SIGNED x2 Silent in the Land Alabama 1st Ed HCDJ Harry Knopke Chris Cooper BYU

Description: SIGNED x2 Silent in the Land Alabama 1st Ed HCDJ Harry Knopke Chris Cooper Tuckett (BYU)______________________________________ Silent in the LandPreface and Essays by Harry KnopkePhotography by Chris CooperIntro and Architectural Notes by Robert GamblePublished by C K M Press/Tuscaloosa (1993)FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER w DUST JACKET, SIGNED BY AUTHOR KNOPKE and PHOTOGRAPHER, COOPER AND GIVEN TO COACH GLEN TUCKETT (BYU) This is a unique depiction of the major styles and periods of Southern architecture in Alabama. This first edition copy was given to Glen Tuckett by (and signed by Cooper and Knopke) when after retiring from BYU, Tuckett was hired on an interim basis in September 1995 to take over an Alabama athletics department wracked by scandal. Predecessor Hootie Ingram had resigned after the Crimson Tide football team was hit with NCAA sanctions — including scholarship reductions, a bowl ban for 1995 and the forfeiture of eight victories from the 1993 season — stemming from illegal benefits received by former players Antonio Langham and Gene Jelks. Tuckett stayed at Alabama until June 1996, when Bob Bockrath was hired as the Crimson Tide’s permanent AD. Glen then retired back to Utah. Condition:Excellent 1st Edition Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket, SIGNED BY AUTHOR KNOPKE and PHOTOGRAPHER, COOPER AND GIVEN TO COACH GLEN TUCKETT (BYU)! The binding is tight and all 192 pages within are bright white with no writing, underlining, high-lighting, rips, tears, bends, or folds. The covers look perfect! The dust jacket is in excellent condition with no rips, folds or tears, as can be seen in my photos. You will be happy with this one! Always handled carefully and packaged securely! Buy with confidence from a seller who takes the time to show you the details and not use just stock photos. Please check out all my pictures and email with any questions! Thanks for looking! About the Book:SILENT IN THE LAND is a unique depiction of the major styles and periods of Southern architecture. With photographs by artist Chip Cooper and essays by Harry Knopke and Robert Gamble, the book's visual and written images provide impressionistic comments on the 19th century southern landscape viewed through the prism of time. Featuring 60 houses in more than 150 full, four-color photographs, SILENT IN THE LAND is an artistic and historical guide to houses as diverse as simple dogtrots and elegant Palladian mansions, it captures each house as it resides in its setting, sometimes calling the eye to a small detail that delights because of its idiosyncrasy. Essays accompanying the photographs provide new insights through interviews with descendants, owners, or neighbors of each house, as well as through archival research. The historical context for the artistic treatment is established in the introduction and is completed in the descriptive, black-and-white pictorial appendix. This is a book with an urgent message: there are elegant homes, lovingly maintained, some painstakingly restored; there are wasting structures that face slow disintegration through neglect and indifference. SILENT IN THE LAND bridges both worlds, showing the grandeur of one and fragility of the other. By compelling us to look anew at old, familiar structures it gives a vivid call to action for preserving a proud architectural heritage. Some Book Reviews:Pat rated it & it was amazing!A wonderful tour of Alabama history in pictures and articles. Well written and the pictures are outstanding. Ellen Johnson rated it & liked it!beautiful photos of old, rural Southern houses, and not all the stereotypical plantation houses either. There are also slave quarters, shotgun houses, and just to remind us it wasn't all luxury in the early days, old homes owned by planters, doctors, etc. that are actually very small and simple by today's standards. I wish the architectural info in the back was the main text rather than info on the owners and what they'd done to the houses. Convinced me I should never try to renovate a place like this. However, it also made me look around me and appreciate the interesting differences and the 'green' construction they had then (e.g. ways to stay cool w/o AC.) Copyright © 2018-2022 TDM Inc. The photos and text in this listing are copyrighted. I spend lots of time writing up my descriptions and despise it when un-original losers cut and paste my descriptions in as their own. It is against ebay policy and if you are caught, you will be reported to ebay and could be sued for copyright infringement and damages.

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