Language: English
Published by Alliance Book Corporation, 1941
Seller: Big Star Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
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hardcover. Condition: Fair. Signed/inscribed by Robert Gessner to Oliver La Farge. Hardcover, no jacket. An ex-library copy with some water staining. Boards bowed, exterior stained. Text unmarked. Reliable customer service. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available! (Heavy books & sets may require extra shipping charges.). Signed.
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.
Published by E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1968
Seller: Any Amount of Books, London, United Kingdom
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US$ 48.42
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Add to basketLarge 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.
Published by E.P. Dutton and Co, NY, 1968
First Edition Signed
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.
Published by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York, 1933
Seller: Shoemaker Booksellers, Gettysburg, PA, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
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).
Published by Alliance Book Corporation, NY, 1941
Seller: Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (Lopezbooks), Hadley, MA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Presumed first edition. Inscribed by Gessner to Elmer Rice, "with best wishes." In the year of publication, Gessner founded the Motion Picture Department at NYU; Rice (who had won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1929 for Street Scene), was then part of the Playwrights Company, which he had founded with Maxwell Anderson and Robert E. Sherwood, among others. Spine and edge-faded; a very good copy, lacking the dust jacket. A nice association copy. Unless otherwise noted, our first editions are first printings.
Language: German
Published by Zürich, Adolf Hürlimann, 1964
Seller: antiquariat peter petrej - Bibliopolium AG, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland
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Quer-8°, 18 Bl., 7 Grafiken, Mappe m. lose Blatt, Umschlag minimal gebräunt, tadell. Die 7 Serigrafien von Rob S. Gessner rechts unten signiert, num. u. dat. Dies die Num. 6 von 25 Exemplaren. 1100 gr. Schlagworte: Kunst - Konkrete Kunst, Literatur - Konkrete Poesie, Illustr. Bücher - Originalgrafik.
Language: German
Publication Date: 1949
Seller: antiquariat peter petrej - Bibliopolium AG, Zürich, ZH, Switzerland
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US$ 1,957.60
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Add to basket32 x 24 cm, 49 x 40 cm in Passepartout, Rahmen versilbert, Rahmen min. gebrauchspurig, Blatt tadell. Links unten signiert, rechts signiert und datiert. Robert S. Gessner (1908-1982) beschäftigte sich ab 1924 mit abstrakter und ungegenständlicher Malerei. Von 1925 bis 1927 absolvierte er eine Schaufensterdekorateur-Lehre beim Warenhaus Jelmoli in Zürich. In den Jahren 1927 bis 1931 besuchte er die Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich in der Klasse von Alfred Altherr, später erfolgte sein Übertritt in die Grafikklasse, wo er mit den Lehrern Walter Roshardt, Ernst Keller, Karl Hügin, Otto Meyer-Amden und Ernst Gubler in Kontakt kam. Ab 1932 arbeitete Gessner als selbständiger Gebrauchs-/Werbegrafiker und Maler. 1938 wurde er Mitglied der Künstlervereinigung allianz, die ein Jahr zuvor von Leo Leuppi und Richard Paul Lohse gegründet wurde und aus dem Kreis der Zürcher Konkreten hervorging. Von 1940 bis 1956 war Robert S. Gessner an der Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich Beauftragter für die Ausbildung von Lehrlingen und Volontären, 1944 und 1945 war er Hilfslehrer, von 1957 bis 1963 Fachlehrer für Zeichnen für Zeichnen, Prorektor bei Hans Fischer und Leiter der Lehrlingsbildung. In den Jahren 1957 bis 1963 folgten verschiedene Aufenthalte auf Ibiza. [Ein Weihnachtgeschenk für Architekinnen und Architekten.] 2500 gr. Schlagworte: Gemälde - Mischtechnik, Architektur - Allgemein.