Published by University of Iowa Press (1997), Iowa City, IA, 1997
ISBN 10: 0877456003 ISBN 13: 9780877456001
First Edition
Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press. Very Good/Very Good. (1997). First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. Sm 4to., 181 pp. .
Published by First edition, published by University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, 1997., 1997
ISBN 10: 0877455961 ISBN 13: 9780877455967
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: USED_VERYGOOD. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good with very good dust jacket. Dust jacket is mildly bumped at spine tips, corners, and edges. Back free endpaper is slightly wrinkled. 179 pages.
Published by Iowa City: University of Iowa Press (1997)., 1997
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: USED_ASNEW. 1st Edition. First printing. 8vo. xiii, 281 pp. Original glossy pictorial wrappers. This is a tight, fine book.
Published by Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0877456054 ISBN 13: 9780877456056
Seller: a cool of books, Mastic, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First Edition. Fine book in a Fine DJ. Signed at the title page and dated in the year of publication and inscribed and signed with the author's first name on the dedication page.
Published by The University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0877455732 ISBN 13: 9780877455738
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
30.0 x 22.0cms, 192pp, b/w, duotone & colour illusts, very good hardback & dustwrapper The essays are: American destiny or manifest mythology, some historical considerations of the Western image: the American autochrome; the art of the cyanotype & the vanalous dream of John Metoyer; Americn symbolism, visions of spirituality & desire: masters of American pictorialism & the problem of Alfred Stieglitz: the conceptual songs of Jerry Spagnoli.
Published by Iowa City, IA: University Of Iowa Press, 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0877455732 ISBN 13: 9780877455738
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 191 pages. Published in 1997. Landmark monograph on subject. One of the most important photography books ever published in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Richard Hendel: Oversize-volume format. Brown cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by some of the greatest photographers of all time. Text by John Wood, one of the finest photography expert/scholars of our time. Notes to the Plates and extensive Bibliography appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents John Wood's "The Photographic Arts". A masterly and indispensable account. "This volume of essays deals with aspects of photography that have been neglected by John Wood's fellow historians. Although he has authored four previous books on the daguerreotype, he addresses oversights of his own, and discusses the subject from a different vantage than that employed by his colleagues. In his essay on European Pictorialism, he appraises the work of several undeservedly obscure masters of the craft, and disputes the nature of Alfred Stieglitz's legacy. Included in this seminal work are essays on the American daguerreotype, contemporary daguerreotypy, the American autochrome, the art of the cyanotype, and American symbolism in photography. Wood's fresh use of the diaries and journals of gold field miners and his penetrating vision of the near-extermination of indigenous peoples, "the American holocaust", enable him to contrast between the reality and the mythology manifested in the faces of the photographed participants. His equally ingenious view of the primary myth to which most of this work refers, the Grail Quest, leads him to some striking conclusions in the context of visions of spirituality and desire" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for John Wood and photography book collectors. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. 103 plates. Some of the greatest photographs the world will ever see. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN WOOD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0877455732. no.
Published by Iowa City IA. 1997. University Of Iowa Press / Studies In Theatre History & Culture series, 1997
ISBN 10: 0877455929 ISBN 13: 9780877455929
Seller: Chris Fessler, Bookseller, Howell, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. blue cloth hardcover ~ 4to ~ 4º (quarto). large book (10.5"x7"). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. remainder copy in fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. small black dot on bottom near spine, other edges clean. contents free of markings. looks new. like new. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). illustrated title pg. xiii+344p+ list of series titles. 16 pages of glossy full color photo & illustrations plates. b&w photos & illustrations throughout. appendix. notes. index. stage & screen. history of the theatre. dramaturgy. thespianism. mythology. folklore. shakespeare. elizabethan theatre. fairy tales. ~ Many ingenious theatrical worlds have been created for the fairy world of A Midsummer Night's Dream, from the baroque to the postmodern. This is the quintessential play for understanding the ways in which scenery, costumes, music, lighting, and playing spaces affect our experience of Shakespeare. A Midsummer Night's Dream also proves to be extraordinarily responsive to the cultural winds of each era. In his richly detailed, beautifully illustrated history of Shakespeare's most popular play~the first comprehensive study of A Midsummer Night's Dream in the theatre~Gary Jay Williams covers four hundred years of landmark productions in Europe, the United States, and Canada as well as important opera, dance, and film adaptations. Williams shows how the visual and musical vocabularies of production can be read as cultural texts and how these mediative texts determine this play's available meanings from generation to generation. His account, then, is the story of our imaginative and astonishing uses of Shakespeare's play. Many famous theatre artists have been drawn to this play, and many of their productions have been turning points in theatre history. Williams offers detailed theatrical and cultural analyses of the productions of David Garrick, Ludwig Tieck, Elizabeth Vestris, Charles Kean, Harley Granville~Barker, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Max Reinhardt, Peter Brook, Liviu Ciulei, and other artists. His engaging, intelligent study will be invaluable to scholars and teachers of Shakespeare and theatre history and to professional directors, designers, critics, and actors.
Published by University of Iowa Press Iowa City 1997, 1997
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st ed. thus softback with stiff wrappers As New large octavo xiv + 131pp., b/w pls., plans, notes, bibliog., index, The Railway station as a residence in rural America.
Published by University of Iowa Press Iowa City, 1997,, 1997
ISBN 10: 0877455929 ISBN 13: 9780877455929
Seller: Antiquariat Mercurius, Köln, Germany
Condition: UNSPECIFIED. 344 S., OLn. (Hardcover), OU, gr. 8°. Zustand: gut - good condition.Gewicht: 1200 g.
Published by Iowa City, IA: University Of Iowa Press, 1997, 1997
ISBN 10: 0877455732 ISBN 13: 9780877455738
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 191 pages. Published in 1997. Landmark monograph on subject. One of the most important photography books ever published in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Richard Hendel: Oversize-volume format. Brown cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by some of the greatest photographers of all time. Text by John Wood, one of the finest photography expert/scholars of our time. Notes to the Plates and extensive Bibliography appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents John Wood's "The Photographic Arts". A masterly and indispensable account. "This volume of essays deals with aspects of photography that have been neglected by John Wood's fellow historians. Although he has authored four previous books on the daguerreotype, he addresses oversights of his own, and discusses the subject from a different vantage than that employed by his colleagues. In his essay on European Pictorialism, he appraises the work of several undeservedly obscure masters of the craft, and disputes the nature of Alfred Stieglitz's legacy. Included in this seminal work are essays on the American daguerreotype, contemporary daguerreotypy, the American autochrome, the art of the cyanotype, and American symbolism in photography. Wood's fresh use of the diaries and journals of gold field miners and his penetrating vision of the near-extermination of indigenous peoples, "the American holocaust", enable him to contrast between the reality and the mythology manifested in the faces of the photographed participants. His equally ingenious view of the primary myth to which most of this work refers, the Grail Quest, leads him to some striking conclusions in the context of visions of spirituality and desire" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for John Wood and photography book collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black fountain pen on the front free endpaper by the author: "For Martha Schneider, a dear and special friend, with affection and regard, John Wood". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, who is named, is one of the most important figures in contemporary art photography. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is the best such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 103 plates. Some of the greatest photographs the world will ever see. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN WOOD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0877455732. Signed by Author.