Notebook Random by Penn Irving (26 results)

Exhibition Announcement Cards. This is not a book. The original publisher's promotional pamphlet (called a "blad" in the industry) announcing the publication of "A Notebook at Random" by Irving Penn (Bulfinch, 2004). Single sheet of glossy paper, folded once to 4 pages; descriptive text and book particulars to the back; 1 b&w and 2 color illustrations; 9.25 x 12.5 inches. Condition: Fine. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day. International postage may be less than quoted.

Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Good. Included here are some the photographer Irving Penn's signature images - austere, elegantly composed portraits, still lifes, and fashion photographs - along with rough sketches and line drawings that provide a window into ideas and images in the making. A consummate technician and innovator, Penn invites viewers to consider process alongside end product, providing new insight into his radical compositions, experiments with light, and unique printing techniques. With brief text excerpts and notations throughout. Illus., 81 tritone, 56 in four-color. 125p.

Hardcover. Condition: FIne. Penn, Irving (illustrator). First Edition. 125 pp. Clean, crisp copy with dust jacket in mylar cover.

Hardcover. First edition. Folio. 125pp. Original off-white cloth with black lettering on spine, in original color-illustrated dustjacket with black lettering on spine. Decorative endpapers. Profusely illustrated with striking color and b/w photographs throughout, some sketches. "From his very first photograph made on assignment for Vogue in 1943 to the startingly fresh images the he continues to make for that magazine today at age eighty-seven, Irving Penn again and again has shown an uncanny ability to surprise the world with his art. Far from the typical career retrospective, A Notebook at Random is a revelation." (Publisher). Minor wear and spotting of binding. Very good to near fine condition.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. 91 tritone and 56 four-color illustrations. 123 pages. Slim 4to, beige cloth, d.w. New York: Bullfinch Press, (2004). First Edition. Fine.

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. Excellent condition. No visible flaws apart from light handling wear on jacket. Inside pages are clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

Hardcover. SIGNED. First edition, first printing. Fine/As New cloth-bound hardcover in a Fine/As New dust jacket, protected by a clear mylar cover. BOOKS SHIP THE NEXT BUSINESS DAY, WRAPPED IN PADDING, IN A BOX. Included here are some of Penn's signature images, along with the rough sketches and line drawings that provide a window into ideas and images in the making. Many of the photographs are alternate poses or torn test fragments, pages from his personal 'notebook'; some are newer-found discoveries. Some of the most striking pages in this 'notebook' reproduce Penn's painted photographs and mixed-media works. With brief text excerpts and notations from Penn throughout. Photographs by Irving Penn. SIGNED BY PENN on the half-title and inscribed. 128 pages; 56 color and 81 tri-toned b&w plates; 9.5 x 13 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed & Signed by Irving Penn on ffep. Fine in Fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Illustrator(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Signed by artist and inscribed: "To Margaret and Neale, Good friends, with affection: Irving Penn". Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. The book is in fine condition.