Metson Graham (29 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. This is a former library book, therefore library stamps are on endpages and back cover. Library sticker on spine. Staining and creases on covers.

Condition: Used - Good. Good paperback. 1st edition. Lacks title page, otherwise VG. Used - Good. Good paperback.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This work grew out of an exhibition which was researched by the author to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Halifax disaster. Part of this book is the detailed account of the explosion in December, 1917, written by Archibald MacMechan, director of the Halifax Disaster Record Office. The book also contains photographs, illustrations, documents, articles, and a chronology. This copy is clean and solid.…

Broschiert. Condition: Gut. 27,5x21cm 157 Seiten. Broschiert. Sprache: Englisch, Zustand: Gut bis Sehr Gut min. gebräunt (Innen); Minischildchen (2x1cm) auf dem Vorsatzblatt, läßt sich wohl entfernen, mir gelang das einmal; Einband (Außen) hat geringe Gebrauchsspuren; * 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.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 157 pp. Light edgewear with some creasing on the upper right of the front cover and an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs. The Contents are: Introduction; The First Blows; Refugees; Packed to the Rafters; This Was the Lifeline; The Toll of War; Give Us the Ships; Distinguished Visitors; Fire Below Decks; The Home Front; The Short Heroic Cruise that Saved Halifax; and War's End. Size: 4to. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Canadian Edition. 157pp. Historical bw photographs. Photo illustrated wrapper is clean and without edgewear. Binding square and not creased. Quarto.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. text clean and unmarked. binding tight. boards have very light wear. edges of pages have very light wear. mylar-covered dust jacket has a small chip missing along back upper edge and otherwise light wear.

Original Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Exhibition catalogue.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 173 pp, illustrations. Wraps a little yellowed, edge and corner wear, light bump / scuff mark mid spine. Interior unmarked. m.

Card covers. Condition: Very good. (5)-157 Pp. B&w photographs throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condition: Acceptable.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Short closed tear to top edge front panel of dust jacket at spine-fold, minimal edgewear otherwise and about fine, 31 cm, 159 pages. "'Alex Colville: Diary of a War Artist' has 38 pages of colour, numerous b&w reproductions, sketches and drawing. The text is drawn from the artist's own writings; with an introduction by Hugh Halliday, Curator at the Canadian War Museum; a foreword by Moncrieff Williamson; an essay by Graham Metson and selections from interviews with the artist"--from dust jacket. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. THE DAY TO DAY REPORTS , DIARY ENTRIES OF A YOUNG WAR ARTIST IN EUROPE WITH THE CANADIAN ARMY, 1944 - 46. ROUGH SKETCHES , FINISHED DRAWING AND WATERCOLORS , 38 PAGES IN COLOR. AN INSIGHTFUL LOOK AT THE TRIVIA,MACHINERY, TRIUMPS AND HORRORS OF WAR. BOOK HAS A FORMER OWNERS NAME ON THE FRONT FREE END PAPER OTHERWISE AS NEW. ALEX COLVILLE (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 4 stapled sheets, with gilt paper closure, now opened. Blind-stamp on upper cover. B/w illustrations by the artist, biography. Addressed and posted to the english writer and critic P.M.T. Sheldon Williams. A little creased and darkened.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Single card flyer for the show. One monochrome plate, blind-stamp. Short text by the artist. Addressed and posted to the english critic and writer P.M.T. Sheldon Williams and his wife Annie. Inscribed and addressed ina fine calligraphic hand by the artist. A little creased. Signed by Author(s).…

Condition: Very good. (6)-173 Pp. Map & numerous photos & other illus. Including the complete text of the Halifax Disaster by Archibald MacMechan. chronology and many documents. Red cloth gilt to spine in dust jacket.

Paper Covers. Condition: Good. B0 2.

Brown cloth with dust jacket. (8)-159 Pp. Numerous colour and black & white illustrations Catalogue of works. Foreword by Moncrieff Williamson. Near fine. Signed by artist on title page.

uarto, brown buckram boards, silver gilt lettering to spine & front board, silver gilt illus to front board, illus, VG+ (prev. owner's name in ink to ffep) in d/w, VG- (moderate creasing & tearing to edges- some attempts at tape repair, moderate fading to spine & edges - photos available on request).…

[0-920852-11-4] 1981. (4to) Near fine in very good dust jacket. 159pp. Black & white and color illustrations. There is a previous owner's name and date on the front endpaper, and the dust jacket has wear and tears along the top edge. Art of Alex Colville. (Art--Canada, Artists--Canada, War Artists).

4to. pp. 157. profusely illus. wrs. First Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. SUBTITLED : ` Diary of a War Artist'. 159 pages illustrated by Colville's work in both b/w and (gentle) colour. Also some b/w photographs. READ about : Cleve Germany, War Memorials Collection, and 14'th Field Ambulance. Clean and bright. No names. QUote (p. 39) : " Worked all morning on a watercolour from last night's sketches. Went ashore at 1800 to Agripolo and bought a pair of wooden ._._._. . ".…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. 173 pp, illus.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 159 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations and colour plates throughout. Bound in brown cloth with silver titles. Illustrated dustjacket in good condition with red and black titles. Heavily worn around the edges with large chips, creases, and tears. Some tears are taped. 1ST EDITION. NF/G. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Alex Colville Diary of a War Artist; compiled by Graham Metson and Cheryl Lean; Nimbus Publishing Limited, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1981. Presentation copy signed by Alex Colville. David Alexander Colville (1920 2013) was a Canadian painter. Born in 1920 in Toronto, Ontario, Colville moved with his family at age seven to St. Catharines, and then to Amherst, Nova Scotia in 1929. He attended Mount Allison University from 1938 to 1942, where he studied under Canadian Post-Impressionists like Stanley Royle and Sarah Hart, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Colville married Rhoda Wright, who he had been friends with since his freshman year at "Mount A," in 1942 and enlisted in the Canadian Army shortly afterwards. He enlisted in the infantry, eventually earning the rank of lieutenant. He painted in Yorkshire and took part in the Royal Canadian Navy's landings in southern France. He was then attached to the 3rd Canadian Division. After being in the army for two years, and because he was a fine-arts student, he was made a war artist in May 1944. His unit relieved the 82nd Airborne Division at Nijmegen, Netherlands in mid-September 1944 during Operation Market Garden and remained there until the following February. He continued on to tours in the Netherlands and Germany, where he was also tasked with depicting the horrors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. This book comprises the drawings and paintings from this period in war-torn Europe. After the war, Colville returned to New Brunswick and became a faculty member with the Fine Arts Department at Mount Allison University. He taught there from 1946 to 1963. Colville developed his own style of Realism that influenced both a regional and national art community, as teacher and founder of what would become known as Maritime Realism. Alex Colville's work is found in many collections including the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, the Cape Breton University Art Gallery in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne and the Kestnergesellschaft in Hanover, Germany. Trained as an infantry officer, he did a painting when World War II ended. Based upon numerous drawings, it was called Infantry and is now in the Canadian War Museum. It represents a platoon of Canadian soldiers spread out and marching along both sides of a road. Colville believed it conveyed his perception of war, as both heroism and enduring persistence among nature's elements and constant danger. The face of the first man is actually a portrait of the artist's father. This painting is one of the iconic depictions of Canadian soldiers at war in Europe and it is reproduced on pages 90 and 91 of this book. Other famous works by Colville include: Horse and Train; Man on Verandah, Ocean Limited, to Prince Edward Island, and Cyclist and Crow. Colville is considered to be the realist Canadian painter in the second half of the twentieth century. His works are now selling in the millions of dollars. This large format book, 159 pages measuring 303mm X 225mm, is in fine condition. The dust jacket is in near-fine condition, the only fault a small, triangular tear on the back measuring 15mm X 30mm, and it is now enclosed in a protective mylar wrap. A spectacular, association copy of one of Canada's premier war artists and one of the country's finest realist painters, period. Signed by Author(s).…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Befriedigend. S. 157; zahlr. Abb.; 28 cm Zustand: gut-befriedigend; mit Besitzeraufkleber im Vorsatz R-Hh2735 Wenn das Buch einen Schutzumschlag hat, ist das ausdrücklich erwähnt. Rechnung mit ausgewiesener Mwst. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 575.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 159 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white and colour plates throughout. Previous owner's markings on the ffep. Bound in brown cloth with silver titles. Illustrated dustjacket in very good condition with red and black titles. Lightly worn around the edges with small creases and tears. SCARCE. NF/VG. Book.…

Poster, measuring 29 x 20 inches; very good condition; a few tiny holes at center folds; machine folded 5 times into 12 sections; a mailed copy with address and postal marks on rear. Will be mailed folded.