Divine Comedy Pavel Tchelitchew Biography by Parker Tyler (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Well-illustrated (illustrator). Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.08.

Well-illustrated (illustrator). "24.0 x 16.0cms 504pp b/w & coloured illusts including some fold-outs very good hardback & dustwrapper This unorthodox biography of the Russian emigre painter defines three stages of Tchelitchews life: his youth in pre-Bolshevik Russia; his young manhood as member of the White Russian Army and Paris artist; and his working life in the United States with a host of famous contemporaries. This is done via three key paintings """"Hide and Seek"""" """"Phenomena"""" and """"Inacheve"""" which Tyler argues represent Purgatory Hell and Paradise.".

viii, 504pp., 55 plates (2 folding). 4to. Cloth. D.j.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st. Cloth, viii, 504 pages, [49] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour, 1 folded), portraits; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning. Dust jacket, with moderate edgewear/acid staining from old tape repair at the crown, protected in a mylar cover. *** CONTENTS: One: Paradise. The mystery of la dame blanche; Phoenix; Farewell: obsequies not so strict; At the foot of the ziggurat; On a treadmill of air; Spasm: "Che cosa terribile!" - Interlude: On the tenses of biography - Two: Purgatory. The pole for giant steps and the huge ear; Nasledni Knyass and his panya; The vulture and the scissors; By his father's beard; In the depths of the future; The accident; The true and false Doubrovka; At the lily pond; The white and the red - Three: Hell. The sea and the land; Berlin: hot and cold; The Champs-Elysees; The sibyls; The great climb; The city across the sea; Mandorla. Size: 4to.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good +. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First edition. Sm 4to. Black cloth, with gilt spine lettering and blind-stamp title on front cover. Frontis (Mecure, 1956). 504 pages, with Tchelitchew and General Bibliographies and Index. Illustrated with 55 plates, including 2 fold-out pages. No names, remainder marks, or marks to text. In illustrated dust-jacket (with "$17.50" price intact). Due to size and weight, international shipping at cost.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Well-illustrated (illustrator). Excellent Condition.Excels in customer satisfaction, prompt replies, and quality checks.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back. Quarto. 10¼'' x 7''. Contains (viii)-2, 504 pp with 4 folding colour plates and 56 pp of monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Ink message to the front free end paper. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with chips across the spine ends, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Heavy volume weighing 1.6 kg, extra postage will be requested over and above our default setting for destinations outside of the UK. Member of the P.B.F.A. ART [Russian].

Hardback. Condition: Good. 18 x 26cm 504pp good hardback in dust jacket with some wear to head of spine and extremities, inside flap has a small, blank section cut out. A neat, handwritten dedication on the front free end paper. Described as an original portraitist and stage designer with a self-obsessed personality, a sensualist, wit and mystic thinker. With black and white reproductions. A heavy book, may need extra postage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 504pp. Inscribed by author to Lita & Morton Hornick (the publisher of Kulchur Press) on front flyleaf, also the photo credit written by author on back flap. DJ: Very Good-w/ 1inch x 2.25inch chip on spine, some edge/corner wears. Protected w/ clear plastic cover. The Book: Very Good+++ w/ minute corner crease on fold-out pg. Signed by Author(s).