Gessner Robert, First Edition (40 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. NY, Scribner's Sons, 1945 First edition 269 pages. Light wear, dust soiling to page edges, minor toning to pages, in dust jacket with wear, small closed tears and chips, rubbing and soiling. see photos.clph.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. No Jacket. Lynd Ward (illustrator). 1st Edition. Boards (HB) in very good minus condition for the rubbing to cover corners and 2 small names written inside."Upsurge" is a book of poetry by Robert Gessner, published in 1933. The book is a "dramatic modern poem" that explores themes of social unrest and the plight of the working class during the Great Depression. It features illustrations by Lynd Ward 42 pages.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Edition. Very Good book in a Good dust jacket. Bookplate.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Inscribed by the author. Very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Larry Ratzkin (Jacket Design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. 444 pp. Stated first edition! Solidly bound copy with moderate external, but minimal internal wear and use. Copy with crisp pages and clean text. Smooth covers. Mildly shelf worn. Dust jacket suffers moderate to extensive wear, with a few minor cuts and tears around edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. (Ref. BB4) Near Fine hardback in Near Fine DJ.

Original Printed Wrappers. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. Covers lightly soiled; short crease in each wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Lovely title page woodblock illustration by Lynd Ward. Black cloth wraps are scuffed and soiled, with indentations to front cover. White titling to front cover is rubbed and peeling, nearly half missing from title and some missing from author's name. Corners extremely bumped, head and tail of spine worn away. Binding intact. Interior is age-toned with some soiling to endpapers. Remnant of sticker to rear pastedown. Includes front flap of dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Farrar & Rinehart,1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. No dust jacket. Cover has mild shelfwear, some fading and slight foxing, water stain inside back cover, does not effect quality of pages, back cover has a slight horizontal indentation in middle. Pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. OWNER'S BOOKPLATE TO FRONT PASTE-DOWN, SCRAPE TO THE REAR DJ PANEL. "A" & COLOPHON PRESENT.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. First printing (Scribner's A on the copyright page). Inscribed to previous owner by the author on the front free endpaper. Moderate shelfwear, with worn-through corners. The boards are soiled. The spine is a bit darkened. A few pages are creased. Pencilled notes are on the rear free endpaper. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Black boards with bright white lettering. No lettering on spine. Interior is clean excepting an inscription by the former owner. Wonderful woodcut illustration on the title page.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good condition. First Edition. [vi], 280 pages of text. Hardcover binding with minor sunning and a small spot of staining to the spine. No dustjacket. A few pages with a tiny crease at the bottom corner. The text is clean and unmarked. First edition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. B/W Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition. Xi, 195 Pp. White Cloth. Fine In Near Fine Dust Jacket (Small Bump To Top Of Spine Panel) Priced $12.50.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ward Lynd (illustrator). 1st Edition. " a dramatic modern poem" angrily advocating the rights of the working man. Dust jacket and frontispiece illustrations by Lynd Ward. Dust jacket shows age browning and wear to spine and edges, Now in a protective plastic wrapper. internally clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine stamped in red, cover blind-stamped. Illustrated throughout with black and white photographic reproductions. Book is fine, dust jacket has minor wear to extremities and spine. 6 x 9 1/4 inches. 444 pages.

Hardcover. 30 x 43,5 cm. Original-Broschur mit illustriertem Deckblatt und Ringbindung. Die Ränder mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren. 118 Blatt (einseitig bedruckt) mit Texten, Abbildungen von s/w Fotografien und einigen Grundrissen; verschiedene Beiträge, teils aus antiquarischen Fachzeitschriften mit Quellenangaben etc. Die Seiten handschriftlich nummeriert. Innen gut erhalten (siehe auch weitere Abbildungen). Spannende Materialsammlung mit Artikeln aus Bauwerke und Kunstdenkmäler von Berlin, Bauwelt 1928 und 1930; zum St.-Antonius-KKH in Berlin Karlshorst, KKH Marienstiftung Breslau in Karlshorst, Erweiterungsbau der Brandenburgischen Landesfrauenklinik in Neukölln aus Dt. Bauzeitung 1929, Cecilienhaus in Charlottenburg, Neue Operationsabteilung der Chirurgischen Klinik des Charite-KKH u.v.m. -- Bitte Portokosten außerhalb EU erfragen! / Please ask for postage costs outside EU! / S ' il vous plait demander des frais de port en dehors de l ' UE! // Bitte beachten Sie auch unsere Fotos! / Please also note our photos! / Veuillez noter nos photos -- Lesen Sie etwas Schönes auf einer Bank in der Frühlingssonne! Wir haben die passende Lektüre. -- Wir kaufen Ihre werthaltigen Bücher! K18979A.

Large 8vo. pp 444. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered red on spine. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. Signed presentation from the author on the front endpaper to Desmond Flower, publisher, book-collector and scholar, 'For Desmond Flower, with the esteem of the author and deepest gratitude for the initial confidence in this book, yours ever, Bob Gessner, May 26th 1968 New York'. Slight fading at the top edge, otherwise clean, very good in very good minus dust jacket, with slight edgewear and damp mottling. Now in clear, protective acetate wrapper.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. GESSNER, Robert. THE MOVING IMAGE: A GUIDE TO CINEMATIC LITERACY. NY: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1968. Small 4to., black cloth in dust jacket; 444 pages. First Edition. Signed presentation from Gessner on the front endpaper: "For Harriet van Horne, With the esteem of the author, Robert Gessner. June 3, 1968." Van Horne [1920-1998] was an American newspaper columnist and a film/television critic. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); very minor wear d/j. Signed.

xi, 418 pp. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. A fine copy in a price-clipped jacket, lightly dust-soiled with a few shallow chips and small abrasions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original orange cloth, patterned endpages. First edition with publisher's colophon to CP. Top edge a little soiled. Firm binding. The DJ in mylar is chipped to points, edgeworn. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 280 pages.

Brosch. m. OU. 8°, 30 S., 1 Bl. Verlagsanzeigen. OU über Rücken etw. ausgeblichen, etw. randrissig u. -knittrig, etw. gebrauchsspurig, innen tadellos. EA. «Vortrag, gehalten an der Volkshochschule Zürich, Sommer 1940». Der Schutzumschlag gestaltet von «Rob[ert] S. Gessner».

Brosch. 8°, Frontispiz, 36 S. mit 23 farbigen Tafeln. Tadellos. EA. Mit eine Text von Eugen Gomringer: «Eine Wiederbegegnung mit dem Schweizer Künstler» (5 S.); im Anhang Bio- und Bibliografie sowie Ausstellungsverzeichnisse. Erschienen zur Ausstellung.

Brosch. 8°, Frontispiz, 36 S. mit 24 farbigen Tafeln. Tadellos. EA. Mit eine Text von Eugen Gomringer: «Eine Wiederbegegnung mit dem Schweizer Künstler» (5 S.); im Anhang Bio- und Bibliografie sowie Ausstellungsverzeichnisse. Erschienen zu den Ausstellungen.

Brosch. 8°, o. P.: 12 Bl. mit 1 ganzseitigen Abb. u. 16 farbigen Tafeln. Tadellos. EA. Mit eine Text von Eugen Gomringer: «Im Spannungsfeld der Konstruktiven und Konkreten Kunst» (3 S.); im Anhang Bio- und Bibliografie sowie Ausstellungsverzeichnisse. Erschienen zur Ausstellung.

OLwd. m. Rückenprägung. 4°, Frontispiz, 227 S., zahlr., oft farbige Abb. (oft auf Tafeln). Einband min. unsauber, sonst tadellos. EA. Mit Kurzbiografie, Ausstellungsverzeichnis und Bibliografie im Anhang.

42 pp. With striking frontispiece by Lynd Ward. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth. First edition. Good; spine partially perished as usual. Dorothy Thompson's copy with her bookplate on front pastedown. One can see her reading this book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good-. Lynd Ward (illustrator). First Edition. 42 pp. Original black cloth covers w/ title on front cover. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY ROBERT GESSNER: Joe Jones-Friend and Comrade and Brother-Bob Gessner/Feb. 15,1936 NYC. Light foxing to pg. text block and endpapers. DJ has wear to edges w/ piece missing from middle to tail of spine. Spine sunned. Lightly soiled. All corners clipped. Frontispiece, title pg., and DJ drawings by Lynd Ward. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The book is bound in green cloth with bright silver letters on the front cover & spine. There is fading to the cloth all along the top edges, on the bottom tip of the spine, & along the front edge of the front cover. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. States: "Copyright 1941 by Robert Gessner". The dust jacket has a 1 cm chip off the bottom of the spine, smaller chips off the top edge, wear on the cover corners and a long 13 cm tear on the bottom of the fore-edge of the front flap. $2.75 on the flap.

OLwd. m. Rückenprägung u. OU. 4°, Frontispiz, 227 S., zahlr., oft farbige Abb. (oft auf Tafeln). OU min. gebrauchsspurig, allg. tadellos. EA. Mit Kurzbiografie, Ausstellungsverzeichnis und Bibliografie im Anhang.