Harrison Robert Trans (4 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. Later Printing. Mass market paperback. 175 pages. Translated and with an introduction by Robert Harrison. Later printing. Pages age tones, else a square, clean, tight copy. No previous owner's name. No spine crease. Good. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Condition: Very Good Plus. 1st Edition. Complete two volume set. First English language edition. Brown cloth bindings. Page edges untrimmed. A few tiny ink stains to boards. Some ink marks to lower edge of boards and lower page edges. Slight cracking to endpaper joints but securely bound. Light foxing to page edges. Very clean text throughout. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown endpaper in both volumes. A lovely bright example. Overall condition is Very Good Plus. Size: 6.25 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm). Hardback. Printed pages: 8vo. xxiii, [1], 500; xiv, 489.…

Hardcover. pp. 255; 255. 4to. Pictorial boards. Replete with hundreds of stunning colour reproductions, illustrations, photographs. Appears unread; as new and housed in fine dustjacket. Both volumes housed in near fine slipcase showing one very imperceptible small bump to the top corner. Overall, near fine. A lovely presentation indeed. Beyond the sunflowers, irises and the portrait of Doctor Gachet, there is a man, Van Gogh, signified by his fragility and his talent. From his birth in 1853 to his death in 1890, the Post-Impressionist Van Gogh shaped nineteenth-century concepts of painting with his creativity and technique over the course of several years. He became a forerunner of the Expressionists, the Fauves and Modern Art. Today, however, Van Gogh remains the symbol of the painter tortured by illness, by other people and, especially, by himself. In this work, the author follows Van Gogh's correspondence, as well as his paintings, which express a new approach to colour. The legend often rubs shoulders with the banal and great artistic genius is confronted with the petty realities of existence. First Edition, First Printing (Prestige Collection). …