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2004006348Xunta De Galicia / Von Lintel Gallery New York 2004. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Author. Size: Large 4to. Signed by Roland Fischer. Includes a card from the Von Lintel Gallery and a printed sheet from the Opening Reception of the exhibit on April 22 2004 at the gallery. Color illustrated stiff wraps text is in Spanish English German and one other langauge 141 pp. Bibliography List of Works Biography; an exhibition catalogue with commentary of photography by Fischer. corners lightly bumped otherwise the text is clean and unmarked no writing or notations; binding is sound. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 5 oz. Category: Art & Design; Photographers and Photographic Works; Exhibition Catalogues; Books; Signed by Author. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 006348. . Xunta De Galicia / Von Lintel Gallery paperback
1989009971Washington: Smithsonian Books. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Washington: Smithsonian Books 1989 first printing. 4to. 9 1/2" x 11 1/4" 166pp. illustrated with b/w photos from expeditions to Southern Utah the Grand Canyon Yosemite the Pueblos and Indian Territory. Minor foxing on edges else fine in fine dust jacket. . Near Fine. Hard. 1st. 1989. Smithsonian Books unknown
194810355New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1948. Hardcover. Translation by Justin O'Brien. Three volumes. Small 4to. Blue cloth. xx 382pp xviii; 462pp xx; 450pp xx. Frontispieces. Very good. Minor edgewear with rumple at head of first volume; ownership signature on each front flyleaf. Volume I is a later 5th printing Volume II a 2nd printing and Volume III the first U.S. edition. Overall a tight nice set. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover
19522221772<p>SIGNED COPY</p><p>First printing so stated. Octavo. Dust jacket price clipped; short tear; few small chips designed by Peter Oldenburg. Very good. 183 pages.</p><p>Signed by Goyen on front free endpaper.</p><p>Author's second book: 8 short stories.</p> Random House hardcover
200189Toronto ON: House of Anansi Press. 2001. First Canadian Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Fine in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Tiny closed tear to the publisher's paper band.; Thirty tiny quirky essays from this frequent contributor to McSweeny's. The essays span a mermaid in a jar newly created fairy tales a frog that gives relationship advice to a plumber love bad love sex “the littlest dumpling who had never been told his name” and many that are depressive and matter of fact without making an obvious point or having a moral resolution. Sheila Heti's writing is unique. Five essays are reprinted from McSweeney's Quarterly Concern Issue 4. The author has signed "love Sheila" in pen on the title page with a hand-drawn potted plant "April 2003." and the inscription "for a man with flowers and ties. Includes ephemera: two stiff paper hang tags. Each has a different halftone monochrome reproduction of do-it-yourself photo booth picture of Heti. The backs of the hang tags have autograph notations in her tiny hand: "Exhibit E" on one "The New Glasses" on the other. Book design by Bill Douglas at Anasi. Printed on machine-made paper with text set in Bembo and titles in Joanna types. Color photos span endpapers and pastedowns the front being a couple drinking beer and the rear being an airport baggage carousel. Gold ribbon marker bound in. Bound in black laid paper over boards. Title in gilt to spine and front with Heti's illustration of a frog. Includes the publisher's paper band around the rear cover. No dust jacket as issued. Book and ephemera are in clean Fine condition. A book of quirky bite-sized essays to amuse and/or puzzle you.; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 3-14411 pages; Signed by Author . House of Anansi Press hardcover
1976010165NY: John Day. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: John Day 1976 first printing. 4to. 8 3/4" x 11 1/4" 218pp. illustrated with over 200 photographs. Black cloth with bronze spine titles. Previous owner name on fly leaf. Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. . Very Good Plus. Hard. 1st. 1976. John Day unknown
2003006279Pinakothek Der Moderne Munich 2003. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. Signed by Photographer. Size: 4to. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Signed by Roland Fischer on the half-title; an exhibition catalogue in German and English 89 pages photographs in color. Covers lightly scuffed/scratched. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 8 oz. Category: Art & Design; Books; Signed by Photographer. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 006279. . Pinakothek Der Moderne paperback
2003003022Cambridge: Harvard University Art Museums 2003. Paperback. Very Good . 4to. 336 pp. Bound in brown wrappers with color cover illustration and title printed in white on cover and spine. Color frontispiece and color and black and white illustrations throughout. Includes bibliography and index. Very Good some soiling to edges of text block light scuffing and wear to wrappers internally clean and bright. <br/><br/> Harvard University Art Museums paperback
2001008486NY: 2wice Arts Foundation/Aperture. First edition. Hard cover in original cloth over boards with hologram cover inset. Published NY: 2wice Arts Foundation/Aperture 2001 first printing. Small 4to. 8 1/4" x 10 1/4" 152pp. color and b/w illustrations. Minor bump to corner. Near fine. . Near Fine. Hard. 1st. 2001. 2wice Arts Foundation/Aperture unknown
1991043516Athens: National and Capodistrian University of Athens 1991 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. Signed by Authors. First Thus. Thesis submitted to the University of Athens interpreting some Greek mythical elements in the writings of the Australian novelist Patrick White."Patrick White: Magna Mater and Her Son-Lover examines intensively nine novels by the Australian Nobel prize-winner Patrick White. The writer views the novels as a sequence following the circular pattern of the artist's spiritual quest the mythological Odyssey and the psychological process of individuation. The whole individual is defined by Jung as the one who can reconcile the conscious and the unconscious while Homer presented the same individual as the wise Odysseus. Interestingly White visualizes the whole individual in the twentieth century as the one who recovers and establishes a relationship with the roots of human existence vegetative and animal life in other words the universe" Includes a facsimile of an entertaining letter by PW commenting on his reception of ths thesis. 455p. bibliography. Author inscription on ffep. Small tears to paper wrapper else fine NO location found in Worldcat. National and Capodistrian University of Athens paperback
20107Paris: Charles Carrington N.y. Hardcover. Illustrations by Ed. Zier. Small 4to. Burgundy marbled paper over boards. xvi 412pp. Illustrations. Near fine. Bookplate on front pastedown. Tight handsome edition limited to 1000 numbered copies this #786. Quite attractive. Charles Carrington hardcover
2003100911NY: Random House 2003. First edition first prnt. Pbk Original edition. Perfect-bound illustrated wraps. Preface by Mailer. Signed by Mailer on the half-title page. Unread copy in Fine condition. Revised and new poems. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Random House Paperback
2006010164NY: The Monacelli Press. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: The Monacelli Press 2006 first printing. 4to. 9 1/2" x 11 5/8" 172pp. illustrated with color and b/w plates. Black cloth with silver spine titles gray endpapers. "Cecil Beaton called him the best photographer in Britain; Lord Snowdon declared him a genius. It is no exaggeration to say that Angus McBean revolutionized portraiture in the 1930s or that he immortalized the likes of Audrey Hepburn Marlene Dietrich and Elizabeth Taylor. Blending wit drama and fantasy with the consummate skill of a master photographer McBean was the most prominent theater photographer of his generation and along with Beaton the last of the British avant-garde studio photographers. For the first time since his death in 1990 McBean's photographs of stars such as Vivien Leigh Peggy Ashcroft Laurence Olivier John Gielgud and Audrey Hepburn and his rarely seen color prints from the 1960s of the Beatles Maria Callas and Shirley Bassey are brought together in this fascinating book. Terence Pepper's intriguing account of McBean's life and work includes extracts from the photographer's unpublished autobiography." Fine in fine dust jacket. . Fine. Hard. 1st. 2006. The Monacelli Press unknown
2004007679NY: Quantuck Lane Press. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Quantuck Lane Press 2004 first printing. Small 4to. 9 1/2" x 10" 136pp. illustrated throughout with color plates. Fine in near fine dust jacket gently worn at the upper tips. . Fine. Hard. 1st. 2004. Quantuck Lane Press unknown
1983008442NY: Pantheon Books. First edition. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Pantheon Books 1983 first printing. Square folio 12 1/4" x 12 1/4" xii192pp. illustrated with 127 exquisite full color photographs. Fine in near fine dust jacket. . Fine. Hard. 1st. 1983. Pantheon Books unknown
2008359691New York : Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery Columbia University 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine very slightly edge and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight bright clean and strong. Physical description: x 115 pages : illustrations some color map ; 37 cm. Subjects: Stone carving China ; Exhibitions. Sculpture Chinese ; Exhibitions. Genre: Art. Language: English. New York : Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University hardcover
009159Direccion De Informacion y Relaciones Publicas. Softcover portfolio of color photos of parks. Published Direccion De Informacion y Relaciones Publicas no place no date. 4to. 12" x 12" pale green wrappers containing nine 12" x 12" captioned photos with tissue guards. Wrappers near fine photos fine. . Near Fine. Soft cover. Direccion De Informacion y Relaciones Publicas paperback
1940240688New York: Random House 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/poor. 8vo 360 pages two-tone cloth; dj spine effectively perished <br/><br/>Sherlockiana DeWaal C5963 including a chapter "From Poe to Poirot". "This is not a history of literature; it is a book of gossip. . It has only one purpose and that is to help make literature alive and interesting - Foreword." Bookish cover illustration by Paul Galdone. Inscribed by Starrett to Donald K. Colvin. Random House hardcover
197940260Franklin Center PA: Franklin Library 1979. Limited Edition . Hardcover. As New. Ann Grifalconi. Signed by Styron on the second blank page with tissue guard laid over. A book from the Franklin Library 60 Signed leather bound Limited Edition series published between 1977 and 1982. Bound in full brown leather with design and lettering in gilt. All edges in gilt. Red moiré endpapers with ribbon place marker. A fine and bright as new unread copy. <br/> <br/> Franklin Library hardcover
19904551Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence 1990. First edition. Paperback. Fine. 8vo 294 pages blue wrappers <br/><br/>A 10th Anniversary re-issue of this title with 5 additional essays and the Introduction by Wolff. " McGuane's essays are enactments of values judgments on the behavior of the self alone on a river where no one else is watching which is why critics sometimes and sjuperficially join him at the hip with Hemingway. . McGuane has music and McGuane can see twenty-twenty - Wolff. ": This is the Advance Uncorrected Proofs copy. Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence paperback
22423<p>Atlanta: Peachtree 1980. INSCRIBED warmly on ffep by author. 179pp. hardback tall 8vo: Fine in a near Fine dj in Brodart poly cover. Townsend who died a year after this book was published aged 48 founded Atlanta Magazine in 1961. He later founded city magazines in New Orleans and Cincinnati and consulted on 30 more. Time Magazine called him "the father of city magazines in America." His exceptionally warm inscription is to another iconic Atlanta figure Faith Brunson who ran a renowned book department in Atlanta's famous Rich's department store from 1945 until Rich's was sold in the late 1970s. A very nice nostalgic Atlanta item.</p> Atlanta: Peachtree hardcover
1972833New York: Hill and Wang 1972. Hardcover. Translated by Desmond Vesey. 8vo. Brown cloth dust jacket. 280pp. Very good/good plus. Ownership signature on front flyleaf. First U.S. edition of the sixth "Jungle" novel. Hill and Wang hardcover
1979305147<p>Folio 6 3/4" x 17 1/2". Broadside. Printed in red and black on cream paper. Fine fresh. One of 276 numbered copies signed by Updike.</p> Richmond, Waves Press, 1979. unknown
199356009Washington DC: Central Intelligence Agency c. 1993. Wraps. very good condition. Quarto 64 pages DVD wraps illus. some in color diagrams maps. Includes a DVD in a pocket inside the rear cover. Subtitled: A Symposium Acknowledging and Commemorating Air America Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam War. Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline established in 1950 and covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division from 1950 to 1976. It supplied and supported United States covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Central Intelligence Agency paperback
1968M4249<p>Durham NC: North Carolina College at Durham 1968. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. VG. 8vo 40pp stapled wrappers. Rare Black Arts themed 1968 issue of this little magazine from Durham NC includes some very radical poetry "The honkey's to blame! … should I/Kill Him" as well as artwork. Mailing address and markings to back cover else unmarked staple holes from mailing closure a bit of general wear.</p> Durham, NC: North Carolina College at Durham paperback
