The Jewel City: In its Planning and Achievement; its Architecture, Sculpture, Symbolism, and Music; its Gardens, Palaces, and Exhibits
por Macomber, Ben
- Usado
- Muito Bom
- Capa dura
- first
- Condição
- Muito Bom/No Jacket
- Livreiro
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Long Beach, Washington, United States
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Sobre este item
San Francisco: JOHN H. Williams, 1915 2041 numbered pp +3; HB. Copy of Thomas Bayne Wilson, , President and General Manager of Greyhound, Chairman of the Board of TWA, and Kansas State Representative (a busy fellow). Pages: clean, bright, tight, kraft eps, color tipped in frontis; a.e. tanned/lt foxed. Cover: kraft-covered boards, gray/black/navy artwork front, black/reverse titles front, black titles spine; modest shelfwear, tears at joint edges. Lovely memento of the 1915 Pan-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
Sinopse
From the book:No more accurate account of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition has been given than one that was forced from the lips of a charming Eastern woman of culture. Walking one evening in the Fine Arts colonnade, while the illumination from distant search-lights accented the glory of Maybeck's masterpiece, and lit up the half-domes and arches across the lagoon, she exclaimed to her companion: "Why, all the beauty of the world has been sifted, and the finest of it assembled here!" This simple phrase, the involuntary outburst of a traveled visitor, will be echoed by thousands who feel the magic of what the master artists and architects of America have done here in celebration of the Panama Canal. I put the "artists" first, because this Exposition has set a new standard. Among all the great inter-national expositions previously held in the United States, as well as those abroad, it had been the fashion for managers to order a manufactures building from one architect, a machinery hall from another, a fine arts gallery from a third. These worked almost indepen-dently. Their structures, separately, were often beautiful; together, they seldom indicated any kinship or common purpose. When the buildings were completed, the artists were called in to soften their disharmonies with such sculptural and horticultural decoration as might be possible.
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- Livreiro
- Independent Books
(US)
- Nº do estoque do livreiro
- 031323
- Título
- The Jewel City: In its Planning and Achievement; its Architecture, Sculpture, Symbolism, and Music; its Gardens, Palaces, and Exhibits
- Autor
- Macomber, Ben
- Formato/Encadernação
- Paper Over Boards
- Estado do livro
- Usado - Muito Bom
- Condição de sobrecapa
- No Jacket
- Quantidade Disponível
- 1
- Edição
- First Edition
- Encadernação
- Capa dura
- Editorial
- JOHN H. Williams
- Local de publicação
- San Francisco
- Data de publicação
- 1915
- Dimensão
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Palavras-chave
- Americana
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