Van Derzee James (16 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very good in publisher's stapled wraps showing some light soiling. Oblong 4to. Unpaginated.

Softcover. 256 pages. A biography of African American photographer James Van Der Zee. Text by Jim Haskins. Includes numerous black and white images. A very good plus copy in wrappers with some minor wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Side-stapled softcover, 12 pgs. 9 x 8 in. Includes bio, 10 b&w images. Moderate foxing to first & last page edges, inside covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Good shape. Jacket is worn along edges, with a small tear from the top of the front flap. Foxing on top and fore edges of text block, but pages themselves are clean and unmarked.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 16 sepia tone photos in well worn illustrated binder. Lacking 17 and 18. Binder is tape reinforced at spine fold. Plates all VG no markings.

Stapled Paper. Condition: Very Good. 12 page catalog of a traveling exhibiton, including 10 black and white photographs. Some soiling and foxing on covers and inside front and back end pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Catalog for an exhibition. Two sheets folded to form a booklet, stapled wraps. Illustrated with 7 Van DerZee photographs with a list of 80 that constituted the exhibition. Uncommon. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated first edition. Historian Reginal McGhee compiled and wrote a historical introduction to this first collection of important period photographs of Black life in America. Book is fine and unmarked. Jacket is near fine with a couple of tiny spine nicks, and protected by an archival Mylar jacket cover. Out of print and uncommon.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Catalog for a cooperative exhibition Center for AfroAmerican Studies' Folk Art Gallery, Syracuse University; The New York States Council on the Arts and Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration. Organized by the James Van DerZee Institute. Oblong wraps with an afterword by Reginald McGhee. Quite uncommon. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, with mylar-covered dj. 165 pgs. 8.5 x 11 in. Fine in VG dj, not price-clipped, with moderate edge wear, half inch closed tear to top edge.

First Edition. First edition. Hardcover. Features a brief foreword by Toni Morrison and an introduction by Clayton Riley. Includes 7 black and white images by Roy DeCarava, 7 black and white iamges by James Van DerZee along with images by Vance Allen, Daniel Dawson, Louis Draper, Albert Fennar, Shawn Walker and numerous others. A very good copy in paper covered boards with some toning to the front board, some other minor wear and a vintage gift inscription on the second endpaper. No dust jacket as issued. Also includes a laid in Electrofax copy of Joe Crawford's essay about the reason for this publication. Uncommon in the hardcover issue. …

Hardcover with dustjacket and protective plastic overwrap, 166 pages, very good condition, light edgewear to dj; owner's name on inside front cover; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Compiled and with an Introduction by Reginald McGhee. Quarto. [15, introduction] 165pp. Spine lettering trifle rubbed and topedges of boards with a bit of faint foxing else fine in a very good or better dust a jacket with a shallow scrape on the lower panel and a tiny tear and shallow interior dampstain at the spine base (that doesn't show through).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Large quarto. Owner's name stamp on the front and back free endpapers, and the foredge, else fine in fine dustwrapper.

First Edition. THE WORLD OF JAMES VAN DERZEE: A VISUAL RECORD OF BLACK AMERICANS, Grove Press, 1969, first edition, fine in near fine dust-wrapper with some light fraying to the upper margin. Illustrated with photographs. Compiled by Reginald McGhee.

4to, 165pp; cloth. Compilation documenting the long career of the eminent Harlem photographer, with an introduction by McGhee and an interview with Van Derzee. Fine in a rubbed dust jacket with a touch of fraying to corners and spinal extremities, one short closed tear and some tiny nicks.