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Imprint: Paris, France, Memento Films/Sony Film Classics, 2013 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 100 pages. Rare Asghar Farhadi collectible item. A pristine copy of the Complete Screenplay of "The Past", signed by Asghar Farhadi, with a brand-new copy of the film itself on Blu-ray. Printed in a tiny run for the exclusive use of Memento Films, the producer, and Sony Film Classics, the global distributor. Printed on pristine-white, archival stock paper in Paris to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Asghar Farhadi's "The Past" in a felicitous English translation. The Iranian film director's follow-up to his award-winning breakthrough, "A Separation" (2012). Farhadi's films are about human relationships as they unravel in the shadow of an invisible Iranian theocracy, which he can never directly criticize (although he does, ever so subtly and therefore more effectively). Still, his films are not political at all (as say, Costa-Gavras). It's not because he is restricted as such by the state, but because he has shown NO interest thus far in politics, ideology, or the nation-state as a film artist, either as its propagandist or critic, itself the most powerful statement an artist could ever make. Farhadi's films belie the Western truism that the "personal is political" as priveleged and self-aggrandizing. His films are instead, liberatingly personal. They are about fully realized, middle-class characters whose lives mirror the spatial dimension of being caught in the middle, of being "in-between": Between joy and anguish, altruism and self-interest, creature comforts and daily struggles. His characters ARE in spite of, rather than thanks to, the ruling Ayatollahs. Whereas "A Separation" is relentless in a gut-wrenching way, "The Past" is meditative in an equally gut-wrenching way, demonstrating Farhadi's tonal range. He already has a considerable body of work behind him, not just two great films, set in Iran about Iranian characters for an Iranian audience that nevertheless has a transcendent appeal to a broader global audience. He is the best Iranian film director since the late great Abbas Kiarostami, but they have very little in common as artists: Kiarostami was an elusive, ironic, and formalist auteur whereas Farhadi is a focussed, tragicomic, and riveting dramatist. The vitality and power of his films will feel true to every serious moviegoer who cares about "foreign films" (by definition, films made by The Other almost as if the latter are creatures from outer space). It's as if we are watching real life unfold in real time, the pressing human issues presented to us un-mediated by intrusive film "style", "technique", or "special effects"; they are organic dramas, not manufactured or formulaic as most (though not all) Hollywood assembly-line products are. That Farhadi is able to make his films at all, in Iran of all places, is a miracle. He is an actor's director: "The Past" has luminous performances by Ali Mosaffa, Berenice Bejo, and Tahar Rahim. An absolute "must-have" title for Asghar Farhadi collectors. This copy of the Complete Screenplay of "The Past" is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Asghar Farhadi. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It comes with a brand-new copy of the film on Blu-ray. This title is a great film. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy with Blu-ray available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, pristine beauties. Please note: Farhadi signed the screenplay, NOT the Blu-ray. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2012 for "A Separation", the very first Iranian film to win the award. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2017 for "The Salesman". "A Separation" was selected by a panel of British film critics, reviewers, and academic scholars as "The Best Film So Far" (of the century's first fifteen years) in 2015. One of the most brilliant film directors of our time. A fine collectible set. . Stock number: 20855.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, The Penguin Press, 2008 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 340 pages. The author's second novel. One of the best novels on post-Communist Russia, as seen from an American novelist's "outsider/insider" perspective. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Elsa Chiao's DJ design, which utilizes an evocative photograph of Moscow by the great photojournalist Adri Berger, is outstanding. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jon Fasman's "The Unpossessed City". A Le Carre-inspired twist to the espionage thriller genre. "Jim Vilatzer lives at home and works in his parents' restaurant. He's going nowhere until gambling debts force him to make a change. He lands a job in Moscow (he grew up speaking Russian to his immigrant grandparents), interviewing survivors of the Gulag for a not-for-profit company. His work soon makes him a pawn in a scheme to sell to the highest bidder four of the former USSR's top weapons engineers which, in turn, leads him to become a target of Russian state security and the CIA. Fasman weaves two very different plotlines, one the story of a man discovering a new world and realizing that his roots are more important than he realized, the other tracking the machinations of crooked Russian officials to sell fellow citizens for a profit. The first plot is deftly, even lovingly achieved: Fasman's Moscow is beautiful, tragic, brutal, and exhilarating. The second storyline is more convoluted and arcane. The sum of the parts in this lyrically written novel is more than enough to keep readers engaged" (Thomas Gaughan). An absolute "must-have" title for Jon Fasman collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated (in month and year of publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Jon Fasman Nov. 10, 2008. It is signed directly on the page itself, not a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. This is one of few such signed and publication-month dated copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Jon Fasman's "The Geographer's Library" was one of the most important literary debuts of the decade. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JON FASMAN TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1594201900. Stock number: 15400. ISBN: 1594201900
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Imprint: Zurich, Switzerland, Scalo Publishers/Museum Fur Gestalteng, 1992 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 168 pages. Retrospective collection of color photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. The first and only edition. Published in a one-time-only print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Nicolas Faure and Scalo: Oversize-volume format in wide oblong shape. Red cloth boards, as issued. Photographs by Nicolas Faure. Introductory Essay by Thomas Hurlimann. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Zurich, Switzerland to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Nicolas Faure's "Switzerland On The Rocks". An apt and witty title about one of the most unusual (and little-known) physical aspects of the country ever photographed: Huge rocks found in the most cosmopolitan and picturesque Swiss locations. The rocks have been in place for a very long time and are immovable. Geologists surmise that they materialized during the so-called Great Age of Glaciers and are scientifically known as "errant rocks". Their surreal juxtaposition with modern-day Switzerland is delightfully jarring. "This country is extremely well-off. It has achieved the goals that other societies are just beginning to express: Its flowerbeds are well-groomed, its construction sites neat and tidy, its trail markers would never lead us astray: Cleanliness, order, system. Still, the rocks are there as ever-present reminders of Nature getting in the way of the Progress that the wealthiest country in the world has enviably achieved" (Thomas Hurlimann). Known to a relatively small group of admirers (notably, Martin Parr), Nicolas Faure has been described as a "new topographer" of the Swiss landscape. These photographs rock! An absolute "must-have" title for Nicolas Faure collectors. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. Considering how beautifully conceived and realized it is, this book is grossly under-valued right now because Scalo, the publisher, went bankrupt. A scarce copy thus. 62 color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 3905080176. Stock number: 20453. ISBN: 3905080176
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Imprint: Los Angeles, CA, Self-Published, 1994 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 8 pages. Rare James Fee collectible item. A fine copy of the Advance Promotional Excerpt of "James Fee: Photographs of America". Published in a tiny print run for the trade only. None of the copies was commercially distributed or sold. The Excerpt is now rare. Presents a sampling of James Fee's masterpiece, "Photographs of America". Seven of the images in the complete Series are presented ahead of final publication, magnificently reproduced in duotone plates. The Excerpt is a foldout that consists of five full-page images, supplemented by two loose sheets and Jackie Gallagher's brief text on glassine paper. They give a hint of the Series' negative majesty: An America that is abandoned in all her glory, actual relics strewn throughout the United States that James Fee captured during a road trip across the country's unpopulated landscape. Surely, Fee intended to comment on Robert Frank's similarly disturbing evocations in "The Americans", and Fee's brilliant twist is that there are no actual people, no Americans in his own "Photographs of America". Both books are elegies for the American Dream, which is the only way that America can finally be fully understood. An absolute "must-have" title for James Fee collectors. This Advance Promotional Excerpt is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare copy thus. 7 duotone plates. One of the greatest American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMES FEE TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 19258.
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Imprint: Los Angeles, CA, Farmani & Fee/Self-Published, 1999 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 30 pages. Collection of female and male nudes. One of James Fee's most impressive achievements. The first and only edition. Published in a tiny first print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. The book is beautifully produced, with an illuminating Essay by Craig Krull and stunning reproductions printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents James Fee's "New Figurative Work". His formal female and male nude studies. Produced by cutting up the negatives and manipulating the printing process, the resulting imagery has a dream-like atmosphere and eerie quality that are entirely consistent with James Fee's singular body of work. Fee is best-known for "Photographs of America" (1995), iconic images of negative majesty: An America that is abandoned in all her glory, actual relics strewn throughout the United States that he captured during a road trip across the country's unpopulated landscape. Fee intended to comment on Robert Frank's similarly disturbing evocations in "The Americans", and his brilliant twist is that there are no actual people, no Americans in his own photographs. The present volume, however slim, shows the wider technical and emotional range of his beautiful, melancholy work. An absolute "must-have" title for James Fee collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by James Fee. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Fee did NOT sign most copies of the book. Copies available online command between $85 and 100. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 22 color plates. One of the greatest American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMES FEE TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN B0027BJEX4. Stock number: 20289. ISBN: B0027BJEX4
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Imprint: Los Angeles, CA, University Of California Press, 1985 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 240 pages. Exhibition Monograph. One of the greatest books on indigenous tribal art of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Should not be confused with the Softcover Edition, which was published simultaneously with it. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original by a University Press, with funding from the National Endowment for The Humanities. The Hardcover Edition was issued both with and without a DJ, a typical practice of University Press publications. The First Edition is now rare. Published on the occasion of the landmark retrospective exhibition held at the UCLA Museum of Cultural History from October 8 through November 25, 1985. Presents, in an austerely elegant volume, "The Eloquent Dead: Ancestral Sculpture of Indonesia And Southeast Asia". Some of the greatest tribal art in the world. The exhibition's perspective is insightful, brilliantly realized, and has been immensely influential. It also has universal significance, as the focus of all other ceremonial tribal art (in Africa, the Americas, and other parts of Asia) is The Dead or rather, the passage of the living from this life to the afterlife, the transmutation of "body" into "spirit", a journey that those they leave behind mark with utmost respect, ritual, and solemnity. Here are "elaborate, frighteningly beautiful ritual art objects relating to the dead in the cultures of Indonesia and Southeast Asia. Contains photographs of this funerary art and essays on the ancestral arts of Nias, Batak, Dayak, Toraja, Biak, Paiwan, and Yami" (Publisher's blurb). The book also touches on similar, related art in the Lesser Sundas and Moluccas, the Philippines, and Madagascar. The art itself, beautifully photographed, is to die for: Powerful in their world-view, exquisite in their attention to detail, and unsurpassed in their intuitive apprehension of The Beautiful as The Sacred. They help remind us, and we need to be reminded, that art before our secular Modern Age was about the larger-than-life (as it were) and the sublime. One does not have to be a believer to appreciate and be moved by this great art; if anything, one's particular religious beliefs will tend to get in the way of such appreciation. And with the exception of a few memorial artists (like Christian Boltanski on the one hand and Art Spiegelman on the other), the beautiful-as-sacred has been permanently banished in contemporary art. An absolute "must-have" title for art book collectors. This title is an art book classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies of the Hardcover Edition available online command between $3000 and an incredible $15000. Copies available online are also often the Softcover Edition, which sell for between $350 and $500, rightly so because they are also rare. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 300 plates. One of the great art books of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 0930741056. Stock number: 18245. ISBN: 0930741056
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Imprint: Philadelphia, PA, Independence Foundation/Susan Fenton, 2002 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 44 pages. Catalog of the artist/photographer's body of work. The first and only edition. Underwritten by the Independence Foundation, none of the copies was commercially distributed. It was produced not for an exhibition but instead to showcase in published form Susan Fenton's mesmerizing work. There is no ISBN. The Catalog is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Susan Fenton: Oversize-volume format. Gray softcovers with silver titles printed on the cover. Photographs by Susan Fenton. Essay by Gerald Silk. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Susan Fenton's portrait-photographs, all of them original hand-painted silver-gelatin prints. "The black-and-white prints are developed on fiber-based paper, toned, and then meticulously painted with photographic oil pigments, layer upon layer" (Gerald Silk). "The work is not about the individual but more about the mood and emotional response or formal composition: A sense of the unknown, ambivalence, mystery, solemnity" (Susan Fenton). Fenton enjoys a cult following, and her work is in the Permanent Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among other major venues of cutting-edge contemporary art. An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Fenton collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the Catalog still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the most brilliant American artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. . Stock number: 19459.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Europa Publications, 2015 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 473 pages. The author's fourth and final Neapolitan Novel. One of the finest Novel Series of our time. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. All Europa Editions are impeccably produced in softcover only on pristine-white, archival stock paper in the United States. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Elena Ferrante's "Storia della bambina perduta" in a felicitous English translation. The pseudonymous author's triumphant, concluding Neapolitan Quartet novel, with the "possessive force of an origin myth". It is preceded by "My Brilliant Friend", "The Story of A New Name", and "Those Who Leave And Those Who Stay". Individually, collectively, and cumulatively, they constitute one of the indispensable literary journeys of our time. "Chronicles what happens when the women renew their friendship after many years of estrangement. They are beginning to face aging together. How do women grow and age, together and apart? How do they relate? How do motherhood, money, and men intervene? But you don't read Ferrante for the story. You read her for the sheer accumulation of detailed scenes and conversations, for comings-together and breakings-apart, and for the way characters disappear and recur until the city in which they live becomes both a vast jungle and the original small town" (Sara Nelson). "One of the great novelists of our time. A new version of the way we live now - one we need, one told brilliantly by a woman" (The New York Times). "By a woman" is, of course, sexist. Nobody would praise Karl Ove Knausgaard's "My Struggle" Series, the only world-class, literary equal of Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels, as an achievement "by a man". The basis of the HBO series adaptation that aired in 2018. An absolute "must-have" title for Elena Ferrante collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws (mainly, heavy creasing on the fragile spine), are in multiple subsequent printings or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet of novels is now widely regarded as one of the most important literary achievements of our time. One of the greatest novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ELENA FERRANTE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1609452860. Stock number: 20477. ISBN: 1609452860
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 340 pages. The author's fourth novel. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Rosario Ferre's "Eccentric Neighborhoods". A tale written in the classic epic manner. An engrossing read, it tells the story of two families whose lives, loves, and steamy intrigues coincide with the demise of Puerto Rico's plantation society and the irresistible rise of the nouveau riche, an educated, ambitious, and restless middle class which would render the Old Elite irrelevant for good no matter how they struggle to preserve the status quo. This is a familiar narrative, based on factual events, and the challenge that faces every serious novelist is how to render the story in a way which shows that even those whose personal identities are linked to their class and social status are suffused with humanity, feeling, and genuine pain. The novel helped immediately establish Rosario Ferre as a leading contemporary voice in modern literature. Because she wrote the novel in English (whereas her previous works were in Spanish and were apparently erratically translated, some of them felicitous, others poor), it affords readers a more accurate and closer glimpse into her singular sensibility as a chronicler of personal histories against the inescapable background of impersonal History. Beautifully interspersed with vintage black-and-white photographs. An absolute "must-have" title for Rosario Ferre collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Rosario Ferre. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Signed copies of Ferre's books are relatively difficult to find because she is based in Puerto Rico and has not done a book tour in a very long time. Her specimen-signature on this copy is one of the best we have ever seen. This title is late-modern classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. "Eccentric Neighborhoods" is regarded by Rosario Ferre's most ardent admirers as destined for canonical status. One of the most accomplished Latin-American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROSARIO FERRE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374146381. Stock number: 6580. ISBN: 0374146381
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Little Brown & Company, 2010 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 310 pages. The author's second novel. One of the most important literary events of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Joshua Ferris' "The Unnamed". Illness as metaphor. "A life of privilege comes to ruin as a result of a strange and mysterious illness. Attorney Tim Farnsworth thought he had recovered from a disorder that compels him to walk to the point of exhaustion. But now his walking disease has returned and shows no sign of going into remission. His wife, Jane, supportive beyond measure, does everything she can to keep Tim safe during his walks, including making routine midnight trips to pick him up. As the disorder takes increasing control over their lives, however, the sacrifices they make for each other drive them further apart. Ferris manages to inject a bizarre whimsy into a devastatingly sad story, with each of Tim's outings revealing a new aspect of his marriage. The novel's circular aspects, with would-be happy endings spiraling back into chaos and then descending further, integrate Ferris' themes of family, sickness, and the uncertain division between body and mind into a vastly satisfying and original book" (Publishers Weekly). An absolute "must-have" title for Joshua Ferris collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Joshua Ferris. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Finalist for the National Book Award in 2007 for "Then We Came To The End". Finalist for the Booker Prize in 2014 for "To Rise Again At A Decent Hour". Joshua Ferris was selected as one of the "20 Writers Under 40" of the decade by The New Yorker Magazine. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSHUA FERRIS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0316034010. Stock number: 15250. ISBN: 0316034010
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Little Brown & Company, 2007 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 390 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most sensational literary debuts of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Gold "Autographed Copy" sticker pasted on the spine. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Joshua Ferris' "Then We Came To The End". His first, and still his best, novel. "Written with confidence in the tricky-to-pull-off first-person plural, the collective fishbowl perspective of the 'we' voice nails the dynamics of cubicle culture: The deadlines, the gossip, the elaborate pranks to break the boredom, the joy of discovering free food in the breakroom. Arch, achingly funny, and surprisingly heartfelt, it's a view of how your work becomes a symbiotic part of your life. Praised as 'the Catch-22 of the business world' and 'The Office meets Kafka' " (Brad Thomas Parsons). "A terrific first novel. Awfully funny" (Nick Hornby). An absolute "must-have" title for Joshua Ferris collectors. This Autographed Copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Joshua Ferris. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Finalist for the National Book Award in 2007 for "Then We Came To The End". Finalist for the Booker Prize in 2014 for "To Rise Again At A Decent Hour". Joshua Ferris was selected as one of the "20 Writers Under 40" of the decade by The New Yorker Magazine. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSHUA FERRIS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0316016381. Stock number: 16555. ISBN: 0316016381
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Little Brown & Company, 2010 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 310 pages. The author's third novel. One of the most important literary events of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Joshua Ferris' "To Rise Again At A Decent Hour". His most philosophical novel. "At once laugh-out-loud funny about the absurdities of the modern world and indelibly profound about the eternal questions of the meaning of life, love, and truth. A deeply moving and constantly surprising tour de force" (Publisher's blurb). Ferris has a genuine understanding of and empathy for modern professional types (he was one himself before turning to writing full-time) : Advertising (in "Then We Came To The End"), The Law (in "The Unnamed"), and now, a rare literary character in Paul O'Rourke, a dentist, in whom he invests his probing questions about personal identity. That is, how human beings identify themselves (to others and to themselves) in a world that actively challenges and undermines who they think and believe they are. An absolute "must-have" title for Joshua Ferris collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in blue pen on the title page by Joshua Ferris. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Finalist for the National Book Award in 2007 for "Then We Came To The End". Finalist for the Booker Prize in 2014 for "To Rise Again At A Decent Hour". Joshua Ferris was selected as one of the "20 Writers Under 40" of the decade by The New Yorker Magazine. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSHUA FERRIS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0316033979. Stock number: 19009. ISBN: 0316033979
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Imprint: London, England, Viking/Penguin Books, 2014 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 337 pages. The author's third novel. One of the most important literary events of our time. The first appearance of the title in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents, in a beautiful collectible edition, Joshua Ferris' "To Rise Again At A Decent Hour". His most philosophical novel. "At once laugh-out-loud funny about the absurdities of the modern world and indelibly profound about the eternal questions of the meaning of life, love, and truth. A deeply moving and constantly surprising tour de force" (Publisher's blurb). Ferris has a genuine understanding of and empathy for modern professional types (he was one himself before turning to writing full-time) : Advertising (in "Then We Came To The End"), The Law (in "The Unnamed"), and now, a rare literary character in Paul O'Rourke, a dentist, in whom he invests his probing questions about personal identity. That is, how human beings identify themselves (to others and to themselves) in a world that actively challenges and undermines who they think and believe they are. An absolute "must-have" title for Joshua Ferris collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Joshua Ferris. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First British Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Finalist for the National Book Award in 2007 for "Then We Came To The End". Finalist for the Booker Prize in 2014 for "To Rise Again At A Decent Hour", the first of two American novelists so honored. Joshua Ferris was selected as one of the "20 Writers Under 40" of the decade by The New Yorker Magazine. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSHUA FERRIS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0316033979. Stock number: 19035. ISBN: 0316033979
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Imprint: Bologna, Italy, Editore Damiani, 2013 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 200 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. Now considered a contemporary fashion-cum-erotic art photography classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Fabien Baron: Oversize-volume format. Gray cloth boards with photographic reproduction pasted in front and titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Hans Feurer. Text by various contributors. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. Thereproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Hans Feurer". A brilliant retrospective of Feurer's distinctive, erotically charged, and immensely influential fashion photography. If photojournalism is "reality", then fashion photography is "fantasy". As such, Vogue Magazine displaced the former dominance of LIFE Magazine sometime in the late-Sixties, and remains a major force to this day (Vogue is still very much around, LIFE has been dead for a long time). "A mainstay of fashion photography since the late 1960's, but despite his influence, this legendary photographer has had no books dedicated to his work until now. Feurer's career has certainly been an illustrious, star-studded, and influential one, and the models who were his subjects, the designers he profiled, and the leading publications which featured his work comprise a roll call of the highest echelons of the fashion and magazine worlds. Feurer has shot for Vogue, Nova, Elle, and many more leading publications. One of his most famous advertising campaigns was for Kenzo in 1983, which immortalized Iman and secured her status as an iconic supermodel. Before embarking on a career in photography, Feurer worked as a graphic designer and art director. Traces of these previous careers are detectable throughout his work, evidenced by his careful compositions and precise styling" (Publisher's blurb). Hans Feurer presents female (and the female nude) as a sublime manifestation of Nature, a bit of a paradox considering his work is devoted to fashion, which celebrates Artifice (that is to say, fantasy) more than anything else. An absolute "must-have" title for Hans Feurer collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (shortly after publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the photographer: "Hans Feurer New York 5.12.2013". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. He signed on the very top of the page, making his signature that much more distinctive and prominent. This title is a contemporary photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and post-publication dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 175 black-and-white and color plates. One of the most brilliant and influential fashion photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 8862082924. Stock number: 18509. ISBN: 8862082924
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Imprint: Chicago, IL, Museum Of Contemporary Photography, 1997 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 124 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. Jed Fielding's brilliant and moving debut. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Jed Fielding and MCA: Oversize-volume format. Maroon cloth boards with black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Jed Fielding. Text by Denise Miller, Nan Richardson, and the great novelist Shirley Hazzard. Separations by Robert Hennessey. Printed on pristine-white, glossy stock paper by Meridian Printing Rhode Island in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition of the same name held at The Museum of Contemporary Photography Columbia College Chicago from November, 1997 through January, 1998. Presents Jed Fielding's "City of Secrets". Black-and-white photographs, made over a period of twenty years, of Naples, a city that became a personal obsession for the artist. Her citizens, from kids in diapers to weathered old men, loom into the frame like characters out of Fellini, bursting with antic, earthy energy. Fielding confronts and embraces his expressive subjects, building up a portrait of a place that is as visceral as it is cinematic, a true theater of the streets. All of Fielding's images seem to have stories behind them. The possibility that the stories might reveal themselves makes these portraits of a fabled city irresistible. A student of Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, Fielding has mastered the subtleties of focal point and rim. "His extraordinary images constitute a major body of work by an important new voice" (Publishers Weekly). Nan Richardson's essay is insightful. Shirley Hazzard provides a historic and poetic context for Fielding's work. Still: The photographs speak for themselves and must stand on their own. "I loved it and dreaded it and just kept going back" (Jed Fielding). An absolute "must-have" title for Jed Fielding collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, dated, and inscribed in black pen-marker on the half-title page by the photographer: "For Paul, with affection and gratitude, Jed 2/03. Jed Fielding [his actual signature]". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient is Paul Berlanga, the Chicago-based photography expert and important artist/painter. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, dated, and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 79 plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0965888703. Stock number: 21068. ISBN: 0965888703
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf/Whitney Museum Of American Art, 1989 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 18 pages. Artist Book. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title as a regular Hardcover Edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Eric Fischl: Oversize-volume format. A tall and slim book. Bright yellow hard boards with black cloth spine and gilt titles, as issued. Lithographic reproductions by Eric Fischl. Text by Jamaica Kincaid. Pictorial slipcase. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Jamaica Kincaid's and Eric Fischl's "Annie, Gwen, Lilly, Pam, And Tulip". Unique collaboration that exemplifies the resonance that can be achieved between writing and art. Fischl's lush, expressionistic female figures enhance Kincaid's lyrical "polyphonic" conversation-narrative involving five girls coming into adulthood. "Kincaid's text is so appealing, showing a reverence for Virginia Woolf's 'The Waves', that it yearns to be read aloud repeatedly by both children and adults. Fischl's lithographs illustrate the mysteries, fears, and revelations of the five young women as they share time musing about love, life, and their futures" (Jean Keleher). A mesmerizing collaboration between two Masters of their chosen art, a writer incapable of writing a bad sentence and a painter known for celebrating the seductive and enigmatic beauty of Woman. An absolute "must-have" title for Eric Fischl and Jamaica Kincaid collectors. This title is a contemporary literary and art classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: The fragile slipcase is in immaculate condition, not remainder-marked, as many copies available online are. There is a Limited Edition for $5000. This trade edition is an exact facsimile at a fraction of the price. A scarce copy thus. 9 color plates. Two of the finest American artists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMAICA KINCAID TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0394580354. Stock number: 7912. ISBN: 0394580354
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Imprint: London, England, Penguin/Penguin Designer Classics, 2006 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 346 pages. Artist Book. One of the most beautiful Artist Book interpretations of the classic ever created. Limited Edition of one numbered and signed copy. Should not be confused with the Limited Edition of 1000 copies. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Sam Taylor-Wood: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 4 pounds. Black cloth boards, as issued. Text by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Art by Sam Taylor-Wood. She utilizes one of her most austerely beautiful photographs on glassine paper that serves as the Artist Book's translucent inner DJ. White cardboard box. Printed on archival acid-free stock paper in the United Kingdom to the highest standards. In transparent Plexiglas ("Perspex") box, which serves as the book's outer DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of Penguin Book's 60th Anniversary, "Tender Is The Night: A Romance" is one of five classics that the publisher issued in a Limited Edition by commissioning five of the world's most important artists in their respective fields. The other titles are Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary", D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover", Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime And Punishment" and "The Idiot" (he is the only novelist to be honored with two masterpieces in the Series). Penguin held a global auction of the "Number 1" signed copy of each title on the day of its 60th Anniversary in 2006. Re-presents F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Tender Is The Night: A Romance". Sam Taylor-Wood's Artist Book rendition: The ultimate book-as-object, the literary classic as work of art, worthy of Penguin's auspicious celebration and of posterity. Shows "an elegant young man as he stands before us with his hands in his pocket and bare feet. He perfectly sums up the elegance and fragility of Nicole and Dick Driver's world" (Publisher's blurb). Sam Taylor-Wood is one of the most brilliant artist/photographer/filmmakers of our time. She is especially noted for her unvarnished portraits of ordinary subjects as well as the most well-known celebrities of the day. Many consider her to be the natural successor to Avedon as well as Annie Leibovitz, but that judgment, while flattering, does not quite do justice to the singular qualities of her work. An absolute "must-have" edition for F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sam Taylor-Wood collectors. This copy of the Limited Edition is Number 1, indicated as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by Sam Taylor-Wood. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. This is the only such signed copy of the Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: By special arrangement with Penguin, Sam Taylor-Wood signed only the first copy of the Limited Edition. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest novels of all time, re-interpreted by one of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 0713999500. Stock number: 11377. ISBN: 0713999500
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Imprint: Sydney, Australia, Picador/Pan MacMillan Australia, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 404 pages. The author's third novel. One of Richard Flanagan's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the British and American Editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The production values of the Australian true first are superior in every respect: Apart from being beautifully written, this is a most beautifully produced book with aquamarine cloth boards, marbled endpapers that evoke the sea, and twelve illustrations of the fish that Gould painted. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Richard Flanagan's "Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel In Twelve Fish". An imaginative re-telling of the life and times of William Gould, the career criminal, and his subsequent and stupendous career as a ground-breaking painter/artist of Australia's marine life, an illustrated taxonomy of the continent's seas. Flanagan himself has called it the first of his "soul histories", culminating in his sixth novel, "The Narrow Road To The Deep North" (2014). "A marvelous historical epic of nineteenth-century Australia, a world of convicts and colonists, thieves and catamites, whose bloody history is recorded in a very unusual taxonomy of fish. It is the kind of book that comes along once in a very great while: A book of breathtaking writing and intellectual inquiry that stands out as one of the best novels of recent years. A tour de force that interrogates the reliability of history and science, and the substance of artistic creation" (Australian Book Review). An absolute "must-have" title for Richard Flanagan collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Richard Flanagan. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (Australian) still available online and despite its imperfection (browning on page edges) is still in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the British and American Editions. The production values of the Australian true first are superior in every respect. Copies available online have serious flaws and are mostly obtainable all the way from Australia only. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Booker Prize in 2014 for "The Narrow Road To The Deep North". One of the greatest novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER RICHARD FLANAGAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0802117112. Stock number: 22104. ISBN: 0802117112
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2014 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 334 pages. Rare Richard Flanagan collectible set. A fine copy of "The Narrow Road To The Deep North" First American Edition/First Printing, signed by Richard Flanagan, with a fine copy of the Uncorrected Proof. Both precede and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the 2015 Easton Press Edition, issued more than one year later. Published in small and limited first print runs as hardcover and softcover originals only and respectively. The First Edition is now rare. The author's sixth novel. One of the greatest novels of our time. Presents Richard Flanagan's "The Narrow Road To The Deep North". The Australian "War And Peace". The title itself is borrowed from Matsuo Basho's collection of haiku poems, as translated into English. With both irony and sadness, the novel is dedicated to his father, whom Flanagan names through his prisoner-number in Japanese: "For prisoner san byaku san ju go (335) ". "San byaku" is 300 in Japanese; "san" = 3; "go" = 5. His father, Number 335, was a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese Imperial Army, one of the few survivors of the Burma Death Railway (also known as "The Death Railway", as more than 100, 000 prisoners who worked on it died). He died on the day Flanagan finished his novel. "The Narrow Road To The Deep North" tells both his personal story and modern Australia's. Whereas Basho, regarded as the greatest haiku poet ever, captured reality in flashes of insight, Flanagan has written a big novel, robust, muscular, and earthy. "After setting down this masterwork of a novel, full of deep insight, afflicted love, and cosmic passion alongside painful, horrendous suffering, Flanagan's music still plays on and on in my head" (Alan Cheuse). "Tolstoyan. Presents the horrors inflicted on Australian prisoners of war by the Japanese during World War II in Burma, and then turns around and gives us a compassionate portrait of the defeated Japanese. Distinguished by its big heart and beautiful language" (Edmund White). Richard Flanagan is the closest thing we have right now to a literary hero in the best sense of the word. An absolute "must-have" title for Richard Flanagan collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Richard Flanagan. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It comes with a pristine copy of the Uncorrected Proof. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only set of the First American Edition/First Printing and Uncorrected Proof available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, pristine beauties. Please note: Flanagan signed the Hardcover Edition, NOT the Uncorrected Proof. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Booker Prize in 2014 for "The Narrow Road To The Deep North". One of the greatest novelists of our time. A fine collectible set. (SEE ALSO OTHER RICHARD FLANAGAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0385352859. Stock number: 20800. ISBN: 0385352859
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Little, Brown & Company, 2010 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 342 pages. New translation of the author's masterpiece. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now rare. The production values are impeccable: Elegant hard boards, stunning DJ design by Christopher Brand and Ben Wiseman, illuminating Introductory Essay at the beginning and thirty pages of indispensable Notes appended at the end. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Presents, in a new translation, Gustave Flaubert's "Madame Bovary". The 21st translation of The Master's greatest novel for the 21st century. "Definitive" (The New York Review of Books). With each new, meticulous translation of the French classics she has undertaken thus far, Lydia Davis is now easily the successor of Richard Howard (who has translated hundreds of books in a long and brilliant career as poet and translator). Like Richard Howard's, Davis' translations must be seen and judged as an integral part of her own body of work. "You helped to make known to the English-speaking public some of the finest French literature. You have found a way not only to put your many talents at the service of the French language and culture, but also to place your stamp on the literary legacy of our times" (Republic of France Citation upon making Lydia Davis Chevalier of The Order of Arts And Letters). An absolute "must-have" title for Gustave Flaubert and Lydia Davis collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Lydia Davis. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Lydia Davis' signature is TINY. But it's there, and it's rare. Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest novels of all time translated by one of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LYDIA DAVIS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670022071. Stock number: 22249. ISBN: 0670022071
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Little, Brown & Company, 2009 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 345 pages. The author's book on moral philosophy. One of the most important literary and philosophical texts of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jonathan Safran Foer's "Eating Animals". His foray into contemporary ethics, specifically the morality of eating animals. "Some of our finest journalists (Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser) and animal rights activists (Peter Singer, Temple Grandin), not to mention Gandhi, Jesus, Pythagoras, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, John Locke, and Immanuel Kant have hurled themselves against the question of eating meat and the moral issues inherent in killing animals for food. Foer intrepidly joins their ranks. It is the kind of wisdom that, in all its humanity and clarity, deserves a place at the table with our greatest philosophers" (Los Angeles Times). One of Foer's principal targets is food guru Michael Pollan himself, in a ferocious critique. Foer believes that Pollan does not go far enough, which Pollan would probably be the first to agree with, because he does not condemn eating animals that are bred, raised, and killed humanely. "The everyday horrors of factory farming are evoked so vividly, and the case against the people who run the system presented so convincingly, that anyone who, after reading Foer's book, continues to consume the industry's products must be without a heart or impervious to reason or both" (J. M. Coetzee). An absolute "must-have" title for Jonathan Safran Foer collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Jonathan Safran Foer. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page, as copies available online are. It comes with a pristine copy of the Souvenir Program of the event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of The Guardian First Book Award for "Everything Is Illuminated" in 2002. One of the most brilliant new voices in American literature. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0316069906. Stock number: 18299. ISBN: 0316069906
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 575 pages. The author's third novel. One of the most important literary events of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Published in a regular first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Jonathan Safran Foer's "Here I Am". After a very long hiatus of eleven years, a massive, 575-page novel, his most ambitious undertaking yet. "Foer tests his own boundaries of spirituality and sexuality, ambition and sacrifice, originality and influence, revisiting themes and techniques from his earlier books. With this novel, he is stepping up to compete for his place in literary history. Rises to the rhetorical challenges, paying full attention to its comic, apocalyptic, psychological, emotional, and historic possibilities. An exciting, masterful performance" (Elaine Showalter). "There's no American novelist today who writes so profoundly about teenage angst, about the dynamics of closely-knit families, about sibling relationships, about parental fears of failure with their children. Nor is there anyone who writes dialogue (quick repartee, puns, intentional non sequiturs, irony, and put-downs) as well as Foer. Reinvents the novel about the American-Jewish experience. His works are the rightful heir to the novels by Bernard Malamud, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth" (Charles R. Larson). An absolute "must-have" title for Jonathan Safran Foer collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (the day after publication) in black pen on the title page by the author: "Jonathan Safran Foer 09/07/16 NYC". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page, as most copies available online are. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Announcement of the launch event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and post-publication dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online are signed on a tipped-in page, which does not have the same collectible value. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of The Guardian First Book Award for "Everything Is Illuminated" in 2002. One of the most brilliant new voices in American literature. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374280029. Stock number: 20734. ISBN: 0374280029
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Aperture Foundation, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 62 pages. Collection of black-and-white photographs. One of the most beautiful photography books of its kind ever published. The true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Abbeville 2008 Reissued Edition. Published by the Aperture Foundation in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Neil Folberg: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Neil Folberg. Essay by Timothy Ferris. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Hong Kong to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents, in its First-Edition format, Neil Folberg's "Celestial Nights". Ravishingly beautiful. "Photographs the night sky above his homeland, often as a backdrop but sometimes as the main event. The resulting images, as science writer Timothy Ferris observes, come closer than most other depictions to rendering the reality of being outside in the dark. It must be said that this is an effect of Folberg's artistry rather than one of verisimilitude or human vision. He develops and prints a stand of trees, a ruined temple, or a rock formation as it probably wouldn't be visible to the naked eye. He double-exposes to increase the intensity of the stars. The visual textures he produces often make these black-and-white images seem subliminally colored. These are very careful, painstaking works. None fail to evoke the quiet, cool, and spaciousness of night, and in the starscapes, the preternaturally still depths of astronomic space" (Ray Olson). "Spectacular is not too effusive a word" (The New York Times). An absolute "must-have" title for Neil Folberg collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the half-title page by Neil Folberg. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online are the Abbeville 2008 Reissued Edition, which does not have any collectible value. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with tritone plates. Some of the finest photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0789209543. Stock number: 19153. ISBN: 0789209543
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Weinstein Books, 2008 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 245 pages. Book-length account on subject. One of the most remarkable social and cultural histories of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Tom Folsom's "The Mad Ones: Crazy Joe Gallo And The Revolution At The Edge of The Underworld". The amazing story of the first (and thus far, only) Mafioso poet/artist. Permanently consigned to the underground, Gallo decided to go above ground, and eventually paid the price for his audacity and ambition. The Mafia wants, and respects, only wealth and power. Joey, remarkably, wanted fame and glory (while never quite abandoning his criminal roots and obligations), the prototypically self-made American who wanted and needed it both ways. As such, his story is social and cultural history of the first rank: THE story of modern America, Immigrant America, the American Dream, and the American Nightmare. "Bob Dylan immortalized Joey Gallo in a lengthy ballad, romanticizing him and his cohorts. Contemporary tabloids enthusiastically agreed. Not exactly out to counter Gallo's lovable thug persona, Folsom chronicles Gallo in highly readable, lyrical fashion. Joey frequented cultural hot spots like The Village, rubbing elbows with boulevardiers, pop stars, and poets. He wrote poetry and sought the media limelight with unheard-of fervor for a working mobster. That didn't sit well with other gangsters in general and senior members of the Profaci (later Colombo) Mob family in particular. His self-promotion worked, however, and his iconic status was assured when, like Dutch Schultz before him, he was gunned down in mid-bite at his favorite restaurant. During his raucous career, he warred with Godfather Joseph Profaci, and may have had a hand in the assassination of Profaci's successor, Joe Colombo. A fitting tribute" (Mike Tribby). An absolute "must-have" title for Tom Folsom and Joe Gallo collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Tom Folsom. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with archival materials and vintage photographs. One of the most brilliant American journalist-writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 1602860815. Stock number: 21289. ISBN: 1602860815
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Imprint: Seattle, WA, Minor Matters Books, 2018 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 80 pages. The artist/photographer's breakthrough debut monograph. The single best introduction to the photographically-based art and achievement of Marina Font. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that will, by design, have limited distribution. A brilliant production by Marina Font and Minor Matters Books: Oversize-volume format. Blood-red cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Marina Font. Essay by Lisa Volpe. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Oddi in Iceland to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Marina Font's "Anatomy Is Destiny/La Anatomia Es Destino". Biology = Not Destiny. Consists of Font's two major sequences thus far, "Mental Maps" and "Dark Continents". Both subvert the female nude, a major medium, not just subject, in the whole history of Western art, through what Lisa Volpe calls a "constellation of The Feminine". "I have continued to explore the complexity of the human psyche and its inner threads in order to further investigate my relationship with the multiple intersecting factors that constitute the female identity, delving into its multiple aspects. The central axis of these very intuitive and visceral works is the approach to the female body perceived mainly through three planes: The biological, the psychological, and the social, and the juxtapositions and connections among these themes. I depart from a black-and-white photograph of a female body and make of these neutral photographs a canvas for recreating, through the physical labor of sewing, metaphors of the mind's systematic representation of the world. My hands intervene each work manually, and through this intimate, performatic ritual, the embodiment of the photograph becomes the common ground where the familiar and the foreign meet, as an individual attempt to blur the lines between the internal and external spaces of the body. The construction of these mental maps evokes diverse psychological states and emotions with meanings that are in constant flux, never fixed, just like our identities. I aim to approach what lies beyond control and reason, exploring, through the act of drawing with thread, embroidery, fabric, and appropriated crochet pieces onto the photographic surface, the intricate mysteries of the psyche. I intend to shed imaginary light on the female experience in order to build idealized and fantastical connections to the forces of the unconscious" (Marina Font). An absolute "must-have" title for Marina Font collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed and dated (in the year of publication) in black pen-marker on the half-title page by Marina Font. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It comes with a pristine copy of "Marina Font: El Contrato/The Contract", her earliest publication. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and publication-year dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that will, by design, have very limited distribution. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine set. . ISBN 0990603695. Stock number: 22125. ISBN: 0990603695
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Imprint: Austin, TX, University Of Texas Press, 1998 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 450 pages. Massive book-length account on subject. One of the most valuable books on photography ever published. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are several. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. The book is handsomely produced and weighs more than 7 pounds. Presents, in one exhaustive and deeply rewarding volume, "Image And Memory". The history, development, and world-class contributions of Latin-American photography. "FotoFest, a major festival of international photography, brought Latin-American photography into focus for a wider audience. Offering a diverse selection of photographers, countries, artistic movements, and subject matter, the show revealed a photographic tradition rich in history and creativity. Drawing from the more than 1, 000 images exhibited by FotoFest, this book documents the work of fifty-two photographers from ten countries. The photographs range from the opening of the Brazilian frontier in the 1880's to a secret archive of documentary images from El Salvador's recent civil war to works of specifically aesthetic intent. Many of the photographs appear here in print for the first time. Watriss' opening essay provides the curatorial overview for the book. Lois Zamora examines the roots of visual image-making in Latin American cultures. Boris Kossoy addresses the history of Latin-American photography through the nineteenth century while Fernando Castro covers the contemporary scene. With its compelling images and text, this book will serve as a benchmark for future studies of photography in Latin America" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for photography book collectors. This title is a great photography book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online are subsequent printings or have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 182 plates. Some of the greatest photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries. A fine copy. . ISBN 0292791186. Stock number: 19157. ISBN: 0292791186
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Imprint: Quebec, Canada, Musee D'Art De Saint Laurent, 2000 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 45 pages. Exhibition Catalog. One of the most beautiful books on contemporary ceramic art ever published. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only that sold out upon publication. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. An austerely elegant production by the Musee D'Art De Saint Laurent: Regular-sized volume format. White ribbed softcovers with titles on the cover, as issued. Art by Leopold L. Foulem. Essay by ceramic expert/scholar Paul Bourassa in both the French original and felicitous English translation. Printed on pristine-white, coated stock paper in Montreal, Canada to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition of the same name held at the Musee D'Art De Saint Laurent in 2000. Presents the ceramic art of Leopold L. Foulem. A standing member of the reigning Canadian triumvirate, Foulem/Mathieu/Milette. A movement unto themselves. They and their highly provocative and brilliant work are rightly seen as expressions of the singular, unusual, "queer" self, in all its performative gestures. For starters, their very choice of medium is not just epicene or unusual, it is defiant, asserting that the dominance of painting and sculpture is oppressive albeit ceramics are arguably painting and sculpture. It would not be wrong to describe the trio's work as "painterly" or "sculptural". "Their shared perception that they are outside of the artistic and social mainstream has helped drive them to create an aesthetically powerful and intellectually engaging body of work that is rooted in and critical of conventional art history, ceramic history, and contemporary culture" (David Kaye). This intellectual baggage aside, the pieces do speak for themselves: They are objects of beauty that will give enormous pleasure to anyone with an open mind and regardless of one's sexual identity, orientation, or preference. "In his obstinate, formal exploration, Leopold Foulem continues to dismantle the restraints imposed by the stereotype on ceramics to free it from the grip of reality. Those of us who view, contemplate, and analyse his work are left to decide on a response to this vital force whether to repress, satisfy, or sublimate it" (Paul Bourassa). An absolute "must-have" title for Foulem/Mathieu/Milette collectors. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Exhibition Catalog available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the finest ceramic artists of our time. A fine copy. . Stock number: 19387.
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Imprint: Quebec, Canada, Musee Du Quebec, 1997 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 45 pages. Exhibition Catalog. One of the most beautiful books on contemporary ceramic art ever published. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only that sold out upon publication. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. An austerely elegant production by the Musee du Quebec: Regular-sized volume format. Red softcovers with titles on the cover, as issued. Art by Leopold Foulem, Paul Mathieu, and Richard Milette. Essay (in French) by ceramic expert/scholar Paul Bourassa. Printed on pristine-white, glossy stock paper in Quebec, Canada to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition of the same name held at the Musee du Quebec in 1997. Presents the ceramic art of the reigning Canadian triumvirate: Leopold L. Foulem, Paul Mathieu, and Richard Milette. A movement unto themselves. They and their highly provocative and brilliant work are rightly seen as expressions of the singular, unusual, "queer" self, in all its performative gestures: "Explores the concept of camp as manifested in the works of three important Canadian ceramic artists. Camp has been identified as a concept, an aesthetic sensibility, and a form of oppositional critique central to gay and lesbian culture. Camp has been variously understood to include elements of irony, exaggeration, excess, humor, sentimentality, theatricality, artifice, parody, and devotion; as a disputed field of appropriation and counter-appropriation; and of alternative signifying codes. Leopold L. Foulem, Paul Mathieu, and Richard Milette have made Camp (and gay male culture) a central part of their respective artistic practice. Their shared perception that they are outside of the artistic and social mainstream has helped drive them to create an aesthetically powerful and intellectually engaging body of work that is rooted in and critical of conventional art history, ceramic history, and contemporary culture" (David Kaye). This intellectual baggage aside, the pieces do speak for themselves: They are objects of beauty that will give enormous pleasure to anyone with an open mind and regardless of one's sexual identity, orientation, or preference. An absolute "must-have" title for Foulem/Mathieu/Milette collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in blue pen on the title page by the artists: "Dear Martha, Warmest regards, Leopold Foulem, Richard (Milette). It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, Martha Schneider, who is named, is an authority in the art photography world, and also a ceramic art expert. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed copy of the Exhibition Catalog available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. Three of the finest ceramic artists of our time. A fine copy. . Stock number: 19386.
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Imprint: San Francisco, CA, Fraenkel Gallery, 1999 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 183 pages. Exhibition Catalog. Retrospective collection of photographs. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited one-time-only print run as a hardcover original only. The Exhibition Catalog is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Catherine Mills Design Seattle: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards, which reproduces an extreme closeup version of Man Ray's "Glass Tears, 1933", with titles on the spine, as issued. Photographs by various contributors, a Who's Who of the history of photography. Text by Jeffrey Fraenkel. Printed in tritone and color on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the 20th-Anniversary Exhibition of Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco in 1999. Presents "20Twenty". Another very personal selection of great photographs by Jeffrey Fraenkel. "A full-strength celebration of the medium of photography itself. Moving backward, forward, and sideways through photography's history, weaves unexpected connections between artists as disparate as Duchamp and Eggleston, Arbus and Nadar. Incorporating anonymous photographs as well as works by masters such as Watkins, Brassai, and the Bechers, a visual testament to the past, present, and future relevance of the medium" (Publisher's blurb). "True to Fraenkel's statement that the art form is based on 'photography's particular manner of describing things'. Documenting one man's connoisseurship, this quiet, handsome volume portrays Fraenkel's high standards, and sheds light on the subtle, mysterious relationships among eye, lens, and image through its careful selection of photographs" (David Bryant). An absolute "must-have" title for photography book collectors. This title is a contemporary photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with tritone and color plates. Some of the greatest photographers in its history. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO "SEEING THINGS", "FURTHERMORE", "THE PLOT THICKENS", AND OTHER FRAENKEL GALLERY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1881337073. Stock number: 21293. ISBN: 1881337073
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Imprint: San Francisco, CA, Fraenkel Gallery, 2007 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 183 pages. Pioneering connoisseurs' collection of photographs. Limited Slipcased Edition. Published in a small and limited one-time-only print run as a hardcover original only. The limitation is not stated. The Limited Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Katy Homans: Oversize-volume format. Purple cloth boards with photographic reproduction pasted in front and gilt titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by various contributors, a Who's Who of the history of photography. Text by various contributors. Printed in duotone from separations by Robert Hennessey by Meridian Printing in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Matching purple cloth slipcase. In publisher's original shrinkwrap. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its collectible Limited Edition format, "73 Photographs: From David And Mary Robinson At The National Gallery of Art". Collecting photographs as the ultimate modern connoisseur's undertaking: A meditation on the inexplicable essence of the medium, and an essential publication for anyone who cares seriously about art, photography, and collecting. "In 1995, the National Gallery of Art acquired an important collection of photographs spanning the history of photography. The pictures had been assembled by David and Mary Robinson, two brilliant and astute collectors, during the 1980's and 1990's, photography's Golden Age of collecting. Reproduces seventy-three of the collection's most ravishing images. Contains three essays on the nature of collecting by Sarah Greenough, Curator of Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, David Robinson, and Jeffrey Fraenkel" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for photography book collectors. This title is a contemporary photography classic. This is one of very few copies of the Limited Slipcased Edition still available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. 73 duotone plates. Some of the greatest photographers in its history. A flawless copy. (SEE ALSO "SEEING THINGS", "FURTHERMORE", AND OTHER FRAENKEL GALLERY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1881337235. Stock number: 21277. ISBN: 1881337235
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Imprint: San Francisco, CA, Fraenkel Gallery, 2014 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 255 pages. Exhibition Catalog. Retrospective collection of photographs. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited one-time-only print run as a hardcover original only. The Exhibition Catalog is now scarce. A brilliant production by Katy Homans: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial black velvet boards, which reproduce vernacular photographs on the cover, with gilt titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by various contributors, a Who's Who of the history of photography. Text by Jeffrey Fraenkel. Printed in tritone and color on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Trifolio in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In publisher's plastic bag. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the 35th-Anniversary Exhibition of Fraenkel Gallery San Francisco in 2014. Presents "The Plot Thickens". Another very personal selection of great photographs by Jeffrey Fraenkel. "An eye-opening expedition through the history of the medium, with wide-ranging photographs by artists as diverse as Diane Arbus, Christian Marclay, Robert Adams, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Mel Bochner, Walker Evans, Sol LeWitt, Lee Friedlander, Alec Soth, Katy Grannan, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Richard Learoyd. Includes a trove of images by unknown photographers, virtually none of which have been reproduced before. A meditation on the inexplicable essence of the medium and an essential new publication for anyone who cares seriously about art and photography" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for photography book collectors. This title is a contemporary photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. It is the single most beautiful copy we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws yet command as much as $200. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. 90 tritone and color plates. Some of the greatest photographers in its history. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO "SEEING THINGS", "FURTHERMORE", "20TWENTY", AND OTHER FRAENKEL GALLERY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1881337391. Stock number: 21294. ISBN: 1881337391
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Imprint: Gottingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2006 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 48 pages. Artist Book. Retrospective collection of Polaroid photographs. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only and as part of the Steidl "Robert Frank Project". The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with photographic reproduction in front and titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Robert Frank. There is no text. Printed in quadrotone on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper using four-color matte inks and varnish coating by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ/slipcase, as issued. Presents Robert Frank's "Come Again: Polaroids". His "Lebanon Polaroids", assembled by the photographer in one Notebook. The original remains in his possession. This Facsimile Edition reproduces its visual, even tactile, subtleties, with the varnish coating, in particular, mimicking the Polaroid print's glossy finish. "In 1991, Robert Frank went to Beirut to photograph the city's devastation after the Civil War (1975-1990). He also made Polaroids which, upon his return home, he kept for himself. Many years later, he looked at those images again, and decided to create a sketchbook's worth of Polaroids. Robert Frank has worked almost exclusively with Polaroid in recent years, exploring the collage and assemblage possibilities of the instant photograph" (Gerhard Steidl). Frank's images of a devastated land capture in a rigorous documentary format a universal human tragedy as well as his own personal turmoil and pain. "He can portray real pain and capture profound depths of human emotion better than almost any other photographer; indeed, better than almost any other artist in any medium" (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger). Robert Frank died on September 9, 2019 at the age of 94 as the greatest photographer of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Frank collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Robert Frank. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is an art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online, is still in the publisher's original plastic wrappers, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Robert Frank is notoriously averse to any kind of signing, but he made a rare public appearance in New York City in conjunction with the book's publication. He signed copies for some people, who waited patiently in line, then abruptly left before he could sign the rest. Signed Robert Franks are rare, command as much as $20000 online even if they are not in fine condition, and will always keep their value. A rare signed copy thus. 24 quadrotone plates. Three of Robert Frank's books were selected as among the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3865212611. Stock number: 15446. ISBN: 3865212611
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Imprint: Chicago, IL, Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 68 pages. Exhibition Catalog. One of the most beautiful and important art photography catalogs ever published in our time. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Stephen Daiter Gallery: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Robert Frank and other contributors, a Who's Who of 20th-century photography. Essay by Peter C. Bunnell. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark retrospective exhibition of the same name held at the Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago in 2001. Presents "Helen Gee And The Limelight: The Birth of The Photography Gallery". A valentine to a trailblazer, her influential photography gallery, and ultimately, to the history of photography itself. "Limelight, which Helen Gee opened in 1954 on Sheridan Square at 91 Seventh Avenue South in the Village, was one of the very few places in New York where you could see photographs intelligently selected and exhibited. The only other notable place was the Museum of Modern Art. At Limelight, there was an atmosphere of relaxed intimacy and of seeing pictures beautifully" (Peter C. Bunnell). Some of the greatest photographs by some of the greatest photographers were first shown by Helen Gee at Limelight: Berenice Abbott, Edouard Boubat, Brassai, Josef Breitenbach, Wynn Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Doisneau, Robert Frank, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Arnold Newman, Aaron Siskind, Louis Stettner, Sabine Weiss, and Minor White, among others. They are all represented in this gem of a catalog. It should be noted, however, that Frank's photographs have been papered over/covered in most copies because he threatened to sue. This particular copy is Complete and Uncensored, with all four Frank images intact and visible. Please view the accompanying collage-scan of all four exquisite images. An absolute "must-have" title for Helen Gee, Robert Frank, and photography book collectors. This copy of the Exhibition Catalog is Complete and Uncensored, with all four Robert Frank exquisite images intact and visible. Frank's photographs have been papered over/covered in most copies because he threatened to sue. This title is an art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such copy of the Exhibition Catalog available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Apart from being papered-over, copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white plates and archival materials. Some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 21073.
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Imprint: Chicago, IL, Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 68 pages. Exhibition Catalog. One of the most beautiful and important art photography catalogs ever published in our time. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Stephen Daiter Gallery: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Robert Frank and other contributors, a Who's Who of 20th-century photography. Essay by Peter C. Bunnell. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark retrospective exhibition of the same name held at the Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago in 2001. Presents "Helen Gee And The Limelight: The Birth of The Photography Gallery". A valentine to a trailblazer, her influential photography gallery, and ultimately, to the history of photography itself. "Limelight, which Helen Gee opened in 1954 on Sheridan Square at 91 Seventh Avenue South in the Village, was one of the very few places in New York where you could see photographs intelligently selected and exhibited. The only other notable place was the Museum of Modern Art. At Limelight, there was an atmosphere of relaxed intimacy and of seeing pictures beautifully" (Peter C. Bunnell). Some of the greatest photographs by some of the greatest photographers were first shown by Helen Gee at Limelight: Berenice Abbott, Edouard Boubat, Brassai, Josef Breitenbach, Wynn Bullock, Julia Margaret Cameron, Robert Doisneau, Robert Frank, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Arnold Newman, Aaron Siskind, Louis Stettner, Sabine Weiss, and Minor White, among others. They are all represented in this gem of a catalog. It should be noted, however, that Frank's photographs have been papered over/covered in most copies because he threatened to sue. This particular copy is Complete and Uncensored, with all four Frank images intact and visible. Please view the accompanying collage-scan of all four exquisite images. An absolute "must-have" title for Helen Gee, Robert Frank, and photography book collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Helen Gee. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This copy of the Exhibition Catalog is Complete and Uncensored, with all four Robert Frank exquisite images intact and visible. Frank's photographs have been papered over/covered in most copies because he threatened to sue. This title is an art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the Exhibition Catalog available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Apart from being papered-over, copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white plates and archival materials. Some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 21078.
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Imprint: Gottingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2013 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 83 pages. Artist Book. Collection of personal Polaroid photographs. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only and as part of the Steidl "Robert Frank Project". An austerely elegant production by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format. Black leatherette boards with gilt titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. The design mimics an actual inventory book. Photographs by Robert Frank. There is no text. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. In protective plastic sheet. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Robert Frank's "Household Inventory Record". A new installment in the Series of Robert Frank's visual diaries: Private photographs of home and abroad that look and feel familiar, and disquietingly unfamiliar, at the same time. "Continues the journey into Frank's world and his imagery, showing us snapshots from his travels, of his friends, and everyday curiosities" (Publisher's blurb). It is one of Robert Frank's most intimate books, a rare, privileged peek into his private world, laconically presented as an inventory of "personal effects", whether they be real home furnishings, family members, friends, and the glorious landscapes of Nova Scotia. While looking at the pictures, one feels as though someone, most likely Robert Frank, is looking over one's shoulder, along with us: The Polaroids seem ordinary on the surface, on the one hand, yet abstruse and enigmatic in their meaning and significance, on the other. Robert Frank died on September 9, 2019 at the age of 94 as the greatest photographer of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Frank collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Robert Frank. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online, is enclosed within a protective plastic sheet, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Robert Frank stopped doing public signings a long time ago. Even when he did, they were very few and far between. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with Polaroid reproductions. Three of Robert Frank's books were selected as among the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3869306602. Stock number: 21222. ISBN: 3869306602
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Imprint: Gottingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2011 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 40 pages. Retrospective collection of previously unpublished photographs. One of the most beautiful collections in the Steidl "Robert Frank Project". The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial cloth boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Robert Frank. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Robert Frank's "Pangnirtung". Landscape photographs of a village of Inuit ("Eskimo") inhabitants in the Arctic Circle. There were roughly 1300 Inuit at the time Frank and his lifelong friend Reginald Rankin visited the remote village in August 1992. The place is un-inhabited today. Despite widespread perception (as a result of "The Americans"), Robert Frank was never an anthropologist/photographer. His subject is death, not life, and he is THE elegiac artist of desolation, loss, and "memento mori" par excellence. He did not photograph a single Inuit in Pangnirtung, who were already dying off although many were still around, as if anticipating and commemorating (before it actually happened) their imminent extinction. In addition to anti-Ansel Adams images of the most majestic natural landscapes, Frank photographed the Christian cemetery where Western explorers and settlers are buried, presenting them as the collection's coda. There is, as it were, only grave beauty in every Robert Frank photograph. "He can portray real pain and capture profound depths of human emotion better than almost any other photographer; indeed, better than almost any other artist in any medium" (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger). Robert Frank died on September 9, 2019 at the age of 94 as the greatest photographer of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Frank collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the First Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A scarce copy thus. 27 tritone plates. Three of Robert Frank's books were selected as among the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3869301988. Stock number: 16479. ISBN: 3869301988
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Imprint: Gottingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2008 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 110 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most important titles in Robert Frank's oeuvre. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the 2010 Reissued Edition, which has the same ISBN as well as the Facsimile Edition in English. Published as part of the Steidl "Robert Frank Project", the French-Language Original was issued especially for France only, as a courtesy to the artist and his subject. None of the copies was commercially issued in the United States. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with red titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Robert Frank. Brief Interview in French by Ute Eskildsen. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Robert Frank's "Paris". Photographs of the city in the 1950's, most of which appear in book form for the very first time. Some of the images previously appeared in "Flower Is...", but this book presents the body of work as selected and edited by Robert Frank himself in their entirety. "Having left Switzerland in 1924, this 1951 trip to France was Frank's second return to Europe after he had settled in New York City in 1947, and some of the images he made during that visit have become iconic in the history of the medium. Frank's experience of the New World sharpened his eye for European urbanism. He saw the city's streets as a stage for human activity and focussed particularly on the flower sellers. References Atget and invokes the tradition of the flaneur" (Publisher's blurb). Robert Frank died on September 9, 2019 at the age of 94 as the greatest photographer of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Frank collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing/French-Language Original (2008) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Should NOT be confused with the 2010 Reissued Edition as well as the Facsimile Edition in English. The French-Language Original was issued for France only. None of the copies was commercially issued in the United States. A rare copy thus. 80 tritone plates. Three of Robert Frank's books were selected as among the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3865215246. Stock number: 22436. ISBN: 3865215246
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Imprint: Gottingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2014 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 56 pages. Artist Book. Retrospective collection of photographs. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only and as part of the Steidl "Robert Frank Project". An austerely elegant production by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Robert Frank. There is no text. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ/slipcase, as issued. Presents Robert Frank's "Partida". Named after the very first photograph in the sequence. "Continues the journey through his archives, presenting us with a new series of images of friends, colleagues, interiors, of quiet still lives and snapshots of both ordinary and unexpected objects and situations. Constitutes an important part of both his later work and the art of the photobook" (Gerhard Steidl). "He can portray real pain and capture profound depths of human emotion better than almost any other photographer; indeed, better than almost any other artist in any medium" (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger). Robert Frank died on September 9, 2019 at the age of 94 as the greatest photographer of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Frank collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Robert Frank. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is an art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Signed Robert Franks are rare, command as much as $20000 online even if they are not in fine condition, and will always keep their value. A rare signed copy thus. 56 plates. Three of Robert Frank's books were selected as among the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3869307951. Stock number: 21772. ISBN: 3869307951
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Imprint: Gottingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2008 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 48 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of Robert Frank's most beautiful books. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only and as part of the Steidl "Robert Frank Project". An austerely elegant production by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl: Regular-sized volume format. Black cloth boards with gray titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Robert Frank. There is no text. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. In publisher's original shrinkwrap. In pictorial DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Robert Frank's "Peru". A youthful photographic pilgrimage (and precursor to "The Americans"), now finally available in published form for the very first time. One of the photographer's least well-known - and most underrated - works: Photographs he took during an extended visit to Peru, back in 1948. Apart from Frank's personal copy of the vintage photographs (since acquired by The National Gallery Washington DC), only one other set of the original prints exists, in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York (MOMA). In other words, all of us, book and print collectors alike, will have to settle for this gem of a book. "Until now, very few people have seen the sequence, which already displayed the hallmark of Frank's distinctive imagery. Exhibits an ease and flexibility that Frank himself confirms. Using a hand-held 35mm Leica camera, Frank documented the country's massive vistas, weathered faces, manual labor, and dusty roads stretching to the horizon, with a spontaneity of motion that propels the viewer into the midst of the scenery. A work of major significance in both the artist's history and the history of photography" (Publisher's blurb). "I was very free with the camera. I didn't think of what would be the correct thing to do. I did what I felt good doing. I was like an action painter" (Robert Frank). Robert Frank died on September 9, 2019 at the age of 94 as the greatest photographer of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Frank collectors. This title is a late-modern photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A scarce copy thus. 39 tritone plates. Three of Robert Frank's books were selected as among the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3865216927. Stock number: 22437. ISBN: 3865216927
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Imprint: London, England, Tate Modern London/Steidl Publishers, 2004 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 210 pages. Exhibition Monograph. One of the most beautiful books on the photographic art and achievement of Robert Frank. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a "turtleback" flexiboard original only and as one of the earliest titles in the Steidl "Robert Frank Project". The Exhibition Monograph is now scarce. A brilliant production by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial plastic covers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs, film stills, and text by Robert Frank. Essays by Ian Penman and Vicente Todoli. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of the same name, the very first full-fledged overview of the photographer's body of work in the United Kingdom, held at the Tate Modern London from October 28, 2004 through January 23, 2005. Presents Robert Frank's "Storylines". The photographer's finest and most representative work, selected by him with particular emphasis, as his title suggests, on their status as photo-narratives. Aside from turning a series of discrete photographs into a sequence that adds up to a narrative whole, Frank wrote the accompanying text himself. He is that rare thing among photographers: A photographer and an artist who is also an accomplished writer. After all, his decisive artistic influences and closest friendships have been with writers (like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, among others), not fellow photographers. With the exception of "Moving Out" (1994), which appeared a full decade ago, "Storylines" is the most comprehensive overview of Frank's canonical body of work, beautifully produced in an Artist Book format. It makes a compelling case for Robert Frank as the one photographer who has radically transformed documentary "street photography" by turning it into powerful self-expression: His "objective" photographs of people, places, landscapes, events, and things express his "subjective" inner turmoil, which, in the end, is what all true art does. "He can portray real pain and capture profound depths of human emotion better than almost any other photographer; indeed, better than almost any other artist in any medium" (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger). Robert Frank died on September 9, 2019 at the age of 94 as the greatest photographer of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Frank collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the front free endpaper by Robert Frank. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 235 plates. Three of Robert Frank's books were selected as among the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3865210414. Stock number: 22146. ISBN: 3865210414
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Imprint: Zurich, Switzerland, Scalo Publishers, 2003 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 208 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of Robert Frank's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, including the Steidl "Robert Frank Project" Edition (which is nevertheless eminently collectible in its own right). Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Wyndham Boulter Zurich: Regular-sized volume format. Black cloth boards with gray titles printed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Robert Frank. Essay by Philip Brookman. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Scalo in Zurich, Switzerland to the highest standards. In publisher's original shrinkwrap. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition of the same name held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, DC in 2003. Presents Robert Frank's "London/Wales". Some of his most poetic and most beautiful images, his innate melancholy somewhat lightened by the frisson of discovery. "In 1951-1952, Frank visited London and set out to photograph the unique atmosphere of the city. He followed British financiers around the City, capturing them in their traditional top hats and long coats, creating images that depict them in a poetic dance with their fog-shrouded environment. In 1953, before the impending nationalization of the country's coal mines, Frank then travelled to the town of Careau, Wales, to photograph the coal miners whose lives revolved around their work. He shot pictures of workers, men delivering coal, children playing on the streets, people waiting or relaxing in the parks. In these photographs, he juxtaposed money and work, wealth and poverty, creating a dynamic photographic project that has never been shown before in its entirety. Frank downplayed the Modernist Movement in favor of a more provocative form that offered informal, revealing glances rather than an official document. Explores a stylistic transformation in his work, a period of development which saw his mode of photography move from an innovative Romanticism to a highly charged, metaphorical Realism. Set the stage for his ground-breaking 'The Americans' " (Philip Brookman). Even by Robert Frank's standards, these images are stunning, prompting the great American novelist (and soon-to-be collaborator) Jack Kerouac to say, "You got eyes". Robert Frank died on September 9, 2019 at the age of 94 as the greatest photographer of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Frank collectors. This title is a great photography book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with all other subsequent editions, including the Steidl "Robert Frank Project" Edition. Copies available online, including the Steidl Edition, command hundreds of dollars. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 90 tritone plates. Three of Robert Frank's books were selected as among the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3908247675. Stock number: 18617. ISBN: 3908247675
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Imprint: London, England, Tate Modern London/Steidl Publishers, 2004 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 210 pages. Exhibition Monograph. One of the most beautiful books on the photographic art and achievement of Robert Frank. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a "turtleback" flexiboard original only and as one of the earliest titles in the Steidl "Robert Frank Project". The Exhibition Monograph is now scarce. A brilliant production by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial plastic covers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs, film stills, and text by Robert Frank. Essays by Ian Penman and Vicente Todoli. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of the same name, the very first full-fledged overview of the photographer's body of work in the United Kingdom, held at the Tate Modern London from October 28, 2004 through January 23, 2005. Presents Robert Frank's "Storylines". The photographer's finest and most representative work, selected by him with particular emphasis, as his title suggests, on their status as photo-narratives. Aside from turning a series of discrete photographs into a sequence that adds up to a narrative whole, Frank wrote the accompanying text himself. He is that rare thing among photographers: A photographer and an artist who is also an accomplished writer. After all, his decisive artistic influences and closest friendships have been with writers (like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, among others), not fellow photographers. With the exception of "Moving Out" (1994), which appeared a full decade ago, "Storylines" is the most comprehensive overview of Frank's canonical body of work, beautifully produced in an Artist Book format. It makes a compelling case for Robert Frank as the one photographer who has radically transformed documentary "street photography" by turning it into powerful self-expression: His "objective" photographs of people, places, landscapes, events, and things express his "subjective" inner turmoil, which, in the end, is what all true art does. "He can portray real pain and capture profound depths of human emotion better than almost any other photographer; indeed, better than almost any other artist in any medium" (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger). Robert Frank died on September 9, 2019 at the age of 94 as the greatest photographer of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Frank collectors. This title is a photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 235 plates. Three of Robert Frank's books were selected as among the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3865210414. Stock number: 21145. ISBN: 3865210414
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Imprint: Gottingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2009 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 124 pages. Artist Book. Retrospective collection of photographs, presented as a Slipcased Set. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only and as part of the Steidl "Robert Frank Project" that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl: Small-sized volume format. There are seven individual volumes in all. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Robert Frank. There is no text. Matching slipcase. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ/slipcase, as issued. Presents Robert Frank's "Seven Stories". One of the most sublimely beautiful titles in the Steidl Project. "After completing his seminal photography book, 'The Americans' in 1958, Robert Frank put aside the still image and concentrated throughout the 1960's on film-making. He returned to still photography in the 1970's, using a Polaroid camera with black-and-white positive/negative film. These images were frequently layered with text, which Frank inscribed by hand onto the Polaroid negative. He found that these works allowed him more freedom to 'destroy the perfect image'. In recent years, Frank has worked almost exclusively with Polaroids, exploring the collage and assemblage possibilities of the instant photograph. This slipcased collection of small, staple-bound books represents a new stage in the practice of a remarkable artist who continually challenges the limits of photography and strives to avoid repeating himself" (Gerhard Steidl). "He can portray real pain and capture profound depths of human emotion better than almost any other photographer; indeed, better than almost any other artist in any medium" (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger). Robert Frank died on September 9, 2019 at the age of 94 as the greatest photographer of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Frank collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the first page of Volume 1 by Robert Frank. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great Artist Book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Signed Robert Franks are rare, command as much as $20000 online even if they are not in fine condition, and will always keep their value. A rare signed copy thus. 124 plates. Three of Robert Frank's books were selected as among the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3865217893. Stock number: 21773. ISBN: 3865217893
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Imprint: Gottingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2010 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 40 pages. Artist Book. One of the most beautiful collections in the Steidl "Robert Frank Project". The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers with white titles on the spine, as issued. Photographs and brief text by Robert Frank. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. In cardboard slipcase that is printed on one side. In publisher's original shrinkwrap. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Robert Frank's "Tal Uf Tal Ab". Black-and-white photographs selected by Robert Frank from his personal archives, which all appear in published form for the very first time. "Frank's subjects are his life now, an inquisitive existence shaped by memory: Newsstands, streetscapes, portraits of friends and his wife June Leaf, interiors, a self-portrait. This book is the latest phase in Frank's unceasing exploration of photography" (Publisher's blurb). This book is the latest manifestation of Robert Frank's relentless melancholy, the most profound among late-modern artists. Despite its Arabic sound, "Tal Uf Tal Ab" is "Swiss-German. It means direction up the valley/down the valley. Now I live and wait and think mostly in the places I live: New York City and Mabou NS" (Robert Frank). "NS" is, of course, Nova Scotia. Robert Frank died on September 9, 2019 at the age of 94 as the greatest photographer of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Frank collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the First Edition/First Printing still available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A scarce copy thus. 29 tritone plates. Three of Robert Frank's books were selected as among the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3869301015. Stock number: 16323. ISBN: 3869301015
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Imprint: Gottingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2008 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 180 pages. The 50th-Anniversary Edition of the photographer's classic. One of the greatest photography books of the 20th century. The Steidl "Robert Frank Project" First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only as the linchpin of the "Robert Frank Project" that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition Thus is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Robert Frank and Gerhard Steidl: Regular-sized volume format. Black cloth boards with gray titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by Robert Frank. Essay by Jack Kerouac. Red promotional bellyband. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In pictorial DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Re-presents, in its First Steidl Edition, Robert Frank's "The Americans". His unsurpassed - and unsurpassable - masterpiece. Frank retained both the size and format of the 1959 First American Edition. But he re-scanned and re-cropped all of the images, and replaced two of them, a change not found in any of the book's previous editions. Swiss-born Robert Frank travelled throughout the continental United States (ALL 48 states, according to Kerouac) between 1955 and 1956. The oft-quoted line from Kerouac's essay is, "After seeing these pictures, you end up finally not knowing anymore whether a jukebox is sadder than a coffin". Which sums up the fact that a Robert Frank photograph is characterized by profound sadness and incomparable visual genius. Robert Frank died on September 9, 2019 at the age of 94 as the greatest photographer of our time. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Frank collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of The First Steidl "Robert Frank Project" Edition/First Printing ("First Steidl Edition published in 2008" Statement with NO further printing indications) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. It comes with a pristine copy of " 'The Americans' List". Please note: This comes with the red promotional bellyband, initially issued with the First Printing only. However, the presence of the bellyband is NO longer a First Printing indication, and does NOT guarantee that a copy is the First Edition because Steidl has since re-issued it for Later Printings on an "ad hoc" basis (especially those "sealed" copies). "New" copies are 10th or Later Printings as of 2019, all of them meticulously indicated as such by the publisher. Copies of various editions of "The Americans" available online, not one of them is in even Near-Fine condition, command thousands of dollars. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 83 tritone plates. At the age of 92, Robert Frank was profiled in 2016 by The New York Times as "the greatest photographer of our time". A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT FRANK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 386521584X. Stock number: 22148. ISBN: 386521584X
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Hyperion/Miramax Books, 2007 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 312 pages. The author's debut memoir. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Lucinda Franks' "My Father's Secret War: A Memoir". Published to enormous critical acclaim by such figures as Elie Wiesel, Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Cheever, and Patricia Bosworth, great memoir-writers all. Lucinda Franks is an award-winning writer who is married to Robert Morgenthau, the New York County District Attorney. When her father was diagnosed with and realized that he was slipping into incurable dementia, he decided to tell his daughter everything about the part of his life he had kept hidden from everyone, especially his own family. Lucinda Franks knew little about her father's activities during the Second World War so she never suspected his simply stunning revelation: He was a spy who risked his life behind enemy lines, in the guise of an utterly convincing SS Officer, who was nevertheless vulnerable and could have been caught if he ever let his guard down even once. Hence his lifelong secretiveness. As an SS Officer, he was among the very first Americans to see the Nazi concentration camps, a horrifying discovery that he could not prevent, which made him bitter about himself and humanity for the rest of his life. His bitterness essentially destroyed his relations with his family, an estrangement that was belatedly healed by his heartbreaking story, revealed just before they lost him again, this time for good, to madness. A journalist by profession, Lucinda Franks presents military intelligence records and documentation that verify his profoundly personal account but could never render justice to the suffering he endured all his life. The result is a book that is "worthy of Graham Greene" (Joyce Carol Oates). "This is the real story of The Greatest Generation, adding immeasurably to our understanding of who our fathers were and what they survived. It should be read by everyone who cares about history, not the history of textbooks, but the history of what really happened to the men who lived it" (Susan Cheever). An absolute "must-have" title for Lucinda Franks collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Lucinda Franks. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Lucinda Franks is the very first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for her National Reporting at The New York Times, where she spent her entire career as a journalist. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 140135226X. Stock number: 11932. ISBN: 140135226X
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 562 pages. The author's fourth novel. One of the best American novels of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a regular first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jonathan Franzen's "Freedom". His first novel since "The Corrections" (2001) more than ten years ago. The great novelist Charles Baxter has observed that Jonathan Franzen is writing as if literary Modernism and Post-Modernism never happened, that his predecessor-models are Saul Bellow/contemporary realism on the one hand and Leo Tolstoy/the grand 19th-century novel on the other. While sometimes over-reaching, the praise lavished upon Franzen is still well-deserved. His novel describes, brilliantly, bitingly, and in a way that none of his contemporaries has, how the abstract idea called Freedom (a religious belief every American holds regardless of political persuasion) and the concrete freedoms every American feels entitled to (pretty much every modern entitlement: Sex and love, happiness and fulfillment, success, wealth, fame, power) permeate American society for good, not-so-good, and bad. In Franzen's worldview, a correction is long-overdue. An absolute "must-have" title for Jonathan Franzen collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Jonathan Franzen. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Franzen won the 2011 Heartland Prize For Fiction. This copy comes with the pristine and beautifully produced Souvenir Program. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Selected by The New Yorker Magazine as one of "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century", a selection that was prescient because he had not written anything in almost a decade. Winner of the National Book Award in 2001 for "The Corrections". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JONATHAN FRANZEN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374158460. Stock number: 19229. ISBN: 0374158460
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2002 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 278 pages. The author's debut collection of essays. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jonathan Franzen's "How To Be Alone". Fourteen impassioned essays on the inner life, the very real need to cultivate solitude and to preserve one's personal values amid the distractions and corruptions of mass-media culture. Includes Jonathan Franzen's two most celebrated essays thus far, "Why Bother?" and "My Father's Brain". The former was originally published in Harper's Magazine as "Perchance To Dream", the author's landmark literary manifesto-essay. The latter originally appeared in The New Yorker Magazine, and was turned into Franzen's very first Limited Edition production by a British fine press. "Urges readers to say no to drugs, but not the pharmaceutical kind. His opiates are those technology offers in the form of TV, pop culture, and endless gadgetry, soporifics that are addictive, and in the long run only make society's problems worse. Franzen is just as hard on intellectual conformity, on academe's canonization of third-rate but politically correct novels. As a serious artist, he knows that the deck is stacked against him. After all, a great novel is a kind of anti-product, one that is 'inexpensive, infinitely reusable, and worst of all, unimprovable'. The problem is that instead of being allowed to enjoy our solitary uniqueness, we are all being turned into one gigantic, corporate-created entity" (Publishers Weekly). "To be" and "To be alone" are, finally, one and the same thing. But contemporary culture deliberately equates solitude with loneliness: If you're alone, then you must be lonely. It doesn't follow, but the correlation is drilled on a daily basis by mass-media culture: If you're watching TV, you are not alone, television is (or is like) your cozy, dependable, and constant companion. How to be alone? Read. This book, among others. An absolute "must-have" title for Jonathan Franzen collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Jonathan Franzen. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It comes with a copy of the Souvenir Program, which is beautifully produced, of the event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are subsequent printings yet command as much as $200. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Selected by The New Yorker Magazine as one of "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century", a selection that was prescient because he had not written anything in almost a decade. Winner of the National Book Award in 2001 for "The Corrections". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JONATHAN FRANZEN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374173273. Stock number: 20310. ISBN: 0374173273
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Imprint: London, England, Fourth Estate, 2015 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 565 pages. The author's fifth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Publisher's "Signed By The Author" round white sticker pasted in front. The First Edition is now scarce. As usual, the production values of the British Edition are exemplary - and superior to the American - in every respect. Presents Jonathan Franzen's "Purity". His (most) Dickensian novel. The title is the full name of the protagonist, whose nickname, "Pip", is a nod to Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations". As incredible as it sounds, "Purity" marks a genuine artistic advance for Franzen, a novelist who keeps getting better with each successive effort, even if the novel isn't the "splash" that "Freedom" (2010) so unmistakably was. "There is much to admire in 'Purity', not least what David Gates has termed 'micro-felicities', the expertly calibrated turns of phrase and pleasingly digressive cultural references and riffs around every corner. Bends time, easing in and out of characters' past and present, until before you know it, the disparate pieces of a life suddenly fit" (Leigh Haber). An absolute "must-have" title for Jonathan Franzen collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in red ink-pen on the title page by Jonathan Franzen. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page even though it comes from the publisher. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Franzen felt that he over-exposed himself with the national (and eventually, international) tour he undertook for his previous novel, "Freedom". For "Purity", he made just a handful of appearances to promote the book. To compensate for his drastically abbreviated tour, his British publisher issued a very limited number of signed copies such as this. The production values of the British Edition are exemplary - and superior to the American - in every respect. A scarce signed copy thus. Selected by The New Yorker Magazine as one of "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century", a selection that was prescient because he had not written anything in almost a decade. Winner of the National Book Award in 2001 for "The Corrections". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JONATHAN FRANZEN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0007532768. Stock number: 21853. ISBN: 0007532768
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2015 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 565 pages. The author's fifth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. "Autographed Copy" round white sticker pasted in front. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jonathan Franzen's "Purity". His (most) Dickensian novel. The title is the full name of the protagonist, whose nickname, "Pip", is a nod to Charles Dickens' "Great Expectations". As incredible as it sounds, "Purity" marks a genuine artistic advance for Franzen, a novelist who keeps getting better with each successive effort, even if the novel isn't the "splash" that "Freedom" (2010) so unmistakably was. "There is much to admire in 'Purity', not least what David Gates has termed 'micro-felicities', the expertly calibrated turns of phrase and pleasingly digressive cultural references and riffs around every corner. Bends time, easing in and out of characters' past and present, until before you know it, the disparate pieces of a life suddenly fit" (Leigh Haber). An absolute "must-have" title for Jonathan Franzen collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the publisher's bookplate by Jonathan Franzen. It is also very prominently and beautifully signed and dated (shortly after publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Jonathan Franzen 9.24.15". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed and post-publication dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Selected by The New Yorker Magazine as one of "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century", a selection that was prescient because he had not written anything in almost a decade. Winner of the National Book Award in 2001 for "The Corrections". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JONATHAN FRANZEN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374239215. Stock number: 20169. ISBN: 0374239215
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