Ariss Bruce (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Bruce Ariss (illustrator). 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Wood block print; This book is in Good only condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book has limp suede covers that have rubbing, wear and dulling to the lettering on the front cover and has a side stapled binding. The spine ends, corners and edges of the book covers. The spine joints have rubbing and tears to both top and bottom edges. The top edge of the book cover has a smallish chip missing. The text pages are generally clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front endpaper. The front endpaper and dedication pages are detached, and the last three pages of the book are also detached. The book is a short history of the city of Monterey, CA.

Audio Book (CD). Condition: Near Fine. Bruce Ariss {cover art} (illustrator). Keyboards and Guitar: Stephen M. Mortensen. Twenty-Seven poems of Robinson Jeffers read by Taelen Thomas, a superb interpreter of the poetry of Robinson Jeffers, brings these poems to life.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

near fine, faint extra creases on the fron tflap jacket only, NO BOOK.

near fine, creases at the rear spine fold jacket only, NO BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st edition, inscribed by the author. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: fair. First edition. Signed without inscription by the author, neatly in the center of the front free-endpaper. Brown hardcover with gilt spine lettering, state first edition, in dustjacket. A very good book in a jacket that is only in fair condition. Minor shelfwear at he cover edges and spine tips. A bit of darkening to the endpapers toward ths spine (most likely from the binding glue). Solid binding. Pages are clean and unmarked, other than a stray brown mark to the front textblock edge. The jacket has multiple chips, tears, and paper loss but is intact and clean. 119pp., indexed, black and white illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by the author "Greetings from Cannery Row! Bruce Ariss" on the free front endpaper. The book is in fine condition. The jacket is in very good condition with several short tears and edgewear. First Edition. Signed By Artist.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Association copy inscribed on the front free endpaper by illustrator Bruce Ariss to Jay M. Smith whose calligraphy is on the cover and title page - For Jay M. Smith, with thanks for the excellent calligraphy you did on the cover and fly leaf of this book. From Feghoot's illustrator, Bruce Ariss, July 13, 1962. Very good in publisher's illustrated wraps showing some light edgewear. Slight bump at the top corner of the text block. Small stain on the top edge of the text block. 16mo. Unpaginated. Signed by Illustrator.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. High School Annual. Modernist Litho Cover In Orange, Red, Yellow And Violet. Block Cut By Bruce Ariss, Hand Signed At Top; Ariss Was An Artist Whose Best Known Work Was The Famous Murals On Cannery Row In Monterey, California. Zper Wikipedia, Bruce Wallace Ariss, Jr. (1911 - 1994) Was An American Painter, Muralist, Writer, Illustrator, Editor As Well As Theater And Set Designer, Amateur Playwright And Actor, And Overall Icon On The Monterey Peninsula, California. Bruce, A Painter, And His Spouse Jean, A Writer, Decided To Take An 18-Month "Honeymoon" On The Monterey Peninsula To Pursue Their Creative Efforts.To Augment Their Savings, The Arisses Took Over The Editorship Of The Monterey Beacon, An Experimental Local Literary Magazine, And Published John Steinbeck'S "The Snake" In 1934. William Saroyan Passed Through Monterey And Sold A Short Story For One Dollar To The Arisses For Publication In The Beacon. Years Later Bruce Ariss Created Artwork And Served As Editor For A Local Magazine What'S Doing On The Monterey Peninsula. After Renting A Small Place In Pacific Grove, The Arisses Bought Several Lots On Huckleberry Hill In Monterey And Built A Small Studio-House. This Evolved Over The Next Fifty Years, Mostly With Scrap And Donated Materials, Into A Three-Story 20-Plus Room Dwelling To Meet Their Changing Preferences And The Growing Needs Of Their Five Children. Ariss Claimed That John Steinbeck Referred To The House As A "Triumph Over Architecture". It Burned To The Ground In 1990. At Age 80, Ariss Designed And Rebuilt, With Help From Many Friends, "Triumph Over Architecture Ii,"Bruce And Jean Ariss Accompanied Ricketts And Steinbeck On An Excursion To Mexico To Collect Marine Specimens. His Account Of The Trip, Including Numerous Sketches, Were Published In His 1988 Book Inside Cannery Row: Sketches From The Steinbeck Era (Lexikos) Which Offers A Rare Insight Into The Obstinate But Charming Steinbeck, Who Himself Wrote Of One Such Journey In The Book The Log From The Sea Of Cortez.Ariss' Artwork Was Influenced By Diego Rivera; Ariss Claimed That Rivera Told Him That A Woodblock Carving Of Him By Ariss Was The Best Portrait That Any Artist Had Ever Done Of Him. Unfortunately, Many Of Ariss's Oil Paintings And Sketches Were Destroyed With His House In The 1990 Fire.For Over Six Decades The Arisses Were Central To The Monterey Peninsula's Diverse And Ever-Changing Community Of Artists And Writers Who Often Passed Through Ed Ricketts' Lab On Cannery Row. These Included John Steinbeck, Ed Ricketts, Adelle Davis, August Gay, Joseph Campbell, Robinson Jeffers, Francis Whitaker, Salvador Dalí, Jean Varda, Ellwood Graham And Barbara Graham (Judy Diem), Hank Ketcham, Henry Miller, Ward Moore And Raylyn Moore, John And Ching Smithback, Eldon Dedini, Bob Bradford, Paul Mcreyonlds, Arch Garner, Ephraim Doner, Eric Barker, Gus Arriola, Richard Farina, Les Gorn,[17] And Gordon Newell. Ariss Painted A Number Murals, Many Under The Works Progress Administration (Wpa), A Federal Program Set Up To Create Public Works To Relieve Unemployment. Some Of His Murals Can Still Be Found Throughout Monterey County. Working With August Gay In 1934, They Created A Giant Wpa 150' X 10' Mural For The Pacific Grove High School Library Depicting The Monterey Coastline As It Looked At The Time, From The Point Pinos Lighthouse To The Old Customhouse, With Cannery Row Its Focal Point. Unfortunately, The Mural Was Destroyed By Fire In 1946. Ariss Also Painted A Number Of Storefronts, Many For The 1949 Centennial, Including Those For Monterey Hardware, Poppy Coffee Shop And Monterey Studio On Alvadaro Street In Monterey. Ariss Was A Very Avid Reader, Mostly Of Science Fiction. He Wrote Some Science Fiction Short Stories Before Publishing His Science Fiction Novel, Full Circle (Avalon) In 1963. He Also Illustrated Sci-Fi Works Including Reginald Bretnor's Through Time And Space With Ferdinand Feghoot (1962). Signed by Illustrator(s).

Magazine. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. B&W Illustrations; This is an oversized magazine. The magazine is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the magazine covers has some light bumping and rubbing. The text pages are clean and bright, though there is a bit of beginning toning throughout. The contents include: What's doing- Tourist Guide, Photo Tour of the Peninsula, El Toro Y El Oso by Charles H. Killian, House of the Month, Pentraits - Rudolph Von Urban by William D'Avee, Civic Citation by Margaret C. Street, The Church Cat by Paul S. Nathan, Andre Moreau & Statement, Carmel Caricatures by Nesbitt, Names and Notables (includes a Mention of Toni Ricketts, the pal of John Steinbeck) , Pros and Cons by Beniamino Bufano, La Fiesta de Monterey, Forgotten Nootka byTj, Bookseller to Cannery Row by Lillian Bos Ross, Two Views of the Old Warf, There to But Here? By M. S. , Relaxing at the Races by Kay Dorn, and more. "To augment their savings, the Arisses took over the editorship of The Monterey Beacon, an experimental local literary magazine, and published John Steinbeck's "The Snake" in 1934. [4] William Saroyan passed through Monterey and sold a short story for one dollar to the Arisses for publication in the Beacon. [5] Years later Bruce Ariss created artwork and served as editor for a local magazine What's Doing on the Monterey Peninsula. [6].Ariss was a friend and contemporary of John Steinbeck, the Nobel Prize-winning author, and Ed Ricketts. Bruce and Jean Ariss accompanied Ricketts and Steinbeck on an excursion to Mexico to collect marine specimens. His account of the trip, including numerous sketches, were published in his 1988 book Inside Cannery Row: Sketches from the Steinbeck Era (Lexikos) which offers a rare insight into the obstinate but charming Steinbeck, who himself wrote of one such journey in the book The Log from the Sea of Cortez. " (from Wikipedia).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 119pp; 22.5 cm x 27 cm. Illustrated dustjacket with edge imperfections. Burgundy cloth HC with gilt lettering on spine. Stated First Edition. SIGNED on front blank endpaper: "Greetings from Cannery Row!/Bruce Ariss/May 10 1990." Presents rare view of Nobel Prize winning author John Steinbeck. Includes numerous original sketches by author of trip in 1930s with Steinbeck to Mexico. Contents clean and textually unmarked; no library stamps. Signed by Author.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Bruce Wallace Ariss, Jr. (illustrator). First Edition. Trade paperback. (69) pages. First publication in book form of a series of humorous science fiction (time travel) stories, most of which had been published previously in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Grendel Briarton is the pseudonym of Reginald Bretnor--note that the introduction to the book was written by Breton! Both the wraparound cover illustration and the internal illustrations are by noted American artist Bruce Ariss. The book is clean and tight, with some edgewear and very minor chipping at spine extremities; previous owner's name written on front free endpaper. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. Illustrated by Bruce Ariss (illustrator). 1st Edition Thus; 1st Printing. Cover Art; This is a smaller than trade sized paperback book. This Tis a first edition of these stories in book form (the individual stories were all previously issued in magazine format) . The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers are mostly clean and bright, with some very light toning to the white portions of the spine. The text pages are clean and bright. "Under the pseudonym Grendel Briarton (an anagram of Reginald Bretnor) , he published a series of over eighty science-fiction themed shaggy-dog vignettes featuring the time-traveling hero Ferdinand Feghoot. Known as "Feghoots", the stories involved Feghoot resolving a situation encountered while traveling through time and space (à la Doctor Who) with a bad pun. In one example, he explained his inability to pay his dues for a Sherlock Holmes fan society by turning out his empty pockets and declaring "share lack". In his adventures, Feghoot worked for the Society for the Aesthetic Re-Arrangement of History and traveled via a device that had no name but was typographically represented as the ") ("." (from Wikipedia).