Frederick S Wight Duncan Phillips (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very Good yellow boards with black lettering along spine. Binding and hinges tight and square; Contents clean and unmarked. VG dust jacket not price clipped; light rubbing along edges. 164 pages. Dust jacket has repaired tears.

Paperback. Condition: Good. SOFTBOUND copy. Gift inscribed on FFEP with an appealing note: "Sedintary [sp] Bird Watching Book for Miss Pam. XXX" Medium to heavy wear to spine, softening to leading edge corners. Small pencil note at top of last page.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Oversize wraps with visible light wear, soiing to rear cover, tightly bound, no spine crease, light foxing to end pages, o/w clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Illustrated exhibit catalog. Covers with moderate wear and soiling; soiling and foxing to the end pages and pages edges; pages well thumbed. John Marin (1870 - 1953) was an early American modernist artist. He is known for his abstract landscapes and watercolors. Marin had a retrospective show in 1936 at the Museum of Modern Art. Late in life Marin achieved tremendous prestige as an American painter, an elder statesman of American art.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Acceptable. Second printing. Hardbound book with medium reading wear to pages, but pages and boards are clean and sharp cornered. Color dust jacket in mylar is heavily worn at top edge, with a stain to the front verso not apparent from the recto.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1956. Original 1956 exhibition catalog illustrated in both color and in black and white. Softcover, 66 pages. Light shelf rubbing, sound binding, clean pages, name and address at upper corner of title page, no other markings. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Oversized Paperback. Condition: Near Fine Ink Inscription. First Edition, First Printing. Foreword by Duncan Phillips, essays by William Carlos Williams, Dorothy Norman, MacKinley Helm and Frederick Wight. Illustrated with color and b&w reproductions. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fair. Exhibition catalog for the show Morris Graves Retrospective Exhibition held at the publisher's gallery. Book has tattered covers, detached at lower spine, edge wear, 1" tear at top, bend to page block at upper corner. Text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. 66 pages, 12 color, 43 b&w plates, large artist photo opposite contents, full page full color frontispiece. The catalog's essays address Graves's symbolic paintings of birds and nature and his place in the Northwest School. Keywords: Northwest Mystics, Symbolic Bird, Inner Eye, Buddhist Influence, Chalice Series, Blind Bird, Wrath of the Sea, Gouache Drawing, Pacific Northwest Art, Seattle Art Scene, Index Northwest Art, Mark Tobey.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor.

4to, xii + 62pp. Original cloth in predominantly gold pictorial dustwrapper, slightly edgeworn and exhibiting some chipping and open tearing at top and bottom edges. Numerous b/w and colour reproductions of Graves' works. Front endpapers hold a copious amount of newspaper clippings from the 1950s pertaining to Graves' exhibitions. A very good copy.…

Condition: Good. 8vo. Hard Cover. 96 pp. Good. French and English text. B&W and color plates. Cloth cover, has wear on edges of spine and corners of covers. Spine has started to tear away on the top.

Condition: Good. Autographed. 4to. 78 pp. Very Good. Hard Cover. Beige cloth covered boards. No DJ. Color and B&W plates throughout. Minor spots of foxing on some pages, else pages fine. Signed by Peter Selz on half title page, and dated 1956.From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lightly read. Finger page turning marks on some pages. DJ, in mylar, has shelf wear to edges. Bump to bottom spine edges. Glued to front free page is a notice that this is a review copy. On the inside front cover is a small bookplate of Lawrence Clark Powell. Below that, glued in is: Zamorano Club, Los Angeles, CA, and inked on that note is Lawrence Clark Powell, November 1956, #843. Lawrence Clark Powell, (1906- 2001) was an American librarian, literary critic, bibliographer and author of more than 100 books. In 1938, Powell started working at UCLA in the acquisitions department of the library. He was the first dean of the School of Library Service at UCLA. 64pp.…

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. 4to. Pp. (5), 61, (3). Color frontis.: "Young Gander Ready for Flight." Foreword by John I. H. Bauer. A note about Graves' technique by Duncan Phillips. Illustrated throughout with color and b&w reproductions of Graves' work. With a chronology, a list of awards and exhibitions, works in public collections, and a selected bibliography. Bound in mustard yellow boards with black lettering stamped on cover and spine, tape shadows to endpapers, tiny bumps to corners. Dust jacket with $3.50 price present, light soiling to rear panel.Inscribed "For Glenn Daugherty/Morris Graves/Portland Oct 2,1962" In the 1950s Graves grew his beard to ensure against gainful employment in the then-button-downed "real" world. A photograph of the bearded Graves is featured on the rear panel of the dust jacket. This monograph, lavish treatment for a Seattle painter who came to prominence in the 1940s, is also the first major tribute to the artist. Dust jacket is now protected in a clear, removable archival sleeve. …