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1	Stories in Stone: A Field Guide to Cemetery Symbolism and Iconography more books like this by Douglas Keister (Photographer) add to wishlist Featuring color photographs taken in cemeteries around the world, this field guide decodes hundreds of symbols used in memorials. To facilitate quick reference, the symbols are organized into sections devoted to (for example) flowers, mythical creatures, the human body, religious symbolism, and secr see all copies from $16.81! new only from $18.09! \| SVS
2	A Graveyard Preservation Primer more books like this by Lynette Strangstad add to wishlist 29.95 see all copies from $25.91! new only from $25.91! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The American Resting Place: Four Hundred Years of History Through Our Cemeteries and Burial Grounds more books like this by Marilyn Yalom, Reid S Yalom (Photographer) add to wishlist This sweeping history of America, as seen through its gravestones, graveyards, and burial practices, is stunningly illustrated with 80 black-and-white photographs. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $12.94! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Beautiful Death: 8the Art of the Cemetery more books like this by David Robinson, M.A. (Photographer), Dean R Koontz add to wishlist Author, Dean Koontz, and photographer, David Robinson, examine the subject of death, and the way people attempt to come to terms with it in funerary monuments and graveside gestures. see all copies from $7.10! new only from $48.39! \| first editions
5	Saving Graces: Images of Women in European Cemeteries more books like this by David Robinson, Joyce Carol Oates (Introduction by) add to wishlist In many cemeteries, particularly in Europe, one can find 19th-century sculptures of idealized images of women, elaborately posed and sculpted with great care and artistic flair. David Robinson's photographs capture the sensual beauty and mystery of these lifelike sculptures. In her foreword, Joyce Carol Oates explores the many implications of the ... see all copies from $6.58! new only from $9.97! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and Its Symbols, 1650-1815 more books like this by Allan I Ludwig, Allen Ludwig add to wishlist In Puritan New England, with its abiding concern for things not of this world and its distrust of forms and ceremonies, one art flourished: the symbolic art of mortuary monument stonecarvers. This carefully researched, beautifully illustrated work was the first to consider this art in depth as a meaningful aesthetic-spiritual expression. It is ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $25.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Grave matters more books like this by Mark C Taylor, Dietrich Christian Lammerts add to wishlist "Grave Matters" is a haunting work in which Taylor's ghosts become our own. The photographs of the graves of American and European artists, architects, writers, philosophers and musicians who shaped modern culture are both beautiful and disturbing, and make us look with fresh eyes at the history of modernism and its place within postmodern culture ... see all copies from $3.86! new only from $3.86! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Forever Dixie: A Field Guide to Southern Cemeteries & Their Residents more books like this by Douglas Keister (Photographer) add to wishlist "Forever Dixie" is an exploratIon of thirteen of the South's best cemeteries and forty notable southerners who have chosen to call the South their permanent home. "Forever Dixie" gives cemetery explorers GPS directions to the graves of famous southerners and features interesting and unique graves of ordinary citizens like Thelma Holford of ... see all copies from $7.55! new only from $7.87! \| SVS
9	Gravestones of early New England and the men who made them 1653-1800. more books like this by Harriette Merrifield Forbes add to wishlist see all copies from $30.00! new only from $93.00! \| first editions
10	Riddle of the Pacific more books like this by John MacMillan Brown add to wishlist First published in London in 1924, this rare classic has been one of the most difficult books on Pacific archaeology to find. Out-of-print for over 70 years, this highly illustrated volume is a scholarly study of such far-out topics as a lost continent in the Pacific, ancient writing in the Pacific, the stonework of Easter Islands, megalithic ... see all copies from $12.59! new only from $12.59! \| SVS
11	Stranger stop and cast an eye; a guide to gravestones & gravestone rubbing more books like this by G. Walker Jacobs add to wishlist see all copies from $2.68! first editions
12	Cemeteries and gravemarkers : voices of American culture more books like this by Richard E. Meyer add to wishlist Meyer examines burial grounds through the centuries and across the land to give fresh insight into the history of America and the development of its cultural values. see all copies from $17.19! new only from $63.92!
13 view cover	Steinhardt: Liao Architecture more books like this by Nancy Shatzman Steinhardt add to wishlist see all copies from $6.00! new only from $6.00! \| first editions
14 view cover	Carved Memories more books like this by Professor Gershon David Hundert (Contributions by), David Noevich Goberman, Robert Pinsky (Introduction by) add to wishlist In 1786, Catherine the Great of Russia ordered all Jews to move to an area in Russia and Poland known as "Pale of Settlement." The carved tombstones of the Pale are the subject of this collection of 125 duotone photographs. see all copies from $9.98! new only from $12.93! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	Images of Man and Death more books like this by Philippe Aries, Janet Lloyd, Lady (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $32.99! first editions
16	Highgate Cemetery : Victorian Valhalla more books like this by Felix Barker, John Gay add to wishlist see all copies from $40.00!
17 view cover	Tomb Sculpture: Four Lectures on Its Changing Aspects from Ancient Egypt to Bernini more books like this by Erwin Panofsky add to wishlist Abrams is proud to reissue Tomb Sculpture, the classic volume by the late Erwin Panofsky. Starting with Egypt and pursuing its theme through many fascinating cultural expressions--Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Early Christian, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, and Baroque--and including works by Michelangelo and Bernini, among others, Tomb Sculpture ... see all copies from $35.95! first editions
18	Souls in Stone: European Graveyard Sculpture more books like this by Anne De Brunhoff add to wishlist see all copies from $25.00! first editions
19 view cover	Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy more books like this by Professor Terry G Jordan add to wishlist Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the ... see all copies from $9.40! new only from $14.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Peter Loewy: Private Collection more books like this by Kehayoff, Martha Laugs (Photographer), Daniel Kletke (Text by) add to wishlist This set of 5x7-inch postcards, housed in a luminous corrugated plastic box, features artworks in the collection of Peter Loewy, all photographed in their makers' studios. With work by Vija Celmins, Elizabeth Peyton, Gerhard Richter, David Hockney, Chuck Close and Raymond Pettibon, among others. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21	Graven Images: Graphic Motifs of the Jewish Grave Stone more books like this by Arnold Schwartzman, Chaim Potok (Foreword by) add to wishlist A spirited view of a somber subject, this book is a treasury of Jewish history, legend and lore. Over 200 photographs offer a look at the graven images that have traditionally decorated Jewish tombstones in Europe. see all copies from $3.46! new only from $37.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Imperial Mausoleums and Tombs: The Ancient Chinese Architecture Series more books like this by Wang Bayang, Po-Yang Wang, Wang Boyang add to wishlist The underground mausoleums and tombs are developed out of China's longstanding practice of sacrificial rites and burial. Prior to the Zhou dynasty, simple enclosures were the rule, mounds followed in the Qin dynasty and by the Han dynasty, brick and stone structures had been widely adopted. These were in turn superseded by the magnificent palace ... see all copies from $16.27! new only from $27.58! \| first editions
23 view cover	Art of Death: Visual Culture in the English Death Ritual C.1500 - C.1800 more books like this by Nigel Llewellyn add to wishlist In pre-Industrial England the process of dying was deliberately extended and enhanced with a rich variety of visual artifacts. Includes death's-head spoons, wax effigies, as well as works by Holbein and Blake, and looks at the rituals associated with them. "A highly perceptive account of attitudes to death and its commemoration in post-Reformation ... see all copies from $9.72! new only from $22.95! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Pioneer Cemeteries: Sculpture Gardens of the Old West more books like this by Annette Stott add to wishlist As pioneers attempted to settle and civilize the 'Wild West,' cemeteries became important cultural centres. Filled with carved wooden headboards, inscribed local stones, and Italian marble statues, they functioned as symbols of stability and progress toward a European-inspired vision of Manifest Destiny. As repositories of art and history, these ... see all copies from $24.50! new only from $37.05! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Mortuary Monuments and Burial Grounds of the Historic Period more books like this by Harold Mytum add to wishlist This practical volume focuses on the study of historic burial ground monuments but also covers some below ground archaeology, as some projects will involve the study of both. The linking between above and below ground data has rarely been achieved, and the integration of graveyard data within settlement and landscape archaeology has also been ... see all copies from $52.47! new only from $52.47! \| first editions \| SVS

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