Wolf Clarence (9 results)

PAPERBACK. Condition: Good. 0916224627 Good+: The cover has some creases in it. Ships, well packaged and very quickly, from FL. A detailed description is coming soon. The condition selected for the item is accurate and consistent with our other listings of the same general condition. If you have any questions or you would like a detailed description of the item prior to our revision of the listing, please do not hesitate to contact us. We will get back to you as quickly as possible. Please buy with confidence from us, as we have several thousand satisfied customers and your satisfaction is the goal we strive to achieve with every transaction.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDVery good.

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Bookseller catalog. Slim octavo. Stapled wrappers. Mailing address of another bookseller printed on the lower wrap and remnant of four adhesive tabs at the top and bottom edges of the wrappers, a couple of spots on the front cover and top corners a bit bumped, very good or better.

WOLF, Clarence. Fifty Years a Bookseller: or, The Wolf at Your Door. Original cloth, dust jacket. Bryn Mawr: Privately Printed, 2022. First edition. Illustrated. "Chapter by chapter, [Wolf's] account brings to life his life lived in the company with and in the pursuit of great books. To those lucky few who embrace the challenge to be competent in the field, it's required reading. Rare paper requires intelligence, commitment, luck and perspective. Clarence's vignettes have created a stage full of memories against which we-who love to collect-can understand ourselves and the changing world through which our passion carries us on to the next opportunities. . He tells us his story and gracefully lets us imagine ourselves in the world he describes. . [T]he highest standard is reached and when you have your copy you'll reread it many times."-- Bruce E. McKinney, Rare Book Monthly (May 2022). New.

WOLF, Clarence. Fifty Years a Bookseller: or, The Wolf at Your Door. Original cloth, dust jacket. Bryn Mawr: Privately Printed, 2025. Second edition. Illustrated. Conains 7 additional chapters plus an index. "Clarence's words will be passed on to future generations. bibliophilic magic." - Bruce McKinney, Rare Book Monthly (May 2025, review of the 2nd ed.) "Chapter by chapter, [Wolf's] account brings to life his life lived in the company with and in the pursuit of great books. To those lucky few who embrace the challenge to be competent in the field, it's required reading. Rare paper requires intelligence, commitment, luck and perspective. Clarence's vignettes have created a stage full of memories against which we-who love to collect-can understand ourselves and the changing world through which our passion carries us on to the next opportunities. . He tells us his story and gracefully lets us imagine ourselves in the world he describes. . [T]he highest standard is reached and when you have your copy you'll reread it many times."-- Bruce E. McKinney, Rare Book Monthly (May 2022, review of 1st ed.). New.

Softcover, stiff wrappers and pictorial dust jacket, 200 x 270mm., 328pp., numerous color and b/w illustrations. Sotheby's catalogue for the New York auction of the Americana library of Laird U. Park, Jr. One of the most important Americana auctions of recent times, that was held in New York City on November 29, 2000. Good condition. 1360 g.

Hardcover. Condition: New.

343 pp.; 31 x 31.5 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Large-scale Allan Kaprow burlap-covered book with text and design by Kaprow. Features Kaprow's theory of the evolution of abstract expressionist painting into Proto-Pop, Neo-Dada, assemblage, environments and Happenings of the early 1960s. Documents works by Kaprow, Jean Follett, Robert Rauschenberg, Gloria Graves, Red Grooms, Robert Whitman, Jackson Pollock, Renee Miller, Martha Edelheit, Jim Dine, Clarence Schmidt, Yayoi Kusama, Claes Oldenburg, George Segal, Ay-o, George Brecht, Robert Watts, Jean Tinguely, Gutai Group [Sadamasa Motonaga, Akira Kanayama, Shuzo Mukai, Saburo Murakami, Shozo Shimamoto, Kazuo Shiraga, Atsuko Tanaka, Michio Yoshihara, Tsuruko Yamsaki], Jean-Jacques Lebel, Wolf Vostell, Ken Dewey, Milan Knízák. Extensive photographs of works and performances by photographers Robert R. McElroy and Peter Moore. A critical volume documenting the precursors of contemporary performance art. References : "Allan Kaprow : A Bibliography" by Allan Kaprow, Giorgio Maffei. Milano, Italy : Mousse Publishing, 2011, pp. 26 - 29. "Book as Artwork 1960 / 1972" by Germano Celant. London, United Kingdom : Nigel Greenwood Inc. Ltd., 1972, pp. 62. Very Good. 1.6 cm. tear to burlap covers at bottom edge of spine, sunning and rubbing of covers. Soiling to title page and pages 2 - 3 with light bumping of bottom right corner of endpapers and title page. additional light handling wear to pages and with ink rubbing. Otherwise clean and unmarked. This copy lacking unprinted vinyl dust jacket. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.