Frederick Wight John Baur Duncan (8 results)

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.

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.

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.

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

Wight, Frederick S., John I.H. Baur, & Duncan Phillips. MORRIS GRAVES. 64 pp., profusely illus., some in color, small 4to, wraps. Berkeley & Los Angeles, U. California P., 1956.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Thin quarto. 64pp. Page and board edges dampstained, a little foxing on the first and last couple of leaves, tiny label on front fly, good only in a good only dampstained dustwrapper with small tears and a couple of rubbed spots. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. Graves, a mystical painter from the Northwest, and Ben Shahn, despite disparate styles, were often linked by critics. Both were close friends of the Japanese furniture maker and architect George Nakashima.

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. Dust Jacket Condition: 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.