alien von edwin rosskam (4 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. First printing, stated. Minimal wear.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Grossman, New York, 1964. First edition. First printing. A fine copy in a near-fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($4.50) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector. Note: Jacket has a toning on the spine, a short closed tear, and rubbing (as pictured). Very faint foxing on side edge. F1800A.

ROSSKAM, Edwin. THE ALIEN. NY: Grossman Publishers, 1964. 8vo., cloth in dust jacket. First Editon. Signed presentation from Rosskam on the half-title-page: "For Peter and Ida, with my greatest affection. Their friend, Ed Rosskam. Oct. 1964." Very good; spine browned (small chips & tears) d/j. $50.00.

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: dj. First Edition. Octavo (23cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in blue, gray and red; original Seymour Chwast dustjacket; 209pp. The dedication copy, inscribed on dedication page, below the printed dedication to Ben and Bernarda, "with all my friendship / Ed." A fine copy in slightly worn and spine-darkened jacket. Rosskam's first and only novel, of an American intellectual in Puerto Rico, inspired by the life of Rosskam and the Shahns' mutual friend and FSA colleague Jack Delano. Rosskam and his wife Louise, Ben and Bernarda Shahn all worked together in the photography section of the Farm Security Administration, and later in the Office of War Information, where they produced some of the most memorable images during what has become known as the "Golden Age" of documentary photography. Signed.