Livingston, JaneMareMagnum
WILDE OSCAR.MareMagnum
Libreria Librightbooks · Napoli, IT9,00 €
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This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean inside and out. This catalog was prepared to accompany the traveling exhibition which started at the Whitney Museum in New York in the summer of 2002. Essays by Jane Livingston, Linda Nochlin and Yvette Y. Lee. Checklist. Exhibition history. Bibliography. Illustrated in color. 11" high X 10" wide, 237 pages. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
pp. 229. 12mo. 200mm. Original publisher's full green cloth boards decorated in black and gilt. Cover depicts a ominous tree design and creepy font. Spine lettered in gilt and decorated in black as well. Colors and gilt are bright and sharp on cover. Spine faded and gilt rubbed. Corners sharp and covers clean. Bookplate on inside paste-down belonging to 'Howard Shreve Fisher'. Contents clean. Front hinge cracking. Hardbound. Very Good. NW58
8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper, with frontispiece, small neat signature on front free endpaper; black cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, backstrip very lightly faded else a very good, bright, crisp copy. EDITION LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES SIGNED BY THE PUBLISHER. Wilde's controversial essay, attempting to solve the mystery of Shakespeare's Sonnets, was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889 (see Mason p.6; 4).
421 p. + 10 full page plates, including the frontis. 8vo. 190 mm. Clean and tight original publisher's full yellow pictorial cloth binding. Title in blue ink on spine with color illustration on cover. Manuscript ownership of 'Edith Walton Cooper Jan. 1909' on first flyleaf. Small printed booksellers label for Charles Ream, YMCA building, Lancaster. Minor Staining of foredge Spine. Binding slightly darkened. Hardbound. Very good. NW66
8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with 34 plates; original green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, uncut, backstrip mildly sunned else a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Bright copy of a scarce, valuable and important eye-witness account.
160 pages. Features: John Falter cover illustration; Nice color photo ad for the 1956 Mercury autos; Fantastic 2-page color ad for the 1956 Buick; Colour photo ad for RCA Victor televisions; Aurthur Godfrey - This is my Story - part 1 of 8 - lots of great photos; That Susceptible Age, by Robert Terrall; Bangkok - article and great color photos; Madman's Chain, by Gilbert Wright; Coach on the Spot - Bowden Wyatt is lured to Tennessee from Arkansas; We Licked the Veteran Problem - military veterans are concerned their pensions may be cut; The Mayor and Miss Casey, by Nord Riley; Those Half-Pint A-Bombers - jet pilots are proving it doesn't take a big, fat plane to delivery the Sunday Punch; One Night Together, by Jean Bell Mosley; Big Back Yard - large colour photo of goat ranchers in Texas; So You're Selling Your House! - how an exhuasted houseowner spent 78 frustrating days and sleepless nights disposing of his middleaged bungalow; Death in the Wind, by Edwin Lanham; Big Power Plant in the Sky - the possibilities of tapping solar energy; Adventures of Slippery Leo - Leo Irby - Escapologist; He was part of this land - Mitchell Stuart of W-Hollow, Kentucky, by his son, Jesse Stuart; Sensational 3-page color ad for Cadillac for 1956; The Golden Journey, by Agnes Sligh Turnbull; Nice color photo 2-page ad for 1956 Plymouth, with all new push-button driving; Two-page ad for Ford Trucks; Lovely 2-page colour photo ad for Philco televisions - with remote control!; Nice 1-page color ad for Sealtest ice cream; 2-page color '56 Pontiac ad; Crosley Custom V television ad; Color ad for Zenith televisions; Color ad for Chef Boy-Ar-Dee Italian-style Ravioli; Nice color 1-page ad for Karo waffle syrup; Color Betty Crocker ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy. Book
Pages 562-676. Features: In the Khalifa's Clutches - part IV of Charles Neufeld's ordeal; Impressions of Pekin - sensational photo-illustrated article; Two Loves Affairs, and How They Ended - Colonel Hervey Tryon falls headlong into a deep well of garbag; The Hook-Swinging Ceremony as I Saw It - Rev. Joshua Knowles describes a South Indian pagan festival in which devotees have hook placed in their flesh before they are swung into the air at the end of long poles - with photos; A Desperate Plight - travails of Captain H.V. Barclay in the arid Australian interior; The Great Grottos of Han - photo-illustrated article on the marvelous caverns near Han-sur-Lesse in the Belgian Ardennes; Held by An Octopus - Herbert Perkins explains how he was grabbed from out of the water; Shooting the Reversible Falls - photo-illustrated story from St. John, New Brunswick involving Xavier Francis and Louis Mitchell; Life in an Italian Village (near Pallanza); On the War-Path with Redskins - a retaliatory raid of natives is recounted by J.W. Schultz, a Rocky Mountain guide who was married to a Blackfoot and lived among them in Montana; The Fantastic Carnival at Pangau in a remote part of the Austrian Tyrol; Twenty-Seven Days in an Open Boat - Part II - the castaways are finally rescued, but in ghastly condition; Naia, The Witch of Rochefort-en-Terre, in Brittany - photo-illustrated article; Through Italy in Bedouin Dress - photo-illustrated account; One Thousand Miles on Mule-Back - Part I of this photo-illustrated article of the amazing journey of Mabel Penniman from New York to London via Central and South Amerca; The Bogus "Rush" at Coolgardie - photo-illustrated of a fake gold rush in Australia as told by John Marshalll of Kalgoorlie; Photo of women coal heavers in Dresden; Full-page photo from Kelsey Creek, California showing a river of fish three feet deep - with no water!; Photo of Tunisian camel fight; and more. Average external wear and soiling. Few pencil markings. Binding intact. A sound vintage copy of this excellent issue. Book
Pages 353-440, plus 24 pages of fascinating ads. Features: The House of a Hundred Rooms - Part 1 - incredible revelations of a building in Philadelphia with underground cellars and dungeons which were put to diabolical uses by Chinese Tong-men; A Village on a Mountain Top - nice photo-illustrated article on Mola, Sicily; Enrico Toti - Italy's One-Legged War Hero - how he fought and died at the Carso front; With the British Armoured Cars in Russia - Part 1 - the first authentic account of their work and adventures - photo-illustrated article; In the Grip of the Blizzard - Daring Antarctic Sledge Expedition of Sir Douglas Mawson as described by Capt. Madigan - major article with fascinating photos; My Adventures in the World War, Part 3 of E. Ashmead-Bartlett's adventures as a war correspondent; In the Land of the Lapps - Part 3 - photo-illustrated description of the life and customs of these fascinating and little-known people; The Gum Lands of New Zealand - photo-illustrated article on the Kauri gum industry of New Zealand; How We Brought the Chinese War-Workers to France - important information about the Chinese Labour Corps which assisted British armies in non-combatant duties at the Front were recruited in China and transported from their distant homes in the Far East across the seas to France, travelling via Canada; Marooned in the Arctic - E.H.L. Mitchell went to Alaska on a mining venture but was shipwrecked and marooned on a barren island for eight weeks; The Water-Gardeners of Amiens, France - wonderful photo-illustrated article; Lost in the Mine - the lamp of a boy working in a Welsh coillery went out and he lost his way - and nearly his life; Photo of the four-hundred and fifty Temples of the Law at Mandalay, in Upper Burma. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound copy of this great vintage issue. Book
256 pages. Features: High style in the Hamptons with John Barman; Continental Flair - Barbara Lione's Chicago townhouse; A House Squared - Chris Robb and Paul Konstant; Big on Small - Mary Roberts; American Glamour - David Mitchell and a splendid Maryland home. Somewhat above-average wear. Roll to spine. Unmarked. A sound reference copy. Book
56 pages. Contains piano music, lyrics and guitar chords for the following songs: Sunny Sunday; Sex Kills; How Do You Stop; Turbulent Indigo; Last Chance Lost; The Magdalene Laundries; Not to Blame; Borderline; Yvette in English; The Sire of Sorrow (Job's Sad Song). Includes four colour paintings by Joni Mitchell. Clean, bright and unmarked with neglible wear. Lovely copy. Book
In 8o, pp. 1040, cartonato, mancanza sovraccoperta, ottimo (6779/ MITCHELL - VIA COL VENTO - LETTERATURA AMERICANA 1900)
124 pages. Features: Vogue's Point of View - be a natural; Pants - naturally; The new easy tailoring - wider legs; wider waistbands; cuffs and trouser pleats; pants with chopped jackets; Sweaters - naturally; The Piano Sweater; The sweater as a shirt, a muffler, the new sweater sets; sweater-dressing at night; Super Naturals - the chopped suede wrapper; the blouson - new jacket in the separates life; this year's trenchcoat - flannel plaid; the easiest jumpsuit; the sweater set you never saw before; sweater-dressing; tops for pants - the knit shirt-jacket; the suede wrap coat; Berry Berenson - a natural girl; The Sweatery Suits - the Sweatery Dresses; A Natural in Naturals - Pilar Crespi in jackets and pants; Rash words - remember poison ivy; Biking - a natural way of life; the miracle of skin; What's playing at the hairdresser's?; Every body wants to be a blonde now; News about protein, herbs, fruits and vegetables for skin and hair; Natural Beauties - Miranda Barry, Berry Berenson, Sarah Cubitt, Loulou de la Falaise; Marchesa de Montezemolo's 7-day natural food plan; Your Hair and Henna - the natural way to change color; Can the I.U.D. rival the pill?; People are Talking About - Elvis Presley; Four Young Artists living the loft life - Sylvia Stone, Rosemarie Castoro, Nancy Graves, Susan Crile; False Energy - what it is, how to avoid it and build new power; 13 powerhouses - real people with real energy; What Women Know About "Love" that Men Don't Know About "Loving" - an interview with Juliet Mitchell; Mega-Vitamins; Surprise - the young really like their parents now; A Guide to Ireland; Natural Style - Mr. & Mrs. Michael Santangelo's house on Centre Island; Horoscope of Peter O'Toole; and much more. Usual library markings. Above-average wear. Clear tape along spine. A worthy reference copy. Book
301 pages. Marries W.O. Mitchell's prose with the inspired illustrations of one of Canada's finest and most popular artists, William Kurelek. Above average wear. Usual library markings. Remains a decent copy of this lovely work. Book
Book shows some wear to covers. Binding is solid and square, text/interior is clean and free of marking of any kind. With stills from the film by Peter Whitehead. Book has been in someone's backpack for a bit. Nice b&w stills of the reader's throughout. 71 pages. Includes misty blind rock: "Over for now the Vomit invisible skull, the fear of the bones the grasp against man & woman & babe / Let the dragon of Death come forth & feed on my brain & meat & let him be other than I / Till my turn comes & I enter that blind maw & change to a blind rock covered with misty ferns that I am not all now -- A. Ginsberg
8vo, 159 pages, illustrated throughout. eng
