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Bourdelle, Pierre. WAR. American Studio Books, New York, 1945.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Blue folding cloth portfolio. Cover sheet, listing of illustrations, 2 pp foreword, commentary, followed by the 52 prints. The cover sheet is also a print. In portfolio; title from cover./ "The scenes depicted in this volume are authentic. They are scenes that Bourdelle, as a volunteer ambulance driver of the American Field Service, saw at the North African and Italian fronts."--Foreword. WAR embossed in gold on front board, hence the title. VG- (shelfwear and tears to portfolio; stain to cover sheet, remaining pages and plates are very clean. All plates are present.)
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Bourdelle, Pierre. WAR. American Studio Books, 1945.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: WAR, American Studio Books, 1945, first edition, some modest soiling to the covers of the blue cloth portfolio, else vg with fine contents being 57 loose leaves laid into an off-white folder, 53 of which are pictorial monotone and duotone renderings of what the artist witnessed during his WW2 experiences as an ambulance driver in both North Africa and Italy.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Bourdelle, Pierre. War. American Studio Books, New York, 1945.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex library. Elephant folio. Textured gray-blue cloth portfolio with gold lettering on cover. Small closed tears along head and tail of spine, corners and edges rubbed. Library bookplate on inside of front cover. Paper folding flaps of portfolio have been repaired with clear tape. Small library stamp on rear of each plate. 52 reproductions of drawings by Pierre Bourdelle in mono-, and duotone of his experiences in W.W. II on the North African and Italian fronts. Bourdelle was a volunteer ambulance driver of the American Field Service. Foreword by Stephen Galatti, commentary by Pierre Claudel. Binding in good, plates in very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$288.00 + shipping
Description: Portfolio 57 leaves A few (3-4) plates with closed edge tears, all plates complete. Cloth portfolio worn, two paper flaps lacking, Ex-Library in good condition, pl. 21 edge-chipped
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$391.52 + shipping
Description: folio. [ff. 4]. 53 plates (incl. publisher's frontis.). loosely inserted. cloth (light wear to covers & frontis. bit soiled with few creases). First Edition. "The scenes depicted in this volume are authentic. They are scenes that Bourdelle, as a volunteer ambulance driver of the American Field Service, saw at the North African and Italian fronts.They show nothing but reality, a deep reality that the eye of the camera, the words of the Pen are unable to catch." (Foreword)
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: The Special Artist's Edition, comprised of 250 signed, numbered copies (this is no.76). Oblong folio (33cm x 43cm). Cloth-board portfolio; 5 preliminary leaves and 52 color lithographic plates, loose as issued. Slight wear to the portfolio; plates uniformly clean and unmarked; Near Fine. The plates reproduce 52 of Bourdelle's expressionist battlefield drawings, composed while he was serving as an ambulance driver in the North African and Italian campaigns during the Second World War. The plates, printed by the New York art printer Albert Carman, are of exceptional quality, generally in two or three colors on heavy art paper. Preliminary essays by Pierre Claudel and Stephen Galatti (Director of the American Field Service). The limited edition is uncommon (there was also a trade edition issued the same year by American Studio Books).
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.