About this title: This highly praised monograph was selected by The New York Times Book Review as one of the outstanding photography books of the year. As evidenced by the mythological series included in this first book of his work, Lynes stands as one of the great American Surrealists. His extensive work with portraiture and the ballet are invaluable documents of American cultural life during the thirties and forties. This book also includes perhaps the finest selection of Lynes' work with the nude figure. Although neglected for over three decades, Lynes must now be considered one of the great fashion, dance, ...
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Edition: 3rd Edition (Contents copyright 1981
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers, Pasadena California
Date Published: 1990
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Description: Fine in very good dust jacket. Slight shelfwear, slipcase missing. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 132 p. Audience: General/trade. Photography; Portraits; Nude Photography, Informative text re this avant garde photographer, homoerotic read more
Edition: 1st Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Los Angeles: Twelvetrees Press
Date Published: 1981
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Description: Bibliography: p. 121-123. Subjects: Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955. Photography of the nude. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Uncommon in such positive condition. 2. pp. 129. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena CA
Date Published: 1981
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Description: Fine Condition in Fine Condition jacket. 129 pp., 80 duotone plates. Third edition. From a third edition of 5, 000 copies. Designed by Jack Woody. Black canvas boards with blindstamped letters to the cover and spine. Includes, a notes on the photographs, chronology, selected bibliography, selected exhibitions, selected collections, and acknowledgments. Dustjacket is protected with a mylar cover. read more
Edition: 1st Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Los Angeles: Twelvetrees Press
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780942642018ISBN:0942642015
Description: Bibliography: p. 121-123. Subjects: Lynes, George Platt, 1907-1955. Photography of the nude. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Uncommon in such positive condition. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: TwelveTress Press, Pasadena, CA
Date Published: 1981
Description: Hardcover. First Edition. First Printing. 132 pages. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Posthumous collection of the photographer's work. One of the finest photography books ever published by Twin Palms/TwelveTrees Press, a leading pioneer of art photography books. It is also their very first book. There is no ISBN. Limited Edition of 1000 hand-numbered copies. The First Limited Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. It should also not be confused with its ... read more
Edition: Limited Edition
Binding: OS Hardcover
Publisher: Twelvetrees Press
Date Published: 1981
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Description: Very Good with no dust jacket. 0942642015. Pages clean and bright; black cloth boards are rubbed and linty; 0.75 x 14.5 x 11.75 Inches; 132 pages. read more
Edition: Third edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Twelvetrees Press, Pasadena, Calif
Date Published: 1981
ISBN-13:9780942642018ISBN:0942642015
Description: Very good condition but for some very light wear to edges of covers, in a dust jacket in very good condition aside from some creases at edges and inside back cover with a vertical crease from folding closed. Black cloth with illustrated front cover, 36 cm., 129 pp., with full-page black and white plates. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Twin Palms Publishers
Date Published: 1981-12
ISBN-13:9780942642018ISBN:0942642015
Description: Near Fine in VG+ jacket. Near fine hardcover in a VG+ dust jacket. Folio. 3rd Edition limited to 5000 copies. Interior clean and unmarked. Binding tight, square. Dust jacket clean with a touch of edge wear at the spine ends. Now protected in fresh Brodart sleeve. A wonderful collection with handsome full page images. read more
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