David William Sylvester (38 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good paperback with light shelfwear - NICE! Oversized.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64 pages. Illustrated. (BT#14).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Softcover of exhibition by Serpentine Gallery November 15 1995- January 7 1996. Stiff softcover front and back. Full color and black and white images with text by David Sylvester and Patrick Elliot. 96 pages. Condition: light shelf wear to the front, slight wrinkle on the right side from use and a slight fade to the spine, very light soiling in spots on the front and the back has light soiling on the top edge and light soil marks. The glue binding is still very tight with no writing or binding damage. Please ask for images.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. 240 pages. No dustjacket. Ex-college library with marks and stamps to flyleaf, half-title page and large stamps to title-page and rear, also the occasional small stamp to pages. Clean light brown hardback binding has a light reading crease to spine with small creases to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges lightly foxed, page-margins have the occasional pencil mark, otherwise pages clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's hardback in very good condition: firm and square, strong joints, just speckled to the fore-edges. Complete with original dustjacket: slightly edge-worn and a little darkened, even so still showing well. Contents tight and clean; no pen-marks, save a previous owner's name tippexed out at the endpaper. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in presentable condition.

4to.76pp. Original boards in dustwrapper. Numerous colour and black and white illustrations; a near fine copy. . First edition.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Card cover slightly rubbed w/ slight marking on rear, chipped in top left corner of front panel; Pages lightly age-toned, generally clean, indexed B&W plates, several colour plates throughout; Binding tight. This catalogue was published alongside the March/April 1967 exhibition of the artist's work at the Tate Gallery. ; 7.25 x 9.75"; 64 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Good+ in Very Good dust jacket protected in mylar. Used with wear but is still in solid reading condition. Pasadena's finest new and used bookstore since 1992.

First edition, first printing. Near fine large format exhibition catalogue with reading creases to the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 8vo. xxi, 260 pp. Original navy blue cloth binding. From the library of noted renaissance and English literature scholar, Jonathan Goldberg, whose signature is on the front free endpaper and whose underlining/marginalia are on the last chapter, pages 197-254; the other pages are clear of markings. Else very good in DJ.

Condition: As New. Photographs by Adam Bartos. An illustrated checklist of the complete sculpture. Gallery reception card. 76 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Superb copy of a well done and thorough magazine on kinetic art and concrete poetry. One page dog-eared else excellent with slightest handling and shelfwear.

Paperback. Condition: Near fine. Book. 265 x 210 mm, 64 pp. in printed stapled wraps. Front cover image ('Portrait of Andree Dantu by Richard Hardwick: three phases of a Dantu polaroid light mobile') in colour, contents illustrated with both colour and b/w images. Three issues of Image (usually a 'careers' magazine for young graduates) were effectively taken over by important Cambridge academics of the day, all with a specific interest in concrete poetry and kinetic art: Philip Steadman, Stephen Bann and Reg Gadney. The issues of Image dedicated to kinetic and concrete poetry were particularly noteworthy for their commitment to translation and reprinting 'lost' texts, an imaginative use of layout and photography, and enlightening academic essays on their given subjects. This particular issue is entirely dedicated to kinetic art and concrete poetry (as the title suggests), and the editorial (which is idiosyncratically placed in the middle of the publication) reads: 'This issue of IMAGE is largely devoted to Kinetic Art: art, that is, incorporating real movement as opposed to the painted or static illusion of movement.' It is illustrated with a photograph of the editors and contributors - Stephen Bann, Reg Gadney, Frank Popper, Phil Steadman and Citroen - strolling through Paris. The issue features an essay by the concrete poetry specialist Stephen Bann, entitled 'Communication and Structure in Concrete Poetry', which comes with a reprinted letter from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Pierre Garnier, dated September 17th 1963. Translated by Bann are extracts from 'Manifesto for a new poetry, visual and phonic' by the concrete poet Pierre Garnier: 'The word is an element. / The word is a material. / The word is an object.' Also included in this section is a manifesto by Eugen Gomringer, entitled 'from line to consideration', and translated by Mike Weaver. It was 'first printed in augenblick no 2 agis verlag baden-baden 1954'. Works by Augusto de Campos, Ronaldo Azeredo, Decio Pignatari and Haraldo de Campos are also reprinted here. The second academic essay featured is a text by Mike Weaver entitled 'Concrete and Kinetic: the poem as Functional Object', which is illustrated with reproduced typestracts by Dom Sylvester Houedard. Also featured is a text by the editor Philip Steadman, entitled 'Colour Music and the Art of Lumia, and an essay by Reg Gadney entitled 'An Introduction: Kinetic Art', which is illustrated with images of works by Alexander Calder and Alexander Schoffer's Chronus sculptures. There are artist profiles of Frank Malina (by Reg Gadney); Gregoria Vardanega (by Stephen Bann); Martha Boto (by R.G); J-M. Cruxent (by S.B); Andree Dantu (by R.G); Knud Hvidberg and William Soya (by R.G); Nino Calos (by R.G). Condition: near fine (contents fine minor rubbing to covers).

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. Falk, Sam; Tenney, Gordon; Glass, Douglas; Dantzic, Jerry; Glueckselig, Leo; Owen, Bernard; Doty, Roy; Liebman, Oscar; Little, Tom (illustrator). First Edition. 120 pages. Features: 10 Downing St. Cover Photo; What Bearing does Trade Have on the Cold War and the Chance of Peace?; Britain's Politics - and Britain's Future - photos and brief article; Passport Barrier - The State Department insists on deciding which countries Americans may Visit; The Draft - Many Threatened, Few Chosen; Article and photos of an 'uneventful day at the Berlin Wall; Senator George B. Russell of Georgia - symbol of civil-rights opposition; How JFK gets the answers; Photos of U Thant at the U.N. - 10am to 8pm; Photo-illustrated article on British Painter Francis Bacon; The A-B-C of Director Alan Schneider; Several Lovely fashion ads; Nice Indian Head's new fabrics ad; Photos of 'Folk Song Frenzy'; Nice color ad for Knorr soups; Photos from Spanish Harlem; Lovely fashion photos feature 'The New Decolletage'; Super one-page color Froot Loops breakfast cereal; Photos of the home of architect-designer Alexander H. Girard. Average wear. Crossword completed. Nibbling along spine. Openings along coverfold. Back cover in rough shape. A worthy vintage copy.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Book. Rare complete run of Living Arts Magazine (3 issues published 1963-4),edited by Theo Crosby and John Bodley. Black & white printed in glossy wraps. Crosby associated himself with ICA in the early 60s and in 1963, under Croby's lead, the ICA exhibited Living Cities, to foreground the urban theories of the young Archigram group. The magazine therefore becomes an intrinsic part of the new international vision set out by Crosby and others, overlapping with other landmark publications of the era/movewment such as This Is Tomorrow, and Archigram. Autumn '60 for Ochestra by Cornelius Cardew, Photographs by Robert Freeman and Letter from the Airport by Carl Nesjar feature in Volume 1. Volume 2 includes : Sculptures and Statement by Peter Startup, Urbane Image by Richard Hamilton and Living City by Peter Cook, Dennis Compton et al. Volume 3 includes THe Allegorical Situation by Bernard Cohen, David Sylvester interviewing David Smith, Communication and Symbolic Value by Gillo Dorfles, THe Atavism of the Short-Distance Minicyclist by Reyner Banham and review of Living City by Robert Maxwell. The 50 page Living City section of Volume 2 includes THE EXHIBITION - EXPERIENCE 19 JUNE - 2 AUGUST 1963 described and expanded by it's designers, with Manifesto, Introduction & ket to the numerous pages of illustrations, design and texts. Amongst the many contributions are THE KEY TO THE VITALITY OF THE CITY by Peter Cook, CITY SYNTHESIS by Dennis Crompton, Total Exhibition Structure, MOVEMENT GLOOP, and FINAL NOTES ON THE LIVING CITY. Condition - the plastic cover tends to bubble. A fault uniform in all copies (& apparent in all 9 copies of issue 2 exhibited in Tate Modern Hamilton retrospective, 2014). These copies have some of that bubble effect but are the best I have seen with only a little near spine. Each rubber stamped neatly on colophon page "Michael Farr (Design Integration) 97 Jerymn Street London " (a prestigious London design company). Slight wear to issue 1 cover. General minor handling. Copies are prone to curling of covers due to plastic overlay, but being housed in a homemade cardboard slipcase these copies are better than usual. Minor rubbing to colophon pages (from inside flap printed image). Very difficult to find a set in this kind of condition. VG++/ near fine.

Vintage reference photograph from the 1982 film, showing actor Sylvester Stallone from behind. Layout annotations to the verso. Based on the 1972 novel by David Morrell, about a troubled Vietnam veteran with PTSD who must fight for his life due to a series of misunderstandings with local law enforcement in a rural Washington town. The first, and most well-received, installment in the Rambo franchise, followed by four sequels, an animated television series, and countless comic books, novelizations, and video games. Set in Hope, Washington, and shot on location in Washington and British Columbia. 10 x 8 inches. Near Fine.