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202429385<p>Berkeley:: Counterpoint 2024. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with discreet remainder dot in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. With Every Great Breath is a collection of essays by environmentalist Rick Bass featuring both new and previously published essays that explore ecological personal and social landscapes ranging from his local Montana community to global locations like Alaska and Namibia while balancing environmental crisis with the celebration of natural beauty.</p> Counterpoint, hardcover
200728653New York:: Random House 2007. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as “The Muses Are Heard” and the short nonfiction novel “Handcarved Coffins” as well as many long-out-of-print essays including portraits of Mae West Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe. From his travel sketches of Brooklyn New Orleans and Hollywood written when he was twenty-two to the author’s last written words composed the day before his death in 1984 the recently discovered “Remembering Willa Cather” Random House, unknown
200728652New York:: Random House 2007. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as “The Muses Are Heard” and the short nonfiction novel “Handcarved Coffins” as well as many long-out-of-print essays including portraits of Mae West Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe. From his travel sketches of Brooklyn New Orleans and Hollywood written when he was twenty-two to the author’s last written words composed the day before his death in 1984 the recently discovered “Remembering Willa Cather” Random House, unknown
200729454New York:: Random House 2007. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as “The Muses Are Heard” and the short nonfiction novel “Handcarved Coffins” as well as many long-out-of-print essays including portraits of Mae West Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe. From his travel sketches of Brooklyn New Orleans and Hollywood written when he was twenty-two to the author’s last written words composed the day before his death in 1984 the recently discovered “Remembering Willa Cather” Random House, unknown
202128397<p>Essays Didion Joan. Let Me Tell You What I Mean. New York: Knopf 2021. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. These twelve pieces from 1968 to 2000 never before gathered together offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary figure. Didion touches on topics ranging from newspapers "the problem is not so much whether one trusts the news as to whether one finds it" to the fantasy of San Simeon to not getting into Stanford. In "Why I Write" Didion ponders the act of writing: "I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking what I'm looking at what I see and what it means."</p> Knopf, hardcover
200628485New York:: Knopf 2006. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In this volume Gass pays homage to the readerly side of the literary experience by turning his critical sensibility upon all the books that shaped his own development as a reader writer and human being. With essays on figures ranging from William Shakespeare and Gertrude Stein to Flann O'Brien and Robert Burton Gass creates a "temple" of readerly devotion a collection of critical explorations as brilliant and incisive as readers have come to expect from this literary master but also a surprisingly personal window into the author's own literary development. Knopf, unknown
201229265New York:: Knopf 2012. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with discreet dot on the bottom edge in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In this essay collection William H. Gass explores his lifelong relationship with books and language through essays on writers like Nietzsche Henry James Gertrude Stein and Kafka. The book examines the craft of writing the power of literary devices and his critical judgments on various authors and works. Knopf, unknown
202429371<p>Minneapolis:: Graywolf Press 2024. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with discreet remainder dot in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This collection of Maggie Nelson's non-fiction spans two decades of her work including essays reviews and conversations with artists and writers like Prince Carolee Schneemann and Kara Walker. The book explores recurring themes in her work such as love friendship queer and feminist issues and the role of art and criticism offering a look into her development and preoccupations with subjects like art parenting and identity. It's been praised for its blend of personal and analytical writing showcasing her unique style and deep engagement with art and culture.</p> Graywolf Press, hardcover
201629236New York:: Penguin Press 2016. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In these essays Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness as a young child and as an adult to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood “friend” Walt Whitman through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple “a place to enter and in which to feel” and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her and the responsibility she has inherited from Shelley Wordsworth Emerson Poe and Frost the great thinkers and writers of the past to live thoughtfully intelligently and to observe with passion. Penguin Press, unknown
201629338<p>New York:: Penguin Press 2016. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. In these essays Mary Oliver reflects on her willingness as a young child and as an adult to lose herself within the beauty and mysteries of both the natural world and the world of literature. Emphasizing the significance of her childhood "friend" Walt Whitman through whose work she first understood that a poem is a temple "a place to enter and in which to feel" and who encouraged her to vanish into the world of her writing Oliver meditates on the forces that allowed her to create a life for herself out of work and love. Upstream follows Oliver as she contemplates the pleasure of artistic labor her boundless curiosity for the flora and fauna that surround her and the responsibility she has inherited from Shelley Wordsworth Emerson Poe and Frost the great thinkers and writers of the past to live thoughtfully intelligently and to observe with passion.</p> Penguin Press, hardcover
201226411<p>New York:: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2012. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In When I Was a Child I Read Books Robinson returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor. In "Austerity as Ideology" she tackles the global debt crisis and the charged political and social political climate in this country that makes finding a solution to our financial troubles so challenging. In "Open Thy Hand Wide" she searches out the deeply embedded role of generosity in Christian faith. And in "When I Was a Child" one of her most personal essays to date an account of her childhood in Idaho becomes an exploration of individualism and the myth of the American West. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as one of our essential writers.</p> Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, hardcover
200728806Emeryville:: Shoemaker & Hoard 2007. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. tTis collection of essays by Gary Snyder blazes with insight. In his most autobiographical writing to date these essays employ fire as a metaphor for the crucial moment when deeply held viewpoints yield to new experiences and our spirits and minds broaden and mature. Snyder here writes and riffs on a wide range of topics from explorations of southwestern European Paleolithic cave art to his own personal poetic history with haiku; from reminiscences of youthful West Coast logging and trail crew days to talks given in Paris and Tokyo on art and archetypes. He honors poets of his generation like Philip Whalen and Allen Ginsberg and meditates on art labor and the making of families houses and homesteads. This is not a collection of essays but a cohesive presentation of Snyder's life and work expressed in his characteristically straightforward prose. Shoemaker & Hoard, unknown
200726458<p>Emeryville:: Shoemaker & Hoard 2007. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. tTis collection of essays by Gary Snyder blazes with insight. In his most autobiographical writing to date these essays employ fire as a metaphor for the crucial moment when deeply held viewpoints yield to new experiences and our spirits and minds broaden and mature. Snyder here writes and riffs on a wide range of topics from explorations of southwestern European Paleolithic cave art to his own personal poetic history with haiku; from reminiscences of youthful West Coast logging and trail crew days to talks given in Paris and Tokyo on art and archetypes. He honors poets of his generation like Philip Whalen and Allen Ginsberg and meditates on art labor and the making of families houses and homesteads. This is not a collection of essays but a cohesive presentation of Snyder's life and work expressed in his characteristically straightforward prose.</p> Shoemaker & Hoard, hardcover
201629032Berkeley:: Counterpoint 2016. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Long rumored to exist The Great Clod collects more than a dozen chapters several published in The Coevolution Quarterly almost forty years ago when Snyder briefly described this work as “The China Book” and several others the majority never before published in any form. These essays turn from being memoirs of travel to prolonged considerations of art culture natural history and religion. Filled with Snyder’s remarkable insights and briskly beautiful descriptions this collection adds enormously to the major corpus of his work. Counterpoint, unknown
2009153837New York New Haven: Whitney Museum of American Art / Yale University Press 2009. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition which opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art on September 17 2009 and closed at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum on September 12 2010.<br /> <br /> Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Light bump to heel. Wrappers with light bumps to heel crown and top right corners and a light crease to bottom of front panel. Whitney Museum of American Art / Yale University Press unknown
201146252New York / New Haven CT: Whitney Museum of American Art / Yale University Press 2011. Very Good/Very Good. New York / New Haven CT: Whitney Museum of American Art Distributed by Yale University Press 2011. First Edition with full number line. Quarto 32cm; publisher's cloth in black photo-illustrated dust jacket; 303pp.; illus. throughout. Some shelf wear to cloth and jacket margins including small bump at bottom fore-edge corner of upper cover and panel spine very slightly cocked else a Very Good internally clean and sound example. Signed and dated 2013 by the artist on title page. <br /> <br /> Gorgeous survey of the work of conceptual artist Glenn Ligon b. 1960 accompanied by essays by Okwui Enwezor Saidiya Hartman Bennett Simpson Franklin Sirmans and Hilton Als on the influence of James Baldwin on Ligon's art. Whitney Museum of American Art / Yale University Press unknown
20028791e-dite, coll. Criminales 2002 Préface de François Haut. In-8 broché. 275 p. Bibliographie sur 17 p. Annexes sur 59 p. Etat neuf.
200645766Miami FL: Lowe Art Museum / University of Miami 2006. Near Fine/Very Good. Miami FL: Lowe Art Museum / University of Miami 2006. First Edition. Large square quarto 30.5cm; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 251pp.; full color illus. throughout. Light wear and wrinkling to dust jacket some fading along spine margins else Very Good and sound. Signed by the artist on half title page. Lowe Art Museum / University of Miami unknown
200935935Lakewood CO: Centipede Press 2009. First edition trade issue. A fine copy in a just about fine slipcase with a little black residue from a traycase of another of the publishers titles laying on it. Note: heavy volume extra postage required. 35935. Large format 11.5" x 15.5" cloth back pictorial boards. Over four hundred page massive compilation of artists and illustrators of Stephen King material. Includes work by Stephen Gervais J. K. Potter Ned Dameron Thomas Canty Berni Wrightson Michael Whelan and many others. Includes essays on the artists as well as several interviews. Introduction by film director Frank Darabont. Centipede Press unknown
2011093296Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery 2011. Hardcover. pp. 247. 4to. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board. Black-and-white and colour photographs and illustrations. Lightest shelfwear; very good in lightly shelfworn very good dustjacket. A catalogue of a 2011/2012 exhibition held at the Winnipeg Art Gallery the Hamilton Art Gallery and the Victoria Art Gallery. Winnipeg Art Gallery hardcover
200229187<p>New York:: Knopf 2002. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Tests of Time brings us fourteen witty and elegant essays by novelist and literary critic William H. Gass "the finest prose stylist in America" Steven Moore Washington Post. Whether he's exploring the nature of narrative the extent and cost of political influences on writers or the relationships between the stories we tell and the moral judgments we make Gass is always erudite entertaining and enlightening.</p> Knopf, hardcover
200246829Durham NC: North Carolina Central University Art Museum 2002. Very Good . Durham NC: North Carolina Central University Art Museum 2002. First Edition Wrapper Issue. Quarto 29cm; publisher's glossy pictorial card wrappers; 199pp.; illus. throughout chiefly full color. Light wear and creasing at wrapper margins else Very Good or better.<br /> <br /> Uncommon exhibition catalog featuring the oils watercolors and drawings of one of the youngest artists of the Harlem Renaissance Malvin Gray Johnson 1896-1934. This exhibit was the first to showcase Johnson's works since his premature death at the age of thirty-eight. North Carolina Central University Art Museum unknown
200227159<p>New York:: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2002. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a small dent to the lower of the front board in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Whether autobiographical topical or specifically literary these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write What is his relationship to be to his own voice his own place his literary heritage and the contemporary world" This collection includes Heaney's finest lectures and a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form ranging from short newspaper articles to radio commentaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets -- Irish and British American and Eastern European predecessors and contemporaries -- Finders Keepers is as its title indicates "an announcement of both excitement and possession."</p> Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, hardcover
2004153632New York: Whitney Museum of American Art 2004. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition which opened at the Whitney Museum of American Art on February 11 2005 and closed at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on September 5 2005.<br /> <br /> Near Fine and unread without a dust jacket as issued. Whitney Museum of American Art unknown
2006153591Beverly Hills CA: Gagosian Gallery 2006. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Gagosian Gallery between October 24 and December 9 2006.<br /> <br /> Near Fine with no dust jacket as issued. Light soiling and light bumps to corners of boards. Gagosian Gallery unknown
