Shaw Irwin Robert Capa (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Robert Capa (illustrator). 1st Edition. Price NOT clipped. DJ nicely in archival wraps with light shelf wear and minor tear to the edge; interior clean and fresh. Illustrated with black and white photography by Robert Capa and others.

First Edition. First edition. Small softcover. Edited by Anna Farova. Features texts by John Hersey, John Steinbeck, William Saroyan, Irwin Shaw, Robert Capa, and Louis Aragon. Includes numerous 50 black and white images by Bischof. An about very good copy in photo-illustrated wrappers with a small tear to the base of the front panel near the spine, some creasing and some other wear. Internally a clean copy of this nicely printed book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, wrappered issue (also published in hardcover). Small quarto. 144pp. Pictorial wrappers. Some rubbing at the edge of the spine and extremities, a sound very good copy. Capa's photographs accompany text by Shaw.

Cloth/Boards w/DJ. Condition: G/G. Black & White Photographs (illustrator). New York, NY: Simon & Schuster. G/G. (1950). . Cloth/Boards w/DJ. Sm 4to., 144 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, price-clipped, tears, toning, cover rubbed, bumped, writing on ffe, page toning .

Paperback. Condition: Rough. No Jacket. Cover presents with rubbing/yellowing with age, edge wear (including an exceedingly worn spine), and chipping to head and foot. Text is largely tight in binding, however covers are beginning to separate from remainder of binding and text; handle with care. Text is clean and free of blemishes throughout, save ownership stamp on title page. No other markings or indications of note. Size: 4to - over 9ž" - 12" tall.

Softcover, 144 pages; very good condition; light edgewear to spine; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 4° - 175pp - B/w Photo-reproductions. Images of War by Robert Capa (Endre Friedmann 1913-1954) Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist. He is considered by some to be the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history. First edition, text in English. Original binding and dust-jacket. The dust jacket has some tears otherwise in good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good+. Robert Capa (illustrator). First Edition. 144pp, pictorial paper wrappers with blue banner and spine, titles in white on spine and front cover. Large black and white photo on front cover, array of four small black and white photos on back cover. Binding is secure, and spine is straight. Mylar wrapper over cover. Text describing book inside cover, signed on title page/front free endpaper by Irwin Shaw. Water damage from top inside of both front and back hinges to about halfway down. Bleeds onto page about 1" at widest part of stain. Contents of book are otherwise clean, and the stain doesn't show on photos or text block inside the volume. Both Shaw and Capa had made their names from WW2 - Shaw with his novel The Young Lions and Capa as a war photographer/photojournalist. This book sees them checking in on the newly-formed nation of Israel, with Capa's photos and Shaw's prose forming an insightful early image of the nation. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good to Near Fine. Robert Capa (illustrator). First Edition. CLEAN very good to near fine 1950 hardcover with very good+ DUST JACKET.

Hardcover. Quarto. 144 pp. Serves as a photo-document of the then newly founded state of Israel, capturing the diverse cultural, sociological and physical landscape. By the time this work was published, photographer Capa was already an acclaimed war photographer, photojournalist and one of the founders of Magnum Photos. Subjects ranging from politicians and military leaders, to new immigrants, farmers and the Ultra-orthodox community are featured. Irwin Shaw's text provides relevant and informative information to accompany and give context. Near Fine on a Very Good dust jacket which has some soiling and edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. INSCRIBED BY IRWIN SHAW on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1950 1st edition. Clean and VG to VG+ in its dark-blue cloth over black boards. Light rubbing along the spine, very light wear at the spine crown. Just a touch of abrading to the rear fore-edge. Quarto, with the powerful, evocative black-and-white photos of Robert Capa complementing Irwin Shaw's text. Uncommon signed by either Shaw or Capa. Signed.

Softcover. Condition: g- to vg. First edition. Quarto (10 1/4 x 7"). 144pp. Original photo-illustrated wrappers with white lettering to covers and spine. Title page inscribed and signed by Robert Capa: "To Rona, hoping that he won't have to pay for my Paris hotel bills again. Capa." the inscription refers to Capa's early years in Paris, at a time when he didn't have enough money to pay for his hotel rooms. At one point, the manager of the hotel he stayed at confiscated his shoes, thus Rona had to bail him out (Whelan, 1994.) Rona was also a Hungarian émigré who owned the ABC Press photo agency in Amsterdam, which represented photographers like Capa or László Moholy-Nagy, later the Magnum Photos in The Netherlands. This book serves as a photo-document of the then newly founded state of Israel, capturing the already diverse cultural, sociological and physical landscape. By the time this work was published, Robert Capa was already an acclaimed war photographer, photojournalist and one of the founders of Magnum Photos. Subjects ranging from politicians and military leaders, to new immigrants, farmers and the Ultra-orthodox community are featured. Irwin Shaw's text provides relevant and informative information to accompany and give context to the stunning b&w photographs taken by Capa. Wrappers rubbed along joints and edges. Head of spine chipped. Wrappers in overall good-, interior in very good condition.