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Szarkowski, John. Irving Penn. The Museum of Modern Art New York, New York, 1984.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: MOMA, 1984. Quarto. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First edition. Signed and dated by Penn on the title page. Also includes a TLS by Edward P. Gallagher, the director of membership for the MOMA. Cloth covered boards with mild soiling to the fore edge of the text block and trace foxing along the top edge. A few foxed spots to the boards. Text block clean and bright with no odor. Unclipped jacket has a touch of fading. Book and jacket are both in very good condition.
Seller: Bad Animal, Santa Cruz, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, wrappered issue. Large quarto. Fine in wrappers. Inscribed by Penn: To Frannie. Irving Penn NY, 1984."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Printing in original $60.00-priced dust jacket SIGNED by Irving Penn with personalized inscription "For Bob Smith / with greetings", Bob Smith being a longtime professor/photographer at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, California; the brown-stamped heavy oatmeal cloth boards lightly bumped at top corners, the jacket shows only slight shelf rub & quiet soil rear panel, the binding is tight & pages bright, an excellent signed First Edition of this legendary photography book (dj in mylar protector); folio; 216pp illus, 21 in color + 35 color and Black & white reference illustrations. Extra shipping charge REQUIRED for shipment of this heavy oversize book (additional charge WILL BE SUBSTANTIAL for expedited or overseas shipment)
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Penn, Irving; Szarkowski, John. Irving Penn (SIGNED). Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984.
Price: US$315.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED and dated in the year of publication on half title page by Irving Penn. 156 plates, including 21 in color, plus 35 color and black and white reference illustrations. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1984.; Pages are clean and crisp. Binding is solid, but with a split to gutter between front endpaper and pastedown. There is a faint hint of shelf wear to price clipped dustjacket with slight rubbing to rear, otherwise better than Very Good/Very Good. No remainder mark. Not ex-library. Protected in a new Mylar cover. ; 4to; 216 pages; Signed by Artist
Seller: W. Lamm, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Szarkowski, John. Irving Penn. Museum of Modern Art, 1984.
Price: US$340.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Irving Penn signed and dated (half title page not inscribed) large format hardcover in price clipped jacket showing the faintest of tone. First edition with no additional printings mentioned. oversized and overweight. Please email for photos. Larger books or sets may require additional shipping charges. Books sent via US Postal
Seller: Griffin Books, Stamford, CT, U.S.A.
Szarkowski, John. Irving Penn. Museum of Modern Art (1984), New York, 1984.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 216p quarto, illustrated A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed and dated by Irving Penn on the half-title.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: Large hardcover in jacket,
Seller: Winged Monkey Books, Arlington, VA, U.S.A.
Szarkowski, John. IRVING PENN. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. This copy is signed by Penn on the half-title page, dated in the year of publication. Text by noted curator John Szarkowski. Includes 156 plates with 21 in color and an additional 35 reference illustrations with 7 more in color. Penn was one of the most distinguished pracitioners of portrait and fashion photography. His work is identified by its great refinement of craft, by the wit and grace of its formal invention and by its unequaled sensitivity of the quality and character of light. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket
Seller: Ed Smith Books, ABAA, Bainbridge Island, WA, U.S.A.
Szarkowski, John. Irving Penn. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984.
Price: US$452.05 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 4to. SIGNED and dated 1984 by Penn to half-title. Orig. cream cloth. 216 pp. One-hundred fifty-six photographs, some in colour. Some spots of foxing to cloth. Spine slightly tilted. Dust jacket sunned to extremities.
Seller: Minotavros Books, ABAC ILAB, Whitby, ON, Canada
SZARKOWSKI, John. Irving Penn. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984.
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated with 156 plates, including 21 in color, plus 35 additional reference images. 216pp. Square 4to, natural cloth, d.w. New York: MOMA, (1984). First Edition. The front endpaper has a dull crease which has unfortunately left a faint impression on the signed half title, otherwise a very near fine copy in near fine dust wrapper. Survey of the career and work of the Vogue photographer, signed and dated by Penn on half title, surrounded by a circle.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
(Penn, Irving). IRVING PENN by John Szarkowski. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Description: Large 4to. Inscribed by Irving Penn "For old friend Bob / with warmest / greetings" (signed) "P". Below the inscription Penn has drawn a circle which he signed in the middle. At the bottom of the circle he has written "NY 1984." From the library of his agent, Peter Shub, who had a long and distinguished career as a revered photo agent (Penn, Anthony Armstrong Jones, Peter Beard among others). This book was published with the exhibition at MOMA, and is the first comprehensive retrospective of Penn's work. 216 pages. 156 plates (21 in color). A near fine copy in a near fine jacket
Seller: Ed Smith Books, ABAA, Bainbridge Island, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Large quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by Penn to publisher Si Newhouse and his wife: "For Victoria and Si with affectionate greetings, I. / Irving Penn NY, 1984."
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
SZARKOWSKI, John. Irving Penn. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated with 156 plates, including 21 in color, plus 35 additional reference images. 216pp. Square 4to, natural cloth, d.w. New York: MOMA, (1984). First Edition. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper, as new. Survey of the career and work of the Vogue photographer, signed and dated on half title by both Penn & Szarkowski.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Szarkowski, John. IRVING PENN. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1984.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Description: Large 4to. Inscribed by Irving Penn "For old friend Bob / with warmest / greetings" (signed) "P." Below the inscription Penn has drawn a circle which he signed in the middle, at the bottom of the circle he has written "N.Y. 1984." From the library of Peter Schub (1926-2021) who had a long and distinquished career as a revered photography agent. He negotiated for some of the most prominent photographers of the 20th century including Penn, Peter Beard, and Anthony Armstrong Jones. Published in conjuction with an exhibition at MOMA, this is the first comprehensive retrospective of Penn's work. The essay by Szarkowski follows a brilliant career, from its art-school beginnings to the provocative still lifes of recent years, photographs of cigarette butts and street detritus-works of eloquence and classical rectitude, made from the least consequential of subject matter. 216 pages, 156 plates (21 in color) with 35 reference illustrations (7 in color). A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket
Seller: Ed Smith Books, ABAA, Bainbridge Island, WA, U.S.A.
Irving Penn" 1984 SZARKOWSKI, John (CO-SIGNED). Irving Penn. The Museum of Modern Art, 1984.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Co-Signed SZARKOWSKI, John [216] pp. The Museum of Modern Art 1984 12 1/4" x 10 7/8" Published in conjunction with an exhibition at MoMA, this survey is one of the best collections of Irving Penn's (1917-2009) work. Includes an overview of his career by John Szarkowski (1925-2007).Cloth-bound hardcover in a pictorial dust jacket. 216 pages; 156 photographic plates, 21 in color, with 35 text illustrations, 7 in color 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.
Seller: The Cary Collection, Bristol, CT, U.S.A.