Stephen Steadman (41 results)

Softcover, 70 pages; poor condition; moderate rubbing, stains and edgewear to covers; tear at top of spine and small crease to upper left corner of pages; half of the pages are loose from spine; no internal marks. As is. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Includes essays on Julio Le Parc and Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, a poem by Charles Tomlinson, and more. Text and images are unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are a little age toned. Stapled binding is tight and square. Covers show some light edge wear.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First edition, first printing. Includes essays on Julio Le Parc and Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack, a poem by Charles Tomlinson, and more. Text and images are unmarked; pages are bright, though the page edges are a little age toned. Binding is tight and square. Covers show some light edgewear. From the collection of the Gotham Book Mart. 32pp.

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. All of our books without an ISBN number (normally pre-1970 in date) are described individually in detail. Books with an ISBN number (this one included) are all offered for sale in good condition or better: some may be in very good, near fine, or fine condition. If the condition is critical to your decision to purchase, then please contact us and we will let you know our view of its condition. If the book is very heavy, we will may need to contact you before completion of purchase to advise you of extra postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover. An ex-library copy bound in heavy red library cloth, with the usual ex-libris markings. Photo-illustrated. A clean/unmarked copy within. Thus, a sound hardcover reading/reference copy. No dust jacket. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Montgomery Art Galleries, Claremont College, Claremont CA. 1978. 16 pp. Softcover, 1st edition. A unique exhibition catalog with laid-in film strips instead of printed images. Fine.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. P0151727 La librería ofrece por tiempo limitado un descuento del 10%. El precio original de este ejemplar era de 3.05 EUR.

Soft cover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Top inner corners of front and back covers are creased. Inside is clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No jacket. Cover is lightly worn along edges. Half centimeter vertical tear from bottom edge of front cover. Cover and pages are lightly tanned, but otherwise clean and unmarked.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Cover by Broeck Steadman. (illustrator). A little reading wear, binding sound; very good overall. Includes: The Modular Man (part one of four - MacBride Allen), Human Factors (Grinzo), Fate of the Art (Kallis), Never Forget (Strumfels), The Critical Factor (Dyson), Rehab (Vinicoff), On Secret Wings (McLaughlin). Book.

4to. 70 pp. Paperback. Black and white illustrations throughout. Slight smudge on front cover. Otherwise a good copy. Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Carella, Maria (book design); Steadman, Henry (jacket design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition black boards, black spine, and silver spine lettering contained in a very good condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Preliminary Page Poem by Robert Graves, "Outlaws"; List of Other Books by Stephen Davis: Author Dedication; The Difference; Dionysus Is in the House; Rolling.; Selected Sources; Acknowledgments; Index; Photo Credits and About the Author. Profusely illustrated with four sections of black-and-white photographic plates plus additional photographs interspersed throughout the volume. A small 1/8th inch repaired closed tear at the upper front right jacket tip (see photographs). All pages are in fine unmarked condition and the thick spine is in exceedingly tight and square unread condition (see photographs). "The Beatles want to hold your hand. But the Stones want to burn your town." - Tom Wolfe. "The acclaimed bestselling rock-and-roll biographer delivers the first complete, unexpurgated history of the world's greatest band. The saga of the Rolling Stones is the central epic in rock mythology. From their debut as the intermission band at London's Marquee Club in 1962 through their latest record-setting Bridges to Babylon world tour, the Rolling Stones have defined a musical genre and experienced godlike adulation, quarrels, addiction, legal traumas, and descents into madness and death - while steadfastly refusing to fade away. Now Stephen Davis, the New York Times bestselling author of Hammer of the Gods and Walk This Way, who has followed the Stones for three decades, presents their whole story, replete with vivid details of the Stones' musical successes - and personal excesses. Born into the wartime England of air-raid sirens, bombing raids, and strict rationing, the Rolling Stones came of age in the 1950s, as American blues and pop arrived in Europe. Among London's most ardent blues fans in the early 1960s was a short blond teenage guitar player named Brian Jones, who hooked up with a lorry driver's only son, Charlie Watts, a jazz drummer. At the same time, popular and studious Michael Philip Jagger - who, as a boy, bawled out a phonetic version of "La Bamba" with an eye-popping intensity that scared his parents - began sharing blues records with a primary school classmate, Keith "Ricky" Richards, a shy underachiever, whose idol was Chuck Berry. In 1962 the four young men, joined by Bill Perks (later Wyman) on bass, formed a rhythm and blues band that Brian Jones named "the Rollin' Stones" in honor of the Muddy Waters blues classic. Using the biography of the Rolling Stones as a narrative spine, Old Gods Almost Dead builds a new, multi-layered version of the Stones' story, locating the band beyond the musical world they dominated and showing how they influenced, and were influenced by the other artistic movements of their era: the blues revival, Swinging London, the Beats, Bob Dylan's Stones-inspired shift from protest to pop, Pop Art and Andy Warhol's New York, the "Underground" politics of the 1960s, Moroccan energy and European orientalism, Jamaican reggae, the Glam and Punk subcultures, and the technological advances of the video and digital revolution. At the same time, Old Gods Almost Dead documents the intense backstage lives of the Stones: the feuds, the drugs, the marriages, and the affairs that inspired and informed their songs; and the business of making records and putting on shows. The first new biography of the Rolling Stones since the early 1980s, Old Gods Almost Dead is the most comprehensive book to date, and one of the few to cover all the band's members. Illustrated throughout with photos of pivotal moments, it is a celebration of the Rolling Stones as an often courageous, often foolish gang of artists who showed us not only new worlds but new ways of living in them. It is a saga as raunchily, vibrantly entertaining as the Stones themselves." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

Condition: Near Fine. 215 x 260mm. 17pp. Printed black and white, stapled in colour printed wraps. Text by Stephen Longstreet. Works are illustrated with photographic negative film strips adhered to the pages. Condition: no tears or marking, minor wear to edges of covers, but overall NF.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. Broeck Steadman, cover art. (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed by Author(s). The book has light tanning, light wear and creasing to the covers. ($3.99). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 number line. Signed by the author on the title page.

Condition: Good. 240 x 240 mm. 32pp. Printed black and white, stapled. Issue no. 7 of Form magazine. The most significant British magazine of the 1960s concentrating on pure abstraction and through this art theory, avant-garde magazines et al. This issue includes features on Kinetic Art in Czechoslovakia and Kinetic Film, Cinema and Semiology, New American Photography and Great Little Magazines. Contributors include Alice Andrews, Robert W. Fchter, Roger Mertin, Reginald Heron, Thomas F. barrow, Joel Meyerowitz, Simon Cutts, Peter Wollen, Jan Slavik. Condition: Spotting, handling and wear to covers and some pages. As seen, first four pages have heavy crease top right corner. No tears or writing. reference copy only. Good.

Paperback. Condition: New. New.

Card covers, stapled spine. Condition: Good in wraps. First Edition. 25 x 25cm 32pp good card-covered magazine, some slight browning to wrappers, a slight crease at corner of rear wrapper. Contents include: 'The Kinetic Film 'Volumes'' by Jan Slavik, 'cinema and Semilogy: Some Points of Contact' by Peter Wollen and 'New American Photography, The Authentic Vision' by Mike Weaver.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Square quarto, 32 pages, illustrated throughout in black and white. Illustrated wrappers. Wrappers slightly soiled. - First edition. Summary: Black Mountain College: The Founding of the College, Lewis Shelley; The Hochschule at Ulm by Josef Albers; Albers' 'Graphic Tectonics, by Irving Finkelstein; Brighton Festival Exhibition of Concrete Poetry Exhibition notes and map; The Early Days of Concrete Poetry by Eugen Gomringer; What is Kinetism?, by Lev Nusberg; Symmetry, Nature and the Plane + A Non-Aristotelian Creative Reality by Charles Biedermann; The Coherences by Anselm Hollo; Great Little Magazines: No. 4. Mécano: Two Men Kurt Schwitters; Towards a Constructive Poetry by I.K. Bonset + Manifesto on the Lawfulness of Sound by Raoul Hausmann.

Condition: New.

Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Square quarto, 32 pages, illustrated in black and white. Illustrated wrappers. - First edition. Contents: In Memory of Marcel Duchamp by Hans Richter; New books: De Stijl reprint; The Fourth Dimension in Neoplasticism by Joost Baljeu; Theo van Doesburg is of Today by Maurice Agis and Peter Jones; Notes on Theater at Black Mountain College (1948-1952) by Mark Hedden; Step by Step by Hans Richter; Total Theatre by H. H. Stuckenschmidt. Great Little Magazines, No.17: 'Kulchur' (index) - 'Kulchur': a note by Lita Hornick 'Kulchur' + 'Kulchur' by Beverley Cromwell.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: very good. Book. 245 x 245 mm, 32 pp. in stapled, printed wraps. Special issue of the groundbreaking art, architecture and literary magazine FORM, which was edited by influential Cambridge academics of the period, and was noteworthy for republishing and translating avant-garde texts. This particular issue is dedicated to the 'Brighton Festival Exhibition of Concrete Poetry'. Features a map and index of the works exhibited (the exhibition was directed by FORM editor Stephen Bann), as well as a translation of 'The first years of Concrete Poetry' by Eugen Gomringer. This issue also includes: an essay by Lewis Shelley on the avant-garde Black Mountain College (the first in a series); an essay by Joseph Albers entitles 'My courses at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung at Ulm', and an essay on 'Albers' 'Graphic Tectonics' by Irving Finkelstein'; 'What is Kinetism?' by Lev Nusberg - translated from his manifesto; 'Symmetry: Nature and the Plane' and 'A Non-Aristotelian Creative Reality' by Charles Biederman; poetry by Anselm Hollo, and a section on 'Great Little Magazines', with this particular issue focused on 'Mecano', which was edited by Theo von Doesburg. Reprinted from 'Mecano' here is 'Two Men' by Kurt Schwitters, 'Towards a Constructive Poetry' by I.K. Bonset (aka Theo von Doesburg) and 'Manifesto on the Lawfulness of Sound' by Raoul Hausman (translated by Richard Taylor'. Ref: Allen, Artist's Magazines, MIT Press, 2011. p. 261 Condition: crease to front cover as seen, minor toning to covers, internally near fine. Overall very good.

Paperback. Condition: Near fine. Book. 265 x 210 mm, 70 pp., invisible bound printed wraps - with a front cover image of Alexander Schoffer's Chronus sculpture. Printed by the Highbury Press, London; typographical design by Philip Steadman. Features: an essay by Frank Popper entitled 'Kinetic Art - Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow', extensively illustrated with works by Vasarely, Tomasello, Tinguely, Kosice, Von Graevenitz, Alexander Calder, Kenneth Martin, Nino Calos, John Healey, Sandu Darie, Frank Malina and Agam; text by Stephen Bann entitled 'Colour Music'; an essay by Reg Gadney entitled 'Aspects of Kinetic Art and Emotion', with 'lumidyne' works by Frank Malina featured alongside the text, as well as 'Spatiodynamic' works by Nicolas Schoffer, and works by Joel Stein, GRAV, Andree Dantu and Martha Boto. The final essay by Stephen Bann is entitled 'Unity and Diversity in Kinetic Art', which focusses on the work of GRAV, Vardanega, Agam, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Auguste Herbin, Victor Vasarely and Francois Morellet. Condition: Near fine.

First edition. Square small quarto. 32 pages. Wrappers. Illustrated. Includes ''Le Parc and The Group Problem'' by Frank Popper, ''A Little Night Music'' by Charles Tomlinson, an article on Structuralism by Gillo Dorfles, William Carlos Williams on Emanuel Romano, etc.Slight creasing at edges. Very good indeed. Scarce.

Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Square quarto, 32 pages, illustrated throughout in black and white. Illustrated wrappers. Wrappers slightly soiled. - First edition. Summary: Black Mountain College: The Founding of the College, Lewis Shelley; The Hochschule at Ulm by Josef Albers; Albers' 'Graphic Tectonics,' by Irving Finkelstein; Brighton Festival Exhibition of Concrete Poetry Exhibition notes and map; The Early Days of Concrete Poetry by Eugen Gomringer; What is Kinetism?, by Lev Nusberg; Symmetry, Nature and the Plane + A Non-Aristotelian Creative Reality by Charles Biedermann; The Coherences by Anselm Hollo; Great Little Magazines: No. 4. Mécano: Two Men Kurt Schwitters; Towards a Constructive Poetry by I.K. Bonset + Manifesto on the Lawfulness of Sound by Raoul Hausmann.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Superb copy of a well done and thorough magazine on kinetic art and concrete poetry. One page dog-eared else excellent with slightest handling and shelfwear.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. No. 10. Oblong small quarto. 36pp. Illustrated, with a cover image by Rodchenko. Stapled self-wrappers. Light general wear and first few leaves with a small area of creasing and a tiny tear in the bottom margin, just about near fine. Prints "Structuralism & Literary Criticism" by Gerard Genette; "The Aesthetic of Ian Hamilton Finlay" by Simon Cutts; poems by Jiri Valoch and R. C. Kenedy; "Art in Crisis" by Charles Biederman; "Skullshapes" by Charles Tomlinson; and material regarding the little magazine *LEF*. Steadman designed and published 10 issues of *Form* between 1966 and 1969. His purpose, as stated in the first issue, was "to publish and provoke discussion of the relations of form to structure in the work of art, and correspondences between the arts. Emphasis is to be placed in particular on the fields of kinetic art and concrete poetry.".