Schles, Ken (Photographer); Borges, Jorge Luis; Kafka, Franz; Orwell, George & Other Contributions
Invisible City: The New Steidl Edition

Imprint: Gottingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 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. 80 pages. New Edition of the artist/photographer's breakthrough debut collection. One of the greatest photography books of the 20th century. Advance Signed Copy. The First Edition Thus in its First Printing. The book was released the following year, on February 24, 2015. An austerely elegant production by Ken Schles and Gerhard Steidl: Regular-sized volume format. Black cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Ken Schles. Text-quotations by Jean Baudrillard, Jorge Luis Borges, Franz Kafka, Lewis Mumford, and George Orwell. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper using the advanced, "five plate" technology in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. In black pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Re-presents, in a stunning re-creation, Ken Schles' "Invisible City". Masterpiece. "Twenty-five years later, 'Invisible City' still has the ability to transfix the viewer. A penetrating and intimate portrayal of a world few had entrance to - or means of egress from - 'Invisible City' stands alongside Brassai's 'Paris de Nuit' and van der Elsken's 'Love On The Left Bank' as one of the twentieth century's great depictions of nocturnal bohemian experience. Long out-of-print, this 'missing link' in the history of the photographic book is now once again made available" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Ken Schles collectors. This Advance Signed Copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (before official 2015 release) in black pen on the title page by the artist/photographer: "Ken Schles NYC 2014". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Schles made exactly one appearance, in New York City, to launch the book and its companion volume, "Night Walk". This title is a great photography book. As far as we know, this is only such signed, placed, and pre-publication dated copy of the Steidl First Edition Thus/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 most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KEN SCHLES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3869306912.

Stock number: 19276. ISBN: 3869306912

$US 100.00

Schles, Ken (Photographer); Calvino, Italo; Ellison, Ralph & Kafka, Franz (Contributions)
The Geometry Of Innocence: The Limited Edition

Imprint: Ostfildern-ruit, Germany, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2001
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 128 pages. Collection of photographs. Now considered a contemporary art photography classic. Limited Slipcased Edition of 50 copies. Precedes, is superior to, and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. They have the same ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Ken Schles: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with black titles embossed on the spine, as issued. Photographs and Manifesto/Essay by Ken Schles. The title comes from the lyrics of Bob Dylan's "Tombstone Blues". Text fragments by Franz Kafka, Ralph Ellison, Walter Lippmann, and Italo Calvino. Original 8 X 10 inch photographic print matted, framed, and laid into its own black cloth folder. Matching black cloth slipcase. Printed on pristine-white, thick, glossy stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. Presents Ken Schles' "The Geometry of Innocence". His ambitious second collection. There is something disturbing and uncompromising about each image, by itself and in the context of the collection's relentlessness. Schles' point is that we should not be distracted, but instead be completely immersed. If "Invisible City" is inward-looking, "The Geometry of Innocence" looks outward, at the larger world, and sees both good and bad, cause for hope, and reason for despair. Schles also has a didactic purpose, articulated in his Manifesto/Essay, which is "must-reading" for anyone uncritically enamored of photography (this includes many serious photographers and critics). While his essay is critical about photography, Schles is obviously not against photography. Indeed, the latter stance would be self-defeating because even the most subversive, "anti-photographic" photograph can be easily coopted by the system to reinforce unjust social structures and feed an insatiable and corrupt mass culture. Instead, he is for a photography that somehow retains its subversive power and empowers people given the fact that "we are formed by a flawed society. Yet, however boldly or tenuously we engage our lives, we love, we hate, we struggle" (Ken Schles). An absolute "must-have" title for Ken Schles collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Slipcased Edition of 50 copies, indicated/numbered as such on the Back Copyright Page. It comes with an 8 X 10 inch original photographic print that is very prominently and beautifully numbered, titled, and signed in pencil on verso by the photographer: "Ken Schles The End of the World From The Geometry of Innocence 43/50". This title is a contemporary art photography 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, which are publisher's flaws rather than caused by handling or use. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 106 color, 87 duotone plates, 1 original print. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER KEN SCHLES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3775710116.

Stock number: 15593. ISBN: 3775710116

$US 800.00

Schneider, Gary (Artist/Photographer) & Various Contributors
Gary Schneider: Genetic Self-portrait

Imprint: Syracuse, NY, Light Work, 1999
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 64 pages. Artist Book. Collection of photographs on subject. One of Gary Schneider'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. An austerely elegant production by Gary Schneider and Jeffrey Hoone: Regular-sized volume format. Black cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographic reproduction pasted on the recessed center. Photographs and Notes on the individual plates by Gary Schneider. Essays by Ann Thomas, Lori Pauli, and Bettyann Holtzmann Kevles. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by The Stinehour Press Vermont in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art California, which travelled on to the Musee de l'Elysee Lausanne Switzerland, The National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, and the International Center of Photography (ICP) New York. Presents Gary Schneider's "Genetic Self-Portrait". Photographs developed around the brilliant and unusual idea of the imagistic and metaphorical possibilities of invisible (to the naked eye) human genetic data. At the same time, the images' "scientific" component is unmistakable: "This project stems from an intriguing offer Schneider received in 1996 to make photographs in response to some of the revolutionary discoveries that were emerging from the Human Genome Project, an international research team that is attempting to map the more than 100, 000 genes that compose human DNA. Combining his interests in self-portraiture and biology, Schneider consulted with doctors and geneticists, examined diagnostic and forensic photographs, as well as X rays, radiographs, photograms, and micrographs of specimen samples of various parts of his own body" (Publisher's blurb). This is Conceptual photography that is imagined rather than merely conceived, the work of a great artist who has given us a rare glimpse into the human soul in all its beauty, pain, and "materiality", through vivid and poetic photographs of the human DNA. An absolute "must-have" title for Gary Schneider collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in pencil on the title page by Gary Schneider. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 23 color plates. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE OTHER GARY SCHNEIDER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0935445102.

Stock number: 20260. ISBN: 0935445102

$US 70.00

Schneider, Gary (Artist/Photographer) & Erdman, John (Subject/Model)
Gary Schneider: "john In Sixteen Parts": Limited-edition Print

Imprint: New York City, NY, Gary Schneider Studios, 1996
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Gary Schneider collectible art. A pristine Limited-Edition print of one of the most iconic images from his celebrated sequence, "John In Sixteen Parts", titled, numbered, dated, and signed by Gary Schneider. There is no ISBN. The print is now rare. A brilliant production by Gary Schneider: Regular-sized print format. Measures 8 X 10 inches. In the artist's protective plastic sleeve. Eminently suitable for framing. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Gary Schneider's "John In Sixteen Parts, Part #3". The extreme close-up of the model John Erdman's right eye. From the complete sequence of images that show his various body parts (of his face), lovingly, probingly, and "scientifically" photographed by Gary Schneider (Erdman is the artist/photographer's longtime companion). Both the concept and its realization are brilliant, resulting in imagery that is strikingly original, "Conceptual" photography that is imagined rather than conceived, the work of an artist/photographer who has somehow given us a rare glimpse into the human soul, in all its beauty, pain, and "materiality", through photographs of the human body. The complete sequence was published as the eponymous Artist Book in 1997. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item/artwork for Gary Schneider collectors. This Limited-Edition print is one of 20 copies, indicated/numbered as such on recto, and it is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully titled, dated, and signed in pencil by the artist/photographer: "John In Sixteen Parts 1996 Part #3 4/20 Gary Schneider". This title is a great photographic print. As far as we know, this is the only copy available online, is in the artist's protective plastic sleeve, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Gary Schneider prints command thousands of dollars from his galleries, at art fairs, and at auction. His work is slowly but surely destined for canonical recognition. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed print thus. 1 original photographic print. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER GARY SCHNEIDER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 21359.

$US 700.00

Schneider, Gary (Artist/Photographer); Wolf, Sylvia (Subject/Model) & Bungay, Tracy (Designer)
Gary Schneider: "glove": Artist Proof

Imprint: New York City, NY, Gary Schneider Studios, 1995
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Gary Schneider collectible art. A pristine, framed Artist Proof of "Glove" handprint, titled, dated, numbered, and signed by Gary Schneider. There is no ISBN. The print is now rare. A brilliant production by Gary Schneider: Regular-sized print format. Measures 8 X 10 inches. Beautifully framed borderless, in very thick and heavy silver-gray metal and Plexiglas by Tracy Bungay Fine Framing, under the direct supervision of the artist himself. Full frame size is 9 X 11 inches. Eminently suitable for display. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Gary Schneider's "Glove". The luminous print of the artist/photographer's own hand, one of the most innovative figures of contemporary art photography. "I have made handprint-portraits since 1993. I consider them to be as expressive as any portrait of a face, more private, and possibly more revealing" (Gary Schneider). His other handprint-portraits are collected in the lovely Artist Book, "Gary Schneider: Hand Book" (1998), published by Aperture, and the "culmination of 17 years of Schneider's commitment to making portraits of hands. For Schneider (who, in a former incarnation, was known as a master of chemical darkroom printing), the adaptation of digital technology marks a profound and telling shift in contemporary art and publishing" (Aperture Foundation). An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item/artwork for Gary Schneider collectors. This framed Artist Proof is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully titled, dated, numbered, and signed in pencil on verso by the artist/photographer: "Glove 1995 AP 6 Gary Schneider". Because it is signed at the back, the signature is NOT visible in front, as many framed prints are. So a Xeroxed image-proof comes with the print, and is enclosed in its own protective plastic sleeve. This title is a great photographic print. As far as we know, this is the only copy available online, is beautifully framed by the artist himself, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Gary Schneider prints command thousands of dollars from his galleries, at art fairs, and at auction. His work is slowly but surely destined for canonical recognition. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed print thus. 1 original Artist Proof. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER GARY SCHNEIDER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 21361.

$US 1,000.00

Schorske, Carl E.
Fin-de-siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture

Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1980
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 378 pages. Book-length account on subject. One of the greatest historical-cum-cultural texts of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Carl E. Schorske's "Fin-de-siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture". The award-winning, magisterial account that eventually spawned a whole shelf of books on its subject, but has itself never been matched much less surpassed. "One of the truly original scholars of our time: A magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where, out of a crisis of political and social disintegration, so much of Modernist art and thought was born" (Publisher's blurb). "Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early Modernism in their political context, it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsman. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself" (David A. Hollinger). "Each of the seven separate studies can be read separately. Yet they are so artfully integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument" (The New Republic). "A profound work on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" (The New York Times). An absolute "must-have" title for Carl E. Schorske and art collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. It is, quite simply, the single most beautiful copy of the book we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online are subsequent printings or have serious flaws yet command as much $650. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1981 for "Fin-de-siecle Vienna: Politics And Culture". One of the greatest historian/writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 0394744780.

Stock number: 21783. ISBN: 0394744780

$US 300.00

Schulz, Bruno (Translated by Walter Arndt); Ficowski, Jerzy (Editor) & Zagajewski, Adam (Poet)
Letters And Drawings Of Bruno Schulz With Selected Prose

Imprint: New York City, NY, Harper & Row, 1988
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 256 pages. Landmark collection of letters, drawings, photographs, and selected prose. 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 Bruno Schulz's "Letters And Drawings With Selected Prose" in a felicitous English translation. Beautifully supplemented with his drawings and three fictional pieces. Schulz is regarded as a major writer of the 20th century on the basis of two slim books, "Street of Crocodiles" and "Sanatorium Under The Sign of The Hourglass". Through incomparable evocations of his inner refuge-world, Schulz creates a child-like universe that will permanently change every reader's expectations about life and literature. His letters represent the last remaining writings that have been found, and show an awareness of important cultural events during his time despite the fact that he lived all his life in a remote and provincial Polish town. A Polish Jew, Schulz was hunted down and shot to death on a ghetto street by a Gestapo officer (to get back at a Gestapo rival who was Schulz's "patron") during a particularly brutal pogrom in 1942. His fellow Jews were too terrified to remove his body and waited for days before doing so to bury him. After the Second World War, Stalinist Poland condemned his work, inflicting a second, even more fatal death. But true greatness is not only its own reason for being, reward or redemption. It is, as Ozick acutely observes, the spirit-force itself that quivers constantly with life, contains ghosts, and is immortal. Bruno Schulz is one of the great human souls who have ultimately prevailed in a world of soul-killers. "He wrote sometimes like Kafka, sometimes like Proust, and at times succeeded in reaching depths that neither of them reached" (Isaac Bashevis Singer). "Schulz strikes us, stuns us even, with its overload of beauty" (John Updike). An absolute "must-have" title for Bruno Schulz collectors. This title is now collectible. This copy was one of a limited and unspecified number distributed by the Kosciuszko Foundation to celebrate its 75th Anniversary (1925-2000), indicated as such with a gilt-and-red seal that is neatly pasted on the front free endpaper. As far as we know, this is the only such copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest artist/writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BRUNO SCHULZ TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0060158964.

Stock number: 14941. ISBN: 0060158964

$US 50.00

Schulz, Bruno (Author/Artist); Ficowski, Jerzy (Editor/Contributor) & Other Contributors
The Drawings Of Bruno Schulz

Imprint: Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, 1990
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 271 pages. Collection of the author's drawings. 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 by a University Press. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by William A. Seabright: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with red titles embossed on spine, as issued. Art by Bruno Schulz. Text by Jerzy Ficowski. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In glossy pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents "The Drawings of Bruno Schulz". What remains of his body of work as an artist. A great engraver-draftsman, Schulz earned his living as a menial art teacher. He was one of the first Modern writers to incorporate his own drawings in his stories, one of which, "The Age of Genius", is about his artistic childhood. "His art, like his writing, is deeply infused with a sense of personal and cultural degradation, an ominous, prescient aura of the horrors in store for the fragile and rapidly disappearing world in which he lived. The originality of Schulz's work lies not only in the intimate conveyance of life, but in the grotesque eroticism of its iconography. Describes the struggle between spirit and matter, the pain of creation, and the compelling force of torment" (Jerzy Ficowski). The drawings have a Classical purity of line that harks back to the Old Masters. The most revelatory works are the ones that render his adult-subjects, including himself, as stunted, dwarf-like, deformed. With their overgrown heads and distorted figures, the grown-ups look like children. As strange as it may sound, erotic desire is a manifestation of childhood in the Schulzian universe. That is, sex may be an adult activity, but its power is precisely to render the human being powerless (before sexual desire), as needy and dependent as a child. Hence the explicit masochism of Schulz's erotic drawings. To anyone familiar with his books, none of this is surprising as Schulz saw life as a form of eternal childhood. Because we are human, we can only "grow" so much; we have to pretend to be adults when in fact, we will always, happily and unhappily, be children; and in the end, childhood, pains and all, is both genius and bliss. There is nothing quite like these drawings, where human beings, presented in exaggerated fashion, capture what they really are deep inside. An absolute "must-have" title for Bruno Schulz collectors. This title is a modern 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. 200 plates. One of the greatest artist/writers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BRUNO SCHULZ TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0810109646.

Stock number: 14690. ISBN: 0810109646

$US 150.00

Schwartz, Robin (Photographer) & Mairs, Jim (Contributor)
Like Us: Primate Portraits: The Limited Edition

Imprint: New York City, NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1993
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 87 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs on subject. One of the most beautiful photography books of the 20th century. Limited Slipcased Edition of 199 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with regular trade edition. They have the same ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Katy Homans: Regular-sized volume format. Black cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on the spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Robin Schwartz. Essay by Jim Mairs. 7 X 5 inch silver-gelatin print encased in its own glassine sheet and laid-in. Matching black cloth slipcase. Printed in tritone on glossy stock paper by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Robin Schwartz's "Like Us: Primate Portraits". The Nature photographer's witty and affecting imagery on various primates: Monkeys, gorillas, chimpanzees, macaques, and ever-more-exotic others. What is unusual - and now iconic, as it were - about the photographs is the way Schwartz thoughtfully staged, dressed-up, and photographed the animals in artificial, man-made settings (indoors and outdoors), showing them behaving and posing like their human cousins. Looking at each photograph, one cannot help wondering how she seems to have pulled it off effortlessly: The animals look not just well-behaved, they seem to be having a great time. As such, the photographs pose the still-unresolved question: How much do we have in common with our primate cousins? Probably a lot. An absolute "must-have" title for Robin Schwartz collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Slipcased Edition, indicated/numbered as such in black ink-pen on the Front Limitation Page. It is very prominently and beautifully numbered and signed in black ink-pen by Robin Schwartz. Laid-in is a 7 X 5 inch silver-gelatin print that is also very prominently and beautifully numbered, titled, and signed in pencil on verso by the photographer: "39/199 Minnie, 1989 Robin Schwartz". This title is a contemporary 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. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the regular trade edition. Copies of the latter 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 tritone plates, 1 original silver-gelatin print. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO JAMES MOLLISON "JAMES AND OTHER APES" TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0393034992.

Stock number: 22358. ISBN: 0393034992

$US 300.00

Sebald, W. G. (Translated by Anthea Bell)
Campo Santo

Imprint: New York City, NY, Random House, 2005
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 221 pages. Posthumous collection of essays. One of the greatest literary texts 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 W. G. Sebald's "Campo Santo" in a felicitous English translation. His late collection of literary essays. "Exemplifies the best kind of cosmopolitan literary intelligence: Humane, digressive, erudite, unassuming, and tinged with melancholy. That last quality is particularly important, for if one had to characterize Sebald's ethos, the mood he generates on the page, the themes that haunt him, one could hardly do better than borrow the title of a famous essay by Freud: 'Mourning and Melancholy'. What is Sebald mourning? It's tempting to say, almost fatuously, 'the human condition', for he looks at life with that rare combination of empathetic hyper-sensitivity and analytic coolness that characterizes our greatest interpreters of this heartbreaking world: Rembrandt, Stendhal, Kafka. In particular, Sebald finds himself drawn back repeatedly to the human and material devastation of the Second World War. He chronicles his encounters with the displaced, the exiled, and the broken-hearted. He dramatizes survivor guilt and the loss of identity. He mourns the fate of the Jews, and the fate of the Germans" (The Washington Post). "On every new thing, there lies already the shadow of annihilation. For the history of every individual of every social order, indeed of the whole world, does not describe an ever-widening, more and more wonderful arc, but rather follows a course which, once the meridian is reached, leads without fail down into the dark" (W. G. Sebald). An absolute "must-have" title for W. G. Sebald collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER W. G. SEBALD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1400062292.

Stock number: 18672. ISBN: 1400062292

$US 20.00

Sedaris, David
Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim

Imprint: New York City, NY, Little, Brown & Company, 2004
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 257 pages. The author's fifth collection of short stories and 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. The First Edition is now scarce. Utilizes a stunningly beautiful DJ design by Chip Kidd. Presents David Sedaris' "Dress Your Family In Corduroy And Denim". The threshold of maturity as America's most pungent, most perceptive, and most popular social commentator and humorist. "Sedaris has a satirical brazenness that holds up next to Twain and Nathanael West" (The New Yorker Magazine). "If wit were measured in people, David Sedaris would be China: His talent is that huge" (Denver Rocky Mountain News). Once a cult figure, Sedaris now has broad mainstream appeal in the United States and as incredible as it may sound, Europe, where he does readings regularly and his books are bestsellers. He is based in both Paris and New York City, two of the world's very few cities where the idea of civilized pleasure (including humor) is not just valued but avidly pursued: Life-as-surplus, where the only life worth living is the useless and unnecessary life of leisure, which is ultimately the theme of Woody Allen's great New York films, and in his more down-to-earth manner, is also the reason we like and love David Sedaris. As the present title suggests, Sedaris continues to use his utterly dysfunctional Greek-immigrant family as the basis for his best pieces. If anything, he uses them more rather than less than ever, and his devoted readers may now feel as though they know the Sedaris family better than their own families. An absolute "must-have" title for David Sedaris collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by David Sedaris. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It is also stamped by him with a red rubber stamp-greeting from Thailand (in lieu of a "personalized" inscription), a brilliant Sedaris touch. Sedaris had just returned from a visit to the Kingdom of Thailand and brought back with him the stamp, which he then brought with him on his book tour. As far as we know, Sedaris, who is a meticulous signer, used the stamp only for this title and only during his 2004 tour, making it vintage and special. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and stamped 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: Sedaris is a genuine rarity among superstar-writers: He spends time with every single person who has taken the trouble of going to his reading and waiting patiently in line to get his or her book signed. He writes lengthy, personalized inscriptions to those who want them and has been known to sign into the wee hours of the morning. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DAVID SEDARIS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0316143464.

Stock number: 12927. ISBN: 0316143464

$US 70.00

Sedaris, David
Holidays On Ice: With Six New Stories, Including One Never Before Published

Imprint: Boston, MA, Little, Brown & Company, 2008
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 166 pages. New and Expanded Edition of the author's third collection of essays and short stories. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in this edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent printings. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition Thus is now scarce. Presents, in a handsome new edition, David Sedaris' "Holidays On Ice". All of the now-classic stories originally published as "Holidays On Ice" (1997), plus six new, full-fledged pieces. Christmas holiday stories and misadventures, they tell the Darker Side of the lighter side of the greatest holiday in the world, from the point-of-view of the then-struggling, jobless, and impoverished David Sedaris. "SantaLand Diaries", Sedaris' account of his time working as a SantaLand elf at Macy's Department Store, remains one of his most beloved pieces. It captures what Christmas has become in America in a way that most Americans say it has become, but have not been able to put into words with the same poignance, irony, and humor as Sedaris has: A vast commercial rip-off/enterprise, as countless parents take their kids to "SantaLand" day after day to create "The"Spirit of Christmas" Experience. It can be read again and again without losing any of its bite. "You are not a dancer. If you were a real dancer, you wouldn't be here. You're an elf, and you're going to wear panties like an elf" (Macy's Elf Trainer to David Sedaris). An absolute "must-have" title for David Sedaris collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen-marker on the title page by the author: "A loner by choice, David Sedaris". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The lonesome recipient is named. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Edition Thus/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Sedaris is a genuine rarity among superstar-writers: He spends time with every single person who has taken the trouble of going to his reading and waiting patiently in line (which are "circle-around-the-block" long) to get his or her book signed. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DAVID SEDARIS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0316035904.

Stock number: 18142. ISBN: 0316035904

$US 50.00

Sedaris, David
Naked

Imprint: Boston, MA, Little, Brown & Company, 1997
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 291 pages. The author's second collection of essays and short stories, presented as a memoir. 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. The book design/production by Chip Kidd is now also considered a classic: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. The suggestive "naked" of the title turns out to be an X-ray image in front. Text by David Sedaris. In mid-sized pictorial DJ, which covers the X-ray image, and titles on the spine, as issued. Presents David Sedaris' "Naked". His most celebrated family memoir. "Sedaris has fashioned a memoir of his wonderfully offbeat life. To call his family 'dysfunctional' would be enormous understatement and beside the point. Sedaris's relatives and other companions become vital characters on the page. Sedaris' humor is wickedly irreverent but not mean. Travelling with him is well worth it for the laughs and for his generous human sensibility" (Library Journal). "I recently made the mistake of reading David Sedaris while I was eating lunch. Fortunately, I was alone in my office, so there were no witnesses when I spewed a mouthful of pastrami across my desk. Not one of the 17 autobiographical essays in this collection failed to make me crack up. Frequently, I was helpless" (Craig Seligman). An absolute "must-have" title for David Sedaris collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen on the title page by the author: "With the pleasure of meeting you. Love, David Sedaris". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient is named. 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: Sedaris is a genuine rarity among superstar-writers: He spends time with every single person who has taken the trouble of going to his reading and waiting patiently in line to get his or her book signed. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DAVID SEDARIS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0316779490.

Stock number: 18143. ISBN: 0316779490

$US 70.00

Seltzer, David (Artist/Photographer) & Barth, Miles (Contributor)
Rough Cuts: Photographs By David Seltzer

Imprint: New York City, NY, Yancey Richardson, 1995
Edition: First Edition

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 15 pages. Exhibition Catalog. The first and only edition. Published in a tiny print run as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Catalog is now rare. A brilliant production by David Seltzer and Arne Lewis: Oversize-volume format. Photographs and photo-collages by David Seltzer. Text by Miles Barth. Printed on stiff 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 Yancey Richardson Gallery New York in 1995. Presents David Seltzer's "Rough Cuts". A sampling of his finest and most representative photographs. At the time the work was created, Seltzer was in his early twenties, but was already being compared to both Duane Michals and Joel-Peter Witkin. The comparison with Michals is due to the fact that all of his photographs have text in them, not just captions. The comparison with Witkin is due to the unusual, disturbing, and erotically charged imagery. Both artist/photographers have championed Seltzer's work. Seltzer reminds us of other matters that neither Michals nor Witkin has shown interest in, fused into one arresting photographic collage: American popular art, film noir, rock and punk music (Seltzer did many of the most celebrated album covers for Warner Brothers, Geffen Records, and Polygram), and Charles Bukowski. Two of his most famous images, "Her Men Had No Faces, 1989" and "Decision by Steel, 1989", are masterly: The former shows a woman holding a man's penis. Both of them are fully dressed, foreplay as sexier to look at than actual intercourse. The latter is an image of a man committing suicide by blowing his brains out. The gun is pointed to his chin, but what shocks is the black spray painted above his head, which refers to blood. Because Seltzer does not show real blood (or use the color red), he suggests a level of violence beyond the act of suicide itself. An absolute "must-have" title for David Seltzer collectors. This title is a cult photography classic. This is one of few copies of the Exhibition Catalog still available online and is in 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. 15 plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. .

Stock number: 19230.

$US 40.00

Shakespeare, William (Subject) & Crane, Milton (Author/Editor)
Shakespeare's Art: Seven Essays

Imprint: Chicago, IL, University Of Chicago Press, 1973
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 168 pages. Landmark collection of essays on subject. Originally presented as The Tupper Lectures on Shakespeare at George Washington University. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Milton Crane's "Shakespeare's Art". A stupendous collection. Seven critical essays by Shakespeare specialists thereby presenting a diversity of points-of-view rather than a unified perspective, on The Bard. Scrupulously edited by Milton Crane, himself a Shakespeare scholar, the author of "Shakespeare's Prose" and several volumes of short stories and poetry. An absolute "must-have" title for Milton Crane and Shakespeare readers/collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and 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 copy thus. The greatest writer in the English language of all time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO HAROLD BLOOM TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0226118355.

Stock number: 1840. ISBN: 0226118355

$US 20.00

Shaw, Dash
New School

Imprint: Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 2013
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 340 pages. The cutting-edge artist's graphic novel. One of the most beautiful graphic novels of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Dash Shaw's "New School". His best graphic novel thus far. "From the acclaimed author of 'Bottomless Belly Button' and 'BodyWorld', Dash Shaw dramatizes the story of a boy moving to an exotic country and his infatuation with an unfamiliar culture that quickly shifts to disillusionment. A sense of 'being different' grows to alienation until he angrily blames this once-enchanting land for his feelings of isolation. All of this is told through the eyes of young Danny, a boy growing up in the 1990's, fed on adventure stories like 'Jurassic Park' and 'X-Men'. Unlike anything in the history of the comics medium: At once funny and dead-serious, wildly artistic, personal and political, familiar and completely new" (Publisher's blurb). Family, sibling rivalry, and alienation are American graphic-novel themes. The most brilliant graphic artist of his generation, Dash Shaw re-tells familiar stories with fresh twists. Already, his graphic style is inimitably and recognizably his own: Brooding, dark, fantastical. An absolute "must-have" title for Dash Shaw collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (in the month and year of publication) in silver pen-marker on the blank page opposite the title page by the author/artist: "Dash Shaw '13 9/22 NYC". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. He also drew a spoon, fork, and knife above his signature. For every copy that he signed, Shaw added a unique drawing, never repeating himself. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and publication-month dated copy (with original drawing) 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. Hundreds of color plates. One of the most brilliant American graphic artist/novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1606996444.

Stock number: 18457. ISBN: 1606996444

$US 50.00

Shaw, Dash
New School

Imprint: Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 2013
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 340 pages. The cutting-edge artist's graphic novel. One of the most beautiful graphic novels of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Dash Shaw's "New School". His best graphic novel thus far. "From the acclaimed author of 'Bottomless Belly Button' and 'BodyWorld', Dash Shaw dramatizes the story of a boy moving to an exotic country and his infatuation with an unfamiliar culture that quickly shifts to disillusionment. A sense of 'being different' grows to alienation until he angrily blames this once-enchanting land for his feelings of isolation. All of this is told through the eyes of young Danny, a boy growing up in the 1990's, fed on adventure stories like 'Jurassic Park' and 'X-Men'. Unlike anything in the history of the comics medium: At once funny and dead-serious, wildly artistic, personal and political, familiar and completely new" (Publisher's blurb). Family, sibling rivalry, and alienation are American graphic-novel themes. The most brilliant graphic artist of his generation, Dash Shaw re-tells familiar stories with fresh twists. Already, his graphic style is inimitably and recognizably his own: Brooding, dark, fantastical. An absolute "must-have" title for Dash Shaw collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (in the month and year of publication) in silver pen-marker on the blank page opposite the title page by the author/artist: "Dash Shaw '13 9/22 NYC". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. He also drew Danny and his older brother Luke above his signature. For every copy that he signed, Shaw added a unique drawing, never repeating himself. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and publication-month dated copy (with original drawing) 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. Hundreds of color plates. One of the most brilliant American graphic artist/novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER COPY OF THIS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1606996444.

Stock number: 18466. ISBN: 1606996444

$US 50.00

Shay, Art (Photographer) & Berlanga, Paul (Artist/Recipient)
Animals: Photographs By Art Shay

Imprint: Urbana, Illinois, University Of Illinois Press, 2002
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 132 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs on subject. One of Art shay'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 by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Art Shay: Oversize-volume format. Hard boards with titles printed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Art Shay. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents "Animals: Photographs by Art Shay". The photographer's complete suite of animal photographs. They are, inevitably, reminiscent of Garry Winogrand's "The Animals" in their cheerful and casual yet perceptive approach, and marked by Art Shay's warmth and humanity. "Few can dispute that animals are among the most sublime wonders of the world we inhabit. These photographs bridge some of the differences by surveying the landscapes that humans and animals share: African jungles, Ohio waterways, the wild streets of New York City and Chicago, circuses, carnivals, zoos from California to Florida, and the sky that arches over all life. Culled from five decades' worth of the acclaimed photographer's illustrious body of work, these pictures lovingly and often acerbically capture miraculous moments of creatures great and small, wild and domestic. Artful and moving, they run the gamut of emotions from pity and compassion to laughter and joy. The Ark-like juxtaposition and pairing of images catch the interaction between humans and animals: How we imitate them and they, in turn, us. By turns compassionate, ironic, and capricious, this masterful collection affirms our abiding fascination with the animal world. A treasure" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Art Shay collectors. This copy is very prominently, beautifully and uniquely signed, dated (on the day of publication), and inscribed in black pen on the front free endpaper by the photographer: "For Paul, A fine artist, a great student of photographers & best of all, a friend. With love & thanks, Art Shay, May 23, 02". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, Paul Berlanga, who is named, is one of Chicago's finest artists and photography experts, and is acknowledged as such by the photographer. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, inscribed, and publication-day dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest American photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ART SHAY AND LEE BALTERMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0252027426.

Stock number: 18941. ISBN: 0252027426

$US 100.00

Shay, Art (Photographer) & Algren, Nelson (Author/Subject)
Nelson Algren's Chicago: Photographs By Art Shay

Imprint: Chicago, IL, University Of Illinois Press, 1988
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 122 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs on subject. One of Art Shay'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 and as part of the Visions of Illinois Series. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Art Shay: Oversize-volume format. Hard boards with white titles printed on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Art Shay. Printed on glossy stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Art Shay's "Nelson Algren's Chicago". A photographic sequence on Chicago from the ostensible point-of-view of its protagonist/subject, the great writer Nelson Algren. One of the most affectingly beautiful photography books on the city and its people, it is dedicated to Harmon Shay, the photographer's son and Nelson Algren's godson, who died tragically in 1972 at the age of 21. Art Shay and the late novelist were lifelong friends. Algren arrived spectacularly on the literary landscape with "The Man With The Golden Arm" (1949), the very first novel to win the National Book Award, and the basis of a truly great film adaptation, which features the Academy Award-winning performance by Frank Sinatra. In his posthumous "collaborative" homage-gesture, Art Shay presents Chicago as Nelson Algren saw and captured it in his vital prose. The snapshots and portraits of the novelist are suffused with the charm and humanity that Algren's own work is celebrated for. In the most beautiful photographs, Algren is shown obliquely, the "background" observer of his fellow Chicagoans instead of being the full-frontal subject of Shay's iconic images. There is a poignant nostalgia and ruthless honesty at the same time about Nelson Algren and Chicago. The images vibrate and glow from within. An absolute "must-have" title for Art Shay and Nelson Algren collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Art Shay. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white plates. One of the finest American novelists of the 20th century, as seen by one of its finest photographers. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ART SHAY AND LEE BALTERMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 025201586X.

Stock number: 18955. ISBN: 025201586X

$US 150.00

Sheikh, Fazal
Ladli

Imprint: Gottingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 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. 140 pages. Collection of photographs. One of the most important 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 Fazal Sheikh and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 3 pounds. Khaki cloth boards with maroon titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Fazal Sheikh. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in Gottingen, Germany 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 Fazal Sheikh's "Ladli". His second portrait of India, a country of beauty and pain, its people, especially its women, blessed and cursed at the same time. "In India it costs a poor family 50 rupees to hire a midwife to oversee the birth of a child. For an additional 10 rupees, the parents are assured that the birth of a girl will be met with an act of infanticide by the midwife. The alternative for many is an institution like the Delhi orphanage, in which Fazal Sheikh's work on the predicament of the girl-child in India begins, and 99 percent of that orphanage's population are girls. Ladli follows on the heels of Sheikh's 'Moksha', which documented the plight of the Indian widow, and for which, in combination with this companion volume, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson granted Sheikh its Henri Cartier-Bresson (HCB) Award in 2005" (Publisher's blurb). "At once descriptive and loving, and warm rather than cool, the photographs are extraordinarily moving portraits in the classic mode (think Julia Margaret Cameron and Irving Penn), whose aesthetic weight is multiplied by the power of their maker's concern" (The New Yorker Magazine). An absolute "must-have" title for Fazal Sheikh collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Fazal Sheikh. 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. A scarce signed copy thus. 95 tritone plates. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2005. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER FAZAL SHEIKH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3865213812.

Stock number: 12750. ISBN: 3865213812

$US 70.00

Sheikh, Fazal
The Victor Weeps: Afghanistan

Imprint: Zurich, Switzerland, Scalo Publishers, 1998
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 244 pages. Collection of photographs. One of the most important photography books of the last decade of the 20th century. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Fazal Sheikh and Hans Werner Holzwarth: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 3 pounds. Ribbed maroon cloth boards with white titles on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Fazal Sheikh. Quotations from great Afghan poets interspersed with the photographs. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Zurich, Switzerland to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Fazal Sheikh's "The Victor Weeps". The photographer's stupendous images of the country's refugees in the Pakistan/Afghan border, a continuing tragedy that has haunted the world as a quiet indictment of imperial hubris and injustice. Fazal Sheikh's now-classic book represents an advance both as photojournalism and art over his breakthrough debut collection, "A Sense of Common Ground". His connection to Afghanistan long precedes the current interest in the devastated country's tragic past and uncertain future. His father was born there, he was born in the United States and named after his grandfather (Sheikh Fazal Ilahi), and has vivid memories of the place as a child visiting with his family. Some of the most haunting, memorably moving, and disturbingly beautiful images in the book are photographs of photographs: A series of images of mothers holding for Fazal Sheikh's camera a photograph-memento of their dead sons, killed by the long insurgency against the Soviet invasion of the country. The title refers to the fact that despite the ultimate victory of the great, noble, and brave people of Afghanistan over the Soviets, the price has been at such an immense cost, the proverbial Pyrrhic victory. Sheikh's singular contribution to contemporary photojournalism is his insistence that each individual be seen and treated as a particular human being's case of both indescribable suffering as well as the person's indomitable pride and dignity in spite of it. An absolute "must-have" title for Fazal Sheikh collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant in 2005. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER FAZAL SHEIKH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3931141950.

Stock number: 7227. ISBN: 3931141950

$US 80.00

Sherman, Cindy (Artist) & Philiips, Lisa (Contributor)
Cindy Sherman: Centerfolds

Imprint: New York City, NY, Skarstedt Fine Art, 2003
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 44 pages. "Bootleg"/Unauthorized Exhibition Catalog. Now considered a Cindy Sherman collectible item. The true First Edition. Withdrawn from sale, it is not clear how many copies were actually printed and of these, exactly how many copies escaped being pulped (very few). Precedes and should not be confused with the subsequent 2004 Edition. This 2003 Edition was never sold commercially to the public, and an entirely new book was published a year later, in April 2004. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Honest NYC: Regular-sized volume format in wide oblong shape, simulating the centerfold format. Blue cloth boards with white titles on spine, as issued. Photographically-based re-creations by Cindy Sherman. Essay by Lisa Phillips. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In wraparound DJ with titles on the spine, as issued. Originally published to accompany the exhibition, "Cindy Sherman Centerfolds 1981", which was held from May 10 through June 14, 2003. Presents Cindy Sherman's "Centerfolds". A sequence of 2 X 4 foot images created in 1981 for Artforum Magazine that takes the horizontal centerfold as their physical and conceptual framework. In the end, the images were never run in the magazine because the editor was concerned that they would be misunderstood, as the provocatively best of Cindy Sherman's work always is. Yet they remain among the most affecting and powerful constructed images by Sherman. In them, her female characters "fill up the frame with an ambiguous presence, in your face but inaccessible, emotionally suggestive but ambivalently distanced". We identify the "centerfold" with Playboy Magazine, which was the case even more so in 1981, when she made them. The artist brilliantly appropriates the idea with her gallery of "Not-Playboy-Material", ordinary-looking women (Sherman, naturally, in various guises), who project indifference and innocence as well as pain. It has never been fully revealed why "Centerfolds" was withdrawn, and then replaced with a new book that uses the square "portrait" format instead. The latter format could never ever do justice to the very idea of a centerfold, and thereby undermines Sherman's project. An absolute "must-have" title for Cindy Sherman collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the 2003 "Withdrawn/Unauthorized" 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 or are the 2004 Edition. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 12 color plates. Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ANTHONY GOICOLEA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0970909020.

Stock number: 22277. ISBN: 0970909020

$US 80.00

Shore, Stephen (Photographer); Fried, Michael; Lange, Christy & Sternfeld, Joel (Contributors)
Stephen Shore: Phaidon Press Contemporary Artists

Imprint: London, England, The Phaidon Press, 2007
Edition: First Edition
Binding: With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 160 pages. Retrospective Monograph. One of the best introductions to the photographic art and achievement of Stephen Shore. 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 and as part of The Phaidon Press' "Contemporary Artists" Series. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Melanie Mues: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Stephen Shore. Contributions by Michael Fried, Christy Lange, and Joel Sternfeld. 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 "Stephen Shore". A brilliant overview of his lifework in one "time-capsule" volume. "Stephen Shore is a true artistic innovator whose work has opened up new frontiers for contemporary photography. His photographs of American scenes unveil the exceptional beauty to be found in the everyday. As one of the first art photographers to work in color, Shore pioneered such contemporary genres as the diaristic snapshot (later taken up by Nan Goldin and Wolfgang Tillmans) and the monumentalized landscape (as later practiced by Becher-School photographers Thomas Struth and Andreas Gursky). Offers the first complete examination of Shore's long and storied career, from his residency at Warhol's Factory to his experiments in conceptual photography; from his landmark series, 'American Surfaces', to his continued exploration of emerging techniques" (Publisher's blurb). The book beautifully juxtaposes his precocious early work with his now-classic color photographs of American life and recent black-and-white photographs that appear in book form for the first time. Organized into four sections, each focussing on a different set of images, Shore kicks things off with a selection of images from his two great books, "Uncommon Places" and "American Surfaces". The brilliant photographer Joel Sternfeld contributes an in-depth analysis of one photograph, taken in 1974, of a street in a small town in Massachusetts. The book closes with a coda of images presented with his own writings and extracts from texts that he admires, notably a paragraph about Chinese poets, who accept the world exactly as they find it, and with profound simplicity, find solace therein. An absolute "must-have" title for Stephen Shore collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Stephen Shore. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary 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. A rare signed copy thus. Stephen Shore's "Uncommon Places" and "American Surfaces" were selected as two of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER STEPHEN SHORE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0714846627.

Stock number: 13880. ISBN: 0714846627

$US 100.00

Showalter, Elaine
Inventing Herself: Claiming A Feminist Intellectual Heritage

Imprint: New York City, NY, Scribner, 2001
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 384 pages. Book-length account on subject. One of the most important intellectual histories on the Feminist Movement. 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 Elaine Showalter's "Inventing Herself: Claiming A Feminist Intellectual Heritage". Herself defined. So engagingly and absorbingly written, free of intellectual jargon and critical theory baggage, it actually reads like a great story, which, in fact, it is. Choosing from her very personal pantheon of heroines, Elaine Showalter illuminates the lives of American and English female intellectual notables from the 18th century to the present and demonstrates the timeless division in the female psyche between the need for independence and the need for love. She begins with Wollstonecraft, author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", the first appeal for political, emotional, and sexual liberation. Wollstonecraft's own life anticipated all the contradictions between theory and practice that would challenge women, as she extolled reason and independence over passion, then became suicidal over the abandonment by her unworthy lover. Showalter doesn't limit herself to traditional feminist icons. Her book also explores the lives of Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, and Hannah Arendt, who were all critical of orthodox feminism, and more recent feminist critics such as Katie Roiphe and Camille Paglia (with an emphasis on the latter's egomania). She discusses the well-known enmity between Simone de Beauvoir and Mary McCarthy as well as their similarities. As she moves into the 21st century, the effort to combine independence, adventure, and love is embodied in Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, and Princess Diana, who was killed exactly 200 years after Wollstonecraft died in childbirth. Wittingly or unwittingly, it would appear that Showalter gives fodder to the conventional wisdom that a woman's worst enemy is another woman. But that would miss her point, which is that each woman has to become her own kind of feminist, her own inimitable creation. The story of the bitter and lasting enmity between Susan Sontag and Camille Paglia, a story of Paglia's pathetic quest for approval from Sontag and once denied, her relentless vindictiveness, is "alone worth the price of entry" (Joyce Carol Oates). An absolute "must-have" title for Elaine Showalter collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the most brilliant literary historian/commentators of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0684822636.

Stock number: 5197. ISBN: 0684822636

$US 20.00

Sierra, Javier (Translated by Alberto Manguel)
The Secret Supper

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

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 330 pages. Rare Javier Sierra and "The Secret Supper" collectible set. A copy of "The Secret Supper" First American Edition/First Printing with a copy of the Advance Reader's Edition (ARC), both signed by Javier Sierra. Precede and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Presents Javier Sierra's "La cena secreta" in a felicitous English translation by Alberto Manguel. Better - and much better-written - than "The Da Vinci Code". "Milan, 1497: Leonardo Da Vinci is completing his masterpiece, 'The Last Supper'. Pope Alexander VI is determined to execute him after realizing that the painting contains clues to a baffling and blasphemous message, which he is determined to decode: The Holy Grail and the Eucharistic Bread are missing, there is no meat on the table, and most shockingly, the apostles are portraits of well-known heretics, none of them depicted with halos. And why has the artist painted himself into the scene with his back turned toward Jesus? The clues to Leonardo's greatest puzzle are right before our eyes" (Publisher's blurb). "A tale of religious fanaticism, betrayal, murder, Church politics, artistic chicanery, and mystery to confound the reader. Fra Agostino Leyre, a Papal Inquisitor, is sent to Milan to confirm the messages of The Soothsayer, who alleges that Leonardo Da Vinci is a heretic who has hidden messages in his painting of the Cenacolo. Leonardo himself is presented as a larger-than-life figure: Blue-eyed, tall, and handsome, always dressed in white, surrounded by faithful students and friends. His brilliant mind, ranging over a multitude of ideas, has gained him a reputation for 'hiding heterodox ideas in paintings only apparently pious'. What Father Agostino follows is a labyrinthine path through alliances and rivalries, differences of opinion about Leonardo, and a discussion of the heresy of the Cathars. They are a fascinating sect, more extra-Christianity than Christian heretics. Their practices are based on a belief that certain deprivations, primarily of food and sex, will purify and make them worthy. Takes the reader through palaces and monasteries rife with intrigue, typical of the flowering of intellect that came after the Dark Ages, and dangerous for the incumbency. A compelling case is made that Leonardo's heretical beliefs are there for all to see in 'The Last Supper' if only we know how to find them. Sierra gives us the key and keeps the suspense going right up to the end" (Valerie Ryan). An absolute "must-have" title for Javier Sierra collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed and inscribed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Enjoy the secret! Javier Sierra". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page, as copies available online are. There is no recipient named. It also comes with a copy of the Advance Reader's Edition that is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed set (with a unique and lovely inscription, too) of the First American Edition/First Printing and Advance Reader's Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, pristine beauties. 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 set thus. One of the most brilliant novelists of our time. A fine set. . ISBN 0743287649.

Stock number: 21831. ISBN: 0743287649

$US 80.00