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Irving Penn. Moments Preserved. Simon and Schuster, 1960.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Eight essays in photographs and words. With an introduction by Alexander Liberman. Rosemary Blackmon collaborated in the writing of the captions and text. No dust jacket. Soiled covers, small rip on spine.
Seller: tim hildebrand books, Janesville, WI, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving. Moments Preserved: Eight Essays in Photographs and Words. Simon and Schuster, 1960.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 183p. Contents unmarked with b/w and color photos throughout. Tightly bound with securely attached hinges. Cream cloth boards are bright and pointed. Foxing present on endpages and text-block. Jacket is glossy and unclipped with foxing over protective mylar.
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Irving Penn. Moments Preserved: Eight Essays in photographs and words. Simon and Schuster, 1960.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Covers have some shelfwear. End pages have some foxing. Name written on front free endpaper. In worn slipcase.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD BOX.Box has minor wear to pints, and a few edge chips to pasted on color photo on box .Black dot on copyrite page. ; Black spine titles on white cloth hard covers. bright white endpapers. (HAS SLIPCASE BOX.but lacks dust jacket. ; 183pg pages; mid-twentieth century photography book. BLACK & WHITE & COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS FROM VOGUE MAGAZINE
Seller: WONDERFUL BOOKS BY MAIL, Durham-CA, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. Pp. [6], 7-183. Introduction by Alexander Liberman. Laden throughout with black & white and color photographs by Irving Penn. Index. Bound in cream-colored cloth with black titles stamped on spine. Light stains to front endpaper and half-title. Binding tight. In the dust jacket that has slight discoloration to spine foxed; wear at head of spine. In the illustrated slipcase, a tad worn, and with a bookseller tag (Paul Elder Books, San Francisco) on lower front corner. Celebrated as Vogue magazine's top photographer for 60 years, Penn's was quite private and avoided self-promotion; instead, his ongoing drive was the expansion of photography's limitations. This is his first book. Dust jacket is now preserved within a clear, removable archival sleeve. Slipcase worn and stained, but otherwise sturdy. Hardcover with dust jacket and slipcase
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Irving Penn. Moments Preserved: Eight Essays In Photographs And Words. Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Price: US$157.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: in worn slipcase Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Oversized.
Seller: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$174.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Likely later state of first edition (edition not stated) with black ink dot on word "copyright". Fine contents and binding; like-new condition. The dust jacket shows edge wear and wrinkling at bottom margin, several tiny spots and a small cut at spine (not affecting binding), remains Very Good. The slipcase is solid and shows light shelf wear and one ink mark on rear panel. A nice very nice copy. International shipping may require added postage charges.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 183p quarto, illustrated. A very good tight copy in a poor dust jacket faded and very chipped on the spine, reinforced on the spine with clear tape. Some minor offset to front fly leaf . Enclosed In a very good slipcase
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Irving Penn. Moments Preserved. Simon and Schuster, 1960.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Covers foxed. Dust jacket edgeworn and foxed. In worn slipcase. From the Alinder collection.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving. MOMENTS PRESERVED: EIGHT ESSAYS IN PHOTOGRAPHS AND WORDS. Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 183 pp; First edition, first printing, with dot. In slipcase, no DJ as issued. Light soiling on boards, slipcase also has some soiling and light edge wear. An attractive book in tight binding.
Seller: GLOVER'S BOOKERY, ABAA, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Irving Penn. Moments Preserved. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1960.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960. Hardbound. Moments Preserved: Eight Essays in Pictures and Words. Ivory cloth boards with black writing on spine. 183 pp. 300 illustrations, including 38 in color. Comes in a glossy cardboard slipcase with an illustration. Contains many photographs of people from around the world, including celebrities such as Sophia Loren, Christian Dior, Salvador Dali, and Yves St. Laurent. Very fine copy in a fine slipcase. no glassine, the slipcase serves as its jacket.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.52 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: B00k: Fine/, $500.03, Reduced from. MOMENTS PRESERVED EIGHT ESSAYS in PHOTOGRAPHS and WORDS; H/c + D/J + Slipcase. PENN, Irving; LIBERMAN, Alexander; BLACKMON, Rosemary SIMON & SCHUSTER 1960 Slip Case: Good/Fair, Shelf, Edge And Corner Ware. Dropped On Rear Corner And Damaged, Did Not Affect The Quality Of The BooK. Sun Bleaching On A White Spine With Title In Black Letters, Dust Jacket: Very Good/, Edge Wear And One Finger Pull Tear With A Small Piece Missing On The Top Of The Spine. Tall And Wide Hard Cover B0K: Fine/As New/, Minutest Shelf, Edge Ware And Corner Ware, One Corner Is Lightly Bumped, 183 Numbered Pages, That Were Lightly Read And Are Clean And Tight To The Spine. This Book Is Hard To Find, Will Be Packaged And Shipped Carefully, To Avoid Shipping Damage And Will Make It, An Excellent Addition To Your Own Personal Library Collection, Or As A Gift. = WORLD WIDE Shipping AVAILABLE =
Seller: L. Michael, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving. Liberman, Alexander (introuction). MOMENTS PRESERVED. Simon & Schuster, NY, 1960.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Penn's landmark work. A fine, apparently unused book (no names inscriptions or bookplates). Dustjacket has a short closed tear top edge front panel, and the spine is wee tanned. In slipcase with pictorial pastedown with the slightest edgewear with original price sticker of $17.50 lower right corner.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 4to. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1960. 183 pages. Illustrated with 300 gravure-printed b&w and color illustrations; First Edition/First Printing. Slipcase faded and worn to the corners. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ (chipping present to the spine crown; tear present to the front flap). Previous owner's name present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Irving Penn's first book, printed in gravure, and divided into eight chapters: The Flavor of France, Picasso's Barcelona, Italian Gallery, Moroccan Visit, Faces of England, Christmas in Cuzco, New York Scrapbook, and The Small Trades. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake, and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally, and continues to inform the art of photography. EB; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 183 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Ink stamp to the front end paper, else a clean example in a somewhat worn slipcase. Jacket separated into 2 pieces and missing most of the spine panel. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Mild foxing to the cloth, else a clean example in a somewhat skinned slipcase. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Tall quarto (33cm). Original cream linen boards, lettered in black on spine; 183pp. (chiefly illus). Spine cloth a bit toned, else Near Fine, albeit lacking photo-illustrated slipcase. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front pastedown. Penn's first published monograph, now recognized as a mid-century landmark among photobooks. ".Moments Preserved gathers Penn's vast variety of enthusiasms.Penn reinvented the classic daylight studio portrait for a more casual time, undercutting its formality but heightening its potential as a revealing performance" (Roth 101, pp. 158-159).
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: Tall quarto (33cm). Original cream linen boards, lettered in black on spine; publisher's photo-illustrated slipcase; 183pp (chiefly illus). Typical light soil to boards; backstrip slightly darkened and spotted; internally fine and in an attractive, lightly edge-rubbed slipcase. From the library of Ben and Bernarda Bryson Shahn, with estate label tipped on to front pastedown. Penn's first published monograph, now recognized as a mid-century landmark among photobooks. ".Moments Preserved gathers Penn's vast variety of enthusiasms.Penn reinvented the classic daylight studio portrait for a more casual time, undercutting its formality but heightening its potential as a revealing performance" (Roth 101, pp. 158-159).
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 184 pp. VG illustrated slipcase. Introduction; The Flavor of France; PIicasso's Barcelona; Italian Gallery; Moroccan Visit; Faces of England; Christmas in Cuzco; New York Scrapbook; The Small Trades; Acknowledgments; Index. 9.8" x 13.2" pale gray cloth boards. Near Fine book with VG / DJ and VG / slippcase. DJ has abrown stain at top of rear hinge, less than 1", Slipcase has a slightly frayed rear bottom corner. a very narrow (1/32"?) soil strip across the front top edge else Near Fine DJ in Near Fine slipcase. DJ with no tears in polyester protector. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
Seller: West Side Book Shop, ABAA, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A clean example of the First Edition in aa about Very Good jacket with some tears. Lacking the slipcase.
Seller: Gerry Kleier Rare Books, Martinez, CA, U.S.A.
PENN, Irving. Moments Preserved. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1960.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Penn's classic first monograph. Features an introduction by Alexander Liberman. Includes a very good sampling of some of Penn's classic early photographs. A tight near fine copy in a very good dust jacket that has some chips and tears to the spine ends and corners and some other light wear and in a near fine pictorial slipcase that has some light wear. Still a pleasing copy of what is still one of the best books on Penn. (Roth 158-159).
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
PENN, IRVING. MOMENTS PRESERVED. SIMON & SCHUSTER, NEW YORK, 1960.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION IN DJ AND SLIPCASE. HALF OF SPINE OF DJ MISSING LOOKS GOOD IN MYLAR COER
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Ivory cloth boards with black writing on spine. 183 pp. 300 illustrations, including 38 in color. Comes in a glossy cardboard slipcase with an illustration. Contains a signature by Betty McLauchlen Dorso. Contains many photographs of people from around the world, including celebrities such as Sophia Loren, Christian Dior, Salvador Dali, and Yves St. Laurent. Page 144 contains a signature from one of the models pictured, Betty McLauchlen Dorso. VG-slipcase, few light stains. Dustjacket broken at spine, but will look nice in a broadart, coers sheets, edges and inner flaps of DJ are VG
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Many finely printed illustrations, a handful in color. 183 pages. Slim 4to, natural cloth, d.w. (torn and sunned); glossy pictorial slipcase (chipped but largely intact and solid). New York: Simon & Schuster, (1960). Near fine in goo dust wrapper andpublisher's board slipcase. First edition of this classic monograph, a highspot of mid-twentieth century photography books.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, royal 4to (12.75 in x 9.5 in), pp. (1-6), 7-183, (1), color and b/w photo illustrations after photographs of Irving Penn throughout. Original black lettered white linen in original black lettered white dust jacket in original white slipcase with black lettered color photo pictorial mounted sheet on the upper side. Fine clean bright copy in near fine dust jacket with some minor edge nicking and age toning to the back strip in very good+ slipcase. Small name and short gift inscription on the front free endpaper. H10303 All Items Are Sent Insured. Insurance charges are included in the Shipping & Handling Charges. International buyers please be aware that we are not responsible for and do not include or estimate customs duties, fees or taxes in any way in our listings. We ship all orders within 5 days of cleared payment. We do not create and are not responsible for shipping times or delays associated with customs and international shipping.
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The photographer's first book. Color and black and white images throughout. Introduction by Alexander Liberman. First edition. Very good in a good (large chip at the base of the spine, a few short closed edge tears, tape repairs along the spine - on the verso, age toning) dust jacket. No slipcase. ; 183 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
PENN, IRVING.. Moments Preserved. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960, 1960.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. A fine copy in a lightly worn dust jacket and publisher's slipcase. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good with very good dust jacket in a very good slipcase. Dust jacket is bumped along top edges and at bottom of spine with a light two inch damp stain at bottom of spine. Slipcase is worn at spine tips and at opening corners. 183 pages. Folio size.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 183p quarto,illustrated. A fine tight bright copy in a very good dust jacket with a short closed tear on the back panel nicked at the spine heads, spine darkened, tiny shallow stain. In a very good slipcase which has a 2 inch shallow cut at the fold on top
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving. Moments Preserved. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1960.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: PENN, IRVING. Moments Preserved, New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960.Folio, first edition, pp. 183, cream-colored cloth boards with black lettering to spine, color and gravure illustration, pamphlet issued for Penn's 1960 show at Iolas Gallery is laid in here. Penn's first book and probably his most enthusiastically collected. Roth, p. 158: "Penn reinvented the classic daytime studio portrait for a more casual time, undercutting its formality but heightening its potential as a revealing performance." Also see Frizot's New History of Photography, p. 550: "The apparent simplicity of Irving Penn's compositions conceals a formal complexity. It is the result of the particular elegance of the model's outline, of the abstract interplay of lines and shapes, of empty and filled space."Condition of this book:Fine in lightly worn, bright jacket, sunned at spine with a few marks. The slipcase is dust-darkened at the top edge, lightly soiled but sturdy. Size: Large Folio (bigger than A3). Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Photography; United States; 1960s; Art & Design. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 53462.
Seller: Rarities etc., Warwick, NY, U.S.A.
PENN, Irving. Moments Preserved. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1960.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Penn's classic first monograph. Features an introduction by Alexander Liberman. Includes a very good sampling of some of Penn's classic early photographs. A fine copy in cloth boards in a very near fine dust jacket and in a very near fine slipcase with some minute wear. A nicer than usual copy of what remains one of the best books on Penn. (Roth 158-159).
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Many finely printed illustrations, a handful in color. 183 pages. 4to, natural cloth, d.w. (small closed tear at top of spine), glossy pictorial slipcase. New York: Simon & Schuster, (1960). First edition. A fine copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper. Classic monograph, a high-spot of mid-twentieth century photography books.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
PENN, IRVING. Moments Preserved. SIMON & SCHUSTER, 1960.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: FIRSTEdition. Folio. 184 pages with numerous photographs in black and white as well as in color, all taken from Vogue. White cloth and in original slipcase .
Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving. Moments. Lucerne, Camera, C. J. Bucher., 1960.
Price: US$551.86 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Première édition française à ne pas confondre avec le même titre paru aux éditions du temps. Pleine toile beige titrée noir au dos sous jaquette typographique dans un emboîtage illustré d'une photographie, 345 x 255 cm. 183 pages, 201 photographies reproduites en héliographie et en couleur, textes d'Alexander Liiberman, Rosemary Blackmon et Irving Penn. Les photographies d'Irving Penn pour le magazine "Vogue" sont réunies ici pour la première fois. Edition française parue quelques semaine après l'édition originale de Simon & Schuster sous le titre "Moments Preserved" . Cette information provenant du magazine Camera de novembre 1960 ( que l'on peut considérer comme l'édition pré-originale française) nous laisse à penser qu'il s'agit de la première parution francophone. Défauts à l'étui et à la jaquette. ➣ Auer collection, page 401; Andrew Roth, page 101; The Open Book, page 186.
Seller: La Chambre Noire, Lausanne, VD, Switzerland
Penn, Irving. MOMENTS PRESERVED (1st edition). Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Price: US$595.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1960. 1st edition, 1st printing. 1st issue DJ in original slipcase. The book is in Fine condition. Author's 1st book. Square, bright and clean. The DJ is bright with a tiny wrinkle to inside flap corner. The backstrip of the DJ is unlike the rest of the DJ, specifically, the DJ backstrip is partially darkened, a couple of stains to the foot of the dj backstrip and there are open chips at foot and crown of DJ backstrip. more than half of the DJ backstrip seam is cracked on one side and is weak as a result. A mylar wrapper would prevent any further cracking. The original slipcase shows some soiling to one side, mostly at edges. top edge of slipcase shows a small flare near edge. Faint stain to illustrated side of the slipcase. Book is Fine while DJ and Slipcase show flaws VG-. Condition disclosure is hypercritical. Shipping will be extra.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$683.37 + shipping
Description: folio. pp. 183. illus. throughout (some colour). cloth. dw. (a few spots on dw., spine a little chipped & worn). slipcase (head & tail of slipcase spine cracked, 2-inch pen mark on spine, edges of front label soiled). First Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, inscribed by Penn on the free endpaper "To George Fitch, with best regards". A previous owner, likely Fitch, has made a small pencil tick next to a handful of celebrities they had met. Shelf wear to original slipcase with minor loss to bottom right corner of image (pictured), very slight loss to head and tail of spine of jacket. Cloth covers and interior are bright and clean. Black dot on copyright page.
Seller: B Street Books, ABAA and ILAB, San Mateo, CA, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving. Moments Preserved. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1960.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 183pp. Beige Cloth, Black lettering on the spine. Penn's inscription on the front free endpaper. Black and white, color photographs on each page. Covers are toned and foxed, with the tip of the the upper right corner of the front panel blackened. The spine is darkened and rubbed. Internally fine, unmarked. Unclipped white jacket is bright, the upper edge of the front flap frayed, minor roughness to the upper edge of the front panel. Housed in a sturdy pictorial slipcase with edgewear and superficial wear. Irving Penn's first book is a selection of the work he had been doing for nearly twenty years under Alexander Liberman's direction at Vogue. Liberman wrote the introduction and Penn designed the eight "essays in photographs and words." The photographs include some of the great Penn portraits in gray corners. Size: 9 5/8" x 13"
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 4to, 183pp; cream white cloth. Penn's first book, collecting portraits and photographs originally published in Vogue. Endpapers toned by jacket flaps, as usual; fine in a slightly used dust jacket, with a bit of wear at one corner, and in the original pictorial slipcase, moderately marked, but clean and unbroken
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$771.45 + shipping
Description: Eight essays in photographs and words by Irving Penn. With an Introduction by Alexander Liberman. Rosemary Blackmon collaborated in the writing of the captions and text. 39 colour plates and over 260 monochrome illustrations / Fotografie in bianco e nero e a colori di Irving Penn. Introduzione di Alexander Liberman. Testi e didascalie a cura di Rosemary Blackmon . 4to. pp. 182. . Molto buono (Very Good). Sovracoperta con parti mancanti lungo il dorso, entro copertina di protezione mylar (Worn dust jacket, with missing parts along the spine, inside mylar protective cover). Prima edizione (First Edition, First Printing). Fotolibri1 [Roth, 2001] Roth Andrew, The book of 101 books. PPP Editions - Roth Horowitz, 2001. "Irving Penn's first book, Montents Preserved, is an overview of an astonishingly busy career — one that began in earnest when he was hired by Alexander Liberman in 1943 to be the art director's assistant at Vogue. Penn had studied briefly with Alexey Brodovitch, but it was Liberman who molded and promoted his work and made him Vogue's ruling artistic presence; he also provides a generous introduction here. The book's uncredited designer is Penn himself ("That's part of the whole process," he says), but his crisp pacing, graphic precision, and vivid use of color could easily be mistaken for Liberman at his most lucid. Penn spent a month in Lucerne, Switzerland, overseeing the printers at C. J. Bucher, who had produced Avedon's Observations the previous year. For Moments Preserved, they worked with gravure, letterpress, and offset processes on separate paper stocks and had casts of Condé Nast's original engraving plates flown in from New York for the book's color reproductions. When the first gravures didn't have the requisite depth, those pages went back to press and another image layer was laid on top of the originals. The book's first edition print run of 20,000 was divided into French, Italian, German, and English editions and sent back to press again for a separate text run in each of those languages. (Penn only recently discovered that, beknownst to him, a Danish edition was also published.) Subtitled "Eight Essays in Photographs and Words", Moments Preserved gathers Penn's vast variety of enthusiasms — mostly for the vast variety of humanity — and slots them into categories by nationality: the French, the Italians, the English, the Americans. Though most of these sections include fashion studies, still lifes, and impressionist scenes (like the shimmering mirror image of a solitary boater that decorates the book's slipcase or the pointillist baseball action shot on one double spread), they have in common the photographer's deftly understated portraits, printed here in the subtlest gravure. Penn reinvented the classic daylight studio portrait for a more casual time, undercutting its formality but heightening its potential as a revealing performance. His texts, written in collaboration with Rosemary Blackmon, are often wry annotations of those performances. Evelyn Waugh, he notes, "was somewhat less than endearing," while the Duchess of Windsor, staking out one of Penn's tight corners like a guardsman, "wears history as coolly as she wears her impeccable clothes". (A. Roth, The Book of 101 Books).Il primo libro di Irving Penn, Montents Preserved, è la panoramica di una carriera sorprendentemente densa, iniziata con l'assunzione da parte di Alexander Liberman nel 1943 come assistente del direttore artistico di Vogue. Penn aveva studiato brevemente con Alexey Brodovitch, ma fu Liberman che modellò e promosse il suo lavoro, rendendolo la presenza artistica dominante di Vogue; Liberman qui fornisce anche una generosa introduzione. Il designer non accreditato del libro è lo stesso Penn ("Fa parte di tutto il processo", dice), ma il suo ritmo vivace , la precisione grafica e il vivido uso del colore potrebbero facilmente essere scambiati per intuizioni di Liberman: Penn passò un mese a Lucerna, in Svizzera, supervisionando gli stampatori CJ Bucher, che avevano prodotto Observations di Avedon l'anno precedente. Per Moments Preserved furono utilizzati i processi del rotocalco, della stampa tipografica e dell'offset su stock di carta differente e i calchi delle le lastre per incisioni di Condé Nast arrivate da New York per le riproduzioni a colori del libro. Le prime stampe non avevano la profondità necessaria, così quelle pagine tornarono alla stampa e un altro strato di immagine fu posato sopra gli originali. La prima tiratura di 20.000 copie del libro fu divisa in 4 edizioni in lingua francese, italiana, tedesca e inglese e rimandata in stampa per la parte del testo in ciascuna lingua. (Penn scoprì solo di recente l'esistenza anche di un'edizione danese.) Sottotitolato "Eight Essays in Photographs and Words", Moments Preserved raccoglie la grande varietà di interessi di Penn - principalmente per la grande varietà dell'umanità - e li inserisce in categorie per nazionalità: i francesi, gli italiani, gli inglesi, gli americani. Sebbene la maggior parte di queste sezioni includa studi di moda, nature morte e scene impressioniste (come l'immagine luccicante dello specchio d'acqua con un navigatore solitario che decora la custodia del libro o l'azione di baseball in stile pointillista stampata su doppia pagina), esse hanno in comune l'abilità del fotografo, abilmente sottostimata, nei ritratti, qui stampati nel rotocalco più fine. Penn ha reinventato il classico ritratto in studio alla luce del giorno per uno più casual, minandone la formalità, ma aumentando il suo potenziale di performance rivelatrice. I suoi testi, scritti in collaborazione con Rosemary Blackmon, sono spesso annotazioni ironiche di quelle performances. Evelyn Waugh, Penn osserva, "era un po 'meno che accattivante", mentre la Duchessa di Windsor, sorvegliando uno d
Seller: Studio Bibliografico Marini, ROMA, RM, Italy
PENN, Irving. Moments Preserved: Eight Essays in Photographs and Words. Simon and Schuster, 1960.
Price: US$795.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A beautiful copy in beautiful dust jacket and slipcase with just a trace of wear. Signed by Penn with "New York C" on the front endpaper. This is a first edition with the black dot on the copyright page. A truly stunning copy of Penn's first great book.
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$797.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Beige cloth-covered boards with title stamped in black on spine; with printed dust jacket; missing original slipcase. Photographs and text by Irving Penn. Introduction by Alexander Liberman. Captions and text collaboration by Rosemary Blackmon. Includes an index of plates. 184 pp., with 39 four-color plates and numerous black-and-white plates, finely printed in Switerland by Camera Publishers, C. J. Bucher, Ltd., Lucerne. 13 x 9-3/4 inches. [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), and in Andrew Roth, ed., The Open Book. (Göteborg, Sweden: Hasselblad Center in association with Steidl Verlag, Göttingen, Germany, 2004).]. Fine in Very Good dust jacket (1-inch closed tear at the top rear flap, moderate wear to the extremities, toning to the spine); missing slipcase. From Vince Aletti: "Irving Penn's first book, Moments Preserved, is an overview of an astonishingly busy career -- one that began in earnest when he was hired by Alexander Liberman in 1943 to be the art director's assistant at Vogue.Penn spent a month in Lucerne, Switzerland, overseeing the printers at C. J. Bucher, who had produced Avedon's Observations the previous year. For Moments Preserved, they worked with gravure, letterpress, and offset processes on separate paper stocks and had casts of Condé Nast's original engraving plates flown in from New York for the book's color reproductions. When the first gravures didn't have the requisite depth, those pages went back to press and another image layer was laid on top of the originals. The book's first edition print run of 20,000 was divided into French, Italian, German, and English editions.Subtitled Eight Essays in Photographs and Words, Moments Preserved gathers Penn's vast variety of enthusiasms -- mostly for the vast variety of humanity -- and slots them into categories by nationality: the French, the Italians, the English, the Americans. Though most of the sections include fashion studies, still lifes, and impressionist scenes.they have in common the photographer's deftly understated portraits, printed here in the subtlest gravure. Penn reinvented the classic daylight studio portrait for a more casual time, undercutting its formality but heightening its potential as a revealing performance."
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. B/w and color photographs throughout. Photographically illustrates slipcase. 183 pp. 1 vols. Folio. Roth 101, pp. 158-159; Hasselblad pp. 186-7 Cream buckram. Fine, in Very Good spine-toned dust jacket with small chip to head and slipcase. Stamp on front paste-down: "Collection of Hilary Knight" B/w and color photographs throughout. Photographically illustrates slipcase. 183 pp. 1 vols. Folio
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving.. Moments Preserved.. SIMON & SCHUSTER., NY, 1960.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in white linen cloth covers in very good+ if not better, dust jacket. Housed in publisher's pictorial card slipcase which is near fine with hint of shelf-wear. (183pp. ) (10" x 14") ( Short splits to jacket at top and bottom of spine with only a slim chip at base. Tiny edge nicks and a few trivial spots of shelf-soiling. ) Photographer's FIRST book. Pleasing copy. ; 14" X 10"; 183 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
PENN, Irving. Moments Preserved. Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1960.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8 Essays By Irving Penn In Photographs And Words PENN, Irving [183] pp. Simon & Schuster, Inc. w/ pictorial slipcase 1960 13 1/8" x 9 3/4" Irving Penn was an internationally known American photographer who became popular for his work in fashion photography. He worked at Vogue magazine, and he photographed for Issey Miayke and Clinique. His work serves as an example of excellent photography even today. Moments Preserved is his first publication. Irving Penn said befittingly of his work, "sensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world. Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe" His photography is held at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, both of which also hold collections of personal materials that relate to Penn's career.
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [183] pp. PENN, Irving Simon and Schuster, Inc. 1960 13.25" x 9.75"
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: INSCRIBED BY IRVING PENN on the front free endpaper. A crisp, unusually sharp copy to boot of the 1960 1st edition of the photographer's first published collection. Tight and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket, with just the slightest touch of light creasing at the foot of the spine. Folio, beautiful, groundbreaking gravure portraits thruout. A superior copy. Also includes a firm, very solid example of the publisher's pictorial slipcase, with a small, discreet former owner name (the man to whom Irving Penn inscribed this copy) on the lower front panel.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 183p quarto, illustrated, A fine bright copy in a very good bright dust jacket, a closed tear to the glassine at the lower front corner. Inscribed by Penn "For Hugh with all good wishes, Irving Penn". enclosed in a very good publisher's slipcase
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 4to. Simon and Schuster, New York. 1960. 183 pages. Illustrated with 300 gravure-printed b&w and color illustrations; First Edition/First Printing. Signed and inscribed Irving Penn on the FFEP. Laid in calling card and hand written cocktail party invitation from Alexander Liberman celebrating the book launch laid in. Slipcase faded and worn to the corners. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ (chipping present to the spine ends). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Irving Penn's first book, printed in gravure, and divided into eight chapters: The Flavor of France, Picasso's Barcelona, Italian Gallery, Moroccan Visit, Faces of England, Christmas in Cuzco, New York Scrapbook, and The Small Trades. Irving Penn (June 16, 1917 October 7, 2009) was an American photographer known for his fashion photography, portraits, and still lifes. Penn's career included work at Vogue magazine, and independent advertising work for clients including Issey Miyake, and Clinique. His work has been exhibited internationally, and continues to inform the art of photography. E-73; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 183 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving.. MOMENTS PRESERVED.. SIMON & SCHUSTER., NY, 1960.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in near fine dust jacket. Laid-into a near fine example of the pictorial slipcase. (Couple of extremely shallow chips at spine ends. Neat 2-inch razor cut at spine seam on jacket that is virtually indiscernible in the plastic protective cover. One other tiny chip at base of front cover. A few lightly discernible spots of shelf-wear at edges of jacket. The slipcase has a single trace of shelf-wear at top edge) Splendid copy of this highspot. ; 14" X 10"; 183 pages
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Irving Penn. Moments Preserved. Simon & Schuster, 1960.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Signed. Cover boards VG. Text VG. DJ Good with some loss at left seam. Slip Case Fair to Good with normal handling. Overall Good.
Seller: Doodletown Farm Books, Ancram, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An unequivocally Fine copy in white linen cloth, in a Fine white dustwrapper (slight mellowing of spine panel), in a Fine slipcase (no slits, breaks). 183pp. With an Introduction by Alexander Liberman; Rosemary Blackmon collaborated in the Writing of the Captions and the Text. Includes examples from all phases of his work. Scarce in this condition. Q19746 Fine in Dustwrappers and Publisher's Slipcase
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2566.53 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "For Francine and Cleve, With Love, Irving Penn". The recipients were the French-American Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic, Francine du Plessix (1930-2019), and her husband, the American abstract expressionist painter, Cleve Gray (1918-2004). Francine Du Plessix was the step-daughter of Alexander Liberman, who was the art editor of Vogue from 1941 to 1962, before becoming the editorial director of Condé Nast, and who contributed to this work. This collection of photographs was taken by Penn between 1947 and 1958, including portraits, landscapes, and still lifes, all of which first appeared within the editorial pages of Vogue. Roth p. 158 Tall quarto. Original cream linen, titles to spine in black. With dust jacket and the pictorial slipcase (slight wear to extremities). Housed in custom green morocco-backed green cloth slipcase and matching chemise, titles in gilt direct to spine. Numerous monochrome and colour photographic illustrations. Slight foxing to boards, the binding otherwise firm and square, light foxing to first and last few pages, else internally fresh. A very good copy in the very good jacket, light soiling, slight wear to head of spine panel.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Description: Small folio. This copy is inscribed by Penn (1917-2009) to his long-time agent Peter Schub: "For Peter" (signed) "P." From the library of Peter Schub (1926-2021) who had a long and distinguised career as a revered agent of photography. Among his clients; Peter Beard, Anthony Armstrong Jones, and Irving Penn. Celebrated as Vogue magazine's top photographer for 60 years, Irving Penn was an intensely private man avoiding the limelight, concentrating on expanding the creative potential of the medium. This is his first book. A near fine book with a near fine dust jacket in a similar decorated slipcase
Seller: Ed Smith Books, ABAA, Bainbridge Island, WA, U.S.A.
PENN, Irving. Moments Preserved. Simon & Schuster, New York, 1960.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Folio. Fine in very good dust jacket toned along the spine, with modest tears at the spine folds, and shallow loss at the crown, in lightly worn, near fine publisher's illustrated slipcase. Nicely Inscribed by Penn to a collaborator: "For Paul Bonner, who was patient and generous with advice and effort in the making of this book. With appreciation, Irving Penn." Bonner is noted in the acknowledgments section of the book for helping Penn with pre-publication issues. A nice copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving. Moments Preserved. Simon & Schuster, NY, 1960.
Price: US$3995.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Book is signed by Penn to Dear old master ( who is Edward Steichen although he isn't named).This is for you with eternal gratitude, admiration,respect, and affection. There are a few minor edge tears on jacket. In a very good slipcase.
Seller: michael diesman, Fresh Meadows, NY, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving; Alexander Liberman. Moments Preserved.. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1960.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Large quarto, original beige cloth, original pictorial slipcase. Inscribed by Irving Penn, "For ______ and ______ with affecitionate greetings from an old friend." Fine in a fine near dust jacket. Slipcase is about fine condition. Includes the original brown paper covering from Simon and Schuster, which is worn. Roth 101, pp. 158-159; Hasselblad pp. 186-7. Irving Penn was an internationally known American photographer who became popular for his work in fashion photography. He worked at Vogue magazine, and he photographed for Issey Miayke and Clinique. His work serves as an example of excellent photography even today. Moments Preserved is his first publication. Irving Penn said befittingly of his work, "[s]ensitive people faced with the prospect of a camera portrait put on a face they think is one they would like to show the world. Very often what lies behind the facade is rare and more wonderful than the subject knows or dares to believe" His photography is held at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, both of which also hold collections of personal materials that relate to Penn's career.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.