2011, ISBN: 9780699124744

Hardcover

Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/As New. In this, the first dual biography of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, places the cou… More...

Sidgwick & Jackson, London, 1991. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). As New/As New. In this, the first dual biography of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, places the couple in a richly evoked social and political context stretching over much of the century, and the authors tell a spellbinding story of behind-the-scenes palace plots and intrigues, family differences, intimate details of such matters as the royal dressing sessions and the running of the household as two lives are lived in frequent peril and marked by tragedies. Size: Quarto. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. No foxing in this copy. Dust Jacket is in as new condition, apart from normal shop shelf wear - contains no tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jacket un-clipped. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. One of a remarkable collection of 500+ books on Royalty from a serious collector in the area, all of which we will be listing on this site over the next few months. Nearly all items in this collection are in virtually mint/new condition. You can view this collection at this site by searching for the Keyword WBMXXROY which is attached to each listing relevant to this collection. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: History; ISBN: 0283998873. ISBN/EAN: 9780283998874. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 18661. . 9780283998874, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1991, Cinncinnati: Cinncinnati Art Museum, 2010. Hardcover. In exceptionally good condition. Demy folio, [28.125cm/11.25inches], full chrome-embossed ebony-coloured cloth with mylar-protectected dust jacket, pp. 193, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc... Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. The Museum' blurb notes: "The portraits of Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) made him perhaps the most famous British artist of the late eighteenth century. Nobles, statesmen, musicians and the range of men and women of the period’s merchant class all sat for him. But it is his portraits of notorious society women—widely considered among the greatest of the Western tradition—which attracted the most attention. Eighteenth-century viewers appreciated these paintings differently than we do today. In his own time, Gainsborough’s portraits of actresses, performers and courtesans were seen as unconventional, if not radical, not only because of the type of woman they portrayed but also because of the unconventional way they were painted. “These stunning portraits not only give us a perspective on the history of portrait painting and celebrity, but also on the history of women’s progressive self-fashioning, which equally deserves art historical recognition. These are provocative women provocatively painted,” explains exhibition curator Benedict Leca. Organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum in association with the San Diego Museum of Art, Thomas Gainsborough and the Modern Woman is the first exhibition devoted to Thomas Gainsborough’s feminine portraiture, and the first to focus specifically on modernity and femininity in Georgian England from the perspective of Gainsborough’s groundbreaking portraits of women. Coinciding with the comprehensive cleaning and restoration of the Cincinnati Art Museum’s iconic Ann Ford (Mrs. Thicknesse), this exhibition unites a choice selection of thirteen paintings from renowned museum collections in the United States and Britain to illuminate the role that Gainsborough’s extraordinary portraiture played in defining new, progressive feminine identities. Among others on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum, September 18, 2010 – January 2, 2011 will be Mrs. Siddons (National Gallery, London), Mrs Richard Brinsley Sheridan (National Gallery, Washington), Giovanna Baccelli (Tate Britain), Grace Dalrymple (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Viscountess Ligonier (Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens). The exhibition will also feature a small selection of period dresses from the Cincinnati Art Museum’s rich fashion arts and textile collection, thereby further contextualizing Gainsborough’s portraits while affording visitors a view of the material accessories of the “modern woman.” If Gainsborough’s portraits help us to rethink the place of women in the eighteenth century, they also ask us to look anew at the formal specifics that made his portraits so important to ambitious women and their self-definition in the celebrity culture of the period. In his use of provocative postures and slashing brushwork, Gainsborough’s portraits of notorious women differed from those of his peers: they were the way he asserted his own place as the premier painter of modern life. In the eighteenth century, portraits were part of an active negotiation of social and gender relations, and the exhibition’s thesis is that a special complicity between artist and sitter formed the basis from which both conspired to upend traditional portraiture and calcified gender roles".  , Cinncinnati Art Museum, 2010, Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-09-17. Paperback. Good., Gale ECCO, Print Editions, 2010-09-17<

2013, ISBN: 9780699124744

Paperback, Hardcover

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [8], 257, [7] pages. Nam… More...

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 2004. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [8], 257, [7] pages. Name of previous owner present. Gift inscription (NOT from the author) on fep. Sedaris returns to his deliriously twisted domain: hilarious childhood dramas infused with melancholy; the gulf of misunderstanding that exists between people of different nations or members of the same family; and the poignant divide between one's best hopes and most common deeds. From Wikipedia: "David Raymond Sedaris (born December 26, 1956) is an American Grammy Award-nominated humorist, comedian, author, and radio contributor. He was publicly recognized in 1992 when National Public Radio broadcast his essay "SantaLand Diaries". He published his first collection of essays and short stories, Barrel Fever, in 1994. His next five essay collections, Naked (1997), Holidays on Ice (1997), Me Talk Pretty One Day (2000), Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (2004), and When You Are Engulfed in Flames (2008), became New York Times Best Sellers. In 2010, he released a collection of stories, Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Modest Bestiary. In 2013, Sedaris released his latest collection of essays, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls. By 2008, his books had sold seven million copies. Much of Sedaris' humor is autobiographical and self-deprecating, and often concerns his family life, his middle-class upbringing in the suburbs of Raleigh, North Carolina, his Greek heritage, jobs, education, drug use, and obsessive behaviors, and his life in France, London, and the English South Downs. Sedaris was born in Binghamton, New York, to Lou, an IBM engineer, and Sharon (nee Leonard) Sedaris and grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is of Greek descent on his father's side. His mother was Protestant and his father is Greek Orthodox. Sedaris was raised in a suburb of Raleigh and is the second child of six. In his teens and twenties, he dabbled in visual and performance art. He describes his lack of success in several of his essays. After graduating from Jesse O. Sanderson High School in Raleigh, Sedaris briefly attended Western Carolina University before transferring to and dropping out of Kent State University in 1977. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, in 1983 and graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1987. While working odd jobs across Raleigh, Chicago, and New York City, Sedaris was discovered in a Chicago club by radio host Ira Glass; Sedaris was reading a diary he has kept since 1977. Glass asked him to appear on his weekly local program, The Wild Room. Sedaris said, "I owe everything to Ira...My life just changed completely, like someone waved a magic wand." Sedaris' success on The Wild Room led to his National Public Radio debut on December 23, 1992, when he read a radio essay on Morning Edition titled "SantaLand Diaries", which described his purported experiences as an elf at Macy's department store during Christmas in New York. "SantaLand Diaries" was a success with listeners, and made Sedaris what The New York Times called "a minor phenomenon". He began recording a monthly segment for NPR based on his diary entries, edited and produced by Glass, and signed a two-book deal with Little, Brown and Company. In 1993, Sedaris told The New York Times he was publishing his first book, a collection of stories and essays, and had 70 pages written of his second book, a novel "about a man who keeps a diary and whom Mr. Sedaris described as 'not me, but a lot like me'". In 1994, Sedaris published Barrel Fever, a collection of stories and essays. He became a frequent contributor when Glass began a weekly hour-long PRI/Chicago Public Radio show, This American Life, in 1995. Sedaris began writing essays for Esquire and The New Yorker. In 1997, he published another collection of essays. He wrote his next book, Me Talk Pretty One Day, mostly in France over seven months and published it in 2000 to "practically unanimous rave reviews". For that book, Sedaris won the 2001 Thurber Prize for American Humor., Little, Brown and Company, 2004, Gale ECCO, Print Editions. PAPERBACK. 0699124743 Special order direct from the distributor . New., Gale ECCO, Print Editions<