Doris Niles (15 results)

Softcover. Condition: Fair. Softcover with a splash of coffee stain on lower edge. Prints are unaffected. Your purchase benefits literacy and summer reading programs in Cincinnati and Hamilton County, Ohio. We ship every business day. All books ship in cardboard bookfolds with delivery confirmation. Sets or unusually heavy items ship in a box. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large hardback in very good minus condition. 1st edition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good +. Unpaginated, 63 black and white photographs. Contents pages clean and unmarked, slightly dusty around edges but otherwise in excellent/fine condition. Soft cover with b&w photo on front has dust marks, fading around edges, slightly curling at corners and chipped at top and bottom of spine. Rememberance by John Jacob Niles and preface by Jonathan Williams. The Jargon Society have collected these haunting photos in an act of 'cultural husbandry' as a reminder of the deep roots and character of these impoverished and vanishing southern Americans. Ullman, Doris (illustrator).…

Hardcover without dustjacket, unpaginated, 63 plates plus text, good condition: light spotting to edges of covers; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine illustrated wraps. 4to. [32 pp] + 63 full page b/w photo plates [6]. Published as Jargon 50: "The recovery of Doris Ulmann's portraiture is typical of Jargon's cultural husbandry." Doris Ulmann (1882 - 1934) was an American photographer, best known for her dignified portraits of the people of Appalachia, particularly craftsmen and musicians such as Jean Ritchie's family (an American folk music singer, songwriter, and Appalachian dulcimer player), made between 1928 and 1934. Ulmann was assisted on her rural travels by John Jacob Niles, a musician and folklorist who collected ballads while Ulmann photographed. Ships fast with tracking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. First edition, hardcover, has touch of sunning to spine and partially along top edge of front board, otherwise a clean, sharp Near Fine copy in VG+ dustjacket which has very slight bumps to top of spine and corners, slight sunning to spine, some very slight edgewear, and slight rubbing. …

Couverture souple. Livre en français. Broché. 8 pages de photos, un programme et Une page volante. 22 x 27 cm. Légère mouillure en marge. Très légère rognure en marge inférieure. Musique : Divers. Livre.

Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Near Fine cloth-bound hardcover with a touch of fading to the spine and at the edges, a knick to the spine, and the memorial bookplate of a NYC photographer to the front paste down in a Very Good+ dust jacket with tanning to the spine, a touch of wear/tiny chips to the crown and one tip, and a two-inch closed tear with a chip; interior clean and bright. Overall, a nice copy. All dust jackets are protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. A collection of portraits Doris Ulmann made in the late 1920s through early 1930s, as she traveled the thickets and hollers of Appalachia with the folk musician, Johnny Niles. Also known as Jargon 50. Photographs by Doris Ulmann; essay by John Jacob Niles; preface by Jonathan Williams. Unpaginated [104 pages]; 63 full-page sepia-toned plates + a portrait of the artist by Niles; 9 x 11.5 inches. Notes to the plates. Due to size and weight, international and expedited shipping will be more than quoted.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition two volume set without jacket on red cloth ex libris with usual markings will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable.

London: C.W. Beaumont, 1966-1968. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Dustjackets (lightly marked). Inscribed on front fly-leaves of both volumes, fully signed by the two authors. Fine.

First Edition. Being an account of the career of Doris Niles. Pp. [vi]+234, frontispiece portrait, 18 plates, index; boards slightly marked and rubbed; dust wrapper, edges lightly chipped, several closed tears, some internally tape-repaired; C. W. Beaumont, London, 1958. First edition. [Niles & Leslie, II, p.311.] *Presentation copy, inscribed by Doris Niles Leslie and Serge Leslie on upper free endpaper. Signed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Quarto, 63pp., illustrated. A very good copy in the publisher's brown cloth. Cloth has widespread spotting, but nothing atrocious. Contents clean. Bottom corners bumped. In a very good price-clipped dust jacket with mild wear at the spine ends. A wonderful copy, SIGNED by Jonathan Williams, the publisher, at the end of his Preface. Quite scarce thus.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Brown cloth-covered boards with title stamped in blue on cover and spine, with photographically-illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Doris Ulmann. Preface by Jonathan Williams. Text by John Jacob Niles. Includes notes to the plates. Unpaginated (104 pp.), with 63 sepia-toned plates. 11-1/2 x 9 inches. Fine (light sunning to the spine and top edges of the boards) in Near Fine dust jacket (moderate surface wear, two 1/4-inch closed tears at the heel of the spine, 1/2-inch repaired tear at the crown of the spine, moderate sunning and stains on the spine). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. First Edition. Quarto, 63pp., illustrated. A fine, fresh copy in like price-clipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Jonathan Williams (who wrote the Preface) on the title page, and uncommon thus. Published as Jargon 50.

First Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Quarto (29.25cm); brown cloth, lettered in royal blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; xxxv,63,[6]pp, with 63 halftone plates. Hint of sunning to spine and upper board edges, else contents are fresh and complete; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $10.00), sunned at spine and extremities, a bit shelfworn, rear panel dust-soiled, with a few small, scattered stains, several tiny tears, and shallow loss to upper spine panel that's just touching the "T" in "THE"; Very Good. A masterful collection of Ullmann's portraits of subjects taken across Appalachia chiefly northern Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Issued as Jargon 50, with a moving preface by Jonathan Williams, and a long remembrance of Ullmann by John Jacob Niles. Provenance: From the collection Herb Leibowitz, literary critic and long-time editor of Parnassus: Poetry in Review. Jaffe B13. 7687.…