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19905112New York: Berry-Hill Galleries 1990. Softcover. VG. Colored wraps. 32 pp. 11 bw 14 color plates. Catalogue from the exhibition of Oct. to Nov. 1990 the first exhibition in NYC by this artist in 10 years. Essay on the artist by Eugenia Parry Janis. Catalogue lists 26 works. Biography Selected solo exhibitions selected group exhibitions. Berry-Hill Galleries unknown books
198716244Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago / The University of Chicago Press 1987. Softcover. G Some soiling to bottom of book block occasional edgewear to cover otherwise quite nice. Fuschia & illus. wraps. 184 pp. Numerous bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1987 exhibition featuing the works of French photographer Gustave Le Gray 1820-1884. Follows a chronological outline of his travels and his photography. The Art Institute of Chicago / The University of Chicago Press paperback books
19913370San Francisco. Bedford Arts. 1991. Square 4to. 1st Edition. Illustrated from photographs. Very Fine in Very Fine dustwrapper. Bedford Arts. unknown books
1983159209Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press 1983. First edition. Oblong hardcover. First printing. 284 pages. A scholarly examination of this early method of photography as it was used by French photographers like Gustave Le Gray Charles Negre Hippolyte Bayard and numerous others. Includes over 100 images. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with a small tear at the bottom of the front panel near the spine and some other very minor wear. Princeton University Press unknown books
199111622Paris: Centre National de la Photographie Collection Photo Poche 1991. Original wraps. Near Fine. The 1991 1st edtion #49 in the very impressive "Photo Poche" series out of Paris. SIGNED BY JOEL-PETER WITKIN on the front free endpaper. Clean and Near Fine in its black pictorial wrappers. 12mo first-rate reproductions thruout. <br/><br/> Centre National de la Photographie (Collection Photo Poche) paperback books
1993UHORNEW00EFInterpretive Publications 1993. Very Good. Horstman Eugenia M. New River Gorge. Flagstaff Arizona: Interpretive Publications 1993. 40pp. Illustrated. 4to. Illustrated stapled wraps. Book condition: Very good. Interpretive Publications paperback books
198421026South Hadley Massachusetts: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum 1984. Softcover. VG. One copy has art museum library sticker on front cover. One copy has some wear to cover/spine. Red and illustrated wraps. 56 pp. 75 bw plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1984 exhibition of African art. Includes a map of Africa and a glossary of African names and terms. The exhibition checklist cites 158 pieces and about half are pictured here. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum unknown books
198927914Madrid: Fundacion Cultural MAPFRE VIDA. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very good- with bad bump at head of spine causing a tear at the head of the front joint; the bump has also left a small horizontal crease on the spine. Granell has glued to the pastedown endpaper a signed and inscribed note "To Franklin and Penelope Rosemon our very dear great friends . Eugenio and his wife Amparo."; 4to 9" - 11" tall; 250 pp . Fundacion Cultural MAPFRE VIDA hardcover books
27441Madrid: La Kabala Galeria De Arte. Postcard. Folded card announcing the opening of an exhibit of Granell's paintings signed and inscribed by Granell to the leaders of US Surrealism Penelope and Franklin Rosemont. The first page is a color reproduction of a Granell painting pp. 2-3 is a text in Portuguese by Luis Garcia-Ochoa and p. 4 is a printed postcard that can be mailed but has not been filled out. See photos. Fine; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 4 pp . La Kabala Galeria De Arte unknown books
1997407747New Mexico: Arena Editions 1997. A near-fine copy with some slight toning along the sheet edges few bumps on boards dust jacket lightly worn. 12.5 x 9.75 inches. 112 pages. Boards; dust jacket. Second edition. "Adam Fuss has emerged as one of the bold and truly creative artists utilizing photography today. Fuss's photograms clearly break from those of his predecessors Man Ray Moholy-Nagy and Talbot and while striking a chord of homage the images redefine how and what we see in pictures viscerally and intellectually. Like an eighteenth-century experimenter Fuss utilizes organic and raw materials in an unusual approach revealing spiritual and emotional process. Live snakes the entrails of rabbits eggs cow liver sperm flowers and stained glass circumscribe the vital often mysterious energies emitted from these pictures. This book the first major monograph of the artist's work to date has been widely acclaimed as one of the finest art books of 1997. The reprint appears in conjunction with the artist's mid-career retrospective at the Fotomuseum Winterthur Switzerland." <br/><br/> Arena Editions hardcover books
19999008804Santa Fe NM: Arena Editions 1999. 2nd . Hardcover. Book fine Dust jacket fine. Bound in publisher's original white boards. <br/><br/> Arena Editions hardcover books
1918115771Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company 1918. Octavo original green cloth. First edition. Novella about World War I. Smith American Fiction 1901-1925 F-441. Quinn Patrick J. The Conning of America: The Great War and American Popular Literature p. 239. Gold lettering on spine dull a clean tight very good copy. #115771 Houghton Mifflin Company unknown books
1902391906Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1902. Hardcover. Very Good. Later printing. Decorative green cloth stamped in silver by Sarah Wyman Whitman. Rubbing edgwear and toning else very good with previous owner name on the front free endpaper and bookseller stamp on the front pastedown. Houghton, Mifflin and Company hardcover books
1968173824Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 1968. Paperback. VG- light interior foxing and discoloration. Gray wraps with white lettering. 28 unnumbered pages. BW illustrations. Catalogue of an exhibition from October 9 through November 24 1968. Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts paperback books
2012171320Wellesley MA: Davis Museum and Cultural Center 2012. Hardcover. VG. Red cloth boards with black stamped lettering. White and color-illustrated paper band with black lettering. 300 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Published in conjunction with the exhibition held at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College from September 12 to December 16 2012. Davis Museum and Cultural Center hardcover books
1934WRCLIT83772London: Watts & Co. 1934. viii551pp. 12mo. Stiff printed wrapper. Small Portsmouth bookseller's blindstamp in upper fore-corner of half title a bit of scattered foxing early and late otherwise an unusually nice copy. First edition published as No 19 in "The Forum Series." Includes overviews of activities at home and abroad including 24 pages on a "Successful Experiment" in California discussions of birth control and of course the highly sensitive primary subject. Watts & Co. unknown books
15943000London: : Printed by Adam Islip for C. Hunt of Excester 1594. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH translated from the 1582 Italian translation of Camillo Camilli d. 1615. . Quarto: . 19 x 14 cm. . 16 333 3 pp. A-Y8 Bound in 19th c. calf rebacked the boards ruled in gold. This is a fine copy; title a little dusty. Occasional marginal pencil notations in margins. “To Distinguish and discern these natural difference’s of man’s wit and to apply to each by art that science wherein he may profit is the intention of this my work.†“This sentence concisely summarizes the ultimate purpose of one of the most successful and influential Spanish scientific books published in the early modern period one with long-lasting influence upon the European intellectual world: the ‘Examen de Los Ingenios para Las Ciencias’ 1575 by the Spanish physician and philosopher Juan Huarte de San Juan 1529-1588… Huarte is now hailed as the precursor of several branches of pedagogy and psychology including differential pedagogy and differential psychology and their practical applications professional orientation and selection. Recently too Noam Chomsky recognized in Huarte a forerunner of the rationalist innatism and the linguistic theory of 17th-century French scholars notably Descartes. In the eyes of Chomsky the ‘Examen’ is the first scientific treatise to define human wit as a generative power that reveals the creative capacities of the human mind… “For Huarte wit denotes the totality of the psychological abilities of an individual; more precisely an individual ability or predisposition dependent on temperament linked to the qualities of the four basic elements earth air water and fire organically connected to the brain and under the influence of other organs. The starting point for Huarte’s theory of wits is that the temperature of the four qualities hot cold moist and dry of the elements has an impact upon the function of the rational as well as the ‘sensitive’ soul and that intemperate and ever-changing environmental conditions lead to a diversity of the wits. Wit is subject to age region of birth sex currents of air weather diet physical exercise and lifestyle in general since these factors have an impact upon the predominance in every individual of one of three powers of the intellective soul: memory imagination or understanding… Huarte’s goal is to clearly delineate what makes a man capable of one science and incapable of another to discover the number of differences of wits the arts and sciences that correspond to each and most importantly to illustrate how all this can be known. The Brain & Faculties of Mind “Contrary to the view of Aristotle and following Plato Hippocrates and Galen instead Huarte argues that ‘the brain is the principal seat of the reasonable soul.’ In his view in order for the reasonable soul to discourse and philosophize the brain ‘should be tempered with measurable heat and without excess of the other qualities’ and divided into four ventricles ‘distinct and severed each duly bestowed in his seat and place.’ Huarte describes the ventricles of the brain as four little hollows of ‘one self composition and figure without anything coming in between which may breed a difference.’ The three ventricles in the forepart of the head are used to ‘discourse and philosophize’ while the fourth ventricle deals with the least noble operations as it ‘hath the office of digesting and altering the vital spirits and to convert them into animal.’ The conviction that the three mental powers understanding imagination and memory necessarily work in collaboration with each other –to the extent that without one the rest would malfunction- makes Huarte conclude that ‘in every ventricle are all the three powers.’… Building a Better Society by Compulsion. “Huarte took his theories very seriously and believed that they could have practical repercussions upon the society of his time. His dedicatory to King Philip II of Spain suggests in fact a law by which subjects exclusively performed the profession art or science that corresponded to them by nature. Huarte envisioned appointing ‘men of great wisdom and knowledge who might discover each man’s wit at a tender age and cause him perforce to study that science which is agreeable to him not permitting him to make his own choice… to the end he may not err in choosing that which fitteth best with his own nature.’ Huarte’s reasoning was that if every man carried out the job that suited his natural capabilities best progress in the scientific artistic and technological production of Spain would promptly follow and a body of naturally accomplished and efficient professionals would ensue… “Huarte allows for a body of intellectuals defined by their merits and not by the social class into which they were born; nature should then be made the key for social mobility. Nobility by birth is no guarantee of sophisticated wits and Huarte remarks that precisely within the highest strata of society numerous witless children are born whereas poor families often produce witty offspring. Eugenics “The ‘Examination’ interacts with numerous treatises on midwifery and procreation in England in the early modern period. Indeed Chapter XV of the book is a short treatise on eugenesis i.e. the application of the biological laws of inheritance to the perfection of mankind particularly concerned with four issues: 1. ‘to show the natural qualities and temperature which men and women ought to possess to the end they may use generation’; 2. To discuss ‘what diligence the parents ought to employ that their children may be male and not female’ and 3. ‘how they may become wise and not fools’ and finally 4. ‘how they are to be dealt withal after their birth for preservation of their wit.’. This final chapter is of the utmost importance to Huarte who is of the opinion that ‘parents apply not themselves to the act of generation with that order and concert which is by nature established neither know the conditions which ought to be observed to the end their children may prove of wisdom and judgment.’ In other words ‘The Examination’ aims to prevent parents from engendering witless children out of ignorance and by so doing to remedy the problems of society prior even to the moment of conception: ‘if by art we may procure a remedy for this begetting witless children we shall have brought to the commonwealth the greatest benefit that she can receive.’â€RocÃo G. Sumillera “Richard Carew The Examination of Men's Wits†pp. 1-66 STC 2nd ed. 13892; Garrison-Morton 4964 1575 Spanish edition; Durling 2498. Hunter & Macalpine p. 46. Thorndike VI pp. 413-14 Printed by Adam Islip, for C. Hunt of Excester, unknown books
1969289307Grand Rapids Michigan: Zondervan Publishing House 1969. Third Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good binding/Very Good dust jacket. Signed. Signed by the author on the title page. A religious work on the love of God. Green cloth. Minor wear to the Very Good dustjacket. Very Good binding / Very Good dust jacket. Zondervan Publishing House unknown books
201234478New Haven: Yale University Press 2012. Paperback. Very good. 201pp index. Internally fine with clean text that has no underlining highlighting or notes. <br/><br/> Yale University Press paperback books
1986180905Paris: Musee des Arts Decoratifs 1986. Hardcover. VG/VG some cover wear. Dj has some curling along edges and some tearing near spine. French language edition. Black cloth boards with silver letering pn spine. SIlver dj with photographs. 191 pages : chiefly illustrations some color. Museum exhibition. Musee des Arts Decoratifs hardcover books
1926WRCAM50158Charleston: Southern Printing and Pub. Co. 1926. 1011pp. plus fifteen plates. Modern three-quarter calf and cloth boards leather label by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with original wrappers bound in. Front board slightly bowed. Mild toning. Very good. A biography of James Oglethorpe British general and founder of the colony of Georgia. Oglethorpe was a member of Parliament and a renowned humanitarian conceiving the plan to resettle many of England's poorest particularly those in debtors' prisons to the New World. Southern Printing and Pub. Co. hardcover books
2015163323Mexico D.F.: Pablo Goebel Fine Arts 2015. Paperback. NF. Red color-pictorial wraps with white lettering. 67 pp. full of color images. Catalogue from the gallery exhibition held at Pablo Goebel Fine Arts in 2015 and previously in Medellin at GalerÃa Duque Arango. With essays in both Spanish and English by Pablo Goebel Luis-Martin Lozano and Miguel Angel Munoz. Pablo Goebel Fine Arts paperback books
196920828San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute 1969. First edition. Loose Sheets. Fine. Single sheet folded art poster. Fine condition. When opened it measures 20 x 14". Scarce poster announcing an exhibition April 11 - May 3 1969 at the San Francisco Art Institute and featuring a cream of the crop of artists of the day. Exhibition organized by Eugenia Butler. <br/><br/> San Francisco Art Institute unknown books
1994184632Baltimore: DuForcelf Black Classic Press 1994. Paperback. 188p. very good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps remainder marks to bottom page edges. Baltimore writer and educator. DuForcelf Black Classic Press paperback books
197421738Detroit: Broadside Press 1974. First Edition. Very good . 4to. Broadside printed recto only. 10.875" by 8.5" approx. Very good plus. Small crease to one edge; else about fine. <br/><br/>Attractively printed broadside from this African-American press operated by Dudley Randall in Detroit beginning in the mid-60s and throughout the 1970s. From an edition of 500 copies. Broadside Press unknown books
