Wallock Leonard (57 results)

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.

paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

Hardcover with dustjacket, 292 pages; very good condition; light rubbing to dj; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Condition: very_good. This book is in Very good condition. There may be a few flaws like shelf wear and some light wear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. P/O name in small letters to FFEP o/w clean copy, firm hinges, sharp corners and DJ inVG condition. BP/Travel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. SOLID CLEAN BRIGHT AND UNMARKED BOOK IS AS NEW APPEARS UNREAD THE STORY OF NEW YORK'S POSTWAR GOLDEN AGE WITH ESSAYS ON ART , MUSIC , ARCHITECTURE AND MORE BOOK STATES PRINTED AUGUST 1988 IN A BRIGHT COMPLETE JACKET WITH SOME LIGHT SHELFWARE A REALLY GRAND BOOK. PHOTOS (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. DJ: none, BOOK: as new minus three pgs of contents slightly creased along previous dog ear folds.

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Dust jacket in poor condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1850grams, ISBN:0847809900.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Cloth. Condition: Fine Condition. Fine Condition. 292 pp., 300 illustrations 80 in color. Miinor scuffing to the dustjacket cover, otherwise a fine copy. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover. Book.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. The relentless pace of urbanization since the industrial revolution has inspired a continuing effort to view, read, and name the modern city. "We are now at a point of transition to a new kind of city", write William Sharpe and Leonard Wallock, "and thus we are experiencing the same crisis of language felt by observers of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century cities." "Visions of the Modern City" explores the ways in which artists and writers have struggled to define the city during the past two centuries and opens a new perspective on the urban vision of our time. In their introduction, the editors outline three phases in the evolution of the modern city-- each having its own distinctive morphology and metaphor-- and argue that a new vocabulary is needed to describe the sprawling "urban field" of today. Eric Lampard draws a detailed demographic and geographic picture of urbanization since the late eighteenth century, culminating with the "decentered" city of the 1980s. Other contributors examine the representation of cities from the London and Paris of 1850 to the New York, Los Angeles, and Tokyo of the present.Deborah Nord and Philip Collins follow Henry Mayhew and Charles Dickens, respectively, through the urban underworld of Victorian London. Theodore Reff traces the double life of Paris expressed in the work of Manet, while Michele Hannoosh shows bow Baudelaire influenced the Impressionists by transferring the aesthetic implications of the term nature to urban experience. Thomas Bender and William Taylor focus on tensions between the horizontal and the vertical in the architectural development of New York City, and Paul Anderer investigates the private, domestic spaces that represent Tokyo in postwar Japanese fiction. Steven Marcus analyzes the breakdown of the city as signifying system in the novels of Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon, writers who question whether the indecipherable contemporary city has any meaning left at all.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 292 pages, illustrations (80 colour); 27 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A large-format coffee-table book. Profusely illustrated. *** "Essays discuss literature, architecture, the visual arts, dance, theater, music, and intellectual life in postwar New York City." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: NEW YORK CITY: CAPITAL OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. The world of tomorrow; A global capital; A city transformed; The urban crisis, by Leonard Wallock. LIVING ON THE EDGE: NEW YORK IN LITERATURE. Cities within the city; Between two cities; Urban eros: sex and violence; Over the edge and underground; Streets and sidewalks; Conclusion: staying alive, by William Sharpe. ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK CITY. New York in 1940; The impact of the war; Early postwar housing; Transportation facilities and office buildings; Technological developments; The impact of concrete construction; Urban renewal and its consequences, by Carol Herselle Krinsky. THE CITY AND THE VISUAL ARTS. World War II and abstract expressionism; Sense of tragedy; American artists; Exhibitions and galleries; The art world; New York school; Abstract expressionism and sculptors; Era of conformity and affluence; Painters and the other arts; The city as theme; The 1950s; Pop art and minimal art, by Dore Ashton. TOWARD AN AMERICAN DANCE: DANCE IN THE CITY. Modern dance: from politics to myth; Ballet: from Americana to abstraction; The new avant-garde, by Lynn Garafola. THE CITY AND THE THEATER. Theater in the early years; Theater versus drama; History of American drama; Musicals; World War II and after; Serious drama; Other serious playwrights; Birth and rise of Off-Broadway; Theaters, by Richard Gilman. New York's music. New York's coming of age, 1890-1940; Business and technology; Performing institutions; Classical composition; Jazz; Broadway and Tin Pan Alley; Folk, rock, and the rise of the underclass; Toward the present, by John Rockwell. THE SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL LIFE OF THE CITY. The intellectual iceberg; Beneath the surface (complacency); The limits of "chicness", by Alexander Bloom. Size: 4to. Collectible.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Rizzoli, 1988. Quarto. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new. Previous owner inscription on flyleaf.

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the protective shrinkwrap. ; 292 pages; Description: 292 p. : ill. (80 col. ) ; 27 cm. Subjects: New York (N. Y. ) --Civilization. New York (N. Y. ) --Intellectual life. Summary: A skillful appraisal of a period of unparalleled creativity that marked New York City as the cultural center of the world. Housing developments and urban fiction, jazz and modern dance, political protest and mixed media productions--all are subjects for study by an impressive group of experts. They show how the city, accommodating a "ceaseless flow of talent" in an aura of unlimited possibilities, provided both the raw materials and the intellectual ferment needed for new ways of thinking and of expressing images and ideas. There is a nostalgic look to the work, with extensively annotated illustrations of the familiar and slightly historic--images of expectation and enthusiasm in a city in which everything was happening and everything was new. An important record of a singular time. 2 Kg.…

Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Book contains pencil markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:0801835399.…

First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the protective shrinkwrap. ; 292 pages; Description: 292 p. : ill. (80 col. ) ; 27 cm. Subjects: New York (N. Y. ) --Civilization. New York (N. Y. ) --Intellectual life. Summary: A skillful appraisal of a period of unparalleled creativity that marked New York City as the cultural center of the world. Housing developments and urban fiction, jazz and modern dance, political protest and mixed media productions--all are subjects for study by an impressive group of experts. They show how the city, accommodating a "ceaseless flow of talent" in an aura of unlimited possibilities, provided both the raw materials and the intellectual ferment needed for new ways of thinking and of expressing images and ideas. There is a nostalgic look to the work, with extensively annotated illustrations of the familiar and slightly historic--images of expectation and enthusiasm in a city in which everything was happening and everything was new. An important record of a singular time. 2 Kg.…

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Small quarto. 292pp. Illustrated from photographs. Tiny nick at bottom edge of front board, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Essays by Dore Ashton, Alexander Bloom, Lynn Garafola, Richard Gilman, Carol Herselle Krinsky, John Rockwell, William Sharpe, and Leonard Wallock. …

8vo. 268pp. B/w illustrations. Previous owner's name. Original wrappers, a very good copy.

Condition: New. In English.

292 p. with over 300 illustrations, with 80 in color. Condition: Jacket little bit bumped, all else very fine. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 1900 27 x 24 cm, black cloth with title on frontcover and golden title on the spine, bound, illustrated jacket with title on spine and frontcover.

Condition: New. pp. 284.

Condition: New. pp. 284 1:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

Bon état.