Irwin Shaw and Robert Capa (6 results)

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, wrappered issue (also published in hardcover). Small quarto. 144pp. Pictorial wrappers. Some rubbing at the edge of the spine and extremities, a sound very good copy. Capa's photographs accompany text by Shaw.

Cloth/Boards w/DJ. Condition: G/G. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. G/G. (1950). . Cloth/Boards w/DJ. Sm 4to., 144 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, price-clipped, tears, toning, cover rubbed, bumped, writing on ffe, page toning .

Softcover, 144 pages; very good condition; light edgewear to spine; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. Robert Capa (illustrator). First Edition. 144pp, pictorial paper wrappers with blue banner and spine, titles in white on spine and front cover. Large black and white photo on front cover, array of four small black and white photos on back cover. Binding is secure, and spine is straight. Mylar wrapper over cover. Text describing book inside cover, signed on title page/front free endpaper by Irwin Shaw. Water damage from top inside of both front and back hinges to about halfway down. Bleeds onto page about 1" at widest part of stain. Contents of book are otherwise clean, and the stain doesn't show on photos or text block inside the volume. Both Shaw and Capa had made their names from WW2 - Shaw with his novel The Young Lions and Capa as a war photographer/photojournalist. This book sees them checking in on the newly-formed nation of Israel, with Capa's photos and Shaw's prose forming an insightful early image of the nation. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Quarto. 144 pp. Serves as a photo-document of the then newly founded state of Israel, capturing the diverse cultural, sociological and physical landscape. By the time this work was published, photographer Capa was already an acclaimed war photographer, photojournalist and one of the founders of Magnum Photos. Subjects ranging from politicians and military leaders, to new immigrants, farmers and the Ultra-orthodox community are featured. Irwin Shaw's text provides relevant and informative information to accompany and give context. Near Fine on a Very Good dust jacket which has some soiling and edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. INSCRIBED BY IRWIN SHAW on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1950 1st edition. Clean and VG to VG+ in its dark-blue cloth over black boards. Light rubbing along the spine, very light wear at the spine crown. Just a touch of abrading to the rear fore-edge. Quarto, with the powerful, evocative black-and-white photos of Robert Capa complementing Irwin Shaw's text. Uncommon signed by either Shaw or Capa. Signed.