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New York: Harper & Brothers. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. To VG/ .

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Harper & Brothers, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Brown cloth over boards. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Clean and tight. DJ not price clipped. A little soiled on cover. In archival cover.

New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers. Good hardcover copy with dustjacket, 180 pp with B/W illustrations. . Good. Hardcover. 1951.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. Hardcover. Near Fine. Second printing. Small quarto. 180pp. Illustrated. Owner's ink inscription on half-title page, a near fine copy lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by Ben Shahn on the front flyleaf: "To Lester Eisner - Ben Shahn. Dec. 1, 1952.

Small Quarto 10 1/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 255 x 190 mm), xiv, [2], 180 pages, in brown cloth, titles to upper board and spine, in an illustrated dust jacket.
SIGNED by Ben Shahn on the front end paper and dated "Nov 6th 1953 / Ann Arbor." An admiring biography of the great radical artist (1898-1969). It's also signed by a previous owner, Jean Paul Slusser (1905-1978), an artist, professor and director of the University of Michigan Art Museum. A nice association. Copies signed by Shahn are uncommon.
CONDITION: Very Good, with rubbing along the edges and a tear along the rear hinge. The dust jacket, which is only Fair, has two large splits along the spine as well as some chipping at the top of the spine, on both panels and on the rear flap, and some writing on the rear flap.

New York: Harper & Brothers. 1951. First Edition; Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Foxing and a few small stains. Owner inscription to half title page. ; Signed and dated by the biographee Ben Shahn on FEP. ; 11.40 X 8.70 X 0.60 inches; Signed by Biographee .

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1951. First Edition. Quarto (25cm). Cloth boards; 180pp; illus. BEN SHAHN'S COPY, warmly inscribed by Rodman to Ben & Bernarda Shahn in year of publication: "For Bernarda, who generously "forgot" my worst lapses, and to Ben, who won't (conveniently) stop "remembering" - with my love, Selden," datemarked Roosevelt, NJ, 1951. Mild wear; spine lettering rubbed; lacking the dustjacket. Very Good. The first full-length biography of Shahn, written by his long-time friend Selden Rodman. Shahn was fifty-two years old and at the height of his fame when the biography appeared. According to Shahn's later biographer Howard Greenfeld, both Shahn and Rodman were very pleased with the work, Rodman immodestly declaring it "the best that has been written about an American artist" and Shahn praising it as a work whose "great beauty...lies in its critical and philosophical outlook." Many critics agreed, among them James Thomas Flexner who praised the work as the "...story of a meaningful… Read More