Fraser, Antonia:Mary Queen of Scots
- signed or inscribed book 1997, ISBN: 0886191548
Paperback, Hardcover
New., Univ. of California Press ,1997 ,Berkeley . Paperback . Used Book . With its unsentimental sympathies, its laughter, and its eye for detail, the collection stands as a significan… More...
New., Univ. of California Press ,1997 ,Berkeley . Paperback . Used Book . With its unsentimental sympathies, its laughter, and its eye for detail, the collection stands as a significant and moving monument to Ramanujan`s memory as a scholar and writer., Univ. of California Press 1997 Berkeley, Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys Limited. 1987 First Edition. Book Near Fine in a Near Fine Dust Jacket. The legend of Tranter's Tree begins in the 1720's when young Ned Tranter arrives on the east coast of Canada with only a pocketful of acorns and a thirst for adventure. He steps right into the bloody conflicts between the English and the French, and the British troubles with the Indians and the Acadians.....but when he sets eyes on the mysterious Stephanie the course of his life is changed dramatically. To commemorate a love that endures through his adventures as a voyageur and her marriage to a local man, he plants an acorn on the spot where he first saw her. The oak that takes root there becomes a strange monument to Ned Tranter's wild exploits....and witness to a fateful tragedy.... This book is at once a vibrant celebration of the dreams and longings, humanity and familiar eccentricities of a small town.... and a powerful historical tale. A lovely bright book with no ownership markings. An illustrated dust jacket....illustration by David Prothere.. ISBN: 0-88619-154-8. Canadian Fiction Canadiana. Catalogs: Maritime Provinces., Lester & Orpen Dennys Limited, Cambridge, Mass.: John Wiley & Sons Inc. Paperback. 0470151528 Jacket condition: Good+. Solid Retired library book with usual library markings. This is a book about American architecture. But it is not about columns or pediments, friezes or cornices. It is not about Jefferson, or neoclassicism. Nor is it about monuments. Instead, it is a visual odyssey Â? a story about some remarkable Americans who built their own homes to suit their own needs and desires. Together, these homes create a world of unusual beauty and variety, where wooden flowers bloom in all colors, orchards bloom in underground dining rooms, and sunlight filters through multiform glass bottles. From a distance, this world may appear to be made of castles in the air Â? unreal presences. And yet, each castle is as honest and real as the materials which compose it: driftwood, concrete, wagon wheels, hand-dried bricks, rolled newspapers, and even embalming bottles. In the hands of innovative designers (who are, for the most part, working alone, unaware of the creative collective they represent), ordinary materials are transformed into extraordinary shelters, carefully presented here in a kind of photographic journal of American self-expression. The author of the journal is Jan Wampler, an architect and teacher who has for many years practiced and encouraged "an architecture not based on current styles, forms, or monuments, but based on the desires of people." In the belief that the best architecture is not always publicized, or even appreciated, Mr. Wampler set out for one year in a VW bus on a kind of transcontinental house tour. What he found may be best summed up by his term "imprint" Â? the personalizing mark left on a home by its owner or builder. Such "imprints" range in these pages from a stained glass spider web, memorializing the first tenant of a beloved building site, to a double glass foundation, displaying live trees in the middle. With the help of his camera and tape recorder, Mr. Wampler has been able to share these imprints and, even more importantly, these imprinters with the rest of the world, proving that the creative spirit which builds countries can survive, even in today's mass-production societies. In the author's words, "What may be gleaned from this book is a clue that these people have given us: the tremendous love, energy and originality that exists within all of us to affect our own lives within the physical world." The people about whom this book is written are our neighbors. It is time to know them better. 208 pages. Your order will be on its way by the next business day! . Good. 1977., John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1977, 1979. Interior is clean with no marks. Includes Fold-out map.. Paperback. Good., 1979, Facsimile copy of extract from Scribner's Magazine for 1891., without wraps. with 12 illus. Ceylon / Sri Lanka Charles Scribner's Sons New York 1891 (July-Dec) Vol. 10 9 1/4 x 6 1/4", pp. 319-336, With timely illustrations, some full-page, typical of Scribner's for the period., Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891, DESERT RATS UNINHIBITED. 1979. S Trade Paperback. Very Good. Signed and Inscribed by one of the Authors; JOHN WOLFE, NEAR PERFECT BOOK Signed: I Signed and Inscribed by one of the Authors, DESERT RATS UNINHIBITED, 1979, Checkerboard Books. LIBRARY BINDING. 1591978327 Library copy with library markings. Great service. Fast shipping. Saving trees 1 page at a time! . Very Good., Checkerboard Books, NY: Delacorte Press, 1970 NEAR-FINE/GOOD First Edition (stated), 8th Printing. Crimson cloth, gilt spine lettering, nearly perfect boards, square & tight, no markings, very nice. Clipped DJ has edge wear & neat tape repairs. A monumental work, 613 pages, 6.5" by 9.5", family trees, well-illustrated. - - - Antonia Fraser's scholarship brings new historic insight into Mary Stuart. Includes her years as a French princess, her marriages to French King Francis II, Darnley and Bothwell, the hatred she encountered when she left her adopted land to re-enter Protestant Scotland as its Catholic ruler, her struggle with religious and political saboteurs, and her execution at Fotheringhay.. Hardcover with Dust-Jacket., Delacorte Press, 1970<
