Jameson, Fredric (Author/Subject) & Buchanan, Ian (Editor)
Jameson On Jameson: Conversations On Cultural Marxism

Imprint: Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 2007
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 280 pages. Retrospective collection of interviews. The single most accessible introduction to the ground-breaking and influential cultural criticism and philosophy of Fredric Jameson. 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 University Press as part of the seminal "Post-Contemporary Interventions" Series. Without DJ, as issued. The First Edition is now rare. Presents "Jameson On Jameson: Conversations On Cultural Marxism". Packed with brilliant ideas, and more important, immensely approachable, readable, and riveting. Fredric Jameson speaks, eloquently, in his own voice, which voice he has consciously and actively suppressed in his dense, academic writings. "One of the most influential literary and cultural critics writing today. A theoretical innovator whose ideas about the intersections of politics and culture have reshaped the critical landscape across the humanities and social sciences. Bringing together interviews conducted between 1982 and 2005, 'Jameson On Jameson' is a compellingly candid introduction to his thought for those new to it and a rich source of illumination and clarification for those seeking deeper understanding. Discusses his intellectual and political preoccupations, most prominently his commitment to Marxism as a way of critiquing capitalism and the culture it has engendered. He explains many of his key concepts, including postmodernism, the dialectic, meta-commentary, the political unconscious, the utopian, cognitive mapping, and spatialization. Displays Jameson's extraordinary grasp of contemporary culture: Architecture, art, cinema, literature, philosophy, politics, psychoanalysis, and urban geography as well as the challenge that the geographic reach of his thinking poses to the Euro-centricity of the West. Elicit Jameson's reflections on the broad international significance of his ideas and their applicability and implications in different cultural and political contexts, including the present phase of globalization" (Publisher's blurb). "You have to remember that the intellectuals in the 1960's were 95 percent Marxists. Today, 89 percent are anti-Marxist" (Fredric Jameson). Jameson himself being perhaps the most eminent American "hold-out", who makes a serious (and at its best, persuasive) case for Marx's continuing relevance as cultural critique. An absolute "must-have" title for Fredric Jameson collectors. This title is a great collection. 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: The Hardcover Edition was issued without a DJ. A rare copy thus. One of the most important and influential American critic/thinkers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO SLAVOJ ZIZEK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 20733.

$US 100.00

Jeffrey, Ian (Editor/Author)
Timeframes: The Story Of Photography

Imprint: New York City, NY, Amphoto Art, 1998
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 224 pages. Pictorial approach to the history of photography. 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. A brilliant production by Amphoto Art: Regular-sized volume format. Hard boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by numerous contributors. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Ian Jeffrey's "Timeframes". A brilliant achievement: A snapshot history of photography. "From the cameras of the world's top photographers, illuminating images present a sweeping picture of human experience, showing photography as a visual history of the 20th century. Includes profiles of history's most memorable photographers" (Ingram). Actually, more than a standard chronology, "Timeframes" uses a thematic structure to show the relationship between photography and the society that it both documents and shapes. In ten thematic chapters, the book explores the history of photography, from the technological brilliance and the casual strangeness of reportage to the glamorous world of the fashion shoot and the naked bravery of the documentary photographers of war. An absolute "must-have" title for photography book collectors. This title is now collectible. 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, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. 200 images, 40 color plates, 180 black-and-white illustrations. Some of the world's greatest photographers. A fine copy. . ISBN 0817460152.

Stock number: 2782. ISBN: 0817460152

$US 40.00

Jewett, Sarah Orne (Author) & Bell, Michael Davitt (Editor)
Deephaven, A Country Doctor, The Country Of The Pointed Firs, Dunnet Landing Stories, Selected Stories And Sketches: Novels & Stories

Imprint: New York City, NY, Library Of America, 1994
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 950 pages. Retrospective collection of the author's novels and short stories. The First Slipcased Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a very small and limited first print run as a Slipcased Edition for distribution to libraries and LOA subscribers only. None of the copies was sold to the public. The Slipcased Edition has the same ISBN as the regular trade edition. The Slipcased Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production: Regular-sized volume format. Text by Sarah Orne Jewett edited and annotated by Michael Davitt Bell. Cream hard board slipcase. Printed to the highest standards on acid-free paper, utilizing sewn binding, closely woven rayon cloth boards, satin bound-in ribbon marker, and a page layout that is both readable and elegant. The book is guaranteed to last for several generations of readers and collectors (despite frequent and regular use, the estimated life span of Library of America Editions is 1000 years; un-used, they will last forever). Without DJ, as issued. Re-presents, in one comprehensive and elegant volume, all of Sarah Orne Jewett's ground-breaking achievement. Headlined by her masterpiece, "The Country of The Pointed Firs", one of the greatest American novels ever written. "Classics of American fiction, memorializing the traditions, manners, and dialect of Maine coast natives at the turn of the 20th century. In luminous evocations of their lives, Maine-born Jewett created startlingly real portraits of individual New Englanders and a warm, humorous, and compassionate vision of New England character" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Sarah Orne Jewett collectors. These titles are great books. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Library of America Slipcased Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: The First Slipcased Edition was distributed to libraries and LOA subscribers only. None of the copies was sold to the public. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LIBRARY OF AMERICA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0940450747.

Stock number: 18597. ISBN: 0940450747

$US 50.00

Jin, Ha
A Map Of Betrayal

Imprint: New York City, NY, Pantheon Books, 2014
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 290 pages. The author's sixth novel. One of Ha Jin'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. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Ha Jin's "A Map of Betrayal". A riveting tale of espionage and conflicted loyalties that spans half a century in the entwined histories of two countries - China and the United States - and two families. "When Lilian Shang, born and raised in America, discovers her father's diary, she is shocked by the secrets it contains. She knew that her father, convicted decades ago of being a mole in the CIA, was the most important Chinese spy ever caught. But his diary, an astonishing chronicle of his journey as a Communist intelligence agent, reveals the pain and longing that his double life entailed, and points to a hidden second family that he had left behind in China. As Lilian follows her father's trail back into China, she begins to grasp the extent of his dilemma: A man torn between loyalty to his motherland and the love he came to feel for his adopted country. A stunning portrait of a bi-national family and an unflinching inquiry into the meaning of citizenship, patriotism, and home" (Publisher's blurb). "Reading Ha Jin is like falling in love: You experience anxiety, profound self-consciousness, and an uncomfortable sensitivity to the world, and somehow it's a pleasure. Like the best writers, Ha Jin sneaks emotional power into the plainest sentences" (The New Yorker Magazine). An absolute "must-have" title for Ha Jin collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Ha Jin. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the National Book Festival 2015 Souvenir Program during which event his 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 PEN/Hemingway Award for "Ocean of Words". Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award For Short Fiction for "Under the Red Flag". Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award in 1999 for "Waiting". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HA JIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0307911608.

Stock number: 19985. ISBN: 0307911608

$US 80.00

Jin, Ha
Nanjing Requiem

Imprint: New York City, NY, Pantheon Books, 2011
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 310 pages. The author's fifth novel. One of the finest novels 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 Ha Jin's "Nanjing Requiem". The novel that Ha Jin's trajectory as an immigrant Chinese writer in English inexorably led to as a matter of necessity. The Rape of Nanjing is one of the defining events of modern China. To make it the subject of a novel (beautifully called a "requiem") is to take on the ultimate challenge for a writer whose work melds poetic lyricism with Tolstoyan grand narrative. "Delivers glimpses of the massacre in all its reeling madness: The young woman who is driven insane by her manifold violations; the ways violence can smite the spirit even when the body is spared; the sight of 'shells bursting in the air like black blossoms'. Ha Jin gives us a poignant twist in the fate of the narrator Anling, whose grown son just happens to be in Tokyo taking a Japanese wife when all hell is being unleashed in his homeland" (The Washington Post). "His is a concern with precision, honesty, and direct description; the restraint is deliberate. Though his subject is deeply disquieting, Ha Jin does not set out to shock. The power of his prose lies not in any self-indulgent flourish but in its far-reaching resonance" (Open Letters Monthly). An absolute "must-have" title for Ha Jin collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Ha Jin. 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. Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for "Ocean of Words". Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award For Short Fiction for "Under the Red Flag". Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award in 1999 for "Waiting". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HA JIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0307379760.

Stock number: 17077. ISBN: 0307379760

$US 70.00

Jin, Ha
The Crazed

Imprint: New York City, NY, Pantheon Books, 2002
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 323 pages. The author's second 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 print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Ha Jin's "The Crazed". His masterly novel. Ha Jin, who writes only in English, cemented his reputation with "Waiting", which was lavished with critical praise and literary awards. He has been compared to Dickens, Balzac, and Isaac Babel. "Like Babel, Ha Jin observes everything. Yet he tells the reader only, and precisely, as much as is needed to make his deceptively simple fiction resonate on many levels" (The New York Times). Ha Jin came to the United States as an adult barely able to speak English. He still has difficulty speaking it and has said that the main impetus for writing is the opportunity it affords him to sit down and write and re-write, edit and re-edit, and start all over again if necessary until he is satisfied with the result. He uses his acquired language as a storyteller and poet of the first rank who bears witness to the collision between personal experience (in all its pain, beauty, and complexity) and the arbitrary suffering that History, Fate, and Destiny inflict upon all human beings, whether they be powerful or powerless. His sympathy for every human being in all his or her particularity is unsurpassed among contemporary American writers. "Reading Ha Jin is like falling in love: You experience anxiety, profound self-consciousness, and an uncomfortable sensitivity to the world, and somehow it's a pleasure. Like the best writers, Ha Jin sneaks emotional power into the plainest sentences" (The New Yorker Magazine). An absolute "must-have" title for Ha Jin collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Ha Jin. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page, as copies available online are. 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 PEN/Hemingway Award for "Ocean of Words". Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award For Short Fiction for "Under the Red Flag". Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award in 1999 for "Waiting". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HA JIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0375421815.

Stock number: 8465. ISBN: 0375421815

$US 50.00

Jin, Ha
Waiting

Imprint: New York City, NY, Pantheon Books, 1999
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 308 pages. The author's breakthrough second novel. One of the greatest American novels of the 20th century. 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 Ha Jin's "Waiting". The novel that finally brought Ha Jin mainstream, "bestseller" success in the United States and the international recognition he richly deserved after a period of obscurity. Translated into numerous languages, "Waiting" is firmly identified with Ha Jin even though he had already published a brilliant body of work that includes two poetry collections, two short story collections, and a novel. Ha Jin came to the United States as an adult barely able to speak English. He still has difficulty speaking it and has said that the main impetus for writing is the opportunity it affords him to sit down and write and re-write, edit and re-edit, and start all over again if necessary until he is satisfied with the results. He has begun and abandoned works that he has lost count of in the process. But he has learned the language to the point that he is now regarded as one of its living Masters. He uses his acquired language as an incomparable storyteller and poet of the first rank who bears witness to the collision between personal experience (in all its pain, beauty, and complexity) and the arbitrary suffering that History, Fate, and Destiny inflict upon all human beings, whether they be powerful or powerless. His sympathy for every human being in all his or her particularity is unsurpassed among contemporary American writers. "Ha Jin profoundly understands the conflict between the individual and society, between the timeless universality of the human heart and constantly shifting politics of the moment. With wisdom, restraint, and empathy for all his characters, he vividly reveals the complexities and subtleties of a world and a people we desperately need to know" (Award Citation, National Book Award). An absolute "must-have" title for Ha Jin collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated in black pen in both Roman letters and Chinese characters on the title page by the author: "Ha Jin 1/14/10". 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 his signature was obtained. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed and 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. Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for "Ocean of Words". Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award For Short Fiction for "Under the Red Flag". Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award in 1999 for "Waiting". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HA JIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0375406530.

Stock number: 11454. ISBN: 0375406530

$US 100.00

Jin, Ha
Wreckage: The Limited Edition

Imprint: New York City, NY, Hanging Loose Press, 2001
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 111 pages. The author's third collection of poems. One of the most finest poetic achievements of our time. The collection was published in three editions simultaneously. So all of them are true First Editions: The Limited Edition of 100 numbered and signed copies (in red cloth boards), the Limited Edition of 400 copies (in blue cloth boards, un-numbered and un-signed), and the Softcover Trade Edition. All three editions are now scarce. Presents Ha Jin's "Wreckage". Poetry-as-remembrance. "Numerous rocks of Chinese history are overturned in the star novelist's third collection, usually revealing darkness and decay. The book begins with poems about Yu The Great who, according to legend, devised a drainage system when the Yellow River flooded its banks around the 20th century BC, wreaking havoc on the land and its people. Even when 'caged in high dikes', its threat is not forgotten: 'Who can keep the river up/in the clouds forever? '. The notion that disaster is always just around the corner pervades the collection though its components read less like poems than terse mini-fables stitched loosely together to form a tapestry of sacrifice and suffering. Violence comes from without and within, in the form of attacks by so-called barbarians as well as the capriciousness and brutality of emperors and bureaucrats. The heinous treatment of women is a recurrent theme, from a concubine mutilated and thrown into an outhouse pit ('Human Pig') to a gruesome account of foot binding ('A Young Girl's Lament'), in which it is observed how 'the toes curl in like dead caterpillars. /Who would think they belong to a human being? ' " (Publishers Weekly). An absolute "must-have" title for Ha Jin collectors. This copy is one of the Limited "Blue Cloth Boards" Edition, and it is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Ha Jin. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Ha Jin did NOT sign any copies of this Limited Edition through the publisher. His signature was obtained in person. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Material 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 Limited Edition 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 signed copy thus. Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for "Ocean of Words". Winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award For Short Fiction for "Under the Red Flag". Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and the National Book Award in 1999 for "Waiting". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HA JIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1882413989.

Stock number: 12657. ISBN: 1882413989

$US 50.00

Johnson, Adam
Fortune Smiles: Stories

Imprint: New York City, NY, Random House, 2015
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 310 pages. Retrospective collection of short stories. 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 small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Adam Johnson's "Fortune Smiles". A brilliant collection of stories. "Gives voice to the perspectives we don't often hear while offering something rare in fiction: A new way of looking at the world. In six masterly stories, Johnson delves deep into love and loss, natural disasters, the influence of technology, and how the political shapes the personal. In the unforgettable title story, Johnson returns to his signature subject, North Korea, depicting two defectors from Pyongyang who are trying to adapt to their new lives in Seoul while one cannot forget the woman he left behind" (Publisher's blurb). "Nirvana" won the prestigious Sunday Times Short Story Prize 2014. "Hurricanes Anonymous" was selected as one of The Best American Short Stories in 2014. An absolute "must-have" title for Adam Johnson collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (shortly after publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Adam Johnson Sept 9, 2015, NYC". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page, as copies available online are. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Material of the 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 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 Pulitzer Prize in 2012 for "The Orphan Master's Son". Winner of the National Book Award in 2015 for "Fortune Smiles". One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ADAM JOHNSON AND SUKI KIM'S "THE INTERPRETER" TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0812997476.

Stock number: 20148. ISBN: 0812997476

$US 150.00

Johnson, Denis
Nobody Move: A Novel

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 196 pages. The author's seventh novel and ninth work of fiction. One of Denis Johnson's finest and most underrated 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. The First Edition is now scarce. The brilliant book and DJ design by Susan Mitchell pays homage to the noir novel in neon-bright colors. Presents Denis Johnson's "Nobody Move". A novel in the thriller genre. "So noir it's almost pitch-black, this follow-up to Johnson's 'Tree of Smoke' concerns a lovable loser named Luntz, barbershop-chorus member, Hawaiian-shirt wearer, and inveterate gambler, who is in debt to an underworld bad guy. Against a desolate Western background of shantytowns and trailer parks, the story plays out largely according to the genre's dictates, with wisecrack-laden dialogue and evenly dispersed cliffhangers that are a legacy of the work's genesis as a serialization in Playboy. But there are also moments of arresting lyrical beauty: A river's swollen surface under a crescent moon 'resembled the unquiet belly of a living thing you could step onto and walk across' " (The New Yorker Magazine). Denis Johnson died on May 24, 2017, and despite a fairly long and brilliant career, it is a premature loss. An absolute "must-have" title for Denis Johnson collectors. This title is a contemporary 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, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the National Book Award in 2007 and Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for "Tree of Smoke". Denis Johnson's "Jesus' Son" was selected by the panel of New York Times writers, critics, and editors as one of the Top 20 most important works of American fiction of the last 25 years. One of the greatest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DENIS JOHNSON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374222908.

Stock number: 17286. ISBN: 0374222908

$US 20.00

Jones, Edward P.
All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories

Imprint: New York City, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, 2006
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 299 pages. The author's second collection of short stories. 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. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Edward P. Jones' "All Aunt Hagar's Children: Stories". His second short story collection. It mines and further expands the themes of his sensational debut, "Lost In The City" (1992). Jones is not a prolific writer at all - he is instead a "slow" writer, who will not be rushed - this being his third book, a sequel-of-sorts thematically to his first collection published fifteen years ago. "Encompass the entire 20th century and a wide range of experiences and perspectives, from a man who has kept the secret of his adultery for 45 years to another whose most difficult task on leaving prison is having dinner with his brother's family. Jones presents characters who have been away from the South long enough to mourn the loss of values and connections they traded for the failed promise of urban success, but he also portrays the nation's capital as a place of potential redemption, where small curses and small miracles intertwine, and where shifting communities and connections can literally save one's life" (Publishers blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Edward P. Jones collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Edward P. Jones. 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 PEN/Hemingway Award in 1992 for "Lost In The City: Stories". Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2003 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2003 for "The Known World". Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2004. "The Known World" was selected by The New York Times panel of writers, critics, and editors as one of the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER EDWARD P. JONES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0060557567.

Stock number: 18734. ISBN: 0060557567

$US 50.00

Jones, Edward P.
The Known World

Imprint: New York City, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, 2003
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 388 pages. The author's debut novel. One of the greatest American novels of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Easton Press edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Edward P. Jones' "The Known World". His masterly first novel. Written over a ten-year period by a writer whose breakthrough book, "Lost in the City: Stories", is now also considered a classic, it is one of the most beautifully produced books (by Laura Blost) in recent memory, utilizing a classic photograph by Eudora Welty. "Henry Townsend, born a slave, is purchased and freed by his father, takes lessons in slave owning when he eventually buys his own slaves. Townsend is part of a small enclave of free blacks who own slaves, thus offering another angle on the complexities of slavery and social relations in a Virginia town just before The Civil War. His widow, Caldonia, grief-stricken and more conflicted about slavery than Henry was, fails to maintain the social order. Also caught in the miasma of slavery is Sheriff John Skiffington, an honorable man who, when presented with a slave, spends the remainder of his marriage, along with his wife, dithering about how to deal with the girl and ends up treating her like a daughter. These are only a few of the deftly portrayed characters in this elegantly written novel that explores the interweaving of sex, race, and class. Jones moves back and forth in time, making the reader omniscient, knowing what will eventually befall the characters despite their best and worst efforts, their aspirations, and their moral failings. This is a profoundly beautiful and insightful look at American slavery and human nature" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Edward P. Jones collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Edward P. Jones. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page, as the so-called Limited Edition by Easton Press is. As is his custom, Jones also underlined his signature for emphasis. This title is great book. 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 command as much as $500. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of PEN/Hemingway Award in 1992 for "Lost In The City: Stories". Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction in 2003 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2004 for "The Known World". Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2004. "The Known World" was selected by The New York Times panel of writers, critics, and editors as one of the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER EDWARD P. JONES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0060557540.

Stock number: 19922. ISBN: 0060557540

$US 150.00

Jordan, Neil
Shade: A Novel

Imprint: New York City, NY, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 329 pages. The author's fourth novel. Advance Reader's Copy. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited one-time only print run as a softcover original only. None of the copies was commerically sold. There is no ISBN. The ARC is now rare. A brilliant production by Bloomsbury: Regular-sized volume format. Glossy pictorial softcovers with white titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by Neil Jordan. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its earliest-state publication format, Neil Jordan's "Shade". Lavished with praise by The New Yorker Magazine as one of the best novels of our time. The novel's narrator/protagonist, 50-year-old Nina Hardy, has been murdered with a pair of gardening shears by her childhood friend George Truite. The mystery is not who committed the crime but why. Although George has been for some years a resident of the local insane asylum, his madness is but a small part of the answer to the excruciating question. "Casts a wistful eye on childhood desires and alliances that call to mind William Trevor. Like Jordan's greatest success, 'The Crying Game', the novel is full of surprises and the biggest shocks are not always the most telling" (Jill Harvey). Neil Jordan is the renowned director of such films as "Mona Lisa", "Interview With The Vampire", "The End of The Affair", and "The Crying Game", for which he won the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay in 1993. He is also an immensely talented and rewarding writer whose impeccable instinct for form and structure and whose profound psychological insight (put to such effective use in his rich, complex films) are just as evident in his novels, "The Past", "The Dream of A Beast", and "Sunrise With Sea Monster" (called "Nightlines" in the United States), and the brilliant short story collection, "Nights In Tunisia". An absolute "must-have" title for Neil Jordan collectors. This Advance Reader's Copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Neil Jordan. 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 Advance Reader's Edition 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. One of the most brilliant writers/filmmakers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER NEIL JORDAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 7734.

$US 30.00

Josephson, Kenneth (Artist/Photographer) & Angst, Roland (Publisher/Contributor)
Kenneth Josephson: Selected Photographs

Imprint: Berlin, Germany, Only Photography, 2013
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 126 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. Perhaps the single most beautiful book on the photographic art of Kenneth Josephson published in our time. Limited Edition of 500 numbered and signed copies. Published as a hardcover original only. A brilliant production by Roland Angst: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial cloth boards with red titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Kenneth Josephson. Essay by Roland Angst. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Berlin, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Kenneth Josephson's "Selected Photographs". The very first, long-overdue, and comprehensive monograph on Kenneth Josephson published in Europe. What a stunningly beautiful production this is indeed. "He formed a generation of photographers in the United States. His artistic work is appreciated in particular by important colleagues: Not without cause did Stephen Shore use an image by Kenneth Josephson for the cover of his book, 'On Photography' " (Roland Angst). "For over 50 years, Josephson has been using photography to explore ideas about how we view reality. Formally trained under Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan, Josephson taught at the School of The Art Institute Chicago (SAIC) from 1960 to 1997. During his career, he produced an impressive array of work, ranging from stunning black-and-white prints to striking assemblages to humorous Polaroids. The result is not only an exciting explication of Josephson's endless curiosity, but also an important discussion of photography as a modern, flexible, and fully expressive artistic medium" (Sylvia Wolf). An absolute "must-have" title for Kenneth Josephson collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Edition, indicated/numbered as such on the Back Limitation Page. It is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by Kenneth Josephson. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a photography book 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. A rare signed copy thus. 90 tritone plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KENNETH JOSEPHSON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 21309.

$US 150.00

Josephson, Kenneth (Artist/Photographer); Travis, David F. (Contributor) & Daiter, Stephen (Editor)
Matthew

Imprint: Chicago, IL, Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2012
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 55 pages. Memorial collection of photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original. There was, simultaneously, a Softcover Edition. Both editions are now rare. An austerely elegant production by Stephen Daiter Gallery and Kenneth Josephson: Oversize-volume format. Gray cloth boards with photographic reproduction of "Matthew" pasted in front and metallic-silver titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Kenneth Josephson. Text by David F. Travis. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Kenneth Josephson's "Matthew". Portraits of his first-born son Matthew, taken from birth through childhood. Matthew died in a tragic car accident at the age of 17. Josephson never again photographed his two other children (who appear with their brother in some of the portraits, and are now adults) after that. "The beauty of this body of work is that it combines the personal and the universal, the private and the public, art and life, the intellectual and emotional, the present and the past, in a very effective and moving manner. What these pictures make clear is the interconnectedness of it all: Living, loving, nurturing, creating, experimenting, seeing, thinking, and remembering" (David F. Travis). "Matthew" (the Cover Image) was selected by John Szarkowski as one of the iconic photographs of our time in "Looking At Photographs" (1973), his ground-breaking and immensely influential selection of 100 photographs from the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) Permanent Collection. An absolute "must-have" title for Kenneth Josephson collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen-marker on the Back Copyright Page by Kenneth Josephson. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, Paul Berlanga, who is named, is the Chicago-based photography expert and important artist/painter. This title is a late-modern art photography 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. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with photographic plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KENNETH JOSEPHSON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0984574948.

Stock number: 21062. ISBN: 0984574948

$US 150.00

Josephson, Kenneth
The Bread Book

Imprint: Austin, TX, University Of Texas Press, 2016
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 20 pages. Collection of photographs, presented as an Artist Book. One of the most important Conceptual art photography books of our time. Limited Edition of 250 signed copies. Published as a softcover original only that will not be reissued once all of the copies are sold. An austerely elegant production by Kenneth Josephson and Only Photography Press: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover, as issued. Photographs by Kenneth Josephson. There is no text. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Berlin, Germany to the highest standards. The photographer himself has said that the production quality is superior to the original edition in the way that it captures the tonal nuances which, of course, is the whole point of the book. Without DJ, as issued. Re-presents, in a Limited Edition format, Kenneth Josephson's "The Bread Book". Pioneering Conceptual art photography at its Minimalist best. Long before Minimalism itself became a full-fledged and dominant movement. "A deceptively simple object - photographs of the fronts and backs of ten slices of bread with no accompanying text - this Artist Book raises questions about the nature of photography and its ability to transform an object into an idea or concept while creating yet another object: The book itself. The result of this act of transformation is that the original loaf no longer functions as a loaf of bread, but as a self-contained book that considers the ideas of sequence and illusion" (Publisher's blurb). "A monument of the photobook. It's the book itself that is the work of art, not the individual images. Like most of the best Conceptual photography, the idea is devastatingly simple on the surface yet infinitely complex when you look beyond the surface" (Gerry Badger). Originally published in an edition of 1800 copies, "The Bread Book" has been out-of-print for a very long time. Here it is, in a production that Kenneth Josephson himself regards as definitive and superior to its original realization. An absolute "must-have" title for Kenneth Josephson collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Edition. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in metallic-silver pen-marker on the Back Cover by Kenneth Josephson. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is an 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: Copies available online command between $150 and $500. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 20 plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KENNETH JOSEPHSON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1477312005.

Stock number: 20604. ISBN: 1477312005

$US 40.00

Josephson, Kenneth (Photographer); Badger, Gerry & Warren, Lynne (Contributors)
The Light Of Coincidence: The Photographs Of Kenneth Josephson

Imprint: Austin, TX, University Of Texas Press, 2016
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 332 pages. Exhibition Monograph. The "summing-up" book on the photographic art of Kenneth Josephson. 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. An austerely elegant production by the University of Texas Press: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 6 pounds. Black cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Kenneth Josephson. Essays by Lynne Warren and Gerry Badger. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary, and even more important, the images are reproduced to the same size as the original prints. 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 Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago from April 1 through June 4, 2016. Presents "The Light of Coincidence: The Photographs of Kenneth Josephson". A sumptuous retrospective on a great photographer. Preceded only by the eponymous volume published by the Art Institute of Chicago 17 years ago, in 1999, here is the definitive retrospective of his body of work. "One of the foremost Conceptual photographers in America. Since the early 1960's, Josephson has championed the photograph as an object made, not taken, by an artist pursuing an idea. Using innovative techniques such as placing images within images and including his own body in photographs, Josephson has created an outstanding body of work that is startlingly contemporary and full of ideas that stimulate the digital generation: Ideas about the nature of seeing, of reality, and of human aspirations, and about what it means to be a human being observing the world. Beautifully reproduces representative selections from 'Images Within Images'. Places Josephson's art in historical context, from his early studies with Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan at the Institute of Design and with Minor White at the Rochester Institute of Technology to his mature work (which shares affinities with that of Conceptual artists such as Cindy Sherman and Ed Ruscha) and to his shaping influence on generations of students at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, where he taught for over thirty-five years" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Kenneth Josephson collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, dated (before publication), and inscribed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by the photographer: "1 April 2016 Dear Paul, Thank you for all the support and encouragement given to me. I am so happy to have the opportunity to work with you. I value this very much, Ken" [Kenneth Josephson's famous nickname]. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, Paul Berlanga, who is named, is the important Chicago-based artist/painter and photography expert. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Opening Night Souvenir. This title is an instant art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, pre-publication 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. It is the best signed copy we have ever seen. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with tritone plates. One of the most important artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KENNETH JOSEPHSON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1477309381.

Stock number: 21063. ISBN: 1477309381

$US 150.00

Joyce, James (Author); Gabler, Hans Walter (Editor) & Ellmann, Richard (Contributor)
Ulysses: The Corrected Text

Imprint: New York City, NY, Random House, 1986
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 650 pages. The Corrected Text of the author's masterpiece. One of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in this edition and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are many. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition Thus is now rare. Re-presents James Joyce's "Ulysses". The Corrected Text. Also known as "The Gabler Edition" (after Hans Walter Gabler, its editor), it is the standard text adopted by universities. An admirable achievement as such, it is regarded as definitive by most Joyce scholars, and benefits from the explicit blessing of Joyce biographer Richard Ellmann, who contributes an Introductory Essay. Gabler arrived at The Corrected Text after seven years of hard labor. He combed through and perused manuscript pages, early proofs, and Joyce's own corrections, thereby "fixing 5000 errors involving punctuation, omitted words, phrases, and entire sentences, an average of seven flaws for every printed page" (The New York Times). Now, like every such human undertaking, The Corrected Text has had its fair share of detractors as well, human nature such as it is. To whom Herr Gabler can only say: Put up or shut up. Come up with your own version and let us all have a look, a challenge that no one has taken up more than thirty-four years later (as of 2019). "To this day, it remains the Modernist masterpiece, in which the author takes both Celtic lyricism and vulgarity to splendid extremes. It is funny, sorrowful, and even suspenseful. Despite the exegetical industry that has sprung up in the last 75 years, it is also a compulsively readable book. Even the verbal vaudeville of the final chapters can be navigated with relative ease, as long as you're willing to be buffeted, tickled, challenged, and vexed by Joyce's sheer command of the English language. The most important contribution to literature in the 20th century" (Joseph Collins). Whether or not one has a copy of the 1922 Shakespeare And Company First Edition (which has the most number of errors per page, vehemently compiled by Joyce himself) or any of the subsequent editions, which all aspired, in effect, to be The Corrected Text, this is the one that gives the novel "a commendably high polish, its perfections fully recovered" (Richard Ellmann). An absolute "must-have" title for James Joyce collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing of The Corrected Text still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: The full number line that includes the Number 2 (instead of the Number 1) with the "First Edition" statement were the Random House "true first" indications at the time of the book's publication. Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMES JOYCE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 039455373X.

Stock number: 22279. ISBN: 039455373X

$US 100.00

Judt, Tony (Author) & Snyder, Timothy (Co-Author/Editor)
Thinking The Twentieth Century: Tony Judt With Timothy Snyder

Imprint: New York City, NY, The Penguin Press, 2012
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 414 pages. The authors' "summing up" volume on subject. One of the most valuable books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Second and Softcover Editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Tony Judt's and Timothy Snyder's "Thinking The Twentieth Century". Their magisterial summation of the 20th century, the most glorious and the most abysmal in recorded history at the same time. "The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt. Maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age on to a life of intellectual conflict and engagement. The twentieth century comes to life as an age of ideas, a time when the thoughts of the few reigned over the lives of the many. Presents the triumphs and the failures of prominent intellectuals, adeptly explaining both their ideas and the risks of their political commitments. A tour-de-force, a classic engagement of modern thought by one of the century's most incisive thinkers. The exceptional nature of this work is evident in its very structure: A series of intimate conversations between Judt and fellow historian Timothy Snyder, grounded in the texts of the time and focused by the intensity of their vision. Traversing the complexities of modern life with ease, he and Snyder revive both thoughts and thinkers, guiding us through the debates that made our world. As forgotten ideas are revisited and fashionable trends scrutinized, the shape of a century emerges. We become aware of the obligations of the Present to the Past, and the force of historical perspective and moral considerations in the critique and reform of society. Opens pathways to the twenty-first" (Publisher's blurb). "Ideas crackle in this triumphant final book, taking readers on a wild ride through the ideological currents and shoals of 20th century thought" (Los Angeles Times). An absolute "must-have" title for Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder collectors. This title is a great 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 beauty. Please note: Copies available online are subsequent printings, have serious flaws, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Two of the greatest historian/thinkers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER TONY JUDT TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1594203237.

Stock number: 22428. ISBN: 1594203237

$US 50.00

Junger, Sebastian
A Death In Belmont

Imprint: New York City, NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 2006
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 266 pages. The author's third nonfiction account. 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 Sebastian Junger's "A Death In Belmont". His speculative narrative on the "Boston Strangler". "Bessie Goldberg was strangled to death in her home in Belmont, a Boston suburb, in March of 1963, right in the middle of the Boston Strangler's killing spree. Her death has not been associated with the other Strangler killings because Roy Smith, a black man who was working in Goldberg's house that day, was convicted of her murder on circumstantial evidence. But another man was working in Belmont that day: Albert DeSalvo, who later confessed to being the Boston Strangler. He was doing construction work in the home of Sebastian Junger's parents. Could DeSalvo have slipped away and killed Bessie Goldberg? Junger's taut narrative makes dizzying, hairpin turns as he considers all the evidence. He also reviews the more familiar case for and against DeSalvo being the Strangler as there are serious questions about his confession. This perplexing story gains an extra degree of creepiness from Junger's personal connection to it" (Publishers Weekly). An absolute "must-have" title for Sebastian Junger collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Sebastian Junger. 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 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. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0393059804.

Stock number: 10129. ISBN: 0393059804

$US 30.00

Kael, Pauline (Subject/Author) & David, Francis (Co-Author)
Afterglow: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael

Imprint: New York City, NY, Da Capo Press, 2002
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 134 pages. Collection of end-of-life interviews. One of the most important books on film in 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 and on the occasion of the first anniversary of her death. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Pauline Kael's and Francis David's "Afterglow: A Last Conversation With Pauline Kael". Her final views on cinephilia or what she herself preferred to call "movie love", portions of which originally appeared in The New Yorker Magazine. Whether one liked her or not (and there were many people in both camps), Pauline Kael was, indisputably, and for better or for worse, the single most influential film critic of the 20th century. Even the late great Susan Sontag, with whom she barely got along, was a grudging, early admirer of Kael's singular, idiosyncratic, and energetic style, which celebrated the movies as THE popular art form of our time (it is, she was right about that one), resistant to neat demarcations of "high" versus "low". Her scathing comment about the rise of the "independent film" (the so-called "indies") as nothing more than another manifestation of the pervasive culture of political correctness is on the mark. "A deliciously far-ranging conversation about the movies. Who else but Pauline Kael would have said: 'It's not fun writing about bad movies. I used to think it was bad for my skin' " (Publisher's blurb). After more than a decade-long struggle with Parkinson's, Pauline Kael died on September 3, 2001, the week before 9/11. The movies, and those who love them, lost their greatest fan, a serious (if unpredictable and uneven) critic who never tired of championing the best that the movies could offer, and didn't shirk from taking to task any film, director, or actor she thought deserved a taste of her sharp wit either. Kael's insight, spirit, and straight-shooting won her respect and adoration in both film and literary circles, and a loyal following for her New Yorker Magazine essays, all subsequently collected in her naughtily titled books. An absolute "must-have" title for Pauline Kael collectors. This title is a contemporary 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, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. The most influential film critic of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PAULINE KAEL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0306811928.

Stock number: 20615. ISBN: 0306811928

$US 30.00

Kaida, Tamarra (Photographer) & Cohen, Susan E. (Contributor)
Tremors From The Faultline

Imprint: Rochester, New York, Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1989
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 35 pages. Collection of photographs with accompanying narratives. Described as image-and-text "ensembles", the collection is one of the most beautiful such books of our time. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Tamarra Kaida: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and narratives by Tamarra Kaida. Afterword by Susan E. Cohen. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Tamarra Kaida's "Tremors From The Faultline". Ensembles, which consist of a photograph (reproduced on the right-hand side) and a narrative (en face). They show her extraordinary visual and writing talents as well as empathy for her subjects, who are all known personally to her. While the photographs are self-contained and can be judged purely on their own merits, the texts must be read in order to appreciate even more Tamarra Kaida's "chonicle of the perennial souces of our anxiety: Love, sexuality, aging, loss, and above all, loneliness. But the reverse is also true; these places represent only the modern inflections in the ageless pursuit of shelter, sustenance, and comfort" (Susan E. Cohen). An absolute "must-have" title for Tamarra Kaida collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated in black ink-pen on the title page by Tamarra Kaida. 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 and dated copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 25 duotone plates. One of the most brilliant American writer/photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 089822053X.

Stock number: 16341. ISBN: 089822053X

$US 30.00

Kalfus, Ken
Pu-239 And Other Russian Fantasies

Imprint: New York City, NY, Milkweed Editions, 1999
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 289 pages. The author's second collection of fiction, consisting of a novella and six short stories. One of Ken Kalfus' finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Ken Kalfus's "PU-239". Selected as the best short story collection of the year 1999 by Salon Magazine. Inspired by his extensive travels across post-Soviet Russia between 1994 and 1998. "It's exhilarating to discover a young writer of so much range and so little self-consciousness about exploring it". An absolute "must-have" title for Ken Kalfus collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in 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. Finalist for The National Book Award in 2006 for "A Disorder Peculiar To The Country". One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KEN KALFUS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1571310290.

Stock number: 11093. ISBN: 1571310290

$US 20.00

Kanemura, Osamu (Photographer) & Isozaki, Arata (Contributor)
Spider's Strategy: Photographs By Osamu Kanemura

Imprint: Tokyo, Japan, Osiris Publishing Company Limited, 2001
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 102 pages. Collection of architectural, cityscape, and place photographs. One of the most 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. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Osamu Kanemura and Yukimasa Okumura: Oversize-volume format. Glossy silver hard boards with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Osamu Kanemura. They are all presented "bleed". Text by Arata Isozaki, the great Japanese architect and city planner, appended at the end. Printed in duotone from separations by Hiroshi Aida on glossy stock paper (interleaved with three silver foil-paper overlays) in Tokyo, Japan to the highest standards. In matching pictorial DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Osamu Kanemura's "Spider's Strategy". An eye-opening vision of Tokyo pushed to its farthest formal limits. "Graphically dense, darkly printed and devoid (for a non-Japanese speaker) of interpretative signs or text. Shows Tokyo as a city of constant collisions, confusions, and expansion. Ever-present is a tangle of overhead wires, suggesting a spider's web spreading throughout the city" (Publisher's blurb). "Explodes with signage, electrical wires, lights, scaffolding, hanging plastic ornaments, railings, balconies, and construction litter. An out-of-control world held together only by the very edge of the photographic frame" (Artforum). "In these vivid, rich images of Tokyo, Kanemura's exuberant imagery describes a spatial complexity to rival the best Jackson Pollock" (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger). Although they do not acknowledge it, Parr and Badger's (and even the publisher's) comment about Tokyo's bewilderingly abstract character harks back to Roland Barthes' "Empire of Signs" (1982), the best book on Japan by a Western observer, which uncovers the profoundly Japanese aesthetic of a figure like Kanemura as pure sign, as "meaning-less" and "content-less" form and design. Tokyo is an intricate spider's web, which would never ever occur to us, because all we will see (through Western eyes) is urban chaos. As such, it does not matter if a non-Japanese speaker cannot read and understand the signs in Japanese because it does not matter or mean anything to the Japanese speaker either. An absolute "must-have" title for Osamu Kanemura collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in both Japanese kanji characters and Roman alphabet ("English") in black pen-marker on the half-title page by Osamu Kanemura. 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 double-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 very serious flaws, command as much as $750, or are otherwise priced as though they had collectible value. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 80 duotone plates. Selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 4309904408.

Stock number: 20490. ISBN: 4309904408

$US 500.00

Kanon, Joseph
The Prodigal Spy

Imprint: New York City, NY, Broadway Books, 1998
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 409 pages. The author's second novel. 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 Joseph Kanon's "The Prodigal Spy". Offers a glimpse at Cold War espionage, a very personal story about the effects of McCarthyism, and the paranoia that it spawned. "Once again, Kanon effortlessly weaves together history and fiction in prose that is thick with period details. The real achievement of the book, though, is the author's strong sense of his narrative center, Nick Kotlar" (Publisher's blurb). "Young Nick tries to make sense of the masses of reporters who have gathered outside his house. Though his parents struggle to shield him from the truth, he inadvertently sees a newsreel that reveals his father's predicament: State Department Undersecretary Walter Kotlar is under the intense scrutiny of Congressman Kenneth Welles of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Kanon perfectly captures the sensibilities of a child with a parent in peril. Disbelieving Nick becomes a fledgling spy, trying to erase any clues in his home that might support Welles and his committee. But one night, after an explosive conversation with Nick's mother, his father disappears. That same night, the woman who had accused Walter Kotlar of spying is found dead. In 1953, Mr. Kotlar gives a press conference from Moscow announcing his defection. The book then moves to London in 1969, where Nick meets a young woman who tells him that not only is his father still alive, but he has been keeping tabs on his son for the 19 years since he fled to the Soviet Union. This revelation draws Nick into a meeting with the seriously ill elder Kotlar and propels him into intelligence gathering anew: To uncover the man who caused Walter Kotlar's defection and to find out who killed his father's accuser. Kanon once again breathes new life into spy fiction" (Patrick O'Kelley and our comments). An absolute "must-have" title for Joseph Kanon collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Joseph Kanon. 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 has no flaws, 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. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0767901428.

Stock number: 11010. ISBN: 0767901428

$US 30.00