J Benjamin Townsend (25 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good++. 1st Edition. The American Identity shown in portraits and historical biographies. Covers rubbed, binding and hinges tight. NO LABELS, INSCRIPTIONS, NOR MARKINGS.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 1962 Hardcover 8vo. 144pp. Interior clean; binding tight. Discoloration to endpapers. Dust jacket has intact tear. Protected in mylar sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover in very good + condition with good + dust jacket.

Large Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Mini biographies & portraits on famous Americans.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair Only. DJ has significant rubbing, scuffs, soils, and inking, with some large edge chips and creases; book has some scuffs, soils and edge wear. A studyin portraiture. Illustrated. 217 pages. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition, light wear, no markings or other significant flaws. (box 82). Book.

Hardcover. Endpapers browned; previous owner's name on front endpaper; otherwise very good condition in very good dust jacket. ]. 144p. Illus. Quarto.

Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Articles in addition to above.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.

hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good(-). Edited by J. Benjamin Townsend. Introduced by Charles Nagel. With an Essay by Oscar Handlin. Color Frontis. profusely illustrated in black and white. 8vo, cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper faded, worn at edges. Washington: Smithsonian Institute Press, 1968.

Paper wrap. Condition: Good. First edition. Softcover paper wrap. 4to. 347 pp. Illustrated with 32 full colour photographic plate reproductions ranging from full-page to 1/4 page in size and hundreds of b/w photographic plate reproductions ranging from full-page to thumbnail. Clean, bright, and square. Spine creased down center. Light shelf wear with some scuff marks on the back. Overall Good condition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition, First Printing (No additional printings stated). Staplebound in card wraps. Very Good with light wear to covers and no marks to text. Buffalo Art Catalgues; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 26 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Clean copy with unmarked and undamaged pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Octavo. 73pp. Pictorial wrappers. Illustrated; portraits from Washington to L.B. Johnson. Very good with owner's name penned on front wrap.

Condition: Good. 1962. No Edition Remarks. 144 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over blue cloth boards with lettering. Contains black and white plates. Clean pages and plates with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. Moderate tanning to free endpapers due to dust jacket flaps. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Price sticker to flap. Minor wear marks to spine and panels.

Softcover. White wraps with color illustration. 75 pp. 38 BW plates. Each president, in addition to being illustrated, is given a brief biography. VG. Owner's name on first page, otherwise clean and tight.

Softcover. Salmon and siena stapled wraps, 20 pp., 6 BW illus., 1 color plate laid in as frontispiece. Issued in conjunction with a1979 exhibition featuring works by American artist Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967). With a lengthy essay by J. Benjamin Townsend, and 6 examples of Burchfield's work. G+ (Cover has sunned unevenly; carries label from previous art-library owner.).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of 3,000 copies. Beige cloth with trace edgewear and lightly bumped spine ends and corners. Jacket in new archival mylar sleeve has minor edgewear; flaps not clipped. Binding sound, text clean. Color and b/w illustrations. No prev owner names, stickers or stamps. Not ex-library. 737 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. First Edition with complete number line. 737 pages with B&W & some color plates. Book has light shelf wear, light bumps to edges. DJ has light rubbing & dings to edges. Interior clean.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Very large, very heavy thick book, quality light brown cloth, very bright gilt lettering on spine, purple color inside covers and adjacent end papers, 737 heavy glossy pages. On reverse of second front end paper in black ink: "--To Chet, my oldest, truest, and most forgiving friend, and Bobbie, who is his. Faithfully, if fitfully, Ben. Buffalo, October 17, 1992." DJ glossy beneath mylar, maroon background, a beautiful color-illustration at front, on back a b/w photo of Burchfield. DJ has tiny tear and longer crease at top front edge. Near Fine DJ/Very Fine book. Signed by Editor.

hardcover. Condition: new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. xxv, 737 p. 29 cm. 40 colour plates and 124 b&w figures. Beige cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Cloth has some stains. Faint marks on rear jacket flap. Some faint stains to top edge. A look at American artist Charles Burchfield (1893-1967) through his own words. This volume contains the edited contents of more than 10,000 pages of journal entries, illustrated by the artist's own works.

Cloth. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Charles Burchfield (illustrator). Quarto, Pp.xxvi,737. First printing. The dreams, memories, and observations of one of America's most brilliant and idiosyncratic artists. Lavishly illustrated with Burchfield's dazzling watercolors, in color and black & white. As new/ as new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Color and black/white illus., 11.25 x 8.75", cloth, 737pp with index, extremities bumped and lightly worn, some soiling to textblock edges else a nice copy in a lightly edge-worn/bumped dustjacket. FIRST EDITION (NAP), FIRST PRINTING (full number line), SIGNED AND DATED ("October 17, 1992, Buffalo") BY THE EDITOR, J. BENJAMIN TOWNSEND.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Very large, thicker, sturdy book, quality gray cloth, very bright gilt lettering on spine, purple color inside covers and adjacent end papers, limited to 3000 copies, 737 pages, profusely illustrated, some in color throughout. On reverse of second front end paper in blue ink: "To Chet, my oldest, truest and most forgiving friend, and Bobbie who is his, Faithfully, if fitfully, Ben, Bufflao, October 17, 1992." DJ beneath mylar, purple borders to front, all of spine and back, a colorful surreal landscape of sky, farm and field on most of front, a photo on back. DJ and book, both As New. Signed by Author(s).