Lida Lopes Cardozo (70 results)

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned.

Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: New. 1992. hardcover. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. Cloth, d.j. Some shelf-wear. Else clean copy.

Condition: New. 1992. hardcover. . . . . .

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Paperback cover has moderate shelf-life wear. Adhesive visible at spine when covers are open, raising question of deterioration. Pages are clean without notes or highlighting. Binding at present is intact. We are a Benedictine Abbey and Seminary library in Oregon. We appreciate your support.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Orders shipped daily from the UK. Professional seller.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

1st edition. Cardozo Kindersley Editions no.8. A very nice clean, tidy copy Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Condition: Good. SPINE HAS BEEN BUMPED IN THE MIDDLE, LEAVING SOME CREASING AND A SMALL TEAR ON THE FRONT COVER WHERE IT MEETS THE SPINE. paperback 100% of proceeds go to charity! Good condition with all pages in tact. Item shows signs of use and may have cosmetic defects.

Dec 01, 1996. Condition: Used: Very Good. Small, slim softcover with no marks or writing in book. Rear cover has a slight bend near spine where lightly bunped; otherwise almost new.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. 1st Edition. 96p. A softcover book in near-fine condition, having only slightly crinkled corners, and being otherwise clean and tight. Cardozo Kindersley Editions Number Eight. An account of the making of the carved slate that lies over the grave of the Anglican abbots of St. Albans Abbey (now an English cathedral). Illustrated with many black and white photographs.…

Condition: New. pp. 136.

Paperback. Condition: Used; Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 60p blue paperback, spine square and firm, pages clean and bright, like new Language: English.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Wrappers. A reissue of the 1996 edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Wrappers.

Original Wraps. Condition: Fine. No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. pp56, copiously illustrated in colour. Fine copy.

paperbound, 8vo 48 pp., ca. 60 ills. tentoonstellingscatalogus; typografie; letterontwerp; text in English; zeer goede conditie.

Paperback. Condition: Good. There is something magnificently stubborn about the act of cutting letters into stone. Entire civilisations have collapsed, empires have burned, governments have risen and fallen in clouds of paperwork and committee reports, yet somewhere a Roman inscription still sits perfectly legible after two thousand years, calmly ignoring the internet. Letters for the Millennium - Why We Cut Letters in Stone is a deeply thoughtful and unexpectedly moving meditation on this peculiar human urge to make words physically permanent, preferably with hammers. Emma Lloyd-Jones and Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley explore the ancient craft of letter carving with the kind of reverence normally reserved for cathedral architecture, violin making or people who still sharpen pencils using knives. This is a book about typography, certainly, but also patience, permanence and the quiet arrogance of civilisation itself. To carve a sentence into stone is to make a remarkable declaration: namely that these particular words are important enough to outlive everyone currently involved. The irony, naturally, is delicious. This book emerged right on the edge of the millennium, at precisely the moment humanity began abandoning permanence in favour of passwords, temporary files and social media posts written while waiting for kettles to boil. While the world rushed toward digital ephemera, here were the Kindersleys calmly explaining why chiselling beautifully proportioned serif letters into granite might still matter. In retrospect they may have had a point. The average Roman gravestone has survived more reliably than several modern hard drives and approximately all Geocities websites. The photographs and examples throughout are quietly mesmerising. Letters cease to become mere symbols and instead appear as physical objects with weight, shadow and dignity. One suddenly notices how badly modern life treats typography. We live surrounded by fonts screaming from takeaway menus and estate-agent boards, while this book gently reminds us that there was once an era when someone spent three days considering the curve of a single capital R. There is also something wonderfully British about the entire enterprise. The determination to preserve craftsmanship, proportion and beauty through painstaking manual labour feels gloriously out of step with the modern world. These are people who look at a stone surface and think not ?load-bearing capacity? but ?perhaps Trajan capitals in a balanced classical spacing arrangement? It is hard not to admire such dedication, even if one suspects the average modern reader spends more time selecting emojis than contemplating inscriptional harmony. As sold by Crappy Old Books, this copy is in Good condition, meaning it has endured the passing decades rather better than most millennium predictions. The pages remain perfectly suitable for anyone wishing to contemplate the durability of stone-carved language while holding a mass-produced paperback that itself has improbably survived twenty-six years of shelves, boxes and domestic reorganisations. Which, in its own modest way, is also a small victory over time.…

Gebundene Ausgabe. Condition: Neu. ohne Seitenangabe ca. 50 Buch ist neu, aus priv. Vorbesitz, ungelesen. ISBN: 9781874426165 Due to new EU packaging regulations, we are currently unable to ship to many EU countries. Shipping to Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland, Finland, and the Baltic states is possible. Deliveries to border-based parcel lockers or cross-border parcel forwarding services remain possible. Shipping to all countries outside the EU also remains possible. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 240.…

Condition: New. pp. 136.