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2008CNJL1264Octon France: Verdigris 2008. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Rothchild Judith. Number 6 of 10 de luxe editions total edition 50 oblong octavo size 14 pp. signed by the artist and author text in French. Frederic Jacques Temple b. 1921 French poet and author decided to pursue writing as a career following a meeting with Blaise Cendrars in 1949. This work by him is a collection of memories of the Aveyron River and surrounding area from childhood; his early memories influenced much of his work including "L'Enclos" which celebrated the "mythical" city of Montpelier where he attended the college of the Enclos Saint-Francois. <br/><br/>The accompanying intaglio prints by Judith Rothchild are a combination of mezzotint and dry point techniques for which she is well known with the type enjambed to lengthen the ripples of the riverbanks which extend borderless across double-page spreads; thus each page flows seamlessly into the next like the bends of a river. The words like the ripples and river stones are given an added dimension of meaning especially being fragments of a long-distant childhood. The lush woodlands and light filled waters of southern France are praised in this romantic accolade by two of its natives.<br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original binding of blue paste paper over yellow paper affixed to both boards and the title letterpress printed to the upper board concertina or "leporello" style text in French 11 gravure mezzotints handset in Vendome Romain and printed on an Albion Press Hahnemuhle paper oblong octavo size 11.75" by 7.75" 14 pp. limited edition this number 6 of 10 de luxe copies from a total edition of 50 signed by the author and artist. Accompanied by one additional print signed and numbered by the artist with a handwritten poem by the author also signed and housed in a blue marbled paste paper portfolio; both items are housed in a matching fall-down-back box with marbled black and blue pastepaper guards.<br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine; crisp clean as new and free of prior owner markings; in a like case. A lovely collaboration between artists.<br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details.<br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Verdigris hardcover books
2001SS12807Cambridge:: Perseus 2001. 2001. Thick 8vo. xii 628 pp. Photo illus. appendix index. Quarter navy-stamped gray cloth navy boards dust-jacket; spine text printed askew missing first letters on left edge jacket slightly rubbed. Very good. ISBN: 073820532X "The story of Edward Teller is the story of the twentieth century. Born in Hungary in 1908 Teller witnessed the rise of Nazism and anti-Semitism two world wars the McCarthy era and the changing face of big science. A brilliant and controversial figure Teller brings to these events a perspective that is at once surprising and insightful. Edward Teller is perhaps best known for his belief in freedom through strong defense. But this extraordinary memoir at last reveals the man behind the headlines -- passionate and humorous devoted and loyal. Never before has Teller told his story as fully as he does here. We learn Teller's true position on everything from the bombing of Japan to the pursuit of weapons research in the post-war years. In clear and compelling prose Teller chronicles the people and events that shaped him as a scientist beginning with his early love of music and math and continuing with his study of quantum physics under Werner Heisenberg. Present at many of the pivotal moments in modern science Teller also describes his relationships with some of the century's greatest minds -- Einstein Bohr Fermi Szilard von Neumann -- and offers an honest assessment of the development of the atomic and hydrogen bombs the founding of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and his complicated relationship with J. Robert Oppenheimer. He also offers for the first time a moving portrait of his childhood his marriage and family life and his deep friendship with physicist Maria Mayer. Writing about those aspects of his life that have had important public consequences -- from his conservative politics to his relationships with scientists and presidents -- Teller reveals himself to be a man with deep beliefs about liberty security and the moral responsibility of science." – Jacket flap. "Edward Teller was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb . . ." CONTENTS: How many seconds in a year 1908-1913 -- Learning about war revolution and peace 1914-1919 -- The other side of the war years 1914-1919 -- Romanian interlude 1919-1920 -- My name is KoKo 1920-1925 -- How to become a physicist the hard way 1926-1928 -- Brave new world 1928-1929 -- Journeymen year in physics 1929-1930 -- The pleasures of small successes 1930-1933 -- The future becomes obvious 1933 -- Copenhagen 1933-1934 -- The joy of being a foreigner 1934-1935 -- First years in the United States 1935-1941 -- Fission 1939-1941 -- Academicians go to work 1941-1943 -- Settling in at Los Alamos March 1943-November 1943 -- On and off the Mesa November 1943-January 1945 -- An end a beginning 1945 -- Give it back to the Indians 1945-1946 -- Incomplete answers 1946 -- Among friends from home February 1946-June 1949 -- The Reactor Safeguard Committee 1947-1949 -- Twenty years too soon June 1949-January 1950 -- Our doubts have a firm foundation 1950 -- Damn the torpedoes November 1950-April 1951 -- Pleasures in the Pacific perils at Princeton -- April 1951-September 1951 -- The campaign for a second weapons laboratory -- November 1951-July 1952 -- The new wheel spins a bit 1952-1954 -- Other nuclear affairs 1949-1955 -- The Oppenheimer hearing April 12 1954-May 6 1954 -- Sequelae June 1954-February 1955 -- Three friends August 1954-August 1958 -- Down to earth 1955-1958 -- The directorship 1958-1960 -- A few lessons in political affairs 1955-1960 -- The temperature of the Cold War rises 1960-1965 -- Educating inventive engineers 1961-1975 -- Uphill 1964-1972 -- Choices critical and otherwise 1973-1979 -- Strategic defense 1980-1992 -- Other issues--public and private 1980-1990 -- Homecoming 1990-2000 -- Appendix: In the matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Perseus, (2001). hardcover books
200338699Lincoln: Zoo Press 2003. First edition. 73 pp w/notes. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Taylor’s third book of poems. Lincoln: Zoo Press unknown books
200361748Xlibris 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 475 p. Frontispiece portrait with 53 textual figures. N.p. First edition. Inscribed by Taylor on the title page. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Inscribed by Author. Xlibris hardcover books
2009125422Providence Rhode Island: Rhode Island School of Design 2009. Softcover. VG. Blue wraps blue and color illus. dust jacket 40 pp.; Profusely illustrated in color. Issued in conjunction with a 2009-2010 exhibition of a city-scape installation told in clay by American sculpture Arnie Zimmerman b. 1954 and adapted to the exhibition site by Portuguese architect Tiago Montepegado b. 1970. With an introduction by Judith Tannenbaum artist chronologies and exhibition histories and many views of the work. Includes glimpses of Inner City 2008 as it was staged in the Netherlands and Inner City 2007 as it was staged in Portugal. Intriguing. Rhode Island School of Design unknown books
2004170850Providence RI: Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design 2004. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran February 7 through April 20 2004. Features text by Judith Tannenbaum and Marion Boulton Stroud. Includes numerous color illustrations. A fine copy in wrappers. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design unknown books
2001141817Providence RI: Rhode Island School of Design 2001. Hardcover. VG. Three-quarters card boards with gray cloth spine unpaginated many BW illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2001-2002 exhibition featuring work by American artist Jonathan Bonner b. 1947. With an afterword by Judtih Tannenbaum an exhibition list and many BW photographs from the gallery. Rhode Island School of Design hardcover books
2017290692New York: The Grolier Club 2017. Soft Cover. Near Fine binding. Catalog published to accompany the exhibition held at The Grolier Club from 19 September- 4 November 2017. Text illustrations. With no marks. Near Fine softcover. Near Fine binding. The Grolier Club unknown books
200123380London: British Museum Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2001. Hardcover. 0714112771 . Black and white plates. First edition. Fine in a fine dust jacket. . British Museum Press hardcover books
2011225019Berkeley: Bancroft Library 2011. Paperback. 30p. introduction photos prose and poetry very good first edition limited to 400 copies trade paperback in 10x7 inch white pictorial wraps. Posthumous collection. Bancroft Library paperback books
200246405Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith 2002. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. 127pp. Gift inscription on title page else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket. <br/><br/> Gibbs Smith hardcover books
2003CNJL1250Octon: Verdigris Press 2003. Limited Edition. Folio in a case. Fine. Rothchild Judith. Number 10 of 50 copies quarto size 20 pp. signed by Judith Rothchild and the printer Mark Lintott. Wallace Stevens 1879-1955 was "one of America's most respected poets. He was a master stylist employing an extraordinary vocabulary and a rigorous precision in crafting his poems. But he was also a philosopher of aesthetics vigorously exploring the notion of poetry as the supreme fusion of the creative imagination and objective reality." N.B. from the web site of the Poetry Foundation. <br/><br/>"Study of Two Pears" was first published in 1954 in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens and is here translated into French by Bernard Noel. The title asserts itself as being concerned with visual arts and each stanza tugs at the tension between reality that is observed and imaginative reality the observer sees the pears but not as he wills language fails to adequately describe them as they are without the use of metaphor. There might be no more appropriate poem to illustrate than this as the speaker's desire to describe the pears without relating them to anything else is an act of reduction which ultimately expands the image by showing us the many things they do resemble. <br/><br/>Illustrated by Rothchild's velvety hyper-realistic mezzotints which follow the progress of the stanzas each print gradually growing brighter the pears illustrated from every possible angle becoming more definite and resolved along with the poem. <br/><br/>___DESCRIPTION: Original wrappers screen-printed with a design of green brown and orange with the title letterpress printed to the backstrip and upper wrapper in dark green loose leporello deckled fore-edge nine mezzotints two blind-stamped sets of pears to fly-leaves text in English and French; handset type Hahnemuhle paper quarto size 11" by 11.75" unpaginated with 20 pp. limited edition this number 10 of 50 copies signed by printer Mark Lintott and Judith Rothchild. Housed in a heavy cardboard slipcase covered in green paper and similarly screen-printed in shades of green lined with plain green paper. <br/><br/>___CONDITION: Fine; crisp clean; other than a hint of rubbing to the top corners and a small rubbed spot on the spine of the backstrip as new and free of prior owner markings; in a like case. <br/><br/>___POSTAGE: International customers please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. <br/><br/>___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA ILAB and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have we are here to help. Verdigris Press unknown books
2002208369Binghampton: Harrington Park Press/Alice Street Editions 2002. Paperback. 130p. backlist fiction poetry prose very good first edition trade paperback literary journal in pictorial wraps. The editorial board for the journal included Dorothy Allison Blanche MacCrary Boyd Holly Hughes Karla Jay Sarah Schulman Terry Wolverton et al. Harrington Park Press/Alice Street Editions paperback books
2005235128Binghampton: Harrington Park Press/Alice Street Editions 2005. Paperback. Twenty-one issue broken run missing one number fiction poetry prose lightly-worn covers otherwise very good first edition trade paperback literary journals in pictorial wraps. The editorial board for the journal included Dorothy Allison Blanche MacCrary Boyd Holly Hughes Karla Jay Sarah Schulman Terry Wolverton et al. Issues included are 1:1-4 2:1 3 & 4 3:1-4 4:1-4 5:1-4 6:1 &2 Missing only volume 2 issue number 2. Harrington Park Press/Alice Street Editions paperback books
2002240978Binghampton: Harrington Park Press/Alice Street Editions 2002. Paperback. 121p. extensive backlist fiction poetry prose very good first edition trade paperback literary journal in pictorial wraps. The editorial board for the journal included Dorothy Allison Blanche MacCrary Boyd Holly Hughes Karla Jay Sarah Schulman Terry Wolverton Tee Corinne Joan Nestle et al. Harrington Park Press/Alice Street Editions paperback books
2012134306New York: Cheim & Read 2012. Softcover. VG no crinkling to cover despite old picture. Brownish wraps French flaps unpaginated approx. 64 pp. 18 color plates including four fold-outs. Issued in conjunction with a 2012 exhibition of paintings by American abstract artist Louise Fishman b. 1939. Includes six-page essay about Fishman followed by large color plates. Bibliography and other professional information follows the plates. A large-format catalogue. 1500 copies printed. Cheim & Read paperback books
2014172769New York: Leila Heller Gallery 2014. Paperback. VG- light edge wear to wraps. White and illustrated wraps with gray lettering. 47 pp. Color illustrations. Printed on the occasion of the exhibition: Rachel Lee Harrison: Plastic Perfect September 4 - October 18 2014 at the Leila Heller Gallery. Leila Heller Gallery paperback books
2005109747Philadelphia: Locks Gallery 2005. Softcover. VG. White illus. wraps with orange lettering and peach back cover; 45 pp. with 13 un-numbered color plates. Includes a bw photograph and biography of Graves and essay by Stein. Locks Gallery unknown books
2002172791Philadelphia: Locks Gallery 2002. Paperback. VG. Color-illustrated and white wraps with black lettering. 41 pp. Color illustrations portrait. Catalogue of an exhibition from November 1 to December 14 2002 in Philadelphia. Locks Gallery paperback books
2002SKU1022994Scholastic Paperbacks 2002-03-01. PAPERBACK. Good. 0439204232 Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Scholastic Paperbacks paperback books
2010184993College Station TX: VirtualBookworm 2010. Paperback. VG ex-library with labels and stamps on spine block inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear but pages are clean and clear. Black wraps with orange lettering xx 525 pp; bw illustrations. Includes bibliographical references pages 506-523. VirtualBookworm paperback books
2010185121College Station TX: VirtualBookworm 2010. Softcover. VG- ex-library with labels and stamps on spine block inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to wraps. Pages are otherwise clean. Binding is tight. Black wraps with orange lettering; xx 591 pp; bw illustrations and maps. The register of landowner's in Long Island New York. Includes bibliographical references pages 561-587. VirtualBookworm unknown books
2006185119College Station TX: VirtualBookworm 2006. Softcover. VG- ex-library with labels and stamps on spine block inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to wraps. Pages are otherwise clean and clear. Two volume set bound in black wraps with orange lettering xvi 1197 pp; bw illustrations and maps. The register of landowner's in Long Island New York. Includes bibliographical references pages 1133-1193. VirtualBookworm unknown books
2015148521London: Matthiesen Ltd 2015. Hardcover. VG. Cream & marble-like boards 96 pp. BW & color illus. An in-depth study of Spanish Gothic painter Blasco de Granen. With illuistrated essays by Judith Sobre Josep Maria Gudiol i Ricart and Nuria Ortiz Valero and many full-color illustrations including close-ups. 1 of 650 copies. Matthiesen Ltd hardcover books
2015148520London: Matthiesen Ltd 2015. Hardcover. VG light shelfwear but pages are otherwise clean. Cream & marble-like boards 80 pp. BW & color illustrations. An in-depth study of this series of panels rendered by Spanish Gothic painter Juan de Sevilla. With an illustrated essay by Judith Sobre and many full-color illustrations including close-ups. 1 of 650 copies. Matthiesen Ltd hardcover books
