Walker David Thomas Cornell (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Thomas Cornell (etchings) (illustrator). Panels lightly soiled. Otherwise this book is clean and unmarked in very good condition.38 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Thomas Cornell (Etchings by) (illustrator). This exhibition catalogue is clean and unmarked in good as new condition. Etchings by Thomas Cornell. 38 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Thomas Cornell (Etchings by) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Inscribed by author on FFEP. Otherwise a clean copy with dust jacket in very good condition. 38 pages. Inscribed by Author(s).

Softcover. Condition: VG+. Illustrated by thomas cornell (illustrator). First Edition. A very nice copy with clean, bright interior pages and solid binding. Spine is uncreased. Rare. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 38 pages; MAINE lit.

Rear unpaged colophon provides limitation with this being Copy "d" - part of the Livres De-Luxe Edition [Livres Deluxe] limited to 24 copies and being a more exclusive production than the additional seventy-five copy numbered edition (total print run of 99 copies). Rear colophon also has pencil signatures of David Walker and Thomas Cornell. Dark gray cloth clamshell box, H 32cm x L 21.25cm, made by Jeffrey Haste; paper title label on rear spine panel; light rubbing to top and bottom panels with some brown streaks caused by the flaking leather of neighboring shelfmates. Clamshell box contains: {#1} Hardcover, H 30.75cm x L 19.5cm. Quarter-leather binding book; four slightly raised bands to dark blue morocco spine with paper over boards. [6], 38, [1] pages. {#2} Gray cloth folder, H 30.75cm x L 19.75cm, featuring suite of five loose color etchings all with tissue guard sheets and all printed by James Cambronne and pencil signed at their lower right margins by artist Thomas Cornell (the book shares the same five images although those examples are unsigned but do have guard sheets laid-in). Box's interior contents are all quite fine with the book and folder sheets all being bright and clean. Please note that this item has an approximate shipping weight of 3.75 pounds (1.7 kg) and will require additional postage/insurance above AbeBooks' preset rate.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition, deluxe issue. Poems by David Walker. Etchings by Thomas Cornell. Quarto. 38pp. Quarter blue morocco stamped in gold, paper-covered boards. printed on handmade Barcham Green Langley paper, illustrated with five original etchings by Thomas Cornell. The spine, cover and title page reproduce a "voiceprint" from a recording of the poet pronouncing the vowels and consonants of the book's title on a precision oscilloscope. Copy letter "h" of 24 lettered copies along with an extra, separate suite of etchings ("the first pulled from these plates"), each limited to 24 lettered copies signed by David Walker and Thomas Cornell, all within a box made by Jeffrey Haste. A fine copy, beautifully printed and illustrated, in about fine clamshell case with the topedge faintly sunned and a bit of very faint spotting along the spine edge. Beautifully printed and designed by George Benington, the multi-color etchings printed by James Cambronne. Two of the etchings are individual portraits of Franz Kafka and Charles Ives. Striking etchings by the artist, Thomas Cornell, who had a one-man show at the G.W. Einstein Company in New York. Thomas Cornell is the Bowdoin College Richard Steele Professor of Studio Art. "A graduate of Amherst College, Cornell studied for a year at Yale School of Art and Architecture. In addition to Bowdoin, he has taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at Princeton University. He has received many awards, including a Fulbright Grant, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities Fellowship in 1966. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1983. His work is present in art books, most notably Rizzoli's Post-Modernism, The New Classicism in Art and Architecture by Charles Jencks. He has had five one-man exhibitions in New York City and seven major museum exhibitons, including a Bowdoin College Museum of Art exhibition in 1990, with a catalogue essay by Martica Sawin" (cf Bowdoin College, Visual Arts Department [Website]).