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Corle, Edwin (Editor). Igor Stravinsky, A Merle Armitage Book. Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1949.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover bound in black cloth. No marks or writing in book. Lacks a dust jacket. Cloth a bit rubbed at edges of boards. Good condition overall. 20th century modernist content including words and images by contributors such a Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Edward Weston, Aaron Copland, Picasso, Klee, Arnold Newman, Marc Chagall, etc.
Seller: Schindler-Graf Booksellers, Westlake, OH, U.S.A.
Corle, Edwin, ed.. Igor Stravinsky. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, NY, 1949.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 245 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Good to very good dust jacket. Dust jacket not price clipped, $6. NOTE: The previous owner placed scotch tape on the dust jacket at the head / heel of spine and the corners / extremities ostensibly to prevent wear. Includes works of art by: Pablo Picasso, Russell Cowles, Edward John Stevens Jr., Paul Klee, Cady Wells, Marc Chagall, Carlus Dyer, Antonio Frasconi, P. G. Napolitano, J. E. Blanche, Arnold Newman, Fred Plaut, Edward Weston, John Vachon. Designed by Merle Armitage. Published August 1949. Tributes to the composer by: Boris de Schloezer, Erik Satie, Eugene Goossens, Jean Cocteau, Henry Boys, Osbert Sitwell, Aaron Copland, Arthur Berger, Merle Armitage, Robert Craft, Nicolas Nabokoff, Edwin Corle. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of book binding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.
Seller: Book Bear, West Brookfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Book condition is Very Good+ in boards, with a Poor dust jacket. Spine of jacket is missing, chips to remaining panels. Text is clean and unmarked. Block Print By Antonio Frasconi; Portrait Photographs By Edward Weston, John Vachon, Fred Plaut, Arnold Newman; Art By Klee, Pablo Picasso, Russell Cowles, J. E. Blanche, Marc Chagall, Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano; Drawings by Carlus Dyer And E. S. Stevens. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.
Seller: Evolving Lens Bookseller, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$57.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Printed in the USA. A Merle Armitage Book Distributed by Duell, Sloan & Pearce. List of Works, Acknowledgments, Discography, Colophon; 245 pages. The original black cloth is in excellent shape, with sharp corners and the merest hint of rubbing to the edges; the striking yellow lettering on the spine and upper board is about as bright as when first issued. The interior's heavy-quality paper remains bright, crisp, and clean, with decorated endpapers; top-edge is colored red to match the red lettering and decoration on the electric-yellow dust jacket. [Please see multiple images of this book.] The unclipped dust jacket has several small spots on the sunned spine with a few tiny chips at the edges; all text remains clear. From Edwin Corles Note to the Reader: "This book contains five of the critiques from the 1936 volume, as it seemed to Mr. Armitage and me that these five approaches [consistently sound, albeit technically different] should not be allowed to disappear into the limbo of the out-of-print. These are by Eugene Goossens, Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Henry Boys, and Boris de Schloezer, The article by Schloezer is a translation by Ezra Pound." In addition there are contributions by Sitwell, Nabokoff, Copeland, reproductions of contemporary painters: Picasso, Wells, Klee, Dyer; also portraits by Cowles, Chagall, Picasso, Napolitano, Weston, and others. "This present volume contains fifteen critiques ranging from the casual through the technical to the intimate and the personal. Posterity may one day call Stravinsky the worlds greatest composer." As with every book from my father's collection, tipped in at the front is the small, attractive, acid-free bookplate pictured on my homepage. All books are wrapped with special care and are shipped promptly---domestic sales sent with 'delivery confirmation' tracking; international sales sent via global priority, also with tracking.
Seller: My Father's Books, Bennington, VT, U.S.A.
CORLE, Edwin (Edits).. IGOR STRAVINSKY.. Duell Sloan & Pearce,, New York,, 1949.
Price: US$57.72 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. Large 8vo. pp 245. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered yellow on spine and on front cover. Art by: Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Edward Weston. Essays by: Erik Satie, Jean Cocteau, Nicolas Nabokoff, Osbert Sitwell. Very good indeed.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
CORLE, Edwin. Igor Stravinsky. Duell, Sloan and Pearce, New York, 1949.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Offsetting on facing pages at the front and back from clippings else near fine in an attractive, very good dustwrapper with a little toning and a couple of faint spots on the spine. Tributes to the composer by Erik Satie, Eugene Goossens, Jean Cocteau, Henry Boys, Osbert Sitwell, Aaron Copland, Arthur Berger, Merle Armitage, Robert Craft, Nicolas Nabokoff, Edwin Corle. Artists include: Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Russell Cowles, Carlus Dyer, Paul Klee, Edward Stevens, Cady Wells, Antonio Frasconi, P.G. Napolitano, J.E. Blanche, Samuel Dushkin, David Hall, Edward Weston, and Arnold Newman.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, 245pp; black cloth stamped in yellow. Designed and conceived by Armitage, this was one of several collections on which he collaborated with Corle. For this symposium, they assembled essays about Stravinsky from contributors including Erik Satie, Eugene Goossens, Jean Cocteau, Aaron Copland, Robert Craft, Osbert Sitwell, and others. The artists whose work illustrates the book include Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Antonio Frasconi and Edward Weston. Armitage's lively designs mark this and his other books with a distinctive mid-century appeal. Fine in bright, crisp dust jacket with just a bit of shallow chipping to the top of the spine; spine toned a shade.
Seller: Locus Solus Rare Books (ABAA, ILAB), Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$472.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 245 Pp. A Much-Enlarged Edition Of Armitage's 1936 Book, Which Was The First English Language Book About Stravinsky, With Much New Material Added. Black Cloth Printed In Yellow. End Sheets By Carlos Dyer And Edward S. Stevens Jr. Designs And Drawings By Merle Armitage And Executed By Al Ewers. Portrait Photographs By Edward Weston, John Vachon, Fred Plaut, Arnold Newman; Portraits Of Stravinsky By Klee, Pablo Picasso, Russell Cowles, J E Blanche, Marc Chagall, Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano; Drawings By Carlus Dyer And E S Stevens. Inscribed From Merle Armitage, His Wife And His Daughter To Dorothy (Brett). "Editor And Book Designer Merle Armitage Wrote A Book About This Time In New Mexico. Taos Quartet In Three Movements Was Originally To Appear In Flair Magazine, But The Magazine Folded Before Its Publication. This Short Work Describes The Tumultuous Relationship Of D. H. Lawrence, His Wife Frieda, Dorothy Brett And Mabel Dodge Sterne, A Wealthy Patron Of The Arts. Armitage Took It Upon Himself To Print 16 Hardcover Copies Of This Work For His Friends. Richard Pousette-Dart Executed The Drawings For Taos Quartet That Was Published In 1950." (Wikipedia). A Near Fine Example With Just A Trace Of Rubbing At Corners. Dj Complete, Not Price Clipped, No Fading, Slight Browning And Faint Splash Marks On Spine Panel, 1/4" Closed Tear At Center Of Top Edge Of Spine.
Seller: Arroyo Seco Books, Pasadena, Member IOBA, Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.