtown Bronxville, An international style tower atop the Beaux Arts Grand Central Terminal, a Con Ed pumping station on Storm King Mountain, the Transamerica Building in San Francisco, McDonald's Speedee Service Drive-in, Goodyear Airdock, Isaac I Rice Mansion, Upper East Side Historic District, ; inlcudes numerous New Yorker cartoons and black and white photographs ; FINE/FINE. Signed by Author(s). Book.