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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. 128 pages. Profusely illustrated. Original cloth; printed dust jacket. First trade edition, inscribed with a self-portrait caricature sketch by Gropper on the half-title. A near-fine copy in a somewhat worn jacket, with tears and some losses
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts, ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.50 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: 128pp, 104 b&w and 8 color illustrations. Designed by Joseph Simon. With a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the significant monograph on the celebrated American Social Realist artist William Gropper published in conjunction with a 1968 touring retrospective exhibition circulated by the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami. It presents a comprehensive selection of over forty years of the artist's figurative portraits of the world's disenfranchised poor and working classes contrasted with their powerful employers and oppressors. A brand new, most handsome example of the Lowe Art Gallery deluxe edition in yellow pictorial boards housed in a yellow paper-over-boards slipcase limited to one hundred and fifty copies with the 8 ½ x 10 ½" black and white lithograph entitled "Grandfather" NUMBERED (123/150) AND SIGNED "Gropper." in pencil along the bottom margin of the recto along with the publisher's limitation slip laid in, as issued. This is separate and distinct from the edition of one hundred examples for the use of the artist that included a handful of copies bound in blue leather. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase.
Seller: Arcana: Books on the Arts, Culver City, CA, U.S.A.
Freundlich, August L.. WILLIAM GROPPER: A RETROSPECTIVE. , 1968.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Los Angeles 1968 Ward Ritchie. 4to., 128pp., illustrations, cloth. Inscribed and signed by Gropper, with a fullpage pen sketch (caricature-like self portrait) by him on the half title. Fine in VG DJ, light wear to head of spine.
Seller: Xerxes Fine and Rare Books and Documents, Glen Head, NY, U.S.A.
FREUNDLICH, August. William Gropper: Retrospective. The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, 1968.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An Exhibition Catalogue. 112 illustrations, including 8 in color.128pp., Small 4to, pictorial cloth, board slipcase. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, in conjunction with the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami, 1968. A near fine copy in very good slipcase. Presentation copy signed by Gropper on the frontis portrait.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
FREUNDLICH, August. William Gropper: Retrospective. The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, 1968.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An Exhibition Catalogue. 112 illustrations, including 8 in color. 128pp. Slim 4to, black pictorial cloth, d.w. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, in conjunction with the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami, 1968. Limited first edition. Number 30 of 150 special copies, with a separate b/w lithograph, signed by the artist.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
August L. freundlich. William Gropper: Retrospective. Ward Ritchie Press, 1968.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue leather spine over blue boards. 128pp. Limited to 100 copies which were privately printed for the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami. Each containing an original lithograph which is limited and signed by the artist loosely laid in. This lithograph is #33/100 and is signed by Gropper. In slipcase. Leather spine shows some sunning. A one inch stain near bottom of spine.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 128pp, 104 b&w and 8 color illustrations. Designed by Joseph Simon. With a chronology, exhibition history and bibliography. This is the significant monograph on the celebrated American Social Realist artist William Gropper published in conjunction with a 1968 touring retrospective exhibition circulated by the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami. It presents a comprehensive selection of over forty years of the artist's figurative portraits of the world's disenfranchised poor and working classes contrasted with their powerful employers and oppressors. A handsome example of the exceedingly uncommon ultra-deluxe edition bound in one-quarter blue leather-over-boards for the use of the artist housed in a blue paper-over-boards slipcase limited to one hundred copies with the 8 ½ x 10 ½" black and white lithograph entitled "Grandfather" NUMBERED (84/100) AND SIGNED "Gropper." in pencil along the bottom margin of the recto along with the publisher's limitation slip laid in, as issued. The gilt-stamped leather spine bears just a bit of sunning and spotting along with a slight nick to both the heel and crown. The slipcase shows some mild soiling and age-toning along with an inch-long separation to the joint at the bottom edge. It has been priced accordingly. This is separate and distinct from the editions issued in a yellow paper-over-boards slipcase made for sale by the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery. PLEASE NOTE: Additional shipping costs are required for this item beyond our standard rates due to its weight - we will inform you of the applicable amount at time of purchase.
Seller: Arcana: Books on the Arts, Culver City, CA, U.S.A.
FREUNDLICH, August. William Gropper: Retrospective. The Ward Ritchie Press, Los Angeles, 1968.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An Exhibition Catalogue. 112 illustrations, including 8 in color. 128pp. Slim 4to, black & yellow pictorial cloth, yellow board slipcase. Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, in conjunction with the Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery of the University of Miami, 1968. Limited First Edition. Fine. Inscribed presentation and original drawing by the artist on the fly-leaf. Number 7 of 150 special copies, with a separate black & white lithograph, signed by the artist.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.