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Agee, James, and Levitt, Helen. A Way Of Seeing. Horizon Press, 1981.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto. 11" x 9 1/2"/ 68pp. The enlarged edition has corrected text and 24 additional photographs by Helen Levitt. The bottom 1/4 edge of cloth cover has some sunning. Chip and closed tears to dust jacket.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Helen Levitt, James Agee. Helen Levitt: A Way of Seeing. Horizon Press, 1981.
Price: US$98.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
LEVITT, Helen and James Agee. A Way Of Seeing. Horizon Press, New York, 1981.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition thus. Hardcover. The second edition of this classic book. Includes 68 of Levitt's black and white street photographs taken in New York city. Twenty four of these images were not included in the original version by Viking. A tight very near fine copy in cloth boards in an about very good dust jacket that has some rubbing and some surface loss to the base of rear panel.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
James Agee,Helen Levitt. Helen Levitt: A Way of Seeing. Horizon Press, 1981.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Horizon Press January 1981 Binding: Hardcover VERY GOOD WITH DUST JACKET , 1981 HORIZON PPRESS TWO SMALL CLOSED TEARS TO BACK POF DJ, A FEW SMALL CHIPS $NRP
Seller: Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Helen Levitt; James Agee. Helen Levitt: A Way of Seeing. Horizon Press, 1981.
Price: US$124.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting.
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Helen Levitt; James Agee. Helen Levitt: A Way of Seeing. Horizon Press, 1981.
Price: US$143.46 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition. This is the average used book, that has all pages or leaves present, but may include writing. Book may be ex-library with stamps and stickers.
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Helen Levitt. A Way of Seeing with an Essay by James Agee Special Collection. Horizon Press, 1981.
Price: US$176.78 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition thus, very fine condition. A Way of Seeing with an Essay by James Agee Special Collection by Helen Levitt. Published by Horizon Press in 1981. Hardcover. What makes this title so special is its limited availability. - Publishers Weekly. Collectible item in excellent condition.
Seller: Collectors' Bookstore, Deurne, Belgium
Price: US$194.25 + shipping
Description: 4to. 68 illus. cloth. dw. (dw. rubbed else very good). Second Enlarged Edition with a corrected text and 24 additional photographs.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Helen Levitt; James Agee. Helen Levitt: A Way of Seeing. Horizon Press, 1981.
Price: US$208.89 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. Fast Shipping and good customer service
Seller: GoldenWavesOfBooks, Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.
Helen Levitt; James Agee. HELEN LEVITT: A WAY OF SEEING. Horizon Press, 1981.
Price: US$209.01 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 1.56
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
LEVITT, Helen (photographs); essay by James AGEE. A Way of Seeing. Horizon Press, 1981.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Horizon Press, 1981. (10 3/4 x 9 1/2 in., 27.5 x 24 cm). np. (xv, 77pp.) Stated first printing of the enlarged edition "with a corrected text and 24 additional photographs." Original blindly stamped monogrammed blue-grey cloth-wrapped boards - HL stamped upper, JA lower (cloth lightly dulled at top and bottom edges, with a few faint scuffs, also a more significant light scuff running parallel 11mm above the bottom of the front cover; internally clean, crisp and fine). Original grey jacket printed in white (unclipped and clean, very faintly toned at top, lightly rubbed and with minimal wear at extremities, top corner of upper panel with sliver of color loss, upper joint bump midway up, 12 x 60mm dampstain at bottom edge at spine is not detectable from the outside, sticker stain over printed ISBN at bottom of lower panel. Despite this lengthy list of faults this jacket presents quite nicely). Please see images. John Szarkowski (MoMA) on the photography of Helen Levitt "What is remarkable about these photographs is that the immemorially routine acts of life.are revealed as being full of grace, drama, humor, pathos, and surprise, and also that they are filled with the qualities of art, as though the street were a stage, and its people were all actors and actresses, mimes, orators, and dancers." Contains 68 black and white plates, beautifully printed by Meriden Gravure Company (halftone photography by Richard Benson). Design by Marvin Hoshino. In this edition Agee's essay precedes the photographs in its entirety. A very nice copy of a wonderful book. Inquiries welcomed.
Seller: William Gregory, Books & Photographs, Kenosha, WI, U.S.A.
Levitt, Helen;Agee, James. A Way of Seeing. Horizon Press, 1981.
Price: US$380.04 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed by Helen Levitt. This is the limited edition of 250 copies of which this is 144. The book is mint. The slipcase is undamaged. It is slightly sunned on the edge.
Seller: HEATH BOOKS, West Wickham, KENT, United Kingdom
Levitt, Helen. A Way of Seeing, with an Essay by James Agee.. New York, Horizon Press 1981., 1981.
Price: US$380.81 + shipping
Description: Enlarged edition with twenty-four additional photographs. Deluxe edition, limited to 250 copies. 27x23,5 cm. XV, (1) pp. + 68 plate-pages. Publisher's quarter vellum-backed gilt-stamped blue boards, housed in a blue linen slipcase. Slight fading to slipcase, inscribed on half-title, otherwise a very good copy. Printed in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies, this is no. 188, signed by Helen Levitt.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
LEVITT, Helen (Essay by James Agee). A Way of Seeing. Horizon Press, New York, 1981.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarto, xv, 68pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, about fine, in the publisher's blue boards with white paper spine, lacking the publisher's slipcase. This is one of 250 limited copies SIGNED by Levitt on the limitation page.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Levitt, Helen. A Way of Seeing; With an Essay by James Agee. Horizon Press, New York, 1981.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 4to, parchment-backed boards. One of 250 numbered copies, signed by Levitt. This edition included an additional 24 photographs that were not part of the first edition in 1965. Fine in slipcase, as issued; slipcase a trifle used.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Levitt Helen. A way of seeing by Levitt, Helen. Horizon Press, 1981.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed 1981 limited edition in slipcase #197 of 250 signed by the photographer clean tight and unmarked 68 photographs introduction by James Agee Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: np, 90 b&w illustrations. Designed by Marvin Hoshino. "A Way of Seeing" is the late Helen Levitt's classic presentation of New York street photography accompanied by an incisive essay by James Agee. Limited to two hundred and fifty copies only, this example is from the 1981 Horizon Press deluxe edition that was completely redesigned from the 1965 Viking first printing; containing a revised text along with twenty-four additional images. It is bound in one quarter gilt-stamped-vellum-over-gilt-stamped blue boards, and is housed in a blue linen slipcase. A most handsome copy (whose 1965 first edition is cited on pages 252-253 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I", pages 214-215 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", pages 178-179 of "The Book of 101 Books", and pages 92-96 of Horacio Fernandez' "New York in Photobooks") NUMBERED (31/250) AND SIGNED "Helen Levitt" in black ink on the colophon, as issued, showing some sunning to the slipcase along its extremities. It has been priced accordingly.
Seller: Arcana: Books on the Arts, Culver City, CA, U.S.A.