Slightly Out Focus by Capa Robert, First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. Presumed First. Presumed first edition w/NAP, hardcover in full orange cloth, has a mild lean to the binding, light bumps to spine ends and corners with a touch of fraying starting to cloth at spine ends, slight sunning to the spine and head of book, some light rubbing with a few faint smudges to covers, and a touch of shelfwear to cover edges, otherwise a solid, tight VG copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Autogiobraphy of the Hungarian-born war photographer. Numerous black-and-white photographs, including many of Capa's classic images. No dust jacket. A few faint scuff marks to cloth covers. Light bump to lower corners. Age-toning to pages. Smudge marks to margins of only two pages. No other marks, inscriptions or underlining. Not ex-library. Binding is firm. s107f8.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. STL (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Henry Holt and Co., New York, 1947. Hardcover (no dust jacket). First edition, first printing. 244 pages with 118 black and white photographic images throughout. Cited in Martin Parr, The photobook, vol 1, page 28/29; Andrew Roth, Book of 101 Books, page 126/127; Hasselblad Center, page 176/177; 802 books of the M.+M. Auer collection, page 324.BOOK CONDITION: Very Good; a solid, tight, clean, copy showing a few areas of discoloration to covers from contact with moisture; lacking the original dust jacket. "The book tells the slightly fictionalized tale of Capa's escapades as a war correspondent during World War II, with a love story wrapped around it like a bow. Since Capa intended the book to be the basis for a screenplay of a Hollywood movie.he did take some liberties. But Capa understood that fiction and documentary are two sides of the same coin long before the New Journalism." -- David Levi Strauss.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. **1999 MODERN LIBRARY FIRST PRINTING IN AS NEW CONDITION** Slightly Out of Focus by Robert Capa. FIRST MODERN LIBRARY EDITION 1999, first printing with full number line on copyright page. The book is bound in grey cloth boards, ML binding style 17 with modern library running torchbearer end papers and a beautiful photographic dust jacket. Beautiful modern library edition of the great photographer's illustrated memoir of World War II, that was originally published in 1947. Illustrated with many of his photographs. Book is FINE, gilt bright and nice, no writing or marks, contents are clean and bright. GORGEOUS and FLAWLESS!! The dust jacket is FINE. Basically in new bookstore condition. $24.95 price on inside front flap. Now protected in an archival-quality dust jacket protector. **I WILL BE LISTIING OVER 400 COLLECTIBLE, RARE, OR SIGNED MODERN LIBRARY EDITIONS OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS FROM 30 YEARS OF ACTIVE COLLECTING AROUND THE WORLD - PLEASE VISIT MY SELLERS PAGE TO VIEW THEM ALL**.

. In-8 reliure pleine toile éditeur, sans la jaquette. Autobiographie de R. Capa accompagnée de nombreuses photographies en noir et blanc. E.O.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Original brown boards with damp stain not effecting text. Internally about Fine.

Hard cover. First edition. 4 p. ? ., 1-243 [1] p., 2? . : ill.; 23.4 cm. The illustrations are photographs taken by the author, 1942-1945. Bound in brown cloth; stamped in black. Dust jacket. From the library of James Robert Parish. Robert Capa, the great photojournalist who is perhaps best known for his searing images of WWII, infused his autobiography with the same brio and warmth that he expressed in his now classic photographs. "Victory was pleasant and exhausting, " the Hungarian-born American notes after the Allies' capture of Tunisia. "During the day in the streets.we were kissed by hundreds of old women.We had enough liquor from a captured Gestapo warehouse to keep our singing throats from drying out." Always on the frontlines (he was killed in 1954 in what would later become known as the Vietnam War), Capa went ahead with the parachute invasion of Sicily even though he had been fired from Colliers Weekly--flying in with a squadron of young soldiers he refers to as "boys." When Capa's turn came to jump, he forgot to count "one thousand, two thousand, three thousand" before pulling his cord, instead murmuring, "Fired photographer jumps." "I felt a jerk on my shoulder and my chute was open. 'Fired photographer floats, ' I said happily to myself." Stuck dangling in a tree all night, he didn't dare call out for help. "With my Hungarian accent, I stood an equal chance of being shot by either side." Writing or clicking the shutter, Capa was the perfect conduit for his time, with the war's almost casual heroism, palpable danger, and the importance of every moment of life--whether lying in a foxhole or shopping in London at Dunhill's for a silver flask. Slightly Out of Focus is dotted with his pictures, including the most famous ones of the D day invasion. "I am a gambler, " Capa writes. "I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave." Capa's priceless, self-deprecating text tells much, and his photographs show the rest: how thin the Europeans were in Italy, France, and Germany, for example, trim as saplings from years of deprivation. And then there's Capa's famous series showing the plump Frenchwoman, a German collaborator, marked for shame by her shaved head, hurrying past her taunting neighbors, all of whom are gaunt by comparison. Good. No dust jacket. Signed by author. good to very good, moderate shelfwear, very faint dampstains to the cover INSCRIBED BY ROBERT CAPA, no subsequent printings noted, "To my mother's (either love or cop).

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Orange cloth with black lettering along spine in red DJ. Bump to head and tail of spine, soil and scratch mark to rear board. DJ is in pieces, front panel, rear panel and two spine fragments. Inscribed by Capa on FFEP "The Photographs are rotten, Robert Capa, 1947." and then an additional PO notation. Uncommon signature from one of the most important war photographers. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. STL (illustrator). First Edition. SIGNED COPY: Henry Holt and Co., New York, 1947. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First edition. 244 pages with 118 black and white photographic images throughout. Cited in Martin Parr, The photobook, vol 1, page 28/29; Andrew Roth, Book of 101 Books, page 126/127; Hasselblad Center, page 176/177; 802 books of the M.+M. Auer collection, page 324.SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Robert Capa in blue fountain-pen ink: "To Dr. Herbert ???racle /gratefully / Robert Capa" (either the previous owner or a family member attempted to cancel the former's name from the inscription with a black pen; we were able to discern the first name and last five letters of his surname using a Loup, but the first few letters of the surname remain elusive - none of which in any way affects Capa's clear, bold signature).BOOK CONDITION: Fine; a solid, tight, clean, copy in a Very Good Plus dust jacket showing light overall rubbing and soiling, hints of wear along edges, slight loss at corners and head of spine, small,intermittent areas of loss to margin of front and rear panels with a clear tape repair to recto of front panel near lower/right margin. Overall a very nice copy of a scarce book in a better than average dust jacket (looks great in a new, clear, brodart protector). Overall a highly collectible SIGNED copy in the original dust jacket. "The book tells the slightly fictionalized tale of Capa's escapades as a war correspondent during World War II, with a love story wrapped around it like a bow. Since Capa intended the book to be the basis for a screenplay of a Hollywood movie.he did take some liberties. But Capa understood that fiction and documentary are two sides of the same coin long before the New Journalism." -- David Levi Strauss.

Orange Cloth. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. First Edition. Hint of edge and corner wear, lightly scuffed, corners are very gently rubbed, no dj (dj is included with the book; it has been trimmed and the flaps have been cut off and trimmed) , signed by the former owner on the first page, newspaper clipping about Capa's death attached with tape to the half-title page as well as some tape on the inner front cover and first pages, overall a very clean, collectible, signed first edition! Very very rare signed copy, extemely scarce and hard to find! 243 very fine, unmarked and uncreased extremely collectible pages! Inscribed by the author on the first page: "'If your pictures are no good you're not close enough' Bob Capa". Orange cloth with black lettering on the spine. "Slightly Out of Focus is a contradiction in terms, being the natural climax of a special kind of publishing achievement at the same time that it is a completely different sort of book. With it Henry Holt and Company will have published the three top reporters of World War II; Ernie Pyle, who wrote the war, Bill Mauldin, who drew it, and now Bob Capa, who photographed it and wrote about it too. This is not a book of photographs with captions. These are the hundreds of pictures Bob Capa took throughout the fighting in the ETO. They have been made into chapters and they alternate with the frank, airy, true story of a fabulous young man, Bob Capa, whose romance with a girl called Pinky kept getting involved with his trips to the fighting fronts." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed By the Author.