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Published by Monumental Press
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.95.
Published by Monumental Press, Inc., Washington D. C., 1950
Seller: Top Notch Books, Tolar, TX, U.S.A.
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Jacket is present but torn into two pieces, chipped and rubbed. Boards have some light fading, with a pale line down both boards. Page edges have slight tanning. Text is clean, bright, unmarked. Many B&W and color photos of the frescoes. Binding is tight. This book will require extra charges for Priority or International shipping. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
Published by Monumental Press, Washington, D.C., 1965
Seller: Saucony Book Shop, Kutztown, PA, U.S.A.
Signed
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Black cloth, lettered in gold foil. Slight shelf wear, virtually as issued. xvi,111 pp., illus. w/ b&w plates. Signed by author along bottom edge of front flyleaf. Former owner signature on front pastedown, another former owner's address label on lower rear flyleaf. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.
Published by Monumental Press, 1950
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. torn/chipped dj, some wear, still NICE - may have remainder mark or previous owner's name Oversized.
Published by Washington (Monumental Press), 1950
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.
Signed
xvi, 111, (1)pp. Prof. illus. Folio. Cloth. D.j. Edition limited to 2,000 hand-numbered copies signed by the author.
Published by Washington (Monumental Press), 1950
Seller: Ars Libri, Ltd. (ABAA), Charlestown, MA, U.S.A.
Signed
xvi, 111, (1)pp. Prof. illus. Folio. Cloth. Edition limited to 2,000 hand-numbered copies signed by the author. Inscribed by the author and three U.S. senators.
Published by Monumental Press, 1950
Seller: Epilonian Books, Manhattan Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Book Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Missing. Monumental Press, Inc., 1965. Hardcover, 111 pp. 1965 Reprint. Signed by Myrtle Cheney Murdock on front free end paper. Contents include: Constantino Brumidi, Italian Refugee; Brumidi art in the United States Capitol; Color Reproductions of Brumidi Frescoes in the United States Capitol; The Artist's compensation; Brumidi's American Wife and Children; Brumidiana Outside the Untied States Capitol. Black and white illustrations throughout with 11 color plates. In good condition/ Missing dust jacket. Oversized black cloth covered boards with gold lettering on front and spine. Light bumping, scuffing and soiling to covers. Binding tight. Light chipping to edges of rear paste-down. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. [Excerpt from Preface] [Constantino Bruinidi] He landed in New York on September 18, 1852; he filed his original intention to become a citizen of the United States on November 9, 1852: and he was admitted and sworn on November 12, 1857. He worked on the Capitol Building of the United States throughout the terms of six presidents. He made frescoed ceilings and wall murals in six Committee Rooms?five in the Senate extension and one in the House extension. He is responsible for the complete design and execution of the President's Room in the Senate Annex, the Senate Reception Room and a large mural in the House of Representatives itself, the latter bearing his signature. At the age of sixty he finished the almost unbelievable task of painting in the very top of the Dome of the Capitol Building 4,664 square feet of concave fresco?huge colorful figures that appear life-size 180 feet below. Brumidi was evidently in sympathy with the words of Lincoln, voiced when a critic put this question to our great President, "Do you intend to continue building on the Capitol Dome during this war?" Lincoln replied, "If the world sees this Capitol going on they will know that we intend the Union shall go on." And even before the Civil War Brumidi sketched the fifteen scenes of American history for a frieze to encircle the Rotunda, some 58 feet above the floor. He had prayed to live long enough to paint this frieze, but when the signal finally came from Capitol authorities to begin this last cherished fresco he was an old man of seventy-two. Brumidi had lost his physical strength but not his will to work toward the completion of his dream. The young wife he had married at the height of his American financial success had long since gone with a younger man; his lonely years and his poverty weighed heavily upon him; criticism and ridicule had undoubtedly taken their toll but the old artist persistently stayed with that last assignment. Even when he slipped on his painting platform, the day of his almost fatal accident, and hung by his bare hands 58 feet above the stone floor of the Rotunda, until workmen could reach him from the top of the Dome and from the floor below?even then it must have been sheer will power that closed those old artist hands tight enough to hold his body weight from the floor below. But he never came back to finish his frieze. He died "at his parlor studio with his work about him," amid the loneliness and poverty which he feared. He was buried by a few friends and forgotten. That burial place was lost to our National Government for a period of seventy years but the 81st Congress of the United States, with. Signed by Author.
Published by Monumental Press, Washington, D.C., 1950
Seller: Book Booth, Berea, OH, U.S.A.
Signed
Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Signed by author on first page. Text clean & bright; binding tight; minor wear to covers; lacks a dustjacket. 111 pages. Illustrated in b&w and color. Signed by Author.
Published by Monumental Press, 1965
Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Small Folio. xvi, 111, [1] pages. Later issue of the important monograph on the Italian refugee artist in America; notable for the color reproductions. Originally published in 1950. Signed (in full) by Murdock in black ink at foot of front free endpaper. A very good copy in good+ dust jacket with chips, small nicks, creases and slight rubbing to jacket; previous owner's ink inscription on front free endpaper; slight internal browning to edges and endpapers.13 Color & 27 b/w Illustrations (including photographs).
Published by Monumental Press, Inc., 1965
Seller: Tacoma Book Center, Tacoma, WA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. ISBN . Oversized Hardback. No Dust jacket. Very Good Condition. Tight sound unmarked copy with bumped corners, minor rubs to edges and corners of covers. No Signature.
Condition: Good. Signed Copy . Acceptable dust jacket. Signed by author on front endpage. Short gifter's inscription on front endpage. (Washington DC, Capitol Building, Mural Painting).
Publication Date: 2022
Seller: S N Books World, Delhi, India
Book Print on Demand
Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1950 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 136 Language: English Pages: 136.
Published by Monumental Press, Washington, 1950
Hardcover. Black cloth with gilt lettering gray dustjacket.with color illustration, white and black lettering, xvi, 111 pp., includes 13 color plates, and profusely illustrated in bw. This copy signed by the author on the bottom of the ffep. A very nice book on this artist, and early. VG/Poor (light foxing to upper block edges, dust jacket is tattered).
Published by Monumental Press, Inc., Washington, D. C., 1950
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. First Edition. 112 pp. Original black cloth covers w/ titles in gilt. Binding very bright and clean. Light natural toning to front blank endpapers. Previous owner's name on front paste-down. SIGNED BY MYRTLE CHENEY MURDOCK AT BOTTOM EDGE OF FRONT BLANK ENDPAPER. #378 of 2,000 copies. DJ lightly rubbed w/ wear, tear, and chips to edges. Related ephemera laid-in. Illust. w/ color and b/w photos. Contents nice. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Washington, Monumental Press, 1950., 1950
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Life story of the forgotten Capitol artist. Cloth, price-clipped dust jacket, [112] pp., illustrated. Cloth lightly soiled, dust jacket chipped at the head, heel, and extremities, otherwise very good.
Published by Monumental Press, Washington, DC, 1965
Color, Black & White Illus. (illustrator). Washington, DC: Monumental Press. Very good condition-slipcase soiled/No Dustjacket. 1965. 4to., 112 pp. . Very good condition-slipcase soiled/No Dustjacket.
Published by Monumental Press, New York, 1950
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardbound. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Signed By Author, Owner Inscription.
Published by Monumental Press, Washington, 1965
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Constantino Brumidi (illustrator). With b/w and color illustrations throughout. 111 pages. Slim folio, navy cloth, d.w. Washington: Monumental Press, 1965. A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper, lightly edgeworn and sunned at spine and edges.
Published by Monumental Press, Washington, D.C, 1950
Seller: DBookmahn's Used and Rare Military Books, Burke, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 111 pp, frontispiece, many illustrations, black hard linen boards with gilt lettering to spine & front book cover. 111, Story of the artist who in 1857 painted the murals that adorn the U.S. Capitol. Signed by author on ffep. Rich illus. DJ worn. Text clean. Signed by Author.
Published by Monumental Press, Inc, Washington, DC, 1950
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Signed
Hardcover. Limited Edition, Number 1467 of 2000. xvi, 111 p. illus. (part col. ) ports. (part col. ) 33 cm. The story of the forgotten artist who painted the U.S. Capitol frescoes. The author was the wife of a Congressman. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. Cover has some wear and soiling. Some wear and rubbing to edges of boards.