Symposium Plato, Signed (8 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Baskin, Leonard (illustrator). Inscribed by the translator Suzy Q. Groden on the title page. A Good copy with moderate staining to the inner front cover, light age-staining to the covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First THUS. Signed/inscribed by Book designer on copyright page to Barry Moser (noted artist/printer), Moser bookplate on FFEP. Bright, sharp copy, touch of foxing to top edge. DJ sunned along spine edge with chipping to edges, several chips to crease of folds, not clipped ($10.00). Well packaged, ships with tracking. Signed by Other.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Baskin, Leonard (illustrator). 1st Edition. 144 pages. First edition, first printing. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Translated by Suzy Q. Groden. Signed & dated (1971) on the first title page by Baskin. A new translation of Plato's dialogue on love. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A beautiful copy! Signed by Illustrator(s).

Quarter Leather. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Karlin, Eugene (illustrator). Limited, Numbered, Signed. This large book has been bound with a light leather spine, with heather papers over the boards. The slipcase has been covered in matching paper. The book is mostly in fine condition, however there is 1/2 missing from the bottom edge of the spine. Light dis-coloration spotting of the spine. Interior is very clean, illustrations sharp. This copy is numbered 487 of a printing of 1500 copies, signed by the artist. Due to the size and weight of this book, it may require additional shipping. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Signed By Artist. Slipcased.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition thus. Octavo. 9 1/4 x 6 1/2". 129pp. SIGNED by illustrator, Leonard Baskin on half-title. Orange cloth with white cloth spine has foxing on fore-edge. Pictorial dust jacket has some light marks and fading to spine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Limited. Hardback, full-vellum, gilt title to spine. 17.5cm x 11.5cm. 130pp. nd. [circa1932]. No. 16 of a limited edition of only 175 copies, signed by Shane Leslie on colophon. Boards very bowed. Clean inside. Scarce. (94000). Signed by Author.

106 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. 106 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Inscribed on front pastedown: "Arthur Houghton. Given in 1962 to Philip Hofer to start on a new journey through the world. I have been given my father's copy by Richard Smart who bought it after his death." Dreyfus 19 Tan cloth-backed boards. Spine ends slightly rubbed.

Condition: Fine. - An 11 inch high by 14 inch wide photograph by Emmerich Gara depicting Leonard Bernstein seated at a desk with recording equipment to his right, a cigarette pensively held up near his mouth. The great violinist Isaac Stern, seated next to him, reaches towards the score, while the classical music producer and clarinetist David Oppenheim stands at left smoking a pipe. The three, together with a partially visible fourth man, appear to be attentively listening to the playback. Photographed by Cellist Emmerich Gara during a studio recording session, with his name & address stamped on the verso of the photograph. Identified by him on the verso as "Leonard Bernstein & Isaac Stern / CBS Recording Session Spring 1956", the photograph is signed by Gara in pencil on the verso. Fine. The Koussevitzky Foundation commissioned Leonard Bernstein to compose "The Serenade (after Plato's Symposium)" in memory of Serge and Natalie Koussevitzky. Bernstein completed the work for solo violin, strings and percussion on August 7, 1954 and premiered the work in Venice with violinist Isaac Stern and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra on September 12th of that year. Bernstein & Stern subsequently recorded "The Serenade" for Columbia Records with the Symphony of the Air on April 19, 1956. The American clarinetist David Jerome Oppenheim (1922-2007) was also a classical music and television producer, directing the Masterworks division of Columbia Records from 1950 to 1959.Emmerich Gara (b.1901, d.1963). Born in Vienna, Austria in 1901, Gara established lifelong careers as a portrait photographer and professional cellist. Before the outbreak of the Second World War he and his wife emigrated to the United States, where he was hired as cellist for the NBC Orchestra led by Arturo Toscanini. He performed with the orchestra (later called The Symphony of the Air) until his death.From his seat in the front row of the orchestra Gara was in the unique position to photograph all the great conductors and soloists who appeared with the orchestra during this extraordinary period of musical activity. His subjects were captured in performance, rehearsal, and in candid moments during recordings and while socializing.Gara's action portraits were used for record covers, for the Book of the Month Club and in articles in Time, Life and other major magazines around the world.