Shahn Ben Illus (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Glossy pictorial cloth; 4to; pp. [46], illustrated in full-color throughout. Boards lightly rubbed and dust-soiled; spine tips and corners bumped. Internally bright and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First printing. 6 x 6 in. Paper boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and spine ends bumped with mild wear, edges a touch sunned. Binding tight and text unmarked. DJ is VERY GOOD ; clipped, clean but foxed. Fic. Stax.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First printing. 47 p. 24 cm. B&w drawings. Hardcover in dustjacket. Light wear to jacket edges. Small dents in book edges. Bookplate on front endpaper.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Cloth. Illustrated in b/w and full-color. Some very faint dust-soiling along spine, otherwise book is fine, in lightly rubbed and scuffed slipcase. Bookplate of Norman Sondheim on front paste-down.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illus. by Ben Shahn, oblong 7 x 9", rough cloth, unpaginated, a nice, clean copy in a rubbed and lightly soiled slipcase. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WENDELL BERRY, AND THE ILLUSTRATOR, BEN SHAHN.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Obl. 9 ĵ in. wide, 7 ĵ in. tall. White cloth stamped in black One of a limited edition. Signed by both the author and the illustrator. Not paginated. A poem about Kennedy's assassination. Purple end-papers. The front end-paper has left a spot on a preliminary page. The reverse of one page and the front of the next page had stuck together at a point and these pages were separated, leaving evidence of the adhesion. Dusting to the covers. In a black cloth-covered slipcase with a black-on-white title label. Wear to the case, and a chip on one corner. Signed by Illustrator(s).

8vo. pp. 57. b/w illus. by Shahn. Cloth (spine & edges sunned, lower corners worn). dw. (edges & spine sunned, some scuffing to back cover, previous owners notes to front free-endpaper). First Edition.

Illustrated by Ben Shahn. Square 12mo, publisher's green cloth in cloth slipcase. First edition; No. 142 of 500 copies signed by Porter and Ben Shahn, with a special frontispiece. Near fine (spine a little faded) in a near fine slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback book in slipcase printed in a limited edition (number not specified) with text by poet Wendell Berry and drawings by Ben Shahn. Includes tipped in color plate. Signed by both poet and artist. Slipcase shows moderate rubbing/scuffing. Bookseller since 1995 (ULTV-R-Bottom-Up) rareviewbooks. Signed by Author(s).

First, Limited Edition (1500 copies). Octavo (22cm); dark red cloth, stamped in foil; color frontispiece by Ben Shahn; 36pp, frontis. Light soiling and wear to boards; textblock fore edge deckled, toning to page margins with light foxing intermittent throughout. Overall Near Fine, without dustwrapper. E.E. Cummings' Tom is the author's avant-garde attempt to interpret Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin as a ballet. Gestures are described through Cummings' prose-poetry, while the characters themselves are reimagined as doll-like entities. While Cummings intended for this project to eventually make it to a real stage, it was never performed in his lifetime, having seen multiple rejections for its inaccessibility.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Trade Edition. Octavo (23cm.); original cloth in violet pictorial dust jacket; [8],118,[1]pp.; illus. Minor rubbing to jacket extremities, else About Fine. Near Fine in a slightly worn and spine-faded dustwrapper. The artist's copy, with Shahn estate label inside front cover (but no other identifying marks or signatures).

First Edition. Sole printing. Oblong octavo; stapled wrappers, [20]pp; illus. Fine in the original pictorial wrappers. Prescott (Complete Graphic Works of Ben Shahn) attributes the text to CBS executive Robert Strunsky. Advertisers' prospectus, celebrating CBS's highly-rated radio documentary program "Mind in the Shadow," which exposed the inadequacy of mental health care in America. The prospectus is clearly geared towards upper-end corporate clients; sophisticated in both design and tone, it highlights CBS's commitment to serious journalism, assuring advertisers "a vast and growing public for their messages." The brochure is illustrated throughout with simple, semi-abstract line drawings by the modernist painter Ben Shahn, who at this time was at the height of his fame and reputation. It is a great example of Shahn's mid-century commercial work and one of his most uncommon illustrated books, OCLC noting fewer than a dozen holdings in American institutions. PRESCOTT p.115 (note).

First, Limited Edition. Folio (33cm). Original morocco-backed paper-covered boards in publisher's slipcase; unpaged [28pp]. No. 75 of 365 hand-numbered copies in the regular edition (there were also 35 copies with a signed proof). Frontispiece is a portrait of Wilfred Owen, drawn by Shahn and printed from a block by Leonard Baskin; text includes 15 lithographs after original illustrations by Shahn. A very clean copy, about Fine; in the original slipcase, mildly toned and with a couple of tiny nicks at corners, still Near Fine. Superbly produced collection of Owen's anti-war poems, accompanied by Shahn's graphic depictions of the brutality of war.

First, Limited Edition. Folio (33cm). Original morocco-backed paper-covered boards in publisher's slipcase; unpaged [28pp]. No. 43 of 365 hand-numbered copies in the regular edition (there were also 35 copies with a signed proof). Frontispiece is a portrait of Wilfred Owen, drawn by Shahn and printed from a block by Leonard Baskin; text includes 15 lithographs after original illustrations by Shahn. Mild wear and soil to slipcase; touch of foxing to endpapers and flyleaves; Near Fine. Superbly produced collection of Owen's anti-war poems, accompanied by Shahn's graphic depictions of the brutality of war. The colophon states that only the first thirty-five "deluxe" copies were bound in half-leather; in fact the entire edition appears to have been bound thus; but only the "deluxe" copies include the signed proof of the Owen portrait, not present here. Signed.