Search Results: 50 photographs by edward weston

NY 1973 first edition. Aperture. Hardcover large 4to., 285pp., photo illustrations, gray-green cloth hardcover with black cloth spine. Near Fine, very slight foxing on fore-edges (not onto text pages at all) in Near Fine DJ. The front inner blurb flap has two small corner creases; there are no tears, no chips,price is not clipped. The dj is brown with photo image of ocean near rocks ( i.e. First edition, 2nd issue DJ), price not clipped. No owner marks. Pictures available on request. Surely among the greatest of all photographers. .

Black cloth spine with silver lettering and black paper covered heavy beveled boards also with silver lettering. VG with some wear to extremities. Some waterstaining at bottom of pages that does not get into images.1500 copies printed, designed by Merle Armitage. #1192. With Weston's initials in ink. With a short chapter about Weston by Robinson Jeffers.Weston chose these photographs as his best. At this point his health was not good and this book was a tribute to his career.

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce. Very good copy in fair dust jacket. 1947. 1st. hardcover. 4to, 16 pp.+ plates, Limited to 1500 numbered copies, signed (initials only as it was issued) by the photographer., Texts by Merle Armitage (who also designed the book), Robinson Jeffers, Donald Bear & Edward Weston himself. The first few pages and, to a lesser extent, the last few pages have some discoloration along the outer edges, not affecting any text or image. Front hinge is partially cracked, but holding well. The dust jacket is worn along the spine folds and is missing small chips at spine ends. .

slight abrasions to cover and edges.
Inscribed by Weston on half-title page, "To Bill and Zelda from Edward with his love. 10-19-47." William Holger was a friend of Weston from the 1930s when they met through the f/64 photography group. Holger was a carpenter and construction supervisor in San Francisco. He helped Weston construct his home on Wildcat Hill in Carmel.
This is Weston's second monograph produced and designed by Merle Armitage with written contributions by Armitage, Donald Bear and Robinson Jeffers.
One of 1500 copies numbered copies, initialed by Weston on a separate sheet and pasted on the colophon leaf. This is an unnumbered copy noted in ink as "personal".

n: Duell Slond & Pearce, 1947. Book. Illus. by Author. Very Good. Hardcover. Initialed by the Artist. Limited Edition.. Limited Edition of only 1500 copies ,1947 . Hardcover with the dust jacket black paper beveled boards with silver letters to the front board and spine. With 16 pages of text and 51 black & white plates by Edward Weston . This limited edition has the initialed tipped on plate by Weston and is numbered 1445 of 1500 . as issued . A very scarce book by Weston in his last years . Condition : Very Good with shelf wear and light bumped corners . The dust jacket is Good with soiling and edge ware the spine of this dust jacket is missing . ( see Image ) Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.

New York: Duell Sloane & Pearce, Publishers, 1947. First Edition. First edition. Signed by Edward Weston with his initials on a tiny tipped-in plate on colophon, as issued; copy #516 of 1500 in the limited issue. Folio. Publisher's black paper-covered boards. Very Good with light foxing, dampstain to rear endpaper, a little mustiness, in a Very Good dust jacket, lightly toned and worn at extremities. An important collection of the American photographer's work designed by Merle Armitage.

New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1947. First edition. Weston, Edward. 4to., 16 pp. text and 51 plates. Cloth-backed heavy beveled boards. Rubbed at the two upper tips, else very good in chipped and torn dustjacket. One of 1500 copies, INITIALED in ink by the photographer. Weston was seriously ill at this time. From his thousands of negatives he chose the fifty photos that he considered his best. It is difficult to argue with him.

New York, Duell Sloan & Pearce Publishers, 1947. . First edition, number 1064 of 1500 copies initialled by Edward Weston on a slip of paper mounted on the justification leaf, as issued; 4to (304 x 233 mm, 12 x 9 ¼ in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, texts by Merle Armitage, Donald Baer, and Robinson Jeffers,design by Merle Armitage, minor toning to edges; cloth-backed printed paper-covered boards, titles stamped to spine in silver, bottom edges of boards rubbed, spine leaning, printed dust-jacket, toned, lightly worn, small chip to top edge and to head and foot of spine, a couple of short tears, split to front panel fold at head, a very good copy; [xxii], 16, [112]. Edward Weston selected these fifty photographs himself, 'fifty of my favorite photographs chosen because they have lived well and because they have not been reproduced... in book form before... a well balanced selection from various periods and approaches, and from a wide range of subject matter.' It includes all of the… Read More

New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947. Folio, unpaginated. Original cloth-backed boards lettered in grey, light wear to the spine ends and board edges, lower corner of the upper board bumped, in the original unclipped dust jacket, toned, spine panel faded, professionally restored. Very good. § No. 168 of 1500 copies, initialed by the author. With essays by Robinson Jeffers, Merle Armitage, and Donald Bear. Illustrated with folio reproductions of fifty of Weston's photographs.

New York: Duell Sloan & Pearce, 1947. Small abrasion at lower corner of front cover, front hinge cracked, otherwise a fine copy, the spine lettering bright and crisp; a very good plus jacket with chip at top of spine causing the loss of some letters, other lighter wear at corners. Folio (12 x 9.5 inches). 16 pages text. 51 plates (the last a portrait of the artist by Cole Weston). Cloth-backed, heavy beveled boards; printed dust jacket. First edition, one of 1,500 copies (this is number 253), initialed in ink on a separate small slip and mounted on the justification leaf (as issued). Beautifully designed by Merle Armitage and printed by Lynton R. Kistler. A fine association copy, with the bookplate of writer and photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964).

Number 1314 of only 1500 copies initialed by Weston. Black cloth with silver particulars to spine. 50 plates. Scarce just jacket in unusually good condition with some minor wear to corners. No previous owners' names or other markings. All shipments by USPS insured Priority Mail.

New York: Merle Armitage. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Light foxing ot endpapers & some pages facing plates; light edge & corner wear; Jakcet missing 1/2 spine, spine edge tear, some browning, and price clipped ; #1178/1300 copies initialed by Weston; also signed by Weston on half title ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 16 pp text pages .