Lee Jean Gordon (41 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket.

Soft cover. 1st Edition. PO bookplate inside front cover. Clean, unmarked copy with some wear to corners and spine. Remains solid, workable reading copy. BP/Philly.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. ***SPRING CLEARANCE SALE*** 210 pages, illustrations (some colour), portrait; 26 cm. Edition of 4000 copies. Firm binding, clean text. Small red dot inked on flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. Age toning. *** Profusely illustrated with rarely-reproduced art. Stern was on the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1950 to his death in 1962. The majority of works are late-19th-century & early-twentieth-century French modernist works; sprinkling of American artists; also, an eclectic mix of ancient (including Egyptian) and nonwestern art. Size: 4to.

231pp. + colophon 4to Profusely illustrated in color and black and white Wrappers (Paperback, broche, rustica) Published on the occasion of two exhibits: Philadelphians and the China Trade, 1784-1844 and The Canton Connection: Ships, Captains and Cargoes Covers lightly rubbed else clean tight copy: VG 0-87633-060-x.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1984 Paperback, No former owner's name or marks. Text is clean, binding is strong. B&W and Color illustrations. Very slight rubber corners. Black illustrated Cover. **NO International and NO Expedited shipping available for this large, heavy book/ set.**.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. One of 4000 copies of the book were published. About 170 pages of black & white illustrations, 209 pages in all. A wide range of art, across countries, across time, across style. Wraps have a few very faint scratches, rubbing, and hint of edge toning. 7 1/2" x 10 1/4'.

Paperback. Condition: Good. some shelfwear/edgewear but still NICE! - may have remainder mark or previous owner's name Oversized.

Condition: near fine. pbk 4to 232pp profusely illustr light shelfwear to covers with a mild bump lower front prev owner's name neatly on half-title page otherwise a very good clean tight unmarked copy.

Softbound. Black wraps with color illustration and yellow lettering. 232 pp. with 270 color and bw illustrations. Catalogue from the silmultaneous exhibitions of July to September 1984 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Philadelphians and the China Trade, 1784-1844 and The Canton Connection: Ships, Captains and Cargoes. Preface by Anne d'Harnoncourt. With an introductory title essay by Jean Gordon Lee, an essay by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith (Philadelphia Displays "The Flowery Flag"), the extensive catalogue with each of the 270 items annotated, a section of abbreviations and bibliography, and an index of the families represented in the catalogue. The catalogue itself is organized by the family names: Biddle, Chew & Wilcocks, Cope, Eckfeldt, Mifflin, Morris, Rush, Sansom, Volans, Girard, Jenkins, and more. Included are items of silver, toys and games, porcelain, costumes and textiles, paintings of the sailing ships and portraiture, furniture, and more, much of it brought back by the family members from China to the US. Also includes. Several portraits of the family members; beautiful fans; ivory, tea caddies, lacquerware, etc. A very informative catalogue about an intriguing part of history. "Local merchants looked to China as an inexpensive producer of well-made, Western-style goods." The exhibition highlighed works of porcelain, silks, furniture, carvings and more, all commissioned by Philadelphians, beginning in the late 1700s. "Decorative arts made for Philadelphians are among the finest Chinese objects produced for export to America." VG- contents, clean and tight; light general shelf wear to covers and bookplate of well-known collector.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Small 4to, 232 pp, 270 items illustrated in the catalogue section, other illustrations, card covers a little rubbed but a very good copy. Published to accompany an exhibition at The Philadelphia Museum of Art.

dvd. Condition: Used - Good.

Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book and dust jacket in very solid, unmarked condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good+ softcover exhibition catalog featuring 192 pages of color and b/w reporoductions and photographs of sculpture, painting, ink on paper, silk, and more. Book is clean and uncreased, covers fresh, pages unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 232p. A large paperback book in very good condition. Half-inch closed tear at top of front cover. Edges lightly rubbed and creased. Previous seller's stam on first page; otherwise clean and tight. Published in conjunction with two separate art exhibitions. Measures approx. 11.5" x 9". Illustrated with plenty of photographs, mostly black and white but some in color.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Magazine. Octavo. 93pp. Printed wrappers. Rubbing with a crease along the rear spine fold, near fine. This issue features Robert Graves, James Kirkup, John Smith, Hardiman Scott, Brian Patten, Stewart Conn, Thomas Blackburn, Clive Sansom, and Ilsley Ingram. Additional contributors include Eddie Eainwright, Robin Lee, Robin Fulton, Bernard Saint, William Hayward, Lucien Stryk, Patience Tuckwell, Martin Booth, David H. W. Grubb, Gerda Mayer, Maureen Duffy, A.E. Dudley, Miriam Waddington, Jeremy Robinson, William Golightly, Steve Marsling, Gordon Symes, Paul Coltman, Eric W. White, John Hatfield, Maurice Carpenter, William Kean Seymour, Jean Overton Fuller, Alan Pearson, Ilsley Ingram, Edward Lucie-Smith, Raymond Durgnat, and John Headlam.

Broschiert. Condition: Gut. 29 x 23 cm 232 S. :. Broschiert. Sprache: Englisch, Zustand: Gut min. gebräunt (Innen); Einband (Außen) hat leichte Gebrauchsspuren; Buchrücken min. lesespurig; Außenecken sind min. bis gering bestoßen-gebogen; * Die Photos sind original von uns erstellt worden, u.a. erkennbar an einem kleinen weißen Stück Papier im oberen Schnitt. Ab und an verwenden Suchmaschinen Verlagsphotos, bei den Portalen selbst, werden aber nur unsere Originalphotos gezeigt.

Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 232 pages. Paperback exhibition catalogue. Texts in English. Mild wear to the edges, with some vertical creasing to the spine. Else, the binding is tight, the interior clean and free of markings. Well illustrated, mostly in black and white, bound in stiff illustrated paper covers and published on the occasion of the exhibition. Book.

232p., colored and b/w illus., quarto format, original stiff printed wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. hardback book in near fine condition,dust jacket is very good.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Paperback. 232pp. Page edges foxed, slight spine lean, wraps lightly rubbed and edgeworn, else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Paperback, a lot of illustrations (some in colour).

Hardcover. Terracotta boards with gilt spine lettering. Black dj with color illustration and orange lettering. 231 pp. with nearly 300 items pictured in color and bw. Catalogue published on the occasion of two exhibitions at the PMA: the title exhibition and The Canton Connection: Ships, Captains and Cargoes, both held July 1 to Sept. 23, 1994. "Local merchants looked to China as an inexpensive producer of well-made, Western-style goods." The exhibition highlighed works of porcelain, silks, furniture, carvings and more, all commissioned by Philadelphians, beginning in the late 1700s. "Decorative arts made for Philadelphians are among the finest Chinese objects produced for export to America." Catalogue by Lee with the main essay by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith. VG-/Good+ (clean and tight but with general wear to dj and some warping to boards.

First edition. 232 pages. Hardcover: H 29.75cm x L 23.25cm. Black dust jacket rubbed, closed tears at spine ends with head worn, a few nicks and short tears at panel edges, two scratches at top left of rear panel; dj now presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Reddish-brown cloth with vibrant gilt stamped spine lettering. Color frontispiece; b/w and color photos throughout; glossary; bibliography; index of names. Published as the catalogue for a July-September 1984 exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Essay by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith; text and catalogue by curator Jean Gordon Lee with the latter reviewing 230 objects including furniture, porcelain, paintings, and textiles. A near fine copy in a very good- dust jacket. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 3.5 pounds (1.6 kg) and will require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 0812211723.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 232 pages, 4to. Out of Print. Edited, with an essay by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith. Includes an introduction by Jean Gordon Lee, catalogue, glossary, abbreviations and bibliography, index. Profusely illustrated with b&w and color prints. Shelfwear to DJ: moderate scuffing along edges and covers, a few small tears along edges, light fading along spine. DJ in mylar. Tightly bound with clean and crisp pages. No marks. Volume is in Very Good condition.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First. Essay by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith. 270 illustrations including many in color. 232 pages. 4to, rust cloth, d.w. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. (1984). One corner slightly bumped, still a near fine copy, in the original shrinkwrap. Published as the catalogue for the 1984 exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

First edition. 4to. 232 pp. Illustrations in color & b/w. Cloth binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (89079). Essay by Philip Chadwick Foster Smith.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm ; ISBN: 0312024770 (pbk.); 9780312024772 (pbk.); National Library: 91013006X LCCN: 88-33722 ; LC: E169.12; Dewey: 306.4/0973; NLC: CB430; OCLC: 18874474 ; color photographic paper wrappers ; store stamp on inside front cover ; clipped corner of front endpaper ; Contents: (The word panic is in front of each chapter title) Alphabet -- Art -- Astronomy and torture -- Art in ruins -- America the Beautiful -- Viral advertising -- Ads -- Babies (Ollie and Gorby too) -- Beaches -- Chromatic bureaucracy -- Crash -- Canada -- Computer capitalism -- Chip technology -- Commies -- Cyberspace -- Cowboy -- Doughnuts -- Drugs in America -- de Tocqueville -- Dread -- Desert -- Elvis -- Fashion -- Finance -- Feminism -- Florida sunstrokes -- God -- Hollywood -- History -- Hamburgers - Ideology -- Pleasures of invention -- Jeans -- Killing -- Lips -- Lovers -- Magnets -- Money -- Mythology -- Masterpieces -- Manhattan -- Music -- Martians -- Nietzsche's cat on panic particle physics -- Obscenities -- Ovaries -- Olympics -- Ozone -- Pigeons -- Virtual pilots -- Penis -- Plague -- Perfect faces -- Psychoanalysis -- Politics -- Quiet -- Reno romance -- Racing -- Sex -- Superscience -- Shopping malls -- Suburbs -- Surrealism -- Seagulls -- TV -- Toys -- USA -- Urine -- Viral computers -- Viral theory -- Vanities -- Vice Versa -- Worms -- Waiting -- Xanax -- Yuppies (east and west) -- Zombies ; several photographs of late 1989's art and art installations ; VG. Book.

Fully Illustrated (illustrator). ~ SCARCE TITLE ~. Folio Paperback : soft cover edition in very good to better condition, a typical used book with slight wear to edges and spine. Overall good / nice copy of this scarce title. Excellent reading on the subject. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand for yourself. Or would make a GREAT GIFT for the fan / reader in your life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. 195 pages. All sorts of Japanese arts, artforms, including sculpture, paintings, ceramics, textiles, traditional craftsmans arts, calligraphy, and much more. Please send us a note if you have any questions. Thank you. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 231 pages. Profusely illustrated book written to accompany two 1984 exhibitions: "Philadelphians and the China Trade 1784-1844" at the Philadelphia Museum of art and "The Canton Connection: Ships, Captains and Cargoes" at the Philadelphia Maritime Museum. The book is in almost as-new condition in a clean and bright dust jacket that has one 1/2 inch closed tear at the top of the front panel. The jacket is now protected in a new clear mylar cover. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.