Peter Nesbett Eds (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. Binding sound, text clean, very light shelfwear. Book.

Softcover. Second Edition; First Printing. Wraps, a fine copy of this lengthy catalog of a major retrospective exhibition traveling from Washington, DC, to New York, Detroit, Los Angeles and Houston. This 2001 edition contains a 49-page pictorial catalog of the exhibition that did not appear in the first edition. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 336 pp.…

Oversize Paper. Condition: Fine. First Paper Edition. The life and work of the great American painter, Jacob Lawrence. Pub. in conj. with an exhibition. Includes essays by Richard J. Powell, Patricia Hills, Paul J. Karlstrom, Lowrey Stokes Sims, Elizabeth Steele & Leslie King-Hammond, Elizabeth Hutton Turner. Includes biographical data, Notes, Notes to Works in Exhibition, Bibliography. Illus. with over 100 full color repros. of his art along with small historical photos. Fine. Jacob Lawrence (illustrator). Book.…

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Seattle & London: University of Washington Press, 2000. Limited Edition of 250 signed copies, this being number 203. Two quarto volumes (30cm); illustrated dust jackets over red and blue cloth boards with black lettering; 285pp, 343pp; color illus. throughout; housed in publisher's slipcase. Jackets are crisp and bright with a couple very faint smudges to surface and light bumping to tail of Catalogue Raisonne. Boards are sturdy and square. Slipcase is sturdy and solid with a few stray scuffs and smudges but no splits or bumps. Publisher's description / UPC slip formerly attached to outer shrinkwrap laid in, though cleanly torn in half. Signed by Lawrence without inscription on dedication page. The culmination of six years of research by the Jacob Lawrence Catalogue Raisonne Project , the set documents over 900 paintings, drawings, and murals, with essays by eight art historians on Lawrence's work. Lawrence was the first African-American artist to be represented by a New York agency and to have work held in the permanent collection at the Museum of Modern Art. Signed. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. dj. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Essays by numerous luminaries. Richly illustrated exploration of the late, promient African American artist. A very handsome copy. Tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear; slipcase shows minor shelf/edge wear, both else clean and bright. Blue cloth boards, black ink lettering, pictorial endpages, frontispiece. 4to. 336pp. Illus. (color and b/w plates). Fine in Near Fine DJ in Very Good+ Slipcase.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Two volumes in a plastic slipcase.