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Published by M. Neuman, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1959
Seller: Meir Turner, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Cohen, Shlomo (illustrator). In Hebrew. 99 pages. 231 x 158 mm. WorldCat: Libraries worldwide that own item: 3. The author, Philippe Halsman (Latvian: Filips Halsmans, German: Philipp Halsmann; 2 May 1906 Riga, Russian Empire, now Latvia ? 25 June 1979 New York City) was a great American portrait photographer with a fascinating life story, which you can find online. The translated Ben-Zion Tomer, who was born with the last neme Teitlebaum, was born in Bilgori, Poland. WHen WWII broke the family fled to Russia, was exiled to Siberia, fled to Samarkand where he lived in an orphanage. He published his first poem in Russian at age 11. At age 12 he was transferred to Teheran and reached Eretz Israel in February 1943 in the "Teheran Children Immigration." At age 16 he published his first poem in Hebrew. h was one of the founders of Kibbutz Revadim, was in the Palmach in Gush Etzion, was captured by the Jordanian Legion in May 1948. After his release he studied literature and philosophy at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He published various books of poetry, was Israel's cultural attached in Brazil, Yigal Alon's advisor, was involved in the theatre in Israel, translated from the Russian and was very prolific in his literary output.
Published by Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1972., 1972
Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
First edition (as stated upon copyright page) INSCRIBED, DATED, AND SIGNED BY THE PHOTOGRAPHER. 188 pages. Hardcover: H 29.75cm x L 27.25cm. Brown dust jacket rubbed' some bumping/creasing and scuffs at edges; short tears at spine ends; front flap is not price-clipped. Brown cloth; slender streaks of white shelf paint on boards' bottom edges. Text block's top edge foxed. Photographer's four-line black ink inscription "To Clair Nelson, | with may good wishes, | Philippe Halsman. | 1975." on half-title page; interior leaves are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Please note that this large book may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail.
Published by London: Pavilion, 1998, 1998
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Celebrity Photography] FIRST UK EDITION. Quarto (34 x 27cm), pp.212. Black and white photographs throughout. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and brown endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £40. Some light markings to jacket and little creasing to endpapers. Near fine. Iconic photos of twentieth-century celebrities, including Audrey Hepburn, Marlon Brando, Lauren Bacall, Winston Churchill, Jean Cocteau, Salvador Dali, Albert Einstein, Graucho Marx, Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Grace Kelly, John F. Kennedy, Sophia Loren, Marilyn Monroe, Muhammad Ali, Vladimir Nabokov, Georgia O'Keeffe, Bertrand Russell, John Steinbeck, Jean-Paul Sartre, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and Andy Warhol.
Published by New York, 1950
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Gelatin silver prints. Large format (13-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches). Three intimiate and suprisingly "straight" portraits from a photographer known for his unusual methods and and results. Shirely Kessel was the wife of LIFE photographer Dimitri Kessel. Light edgewear at corners; docketed on verso with Halsman's studio stamp; prints numbered in pencil (17, 31, 40); Near Fine Gelatin silver prints. Large format (13-1/2 x 10-3/4 inches).