Merva, Monika (Photographer); Tucker, Anne Wilkes; Bannon, Anthony & Haney, Lynne (Contributors)
The City Of Children: Photographs By Monika Merva

Imprint: Berlin, Germany, Kehrer Verlag, 2011
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 112 pages. Retrospective collection of color photographs. One of the most affecting and beautiful photography books devoted to children as subjects. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Monika Merva: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Monika Merva. Essays by various leading contributors such as Anthony Bannon and Anne Wilkes Tucker. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Berlin, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is superb in its clarity, warmth, and tonal range. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Monika Merva's "City of Children". Some of the most beautiful portraits of children of our time. "Since 2002, Monika Merva has been documenting the lives of children who are living in a government housing facility in Hungary. It is a facility for children who are fleeing from abusive and poverty-stricken backgrounds. The children themselves call the place The City of Children. Monika Merva has exhibited at many international venues, including the Griffin Photography Museum Winchester; the RayKo Photo Center San Francisco; FotoFest Houston ; and The International House New York. Her work is in Permanent Collections such as the George Eastman House" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Monika Merva collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, dated, and inscribed in black ink-pen on the title page by the photographer: "Dear Martha, A pleasure meeting you at FotoFest. I look forward to continuing our conversation. All the best, Monika Merva 2012". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, Martha Schneider, who is named, is one of the most important figures in the art photography world. This title is a contemporary photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO MICHELLE SANK "BECOMING" TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3868281746.

Stock number: 19650. ISBN: 3868281746

$US 70.00

Metzker, Ray K. (Photographer); Travis, David (Contributor) & Angst, Roland (Publisher)
Ray K. Metzker: Automagic: The Limited Edition

Imprint: Berlin, Germany, Only Photography, 2009
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 120 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. Limited Edition of 500 numbered and signed copies. Published as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Roland Angst: Oversize-volume format. Purple cloth boards with gray titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Ray K. Metzker. Preface by Roland Angst in the German original and felicitous English trasnlation. Essay by David Travis in the English original and German translation. Biography and List of Plates (with matching thumbnail reproductions) appended at the end. Printed in tritone by Medialis Offsetdruck GmbH Berlin on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In pristine-white DJ, with a sleek, semi-abstract automobile silhouette-design embossed on the cover, and black titles printed on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents, in a collectible Limited Edition format, Ray K. Metzker's "AutoMagic". For our money, the single most beautifully produced book on the austere and elegant photographic art of Ray K. Metzker, devoted exclusively to the number-one American obsession, the car. Which, as J. G. Ballard (in his great novel, "Crash") once pointed out, is both the dangerous substitute and the perfect venue for sex. In hindsight, the car is also the ideal subject for Metzker's Modernist, "chiaroscuro" aesthetics and brilliant eye (the automobile appears in almost all of his books, notably "City Stills" and "Light Lines"). Rigorous and tightly focussed, "AutoMagic" showcases the enigmatic beauty, formal elegance, and quiet desperation that are Metzker trademarks. A unique cumulative visual experience, each image in this book nevertheless speaks for itself. "For me, to photograph is to wander with camera in hand, looking at everything along the way. What ultimately gives meaning and satisfaction to this act is discovering something I had not known, seen, or felt before" (Ray K. Metzker). An absolute "must-have" title for Ray K. Metzker collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Edition, indicated/numbered as such on the Back Limitation Page. It is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black pen-marker by Ray K. Metzker. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great photography book. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: There is a Deluxe Edition (with print), available exclusively from the publisher for about $5000, rightly so. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 79 tritone plates. One of the greatest photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 398125371X.

Stock number: 21356. ISBN: 398125371X

$US 500.00

Metzner, Sheila
Sheila Metzner: Color

Imprint: Altadena, CA, Twin Palms Publishing, 1991
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 172 pages. Retrospective collection of color photographs. One of the most beautiful photography books of our time. Limited Edition of 10000 copies. A limited number of copies were signed by the photographer under the auspices of the publisher. The Limited Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Sheila Metzner and Jack Woody: Oversize-volume format. Green cloth boards with black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and Afterword by Sheila Metzner. Acknowledgements, List of Solo and Group Exhibitions, Permanent Public Collections, Books, and Articles appended at the end, one of the best reference-summaries to Metzner's brilliant career thus far. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in Singapore to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In matching green, mustard, and red abstract-design DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Sheila Metzner's "Color". More of the photographer's diaphanous color photography. The second volume of the trilogy that begins with "Objects of Desire" (1986) and ends with "Form And Fashion" (2001). Includes work Metzner has done to explore her ideas about color: She uses it not so much as a formal element, but instead to convey the sensuous atmosphere and texture of her images (just as a composer uses timbre, also called "tonal color" in music). Her commissioned work, for now-legendary advertising campaigns (such as the award-winning "Fendi Uomo" campaign) is also here, and in the same textured vein. Her subjects cover a wide range: Landscape, still life, male and female portraits, and in many instances, seamless fusions of these various genres. "A retrospective look at Sheila Metzner's fifteen-year career in photography (1976-1991), from her early photographic prints of tabletop still lifes, printed and sometimes hand-painted by the artist to her masterful fashion work and southwest landscapes. The artist's original, brilliantly colored Fresson prints are reproduced in this elegant volume for a definitive look at her work" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Sheila Metzner collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, and dated in black ink-pen on the title page by the photographer: "Sheila Metzner Santa Fe 2003". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and dated copy of the Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Sheila Metzner did NOT sign most copeis of the Limited Edition. Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 76 color plates. One of the finest American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SHEILA METZNER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0944092152.

Stock number: 9537. ISBN: 0944092152

$US 100.00

Metzner, Sheila (Photographer); Lauren, Ralph & Metzner, M. Raven (Contributors)
Sheila Metzner: Form And Fashion

Imprint: Santa Fe, NM, Arena Editions, 2001
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 220 pages. Retrospective collection of black-and-white and color photographs. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. An austerely elegant production by James Crump and Elsa Kendall: Oversize-volume format. Gray hard boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Sheila Metzner. Preface by Ralph Lauren. Foreword by Sheila Metzner. Introduction by M. Raven Metzner. List of Photographs and Acknowledgments appended at the end. Fashion drawings and designs reproduced on the front and back endpapers. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Sheila Metzner's "Form And Fashion". A comprehensive retrospective and update of the photographer's Pre-Raphaelite-dreamy, delicate, gossamer work. The concluding volume of the trilogy that begins with "Objects of Desire" (1986) and continues with "Color" (1991). Includes commissioned work for some of the most prestigious brand names in high fashion such as Fendi, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, and also Victoria's Secret, male and female nudes, celebrity portraits of such figures as Warren Beatty (in one of the best photographs ever taken of him), Willem Dafoe, Uma Thurman, Tilda Swinton, Brooke Shields (a fabulous image), Kim Basinger, Tina Chow, Helena Bonham Carter, Isabella Rossellini, the very young David Lynch, and stylized still lifes created between 1980 and 2000. Metzner's mentors are Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen as well as Man Ray and Charles Sheeler. The first two taught her how to take a good picture; the latter two, how to put her own distinctive personal stamp on it. The result is an extravagant display of romance, brilliance, and passion, and "a heady romanticism balanced by her precisionist style and sense of detail" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Sheila Metzner collectors. This title is a photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A scarce copy thus. 145 duotone and color plates. One of the finest American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SHEILA METZNER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1892041391.

Stock number: 21984. ISBN: 1892041391

$US 60.00

Meyer, Philipp
American Rust

Imprint: New York City, NY, Spiegel & Grau, 2009
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 370 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most important literary debuts of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a small press. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Philipp Meyer's "American Rust". The concrete, specific truth about the "forgotten" America, long before the paradigm became a national political and cultural obsession. "Set in a beautiful but dying Pennsylvania steel town, 'American Rust' is a novel of the lost American Dream and the desperation that arises from its loss. It is the story of two young men bound to the town by family, responsibility, inertia, and the beauty around them, who dream of a future beyond the factories, abandoned homes, and the polluted river. An extraordinarily moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us" (Publisher's blurb). "Written with considerable dramatic intensity and pace" (Colm Toibin). "Darkly disturbing and richly compelling" (Patricia Cornwell). An absolute "must-have" title for Philipp Meyer collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Philipp Meyer. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Meyer's signature on this copy is the best we have ever seen. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. "American Rust" is widely regarded as a contemporary American classic. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIPP MEYER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0385527519.

Stock number: 21830. ISBN: 0385527519

$US 300.00

Meyer, Philipp
The Son

Imprint: London, England, Simon & Schuster, 2013
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 562 pages. The author's second novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Philipp Meyer's "The Son". His triumphant "follow-up" to his debut novel, "American Rust" (2009). "In 1859, Eli McCullough, the 13-year-old son of Texas pioneers, is captured in a brutal Comanche raid on his family's homestead. First taken as a slave, Eli assimilates himself into Comanche culture, learning their arts of riding, hunting, and warfare. When the tribe succumbs to waves of disease and settlers, Eli's only option is a return to Texas, where his acquired thirst for freedom and self-determination sets a course for his family's inexorable rise through the industries of cattle and oil. Philipp Meyer's epic tale of more than 150 years of money, family, and power" (Jon Faro). Meyer's debt to Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" has been widely acknowledged by critics and readers. The defining difference between McCarthy The Elder and Meyer The Younger is the all-important one of tone: McCarthy is relentlessly pessimistic and nihilistic, Meyer is (cautiously) hopeful yet unblinking and all-seeing. In literature, as in life, we need them both; having to choose between one or the other writer is a false choice. And while, like McCarthy's masterpiece, Meyer's novel is soaked in blood, "the point is that despite all that bloodshed, here we all are, still breathing, still falling in love and having children, still living our lives" (Philipp Meyer). An absolute "must-have" title for Philipp Meyer collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, dated (in the month and year of publication), and inscribed ("lined") in black pen-marker on the title page by the author: "July 13, 2013, 'IF THERE IS AN ETERNAL HUNTING GROUND THAT IS WHERE I AM HEADED'. Philipp Meyer". The latter is the second sentence of the novel. 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, publication-month dated, and inscribed ("lined") copies of the First British 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. Philipp Meyer's "American Rust" is widely regarded as a contemporary American classic. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIPP MEYER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0857209426.

Stock number: 18961. ISBN: 0857209426

$US 150.00

Michals, Duane
Abcduane: A Duane Michals Primer

Imprint: New York City, NY, The Monacelli Press, 2014
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 184 pages. Pictorial memoir and artist's summing-up. One of Duane Michals' 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. Presents Duane Michals' "ABCDuane: A Duane Michals Primer". His memoir-summation of a lifetime of brilliant writing, photographing, art-making, collecting, socializing, and loving. Originally, wittily, and inimitably told using the Roman alphabet (from A to Z). "Relates intimate themes of his life and art in a scrapbook-memoir illustrated by his works, from portraits of Magritte to Warhol to painted tintypes to the revolutionary multiple-image sequences and handwritten texts for which he is best known, and by pieces from his personal art collection. Whether a portrait of Eugene Atget by Berenice Abbott, collages by Joseph Cornell, or drawings by David Hockney, the works of Michals' artistic lodestars sit alongside his own haunting images, some never-before-published, and his mordantly funny, playful, humble, and heartbreaking observations on art, photography, and life. Reveals the creative obsessions of a uniquely beloved artist. The images and texts by Duane Michals assembled here are, like the artist himself, impossible to categorize. Perhaps that is why there is no better way to organize them than alphabetically. Whether recalling encounters with many of the past century's greatest artists (Balthus, Duchamp), celebrating literary heroes (Whitman, Joyce), addressing essential human concerns (Children, Homosexuality, Grief, God), or revealing deeply personal snippets of life with a partner suffering from dementia, 'ABCDuane' is the perfect primer for Michals' vastly influential body of work, for those who have loved it for the past half-century and those who will be delighted by it for the first time" (Publisher's blurb). One will revisit this album again and again, for illumination, pleasure, and wisdom. An absolute "must-have" title for Duane Michals collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by Duane Michals. 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 the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Michals, now in his late-80's, signed copies through his publisher only, and a mere handful as such. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white and color plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DUANE MICHALS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1580934056.

Stock number: 21345. ISBN: 1580934056

$US 100.00

Michals, Duane (Artist/Photographer); Whitman, Walt (Poet) & Woody, Jack (Designer)
The Nature Of Desire

Imprint: Pasadena, CA, Twelvetrees Press, 1986
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 96 pages. Artist Book. One of the most beautiful art photography books of the 20th century. Deluxe Slipcased Edition of 50 numbered and signed copies. Should not be confused with the First Limited Edition of 5000 copies, which was issued simultaneously with it, or the 1992 Second Edition. The Deluxe and First Limited Editions have the same ISBN. The Deluxe Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Duane Michals and Jack Woody: Oversize-volume format. Blue cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and poetry by Duane Michals. Matching blue cloth slipcase with titles embossed on one side and spine. Printed in sheetfed gravure on thick, uncoated stock paper in Tokyo, Japan to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In white-dominant pictorial DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents, in its Deluxe Edition format, Duane Michals' "The Nature of Desire". The very first collaboration between the artist/photographer, the pioneering photography book designer Jack Woody. An ardent sequence of photographic narrative-cum-original poetry on erotic love, it is dedicated to Walt Whitman. Self-contained parts, now identified with Michals, have been reproduced in various subsequent collections: "Narcissus", "The Most Beautiful Part of A Man's Body", and "How Nice To Watch You Take A Bath". Michals is often regarded as a male-nude photographer, which is misleading (indeed, wrong) because while he has photographed the male body, his real theme is the way reverie transforms life's ordinary moments into something numinous and magical. Duane Michals' Artist Books are among the most innovative - and beautiful - photobooks ever made. Yet they remain under-recognized as such by the mainstream, partly because of their explicit homo-eroticism (which always makes emotionally stunted, straight photographers squeamish). "Photography reproduces with exquisite fidelity the appearance of things. But things are not always what they appear to be. By its nature, it cannot show the true realm of experience, the invisible world of our emotions. I feel that language combined with photography helps me express myself more precisely and intimately". This is why his photographic narratives are liberating and revolutionary, expanding the possibilities of the photographic Image by turning it into a photographic sequence that tells a story (with and without words). An absolute "must-have" title for Duane Michals collectors. This is a copy of the Deluxe Slipcased Edition of 50 copies, indicated/numbered as such on the Back Limitation Page. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen by Duane Michals. This title is a classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Deluxe Edition available online and is especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Should NOT be confused with the First Limited Edition or the 1992 Second Edition. A rare signed copy thus. 45 gravure plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DUANE MICHALS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0942642236.

Stock number: 21818. ISBN: 0942642236

$US 300.00

Miller, Sandro (Photographer) & Keating, Prosper (Contributor)
American Bikers: Photographs By Sandro

Imprint: Munich, Germany, Schirmer Mosel Publishers, 1998
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 88 pages. Collection of black-and-white portrait-photographs. One of the most valuable photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Sandro Miller and Schirmer Mosel: Oversize-volume format. Black hard boards with gray titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by Sandro Miller. Text by Prosper Keating. Printed in Novatone Patent Process on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Munich, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect, in particular the way its rich tonal range captures the dramatic lighting and skin texture of the subjects. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Sandro Miller's "American Bikers". His now-legendary and indispensable portrait gallery of American bikeriders. "Powerful portraits of people on the margins of society. First coming into contact with the biker culture in 1990 at a rally raising funds for handicapped children, Miller spent five years photographing these bikers at rallies across the United States. Likened by Keating to the work of Mathew Brady and Edward S. Curtis, these beautifully lit black-and-white images show men and women gazing directly into the camera, displaying the tattoos, buttons, patches, sunglasses, piercings, and beards that are the trademarks of their outlaw status. Identified by name, nickname, motorcycle, and place, they epitomize another kind of American Dream: Being constantly on the move. Each photograph is an unveiling, asserting a grave beauty, a kind of rapture, that is as close as can be to master templates of this singular, nomadic community" (Library Journal). Irving Penn is Sandro's mentor. Of all his photographic projects, "American Bikers" is his most Penn-like: Its dramatic lighting, tight framing, subtle use of props, and emphasis on skin tones, the gnarled, wrinkled, tattooed texture of his subjects' complexion that will put one in mind of great draftsmen (who were Penn's own inspirations). In turn, every lapidary artist will himself be inspired by the exquisite tattoo art that is permanently incised on these bikers' bodies. What a critic once said about the great European artist/draftsman Enki Bilal applies to Sandro Miller: "He indulges his love of texture to such a degree that the ugly becomes the beautiful" (Charley Parker). An absolute "must-have" title for Sandro Miller collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen-marker on the half-title page by the photographer: "PEACE, Sandro". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. There is NO recipient named. This title is a contemporary photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 71 Novatone plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SANDRO MILLER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3823803697.

Stock number: 21127. ISBN: 3823803697

$US 150.00

Miller, Arthur
Echoes Down The Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000

Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking, 2000
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 332 pages. Landmark collection of the author's essays. 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 Arthur Miller's "Echoes Down The Corridor". His finest and most important essays, in one handsome volume. "The distinguished playwright's personal dignity and decency resonate throughout this affecting collection. Best-known as the author of such modern classics as 'Death of a Salesman' and 'The Crucible', Miller has always been intensely engaged in the political and social issues of his day, not just in America but around the world. The 50 essays collected here range from atmospheric reminiscences of his childhood in Brooklyn and studies at the University of Michigan, to accounts of visits to China, the Soviet Union, and Turkey as an advocate for victims of governmental persecution. Deeply influenced by the radical culture of the 1930's and by his youth during the Depression, Miller has always been firmly on the political left. There are several references to his brush with McCarthyism in the 1950's and 'The Battle of Chicago' recounts his experiences as an anti-Vietnam War delegate at the 1968 Democratic Convention. Yet he has never succumbed to utopian notions of human and political perfectibility. The existence of evil is a given and the collection is haunted by the Holocaust, particularly the question of how much guilt the Germans as a nation must bear and how much can be attributed to passivity in the face of power and to the indifference to others' sufferings of which we all are capable" (Publishers Weekly). Arthur Miller died on February 11, 2005 at the age of 89, his place in American literature secure. An absolute "must-have" title for Arthur Miller 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 the greatest American writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ARTHUR MILLER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670893145.

Stock number: 1555. ISBN: 0670893145

$US 20.00

Miller, Jonathan
Nowhere In Particular: Photographs By Jonathan Miller

Imprint: London, England, Mitchell Beazley, 1999
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Unpaginated. Landmark collection of photographs, with accompanying text. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original and in the United Kingdom only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Gaye Allen, Chloe Alexander, and Rachel Staveley: Regular-sized volume format. Purple hard boards with black titles on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Jonathan Miller. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ, which features a closeup of the author/photographer by Tom Miller, and with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Jonathan Miller's "Nowhere In Particular". One of the most remarkable art photography books of our time. Jonathan Miller turns his attention to photography, and unlike other crucial texts on the subject, he tackles it by creating his own photographs, and then reflects on or "pairs" them with brilliant, aphoristic fragments that are all prefaced with a title. These are visual and literary essays on anything and everything, which are the true subject of an unspecialized, freelance artist/intellectual of the first rank. If the photographs were taken nowhere in particular, the texts may be said to be about nothing in particular: "These are just bits and pieces from nowhere in particular. The hope is that they add up to something more than the sum of their randomly scavenged parts" (Jonathan Miller). Of course, they do. Jonathan Miller is one of the most important and most influential writer/stage director/art historian/intellectuals of our time. Originally a member of the legendary group, "Beyond The Fringe", Jonathan Miller has gone on to become the Renaissance Man of contemporary Western culture. His stage directions of the classics as well as opera and new works are now part of the theatrical canon. A doctor by training, he never practised, but produced the ground-breaking "The Body In Question", widely regarded as the best book (and television documentary series) on the history of medicine. He organized the exhibition called "Mirror Image", and the catalog he wrote to accompany it, "On Reflection", is a great book. An absolute "must-have" title for Jonathan Miller collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in green ink-pen on the Bricknell Avenue Literary Society's Bookplate by Jonathan Miller. The latter is neatly pasted on the front free endpaper. 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. One of the greatest artist/thinkers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JONATHAN MILLER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 184000150X.

Stock number: 19021. ISBN: 184000150X

$US 70.00

Miller, Jonathan
On Reflection

Imprint: London, England, National Gallery Publications Limited, 1998
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 224 pages. Exhibition Monograph. One of the greatest books on art ever written. 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. Published on the occasion of the landmark thematic exhibition, "Mirror Image", curated by Jonathan Miller and held at the National Gallery of Art London in 1998. Miller subsequently delivered the essays in the book as a series of public lectures (with slides and other visual aids) at the Art Institute of Chicago. The actual works of art themselves could not travel as an exhibition because of their priceless value as Western national treasures. Instead (and to dazzling effect), Miller selected comparable examples from the Permanent Collection of the Art Institute, affording the city's artists and art lovers a renewed appreciation of its own priceless collection. Presents Jonathan Miller's "On Reflection". His tour-de-force reflections on the idea of visual reflection. "When we look into a mirror, we do not see the surface, we see only our reflection. But in a painting, our eye is drawn to the marked surface of the canvas, which creates the illusion of a reflection. A dazzling investigation of artists as diverse as van Eyck, Durer, Velazquez, Ingres, Helen Chadwick, and Robert Mapplethorpe. Miller explores the tricks and games by which painting and more recently, photography create this illusion of reflection. The artistic representation of reflection has challenged artists for centuries. Explains how we come to understand the difference between a reflection and 'the real thing', and how these reflections define our own sense of identity. One of the most enjoyable and original books on art" (Robert Cahn). An inexhaustible polymath, Miller's reflection on portraiture is analogous with his reflections on theatre and how "subsequent performances" renew both the original play and its first performance, reflecting and refracting them at the same time in order to keep them alive. An absolute "must-have" title for Jonathan Miller collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Jonathan Miller. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing 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. 150 color plates. One of the greatest artist/thinkers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JONATHAN MILLER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0300077130.

Stock number: 19022. ISBN: 0300077130

$US 100.00

Miller, Wayne F. (Photographer) & Cotsones, Craig (Designer)
Wayne F. Miller: "strike Captain During Protest By The Packing House Workers, March 1948" Original Photographic Print

Imprint: Chicago, IL, Wayne F. Miller Studios, 2012
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Wayne F. Miller collectible art. A pristine, framed original photographic print of "Strike Captain During Protest by The Packing House Workers, March 1948", signed by Wayne F. Miller. There is no ISBN. The print is now rare. A brilliant production by Wayne F. Miller: Regular-sized print format. Measures 8.5 X 10.5 inches. Professionally (and beautifully) framed with large white borders on solid black wood and Plexiglas by Craig Cotsones/Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago. Full frame size is 18 X 21 inches. Eminently suitable for display. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Wayne F. Miller's "Strike Captain During Protest by The Packing House Workers, March 1948". One of his single most beautiful portraits. It appears as Plate #40 in his classic account, "Chicago's Southside, 1946-1948", published by the University of California School of Journalism in 2000. "Chronicles a black Chicago: The South Side community that burgeoned as thousands of African-Americans, exclusively from the South, settled in the city during the Great Migration. One of the first Western photographers to document the destruction of Hiroshima and the survivors of the bombing, Wayne F. Miller had just returned from his stint as a World War II Navy combat photographer under the direction of Edward Steichen when he received two concurrent Guggenheim Fellowships to fund his Chicago project. In addition to affording a glimpse into the hopes and hardships shared by a community of migrants, the images reflect the enormous variety of human experiences and emotions that occurred at a unique time and place in the American landscape. A superb testament to the genius of the photographer, to the spirit of the people the images portray, and to the moment in American history these photographs capture" (Publisher's blurb). Rightly or wrongly, Wayne F. Miller will probably always be remembered as Edward Steichen's Associate Curator for "The Family of Man" Exhibition because the latter remains the single most influential photographic exhibition ever mounted in the medium's history. It showed eight - a staggering number for one artist - of Miller's photographs. Such recognition is reaffirmed by the present portrait, among Miller's other notable achievements. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item/artwork for Wayne F. Miller collectors. This framed original photographic print is very prominently and beautifully signed in black-ink pen on recto by Wayne F. Miller. This title is a great photographic print. As far as we know, this is the only copy available online, is beautifully framed, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Wayne F. Miller prints command thousands of dollars from his gallery, at art fairs, and at auction. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed print thus. 1 original photographic print. One of the finest American photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER WAYNE F. MILLER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 21362.

$US 600.00

Miller, Wayne F. (Photographer); Daiter, Stephen (Editor) & Various Contributors
Wayne F. Miller: Photographs 1942-1958

Imprint: New York City, NY, Powerhouse Books, 2008
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 255 pages. Retrospective Exhibition Monograph. The single most valuable book on the photographic art and achievement of Wayne F. Miller. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. A brilliant production by Kiki Bauer: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Wayne F. Miller. Edited by Stephen Daiter, to whom the book is dedicated. Essays by various contributors. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents "Wayne F. Miller: Photographs 1942-1958". The stunning visual life-project of Wayne Forest Miller. "Operating as a combat photographer under his own orders, and answerable only to Captain Edward Steichen, United States Navy, Lieutenant Miller photographed everything of interest that he encountered, from boredom to horror. Those images document an integral part of the American wartime experience and are secured in the National Archives in Washington DC. What set Miller's work apart from many other war photographers was a peculiar empathy, whether creating images of our own soldiers or Japanese survivors of the atomic bomb. He strove to 'climb inside those people, and look through their eyes'. That ethos is present in all of Miller's subsequent work, from his unique and comprehensive study (supported by two Guggenheim Grants) of the citizens of the Bronzeville neighborhood of postwar Chicago to his equally ground-breaking documentation a decade later of the daily life of an American family. Takes us to the midpoint of the career of one of the country's most important visual artists and ends with his tremendously successful series that came to be published as 'The World Is Young' " (Publisher's blurb). Miller was Edward Steichen's Assistant on "The Family of Man" Exhibition, the single most influential photographic exhibition of the 20th century, which featured some of his own images. Steichen would have used even more of Miller's work were it not for his direct involvement in the landmark project. An absolute "must-have" title for Wayne F. Miller collectors. This title is a photography book classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A scarce copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white plates. One of the finest American photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER WAYNE F. MILLER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1576874621.

Stock number: 21957. ISBN: 1576874621

$US 50.00

Millhauser, Steven
We Others: New And Selected Stories

Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2011
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 390 pages. Retrospective collection of short stories. One of the greatest short-story collections 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 Steven Millhauser's "We Others". Some of his finest and most representative stories. Culled from four previous collections, it is supplemented and enhanced with seven new stories that appear in book form for the very first time, including the magnificent novella-length title piece, "We Others". "Here are the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination. Steven Millhauser's fiction has consistently, and to dazzling effect, dissolved the boundaries between reality and fantasy, waking life and dreams, the past and the future, darkness and light, love and lust. The stories gathered here unfurl in settings as disparate as nineteenth-century Vienna, a contemporary Connecticut town, the corridors of a monstrous museum, and Thomas Edison's laboratory, and they are inhabited by a wide-ranging cast of characters, including a knife thrower, teenage boys, ghosts, a cartoon cat, and a mouse. All of the stories are united in their unfailing power to surprise and enchant. Carves out ever more deeply his wondrous place in the literary canon" (Publisher's blurb). "Eisenheim The Illusionist" (from "The Barnum Museum") is here, of course, as it is Millhauser's single most beloved story and the basis of the full-length film, "The Illusionist", by Neil Burger, with Edward Norton, Jessica Biel, and Paul Giamatti. An absolute "must-have" title for Steven Millhauser collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Steven Millhauser. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Millhauser made a rare appearance at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Laid-in are fine copies of the Festival's Souvenir Materials. 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. Recipient of the Prix Medicis Etranger in 1972 for "Edwin Mullhouse". Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1997 for "Martin Dressler: The Tale of An American Dreamer". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER STEVEN MILLHAUSER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0307595900.

Stock number: 18793. ISBN: 0307595900

$US 150.00

Milo of Los Angeles (Photographer) & Reno, Jack (Model/Subject)
Jack Reno: Photograph By Milo Of Los Angeles

Imprint: Los Angeles, CA, Milo Of Los Angeles, 1996
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Milo of Los Angeles and Jack Reno collectible item. A pristine original photographic print, editioned, titled, and stamped by Milo of Los Angeles. Limited Edition of three copies. One of the photographer's single most iconic images, it shows the eponymous All-American model in a classic nude studio portrait. Print size is 8 X 10 inches. The photograph is very beautifully printed in the United States by the photographer himself to the highest standards. Eminently suitable for framing. Encased in his studio's protective plastic sheet. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in a Limited Edition print, Milo of Los Angeles' "Jack Reno". A Classically elegant, full-frontal portrait of one of the most iconic male-nude models of the so-called "Physique Magazine" Era. Enough said. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Milo of Los Angeles, Jack Reno, and male erotic art photography collectors. This 8 X 10 inch Limited-Edition photographic print is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully titled, editioned, and stamped on verso by the photographer: "Jack Reno, Series 533 [in black ink-pen] Milo of Los Angeles Edition of 3 1996 [studio-stamped]". It is encased in his studio's protective plastic sheet and is eminently suitable for framing. This print is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the print available online and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. A rare signed print thus. 1 original 8 X 10 inch photographic print. One of the most brilliant American photographers of the male nude of our time. A flawless collectible print. .

Stock number: 21316.

$US 300.00

Minot, Susan
Lust & Other Stories

Imprint: Boston, MA, Houghton And Mifflin, 1989
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 147 pages. The author's debut collection of short stories. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Susan Minot's "Lust". A sustained performance: Thirteen brilliant stories in all. The title story, a formally innovative account of a woman's seemingly casual promiscuity, is alone worth the price of entry. In elliptical, cool, and quietly pained prose, Susan Minot captures everything that one woman hopes to get from every man in exchange for sex. The protagonist uses sex as currency - as indeed many women do - in order to find a romantic relationship, possibly even true love. "Susan Minot is one of the youngest and most impressive new arrivals on the literary scene" (Anne Tyler). "Susan Minot touches us by her accurate humanity" (Thomas McGuane). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Minot collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue pen on the half-title page by Susan Minot. 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 despite its imperfection (slight rubbing on black DJ) is still in fine condition: Every internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. 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. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN MINOT TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0395488885.

Stock number: 6871. ISBN: 0395488885

$US 30.00

Misrach, Richard (Photographer) & Sontag, Susan (Contributor)
Violent Legacies: Three Cantos

Imprint: New York City, NY, Aperture Foundation, 1992
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 93 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most brilliant art photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Richard Misrach and Aperture Foundation: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 3 pounds. Orange cloth boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Richard Misrach. Short story, "The View From The Ark", by Susan Sontag. The piece has not appeared in any other published form. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ, which shows an extreme close-up of a "found" portrait of the great rock n' roll star, Ray Charles, and titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Richard Misrach's "Violent Legacies: Three Cantos". One of the photographer's most brilliant sequences. In a lifetime of creating photography that is politically committed and beautiful at the same time, Misrach demonstrates, more than many other photographers, that political art (which is not the same thing as documentary "concerned photography" of the Magnum Agency/Sebastiao Salgado kind) is alive and well. Misrach photographs with precision, eloquent use of color, and piercing gaze the detritus left behind in America's great deserts by the atom bomb experiments that eventually led to the actual bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The photographs are presented in several parts, and have the cumulative power of elegy. Misrach achieves beauty through wordless juxtaposition, a technique that he has mastered over the years. Political art, at least as Richard Misrach has practiced it, deserves an explanation because it is easily misunderstood and therefore dismissed: The photographs are beautifully composed and shot with fastidious attention to detail, in ironic contrast to the gravity of the subject matter. Misrach does not set out to create a work of art in the conventional sense, but rather uses the same aesthetic methods in order to make the viewer pay attention and be aware of the destructive impulses implied in the beautiful images. Can they be viewed as a pure aesthetic experience? The answer is that they should be approached aesthetically as art, but that the experience inescapably includes (rather than precludes) the political awareness that Misrach achieves through his powerful juxtaposition of images. An absolute "must-have" title for Richard Misrach collectors. This title is a great art photography book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Every copy of the book has laminate "bubbling" on the DJ, which is a publisher's flaw. The wrinkled look, while unintentional, evokes the crumpled paper debris that the photographer found and photographed in the desert. Collectors looking for the perfect, bubble-free copy will never find it. A rare copy thus. 67 color plates. One of the most important American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER RICHARD MISRACH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0893815195.

Stock number: 13634. ISBN: 0893815195

$US 70.00

Mitchard, Jacquelyn
The Deep End Of The Ocean

Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking, 1996
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 434 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most sensational literary debuts of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print as a hardcover original only. The first print run utilizes an elegantly beautiful translucent glassine DJ. Being pricey, this First-State DJ was then replaced with the cheap, inferior stock paper Second-State DJ for the rest of the print run, and for all other multiple subsequent printings. As a production, the true First Edition is one of the most beautiful books ever produced in our time. The First Edition is now rare. Presents, in its First Edition/First Printing/First State, Jacquelyn Mitchard's "The Deep End of The Ocean". Her first, and still her finest, novel. "Displaying an infallible ear for family conversation and a keen eye for domestic detail, she writes dialogue that vibrates with natural and unforced humor and acerbic repartee. She charts the subtle and minute gradations of maternal love with candor and captures the essence of teenage experiences and lingo. The novel becomes a universal tale of traumatic loss and its effects on individuals and families, an astute inquiry into the wellsprings of identity, and a parable of redemption through suffering and love" (Publishers Weekly). The basis of the fine film by Ulu Grosbard, with Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, and the ineffably talented and handsome child actor, Jonathan Jackson. An absolute "must-have" title for Jacquelyn Mitchard collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated (in the month and year of publication) in blue ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Jacquelyn Mitchard June 1996". 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 and publication-year dated copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing/First-State translucent glassine DJ 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 American writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JACQUELYN MITCHARD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670865796.

Stock number: 9218. ISBN: 0670865796

$US 150.00

Mitchell, David
The Bone Clocks: The Deluxe Edition

Imprint: London, England, Sceptre/Hodder & Stoughton, 2014
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 640 pages. The author's saga-novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. Deluxe Slipcased Edition of 500 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Foyle's Limited Edition, the Powell's "Indiespensable" Edition, and both the British and American regular trade editions. The Deluxe Slipcased Edition sold out shortly after publication. It is now scarce. As to be expected of British book-making, it is an exquisite production: "Each of these Slipcased Limited Editions is signed and numbered, has a ribbon marker, sprayed page edges, and specially-illustrated endpapers. Sealed in cellophane. All books are swathed in biodegradeable bubblewrap and posted in strong, custom-made book boxes to ensure undamaged delivery" (Publisher's blurb). Presents, in its most collectible edition format, David Mitchell's "The Bone Clocks". A feast of a book. "Perhaps the author's best to date, a saga that spans decades, characters, genres, and events from Mitchell's other novels. The structure is most similar to 'Cloud Atlas', with 'The Bone Clocks' pivoting around a central character in Holly Sykes. Each chapter is narrated from the perspective of an intersecting character, with settings ranging from England in the 1980's to the Apocalyptic Future. Each story could stand alone as a work of genius as they slowly build on Holly's unwitting role in a war between two groups with psychic powers, culminating in a thrilling showdown. A hugely entertaining page-turner, an operatic fantasy, and an often heartbreaking meditation on mortality. It's not to be missed" (Matt Kaye). Fans were openly hoping (and feverishly campaigning on social media) that it would finally catapult David Mitchell to Booker-Prize heaven. As has often been said, in any other (bad) year, "The Bone Clocks" would have been a shoo-in. But 2014 was an unusually good year for the novel in English (and a boring, very bad one for movies; there is a connection there somewhere). Booker or no Booker, "The Bone Clocks" remains an outstanding achievement that this rare phenomenon, a novelist with a global cult following, should be proud of. An absolute "must-have" title for David Mitchell collectors. This is a sealed copy of the Deluxe Slipcased Edition of 500 numbered and signed copies. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the Deluxe Slipcased Edition, is still in the publisher's airtight shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: We are unable to provide additional scans, as we normally do, because this is our only copy. It is offered at the original list price in British pounds (or its currency equivalent). A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant novelists of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DAVID MITCHELL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1473604885.

Stock number: 19242. ISBN: 1473604885

$US 200.00

Modica, Andrea (Photographer) & Proulx, E. Annie (Contributor)
Treadwell: Photographs By Andrea Modica

Imprint: San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 1996
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 85 pages. The photographer's breakthrough debut collection. One of Andrea Modica'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. A brilliant production by Tina Davis: Oversize-volume format. White linen cloth boards with black titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Andrea Modica. Preface by Maria Morris Hambourg. Essay, "Reliquary", by E. Annie Proulx, one of the finest American writers of our time. Duotone separations by Robert Hennessey. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Andrea Modica's "Treadwell". Some of the most brilliant photographs ever taken on an American photographic subject-obsession: The Other, as typified by children and grown-ups who suffer from one form of mental illness or another. Now regarded as one of the most important photography books of the last decade of the 20th century, "Treadwell" prompted comparison with Diane Arbus' work, which was inevitable as the latter was undeniably an influence. Modica's contribution is that despite this influence, she is able to take pictures that allow us not only to look voyeuristically, but also to be moved by what we see without her resorting to sentimentality. A photographer who has explored nothing less than the mysteries of life in her work, Andrea Modica deserves a larger, mainstream audience in addition to the devoted cult following she enjoys. "I know how hard it is to make pictures as deliberate and sensual, as real and mystical as these. But when Andrea does it, they seem effortless, unforced, radiant" (Sally Mann). A Guggenheim fellow, Modica has been the subject of exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe. Her work is in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York (MOMA); the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. An absolute "must-have" title for Andrea Modica collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Andrea Modica. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 40 duotone plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ANDREA MODICA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0811811182.

Stock number: 22408. ISBN: 0811811182

$US 100.00

Mollison, James (Photographer) & Goodall, Jane (Contributor)
James & Other Apes: Photographs By James Mollison

Imprint: London, England, Chris Boot/Archive Of Modern Conflict, 2005
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 115 pages. Collection of color portrait-photographs. One of the most beautiful photography books of our time. The 2005 First Edition Thus. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the 2009 Reissued Edition. The First Edition Thus is now scarce. A brilliant production by James Mollison and Chris Boot: Regular-sized volume format. Glossy pictorial hard boards with titles on the spine, as issued. Photographs by James Mollison. Essay by the great primatologist Jane Goodall. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents James Mollison's "James & Other Apes". Extreme closeup portraits of our great relatives that consciously mimic Christian Boltanski's and Ken Ohara's iconic photo-ID work on human beings, with a brilliant twist. "Here are fifty great apes - chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and bonobos, our closest biological relatives. Photographed over a span of four years in seven ape sanctuaries (Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Republic of Congo, Indonesia, Germany, and the United States), they are mainly orphans, victims of the illicit trade in 'bushmeat'. Djeke, Fizi, Gregoire, the eponymous James, Koto, and others are all photographed as unique individuals while representing species whose survival is under threat. The faces that look back at us also raise profound moral and scientific questions, including what we mean when we define ourselves as 'human' " (Publisher's blurb). "I hope that 'James & Other Apes' will stimulate thinking and help people to understand better our place in nature. For many, it will be a humbling experience. We are different from other animals (as they are different from each other), but not as different as we think" (Jane Goodall). The "passport-ID" photographic aesthetic (brilliantly deployed by Boltanski and Ohara) is adapted by Mollison to stunning effect, and with moving results. An absolute "must-have" title for James Mollison collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by James Mollison. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. He also drew an ape drawing beside his signature. This title is a contemporary photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies (with original drawing) of the First Edition Thus/First Printing (2005) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 50 color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO ROBIN SCHWARTZ "LIKE US: PRIMATE PORTRAITS" TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0954689437.

Stock number: 20481. ISBN: 0954689437

$US 70.00

Monasterio, Pablo Ortiz (Artist/Photographer) & Guillermoprieto, Alma (Contributor)
Pablo Ortiz Monasterio: Desaparecen?

Imprint: Tucson, AZ, Nazraeli Press, 2017
Edition: First Edition
Binding: With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 68 pages. Artist Book. Commemorative collection of photographs. One of the most moving photography books of our time. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a one-time-only print run as a saddle-stitched softcover original only. A few copies come with a brown paper bag that was provided and hand-titled by the artist/photographer himself. An austerely elegant production by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio and Chris Pichler: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover, as issued. Photographs by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. Poem by David Huerta. Excerpt of "Mexico: The Murder of The Young" by Alma Guillermoprieto. Since it is "must-reading", a pristine copy of the Essay in its entirety is enclosed. Printed, appropriately enough, on newsprint uncoated stock paper. In the artist's original brown paper bag, with "Desaparecidos?" faintly hand-written by him, itself vividly evoking disappearance. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Pablo Ortiz Monasterio's "Desaparecen?". A harrowing document and a poignant elegy of a quintessential tragedy. "For centuries, artists have drawn on social and political events for inspiration. Artists have created works that, taken directly from current controversial news, inform and move the viewer in ways that simple journalism or editorial commentary fall short. A piercing work of photographs and poetic words beautifully collaged to implant in our memory a horrific event: The mysterious disappearance of 43 poor activist students travelling by bus (which they commandeered) to Mexico City" (Publisher's blurb). The Artist Book is "as modest as the students were poor: Staple-bound, on matte paper, mono-toned ink, priced to be accessible in Mexico. Unorthodox and essential: It begins and ends with a list of the boys' names and their youthful faces, as they appear on the 'have you seen' handouts distributed by their parents. In between, is the photographer's homage and reckoning" (Anne Wilckes Tucker). An absolute "must-have" title for Pablo Ortiz Monasterio collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black pen on the first page by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It also comes in the artist's brown paper bag, which is entitled in metallic-silver pen marker by him: "Desaparecidos?". The latter, while quite visible, is beautifuly rendered as though it is disappearing before our eyes. This title is a contemporary photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such titled and signed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and, as produced, is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Only a few copies come with the brown paper bag. There is a Deluxe Edition for $1000. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 43 plates. One of the most brilliant Latin-American artist/photographers of our time. . ISBN 1590054466.

Stock number: 21302. ISBN: 1590054466

$US 40.00

Moon, Sarah (Artist/Photographer); Delpire, Robert (Contributor) & Richardson, Bob (Recipient)
Unlikeness: Photographs By Sarah Moon

Imprint: Paris, France, Editions Robert Delpire, 1991
Edition: First Edition
Binding: With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Unpaginated. Retrospective collection of photographs, presented as an Artist Book. One of Sarah Moon's finest achievements. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Sarah Moon and Robert Delpire: Oversize-volume format. Pristine-white softcovers, as issued. Photographs and brief Introduction by Sarah Moon. List of Plates appended at the end. Printed on thick coated stock paper in Switzerland to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Sarah Moon's "Unlikeness". Some of her finest and most representative photographs, presented as an album, with the photographs reproduced at the center of each page. All of the photographs appear in book form for the very first time. Her celebrated fashion photography is paired with an evocative landscape photograph. In some of the most beautiful pairings, the fashion model wearing haute couture is photographed in the landscape, and the latter is then photographed again (sans model) from a different angle. In others, the model appears in both the fashion and landscape photographs. "Sensuous and romantic, imbued with the cool, watery softness of late-afternoon light moon, her pictures have transformed the image of femininity. Many of her photographs are created around intensely personal scenarios, which she refines into taut compositions, recalling stills from silent movies. Her eye tends to catch at tiny visual ideas: The arc of a hip, the glint of skin, the modulations of light and shadow" (Robert Delpire). Why "Unlikeness"? "I've often envied those who photograph life. I photograph illusion, evanescence, unlikeness, beauty. I start from nothing. I make up a story, which is left untold. I imagine a situation, which doesn't exist. I wipe out a space to invent another. I render the unreal" (Sarah Moon). An absolute "must-have" title for Sarah Moon collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, dated, and inscribed in blue ink-pen on the half-title page by the artist/photographer: "To Bob Richardson, My unlikeness, my admiration, and all my very best wishes, 25.9.92 in New York Sarah Moon". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, who is named, is one of the greatest fashion photographers of the 20th century (also the father of Terry). His ground-breaking work is indeed unlike, the exact opposite, of Sarah Moon's. This title is an art photography classic. This is the best such signed and inscribed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and despite its imperfection (wear on DJ spine and corners) is still in especially fine condition: Every internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. 81 plates. Winner of The Grand Prize of the Bologna International Book Fair in 1983 for "Little Red Riding Hood", the only photographer ever to win the award. One of the finest artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SARAH MOON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 2851070061.

Stock number: 13261. ISBN: 2851070061

$US 150.00

Moore, Christopher
Bite Me: A Love Story

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

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 309 pages. The author's twelfth novel. Christopher Moore at the top of his form. Advance Signed Copy. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, including copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. "Autographed Copy" red sticker pasted in front. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Christopher Moore's "Bite Me". The third and finest installment thus far in the author's "Bloodsucking Fiends" Series, a hilarious parody of the vampire genre that is also genuinely scary. "Darker, scarier, more suspenseful, and as funny as the previous novels. In addition to all of the above, it's genuinely moving. These characters have been my friends for more than a decade now. I've grown to care about them. I was definitely on the edge of my seat for large stretches of the novel. That Moore can maintain this level of tension while being 'spit-milk-out-your-nose' funny is astonishing" (Susan Tunis). An absolute "must-have" title for Christopher Moore collectors. This Autographed Copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Christopher Moore. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page, as copies available online are. This title is now collectible. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0061779725.

Stock number: 15379. ISBN: 0061779725

$US 30.00