Reblando, Jason (Photographer) & Egan, Natasha (Contributor)
New Deal Utopias: Photographs By Jason Reblando

Imprint: Berlin, Germany, Kehrer Heidelberg Berlin, 2017
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 175 pages. Collection of photographs on subject. One of the most important documentary 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 print run as a hardcover original only. A brilliant production by Jason Reblando and Kehrer Verlag: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Jason Reblando. Text by Natasha Egan. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Jason Reblando's "New Deal Utopias". One of FDR's forgotten yet important legacies, remembered, and now committed through photographs, for posterity. "Explores one of the most ambitious, now overlooked programs of the New Deal: The Greenbelt Towns, designed and built in the 1930's by the United States Government to be model cities. The program was critiqued as 'Communistic' by conservative members of Congress, industrial and corporate leaders, and newspapers. Yet they still managed to make an indelible impression on urbanist ideas in America. Jason Reblando's contemporary photographs of Greenbelt, Maryland; Greenhills, Ohio; and Greendale, Wisconsin offer a rich visual and intellectual experience, and invite viewers to reflect upon planned communities and the human urge to create an ideal society" (Publisher's blurb). Jason Reblando's photographs are quite beautiful, approaching his subject with grace, measure, and without condescension. An absolute "must-have" title for Jason Reblando collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black ink-pen on the title page by the photographer: "To Martha, Thank you for all the shows I've enjoyed at Schneider Gallery! Cheers, Jason Reblando". 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 of contemporary art photography. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 3868287906.

Stock number: 22176. ISBN: 3868287906

$US 50.00

Reed, John (Author); Simpson, John; Taylor, A. J. P. & Lenin V. I. (Contributors)
Ten Days That Shook The World: The First Folio Edition

Imprint: London, England, The Folio Society, 2006
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 370 pages. New Edition of the author's classic. One of the greatest books of the 20th century. The First Folio Society Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the 2007 Second Printing. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by The Folio Society: Regular-sized volume format. Blood-red pictorial cloth boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by John Reed. Essays by John Simpson, A. J. P. Taylor, and Lenin himself. Vintage photographs interspersed throughout the book. Black hard board slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United Kingdom to the highest standards. The production values are exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in a handsome and definitive edition, John Reed's "Ten Days That Shook The World". The American journalist's first-hand account of the Russian Revolution of 1917. "Rises above every other contemporary record for its literary power, its penetration, and its command of detail" (George Kennan). "It gives a truthful and most vivid exposition of the events so significant to the comprehension of what really is the Proletarian Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat" (Vladimir Lenin). "A slice of intensified history - history as I saw it" (John Reed). The basis of at least three major film adaptations: Sergei Eisenstein's "October: Ten Days That Shook The World" (1928); Orson Welles' "Ten Days That Shook The World" (1967); and Warren Beatty's "Reds" (1981). An absolute "must-have" title for John Reed collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First Folio Slipcased 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 or are the 2007 Second Printing. A scarce copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with vintage photographs. Selected by NYU as one of the "Top 100 Works of Journalism" in 1999. A fine copy. .

Stock number: 22143.

$US 70.00

O'Reilly, John (Artist/Photographer) & Tellin, Jim (Contributor)
John O'reilly: Self-portraits 1977-1995

Imprint: Boston, MA, Howard Yezerski Gallery, 1996
Edition: First Edition

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 34 pages. Exhibition Catalog. The artist/photographer's debut collection. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. It is the first of only two catalogs on his work published thus far. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. A brilliant production by John O'Reilly: Regular-sized volume format. Glossy pictorial softcovers, as issued. Collage-photographs by John O'Reilly. Interview with Jim Tellin, the single best discussion in print on the artist/photographer. 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 exhibition of the same name held at the Howard Yezerski Gallery Boston from January 6 through February 3, 1996. Presents John O'Reilly's "Self-Portraits 1977-1995". A pioneering and masterly retrospective collection that gives the artist's self-portrait genre a fresh and openly sexual twist. John O'Reilly has established a name for himself as a master collage artist who inserts himself visibly in each of the photographs he has created. Unlike the Woody Allen character, Zelig, who sought to blend in and become like the people around him, O'Reilly's presence in the company of the Masters is obtrusive, conspicuous, and rude. As the Interview reveals, the artist/photographer's purpose is to identify himself, who he is, what he cares about, and where he believes he belongs (by association) in the history of art. In lesser hands, this kind of collage would amount to arrogance and presumptuousness. Instead, they come across as witty, self-deprecating (O'Reilly rarely presents himself in the best light), and touching self-portraits. There is a vintage photograph of O'Reilly as a small boy which he inserts in another photograph of a huge elephant (he shows himself "holding" the animal's trunk), a near-seamless collage photograph that O'Reilly permits himself, the fulfillment not only of a child's fantasy, but also of O'Reilly's artistry. "Meditations on space, art, war, death, and religion merge with the homoerotic in John O'Reilly's intensely personal photo-transformations. His working methods of cutting and pasting mirror the energy inherent in de-constructing and reconstructing the psyche" (Francine Koslow Miller). "Alluding to countless classical, literary, and art-historical sources, the work is also intensely personal and enthusiastically erotic. O'Reilly seems to be rooting around in civilization's ruins and rearranging them into fragile but enduring monuments to the restorative power of the imagination" (The New Yorker Magazine). John O'Reilly has a cult following, but remains largely unknown among mainstream photography collectors. The very first full-length book on John O'Reilly, "Assemblies of Magic", finally appeared in 2002. An absolute "must-have" title for John O'Reilly collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the First Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: This is a Catalog, NOT a full-fledged volume. But its production values and rarity as the very first publication on the artist/photographer make it eminently collectible. 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 copy thus. 27 plates. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN O'REILLY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 3062.

$US 70.00

O'Reilly, John (Artist/Photographer)) & Kertess, Klaus (Contributor))
John O'reilly: Occupied Territories: Works From 1967-1999

Imprint: Boston, MA, Art Books + Catalogs, 1999
Edition: First Edition

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 30 pages. Exhibition Catalog. Retrospective collection of the artist/photographer's collage-photographs. Limited Edition of 2500 copies. The first and only edition. This is the second of the first two catalogs on his work ever published. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by John O'Reilly and Allan Weller: Regular-sized volume format. Glossy pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover, as issued. Collage-photographs by John O'Reilly. Essay by Klaus Kertess. Printed on thick, glossy stock paper in Canada to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition held at Howard Yezerski Gallery Boston in 1999. Presents John O'Reilly's "Occupied Territories: Works From 1967-1999". Showcases some of his finest and most representative works from a thirty-plus-year period. Best-known for his meticulously produced collages, O'Reilly's underlying preoccupation as an artist/photographer is the idea of artistic heritage and its impact on a contemporary artist's identity, his place ("lineage") in art history, and his sexuality. The artist regards the great Western artistic tradition as inescapable, and so he appropriates and comments on it, wittily, outrageously, and brilliantly. O'Reilly has done for male nude photography what Todd Walker achieved for the female nude. While the two artists could not be more different in every conceivable way, they do have two things in common: An erudite knowledge of and preoccupation with Western art history and a passion for the nude (exclusively female in Walker's case; exclusively male in O'Reilly's). The collection ends with six stunning collage-photographs, all entitled "To Patrick (1975-1997) " , a twenty-two year old victim of AIDS, gone much too soon, evoked in full-frontal nudes that collide with great works of art of the past. "Alluding to countless classical, literary, and art-historical sources, the work is also intensely personal and enthusiastically erotic. O'Reilly seems to be rooting around in civilization's ruins and rearranging them into fragile but enduring monuments to the restorative power of the imagination" (The New Yorker Magazine). John O'Reilly has a cult following, but remains largely unknown among mainstream photography collectors. The very first full-length book on John O'Reilly, "Assemblies of Magic", finally appeared in 2002. An absolute "must-have" title for John O'Reilly collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Edition of 2500 copies. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 25 plates. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN O'REILLY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1887593152.

Stock number: 22275. ISBN: 1887593152

$US 50.00

RES (Raul Eduardo Stolkiner); Gonzalez, Valeria; Sylveira, Danila & Otero, Veronica (Contributors)
Res: La Verdad Inutil ("the Useless Truth") : The Deluxe Edition

Imprint: Buenos Aires, Argentina, La Marca Editora, 2006
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in Fine Dust Jacket. 208 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. Deluxe Clamshell Box Edition of 100 Roman Numeral-numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are many, particularly the regular trade Hardcover and Softcover Editions. The Deluxe Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by RES: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and photo-tableaux by RES. Essays by various contributors. 8 X 10 inch original color print, "Las piernas de Crista" ("Crista's Legs"), encased in its own glassine sheet and laid into the book. Matching black cloth clamshell box. Printed on pristine-white, thick glossy stock paper in Buenos Aires to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents, in its Deluxe Edition format, RES' "La Verdad Inutil". The art of the artist known simply as RES (the initials of Raul Eduardo Stolkiner). Marks the very first time that RES's remarkable body of work is presented in its entirety in book form, nine sequences in all that are preceded by illuminating critical texts. Like many of the most ambitious and enormously talented artists of Latin America, RES is a natural-born aesthete who is also a committed social/political thinker. RES believes in political art. But he also believes that the conventional conception of political art in the Western/Latin-American tradition wrongly elevated politics at the expense of art when it should have been the other way around: Art is enhanced and enlarged by politics. Art is, by definition, autonomous, therefore "useless". The only way art can become "useful" is for the artist and audience to regard it as a model of thought. Thought is the beginning - and ongoing basis - of genuine action, including politics. A revered cult figure in Argentina, RES is one of the most intelligent and imaginative artist/photographers of our time. His work can only be described as cerebral, without losing any of art's sensuous qualities. Being exposed to, understanding, and appreciating his work is one of the life-changing experiences a lover of art photography will have. An absolute "must-have" title for RES collectors. This is a copy of the Deluxe Clamshell Box Edition of 100 Roman Numeral-Numbered copies, indicated/numbered as such in black pen on the Front Limitation Page by RES. It is very boldly and beautifully signed in the same black pen by the artist/photographer. Laid-in is an 8 X 10 inch original color print of "Las piernas de Crista" ("Crista's Legs"), also number-stamped in matching Roman Numerals and very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on verso by RES. It is also very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by his model-muse and long-time RES collaborator, Constanza Piaggio. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Deluxe Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER RES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 19493.

$US 500.00

Reyes, Emma (Author/Memoirist) & Alarcon, Daniel (Translator)
The Book Of Emma Reyes: A Memoir

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

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 195 pages. The author's memoir. One of the most important literary discoveries of our time. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Emma Reyes' "Memoria por correspondencia" in a felicitous - and highly acclaimed - translation by Daniel Alarcon, the brilliant Peruvian-American novelist, who also wrote a moving Introductory Essay. Literally, a memoir in epistolary form although Alarcon has re-titled it in English more definitively as The (that is, Her) Book. "Hailed as an instant classic when it was first published in Colombia in 2012, nearly a decade after the death of its author in 2003. Comprised of letters written over the course of thirty years, it describes in vivid, painterly detail the remarkable courage and limitless imagination of a young girl growing up with nothing. Emma Reyes was an illegitimate child, raised in a windowless room in Bogota with no water or toilet, and only ingenuity to keep her and her sister alive. Abandoned by their mother, she and her sister moved to a Catholic convent housing 150 orphan girls, where they washed pots, ironed and mended laundry, scrubbed floors, cleaned bathrooms, sewed garments and decorative cloths for the nuns - and lived in fear of the Devil. Illiterate and knowing nothing of the outside world, Emma escaped at age nineteen, eventually establishing a career as an artist and befriending the likes of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera as well as European artists and intellectuals. The portrait of her childhood that emerges from this clear-eyed account inspires awe at the stunning early life of a writer whose talent remained hidden for too long" (Publisher's blurb). The tears must flow even if (or precisely because) Emma Reyes writes unsentimentally. An absolute "must-have" title for Emma Reyes and Daniel Alarcon collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue pen-marker on the title page by Daniel Alarcon. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It comes with a pristine copy of the Souvenir Announcement of the event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a great book. 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. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most valuable literary discoveries of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DANIEL ALARCON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0143108689.

Stock number: 21856. ISBN: 0143108689

$US 50.00

Richards, Eugene
Eugene Richards: Red Ball Of A Sun Slipping Down

Imprint: Dalton, MA, Many Voices Press, 2014
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 112 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most important and most beautiful 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. An austerely elegant production by Eugene Richards: Oversize-volume format. Gray hard boards with metallic-black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Eugene Richards. In publisher's original shrinkwrap. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Dalton, Massachusetts to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. The photographic reproduction on the cover is vintage, complete with scratches and other flaws that Richards chose not to clean up. Presents Eugene Richards' "Red Ball of A Sun Slipping Down". Evocative photographs of his stay and trips to The South during the Civil Rights Movement Era. "The Arkansas Delta has been called at different times the soul of The South, the land of opportunity, a place ruled by race, a forgotten place. Eugene Richards first went to the delta as a volunteer in 1969. It was less than a year after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , a time when cotton, religion, prejudice, and poverty were what characterized most peoples' lives. Increasingly drawn to this both sorrowful and beautiful place, Richards would stay for more than four years, working as a social worker and reporter until the community service organization and newspaper he helped found were forced to close their doors. But over the years, he would keep returning. A book that speaks of remembrance and change, of struggle and privation, of loving and loss, of then and now. Black-and-white photographs made long years ago but never before published are interwoven with recent color photographs, and with a short story that relates Richards' relationship with an impoverished delta family as well as a growing awareness of his own aging and mortality" (Publisher's blurb). Best-known for "Dorchester Days" (1978), his searing photographic account of inner-city upheaval in the Boston area, Eugene Richards shows in "Red Ball of A Sun Slipping Down" that his commitment to his subject - America in the midst of radical change - is lifelong, goes beyond city limits, and underlies his seminal body of work. An absolute "must-have" title for Eugene Richards collectors. This title is a late-modern photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare copy thus. 53 plates. Eugene Richards' "Dorchester Days" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most important photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0991218906.

Stock number: 21171. ISBN: 0991218906

$US 70.00

Richards, Eugene
Eugene Richards: Red Ball Of A Sun Slipping Down

Imprint: Dalton, MA, Many Voices Press, 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. 112 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most important and most beautiful 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. An austerely elegant production by Eugene Richards: Oversize-volume format. Gray hard boards with metallic-black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Eugene Richards. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Dalton, Massachusetts to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. The photographic reproduction on the cover is vintage, complete with scratches and other flaws that Richards chose not to clean up. Presents Eugene Richards' "Red Ball of A Sun Slipping Down". Evocative photographs of his stay and trips to The South during the Civil Rights Movement Era. "The Arkansas Delta has been called at different times the soul of The South, the land of opportunity, a place ruled by race, a forgotten place. Eugene Richards first went to the delta as a volunteer in 1969. It was less than a year after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. , a time when cotton, religion, prejudice, and poverty were what characterized most peoples' lives. Increasingly drawn to this both sorrowful and beautiful place, Richards would stay for more than four years, working as a social worker and reporter until the community service organization and newspaper he helped found were forced to close their doors. But over the years, he would keep returning. A book that speaks of remembrance and change, of struggle and privation, of loving and loss, of then and now. Black-and-white photographs made long years ago but never before published are interwoven with recent color photographs, and with a short story that relates Richards' relationship with an impoverished delta family as well as a growing awareness of his own aging and mortality" (Publisher's blurb). Best-known for "Dorchester Days" (1978), his searing photographic account of inner-city upheaval in the Boston area, Eugene Richards shows in "Red Ball of A Sun Slipping Down" that his commitment to his subject - America in the midst of radical change - is lifelong, goes beyond city limits, and underlies his seminal body of work. An absolute "must-have" title for Eugene Richards collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and inscribed in black ink-pen on the front free endpaper by the photographer: "For Julia, A look at the delta that I loved, long years ago and today, Eugene Richards". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, who is named, is unmistakably personally known to the photographer. His dedication on this copy is the most beautiful one we have ever seen. This title is a late-modern photography book 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. 53 plates. Eugene Richards' "Dorchester Days" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most important photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0991218906.

Stock number: 21334. ISBN: 0991218906

$US 150.00

Richter, Curt (Photographer); Beattie, Ann; Cannella, Cara; Max, D. T.; White, Edmund & Others
Thousand Words

Imprint: Bologna, Italy, Editore Damiani, 2016
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 95 pages. Retrospective collection of portrait-photographs. One of the most beautiful writer-portraits 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. A brilliant production by Curt Richter and Maarika Autio: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with the photographic reproduction of a radiant Margaret Atwood on the cover and titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Curt Richter. Text by the great American writer Ann Beattie. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Damiani in Italy to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Curt Richter's "Thousand Words". Or as the wise saying goes, what every great picture is worth. "Celebrates the portraiture of Helsinki-based photographer Curt Richter with portraits of writers taken at the Key West Literary Festival. Among them are Kay Ryan, William Gibson, Geoff Dyer, Calvin Trillin, Margaret Atwood, Michael Cunningham, Ann Beattie, Gore Vidal, and Edmund White" (Publisher's blurb). Born and raised in New York City, Curt Richter began taking photographs at the age of 12, much like Richard Avedon before him, whose portraiture aesthetic has unmistakably influenced him: Spare. Minimalist. Essential. Richter has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and commissions from the National Endowment For The Arts and the National Endowment for The Humanities. His work is in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) New York; The National Portrait Gallery Washington, DC; the Victoria And Albert Museum London; and the Bibliotheque Nationale Paris. He moved to Finland as a Fulbright Scholar in 1997, and continues to be based there, the Key West Literary Festival being one of the projects he has avidly pursued in the United States through annual visits. The very-well-known as well as the not-so-well-known writers in this moving and brilliant collection have rarely been photographed so revealingly or beautifully. An absolute "must-have" title for Curt Richter collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Curt Richter. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It is also very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the same page by Cara Cannella, D. T. Max, and Edmund White. They launched the book at the one-time-only launch event in New York City. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Announcement of the event during which the signing was held. This title is a classic. As far as we know, this is the only such multi-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 tritone plates. Some of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 8862084781.

Stock number: 20848. ISBN: 8862084781

$US 100.00

Riley, Terry (Composer) & Bang On A Can (Performers)
Terry Riley: In C

Imprint: New York City, NY, Cantaloupe Records, 2001
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. New Recording of the composer's masterpiece. One of the most important and influential works of the 20th century. The first and only edition. Produced in a small and limited print run as a Compact Disc. There is no ISBN. The CD is now scarce. Presents Terry Riley's "In C". A new and definitive performance by Bang On A Can. The Big Bang of Minimalism from, incredibly, 1964: "Kicked off a revolution, inspiring such young composers as Philip Glass and Steve Reich. Bang On A Can re-interprets this Minimalist classic with an explosive combination of instruments from around the globe, propelling this transcendent Sixties masterpiece into the future" (Publisher's blurb). "There are a handful of recordings available of this Minimalist masterpiece. But Bang On A Can's, featuring violin, chimes, clarinet, mandolin, and bass at the fore, is easily one of the best. The delicate tremolo of Scott Kuney's mandolin gives the entire recording a nervous energy that is much needed on this warhorse. The piercing violin of Todd Reynolds is haunting, and Mark Stewart's electric guitar gives the ensemble added sonic punch" (Jason Verlinde). An absolute "must-have" title for Terry Riley and Bang On A Can collectors. This copy of the Compact Disc (CD) of "In C" is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen-marker in front by Terry Riley. It is signed directly on the cover itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary masterpiece. This is one of few such signed copies of the CD still available online, is enclosed in its own protective plastic sleeve, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Because of its very limited number, its collectible value will not only keep but increase over time. A rare signed copy thus. Selected by The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal as one of the "Best Recordings of The Year" in 2001. One of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BANG ON A CAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN B00005NUPM.

Stock number: 20747. ISBN: B00005NUPM

$US 50.00

Roberts, Holly (Artist/Photographer); Moley-Martinez, T.D.& Other Contributors
Holly Roberts Works 1989-1999

Imprint: Tucson, AZ, Nazraeli Press, 2000
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 80 pages. Landmark retrospective collection of the artist's photographically-based paintings. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Holly Roberts and Chris Pichler: Oversize-volume format. Pale gray cloth boards with art reproduction pasted on the cover and black titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Art by Holly Roberts. Introduction by T. D. Moley-Martinez. Essays by Robert H. Wilson and Steve Yates. Notes on the Plates and brief Biography appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Holly Roberts Works 1989-1999". The artist/photographer's work over the last decade. Holly Roberts begins with a photograph and then proceeds gradually to efface it by turning it into magical paintings, drawings, and mixed-media art that are powerful not just because they evoke the elemental power of art itself (now missing in most contemporary painting), but also because every image is "dreaming out loud". "She found that by painting over a photographic surface, she was able to manipulate the paint (scrape it, scratch it, even wipe it away) with the luxury of never losing the underlying image. A modern pioneer of the method, Roberts ups the ante with an understanding of human dynamics and a technique that appears unstudied" (Publisher's blurb). While Holly Roberts's lapidary skills are masterly and make one think of "craft", her works are psychic projections, profoundly personal and indelible works of art. An absolute "must-have" title for Holly Roberts collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on the half-title page by Holly Roberts. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art and photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 60 color plates. One of the finest American artists of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 3923922841.

Stock number: 8472. ISBN: 3923922841

$US 70.00

Robinson, Marilynne
Housekeeping: The Easton Press Limited Edition

Imprint: Norwalk, CT, Easton Press, 2013
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 220 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the greatest American novels of the 20th century. The Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a Leatherbound Edition only which sold out upon publication. There is no ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Easton Press: Regular-sized volume format. Brown leather boards with elaborate gilt design embossed on the cover and gilt titles embossed on the spine, as issued. Text by Marilynne Robinson. Thick salmon moire endpapers. "Note About Housekeeping" Card and Certificate of Authenticity laid-in. Gilt endpapers. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in a lovely Limited Edition format, Marilynne Robinson's "Housekeeping". A treasurable keeper of a book. "I think that there are very few first novels published since the mid-20th century to compare with 'Housekeeping' for sheer perfection of language and for conveying what it means to be human. A work of pure grace" (John Hawkes). An absolute "must-have" title for Marilynne Robinson collectors. This is a copy of the Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition, indicated by the publisher as such on the title page. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the Front Statement Page by Marilynne Robinson. Laid-in is the Certificate of Authenticity, also very prominently and beautifully signed and dated (at the time of publication) by the author: "Marilynne Robinson July 23, 2013". This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the Easton Press Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Signed copies of the 1980 First Edition available online command between $1500 and $3000. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award in 1981 for "Housekeeping". Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2004 and the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for "Gilead". "Housekeeping" was selected by The New York Times panel of writers, critics, and editors as one of the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years. One of the greatest American writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARILYNNE ROBINSON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0312424094.

Stock number: 21798. ISBN: 0312424094

$US 200.00

Robinson, Christopher & Kovite, Gavin
War Of The Encyclopaedists

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

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 435 pages. The authors' 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. "Signed By The Author" sticker pasted in front. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Christopher Robinson's and Gavin Kovite's "War of The Encyclopaedists". Their first novel. "In a superb, rare literary collaboration, two major new talents join their voices to tell the story of a generation at a crossroads, and a friendship that stretches over continents and crises, from the liberal arena of Boston academia to the military occupation of Iraq" (Publisher's blurb). "A wise and wise-assed first novel, with sweep and heart and humor" (Mary Karr). "Offers a brilliant portrait of America in the early years of the Iraq War. Simultaneously a coming-of-age story, a war story, and a story of the disaffected millennial generation for whom the war hardly happened at all" (Phil Klay). Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite have solid lit cred and street cred: The former is an award-winning "Yale Younger Poets" laureate while the latter was an infantry platoon leader in Baghdad who has published short stories in various literary magazines and a graduate of New York University Law School who is now a dedicated Army lawyer. Their collaborative novel (they have no plans of writing together again; this is it) is a genuine literary achievement. An absolute "must-have" title for Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite collectors. This Autographed Copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Christopher Robinson and Gavin Kovite. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title will become collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: 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. Two of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 1476775427.

Stock number: 20076. ISBN: 1476775427

$US 30.00

Ronis, Willy (Photographer) & Hamilton, Peter (Editor/Contributor)
Willy Ronis: Photographs 1926-1995

Imprint: Oxford, England, Museum Of Modern Art, 1995
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 128 pages. Retrospective Exhibition Monograph. One of the most important books on the artist/photographer ever published. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by The Museum of Modern Art Oxford: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Willy Ronis. Edited, curated, with a meticulously-researched Essay by Peter Hamilton. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark retrospective exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Modern Art Oxford in 1995. Presents "Willy Ronis: Photographs 1926-1995". A gem of a book. "Produced in close cooperation with Willy Ronis and featuring images from his archives, traces the career of one of France's most remarkable photographers to whom, along with Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson, and Brassai, we owe our Romantic vision of France. In Ronis' photographs of Paris, the city is inseparable from the working-class men, women, and children who inhabit its streets and cafes. He once described his approach to photography in five words: 'Patience, thinking, chance, form, and time'. Working with available light, Ronis sought to capture the fleeting moments of everyday life. His body of work documents, with timeless beauty and grace, the feel of French life in the 20th century" (Peter Hamilton). The best photographs in this accessible and elegant classic are among the most beautiful photographs in the history of photography ever. An absolute "must-have" title for Willy Ronis collectors. This copy of the Retrospective Exhibition Monograph comes with a full-page handwritten letter (on his personal letterhead) that is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen by its editor/curator/essayist, Peter Hamilton. This title is a late-modern photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy (with signed letter) of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: The book was issued in a small and limited print run. 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 copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with photographic plates. One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. . ISBN B001ABI7I0.

Stock number: 20283. ISBN: B001ABI7I0

$US 50.00

Rosca, Ninotchka
State Of War

Imprint: New York City, NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1988
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 382 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. Ninotchka Rosca's masterpiece. 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 Ninotchka Rosca's "State of War". Her best novel. "A Kafkaesque brilliance, an intensity that makes this first novel a powerful piece of literature" (Publishers Weekly). The novel is a Modernist, modern-day re-telling of "El Filibusterismo" ("The Propagandist", originally written in Spanish and translated into more than fifty languages), which is available in Penguin Classics and is considered to be one of two great novels written by Jose Rizal, the Philippine national hero. The latter embraced the European ideas of nationalism and the independent nation/state during his self-imposed exile. At the behest of the omnipotent Roman Catholic hierarchy, Rizal was executed by the Spanish colonizers shortly after his (suicidal) return to the Philippines for advocating an independent republic through peaceful resistance and change, anticipating Gandhi and other nationalists by several decades. Ninotchka Rosca, herself a long-time exile and now an American citizen, insists, rightly, that nothing has changed and the struggle continues to this day. An absolute "must-have" title for Ninotchka Rosca collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in purple ink-pen on the title page by Ninotchka Rosca. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great novel. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and despite its imperfection (creasing and wear on the DJ spine) is still in fine condition: Every internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. It is priced accordingly. 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 NINOTCHKA ROSCA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0393025446.

Stock number: 19300. ISBN: 0393025446

$US 50.00

Rosefeldt, Julian (Photographer/Author); Thorp, David; Grisoni, Tony, Perceval, Luk & Others
Asylum

Imprint: Ostfildern, Germany, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2002
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 148 pages. Exhibition monograph. One of the most important photography books of our time. The first and only 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 Julian Rosefeldt: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Julian Rosefeldt. Essays by various contributors. Printed on thick coated stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. In bright red wraparound bellyband DJ with white titles on the cover, as issued. Published on the occasion of the installation/exhibition of the same name that was shown in various venues in the United Kingdom in 2002. Presents Julian Rosefeldt's "Asylum". A moving masterpiece. "Indian flower sellers, Turkish trash collectors, Chinese cooks, and prostitutes in Thailand. Munich-born artist/photographer Julian Rosefeldt confronts the viewers with stereotypical views of foreigners and ethnic minorities. In his seductively opulent tableaux-vivants, he exaggerates and parodies popular conceptions about roles and professions while embedding his protagonists in strangely surreal scenes and ritual contexts. This publication features photographs taken during the shooting of the video, film stills from Rosefeldt's nine 'Asylum' films, essays, and an Interview with the artist" (Publisher's blurb). Surely Rosefeldt is keenly aware of the harrowing suffering that photographers like Sebastiao Salgado and Fazal Sheikh have made it their life-work to commit for posterity. Not a single photograph in his collection, most of which are presented as doublespreads, shows "suffering". In fact, they show the refugees as normal and happy people: Praying, dancing, singing, hustling, having parties, vacationing, and yes, working very hard yet apparently enjoying it. Rosefeldt's point is simple and complex at the same time: There is no question that refugees are stateless, displaced peoples, with none of the legal rights that citizens have and take for granted. Still, after the initial trauma and shock, they adapt to their new, strange, often hostile environments, and get on with their lives. What mystifies and confuses their host-nations is precisely their resilience: Refugees are hopeful survivors, not hopeless dependents. They remind us that you cannot survive if all you try to do is survive. The only way every human being can survive is to live, and this is one of the reasons citizens develop ambivalent if not downright hostile attitudes about them. Still, as the great American novelist John Irving once suggested, "we are all refugees, we are all terminal cases". Rosefeldt shows that "home" is the fantasy and exile the real condition of humanity. An absolute "must-have" title for Julian Rosefeldt collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the bellyband DJ itself by Julian Rosefeldt. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 3775715126.

Stock number: 14420. ISBN: 3775715126

$US 50.00

Ross, Alex
Listen To This

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

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 366 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. "Autographed Copy" round green sticker pasted in front. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Alex Ross' "Listen To This". Illuminating and adventurous forays on music. Except for one magisterial piece that Ross wrote just for the book, all of the essays previously appeared in The New Yorker Magazine, have been slightly or significantly revised where appropriate, and are thereby the author's final versions. "Utilizes a wide musical scale: Classical music in China; opera as popular art; sketches of Schubert, Bjork, Kiki, and Herb, as a way of understanding the world. Ross offers timeless portraits that probe the ways that the powerful personalities of composers and musicians stamp an inherently abstract medium so that certain notes, songs, or choruses become instantly recognizable as the work of a certain artist. The virtuoso performance comes in the one previously unpublished essay, 'Chacona, Lamento, Walking Blues', where Ross isolates three different bass lines as they wind through music history from the 16th-century chacona, a dance that promised the upending of the social order, through the laments of Bach, opera, and finally the blues" (Publishers Weekly). "Whether his subject is Mozart or Bob Dylan, Ross shows how music expresses the full complexity of the human condition. Teaches us how to listen more closely" (Publisher's blurb). Just as his dazzling debut, "The Rest Is Noise", is best read and enjoyed as though it were a novel, his innate sense of narrative allows us to read his new collection as though it were a short story collection. Currently the Resident Music Critic of The New Yorker Magazine, Alex Ross succeeded not one but two of the greatest music critics we shall ever read: Andrew Porter and Paul Griffiths, both Brits. His essays are among the reasons The New Yorker Magazine remains not only relevant but necessary reading, nothing less than one of contemporary life's most civilized pleasures. An absolute "must-have" title for Alex Ross collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Alex Ross. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2008. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALEX ROSS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374187746.

Stock number: 15881. ISBN: 0374187746

$US 50.00

Ross, Alex
The Rest Is Noise: Listening To The Twentieth Century

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 625 pages. The author's breakthrough debut book. One of the best books on music 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 that sold out shortly after publication. "Autographed Copy" round white sticker pasted in front. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Alex Ross' "The Rest Is Noise: Listening To The Twentieth Century". His "ear-opening" perspective on a still-contentious subject, the "classical" music of our time. "A whirlwind tour, from the Viennese premiere of Richard Strauss' 'Salome' in 1906 to Minimalist Steve Reich's downtown Manhattan apartment. The wide-ranging historical material is organized in thematic essays grounded in personalities and places, in a disarmingly comprehensive style. Thus, composers who led dramatic lives, such as Shostakovich's struggles under the Soviet Regime, make for gripping reading, but Ross treats each composer with equal gravitas. The real strength of this study, however, lies in his detailed musical analysis, teasing out, in precise but readily accessible language, the notes that link Leonard Bernstein's 'West Side Story' to Arnold Schoenberg's avant-garde compositions or hint at a connection between Sibelius and John Coltrane. Among the many notable passages, a close reading of Benjamin Britten's opera 'Peter Grimes' stands out for its masterful blend of artistic and biographical insight. Even avid fans will find themselves hearing familiar favorites with new ears" (Publisher's blurb). "Reads like a sprawling, intense novel, one of utopian dreams, doom, and consolation, with the most extraordinary cast of characters. A great, inspiring ride" (Osvaldo Golijov). Currently the Resident Music Critic of The New Yorker Magazine, Alex Ross succeeded not one but two of the greatest music critics we shall ever read: Andrew Porter and Paul Griffiths, both Brits. His essays are among the reasons The New Yorker Magazine remains not only relevant but necessary reading, nothing less than one of contemporary life's civilized pleasures. An absolute "must-have" title for Alex Ross collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Alex Ross. 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. Lavishly illustrated with vintage photographs. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2008. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALEX ROSS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374249393.

Stock number: 22204. ISBN: 0374249393

$US 150.00

Roth, Marissa (Photographer) & Hagedorn, Jessica (Poet)
Burning Heart: A Portrait Of The Philippines

Imprint: New York City, NY, Rizzoli Publishers, 1999
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 150 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs juxtaposed with original poetry, presented as an Artist Book. One of the most beautiful photography books of our time. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Marissa Roth and Joseph Guglietti: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Marissa Roth. Poetry by Jessica Hagedorn. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Marissa Roth's "Burning Heart". The best photographic record of a moment in time: Deeply moving photographs of a country at a time of difficult change, accompanied (like contrapuntal music) by Jessica Hagedorn's melodious, pulsating, and vibrant poetry. The collapse of the Marcos dictatorship and the ascent of Corazon Aquino to power did not lead to a power vacuum or chaos, but to a problematic, fragile yet genuine democracy - whose spirit and substance have now largely dissipated. One of the 20th century's greatest democracy figures, Aquino coined the term "People Power", and became the first Woman President of her country. She appears in the collection, in the single most beautiful unposed photograph ever taken of her, from among literally thousands that exist. For many, if not most, Filipinos, her "People Power" revolution is now a distant memory. Which makes these photographs more, not less, evocative and valuable. Roth, a Jewish-American, won the Pulitzer Prize in 1993 for her coverage of the Los Angeles 1992 riots. She was commissioned by The Museum of Tolerance/Simon Wiesenthal Center to photograph seventy of the remaining Holocaust survivors. The exhibition in 2005 was a sensation and the book, "Witness To Truth", published in 2009. In a celebrated New Yorker Magazine review, Hagedorn, a Filipino-American, was praised by John Updike, the most influential reviewer/critic in America of his time, as one of the most brilliant writers of her generation. An absolute "must-have" title for Marissa Roth and Jessica Hagedorn collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, dated (on the day of publication), and inscribed in black ink-pen on the first image by the photographer: "Dear Carole, From the bottom of my heart. Thank you so much for being so supportive of my work. It has meant a lot to me. With warmest regards, Marissa Roth April 11, 1999". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, Carole Kismaric, a book designer, historian/scholar, and curator/author, is one of the most important figures in the history of photography. This title is a contemporary photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, publication-day dated, and inscribed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 45 duotone plates. Two of the most brilliant American artists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JESSICA HAGEDORN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0847821641.

Stock number: 13611. ISBN: 0847821641

$US 50.00

Roth, Philip
Everyman

Imprint: New York City, NY, Houghton Mifflin, 2006
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 182 pages. The author's twenty-fourth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Philip Roth's "Everyman". The first in Philip Roth's "Nemeses" cycle of short novels, which includes "Indignation" (2008), "The Humbling" (2009), and "Nemesis" (2010). "A slim but dense volume about a sickly boy who grows up obsessed with his and everybody else's health, and eventually dies in his 70's, just as he always said he would. It might remind you of the old joke about the hypochondriac who ordered his tombstone to read: 'I told you I was sick'. Through it all, there's that Roth-ian voice: Pained, angry, arrogant, and deeply, wryly funny. Nothing escapes him, not even his own self-seriousness" (Sara Nelson). When asked why he is so prolific, Roth famously replied, "I am a writer. I write". He echoes this artisanal ethic beautifully in the book: "Amateurs look for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work" (Philip Roth). Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018 of congestive heart failure, literally of heartbreak, at the age of 85. An absolute "must-have" title for Philip Roth 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. Six of Philip Roth's novels were selected as among the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years: "American Pastoral", "The Counterlife", "Operation Shylock", "Sabbath's Theater", "The Human Stain", and "The Plot Against America". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIP ROTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 061873516X.

Stock number: 17689. ISBN: 061873516X

$US 20.00

Roth, Philip
Exit Ghost

Imprint: New York City, NY, Houghton Mifflin, 2007
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 292 pages. The author's eighth and final "Zuckerman" novel. One of Philip Roth's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Philip Roth's "Exit Ghost". The final "Zuckerman" novel. The title is aptly allusive, as the very first novel featuring Nathan Zuckerman is "The Ghost Writer". After more than a decade in rural New England, Nathan Zuckerman, now 71 years old, returns to New York City, to consult his doctor about the prostate condition that has left him incontinent and impotent (the first two major blows in the Rothian universe, dire intimations of mortality, the third and final blow being death). "Roth being Roth, the plot is much more complicated than it at first appears. Within a few days of arriving in New York, Zuckerman accidentally encounters Amy Bellette, the woman who was once the muse/wife of his beloved idol, writer S. I. Lonoff. He also meets a young novelist, and promptly begins fantasizing about the writer's young and beautiful wife. There's also a sub-plot about a would-be Lonoff biographer, who enrages Zuckerman with his brashness and ambition, two qualities a faithful Roth reader cannot help ascribing to the young, sycophantic Zuckerman himself. Roth's voice is wise, rueful, and full of wit" (Publishers Weekly). The novel is "haunted by Roth's earlier works, the melancholy comedy of 'The Ghost Writer', the counterpoint of the imaginary and the real in 'The Counterlife', the distinctive dialogues of 'Deception'. A reminder of Roth's incomparable style and themes, and an amazing leap into yet another phase in this great writer's insatiable commitment to fiction" (Publisher's blurb). The publication of "Exit Ghost" coincides with the release of the Zuckerman Trilogy itself ("The Ghost Writer", "Zuckerman Unbound", and "The Anatomy Lesson") as Volume Four of The Library of America Series, the only writer so honored while he was still alive. Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018 of congestive heart failure, literally of heartbreak, at the age of 85. An absolute "must-have" title for Philip Roth collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Philip Roth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few such signed 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. Six of Philip Roth's novels were selected as among the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years: "American Pastoral", "The Counterlife", "Operation Shylock", "Sabbath's Theater", "The Human Stain", and "The Plot Against America". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIP ROTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0618915478.

Stock number: 15011. ISBN: 0618915478

$US 200.00

Roth, Philip (Author) & Miller, Ross (Editor)
Goodbye, Columbus & Five Short Stories, Letting Go: Novels And Stories 1959-1962

Imprint: New York City, NY, The Library Of America, 2005
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 913 pages. Volume One of The Library of America's definitive Collected Works of Philip Roth. 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. Printed to the highest standards on acid-free paper, utilizing sewn binding, closely woven rayon cloth boards, satin bound-in ribbon marker, and a page layout that is both readable and elegant, each volume is guaranteed to last for several generations of readers and collectors (despite frequent and regular use, the estimated life span of Library of America Editions is 1000 years; un-used, they will last forever). Each volume is scrupulously edited and annotated by Ross Miller. Presents Volume One of The Collected Works of Philip Roth: "Gooodbye, Columbus And Five Short Stories" and "Letting Go". The two books that inaugurated the author's long, productive, and stupendous literary career. "Unlike those of us who come howling into the world, blind and bare, Mr. Roth appears with nails, hair, teeth, speaking coherently. He is skilled, witty, energetic, and performs like a virtuoso" (Saul Bellow). "One knows when one is reading something that will permanently enter the culture" (Cynthia Ozick). "Our foremost novelist since Faulkner" (Harold Bloom). Philip Roth was only the third writer to be so honored by The Library of America while still alive. Published in chronological order, the entire oeuvre consists of ten volumes in all and will surely be regarded as one of the "high spots" in The Library of America Series. Roth famously announced in 2012 that he has permanently stopped writing. Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018 of congestive heart failure, literally of heartbreak, at the age of 85. An absolute "must-have" title for Philip Roth collectors. This copy of Volume One is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Philip Roth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First "Library of America" 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, have the bookstore's stamp, or are subsequent printings yet command hundreds of dollars. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. "Goodbye, Columbus" won the National Book Award in 1959, the first of numerous major awards the writer has received. Six of Philip Roth's novels were selected as among the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years: "American Pastoral", "The Counterlife", "Operation Shylock", "Sabbath's Theater", "The Human Stain", and "The Plot Against America". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIP ROTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1931082790.

Stock number: 18504. ISBN: 1931082790

$US 250.00

Roth, Philip
Indignation

Imprint: New York City, NY, Houghton And Mifflin, 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. 233 pages. The author's twenty-fifth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Philip Roth's "Indignation". The second in Philip Roth's "Nemeses" cycle of short novels, which includes "Everyman" (2006), "The Humbling" (2009), and "Nemesis" (2010). "Plumbs the depths of the Cold War-era male libido, burdened as it is with sexual myths and a consciousness overloaded with vivid images of impending death either by the bomb or in Korea. At least this is the way things appear to narrator Marcus Messner, the 19-year-old son of a Newark kosher butcher. Perhaps because Marcus' Dad saw his two brothers' only sons die in the Second World War, he becomes an overprotective paranoid when Marcus turns 18, prompting Marcus to flee to Winesburg College in Ohio. Though the distance helps, Marcus, too, is haunted by the idea that flunking out of college means going to Korea. The terrible sadness of Marcus' life is rendered palpable by Roth's fierce grasp of the psychology of this butcher's boy, down to his bought-for-Winesburg wardrobe. It's a melancholy triumph and a cogent reflection on society in a time of war" (Publishers Weekly). Some critics have noted that "Indignation" revisits "Portnoy's Complaint", from a tragic rather than parodic worldview, and they are sort-of-right. It is really Roth writing in his maturity - and still at the peak of his powers - on adolescence and sexual experience as signs of a closely intertwined vitality and mortality. Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018 of congestive heart failure, literally of heartbreak, at the age of 85. The basis of the very fine film adaptation by James Schamus, with career-defining performances by Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, and Tracy Letts. An absolute "must-have" title for Philip Roth collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Philip Roth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page, as copies available online are. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Six of Philip Roth's novels were selected as among the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years: "American Pastoral", "The Counterlife", "Operation Shylock", "Sabbath's Theater", "The Human Stain", and "The Plot Against America". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIP ROTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 054705484X.

Stock number: 15867. ISBN: 054705484X

$US 200.00

Roth, Philip
I Married A Communist: The Limited Edition

Imprint: Boston, MA, Houghton And Mifflin, 1998
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 323 pages. The author's eighteenth novel. One of Philip Roth's finest achievements. Limited Slipcased Edition of 200 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Should not be confused with the un-numbered Franklin Mint Edition either. It has the same ISBN as the regular trade edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Houghton And Mifflin: Regular-sized volume format. "Communist"-color red cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by Philip Roth. Black hard board slipcase. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, Philip Roth's "I Married A Communist". The second book in the author's American Trilogy, preceded by "American Pastoral" (1997) and completed by "The Human Stain" (2000), novels that are unified by an underlying theme that is more relevant, and more poignant, than ever: The gradual and seemingly irreversible erosion and decline of American democracy as well as family and personal lives in the middle-to-late 20th century. "Narrates the story of Ira Ringold, a supremely idealistic political radical and celebrated radio star of the 1950's, who is blacklisted and brought to ruin when his wife, Eva Frame, writes an expose called 'I Married A Communist'. Roth's evocation of the McCarthy Era has clarity and vigor" (Publishers Weekly). "Roth's acerbic style and keen eye for emotional detail goes to the heart of this moment of high tragedy in which the American Dream was damaged beyond repair" (Lisa Jardine). In a lifetime of prodigious writing, there have been no more than ten Philip Roth Limited Editions in all, making each one of them eminently collectible. Surely, Roth deserved more, and were it not for his fraught relationship with FSG, he would have gotten more. Instead, he had to settle for Franklin Mint editions, which are strictly speaking, NOT Limited Editions because the limitation is never stated. "For the last half-century, the novels of Philip Roth have re-energized American fiction and re-defined its possibilities. Roth's comic genius, his imaginative daring, his courage in exploring uncomfortable truths, and his assaults on political, cultural, and sexual orthodoxies have made him one of the essential writers of our time" (Ross Miller). Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018 of congestive heart failure, literally of heartbreak, at the age of 85. An absolute "must-have" title for Philip Roth collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Slipcased Edition, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by Philip Roth. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Should NOT be confused with the regular trade edition. Should NOT be confused with the un-numbered Franklin Mint Edition either. A rare signed copy thus. Six of Philip Roth's novels were selected as among the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years: "American Pastoral", "The Counterlife", "Operation Shylock", "Sabbath's Theater", "The Human Stain", and "The Plot Against America". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIP ROTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0395951062.

Stock number: 21973. ISBN: 0395951062

$US 400.00

Roth, Philip
Nemesis

Imprint: New York City, NY, Houghton And Mifflin, 2010
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 285 pages. The author's twenty-seventh and final novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Philip Roth's "Nemesis". The fourth in Philip Roth's "Nemeses" cycle of short novels, which includes "Everyman" (2006), "Indignation" (2008), and "The Humbling" (2009). "As exceptional as those novels are, this latest in the Series far exceeds its predecessors in both emotion and intellect. The novel is a staggering visit to a time and place when a monumental health crisis dominated the way people led their day-to-day lives. Newark has been hit by an epidemic of polio. At that time, how the disease spread and its cure were unknown. The city is in a panic, with residents so suspicious of other individuals and ethnic groups that emotions quickly escalate into hostility and rage. Our hero, and he proves truly heroic, is Bucky Cantor, playground director in the Jewish neighborhood. As the summer progresses, Bucky sees more and more of his teenage charges succumb to the disease. When an opportunity presents itself to leave the city for work in a Catskills summer camp, Bucky is torn between personal safety and personal duty. What happens is heart-breaking, but the joy of having met Bucky redeems any residual sadness" (Brad Hooper). Philip Roth died on May 22, 2018 of congestive heart failure, literally of heartbreak, at the age of 85. An absolute "must-have" title for Philip Roth collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Philip Roth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Six of Philip Roth's novels were selected as among the Top 20 works of American fiction of the last 25 years: "American Pastoral", "The Counterlife", "Operation Shylock", "Sabbath's Theater", "The Human Stain", and "The Plot Against America". One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PHILIP ROTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0547318359.

Stock number: 22260. ISBN: 0547318359

$US 200.00