WORLDS IN A SMALL ROOM by Irving Penn - 1974

USA.: Penguin, 1974. Paperback. Very Good. 4to. Oblong 4To. B/W Plates.A Very Nice Copy Clean And Unmarked In The Inside. Slightly Darken Edges.

Penguin Publishing Group, 1980. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Penguin, 1974. Softcover. Very good/No jacket. Covers tanned along edges.

New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1980. 96pp. Original pictorial wraps. Originally published in 1974 by Grossman Publishers, New York. Pages are clean (no writing, underlining, or highlighting) but yellowing with age. Hinges are a bit loose (and glue is showing) but still secure. Inner text block is tight with no cracks or breaks. Covers are lightly scuffed/modeately sunned with some minor finger soiling. Shelfwear (nicking to head of spine, corners rubbed). This is not a remainder or ex-library. No previous owner markings. Using a portable studio in remote locations, Irving Penn is able to capture cultures like the Kirdi of Cameroon, Nepal, Morocco, Dahomey, Crete and New Guinea. He also captured the people of New York, Paris, London, San Franscisco, and Cuzco. Nice reading copy. . Reprint, Collectible. Oversized Softcover. Good -/No Jacket as Issued. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York, NY: Penguin Group, September 1980. First Thus. Paper Back . Good. Covers toned and bumped/edgeworn at bottom. Still, binding is solid and images are unmarked.

Penguin Books, 1980. Very Good softcover photography book. Trade Paperback. Very Good.

[New York]: Penguin Books, [1980]., 1980. 4to. pp. 95. illus. throughout with commentary by Penn. wrs. (spine and edges sunned). Soft cover. Very Good.

Penguin Books, 1974. First American Edition. Paperback. very good. Oversize pictorial white wrappers. 95pp. Some toning at edges of covers.

New York: Penguin Books, 1980. First. paperback. fine. Penn, Irving. Illustrated with many b/w photographs by Penn, as an ambulant studio photographer. 95pp. Thin square 4to, glossy pictorial wrappers. (New York: Penguin Books, 1980). First softcover edition of the artist's second monograph. A fine copy, as new.<br/> <br/> Signed and dated by Penn on the title page.<br/> <br/>

7 pics-NOT XLIB; clean & sharp with light shelf wear & a few very light spots to exterior; spine uncreased; binding tight; pages clean

Innsbruch Felizian Rauch [?], 1936, hardcover. No publication date given: 1936? -- Black-and-white reproductions of the art done when she was 5 to 15 years old. Texts in GERMAN, English and French. 143 pages, 9.5x11 inches. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (cover has soil, spine lettering rubbed, but pages are clean and bright).

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. Good/good minus. Hardback with Dust Jacket which has some edge wear, small rip, faint price on back

This book is in very good condition. There is minor wear on the dust cover and little to no wear at all on the front, back, spine and edges of the cover boards. The pages are white, crisp and free of any markings. "Perhaps because it seems so close in time to our own experience, many art lovers feel a special kinship with the turn of the century. We speak of fin-de siecle artists almost as if we know them, and a large body of scholarly work exists covering nearly every conceivable aspect of the late nineteenth-century philosophy, sociology, and art. Given that, it is a rare and remarkable opportunity when one finds something new and unknown about the late 1800's, a privilege we at the Smithsonian Institute Traveling Exhibition Service are pleased to share with everyone who reads this book and visits the exhibition Art Nouveau Bing...." - Foreword from Art Nouveau Bing: Paris Style 1900

This fine, 2nd edition of David Hockney's 'alphabet' drawings with short poems and essays by various authors (Joyce Carol Oates, Arthur Miller, John Updike, Iris Murdock, Susan Sontag, Seamus Heaney, etc.) was an AIDS fundraiser. The book is in fine condition with no flaws and the Dust Jacket has only a small crease on the front dust jacket bottom and the inside front panel price clipped (see photos.) Priced to sell!
All proceeds benefit The Friends of the San Anselmo Library. No expedited shipping outside of the United States.

Messenger, Norman: Making Faces By Norman Messenger. Doring Kindersley Publishers, Ltd., 1992. ISBN9780863189975. LARGE FORMAT. 8 ¼ X 14. Summary: Starting with eight basic characters, Norman Messenger offers the possibility of making an astonishing variety of different faces in this fascinating contemplation of human uniqueness. By mixing and matching foreheads, eyes, noses, mouths and chins, thousands of individual faces can be created. A stimulating and amazing book. 65,000 different combinations are available. WOW. For all ages. USED. VG CONDITION.

Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.

Ruth Krauss. The Carrot Seed. Illustrated by Crockett Johnson, author, illustrator of the Harold and the Purple Crayon series. 1945, Harper & Brothers First Edition. States 1945 on the title page. QUITE RARE. EXLIB. Good Condition/ no dust jacket is included. A nice solid copy. "Ruth Krauss's book about a little boy who stands his ground and grows a carrot in the face of doubt from his parents brings up themes of individuality, standing one's ground, and what it is to know something (the basis of knowledge)" Not an easy find.

NEAR FINE Limited edition (1000 copies printed). Gray cloth exteriors with blue lettering and his signature dog on the cover. No dustjacket. Light shelfwear to cover corners and edges. Crisp, clean, unmarked interior pages. Satire. 287 pages, 9.5" X 12.25X X 1.5" John T. McCutcheon was an American political cartoonist, war correspondent, combat artist, and author . This covers the full breadth of his career, and reproduces his newspaper work from a 40 year career, including his Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon from 1931 "a Wise Economist Asks a Question". Includes some of his earliest work in the Purdue university paper "Debris" and stories, cartoons, and reporting from The Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Daily News, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Cosmopolitan, as well as sketches from the Art Institute of Chicago. Political cartoons (no index and some pages with multiples), probably more illustrations than pages.

. Grahame, Kenneth. The Wind In The Willows. Copyight 1940. Heritage Press. USED. VG+ Condition/ VG+ Original Canary yellow cart Slipcase. Blue boards with drawing of Toad dressed as the washerwoman on the Front Cover. February, 1966 Printing Thus of 20,000 copies. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. 190 pages. 6 1/2 X 10. Please see stock photos. Our copy is crisp and clean with a clean spine, appearing almost unread. Quite charming.