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Levitt, Helen;Agee, James. A Way of Seeing. Horizon Press, 1981.
Price: US$381.62 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Signed by Helen Levitt. This is the limited edition of 250 copies of which this is 144. The book is mint. The slipcase is undamaged. It is slightly sunned on the edge.
Seller: HEATH BOOKS, West Wickham, KENT, United Kingdom
Levitt, Helen. A Way of Seeing, with an Essay by James Agee.. New York, Horizon Press 1981., 1981.
Price: US$383.42 + shipping
Description: Enlarged edition with twenty-four additional photographs. Deluxe edition, limited to 250 copies. 27x23,5 cm. XV, (1) pp. + 68 plate-pages. Publisher's quarter vellum-backed gilt-stamped blue boards, housed in a blue linen slipcase. Slight fading to slipcase, inscribed on half-title, otherwise a very good copy. Printed in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies, this is no. 188, signed by Helen Levitt.
Seller: Rönnells Antikvariat AB, Stockholm, Sweden
LEVITT, Helen (Essay by James Agee). A Way of Seeing. Horizon Press, New York, 1981.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarto, xv, 68pp., illustrated. A crisp, clean copy, about fine, in the publisher's blue boards with white paper spine, lacking the publisher's slipcase. This is one of 250 limited copies SIGNED by Levitt on the limitation page.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: np, 90 b&w illustrations. Designed by Marvin Hoshino. "A Way of Seeing" is the late Helen Levitt's classic presentation of New York street photography accompanied by an incisive essay by James Agee. Limited to two hundred and fifty copies only, this example is from the 1981 Horizon Press deluxe edition that was completely redesigned from the 1965 Viking first printing; containing a revised text along with twenty-four additional images. It is bound in one quarter gilt-stamped-vellum-over-gilt-stamped blue boards, and is housed in a blue linen slipcase. A most handsome copy (whose 1965 first edition is cited on pages 252-253 of Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's "The Photobook: A History Volume I", pages 214-215 of The Hasselblad Center's "The Open Book", pages 178-179 of "The Book of 101 Books", and pages 92-96 of Horacio Fernandez' "New York in Photobooks") NUMBERED (31/250) AND SIGNED "Helen Levitt" in black ink on the colophon, as issued, showing some sunning to the slipcase along its extremities. It has been priced accordingly.
Seller: Arcana: Books on the Arts, Culver City, CA, U.S.A.