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196423238New York:: Random House 1964. First Printing of the First Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Fine extremely bright unclipped dust jacket. This copy is from the library of noted film director George Cukor with his bookplate on the front pastedown. In this collection Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature music and culture of both black and white America. His range is virtuosic encompassing Mark Twain and Richard Wright Mahalia Jackson and Charlie Parker The Birth of a Nation and the Dante-esque landscape of Harlem—“the scene and symbol of the Negro’s perpetual alienation in the land of his birth.” Throughout he gives us what amounts to an episodic autobiography that traces his formation as a writer as well as the genesis of Invisible Man.Not only is Ellison a great writer of fiction but he truly excels as an essayist as he displays in this fine collection of some of his best work in a non-fiction role. He is one of the most cogent and articulate writers in the arena of ideas and assessments of culture and the arts. Random House, unknown
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
195928968Boston:: Houghton Mifflin 1959. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with discreet owner name on the flyleaf in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with wear and shallow tears to the extremities. The Bottom of the Harbor is considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells every person he introduces every scene he describes is illuminated by his passion for the eccentrics and eccentricities of his beloved adopted city. The stories tell of a life that has passed--of vacant hotel rooms deserted communities once-thriving fishing areas that are now polluted and studded with wrecks. This collection includes Up inthe Old Hotel The Bottom of the Harbor The Rats on the Waterfront Mr. Hunter's Grave Dragger Captain and The Rivermen. Houghton Mifflin, unknown
200029292<p>London:: Jonathan Cape 2000. First Printing of the First UK Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. The Bottom of the Harbor is considered a fundamental New York book. Every story Mitchell tells every person he introduces every scene he describes is illuminated by his passion for the eccentrics and eccentricities of his beloved adopted city. The stories tell of a life that has passed--of vacant hotel rooms deserted communities once-thriving fishing areas that are now polluted and studded with wrecks. This collection includes Up inthe Old Hotel The Bottom of the Harbor The Rats on the Waterfront Mr. Hunter's Grave Dragger Captain and The Rivermen.</p> Jonathan Cape, hardcover
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
198629098Lewiston::: Confluence Press 1986. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The thirteen essays in this remarkable collection by the son of poet William Stafford provide the poet's personal vision with a regional evocation of place and character. Kim Stafford writes "with the wisdom of the folklorist and the clarity of the poet." These are wonder-filled stories that nourish and illuminate life. Confluence Press,, unknown
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
36925London Lund Humphries 1957. 4to 193pp. Original cloth in b/w pictorial dustwrapper exhibiting some wear and open tearing to top and bottom edges. Numerous b/w photographic reproductions of the works of Soviet contructivist sculptor Naum Gabo addition to a facsimile of the Realist Manifesto and reprints of other such ephemera. Rear board contains a compartment storing clear plastic 'realist' viewing glasses. . First editon. Contains viewing goggles. London, Lund Humphries, 1957. hardcover
19862020286NY: Rizzoli/ Walker Art Center 1986. 1st printing of 1st edition. Fine hard cover exhibition catalog in fine dust jacket. Essays by Rosemarie Haag Bletter Cosje van Bruggen Mildred Friedman Joseph Giovannini Thomas Hines & Pilar Viladas; 216 pages illustrated. NY: Rizzoli/ Walker Art Center hardcover
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
1984153746Bern: Kunsthalle Bern 1984. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Kunsthalle Bern between March 7 and April 5 1981. Text in German.<br /> <br /> Near Fine in side stapled card wrappers. Light soiling and toning at the spine. Kunsthalle Bern 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
19851370London: Barbican Art Gallery. 1985. First edition. Signed and inscribed by Patrick Heron. 29 x 22.5cm. Publisher's original illustrated card wrappers. Illustrated with 24 colour plates and numerous black and white illustrations within the text. 56pp. A very good copy the binding square and firm with a few minor scuffs to the front cover and a little shelf wear to the extremities. The contents remain in very good order and clean throughout. Signed and inscribed by Patrick Heron in black ink to the title page "To / Rebecca H / from / Patrick Heron / September 25. 85". London: Barbican Art Gallery. unknown
199927480New York:: Lyons Press 1999. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. In the nine essays in this collection Montana novelist Tom McGuane animates the wide prairie the ranches where cattle roam and cutting horses are trained and the packed coliseums in which these horses compete for prestige and prize money. Best of all McGuane brings to life the horses he has known celebrating the unique glories that make each of them memorable. McGuane's writing is infused with a love of the cowboy life and the animals and people who inhabit that world where the intimate dance between horse and rider is as magical as flight--well beyond what the human body could ever discover on its own. Lyons Press, hardcover
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
1972153718New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation 1972. First Edition. First Edition. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum between October 26 1973 and January 21 1973.<br /> <br /> Near Fine and unread in illustrated card wrappers. Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation 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
197022810<p>Carbondale:: Southern Illinois University 1970. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine dust jacket with just a hint of rubbing to the extremities. Review copy with review slip & author photo laid in. This collection brings together 14 of Cowley's critical essays on the major and a few minor American writers whose impact on American literature Cowley celebrates.</p> Southern Illinois University, hardcover
