Tamara Glenny (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No missing or clipped pages. Spine is a little curled. Front cover and pages are clean. Very slight soiling and speckles of dirt on the back cover. Slight wear to edges of covers and spine. The magazine will be backed with cardboard and carefully packed in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Overrated Masterpieces: In a magically comical (and strangely sad) tour de force, one of America's greatest novelists, fed up with the 'red rant of unearned praise,' compiles a highly personal list of sacred cows unworthy of their status--from Leonardo's you-know-what to Fred Astaire's twinkling toes--lines them up, takes aim, and knocks them down. Hey, there's nothing so convincing as an opinion." -- by Stanley Elkin; "The Last Belle of Beaumont: One of Texas's own First Ladies tells the flamboyant Texas-style tales of W.P.H., Miss ida, and Mamie, the eccentric and colorful inhabitants of the McFaddin-Ward House in Beaumont, Texas" by Liz Carpenter; "Point of Views: Cape Canaille--a cliff in Provence that looms over a tiny fishing village--has been drawing painters to their easels for 150 years. A poet who lived there takes the measure of the results." by Henry Cole; "In the House of Orange: The story of Het Loo, the Dutch royal retreat in which the theatrical splendors of the palace of Versailles met the bourgeois comforts and values of the good burghers of Amsterdam" by Tamara Glenny; "High-Wire Act: Is Thomas Krens, the Guggenheim's ambitious director, a madman who must be stopped or a visionary who is redefining the concept of a museum as we know it?" by Geraldine Norman; "Field of Dreams: A Special Section: Our correspondents around the country, armed with whatever was in their piggy banks, provide the complete summer survival guidde to flea marketing in America"; "International Report: A legal crackdown in Japan and its echoes elsewhere" by Geraldine Norman; "Value Judgments: Will the real Southern sideboard please stand up?" by Emyl Jenkins; "Critic's Notebook: Was surrealist Max Ernst really any good?" by Hilton Kramer; "Inside Story: Man Ray's mirrored look at America's avant-garde" by Hugh Kenner; "Notes from the Editor"; "Contributors"; "Letters"; "Sketchbook" edited by Robert Kenner; "Openings"; "The Market"; "In the Galleries: Nature studies: from cozy to comic" edited by Jed Perl; "Books"; "Queries"; and "Credits".

Card Covers. Condition: Fine. First Thus. New book, unmarked and unread.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No clipped or missing pages. Pages are clean, unmarked and undamaged. Several small marks or spots on the back cover. Front cover is clean with slight rubbing. The upper right corner of the front cover is lightly creased. Slight wear to edges of covers and spine. The magazine will be packed with a backing card, bubble-wrapped and shipped in a sturdy, flat box to ensure safe transit. This issue includes: "Shifting Shadows" (Edward S. Curtis dedicated twenty-five years to photographing vanishing Indian tribes, yet today he's often branded a racist. The debate rages on: was he a huckster or an artist of genius?) by Charles Fergus; "Out of the Ashes" (Berlin's summer palace of Schloss Charlottenburg, the Prussian kings' answer to Versailles and a monument to the art of the baroque, was burned out in the 1943 air raids that devastated the city. Now, restored and reborn, it lives again) by Tamara Glenny; "Mystery of Mickey Mouse" (America's greatest writer (and sometimes cartoonist) analyzes American popular culture's greatest icon--the little animated rodent that could--and finds that "It's all in the ears") by John Updike; "A Delft Touch" (In the seventeenth century, the Dutch city of Delft gave birth not only to one of history's greatest painters, Jan Vermeer, but also to a kind of earthenware that is unparalleled for the refined artistry of its painted decorations) by Lorraine Glennon; "How to Paint an Old Master" (Christian Goller, the world's youngest old master, shares for the first time some of the tricks of his trade) by John Dornberg; "Tender Buttons" (Buttons have been used for thousands of years and made with every decorative technique ever invented, using every material from abalone to zinc. Button lovers for twenty-five years, the owners of New York's Tender Buttons share their passion for these little collectibles) by Diana Epstein and Millicent Safro; plus "International Report" (Masterpieces at bargain prices?) by Geraldine Norman; "Value Judgments" (Close calls and pitfalls in the antiques marketplace) by Emyl Jenkins; "Critic's Notebook" (Thinking about Russia) by Hilton Kramer; "Inside Story" (How did artists digest the new vegetables of the new world?) by Hugh Kenner; "Notes from the Editor"; "Contributors"; "Letters"; "Sketchbook" edited by Robert Kenner; "Openings"; "The Market"; "In the Galleries" (Developing imaginations) edited by Jed Perl; "Books"; "Queries"; and "Credits".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, in very good condition. Jacket is slightly sunned and scuffed. Edges are creased and nicked. Page block head is lightly blemished. Boards are clean, binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

Hardcover; First Printing. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First American Edition. First American edition, minor shelfwear in a protected DJ.

Softcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in wrappers. Crease at rear panel. ; 9.40 X 6.50 X 1.40 inches; 280 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition stated. ; 278 pages.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. 278 pages in very good condition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Previous owner's signature on the ffep. Quarterbound in black cloth and black paper with silver titles on the spine. Lightly bumped on the corners. Black and red dustjacket in very good condition with white and black titles. Lightly worn around the edges. Lightly scuffed on the back of the jacket. NPC. 1ST EDITION. VG/VG+. Book.