NEW BACKGROUNDS FOR A NEW AGE de Park, Edwin Avery

New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1927. No Statement of Printing. . Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. An ex-library copy (bookplate) in original patterned hard covers and tan cloth spine with paper spine label (as issued). The usual ex-libris markings, clean within. The binding is sound, and there is little wear to the covers. No dust jacket. A calling card with the message "With love and good wishes for a successful paper, E.A.P." is tipped in inside the front cover, so assumed by the author, but with an unrelated name (with different initials) on the front of the calling card.

Harcourt, Brace & Company. Good with no dust jacket. 1927. Hardcover. E--Wear and rubbing to covers, especially at corners, along edges and at spine ends. Erasures and inscription on front end page. Age toning on end pages and closed edges. Binding sound. Text clean of highlighting, underlining or other pen/pencil marks. Due to size and/or weight of the book I can only ship it domestic mail. A Little Store that's BIG on Service. Tracking on every package. .

NY: Harcourt, Brace & Co, 1927. Illustrated with Line Drawings & Photographs -- EMAIL for Pictures. Decorative Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Edwin Avery Park.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1927 225 pages, boards rubbed a bit, corners bumped.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1927. No stated edition. Hardcover. Very good. 225p + 94 photos and line ills. Without the jacket. Bound in green cloth with paper spine label; there was also an edition bound in batik-patterned paper over boards. One of the first general-interest books to promote modern design in the United States. Chapters on recent decorative art in Europe, "Industrial Democracy and Art," design education, "Discovering the New Beauty," materials (steel, concrete, terra cotta), Modern American Decorators and Craftsmen, etc. "Our task is precisely to find what beauty exists in the shower bath... in observing the silver stream from a beauitfully shaped silver vessel." An important contemporary account of Twenties design, with a focus on how good design can further good living.

Very Good. Very good green cloth hardcover in no dust jacket. NY 1927 1st Harcourt Brace. Large octavo, 225pp., photo illustrations, patterned rice-paper covered boards with tan cloth spine and mounted paper spine label. first ed. first printing No readers' or ex-library or remainder marks. Illus. very good.

Harcourt, Brace and Co. Used - Acceptable. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Art History, Decorative arts, interior decorating) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

PARK, Edwin Avery. NEW BACKGROUNDS FOR A NEW AGE. New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1927). Small 4to. Cloth spine, boards. Frontispiece, xiii, 225 pages, plates. First edition. Park discusses the new American artisitic aesthetic of the early twentieth century. Illustrated with line drawings and photographs. Ex-libris copy. Inner front hinge cracked, frontispiece loose but present, covers rubbed, a g copy only.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Harcourt, Brace and Co. Used - Good. Good condition. No Dust Jacket (art history, architecture, decor)