Leavitt Ron (7 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Leavitt, Fred (illustrator). First edition. Chicago: Jannes Art Publishing, (1983). First edition. hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. Leavitt, Fred. Text by Ron Grossman. Introduction to the photography by John Fink. Approx. 10 in. x 10 in. (25.5 cm x 25.5 cm). Includes titles and locations of the photographs. Signed by the author on the title page. 012204A.

First Edition. Very Good: many of the boxes have helpful hints penciled in: for example "must" is an M + down∈ someone has noted "need", same motion with N.; also many refinements eg "once only!". Solid, no name, & some ways, better than new. Plastic comb binding, 8.5x11", 160 pp. Many drawings, 9 to a page, of hand movements; also practice sentences and tests.

Softcover. White wraps with bw illustration and black text. 127 pp. Bw illustrations. Text by Ron Grossman, and an introduction by John Fink. VG- (shelfwear, exlib with stickers on cover, inside rear cover, stamp on copyright page, pages otherwise excellent).

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 128 pages. Published in 1983. Retrospective collection of black-and-white photographs. One of the most beautiful photography books on Chicago ever published. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run simultaneously as Hardcover and Softcover Editions. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Margit Weaving Leavitt: Oversize-volume format. Pristine-white pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Fred Leavitt. Texts by Ron Grossman and John Fink. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Chicago to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Fred Leavitt's Chicago: A Photographic Essay". Powerful, memorable images of a city in the midst of rapid, transitional change during the critical and turbulent 1980's. "When Fred Leavitt returned to Chicago, after having spent a year documenting the wetlands of Florida, he saw the city as a part of nature, as an ant-hill or beehive would be. He spent the next two years producing a remarkable photographic essay that shows urban living with a sense of wonder and a special wit. An award-winning landmark publication, 'Fred Leavitt's Chicago' is printed in a proprietary Continuous-Tone Process, which eliminates the half-tone printing screen. The remarkable reproductions almost appear three-dimensional against the shifting light" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Fred Leavitt and Chicago-iana collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, dated, and inscribed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by the photographer: "For AL KEZYS, with best wishes, Fred Leavitt Oct. 1985". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, Algimantas Kezys, who is named, was a Chicago-based, Lithuanian-American photographer, now widely regarded as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. This title is a late-modern photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, dated, and inscribed copy of the First Edition/First Printing (Softcover) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws because they have been pored over. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 87 tritone plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO ALGIMANTAS KEZYS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0912223014. Signed by Author.

78 pp.; 27.9 x 21.6 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; Winter 1986 issue of JOURNAL, edited by Lane Relyea. Contents include "Travelog: If You Die in the University Hospital," by Michael Lesy; "Seduction and Submission: A Study fo Ecstasy," edited by Connie Fitzsimons, with contributions and projects by Jochen Gerz, William S. Burroughs, Judith Barry, Bob Perelman, Ron Linden, Walter Abish, Marina LaPalma, Robert C. Morgan, Cecile Abish, Johanna Drucker, Louis Hock, Elizabeth Sisco, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Bruce Meisner, and Marc Schepers; "The Ricky Paul Show," by Eric Bogosian; "Anniversaries of Defeat," by Gregory Lukow and proposals by Amy Gerstler, William Leavitt, Sylvia Kolbowski, and Nic Greene. Cover: Mark Greenberg. Note, the colophon in this issue misidentifies this issue as No. 42. Very Good. Mild cover wear including rubbing of cover edges. Contents clean and unmarked.