Gibson, Ralph (Artist/Photographer) & Cohen, Alan (Recipient/Photographer)
Syntax: Photographs By Ralph Gibson

Imprint: New York City, NY, Lustrum Press, 1983
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 80 pages. Artist Book. One of Ralph Gibson's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run by the legendary Lustrum Press as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Ralph Gibson and Arne Lewis: Oversize-volume format. Black linen cloth boards with black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Ralph Gibson. Except for the opening line, there is no text. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper 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. Presents Ralph Gibson's "Syntax". The artist/photographer's fourth Lustrum Press collection, prefaced with an inconspicuous opening line, "Neither figure nor ground. Music is blind". Which is a poetic re-statement of his oft-quoted line: "Add to the photograph with light and then subtract with shadow", the distillation of his aesthetics and body of work. His intention (as expressed in his iconic "The Somnambulist") is also pertinent: "A Dream Sequence in which all things are real. While sleeping, a dreamer reappears elsewhere on the planet, becoming at least two men. His sleeping dreams provide the substance of that Reality while his waking dreams become what he thought was his Life. Clarity is all any man seeks, this Somnambulist merely finds his on the Other Side" (Ralph Gibson). An absolute "must-have" title for Ralph Gibson collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed and inscribed/presented to a fellow artist in black ink-pen on the title page by the artist/photographer: "Ralph Gibson Alan Cohen". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Alan Cohen, the recipient, is the Chicago-based Conceptual artist/photographer, who is closely identified with the Institute of Design (ID). This title is a late-modern art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only presentation copy (from one photographer to another) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 75 duotone plates. One of the most brilliant American artist/photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 0912810394.

Stock number: 22410. ISBN: 0912810394

$US 150.00

Gilbert & George (Subjects) & Bracewell, Michael (Author)
What Is Gilbert & George?

Imprint: London, England, Heni Publishing, 2017
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 180 pages. Retrospective Monograph, presented as a primer. One of the single best books on the transgressive art of Gilbert & George. 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 hardcover original only. There is NO American Edition. A brilliant production by Gilbert & George: Regular-sized volume format. Glossy pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Art by Gilbert & George. Text by Michael Bracewell. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "What Is Gilbert & George?". The short answer: Resonant layers of meaning engendered by the artists' juxtaposition of traditional British attitudes with iconography drawn from the social and sexual margins. Performance artists who also use the traditional genres and photography, Gilbert & George are transgressive in that they re-value (rather than de-value) their central British-ness and self-imposed marginal status at the same time. "Over the course of 37 short chapters, Bracewell has created an accessible handbook to their work. Provides candid insights into their working practice, East London, sex, Victorian art, nationalism, and male-ness, among many other subjects" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Gilbert & George collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen-marker on the front free endpaper by the artists: "With love from Gilbert & George". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. There is no recipient named. This title is a contemporary art classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed 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. Please note: There is NO American Edition. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. Two of the most important and influential artists of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 1912122022.

Stock number: 21709. ISBN: 1912122022

$US 70.00

Gilden, Bruce (Photographer) & Darmaillacq, Sophie (Contributor)
Hey Mister, Throw Me Some Beads: Photographs By Bruce Gilden

Imprint: Heidelberg, Germany, Kehrer Heidelberg Berlin, 2015
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 200 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs on subject. One of Bruce Gilden's finest achievements. 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. A brilliant production by Bruce Gilden and Kehrer Verlag: Oversize-volume format. Glossy pictorial boards with maroon cloth overboards and gilt titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Bruce Gilden. Text by Sophie Darmaillacq in the French original and felicitous English translation. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Heidelberg, Germany to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Bruce Gilden's "Hey Mister, Throw Me Some Beads". The iconic New Orleans' Mardi Gras street argot summing up the carnival atmosphere of these indelible images. "Strings of beads, doubloons, and other trinkets are passed out or thrown from the floats in the Mardi Gras parades to spectators lining the streets. In 1974, Bruce Gilden was a young photographer when he first went down to Mardi Gras to shoot his first personal essay away from his home city of New York. But when Gilden first stepped foot in New Orleans, he found himself in 'a pagan dream where you can be what you want to be'. He became a regular visitor, making seven trips to the mayhem of Bourbon Street between 1974 and 1982. The energy, mentality, and social and cultural mores of Mardi Gras were all new for Gilden, but he captured the carnival crowds with the same raw intensity and poignancy that characterize his New York street photography" (Publisher's blurb). Bruce Gilden has taken the genre of street photography and pushed it in new directions, documenting the essence of the people he sees and the social landscape through which they move. His photographs have been widely exhibited in museums and galleries all over the world, and are included in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York; Brooklyn Museum of Art New York; Victoria And Albert Museum London; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; and National Gallery of Canada, among others. An absolute "must-have" title for Bruce Gilden collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Bruce Gilden. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary 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. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white plates. Bruce Gilden's "Go" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BRUCE GILDEN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 386828608X.

Stock number: 20795. ISBN: 386828608X

$US 100.00

Gill, Stephen
Hackney Wick: The Limited Edition

Imprint: London, England, Nobody/Archive Of Modern Conflict, 2005
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. Unpaginated. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the greatest photography books of our time. Limited Edition of 1500 copies. Published simultaneously with the Deluxe Edition. Both editions are now rare. A brilliant production by Stephen Gill and Melanie Mues: Regular-sized volume format. Blue pictorial cloth boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and brief text by Stephen Gill. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Stephen Gill's "Hackney Wick". Still his best book. "I first came across the area in January 2003 when I was photographing the back of advertising billboards. Although I had lived in London for nine years and thought I knew East London well, Hackney Wick threw me. It completely changed my mental map of this part of London. Over the next two years (2003 through 2005), I visited Hackney Wick again and again. Hackney has long provided a refuge for immigrants and asylum-seekers from all over the world and for me, Hackney Wick especially reflects the great diversity of London" (Stephen Gill). To capture its distinctive flavor, ambience, and human face, Gill used a "low-tech" camera, in a defiant gesture of resistance to the pervasive (and soul-less) "hi-tech" digital camera favored by professional as well as amateur photographers. A pitch-perfect, poignant realization of the "object-in-relation-to-place" motif that runs throughout Stephen Gill's work. An absolute "must-have" title for Stephen Gill collectors. This copy of the Limited Edition is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the front pastedown by Stephen Gill. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The signature beautifully matches the book's blue-dominant boards. This title is a great photography book. This is one of few such signed copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Pleasenote: Stephen Gill did NOT sign most copies of the Limited Edition. A rare signed copy thus. 100 color plates. Stephen Gill's "Hackney Wick" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER STEPHEN GILL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0954940520.

Stock number: 20451. ISBN: 0954940520

$US 250.00

Giordano, Paolo (Translated by Shaun Whiteside)
The Solitude Of Prime Numbers

Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking /Penguin Books, 2010
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 271 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most sensational literary debuts of our time. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a very small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Paolo Giordano's "The Solitude of Prime Numbers" in a felicitous English translation. His first novel, published when he was 27 years old. Its global success is astonishing because it is a thoughtful, subtle, and unflinching meditation on human pain, not the most resonant literary subject for most readers. "Follows two scarred people whose lives intersect but cannot seem to join. Alice and Mattia, both survivors of childhood traumas, are the odd-ones-out amid the adolescents in their high school. Mattia never recovered from the loss of his sister while Alice still suffers the effects of a skiing accident that damaged her physically and stunted her ability to trust anyone. Now teenagers, Mattia, also addicted to self-injury, has withdrawn into the world of numbers, and Alice gains control by starving herself. When they meet, they recognize something primal in each other, but timing and awkwardness keep their friendship on tenuous ground until years later, their lives come together one last time. Giordano uses Mattia and Alice's trajectory to ask whether there are some people, the prime numbers among us, who are destined to be alone, or whether two primes can come together" (Annie Bostrom). A withdrawn loner who hurts himself and a suicidal anorectic who is wary of other people are hardly the kinds of characters most people can identify with (rightly so). Giordano did not go to any MFA school of writing and instead, is working on his doctorate in Particle Physics. Yet, he has pulled off every writer's wildest dream: His novel has already been translated into 30 languages and sold millions of copies because he has somehow found a way to make us care about Mattia and Alice. An absolute "must-have" title for Paolo Giordano collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First American 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 (even if they are New) because of shoddy packing on the publisher's part. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Premio Strega, the most important literary prize in Italy, for "The Solitude of Prime Numbers" in 2008. Paolo Giordano is the youngest winner ever in the Prize's history. One of the most brilliant new voices in contemporary literature. A fine copy. . ISBN 0670021482.

Stock number: 15689. ISBN: 0670021482

$US 20.00

Glass, Philip
Words Without Music: A Memoir

Imprint: New York City, NY, Liveright, 2015
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 418 pages. The author/composer's memoir. One of the most important musical and cultural 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. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Philip Glass' "Words Without Music: A Memoir". A very productive lifetime of music-making, NOT just composing: Performing, conducting, holding festivals, creating recorded music from scratch as a valid way of producing music, touring, giving lectures, writing books. "A world-renowned composer of symphonies, operas, and film scores, Philip Glass has, almost single-handedly, crafted the dominant sound of late-twentieth-century classical music. Yet here, he creates an entirely new and unexpected voice, that of a born storyteller and an acutely insightful chronicler, whose behind-the-scenes recollections allow readers to experience those moments of creative fusion when life so magically merged with art. From his childhood in post-World War II Baltimore to his student days in Chicago, at Juilliard, and his first journey to Paris, where he studied under the formidable Nadia Boulanger, Glass movingly recalls his early mentors while reconstructing the places that helped shape his artistic consciousness. From a life-changing trip to India, where he met with gurus and first learned of Gandhi's Salt March to the gritty streets of New York in the 1970's, where the composer returned, working day jobs as a furniture mover, cab driver, and an unlicensed plumber, Glass leads the life of a bohemian artist, only now transported to late-twentieth-century America. Yet even after Glass' talent was first widely recognized with the sensational premiere of 'Einstein on the Beach' in 1976, even after he stopped renewing his hack license and gained international recognition for operatic works like 'Satyagraha', 'Orphee', and 'Akhnaten', the son of a Baltimore record store owner never abandoned his earliest universal ideals throughout his memorable collaborations with Allen Ginsberg, Ravi Shankar, Robert Wilson, Doris Lessing, Martin Scorsese, and many others, all of the highest artistic order" (Publisher's blurb). "Overflows with love and enthusiasm for life and art. Philip Glass' vision of human culture as the transmission of ideas through time is transcendent. Should be read by everyone interested in music and great writing" (Laurie Anderson). "Demonstrates mesmeric properties that are as palpable as they are inexplicable" (Alex Ross). An absolute "must-have" title for Philip Glass collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the half-title page by Philip Glass. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Glass' signature on this particular copy is the best we have ever seen. 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. Lavishly illustrated with 32 pages of vintage photographs. One of the greatest composers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0871404389.

Stock number: 19627. ISBN: 0871404389

$US 80.00

Gluck, Louise
American Originality: Essays On Poetry

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2017
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 200 pages. Retrospective collection of literary essays. 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. Presents Louise Gluck's "American Originality: Essays on Poetry". "A luminous collection of essays from one of our most original and influential poets". "Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, Gluck's moving and disabusing lyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection. From its opening pages, 'American Originality' forces readers to consider contemporary poetry and its demigods in radical, unconsoling, and ultimately very productive ways. Determined to wrest ample, often contradictory meaning from our current literary discourse, Gluck comprehends and destabilizes notions of 'narcissism' and 'genius' that are unique to the American literary climate. Includes erudite analyses of the poets who have interested her throughout her own career such as Rilke, Pinsky, Chiasson, and Dobyns, and Introductions to the first books of poets like Dana Levin, Peter Streckfus, Spencer Reece, and Richard Siken. Forceful, revealing, challenging, and instructive, a seminal critical achievement" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Louise Gluck collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (in the year of publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Louise Gluck. May 15 2017 NYC". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Material of the event during which her signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. 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: 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. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1985 for "The Triumph of Achilles". Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for "The Wild Iris". America's Poet Laureate in 2003 and 2004. One of the greatest poets of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LOUISE GLUCK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374299552.

Stock number: 21482. ISBN: 0374299552

$US 100.00

Goddard-Jones, Matthew (Photographer) & Humphries, Barry (Contribution)
Pastimes: Photographs By Matthew Goddard-jones

Imprint: Sydney, Australia, Matthew Goddard-Jones Studios
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. Unpaginated. Collection of black-and-white photographs. One of the most beautiful photography books on Australia ever published in our time. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Matthew Goddard-Jones: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on the spine, as issued. Photographs by Matthew Goddard-Jones. Except for the witty fragment by Barry Humphries, there is no text. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in Australia to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Matthew Goddard-Jones' "Pastimes". The Good Life, Australia-style. Every photograph shows Australians engaged in physical activity or sport of some sort (mainly, swimming), in the great outdoors, often mostly naked. This is the iconic image we all have of the continent, and Goddard-Jones celebrates it with joy, panache, and a brilliant eye. "Australia is an outdoor country. People only go inside to use the toilet. And that's only a recent development" (Barry Humphries). An absolute "must-have" title for Matthew Goddard-Jones collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Matthew Goddard-Jones. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary photography classic. 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. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white plates (in warm shades of gray). One of the most brilliant Australian photographers of our time. A fine copy. .

Stock number: 19791.

$US 100.00

Golden, Christopher
X-men: Codename Wolverine

Imprint: New York City, NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1998
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 341 pages. The author's graphic thriller. 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. Pale blue hard boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Art and text by Christopher Golden. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Christopher Golden's "X-Men". Wolverine. Sabretooth. Silver Fox. Wraith. Maverick. "Together, they were Team X, the best covert-ops team NATO had to offer. But a mission to retrieve a disk from a pair of Soviet agents proved to be more trouble than they bargained for. A Soviet agent code-named The Black Widow, a mutant Interpol agent named Sean Cassidy, and shape-changing freelance spy Mystique were all after the disk as well. Years later, Wolverine is a valued member of the uncanny X-Men. The Black Widow is now a respected American superhero. Cassidy is mentor to the next generation of young mutants. Mystique and Sabretooth are reluctant members of X-Factor, the government strike force. Wraith is still a covert-ops agent. Silver Fox is dead, and Maverick is dying of the Legacy Virus. Each of them is kidnapped, one by one, starting with Sabretooth, by far the deadliest member of the former Team X. Wolverine must uncover the terrible secret from that old mission, a secret that has remained hidden for years, and could spell death for all of them" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Christopher Golden and "X-Men" fans/collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue pen-marker on the title page by Christopher Golden. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title in now collectible. 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: 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 finest imaginers/writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0399144501.

Stock number: 10834. ISBN: 0399144501

$US 30.00

Golding, William
Darkness Visible

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1979
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 265 pages. The author's seventh novel. One of the finest English novels of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title 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 hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents William Golding's "Darkness Visible". An allegorical novel, published after a long, twelve-year-plus hiatus. The title comes originally from Milton's "Paradise Lost" ("No light, but rather darkness visible"), but it now has pervasive currency as the literary reference for clinical depression. Golding's novel "opens during the London blitz, when a naked child steps out of an all-consuming fire. That child, Matty, becomes a wanderer and a seeker. Two more lost children await him, twins as exquisite as they are loveless. In a final conflagration, William Golding's book lights up both the inner and outer darkness of our time" (Publisher's blurb). A tour-de-force of a triumph (over his perennial writer's block following the monumental success of "Lord of The Flies" way back in 1954), it is "a vision of elemental reality so vivid we seem to hallucinate the scenes" (The New York Times). An absolute "must-have" title for William Golding collectors. This title is a modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First American 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 copy thus. "Darkness Visible" is regarded by the late great Gore Vidal and Harold Bloom as a masterpiece. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983. One of the greatest novelists of the 20th century. A fine copy. . ISBN 0374135029.

Stock number: 17906. ISBN: 0374135029

$US 30.00

Gomes, Alair (Artist/Photographer) & Various Contributors
Alair Gomes

Imprint: Paris, France, Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain, 2001
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 160 pages. Retrospective collection of male nudes. One of the most beautiful erotic art photography books ever published. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, including the Brazilian Edition. Published in a small and limited print run by Fondation Cartier as a hardcover original only. This English-Language Edition is exactly the same as the French-Language Edition. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Fondation Cartier: Oversize-volume format. Metallic-silver hard boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Alair Gomes. Text by various contributors in felicitous English translations. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Paris, France to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark retrospective exhibition of the same name held at the Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain in 2001. Presents "Alair Gomes". A posthumous appreciation of the erotic art photography of the Brazilian Renaissance Man/artist/photographer. "Gomes (1921-1992) was in his 50's when he began to develop a body of photographic work focusing exclusively on the athletic young men to be found on the beach at Rio de Janeiro. This tireless collector of books, pictures, and films decided to transform the thousands of pages of his diaries into images, composing an immense erotic tableau of black-and-white photographs devoted to the beauty of the male body. The most original erotic photography of the past few decades" (Publisher's blurb). Why did this world-class scholar make a sudden swerve to male nude photography? His own answer: "The photographic nude may have outshone all others in the human adventure called art" (Alair Gomes). Gomes' aesthetics capitalize upon the innate voyeurism of photography, that is to say, whether the subject is explicitly sexual or not, photography's gaze is always erotic. As long as he or she is not doing it for the money, every photographer's subject is dictated by his or her own sexual desire: Gomes' images are homoerotic because he was homosexual and as such, drawn to masculinity (rather than femininity). Photographers who are drawn to both masculine and feminine beauty are rare; they are not "bisexual", increasingly a meaningless label, but pansexual. Among other Hitchcockian voyeurisms, Gomes photographed hundreds of Brazilian men using a telescopic camera, without their knowledge or consent. The "trade-off" is that the images expand our collective visual vocabulary, which Alair Gomes' ground-breaking photography does. Their raw, "not-photo-shopped", Latin-American hot-ness has prompted his admirers to say that there was nothing else like it before he came along. At one point, in Europe as well as the United States and even Latin America itself, that was probably the case. Such is Alair Gomes' pervasive (and unacknowledged) influence that we see him everywhere today: In copycat books, massive billboards, glossy magazine advertisements, and of course, the Internet. An absolute "must-have" title for Alair Gomes collectors. This title is a great photography book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover/First Printing/English-Language Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online command incredible prices, topping $2000, because the book is rare, especially in fine condition. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 211 duotone plates. One of the greatest photographers of the male nude of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 2742731644.

Stock number: 19705. ISBN: 2742731644

$US 500.00

Goodman, John (Photographer) & Millis, Christopher (Contributor)
John Goodman: Photographs

Imprint: New York City, NY, John Goodman Studios, 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 35 pages. Souvenir Catalog. One of the earliest and best catalogs on the photographic art of John Goodman. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. An austerely elegant production by John Goodman: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover, as issued. Photographs by John Goodman. Essay by Christopher Millis. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Meridien Printing in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of three major retrospectives in Boston and New York in 2004. Presents John Goodman's "Photographs". Some of his finest and most representative black-and-white images, in one elegant volume. "He succeeds in imbuing truth and beauty, even as the subjects inescapably change and disappear" (Britta Konau). John Goodman trained with the late Minor White, and says that he would never have become a photographer, much less a good one, were it not for the great photographer's tutelage and example. An absolute "must-have" title for John Goodman collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen-marker on the Souvenir Card that comes with it by the photographer: "Paul, Thank you for your help and the Meridien Printing connection. I am so glad this catalogue was produced. Certainly all your catalogues over the years have been an inspiration. Best, John". The recipient, Paul Berlanga, who is named, is the Chicago-based photography expert and important artist/painter. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with tritone plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN GOODMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 21313.

$US 50.00

Goodman, Jim (Author/Photographer) & Other Contributing Photographers
Thailand: Land Of Enchantment

Imprint: Singapore, Singapore, Times Editions, 2004
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

Second Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 145 pages. New and Expanded Edition of the travel-guide classic. One of the finest photography books on Thailand ever published. The first appearance of the title in this Revised And Expanded 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. A brilliant production by Times Editions: Oversize-volume format. Hard boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Jim Goodman and other contributors. Running commentary/text by Jim Goodman, which is perceptive, informative, and insightful. Printed on glossy stock paper in Singapore to the highest standards. In matching pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Jim Goodman's "Thailand: Land of Enchantment". Refreshing and colorful photographs of the Kingdom that the world identifies with both grace and grandeur. Together with Japan, Thailand is one of only two "aesthete" cultures in Asia, which is dominated by Confucian moralism, and is therefore quite daunting as such as foreign lands. Thailand's unique appeal to travellers and tourists is that it remains foreign ("exotic") yet somehow approachable and hospitable (sometimes overly so). Jim Goodman understands the culture and celebrates its celebration of beauty as the highest good: The Thai word for "good" is its word for "beautiful"; for "bad", is its word for "ugly". Aesthetics rules and somehow supersedes ethics, not the other way around and perhaps not always wisely, and as is not the case in the rest of Asia, and in much the West as well (always excepting the cultural capitals of Paris, London, and Rome). Goodman shows how the presentation of food (how it looks), for example, is as important, if not more so, as the food itself (how it tastes). Fruits are carved into delicate sculptural flowers and other exquisite objects; utilitarian baskets are made as though they were meant for royal ceremonies. The elaborate Buddhist temples, palaces, wood carvings, paintings, gigantic stone sculptures, royal barges, ceramics, fireworks, and indeed, the entire cities of all the three great dynasties, Sukhothai, Ayutthaya, and Rattanakosin (the reigning monarchy that was built from the marshes of what foreigners, and now, the Thais themselves, call Bangkok, and the Thais themselves lovingly call Krungthep), are nothing less than awe-inspiring testaments to the aesthetic worldview in its most developed and refined form (again, like Japan). The perfect introduction to and memento of a great kingdom and her people. An absolute "must-have" title for lovers of Thailand. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the 2004 New and Expanded Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A scarce copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates and archival materials. One of the world's most enchanted and beautiful kingdoms. A fine copy. . ISBN 9812046461.

Stock number: 16279. ISBN: 9812046461

$US 50.00

Goodman, Allegra
Total Immersion

Imprint: New York City, NY, Harper & Row, 1989
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 260 pages. The author's breakthrough debut collection of short stories. One of the most important 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. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Allegra Goodman's "Total Immersion". Written when she was still a student at Harvard University. The eleven stories in this collection received lavish praise from such established writers as Cynthia Ozick, Max Apple, and Chaim Potok. Among other things, Goodman seems to have pulled off two major feats: Capture the unique culture of Hawaii, where many of the stories take place, and evoke the claustrophobic atmosphere of the Jewish community there, a microcosm of Jewish communities everywhere in America. "Allegra Goodman is brilliant, knowing, alive: A marvel. All the muse-fairies were present at her birth!" (Cynthia Ozick). An absolute "must-have" title for Allegra Goodman collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in blue pen on the title page by Allegra Goodman. 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 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". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALLEGRA GOODMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0060159987.

Stock number: 5617. ISBN: 0060159987

$US 30.00

Gordimer, Nadine (Author) & Klingman, Stephen (Editor/Contributor)
The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics & Places

Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 357 pages. Retrospective collection of writings. One of the most valuable books of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title 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 hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Nadine Gordmier's "The Essential Gesture: Writings, Politics & Places". The writer-as-aesthete/the writer-as-activist par excellence. "An anthology of writings by one of South Africa's most respected and beloved writers. Illustrates the relationship between outer and inner change for the writer of conscience in South Africa. From the relative optimism of the 1950's to Sharpeville and the banning of the ANC to the challenges of the Black Consciousness Movement in the 1970's and the 'interregnum' of the 1980's, Gordimer rigorously analyzes political events. Her stand on censorship is unequivocal and her commitment to the community of writers - black and white - is forthright" (Publisher's blurb). One of Gordimer's lasting contributions to contemporary literature is her seamless fusion of political subject matter (of the most urgent kind) with beautiful prose (of the most elegant kind). Not an ideologue but a committed activist, Gordimer is an aesthete who values The Beautiful in an age that has relentlessly undermined the idea because it is the most subversive one of all. "Her magnificent epic writing has been of very great benefit to humanity" (Nobel Prize Citation). An absolute "must-have" title for Nadine Gordimer collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated in black pen on the title page by the author: "Nadine Gordimer 1991". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few such signed and dated copies of the First American 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. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1974 for "The Conservationist". Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER NADINE GORDIMER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0394573978.

Stock number: 21494. ISBN: 0394573978

$US 70.00

Gordon, Jaimy
Lord Of Misrule: A Novel

Imprint: Kingston, NY, McPherson & Company, 2010
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 296 pages. The author's breakthrough fourth 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. The First Edition is now scarce. The book's production values are impeccable: Blue cloth boards with silver titles embossed on the spine, an evocative DJ design by Bruce McPherson (the publisher), which utilizes a photograph by Julie Jacobson, and pristine-white archival stock paper printed in the United States. Presents Jaimy Gordon's "Lord of Misrule". The novel that catapulted Jaimy Gordon from cult "writer's writer" to mainstream "major writer" status virtually overnight: A tour-de-force novel. A triumph of the writer's seldom-rightly-used "ear" (as much as well-used-overworked "eye"), with five - that's right, five instead of the usual one - character voices, who all have an urgent, commanding claim on our attention: "Creates nothing less than her own American idiom, as her unerring eye and ear capture the rhythms of the racetrack, serving up more poetry, comedy, and mystery than you could imagine. Exhibits the same exuberant linguistic genius that makes Jaimy Gordon a true American original" (Mary Caponegro). An absolute "must-have" title for Jaimy Gordon collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Jaimy Gordon. 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 are subsequent printings as the publisher rushed to print substantially more copies to satisfy public demand. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the National Book Award for "Lord of Misrule" in 2010. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0929701836.

Stock number: 21278. ISBN: 0929701836

$US 100.00

Gordon, Michael (Composer); Van Gogh, Vincent (Subject) & Alarm Will Sound (Performers)
Michael Gordon: Van Gogh: The First Edition

Imprint: New York City, NY, Cantaloupe Records, 2007
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Debut Recording of the composer's landmark work. One of Michael Gordon's finest achievements. The 2007 First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the 2008 Reissued Edition. Produced in a small and limited print run as a Slipcased Compact Disc only that sold out shortly after its release. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now rare. Presents, in its very first release, Michael Gordon's "Van Gogh". A definitive performance by Alarm Will Sound. His "video opera". "Amongst my favorite Michael Gordon works: It's hard-hitting, edgy, but includes music of impassioned lyricism. On first hearing it, I was immediately moved by the story Michael tells of Van Gogh's life: His adolescent anxieties, professional challenges, and the sort of transcendence that comes with his eventual institutionalization. Brings a directness and intimacy to the Van Gogh story by sharing it entirely through the artist's own private letters. This emotional directness makes for some of his most powerful music" (Alan Pierson). "I have always loved this work. Alarm Will Sound's performance is everything I could have dreamed of: Funky, passionate, and precise" (Michael Gordon). An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Gordon and Alarm Will Sound collectors. This copy of the Compact Disc (CD) of "Van Gogh" is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black pen-marker in front by Michael Gordon. It is signed directly on the slipcase itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Edition available online, is enclosed in its own protective plastic sleeve, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Because of its very limited number, its collectible value will not only keep but increase over time. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant composers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MICHAEL GORDON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN B00122Y56A.

Stock number: 20741. ISBN: B00122Y56A

$US 50.00

Gordon, Michael (Composer) & Slagwerk Den Haag (Performers)
Timber: The Deluxe Edition

Imprint: New York City, NY, Cantaloupe, 2011
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. The composer's masterpiece, presented in a "Collector's Item" Compact Disc (CD) wood-cased format. Deluxe Edition of 25 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition and the subsequent "Signed Edition". There is no ISBN. The Deluxe Edition is now rare. Presents, in its most collectible format, Michael Gordon's "Timber". A mesmerizing and transformative experience. "Featuring packaging in a real wooden box with a heat-stamped cover design, 'Timber' is an evening-length tour-de-force: Scored for six graduated wooden Simantras percussion instruments devised by French composer Iannis Xenakis, the work brings the physicality, endurance, and technique of percussion performance to a new level. Gordon shapes the music in both polyrhythmic and dynamic waves of textures. Often, each player's hands are in separate rhythmic 'worlds', each traversing a different dynamic contour from loud to soft to loud" (Publisher's blurb). "Six percussionists beat rapidly on a Simantra (a wooden slab) to create a magnificently tactile texture in which densities and implied harmonies unfold, often surprisingly, over five movements lasting 55 minutes. The music never falls flat or stiff, never warps under the changes in tone, pressure or frequency of strikes performed by the tireless Slagwerk Den Haag. Gordon revisits the meaningful repetitions perfected by one of his musical idols, Steve Reich, particularly 'Drumming'. Here, however, the repetition and rhythm are less tribal and more naturalistic, evoking the four elements at various turns" (The New York Times). The successor of both Iannis Xenakis and Steve Reich, Michael Gordon is one of the most exciting (and important) serious composers of our time. "Timber" shows that he has fully absorbed his musical influences, and at the same time, transcended them. An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Gordon collectors. This copy is one of the Deluxe Edition of 25 copies, indicated/numbered as such on verso, and it is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen in front by Michael Gordon. It is signed directly on the case itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Deluxe Edition available online, is enclosed in its own protective plastic sleeve, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Should NOT be confused with the regular trade edition and the subsequent "Signed Edition". Because of its very limited number, its collectible value will not only keep but increase over time. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant composers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MICHAEL GORDON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 17987.

$US 70.00

Gorman, Greg
Greg Gorman: Volume I ("greg Gorman: Volume One")

Imprint: Ridgefield, CT, CPC Publishing, 1989
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Unpaginated. The photographer's breakthrough collection of celebrity portraits and male and female nudes. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Second Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Volume One of the landmark two-volume set. Each volume was published separately, ten years apart from each other in fact, and by different publishers. The reason they nevertheless work perfectly together is that Greg Gorman maintained full creative control over the production of both. The First Edition is now rare. A stunningly beautiful production by Greg Gorman and Gary Johns: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 3 pounds. Photographs by Greg Gorman. There is minimal text. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper by the legendary Rapaport Printing Company New York to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ, which utilizes a male nude in front and a celebrity portrait on the back, and white titles on the spine, as issued. Presents "Greg Gorman: Volume I". His finest and most representative images in the two genres that he has excelled and established himself in: The celebrity portrait and the nude. Dramatically lit black-and-white, full-page photographs of celebrities are juxtaposed with spectacular, highly erotic nudes, including the now-classic six-panel fold-out of the model Tony Ward in different Classical Sculpture-inspired, full-frontal nude poses. The celebrity portraits include Al Pacino, David Bowie, Charlie Sheen, Warren Beatty, Madonna, Rupert Everett, Pee-Wee Herman, Kim Basinger, Robin Williams, Andy Warhol, and Michael Jackson, among many others. An accomplished Hollywood and lifestyle magazine photographer who has done commercial work for HBO, Columbia Pictures, Interview Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Playboy Magazine, LIFE, and Tatler, among others, Greg Gorman's true passions are the charismatic personality of the celebrity and the chiseled perfection of the human form, as only the (his) camera can capture. This breakthrough collection offers definitive and ample proof of Greg Gorman's distinctive style and outstanding mastery of his chosen medium. An absolute "must-have" title for Greg Gorman collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, dated, and inscribed in black pen on the flyleaf by the photographer: "For Dieter, Thanks for coming and also for your interest in my work. I hope we can do more projects together in the future. All my best, Greg Gorman 3/27/90". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Gorman's handwriting is unusually clean, flowing, and elegant. The recipient, who is named, was one of Greg Gorman's most important client/supporters. This title is a contemporary erotic art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing of Volume One available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Gorman did NOT sign most copies of the book. Copies available online have serious flaws yet command more than $500. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with duotone plates. One of the finest American photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GREG GORMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1871681006.

Stock number: 12125. ISBN: 1871681006

$US 300.00

Gorman, Greg (Photographer) & Weiermair, Peter (Contributor)
In Their Youth: The Limited Edition

Imprint: Bologna, Italy, Editore Damiani, 2010
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 280 pages. Retrospective collection of all-male portrait-photographs. One of the most beautiful collections of its kind of our time. Limited Clamshell Box Edition of 60 numbered and signed copies. The limitation is indicated not on the book but on the archival print that was produced by Greg Gorman specifically for the edition. Should not be confused with the regular trade edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Greg Gorman and Editore Damiani: Oversize-volume format. Photographs by Greg Gorman. Essay, "The Moment of Beauty", by Peter Weiermair. Inner linen clamshell cloth box, which contains the book in the recessed center. Original 13 X 17 inch photographic print of Christopher Atkins encased in its own black folio and laid within the box. Outer cardboard box, which protects the easily soiled linen cloth box, but is missing in many copies of the Limited Edition. Printed on thick, glossy stock paper in Bologna, Italy to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with gilt titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents, in its ultimate collectible format, Greg Gorman's "In Their Youth". His eighth collection, a celebration of masculine beauty at its absolute peak, that is, "in their youth". "Comprises over 200 of the photographer's previously unpublished portraits from the last three decades, featuring famous actors shot when they were still unknown young men. Gorman's intimate celebrity portraits hinge on the sense of his subjects' vulnerability" (Publisher's blurb). "I decided to do a project that expressed my infatuation with male beauty, especially in terms of youth. The portraits don't have lots of backgrounds, they're straightforward. It's really about the person, not the elements. It boils down to the graphics of the individual more than the graphics of the setting" (Greg Gorman). They are all here, today's biggest stars, and the starlets who would give them a run for their money if looks were the sole measure. An absolute "must-have" title for Greg Gorman collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Clamshell Box Edition, indicated as such on the original 13 X 17 inch photographic print that is very prominently and beautifully numbered and signed in pencil on verso by Greg Gorman. It is also very prominently, beautifully, and uniquely signed by Christopher Atkins. This title is a contemporary erotic art photography classic. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: As is his custom, Gorman did NOT sign the book itself. The print alone ensures that this edition's value will keep going up. A rare signed copy thus. 200 plates, 1 original print. One of the finest American photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GREG GORMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 8862081413.

Stock number: 16391. ISBN: 8862081413

$US 700.00

Gossage, John (Photographer); Jurovics, Toby & Badger, Gerry (Contributors)
The Pond: A Book Of 52 Photographs By John Gossage

Imprint: New York City, NY, Aperture Foundation, 2010
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition Thus / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 50 pages. New Facsimile Edition of the photographer's classic. One of the most important photography books of our time. The 2010 Hardcover Reissued 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 Reissued Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by John Gossage and Gabriele F. Gotz: Oversize-volume format. Dark-blue cloth boards with photographic reproduction pasted in front and red titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by John Gossage. Essays by Toby Jurovics and Gerry Badger. The latter appear in this edition only for the very first time. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with huge flaps and wraparound titles, as issued. Re-presents, after a long absence of twenty-five years, in a handsome Reissued Edition, John Gossage's "The Pond". The ambitious attempt to translate Henry David Thoreau's "Walden". That is, what Gossage thinks Thoreau really meant to say (if he took photographs instead) and then, it goes off on its own. First published in 1985, it remains one of the prolific Gossage's definitive works. "Consisting of photographs taken around and away from a pond situated in an unkempt wooded area at the edge of a city, the volume presents a considered foil to Henry Thoreau's stay at Walden. The photographs do not aspire to the 'beauty' of classical landscapes in the tradition of Ansel Adams. Instead, they reveal a subtle vision of reality on the border between Man and Nature" (Publisher's blurb). "Adams, Shore, Baltz, all the New Topographics photographers made great books. But none are better than 'The Pond' " (Gerry Badger). "Believable because it includes evidence of man's darkness of spirit, memorable because of the intense fondness Gossage shows for the remains of the natural world" (Robert Adams). Perhaps The Last Word belongs to the great photographer of Alaska of our time: "I still have no idea what the book is about, and writing about it seems pointless, unlike the act of holding the book in your hands and turning the pages, which is pure pleasure. The individual photographs sometimes seem unsettling, but there are other emotions released - stillness and joy. I really don't know why this is such a great book, just that it is" (Dennis Witmer). An absolute "must-have" title for John Gossage collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by John Gossage. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great art photography book. This is one of few such signed copies of the 2010 Reissued 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 1985 First Edition available online command thousands of dollars. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 52 plates. "The Pond" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN GOSSAGE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1597111325.

Stock number: 22406. ISBN: 1597111325

$US 150.00

Gourevitch, Philip (Author) & Morris, Errol (Co-Author/Film Director)
Standard Operating Procedure

Imprint: New York City, NY, The Penguin Press, 2008
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 287 pages. The authors' account on the Iraq War. 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 Philip Gourevitch's and Errol Morris' "Standard Operating Procedure". SOP. Gourevitch and Morris focus on the American soldiers who were sent to Iraq as liberators only to find themselves turned into jailers in Saddam Hussein's dungeons, responsible for implementing a practice they were sent to fight against. "The story of the defining moment in the war, the infamous Abu Ghraib photographs of prisoner abuse, as seen through the eyes, and told through the voices, of the soldiers who took them and appeared in them. In the tradition of powerful storytelling that runs from Joseph Conrad's 'The Heart of Darkness' and Fyodor Dostoevsky's 'The Grand Inquisitor' to Norman Mailer's 'The Executioner's Song', Philip Gourevitch has written a relentlessly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the War on Terror" (Publisher's blurb). Gourevitch relies heavily on Errol Morris' recorded interviews with the soldiers (hence the shared credit), that are also the basis of Morris' documentary, which is excruciating to watch. No theater in the United States has screened it, but it has been shown in Europe. Susan Sontag's last essay, "Regarding The Torture of Others" (2004), argued that Abu Graib will remain the most iconic image of the war in Iraq long after the war itself is finally over. Gourevitch and Morris evidently agree, but see the scandal from the most painful perspective of all: The soldier-photographer-torturers themselves. "There is no keeping our hands clean of Abu Graib. Ignoring it doesn't work, nor does denouncing it, and there is no disavowing it, never mind denying it. The stain is inescapable and irreversible and it is ours, and if we have any hope of containing it and living it down it can only come from seeing it whole" (Philip Gourevitch). An absolute "must-have" title for Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated (in the month and year of publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Philip Gourevitch 5/08". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It is also very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the same page by Errol Morris. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such double-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: Errol Morris, our greatest documentary filmmaker, does NOT do signings. This signed copy is exceptional. A rare signed copy thus. Two of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1594201323.

Stock number: 13394. ISBN: 1594201323

$US 70.00

Gowin, Emmet (Photographer) & Tempest Williams, Terry (Contributor)
Mariposas Nocturnas: Moths Of Central And South America: A Study In Beauty And Diversity

Imprint: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2017
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 144 pages. Retrospective collection of color photographs. One of the most beautiful and important photography books 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 by a Univeristy Press. A brilliant production by Emmet Gowin: Oversize-volume format. A "coffee-table" book. Pictorial hard boards with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Emmet Gowin. Essay by Terry Tempest Williams. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Emmet Gowin's "Mariposas Nocturnas: Moths of Central And South America: A Study In Beauty And Diversity". Beyond treasurable. A stunningly beautiful taxonomy-portrait of the nocturnal moths of Central and South America, in all of their seemingly infinite diversity. "For the past fifteen years, Emmet Gowin has been engaged in a profound project on a massive scale, capturing the exquisite beauty of more than one thousand species of nocturnal moths in Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, and Panama. These color portraits present the moths, many of which have never been photographed as living specimens before, and some of which will never be seen again. Arrayed in typologies of twenty-five per sheet, the moths are photographed alive, in natural positions and postures, and set against a variety of backgrounds taken from the natural world and images from art history. Throughout Gowin's distinguished career, his work has addressed urgent concerns. The arresting images of 'Mariposas Nocturnas' extend his reach, as Gowin fosters awareness for a part of Nature that is generally left un-observed, and calls for a greater awareness of the bio-diversity and value of the tropics as a universally shared natural treasure" (Publisher's blurb). Gowin also provides a fascinating personal history of his work with biologists, and describes in detail the photographic process behind his extraordinary, first-of-its-kind project. "The world is saturated with loveliness, inhabited by others far more adept at living with uncertainty than we are" (Terry Tempest Williams). An absolute "must-have" title for Emmet Gowin collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Emmet Gowin. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and despite its imperfection (bumping on the bottom corners, obtained as such from the photographer) is still in especially fine condition: Every single internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Now 80 years old (as of 2019), Gowin did NOT sign most copies. 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. 90 twenty-five-per-sheet, full-color typological plates, 2 black-and-white portraits. One of the finest American photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 0691176892.

Stock number: 21582. ISBN: 0691176892

$US 150.00

Grann, David
The Devil And Sherlock Holmes: Tales Of Murder, Madness, And Obsession

Imprint: New York City, NY, Doubleday & Company, 2010
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 350 pages. Retrospective collection of non-fiction stories. 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 David Grann's "The Devil And Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Muder, Madness, And Obsession". Spellbinding narrative journalism. "Whether he's reporting on the infiltration of the murderous Aryan Brotherhood of the United States Prison system, tracking down a chameleon con artist in Europe, or riding in a cyclone-tossed skiff with a scientist hunting the elusive giant squid, David Grann revels in telling stories that explore the nature of obsession and that piece together true and unforgettable mysteries. Reveals a hidden and often dangerous world and pivots around the gravitational pull of obsession and the captivating personalities of those caught in its grip. There is the world's foremost expert on Sherlock Holmes, who is found dead in mysterious circumstances; an arson sleuth trying to prove that a man about to be executed is innocent; and sandhogs racing to complete the brutally dangerous job of building New York City's water tunnels before the old system collapses. Grann's hypnotic accounts display the power - and often the willful perversity - of the human spirit" (Publisher's blurb). One of the best pieces, "The Old Man And The Gun", is the basis of the fine film adaptation by Robert Redford in his final role (directed by David Lowery), with Sissy Spacek. An absolute "must-have" title for David Grann collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by David Grann. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It comes with a pristine copy of the lovely 2018 Chicago Humanities Festival Book Souvenir during which event 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 rare signed copy thus. Finalist of the National Book Award in 2017 for "Killers of The Flower Moon: The Osage Murders And The Birth of The FBI". One of the most brilliant American writer/journalists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DAVID GRANN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0385517920.

Stock number: 22068. ISBN: 0385517920

$US 100.00

Grann, David
The White Darkness

Imprint: New York City, NY, Doubleday & Company, 2018
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 160 pages. Book-length account on subject. Now considered a contemporary classic. 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. Presents David Grann's "The White Darkness". A patient and insightful exploration of the explorer's mindset of transcendent heroism coupled with near-inhuman obsessiveness, in the person of South Pole conquistador Henry Worsley. "In 2008, Worsley set out across Antarctica with two descendants of Shackleton's crew, battling the freezing, desolate landscape, life-threatening physical exhaustion, and hidden crevasses. Yet when he returned home, he felt compelled to go back. On November 13, 2015, at age 55, Worsley bid farewell to his family and embarked on his most perilous quest: To walk across Antarctica alone. Tells Worsley's remarkable story with the intensity and power that have led him to be called the best narrative nonfiction writer working today. A gorgeous keepsake volume and a spellbinding story of courage, love, and a man pushing himself to the extremes of human capacity" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for David Grann collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated (one day after publication) in black pen-marker on the title page by the author: "David Grann 11/1/18". 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 lovely 2018 Chicago Humanities Festival Book Souvenir during which event his signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and day-after-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 scarce signed copy thus. 50-plus photographic plates. Finalist of the National Book Award in 2017 for "Killers of The Flower Moon: The Osage Murders And The Birth of The FBI". One of the most brilliant American writer/journalists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DAVID GRANN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 038554457X.

Stock number: 22063. ISBN: 038554457X

$US 50.00