Ben Shahn Text (16 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Binding has wear and soil; former ownership name at top of cover and free front endpaper; inner margins of text have stain at bottom; back cover has a mark; body of interior clean. 20 p., 32 p. of plates (16 color) [drsr aro br 21] Size: 7 x 8 7/16 Inches.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st. 20 pages, illustrations, 32 plates (part colour); 18 x 22 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. First Edition. Size: Oblong. Collectible.

First Edition. First Edition. Catalog for the December 22, 1961 to January 22, 1962 exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Text in Dutch. Light rubbing to the wrappers, else Near Fine in saddle-stapled illustrated card wrappers.

Condition: Good. Good condition. (Art, Jewish, True Crime) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Cloth w/DJ. Condition: G/No DuG. First Edition. New York, NY: George Braziller Inc. G/No DuG. (1963). First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 2nd Printing . 4to., 144 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, tears, stain on back cover . Black & White Illustrations (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Good condition. (Ben Shahn, Sacco, Vanzetti) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Small 4to, 142 pp, reproductions in colour and black and white of works by Ben Shahn, white decorated boards slightly marked, dust wrapper has a repaired tear to the front cover and some light wear to the edges but is now protected and perfectly presentable.…

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 296p Size: A5 Number of books: 1.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 296p Size: A5 Number of books: 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in dust jacket with slight wear. Folio bound in red buckram with gilt decorations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Illustrated with color and B&W illustrations. Condition: slight age-darkening to spines of both volumes; slipcase slightly scuffed and sunned; else very good+ in very good slipcase. Pages: 144 & 142.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Obl. 9 ¼ in. wide, 7 ¼ in. tall. White cloth stamped in black One of a limited edition. Signed by both the author and the illustrator. Not paginated. A poem about Kennedy's assassination. Purple end-papers. The front end-paper has left a spot on a preliminary page. The reverse of one page and the front of the next page had stuck together at a point and these pages were separated, leaving evidence of the adhesion. Dusting to the covers. In a black cloth-covered slipcase with a black-on-white title label. Wear to the case, and a chip on one corner. Signed by Illustrator(s). …

Condition: Good. 4to. Hardcover with dust jacket in slip case. This is a two-volume set of the life and work of Ben Shahn. [Volume One] : Paintings (144pp.). [Volume Two] : Graphic Art (142pp.). Volumes together include 125 B&W and color plates. Volumes are encased in slip case with illustrative plates on both sides. Very Good, very minor markings, creasing, and sunning on cover. Inserts: [Volume One]: Book review request from George Braziller, Inc. (New York). [Volume Two]: New York Times death announcement of Ben Shahn (Sunday, March 16, 1969); glossy B&W prints including three works from Ben Shahn and plates of Sumerian libration vessels photocopied from an unknown source.Provenance: from the Estate of Judy Stone (1924 -2017), The San Francisco Chronicle's movie critic who for two decades was a passionate and articulate advocate for the world of cinema outside Hollywood. Judy Stone started at the San Francisco Chronicle in 1961, putting in 10 years as editor of the Datebook section. She began reviewing films for the paper in 1971, favoring arthouse films. She was the youngest of four politically minded children whose eldest brother was the great reporter and gadfly I. F. Stone.She won the Novikoff Award given for "enhancing the public's appreciation of world cinema." Among her publications are "The Mystery of B. Traven" and "Eye on the World," a collection of her interviews with filmmakers from the 1960s to the 1990s.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. Cover by Riko Debenjak. Text by Zroan Krzisnik, director of the Modern Art Gallery, Ljubljana. Quarto. xxi, 144, [7 biographies and contents] pp. Heavily illustrated with vivid reproductions. Topedge lightly foxed, very light wear, near fine in glazed pictorial boards. Artist Ben Shahn's copy with his bold owner stamp on the front fly, as well as an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. A nice association.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition (Limited). This #30 of 250 copies, with original print hand colored by Shahn tipped in across from title page. Signed by artist Shahn and author Soby on the colophon. Spine sunned, and slipcase present but broken at seams. Internals of book and print fine. Shahn, Ben (illustrator).…

First Edition. Sole printing. Oblong octavo; stapled wrappers, [20]pp; illus. Fine in the original pictorial wrappers. Prescott (Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn) attributes the text to CBS executive Robert Strunsky. Advertisers' prospectus, celebrating CBS's highly-rated radio documentary program "Mind in the Shadow," which exposed the inadequacy of mental health care in America. The prospectus is clearly geared towards upper-end corporate clients; sophisticated in both design and tone, it highlights CBS's commitment to serious journalism, assuring advertisers "a vast and growing public for their messages." The brochure is illustrated throughout with simple, semi-abstract line drawings by the modernist painter Ben Shahn, who at this time was at the height of his fame and reputation. It is a great example of Shahn's mid-century commercial work and one of his most uncommon illustrated books, OCLC noting fewer than a dozen holdings in American institutions. PRESCOTT p.115 (note).…