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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1988 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Dick Enhouse and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. An original vintage color photographic print of Dick Enhouse, one of the most popular and most good-looking male-nude models discovered by Walter Kundzicz, in one of his full-frontal nude portraits. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and is presented "bleed". Champion Studio's earlier vintage prints were "pocket size" and had white borders, the widespread practice in the 1960's. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows the unusually well-endowed Dick Enhouse in a very revealing full-frontal nude portrait. The photograph belonged to the small surviving number of portraits in Walter Kundzicz's possession. The original prints were taken by Kundzicz's partner after Champion Studios dissolved, have completely vanished, and never been found. Dick Enhouse is yet another specimen of the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Dick Enhouse, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This original vintage color photographic print, titled and indicated as such on verso, is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 16380.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1965 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Hayden West and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. An original vintage color photographic print of Hayden West, one of the most good-looking male-nude models discovered by Walter Kundzicz, as photographed in 1965, in one of his most beautiful and iconic portraits. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and has white borders. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Hayden West posing in the beach, scantily and markedly clad in a white silk string brief (the same one that another model, Willie Koch, wore for his studio portrait). "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Hayden West is yet another specimen of the prototypical All-American male beauty that Kundzicz's impeccable eye discovered, photographed, and committed for posterity. While he (or she) may work in a genre that remains controversial (in puritanical America, not in Europe or Japan), every truly great photographer of the nude is The Eye incarnate: One for beauty and another for permanently capturing it on film. This is what many people really mean, even if it may sound dismissive, when they observe that the photographic nude is "50% casting". Together with such Champion stars as Jim Stryker and Tuck Powell, Hayden West anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Hayden West, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original vintage color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion Test Print". It is also stamped in black on verso: "Hayden West". As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and despite its imperfection (slight crease on lower left-side corner) is still in fine condition overall: Clean, crisp, and bright. It is priced accordingly. Please note: There are Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 15781.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1988 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 2 pages. Rare Howie Tucker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible set. Two (2) original vintage color photographic prints of Howie Tucker, one of the most popular and most good-looking male-nude models discovered by Walter Kundzicz, in two of his full-frontal nude portraits. The prints measure 3.5 X 5 inches and are presented "bleed". Champion Studio's earlier vintage prints were "pocket size" and had white borders, the widespread practice in the 1960's. They are encased in protective plastic sheets. From photographic as well as erotic points-of-view, the superior photograph is the one that shows Howie Tucker full-frontal nude yet fully dressed as a cowboy brandishing a gun, as only the intuitively imaginative Walter Kundzicz can pull it off. The cowboy as icon of masculinity has been "referenced" by many post-modern artists, most notably Richard Prince, who actually used Kudzicz's cowboy nudes for some of his appropriations. The other photograph is a Classical nude pose shot in a brown-dominant room (instead of outdoors), again in Kundzicz's distinctive style. The photographs belonged to the small surviving number of portraits in Walter Kundzicz's possession. The original prints were taken by Kundzicz's partner after Champion Studios dissolved, have completely vanished, and never been found. Howie Tucker is a darkly handsome version of the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, set for Howie Tucker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. These original vintage color photographic prints, titled and indicated as such on verso, are now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only set available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, pristine beauties. Please note: There are Howie Tucker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. These prints are a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare set thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible set. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 16753.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1961 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. An original vintage color photographic print of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and has white borders. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Jim Stryker posing scantily and markedly clad in white drawers, and shot with natural light. The photograph shows the strikingly and sexily handsome model in one of his finest portraits ever. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original vintage color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in blue pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". It is also stamped, "Jim Stryker" (in red), labeled "Special III", and numbered "#304" (in blue pen), on verso. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 13992.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1988 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. A contemporary (1988) color photographic print of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz, in one of his earliest (and very few) full-frontal nude portraits. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and is presented "bleed". Champion Studio's vintage prints were "pocket size" and had white borders, the widespread practice in the 1960's. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Jim Stryker in a Classical semi-profile pose, Perfection Incarnate, in the manner of a Greek god. He is photographed in a natural setting and has close-cropped hair (Stryker grew his hair out for his later sessions with Kundzicz). The photograph belonged to the small surviving number of portraits in Walter Kundzicz's possession. The original prints were taken by Kundzicz's partner after Champion Studios dissolved, have completely vanished, and never been found. Furthermore, Stryker did not pose completely nude again in any of his later iconic portraits, and this photograph does not appear in Walter Kundzicz's "Champion" book. Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". It is also dated/stamped "Jul 1988". As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14388.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1988 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. A contemporary (1988) color photographic print of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz, in one of his earliest (and very few) nude portraits. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and is presented "bleed". Champion Studio's vintage prints were "pocket size" and had white borders, the widespread practice in the 1960's. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Jim Stryker in a Classical back pose, Perfection Incarnate, in the manner of a Greek god. He is photographed in a natural setting and has close-cropped hair (Stryker grew his hair out for his later sessions with Kundzicz). The photograph belonged to the small surviving number of portraits in Walter Kundzicz's possession. The original prints were taken by Kundzicz's partner after Champion Studios dissolved, have completely vanished, and never been found. Furthermore, Stryker did not pose completely nude again in any of his later iconic portraits, and this photograph does not appear in Walter Kundzicz's "Champion" book. Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14389.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1988 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. A contemporary (1988) color photographic print of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz, in one of his earliest (and very few) full-frontal nude portraits. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and is presented "bleed". Champion Studio's vintage prints were "pocket size" and had white borders, the widespread practice in the 1960's. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Jim Stryker in a Modern full-profile pose, Perfection Incarnate, with an erect penis. He is photographed in a dramatically lit studio setting and has close-cropped hair (Stryker grew his hair out for his later sessions with Kundzicz). The photograph belonged to the small surviving number of portraits in Walter Kundzicz's possession. The original prints were taken by Kundzicz's partner after Champion Studios dissolved, have completely vanished, and never been found. Furthermore, Stryker did not pose completely nude again in any of his later iconic portraits, and this photograph does not appear in Walter Kundzicz's "Champion" book. Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14390.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1988 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. A contemporary (1988) color photographic print of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and is presented "bleed". Champion Studio's vintage prints were "pocket size" and had white borders, the widespread practice in the 1960's. It is encased in its original glassine jacket. The photograph shows Jim Stryker in a natural setting, scantily and very markedly clad in a white "string" bikini, and shot with natural light. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". It is also stamped "Champion" (in red) and "Jim Stryker" (in black). As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14391.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1988 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. A contemporary (1988) color photographic print of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and is presented "bleed". Champion Studio's vintage prints were "pocket size" and had white borders, the widespread practice in the 1960's. It is encased in its original plastic jacket. The photograph shows Jim Stryker in one of his most breathtakingly beautiful portraits, posing on the beach, in a "full-chest" medium shot that utilizes only natural light. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". It is also stamped "Champion: Not For Commercial Use Or Minors" (in red) and "Jim Stryker" (in black). As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14392.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1961 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. An original vintage photographic print of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz. The print measures 4 X 5 inches and is presented with black borders. Champion Studio's vintage prints were "pocket size" and had white borders, the widespread practice in the 1960's. This particular print is very slightly larger-sized and is otherwise in the same format. It is encased in its original plastic jacket. The photograph shows Jim Stryker in one of his most breathtakingly beautiful portraits, posing in a natural setting, in a bare-chested full shot that utilizes only natural light. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original vintage photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14473.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1961 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. An original vintage photographic print of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz, as photographed in 1961 in the studio, in one of his most beautiful and iconic portraits. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and has white borders. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Jim Stryker holding a long, wooden phallic stick, scantily and markedly clad in a bikini brief, in dramatic studio lighting (which beautifully captures his shadow). "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original vintage photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in pencil on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". It is also stamped, "No. 1. Jim Stryker" (in black) and numbered "522" (in blue), on verso. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14549.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1962 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible set. A contemporary photographic print of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz, as photographed in 1961 in the studio, in one of his most beautiful and iconic portraits. The print is a re-issue (it was originally issued in 1961, but the vintage prints have vanished), and shows Jim Stryker playing basketball wearing only a jockstrap. It comes with a fine copy of The Young Physique Magazine Annual 1962 Issue, which features Stryker on the cover and reproduces the exact same photograph inside. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and has white borders. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Jim Stryker holding a basketball, scantily and markedly clad in a jockstrap, in dramatic studio lighting (which beautifully captures his shadow). "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This contemporary photographic print is now collectible. It comes with a copy of The Young Physique Magazine Annual Issue, which shows Jim Stryker in his only "lying-down" pose we have seen. The Issue is now scarce. As far as we know, this is the only set available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, pristine beauties. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare set thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine set. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14564.
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Imprint: Union City, NJ, The Body Builder Publications, Inc., 1962 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 76 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. A fine copy of The Young Physique Magazine June 1962 Issue. Features on the cover Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz, as photographed in 1961 in the studio, in one of his most beautiful and iconic portraits. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The cover shows Jim Stryker holding a phallic spear, scantily and markedly clad in white briefs, in crisp color. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This copy of The Young Physique Magazine Issue is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy available online and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies appear online on a very sporadic basis, in varying degrees of heavy use, and at outrageous prices. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14565.
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Imprint: Union City, NJ, The Body Builder Publications, Inc., 1962 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 52 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. A fine copy of The Demi-Gods Magazine January 1962 Issue. Features Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz, as photographed in 1961 in some of his most beautiful and iconic portraits. The Issue shows Jim Stryker bare-chested and wearing revealing shorts on the cover (in crisp color) and inside, five pages in all showing the model on the beach (in black-and-white). It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This copy of The Demi-Gods Magazine Issue is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy available online and is in fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies appear online on a very sporadic basis, in varying degrees of heavy use, and at outrageous prices. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14566.
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Imprint: Union City, NJ, The Body Builder Publications, Inc., 1963 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 48 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. A fine copy of Tomorrow's Man Magazine April 1963 Issue. The Issue is now rare. Features Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz, as photographed in 1961, in some of his most beautiful and iconic portraits. The Issue shows Jim Stryker full-frontal nude on the cover (his genital area was "airbrushed" by the publisher to make it look like he is wearing a discreet gray bikini) and inside, two pages showing the model on the beach (in black-and-white). It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This copy of Tomorrow's Man (TM) Magazine Issue is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy available online, is the only one we have ever found, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: This is the single most rare magazine cover appearance of Jim Stryker. A rare copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14567.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1961 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. An original vintage color photographic print of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz, in one of his most stunningly beautiful portraits. The print measures 5 X 7 inches and has white borders. It is one of very few larger-sized prints (larger than the standard 3.5 X 5 inch size) that Walter Kundzicz made. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Jim Stryker posing against a rock formation on the beach, scantily and very markedly clad in a white bikini brief, and shot with natural light. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This original vintage color photographic print is now collectible. It is stamped, "Jim Stryker", and numbered, "No. 12" in black on verso. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14644.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1962 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible set. An original vintage color photographic print of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz, as photographed in 1961 on the beach, in one of his most beautiful and iconic portraits. It comes with a fine copy of Body Beautiful Magazine 1962 Issue, which features Stryker on the cover and inside pages. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and has white borders. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Jim Stryker on the beach, scantily and markedly clad in a blue bikini brief, and shot with natural light. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This original vintage color photographic print is now collectible. It comes with a copy of Body Beautiful Magazine Issue, which shows Jim Stryker on the cover and several inside pages as far as we know, this is the only set available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, pristine beauties. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare set thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible set. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14666.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1960 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. An original vintage color photographic print of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz, in one of his most beautiful and iconic portraits. The print measures 3.5 X 6 inches and has white borders. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Jim Stryker in a Classical pose on the beach, scantily and markedly clad in a bikini brief, and shot with natural light. Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male, the embodiment of masculine beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This original vintage color photographic print is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14710.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1962 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. An original vintage color photograph of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz, in one of his most beautiful and iconic portraits. The photograph measures 3.5 X 5 inches and has white borders. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Jim Stryker posing on the beach, scantily and markedly clad in a white bikini brief, and shot with natural light. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original vintage color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in blue pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". It is also stamped, "Jim Stryker" (in red), numbered, "No. 28" (in blue pen), and labeled, "Sample Test Print" (in blue pen) on verso. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14742.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1961 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. An original vintage color photographic print of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz, as photographed in one of his most beautiful and iconic portraits. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and has white borders. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Jim Stryker in a profile pose, set against a natural setting, scantily and markedly clad in a bulging white bikini brief, and shot with natural light. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This original vintage color photographic print is now collectible. It is stamped, "Jim Stryker" (in red), and numbered, "No. 4" (in black), on verso. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 15490.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1988 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. A contemporary (1988) color photographic print of Jim Stryker, the single most popular and most good-looking male-nude model discovered by Walter Kundzicz, in one of his earliest (and very few) full-frontal nude portraits. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and is presented "bleed". Champion Studio's vintage prints were "pocket size" and had white borders, the widespread practice in the 1960's. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Jim Stryker in a Modern full-profile pose, Perfection Incarnate, with a semi-erect penis. He is photographed in a dramatically lit studio setting and has close-cropped hair (Stryker grew his hair out for his later sessions with Kundzicz). The photograph belonged to the small surviving number of portraits in Walter Kundzicz's possession. The original prints were taken by Kundzicz's partner after Champion Studios dissolved, have completely vanished, and never been found. Furthermore, Stryker did not pose completely nude again in any of his later iconic portraits, and this photograph does not appear in Walter Kundzicz's "Champion" book. Jim Stryker is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Jim Stryker, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This original color photographic print is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: There are Jim Stryker and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 15536.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1987 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 6 pages. Rare Rick Draper and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible set. Six (6) original vintage color photographic prints of Rick Draper, one of the sexiest and most good-looking male-nude models of our time, as photographed by Champion Studios. The prints measure 5 X 7 inches, are "bleed", and are original vintage prints, reproduced on archival FujiColor photographic paper. Each is encased in a protective plastic sheet. Each photograph shows Rick Draper taking a shower and posing full-frontal nude, shot with saturated lighting (the dominance of the color orange in all of the prints is the best indication of their vintage). Walter Kundzicz is best-known as a naughty tease who made his models wear the skimpiest outfits that left virtually nothing to the imagination. Still, he also took, whenever the opportunity presented itself, full-frontal nude shots of many of his models, including the most famous and good-looking one, Jim Stryker, whose nudes he refused to include in his retrospective volume. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Rick Draper, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. These original vintage color photographic prints are now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only set available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, pristine beauties. A rare set thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible set. (SEE ALSO JOE DALESSANDRO, BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES, AND BLAKE PALMER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14680.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1961 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Tuck Powell and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. An original vintage color photographic print of Tuck Powell, one of the most popular and most good-looking male-nude models discovered by Walter Kundzicz. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and has white borders. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Tuck Powell holding weight lifts and posing scantily and markedly clad in a white bikini. The photograph shows the strikingly and sexily handsome model, who was a Marine, in one of his finest portraits ever. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Like Jim Stryker, Tuck Powell is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Tuck Powell, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original vintage color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". It is also stamped, "A Reference Photo for: Artists & Physical Culturists", on verso, which means it was used for reproduction in a physique magazine. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Tuck Powell and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER TUCK POWELL, JIM STRYKER, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 13993.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1961 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Tuck Powell and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. An original vintage color photographic print of Tuck Powell, one of the most popular and most good-looking male-nude models discovered by Walter Kundzicz. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and has white borders. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Tuck Powell posing in the shower, scantily clad in a "see-through" fishnet bikini that leaves very little to the imagination. The photograph shows the strikingly and sexily handsome model, who was a Marine, in one of his finest portraits ever. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Like Jim Stryker, Tuck Powell is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just a memorabilia, item, for Tuck Powell, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original vintage color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". It is also stamped, "A Reference Photo for: Artists & Physical Culturists", on verso, which means it was used for reproduction in a physique magazine. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Tuck Powell and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER TUCK POWELL, JIM STRYKER, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14031.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1988 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Tuck Powell and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. A contemporary (1988) color photographic print of Tuck Powell, one of the most popular and most good-looking male-nude models discovered by Walter Kundzicz. The print measures 5 X 6 inches and is presented "bleed". Champion Studio's vintage prints were "pocket size" and had white borders, the widespread practice in the 1960's. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Tuck Powell on the beach, a favorite Walter Kundzicz setting, posing as a football player (he is shown holding the ball; ever mindful of the smallest detail, Walter Kundzicz also placed a yellow helmet on the sand), scantily and markedly clad in a jockstrap. The photograph shows the strikingly and sexily handsome model, who was a Marine, in one of his finest portraits ever. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Like Jim Stryker, Tuck Powell is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Tuck Powell, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Tuck Powell and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine print. (SEE ALSO OTHER TUCK POWELL, JIM STRYKER, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14223.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1988 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Tuck Powell and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. A contemporary (1988) color photographic print of Tuck Powell, one of the most popular and most good-looking male-nude models discovered by Walter Kundzicz. The print measures 5 X 6 inches and is presented "bleed". Champion Studio's vintage prints were "pocket size" and had white borders, the widespread practice in the 1960's. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Tuck Powell posing in the bedroom, very revealingly clad in white "see-through" shorts that leave nothing to the imagination. The photograph shows the strikingly and sexily handsome model, who was a Marine, in one of his finest portraits ever. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Like Jim Stryker, Tuck Powell is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Tuck Powell, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: There are Tuck Powel and lWalter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER TUCK POWELL, JIM STRYKER, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14224.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1961 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Tuck Powell and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. An original vintage color photographic print of Tuck Powell, one of the most popular and most good-looking male-nude models discovered by Walter Kundzicz. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches and has white borders. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph is a variant of the iconic image that shows Tuck Powell posing in the shower, scantily clad in a "see-through" fishnet bikini that leaves very little to the imagination. The photograph shows the strikingly and sexily handsome model, who was a Marine, in one of his finest portraits ever. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Like Jim Stryker, Tuck Powell is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Tuck Powell, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original vintage color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". It is also stamped, "A Reference Photo for: Artists & Physical Culturists", on verso, which means it was used for reproduction in a physique magazine. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Tuck Powell and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER TUCK POWELL, JIM STRYKER, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14472.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1988 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Tuck Powell and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. A contemporary (1988) color photographic print of Tuck Powell, one of the most popular and most good-looking male-nude models discovered by Walter Kundzicz. The print measures 5 X 6 inches and is presented "bleed". Champion Studio's vintage prints were "pocket size" and had white borders, the widespread practice in the 1960's. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Tuck Powell, the strikingly and sexily handsome model, who was a Marine, in a full-frontal nude shot while taking a shower, one of his finest portraits ever. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic young men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Like Jim Stryker, Tuck Powell is the prototypical All-American male beauty. He anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Tuck Powell, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by the photographer: "W. Kundzicz/Champion". As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: There are Tuck Powell and Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and so have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER TUCK POWELL, JIM STRYKER, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 15491.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Champion Studio, 1965 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Willie Koch and Walter Kundzicz/Champion Studios collectible item. An original vintage color photographic print of Willie Koch, one of the youngest, most well-endowed, and most good-looking male-nude models discovered by Walter Kundzicz, as photographed in 1965, in one of his most beautiful and iconic portraits. The print measures 3.5 X 5 inches, has white borders, and is dated on top ("Jan 65") by Kodak, a very rare indication. It is encased in a protective plastic sheet. The photograph shows Willie Koch posing in the studio, scantily and markedly clad in a white silk bikini brief. "Famous for quality color images of handsome, athletic men from the late 1950's and early 1960's, these photographs of scantily clad athletes (packed with amusing props, costumes, and bulging posing pouches) are notable not only for the commercial success they enjoyed during their heyday but also for their enduring creativity and imagination. Kundzicz and his work left an indelible imprint on male physique photography. Today, nearly half a century later, Kundzicz's work and his most popular models continue to have their ardent fans" (Reed Massengill). Willie Koch is a specimen of the prototypical All-American male beauty that Kundzicz's impeccable eye discovered, photographed, and committed for posterity. While he (or she) may work in a genre that remains controversial (in puritanical America, not in Europe or Japan), every truly great photographer of the nude is The Eye incarnate: One for beauty and another for permanently capturing it on film. This is what many people really mean, even if it may sound dismissive, when they observe that the photographic nude is "50% casting". Together with such Champion stars as Jim Stryker and Tuck Powell, Willie Koch anticipates by about two decades the model/stars of the reigning American photographer of the male nude, Bruce Weber. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Willie Koch, Walter Kundzicz/Champion, and male erotic art photography collectors. This is an original vintage color photographic print, and it is very boldly and beautifully signed in red and black pens on verso by the photographer: "Property of Waljim Willie Koch F-6 W. Kundzicz/Champion Test Print". As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: There are Walter Kundzicz prints available online, but most of them are digital copies or have serious flaws and have little or no collectible value. This print is a beauty, and as such, an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A fine print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JIM STRYKER, TUCK POWELL, JOE DALLESANDRO, AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 15779.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Scribner, 2013 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 390 pages. The author's breakthrough second novel. One of the most important 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 Rachel Kushner's "The Flamethrowers". Her sensational second novel. "The riveting story of a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970's, by turns underground, elite, and dangerous. An intensely engaging exploration of the mystique of the feminine, the fake, the terrorist. A major American novel from a writer of spectacular talent and imagination" (Publisher's blurb). One of Kushner's most ardent champions (somewhat surprisingly) is James Wood: "Scintillatingly alive, and also alive to artifice. It ripples with stories, anecdotes, set-piece monologues, crafty egotistical tall tales, and hapless adventures: Kushner is never not telling a story. It is nominally a historical novel and, I suppose, also a realist one (it works within the traditional grammar of verisimilitude). But it manifests itself as a pure explosion of now: It catches us in its mobile, flashing present, which is the living reality it conjures on the page at the moment we are reading". "Sex is not about exchange values. It's a gift economy" (Rachel Kushner). An absolute "must-have" title for Rachel Kushner collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated (shortly after publication) in black pen on the title page by the author: "Rachel Kushner April 20, 2013". 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. This is one of few such signed and post-publication dated copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant new voices in American literature. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER RACHEL KUSHNER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1439142009. Stock number: 20580. ISBN: 1439142009
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Scribner, 2013 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 390 pages. The author's breakthrough second novel. One of the most important 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 Rachel Kushner's "The Flamethrowers". Her sensational second novel. "The riveting story of a young artist and the worlds she encounters in New York and Rome in the mid-1970's, by turns underground, elite, and dangerous. An intensely engaging exploration of the mystique of the feminine, the fake, the terrorist. A major American novel from a writer of spectacular talent and imagination" (Publisher's blurb). One of Kushner's most ardent champions (somewhat surprisingly) is James Wood: "Scintillatingly alive, and also alive to artifice. It ripples with stories, anecdotes, set-piece monologues, crafty egotistical tall tales, and hapless adventures: Kushner is never not telling a story. It is nominally a historical novel and, I suppose, also a realist one (it works within the traditional grammar of verisimilitude). But it manifests itself as a pure explosion of now: It catches us in its mobile, flashing present, which is the living reality it conjures on the page at the moment we are reading". "One of the most brilliant writers of the new century" (Robert Stone). "Sex is not about exchange values. It's a gift economy" (Rachel Kushner). An absolute "must-have" title for Rachel Kushner 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. One of the most brilliant new voices in American literature. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER RACHEL KUSHNER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1439142009. Stock number: 22133. ISBN: 1439142009
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2018 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 195 pages. Retrospective collection of short stories. One of Catherine Lacey'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 Catherine Lacey's "Certain American States: Stories". A deeply moving traversal about "regular" people seeking, intuitively and consciously, to find answers - that is, what makes life worth living in the first place - in their often chaotic, insensible lives. "Brings her narrative mastery to her first collection of stories. She gives life to a group of subtly complex, instantly memorable characters whose search for love, struggle with grief, and tentative journey into the minutiae of the human condition are simultaneously gripping and devastating. The characters are continually coming to terms with their place in the world, and how to adapt to that place, before change inevitably returns" (Publisher's blurb). "Like Lydia Davis and Grace Paley (whom she sometimes resembles), Lacey can travel a great distance in a single paragraph or a single sentence; like those writers, she's masterly at using the unreliability of her narrators to suggest worlds of repressed confusion and poorly contained grief. Susan Sontag said of Paley that she was a natural, 'with a voice like no one else's: Funny, sad, lean, modest, energetic, acute'. Those words will do well for Lacey's book, too" (The New Yorker Magazine). An absolute "must-have" title for Catherine Lacey collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Catherine Lacey. 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. Regarded by James Wood as one of the Best Books of The Year 2018. One of the most brilliant American wrtiers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0374265895. Stock number: 22342. ISBN: 0374265895
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Simon & Schuster, 1996 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 152 pages. The photographer's breakthrough debut collection. One of the most influential photography books of our time. Limited Edition of 25000 serial-numbered copies. The true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Reissued Edition published in 2005, which is an exact facsimile of it. The First Limited Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by David LaChapelle and Tadanori Yokoo: Oversize-volume format. Tadanori Yokoo's dazzling design is now considered one of the greatest book designs of the 20th century, a certifiable classic. Glossy pictorial hard covers with colorful titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and brief text by David LaChapelle. LaChapelle Land Map laid-in. Matching glossy pictorial box. List of Plates appended at the end. Printed on glossy stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents David LaChapelle's "LaChapelle Land". Welcomes the viewer to the photographer's vision of The New Land. "LaChapelle's elaborately planned photo-tableaux are full of theatrically arresting action, of sexiness, of celebrity flesh and faces, of costume and of starkly contrasting, highly saturated colors. They are often so overtly and unapologetically synthetic that they seem to be collages, but in the two pages of text, LaChapelle imparts that all 'these scenarios existed somewhere, for some period of time'. They also resemble rock video imagery, you can almost hear them, but not really, thank God, and they hold still, making enjoyment of their studied outlandishness easier" (Publisher's blurb). Its companion volume, "Hotel LaChapelle", pushes the envelope to the farthest limits. An absolute "must-have" title for David LaChapelle collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in blue pen-marker by David LaChapelle. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. Although described as a Limited Edition, with each copy serially numbered, surely the photographer was teasing collectors about their obsession with Limited Editions. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Limited Edition available online and despite its imperfection (a break on one of the cover board's corners, not a split, but it's there) is still in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: The "LaChapelle Land Map", missing in copies of the book, remains in pristine condition. A rare signed copy thus. 131 color plates. David LaChapelle's "La Chapelle Land" was selected as one of the "Seminal Photography Books of the 20th Century" in the "Book of 101 Books". One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DAVID LACHAPELLE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0684833026. Stock number: 13318. ISBN: 0684833026
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Imprint: London, England, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 340 pages. The author's second novel. One of the most important literary events of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Published simultaneously in the United Kingdom and the United States in a regular first print run as a hardcover original only. However, the book was launched and released first in the United Kingdom, as evidenced by the fact that Jhumpa Lahiri launched the book in London before proceeding to New York. The First Edition is now scarce. The British Edition has superior production values: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Printed on archival stock paper in the United Kingdom to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Jhumpa Lahiri's "The Lowland". The story of two brothers who mirror (in the vivid foreground) an India that is torn apart by the Naxalite revolutionary movement of the 1960's (in the stark background). "Subhash and Udayan Mitra are inseparable brothers, one often mistaken for the other in the Calcutta neighborhood where they grow up. But they are also opposites, with gravely different futures ahead. Udayan, charismatic and impulsive, finds himself drawn to the Naxalite Movement, a rebellion waged to eradicate inequity and poverty; he will give everything for what he believes. Subhash, the dutiful son, does not share his brother's political passion. He leaves home to pursue a life of scientific research in a quiet, coastal corner of America" (Publisher's blurb). What happens next is Jhumpa Lahiri's best book thus far, and by her own admission, the end, not just the culmination, of a remarkable literary journey that began with "Interpreter of Maladies" (1999). As an iconic Indian-American writer, Lahiri's greatest strength has always been the deceptive simplicity and effortless elegance of her prose. Lahiri immigrated to Italy two years ago, candidly saying that she had never felt comfortable living in America (she did not have to tell us that; it's apparent in her work, and was probably one reason publishers rejected it for many years). She now reads and writes (tentatively) in Italian, clearly intent on mastering a beloved third language, after Bengali and English, with grim determination. Whether she will write another book in English is thus a promise she will not make, giving "The Lowland" the sense of an ending, a "sadness" as some commentators have called it that Lahiri insists is simply, the truth. An absolute "must-have" title for Jhumpa Lahiri collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Jhumpa Lahiri. 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 (British 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. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 2000 for "Interpreter of Maladies". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JHUMPA LAHIRI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0307265749. Stock number: 18960. ISBN: 0307265749
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Imprint: New York City, NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1892 First Edition Thus / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 267 pages. Collection of the writer's essays. One of the greatest literary collections of all time. Limited Edition of 150 numbered copies. The 1892 "Large Paper" Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition, also published simultaneously by G. P. Putnam's Sons. There is no ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. A fine binding production: Regular-sized volume format. The production is loving and exquisite in every respect: Luxurious brown leather boards with marbled paper middle boards, gilt lines, gilt page edges, and elaborate gilt design on the spine, as bound. Text by Charles Lamb. Edited by Ernest Dressel North. Matching marbled endpapers. Mounted Frontispiece Portrait of Charles Lamb from the original drawing by Hancock, with protective glassine overlay. Printed on handmade archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as re-bound. Presents Charles Lamb's "The Wit And Wisdom of Charles Lamb With Anecdotes by His Contemporaries". A treasurable fine-binding production of an indispensable collection, published towards the end of the 19th century. Gathers the pithy, quotable, and aphoristic remarks and reflections of the greatest literary critic and essayist of his time. An absolute "must-have" title for Charles Lamb collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Edition of 150 numbered copies, indicated/numbered as such ("Number 6") in red fountain on the Front Limitation Page. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only fine-binding production of the Limited Edition available online and as re-bound, is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws because the book is more than 120 years old, after all. It is precisely why the fine binding production has helped preserve, and will preserve, it for posterity. As such, it is also attractively priced. A rare copy thus. The greatest literary critic and essayist in the English language of the 19th century. A fine collectible copy. . Stock number: 490.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Delacorte Press, 2003 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 375 pages. The author's breakthrough debut 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. Presents William Landay's "Mission Flats". His highly acclaimed first novel. "Uses the elegiac voice of his narrator to lull the reader into the false notion that this is a straightforward mystery starring a somewhat bumbling investigator. In fact, every assumption the reader makes turns into a landmine, which makes for an excruciatingly suspenseful thriller. Set in two places: Backwoods Maine, where a way-too-young police chief encounters his first major homicide, and Boston, where the police chief tries to navigate the shoals of the Boston police and court system. Landay gives us an original detective creation in the humorous, self-deprecating Truman, and he also delivers an action-packed plot with a skillfully detonated final surprise" (Booklist). Since his award-winning debut, William Landay has been hailed as the successor of Scott Turow and John Grisham, a best-selling author of the thriller genre that literate readers should take seriously because, as Michael Ondaatje once said, the best thrillers are moral literature. Landay gave up a high-profile legal career in order to become a full-fledged writer. A graduate of Yale University and Boston College Law School, he is self-taught as a writer, as lawyers, doctors, and scientists curiously tend to be. Suspense and surprise are narrative elements of all fiction, and the truly exceptional ability to keep a reader gripped and guessing is rare even among thriller writers (it eludes them after the first triumph or so, and they invariably end up repeating themselves). An absolute "must-have" title for William Landay collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by William ("Bill") Landay. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It also comes with a bookplate (neatly laid into the book), also very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by the author. 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 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 Creasey Memorial Dagger Award as the Best Debut Crime Novel in 2003 for "Mission Flats". Winner of the Strand Magazine Critics Award as the Best Crime Novel in 2007 for "The Strangler". One of the most brilliant American writers of the thriller genre of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER WILLIAM LANDAY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0385336144. Stock number: 17210. ISBN: 0385336144
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking Press, 1999 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 260 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 Peter Landesman's "Blood Acre". A brilliant follow-up novel by the widely-acclaimed author of "The Raven". Exquisitely written, this is a "genuine tour-de-force, an apocalyptic murder mystery that demands to be read in a single setting" (Times Literary Supplement). The novel has been compared to Malcolm Lowry's "Under The Volcano" (by James McConkey) and to William Styron's work by Stewart O'Nan, who asserts that what Landesman has pulled off is a more poetic version of the hard-boiled thriller: "The soft-boiled thriller, where every wound weeps, every memory stings, and every dream festers" (Stewart O'Nan). Now a full-fledged Hollywood screenwriter, Landesman is a brilliant American writer with a solid cult following, who deserves to be read by a much wider audience. An absolute "must-have" title for Peter Landesman collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Peter Landesman. 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. Winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1995 for "The Raven". One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PETER LANDESMAN TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670882070. Stock number: 1518. ISBN: 0670882070
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Cantaloupe Records, 2003 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Debut Recording of the composer's landmark work. One of David Lang's finest achievements. The first and only edition. Produced in a small and limited print run as a Compact Disc. There is no ISBN. The CD is now scarce. Presents, in its very first release, David Lang's "Child". Definitive performances by the Sentiere Selvaggi Ensemble and Carlo Boccadoro. His first major new work since "The Passing Measures". "A powerful meditation on childhood and memory. Sweet and simple on the surface, gentle musical fragments float by leaving faint traces of darkness in their wake. The result is at once dramatic, personal, intensely introspective, and piercingly beautiful. Written in five separate parts for some of Europe's finest groups, 'Child' is recorded here by the Italian ensemble Sentiere Selvaggi" (Publisher's blurb). "My attempt to examine certain experiences as I remember (and mis-remember) them from my childhood. Each of the individual movements is in some way a memory of how I learned how to do something. Because I was taught (as most children are) that one learns how to perceive the world by making up rules, it has been possible to apply these rules to musical environments. I am not nostalgic for childhood, mine or anyone else's. It is not the point of 'Child' to show either how childhood is a time of great excitement or great disturbance or that I miss it or that I suffered through it. What is most interesting to me, especially now that I have children of my own, is that childhood is the time when one learns how to think, how to feel, how to move forward. Because each piece of music in some way needs to teach its listener its own rules for how it works, it is a comparison I have found meaningful" (David Lang). An absolute "must-have" title for David Lang, Sentiere Selvaggi, and Carlo Boccadoro collectors. This copy of the Compact Disc (CD) of "Child" is very boldly and beautifully signed in metallic-silver pen-marker in front by David Lang. It is signed directly on the cover 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 CD 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. Best Original Song Academy Award Finalist for "A Simple Song", the theme of Paolo Sorrentino's "Youth" in 2016. One of the most brilliant composers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DAVID LANG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN B00008SH8D. Stock number: 20743. ISBN: B00008SH8D
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Classics Group, 2003 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 2 pages. Rare Lang Lang collectible item. A pristine copy of the historic 2003 Deutsche Grammophon Compact Disc (CD) live recording of his Carnegie Hall Debut on November 7, 2003 at the age of 21, signed by Lang Lang. The very first release on CD. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent releases, particularly the 2008 CD/DVD release, issued five years later. Distributed in the United States by Universal Classics Group as the original two-CD set that sold out shortly after release. The CD set is now scarce. Presents Lang Lang's "Live At Carnegie Hall". Rousing and at the same time, interpretatively sensitive performances by the American pianist at the beginning of his phenomenal career. Features fiendishly difficult, powerhouse works by (in order) : Robert Schumann, Joseph Haydn, Franz Schubert, Tan Dun, Frederic Chopin, and Franz Liszt, performed with bravura, power, and grace. The thunderous audience response and encores are included. "A dazzling recital. Lang Lang's virtuosity is frightening: The Liszt 'Reminiscenses du Don Juan' is a showpiece when played 'normally'. Here, Lang plays it to its extremes, with soft passages amazingly soft and subtly delineated and the bigger moments heaven-thundering. It is played so fast, and so accurately (a cascade of notes in the middle sounds like waterfall), that it leaves the listener breathless. Surely just what Liszt wanted. In the Haydn sonata, Lang's classical line is impeccable, but he's not afraid to embellish occasionally. The Schumann is dreamy and hushed; Schubert's 'Wanderer' Fantasy, a crowd-pleaser, is just that: Beautifully played, familiar yet fresh. An encore, with Lang's father playing a two-string fiddle called the erhu, is a fascinating look into Eastern music" (Robert Levine). An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Lang Lang collectors. This copy of the Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Classics Group CD of "Live At Carnegie Hall" is very boldly, elaborately, and beautifully signed in black pen-marker (in Chinese characters) in front by Lang Lang. It is signed directly on the cover itself. Lang's signature is the fullest and most beautiful we have ever seen: Big, brash, brilliant. This title is a historic CD classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Distributed in the United States by Universal Classics Group as a two-CD set (that sold out shortly after release), this is the very first release. Should NOT be confused with the 2008 CD/DVD release, issued five years later. Lang Lang's rock-star status has exponentially increased the demand for signings, forcing the artist to drastically abbreviate his signature in later - and much more common - specimens. This is a vintage signature, and spectacular as such. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest pianists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO LEIF OVE ANDSNES, MAURIZIO POLLINI, ARCADI VOLODOS, EVGENY KISSIN, YUNDI, JON NAKAMATSU, JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, AND LARS VOGT TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 21750.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Grove Press, 2005 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 250 pages. 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, particularly the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Rattawut Lapcharoensap's "Sightseeing". His (ironically titled) first book. "Set in contemporary Thailand, these are generous, radiant tales of family bonds, youthful romance, generational conflicts, and cultural shiftings beneath the glossy surface of a warm, Edenic setting. Written with exceptional acuity, grace, and sophistication, the stories present a nation far removed from its exoticized stereotypes. In the prize-winning story 'Farangs', the son of a beachside motel owner commits the cardinal sin of falling for a pretty American tourist. In the novella, 'Cockfighter', a young girl witnesses her proud father's valiant but foolhardy battle against a local delinquent whose family has a vicious stranglehold on the villagers. Through his vivid assemblage of parents and children, natives and transients, ardent lovers and sworn enemies, Lapcharoensap dares us to look with new eyes at the circumstances that shape our views and the prejudices that form our blind spots. An extraordinary reading experience, one that powerfully reveals that when it comes to how we respond to pain, anger, hurt, and love, no place is too far from home" (Publisher's blurb). Rattawut is misleadingly described as a Thai-American, which suggests he is an immigrant, when in fact he was born in America, which makes him an American (of Thai ethnicity). In that sense, he is really writing about America, not Thailand. Tourist/sightseers are not restricted as such to a foreign land, and it is entirely possible to be a foreigner in one's own homeland. An absolute "must-have" title for Rattawut Lapcharoensap and contemporary literature collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Rattawut Lapcharoensap. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0802117880. Stock number: 18584. ISBN: 0802117880
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Imprint: New York City, NY, The Penguin Press, 2009 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 380 pages. The author's breakthrough debut illustrated 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 small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. The book is very beautifully produced by Ben Gibson and Reif Larsen, in pictorial hard boards with gilt titles and design on cover and spine, maps and all kinds of delicate illustrations reproduced throughout the book, and a dazzling DJ design by Jeff Middleton. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Presents Reif Larsen's "The Selected Works of T. S. Spivet". Brilliant debut about "mapping" (the novel's running theme) the experiences, sensations, and lessons of heartbreak, loss, loneliness, and love. "When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T. S. Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking him from his family ranch to the museum's hallowed halls. He meticulously maps, charts, and illustrates his exploits. We come to see the world through his eyes, and in his thorough investigation of the outside world he also reveals himself. He discovers the shadowy boundary between fact and fiction and realizes that, for all his analytical rigor, the world around him is a mystery" (Publisher's blurb). Larsen's mix of text and image is subtle and cunning: "Instead of a direct one-to-one correspondence, there's a satellite-like relationship between the text and the image, a kind of graphical parallelism. TS will talk about his suspicion of the adult male and then include a chart of male-pattern baldness, and it is through these somewhat disparate leaps between text and image, between the main story and the marginalia, that we begin to soak in TS's habits of mind" (Reif Larsen). The basis of the fine film adaptation by Jean-Pierre Jeunet called "Amelie". An absolute "must-have" title for Reif Larsen 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, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 1594202176. Stock number: 14655. ISBN: 1594202176
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Imprint: New York City, NY, St. Martin's Press, 2008 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 273 pages. The author's breakthrough debut memoir-cum-humor account. One of the most sensational literary debuts of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Rick Lax's "Lawyer Boy". NOT for would-be lawyers alone. The humorous and touching story of an American youth who lives up to his surname by inclination and transcends it with imagination. "After college, Rick Lax moved back into his parents' house. The closest thing he had to a job was eating his parents' food, sitting on his parents' couch, and watching 'The Price is Right'. An amateur magician, he spent the rest of his time practicing card tricks and rope tricks. And though he could tie four different slipknots, the necktie posed some difficulties. Rick's father, a successful Michigan attorney, told Rick it was time to move out and enter the real world. Rick certainly wasn't going to get a job. So he went to law school instead. This is the story of Rick's journey from childhood to lawyerhood. Rick Lax uses the skills he developed as a magician to succeed in class, and learns how to become a lawyer without becoming his father. His journey through law school was exhausting, exciting, and infuriating, and, the way he tells it, so funny it's criminal" (Publisher's blurb). It is a mistake to compare Lax's book to Scott Turow's grim classic, "One L". Surely, the whole point of his memoir is precisely to present a counter-portrait to Turow's harrowing (and humorless) account. Rick Lax is a global Internet entertainer/star today, drawing one billion views each month. An absolute "must-have" title for Rick Lax collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen-marker on the title page by the author: "Thanks for picking my book up! Rick Lax". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. There's more: "If you need a good lawyer, [he provides his personal information]. On the opposite page, he adds a caveat: "But wait til I pass the bar!". Lax also signed in black pen-marker his author photograph on the DJ back flap and added a magician's moustache and goatee to his portrait. This title is a classic. This is the best 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. One of the most brilliant American writer/entertainers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 031237335X. Stock number: 13718. ISBN: 031237335X
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Imprint: New York City, NY, St. Martin's Press, 2008 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 273 pages. The author's breakthrough debut memoir-cum-humor account. One of the most sensational literary debuts of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Rick Lax's "Lawyer Boy". NOT for would-be lawyers alone. The humorous and touching story of an American youth who lives up to his surname by inclination and transcends it with imagination. "After college, Rick Lax moved back into his parents' house. The closest thing he had to a job was eating his parents' food, sitting on his parents' couch, and watching 'The Price is Right'. An amateur magician, he spent the rest of his time practicing card tricks and rope tricks. And though he could tie four different slipknots, the necktie posed some difficulties. Rick's father, a successful Michigan attorney, told Rick it was time to move out and enter the real world. Rick certainly wasn't going to get a job. So he went to law school instead. This is the story of Rick's journey from childhood to lawyerhood. Rick Lax uses the skills he developed as a magician to succeed in class, and learns how to become a lawyer without becoming his father. His journey through law school was exhausting, exciting, and infuriating, and, the way he tells it, so funny it's criminal" (Publisher's blurb). It is a mistake to compare Lax's book to Scott Turow's grim classic, "One L". Surely, the whole point of his memoir is precisely to present a counter-portrait to Turow's harrowing (and humorless) account. Rick Lax is a global Internet entertainer/star today, drawing one billion views each month. An absolute "must-have" title for Rick Lax collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen-marker on the title page by the author: "Thanks for picking my book up, Rick Lax". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a classic. As far as we know, this is 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 scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writer/entertainers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 031237335X. Stock number: 13719. ISBN: 031237335X
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Imprint: New York City, NY, David R. Godine/Verba Mundi Publishers, 2009 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 355 pages. The author's masterpiece. One of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the British Edition, which appeared a full year later. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original and as part of the Verba Mundi International Literature Series. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents J. M. G. Le Clezio's "Desert" in a felicitous English translation. Published for the very first time in English translation, thirty years after its publication in the French original. Singled out by the Nobel Committee as his greatest work, it is "composed of two alternating narratives, set in counterpoint. The first takes place in the desert between 1909 and 1912 and evokes the migration of a young adolescent boy, Nour, and his people, the Blue Men, notorious warriors of the desert. Spurred on by thirst, hunger, and suffering, Nour's tribe and others flee northward in the hopes of finding a land that can harbor them at last. The second narrative relates the contemporary story of Lalla, a descendant of the Blue Men. Lalla must flee to escape a forced marriage with an older wealthy man. She travels to France, undergoing many trials there, from working in a brothel to success as a highly paid fashion model, but she never betrays the blood of her ancestors" (Publisher's blurb). "A conjurer who tried to lift words above the degenerate state of everyday speech and to restore them the power to invoke an essential reality" (Nobel Prize Citation). An absolute "must-have" title for J. M. G. Le Clezio collectors. This title is a great book. 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: Although both editions were published thirty years after the French original, the fact remains that the American Edition precedes the British by a full year. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER J. M. G. LE CLEZIO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1567923860. Stock number: 17829. ISBN: 1567923860
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Imprint: London, England, Atlantic Books, 2010 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 352 pages. The author's masterpiece. One of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in the United Kingdom. Should not be confused with all other editions, particularly the Softcover Edition, which was published simultaneously with it. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents J. M. G. Le Clezio's "Desert" in a felicitous English translation. Published for the very first time in English translation, more than thirty years after its publication in the French original. Singled out by the Nobel Committee as his greatest work, it is "composed of two alternating narratives, set in counterpoint. The first takes place in the desert between 1909 and 1912 and evokes the migration of a young adolescent boy, Nour, and his people, the Blue Men, notorious warriors of the desert. Spurred on by thirst, hunger, and suffering, Nour's tribe and others flee northward in the hopes of finding a land that can harbor them at last. The second narrative relates the contemporary story of Lalla, a descendant of the Blue Men. Lalla must flee to escape a forced marriage with an older wealthy man. She travels to France, undergoing many trials there, from working in a brothel to success as a highly paid fashion model, but she never betrays the blood of her ancestors" (Publisher's blurb). "A conjurer who tried to lift words above the degenerate state of everyday speech and to restore them the power to invoke an essential reality" (Nobel Prize Citation). An absolute "must-have" title for J. M. G. Le Clezio collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated (shortly after publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "J. M. G. Le Clezio 3/11/2010". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed and publication-year dated copies of the First British Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Le Clezio rarely does public signings, this being one of them. He inexplicably did not sign for the American Edition. Signed copies of his books available online command thousands of dollars. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER J. M. G. LE CLEZIO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1848873794. Stock number: 17849. ISBN: 1848873794
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Simon & Schuster, 2008 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 243 pages. New Reissued Edition of the author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most sensational literary debuts of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in this "Nobel Prize Award" 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 DJ design is brilliant: On the cover, it shows the handsome, 23-year-old J. M. G. Le Clezio, as photographed by the late Helmut Newton. On the back, Le Clezio is shown in 2008, still-handsome at 68, as photographed by Catherine Helie. Presents J. M. G. Le Clezio's "The Interrogation" in a felicitous English translation. His experimental first novel, often called the "French Catcher In The Rye". "Has told his story without a single recourse to philosophical, moral or metaphysical jargon. His tone has a tranquillity which conveys all the ultimate sense of the profound meaning of life, a tone for poets" (L'Express). Le Clezio won the Prix Renaudot for his novel, then decided that the French literary scene was not for him, promptly spent most of his adult life abroad, and went on to write more than forty books. One of them is available in translation, and is particularly significant for the author himself, "Mexican Dream, Or The Interrupted Thought of Amerindian Civilizations" (1993). To write the novel, Le Clezio studied (and translated into French) the ancient Mayan texts. In other words, he went from being a literary sensation to a serious student of speech as the true basis of literature. Producing a very large body of work in the process is another genuine achievement for a prodigy. Most prodigies, particularly literary ones, burn out very quickly and stop writing altogether. Le Clezio never stopped writing, but because he is a ferocious critic of the European (that is, American-colonial) destruction of the Native American languages and histories, he has been a marginal figure throughout his long literary life. "A conjurer who tried to lift words above the degenerate state of everyday speech and to restore them the power to invoke an essential reality" (Nobel Prize Citation). An absolute "must-have" title for J. M. G. Le Clezio collectors. This title is a modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First Edition Thus/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: The 1964 First English-Language Edition commands about $2500 even though none of the few copies available online is in fine condition. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER J. M. G. LE CLEZIO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1439149186. Stock number: 15508. ISBN: 1439149186
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Other Press, 2010 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 232 pages. The author's breakthrough novel in the United States. One of Herve Le Tellier's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. The production values are impeccable: The pictorial DJ design is embossed, not printed, and the book is produced on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Presents Herve Le Tellier's "Enough About Love" in a felicitous English translation. Not quite enough. Despite the seemingly exasperated tone of the title, the novel is all about love, a French specialty. The love story is one of the oldest and most inexhaustible narratives. Le Tellier's novel re-examines a familiar paradox: Domesticity = Lasting Happiness. Love = High-Risk Ecstasy. That almost always ends in Lasting Unhappiness. Why we, against our better judgment, are willing to take enormous risks and give it all up for love is the question Le Tellier attempts to answer. Herve Le Tellier is one of France's most highly regarded cultural exports: A journalist, novelist, poet (his novel ends brilliantly with a poem), literary critic, mathematician, and professor. An absolute "must-have" title for Herve Le Tellier collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, dated, and inscribed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "We never read [Enough About Love] Herve Le Tellier in NYC 27/04/11". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. He made a rare appearance at the 2011 PEN World Festival. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the 60-page Souvenir Program. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, dated, and inscribed copy of the First American 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 French writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1590513991. Stock number: 16522. ISBN: 1590513991
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Other Press, 2010 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 232 pages. The author's breakthrough novel in the United States. One of Herve Le Tellier's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. The production values are impeccable: The pictorial DJ design is embossed, not printed, and the book is produced on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Presents Herve Le Tellier's "Enough About Love" in a felicitous English translation. Not quite enough. Despite the seemingly exasperated tone of the title, the novel is all about love, a French specialty. The love story is one of the oldest and most inexhaustible narratives. Le Tellier's novel re-examines a familiar paradox: Domesticity = Lasting Happiness. Love = High-Risk Ecstasy. That almost always ends in Lasting Unhappiness. Why we, against our better judgment, are willing to take enormous risks and give it all up for love is the question Le Tellier attempts to answer. Herve Le Tellier is one of France's most highly regarded cultural exports: A journalist, novelist, poet (his novel ends brilliantly with a poem), literary critic, mathematician, and professor. An absolute "must-have" title for Herve Le Tellier collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Who knows, that never speak [Enough About Love] Herve Le Tellier". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. He made a rare appearance at the 2011 PEN World Festival. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the 60-page Souvenir Program. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First American 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 French writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1590513991. Stock number: 16523. ISBN: 1590513991
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1989 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 268 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 David Leavitt's "Equal Affections". Writing marked by poise, insight, and passion. This is an intimate portrait of a family struggling to come to terms with the death of its independent, defiant matriarch. Leavitt explores the complex emotions that make up human relationships between lovers and families. "Leavitt is able to demonstrate his talent for empathy, his ability to write persuasively about highly emotional issues" (The New York Times). An absolute "must-have" title for David Leavitt 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. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DAVID LEAVITT TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 155584202X. Stock number: 1264. ISBN: 155584202X
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Imprint: Chicago, IL, Jannes Art Publishing, 1983 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 128 pages. Retrospective collection of black-and-white photographs. One of the most beautiful photography books on Chicago ever published. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run simultaneously as Hardcover and Softcover Editions. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Margit Weaving Leavitt: Oversize-volume format. Pristine-white pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Fred Leavitt. Texts by Ron Grossman and John Fink. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Chicago to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Fred Leavitt's Chicago: A Photographic Essay". Powerful, memorable images of a city in the midst of rapid, transitional change during the critical and turbulent 1980's. "When Fred Leavitt returned to Chicago, after having spent a year documenting the wetlands of Florida, he saw the city as a part of nature, as an ant-hill or beehive would be. He spent the next two years producing a remarkable photographic essay that shows urban living with a sense of wonder and a special wit. An award-winning landmark publication, 'Fred Leavitt's Chicago' is printed in a proprietary Continuous-Tone Process, which eliminates the half-tone printing screen. The remarkable reproductions almost appear three-dimensional against the shifting light" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Fred Leavitt and Chicago-iana collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, dated, and inscribed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by the photographer: "For AL KEZYS, with best wishes, Fred Leavitt Oct. 1985". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, Algimantas Kezys, was a Chicago-based, Lithuanian-American photographer, now widely regarded as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. This title is a late-modern photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, dated, and inscribed copy of the First Edition/First Printing (Softcover) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws because they have been pored over again and again. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 87 tritone plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO ALGIMANTAS KEZYS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0912223014. Stock number: 21260. ISBN: 0912223014
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