Kienbusch William (12 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. 47 pp., bw & color plates, 8vo. ; Bright, sharp, unmarked copy. : Well packaged, ships with tracking.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. [14] pp., bw ill., pictorial stapled wraps, 8vo. ; No ownership markings, bumping/light creasing to head of spine. : Well packaged, ships with tracking.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Illustrated wraps. Square format. 79 pp. Black and white and color illustrations throughout. A work issued in conjunction with a 1996 exhibition of paintings by William Kienbusch, an American artist known for his abstract landscape paintings often reflecting the scenery of Maine. With critical essays. GOOD condition. Minor soiling, toning and edgewear. Light curling along the fore edge.

Softcover staple bound, 8 pages; good condition, tears to rubbed cover at top and bottom of spine; no internal marks.

Softcover staple bound, 28 pages; very good condition, light crease down rear cover and last page; internal marks.

Trade Paperback. Single sheet, folded to create 4 leaves, 7 x 9 inches when folded. Short essay by Marianne Moore leaf 2. Illustration leaf 3. List of 19 exhibited works, leaf 4. First edition (first printing). A near fine copy.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. stapled gallery booklet Very Good paperback with light shelfwear - NICE! Standard-sized.

Lightly-soiled exhibition piece, four panels, 9x7 inches, landscape layout, text by Moore on inner front panel, reproduction of "Concerning the Scarecrow" on third panel, exhibition list on back panel. The show exhibited casein paintings by Kienbusch painted between 1960 and 1962.

Unbound. Condition: Very Good. Exhibition catalog. Text by Marianne Moore. Oblong octavo. One sheet folded to make 4pp. With one black and white recreation of *Concerning the Scarecrow* by Kienbusch. Faint foxing on the front and back panels, very good. Published on occasion of the exhibition held in New York at the Kraushaar Galleries, January 28 - February 16, 1963.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Lynn Meiners (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Signed by Samuel French Morse directly on the title page; additionally, French wrote the following inscription on the front-free endpage: "For Bill Kienbusch / who is often / 'Colloquial as August when we're / here' / June 1965 / Sam" American artist, William Austin Kienbusch (1914-1980), a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton, was best known for his semi-abstract landscapes of Maine. Representations of his work are on exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. Morse finished his inscription to Kienbusch using the first line of the last stanza from the concluding poem for this volume: "A Poem in Praise of Hancock Point," p.91. (The referenced poem was also included in Morse's, The Collected Poems, 1995.) "Colloquial as August, when we're here-- / A rhyme for rustics, like a villanelle. / We listen for but almost never hear / The kind of talk that makes our meaning clear." Book with light toning along the upper gutter of the front endpage, else in fine condition; dust jacket with light rubbing along folds, mild wear to extremities, and faint toning to back cover margins, else fine. A lovely association copy of historical relevance. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. William Austin Kienbusch (Association); Lynn Meiners (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the first edition. Author's second book of verse. Signed by Samuel French Morse directly on the title page; additionally, French wrote the following inscription on the front-free endpage: "For Bill Kienbusch / from way down east / and with best / wishes-- / Sam Morse" American artist, William Austin Kienbusch (1914-1980), a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton, was best known for his semi-abstract landscapes of Maine. Representations of his work are on exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. Book with faint rubbing and light toning to top edge, else in fine condition; dust jacket with toning to spine and folds, slight rubbing to title on spine, two small stains to front cover, and light wear to spine ends, else fine. A lovely association copy. Signed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Exhibition catalogue. Single sheet, folded to make four oblong octavo pages and illustrated with one of the Kienbusch's paintings on exhibition at the Kraushaar Galleries in New York. Fine. Inscribed by the artist to the poet Samuel French Morse, who owned one of the painting: "Dear Sam & Jane - wish you were going to be here for the opening 3 - 6 pm, Jan 28. Maybe you'll be down sometime during run of show. After all. Your Picture. As ever, Bill." Also contains the first (and only?) appearance of Marianne Moore's one-page essay about Kienbusch written in conjunction with an exhibition. Abbott Cb344.