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1927058697Paris: Les Arts et Le Livre / M. Audin et Cie. 1927. First Edition . Illustrated Boards. Good. 11 1/2" Tall. 1/1500 copies sur velin teinte. Covers loose one cord holding. 8" x 5 3/4" illustration and title on front cover. covers dampstained at foredge some wrinkling to endpapers only at foredge. Paper quite aged browning at edges. Fine drawings. Scarce. <br/> <br/> Les Arts et Le Livre / M. Audin et Cie. hardcover
195423247Indianapolis: The Bobb-Merrill Company 1954. 1st Edition Thus. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 1st edition thus. A Very Good copy in Good dust jacket. 8vo. 144 pp. illustrated with b&w drawings. Blue cloth in white pictorial dust jacket. The dj has some edge wear and a few tape repairs to the reverse; spine lightly sunned. Text pages tanning. The dj is now protected in a mylar sleeve. A Very Good copy in Good dust jacket. Scarce in the dust jacket. Beard's 6th book before assumed the James Beard brand and was Jim Beard. The Bobb-Merrill Company unknown
1981Q-080611584XUniversity of Oklahoma Press 1981-05-15. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! University of Oklahoma Press hardcover
20192-2302078837Soleil Productions 2019. Album. New. 208 pages. French language. 11.34x8.43x0.79 inches. Soleil Productions unknown
49535Garden City NY: Doubleday & Co. Inc. 1946. Small 8vo.; illustrated cloth covered boards hardcover; 272 pages; black and white and color illustrations; very lightly edge-rubbed boards else very good clean tight copy. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1946 unknown
1985351113-XA40Boston/Toronto : Little Brown and Company 1985. Softcover. Good. Original half cloth gilt lettered spine dust jacket numerous b/w drawings 8vo.; Small part jacket partly discoloured; permanent marker line on bottom cut near spine. Boston/Toronto : Little, Brown and Company paperback
1964278230London: Hutchinson 1964. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Slightly soiled else very near fine in printed wrappers. Scarce in this format. Hutchinson unknown
1962280119London: Hutchinson 1962. Softcover. Near Fine. Uncorrected proof. Very near fine in printed wrappers. Scarce in this format. Hutchinson unknown
1528114981.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1925027623New York: Robert M. Mcbride & Company 1925. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 276 Pp. Lightly Used No Fraying No Names Or Marks Spine With Some Browning. An Interesting Pasadena Copy With A C Vroman Bookstore's Elaborate Gilt Stamped Adhesive Label With Red Swastika At Center. The Label Is Now Rare. Per The Getty Museum Website Adam Clark "A. C." Vroman 1856-1916 Vroman Worked For The Chicago Burlington And Quincy Railroad Company For Sixteen Years Before Moving To California In 1893. Upon Opening A Store That Sold Books Stationery And Photographic Supplies In Pasadena--Which He Gifted To His Employees And Which Remains In Operation As "Vroman's Bookstore" Today--He Began To Pursue His Interest In Photography. From 1895-1905 Vroman Travelled Throughout Southern California And Made Eight Trips To Arizona Colorado New Mexico And Utah Where He Photographed Local Indian Communities. His Extensive Travels And Repeated Collaborations With The Bureau Of American Ethnology A Research Unit Of The Smithsonian Institution. In His Photographic Work Vroman Concentrated On The Daily Lives Customs And Ceremonial Activities Of The Hopi Zuni And Navajo Peoples. A Member Of The Pasadena Camera Club He Often Travelled With Other Photographers Involved In Its Activities Such As His Friend Los Angeles Times Editor Charles Fletcher Lummis. In 1897 Vroman Was Employed By The Bureau Of American Ethnology To Photograph Katzimo "Enchanted Mesa" In Central New Mexico. His Sweeping Views From Its Summit Were Used As Evidence Of The Prior Native American Habitation Of The Area And Were Later Published In Benjamin Brooks's Book The Enchanted Mesa New York: Charles Scribner's Sons 1904. In 1899 Vroman Again Accompanied The Bureau Of American Ethnology To The Southwest This Time On A Survey To Document The Pueblos And Cliff Dwellings Of New Mexico. Several Of The Photographs He Made Were Included In The Smithsonian's Multivolume Handbook Of American Indians North Of Mexico Washington: Government Printing Office 1907 An Encyclopaedic Classification Of Over 2500 Cultural And Linguistic Groups. In 1901 Vroman Served As The Official Photographer On The Museum-Gates Expedition An Archaeological Survey Of The Southwest Led By Ethnologist Walter Hough. Alongside His Work On Native American Communities Vroman Documented Spanish Missions In California Over A Ten-Year Period 1895-1905 Often With Friends And Photo Enthusiasts Who Constituted The "Club Of Four" A Group He Founded. In Addition To Vroman The Group Comprised Homer Eachus Hoopes H.C. Chatfield And G.J. Kuhrts. A Collector Of Netsuke Miniature Japanese Carved Objects Vroman Toured And Photographed In Japan In 1903 And 1909. He Also Made Photographs In France And Germany 1912 Canada 1914 And On The East Coast Of The United States 1914. Vroman's Images Of Native American Peoples Have Long Been Regarded As Respectful Portrayals In Part Because He Purportedly Gifted Prints To Numerous People He Depicted. More Recently However Re-Evaluation Of His Work Has Revealed A More Complicated History Situating His Aesthetic Choices Within The Scientific Aspirations Of The Bureau Of American Ethnology A Prominent Institutional Exponent Of Social Evolutionary Theory. <br/> <br/> Robert M. Mcbride & Company hardcover
19499014367New York: Harper & Brothers 1949. 1st. Hardcover. Near fine condition in a very good dust jacket. Bound in publisher's original cloth. The spine of the dust jacket is sunned. Gift presentation in ink on the front free endpaper. <br/><br/> Harper & Brothers hardcover
19226111HOLT. NY 1922. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1922. First Edition. Near fine in grey pictorial cloth lacking the rare dj. Light spots of rubbing & shelfwear to covers Author's uncommon SECOND book. . HOLT. NY 1922 hardcover
1938059510Akron / New York / Chicago: The Saalfield Publishing Company 1938. First Edition . Pictorial Boards. Near Fine/Near Fine. 10" Tall. 123 Pp. Hardcover Illustrated Boards Illustrated Endpapers. First Printing. A Bright Clean Example Near Fine Trace Of Rubbing In Small Areas At Edges Former Owner's Name On Front Endpaper Later A Mia Pilot. Dust Jacket Bright And Clean Rubbing In A Few Small Areas Along Spine Edges And At Top And Bottom Of Spine With A 1/4" Closed Tear At Top Of Front Panel Thin Strip Of Browning Along Top Edges Of Flaps Still Near Fine. <br/> <br/> The Saalfield Publishing Company hardcover
193868070Weston Vermont: The Countryman Press 1938. Limited Signed Edition. Hardcover. Good. SIGNED. 78pp. Slim octavo 23.5 cm Blue cloth over boards. With prominent areas of fading to the spine and boards. With the publisher's band and in the publisher's mylar slipcase. The book's designer Vrest Orton has inscribed the book to Wallace Stegner on the front free endpaper. Stegner was a prolific author of fiction and historical nonfiction set mainly in the American West. His influence on American writers is enormous. He was often referred to as the "Dean of Western Writers." Printed in Janson on Archer paper from the design of Vrest Orton. It is signed by both author and artist and is limited to 750 numbered copies of which 700 copies are for sale. This copy is number 711. Signed by Stephen Vincent Benét and Charles Child on the limitation page. The Countryman Press hardcover
191479120Paris France: G. Oudin Éditeur 1914. 3/4 Leather. Very Good. 3/4 Leather Finely Bound. Maroon leather binding with red marbled boards and endpapers tri-color ribbon marker in tact. En français In French. Copy No. 216. pp 129. Wear and tear to edges and scuffing to the leather with some cracking to the leather at the front edge on the spine. Previous seller's stamps on some of the front endpages in red ink. Otherwise Very Good. G. Oudin, Éditeur hardcover
105655Cassell and Company. La Belle Sauvage. London. 1929. Cassell and Company. 1929. First edition. LIMITED TO 750 COPIES THIS BEING NO. 256. 7 full page coloured plates plus coloured vignette to title and head and tail-pieces in colour by E. McKnight Kauffer produced at The Curwen Press by a stencil process which gives them a depth and brilliance. Cream boards very slightly soiled to edges front free endpaper has had top sixth removed endpapers browned otherwise a very clean and fresh copy in very worn original protective wrapper that lacks most of spine and the whole is housed in a black slipcase with paper title slightly worn and rubbed to extremities. hardcover
197386946Chicago: Chicago Review Press 1973. Softcover. Oblong octavo 22cm x 28cm; white pictorial paper wrappers; 64pp; black-and-white comic illustrations throughout. Light tanning and trace shelf-wear with tiny tear to lower front wrapper; Very Good.<br /> <br /> Some parts first published in the Chicago Review and Creem this collection explores human behavior through comics of animals and includes "I dreamt" "Momma" and Living in Vernon California". Additionally this text is "one of the first graphic novels whose interior landscapes of a leviathan Midwest show" see Chicago Review Press Blog Reflections from the Publisher.<br /> <br /> "While most readers won't know what to make of Prairie State Blues the book represents a new breakthrough in combining the written word with the visual image to portray a deeply personal but unmistakably American view of the nature of existence" see Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature M. Thomas Inge. 86946. Chicago Review Press unknown
66799Big Sky 1975. First edition first printing. SIGNED: Near fine illustrated tall stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Affectionately inscribed to the poet Janine Pommy Vega by Bill Berkson on the opening flyleaf. Highly unique edition with cover and interior drawings by Philip Guston. This book is dedicated to Clark Coolidge. The alignment of Philip Guston with Bill Berkson has made this a strong topical piece Big Sky, 1975 paperback
1989Q-039330602XW. W. Norton & Company 1989-06-17. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! W. W. Norton & Company paperback
17-3766Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia 1973. Folio. circa 150 pp. Loose papers in hardback portfolio. Black and white photography. Very Good. En Espanol.From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz 1919-2019. Mexico: Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, 1973. hardcover
Q-0826057209The Ronald Press Company 1946-06-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! The Ronald Press Company hardcover
196712537New York: Kulchur Press 1967. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Quarto 202pp. illustrated. Near fine in the publisher's printed wrappers with some nicks to the edges. Clear acetate dust jacket--which is contemporary and possibly original--with some small chips and creases. "Bean Spasms is perhaps Berrigan's and Padgett's most famous collaboration. In 1972 Berrigan told Barry Alpert about how "Big Travel Dialogue" came to be written: "We got the title off Frank's "Little Travel Dialogue." We were into a lot of collaborations in those days . . . and we decided to write these letters to each other. . . . the rule was that we would write them as if we were both traveling around the country and we were each writing from different places. . . . We actually wrote them as letters and we did mail them to each other because I was living downtown in New York and Ron was living uptown. We always put them in envelopes and addressed them though sometimes I just took them up there since I was going up there anyway or Ron would bring them down. Often I'd draw the stamp instead of putting a new stamp on it and draw cancellation marks through it. But we were serious about the form. Ron wrote all of his in his house uptown and I wrote all of mine downtown in my house. . . . They gave us a chance to say a lot of things to each other that we really wanted to say too the way you can in letters." - Berrigan to Barry Alpert in 1972 from Talking in Tranquility: Interviews with Ted Berrigan. Edited by Stephen Ratcliffe & Leslie Scalopino. Bolinas & Oakland CA: Avenue B / O Books 1991 p. 40. (Kulchur Press) unknown
37888London Cape Goliard Press 1970. . Limited edition of 100 copies of which this is number 94 signed by the author 8vo.pp. unpaginated pictorial hardcover b/w illustrations; author’s signature to title page light toning to margins rubbed to extremities with light wear to head and foot of spine and corners a very good copy. No dust-jacket. London, Cape Goliard Press, 1970. hardcover
2022205601Splitter Verlag 2022. hardcover. gebraucht wie neu kaum Gebrauchsspuren!. 2330 x 260 x 3220 Splitter Verlag hardcover
2003Q-1559532750Key Curriculum Press 2003-04-14. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Key Curriculum Press paperback
