Search Results: the big heart by van melvin bernhard

San Francisco: Fearon Publishers. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth, lettered in darker brown. A very clean, tight copy. Toning to the endpapers. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 77 pages .

San Francisco: Fearon Publishers, 1957. Book has some discolouring to page edges and feps commensurate with age. Signed by the author on fep. Wrapper has heavy general discolouring and heavy rubbing to edges, hinges and corners. There is some splitting to top of hinges with creasing to top of rear cover. If you would like images of the book or the signature please email.. Signed by Author. First Edition.. Hard Back. Very Good/Good.

San Francisco, CA: Fearon Publishers, 1957. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Features text by Van Peebles who was then simply a gripman on the San Francisco cable cars but who went on to be an actor and movie director. Includes black and white photographs from Bernhard in a rather sharp departure from her previous works. A near fine copy in cloth boards with some slight indentations to the front panel and in a near fine dust jacket with the same indentations to the front panel and some other light wear as well. Still, a nicer than usual copy of a book that is often found in inferior condition.

San Francisco, CA: Fearon Publishers, 1957. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 77 pages, 4to. Shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing along edges and covers, a few small tears and small missing pieces along edges and spine, 1.5-inch closed tear along top left corner of front cover, light tanning. DJ in mylar. Light tanning on inside covers and endpapers. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Very Good condition..

San Francisco: Fearon Publisher. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth, lettered in darker brown. To the title page it is signed, inscribed by the photographer, Ruth Bernhard. The covers show light wear to the corners and spine ends. Toning to the endpapers. The dust jacket has a couple of short edge tears, some creasing along the upper and lower edges, other minor wear. $3.50 to the lower, front flap. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 77 pages; Signed by Author .

San Francisco:: Fearon Publishers,, (1957.). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Near fine in a near fine photographic dustjacket.. First printing. An unusual work for Ruth Bernard (published just a few years after she moved to San Francisco, where she spent the rest of her life): a photo-essay on San Francisco's cable cars and the people who ride them, narrated by young cable car gripman Melvin Van, with unposed black and white photographs by Bernhard on every page. The first book (written when he was just 25) by the independent African American film director and producer, Melvin Van Peebles. SIGNED on the front endpaper by Bernhard with the words "to one who knows" and dated January 24, 1958. A rather uncommon book, and especially so signed by Bernhard. Slightly oversized format, 10 1/4 inches tall by 7 3/16 inches wide. 78 pp.

San Francisco: Fearon Publisher, 1957. [First Edition]. Very good +/near fine. Tall 4to., 77pp., wheat-colored cloth, pictorial dust jacket with black and white photograph of San Francisco. Photographs by Ruth Bernhard. -- Closed tear to bottom of the dust jacket that has been repaired with tape on the inside of the jacket. Light wear to the outer extremities of the jacket. -- "The Big Heart" is Van Melvin's first book. -- "He is most famous for creating the acclaimed film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, which heralded a new era of black-focused films."-wikipedia. -- Signed by Van Melvin and Ruth Bernard on the title page.-- Typo page 35 first line of text (the word "pumping" should be "jumping". -- Condition.

SAN FRANCISCO: FEARON PUBLISHER.. Fine. 1957. First Edition. Photograph. First edition. NSCRIBED by noted photographer Ruth Bernhard on dedication page. Close to fine in a good dust jacket. (Small S. F. Bookshop stamp at base of rear paste-down. Tiny hint of off-setting on front end-paper & paste-down. Interior clear tape repairs to jacket. Some fairly shallow chipping at spine ends, and 1 1/2"-inch chipping along upper edge of front cover. Soil spot and rubbing to jacket. ) Melvin Van is the Afro-American film director Melvin Van Peebles, whose first book this is. Most uncommon signed by Ruth Bernhard, who's own copy this may well be as it was acquired in the Monterey region of California where she resided for many years. Photographs of San Francisco cable cars. (LR) .