John Jonas Gruen (39 results)

Condition: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.…

Condition: very_good. Fast & Free Shipping â" Very Good condition book with a firm cover and clean pages. Shows normal use and some light wear or limited notes markings. A solid, nice copy to enjoy.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Open Books is a nonprofit social venture that provides literacy experiences for thousands of readers each year through inspiring programs and creative capitalization of books.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. By Gail Levin. 144 pages, 166 illustrations (50 color), quarto (4to), softcover. Reduced shipping within the Continental United States by Media Mail, $5 for this item. Shipping outside the continental United States may incur higher shipping charges.Inventory #7191. John Jonas Gruen (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Photographs by John Jonas Gruen, foreword by Justin Spring. 96 pages, 85 photos, quarto (4to), hardcover decorative paper boards black text on cover and spine, dust jacket. As New condition, old bookstore inventory never sold. Inventory #36139-1. John Jonas Gruen (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Signed by John Jonas Gruen on the title page. Hardbound in dust jacket. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Signed by John Jonas Gruen to the previous owner on the title page. 1st edition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Signed & inscribed by John Jonas Gruen to the previous owner on the front free end page. 1st edition. Hardbound in dust jacket. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. This is a near fine softcover copy with virtually no wear. Completely clean. Illustrated throughout with John Jonas Gruen's black & white photographs of artists at play in the Hamptons of the 1950's and 60's. Essay by Gruen. 11" high X 8" wide, 79 pages. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. Speckled light gray paper-covered boards, lettered in black. Covers slightly tanned along bottom edge, otherwise as issued. Pictorial dust jacket shows minor surface rubbing to rear panel, now in mylar. 1st ptg. Illus. w/ 85 b&w portraits of various art and liteary world luminaries including Samuel Beckett, Leonard Bernstein, Keith Haring, Dine, Fischl, Grooms, Hockney, Johns, Katz, de Kooning, Lichtenstein, Arthur Miller, Frank O'Hara, Yoko Ono, Rauschenberg, Rivers, Rosenquist, Kenny Scharf, Stella, Wegman, Wesselmann, Jane Wilson, many more. Inscribed by Gruen on main title, full signature, personalized "For the delightful Linda / My new Reading friend" [whom Gruen and Jane Wilson befriended in the Hamptons] with a few minor smudges to the page. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.…

Condition: Very Good. 95 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in shrink wrap. 80 photographs in black and white. A collection of portraits from throughout the 1960's. Record # 352924.

Paperbound. No dust jacket. Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], paperbound with pictorial covers, pp. 79. Fully illustrated with b-w halftone plates. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . After graduation from college, Gruen moved back to New York City where he settled in Greenwich Village. He took jobs as a book buyer at Brentano's, a publicity director at Grove Press and a photographers' agent. Throughout his early years in New York, he aspired to be a composer and composed songs including settings of poetry by E. E. Cummings, Wallace Stevens and Rainer Maria Rilke. The songs were ultimately performed by Eleanor Steber and Patricia Neway. New Songs, a compilation of Gruen's work, was released in 1950 and was the first record issued by Elektra Records. He became friends with composer Virgil Thomson which inspired Gruen to contribute music reviews to the New York Herald Tribune, later becoming part of its staff in addition to acting as the paper's art critic. Using his shortened name John Gruen, he later went on to write for The New York Times, as well as being appointed as the first chief art critic of the magazine New York. Later in his career with the paper, he became a dance critic as well. Among Gruen's books are The Private World of Leonard Bernstein (1968), The Private World of Ballet (1975), Menotti: A Biography (1978), Erik Bruhn: Danseur Noble (1979), The World's Great Ballets (1981), People Who Dance: 22 Dancers Tell Their Own Stories (1988), The New Bohemia (1990), and Keith Haring: The Authorized Biography (1992) (translated into Italian). He published his autobiography, Callas Kissed Me.Lenny Too!: A Critic's Memoir, in 2008. As a photographer, Gruen used his full name to distinguish himself from another New York photographer named John Gruen. Gruen captured images of the creative icons in his social and professional circles including Yoko Ono, Jasper Johns, Larry Rivers, Leonard Bernstein and Willem de Kooning. Many of those photographs were later acquired by the Whitney Museum of American Art and presented in a 2010 exhibition, "Facing the Artist: Portraits by John Jonas Gruen". The Sixties: Young in the Hamptons (2006) and Two Men (2013) are a themed collections of his photographs. In exceptionally good condition.…

Condition: Good. Original boards, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous b/w photographs, 4to.

Condition: New. Original boards, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous b/w photographs, 4to.

Condition: New. Original boards, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous b/w photographs, 4to.

Hardcover. Cream boards, black & illus. dust jacket, [96 pp.], 85 BW plates. Showcases the portrait photography of Parisian-born photographer John Jonas Gruen (b. 1926). With a foreword by Justin Spring. 85 portraits included. This copy is warmly inscribed by Gruen to a previous owner. VG (WARMLY INSCRIBED BY ARTIST on tp.).…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. Signed boldly in ink on the title-page by John Jonas Gruen. Not inscribed to anyone. Illustrated with 85 of Gruen's engaging black & white photographs of the artists and authors that he knew so well. These are some of the most intimate photographs of these artists available, especially the older artists. Foreword and essay by Justin Spring. 12" high X 10" wide. This book will be securely packed and shipped with tracking. Signed by Author.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. Paperback. Minor wear to wrapper edges, otherwise very good.

Condition: New. Paperback, illustrated, oblong (circa 21x27cm).; Still shrinkwrapped.

Condition: New. Paperback, illustrated, oblong (circa 21x27cm).; Still shrinkwrapped.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Cream boards, black & illus. dust jacket, [96 pp.], 85 BW plates. Showcases the portrait photography of Parisian-born photographer John Jonas Gruen (b. 1926). With a foreword by Justin Spring. 85 portraits included. This copy is WARMLY INSCRIBED BY GRUEN to American artist Will Barnet, who is pictured in the book. VG- (Book is aging slightly overall, with page margins tanning lightly; this copy is WARMLY INSCRIBED BY GRUEN to American artist Will Barnet.). …

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Oblong quarto. 10.5 x 8.25 in. 95 pp. Fully illustrated with reproductions of black & white photographs. Fine in original pictorial wrappers. Signed on the title page by Gruen. Signed.

4°.9 S. Text,85 S. mit ganzs. Fotographien in Duotone. OPp. u. OU.

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

hardcover. Condition: near fine. near fine. 85 b/w photographs of artists' portraits. Unpaginated. 4to, natural boards (very lightly bumped at bottom edge rear), pictorial d.w. (torn towards foot on back cover). Munich: Prestel, (1999). A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper. John Jonas Gruen (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. THE COVER IS RUBBED AND SLIGHTLY CREASED. THE CORNERS AND EDGES ARE BUMPED AND SLIGHTLY SCUFFED. THE SPINE IS LIGHTLY BUMPED AT BOTH ENDS. THE CORNERS OF THE PAGES ARE BUMPED. THE PAGES ARE LIGHTLY CREASED. THE BINDING IS TIGHT. PAGES GENERALLY APPEAR CLEAN AND CREASE FREE. ALL IN ALL A NICE EXAMPLE OF THIS BOOK.…

hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

With a foreword by Justin Spring. München 1999. 4°. 8 S. Text und 85 S. Abb., 1 S. OPappbd. mit OU. Mit 85 Abb. Mit Portraits von M. Abakanowicz, Arman, J. Baldessari, S. Beckett, J. Chamberlain, C. Close, J. Dine, E. Fischl, D. Flavin, Gilbert & George, K. Haring, D. Hist, D. Hockney, J. Johns, W. de Kooning, R. Lichtenstein, B. Nauman, R. Rauschenberg, L. Rivers, J. Rosenquist, G. Segal, R. Serra, K. Smith, F. Stella, T. Wesselmann u.a. …

4°. Ca. 100 Seiten, mit 85 ganzseitige s/w Abbildungen. 1 Gebunden (Schutzumschlag an den Kanten minimal berieben - innen ordentlich).