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Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Special signed edition for members of The Presidents Club of the University of Arizona Foundation; Signed by Siskind on half-title page. Blind stamp of previous owner on half-title page
Seller: Andrew L. Christenson, Prescott, AZ, U.S.A.
Chiarenza, Carl. AARON SISKIND Pleasures and Terrors. Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1982.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated with artwork and photographs throughout. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 283 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Chiarenza, Carl. AARON SISKIND Pleasures and Terrors. Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1982.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated with artwork and photographs throughout. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 283 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st. Edition,1982 , Dark brown cloth hardcover with the dustjacket, 283 page book. Illustrated with 74 duo tone and 198 halftone black & white images by Siskind . This is fromThe President Club of the Center for Creative Photography and signed by Aaron Siskind no that page. Condition : Fine , DJ is also Fine with very light edge rubs. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall
Seller: Gibbs Books, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features a foreword by James L. Enyeart and with a lengthy text by Carl Chiarenza. Includes 74 duotones and 198 halftones. A very near fine copy in near fine price clipped dust jacket with some very slight sunning to the spine. Signed by Siskind on the half title page.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, signed issue "for members of The Presidents Club of the University of Arizona Foundation". Foreword by James L. Enyeart. Quarto. 284pp. Illustrated with 74 duotone and 198 halftone illustrations. Fine in fine dust jacket, fine, fresh and bright. Signed by Aaron Siskind on a special publisher's printed leaf, as issued.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Chiarenza, Carl. AARON SISKIND Pleasures and Terrors. Little, Brown and Company, New York, 1982.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Previous bookseller's price sticker to; Illustrated with artwork and photographs throughout. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 283 pages; Signed by Author Near Fine the front flap of the jacket.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st Printing. Signed. 283 pages. Published in 1982. Book-length account on subject, accompanied by photographic plates. The single most important volume on the photographic art of Aaron Siskind published in his lifetime. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Aaron Siskind and The New York Graphic Society: Oversize-volume format. Brown cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Aaron Siskind. Foreword by James L. Enyeart. Text by Carl Chiarenza. Printed in duotone on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of the same name held at the Center For Creative Photography Tucson, Arizona in 1982. Presents Aaron Siskind's "Pleasures And Terrors". The one indispensable book on the great photographer. It is also one of very few titles that the reclusive Siskind actively participated in. After a long and restless search, Aaron Siskind finally found his vocation when he was given a camera as a wedding present in 1930. His social-documentary breakthrough, "Harlem Document" (not published until 1981), remains one of the most important works in the photographic canon. An incorrigible experimenter, his work resulted in substantial changes to his style, nourishing and sustaining one of the longest and most productive careers of the 20th century. Siskind's idea of people and place was, as Thomas B. Hess points out, formal and essential rather than specific and accidental, universal expressions of art's significance. Hess also underscores Siskind's seminal contribution to the history of modern Western art: "It's in the formalist area that Siskind's particular genius obtains, his ability to make photography a matter of transcendent aesthetic import. This is what true art is about" (Thomas B. Hess). "To a large degree, he has been responsible for bringing photography into the twentieth century" (Henry Holmes Smith). An absolute "must-have" title for Aaron Siskind collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the publisher's Front Presentation Page by Aaron Siskind. This title is a late-modern photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws yet command as much as $700. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 74 duotone, 198 half-tone plates. One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER AARON SISKIND TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 0821215221.
Seller: ModernRare, CHICAGO, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, trade issue. Illustrated by Aaron Siskind. 283pp. 4to. INSCRIBED. Inscribed by Carl Chiarenza on the second front flyleaf: "for Mel, my brother in art and life for so many years on and around Commonwealth and Beacon- the spirit keeps alive wherever I am. Cheers, Carl Chiarenza," and also signed (beneath Charenza's signature) by Aaron Siskind. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket; jacket has few spots of dust soiling on rear panel, red lettering on spine is moderately faded, else very bright and crisp [front flap of the jacket has publisher's cancel price sticker, listing publication price, until "12/31/83"]. A fine copy in near fine dust jacket; jacket has few spots of dust soiling on rear panel, red lettering on spine is moderately faded, else very bright and crisp [front flap of the jacket has publisher's cancel price sticker, listing publication price, until "12/31/83"] Illustrated by Aaron Siskind. 283pp. 4to
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$715.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed in black ink by Siskind on a special bound page dedicated to members of the Presidents Club of the University of Arizona Foundation. Hardcover. Brown cloth-covered boards with title stamped in silver on spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by Aaron Siskind. Foreword by James L. Enyeart. Essay by Carl Chiarenza. Includes a bibliography and index. Designed by Malcolm Grear Designers. 284 pp., with 74 duotone plates and 119 black-and-white illustrations finely printed on Lustro Dull paper by The Meriden Gravure Company (plates), and The Murray Printing Company (all else). 11-1/4 x 9-3/4 inches. Out of print. Scarce. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket (light rubbing and wear to the extremities, else Fine). Published in conjunction with the major traveling retrospective exhibition that opened at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. Signed by Author.
Seller: Vincent Borrelli, Bookseller, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.