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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with textured black cloth over boards, pale green lettering across spine. Homemade brown paper DJ with neat black lettering along spine. Four small closed tears along back edges, small open tears at either side of foot of spine, light staining across covers from shelf wear. No date on title page. Copyright page dated only 1921. xviii + 253 pages. Includes introduction by Waldo Frank. Pages clean and bright. Binding lightly cracked along center hinge but does not reveal any backing linen; neat and tight along hinges and spine. Please email us with questions or to request photos.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The 1921 st edition of Marsden Hartley's 1st published book. Solid and VG in its dark cloth, with very light spotting at the front panel. Internally, clean as could be, with no writing or markings of any kind. Octavo, Introduction by Waldo Frank, portraits by Hartley of some of the great figures in early 20th century (Modernist) American art and photography.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 5 x 8 in. Black cloth boards with green endpapers. Condition is GOOD ; front outer joint has a split to the cloth but the hinge is not broken. Covers worn with one crease to front. Binding a bit loose, starting at the title pg. Text bright and unmarked. Art. RRGR. ETS.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$205.06 + shipping
Description: First edition. XVIII, 254 pp. Publisher's blackm cloth, dark green end-papers, text on spine a bit faded but overall a very good copy. With the bookplate of Paul Joseph Sachs (1878-1965), american business man and museum director, one of the founding members of Museum of Modern Art.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
Price: US$225.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book condition: fine, very scarce first edition by the painter, poet and essayist Hartley, includes an inscription on the front endpaper from the artist Jennie Van Fleet Cowdery who is featured in a chapter in the book, intro by the literary critic Waldo Frank, black cloth boards show little wear, bookplate on front pastedown, interior very clean with light toning, text on spine is faded, binding firm, includes a notice for Hartley's art show and a review of the book, 254 pp., 5.5 X 8.5 inches. * Postage for oversized and international shipping will be calculated by size and weight. AbeBooks shipping quotes are ESTIMATES only. If actual shipping cost is less than the AbeBooks estimate, it is our practice to REFUND the difference to the buyer. * NOAMZ
Seller: Panoply Books, Lambertville, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville and Poets. By Marsden Hartley. New York: Boni and Liveright Publishers, 1921, first edition, original dust jacket included with original price, 254 pp, 8.5 x 5.5", 8vo. In fair condition. Dust jacket exhibits toning at flap creases & spine from sun-exposure & age-wear. Both front and rear flaps of dust jacket remain clean & unclipped. Edges of DJ are slightly scuffed, but otherwise intact. Black cloth boards also scuffed at edges & worn at corners. Head and tail of spine collapsed. Rear board's top edge exhibits a small bump. Bottom edge of text-block is, for the most part, uncut & exhibits foxing. Fore & bottom edges of text-block exhibit chipping. Light toning throughout text-bock. No known previous ownership or marginalia. Binding intact. DJ intact. Please see photos. Marsden Hartley (1877-1943) was an American modernist painter, poet, and essayist. Hartley developed his painting abilities by observing Cubist artists in Paris and Berlin. Following WWI, Hartley was obligate to return to the United States from Europe & upon his return, he painted Handsome Drinks. The drink-ware calls back to the gatherings hosted by Gertrude Stein, where Hartley met Pablo Picasso, and Robert Delaunay. In addition to being considered one of the foremost American painters of the first half of the 20th century, Hartley also wrote poems, essays, and stories and published during his lifetime in many of the little magazines of the day, including one book of essays (this work). Rather scarce with original Dust Jacket. Presents well.
Seller: ROBIN RARE BOOKS at the Midtown Scholar, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Extremely Scarce! 1st Edition. Hard bound in dust jacket. Dust jacket shows significant edge wear with larges chips to spine edge and front. Pages show toning, otherwise in very good condition.
Seller: Black Cat Books, Shelter Island, NY, U.S.A.
HARTLEY, Marsden.. Adventures in the Arts.. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1921.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: 254 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. A few light spots to cloth, else a very good copy in a very good example of the scarce jacket with some darkening from cigarette smoke to the spine. The extremities of the spine are lightly chipped, not affecting the lettering or design.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. xviii, 254 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Dedication Copy, Inscribed to Alfred Stieglitz. THE DEDICATION COPY OF HARTLEY'S FIRST BOOK, INSCRIBED BY MARSDEN HARTLEY ON THE DEDICATION PAGE TO ALFRED STIEGLITZ: "My dear Stieglitz, This is the book you saved from the chaos of a grim period. I hope it proved worth the trouble. I marvel that your faith abounds with such vitality. I take courage myself from your example. Devotedly, Marsden Hartley." On the facing page Stieglitz has written the date and location of the inscription in pencil, "April 14 - 1924. 60 E. 65 St." An association of tremendous importance - Stieglitz was the first established artist or gallery owner to recognize and promote Hartley's talent. He mounted Hartley's first solo show at his 291 gallery in May of 1909 at a time when Hartley was a virtual unknown in the art world. "Poor and lonely, Hartley was moved by Stieglitz's tangible demonstration of faith in him and his art. At 291 he discovered the spiritual home he had long been seeking, and in Stieglitz he found a mentor who genuinely cared about his work and who was willing to nurture his creative development" (Homer, p. 153). Stieglitz would show Hartley's work five more times at 291 as well as at the Anderson Galleries, the Intimate Gallery, and An American Place. He helped finance Hartley's first trip to Europe in 1912; the direct exposure to the European avant-garde was a major impact in the development of Hartley's art. Hartley handed over power of attorney to Stieglitz during his time abroad, and it was Stieglitz who signed the agreement with Boni and Liveright for publication of Adventures in the Arts in 1921. Homer, Alfred Stieglitz and the American Avant-Garde Publisher's black cloth. Spine gilt lettering dulled, in printed dust-jacket (spine browned, chipping and closed tears to extremities). Laid into a half black morocco slipcase and cloth chemise
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.