Fred Whiting (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. TELEVISION NEWS HANDBOOK. Edited by Baskett Mosse and Fred Whiting. Published by Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1953. 8vo size softback in titled green wrappers, the covers with wear to upper 1" of spine & adjoining areas of covers, o/w in reasonable condition though with overall lite wear & use & fading. 112-pages of text reasonably clean & tight but some wear & use, some corner's folded over, upper corner tip of title-page clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Paper-covered boards, cloth spine. Reprint; copyright 1898. "' Book Two,' while designed to follow and complete the instruction begun in 'Book One,' is in itself quite complete, beginning, as it does, with the simplest tonal and rhythmic elements. . . Special atttention has been given to the treatment of the minor keys, or modes. . ." Light cover wear and age-browning to boards; otherwise clean and tight.

pamphlet. Condition: very good. First. (from the Heidelberg Eye Clinic). 6 illustrations. 22 pages, tall slim 8vo, original printed wrappers. New York: Putnam, 1890. First Edition. Very Good. Presentation by the author on the front cover.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. George Wright; Cecil Aldin; Archibald Thorburn; Lewis Baumer; John Hassall; C.E. Brock; Arthur Rackham; Edwin Noble; Tom Browne; G.D. Amour; Fred Whiting; Will Owen; R.C. Carter; Lancelot Speed; J. Michael Brown; Cuthbert Bradley; Thomas Blinks, et al (illustrator). 1st Edition. from the Androssan estate of Robert Montgomery Scott, son of Hope Montgomery Scott. inscribed to Luca and Frank from Mother 1916. unpaginated 104 pp. slight foxing and normal aging. hessian cloth with color illustration and black titles. square and tight w ribbon ties.

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book analyzes how the lives of women are depicted and defined within traditional Western art. From the Renaissance through to the present day, it examines how established ideas of gender have influenced artistic representation and left a legacy of images that shape and limit how we view women. Through close analysis of literature, the author explores the ways in which this portrayal has contributed to the historical and cultural positioning of women, leading to a provocative re-examination of canonical works and the conventions of art criticism. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Rockwell, Norman (cover); Whitmore, Coby; Fleming, Bill; Ludekens, Fred; Kritcher, Larry; Meyers, Robert; George, Edwin; (illustrator). First Edition. 116 pages. Features: Great Rockwell cover illustration of excavator attempting to dig up kid's baseball field in a vacant lot; Our daughter had polio - Kay Reiten had to be treated in an iron lung; Don't sneer at the catfish - great article on the popular catfish with photo of Leon Bishop and Carl Yarbrough holding huge catfish they hauled out of the Tallahatchie River, near Abbeville, MS, with their bare hands; They Hit Red China Where it Hurt - over 4,000 Chinese Communists surrendered in Korea, allowing them a chance to explain why they swallowed Communism, and how Mao's tyranny can be defeated; The Republicans Muffed the Ball in Dixie - where are the Eisenhower voters now?; TV's Shoestring Surprise - The Johns Hopkins Science Review has rung up one of TV's longest hit runs; Colony of the Outcast Kings - color-photo feature of Estoril, Portugal, now a swanky resort; Never Marry an Actress - they may be delightful on stage, but around the house they're vain, insincere, and obsessed with themselves. Fiction: Shackles for the Groom; The Sitting Duck; The Seeds of Hate; The Hard-Luck Type; The Mask of Alexander (part 2 of 6); Invitation to Murder (part 6 of 8). Ads: Elegant one-page color-photo ad for Packard cars; Nice color-photo ad for a cream-colored Cadillac convertible; Two-page ad for Du Pont's nylon for truck tires features photos of Leonard Bisgrove of Red Star Express in Auburn, NY, and Edward Benkert of Fairmount Foundry in Philadelphia; Gorgeous color-photo ad for the 1954 Chrysler New Yorker De Luxe Newport (blue); Champion Spark Plug ad features photo and endorsement by racer Jim Kimberly; Nice two-page color ad for the Scenicruiser by Greyhound bus lines; Nice color Chevrolet ad features an off-white Bel Air Convertible plus an inset color photo of a Corvette convertible, "First of the Dream Cars to Come True!"; Fascinating one-page photo ad by the Pan-American Coffee Bureau of a trucker enjoying a 'Coffee-break', suggesting this campaign may have introduced this term now used throughout North America; Prest-O-Lite battery ad features photo of footballer Doak Walker of the Detroit Lions; Sweet half-page vintage color ad for Dairy Queen Malts and Shakes; Color ad for the Northern Pacific Railway's Vista Dome/North Coast Limited service; Back page Camel cigarette ad features photos of John W. Fincher of Cairo, GA, A.R. Schneidewind of Upper Montclair, NJ, Mrs. B. Collins Edgar of Lookout Mountain, TN, W.C. Fowler of Dallas, TX, J. Russell Fraser of Detroit, Mrs. Katharine B. Coelsch of The Dalles, OR, and Evelyn Terjesen of New York City. Above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy reference copy of this great vintage issue.

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Clarke, W.W.; Wettersten, Harold; Neilson, J.A. (illustrator). First Edition. 32 pages. Features: Interesting photos of unusual work and play inside front cover; Public demands that Congress suppress (Radio) Pirates of the Air; The Divine Comedy of Newspapers; The Rise of an American Race - What Effect Will the 'Old Stock' Have on the People of the Future?; With General Gouraud in the Land of the Crusaders; The Birthplace of the Quaker Poet - the Whittier homestead; Henry Ford's Page - the American home, in its economic aspect, is a business proposition; Editorials - Merchant Mr. Nathan Strauss and his allegation of "the campaign of slander against the Jewish People", the Hall-Mills murder trial, Wooden houses in Britain; The Adventure of Mrs. Farbman; The Cheapest Thing in Europe - Human Beings; Fantastic photo-illustrated centerfold illustrates Where Santa Claus Lives and What He Does; The Boston Tea Party's Last Survivor - David Kennison died at the age of 115; Who Discovered America?; How Victoria Trained King Edward VII - the Queen thought Prince Albert the model of perfection, but Young Wales did not respond. Chats with Office Callers; Q & A; I Read in the Papers - Senator William E. Borah rated highly by Chinese, Iowa Women can now be Legislators, Newspapers train convicts in crime, Dayton, OH druggists rid their stores of salacious and suggestive magazines. Somewhat above-average wear. Unmarked. A worthy vintage copy.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. WHITING, Fred (illustrator). c.1902. Black and White watercolour 28.5 x 17cms by Fred Whiting, from a sketch by Lionel James. It depicts three Boer riflemen pinned down by a patrol of South African Constabulary and unable to reach their horses. They enlisted the aid of a nine year old girl to bring the animals to them, in the belief that the constabulary would not fire at her. The ruse was successful and the Boers escaped.