Harrison Frederick Meeske (8 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine.

hardcover. Condition: Hardcover. Hardcover. Hardcover. Minor shelf-wear. Tight binding. Spine slightly cocked, some creasing on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed or inscribed and signed by all the principal contributors to the book: photographers Geoffrey Gross and Susan Piatt, Roderic H Blackburn who provides the text & Harrison Frederick Meeske who supplies the introduction. A touch of wear at the tips, NEAR FINE in like dust wrapper. A choice collectors copy. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Brown boards with gilt lettering on spine; brown and color pictorial dust jacket with yellow and white lettering; 240 pp., color illustrations throughout. "This lavishly-illustrated volume provides an unprecedented look at twenty-eight houses (plus eleven barns and other structures) built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Dutch colonists in the north-eastern United States, primarily in upstate New York and along the Hudson River Valley, on Long Island and Staten Island, and in New Jersey. An authoritative work - written by eminent expertse in the field - Dutch Colonial Homes in America explores the homes in their broader social context by focusing on the historical and religious forces of the times. This book is the first to investigate the meaning of the home and its aesthetics for the Dutch in America, and also the first to look at these homes as a form of art and craft and, importantly, the influence this form and these people had on the shape of the American house to come. The 200 spectacular new color photographs here are beautifully styled in a manner that recalls the paintings of Vermeer and evoke what might have been the ambiance of these homes hundreds of years ago." - dust jacket description. VG/VG (light shelf-wear to board edges. light, speckled foxing to upper textblock edge. pgs have light toning to edges, otherwise, clean & bright. dustjacket has scratches, foxing to interior edges).…

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

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. Condition: new.Hardcover. Brown boards with gilt lettering on spine; brown and color pictorial dust jacket with yellow and white lettering; 240 pp., color illustrations throughout. "This lavishly-illustrated volume provides an unprecedented look at twenty-eight houses (plus eleven barns and other structures) built in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by Dutch colonists in the north-eastern United States, primarily in upstate New York and along the Hudson River Valley, on Long Island and Staten Island, and in New Jersey. An authoritative work - written by eminent expertse in the field - Dutch Colonial Homes in America explores the homes in their broader social context by focusing on the historical and religious forces of the times. This book is the first to investigate the meaning of the home and its aesthetics for the Dutch in America, and also the first to look at these homes as a form of art and craft and, importantly, the influence this form and these people had on the shape of the American house to come. The 200 spectacular new color photographs here are beautifully styled in a manner that recalls the paintings of Vermeer and evoke what might have been the ambiance of these homes hundreds of years ago." - dust jacket description.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 240 pages. 11.75x9.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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