introduction janet flanner (11 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. An outstanding overview of Artaud's life and a penetrating analysis of his evolving aesthetic vision. CONTENTS: Introduction (Flanner); Key to Abbreviations of Artaud's Works; The Man; The Surrealist Years; Myth and Magic; Return to the Body ; Conclusion; Notes, Bibliography, and Index. 256 pages. CONDITION: A bright, tight, square, unmarked Very Good Plus copy with an uncreased spine. The covers have light shelf-wear, a front cover corner-bump and a back cover (very faint) stain at the spine bottom. This attractive copy is now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The only collection of photographs by this talented artist, who was friends with many in the artistic and literary worlds. Photographs of Graham Greene, Harold Acton, Bryher, Noel Coward, Janet Flanner, Peggy Guggenheim, Sybille Bedford, Margot Fonteyn and many others. Also included are landscapes and Italian cityscapes. Fine as issued in original wrappers, limited to 500 copies. The book was never released commercially and is quite rare.

Paperback. Condizione: Good ++. 138 pages. Moderate wear to covers' corners and edges - 1 1/2 inch abrasion to front cover to bottom, leading edge corner (top layer taken away in that area). Orange spine. Page-edges yellowed, page-margins less so, ink date to flyleaf o/w pages clean and tidy.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Jean Carlu (illustratore). 152+pp. Original blue wraps moderately soiled w/ light edge wear. Crease to rear cover. Text in French and English. Illust. w/ b/w drawings. Contents nice.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Paperback. 18x11cm. 138 pages. Flat spine. Clean & tight book. No inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL TRACKED 24 next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref z-ps.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st US Printing Thus. There is some light rubbing to the DJ and the spine of the DJ is darkened.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Inscribed to a friend by Flanner's longtime companion, Natalia Danesi Murray.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. George Thompson (Jacket Design) (illustratore). 223 pp. Solidly bound copy and dj with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Stain on fore edge. Slightly slanted spine.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. Photographs by Horst and George Hoyningen-Huene. (illustratore). 1971. First edition. American edition. The Viking Press. New York. 1971. First edition. American edition. Inscribed by Horst on the front free endpaper - 'For / Willie Sandels[?] / Best wishes / Horst / 1971'. Hardback, quarto; red cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. 192 pages. 162 b&w photographs. English. 285x230mm. 1.2kg. Very good, in very good dust jacket; light shelf wear to jacket, occasional short tear to edges, with three on the lower edge of front panel repaired with tape to verso, not price-clipped; slight dustiness to top edge. An album of photographic portraits of the leading lights of the 1930s art scene by Horst and Hoyningen-Huene, inscribed by Horst. Writers, artists, musicians, ballerinas, actors, opera singers, film stars, fashion designers and the odd "celebrity" are represented, with short accompanying biographies. The sitters include Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Lee Miller, Igor Stravinsky, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Duff and Diana Cooper, Noel Coward, Chanel, Josephine Baker, Cecil Beaton, Visconti. and the list goes on. The photographs are by Horst himself or by George Hoyningen-Huene, who bequeathed his photographic collection to Horst upon his death in 1968. The book acts as a homage and celebration of his 'mentor and friend' and of the time they spent together in the 1930s. Janet Flanner, the long-time Paris correspondent of the New Yorker, provides the foreword to the book. Books signed by Horst are scarce. Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller. Signed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. 1st Edition. THE DUST JACKET HAS CHIPS WEAR AND TEARS. IT IS IN A PROTECTIVE PLASTIC COVER.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. In red cloth with gilt to type. Bump to head of spine and wear to bottom. Previous owner's name and date to ffep, otherwise clean interior. Sharp corners and solid binding. Small spot to top page ends. Jacket is price-clipped with some light wear to head of spine, small paper scar to middle of spine with puncture and very light fading to spine. 1st Printing.