Compiled Saul Mauriber (5 results)
PORTRAITS: The Photography of Carl Van Vechten
Mauriber, Saul (Compiled)/Van Vechten, Carl/Hammond, Natalie Hays (Introduction)
Language: English
Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., Indianapolis/New York, 1978
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Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.Shoemaker Booksellers
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing. (1978) Original black cloth covers, very bright and clean. Spine ends and corners slightly bumped. DJ is As Is--Approx. 6 1/2" closed tear from bottom edge of front panel w/ some old tape repair to part of it. Mild edge wear. Price clipped. Illust. w/ numerous b/w photos of famous people of this century, most of them caught at the peak of their careers. Carl Van Vechten (illustrator).…
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Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.Hudson River Book Shoppe
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Uncommon title. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with minor mended tears to the edges; interior clean and fresh. Stated first printing. Illustrated.
Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, Indianapolis / New York, 1978
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Introduction by Natalie Hays Hammond. Quarto. Near fine in clipped ($29.95 price remains) very good dust jacket with some edgewear and the edges of the flaps tanned.
Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, Indianapolis and New York, 1978
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Tall quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
More imagesPublished by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1978
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Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.The Cary Collection
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. MAURIBER, Saul [compiled by] The Bobbs-Merrill Company 1978 First Printing 12 1/4" x 9 3/8" Ex-Libris Andy Warhol bookplate One hundred and sixty-three portraits, taken during the 1930s-1950s and including Dizzy Gillespie, Orson Welles, Frances Steloff, Berenice Abbott, James Baldwin, Joan Miro, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Ravi Shankar. Carl Van Vechten (June 17, 1880 December 21, 1964) was an American writer and artistic photographer who was a patron of the Harlem Renaissance and the literary executor of Gertrude Stein. He gained fame as a writer, and notoriety as well, for his 1926 novel Nigger Heaven. In his later years, he took up photography and took many portraits of notable people. Although he was married to women for most of his adult years, Van Vechten engaged in numerous homosexual affairs over his lifetime.…
