Tom Wolfe Essay (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st American edition. Large quarto. Color illustrations. Fine in fine DJ. 162 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good +. first edition as stated. 11 x 12 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers like new but front gutter was a little mis-aligned in production. Binding tight, text unmarked. DJ is GOOD+ ; very clean but partly sunned, minor wear to spine ends. Phot. RGR.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good to fine condition. First edition. Quarto (11-3/4" x 10-1/4"). 143, (1)pp. Bibliographical notes including exhibition history. Color photo illustrated dust jacket, spine lettered in black & faded red, over tan cloth with black lettering on spine. Illustrated with sixty full page color photographs, most of them portraits. Brown endpapers. Outer leaves a bit foxed. Dust jacket with old sun faded shadows. "Marie Cosindas was introduced to photography rather casually. Her studio happened to be in the same building as one of Boston's first photography galleries, the Carl Siembab. She gradually became part of a circle of photographers that included Walter Chapell, Paul Caponigro, Nathan Lyons, and Minor White, and then took up photography herself. In 1961 she went to California to study with Ansel Adams in his studio workshop. But neither Adams nor any of the photographers who were ranked as fine artists in the 1960s worked in color. Marie Cosindas simply travels on into her fantasy of color, as if by astral projection. Sometimes I think the only supreme fantasists can have peace in this world. In any case they have their way. I have met Marie Cosindas, and I can testify to that. (Tom Wolfe).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition stated 1978, first printing, no additional printings listed. Hardcover in full cloth with DJ. Condition as new inside, lower corner of ffep cut out, square tight and clean book, no edgewear, no underlinings no highlights no bent page corners, no names, not a reminder. DJ very good, bright and shiny, one closed tear at front top corner, spine sunned, no chips, price not clipped. Folio, 143 pages, 60 full page color plates. Large and heavy book will require additional postage for international orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good to fine condition. First edition. Quarto. 154 (1)pp. Original tan cloth with black lettering on spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket with black and red lettering on spine. Brown endpapers. Designed by Anna Lampton Curtis. "Marie Cosindas was introduced to photography rather casually. Her studio happened to be in the same building as one of Boston's first photography galleries, the Carl Siembab. She gradually became part of a circle of photographers that included Walter Chapell, Paul Caponigro, Nathan Lyons, and Minor White, and then took up photography herself. In 1961 she went to California to study with Ansel Adams in his studio workshop. But neither Adams nor any of the photographers who were ranked as fine artists in the 1960s worked in color. Marie Cosindas simply travels on into her fantasy of color, as if by astral projection. Sometimes I think the only supreme fantasists can have peace in this world. In any case they have their way. I have met Marie Cosindas, and I can testify to that. (Tom Wolfe). Illustrated with sixty full page color photographs, most of them portraits. Contains bibliographical notes including exhibition history and publications as well as workshops, lectures and awards and grants at rear. Minor wear but spine of dustjacket sunned.