Old Glories

Mason, Caroline Atwater. THE SPELL OF FRANCE. Boston: Page Company, (c. 1912) 1918.
The gold is gone from the spine but the title is still legible. The gold title on the front cover is a little rubbed but readily legible, remaining gold on the front cover is still bright. The color is worn from the tips of the fore corners and the top/bottom of the spine, but nowhere is the cloth worn through to the boards. Else minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Gift not on half-title. There is damp wrinkling on the lower portion of the last half of the book with a light damp stain showing up on the last few pages, but NO musty smell. No DJ. ; Green cloth with blue, green and gold embossed picture on front cover. Illustrated endpapers. Full-color frontispiece illustration . 2-page fold-out four-color map of Southern France. Bibliography . Index. 48 pages of b/w photos. TRAVEL. "I have travelled in the north of France and through its central plains; there I have found fine coast lines, fertile fields, fair cities, ancient monuments, architectural glories; - endless things, indeed to awaken admiration and stimulate interest in a high degree. But until I journeyed through the Midi I failed to find that France had power to cast a SPELL upon my mind. Among the mountains and rivers of OLD FRANCE; among the mighty remians of an earlier civiliazation, among its legend-haunted castles, churches and abbeys; among fields of olive and vine, and the roses and nightingales of Provence; among the green pastures and sweetwaters of the Pyrenees; under the palms and pines and orange groves, the sky and air of the Mediterranean shore, the spell was laid upon me. " ; 8" tALL; 425 pages.

Hardcover, Good-.

[KW: Southern France; Avignon; Arles; Vernet; Pyrenees; Provence; Cannes; TRAVEL,]

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Ogden, H. A. w/collaboration of Hitchcock. H. A. THE BOY'S BOOK OF FAMOUS REGIMENTS, New York, NY: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1914

HB. Very Good/No Jacket. 2nd Printing. Sm8vo from 7-1/2" to 8" Tall. 260 pp, brown cloth covered boards w/black lettering & w/illustration on the front. The book covers the origin of the regiment, the valor of some British Regiments (the Life Guards, The Royal Horse Guards, The 2nd Dragoons, Scots Greys, The Royal Marines, The Black Watch, Highland Light Infantry & many others), Regimental glories of Napoleon & France, Famous Regiments of the United States (the Minute Men, The Green Mountain Boys, Morgan's Riflemen, 2nd Dragoons, Zouaves, the Rough Riders and others), the regiments of Old Prussia and United Germany, the intrepid and picturesque Russians, some regiments of the dual monarchy, the dashing Bersaglieri & other Italian regiments, Sweden's Cavalry & the Yellow Regiment, colonial regiments of Canada & India, the "ever victorious army" and other world famous regiments, and some regiments of Europe in the Great War of 1914. prev owner's address label on ffep, slight wear to corners.

[KW: BRITISH REGIMENT NAPOLEON GRENADIER JUVENILE LITERATURE CHILDREN OGDEN, H. A. NON-FICTION MILITARY FOREIGN COUNTRIES HISTORY]

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Photo Essays Phillips, John: It Happened In Our Lifetime: A Memoir In Words and Pictures, Little, Brown & Co, NY, 1985 ; 1. Ed. ISBN: 0316706094
Condition: Nr Fine in Chipped DJ. Book Size 4to.

In this book, with almost 500 pictures, the author presents, among other events, the abdication of Edward VIII; the Anschluss; the Warsaw ghetto, before and after its destruction; Tito's guerrilla war against the Nazis; and Israel's battle for independence. He recorded the fall of Hungary to the Communists; he was with Churchill at Teheran; and with Khrushchev at Belgrade. There are also exotic parties given by Cecil Beaton and Lady Juliet Duff. Portraits of the last glories of the English aristocracy and the old French Bourgeoisie; the industrialists and artists who made Italy's miraculous postwar recovery possible. In 60,000 words of text he captures the extraordinary adventures and bizarre characters that together made up the author's life. The combination of words and pictures provides a rich, powerful portrait of a fascinating career. LCCN 85-13116. 279 Pgs. Description text copyright 2007 www.BooksForComfort.com. Item ID 14029.; 1st Stated Ed

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Scigliano, Eric. Michelangelo's Mountain The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara. Free Press, 2005.
1.3 x 9.1 x 6 Inches; 368 pages; <P>No artist looms so large in Western consciousness and culture as Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most celebrated sculptor of all time. And no place on earth provides a stone so capable of simulating the warmth and vitality of human flesh and incarnating the genius of a Michelangelo as the <I>statuario</I> of Carrara, the storied marble mecca at Tuscany's northwest corner. It was there, where shadowy Etruscans and Roman slaves once toiled, that Michelangelo risked his life in dozens of harrowing expeditions to secure the precious stone for his <I>PietA , Moses,</I> and other masterpieces.<P>Many books have recounted Michelangelo's achievements in Florence and Rome. <I>Michelangelo's Mountain</I> goes beyond all of them, revealing his escapades and ordeals in the spectacular landscape that was the third pole of his tumultuous career and the third wellspring of his art. Eric Scigliano brings this haunting place and eternally fascinating artist to life in a sweeping tale peopled by popes and poets, mad dukes and mythic monsters, scheming courtiers and rough-hewn quarrymen. In showing how the artist, land, and stone transformed one another, Scigliano brings fresh insight to Michelangelo's most cherished works and illuminates his struggles with the princes and potentates of Carrara, Rome, and Medici Florence, who raised intrigue to a high art. He recounts the saga of the <I>David,</I> the improbable masterpiece that Michelangelo created against all odds, of the twin <I>Hercules</I> that he tried to erect beside it, and of the Salieri-like nemesis who snatched away the commission, turning a sculptural testament to liberty into a bitter symbol of tyranny and giving Florence the colossus it loves to hate.<P>Scigliano plumbs the Renaissance archives, uncovering previously unpublished and untranslated documents, and trolls the earthy cantinas of Carrara, where old <I>cavatori</I> who wrestled giant blocks from the mountains by hand recount the miseries and glories of a vanishing heroic age. He takes readers along with another sojourner, the exiled poet Dante Alighieri, who drew his visions of Hell and Purgatory partly from the surreal panorama of Carrara's quarries. Interweaving art, architecture, science, politics, folklore, and even quarry cuisine, he traces the mystique of marble and the magic of the stone carver's art from prehistory to the present, and shows how they culminate in the triumph and tragedy of Michelangelo's Pygmalion-like quest to bring life out of stone.<P>. 0743254775.

Hardcover, NF/NF.

[KW: Michelangelo Painting Arts & Photography Books History & Criticism Sculpture Italy Europe History,]

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