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Price: US$54.50 + shipping
Description: Marks' careful list is not annotated, but see his introductory essay which runs about fifteen pages. There is appended supplementary material, such as "Portion of an Address by M.A," Ephemera, and Work in Progress. This item is of course M.A.-designed but we do not see it listed; it consists of 99p., foreword, rubricated title page and a Brett Weston photoportrait. First edition trade paperback limited to 500 copies, 150 of which (like this one) are in wraps. A good exemplar, a bit edgeworn with front joint-line showing abrasion and light creasing to corner-tips, signed magnificently on the free front blank and datelined 1957. We cannot make out the name of the inscribee, that's how magnificent.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Armitage, Merle. Brett Weston: Photographs. E, Weyhe, 1956.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: no edition or printing stated only copyright date 1956 - assume 1st, toning with light soiling to edges of text block - 41/2" split down from top on rear side of spine with 21/2" split down from top on front side of spine - 11/4" split up from bottom on rear side and 1/2" split up from bottom on front side of spine - scuffing to front/rear edges of spine - rubbing to top/bottom edges of boards and corners - light soiling to edges of pages 36 and 37 - binding cracked at page 48, still holding, not complete, missing the dust jacket, black & white photographs reproduced full page on heavy stock glossy paper
Seller: H.S. Bailey, Fort Myers, FL, U.S.A.
Brett Weston; Merle Armitage. Brett Weston, Photographs. E. Weyhe, 1956.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: tall case. First edition. Designed by Merle Armitage. Covers edgeworn. Top os spine torn. Dust jacket worn and chipped. Stamped from the Alinder Collection on the front flyleaf.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Armitage, Merle. Brett Weston: Photographs. E. Weyhe, Publisher, New York, 1956.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 102pp. Quarto [34 cm] Black textured paper over boards. Endpapers illustrated with a facsimile of Brett Weston's signature. The spine is slightly rolled back, and the spine ends are gently bumped. There are several small stains to the fore-edge of the text block. The front endpaper is a little glue stained. In a dust jacket, with subtle toning, and a handful of small closed and open tears in the edges. The deepest tear is closed, measuring just under 2" deep. Errata slip tucked in. Ex-libris California photographer Herb Quick, with his bookplate and name in pen on the front endpaper. Quick (1925-2006) was an instructor of photography at the University of California, Riverside. The Herbert "Herb" Quick collection is held at this university. Brett Weston (1911-) was the second son of photographer Edward Weston. Edward Weston took Brett to Mexico where he became his father's apprentice at the age of 13. From the dust jacket- "In this book the subject matter has been chosen after long deliberation and the review of hundreds of photographs, all superior. The aim has been to present, within necessary limitations, a sound representation of Brett' Weston's various developments, phases and progress.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Small folio. Black cloth with stamped veritcal embossed line 10.75 x 13 inches. 102pp. Photographs from the late1940s and 1950s.Inscribed to Peter and Gandica on the first blank and dated 1959. Very good.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Armitage, Merle. Brett Weston Photographs. E. Weyhe, 1956.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: Fine in near fine, lightly soiled dust jacket with a few tiny chips to edges and one expertly repaired closed tear to lower front panel, in mylar cover.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. The first monograph on Brett, the second son of legendary photographer Edward Weston. Features text and book design by Merle Armitage. A collection of 28 black and white images. Laid in errata slip. A very good plus copy with bumping to the top of the spine and a few small spots to the foredge in a very good plus dust jacket that is lightly soiled, with a few edge tears and wear and some slight offsetting to the verso from an old jacket protector. Signed by Weston and dated in 1980. A very nice copy and much less common signed by Weston.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.