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- Softcover
Seller: Star Canyon Books, Woodland, CA, U.S.A.Star Canyon Books
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Softcover. HarperCollins Publishers. 1999. New York. Softcover. Quarto (large format). Like new. Fully illustrated in black/white and color. 254 pages.
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Published by HarperCollins, New York, 1999
- Hardcover
Seller: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.Vero Beach Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fine condition oversized medium brown boards with embossed front cover Snoopy illustration and black spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Conclusion and A Peanuts Chronology. Profusely illustrated with colo…r photographs, black-and-white Peanuts cartoons, color Peanuts cartoons and illustrated front and rear endpapers. "Peanuts: A Golden Celebration honors the momentous 50th anniversary of Charlie Brown and the gang with over 1,000 carefully selected strips that tell the story of Peanuts like no other book before. In Schulz's own words we learn how he came to create the world's most popular comic strip characters from nostalgic and sometimes painful memories of growing up - such as the agony of classroom Valentine exchange and the longing for a little red-haired girl. From the debut of Peanuts on October 2, 1950, to the golden jubilee, here are fifty years of the favorite episodes and the "firsts," such as the first time Lucy pulled the football away from Charlie Brown. Included are scenes from the beloved Charlie Brown television specials and the latest revival of the Broadway musical, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown. These are the strips and events that have made Peanuts an awesome phenomenon, appearing in 2,600 newspapers worldwide every day. Not bad for a round-headed kid called Charlie Brown. Let the celebration begin!" - from the inner front jacket flap. Schulz, Charles M. (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company [A Marc Jaffe Book], Boston, 1993
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.Ground Zero Books, Ltd.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. The format is approximately 10.125 inches by 10.25 inches. 238, [2] pages. Illustrations (many in color). The dust jacket is illustrated. A tour of the missions of North America, from Florida to California, offers a description of the mon…uments' architectural features, explains the religious context of the buildings, and provides a history of the friars who built them. The contents include Introduction, The Religious Mission, The Participants, The Architectural Mission and Along the Mission Frontier. There are illustrations (some in color). Map, Glossary. Appendix. Notes. and Bibliography. Roger George Kennedy (August 3, 1926 September 30, 2011) was an American polymath whose career included banking, television production, historical writing, and museum administration, the last as director of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, before the Bill Clinton administration selected him to head the National Park Service in 1993. Michael Freeman (born 1945 is a British author, photographer and journalist. The first book giving him title-credit as a photographer, was published in a Time-Life series called The World's Great Cities. Freeman has had a long working relationship with the Smithsonian magazine, and has photographed 40 stories between 1978 and 2008. One of his main specializations has been culture, architecture and archaeology, and he has photographed and written many books on these. The Spanish government and religious orders established missions to convert existing populations to Roman Catholicism. Missions were located adjacent to established native settlements that also provided labor for mission construction and maintenance. Some mission communities were near dispersed agrarian communities, while others were in the center of the most densely formed native settlements. At the core of every mission community, regardless of its size, was a church building as its spiritual center. Often beginning as no more than a temporary shelter from which to celebrate mass, the church building and later support structures evolved over time as the population of converts grew and resources for construction became available. The architectural styles of Spanish Colonial missions were influenced by those popular in Spain and Europe at that time Gothic, Baroque, Plateresque, Mudéjar, Churrigueresque, Neoclassicism but their application in the Americas cannot be fit easily into any specific stylistic category. The local context of available materials, labor, and technical expertise challenged the Spanish frontier builders to find the expertise to interpret their foreign cultural expression. As a result, mission architecture evolved into a fusion of imported and indigenous expressions that are unique to each mission and best understood through the analysis of various architectural elements. Michael Freeman (Photographer) (illustrator).
