Salter, James
All That Is: A Novel

Imprint: London, England, Picador, 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. 290 pages. The author's sixth and final novel. Now widely considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents James Salter's "All That Is". His first novel in 35 years, and his last. Published at the age of 87, Salter's novel is about writing itself. He is speaking for himself (and other writers) when his protagonist, Philip Bowman, who closely resembles him, particularly his youthful military and subsequent literary selves, muses: "The power of the novel in the nation's culture had weakened. It had happened gradually. It was something everyone recognized and ignored. All went on exactly as before, that was the beauty of it. The glory had faded but fresh faces kept appearing, wanting to be part of it, to be in publishing, which had retained a suggestion of elegance like a pair of beautiful, bone-shined shoes owned by a bankrupt man". "Here, as always, this writer so at war with the obvious uncovers radiance even in the most melancholy circumstance, applying to it the same rigor he uses to scrutinize and dismiss any easy, conventional notions about heroism or the honorable life" (The New York Times). In contemporary culture, writing = telling stories. Storytelling is something a writer necessarily does, and genius-writers do it better than anyone else. But entertainers and other artists are storytellers too, and are often very good at it. As a storyteller, the writer has diminished in our celebrity culture to the point of insignificance. But what the writer will always represent at any moment of any national culture, a heroic, transcendent solitude, is irreplaceable. The fashionable celebrities of our time - the Hollywood star, the Silicon Valley "genius", and their ilk - cannot even begin to approach the summit that the writer reaches simply by putting pen to paper, a privilege and an honor that James Salter reminds us of in his valedictory novel. That's all that matters in the end, all that is. James Salter died on June 19, 2015. An absolute "must-have" title for James Salter collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by James Salter. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Leaflet of the event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First British Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: There is a British Limited Edition, which commands $700 online. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMES SALTER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1447238249.

Stock number: 18756. ISBN: 1447238249

$US 200.00

Salzman, Mark
Lying Awake

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. 181 pages. The author's third novel. Widely regarded as the author's finest achievement since his two best books, "Iron & Silk" (1986) and "The Soloist" (1994). 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 Mark Salzman's "Lying Awake". His most accomplished novel thus far. "Using a very limited palette, Mark Salzman creates an austere masterpiece. The real miracle is that it works perfectly on every level: On the realistic surface, it captures the petty squabbles and tiny bursts of radiance of life in a Los Angeles monastery; deeper down it probes the nature of spiritual illumination and the meaning and purpose of prayer in everyday life; and at bottom, there lurks a profound meditation on the mystery of artistic inspiration. Quieter and more sober than Salzman's previous narratives, it is also more accomplished, more thought-provoking, and more highly crafted" (David Laskin). Described by The New Yorker Magazine as "nearly flawless". An absolute "must-have" title for Mark Salzman collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Mark Salzman. 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. Finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for "Iron & Silk". One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARK SALZMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0375406328.

Stock number: 10043. ISBN: 0375406328

$US 30.00

Salzman, Mark
The Laughing Sutra

Imprint: New York City, NY, Random House, 1991
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 263 pages. The author's debut novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Mark Salzman's "The Laughing Sutra". His riveting first novel. "Salzman's bestselling account of his adventures as an English teacher and martial arts student in China introduced a writer of enormous charm and keen insight into the cultural chasm between East and West. Now Salzman returns to China in his first novel, which follows the adventures of Hsun-ching, a naive but courageous orphan, and the formidable and mysterious Colonel Sun, who together travel from mainland China to San Francisco, risking everything to track down an elusive Buddhist scripture called The Laughing Sutra. Part Tom Sawyer, part Tom Jones, the novel draws us into an irresistible narrative of danger and comedy that speaks volumes about the nature of freedom and the meaning of loyalty" (Publisher's blurb). "A contemporary version of a classic tale. Salzman is a highly appealing writer" (Philadelphia Inquirer). An absolute "must-have" title for Mark Salzman collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Mark Salzman. 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. Finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for "Iron & Silk". One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARK SALZMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 039457009X.

Stock number: 14024. ISBN: 039457009X

$US 30.00

Salzman, Mark
The Soloist

Imprint: London, England, Bloomsbury Publishing, 1994
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 275 pages. The author's second novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First British 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 Mark Salzman's "The Soloist". His best book since his breakthrough debut, "Iron & Silk" (1986). A cult "crossover" classic among readers who are not lovers of classical music and classical music lovers who do not read, it is about "the difficulties encountered by talented children, dispassionately chronicled in this unusual story about a musical prodigy who as an adult must come to terms with his own mediocrity. When Reinhart Sundheimer's prodigious talent as a world-renowned cellist suddenly and inexplicably deserts him at age 18, he is bereft for he knows no other life than that of the concert stage and is accustomed to adulation. As a college professor who has never learned social skills, he is aloof from his colleagues and spends his spare time practicing in the vain hope that his genius will return. Then, in one event-filled week, the outside world invades his insular environment. First, he is called to jury duty and second, he agrees to give cello lessons to a 12-year-old prodigy. Interacting with other jurors during deliberations on a brutal murder case and reacting to the unpredictability of his student require emotional resources that he never knew he possessed. Both experiences result in personal insight that allows him to accept his limitations as a musician and gives him the courage to broaden his horizons as a human being" (Publisher's blurb). Salzman's now-considerable body of work has two underlying themes: The meaning of self-education, which involves the give-and-take between a great teacher and a brilliant protege, and the persistence of hope despite the possibility that not all of one's dreams may ever be fulfilled. An absolute "must-have" title for Mark Salzman collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Mark Salzman. 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 British Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: The British Edition is more scarce than 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 scarce signed copy thus. Finalist of the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for "Iron & Silk". One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARK SALZMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0394570103.

Stock number: 14028. ISBN: 0394570103

$US 30.00

Samaras, Lucas (Artist) & Glenn, Constance (Editor)
Lucas Samaras: Sketches, Drawings, Doodles, And Plans

Imprint: New York City, NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1987
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 80 pages. Facsimile Reproduction Sketchbook. One of the most beautiful art books of the 20th century. Limited Edition of 2400 copies. There is no regular trade edition. The Limited Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Lucas Samaras and Michael Hentges: Oversize-volume format. Copper gold "pebble-grained" hard boards with blue titles embossed on the spine, as issued. Art by Lucas Samaras. All of them are reproduced "bleed". Text by Constance Glenn printed on a separate booklet that is encased in a large black pocket on the front pastedown. Matching copper gold "pebble-grained" slipcase with blue titles embossed on one side. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in Japan to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Lucas Samaras' "Sketches, Drawings, Doodles, And Plans". One of the most beautifully produced art books one will ever see. Samaras kept sketches, drawings, doodles, and preliminary plans in sketchbooks throughout his artistic life (since high school), an accumulation that the book attempts to reproduce as faithfully as possible in one volume. In the process, the book itself has "become an Artist Book: Each doodle, each drawing occupies a special place in the order the artist has chosen. The result is a picture of Samaras as artist over thirty years. As a body, how clearly these eighty pencil, pen, and ink studies show Samaras' mercurial ability to defy the categorization that has eased the recognition of so many of his contemporaries" (Constance Glenn). There is little danger of Samaras being labelled so easily. He revolutionized modern art by using the human body, that is to say, himself, as its central subject with "Samaras Album: Autointerview, Autobiography, Autopolaroid" (1971). The latter shocked the art world at the time, influenced at least two generations of artists and photographers, and is now regarded as one of the greatest art of the 20th century. "Samaras Album" and the present volume have one thing in common: They are both album-collections, which start quietly, rise to a crescendo, then start all over again. "Art is an organic, dangerous thing" (Lucas Samaras). An absolute "must-have" title for Lucas Samaras collectors. This title is an art book classic. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws because the boards are fragile, very easily rubbed and soiled. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 80 plates. One of the greatest artists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LUCAS SAMARAS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0810915111.

Stock number: 17208. ISBN: 0810915111

$US 100.00

Sank, Michelle (Photographer); Goldblatt, David & Lucey, Helen (Contributors)
Becoming: Photographs By Michelle Sank: The Limited Edition

Imprint: Belfast, Ireland, Belfast Exposed Photography/Ffotogallery, 2006
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 95 pages. Retrospective collection of color photographs. One of Michelle Sank's finest achievements. Limited Edition of 1000 copies. The first and only edition. The Limited Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Michelle Sank: Oversize-volume format. Pale gray hard boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Michelle Sank. Essays by the great South African photographer David Goldblatt and academic expert Helen Lucey. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Belfast, Ireland to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents, in a Limited Edition format, Michelle Sank's "Becoming". A selection of portrait-photographs from projects developed over five years. "Accompanied by texts from academic Helen Lucey and veteran photographer David Goldblatt. Michelle Sank has photographed young people in different social contexts across the United Kingdom. The portraits have been produced through a heady mix of 'street photography' and negotiated youth-group collaborations. Michelle Sank has worked with young people living in inter-face areas of Belfast, young carers responsible for a sick parent or sibling, teenage mothers, and juvenile offenders on a rehabilitation program. She has worked on residencies in Cardiff, Belfast, and Liverpool. Michelle Sank is interested in the experience of growing up, that difficult transition from childhood to adulthood. Her photographs have a strong formal aesthetic, but are not staged, and the subjects are not directed. Individuals are invited to present themselves to the camera as they deem appropriate. The outcome is a series of portraits that reveal a quiet conflict within its subjects. The young people confidently embrace the opportunity to be photographed with attitude and grace. At the same time, they appear vulnerable and doubtful, questioning the complex process and changing realities of becoming an adult. She is interested in the way that individuals are shaped by social structures, how gender, sexuality, class, and ethnicity enter into us as subjects" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Michelle Sank collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, dated, and inscribed in black ink-pen on the title page by the photographer: "For Martha, With best wishes, Michelle 14/03/10". The recipient, Martha Schneider, who is named, is one of the most important figures in the art photography world. This title is a contemporary photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, dated, and inscribed copy of the Limited Edition 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. (SEE ALSO MONIKA MERVA "THE CITY OF CHILDREN" TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 187277167X.

Stock number: 19656. ISBN: 187277167X

$US 70.00

Saramago, Jose (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
All The Names

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

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 238 pages. The author's seventh novel to be translated into English. One of Jose Saramago's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jose Saramago's "Todos os Nomes" in a felicitous English translation. A late-career masterpiece from the legendary Master. "The deceptive simplicity of Saramago's prose and the ironic comments that he intersperses within this story of an obsessional quest initially have a disarming effect. One expects that this low-key exploration of a quiet man's eccentric descent into a metaphysical labyrinth will be an extremely intelligent but unexciting read. Within the first few pages, Saramago establishes a tension that sings on the page, rises, produces stunning revelations, and culminates when the final paragraph twists expectations once again. Saramago relates these events in finely honed prose pervaded with irony" (Publishers Weekly). Saramago re-visits and re-examines "the human condition", that otherwise exhausted inheritance from the idea and the reality called Europe, and sees it with fresh eyes through the prism of Apocalypse/"The End". He revitalizes and enlarges the novel through allegory. Often described as a satirist, Saramago's work goes much deeper, and he is perhaps the greatest modern literary ironist since Franz Kafka. An important distinction: A satirist mocks, makes fun of, and laughs at others; an ironist mocks, makes fun of, and laughs at himself, that is, makes us laugh at his pain. Saramago was an anomaly who came out of nowhere, seemingly born a genius. Every single page of every single book he has ever written makes the reader feel that he or she is in the hands of an unsurpassable Master. An absolute "must-have" title for Jose Saramago collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the two greatest novelists of our time (the other being Philip Roth), Jose Saramago will be read as probably the greatest European novelist of the last fifty years. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSE SARAMAGO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0151004218.

Stock number: 18041. ISBN: 0151004218

$US 30.00

Saramago, Jose (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
Death With Interruptions

Imprint: New York City, NY, Harcourt, Inc., 2008
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 238 pages. The author's eleventh novel to be translated into English. One of Jose Saramago's finest achievements. 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 Jose Saramago's "As intermitencias da morte" in a felicitous English translation. Saramago's philosophical page-turner. "Hinges on death taking a holiday. And, Saramago being Saramago, he turns what could be the stuff of late-night stoner debate into a lucid, playful, and politically edgy novel of ideas. For reasons initially unclear, people stop dying in an unnamed country on New Year's Day. Shortly after death begins her break (death is a woman), there's a catastrophic collapse in the funeral industry, disruption in hospitals of the usual rotational process of patients coming in, getting better or dying, and general havoc. There's much debate and discussion on the link between Death, Resurrection, and the Church, and while the clandestine traffic of the terminally ill into bordering countries leads to government collusion with the self-styled mafia, death falls in love with a terminally ill cellist. Saramago adds two satisfying cliffhangers: How far can he go with the concept, and will death succumb to human love? Profound, resonant, and entertaining" (Publishers Weekly). Saramago re-visits and re-examines "the human condition", that otherwise exhausted inheritance from the idea and the reality called Europe, and sees it with fresh eyes through the prism of Apocalypse/"The End". He revitalizes and enlarges the novel through allegory. Often described as a satirist, Saramago's work goes much deeper, and he is perhaps the greatest modern literary ironist since Franz Kafka. An important distinction: A satirist mocks, makes fun of, and laughs at others; an ironist mocks, makes fun of, and laughs at himself, that is, makes us laugh at his pain. "Arguably the greatest writer of our time. He throws a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects" (The Chicago Tribune). Saramago was an anomaly who came out of nowhere, seemingly born a genius. Every single page of every single book he has ever written makes the reader feel that he or she is in the hands of an unsurpassable Master. An absolute "must-have" title for Jose Saramago collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the two greatest novelists of our time (the other being Philip Roth), Jose Saramago will be read as probably the greatest European novelist of the last fifty years. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSE SARAMAGO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0151012741.

Stock number: 17875. ISBN: 0151012741

$US 30.00

Saramago, Jose (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
Seeing

Imprint: New York City, NY, Harcourt, Inc., 2006
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 307 pages. The author's tenth novel to be translated into English. One of Jose Saramago's finest achievements. 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 Jose Saramago's "Ensaio sobre a Lucidez" in a felicitous English translation. Known simply as "Seeing", the sequel to "Blindness". The latter had an almost mythic power "whereas its sequel, a political satire set in the same nameless city, opens with more wit and less heart. When Election Day coincides with a terrible rainstorm, the government worries that no one will venture out to vote. This fear is unfounded, but the election results are even more alarming: 70% of the city's voters have cast a blank ballot. Saramago has enormous fun imagining the official acrobatics precipitated by this apparent vote of no-confidence, and as the political hypocrisies and bureaucratic absurdities multiply, the narrative hums with correspondences to current events. Initially, readers may miss the previous novel's intensity of feeling, but this one's lightness proves deceptive: For Saramago's beleaguered citizens, even thoughts never uttered can be fatal, and everyone is guilty until otherwise notified" (The New Yorker Magazine). Saramago re-visits and re-examines "the human condition", that otherwise exhausted inheritance from the idea and the reality called Europe, and sees it with fresh eyes through the prism of Apocalypse/"The End". He revitalizes and enlarges the novel through allegory. Often described as a satirist, Saramago's work goes much deeper, and he is perhaps the greatest modern literary ironist since Franz Kafka. An important distinction: A satirist mocks, makes fun of, and laughs at others; an ironist mocks, makes fun of, and laughs at himself, that is, makes us laugh at his pain. "Arguably the greatest writer of our time. He throws a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects" (The Chicago Tribune). Saramago was an anomaly who came out of nowhere, seemingly born a genius. Every single page of every single book he has ever written makes the reader feel that he or she is in the hands of an unsurpassable Master. An absolute "must-have" title for Jose Saramago collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the two greatest novelists of our time (the other being Philip Roth), Jose Saramago will be read as probably the greatest European novelist of the last fifty years. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSE SARAMAGO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0151012385.

Stock number: 19685. ISBN: 0151012385

$US 50.00

Saramago, Jose (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
Small Memories: A Memoir

Imprint: New York City, NY, Houghton And Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2011
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 165 pages. The author's memoir, published posthumously. One of Jose Saramago's finest achievements. 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 Jose Saramago's "As Pequenas Memorias" in a felicitous English translation. Includes a Coda of Portraits, vintage photographs from his private archives, with tenderly ironic contemporary Captions. "One of the most sheerly beautiful writing in any mode or genre. In common with other writers who take backward glances at life, Saramago remembers being raised amid idiosyncratic relatives and neighbors who, if not directly supplying fodder for future writing, gave Saramago an early sensitivity to the fact that the best drama is about ordinary folk. What makes the book so distinctive and charming is that Saramago admits that certain of his memories have a fuzzy provenance. Did he actually experience this or that event or just hear about them later? He simply lets the narrative roll along in verbal splendor and poignant intimacy, making the question of truth-rooted accuracy a moot point" (Brad Hooper). "Arguably the greatest writer of our time. He throws a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects" (The Chicago Tribune). Saramago was an anomaly who came out of nowhere, seemingly born a genius. Every single page of every single book he has ever written makes the reader feel that he or she is in the hands of an unsurpassable Master. An absolute "must-have" title for Jose Saramago collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the two greatest novelists of our time (the other being Philip Roth), Jose Saramago will be read as probably the greatest European novelist of the last fifty years. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSE SARAMAGO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0151015082.

Stock number: 18045. ISBN: 0151015082

$US 30.00

Saramago, Jose (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa)
The Elephant's Journey

Imprint: New York City, NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 2010
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 210 pages. The author's twelfth novel to be translated into English, published posthumously. One of the greatest novels of the 20th century. 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 Jose Saramago's "A Viagem do Elefante" in a felicitous English translation. Pure enchantment, based upon a true historical event. "In 1551, King Joao III of Portugal gave Archduke Maximilian an unusual wedding present: An elephant named Solomon. In Saramago's remarkable and imaginative retelling, Solomon and his keeper, Subhro, begin in dismal conditions, forgotten in a corner of the palace grounds. When it occurs to the King and Queen that an elephant would be an appropriate wedding present, everyone rushes to get them ready: Subhro is given two new suits of clothes and Solomon a long overdue scrub" (Publisher's blurb). "A novel with a heroic main character is not uncommon. However, when an elephant is playing that role, the novel can be considered unique, especially because it is based on an actual event" (Brad Hooper). Saramago re-visits and re-examines "the human condition", that otherwise exhausted inheritance from the idea and the reality called Europe, and sees it with fresh eyes through the prism of Apocalypse/"The End". He revitalizes and enlarges the novel through allegory. Often described as a satirist, Saramago's work goes much deeper, and he is perhaps the greatest modern literary ironist since Franz Kafka. An important distinction: A satirist mocks, makes fun of, and laughs at others; an ironist mocks, makes fun of, and laughs at himself, that is, makes us laugh at his pain. "Arguably the greatest writer of our time. He throws a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects" (The Chicago Tribune). Saramago was an anomaly who came out of nowhere, seemingly born a genius. Every single page of every single book he has ever written makes the reader feel that he or she is in the hands of an unsurpassable Master. An absolute "must-have" title for Jose Saramago collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the two greatest novelists of our time (the other being Philip Roth), Jose Saramago will be read as probably the greatest European novelist of the last fifty years. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSE SARAMAGO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0547352581.

Stock number: 18511. ISBN: 0547352581

$US 30.00

Saramago, Jose (Translated by Giovanni Pontiero)
The Lives Of Things: Short Stories: The Uncorrected Proof

Imprint: London, England, Verso Books, 2012
Edition: First Edition

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 165 pages. Collection of short stories, published posthumously. Uncorrected Proof. The very first appearance of the title in published form in English and in the United Kingdom, it is one of Jose Saramago's earliest books, published in 1978 and now finally available in translation thirty-four years later. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited one-time-only print run as a softcover original only for the exclusive use of the publisher and author. None of the copies was commercially sold. There is no American Edition. The Uncorrected Proof is now rare. Presents Jose Saramago's "Objecto Quase" in a felicitous English translation. A magnanimous gesture from the Modern Master. "Combining bitter satire, outrageous parody, and uncanny hallucinations, this collection of Saramago's earliest stories attests to the novelist's imaginative power and incomparable skill in elaborating the most extravagant fantasies. Each tale is a wicked, surreal take on life under dictatorship: In 'Embargo', a man drives around a city that is slowly running out of petrol; 'The Chair' recounts what happens when dictator Salazar falls off his chair and dies; in the Kafkaesque 'Things', the life of a civil servant is threatened as objects start to go missing" (Publisher's blurb). "Saramago will be a permanent part of the Western canon. In all of his wonderful meditations upon the ruefulness of life, there is always a spirit of laughter beckoning us in the art of somehow going on. His achievement is one of the enlargements of life" (Harold Bloom). That is to say, more than any other great European writer of our time, he makes us laugh at his pain. "Arguably the greatest writer of our time. He throws a dazzling flash of lightning on his subjects" (The Chicago Tribune). Saramago was an anomaly who came out of nowhere, seemingly born a genius. Every single page of every single book he has ever written makes the reader feel that he or she is in the hands of an unsurpassable Master. An absolute "must-have" title for Jose Saramago collectors. This is a copy of the Uncorrected Proof. This title is a late-modern classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Uncorrected Proof of the First British Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the two greatest novelists of our time (the other being Philip Roth), Jose Saramago will be read as probably the greatest European novelist of the last fifty years. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSE SARAMAGO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 18047.

$US 30.00

Saramago, Jose (Translated by Amanda Hopkinson & Daniel Hahn)
The Notebook

Imprint: London, England, Verso Books, 2010
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 276 pages. The author's diary of one year. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is no American Edition. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jose Saramago's "O Caderno" in a felicitous English translation. Offers a rare glimpse into his personal life with the publication of a year's worth of blog entries. "Assembled in diary form. Goaded by his family, Saramago agreed to blog about any and everything he had to say. What has emerged is an incredibly poetic glimpse of our world. He writes exceptionally moving pieces concerning the Middle East and many other regions of the globe. Beautifully crafted and honest, elegant in tone and style, they clearly convey a legend's take on our evolving society" (Publisher's blurb). Well, Saramago was not your ordinary blogger. His blogs should be required reading for all other career-bloggers. Saramago just happened to be "arguably the greatest writer of our time" (The Chicago Tribune), and as such, appropriated the blog as an extension of his work. Every single page of every single book he has ever written makes the reader feel that he or she is in the hands of an unsurpassable Master, and the pages of this Notebook are no exception. That's precisely why they have now been collected and published in a book whereas most blogs will not. An absolute "must-have" title for Jose Saramago collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First British Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: 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. Regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the two greatest novelists of our time (the other being Philip Roth), Jose Saramago will be read as probably the greatest European novelist of the last fifty years. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSE SARAMAGO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1844676145.

Stock number: 18278. ISBN: 1844676145

$US 20.00

Saramago, Jose (Translated by Giovanni Pontiero)
The Stone Raft

Imprint: New York City, NY, Harcourt Brace, 1995
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 292 pages. The author's fourth novel to be translated into English. One of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that was made possible by a grant from the National Library of Portugal. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jose Saramago's "A Jangada de Pedra" in a felicitous English translation. His imaginative and prescient allegory on Europe. What if Portugal and Spain, once omnipotent world powers now reduced to second-class status, were to break away altogether from Europe and become adrift like a raft on the Atlantic? Saramago imagines just such a break-up (which results from a massive crack in the Pyrenees) in one of his greatest creations. "The silent dogs of Cerbere begin to bark, a sign that the universe is coming to an end. People start to wander about aimlessly. The Portuguese Government resigns as it becomes clear that the new island is going to collide with the Azores. With death and destruction seemingly imminent, a group of strangers ends up together, and their lives are transformed" (Publisher's blurb). Among other delicious catastrophes, the possibility that the island/raft will hit the United States, slamming into and pushing New York City inland, is the most brilliant. Saramago re-visits and re-examines "the human condition", that otherwise exhausted inheritance from the idea and the reality called Europe, and sees it with fresh eyes through the prism of Apocalypse/"The End". He revitalizes and enlarges the novel through allegory. Often described as a satirist, Saramago's work goes much deeper, and he is perhaps the greatest literary ironist since Franz Kafka. An important distinction: A satirist mocks, makes fun of, and laughs at others; an ironist mocks, makes fun of, and laughs at himself, that is, makes us laugh at his pain. Saramago was an anomaly who came out of nowhere, seemingly born a genius. Every single page of every single book he has ever written makes the reader feel that he or she is in the hands of an unsurpassable Master. An absolute "must-have" title for Jose Saramago collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: 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. Regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the two greatest novelists of our time (the other being Philip Roth), Jose Saramago will be read as probably the greatest European novelist of the last fifty years. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1998. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSE SARAMAGO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0151851980.

Stock number: 18043. ISBN: 0151851980

$US 100.00

Sarfati, Lise (Photographer) & Medvedkova, Olga (Contributor)
The New Life/la Vie Nouvelle

Imprint: Santa Fe, NM, Twin Palms Publishers, 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. 120 pages. The photographer's breakthrough collection on American "youth culture". One of the most sensational photographic projects of our time. Limited Edition of 3500 copies. An austerely elegant production by Lise Sarfati, Jack Woody, and Francois Adragna: Oversize-volume format in wide oblong shape. Black cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Lise Sarfati. Essay, "Incipit Vita Nova", by Olga Medvedkova, in the French original and felicitous English translation. List of Plates appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Lise Sarfati's "The New Life". The immensely talented French photographer's collection on American teen-agers, an outsider looking (very) perceptively in. In each of these elegant, laconic, and pensive portraits, Lise Sarfati somehow captures the complexity of adolescent identity and defines it as a time when the simplest of human emotions becomes exalted and everything is lived with an intensity that will never happen again. No one has photographed American teen-agers like this and pulled it off so convincingly. "Her acute compositional sense combined with an instinctive feel for color, texture, and contrast creates a physical and psychological space which is both engaging and elusive" (Photographers Gallery London). The French have had a long and enduring fascination with American culture. Their snobbishness is ultimately a "defense mechanism" for their secret love affair with America. An evocative and moving collection, Sarfati's images rank with the work of Rineke Dijkstra. An absolute "must-have" title for Lise Sarfati collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Lise Sarfati. 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 one of only two such signed copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Lise Sarfati signed a very limited number of copies, which are no longer available from the publisher. A rare signed copy thus. 54 color plates. One of the finest photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO JOSEPH STERLING TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1931885451.

Stock number: 9129. ISBN: 1931885451

$US 70.00

Satrapi, Marjane (Translated by Anjali Singh)
Chicken With Plums

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

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 84 pages. The author/graphic artist's fourth memoir in graphic-novel form. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in English. 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 Marjane Satrape and Jean-Christophe Menu: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on spine, as issued. Graphic art and text by Marjane Satrapi. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ which has a die-cut in the center and yellow titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Marjane Satrapi's "Chicken With Plums" in a felicitous English translation. Her most reflective memoir-narrative. "The question of what makes a life worth living has rarely been posed with as much poignancy and ambition as it is in Satrapi's dazzling new effort. Presents the story of her great-uncle Nasser Ali Khan, one of Iran's most revered musicians, who takes to bed after realizing that he'll never be able to find an instrument to replace his beloved, broken tar. Eight days later, he dies. Because everything is being filtered through Satrapi's formidable imagination, we are treated to classical Persian poetry, bits of history, folk stories as well as an occasional flash-forward into lives Nasser Ali will never have a chance to see. Each episode is illustrated with Satrapi's characteristically child-like drawings, which take on the stark expressiveness of block prints" (Publisher's blurb). Born in 1969, Marjane Satrapi is now a French citizen based in Paris. She is a regular contributor to The New Yorker Magazine and The New York Times. An absolute "must-have" title for Marjane Satrapi collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Marjane Satrapi. 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 Fernando Buesa Blanco Prize in Spain and the Alex Award by the American Library Association for "Persepolis". One of the most brilliant writer/graphic artists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARJANE SATRAPI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0375424156.

Stock number: 10913. ISBN: 0375424156

$US 40.00

Saudek, Jan (Artist/Photographer); Crump, James & Wood, John (Authors/Editors)
Jan Saudek: Realities

Imprint: Santa Fe, NM, Arena Editions, 2002
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 223 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. The very first book-length publication on the Czech artist/photographer published in the United States. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only whose entire print run was not completed (because the publisher shut down). The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Jan Saudek and James Crump: Oversize-volume format. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Jan Saudek. Essay, "Paradise And the Innocent Eye", by John Wood and James Crump. List of Plates appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Jan Saudek's "Realities". The singular images of the artist/photographer whose work defies any standing categories. "One of the definitive books on Jan Saudek and contains many new as well as never-before-published images. The photographs that have secured his unique place in contemporary photography are all here. Saudek has always been a maverick and an outsider. He has delved into a dreamworld, where eroticism and aesthetics combine in a photographic style that retains its distinctive power. Based on the pornographic studio photographs of the 19th century, classical painting, and historical portraiture, Saudek's nudes and erotic images reveal a world of fantasy, where artistic play and expression are unfettered by any notion of reality" (Publisher's blurb). "I don't have the capacity to portray other people's lives. I am portraying my own" (Jan Saudek). An absolute "must-have" title for Jan Saudek collectors. This title is an erotic art photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. 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. 131 color plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAN SAUDEK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1892041618.

Stock number: 11495. ISBN: 1892041618

$US 100.00

Saudek, Jan (Artist/Photographer) & Mrazkova, Daniela (Author/Editor)
Jan Saudek: Divadlo Zivota ("jan Saudek: Theatre Of Life")

Imprint: Prague, Czech Republic, PANORAMA, 1991
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Unpaginated. Collection of photographs, presented as an Artist Book. One of Jan Saudek's finest achievements. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Jan Saudek: Oversize-volume format. Photographs by Jan Saudek. Text by Daniela Mrazkova. The book is an outstanding example of Czech publishing at its best. Printed on glossy stock paper in Prague, the Czech Republic to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Jan Saudek's "Divadlo Zivota". One of Saudek's earliest and most beautiful collections. "Divadlo Zivota" ("Theater of Life"/"Theater des Lebens"/"Thzatre de la Vie"/"Theatro di Vita", in its various translations) is vintage Saudek: Gritty, erotic, sublime, indelible. Noted for his meticulous composition and painstaking hand-coloring of his prints, the artist/photographer has created a personal, gritty universe, rife with expressions of humor, desire, and despair. Born in Prague in 1935, Jan Saudek achieved fame for his theatrical and controversial photographs of male, female, couple, and orgiastic nudes, which allude both to photography's connection to painting and the whole history of Western portraiture as well as to pornographic pictures shot in studios. His embrace of the pleasures and pains of the human experience is directly evident in his work as is the unencumbered celebration of all people. Blending eroticism with tenderness, violence with Romanticism in a way that longs for the sublime, Saudek earned a considerable international cult following before becoming an important and highly influential mainstream figure. "I don't have the capacity to portray other people's lives. I am portraying my own" (Jan Saudek). An absolute "must-have" title for Jan Saudek collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue pen on the title page by Jan Saudek. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great photography 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. This is one of the most beautiful signed copies we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws yet are priced as though they had collectible value. A rare signed copy thus. 123 plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAN SAUDEK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 8070380268.

Stock number: 18930. ISBN: 8070380268

$US 200.00

Saunders, George (Author); Smith, Lane (Artist/Illustrator) & Leach, Molly (Book Designer)
The Very Persistent Gappers Of Frip

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

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 84 pages. The author's debut children's book. One of George Saunders' finest achievements. The First Random House 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. The production values are exquisite: A new and brilliant design by Molly Leach, with the art and text woven together into a seamless whole. George Saunders' story is complemented with art by Lane Smith. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Re-presents George Saunders' "The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip". Back by popular demand, his first children's book, a triumphant collaboration with the prize-winning artist/illustrator Lane Smith (whose wife, Molly Leach, put the book together). "A wonderfully engaging story for our children and for us. Told with wry humor and with moral energy, and illustrated beautifully" (Robert Coles). An absolute "must-have" title for George Saunders and Lane Smith collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by George Saunders. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. He also drew a cute and self-deprecatingly funny cartoon-portrait of himself beside his signature. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies (with original drawing) of the First Random House 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. Selected by The New Yorker Magazine as one of "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century". Two of the most brilliant artist/writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GEORGE SAUNDERS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0812989635.

Stock number: 21242. ISBN: 0812989635

$US 100.00

Saville, Lynn (Photographer); Moyers, Bill; Fried, Philip & Rosa, Joseph (Contributors)
Acquainted With The Night

Imprint: New York City, NY, Rizzoli Publishers, 1997
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 160 pages. Debut collection of black-and-white photographs, accompanied by poetic texts. One of the most beautiful 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 limtied first print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Lynn Saville and Rizzoli: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Lynn Saville. Text by various poets, selected by Philip Fried. Essays by Bill Moyers and Joseph Rosa. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Singapore to the highest standards. The reproduction quality (and impeccable production of this book) is stunning in its crispness, nuance, and warmth. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Lynn Saville's "Acquainted With The Night". Nocturnal visions. "The mysterious, seductive essence of the night has long entranced the imagination of artists and writers. Now, it is the focus of a unique book that pairs evocative black-and-white photography with classic and contemporary poetry. Lynn Saville's photographs, shot after dark in and around New York and at other urban and rural sites in the United States, Portugal, Greece, and India, reveal unusual aspects of familiar cities and monuments as well as the dusky allure of fringe areas such as Manhattan's industrial district and desolate waterfronts. Rich with light and shadow, the photographs suggest the suspenseful, provocative quality of film noir. Accompanying the photographs are 35 poems and poetic excerpts about the night, beginning with Robert Frost's 'Acquainted With The Night', which inspired the book's title and mood. Selected here are works by Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Charles Simic, and Octavio Paz, among other award-winning poets, and citations from ancient verse such as the 'Rig Veda' and the 'Epic of Gilgamesh'. Speaks with contemplative beauty to those who love photography and poetry, and especially to all denizens of the night" (Joseph Rosa). Lynn Saville is surely our quintessential nocturnal poet-photographer: Her second collection, "Night/Shift" (2009), and her third, "Dark City" (2015), continue and expand in color what she began here in black-and-white, a trilogy that has few, if any, equals in contemporary art photography. An absolute "must-have" title for Lynn Saville collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Lynn Saville. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy 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 as a softcover original only. Copies available online have serious flaws because the book itself is fragile and copies have been pored over. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 160 plates. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LYNN SAVILLE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 20027.

$US 100.00

Sayles, John
Los Gusanos

Imprint: New York City, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, 1991
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 473 pages. The filmmaker/author's third novel. Now considered a contemporary cult 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 John Sayles' "Los Gusanos". His moving narrative of Cuba and Cuba in America. "Brilliantly structured, offering a wide panorama of time and place, of political events and personal emotion, filled with passion, violence, sex, and history, a rare combination of literary fiction and visceral storytelling" (Publisher's blurb). Fidel Castro called the Cubans who fled to the United States "gusanos" ("worms"). Hence the title. John Sayles enjoys a devoted cult following as one of the pioneering independent ("indie") American filmmakers. He has written and directed at least two cinematic masterpieces, "The Return of the Secaucus 7" and "Matewan", and several near-great to great films: "Lone Star", "Passion Fish", "Eight Men Out", and "The Secret of Roan Inish", a body of work that is one of the most important and influential in our time. Less well-known is the fact that when called-for, he has also written the commercially successful blockbuster: His "Night Skies" was the basis for "E. T. , The Extraterrestrial" (Steven Spielberg's best film). He wrote the screenplays for such pop culture touchstones as "Jurassic Park" and "The Spiderwick Chronicles", and directed Bruce Springsteen's music videos. "Los Gusanos" deserves the wider recognition he has received as a film master. An absolute "must-have" title for John Sayles collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by John Sayles. It is signed directly on the page itself, not a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a 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 greatest American filmmaker/writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0060166533.

Stock number: 14283. ISBN: 0060166533

$US 30.00

Schapiro, Steve; Kennedy, Robert & Jacqueline; King, Martin Luther; Warhol, Andy & Other Subjects
Schapiro's Heroes: Photographs By Steve Schapiro

Imprint: Brooklyn, NY, Powerhouse Books, 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. 250 pages. Retrospective collection of portrait-photographs. One of the 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 Yuko Uchikawa: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Steve Schapiro. The subjects are (breathtakingly) THE Who's Who icons of the 20th century. Text by David Friend. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In matching pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Steve Schapiro's "Heroes". An extended and intimate portrait gallery of several key figures who have helped shape and define the 20th century. "Brings together an extraordinary collection of stories in the photo-journalistic tradition of people who have shaped our lives, our politics, and our tastes by the celebrated Steve Schapiro. In behind-the-scenes photographs, we visit the young Muhammad Ali and his Monopoly set, followed everywhere by the neighborhood kids. Glimpse the warm family life and campaign of Robert Kennedy. See Andy Warhol in photographs never-before-published. Watch Ray Charles perform. Visit the set with Samuel Beckett. March alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. One of the most respected American documentary photographers, Steve Schapiro had a knack for being in the right place at the right time. His heroes are the iconic men and women who have influenced the political and cultural climate of our times. A rare and intimate glimpse of a major period of American history, photographed during the Golden Age of photojournalism by one of the major talents of the late-20th century" (Publisher's blurb). Fans will pore over these inimitable portrait albums of Barbra Streisand as well as James Baldwin, Jacqueline Kennedy as well as Truman Capote. And of course, the very best photographs ever taken of Andy Warhol and The Factory that are NOT taken by Warhol. An absolute "must-have" title for Steve Schapiro collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Steve Schapiro. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white plates. One of the finest American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER STEVE SCHAPIRO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1576873781.

Stock number: 20274. ISBN: 1576873781

$US 80.00

Schapiro, Steve; Allen, Woody; Bowie, David; Brando, Marlon; Jackson, Michael; Warhol, Andy & Others
Steve Schapiro: Then And Now

Imprint: Ostfildern, Germany, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2012
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 220 pages. Retrospective collection of portrait-photographs. One of the 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. "Autographed Copy" white round sticker pasted in front. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Hatje Cantz: Oversize-volume format. White cloth boards with red titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Steve Schapiro. Text by Mathias Harder. The subjects are THE Who's Who of 20th century performing and visual arts. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ, which features, in a photographic coup, David Bowie on the cover, and red gilt titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Steve Schapiro's "Then And Now". A triumphant achievement. "The photographer behind countless now-classic portraits of rock stars, film stars, and politicians from the 1960's and 1970's, Schapiro has worked as a film set photographer on more than 200 Hollywood movies; designed several iconic film posters, notably 'Midnight Cowboy', 'Taxi Driver', and 'The Godfather'; and as documentary photographer, recorded the political tumult of the 1960's and 1970's, in photo-essays on drug addiction, the Civil Rights Movement, and Presidential campaigns. Looks back at Schapiro's half-century career, reproducing famous images alongside new and unseen work. Includes portraits of the stars as never-before-seen" (Publisher's blurb). They include indelible portraits of iconic figures such as: Woody Allen, David Bowie, Marlon Brando, Johnny Depp, Robert De Niro, Francis Ford Coppola, Jodie Foster, Aretha Franklin, Dustin Hoffmann, John Huston, Michael Jackson, Sophia Loren, Rene Magritte, Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Jack Nicholson, (the very elusive) Roman Polanski, Otto Preminger, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Redford, Diana Ross, Tina Turner, Andy Warhol, Orson Welles, and Frank Zappa, among others. Genuine celebrity is not just captured, it is certified for posterity, by Schapiro's camera. An absolute "must-have" title for Steve Schapiro collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen-marker on the title page by the photographer: "Best. Stay inspired! Steve Schapiro". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. There is no recipient named. This title is a late-modern photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: All other signed copies available online are also from us. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white plates. One of the finest American photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER STEVE SCHAPIRO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3775734260.

Stock number: 20276. ISBN: 3775734260

$US 100.00

Schaub, Stephen M.
Through A Glass Darkly: Photographs By Stephen M. Schaub

Imprint: Wells, Vermont, Indian Hill Gallery Of Fine Art Photography, 2004
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. Unpaginated. Collection of black-and-white "atmosphere" photographs. One of the finest art photography books of our time. Limited Edition of 3000 copies. None of the copies was commercially distributed. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Stephen M. Schaub and Brian Sisco: Oversize-volume format. Brown cloth boards with titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Stephen M. Schaub. Text by Eve Ogden Schaub. Printed in 600 line-screen quadtone on cream, thick uncoated Salto no. 3, 200 gsm stock paper by the Salto Press in Belgium to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in a Limited Edition collectible format, Stephen M. Schaub's "Through A Glass Darkly". Photographs of landscapes that evoke and depict "unprocessed emotion". Repudiating what characterizes the "photographic" (clarity, sharpness, reproducibility), Schaub has embraced the Pictorialist tradition of photography's great past, which emphasized an expressiveness that aspired to the level of painting. As such, he calls himself a "Neo-Pictorialist", who uses natural settings and landscapes (it is more accurate to call them "external realities") that he photographs and then digitally manipulates in order to achieve an indistinct, non-referential, and ethereal/otherworldly imagery, an exploration of the spiritual life in all of its transitive instability, or what Schaub poetically calls "unprocessed emotion". "The result is a collection of non-places and non-things which collectively inhabit a less rational universe than our own, one that feels both strangely familiar and highly symbolic" (Eve Ogden Schaub). Images that have the pull of a dream, scrupulously and beautifully reproduced, they represent a genuine achievement. An absolute "must-have" title for Stephen M. Schaub collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Edition of 3000 copies. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white plates. One of the most brilliant American artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO LUISA MENAZZI MORETTI TITLE IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 19382.

$US 40.00

Schiff, Stacy
Cleopatra: A Life: The Uncorrected Proof

Imprint: New York City, NY, Little, Brown & Company, 2010
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 370 pages. Full-length biography on subject. Now considered a contemporary classic. Uncorrected Proof/Advance Reader's Edition (ARC). Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Published in a small and limited one-time-only print run (of an estimated 500 copies) as a softcover original only for the exclusive use of the publisher and author. Each copy is manually numbered and dated (upon its release on August 21, 2010, three months before the official publication) by the publisher as such in pen-marker on the bottom page edges. The Uncorrected Proof has no ISBN of its own. It is now rare. The Uncorrected Proof is very beautifully produced: Regular-sized volume format. Glossy pictorial softcovers with large flaps, as issued. Text by Stacy Schiff. Sixteen-page archival illustrations. Printed on uncoated (for the text) and coated (for the illustrations) stock papers in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its earliest-publication state and tiniest print run, Stacy Schiff's "Cleopatra: A Life". The single most beautifully written biography, such as it is possible, of the single most legendary - because elusive - female historical figure of the Ancient Era. Why a book on Cleopatra in the 21st century? According to Stacy Schiff, in order to remind us of an eternal moment in human history: "You have a moment in history when the entire world changes. The Roman Republic and the Hellenistic Age ends with her death and then thirty years later, Jesus Christ is born. You have this all-star cast: You have Mark Antony, Julius Caesar, Herod The Great, and Cleopatra herself. It doesn't get any better than this" (Stacy Schiff). "Exceptionally artful. Imaginative attunement with a subject, however, does not have to compromise a vigilant biographer's critical detachment, and Schiff's beautiful writing hums with that tension. It is an edifice of speculation and conjecture, like every Cleopatra ever written. But unlike nearly all of them, it is also a work of literature" (The New Yorker Magazine). An absolute "must-have" title for Stacy Schiff collectors. This copy of the Uncorrected Proof is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated in black pen on the title page by the author: "Stacy Schiff 3/16/11". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Announcement of the event during which her signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and dated copy of the Uncorrected Proof/Advance Reader's Edition (ARC) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the regular trade edition. Published in a small and limited one-time-only print run (of an estimated 500 copies) as a softcover original only. Each copy is manually numbered and dated (upon its release on August 21, 2010, three months before the official publication) by the publisher as such in pen-marker on the bottom page edges. Schiff did not tour nationally to promote the book because she did not have to. By the time she made a few, sporadic appearances to sign copies, most were already subsequent printings. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for "Vera", the biography of Vladimir Nabokov's wife, in 2000. "Cleopatra: A Life" was selected as one of Ten Best Books of 2010 by The New York Times. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER STACY SCHIFF TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 21897.

$US 100.00