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Reynal & Hitchcock, 1945. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Adams, an investigative journalist/ muckraker, was also a prolific writer. His biography of Alexander Woollcott (d. 1943) was of a well-known contemporary. He (Woollcott) was a critic for The New Yorker, a member of the Algonquin Table and, the inspiration for the main character in the Kaufman/Hart play, The Man Who Came to Dinner. There is a protective mylar cover. This is a 1st edition, 2nd printing.
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A. Woollcott, His Life and His World
by Adams, Samuel Hopkins
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Academic Murder: A Mystery Set in the Halls of Cambridge
by Fiske, Dorsey
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St. Martin's Press, NY, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "The leisurely life of intellectual contemplation enjoyed by the Fellows of Sheepshanks College, Cambridge is shattered when the eminent Pryevian Librarian, Ernest Garmoyle, collapses and dies over his port at dinner. When arsenic is discovered in his drink, Inspector Bunce of the Cambridge police is called in. A tangled web of motives lurk beneath the academic surface. Bizarre characters and suspicious behaviour." [Pub. Info] 1ST US EDITION
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The Act of Creation
by Koestler, Arthur
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Hutchinson & Company, 1st edition.. Hardcover. Fine. ""Arthur Koestler argues that the scientist's insight is similar to the artist's act of creation, and that they share certain psychological conditions. Examining the common factors in scientific, artistic, and comic creations, he gives examples from psychology."" [Pub. Info] ""While the study of psychology has offered little in the way of explaining the creative process, Koestler examines the idea that we are at our most creative when rational thought is suspended - for example, in dreams and trancelike states."" [Pub. Info]
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Aesthetics and Criticism
by Osborne, Harold
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Routledge & Kegan Paul LTD, London, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "The present volume…deals with the applications of aesthetic theory to the craft of criticism. The author maintains that all assessment of works of art in aesthetic terms and all appreciative writing about the arts involve tacit assumptions about the nature of artistic excellence as such, and demonstrates that so long as latent theory is muddled or confused criticism cannot successfully formulate coherent and intelligible judgments. 'Aesthetics and Criticism' is therefore concerned broadly with the problem of communication and coherence in criticism."" [Dust Jacket] Minor chipping at top of dust jacket spine. 1ST EDITION
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The Afterlife
by Updike, John
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Knopf , 1994. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. There is a protective mylar cover.
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Alaska
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Random House, NY , 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "As his characters struggle for survival, Michener weaves together the exciting high points of Alaska's story: its brutal origins; the American acquisition; the gold rush; the tremendous growth and exploitation of the salmon industry; the arduous construction of the Alcan Highway, undertaken to defend the territory during World War II. A spellbinding portrait of a human community fighting to establish its place in the world, Alaska traces a bold and majestic saga of the enduring spirit of a land and its people." [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST EDITION.
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The American Lyceum: Town Meeting Of The Mind
by Bode, Carl
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Oxford University Press NY, 1956. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine /Very Good. This is a fascinating study of the American lyceum of the nineteenth century, the first major adult education program in the country... It was, typically, a local citizens' organization, sponsoring lectures as well as other activities - debates, discussions, and readings. The lyceum as an American social institution began in the late 1820s... the Age of Jackson, flourished in the late 1830s and 40s, and withered away in the 1850s under the fire of the slavery controversy and the oncoming Civil War. At the height of the movement there were 3000 lyceums, and they were important... principally through the 'messages' of the lecturers - on religion, philosophy, and ethics; on social customs...; on science; and on literature and the fine arts." [Dust jacket] Dust jacket has very slight wear on the bottom with minor chipping on top and bottom of the spine; Scuffing on the back cover probably shelfwear. There is a protective mylar cover.
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America's Old Masters: Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Wilson Peale, Gilbert Stuart,
by Flexner, James Thomas
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Doubleday & Company, 1980. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Concise biographies examine painters, wellsprings of their art, interplay of native tradition and European influence, more. 69 halftones. Bibliography."" [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover. This is a 1st thus, 3rd printing.
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Art for Art's Sake
by Guerard, Albert
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Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Company, Boston MA, 1936. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The author divides his work into four parts. The first traces the history of 'art for art's sake' from antiquity to the present. Albert Guerard's depth of learning and his ability to make discriminatory selections of facts give to this monumental task a lightness of touch and ease of style that make it delightful reading. The second section... goes on to discuss Art for Money, for Prestige and for Information, Art and Morality, and Art for Propaganda. Here the author advances his proposition that Art which exists for any of these reasons is not Art. His, however, is a robust art in touch with life, obeying and serving but only its own laws and its own ends... Here is a book, controversial, profound and readable." [Dust Jacket] There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST EDITION.
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An Artist on Art: Collected Essays of Jean Charlot [2 volumes/ Slipcase]
by Charlot, Jean
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University Press of Hawaii, 1972. 1st edition . Hardcover. Fine. "These essays are based on ideas and activities and intellectual adjustments in various places, particularly Mexico, France, mainland United States, and Hawaii -- seventy-nine essays of infinite variety, on art, literature, history, poliitics, philosophy, all done in a style as rich in image and perception as his painting."" [Preface, p. xi] Books are Fine in a Fine slipcase. Volume 1 - Collected Essays by Jean Charlot; Volume 2 - Mexican Art. This is a review copy.
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Artists of the American West [3 volumes]
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The Swallow Press, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Of all the strange landscapes of America, the most powerfully mysterious, the Far West, had been a compelling force on the imagination for as long as there had been rumor of it.' Beginning in the 1830s, with Catlin and Bodmer and Miller and others, 'at last it was realized in paint.' Hundreds of artists and illustrators continued to portray the West. There were professionals and amateurs, government survey employees, women and men. European visitors - and cowboys like Charles Russell... The West was loved and longed after and romaticized and misunderstood by the non-Westerner. By the Westerner it was loved and taken for granted."" [Dust Jacket] A dictionary of Western artists born before 1900. Each volume has a protective mylar cover. STATED 1ST EDITION.
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The Arts Without Mystery
by Donoghue, Denis
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Little Brown and Company, 1983. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "In 'The Arts Without Mystery' Denis Donghue argues that the connection between art and society has changed radically in the twentieth century. Works of art are the product of mysterious and private acts, but our democratic, egalitarian society demands that art be explained, be available to all, and be consumed as if it were a commodity. Donoghue's response to this situation is outlined in these essays, delivered as the 1982 Keith Lectures the most prestigious lectures in Britain..."" [Dust Jacket] STATED 1ST US EDITION, REVIEW COPY.
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