Autobiography by Weegee (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Photographs by Wegee (illustrator). Reprint of the edition published by Ziff-Davis Publishing company in 1961. Clean and firmly bound black cloth boards, silver titles, no writing inside. Handling wear on the jacket mostly along the top and lower edges, including scuffing, creases and small tears, not price clipped.

Hardcover with dustjacket in protective plastic overwrap; 158 pages; good condition; dj has scattered stains and small tears; outer pages have very light foxing; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Republicaiton of the first edition published by Ziff-Davis in 1961, hardcover, has a mild skew to the binding, slight bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, and light sunning to the head. Overall, this is a solid, Very Good+ copy in a price-clipped, Very Good dust jacket, which has creased tears and tiny chips to the spine ends and corners, wear with a few creased tears to the edges, and light sun fading to the spine. The jacket is wrapped in Mylar.

Hardcover. Black and white DJ with white, green and orange lettering; black boards with gilt lettering; 159 pp.; richly illustrated in b&w. "This is the uncensored, cussing confession of the stormy petrel of Photography, the autobiography of Weegee the Famous ('alias' Arthur Fellig) who, in the wild Twenties, Thirties, Forties, Fifties -- and Sixties -- shot them all . politicians and statesmen, cops and robbers, beer barons and gangsters, strippers and stars . and whose best photographs -- stark but superb realism -- now hang in the Museum of Modern Art." -- DJ. Good (Ex-Library with a plain white sticker on the lower spine, library markings in pencil on the ffep; DJ is heaviy worn/scuffed/smudged/toned; boards are bumped/scuffed/edgeworn; textblock has toning/scuffing/smudging/foxing; stamp from previous owner on ffep; interior is clean but lightly toned with the occasional scuffing/smudging.).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Dust jacket missing. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Moderate wear and scuffing to boards due to age and use. Previous owner's name on front endpaper. All pages are intact and otherwise clean, binding is sound. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. Weegee (illustrator). First Edition First Printing. i"The uncensored, cussing confession of the stormy Petrol of Photography.Weegee the Famous, alias Arthur Fellig.'' & his storied career from the 19202-1960s.Youv'e undoubtedly see his candid black-and-white photos, typically of crime scenes, gruesome & uncensored. Weegee never looked away. In 224 pages with 116 black-and-white photographs by the author. A FIRST EDITION, First Printing, from 1961, this hardcover has black cloth-over-boards with gilt embossed stamps to front/lettering to spine. Condition is Near Fine: completely clean, binding strong & straight, pages off-white, with heavier tanning to all edges & endpapers. Bumped corners. The unclipped DJ is VG- (minus), with rubbing to extremities, mild chipping & creasing, light soil; nicely protected in new clear mylar cover Free! Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (PST); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo., gilt-stamped black cloth in black/white/red/green price clipped dustwrapper with b&w photograph of the author by Philippe Halsman on rear panel, b&w photographs throughout, 159pp. Near fine in very good dustwrapper with wear confined to slight chipping at ends of spine. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Black and white photographs. First edition. Very good in a very good (moderate shelf wear and age toning), price clipped dust jacket. ; 159 pages B000NUVU2Y.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. cloth, hard cover in dust jacket., some rubbing to top board and to front panel of dj. else, clean, no writing or markings. no chips, bumps, no tears or clips. strong binding.; 224pp., 116 illustrations of weegee's photographs. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Author's signature on title page. Foxing to text block. Binding is tight. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Leinen-O. Condition: Gut. -. 157, (2 S., Erste Ausgabe / First edition. - 8°, mit zahlreichen s/w Fotos, Klappentext des Umschlags auf Vorsatz montiert, ausgeschiedenes Bibliotheksexemplar mit Rückenschild und Stempeln, sonst gutes Exemplar 107718_Fotografie Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. 159 pp. Black cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with slightly musty smell, very slight lean to spine, toning to pages, in Very Good+ slightly toned jacket with wear at tail, small letter "R" written on front flap, unclipped. A nice copy of the famous street photographer's memoir. The front cover bills him as "The World's Zaniest Photographer"-- but "zany" seems a poor choice of adjectives for his gritty, sensational style.

First edition of the famed photographer's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, humorously inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Jerry Weegee, Words greatest photographer." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. The acclaimed street photographer of Naked Hollywood and Naked City is known for his documentation of the lurid undersides of stardom and commerce in mid-century Los Angeles. His use of distortion through trick lenses and multiple exposures is part of the Weegee-trademark, but it is also an artful glimpse into Weegee's perception of the underlying themes of Hollywood profiling. Ultimately, Weegee's work can be seen as a noirish glance into the urban life of the early Twentieth Century, while his autobiography is an insight into the behind that glance.

First edition of the famed photographer's autobiography. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated throughout. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Frances Colley Weegee." Near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light shelfwear. The acclaimed street photographer of Naked Hollywood and Naked City is known for his documentation of the lurid undersides of stardom and commerce in mid-century Los Angeles. His use of distortion through trick lenses and multiple exposures is part of the Weegee-trademark, but it is also an artful glimpse into Weegee's perception of the underlying themes of Hollywood profiling. Ultimately, Weegee's work can be seen as a noirish glance into the urban life of the early Twentieth Century, while his autobiography is an insight into the behind that glance.

Cloth in Pictorial Dust Jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. 160pp, 106 b&w illustrations. Did the twentieth century ever bring notoriety to a photographer more steeped in hype and myth than Arthur Fellig - aka "Weegee The Famous"? And while much if not most of that hype and myth was perpetuated by Weegee himself, the ingenuity of his exploits stalking the mean streets of crime-riddled, forties-era New York cannot be denied. Working mostly at night out of his improvised trunk-converted-into-a-darkroom, Weegee parlayed his police radio, trusty Speed Graphic camera, and an uncanny knack for getting to a crime scene quickly into journalistic infamy. His first book, "Naked City" became a bestseller as well as the basis for both Jules Dassin's film and the television series of the same name. He later tried his luck in Hollywood, then plumbed the depths of female figure photography, exploitation filmmaking, and photographic special effects. In this, his 1961 autobiography, Weegee equally illuminates and propagates his mythic stature with no apparent lack of self-confidence. An internally most handsome example of the Ziff-Davis Publishing Company first edition additionally bearing the BOLDLY SIGNED AND DATED PRESENTATION "To Warren Bush / Weegee / 1964 ------" in green ink on the front pastedown whose graphically striking dust jacket designed by Mort Perry shows just a bit of rubbing and a single short closed tear. Signed Presentation Copy from the Photographer. Photography Monograph.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. SIGNED, dated & inscribed by Weegee to (in)famous NY architect, ROBERT MOSES, on first blank end page. 1st Edition. Black cloth boards w/gilt stamped titles are clean w/minor edge wear. Binding tight. Photos & text clean & unmarked w/no rips or creases. Light smudge on front end page. Dust jacket, protected by archival cover, is bright & unclipped w/shallow edge chipping & several thin edge tears. Quick, secure shipping in a box w/free delivery confirmation from Los Angeles bookstore. International shipping may be extra due to weight. Photos available upon request. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Signed. First Edition. (SIGNED by Weegee on special bookplate made for the noted mystery editor & collector, Luther Leon Norris, and placed on front pastedown corner) ; Book itself is near-pristine, bright and unmarred, slight softening to spine ends and natural age-toning to pages; unclipped jacket shows light sunning and minimal edgewear, primarily at spine ends, two closed tears top panel edge with slight creasing around tear at spine top; else clean tight wonderful signed copy of the truly incomparable Weegee's autobiography--rarely found signed and in such nice shape (scans available on request).

Illustrated, 160 pp. 8vo. First edition. First edition. Illustrated, 160 pp. 8vo. Inscribed on the ffep, "to Walter" in 1967. Black buckram with Weegee stamp. Near fine, with unclipped good dust jacket.

Weegee (illustrator). First edition. 8vo., 159 pp., portrait frontis, b&w photos. A very good copy in printed dust jacket that is lightly rubbed and dusty, with a few small tears at the edges. SIGNED. Boldly inscribed by the photographer "To $ugar ¢ain who was my inspiration, Weegee 1964.".