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Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. Mild slit to front DJ cover with corresponding scratch to fron cover of book. ; Green cloth hardback. Color & B&W photos. Work of New England photojournalist; 0.6 x 11.3 x 10.1 Inches; 136 pages.

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Wolf Kahn, whose lyrical and beautiful landscapes are among America's best-loved contemporary paintings, has traveled the world in pursuit of his art. In this charming book, he describes his travels across the United States, illustrating his adventures with the works he created on his journeys. In a series of short essays, each only a few paragraphs in length, Kahn recalls the places in America where he has traveled to work as well as the problems those diverse locations presented to him as an artist, and how he solved them. In one section, he writes of the difficulty of capturing the dark tones and rough textures of the sea, with the special light effects that signal a given time of day. In another he writes of the gradations of color and value density in a bramble thicket in the Maine woods. Other short essays are simply personal memories, charming and anecdotal reminiscences of life on the road. This is delightful and refreshing look at the world of a painter, seen through the candid and unpretentious eyes of one of America's most popular artists, is accompanied by 100 of Kahn's superbly reproduced oil paintings and pastels. John Updike's introduction, a tribute to an admired fr.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Inscribed by Levine to his wife Ruth, who also wrote her name on the flyleaf. No jacket. 3/4" tear in cloth on front cover alongside lower edge of spine. Binding square & firm. David Levine (illustrator). Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Boston: Gambit, Incorporated, 1969. 150 pp. 25.5 x 18.5 cm. Grey and black cloth-covered boards with gilt titling to spine in unclipped dustjacket; signed by John Updike on title page. Several small closed tears to head of jacket on front, back, and inside panels, the longest two are 1 cm in length. Very light chipping to head and tail of spine of jacket; light rubbing to spine. Very light bumping to head and tail of spine of book. Aside from Updike's signature, interior is otherwise clean and unmarked. Binding nice and firm. Signed By Editor. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. near fine. second printing. 11 x 11 in. Purple cloth boards. Lavish color plates. Condition is FINE ; like new on all points. Text spotless. DJ is NEAR FINE ; not clipped ($45) like near new. Art. Stax.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st printing (1980). 385pp. VG+/VG+ copy, now preserved in archival jacket protector.

Zustand: Very Good +. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. New York: Random House, 1991. First U.S. Edition (numberline to 2 in keeping with RH's methods at the time). Signed by John Updike without inscription at front free endpaper. Quarto. 231 pp. Photographs throughout, some color. Photo-illustrated dust jacket. Black boards stamped in white. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges with general rubbing and faint surface scratching. Boards show light shelfwear. Binding sound and pages unmarked. …

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 4to. pp. 231. 208 illus. (incl. 23 colour). bds. dw. (shelf wear). First Edition.

4to. pp. 207. Profusely illus. in colour & b/w. biblio. index. boards (bit worn at foot of spine). dw.

Cloth. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. First edition. Five volumes of literary criticism both by and concerning the work of the renowned author Vladimir Nabokov. The first editions of these works in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers, except for Notes on Prosody and Abram Gannibal, which is in the publisher's original paper wraps.Previous owner"s inscription to the half title page of Notes on Prosody and Abram Gannibal, with the occasional ink mark in the text.A five-volume collection of literary criticism, including criticism written by Vladimir Nabokov, and criticism written by other authors on the work of Nabokov.Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977), best known for his controversial novel Lolita, was a Russian-American writer and translator.The set comprises:Notes on Prosody and Abram Gannibal by Vladimir Nabokov (1964, Princeton University Press, Princeton)Nabokov: His Life in Art by Andrew Field (1967, Little, Brown and Company, Boston)Nabokov's Deceptive World by William Woodin Rowe (1971, New York University Press, New York)Nabokov: His Life in Part by Andrew Field (1977, The Viking Press, New York)Lectures on Literature: Austen, Dickens, Flaubert, Joyce, Kafka, Proust, Stevenson by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Fredson Bowers with an introduction by John Updike (1980, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York) In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers, except for 'Notes on Prosody and Abram Gannibal', which is in the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, smart. A little sunned to the spine and the front of the wraps of "Notes on Prosody". Touch of fading to the perimeters of the boards to 'Lectures on Literature'. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Dust wrappers remain bright and smart. A little edgewear to the dust wrappers to 'Nabokov: His Life in Art', 'Nabokov's Deceptive World' and 'Lectures on Literature'. Closed tear to the rear of wrap to 'Lectures on Literature', with an amateur tape repair to the the reverse. Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book. …