Search Results: Authors starting with S from Charles Lewis Best Booksellers

Cininnati: Cininnati Art Galleries, 2007. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No . Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, unpaginated; 1451 lots. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Their webpage notes: "Cincinnati Art Galleries, established in 1984, is a fine art gallery specializing in American and European paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries. Located in the heart of the business district in downtown Cincinnati, the gallery offers exceptional works of art in a variety of price ranges. Our inventory represents many styles and schools of art including Western, Impressionist, Taos, Hudson River, Regionalist, Tonalist, Modernist and abstract works."

Journal. Fine/No Dust Jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 66, indexed. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Please request a scan of the Table of Contents

Napa, California: Gregory Saffell, 1990. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No . Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 74 w/ artist index. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Features: Theodpre Wores, Robert Gonzales, A, Sheldon Pennoyer, John Grillo. ... When the San Francisco School of Design opened in 1874, Wores was one of the first pupils to enroll. After one year he continued his art education at the Royal Academy in Munich where he spent six years. He also painted with William Merritt Chase and Frank Duveneck. Wores returned to San Francisco in 1881. He went to Japan for two extended visits and had successful exhibitions of his Japanese paintings in New York City and London, where he became friends with James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Oscar Wilde. He visited Hawaii and Samoa in 1901-1902 and established a home in San Francisco about 1906. He visited Hawaii for… Read More

Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1948. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy octavo, (17cm/7inches), full gilt-embossed oxford-blue cloth w/ dust jacket, pp. 179. Illustrated with pen & ink vignettes by Kathleen Chesley Walker.. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... James Clifford Safley, (1894-1953), was the managing editor of the San Diego Union, and also wrote The Country Newspaper and its Operation (1930) and Mexican Vistas, (1952 ) He died in a plane crash near Monterey, Mexico in 1953 age 59. 

Paris: Telerama, circa 1995. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [30cm/12in], reliure paperback avec couvertures illustrées, pp. 98. Entièrement illustré avec demi-teintes b-w, plaques de couleurs et publicités. en français. N'hésitez pas à vous renseigner sur les détails et / ou des photographies supplémentaires.

La Verne, Calfornia: California Almanac Company, 1975. Hardcover. Fair Condition Library Stamps/No . Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full pictorial cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 384, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ...

Albuquerque: Calvin Horn, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed maroon-coloured cloth w/ mylar-protected dust jacket, pp.300, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. 

Tucson & New Haven: University of Arizona & Yale, 2006. First Impression. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [31cm/12inches], full blind-stamped black cloth with mylar-protectect dust jacket, pp.192. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Foreward by John Szarkowski and Amy Rule. Inscribed by Harry Callahan's wife, Eleanor and daughter Barbara, both of whom were germane to the production of the book. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Callahan left almost no written records—no diaries, letters, scrapbooks or teaching notes. His technical photographic method was to go out almost every morning, walk through the city he lived in and take numerous pictures. He then spent almost every afternoon making proof prints of that day's best negatives. Yet, for all his photographic activity, Callahan, at his own estimation, produced no more than half a dozen final images a year. He photographed his wife and… Read More

New York: Vanguard Press, 1956. Hardcover. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [26.625cm/10.25inches], full gilt-embossed kohl-blue cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 229, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones &ct. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Kirus Reviews noted: "An art book of impressive dimensions is the outcome of fine teamwork between M. Samivel, a French documentary film-maker, and Michel Audrain, a photographer. Though some of the pictures are Samivel's, most by far are Audrain's and with the author's incisive text, they present ancient Egypt in a new perspective. In his forty page essay and annotations for the plates, Samivel covers the reaches of Nile civilization from the delta and the pyramids to Abu Simbel and the second cataract and imbues Egyptology with his own well thought out and original theories. For example, his own attitude towards the spiritual value of mountains enables him to say convincingly that the pyramids were… Read More

Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990. Paperback. In quite good condition.. Octavo, [22.5cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp.196, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... RJanet R. Fireman, Chief Curator of History, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County noted in Ith San Diego Historical Society Quarterly, -(Winter 1992, Volume 38, Number 1): "Following the Seven Years’ War, military reorganization in North America was high on the Spanish king’s administrative priority list. Attention was addressed toward enhancement of the military in New Spain, and particularly along the northern frontier of what by then had become Spain’s richest American colony. East of the Mississippi, Great Britain’s very presence offered one threat to the Southwest. From within, some Indian populations attacked Spanish property and persons. Commercially driven British… Read More

London: Herbert Jenkins, circa 1944. First Impression. hardcover. In quite good condition.. Demy Octavo, [19.25cm/7.5inches], full ebony-embossed cordite-orange cloth sans dust jacket, pp. 190. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. .

Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Galleries, 2000. First Impression. Paperbound. New/No Dust Jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. . Fully illustrated with colour and b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Albert Robert Valentien (1862–1925) was an American painter, botanical artist, and ceramic artist. He is best known for his work as the chief ceramics decorator at Rookwood Pottery, and for his watercolor paintings of botanical subjects. In 1908, he accepted a commission from philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps to illustrate the botanical diversity of California. Over the next ten years, he produced approximately 1200 watercolor "plant portraits" of native California wildflowers, grasses, ferns, and trees.

Cyberspace: Createspace, 2016. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Octavo, [23cm/9inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 208, indexed. Fully Illustrated with b-w halftones, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... The San Diego Botanic Garden, formerly Quail Botanical Gardens, is a botanical garden in Encinitas, California, United States. At 37 acres, the garden includes rare bamboo groves, desert gardens, a tropical rainforest, California native plants, Mediterranean climate landscapes, and a subtropical fruit garden. The gardens are open to the public daily. The name of the facility was changed in 2009 to better reflect the garden's status as a regional attraction.

Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Galleries, 1992. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, 853 lots. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Rookwood Pottery is an American ceramics company that was founded in 1880 and closed in 1967, before being revived in 2004. It was initially located in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has now returned there. In its heyday from about 1890 to the 1929 Crash. it was an important manufacturer, mostly of decorative American art pottery made in several fashionable styles and types of pieces.

Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Galleries, 1995. Paperbound. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Demy folio, [30cm/12inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, 936 lots. Fully illustrated with colour plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Rookwood Pottery is an American ceramics company that was founded in 1880 and closed in 1967, before being revived in 2004. It was initially located in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has now returned there. In its heyday from about 1890 to the 1929 Crash. it was an important manufacturer, mostly of decorative American art pottery made in several fashionable styles and types of pieces.

Leesburg, Virginia: Aviation Heritage, 1991. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 66. Fully illustrated with colour plates, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Leesburg, Virginia: Aviation Heritage, 1991. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 74. Fully illustrated with colour plates, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Leesburg, Virginia: Aviation Heritage, 1992. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 72. Fully illustrated with colour plates, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Leesburg, Virginia: Aviation Heritage, 1992. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp.74 . Fully illustrated with colour plates, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.

Leesburg, Virginia: Aviation Heritage, 1991. First Impression. Paperback. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 66. Fully illustrated with colour plates, &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs.