Tall Book Of Make Believe

No author. Photographs by Snowdon : A Retrospective. New York, NY, U.S.A.: Harry N. Abrams Incorporated, 2000. ISBN: 0810944790

First edition 9-1/2" - 12" Tall. First US Edition by New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2000 Cloth. AS NEW (unread) book and AS NEW dust jacket. . 4to - over 9" - 12" tall. 239 pages, 220 photographs, including 80 plates in full color by Lord Snowdon who has become one of the most respected photographers of the twentieth century. Book is 12-1/4" deep. DJ has white spine with black lettering. Will require oversized shipping. Dust jacket notes read: "I believe that photographs should be simple technically, and easy to look at. They shouldn't be directed at other photographers; their point is to make people react - to laugh, or to see something they hadn't taken in before, or to be touched. But not to wince, I think." Tony Armstrong-Jones, 1958 Born Tony Armstrong-Jones in 1930, Lord Snowdon [married to Princess Margaret] has become one of the most respected photographers of the twentieth century, a contributor to UFE, Vanity Fair, British and American Vogue, the Sunday Times (London) and Telegraph magazines, and a host of other international magazines. This book, published to accompany a major retrospective exhibition, presents a rich selection of Snowdon's work from his early contributions to Tatler, Sketch, and the London Daily Express in the 1950s to his most recent photographs. It has been said that Snowdon knows everyone worth knowing, and that he has been everywhere as participant and observer. Indeed, his pictures have captured a complete cross-section of society: Alec Guinness, Laurence Olivier; Vanessa Redgrave, Helen Mirren, Kenneth Branagh, and Rupert Everett; Peggy Guggenheim, Francis Bacon, and Oskar Kokoschka; Christian Dior, Azzedine Alala, and Gianni Versace; Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf Nureyev; and Mikhail Baryshnikov; and the British royal family. Included here too are his famous photographs of old age, and of disabled and mentally ill children and adults, for some of his most memorable pictures have documented the unfairness and inequality of life. Brief texts written by a distinguished group of contributors approach Snowdon's work from a variety of perspectives: Drusilla Beyfus, Simon Callow, Georgina Howell, Patrick Kinmonth, Carl Toms, Marjorie Wallace, Anthony Powell. Originally published to accompany an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London, this is the FIRST US edition. Snowdon is one of the most versatile photographers of his generation. This book presents a variety of his work spanning five decades, from his early reportage of London in the 1950s to his photographs of leading figures in the' arts today. He is still a regular contributor to Vanity Fair and to Vogue, for which he took his first pictures over forty-five years ago, making him the magazine's longest-serving contributor. Tony Armstrong-Jones (as he then was) began photographing people in the London theater in the 1950s. His grainy prints, often taken during rehearsal with a miniature camera, were full of movement and changed the look of theater photography from that time onward. Snowdon brings a lively irreverence to fashion photography and, in many instances, to his photographs of well-known personalities of our time: kings and queens, the Princess of Wales captured as if she had just walked in from the rain, Marlene Dietrich at the Cafe de Paris., artist Damien Hirst in a fishtank. Snowdon hates to consider himself a specialist - he has over the years, published twenty-one books on a variety of subjects from wildflowers to the hidden buildings of London - but it is with people that he is at his best. ------------------------------------ Photographs include HM Queen Elizabeth and other members of the British Royal (Windsor) family; Leslie Caron; Alec Guiness; John Osborne; Margaret Leighton; Paul Massie; Paul Scofield; Sir Laurence Olivier; Kenneth Tynan; Tom Stoppard; Noel Coward; David Frost; Mike Todd; Glenda Jackson; Maggie Smith; Charlie Chaplin; Christian Dior; Norman Hartnell; Mia Farrow; Sophia Loren; David Hockney; Max Ernst; Princess Margaret; Mikhail Baryshnikov; Rudolph Nureyev; Margot Fonteyn; Peter Cook; Martin Amis; Vladimir Nabakov; J.R.R. Tolkein; Agatha Christie; Anthony Blunt; Barry Humphries; Peggy Guggenheim; Barbara Cartland; Iris Murdoch; Bruce Chatwin; Harold Macmillan; Tony Blair; Peter Mandelson; John Gielgud; Ralph Richardson; Peter Ustinov; Rupert Everett; Edith Evans; William de Kooning; Vivienne Westwood; Yves Saint-Laurent; Jean Muir; Erte; Assedine Alaia; Madame Gres; Lucie Rie; David Bowie; Diana Cooper; Igor Stravinsky; Jacqueline du Pre; Yehudi Menuhin; Princess Diana with Prince Henry; The Queen Mother; Princess Alice; Princess of Wales; Prince William and Prince Harry; Gianni Versace; John Galliano; Simon Callow; Griff Rhys Jones; Michael Gambon; Arthur Miller; Kenneth Branagh; Germaine Greer; Helen Mirren; Emma Thompson; Meryl Streep; Anthony Sher; Ralph Fiennes; Katherine Hepburn; Nigel Hawthorne; Jane Horrocks; Iain Glen; Imogen Stubbs; Alan Bennett; Ian McKellen; Vanessa Redgrave; Natasha Richardson; Richard Harris; Peter O'Toole; Joan Collins; John Hurt; Uma Thurman; Stephen Fry, among others. This is an exquisitely beautiful book. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines and other treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and other curious people. Hard Cover condition: Fine in Fine dj

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Mixner, David. Stranger Among Friends. New York: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1996. ISBN: 0553100734

First edition 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. FIRST US EDITION, FIRST PRINTING (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). 369 pages with index plus 8 pages black and white photos. The book is in FINE condition. The dust jacket is NEAR FINE with minor edge/shelf wear. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. JMVINTAGE specializes in books, magazines and treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor....and other curious people. Dust jacket notes read: "Today, David Mixner is considered one of the most influential voices in American politics. He has earned the respect of the nation's most prominent policy-makers and inspired rage of those to whom he has refused to defer. Mixner's story is not only a chronicle of one man's profound influence on many of the major human rights movements of our time. It's about what it means to be American: standing up for what you believe and believing you can make a difference. 'President Clinton and I were born three days apart. We had both dreamed of serving our country. There was one difference: He could pursue his dreams, while I felt I could not. The President was born straight and I was born gay.'--David Mixner" Hard Cover condition: Fine in Near Fine dj

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Field, Eugene and Viola R Lowe: THE LAND OF MAKE-BELIEVE A Book of Poems by Eugene Field and the Story of "The Children of Mother Goose" by Viola R Lowe, 1931 Racine, Wisconsin Whitman Publishing Company ; fester Einband / hard cover

Hardcover Good+ with no dust jacket Front label bright, moderate edgewear, top spine thumbed, endpapers foxed, binding slightly shaken, interior clean. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 97 pages; Oversized Children's collectibles bks green/no letters childcat

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Wells, G. A. BELIEF AND MAKE-BELIEVE Critical Reflections on the Sources of Credulity, 1991 La Salle, IL Open Court Publishing Company ; fester Einband / hard cover; 1. Ed.
0812691873

Hardcover Very Good in Very Good dust jacket Edition: First Printing Small remainder mark on bottom edge of book. Otherwise in VG condition with no major defects. Interior clean, binding tight. Dust jacket likewise in VG condition. ; tall 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 312 pages; Philosophy sml white / black philcat

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