Harris Mel Text (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book appears unread, with prior owner bookplate on inside cover. Unclipped ($5.00) dust jacket is unfaded with light wear to a couple of edges and corners. A somewhat surreal collection, billed as 'a shocking, outrageously funny, and artistically brilliant documentary,' compiled from Arthur 'Weegee' Fellig photos with wry Mel Harris captions. 1.5 pounds. 8-1/8 x 11". Weegee (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Publisher: Pellegrini & Cudahy, New York, 1953. VERY GOOD+ hardcover book in VERY GOOD- mylar-protected dust-jacket. DJ's front panel has a 2" closed tear at the the bottom. Light wear at extremities. Previous owner's artistic embossed stamp at bottom of FFEP. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped ($5.00). First Edition, First Printing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to. Pellegrini & Cudahy. 1953. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards very lightly rubbed and worn. In 1946, the tabloid photographer known as Weegee relocated from New York City to Los Angeles. Abandoning the grisly crime scenes for which he was best known, Weegee trained his camera instead on Hollywood celebrities, starlets, autograph seekers, and shop-window mannequins, sometimes distorted through trick lenses and multiple exposures. "Now I could really photograph the subjects I liked, " said Weegee of his newfound career in Los Angeles, "I was free." E-111; 4to 11" - 13" tall.…

First Edition. Near fine in a Vg.+ dj. (A few faint soil spots on cloth. Corner tips slightly tapped. Top 1 1/4"-inch of spine on dj. chipped, effecting "Na in "Naked." Creasing & tears at upper edge of front panel of dj.) Despite the issue at spine & upper edge of front cover, a solidly attractive copy.…