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Octavo (23.5 cm). Tan cloth boards; dustjacket; ix, 237pp. Presentation copy from the author to Shahn's widow Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with lengthy holograph note laid in, dated May, 1985. Fine copy. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front endpaper.
More info about Ben Shahn: New Deal Artist in a Cold War Climate, 1947-1954
Large square quarto (36cm). Red cloth boards, stamped and lettered in gilt; 373pp; illus. Author's copy, inscribed on front endpaper: "Bernarda Bryson Shahn - my copy - retain." Fine, lacking the dustwrapper.
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.....
More info about Color photographic portrait, inscribed to Cartha De Loach
Folio (50cm). Number 207 of an unspecified number of copies. Printed paper portfolio containing 21 loose sheets, including one page of letterpress and 20 halftones after original works by the author. Inscribed on front cover: "A Ben Shan [sic] / mio maestro e mi [illegible]," signed by the artist and.....
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.
More info about How I Got Out of Jail and Ran for Governor of Indiana (Inscribed
Octavo. Gray cloth boards, stamped in red and black; dustjacket; 246pp. Presentation inscription on front pastedown to the noted Wisconsin author and publisher August Derleth: "For August Derleth, whose political stories are more real than the talk at the court house," signed and dated in year of publication. Tight, Near.....
![Gilbert & George For Aids Exhibition [...] 20 April to 20 May 1989. Anthony d'Offay Gallery. LGBTQ, aka Gilbert Prousch, George Passmore, GILBERT, GEORGE.](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/56216.jpg?v=1641872916)
Small quarto (25cm). Pictorial card wrappers; 25pp (chiefly illus). Signed in red ink on introductory page. Fine, with original gallery and preview invitations laid in.
Quarto (34cm). Green cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; this is Bernarda Shahn's file copy, unsigned but with Shahns' estate label tipped on to front pastedown. Near fine, essentially unworn copy in crisp dustwrapper, mildly darkened on spine.
More info about Ecclesiastes, or, The Preacher, Handwritten and Illuminated by Ben Shahn
Octavo (19.5cm.); original red cloth, printed cream paper cover label; [4],69,[3](ads)pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Expertly rebacked to match, original cloth a bit faded along extremities; frontispiece heavily foxed, recent bookseller label to front pastedown, else Very Good and sound. Errata slip bound in rear. With numerous contemporary holograph corrections throughout.....
More info about A Sketch of the Life of C. Eulenstein, the Celebrated Performer on the Jews' Harps
Autograph letter on seven leaves of blue laid sheets (25x20.5cm.), rectos only, "Kent" blind-stamped at top left-hand corner of each leaf; occasional faint soil spots, minor shallow creases and faint fold lines, else Very Good or better.
More info about Anti-Women's Suffrage Autograph Manuscript Addressed to "Mr. President"
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
Original silver-gelatin photograph, 13-1/4" x 7-1/4" on larger card mount, in gilt-edged glazed frame ca 19" x 12" overall. Inscribed on mount, below image, in the First Lady's hand: "To Deke De Loach on a Memorable Day - with our affection and appreciation," signed by both and dated Christmas, 1965.....
First printing. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed to Mildred Denton, dated 1930. With original b/w photographic portrait of Lloyd laid in, 6-3/4" x 5", inscribed on verso to the same recipient, dated "New Year 1937." Slight forward lean to text block, else a clean, tight copy in publisher's cloth, lacking.....
More info about Eneres or the Questions of Reksa [Inscribed, with Original Photo
First printing. Signed by eight of the photographic subjects at their entries, including: Fred Chappell, George Garrett, David Madden, Walker Percy, James Seay, Elizabeth Spencer, Robert Penn Warren, and Eudora Welty. Oblong octavo (ca 9" x 12"); russett cloth hardcover in dustjacket; x,(1)-97pp. A fine copy, unmarked save for the.....
More info about Images of the Southern Writer [Signed by Eight Contributors
Octavo (24cm.); cloth boards; dustjacket; 603pp; illus. Clean, Very Good copy of the first edition, in lightly worn, unclipped dustjacket, Very Good or better.
Small quarto (26.5cm); marbled paper over navy blue calf, spine in seven compartments, with six raised bands, leather labels, titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt on spine; marbled endpapers; engraved portrait frontispiece,[10],11-70, with an additional 31 leaves bound in. Armorial bookplate of Walter Merriam Pratt on front pastedown. Re-backed.....
More info about A Memorial of Wendell Phillips from the City of Boston
Lithographic broadside, 21" x 16"; printed in black on thick paper. Small paper adhesions to verso from mounting; slightly wrinkled, but free of soil; Very Good or better. Signed in ink at lower left, "Best wishes from / Tom Feelings." Uncommon publisher's advertising broadside, reproducing one of Feelings' illustrations for.....
More info about Illustrated Publisher's Broadside for To Be A Slave, 1968 [signed by Feelings
Inscribed on front endpaper: "To Lieut. Coffman / with my sincere regards- / Wm. S. Graves / Major Gen'l, U.S. Army Retired." First printing. Octavo; tan cloth hardcover; black top-stain; dustjacket; xxiv,363pp; frontis. portr; seven inserted leaves of photographic plates (halftones); text illus. Trivial spotting to boards (very faint), else.....
Slim 12mo. Blue cloth boards; dustjacket; 29pp. Inscribed on front endpaper to John Ransom Lewis, Poet Laureate of Georgia: "For John Ransom Lewis who is helping to restore dignity and poetry to the institution of the Poet Laureateship in the footsteps of his distinguished predecessor // Gordden Link;" undated, but.....
More info about Three Poems for Now [Facsimile Edition, inscribed
First printing. Inscribed to collector and publisher Herb Yellin (Lord John Press) on title page, undated. Small octavo (21cm). Green cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 93pp. A fine copy in crisp, clean dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), very Near Fine. Exemplary copy of this early Albee play, inscribed (probably at.....
More info about The American Dream [Inscribed to Herb Yellin
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.....
Octavo (22cm.); removed; 66pp. Textblock rather browned and dampstained, shallow chipping along extremities, contemporary ownership signature of a E. Whiting at head of title page (serving as upper cover); still, Very Good and sound overall. Bound in manuscript receipt dated Wrentham, March 13, 1797, and signed by David Avery: "Received.....
Small, square quarto (20cm). Original printed wrappers; unpaged [16 leaves]; chiefly illustrations. Presentation inscription from Jung to Bernarda Shahn on half-title: "For auld lang syne: to Ben's memory & with appreciation for your artistry & friendship: Theo, 12.xi.76." Fine copy.
First Printing. Octavo (24.25cm); black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],375,[1]pp. Bookplate mounted to the half-title page, signed by Obama within a raised ruled border, and featuring a raised Presidential seal. Base of spine gently nudged, a few tiny scratches to lower edge of textblock.....
More info about The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
Octavo (23.5cm). Cloth-backed boards; 155pp. Presentation inscription on front endpaper from Nobel laureate George Wald to Ben Shahn: "To Ben Shahn / the "eminent artist" (p.49) / George Wald," undated. Covers soiled and stained; text clean and unmarked; about Very Good. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn.....
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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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![Typed Note, signed, to "Joesphine" [Herbst?], dated November 25, 1945. RADICAL AUTHORS, AUTOGRAPHS, MANUSCRIPTS.](http://www.lornebair.com/pictures/medium/28254.jpg?v=1641872243)
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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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.....
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.
More info about The Alien. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed to Ben & Bernarda Shahn
Oblong quarto (22.5cm x 26cm). Cream linen boards, stamped in black; illustrated dustjacket; 96pp. Bernarda Bryson Shahn's copy, with her ownership signature in block letters to front endpaper. Mild toning and soil to board edges; a few brief tears to the fragile, translucent dustwrapper; Very Good.
Quarto (26cm). Tan cloth boards, stamped in gilt; dustjacket; unpaged [57pp]. Inscribed by both authors on front endpaper to Bernarda Bryson Shahn. Boards yawning slightly; jacket dusted and toned at margins; Very Good.
First printing. 12mo (18.5cm). Publisher's red cloth boards, lettered in black on spine and front cover; 349pp; illus. This copy with a 3-pp holograph letter from Henry H. Knibbs laid onto front pastedown. Copy of American journalist David G. Baillie (recipient of the letter), inscribed by him to his son.....
Inscribed in black felt tip on front cover: "For Ben [ or Bev?] Cheney, Jerzy Kosinski," dated Spring 1975. Octavo (25cm). Printed card wrappers; pp.513-[519]. Reprinted from The American Scholar, Vol. 41, no. 4 (Autumn, 1972). Edges slightly toned and rolled; inscription bold and legible; Very Good.
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.....
More info about Siebzig Gedichte [Typescript, with author's corrections
One of 550 copies. Full calf, decoratively titled in gilt on spine and front cover; 156pp. A few minor scuffs to leather binding; faint foxing to prelims, still a Very Good or better copy. This copy inscribed on the front endpaper by Helen Hayes, who debuted the role of Mary.....
Limited to 200 signed copies printed on American Handcraft and bound in balloon cloth of which this is no. 10. Octavo (25.5cm.); original purple gilt-lettered cloth; 199pp.; frontispiece and 5 plates; title page printed within purple decorative border. Extremities a bit rubbed, spine a few shades faded though the gilt.....
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.....
Octavo (23.5cm). Red cloth boards; dustjacket; 148pp; illus. Inscribed by Rodman on half-title to artist Bernard Bryson Shahn: "for Bernarda, whose genius is now coming into the foreground / Affectionately, Selden," datemarked Roosevelt, NJ, 1978. Boards yawning very slightly, else Near Fine in original illustrated dustwrapper. From the library of.....
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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.
Autograph letter, signed, on recto and verso of single cream laid sheet (22x14.5cm.); approx. 85 words; dated 26 West 61st, N.Y., Dec 8th, and simply addressed to "Parker," presumably Stanton's friend and fellow-suffragist Parker Pillsbury (1809-1898), who, with Stanton, had co-edited the women's rights newsletter "The Revolution" twenty years earlier.....
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