ben shahn illus (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First printing. 6 x 6 in. Paper boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and spine ends bumped with mild wear, edges a touch sunned. Binding tight and text unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; clipped, clean but foxed. Fic. Stax.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First printing. 47 p. 24 cm. B&w drawings. Hardcover in dustjacket. Light wear to jacket edges. Small dents in book edges. Bookplate on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Illus. by Ben Shahn, oblong 7 x 9", rough cloth, unpaginated, a nice, clean copy in a rubbed and lightly soiled slipcase. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WENDELL BERRY, AND THE ILLUSTRATOR, BEN SHAHN.

8vo. pp. 57. b/w illus. by Shahn. Cloth (spine & edges sunned, lower corners worn). dw. (edges & spine sunned, some scuffing to back cover, previous owners notes to front free-endpaper). First Edition.

First, Limited Edition (1500 copies). Octavo (22cm); dark red cloth, stamped in foil; color frontispiece by Ben Shahn; 36pp, frontis. Light soiling and wear to boards; textblock fore edge deckled, toning to page margins with light foxing intermittent throughout. Overall Near Fine, without dustwrapper. E.E. Cummings' Tom is the author's avant-garde attempt to interpret Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin as a ballet. Gestures are described through Cummings' prose-poetry, while the characters themselves are reimagined as doll-like entities. While Cummings intended for this project to eventually make it to a real stage, it was never performed in his lifetime, having seen multiple rejections for its inaccessibility.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Trade Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original cloth in violet pictorial dust jacket; [8],118,[1]pp.; illus. Minor rubbing to jacket extremities, else About Fine. Near Fine in a slightly worn and spine-faded dustwrapper. The artist's copy, with Shahn estate label inside front cover (but no other identifying marks or signatures).

First Edition. Sole printing. Oblong octavo; stapled wrappers, [20]pp; illus. Fine in the original pictorial wrappers. Prescott (Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn) attributes the text to CBS executive Robert Strunsky. Advertisers' prospectus, celebrating CBS's highly-rated radio documentary program "Mind in the Shadow," which exposed the inadequacy of mental health care in America. The prospectus is clearly geared towards upper-end corporate clients; sophisticated in both design and tone, it highlights CBS's commitment to serious journalism, assuring advertisers "a vast and growing public for their messages." The brochure is illustrated throughout with simple, semi-abstract line drawings by the modernist painter Ben Shahn, who at this time was at the height of his fame and reputation. It is a great example of Shahn's mid-century commercial work and one of his most uncommon illustrated books, OCLC noting fewer than a dozen holdings in American institutions. PRESCOTT p.115 (note).

First, Limited Edition. Folio (33cm). Original morocco-backed paper-covered boards in publisher's slipcase; unpaged [28pp]. No. 75 of 365 hand-numbered copies in the regular edition (there were also 35 copies with a signed proof). Frontispiece is a portrait of Wilfred Owen, drawn by Shahn and printed from a block by Leonard Baskin; text includes 15 lithographs after original illustrations by Shahn. A very clean copy, about Fine; in the original slipcase, mildly toned and with a couple of tiny nicks at corners, still Near Fine. Superbly produced collection of Owen's anti-war poems, accompanied by Shahn's graphic depictions of the brutality of war.

First, Limited Edition. Folio (33cm). Original morocco-backed paper-covered boards in publisher's slipcase; unpaged [28pp]. No. 43 of 365 hand-numbered copies in the regular edition (there were also 35 copies with a signed proof). Frontispiece is a portrait of Wilfred Owen, drawn by Shahn and printed from a block by Leonard Baskin; text includes 15 lithographs after original illustrations by Shahn. Mild wear and soil to slipcase; touch of foxing to endpapers and flyleaves; Near Fine. Superbly produced collection of Owen's anti-war poems, accompanied by Shahn's graphic depictions of the brutality of war. The colophon states that only the first thirty-five "deluxe" copies were bound in half-leather; in fact the entire edition appears to have been bound thus; but only the "deluxe" copies include the signed proof of the Owen portrait, not present here. Signed.