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Siskind, Aaron. Aaron Siskind: Photographs. Horizon Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st Edition. Hard bound. No dust jacket. Backstrip is missing. Some paper from dust jacket to the lower edge of boards. Wear and soiling to boards, otherwise a good working copy of a rare book. Interior clean, and binding sound.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
Siskin, Aaron. Aaron Siskind Photographs. Horizon Press, 1959.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: FAIR/ NO DUST JACKET, unnumbered pages. Text mostly clean and shows some mild wear. Gray/black cloth boards. Binding stitched and shows very mild weakening.
Seller: RPL Library Store, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Siskind, Aaron, & Rosenberg, Harold, intro.. Photographs. Horizon Press, 1959.
Price: US$84.96 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: US orders ship with signature confirmation. 1959 oversize hardcover no printing listed (publisher does not designate first editions, according to their note to Zempel/Verkler) . A lot of edgewear (some tears closed), chipping, and soil/tanning on dj, fraying on edges of spine and a little on two corners, soil/sunning on cover, you can tell the previous owner was a smoker if you go into the spine, foxing on edge and on inside of dj, light tanning, else text clean, binding tight. Oversize book extra shipping charges will apply for international and priority orders as this will not fit into a flat rate envelope. .
Seller: Dave's Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Siskind, Aaron. Photographs. Horizon Press, 1959.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. Original black cloth stamped in silver. A fair reading copy only of this classic, spine lacking, boards rubbed, smudging to text margins from use. Selection of photographs (chiefly cityscapes of New York and Chicago), issued in homage to Charles Egan (who exhibited most of them in his New York City gallery, 1947-54). Introduction ('Evidences') by Harold Rosenberg; book design by Ivan Chermayeff. Freitag #9001. Scarce in any condition. [ca. 100] pages (unpaginated).Siskind, Aaron (photographer); 50 b/w Photographs.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: Quarto; in the publisher's black cloth binding, with titling to the front board in silver and black, and to the spine in red and silver; [x], followed by 50 pages of photographs printed on the rectos only; lacking the dustjacket; there is an inconsequential stain to the upper board; minor fading to the spine; there are no ownership mark of any kind in the book. Very Good binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Introduction: Harold Rosenberg. Aaron Siskind: Photographs. Horizon Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Description: Solid binding. Some water damage. Beuatiful made book is a selection from a decade of work by one of the great masters of photography in our time,
Seller: The Bookery, Rochester, VT, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: . . . . Folio, hardcover. No dj, black cloth. Vg condition. Previous owner's institutional stamp on front endpaper. Small (appx. 1") old moisture stain to bottom corner of endpapers and text. Covers and contents otherwise clean, no marking or writing. Binding sturdy, square and tight. 50 full-page photographic reproductions. American, Art, History, Mid-century, Modern, Photography,
Seller: Tiber Books, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.
Aaron Siskind. Aaron Siskind: Photographs. Horizon Press, 1959.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dust jacket worn and chippedand torn.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Siskind, Aaron and Harold Rosenberg. Aaron Siskind: Photographs. Horizon Press, New York City, 1959.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Black-and-cream-colored DJ with clear protective mylar cover and black, red and cream-colored lettering; black and silver boards with black and silver lettering; 112 unnumbered pp.; 50 illustrations. Fair DJ with Good Interior (Original DJ is heavily worn and chipped with a large portion missing, but held together by the clear DJ, which is lightly shelfworn; boards are lightly edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are lightly toned/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean but does have the occasional smudge; binding is solid.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Aaron Siskind. Photographs. Horizon Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Black cloth boards, minor wear and handling soil; some superficial scuffs and scrapes. Corners bumped, minor. Tiny bit of fraying at foot of spine. Interior crisp and clean. **Due to size or weight of book additional charges for international and priority shipping may apply.**
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Siskind, Aaron.. AARON SISKIND PHOTOGRAPHS.. Horizon Press:, 1959.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 50 full page b&w images, with a 4 page Introduction by Harold Rosenberg. "Siskind's work is as removed from the obsessive patterning of the "abstract" photographer as from the sympbolism of the film impressario of blasted trees and ghostly monuments." VERY GOOD HARDCOVER, lower spine edge has a 1/4" cloth tear. Light wear to the silver on the front cover. A nice clean and tight copy. A previous owner's name is present from 1959. It is a small pen signature at the upper edge of the front blank endpaper. Else book is near fine. A nice clean and tight copy. Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall
Seller: PASCALE'S BOOKS, NORTH READING, MA, U.S.A.
Siskind, Aaron & Harold Rosenberg. Aaron Siskind Photographs. Horizon Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The uncommon 1959 First Edition. Water wrinkling to the jacket. Modest water marks to the covers, but still the book itself is a solid Very Good example in a fair jacket. Someone spilled their drink on this, lo those many years ago, but they cleaned the mess up quickly, so the book is still a solid example! ; 12.62 X 9.43 X 1.73 inches; 112 pages
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: DESCRIPTION: First Edition Folio (330 × 254 mm), pp. [112]. 50 black-and-white photographs. Designed by Ivan Chermaye. Kraft end papers. Black cloth-covered binding, the spine lettering embossed in silver and red inks. The front cover has bold silver embossment in block letters. Black-and-white photo-illustrated dust-jacket, with original price. The authors photograph by Harry Callahan on rear flap. Original blank white paper sheet laid in on the title page, apparently placed to eliminate any offsetting, has some wear to one edge. CONDITION: Book: Although like new, this volume has some small faults: front cover silver stamped "S" is a little rubbed. Also, gentle bump to lower corner of text block, affecting the leaves. Otherwise, the pages are bright and clean with no handling wearCONDITION: Dust jacket: light surface rubbing to front panel, one inch closed tear to top edge of front panel, dj fitted a little off-center, otherwise very light wear, now protected in a clear archival sleeve. Ships domestic Media Mail only. Further details given, and questions are always welcome. Scans avaialble for viewing.
Seller: North Country Books, Milton, VT, U.S.A.
Photography - Siskind, Aaron. Photographs. Horizon Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of the artist's first monograph and a well deserved Roth 101 and Parr & Badger selection. With some rubbing to the cloth covers, a very good example lacking the dustwrapper. Book includes 50 large full-page black and white images Introduction by Harold Rosenberg.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
SISKIND, Aaron. Photographs. Horizon Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. First printing. The first monograph on this important American photographer. Introduction by Harold Rosenberg. Includes many of Siskind's early classic black and white images. A clean close to near fine copy in black cloth boards stamped in silver on the front board with some very minor wear and slight bumping to the top corners, but internally a very clean copy. No dust jacket. (Parr & Badger v1 250, Roth 152-153).
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Siskind, Aaron & Harold Rosenberg. Aaron Siskind Photographs. Horizon Press, E-356, 1959.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. 4to. Published by Horizon Press, New York. 1959. 112 pgs. Illustrated with 50 large full-page black and white images. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in black cloth with large bold silver titles present to the spine and the front board. , Boards lightly rubbed and worn. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid. Spectacularly designed and beautifully printed, this 1959 hardbound publication was the very first comprehensive monograph on the esteemed late Chicago-based photographer Aaron Siskind. Photographs by the innovative photographer document his importance in the development of modern photography and of modern art, noting in particular his anticipation of such painters as Kline and de Kooning. "This new volume represents a decade of work by the photographer question a seminal force in the art of the 20th century. It is a renewing revelation of Beaumont Newhalls classic statement that we can only marvel that the most commonplace subject matter becomes poetic, and that the fragment becomes an artistic unit. Seen in series, the photographs have a cumulative effect: we are carried along from picture to picture: our vision is sharpened and our Imagination stimulated". EB; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 112 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Siskind, Aaron and Harold Rosenberg. Aaron Siskind Photographs. Horizon Press, 1959.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover missing dustjacket, unpaginated with 50 illustrations; good condition: bump/split at lower right corner of front cover board; the boards are also rubbed at the other corners and the top and bottom of spine; a few scattered scratches and scuffs to the silver letters on cover; internally about 10 pages have scattered scuffs or small stains to the white border around or opposite the image; the images themselves appear fine; no tears to the pages; still tightly bound. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Rosenberg, Harold (Introduction). Aaron Siskind Photographs. Horizon Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Folio. (5) 50 plates. Original black cloth with silver and black lettering on cover, red and silver on spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, red and black lettering on spine, protected by modern mylar. Light brown endpapers. Typographic title page design. With an introduction by Harold Rosenberg. Illustrated with fifty full page b/w photographs by Aaron Siskind. "This is a selection from a decade if work by one of the great masters of photography in our time. In a statement on "the essential photographic art", Aaron Siskind has said: "The start is from a previous picture. There is no preconception, rather predisposition (which predisposition includes the camera, lenses and the film with me at the time). I will usually return to a familiar place or one that seems familiar. I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonable call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous." (Publisher). Dustjacket with very light wear along edges, minor chips and light creasing. Wavy at inside top front cover of dustjacket due to water exposure, hardly visible from front. Block with some musty odor.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: np (112pp), 50 b&w illustrations. Designed by Ivan Chermayeff. Spectacularly designed and beautifully printed, this 1959 hardbound publication was the very first comprehensive monograph on the esteemed late Chicago-based photographer Aaron Siskind. An internally bright, most handsome example of this uncommon item whose striking silver-gilt front cover and spine lettering are still fresh showing some sunning along with abrading to the tip of the bottom edge of the rear cover. The book's brittle dust jacket is present, though noticeably creased, chipped, and torn - with some minor paper loss - primarily along the extremities. It has been priced accordingly. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight and value - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase.
Seller: Arcana: Books on the Arts, Culver City, CA, U.S.A.
Siskind, Aaron and Harold Rosenberg. Aaron Siskind Photographs. Horizon Press, 1959.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket, unpaginated with 50 illustrations; good condition: the dj has 1/2 of loss at top of spine so the first "A" in Aaron is missing; and dj has multiple small tears to the top edge of front and rear cover, long horizontal creases to the top edge of front cover; a 2-inch tear to the upper right corner of front cover at edge; and scattered stains to the rear covers and spine; however the front cover image of the dj is still intact and displays fairly well with only some light ruffling and light wear marks; internally very good; no tears to the pages; still tightly bound. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
SISKIND, Aaron. Aaron Siskind Photographs. Horizon Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Introduction by Harold Rosenberg. Folio. Black cloth with silver stamping, pictorial dust jacket. (Ca. 150pp). Numerous illustrations. Very good/good plus. Jacket edgeworn and a bit rubbed, with several archivally closed (on verso) edge tears and one wide chip running along the bottom edge of the front panel (triangular, 8½" wide X 1¼" at left side narrowing to ¼" at right side) -- fairly attractive overall despite obvious flaws. A tight, nice first edition of this scarce first photo collection by the reknowned New York and Chicago photographer (1903-91), who pioneered abstract expressionism in photography. Though not so noted, from the collection of noted Midwest photographer Archie Lieberman (1926-2008), author of "Farm Boy." A handsome copy of this desireable title.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Rosenberg, Harold (Introduction). Aaron Siskind Photographs. Horizon Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Folio. (5) 50 plates. Original black cloth with modern typography ub silver and black on cover, red and silver on spine, in original photo-illustrated dustjacket, red and black lettering on spine, Brodart-protected. Brown endpapers. Typographic title page design. Design by Ivan Chermaye. With an introduction by Harold Rosenberg. Illustrated with fifty full page b/w photographs by Aaron Siskind. "This is a selection from a decade if work by one of the great masters of photography in our time. In a statement on "the essential photographic art", Aaron Siskind has said: "The start is from a previous picture. There is no preconception, rather predisposition (which predisposition includes the camera, lenses and the film with me at the time). I will usually return to a familiar place or one that seems familiar. I stand still or move slowly, feeling things like the impulse of shapes, the direction of lines, the quality of surfaces. I frame with my eye (sometimes with my hands) as the ground glass would frame. Nothing that one could reasonable call thinking is taking place at this stage. The condition is total absorption; the decision (a picture!) is spontaneous." (Publisher). Dustjacket with minor wear along edges, minor chips and one inch closed tear at top of front cover. Light smudge on the silver S of front cover.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Rosenberg, Harold & Aaron Siskind. Aaron Siskind Photographs (Signed). Horizon Press, 1959.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Blk/silver cloth cover with red spine; DJ is not clipped, wear at spine edges and back; No marks or; writing, clean tight binding; Author's inscription/date to an international famous photographer, Jerry Uelsmann on end sheet; ; 112 pages; Signed by Author & Illustrator Very Good lettering writing, clean tight binding; silver cloth cover with red spine
Seller: The Book Chaser (FABA), Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.
Rosenberg, Hrold. Aaron Siskind Photographs. Horizon Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 52p quarto,millustrated. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket Signed by Siskind
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Rosenberg, Harold, and Aaron Siskind.. AARON SISKIND PHOTOGRAPHS.. Horizon Press: NY, 1959.
Price: US$799.25 + shipping
Description: 13 x 10.5, cloth, 50 full page b/w plates, silver titled black cloth, a couple gentle bumps, jacket intact and mildly edge worn, owner's blindstamp to two preliminary leaves, vg in vg jacket, a nice copy. FIRST ED.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$816.75 + shipping
Description: First edition; 4to (331 × 254 mm, 13 x 10 in); black-and-white photographs printed in relief halftone, design by Ivan Chermayeff, minor toning to edges; tan endpapers, black cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in silver and red on spine and in silver on upper side, minor wear to corners, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, printed in black and red, light wear to extremities, two short tears to top edge of upper panel, one with creasing, minor toning, light creasing to head of spine, with a leaf of paper laid in at title-page, also laid in are three exhibition invitations, one exhibition invitation/prospectus, and a press release, near-fine in an excellent dust-jacket; [112]pp. Aaron Siskind's first monograph with a small group of exhibition ephemera including two Light Gallery invites addressed to his friend, Maria Lipkind (nee Cimino). After an initial career teaching English in public schools, Siskind joined and was actively involved in the New York Workers' Film and Photo League (1932-35) and later the Photo League (1936-41). He distanced himself from these groups in the early-forties, saying that 'the so-called documentary picture left me wanting something. For some reason or other, there was in me the desire to see the world clean and fresh and alive, as primitive things are clean and fresh and alive. He began experimenting with the medium's capacity for abstraction, making photographs of rocks, rust, graffiti and peeling plaster, echoing and influenced by his association with Franz Kline and the emerging Abstract Expressionist painters. The Book of 101 Books pp152-5; The Photobook: A History I, p250; The Open Book pp180-1.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Photography - Siskind, Aaron. Photographs. Horizon Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition of the artist's first monograph and a well deserved Roth 101 selection. Some shelfwear to bottom edge else a particularly clean and bright near fine copy in near fine unclipped and unfaded dustwrapper with some light wear to rear panel. One of the nicer examples of this book we have seen.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1017.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Association copy, signed on the front free endpaper by an important artist (please inquire). Hardcover. Black cloth-covered boards with bold title debossed in silver on cover and stamped in red and silver on spine; with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Aaron Siskind. Introduction by Harold Rosenberg. Designed by Ivan Chermayeff. Unpaginated, with 50 black-and-white plates finely printed on Oxford No. 1 Polar Superfine paper under the supervision of Art Sinsabaugh. 13-1/4 x 10-1/2 inches. Scarce. [Cited in Andrew Roth, ed., The Book of 101 Books: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century. (New York: PPP Editions in association with Roth Horowitz LLC, 2001), in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004), and in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger, The Photobook: A History, Volume I. (London and New York: Phaidon, 2004).]. Near Fine (corners lightly bumped, with light shelf wear) in Very Good dust jacket (1/2-inch closed tears at the folds, a 1/4-inch chip at lower edge of front panel, wear and creasing to the extremities and light toning to the spine). The definitive publication of Siskind's work to date.
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
SISKIND, Aaron. Photographs (Signed First Edition). Horizon Press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Hardcover. First printing. The first monograph on this important American photographer. Includes many of Siskind's early classic black and white images. A clean near fine copy with some very minor wear to the base of the spine and in a near fine dust jacket with a few small edge tears and some very minor wear. Signed by Siskind on the front free endpaper. A nicer than usual copy that has virtually none of the usual fading to the spine. (Parr & Badger v1 250, Roth 152-153).
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
ROSENBERG Harold (Introduction). Aaron Siskind photographs. Horizon press, New York, 1959.
Price: US$1646.02 + shipping
Description: In 4, cm 26 x 33,5, pp. (112) con 50 tavole fotografiche in b/n. Tutta tela editoriale con impressioni in argento. Sovraccoperta con pochi strappi marginali e piccola mancanza posteriore. Firma autografa dell'autore alla sguardia. Edizione originale impreziosita dalla firma autografa di Aaron Siskind, considerato uno dei dei grandi fotografi del '900, inizio' quasi per caso la sua attivita' nel 1929. Dopo poco entra a far parte del New York photo league, associazione che si dedicava alla fotografia di documentazione sociale. In seguito si concentro' a fotografare dettagli offerti dalla natura, dall'architettura ecc. finendo per legarsi con il mondo artistico dell'espressionismo astratto e privilegiando un approccio creativo e spontaneo a scapito dell'intento narrativo ITA
Seller: Coenobium Libreria antiquaria, Asti, Italy