James Mellow Introduction (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Very good+ hardcover with very good dust jacket. 1st printing/edition. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Corners sharp. Unclipped DJ has very light rubbing, otherwise looks great. From a private collection. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good+ hardcover with very good dust jacket. 1st printing/edition. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Corners sharp. Unclipped DJ has very light rubbing, otherwise looks great. From a private collection. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Due to the size/weight of this book extra charges may apply for international shipping.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 608 pages, photos in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 458514.

First edition, first printing Fine and bright in like pictorial dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Front cover photograph possibly a self-portrait by Walker Evans in 1935. Beautifully laid out with accompanied photographs throughout the text by this legendary biographer. Gift quality.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. An exceptional hardcover with a crisp dust jacket, a tight binding and an unmarked text. First edition, with a full number line. From a private smoke free collection. Shipping within 24 hours, tracking number and delivery Confirmation.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Mary E. O'Boyle (Jacket Design); Princeton University Archives (Author Photo); Brian Mulligan (Design) (illustrator). 608 pp. Clean, fresh copy and dj with very light shelf wear, crisp pages and clean text.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 654 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. *** "The Depression Era photographs of Walker Evans (1903-1975) remain some of the most indelible and iconic images in the American consciousness. James R. Mellow's landmark biography of Evans-the first to make use of all his diaries, letters, work logs, and contact sheets-shows that Evans was not the social propagandist that many presume, but rather a fastidious observer, recording, simply, the way things were. Walker Evans is not only one of the most finely wrought portraits of a major American artist ever, it is also a fascinating cultural history of America in the 1930s and '40s. / James R. Mellow (1926-1997) won the National Book Award in 1983 for his biography of Nathaniel Hawthorne. He was the author of a trilogy of biographies on writers of the Lost Generation, including Hemingway: A Life Without Consequences. In his forty-year career as a writer, art critic, and biographer, Mellow wrote for the New York Times, Architectural Digest, the Washington Post, Gourmet, and Arts magazine." - Publisher. Size: 8vo. Collectible.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 168 pages, illustrations (some colour), portraits; 31 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. First Edition. Dust jacket age toned. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. *** A compilation of articles previously published in Arts Magazine, 1956-61; most are devoted to European & American modern & contemporary art, by well-known New York art critics and historians. Size: 4to. Serial.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, 1st printing. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread in FINE condition. "EMERSON AMONG THE ECCENTRICS is an invaluable book, relaxed and spirited in style, a joy to read with its insights on national character and national ambition during a period of American life that still needs study and reappraisal. It alters one's sense of Emerson the man; it revives one's appreciation of Emerson the observer and thinker. And it confirms what seems to me the mission of any biographer: to make readers aware that a country that loses touch with its past---its cultural as well as its historic past---is a country that has lost touch with itself."---James R. Mellow "A wonderfully ample and passionate portrait that makes Emerson, one of America's greatest thinkers, seem exhilaratingly human. By exploring the Concord Sage's relationships with a fascinating array of people, Carlos Baker brings alive Emerson and his world in refreshing new ways."---David S. Reynolds. Pristine copy w/sharp corners & crisp deckle edges, a square & tight binding & fine, bright jacket. Nicely collectible.

Hard Boards. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Impression. HARDBACK IN JACKET 1996. 1st edition. Uneven fore edges: deckle edged. TOP EDGE OF THE PAGE BLOCK IS FOXED. Clean & tight. No inscriptions. Flat pages. Jacket is not torn. Front flap is not price-clipped: "£25, U.S. $34.95". Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref C46. Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait by Carlos Baker; Introduction and Epilogue by James R. Mellow.