Kellner Bruce Selected (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Printing. Faint spotting top edge, near fine; fine dust jacket. 8vo. (xxx) 301 pp. Index, b/w photos, black cloth-backed boards. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Yales University Press, London, 1987, first edition and a pre-publication review copy; 8vo, 165 x 240mm; pp xxx, 300, [301]; black cloth, spine gilt, pictorial dust wrapper, dw slightly scuffed but a very good copy; 20 photographic illustrations and a few line drawings in the text. . . . . Raised in the stultifying environment of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Van Vechten escaped by studying at the University of Chaicago and thereafter became known for a wide range of accomplishments - literary critic, music and dance reviewer, novelist, jazz enthusiast and commentator, artistic photographer and a promoter of the avant garde in a range of fields. He formed a close friendship with Gertrude Stein and became her literary executor, helping to bring into print her previously unpublished writings.…

First Edition. Photographs Fine copy in dust-wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Complete set of this comprehensive edition. Most volumes contain more than one title. This edition consists of reprints of the first editions, selected and introduced by Bruce Kellner. I have never seen a complete set before. Very scarce.