Nakamatsu, Jon (Pianist) & Chopin, Frederic (Composer)
Jon Nakamatsu: Chopin

Imprint: New York City, NY, Harmonia Mundi, 2001
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Jon Nakamatsu collectible item. A pristine copy of the Harmonia Mundi Compact Disc (CD) landmark recording of Chopin piano pieces, signed by Jon Nakamatsu. The first release of the CD. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent releases. The first release is now scarce. Presents Jon Nakamatsu's "Chopin". Mesmerizing. "Captures the dreamy abandon of an intimate visit. Sensitive lyricism that results in sumptuous readings without the slightest trace of sentimentality or self-consciousness. Each timeless, classic melody has been recast to lend itself not only to the breadth and depth of the piano in general, but to the unique, glistening nuance of this pianist in particular. Heavenly" (M. Baker). An absolute "must-have" title for Jon Nakamatsu collectors. This copy of the Compact Disc (CD) of "Chopin" is very boldly and beautifully signed and inscribed in blue pen-marker on the disc by the artist: "For Avery, Best regards and thanks! Jon Nakamatsu". It is signed directly on the disc itself, as was his preference, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, who is named, is known personally to the artist. This title is a CD classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of this historic recording available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Nakamatsu rarely does public signings, making signed materials quite scarce. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the 10th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. One of the greatest pianists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO LEIF OVE ANDSNES, MAURIZIO POLLINI, ARCADI VOLODOS, EVGENY KISSIN, LANG LANG, JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, AND LARS VOGT TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 16382.

$US 30.00

O'Nan, Stewart
The Names Of The Dead

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

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 400 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 Stewart O'Nan's "The Names of The Dead". His second novel, a "Vietnam War" novel from a domestic, familial perspective. "Heart-rattling melodrama set against a thriller background: Larry Markham, an army medic in Vietnam, has been reduced to delivering hostess snack cakes around Ithaca. One morning, he awakens from familiar dreams of combat to find that his wife Vicki has left him again. Fed up with his attachment to the war and with his reluctance to share his wartime memories, she has fled with their learning-disabled young son Scott. As Larry struggles to reunite his household, the failing health of his father becomes a problem, as do his growing feelings for Donna, the lonely neighbor who looks out for him in Vicki's absence. Larry is being stalked by a dangerous hospital escapee, a trained assassin and fellow Vietnam vet with a mysterious score to settle. Unusually powerful are the extensive renderings of Larry's Vietnam memories. Some of the most searing wartime storytelling in recent memory" (Publishers Weekly). An absolute "must-have" title for Stewart O'Nan collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Stewart O'Nan. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page or bookplate. This title is now collectible. This is one of few signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER STEWART O'NAN TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0385481926.

Stock number: 18578. ISBN: 0385481926

$US 30.00

O'Neill, Joseph
Netherland: A Novel

Imprint: London, England, Fourth Estate, 2008
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 248 pages. The author's breakthrough third novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the American Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Joseph O'Neill's "Netherland". Exquisitely written from first lapidary sentence to last. Very large claims have been made for it by the few credible critical voices left in contemporary literature. James Wood, the preeminent, "almost-always-right" critic of his generation, devoted a full essay to it (instead of the standard review) in The New Yorker Magazine, comparing it to both "The Great Gatsby" and "A House For Mr. Biswas": "Has an ideological intricacy, a deep human wisdom, and prose grand enough to dare the comparison. O'Neill has Naipaul's genius for creating unforced ideological connections. And he knows perfectly well that when, on the last pages of his novel, he writes about a memory of Manhattan's skyline and the 'extraordinary promise in what we saw', he is hovering, like some novelistic Google Earther, over the sentence grids and prose plateaus of the last page of 'The Great Gatsby' " (James Wood). An absolute "must-have" title for Joseph O'Neill collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Joseph O'Neill. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. He also crossed out his printed name. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the true First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the American Edition. Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2008 for "Netherland". One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPIES OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0007269064.

Stock number: 14181. ISBN: 0007269064

$US 70.00

O'Neill, Joseph
The Dog

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

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 245 pages. The author's fourth novel. One of the most important literary events of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Joseph O'Neill's "The Dog". A stunningly different new novel. "A tale of alienation and heartbreak in Dubai. Distraught by a breakup with his long-term girlfriend, our unnamed hero leaves New York to take an unusual job in a strange desert metropolis. In Dubai at the height of its self-invention as a futuristic Shangri-la, he struggles with his new position as the 'family officer' of the capricious and very rich Batros family. And he struggles, even more helplessly, with the 'doghouse', a seemingly inescapable condition of culpability in which he feels himself constantly trapped even if he's just going to the bathroom or reading e-mail or scuba diving. A comic and philosophically profound exploration of what has become of humankind's moral progress, 'The Dog' is told with Joseph O'Neill's hallmark eloquence, empathy, and storytelling mastery" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Joseph O'Neill collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (in the month and year of publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Joseph O'Neill Brooklyn, 9/21/2014". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page, as copies available online are. His signature on this copy is the most beautiful we have ever seen: Clear, flowing, and elegant. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Bookmark of the Brooklyn Book Festival during which event his signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and publication-month dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award in 2008 for "Netherland". One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0307378233.

Stock number: 19184. ISBN: 0307378233

$US 50.00

Nemirovsky, Irene (Author); Messud, Claire (Contributor) & Smith, Sandra (Translator)
Irene Nemirovsky Novels: David Golder, The Ball, Snow In Autumn, The Courilof Affair

Imprint: New York City, NY, Everyman's Library/Alfred A. Knopf, 2008
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 363 pages. Posthumous collection of novels. One of the most important literary events of our time. The first appearance of the titles in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition Thus is now scarce. Presents Irene Nemirovsky's "Novels: David Golder, The Ball, Snow In Autumn, The Courilof Affair". All four novels, in new English translations by Sandra Smith, the ground-breaking translator of Irene Nemirovsky's "Suite Francaise". Although the novels appear in Alfred A. Knopf's "Everyman's Library" Imprint, which usually reissues previously published titles only, this marks their very first appearance in English translation, the only exception being "David Golder". The latter was first translated by Sylvia Stuart in 1930 and published by Horace Liveright. According to critics like the Nobel Laureate J. M. Coetzee, Sandra Smith's new translation of "David Golder" is superior in every respect to the previous one while her translations of the three other novels are fresh, vital, and compelling. The Introduction by the brilliant young novelist Claire Messud is impeccable. Collectively, the four novels reveal nothing less than Irene Nemirovsky's incipient genius: An impressive range of subject matter, precise and masterly evocation of various settings, and most important, a unique insight into the profoundly flawed and compromised nature of humanity. "They demonstrate Nemirovsky's genius for exposing an individual's virtues and flaws, much like a jeweller examining a diamond under a loupe. Potentially one-dimensional characters such as a greedy businessman or a spiteful teenager emerge from these stories as multi-faceted figures whose questionable beliefs and actions compel us to re-examine our own. Please don't miss these potent tales" (Lauren Nemroff). An absolute "must-have" title for Irene Nemirovsky collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First English-Language Omnibus 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 greatest novelists of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER IRENE NEMIROVSKY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0307267083.

Stock number: 14476. ISBN: 0307267083

$US 20.00

Neumann, Max (Artist/Subject); Nooteboom, Cees & Sartorius, Joachim (Contributors)
Max Neumann: The Museum Folkgang Essen Exhibition Monograph

Imprint: Essen, Germany, Museum Folkwang Essen/Druckerei Heinrich Winterscheidt, 1994
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 170 pages. Retrospective Exhibition Monograph. One of the single most beautiful books on the art of Max Neumann. The first and only edition. Published in a one-time-only print run as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Monograph is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Max Neumann: Oversize-volume format. Cream hard boards with titles on the cover and black cloth spine, as issued. Art by Max Neumann. Essays by Cees Nooteboom, the greatest Dutch novelist of our time, and Joachim Sartorius in the German originals and felicitous English translations. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated and uncoated stock papers in Dusseldorf, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark retrospective exhibition held at the Museum Folkgang Essen in 1994. Presents "Max Neumann". The exquisite art of the most important German lapidary painter of our time. Neumann's subject is profoundly radical in contemporary figurative painting: It is literally the human figure itself, pared clean of the flamboyant (and currently fashionable) cultural referents in the West (gender, class, ethnicity, race), a ghostly presence, the skeletal human anatomy as it appears to us in a dream. If his art can be summed up "ideologically" in one word in English, it is "but": "He has developed his very own iconography. There are forms and figures that recur, but in a different context. Never as mere repetition, but rather as a reminder of something that needs to be conquered anew. There are constants, both formal and substantive, but they renounce the central perspective, which for centuries has been an integral part of the canon of Western art. In this respect, they are part of the Modernist break from tradition that took place at the beginning of the 20th century. If Neumann has different image planes, and there is a foreground and a background, they are not designed 'according to Nature', according to the illusion of mimesis. They obey formal principles, the sense of color and contour, but these are always precarious in their hierarchy. His drawings are integrated to his paintings, but there is no 'ranking' that assigns a special place to painting. He 'draws' with the brush, color surfaces rarely dominate, and even if they appear to shape a picture, one observes the limiting line" (Publisher's blurb). "Neumann has labored to develop, refine, and elaborate a visual vocabulary that is dark, obsessive, and intense. Neumann's paintings have accompanied the work of Cees Nooteboom, Seamus Heaney, and Fernando Pessoa, among others. The success of his most recent collaborations, with Laszlo Krasznahorkai on 'Animalinside' (2010), and with the journal, 'Music & Literature' (2012), testify to the universal appeal of his howling, primal language" (Joachim Sartorius). "It's as though you'd like to speak, but have no language" (Max Neumann). That "but" again. An absolute "must-have" title for Max Neumann collectors. This title is a great art book. As far as we know, this is the only 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 copy thus. 87 color plates. One of the greatest artists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MAX NEUMANN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 21320.

$US 100.00

Newton, Helmut (Photographer) & Lagerfeld, Karl (Contributor)
Helmut Newton: Portraits

Imprint: New York City, NY, Pantheon Books, 1987
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 247 pages. Retrospective collection of celebrity portraits. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Helmut and June Newton: Oversize-volume format. Pale gray cloth boards with silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Helmut Newton. Appreciation Essay by the French designer/photographer Karl Lagerfeld. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Helmut Newton's "Portraits". His homage to cinema in general and Hollywood in particular. For starters, the cover image utilizes the now-iconic photograph of a stunningly beautiful Elizabeth Taylor in her swimming pool, dripping not in water but in the legendary jewelry identified with her, an emerald-green parrot perched on her right hand, and her water-reflection captured as a dazzle of colors. In one portrait, Helmut Newton captures both one film star's and the whole of Hollywood's glamor, decadence, and allure. Many of the celebrities in the book have agreed to pose nude for Helmut Newton. Mick Jagger, Sophia Loren, Nastassja Kinski, Debra Winger, and Grace Jones, among so many other celebrity portraits, are here, and they have all never looked more beautiful. One of Newton's favorite male celebrity subjects, Helmut Berger, is in several photographs. His subsequent suicide casts a retrospective glow to the brash nude portraits Newton took of him. "Helmut Newton has transformed the erotic fantasies of our time" (Karl Lagerfeld). Helmut Newton died in a car crash on January 23, 2004 while driving his car in Hollywood, the one place in the world (along with Berlin and Paris) that he loved the most. He is buried next to Marlene Dietrich at the Berlin Cemetery, the city's peripatetic and most successful photographer back home for good. An absolute "must-have" title for Helmut Newton collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 191 duotone and color plates. One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HELMUT NEWTON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0394563212.

Stock number: 12976. ISBN: 0394563212

$US 70.00

Nichols, John (Author/Photographer) & Redford, Robert (Contributor)
A Fragile Beauty: John Nichols' Milagro Country Text And Photographs From His Life And Work

Imprint: Salt Lake City, UT, Gibbs Smith Publishers, 1997
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 146 pages. Landmark collection of photographs with accompanying text on subject. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Reissued Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Gibbs Smith Publishers: Oversize-volume format. Cloth boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by John Nichols. Foreword by Robert Redford. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents John Nichols' "A Fragile Beauty". His masterpiece revisited. Nichols called his now-classic 1974 novel, "The Milagro Beanfield War", "an albatross around my neck" because he felt that after it had been made into a 1988 movie by Robert Redford, it eclipsed much of his other work. Like the novel, "A Fragile Beauty" deals with life and the love of the land in his beloved New Mexico. Part companion volume to the novel, part introduction to Nichols's world, the author chronicles his neighbors' extraordinary spirit and powers of subsistence and the unique natural charms of the state which bears the name "The Land of Enchantment". Nichols talks about the years of his political formation, his arrival and early experience in New Mexico, particularly his work as a reporter and editor, and his support of the fight for a fair and responsible water distribution system. But mostly, "A Fragile Beauty" is a celebration of life on the mesa, of the humbling majesty of its mountains, skies, seasons, storms, sun, snow, sagebrush, flowers, cottonwoods, pinons, forests, golden asters, aspens, rivulets, gullies, gorges, lakes, ponds, trout, lizards, dragonflies, coyotes, wolves, birds, horses, cattle, and sheep. "These mountains and their attendant valleys belong to the spirits of the dead and the cultures that have followed in their footsteps. They belong to the tourist only in passing and in pictures. John Nichols understands this, himself much like the land he treasures and stays pledged to keep. His may be a windmill fight. But it is a noble one, and I salute it" (Robert Redford). "Whenever we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it connected to everything else in the universe. I have always kept that in mind while writing about the land, people, heartaches of northern New Mexico. To extol the fragile beauty of the Taos Valley in words, photographs or in a film is to sing the praises of and to demand consideration for the entire earth. We are touched by magic wands. For just a fraction of our day, life is perfect, we are absolutely happy and in harmony with the earth. The feeling passes much too quickly. But the memory, and the anticipation of other miracles, sustains us in the battle indefinitely" (John Nichols). These lines cannot be improved upon. An absolute "must-have" title for John Nichols collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and despite its imperfection (slight fading on DJ spine, endemic to copies of the book) is still in fine condition: 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 copy thus. One of the finest American writer/artists of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0879052821.

Stock number: 4231. ISBN: 0879052821

$US 30.00

Nickel, Richard (Photographer/Subject); Cahan, Richard & Williams, Michael (Authors)
Richard Nickel's Chicago: Photographs Of A Lost City

Imprint: Chicago, IL, Cityfiles Press, 2006
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 192 pages. Collection of photographs. One of the most moving photography books of its kind ever published in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams: Oversize-volume format. Pale gray cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Richard Nickel. Edited with indispensable text by Richard Cahan and Michael Williams. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Canada 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 "Richard Nickel's Chicago: Photographs of A Lost City". Tribute to a great city. "Richard Nickel is an urban legend of sorts. He is remembered for his brave and lonely stand to protect Chicago's great architecture, and for his dramatic death in the rubble of the Stock Exchange Building. This is a book about one man's relationship with his city, a remarkably personal story told through compelling photographs. This is for people who love the city" (Publisher's blurb). "Chicago photographer and pioneering architectural preservationist Richard Nickel (1928-1972) devoted himself to photographing the works of world-renowned architect Louis Sullivan, a mission that turned macabre as one revolutionary building after another was wantonly demolished. Nickel was killed in the wreckage of Sullivan's once-magnificent Stock Exchange Building. A stunning and heart-wrenching collection of never-before-seen photographs by a man of vision and conviction. A student of Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind, Nickel shot street scenes and portraits. These unexpected gems are followed by a unique and disquieting collection: His brilliantly composed, extraordinarily detailed, and grandly dimensional photographs of what should have been landmark buildings, pictured both whole and in ruins" (Donna Seaman). An absolute "must-have" title for Richard Nickel collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "To David, who keeps this story alive. Feel better! Richard Cahan Michael Williams". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, David Jameson, who is named, is a Chicago-based architecture, art, and photography expert/author and former gallery owner. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is the best such double-signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious or are subsequent printings. Signed copies of the Second, Third, Fourth, and all other subsequent printings have no collectible value. A rare signed copy thus. 200 tritone plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 0978545028.

Stock number: 22135. ISBN: 0978545028

$US 150.00

Niffenegger, Audrey (Author) & Campbell, Eddie (Artist/Illustrator)
Bizarre Romance: Stories By Audrey Niffenegger Illustrations By Eddie Campbell

Imprint: New York City, NY, Abrams Comic Arts, 2018
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 160 pages. Retrospective collection of short stories, brilliantly illustrated. One of the most beautiful literary-cum-art 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. A brilliant production by Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with red cloth overboards and titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Stories by Audrey Niffenegger. Herself an artist, she also collaborated on some of the illustrations. Art by Eddie Campbell. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Audrey Niffenegger's and Eddie Campbell's "Bizarre Romance". Irrefutable proof, because it is needed, that the art of the illustration is a full-fledged genre that has been unjustly relegated to second-class status. One could even go so far as to say that, in the end, the illustrated book (at least in Eddie Campbell's hands) is visually, a superior achievement compared to the typical graphic novel/comics. That's because Campbell deploys a singular visual style to capture the tone and substance of each of Niffenegger's thirteen stories. There is no "unifying" style that binds them all because part of what he, as an artist/illustrator, must do - and does so well - is to evoke a near-infinite range of visual styles, choices, and nuances in order to serve each specific text. In contrast, the graphic novel is necessarily a finite - and often deliberately crude - visual style that must readily be identified with the graphic artist. "Explores the idiosyncratic nature of relationships in a variety of genres from fractured fairy tales to historical fiction to paper dolls. The debut collection by two of the most important storytellers of our time" (Publisher's blurb). Who, happily, are the ideal artistic team for the subject of romance, bizarre and otherwise, because they are husband-and-wife in real life. An absolute "must-have" title for Audrey Niffenegger and Eddie Campbell collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated (shortly after publication) in black pen-marker on the flyleaf (their preferred page) by the authors: "Audrey Niffenegger [heart] Eddie Campbell June 9, 2018". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The signatures were obtained during their special appearance at the 2018 Printer's Row Book Fair Lit Fest. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Festival's 16-page Souvenir Program. This title is an instant collectible, and will become 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. A scarce signed copy thus. Two of the most brilliant artists and writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER AUDREY NIFFENEGGER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1419728539.

Stock number: 21866. ISBN: 1419728539

$US 80.00

Niffenegger, Audrey
Her Fearful Symmetry: The Limited Collector's Edition

Imprint: New York City, NY, Scribner, 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. 406 pages. The author's second novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. Limited Edition of 4000 copies, as stated. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. The Limited Edition is now scarce. What sets the Collector's Edition apart is that in terms of production values, it is superior in every respect to the trade edition. The concept and design elements are by Audrey Niffenegger herself. In stark contrast to the bright, tin-foil sheen of the trade edition, the author/artist has adopted an austerely elegant black/white/red color scheme that emphasizes the novel's creepiness: Black cloth boards with red titles embossed on spine; black gilt page edges; and a pictorial DJ design that is based on an original bird painting by Niffenegger. The six black birds ("Six for Death") as well as the titles on the cover and spine are "de-bossed", resulting in a stunningly beautiful DJ design. The text is printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Presents, in its Collector's Edition format, Audrey Niffenegger's "Her Fearful Symmetry". Fearlessly imagined and realized. The title is taken from William Blake's "The Tyger", one of the greatest poems in the English language: "Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye, / Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?". It is a fully realized work in the Gothic-Romantic vein that characterizes her art as well as her prose. "The endurance of love animates this story set in Highgate Cemetery London. When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her estate, including an apartment overlooking the graveyard, to the twin daughters of her twin sister, from whom she has been estranged for twenty years. When Valentina and Julia show up to claim their inheritance, they soon discover that Elspeth is still in residence, in ghostly form. Niffenegger has a knack for taking the Romantic into the realm of creepiness, and she constructs a taut mystery around the secrets to be found in Elspeth's diaries and the lengths to which she will go to reunite with her younger lover. It's no small achievement that the revelations are both organic and completely unexpected" (The New Yorker Magazine). Readers who fell in love with her breakthrough debut, "The Time Traveler's Wife", will be spellbound again. "Beautiful prose. Literature that will last" (The Denver Post). An absolute "must-have" title for Audrey Niffenegger collectors. This copy is one of the Collector's Edition. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the publisher's tipped-in page by Audrey Niffenegger. It is also very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page itself by the author. The title-page signature was obtained in person through Niffenegger's Chicago gallery signing. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed copy of the Collector's Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies of the Collector's Edition available online are signed on the tipped-in page only. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest American artist/writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER AUDREY NIFFENEGGER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1439165947.

Stock number: 15124. ISBN: 1439165947

$US 100.00

Niffenegger, Audrey
The Raven Girl

Imprint: New York City, NY, Abrams ComicArts, 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. 80 pages. The author's fourth novel-in-pictures. Even by Audrey Niffenegger's exacting standards, it is one of the most beautifully realized book productions of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, including the British Edition. 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. A stunningly beautiful production by Audrey Niffenegger and Sara Corbett: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with black titles on spine, as issued. Art and text by Audrey Niffenegger. Pale gray gilt edges, which match the color of the DJ. Printed on thick glossy stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with pale gray metallic-silver titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Audrey Niffenegger's "Raven Girl". Her fourth illustrated novel. Unlike her previous works in the same vein (where the images dominate), "The Raven Girl" is told in images and text of equal weight and significance. "A dreamy, dark fairy tale. In it, an English postman falls in love with a fledgling raven from East Underwhelm, Otherworld. The pair conceive a child, a raven trapped in a girl's body, who becomes so distraught that she engages the services of a plastic surgeon to give her wings" (Rebecca Barry). "Hauntingly captures the world of birds and humans, and as the title suggests, a creature somewhere in between" (The Chicago Tribune). Niffenegger's Grimm-ly evocative tale has been favorably compared to the work of Edward Gorey. Quite apart from the fact that hers is a frankly erotic, proto-feminist sensibility (whereas Gorey was a deeply closeted gay man who was a lifelong celibate), the iconographic patterns, unusual perspectives, tensile lines, and gossamer atmosphere suggest a hypnotic and ethereal otherworldliness that is Niffenegger's own. Her 21st-century, post-feminist response to Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", "The Raven Girl" has been adapted into a full-length ballet by The Royal Ballet London, which premiered on May 24 and ran until June 8, 2013. An absolute "must-have" title for Audrey Niffenegger collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (on the day of "The Raven Girl" exhibition) in black pen-marker on the title page by the artist/author: "Audrey Niffenegger June 14, 2013, Chicago". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. According to Niffenegger herself, she did not tour, but made special appearances in London and New York to promote the book. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the "Raven Girl: New Etchings" Exhibition Announcement Card. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and exhibition-day dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest American artist/writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER AUDREY NIFFENEGGER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1419707264.

Stock number: 18020. ISBN: 1419707264

$US 30.00

Niffenegger, Audrey
The Time Traveler's Wife

Imprint: San Francisco, CA, MacAdam/Cage, 2003
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 525 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most sensational literary debuts of our time. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the British and Canadian Editions as well as the Limited "Gift" Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out upon publication. The First Edition is now rare. Presents, in its true First Edition format, Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife". Still her finest, most fully realized achievement. "A soaring love story illuminated by dozens of finely observed details and scenes, and one that skates nimbly around a huge conundrum at the heart of the book: Henry De Tamble, a dashing librarian at the famous Newberry Library in Chicago, finds himself unavoidably whisked around in time. He disappears from a scene in 1998 to find himself suddenly at an entirely different place 10 years earlier or later. During one of these migrations, he drops in on beautiful teenage Clare Abshire, an heiress in a large house on the nearby Michigan peninsula, and a lifelong passion is born. Such is the author's tenderness with the characters and the determinedly un-gimmicky way in which she writes of their predicament that the book is much more love story than fantasy. The book leaves the reader with an impression of life's riches and strangeness rather than of easy thrills" (Publishers Weekly). The basis of the fine film adaptation by Robert Schwentke, with Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in career-defining performances. An absolute "must-have" title for Audrey Niffenegger collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Audrey Niffenegger June 8, 2018". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Her signature was obtained during her special appearance at the 2018 Printer's Row Book Fair Lit Fest. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Festival's 16-page Souvenir Program. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. It is one of the most beautiful copies we have ever seen. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the British and Canadian Editions as well as the Limited "Gift" Edition. Copies available online have serious flaws, are remainder-marked, or are subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest American artist/writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER AUDREY NIFFENEGGER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1931561648.

Stock number: 21863. ISBN: 1931561648

$US 300.00

Niffenegger, Audrey
The Time Traveler's Wife

Imprint: San Francisco, CA, MacAdam/Cage, 2003
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 525 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most sensational literary debuts of our time. Now considered a contemporary classic. Uncorrected Proof. Published in a small and limited one-time-only print run as a softcover original only for the exclusive use of the publisher and author. None of the copies was commercially sold. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now rare. Presents, in its earliest-publication state, Audrey Niffenegger's "The Time Traveler's Wife". Still her finest, most fully realized achievement. "A soaring love story illuminated by dozens of finely observed details and scenes, and one that skates nimbly around a huge conundrum at the heart of the book: Henry De Tamble, a dashing librarian at the famous Newberry Library in Chicago, finds himself unavoidably whisked around in time. He disappears from a scene in 1998 to find himself suddenly at an entirely different place 10 years earlier or later. During one of these migrations, he drops in on beautiful teenage Clare Abshire, an heiress in a large house on the nearby Michigan peninsula, and a lifelong passion is born. Such is the author's tenderness with the characters and the determinedly un-gimmicky way in which she writes of their predicament that the book is much more love story than fantasy. The book leaves the reader with an impression of life's riches and strangeness rather than of easy thrills" (Publishers Weekly). The basis of the fine film adaptation by Robert Schwentke, with Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana in career-defining performances. An absolute "must-have" title for Audrey Niffenegger collectors. This copy of the Uncorrected Proof is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Audrey Niffenegger June 8, 2018". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Her signature was obtained during her special appearance at the 2018 Printer's Row Book Fair Lit Fest. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Festival's 16-page Souvenir Program. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the Uncorrected Proof available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the British and Canadian Editions as well as the Limited "Gift" Edition. Copies available online have serious flaws, are remainder-marked, or are subsequent printings. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest American artist/writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER AUDREY NIFFENEGGER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 21865.

$US 200.00

Noggle, Anne (Photographer); Grover, Janice Zita & Coke, Van Deren (Contributors)
Silver Lining: Photographs By Anne Noggle

Imprint: Albuquerque, NM, University Of New Mexico Press, 1983
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 195 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. Anne Noggle's single most important collection. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Anne Noggle and Barbara Jellow: Oversize-volume format. Pale gray cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Anne Noggle. Texts by Janice Zita Grover and Van Deren Coke. Printed in gravure on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Meriden Gravure Company 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 Anne Noggle's "Silver Lining: Photographs". A portrait photographer whose quirky, in-your-face approach helped shaped both her chosen genre and the medium itself in ways that have yet to be fully recognized. Compared in her lifetime to Diane Arbus, on the one hand, and Avedon, on the other, Anne (pronounced as "Annie") Noggle's "self-portraits, portraits of older women, and her abiding interest in women in the military are like nothing else in the history of photography. Suffusing her photographs are her profound joie de vivre, humor, and defiant humanism. Noggle served as a Woman Airforce Service Pilot during World War II and was captain in the US Air Force. Noggle's interest in photography began at the age of 38 while studying art at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She later taught art and art history at the university as Adjunct Professor and curated photography exhibitions. She was the first photography curator at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Noggle received international recognition and numerous awards for her photographic work, including grants from the National Endowment For The Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Her photography, including self-portraiture, often humorous and bizarre, focused on the aging process in women. Noggle died in Albuquerque at the age of 83" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Anne Noggle collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Anne Noggle. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is late-modern 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 beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws yet are priced as though they had collectible value. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with gravure plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. . ISBN 0826307310.

Stock number: 22420. ISBN: 0826307310

$US 100.00

Norman, Howard
The Northern Lights

Imprint: New York City, NY, Summit Books, 1987
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 236 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most important literary debuts of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Howard Norman's "The Northern Lights". One of a handful of books on Canada by an American writer that our quirky Northern distant cousins have embraced wholeheartedly. "Does cultural imperialism know no limits? Here's an American author who presumes to write about our very own North Country, and, what is worse, does a wonderful job of it. Unforgettable" (Toronto Sunday Star). "I love this book. It is gentle and funny and mysterious and full of truths, and therefore beautiful. A pitch-perfect novel, it has a glowing yet unsentimental warmth that makes it indelible" (Peter Matthiessen). An absolute "must-have" title for Howard Norman collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Howard Norman. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HOWARD NORMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0671532316.

Stock number: 10793. ISBN: 0671532316

$US 100.00

Obama, Barack (Subject); Bey, Dawoud; Pokempner, Marc; Other Artists & Daiter, Stephen (Editor)
Artists For Obama: The Exhibition/auction Catalog

Imprint: Chicago, IL, Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2012
Edition: First Edition

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 37 pages. Rare Barack Obama, Dawoud Bey, and Marc PoKempner collectible item. Exhibition/Auction Catalog. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. Published on the occasion of the fund-raiser exhibition held at the Stephen Daiter Gallery in July, 2012. Presents "Artists For Obama: Exhibition Sale And Auction To Support The Re-Election of President Barack Obama". Fundraiser by artists for the beloved President. Thirty-six art and photographic works are shown in the catalog out of almost 100 pieces that were donated by artists, photographers, Chicago galleries, dealers, and collectors to raise funds for President Obama's re-election campaign versus Mitt Romney. All of the proceeds were given to President Obama's campaign. Aside from donating works, Stephen Daiter Gallery and other (passionate) volunteers donated their space, time, and effort so no one was paid (as the people who work for political campaigns or charitable causes/foundations are). Artists often make political statements. But with few exceptions, they seldom take an explicitly partisan stand. This was one such partisan issue that united numerous artists, whose donation of their work amounted to making a statement and taking a stand. The artists are a Who's Who of contemporary art and photography, too numerous to mention here. They include foreign artists with deep ties to America such as the late great Yasuhiro Ishimoto, among many others. Two examples: The cover shows a formal portrait of President Obama by Dawoud Bey. And there is a stunning black-and-white photograph by Marc PoKempner that deserves to be better-known: "Alley Ball, 1995", which shows a very young (and completely unknown) Obama playing basketball with a group of kids during his first campaign, as a candidate for the Illinois Legislature, more than ten years before he rose to national prominence and eventually, the Presidency. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Barack Obama, Dawoud Bey, and Marc PoKempner collectors. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Exhibition/Auction available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare copy thus. 36 black-and-white and color plates. Some of the greatest artists and photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DAWOUD BEY AND MARC POKEMPNER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 22162.

$US 20.00

Oe, Kenzaburo
Kenzaburo Oe: Souvenir Color Photograph

Imprint: Tokyo, Japan, Kodansha International, 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Kenzaburo Oe collectible item. A pristine Souvenir Color Photograph of the author delivering a speech, double-signed by Kenzaburo Oe. The print measures 8.5 X 5.5 inches. It is laid into a protective plastic sheet that has the publisher's paper board backing. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Kenzaburo Oe's Souvenir Color Photograph. A lovely memento-image of the Nobel Prize Laureate. Kenzaburo Oe is that rare writer: A genius of language and form, a master storyteller whose themes and concerns are all deeply rooted in his personal experience, and just as important, a self-deprecating, reserved, yet irresistibly powerful voice. He is "The Other" Japanese writer of our time, that is, the exact opposite of and antithetical contrast to Yukio Mishima, particularly the latter's self-aggrandizing, ostentatious, and egotistical personality (there are no other words, and they in no way diminish Mishima's greatness). An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Kenzaburo Oe collectors. This Souvenir Color Photograph is very prominently and beautifully signed (in both Japanese characters and Roman alphabet) in black ink-pen on recto by Kenzaburo Oe. It is signed directly on the print itself, not on a tipped-in page. As far as we know, this is the only such signed color photograph available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed item thus. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine item. (SEE ALSO OTHER KENZABURO OE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 20701.

$US 80.00

Okuhara, Tetsu (Photographer) & Malloy, Nancy (Contributor)
Tetsu Okuhara: Photographs

Imprint: San Francisco, CA, Freddie Fong Gallery, 2005
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 48 pages. Exhibition Catalog. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Tetsu Okuhara: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with metallic-silver titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Tetsu Okuhara. Text by Nancy Malloy. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark eponymous exhibition held at Freddie Fong Gallery San Francisco from May 5 through June 2, 2005. Presents "Tetsu Okuhara: Photographs". Formally elegant, Conceptually-based photography that shows the very fruitful possibilities of The Grid, the most advanced aesthetic, visual invention, and process of Modernism. "Using the studio to manipulate, deconstruct, and redefine the image, Okuhara creates a new visual language, one that uses process as a key element in its execution. Modular units are reconfigured to make complex collages that alter our expectations and offer ever-changing contexts for the work. Within the framework of The Grid, Okuhara creates photographic collages. Taking photographs of his subjects and carefully documenting each detail, Okuhara makes strong iconic images. He uses a systematic process of cutting and pasting individual segments together within the carefully constructed grid. The arrangements offer a new way to look at the subject and a different way to examine issues of perception and identity" (Nancy Malloy). An absolute "must-have" title for Tetsu Okuhara collectors. This copy of the Exhibition Catalog comes with a full-page Autographed Letter Signed (ALS) that is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed by Tetsu Okuhara. He had a lot to say to so he wrote it all down on a separate piece of paper instead. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy with ALS of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: The few remaining copies available online all have serious flaws. A rare signed copy thus. 38 plates, 2 multi-panel foldouts. One of the most brilliant American artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. .

Stock number: 21713.

$US 50.00

Oliver, Mary
Dog Songs: The Deluxe Edition

Imprint: New York City, NY, Penguin Press, 2014
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 130 pages. Retrospective collection of poems. One of the most beautiful poetry collections of our time. The Deluxe Slipcased Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the regular trade edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only whose limitation is not stated. The Deluxe Slipcased Edition is now scarce. The production values are superior in every respect to the regular trade edition: Regular-sized volume format. Red cloth boards with white titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Poems by Mary Oliver. 6 X 8 inch broadside, "A Little Black And White Dog", laid-in and meant to be framed. Matching khaki cloth slipcase with art reproduction pasted on one side and red titles embossed on the spine. In protective plastic sheet. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Deluxe Slipcased Edition format, Mary Oliver's "Dog Songs". In celebration, praise, and homage to Man's Best Friend Forever. After being our lifelong "indefatigable guide to the natural world, particularly its lesser-known aspects", and with emphasis on avian lives (owls, wild geese, swans, finches, red birds, blue irises, all of which eponymously entitle her books), Mary Oliver turns her attention to an otherwise banal subject that she transforms into limpid poetry: Our pet dogs, also eponymously entitled. A poem about Percy, who (mysteriously) disappears then (miraculously) re-appears, is about an event, both harrowing and joyful, that happens to many dog owners, who live in constant fear of just such a thing: "The first time Percy came back / he was not sailing on a cloud. / He was loping along the sand as though / he had come a great way. / 'Percy', I cried out, and reached to him" (Mary Oliver). "You will be the wiser for having read these poems" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Mary Oliver died on January 17, 2019 at the age of 84, and will be sorely missed. An absolute "must-have" title for Mary Oliver collectors. This is a copy of the Deluxe Slipcased Edition. It comes with a 6 X 8 inch Souvenir Broadside. The broadside is meant to be framed, eminently suitable as such. But it can just as lovingly be left within the book as a keepsake from Mary Oliver. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the Deluxe Slipcased Edition (with Souvenir Broadside) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Should NOT be confused with regular trade edition. The production values are superior in every respect to the latter. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 for "American Primitive". Winner of the National Book Award in 1992 for "New And Selected Poems". One of the finest American poets of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARY OLIVER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1594204780.

Stock number: 22189. ISBN: 1594204780

$US 70.00

Ombregt, Pieter (Photographer) & Irvine, Karen (Contributor)
Pieter Ombregt Photographs: Color And Black And White Studies

Imprint: Oranje, Belgium, Drukkerij Oranje, 2008
Edition: First Edition

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. Unpaginated. Retrospective collection of color and black-and-white photographs. One of the most brilliant art photography books of our time. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. None of the copies was widely sold in the United States. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Jennifer Kowalewski: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Pieter Ombregt. Text by Karen Irvine. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Belgium to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition of the same name held in Belgium in 2008/2009. Presents "Pieter Ombregt Photographs: Color And Black And White Studies". The remarkable body of work left behind by the young Belgian photographer who is indisputably the most prodigious graduate of Columbia College Chicago of his generation. Pieter Ombregt was a 27-year-old photographer at the time of his accidental death in 2007, who created mature work between 2003 and 2007 (between the ages of 23 and 27) of keen intelligence, rigor, and contemplative yet sensuous beauty. At its best, his work is Conceptual art that elicits a profound emotional response in the viewer. "The only publication detailing the meteoric artist's career before his untimely death at the age of 27. Marked by linear clarity and starkly contrasting tonalities. Ombregt's work shows viewers what the world can look like if they just slow down and really take a look around" (Publisher's blurb). The volume is in three parts: His "XYZ Series", a Symbolist-inspired sequence in color showing a man (Ombregt himself and a few friends) wearing the same prisoner's bright-orange jumpsuit while surveying the contemporary natural and man-made landscapes. Parts Two and Three consist of his works in black-and-white: Eerie, haunting, and often anguished portraits, the "closeups" to the XYZ Series' "long shots", which remind us that while Ombregt may have honed his camera technique in America, his artistic style remained, inescapably, European. He was, after all, a disciplined, physically active tournament cyclist who embraced the American extreme-sport lifestyle - he crashed during one such cycling event, and died shortly thereafter from his horrific injuries - yet, at the same time, could also write: "We are losing our ability to communicate and make ourselves comfortable around others. The day, as we compose it, has become a series of scheduled activities and not of perceptions. When we talk about our day, we talk about what we did or crammed in, not what we noticed or thought" (Pieter Ombregt). That is NOT something that would even occur to most (though not all) Americans, artists included, culturally ingrained to be un-reflective at all cost. An absolute "must-have" title for Pieter Ombregt collectors. This title is now collectible, and will become a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color and duotone plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 9066612673.

Stock number: 22124. ISBN: 9066612673

$US 50.00

Ondaatje, Michael
Anil's Ghost

Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2000
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 307 pages. The author's fourth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Michael Ondaatje's "Anil's Ghost". His "Sri Lanka" novel. An intimate and spellbinding story of what civil war can do to a country and its people, it is a literary mystery and a jigsaw puzzle of the highest quality that is written in the author's characteristically brilliant, richly layered, and emotionally resonant prose. "The novel explores that territory where the personal and the political intersect in the fulcrum of war. Its style is more straightforward, less densely poetical. While many of Ondaatje's literary trademarks are present (frequent shifts in time, hallucinatory imagery, the gradual interweaving of characters' pasts with the present), the prose is more accessible. This is not to say that the author has forgotten his poetic roots. Subtle, evocative images abound. Michael Ondaatje has crafted both a brutal examination of internecine warfare and an enduring meditation on identity, loyalty, and the unbreakable hold the past exerts over the present" (Alix Wilber). Part of the majestic and lyrical beauty of his fiction comes from the fact that Michael Ondaatje has a poetic sensibility and writes what Joseph Brodsky once called "poet's prose": "Her toes were among the white petals, her arms folded as she undressed the day, removing layers of events and incidents so they would no longer be within her" (Michael Ondaatje). An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Ondaatje collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Michael Ondaatje. 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 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 signed copy thus. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1992 for "The English Patient". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MICHAEL ONDAATJE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0375410538.

Stock number: 10297. ISBN: 0375410538

$US 30.00

Ondaatje, Michael
Divisadero

Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 273 pages. The author's fifth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. The Canadian (which normally precedes) and American Editions were released simultaneously. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Michael Ondaatje's "Divisadero". At the absolute top of his form. Cements his stature as a writer's writer, evident in another celebrated writer's rave review: "The story is simple, almost mythical, stemming from a family on a California farm that is ruptured just as it is about to begin. Two daughters, Anna and Claire, are raised not just as siblings but with the intense bond of twins. Coop, a boy from a neighboring farm, is folded into the girls' lives as a hired hand and quasi-brother. Anna, Claire, and Coop form a triangle that is intimate and interdependent, a triangle that brutally explodes less than thirty pages into the book. We are left with a handful of glass, both narratively and thematically. But 'Divisadero' is a deeply ordered, full-bodied work, and the fragmented characters, severed from their shared past, persevere in relation to one another, illuminating both what it means to belong to a family and what it means to be alone in the world. The notion of twins, of one becoming two, pervades the novel, and so the farm in California is mirrored by a farm in France, the setting for another plot line in the second half of the book, giving us, in a sense, two novels in one. The stories are not only connected but calibrated by Ondaatje to reveal a haunting pattern of parallels, echoes, and reflections across time and place. Like Nabokov, another master of twin-ning, Ondaatje's method is deliberate but discreet, and it was only in re-reading this beautiful book that the intricate play of doubles was revealed. Every sign of the author's genius is here: The searing imagery, the incandescent writing, the calm probing of life's most turbulent and devastating experiences. No one writes as affectingly about passion, about time and memory, about violence, subjects that have shaped Ondaatje's previous novels. But there is a greater muscularity to 'Divisadero', an intensity born from its restraint. Episodes are boiled down to their essential elements, distilled but dramatic, resulting in a mosaic of profound dignity, with an elegiac quietude that only the greatest of writers can achieve" (Jhumpa Lahiri). An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Ondaatje collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Michael Ondaatje. 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 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 (rubbing, creasing, and wear on the DJ, bumps on the corners, and wear on the spine) even if they are New. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1992 for "The English Patient". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MICHAEL ONDAATJE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0307266354.

Stock number: 16021. ISBN: 0307266354

$US 70.00

Ontani, Luigi (Artist) & Weiermair, Peter (Editor)
Luigi Ontani

Imprint: Zurich, Switzerland, Editions Stemmle, 1996
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 192 pages. Retrospective exhibition monograph on artist. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Peter Renn: Oversize-volume format. Deep brown linen cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on spine, as issued. Art by Luigi Ontani. Edited by Peter Weiermair. Contributions by various scholars, art historians, and critics. List of Plates and Chronology appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with red titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the travelling exhibition of the same name in 1996 and 1997. Presents "Luigi Ontani". The single most comprehensive assessment of the achievement of the Italian artist who has successfully incorporated the cultural heritage of his country into his oeuvre. As such, Ontani has worked in just about every conceivable medium: Drawings, illustrated texts, installations, paintings, glass, ceramics, papier-mache, photographic tableaux, masks, and other media. His is a democracy of art, which sees an exquisite ceramic plate as being on the same level of achievement as a large-scale painting that rivals those of his contemporary "transavanguardia" colleagues like Francesco Clemente and Sandro Chia. They all evoke a life devoted to the fictions of fantasy as drawn from the rich iconography of "heathen cultures and classical mythology". Ontani inserted himself, as obtrusively as possible, in his celebrated self-portraits, where he often posed naked, showing a body that is neither ideal nor real but somewhere in the middle, a theatrical self-presentation of one of the most unique and fascinating artistic personalities of the last quarter of the 20th century. An absolute "must-have" title for Luigi Ontani 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 most brilliant Italian artists of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 3908162319.

Stock number: 4188. ISBN: 3908162319

$US 40.00

Opie, Catherine (Photographer); Allison, Dorothy; Blessing, Jennifer & Trotman, Nat (Contributors)
Catherine Opie: American Photographer

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

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 288 pages. Retrospective Exhibition Monograph. One of the most important art photography books of our time. The Guggenheim Museum true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Catherine Opie and The Guggenheim Museum: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Catherine Opie. Essays by various contributors. Exhibition History and Bibliography appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. In matching pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Guggenheim Museum New York from September 28, 2008 through January 7, 2009. Presents "Catherine Opie: American Photographer". The best (and most scrupulous) assessment of Opie's oeuvre in one volume. "Gathers all of the artist's key projects. Opie is best-known for her subtle but potent portraits of people from the queer communities of Los Angeles and San Francisco. In this definitive volume, each of Opie's series, among them 'Portraits', 'Freeways', 'Domestic', 'Icehouses', and 'In and Around Home', is reproduced in color plates alongside works that were not displayed in the exhibition, allowing for the most complete overview of this important Los Angeles artist's work. Features a lead Essay by Jennifer Blessing, which surveys Opie's artistic career and its historical contexts; a series of Interviews by Russell Ferguson, and a personal reflection by internationally-renowned novelist Dorothy Allison, whose work explores many concerns similar to Opie's" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Catherine Opie collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Catherine Opie. 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 Guggenheim Museum true First Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 237 plates. One of the most brilliant American artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER CATHERINE OPIE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0892073756.

Stock number: 19097. ISBN: 0892073756

$US 100.00