Baruch, Ruth Marion Pirkle Jones (17 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Spend Less, Read More.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Sealed in original plastic but plastic is ripped.

Decorated hard cover. First edition. Illustrated. Important reference work. Fine copy. 144 pps.

Cloth. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Covers shelfworn. Dust jacket worn with tears and scuffs.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones (illustrator). 1st edition. 1st edition, 2002. Near Fine. 4to., 137 pp., with black and white images. Bound in publishers black cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Very slight rubbing to dust jacket, otherwise clean and unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve.

Softcover. Condition: very good. First Edition. This white husband-and-wife team of photographers became Black Panther sympathizers through their Peace and Freedom Party political involvement and their deeply-imprinted memories of anti-Semitism (Baruch) and Southern lynchings (Jones). "Slowly, we began to comprehend how severely maligned they were by all the communications media." Armed with a spur-of-the-moment promise from the art director of San Francisco's De Young Museum to show Panther pictures, Baruch approached Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver, gained their tentative assent and, eventually, their full confidence. The pair's first photographic foray was to a Free Huey rally in Oakland's De Fremery Park. At first they could aim their cameras only at the rank and file, but ultimately they were permitted to photograph the leaders at close range too, including founder Huey Newton at the Alameda County Court House jail. The completed collection became an object of controversy when the exhibit was abruptly canceled, but Baruch and Jones fought back and their show finally opened to record crowds. Displayed here along with a historical interpretation of the Panthers by black journalist William Worthy, a "review of Panther growth and harassment," and the Party rules, platform, and program, the photographs are of demonstrations, crowds, speeches, displays, but mostly of faces--candid, committed, and compellingly human. Introduction by William Worthy. Creasing to the front panel. No later printings referenced. 7" - 9¾". Book.

Hard cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Signed by Pirkle Jones.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. BR. Inscribed by Pirkle Jones to James Oliver Mitchell.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. Pirkle Jones & Ruth-Marion Baruch (illustrator). 1st Edition. 1st. Edition, Limited Edition of 4000 copies 2002, Black cloth hardcover with the dust jacket, 152 page book. This rare copy is signed by Pirkle Jones on the first title page. With 137 black and white images taken by the authors all full page plates. A rare signed copy and in Very Fine Condition . Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Red quarter binding with grey boards. Silver lettering on the spine. The front board has an impression of something that resembles a church with a moon, a person and squares (buildings? or rocks?). The end papers are free from bookplates and owner's names. Corners are sharp. Binding is tight. Many B&W photographs. The DJ has some tears around the front top corner, at the top of the front panel in three spots- the first tear is 1.5" long and two tears at about 1/2". Then there is chipping an rubbing at the top if the spine. Botton rear corner has a chip in DJ. The DJ does cover the entire book. This book is not paginated.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Photos of the Black Panther Party and their audience, taken in late 1968, after Baruch spoke to Kathleen Cleaver at an event; Eldridge Cleaver, notes Baruch in her introduction, asked, "Why do your photographs have feeling, and none of the work I've seen of us by other photographers has?" Baruch and her husband & collaborator Jones studied under Andel Adams, Minor White, Dorothea Lange & Edward Weston at the California School of Fine arts begining in 1946, and were established documentarians by the late 1960s. Baruch credits prejudice she experienced against her as a Jew for her sympathy with other unjustly treated people, and her impulse to give the Panthers, then approaching the peak of their power, a fair showing to the public. Her and Jones's pictures were first exhibited in San Francisco (after some controversy), then in Harlem and at Dartmouth College before this book was published. The book includes numerous b/w photos, Baruch's preface, a critical/concerned essay by Black journalist William Worthy on the Panthers' political state, a Panther chronology, and the Party's own rules and party platform. Hardcover in jacket as pictured; the first edition (first printing) listing no later printings. Light wear to book; jacket with tears near head of spine & upper rear panel, some nicks & other short tears, minor chips, minor crease. Text clean; [128] pages, about 104 b/w photos. Size: Quarto.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. VG/G+. Hardcover with dust jacket. First edition. With fading to edges. Dust jacket has soiling to back cover and moderate edgewear and rubbing. 3 small 1/2" closed tears on back and front cover. Minographed page from Guerilla theater / Bobby Seale Brigade laid in. Scarce book.

A book of photographs of the Black Panthers, composing what the authors call a "photographic essay," made with the cooperation of Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver. The work also contains an introduction by William Worthy. These pictures were first gathered for an exhibition at San Francisco's De Young Museum, which became one of the most controversial shows in the museum's history. First edition. Offset. Red cloth over brown boards, blue pictorial dustjacket. 127, [1] pp. 10 1/4 x 8 1/8 in. Very good; dustjacket with a few nicks, 3 short closed tears at head and tail of front and spine panels, one of which with inexpert tape repair, some minor discoloration.

Beacon Press Boston, 1970. 25 x 20,5 cm, 128 pp. Broché, couverture légèrement usée et salie, Reste d'étiquette sur la première de couverture.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 4,000 copies. Quarto (31cm); black cloth, with titles embossed on spine; dustjacket; [144]pp; illus. Signed by Kathleen Cleaver on the title page, dated July 30, 2010. Base of spine gently nudged, crown gently bumped, else Near Fine in a lightly rubbed, Near Fine dustjacket. Signed.

Wrap. Condition: Good. 1st Edition, Beacon Press Books, Boston, 1970, Signed by Bobby Seale & Angela Davis, Very Rare Wrap in good condition.