Wight Frederick John Baur (14 results)

Hardcover. Hardcover. 4to. Fine in very good unclipped dust jacket. Water stain to bottom inside corner. Tape residue from earlier mylar on pastedown pages. Four or five pages are devoted to each of the fifty artists represented here. Among them: Sloan, Glackens, Bellows, Prendergast, Demuth, Frank Stella, Hartley, Dove, MacDonald-Wright, Ray, Sheeler, O'Keeffe, Evergood, Benton, Burchfield, Kuniyoshi, Grosz, Gorky, Tobey, Motherwell, Pollock, de Kooning, Graves, Lawrence, Wyeth, and more. A wonderful glimpse at the status mid-century American painting. 281 pp. Heavy--may require additional postage if shipped other than domestic media mail.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Oversize wraps with visible light wear, soiing to rear cover, tightly bound, no spine crease, light foxing to end pages, o/w clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. First edition. Very Good cloth-bound hardcover with light soiling and a touch of fading to the spine; interior clean and bright; lacking dj. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Monograph on the work of Hans Hofmann. Text by Frederick S. Wight; foreword by John I. H. Baur; portrait of Hofmann by Arnold Newman. 66 pages; color and b&w illustrations throughout; 8.5 x 11 inches. Chronology, awards and exhibition history, bibliography.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Berkeley, CA: University of California, 1956. Original 1956 exhibition catalog illustrated in both color and in black and white. Softcover, 66 pages. Light shelf rubbing, sound binding, clean pages, name and address at upper corner of title page, no other markings. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Gut. Erstauflage. Fist publication. (Leichtkarton.)-Bll. + 282 S. inkl. Anhang u. mit s/w. u. farb. Abbildungen der Kunstwerke (meist. Gemälde u.a.). Papier sauber, nur Altersbedingt etwas randvergilbt. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 2030 Gr.-4°, O(Hellgrau)-GanzLnw. mit Reliefscover-Titelprägung - u. Goldgepr.-Rückentitel sowie OIll.-Umschlag (Umschl. etwas lädiert u. hinterlegt u. e. wenig nachvergilbt.). Kopfschnitt leicht nachergraut. Gut erhalten insges.

4to, xii + 62pp. Original cloth in predominantly gold pictorial dustwrapper, slightly edgeworn and exhibiting some chipping and open tearing at top and bottom edges. Numerous b/w and colour reproductions of Graves' works. Front endpapers hold a copious amount of newspaper clippings from the 1950s pertaining to Graves' exhibitions. A very good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Very Good Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Wight, Frederick S., John I.H. Baur, & Duncan Phillips. MORRIS GRAVES. 64 pp., profusely illus., some in color, small 4to, wraps. Berkeley & Los Angeles, U. California P., 1956.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. John Sloan etc (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of this profusely illustrated work with full colour plates on American painters from the twentieth century. The first edition of the work. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.With vignettes, full page monochrome illustrations and 49 colour plates.This work has been edited by John I. H. Baur. This work has compiled fifty artists from the twentieth century and showcases their artwork in vibrant full colour plates. Artists such as Stuart Davis, John Sloan, Jacob Lawrence and Marsden Hartley have been featured in this work along with many other influential painters. In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally excellent with only a very minor mark to the rear and light bumping to the tail of the spine. Very light age toning to the extremities of the end papers. The wrap is also excellent with only light handling marks to the rear, light sunning to the spine and very minor creasing and chipping to the top of the spine. Tape reinforcements to the head of the spine to the verso. Internally firmly bound with clean and generally bright pages with only minor age toning to the extremities. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. An Ex-Library Hardback without dust jacket. Officially withdrawn with usual library stamps and markings. Published in 1957 by George Rainbird Ltd., London. All illustrations intact & free from library stamps.Boards are worn & spine frayed with some corner bumping. Clear text and binding intact. Weighing 2.2kg will ship overseas for extra postage. Ready for immediate despatch from UK. 21C*.

Prima edizione italiana, rilegata,tela, sovracoperta, formato 23x31, pagine 284, illustrato con tavole in nero e colore nel testo e fuori testo, ottime condizioni - 6205 ISBN non applicabile 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. Thin quarto. 64pp. Page and board edges dampstained, a little foxing on the first and last couple of leaves, tiny label on front fly, good only in a good only dampstained dustwrapper with small tears and a couple of rubbed spots. From the library of the artists Ben Shahn and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with an estate label designed by their son, Jonathan Shahn. Graves, a mystical painter from the Northwest, and Ben Shahn, despite disparate styles, were often linked by critics. Both were close friends of the Japanese furniture maker and architect George Nakashima.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Lightly read. Finger page turning marks on some pages. DJ, in mylar, has shelf wear to edges. Bump to bottom spine edges. Glued to front free page is a notice that this is a review copy. On the inside front cover is a small bookplate of Lawrence Clark Powell. Below that, glued in is: Zamorano Club, Los Angeles, CA, and inked on that note is Lawrence Clark Powell, November 1956, #843. Lawrence Clark Powell, (1906- 2001) was an American librarian, literary critic, bibliographer and author of more than 100 books. In 1938, Powell started working at UCLA in the acquisitions department of the library. He was the first dean of the School of Library Service at UCLA. 64pp.

0. 4° 280 S., engl. Ln., m. Or.-Umschl. Umschl. stark eingerissen, Buchecken unten bestoßen, solider Allgemeinzust. Auf Wunsch gerne Foto via E-mail. Sprache: Deutschu 2,400 gr.