Morris Jan Text (10 results)

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First edition. Oblong 8vo, 151 pp., b/w plates throughout. Head and heel of spine bumped, dampstain at heel. Interior clean and unmarked except for previous owner's blind stamp on front free endpaper. Jacket worn, chipped, stained.

Paperback. First edition of this translation from German to English. 274p., softbound in 9x6 inch wraps, no issue in boards. A fine production (presswork on alkaline paperstock, riveting color cover by David Mabb) in fine as-new condition: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First American Edition. First Printing. Publisher's full blue cloth, gilt lettering on spine and cover, satellite mosaic of Europe on endpapers. Profusely illustrated with large-scale aerial photographs. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. A large (folio), heavy (six pounds) book - additional shipping charges may apply. AS NEW/AS NEW. Color Aerial Photographs. Folio 13" - 23" tall. 288 pp.…

Condition: Very Good. Very Good condition. Good dust jacket. (china, history, architecture) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. This book encompasses the diversity of the European physical and human landscape. Viewed from the air are the details of cities, farmlands and forests, and mountain retreats. The text complements the pictures with an overview of the people, their preoccupations, struggles and triumphs. 256 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Countries::Europe; Travel & Places; Photography. ISBN: 1876778695. ISBN/EAN: 9781876778699. Inventory No: 272934. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. This book encompasses the diversity of the European physical and human landscape. Viewed from the air are the details of cities, farmlands and forests, and mountain retreats. The text complements the pictures with an overview of the people, their preoccupations, struggles and triumphs. Small tear to top of spine edge of dust jacket. 288 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Travel; Travel & Places; Countries::Europe. ISBN: 0864382820. ISBN/EAN: 9780864382825. Inventory No: 264841. This book is extra heavy, and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 1 kg.; 29 x 24 cm.; 151 pages with black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The exterior shows minor edge wear and minor scuffs ans scratches on the front cover, spine and back cover. Two tiny tears, one on the top left side of the front cover and the other on the rear of the back cover. Interior with minor signs of wear.; With the elegance, discrimination and knowledge that distinguished his two recent and brilliantly received albums of nineteenth-century photographs of Asian life, The Last Empire and Imperial China, the photo-historian Clark Worswick now gives us this landmark photographic album of Japan from 1854-1905. The beauty and fierceness of that country's almost medieval nineteenth-century society is revealed in 120 extraordinary photographs by the remarkable Euro- pean and Japanese photographers of the day. In this book-which includes 16 pages in full color reproducing the artfully hand-tinted photographs the Victorians loved-we see the splendor that marked the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate and the first, often curious, images of Westernization that heralded Japan's transformation from an insular, feudal country to a modern world power. Here are the faces, the costumes, the manners, the professions of that time, the landscapes, the countryside, the city streets, the interiors rich and poor. The development of a Japanese vision in photography can be attributed to a heterogeneous mix of talents- European as well as Japanese. Among those represented here: Felix Beato, an Italian military photographer who was the first, and the most important, European photographer in Japan and who extensively documented the last years of the old regime; Baron von Stillfried, an Austrian nobleman who later bought out Beato's firm and whose dramatic studio portraits were characterized by a grave beauty and a singular intensity; and, in an astonishing modern mode, the two leading Japanese photographers of the time, both of them trained by and in many ways surpassing Beato and Stillfried. One of them, Kusakabe Kimbei, the protégé of Stillfried, perfected the art of the psycho- logical portrait and became the great Japanese photographer of the nineteenth century; the other, Ogawa Isshin, the most successful society photographer of nineteenth-century Japan, whose exquisite portraits are best considered in the context of a renaissance of traditional, spiritual Japanese art.…

Card ix + 234pp illus.nr Fine.

Cloth DW vi + 234pp illus.Ex-Lib, fep missing otherwise VG+.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine in Fine Archival Box. Limited Edition. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Text set and printed by Whittington Press. "New York Reflections.[are] the result of an intense three week visit to New York in May 2013 to observe, sketch and gather reference material. These paintings, full of colour, light and shadows are his observations and reflect a very personal view of the city. An enormous publication with 26 powerful colour plates dominating a 22x20 inch sheet. The text is made up of extracts from Jan Morris' book Manhattan '45." (from the prospectus) "Once back in my studio, a year of painting begins. With a stylus and Wacom tablet, I paint on the computer in Illustrator. Working only with flat areas of colour (CMYK) and no tone, I "cut out" colour shapes with the stylus, arranging them on different layers, creating a collage. In fact, I first began working this way years ago (before developing my computer skills) by cutting out sheets of coloured paper with scissors, similar to the way Matisse created his paper cut-outs. Matisse described it as "drawing with colour". The paintings end up as digital files; vector images which can be reduced or enlarged to any size. Therefore there is no scanning, the files can be printed directly from the computer onto a mould-made paper, using a flat-bed UV inkjet printer. The images give a narrative to the book." [artist statement]. Tight, bright, and unmarred. Quarterbound, grey cloth spine, printed color paper wrappers, matching archival case; loose sheets in cloth covered archival portfolio. fo (22"x16" and 22"x30"). Illus. (color plates). Numbered limited edition of 5 copies [N.B. Only two copies have been or will be printed. The other copy is in a private collection]. Delux includes full suite of unbound prints. Signed by the artist. …