Balthus, First Edition (320 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Condition: Fine. 1ST. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. May contain a remainder mark. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. NYC: Assouline. 2001. 1st edition, F/F. Book and dust jacket have very little wear. 50 illustrations, 25 in color. Includes chronology (1908-2001). "The last testimony of a great artist". Nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Used-Very Good. First Edition. Cloth, dj. Slight shelfwear, else bright and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). 1st Edition. Clean copy with unmarked and undamaged pages, intact dust jacket with a small torn flap.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Stated First Edition. Clean interior except for a pencil ghost on the first (blank) page and a prior owner's name penned inside the front cover; soft cover shows a few small scratches, finish clouding, and small folds across the left rear corners, but remains overall attractive. ix, 45pp. The author's fourth poetry collection.

Hardcover. Condition: FIRST / VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. STATED FIRST EDITION, 1999. used hardcover in a dust jacket. remainder dot in sharpie to bottom edge of text block. the jacket is somewhat worn about the edges and slightly scuffed, has only small tears at extremeties. spine a bit sunned. corners slightly bumped, but pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

hardcover. Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Well-illustrated (illustrator). 1st. 8vo, 644 pp., Remainder mark upper edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. FINE in fine dust jacket. FIRST edition, first printing. Clean and bright all around -- no sunning, toning, rips, tears, or chips. Binding tight and square, no loose pages. Interior bright and clean. Unmarked on inspection.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. FINE in fine dust jacket. FIRST edition, first printing. Dust jacket is bright and clean -- no sunning or toning. Very mild -- if any -- edge wear. Binding tight and square, no loose pages. Appears unread. Unmarked, unclipped.

W4.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. viii, 644 pages, [10] pages of colour plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Light shelfwear. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket with a corner crease/front flap. *** "The first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time -- the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola -- whose brilliantly rendered, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most memorable images in contemporary art. The story of Balthus's life has been shrouded by contradiction and hearsay, most of it his own invention; over the years he created for himself a persona of mystery, aristocracy, and glamour. Now, in Nicholas Fox Weber's superb biography, Balthus, the man and the artist, stands revealed as never before. He was born in Paris in 1908 to Polish parents. At age twelve he first stepped into the spotlight with the publication of forty of his drawings illustrating a story about a cat by Rainer Maria Rilke, who was then Balthus's mother's lover and a crucial influence on the young boy. From that moment, Balthus has never been out of the public eye. In 1934 his first exhibition, in Paris, stunned the art world. The seven canvases drew attention to his extraordinary technique -- a mix of tradition and imagination informed by the work of Piero della Francesca, Courbet, and Joseph Reinhardt, but unique to the twenty-six-year-old artist -- and to their provocative content; one of the paintings, The Guitar Lesson, was so powerful in its sadomasochistic imagery that it was deemed necessary to remove it from public display. Continuously since then, Balthus's work has provoked both great opprobrium and profound admiration -- as has the artist himself, whether collaborating with Antonin Artaud on his Theater of Cruelty, transforming the Villa Medici into the social center of Fellini's Rome in the 1950s, or competing for the artistic limelight with his friends Picasso and Andr Derain. The artist's complexities are clarified and his genius understood in a book that derives its particular immediacy from Weber's long and intense conversations with Balthus -- who never previously consented to discuss his life and work with a biographer -- as well as his interviews with the painter's closest friends, members of his family, and many of the subjects of his controversial canvases. Weber's critical and human grasp (he acutely analyzes the paintings in terms of both their aesthetic achievement and what they reveal of their maker's psyche), combined with his rich knowledge of Balthus's life and his insight into the ideas and forces that have helped to shape Balthus's work over the past seven decades, gives us a striking, illuminating portrait of one of the most admired and outrageous artists of our time. / Nicholas Fox Weber was born in Hartford, Connecticut, and graduated from Columbia College and Yale University. He has curated retrospectives of the work of Josef Albers, Anni Albers, Leland Bell, and others, and has been for the past twenty-three years the director of the Josef Albers Foundation. He is the author of nine previous books, among them Patron Saints, Leland Bell, and The Art of Babar. He lives in Bethany, Connecticut, with his wife, the novelist Katharine Weber, and their two daughters." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Thick octavo. Color and B&W illustrations. Condition: slight wear; else VG/VG. 644 pages.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 1st edition. Good condition. No marks on interior. Soby was a venerable New York art insider, collector and author, who was well acquainted with the painter.

Hardcover. First Edition. 100pp, 80 color plates. Size: [9.75" X 11.25"]. Small remainder stamp on bottom edge else very good condition with text clean and binding sound without dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. A good hardcover first edition . Would be near fine except for a few dog-eared pages. First edition [6], 90 pages + plates. Interesting short monograph, particularly for the comparison of Balthus' imagery with the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (the artist's childhood mentor). Includes a short bibliography.7 b/w Illustrations / Plates.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. signed by author on title page. light pencil notations throughout. black and gray covers. minor shelf wear, light folding to corners. small staining marks on table of contents and page opposite. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. 78 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition, with full number line. Full-color, full page reproductions on almost every page. Binding is tight, sturdy and square; boards are very good; titling remains bright and bold. Light shelfwear to dust jacket. Previous owner name to front free endpaper, else free of markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Due to the size/weight of this book extra shipping charges may apply.

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. 176 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran November 5, 1983 through January 23, 1984 in Paris and then February 29 through May 13, 1984 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations. A tight near fine copy in wrappers with a former owner signature to the front free endpaper.

Oversized Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Profusely Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. Presumed first printing w/ no additional printings stated; Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards w/ mild spotting/toning present; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket Very Good; An excellent copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback book (100 pages) illustrated with 80 color plates. In price clipped dust jacket that shows modest rubbing/scuffing. INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL CHARGE. Bookseller since 1995 (LL-Base2-BS-12-L-Top) rareviewbooks.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated First Edition. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight, DJ unclipped and in bookstore condition, no indications of previous ownership. A red dot on the top edge; not as bad as the black spot presented to Long John Silver, but, still, an imperfection.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first printing. No marks in text. No inscriptions etc. Not a library book. Ships today in a cardboard enclosure. Tim's Used Books, open shop in Provincetown, Massachusetts, providing good books at reasonable prices on the same spot since 1991. shelf B.

Hardcover. 9.75 x 8.75 inches. Cloth. First Edition. Lacks jacket; a near-fine copy with some minor wear and light toning at edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. Cloth, 100 pages, chiefly colour illustrations; 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Small remainder mark/tail edge. Age toning. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket price-clipped on the front flap, with light edgewear. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. Richly illustrated with colour plates. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. 78 pages, illustrations (some colour); 22 cm. First published under title: Balthus propos recueillis par Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz. Translated from the French. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** The artist in conversation with Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz. Size: 8vo. Collectible.

First edition Near fine illustrated stapled wraps with crisp text throughout. Profuselyl illustrated and fine text.

Original hardcover in jacket, first edition, book is essentially new with tight spine and is unread. A few b + w plates. Excellent. c3.