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Original drapery from Lincoln home on front panel. The book was in a case which is not in good condition. Original will be shipped with the book.
The book and hard cover is in good condition. The interior of the book is almost new. Book has many personal and other illustrations. This book is priceless. It has first hand accounts from her sister Emilie (Helm), from her personal diaries, and from numerous documents and letters written to and from Mary Lincoln.

This book covers the artists who se works are landmarks in the history of art and painting. The authur has covered their lives, and journey of their becoming established as an artist in depth. This book is a concise history of artisit from 14th Century beginning with Giotto to the late 19th Century ending with Cezanne.
This book is a stimulant for any reader or student interested in art or is an artist himself. A list o American Muesums and galleries where works of these artists is displayed is recorded in the last pew pages of the book. A true labour of love by the author.

FROM THE PUBLISHER
Mathew Brady, one of the foremost early American photographers and one of the earliest war photographers, was official photographer for the Union Army in the Civil War. With his assistants and his horse-drawn photographic wagon, Brady accompanied the troops and recorded the war firsthand. His war pictures are among the greatest war photographs ever taken, and constitute a prized pictorial record of American history.A photographer much in demand by statesmen and celebrities, Brady amassed a gallery of distinguished portraits. Most famous of these is the Brady Lincoln, the photograph used for the engraving of the Lincoln head on the five-dollar bill. There are even photographs of Brady himself. But the heart of the book is the Civil War photographs: Battle Smoke, Union Wounded at Fredericksburg, Burnside's Bridge over the Antietam, Death of a Rebel Sniper, Remains of the Dead at Chancellorsville, Embalming Surgeon at Work, Atlanta Ga. Just After Its Capture, and others. Meredith's… Read More

The dust jacket has slight aged symptoms otherwise in good condition. The book is in good condition.
Faulkner was a noble prize winner for Authur of Soldier's pay, Sanctury and a few other novels.

Book cover is in good condition. Interior pages are in very good condition.

In author's words: But let me describe the music school. I love it here. I is the basement of a huge Baptist church. Golden collection plates rest on table beside me. Girls in their first blush of adolescence, carrying fawn-colored flute cases and pallid folders of music, shuffle by me....from all directions sounds-of pianos, oboes, clarinets-arrive like hints of another world, a world where angels fumble, pause, fumble, and begin again.....