Saul Steinberg: Illuminations by Joel Smith

Yale University Press, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Yale University Press, 2006. Folio. Blue cloth boards with illustrated endpapers. Book is very good; with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is very good with a purple stain along front top edge. 285 pages. ISBN: 9780300115864. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

Yale University Press, 2006-10-31. hardcover. Good. Text is Very Good, minor ding to right edge of rear cover and dust jacket. DJ has some light shelf rubbing and sunning to spine

Yale University Press, 2006. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 287 Pp. Blue Cloth Lettered In Blind. First Printing Indicated. Fine In Fine Dust Jacket.

Yale University Press. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Yale University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Yale University Press, 2006-11-01. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 10x1x12.

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. Hardcover. VG/VG (light shelf-wear boards. rubbing to corners. bump & crease to lower corner. pg edges-toned. dustjacket lower corner creased; back cover scuffed). Blue cloth boards, color-illustrated dust jacket with black lettering. 287 pp. 175 color and 135 BW illustrations. Best known for his barbed art for the New Yorker, Saul Steinberg did much more. This work looks at Steinberg's extraordinary contribution to twentieth-century art, which was that of a modern-day illuminator. It raises questions about the historiography of modernism and the status of 'the middlebrow avant-garde' in an age of museum-bound art. -WorldCat Published on the occasion of an exhibition, organized by the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and held the Morgan Library, N.Y., Dec. 1, 2006-Feb. 28, 2007 and other locations.

New Haven CT: Yale University Press;, 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 288 pages. Saul Steinberg (1914-99) described himself as a "writer who draws," thus inspiring curator Smith to characterize Steinberg's brilliantly satiric drawings as "illuminations," thus linking his work to illuminated manuscripts and, given Steinberg's love of literature, to a particular favorite, Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations. Smith also explores Steinberg's mission to illuminate the overlooked and the absurd. In the biographical sections of his beautifully crafted critique, Smith affectingly recounts Steinberg's life as a Jew in anti-Semitic Romania and an architecture student in Fascist Milan whose distinctive cartoons served as his ticket out of Nazi Europe and onto the pages of the New Yorker. Both Smith and renowned poet Charles Simic associate Steinberg's fascination with documents with his harrowing refugee experiences, while Simic, a fellow immigrant from the Balkans and a friend of Steinberg's,… Read More

Yale, 2006. Hardcover. Good/Good. The jacket is shelf worn and rubbed with the bottom edge of having a few small tears. The cover is slightly scratched, particularly from the back cover. Spine is slightly shaken, but binding is secure. Pages are clean and unmarked.

Yale University Press, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. fine/near fine. Quarto. 12 1/4" x 10 1/4". 287pp. A fine copy in dust jacket. SAul Steeinberg is known for his art for The New Yorker.