Biographical Essay (77 results)
Ernie's War - The Best Of Ernie Pyle's World War Ii Dispatches
Pyle, Ernie; Edited with a biographical essay by Nichols, David; Foreword by Terkel, Studs
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.
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Seller: Mike's Baseball Books, Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.Mike's Baseball Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. In an effort to grow Lou Gehrig's star (today we would call it His Brand), pioneering sports agent Christy Walsh arranged for Lou's tale of baseball greatness to syndicate in newspapers across the country. Until now, those columns were largely forgotten and lost…to history. Here you have those accounts followed by an insight biographical essay by historian Alan Graf. Both the non price clipped Dust Jacket and the book are in very good condition. I have around 215 baseball biographies and more than 90 books on Yankee players and teams in stock. Discounts are available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.
Rembrandt Peale 1778-1860 A Life In The Arts
Hevner, Carol Eaton; Biographical Essay by Lillian B. Miller
Language: English
Published by Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1985
- Softcover
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
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Softcover. Condition: Fine+. An Exhibition at The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, February 22, 1985 to June 28, 1985.
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Seller: Virtuous Volumes et al., Wilson, WI, U.S.A.Virtuous Volumes et al.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Price Cl'd, Else Very Good. 2nd Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Price Cl'd, Else Very Good. 2nd Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Corner tips lightly rubbed. D/j has top and bottom front flap corners clipped, light edgewear. Brown cloth with gold lettering on spine. 3…66 pages.
FROM THE DIARIES OF FELIX FRANKFURTER
Frankfurter, Felix; with a biographical essay and notes by Joseph P. Lash,assisted by Jonathan Lash
Language: English
Published by W. W. Norton & Company (1975), New York, NY, 1975
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Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.Riverow Bookshop
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Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/FR. First Printing. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company. G/FR. (1975). First Printing. Cloth w/DJ. REVIEW COPY. Has an inserted photograph that is indicated to be used in the publication. . 8vo., xiii, 366pp., tears in Dj, Dj rubbed, ink and pencil markings . Not Illustrated (illustrator).
Churchill the Life Triumphant: the Historical Record of Ninety Years
Grunwald, Henry Anatole (Biographical Essay) ; Dwight D Eisenhower, Introduction
Published by American Heritage, 1965
- Hardcover
Seller: Bookshop Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.Bookshop Baltimore
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fair. 144 pages. Clean inside, illustrated with photos. Boards are discolored and have age spots, spine cover has a one inch crack, corners bumped. Essay "Man of the Century" by Grunwald. Includes The Churchill Family Tree, Churchill in the military, As a Artist/Painter, As a Writer, Politician, etc.
AMERICA AND LEWIS HINE : Photographs 1904 to 1940
ROSENBLUM, Walter, Forward; ROSENBLUM, Naomi Biographical Notes; TRACHTENBERG, Alan Essay & ISREAL, Marvin Design
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Seller: Falls Bookstore, Readsboro, VT, U.S.A.Falls Bookstore
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Navy blue cloth binding with light blue p[rint on spine. Very Light wear at spine ends. Light grey endpapers. Light black rubbing at top area of hinge in front endpapers. Tight, sound and otherwise unmarked. 142 pages including bibliography. Book publishe…d in conjunction with " Lewis Hine Retrospective" by the Brooklyn Museum, 1977. Dust Jacket Has closed tear in top corner of rear cover. and small tear on top edge. Wear at both spione ends with small divot on top. Ligght tatter on top edge of front panel near foredge. In mylar and not price-clipped ($22.50)_. Slightly larger than standard book, S&H may be adjusted. Photo - Illustrated (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Austin [TX] & London: Published for the Texas Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press, 1973., 1973
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
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First edition (not stated). xxvi, 198 pages. Hardcover: H 22.25cm x L 15.5cm. Orange dust jacket; some color fading to spine; nicks/scuffs, short tears, and some bumping at edges; front flap is not price-clipped. Muted yellow cloth. Light foxing to text block edges and endpapers; interior leaves are mostly clean. Binding is firm…. ISBN 0292750072.
The Death and Letters of Alice James
Yeazell, Ruth B.; Ruth B. Yeazell (Selected Correspondence, Edited, with a Biographical Essay, by)
Language: English
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley & Los Angeles, CA, London, 1981
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Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A.gearbooks
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Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 214 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Henry Vaux (Cover Illustration); George Mackie (Jacket Design) (illustrator).
America & Lewis Hine: Photographs 1904-1940
Hine, Lewis W.; Rosenblum, Walter (Foreword by), and Rosenblum, Naomi (Biographical Notes by), and Trachtenberg, Alan (Essay by)
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Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Maria, CA, U.S.A.LEFT COAST BOOKS
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 142 pages, illustrations; 25 x 30 cm. Design by Marvin Israel. Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Museum. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Previous owner's blind stamp/back flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Profusely illustrated. Another copy available. *** "A compas…sionate realist in the tradition of Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Hine had the rare gift of being able to transcend the assignments he received as a documentary photographer by investing the most topical subject with lasting human quality. Seventy years after they were made, his Ellis Island pictures are still intensely moving: the newly arrived immigrants caught in all their bewilderment-- uncertain as to whether they will even be admitted to the promised land. How bitterly ironic that this artist and social reformer, after devoting his life to working people, should end up as so many of his subjects did-- on a welfare line. Decades earlier, he had written: "For many years I have followed the procession of child workers winding through a thousand industrial communities from the canneries of Maine to the fields of Texas. I have heard their tragic stories, watched their cramped lives, and seen their fruitless struggles in the industrial game where the odds are all against them." Like Walt Whitman before him, Lewis Hine viewed his work and art as grounded in the fluid movements of everyday lives, of history, the present and the future, expressing with vividness and responsiveness the hope for America revived in a sense of great community, and democracy as a life of free and enriching communion." - Publisher. Size: Oblong.
Published by Frank Rehn Gallery, New York, 1961
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Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
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The Battle Of Spicheren August 6th, 1870, And The Events That Preceded It
Henderson, G. F. R. ; New Introduction & Biographical Essay About The Author by Duncan Rogers
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Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. New Edition. No dust jacket. ; Originally published in 1891 by Gale & Polden Ltd with the title The Battle Of Spicheren, August 6th, 1870, And The Events That Preceded It, A Study in Practical Tactics and War Training. ; 272 pages.
CHURCHILL: THE LIFE TRIUMPHANT - THE HISTORICAL RECORD OF NINETY YEARS. (WINSTON )
AMERICAN HERITAGE MAGAZINE & UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (COMPILED BY); GRUWALD, HENRY ANATOLE (BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY); EISENHOWER, DWIGHT D. (INTRODUCTION) AMERICAN CHURCHILL, WINSTON ABOUT)
Published by American Heritage Publishing Co. 1965 tp, NY, 1965
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Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, CHICO-CA, CA, U.S.A.WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL
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HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VERY GOOD Condition,; cover has large photo of Winston in dark bow tie. ; 14pg pages; picture history,well written text with large selection of pictures, white hard covers. Illustrated by UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL UPI Photos (illustrator).
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Seller: N. Fagin Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.N. Fagin Books
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1988. South America. University of Iowa, 246 p., very good -fine cloth and dust jacket still in original shrink wrap.
THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Edited, and with a biographical essay by Philip Van Doren Stern; With an Introduction, "Lincoln in His Writings," by Allan Nevins.
Published by The Modern Library, New York, 1940
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- First Edition
Seller: JBK Books, North Manchester, IN, U.S.A.JBK Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 863pp; Index. Blue cloth, gilt stamped; gilt lettering on red spine blocks. DJ front cover affixed to front pastedown; dj blurb affixed to front blank endpaper. Owner's name written in pencil on front endpaper: W.K. Bracken. Former college library volume with cu…stomary stamps and labels. Contents clean, tight, textually unmarked. DJ: By far the largest single-volume collection of Lincoln papers and the only one completely annotated for the guidance of the general reader.
Ernie's War: The Best of Ernie Pyles World War II Dispatches
David Nichols Edited with Biographical Essay Adn Foreword by Studs Terkel
Published by A Touchstone Book / Simon & Schuster, New York, 1987
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Seller: Blue Moon Books, Stevens Point, WI, U.S.A.Blue Moon Books
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Near fine condition. Trade paperback. Former store price sticker on free front endpaper. Very nice copy.
Published by Frank Rehn Gallery, New York, 1961
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Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Slight foxing inside the front cover and on the title page. ; Original wrappers.
Language: English
Published by The Greystone Press, 1951
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Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Rubbed. Library stamp on inside front cover. No DJ. Clean, no writing, no marks.
Published by Frank Rehn Gallery, New York, 1967
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Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.Willis Monie-Books, ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. No Dust Jacket. Slight foxing inside covers and on opposite pages. ; Two items including May 1970 Supplement "Consisting of Some Works 1968-1970." original wrappers, 64 & 16 pages.
America & Lewis Hine: Photographs, 1904-1940
Hine, Lewis W.; Rosenblum, Walter (Foreword by), and Rosenblum, Naomi (Biographical Notes by), and Trachtenberg, Alan (Essay by)
Language: English
Published by Brooklyn Museum in association with Aperture, New York, 1977
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Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 142 pages, illustrations; 25 x 30 cm. Museum Edition. Design by Marvin Israel. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Profusely illustrated. *** "A compassionate realist in the tradition of Stephen Crane and Theodore Dreiser, Lewis Hine had the rare gift of being able to transcen…d the assignments he received as a documentary photographer by investing the most topical subject with lasting human quality. Seventy years after they were made, his Ellis Island pictures are still intensely moving: the newly arrived immigrants caught in all their bewilderment-- uncertain as to whether they will even be admitted to the promised land. How bitterly ironic that this artist and social reformer, after devoting his life to working people, should end up as so many of his subjects did-- on a welfare line. Decades earlier, he had written: 'For many years I have followed the procession of child workers winding through a thousand industrial communities from the canneries of Maine to the fields of Texas. I have heard their tragic stories, watched their cramped lives, and seen their fruitless struggles in the industrial game where the odds are all against them.' Like Walt Whitman before him, Lewis Hine viewed his work and art as grounded in the fluid movements of everyday lives, of history, the present and the future, expressing with vividness and responsiveness the hope for America revived in a sense of great community, and democracy as a life of free and enriching communion." - Publisher. Size: Oblong.
More imagesThe Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln, Abraham; Philip Van Doren Stern, editor and Biographical Essay; Allan Nevins, Introduction
Language: English
Published by The Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1942
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- First Edition
Seller: Mattabesset Books, Kensington, CT, U.S.A.Mattabesset Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The Modern Library, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1942. First (1st) Printing of the "First Modern Library Giant Edition" (stated at top of copyright page). Very Good+ condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is clean, lightly tanned, tight, straight and square with no mark…ings of any kind. The Binding is full blue cloth, Modern Library Toledano Binding Style G4, colors uniform but a little dulled at the spine, unmarked off-white endpapers, and corners bumped, with abrasion wear to the top edge. No Jacket. See the photos. xxvi, 683 pages. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2". Included are letters, addresses, orders, memoranda and other writings from 1832 to April 14, 1865. Edited with a Biographical Essay by Philip Van Doren Stern, and an Introduction by Allan Nevins. NOTE: This is a heavy book, weighing 842 grams / 29.7 ounces, and, when packaged, may require extra postage for international shipment.
Ray Walker.Royal Festival Hall 17 May-16 June 1985
Jones, Mike and Anna Walker, biographical essay; Desmond Rochfort, et alia, commentary
Published by The Ray Walker Memorial Committe, 1985
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Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.Midtown Scholar Bookstore
Contact seller5-star sellerpaperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.
The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln, Abraham (life and Writings of); Stern, Philip Van Doren (edited, with Biographical Essay by); Nevins, Allan (with Intro. "Lincoln in His Writings', by)
Published by Random House, NY, 1940
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- First Edition
Seller: Clausen Books, RMABA, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.Clausen Books, RMABA
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Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. First Printing. Retired library copy, usual stamps, stickers, and labels; Some light rippling to top edge of ffep, else textblock is clean and tight. Maroon top page edges. Light blue cloth in great condition, some faint sun toning to spine and library label on foot. 863pp., including index. Size: 8…vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Frontispiece (illustrator). Ex-Library Hardcover.
Ray Walker. Published by the Ray Walker Memorial Committee for an exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall 17 May - 16 June 1985
Jones, Mike and Anna Walker, biographical essay; Desmond Rochfort, et alia, commentary
Published by The Ray Walker Memorial Committee, London, 1985
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- First Edition
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Bolerium Books Inc.
Contact seller5-star sellerPaperback. 99p., various running texts illustrated with colorphoto and b&w exhibit and site photography, softbound in 8x8 inch color wraps, tail of spine is scuffed one inch otherwise slight general edgewear, partially erased seller's marking on the first blank, a good copy.
Mody Boatright, Folklorist - A Collection of Essays
Speck, Ernest B - Edited and with an Introduction by - Biographical Essay by Harry H Ransom
Language: English
Published by The University of Texas Press for The Texas Folklore Society, Austin, 1973
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- First Edition
Seller: Wildside Books, Eastbourne, United KingdomWildside Books
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo, i-xxiii, 198 pp, portrait frontispiece. A very good copy in a dust wrapper with some small tears.
Published by Jackson, MS: Mississippi Museum of Art, 1988., 1988
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star seller44 pages. Paperback: H 27.75cm x L 21.5cm. Paper covers lightly rubbed with slight scuffing at edges. Interior pages are bright and clean. Binding retains some crispness. Laid-in at rear is Mississippi Museum of Art "Perspective" newsletter for January-February 1988 which promotes the upcoming Rockwell exhibition.
Published by Boston, MA: Boston Book and Art, Publisher, 1971., 1971
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
Contact seller5-star seller134 pages. Hardcover: H 21.5cm x L 21.25cm. White dust jacket lightly soiled, some nicks and a few short closed tears at edges, 2cm deep chip at spine head shallowly extending into adjacent panel corners, slight residue from removed price sticker at front flap's top right corner; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Bl…ack cloth with dark orange stamped lettering, tearing and slight curling at spine head. Interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. Else a very good- copy in a good+ dust jacket. With b/w illustrations and color plates, essay "Calder" by James Johnson Sweeney (pages 5-10), biographical chronology titled "The Artist, The Work" by Daniel Lelong (pages 11-28), "Sculptures, Mobiles, Stabiles, Gouaches" (pages 29-131). Sweeney was curator of the Museum of Modern Art from 1935 to 1946 and director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from 1952 to 1960. ISBN 084352023X.
From the Diaries of Felix Frankfurter
FRANKFURTER, Felix, with a biographical essay and notes by Joseph P. Lash
Published by W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1975
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second printing. 366pp. Faint dampstain on rear board near the bottom edge, very good in a good only price-clipped dust jacket with corresponding dampstain.
Language: English
Published by The Easton Press, Norwalk, CT, 2000
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Full Leather. Condition: As New. Collector's Edition. unused. Nichols, David - Edited with Biographical Essay (illustrator).
A Celebration of Birds. C. G. Finch-Davies's final album of southern African birds
Finch-Davies, Claude Gibney (illustrations and explanations), and Alan Kemp (biographical essay)
Language: English
Published by (Johannesburg: Natural History Books, 1990) 0620148195, 1990
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Seller: Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA, Gqeberha, South AfricaChristison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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Subtitle reads: Facsimile reproduction of 21 coloured paintings, each accompanied by a page of hand-written notes, covering the period 28 March 1918 to 4 April 1920. Oblong 4to; original cream boards with lettering to spine; laminated pictorial dustwrapper and matching laminated pictorial slipcase; unpaginated (but pp. 95); colo…ur illustrations to rectos and author-artist's descriptive text in manuscript facsimile to facing versos. Occasional fox spot, else fine. "A Celebration of Birds is the showcase for C.G. Finch-Davies's final twenty-one paintings, and judging by the exquisite detail appearing in the finished works he was, without doubt, at the height of his artistic powers. Publication of the volume - in association with the British Museum (Natural History), London - is intended to perpetuate the memory of one of the world's truly gifted bird artists.".
