Search Results: the family album of lucybelle crater by meatyard ralph eugene

The Jargon Society, 1974. Book. Illus. by B&W Photo Illus.. Good +. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Unmarked, solid copy. Covers with moderate edgewear, tiny bit missing from top front corner of front cover. General wear. Minor to moderate foxing on edges of covers, bottom inch of spine half worn off but not affecting 'Jargon' lettering. A little worn but in good condition..

The Jargon Society, 1974. First paperback edition. Quarto, 84pp. Softcover in VG- condition. Bumping and shelf-wear. General wear and chipping to lamination around margins of wraps. Abrasion to spine. Stamp to half title page. Light creasing to bottom corner of text. Binding is sturdy. Signed by Jonathan Greene on page 81. Shelve: FRONT TABLE Spine is white with black text. 1234630. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

The Jargon Society, 1974. Softcover. Very good/No jacket. Some edgewear.

New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2002. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Oblong octavo. 10.25 x 9.25 in. 128 pp. Fine in original cloth boards and fine pictorial dust jacket. With laid-in type letter signed (TLS) by Rhem.

Millerton, NY: Jargon Society, 1974. First Edition. Trade paperback. Very good. The book "consists of 64 portraits of "Lucybelle Crater"...played by Meatyard's wife Madelyn wearing a cheap dime-store mask...paired with various family members and friends wearing one of those transparent masks that have an aging affect on wearers... This book is, in a way, Meatyard's purest statement. He was dying, and didn't have time for a lot of nuances. It its forthrightness and its gothic loopiness, it manages to illuminate two truths simultaneously: that we are all the same, really; and that we are all different, under the masks"-from Roth's Book of 101 Books, page 230. Text by Jonathan Williams, Ronald Johnson, Ralph Meatyard, Guy Mendes and Thomas Meyer. Illustrated with full-page halftone photographs. 84 pages. 8-15/16 by 10-7/16 inches. First edition (paperback issue; published in hardcover at the same time). One inch split at top of spine, minor soiling to covers; some lamination peel, as usual, else very… Read More

D.A.P., 2002. First edition. As new and bright boards in like pictorial (Meatyard) dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Originally published 1974 by the Jargon Society which then went long out of print. This book is the best known body of Meatyard's work all at once comic, tragic, grotesque and beautiful. With an overview of Meatyard's career and work as well as his stunning portraits throughout which include many of Kentucky's best writers, family members and more. New and bright all around, gift quality.

The Jargon Society, 1974. Softcover. Very good/No jacket. Some edgewear.

N.p.: The Jargon Society, 1974. First edition. Meatyard, Ralph Eugene. 4to., 84 pp., b&w photo-plates. Pictorial stiff wrappers. The upper tip of the front wrapper has a soft crease; original price sticker affixed to the rear wrapper. The copy of Alan Winer, photographer and former administrator of the Visual Studies Workshop, with his neat signature on the front flyleaf. A near fine copy.

New York: Jargon Society, 1974. First edition and first printing. Softcover. The simultaneous paperback issue. Features text by Jonathan Williams, Ronald Johnson, Meatyard, Guy Mendes and Thomas Meyer. A striking collection of black and white images in which all of the subjects are in masks. A close to near fine copy in photo-illustrated wrappers with some of the usual peeling to the lamination on the edges, a small red notation to the front free endpaper and with the tiny rubber-stamp: Gift of Nathan Lyons (1930-2016) to the front free endpaper. Still a pleasing copy of a book that fifty years later still resonates as a classic body of work. (Roth 230-231).

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

The Jargon Society, 1974-06-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

n.p. [Highlands]: The Jargon Society, 1974. First edition. 84 pp. Oatmeal cloth, lettered in black on the front board and the spine, with the dust jacket. A few stray white marks to the cloth, slight tideline mark to upper edge of boards and last few leaves; jacket crisp and clean. Texts by Jonathan Greene, Ronald Johnson, Meatyard, Guy Mendes, Thomas Meyer, and Jonathan Williams; seventy images. Published as Jargon 76.

The Jargon Society, 1974-06-01. Hardcover. Good. hardcover with dust jacket, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, cracked, corners bumped, ex-library copy with usual library markings and mylar cover with top layer removed leaving the underlayment beneath the dust jacket, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders

The Jargon Society, 1974. Very Good/Good . Contents clean and bright, dust jacket good, a few minor tears taped for repair.

New York: Jargon Society, 1974. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features text by Jonathan Williams, Ronald Johnson, Meatyard, Guy Mendes and Thomas Meyer. A striking collection of black and white images in which all of the subjects are in masks. A clean near fine copy in oatmeal colored cloth boards with some of the usual minor foxing to the boards in a near fine dust jacket with a couple of edge tears and minor wear to the base of the rear panel. Forty years later this book still resonates as a classic body of work. (Roth 230-231).

N.p.: The Jargon Society, 1974. First edition. Meatyard, Ralph Eugene. 4to., 84 pp., b&w photo-plates. Cloth with photo-illustrated dust jacket, fine and bright. The dust jacket has one small closed tear on the rear panel and a tiny crease at the base of the spine; otherwise, fine. 'The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater' is the best known body of Ralph Eugene Meatyard's work. At once comic and tragic, grotesque and beautiful, the series of 64 images features his wife, Madelyn, in a crone Halloween mask together with a different friend or relative in a transparent mask.

[North Carolina], The Jargon Society, 1974. . First edition; 4to (266 x 228 mm, 10½ x 9 in); black-and-white photographs printed in offset, minor foxing to edges and top edge of preliminary pages; cream endpapers, toned with binder's glue showing through, beige cloth-covered boards, titles stamped in black on spine and upper side, light foxing to joints, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, white, text in black, near-fine; [ii], 84, [2]pp. Ralph Eugene Meatyard was an optician by trade. He photographed mainly on the weekends and mostly in and around Lexington, Kentucky, where he raised his family. In this, his best-known work, he cast his wife Madelyn as the mask-wearing central character Lucybelle Crater, a name adapted from a character in Flannery O'Connor's short story The Life You Save May Be Your Own (1953). Meatyard photographs his wife standing with several similarly masked friends and family members, including Jonathan Williams, who posthumously published this book. In the final photograph,… Read More

North Carolina: The Jargon Society, 1974. 1st. Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A crisp, clean copy of the uncommon 1974 hardback edition. Tight and Near Fine in a bright, price-clipped, Near Fine dustjacket. Quarto, 84 pgs., rich black-and-white photography thruout. A Roth 101 selection.

(Millerton, New York): The Jargon Society, 1974. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, hardcover issue. Photographs by Ralph Eugene Meatyard. Texts by Jonathan Green, Ronald Johnson, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Guy Mendes, Thomas Meyer, and Jonathan Williams. Quarto. 84pp. Tan cloth stamped in black. Illustrated. Faintest offsetting on fly leaves from the jacket flaps, still fine in fine dust jacket. An uncommon title in the clothbound issue. Issued as Jargon 76.

The Jargon Society, 1974. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A significant Association copy: SIGNED ON THE TITLE PAGE BY THE POET JONATHAN WILLIAMS, WHO FOUNDED THE JARGON SOCIETY AND PUBLISHED THIS POSTHUMOUS RALPH EUGENE MEATYARD TITLE. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1974 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine in its oatmeal cloth, with just a touch of light foxing to several of the preliminaries. And in a bright, price-intact, easily Near Fine dustjacket. Quarto, Meatyard's haunting, inscrutable photography thruout in crisp black-and-white.