[Literary Essays] Didion, JoanBiblio.com
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197928403New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy with la touch of sunning to the top edge of the front board which is typical in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Simon & Schuster, unknown
2008TN220996Italian Cultural Institute London 2008. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. 4to in colour printed stiff card covers 46pp on glossy art paper colour plates etc. Dual text in English and Italian. Private view invitation card and gallery press release both loosely inserted. This copy has been inscribed and signed by the artist on the front blank fly-leaf no other marks or inscriptions __CONDITION : NEW unmarked copy. . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Italian Cultural Institute, London paperback
2008048311Chicago IL: Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago 2008. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Parys Michelle Van photos. 92pp.; HB white w/blk.-photocovers; fine condition w/cleantight pgs. DJ white w/blk.-photocovers; fine. " .offers a compelling view for those who know the West well and for those who are getting to know its myriad landscapes for the first time." signed. <br/> <br/> Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago hardcover
1938biblio28<p>Significant collectible addition to Collections of Mark Twain works. It contains all the Mark Twain material to appear in the Golden Era during his sojourn in Nevada and California except "Curing a Cold." Illustrated paper covered boards black cloth spine with a printed paper spine label in dust jacket. Near fine condition inside; the dust jacket is edgeworn but intact.</p> George Fields hardcover
198229124New York:: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1982. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a small tear to the rear panel. In these widely praised essays Calvino reflects on literature as process the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Written between 1966 and 1982 these 31 essays are divided into two parts. The first 11 essays deal with theoretical questions such as the relation of philosophy and literature definitions of genres comedy eroticism fantasy and levels of reality in literature; the rest are introductions to or appreciations of specific works and authors mostly classics The Odyssey Ovid Candide Stendhal Balzac though there are also pieces on Montale Saul Steinberg Barthes and Marianne Moore. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, unknown
1528142306.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1332922279.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
199730933Hong Kong: GT Publications 1997. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine. 13.7x9.9x0.8in. Signed by Authors. pictorial covers signed by artist; lightly bumped at extremities. <br>The catalogue of an exhibition at the University Museum and Art Gallery University of Hong Kong the Honolulu Academy of Arts and the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco. Contains three essays: Tradition Brought to Life -- The Art of Harold Wong by Michael Sullivan; The Artist as Connoisseur by Julia M. White; and Tradition Continued and Created Anew -- The Paintings of Harold Wong by Catherine Maudsley. 72 paintings are described and illustrated on over 100 color plates. Text in English and Chinese. <br>140pp 2.96lb 13.7x9.9x0.8in GT Publications hardcover
1952143877New York: Simon & Schuster 1952. First Thus . Hardcover. Good -/Poor. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 346pp. Original boards. Pages are clean unmarked but yellowing with age. Binding is cracked and text block is pulling away from boards but pages are still secure. Boards have bumping to head/heel of spine rubbing to extremities. Unclipped dust jacket is scuffed/moderately ink-rubbed 1/2 to head/heel of spine each is chipped/missing several small tears/nicks to edges corners frayed heavy rubbing to extremities. We have added a removablye mylar covering to the dust jacket for proection. <br/> <br/> Simon & Schuster hardcover
1993TH254410Art Gallery of Windsor Ontario 1993. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. Extra Large 4to. in colour printed stiff card covers 200pp colour plates b/w illustrations in text bibliography etc. __CONDITION : A well preserved FINE very clean and tight unmarked copy spine slightly sunned. __NOTE Due to size and/or weight posting to some destinations outside the UK will cost more than the shipping price shown. If so orders made by card will only be completed after you have approved any extra cost. . To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario paperback
1979001029Decimus Publishing 1979. Hardcover. Near Fine/Slipcase - Very good. This facsimile edition limited to 500 copies of which this is number 60. Dark green limp leather covers with gilt ruled borders marbled endpapers and page edges 8 tipped in colour illustrations plus 3 in black and white. Facsimile handwriting on lined notepad style pages with essays by Margaret Lane and Joyce Whalley at the back. Housed in original slipcase with gilt design to the front. Minor wear to the slipcase the book is in near fine condition. 16x9.5cm. <br/> <br/> Decimus Publishing hardcover
2013K17NS1078Prahlad Bubbar Gallery London 2013. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. Extra Large 4to. in gilt embossed and colour printed stiff card covers 92pp on thick art paper colour plates etc. PLUS loosely inserted Private view invitation card and Gallery press release for this exhibition __CONDITION : NEW copy. . __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Prahlad Bubbar Gallery, London paperback
19720009511New York: Viking Press 1972. First printing. Paperback. Fine. 8vo 312 pages tawny covers <br/><br/>Unrevised Galley Proofs. Angell as a sportswriter is in the Baseball Hall of Fame as an awardee of the 2013 Baseball Writers Association of America BBWAA Career Excellence Award formerly the Spinks Award. Viking Press paperback
1972biblio1644<p>This is a really nice first edition NOT PRICE CLIPPED flawed only by shelf wear and the tiny ravages of time from the Hall Of Fame Baseball writer/editor of The New Yorker.</p><p>Clean tight complete with photos on request.</p> Viking hardcover
133304786X.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
201033409Seattle WA: Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion 2010. Near Fine. Seattle WA: Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion 2010. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's maroon leatherette lettered in yellow and black; 229pp.; photographs throughout many full-color. Spine crown a bit bumped else a Near Fine example.<br /> <br /> Catalog accompanying the "mid-career presentation" of works by Annette Lemieux b. 1957 a member of the picture theory movement which emerged in the 1970s and 1980s. Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion unknown
2009064916Stonemaster Press 2009. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Authors. 195 pages Folio. SIGNED by John Long and Dean Fidelman on half-title page. Includes clear dust-jacket. Shelfwear to DJ: light scuffing tanned edges. Tight binding no marks. Volume is in Very Good-plus condition. Stonemaster Press Hardcover
200035642Chicago: Bad Press Books 2000. Very Good . Chicago: Bad Press Books 2000. Stated First Edition; published in a run of 5000. Folio 31cm; 152pp. Without dust jacket as issued. Publisher's illustrated boards; cream endsheets with publisher's blindstamp. Color illustrations throughout. Boards bumped at spine ends and corners. Binding sound. Textblock endsheets and interior pages clean. Very Good or better. Signed without inscription by both authors at ffep.<br /> <br /> Collection of comical postage stamps designed by the same-named artist-publisher pair. Many stamps were used to successfully transmit mail to the delight of their designers and dismay of the US Postal Service. Bad Press Books unknown
2019146968New York: First Print Press / Davis Zwirner Books 2019. First edition of this expressive celebration of jazz with essays by his wife Sherry Turner DeCarava and American literary historian Radiclani Clytus. Folio original cloth illustrated with impressive full-size black and white photographs throughout. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. One of the 20th century's most important photographers Roy DeCarava practiced photography for almost six decades spearheading the genre of black and white fine art photography with his affection for the individual creative process. DeCarava's work draws focus to the real lives of black Americans without a serious documentary-style politicization of the experience. While these portraits oftentime model the mundane aspects of daily life they capture exactly what it means to be human in modern society. First Print Press / Davis Zwirner Books hardcover
196900006703Garden City NY: Doubleday & Company Inc 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. 7 9-286 2 pp. Quarter dark green cloth over light green cloth with gold lettering on the front board and spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Price of $5.95 printed on the front flap of the dust jacket. Jacket design by Robert Aulicino. Second issue with credits on the tipped in copyright page as per Colberg. A Near Fine book with minor hints of foxing to the top edges of the boards in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear. Doubleday & Company, Inc hardcover
1993TN250157Arts Council of Northern Ireland 1993. 1st Edition. SOFTCOVER. This copy signed by Mark Ainsworth on the title-page no other marks or inscriptions. Landscape 4to in colour printed stiff card covers unpaginated approx. 24pp on thick art paper colour plates etc __CONDITION : An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW copy merest hint of tanning to leaves. . __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS Arts Council of Northern Ireland paperback
1982051879Los Angeles Ca: Ucla Arts Council 1982. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. Near Fine. 256 Pp. One Of 4500 Copies Of The Soft Cover Issue There Were Also 500 Hardcover Copies. Near Fine. With The Rare Addenda Leaf Laid In Loosely. <br/> <br/> Ucla Arts Council paperback
198423396<p>New York:: Persea Books 1984. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with a lightly sunned spine. Connolly spent his life immersed in literature and the arts and moved among the giants of modernism--James Joyce T.S. Eliot Huxley Hemingway Gide and Ezra Pound. He was the founder of Horizon magazine and one of the foremost editors and critics of his time. This collection features thirty of his essays broken into three sections: Travel Life and Literature and Satires and Parodies.</p> Persea Books, hardcover
1985054378Los Angeles: Security Pacific Corporation 1985. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Slipcase. 233 Pp. Gray Linen Stamped At Silver. Red Endpapers. Fine In Matching Slipcase. <br/> <br/> Security Pacific Corporation hardcover
