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Octavo. Black cloth boards; dustjacket; 80pp; illus. Inscribed on front endpaper: "For an old friend and ever-present inspiration - Happy Birthday!/ "Mike," dated September, 1968 (Ben Shahn's birthday month). Boards gently faded at margins; light wear to jacket; VG to Near Fine.
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Small octavo (21cm). Green cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 61pp. Inscribed on leaf facing copyright page, below dedication: "& for Bernarda with love / Alan Dugan," dated 1989. Judy Shahn has added her own greeting below: "..and with love from me too, Judy." Fine copy.
First Impression. Octavo (21.5cm); red cloth, with titles stamped in navy blue on spine and front cover; dustjacket; x,439,[1]pp. Inscribed by the author to his American publisher, Evelyn Shrifte, on the front endpaper: "To Evelyn / With love / Jim." Upper and lower rear boar corners gently tapped (though still.....
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Octavo (20.5cm). Original printed wrappers; publisher's wrap-around advertising band; 261pp. Presentation copy, warmly inscribed on half-title to the American painter Ben Shahn: "Pour Monsieur Ben Shahn et en souvenir d'une amiable rencontre...avec mon tres attentive sympathie, Albert Memmi," undated. Mild external foxing and soil; internally Fine. From the library of.....
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Octavo (22cm). Green cloth boards, lettered in silver and gold; 502pp. Facsimile reprint of the 1940 Dutton edition, inscribed on title page to artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn: "Happy birthday bernarda so you can hear the peoples of the world talk and talk as a jet-setter over all the continents, Love.....
Limited to 250 copies, signed by Duncan on colophon. Original sewn printed wrappers; 28pp; title page decoration by Kermit Sheets. Trivial fading to wrapper edges, still Fine.
Quarto (27cm.); original black card wrappers printed silkscreen in yellow and white; [48]pp. & [23] blank leaves for photographs. Wrappers rather worn with several chips and closed tears, upper cover lettering partly effaced, all mounted photographs have been removed, else About Very Good. Yearbook issued by the CCC Jakersville Camp.....
Original typed letter, signed, on recto only of embossed United Mine Workers of America letterhead (25x20cm.) with address in Indianapolis, though this letter dated from the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York. Mail folds, very faint soil spot, else Fine.
12mo. Cloth boards; viii, 62, iii pp. One of 310 copies. Presentation to Ben Shahn from Lessing Rosenwald on front endpaper: "To Ben Shahn / With Kindest Regards / Lessing," dated 1962. Fine copy. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front.....
Octavo (20.5cm.); contemporary blue cloth, upper cover lettered in gilt, decorative endpapers; 145,[4]pp. typed on rectos only. Cloth very slightly worn, spine a hint sunned, shallow loss to front free endpaper fore-edge, shallow creasing to three leaves, else Very Good or better. Occasional autograph corrections in the author's hand throughout.....
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32mo (12cm.); original unadorned limp black cloth; 43pp. Top half of spine perished slightly affecting small portion of spine-edge corner of upper cover, additional small holes to cloth of upper cover, rear cover a bit soiled, contents fine. Good or better overall. Illustrated certificate printed on pink stock and accomplished.....
Octavo (21cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in gilt; dustjacket; 310pp. Warmly and lengthily inscribed to a young Stephen Sondheim in year of publication: "To Stephen Sondheim: novelist and musician - With all good wishes," followed by a lengthy quotation from Proust's The Past Recaptured. Bottom board edges rubbed; abrasions along.....
Octavo (18cm). Brown decorative cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine, stamped in black on spine and covers; marbled page edges; 361pp. Inscribed by Rølvaag (in Norwegian) in blue ink on title page (undated). Barely visible dampstain to outer margin of first 40 leaves, else a tight, Near Fine copy.....
Oblong quarto (23cm x 29cm); cloth boards; dustjacket; 294p. Inscribed by the artist on front endpaper to artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn: "Dear Bernarda / Congratulations on your retrospective! this book is the result of my retrospective last year / with love Leah Dubin Schwartz," undated but obviously contemporary. Fine copy.....
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Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers; 15pp. Limited to 500 copies. This copy nicely inscribed on inside cover to Ben and Bernarda Shahn, dated 1966: "a Bernarda e Ben / tanti auguri / da Bruno e Lidia," with an original humorous drawing of the author/artist holding a fountain pen between his toes.....
Octavo (21.5cm). Cloth-backed, glossy-paper boards; dustjacket; 242pp. Copy of American artist Ben Shahn, with his ownership signature at head of first fly-leaf. Boards slightly discolored, else a tight, Near Fine copy in lightly worn and spine-sunned dustwrapper. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped.....
Octavo (24cm). Blue cloth boards; dustjacket; xxiv, 323pp. Lengthy presentation inscription to front endpaper: "To Abraham Lincoln Marovitz - a civic minded citizen, outstanding legislator, great jurist and a friend of Labor / with our compliments Morris Bialis, manager Chicago Joint Board ILGWU," dated 1956. Fine copy in very Near.....
Brief 1-pp TLS on Eastman's personal Croton-On-Hudson letterhead, addressed to a "Mr. Simon", dated November 14, 1941. Single holograph correction in Eastman's hand. Mailing folds; slightly toned at margins; Very Good.
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Octavo (19.5cm). Publisher's decorated tan cloth, lettered in brown on spine and front cover, with pictorial paste-on below title; 236pp; frontispiece illustration by Bert Knight. Mild cover wear and soil, else Near Fine, with ink ownership signature of Victor H. Metcalf (prominent California lawyer & politician; Sec'y of Commerce under.....
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12mo (17cm). Red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt; dustjacket; [41]pp. A fine copy in lightly rubbed and unclipped jacket.
Octavo (23cm.); publisher's pink pictorial card wrappers, yapp edges; 194pp. Rather worn, with substantial chip to spine crown; front wrapper partially detached; else a Near Very Good, unopened copy. Inscribed on front endpaper to her colleague Heinz Hartmann: "avec la vieille l'amité de Marie Bonaparte," undated but apparently contemporary. Forms.....
More info about Psychanalyse et Biologie [Inscribed & Signed to Heinz Hartmann
Small square octavo (21cm x 18cm). Issued as Origin 8. Original plain wrappers in patterned, printed dustjacket; unpaged [63pp]. Inscribed by Olson on front endpaper: "for Ben & Bernarda Shahn / with love / Charles Olson," undated. Dustwrapper and endpapers toned and foxed, else Very Good. "Charles Olson" hand-lettered on.....
Professional archive of a "Probationary Member" of the ISUA from 1937 to 1938, comprised of nine printed pieces, nearly all accomplished in manuscript or rubberstamp. Some old folds to the two discharge certificates, minor wear from handling, else a Very Good or better collection. Contents as follows: 1. Probationary Member...
Octavo (23cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 114pp. Wrappers toned and faintly stained on front cover; slight roll to spine; Very Good. Inscribed on front endpaper to fellow psychoanalyst Heinz Hartmann: "ces pages de tistesse inspirées par la vie et de la mort - avec la vieille amité de Marie Bonaparte,".....
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![Typed Note, signed, to "Joesphine" [Herbst?], dated November 25, 1945](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/28254.jpg?v=1529353576)
Brief TNS on Eastman's personal W. 13th St. letterhead, addressed to "Josephine", dated November 25, 1945. Old folds, else Fine, with bright, clear autograph: "Dear Josephine: Thanks so much for the news -- sad as it all was -- in your letter. It was nice to hear from you. I......
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ALS, signed in ink by Tarkington at close. 1pp, on single sheet of house stationery of The Princeton Inn. Addressed to a Robert F. Wormwood of Biddeford, Maine; dated Nov. 15, 1913. Fine and clean, with Tarkington's signature clear and legible at bottom right. Includes original mailing envelope, addressed in.....
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Autograph in black ink on cover of 4-pp House Calendar. "Randy / Peace / Jesse Jackson," dated 3/30/04. A clear and bold autograph.
Octavo (24cm). Grey cloth boards, dustjacket, signed, vi + 176pp, illus. Signed by all nine Quecreek miners on first free endpaper. Near Fine. Uncommon thus, signed by all nine survivors.
Original 2pp typed letter on two sides of a sheet of hotel letterhead, dated 31 July 1967. Addressed: Dear Ben [Shahn], signed in ink "Ed Locke." Three old folds, else fine.
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Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's tan cloth, spine lettered in light blue; 432pp. Minor toning to spine cloth, textblock edges a bit dust-soiled, else Very Good and sound, albeit lacking dust jacket. Laid in typescript letter sigend by Diana Klemin, art director at Doubleday, dated March 15, 1962, and addressed to artist.....
Oblong quarto (ca 19cm x 31cm). Hand-silkscreened boards; unpaged (8 leaves), each with hand-set text and an original silkscreen illustration. Number 5 in a total edition of 7 copies, signed by the artist on colophon. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with their estate label laid in.....
Octavo (23cm). Black cloth boards, lettered in blue, gray and red; original Seymour Chwast dustjacket; 209pp. The dedication copy, inscribed on dedication page, below the printed dedication to Ben and Bernarda, "with all my friendship / Ed." A fine copy in slightly worn and spine-darkened jacket.
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Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 190pp. Inscribed by the author on half-title: "For Janet / Jim Moore", undated. Mild external rubbing; internally clean, tight and unmarked - a Very Good copy.
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Octavo (20.75cm); blue-gray buckram, with titling and decorations stamped in maroon on spine and front cover; maroon topstain; dustjacket; [12], 211, [3]pp; illus. Signed on tipped in leaf preceding the half-title page, dated 22 days prior to publication: "John Fante / Sept.1, 1940." Decorative bookplate to front pastedown, slight forward.....
Quarto (28cm). Cloth boards; dustjacket; 101pp. Very Good. A Christmas gift to Ben Shahn from Walker Evans, with a long and personal gift inscription: "Dear Old Dr. Ben - This book I've just found seems to be just for you. I hear we're about to see you, at last: what.....
1. Undated [ca. Spring, 1934]. One-page typed letter, signed "Tom Wolfe" in pencil; 356 words. Old folds smoothed out, three tiny stains, else Near Fine. 2. July 27, 1934. Two-page typed letter, signed "Tom Wolfe" in pencil; 1,001 words. Old folds smoothed-out, paperclip impressions to margins, with mild signs of.......
Small octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 160pp; illus. Presentation from the author to Ben Shahn on front endpaper, dated 1963: "To Ben Shahn / With Admiration / Millard Lampell." Tight, near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper, slightly darkened on spine else near fine.
Limited to 600 copies of which this is no. XVIII of 45 copies specially bound with a leaf of the fair copy manuscript. Large, slim quarto (28.5cm.); original red cushioned silk, upper cover and spine embossed in gilt, marbled endpapers; original acetate dust jacket; typographically decorated title page printed in.....
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Quarto. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 159pp; illus. Inscribed by Van Der Zee on half-title, "to Gerald," dated 1976. Previous owner's embossed stamp to front free endpaper, else a tight, Near Fine copy in unclipped but slightly soiled dustwrapper, Very Good. Early monograph on the work of this pioneering African-American photographer. Uncommon.....
No date or place, but likely the LBJ Ranch, Stonewall, Texas ca. 1968. Original color photographic print, 10.75" x 7.5" on 14" x 11" card mount; in gallery mat. Inscribed on mount, beneath photo: "For Deke De Loach / with appreciation for his dedicated service," signed in Johnson's hand, undated.....
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