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Editore: Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 1989
ISBN 10: 0822310058ISBN 13: 9780822310051
Da: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Libro
softcover. Condizione: Nearly fine copy. Profusely illustrated (illustratore). reprint edition. 4to, 101 pp.
Editore: Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 1989
ISBN 10: 0822310058ISBN 13: 9780822310051
Da: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Libro
softcover. Condizione: Fine copy. Profusely illustrated (illustratore). reprint edition. 4to, 101 pp.
Editore: Viking Press, New York, 1965
Da: Janet McAfee, Travelers Rest, SC, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Appears to be first edition. 78 p. Includes illustrations. No jacket. Covers worn at edges, scuffed, faded. Stains on hinges and inside back cover. Written inscription to previous owner on front endpaper. Pages and edges of pages yellowing. Small stain on title page. NOT ex-library. Book.
Editore: Viking Press, New York, 1965
Da: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. First edition. Oblong octavo. Spine a little sunned, bottom corners a little bumped, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Parr and Badger, *The Photobook Volume 1*, p. 252-253; Hasselblad, *The Open Book*, p. 214-215; Roth. *The Book of 101 Books*, p. 178-179.
Editore: Viking Press, New York, 1965
Da: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Membro dell'associazione: SNEAB
Prima edizione
A near fine copy bound in finely woven black oblong cloth boards stamped brightly in white lettering on the front boards and along the spine. Very lean and tight throughout with 50 numbered black and white photographs by Helen Levitt. In a splendid, crisp striking dust jacket with Levitt s photograph of 4 boys on the front panel and on the spine. With just a touch of wear to the bottom of the spine ends and some tiny chipping to the top edges. The jacket is price-clipped at the top right-hand corner of the front flap. A beautiful, collector s copy of this iconic photographic work with the James Agee essay which frames the photographs. Publisher s Note: "Helen Levitt took most of the photographs in this book in the 1940s in the streets of what is now Spanish Harlem; James Agee s essay was written in the late 1940s, when he and Helen Levitt planned this book, and remained unpublished at his death in 1955. The photographs following page 8 are arranged in a numbered sequence suggested by the essay, and the form in which pictures and text are being presented corresponds as closely as possible to the writer s and the photographers original intentions for the book." "Helen Levitt was the first American photographer to fully comprehend the essence of Henri Cartier-Bresson's photographic message and put it into practice. Like Cartier-Bresson, she understood how to combine intuition and intellect to forge sophisticated, lyrical compositions from commonplace events" (New York Times). According to ArtForum, "Levitt may well be the most celebrated and least known photographer of her time." "Though it did not see print until 1965, A Way of Seeing, Helen Levitt's first published collection of photographs was essentially completed in 1948. All the pictures in it had been taken over the previous decade in the streets of Yorkville, Harlem, and the Lower East Side, and many of them had already been on exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art. James Agee, dead ten years in 1965, had written his essay for the book in 1946 Although Agee may not have been the first writer to apply the word lyrical to Levitt's marvelously serendipitous images of urban street theater, his essay was for some time their most persuasive critical frame. In this edition, his text literally brackets the 50 photos, which are arranged in an episodic montage-bleak, antic, poignant; sometimes melodramatic, often comic-at once suggestively narrative and as ephemeral as a passing glance" (Roth, 178). First Edition with "First Published in 1965 by the Viking Press" on the copyright page; no subsequent printings listed.
Editore: New York: The Viking Press 1965, 1965
Da: Voewood Rare Books. ABA. ILAB. PBFA, Holt, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
First edition. 195x235mm. pp. [vi], 78. Publisher's black cloth with authors' names stamped in white on the upper cover and the title and publisher stamped in white on the spine. Dust jacket illustrated with black and white photograph by Levitt on the upper cover and spine and part of the lower cover. On the lower cover is an extract from Agee's essay. The jacket (protected in a mylar cover) has some minor wear to the head and foot of the spine and there is some very minor creasing and chipping to the bottom edge of the upper cover. But overall the jacket is in very good condition and the boards and contents are in fine condition. Near Fine Helen Levitt This celebrated book contains fifty black and white photographs by Helen Levitt, mostly taken in the 1940s in the streets of Spanish Harlem. James Agee's essay, split into two parts, bisected by the photographs, was written in the late 1940s. Agee describes Levitt's work as "an uninsistent but irrefutable manifesto of a way of seeing, and a major poetic work". A lost New York world is presented here.
Editore: New-York , Viking press, 1965
Da: La Chambre Noire, Lausanne, VD, Svizzera
Libro Prima edizione
Couverture rigide. Condizione: Bon. Condizione sovraccoperta: Assez bon. Edition originale. Pleine toile noire, titre frappé blanc sur le premier plat et au dos, sous jaquette photographique. 197 x 235 mm. 78 pp., texte de James Agee et 50 photographie n/b d'Helen Levitt qui nous invite par son regard à découvrir les joies de l'enfance dans la dure réalité des quartiers défavorisés de New-York, à la fin des années trente. Un reportage social très personnel, doux et aucunement pathétique. Jaquette restaurée proprement au milieu du premier plat, minime manque en tête et trace d'ancien ex-libris sur la page de garde. Ref: Le Livre de photographies: une histoire: Tome 1 [2005 / p.252].
Editore: Viking Press, New York, 1965
Da: Abacus Bookshop, Pittsford, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
hardcover. Profusely illustrated (illustratore). 1st edition. Oblong 8vo, 78 pp., Two short, closed tears and very light rubbing to dust jacket, else a nice, bright copy of the original edition, A classic in all the reference works: Parr and Badger, The Photobook Volume 1, pp. 252-253; Hasselblad, The Open Book, pp. 214-215; Roth. The Book of 101 Books, pp. 178-179. Fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket.
Editore: The Viking Press, New York, 1965
Da: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione Copia autografata
First edition of Levitt and Agee's classic collaboration. Oblong quarto, original black cloth, illustrated with 50 black-and-white photogravures.ÂFine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of rubbing. Signed by Helen Levitt on the title page. Essay by James Agee. "James Agee, dead ten years in 1965, had written his essay for the book in 1946 Although he may not have been the first writer to apply the word lyrical to Levitt s marvelously serendipitous images of urban street theater, his essay was for some time their most persuasive critical frame. In this edition, his text literally brackets the 50 photos, which are arranged in an episodic montage bleak, antic, poignant; sometimes melodramatic, often comic at once suggestively narrative and as ephemeral as a passing glance" (Roth, 178). In this timeless work, "Levitt s photographs are beautiful major, underrated works. Like Henri Cartier-Bresson, she achieves a rare balancing act: her pictures have sentiment without being sentimental" (Parr & Badger II:252).