Search Results: Authors starting with A from Edward T. Pollack Fine Arts

1964. Atget, Eugene. Atget, Eugene. THE WORLD OF ATGET by Bereneice Abbott. Horizon, NY, 1964. Cloth, DJ, 30pp text, 176 photos by Atget. VG/VG

Abbott, Berenice. WASHINGTON SQUARE LOOKING NORTH. Vintage Gelatin Silver print, 1936. Stamped verso "Federal Art Project/"Changing New York"/Photographs by Berenice Abbott" and also stamped and inscribed "Title: Washington Square Looking North/Place: Manhattan/Neg # 103/Code: IB/Date: April 16,1936." A contact print With the number "103" in white, recto, upper left, and with "Agfa Safety Film" printed in the corner, upper right, recto. 8 x 10 inches, 203 x 254 mm. In excellent condition.

Abbott, Berenice (American 1898-1991). ADRIENNE MONNIER, PARIS. Vintage gelatin silver print, not dated. Signed by Abbott, verso, and With her 50 Commerce Street studio stamp also verso. Hinged to a mount. In excellent condition. Adrienne Monnier (French, 1891-1955) was one of the first women in France to have her own bookstore and publsihing company in France. Along with Sylvia Beach, of Shakespeare and Company, she was one one of the most influential literary figures in Paris during the 1920s and 30s. Berenice Abbott lived in Paris during much of that time; according to Sylvia Beach, if one were photographed by Abbott or by Man Ray, it "meant you rated as somebody."

Abeles, Sigmund. Abeles, Sigmund. PHILOSOPHY STUDENT. Wood engraving, not dated. Inscribed "artist proof" and signed in pencil. 9 x 12 inches. In excellent condition.

Abramovitz, Albert (American, born Latvia, 1879-1963). CONCRETE MIXER MOSCOW. Linoleum cut, not dated, but circa 1930s. Edition size not known. Monogrammed in the block and signed in pencil. 5 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches (image), 7 1/2 x 9 inches (sheet). In excellent condition.

Abramovitz, Albert (American, born Latvia, 1879-1963). MUSICAL FAMILY. Linoleum cut, not dated, but circa 1930s. Edition size not known. Monogrammed in the block and signed in pencil. 6 x 8 3/4 inches (image), 8 x 11 1/8 inches (sheet). In excellent condition.

Vishniak, Roman. (Vishniak, Roman). THE VANISHED WORLD: JEWISH CITIES-JEWISH PEOPLE by Raphael Abramovitch. Forward Association, NY, 1947. Oblong 4to., red cloth with paste-on woodcut illustration. 575pp. plus index. First edition of this remarkable book of Vishniak's photographs of Jewish communities of Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. Texts in Yiddish and English. A very nice copy, with minimal soiling to covers.

Abramovitz, Albert. Abramovitz, Albert (American, born Latvia, 1879-1963). UNTITLED (WORKER RETURNING HOME TO HIS FAMILY). Linoleum cut on wove paper, c. 1930s. Signed in pencil, and monogrammed "AA" in the block. Edition size not known. 10 1/4 x 8 inches, 260 x 203 mm., plus margins of about 1 1/4 inches, and deckle on three edges. This powerful image shows a workman coming down steps through a doorway into a room in which are crowded, a woman with a child in her arms, three older children, an elderly man, and a man of middle years, all appearing dejected and hungry. In very good condition.

Abramovitz, Albert. Abramovitz, Albert (American, born Latvia, 1879-1963). UNTITLED (TWO CONSTRUCTION WORKERS WITH BRICKS). Linoleum cut on wove paper, c. 1930s. Signed in pencil. Edition size not known. 11 1/2 x 9 1/16 inches, 292 x 230 mm., plus margins of about 1 1/4 inches, and deckle on three edges. This print has an affinity with the Artist's "Subway Work at Night, Moscow" of 1935, but may also be one of a group of prints he made for the WPA Federal Arts Project between 1935 and 1939. In very good condition.

Achdjian, Albert. LE TAPIS - THE RUG. Editions Self, Paris, 1949. Quarto, stiff wraps with DJ, 287pp., + index, profusely illustrated with plates in color and b/w. VG, DJ separated at spine folds, and with some small losses.

Achener, Maurice Victor. (French, 1881-1963). PONT DE LA TOURNELLE - LA DERNIER ARCHE. Etching, not dated. Edition of 33. Signed, titled and numbered 9/33. 2 7/8 x 2 7/8 inches, on a sheet 5 5/8 x 4 inches.

Aciman, Andre. FIND ME. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, NY, 2019. First Printing. 8vo., paper-covered boards, DJ, 260pp. Fine in Fine DJ.

1937. Acker, William R. B. THE FUNDAMENTALS OF JAPANESE ARCHERY. Privately printed, Japan, 1937. 8vo., Japanese style cloth portfolio with bone clasps and paper label, Japanese style sewn binding in pictorial wraps, with accordion folded sheets. Title page in Japanese, 13pp. introduction, six pages of photographs, 84pp text, label in Japanese also saying "Made in Nippon" on the inside rear wrapper. This is the original edition. OCLC locates 12 copies, APBC records no copies at auction. There is a 1965 reprint by Tuttle, a copy of which accompanies this copy. This copy belonged to Duncan Phillips and his wife, who was Acker's sister. The book Fine, the portfolio spine somewhat faded, and with cracks to the inside paper lining at the folds. Very Rare.

Ackerley, J. R. WE THINK THE WORLD OF YOU. Obolensky, NY 1960 (1st American edtion). 8vo., cloth, DJ, 184pp. A small rubbed spot at the bottom front corner, unclipped DJ with rubbing along the spine and small losses at the top and bottom of its spine.

Ackermann, Max. Ackermann, Max (German, 1887-1975). DIE SCHAUSPIELERIN HILDE KORBER. Etching, 1928. A proof before, or in addition to the edition of 200. Signed and dated "Max Ackermann 1928" in pencil lower right. and inscribed "Probe" in pencil lower left, and with the dry stamp "ATELIER SAMMET" lower right. Printed on wove paper. 12 1/4 x 8 1/4 in., 310 x 207 mm). with full (3 1/2 inches) margins and deckled edges. In excellent condition. Max Ackermann studied with Franz Von Stuck and Adolf Holzel. He was a member of Der Blaue Reiter in 1918-1919. He was friendly with Mondrian, Adolf Loos, and exhibited in Stuttgart with Kandinsky and George Grosz. The Nazi's considered his art to be "degenerate;" he was forbidden to teach, and many of his works were confiscated. He had a distinguished career as an artist and educator after World War II. Hilde Korber (3 July 1906 - 31 May 1969) was an Austrian film actress who worked largely in the German Film Industry. She appeared in 53 films between 1930 and… Read More

1981. Van Rijn, Rembrandt. (Van Rijn, Rembrandt). PRINTMAKING IN THE AGE OF REMBRANDT by Clifford Ackley. NYGS/Boston MFA, 1981. 1st printing. Oblong 4to, cloth, DJ, 316pp., 213 prints illustrated and described. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket.

Adams, Ansel. BORN FREE AND EQUAL - THE STORY OF LOYAL JAPANESE-AMERICANS, U.S. Camera, NY, 1944. 1st editioon. Wraps, 112pp., text and photos by Adams. Stains to the cover, a loss at the foot of the spine, foxing and brownng throughout; still a serviceable copy of one of the earliest accounts of the internent of American citizens of Japanese descent during WWII.

1983. Adams, Ansel. Adams, Ansel. EXAMPLES: THE MAKING OF 40 PHOTOGRAPHS by Ansel Adams. Little, Brown (NYGS), NY, 1983. Cloth, DJ, 177pp., illustrated with photos by Ansel Adams. VG/VG

1985. Adams, Ansel. Adams, Ansel. ANSEL ADAMS - AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. NYGS/Little, Brown, Boston, 1985 (1st Ed). Cloth, DJ, 400pp., illustrated. VG/VG.

Adams, Cassilly (American 1843-1921). NATIVE AMERICANS HUNTING - TWO DRAWINGS. Charcoal and watercolor, not dated. One signed within the matrix of the drawing, lower right. Each about 7 x 10 inches. Both with a tack hole top and and bottom, center, and with residue from an old mount, verso. One wih a 1/2 x 1/2 inch loss at the top right corner. The images fresh. One shows two hunters with grass head-dress disguises, crouched behind low grasses,each with a rifle, a killed deer between them, and a herd moving across the field on the far side of the grasses. The other depicts two hunters wearing animal-skin disguises, each with a rifle, crouched behind grasses, beyond which a small herd of bison grazes. The following is from American Western Art by Dorothy Harmsen: Cassilly Adams painted many western scenes. But he is best remembered for his epic work, Custer's Last Fight, which he completed in 1885. His rendering of that famous battle at the Big Horn River in Montana eventually was obtained by the… Read More