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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 287 pages. The author's fourth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Susan Sontag's "In America". Her novel-length story of America from the point-of-view of an outsider/immigrant, sadly more relevant than ever in our time. A rewarding and deeply moving novel about the whole idea of self-transformation, which the author considers to be the essence of what it means to be an American: "Newness, emptiness, pastlessness, this dream of turning life into a pure future that colored many immigrants' view of America. Because: You have to know when to let the old life go, and go on and not look back and have regrets. Otherwise you will always be sad, because you are always losing something. That's the way life is if you let misfortunes strike you too hard, you won't see the new chance coming" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the half-title page by Susan Sontag. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page or bookplate, as many copies available online are. It comes with a pristine copy of "An Evening With Susan Sontag National Book Award For Fiction" Souvenir Program during which event her signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. It is one of the single most beautiful copies we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374175403. Stock number: 21329. ISBN: 0374175403
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Imprint: Pennsylvania, The Franklin Library/The Signed First Edition Society, 2000 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 387 pages. The author's fourth and final novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. Limited Edition of 1300 signed copies, as stated. The true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the regular trade edition. Published in a one-time-only print run as a Leatherbound Edition that sold out upon publication. There is no ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by The Franklin Library: Regular-sized volume format. Leather boards with elaborate gilt design on the cover and gilt titles on the spine, as issued. Text by Susan Sontag. "Special Message"/ Essay Introduction by the author appears in this Limited Edition only. Raised bands. Gilt paper edges. Marbled endpapers. Bound-in satin ribbon marker. Printed on pristine-white, archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, Susan Sontag's "In America". Her novel-length story of America from the point-of-view of an outsider/immigrant, sadly more relevant than ever in our time, and yet is THE story of America even for Sontag, the ultimate Europe-besotted American native. A deeply moving novel about the idea of self-transformation, which is the essence of what it means to be an American: "Newness, emptiness, pastlessness, this dream of turning life into a pure future that colored many immigrants' view of America. Because: You have to know when to let the old life go, and go on and not look back and have regrets. Otherwise you will always be sad, because you are always losing something. That's the way life is if you let misfortunes strike you too hard, you won't see the new chance coming" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This copy of the Limited Edition is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the Front Limitation Page by Susan Sontag. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Unlike ALL other titles of the Franklin Library/Signed First Edition Society, the limitation of 1300 copies is stated, and as such, is small. Copies available online have serious flaws because they have been opened and browsed through. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 22241.
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Imprint: Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2009 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 247 pages. Book-length account on subject. It is also, significantly, the inaugural volume of Princeton University's "Writers On Writers" Series. 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. The DJ Cover shows an iconic portrait of Susan Sontag by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Presents Phillip Lopate's "Notes On Sontag". A gem of a book that one will admire, agree, and argue with. It inaugurates the brilliant Series with a bang: A well-known (living) writer commissioned by Princeton University to write a concise book about another (dead) writer. The living writer is free to choose his or her subject - and writing style (criticism, memoir, biography, even "meta-fiction", or all of the above). Lopate chose to combine formal criticism with personal recollections of Susan Sontag, whom he knew, but did not consider a friend or even a colleague. His title is a knowing allusion to Sontag's single most famous essay, "Notes On Camp", which established her as the "foremost interpreter of our contemporary moment". Lopate is admirably and genuinely humble in describing himself as a "mid-list" writer (he is much more than this) whereas he considers Sontag, who was in close proximity with him as a fellow New Yorker and writer, a cultural phenomenon. "Phillip Lopate is so sensible that we can overlook just how smart and audacious he also is. In 'Notes On Sontag', he manages a dazzling, melancholy anatomy as Robert Burton would have understood the notion, and his interrogation of Sontag is all the more impressive and resonant because this is a self-interrogation, too. Shrewd, ardent, skeptical, canny" (Robert Polito). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag and Phillip Lopate collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Phillip Lopate. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Lopate's signature on this copy is the best we have ever seen. This title is a contemporary 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 beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant critics of our time on one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG AND PHILLIP LOPATE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0691135703. Stock number: 22238. ISBN: 0691135703
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1977 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 207 pages. Collection of essays. One of the greatest books of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Susan Sontag's "On Photography". The fullest expression of Sontag's lifelong attempt to define the common ground and the (reversible) hierarchy between ethics and aesthetics. Her insight about "photographic seeing" remains THE most radical criticism of contemporary life: We now see the world as a series of images. For all of our pious lip service to literature, ours is a visual - rather than literary - culture: People today think, feel, and express themselves through images rather than words. These images are ALL photographically-based. Hence our dominant "entertainment/celebrity" culture, which depends on appearance, that is to say, it is image-based (rather than based on substance). Martin Harrison's great book on fashion/celebrity photography is simply titled "Appearances" (1991). Reality TV, cell phones that are also cameras, Facebook, and Snapchat (a pun on "snapshot"; its founders billed their start-up as "THE camera company") are merely the more recent ways through which we think and feel that something isn't real until it becomes an image. And when scientists snapped the first-ever photograph of the black hole (in April, 2019), they went nuts, and celebrated the image as an epochal event in human consciousness and history. The fact is that our technology-obsessed world began with the invention of the camera, which medium permanently altered our understanding of reality. Philosophy: Reality is invisible. Photography: Reality is visible. It is ironic that it took Sontag, a word-driven writer-intellectual, to realize all this back in 1977. That is precisely why she matters: A thinker who sees life as it is, before anyone else does, and thereby makes us understand. Her sustained examination of photography will not be surpassed: As knowledge, as an instrument of moral conscience, as the art of our time, and as a uniquely evocative trace of reality that IS reality (rather than a mere imitation of it). There are only two books on photography that are great: Susan Sontag's "On Photography" and Roland Barthes' "Camera Lucida" (1981). If Sontag's book is finally, an ethics of photography, then Barthes' book is an aesthetics of photography, of the most surprising kind: Anti-systematic and sentimental. An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This title is a great book. It comes with a 6 X 8 inch framed Fotofolio portrait of Susan Sontag by Peter Hujar. As far as we know, this is the only copy (with framed portrait) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, pristine beauties. It is the single most beautiful copy we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are subsequent printings (even if signed). This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare set thus. One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine collectible set. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374226261. Stock number: 22259. ISBN: 0374226261
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 318 pages. The author's earliest journals, published posthumously. One of the most important literary 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. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Susan Sontag's "Reborn: Journals & Notebooks, 1947-1963". The first of her projected three-volume journals. "Extraordinary for all the reasons we would expect from Sontag's writing: Extreme seriousness, stunning authority, intolerance toward mediocrity. Sontag's vulnerability throughout will also utterly surprise the late critic and novelist's fans and detractors. At 15, when these journals began, Sontag already displayed her ferocious intellect and hunger for experience and culture. What is most remarkable is watching Sontag grow into one of the century's leading minds. In these carefully selected excerpts, Sontag details her developing thoughts, her voluminous reading and daily movie-going, her life as a teenage college student at Berkeley discovering her sexuality, meeting and marrying her professor, Philip Rieff, with whom, at the age of 18, she had David, her only child. Watching Sontag become herself is nothing short of cathartic" (Publishers Weekly). "What ultimately matters about Sontag is what she has defended: The life of the mind and the necessity of reading and writing as a way of being fully human" (Hilary Mantel). What finally matters about Sontag is that four years after her tragic death (in 2004), she remains irreplaceable, has not and will not be replaced, one-of-a-kind, many immensely talented writers and critics in our midst notwithstanding. An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag 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 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. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374100748. Stock number: 16035. ISBN: 0374100748
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 126 pages. Book-length essay on subject. The author's last book. 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 that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Susan Sontag's "Regarding The Pain of Others". A brilliant, melancholy meditation on war photography. The sequel-of-sorts to "On Photography" (1977), Sontag revisits some of the same issues she raised in her earlier book, and subjects them to renewed, closer scrutiny. While relatively short, it ranges nimbly across a breadth of cultural and intellectual references. She re-evaluates positively what photography can do to create awareness, arouse indignation and sympathy, and make people act on the basis of images (rather than narrative accounts) of other people's suffering. As such, like its predecessor, it is an ethics of photography, which is why both are widely misunderstood, as photography = idealized beauty for most photographers and viewers. Her tough-minded re-evaluation of her own work is something both critics and admirers of Susan Sontag have come to expect from her. She was the intellectual par excellence, who never hesitated to change her mind. Were it not for her formidable intellect, her agonizing self-examination would be merely of passing, topical interest. Intentionally or not, this is her final statement on ethics and its inescapable, co-equal power, aesthetics. An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Susan Sontag. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374248583. Stock number: 22216. ISBN: 0374248583
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Imprint: New York City, NY, James Atlas Books, 2011 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 140 pages. The author's debut memoir. One of the most beautifully written memoirs 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. The DJ features the iconic photograph of Susan Sontag by Peter Hujar, which first appeared in his only book, "Portraits In Life And Death" (1986), and is now in the Permanent Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. Presents Sigrid Nunez's "Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag". Life under the same roof as the assistant and then de facto daughter-in-law of Susan Sontag. Her son, David Rieff, and Nunez fell in love. So she moved in. This move is the single most decisive moment of the memoir. A brilliant novelist in her own right, Nunez writes beautifully about living with Susan and David: Candid without being malicious, affectionate without being fawning, often funny, and ultimately heartbreaking. Sontag gave birth to David shortly after she turned 18 years old. Her youthful marriage prematurely ended whatever adolescence she might have had. When her marriage inevitably collapsed, this lost adolescence came back in the form of abject neediness and emotional vulnerability on Sontag's part, making her adulthood a very difficult time for her and everyone close to her. This was also the time of Sontag's worldwide fame, when the precocious American woman from LA transformed herself into the greatest American intellectual of our time. Nunez re-affirms what many others have previously said: Like her or not (it will always be a hung jury), Susan Sontag was one-of-a-kind, literally the only woman of her kind in the world. In order to live through her adolescence as an adult, Sontag inadvertently turned her son into her father. "Her therapist wondered: Why did you try to make a father out of your son? At first when she heard this, Susan said, she was shocked. She didn't know where the therapist could have come up with that! But then it hit her, she said: She had tried to do that. And we both started to cry" (Sigrid Nunez). "The best thing written about Sontag" (Edmund White). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag, David Rieff, and Sigrid Nunez collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated in blue ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Sigrid Nunez 27 April 2019". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the 2019 Chicago Humanities Festival Souvenir Program during which event 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 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. Three of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SIGRID NUNEZ, SUSAN SONTAG, AND DAVID RIEFF TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1935633228. Stock number: 22282. ISBN: 1935633228
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Counterpoint Publications, 2004 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 244 pages. The author's breakthrough debut book. Now widely 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 Craig Seligman's "Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me". A passionate critical study on its binary subjects. "Seligman's thesis is very simple: He sees and assesses the two writers, both immensely influential, as complete opposites, one of whom he reveres (Sontag), the other, he loves (Kael). Were he forced to choose, he would choose the latter" (Publisher's blurb). The single best appraisal of Seligman's fascinating thesis is by Philip Kennicott: "Seligman's very good book isn't flawed by its prejudice for Kael. Rather, it's rendered more human. The love shines through. But a book about Kael and Sontag shouldn't dodge the issue of influence. Kael was a delight to read, but the Kael style - the bitchiness, the unrelenting certainty of opinion - has been a malign force in American criticism, which all too often burbles along as a stream of witty one-liners and provocative pronouncements. Sontag and Kael may represent poles of an argument about art and style, but we must not lose sight of our need for less Kael and more Sontag. When Sontag warned us, in the aftermath of 9/11, that while we should grieve together, we must not be stupid together, she was warning us against making the kind of movie Kael's detractors accused her of loving. Do not go to war in the name of narrative simplicity, do not be bloodthirsty, do not seek revenge. Sontag was right, clear-headed, and prescient. Kael was never the political animal that Sontag was, and thus she was never as heroically right about anything as Sontag is. Kael was a talent; Sontag is a genius" (The Washington Post). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, and Craig Seligman 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 critics of our time on two of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG AND PAULINE KAEL TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1582433119. Stock number: 14451. ISBN: 1582433119
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Barnes & Noble Bookstores, 1999 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Susan Sontag collectible item. A pristine copy of the Barnes & Noble Bookstores advertisement to promote its newly launched website. Features the author as a literary celebrity/personality who is also an authoritative guide to modern literature. The advertisement is in black-and-white, measures 8 X 10 inches, and is encased in its own protective plastic sleeve. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Susan Sontag's list of "20th Century Books Discovered By Translation". Lovely. The ten books in the list were largely unknown at the time of the advertisement's publication, reinforcing Sontag's reputation as "au courant" cultural ambassador and influential champion of great, foreign-language literatures to English-language readers, an exemplar not just of openness and diversity but of the modern ideal itself, cosmopolitanism. It is somewhat touching that Barnes & Noble really believed in 1999 that the Internet will make people more cosmopolitan (or at the very least, less provincial) than they were before. The reality is that the Internet mirrors not a global village, but radical fragmentation. As such, it has had the exact opposite effect of making people more defensively "nationalistic" than ever. While the advertisement is now a literary curiosity, Sontag's List has been vindicated by the passage of time and remains definitive. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Susan Sontag collectors. This is a copy of the actual advertisement, not a later photographic re-issue or digital copy. It is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 16819.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Library Of America, 2013 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 900 pages. Retrospective collection of the author's greatest essays. The First Slipcased Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a Slipcased Edition for distribution to libraries and LOA subscribers only. None of the copies was sold to the public. The Slipcased Edition has the same ISBN as the regular trade edition. An austerely elegant production: Regular-sized volume format. Text by Susan Sontag edited and annotated by David Rieff. Cream hard board slipcase. Printed to the highest standards on acid-free paper, utilizing sewn binding, closely woven rayon cloth boards, satin bound-in ribbon marker, and a page layout that is both readable and elegant. The book is guaranteed to last for several generations of readers and collectors (despite frequent and regular use, the estimated life span of Library of America Editions is 1000 years; un-used, they will last forever). Without DJ, as issued. Re-presents Susan Sontag's "Against Interpretation" (1966), "Styles of Radical Will" (1969), "On Photography" (1977), and "Illness As Metaphor" (1978). Her first four collections of essays in their final form. The volume also includes five "Uncollected Essays", which appear in book form for the very first time, notably "The Double Standard of Aging" and "The Third World of Women", which are indispensable to an understanding of Sontag as a cultural philosopher of the first rank. These previously unpublished essays alone are worth the price of entry. An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First Library of America Slipcased Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: The First Slipcased Edition was distributed to libraries and LOA subscribers only. None of the copies was sold to the public. A rare copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1598532553. Stock number: 18339. ISBN: 1598532553
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Imprint: New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2013 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 168 pages. Book-length transcript of the author's interview. One of the greatest literary-interview books ever published in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents "Susan Sontag: The Complete Rolling Stone Interview". Jonathan Cott's Interview with Susan Sontag in its entirety. At the time of the Interview, Sontag was at the peak of her career, fame, and influence. She was also dying from cancer. The Interview shows her going non-stop and full blast on a breathtaking range of subjects, turning the predictable Q & A format into a full-fledged genre that is as riveting and well, as great as her best essays. Sontag was a great talker, the writer-as-talker par excellence. Some of the things she talks about she had already written about, but with the very real possibility of death, felt she needed to clarify, modify, and expound upon further. More poignantly, she also talks about ideas and projects that she had thought about for some time and began working on, but felt she may never get around to doing or finishing. The inescapable sense one gets from the 150-page Interview is one of restlessness, which is deeply rooted in her unusually peripatetic childhood. Restlessness compelled her to think and re-think more than most writers ever need to do. To the frustration of even her most loyal readers, she assumed then abandoned positions, which to her, were always provisional and open to change. Restlessness turned her life into one of perpetual flight: Flight from America to Europe; from Europe to America; from a male to a female lover; from a female to a male lover; from New York to London; from London to Paris; from Paris to New York; from essays to fiction; from fiction to essays; from film to theater; from theater to film; from one idea to another, one project to another, one passion to another, one cause to another, one commitment to another. Sontag lived for another twenty-five years (she died of Stage 4 leukemia, her third bout with cancer, in 2004), but unlike most writers with a significant body of work behind them, the sense is that her work will always remain unfinished. "One of my oldest crusades is against the distinction between thought and feeling, which is really the basis of all anti-intellectual views: The heart and the head, thinking and feeling, fantasy and judgment. Thinking is a form of feeling and feeling is a form of thinking" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag 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 are subsequent printings. The first print run was small, sold out shortly after publication, and had to be reissued right away. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0300189796. Stock number: 18607. ISBN: 0300189796
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Imprint: New York City, NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 2000 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 370 pages. Pioneering biography on subject. One of the most fascinating literary biographies of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Carl Rollyson's and Lisa Paddock's "Susan Sontag: The Making of An Icon". A gossip-filled account on the life and (some of the) work of the iconic American intellectual/writer of our time. Sontag did not endorse or cooperate with the project, indeed tried to derail and suppress it. As such, it is not surprising because the relatively short book is filled with juicy, sometimes salacious, potentially libelous anecdotal material. At the same time, it is, paradoxically, a genuinely admiring homage to Sontag's ambition, achievement, and unique place in American literature. One of Sontag's concerns about the book was that she was still very much alive at the time of its publication, fully expected to live and produce great work a little while longer (she died four years later, in 2004 at the relatively young age of 71), and rightly felt that every biography, especially that of a living person, casts a posthumous shadow, however inadvertent, over its subject. Nonetheless, she comes across in this inaugural biography as The Real Thing, a celebrity who was also a serious thinker, lived a full life celebrating the diversions and play of the mind. Celebrities, bar none, are superficial if not downright vacant, in our Social Media Age more so than ever. Sontag, flaws and all, engaged others because what she had to say was important, enriching, and enduring. An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag 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. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0393049280. Stock number: 20593. ISBN: 0393049280
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Tanam Press, 1979 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Susan Sontag collectible item. A fine copy of her recording of "Debriefing". The vinyl (LP) commits for posterity Susan Sontag's authoritative reading of her second best short story (second only to "The Way We Live Now"). The vinyl comes in its original cardboard sleeve and publisher's shrinkwrap. There is no ISBN. The vinyl release is now rare. The cardboard sleeve features a frameable reproduction of dazzling original abstract art on the front and back covers. Presents Susan Sontag's "Debriefing". Her great short story, in a dramatic reading by the author. One of the expectations that contemporary readers have about writing is "the writer's voice". It is the direct result of the advent of mass book production, which rendered speech (and the pre-Gutenberg oral tradition) obsolete. Everyone now reads silently (rather than aloud), in either the privacy of the home or if in public, in one's private space. Nevertheless, the yearning for "reading aloud" persists among readers. Hence the enduring popularity of author readings and compact disc (CD) recordings of whole novels. By the same token, hearing the writer's voice through the written text remains the high standard by which we judge a work's literary merits, particularly its "authenticity". When we read a text, we do so not with our eyes but with our ears, paying close attention to the way a writer uses sound: Intonation, melodiousness, rhythm, and accent as well as the quality and authority of the voice itself. We call their sum total "the writer's voice", his or her distinctive personality as expressed and evident through perceived sound. We are also able to hear the writer's actual voice, through public appearances and readings, in person or through media, and through recordings. The only problem is that many writers' actual voices do not correspond to the sound-personality of their work. Many writers we love have terrible speaking voices (think of Simone De Beauvoir's and Truman Capote's jarringly high-pitched, shrill voices). Readers who were fortunate enough to have heard Susan Sontag in person will always remember what a beautiful voice she possessed: Deep, rich, grainy, sexy. As such, her recording of "Debriefing" is a landmark event, preserved for posterity. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Susan Sontag collectors. This vinyl recording of "Debriefing" is a classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and despite its imperfection (creasing on the cardboard sleeve, visible through the shrinkwrap, issued as such, NOT affecting the vinyl within) is still in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. The vinyl itself has never been played or used. A rare copy thus. One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 22315.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Simon & Schuster, 2008 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 180 pages. The author's debut memoir. One of the best books on illness, dying, and death ever written in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents David Rieff's "Swimming In A Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir". His harrowing yet reflective account of his mother's illness and death. "Susan Sontag was fiercely, exuberantly alive, and uncompromising in her life no less than her work. At once a report from the frontlines of experimental oncology and a moving, absorbing personal account of his mother's last illness, a courageous and darkly beautiful book" (Oliver Sacks). Rieff's notion of a memoir is not the nakedly "confessional" American version, but the more clinically detached Continental/European one: His book is a reflection on dying and death, that is, on the denial, decline, and (there is no other way to put it) process of decomposition of a gravely ill person, who nevertheless believed that she would beat the odds and survive. In this sense and as the title clearly says, Rieff's book is not so much about illness as about death, surely the most difficult subject of all for any writer or artist to dare tackle. Sontag loved life too much to accommodate any notion of death ever. She was willing to suffer tremendously (she did), in the horrific way that other people would rather not, provided she came out of it alive in the end (she did not). Here is the iconic American intellectual of her time, depicted by her hapless son as being in near-absolute denial about The End, that is, in denial about the idea and the reality of "extinction" despite being in irreversible decline physically, emotionally, and mentally. An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag and David Rieff collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and despite its imperfection (one ding on the front board corner, but it's there), is still in fine condition overall: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG AND DAVID RIEFF TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0743299469. Stock number: 18805. ISBN: 0743299469
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Simon & Schuster, 2008 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 180 pages. The author's debut memoir. David Rieff's most accessible and moving book. 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 David Rieff's "Swimming In A Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir". "A courageous and darkly beautiful book". "Susan Sontag was fiercely, exuberantly alive, and uncompromising in her life no less than her work. At once a report from the frontlines of experimental oncology and a moving, absorbing personal account of his mother's last illness" (Oliver Sacks). Rieff's notion of a memoir is not the nakedly American "confessional" version, but the more clinically detached continental/French one. His book is a reflection on dying and death, and even more than these, on the denial, decay, and decline that accompany the process. Sontag feared all three and of course, death itself, about which she nourished fantasies that her rational self would typically have exposed and criticized. Here is the greatest American intellectual of her generation, depicted by her hapless son as being in total denial about her illness and imminent death, in extreme physical (and just as important, mental) pain, and in irreversible decline emotionally. An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag and David Rieff collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by David Rieff. 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. It is the single most beautiful copy we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG AND DAVID RIEFF TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0743299469. Stock number: 21719. ISBN: 0743299469
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Artforum, 2005 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 265 pages. Rare Susan Sontag and Arthur C. Danto collectible item. A fine copy of the Artforum Magazine March 2005 Issue, which features the author in a side photograph on the cover. Published to commemorate and evaluate Sontag's life and work through obituary-essays by the great American philosopher Arthur C. Danto, culture critic and poet Wayne Koestenbaum, and other major contributors. Koestenbaum's and Danto's essays are marked with grief partly because they both knew her personally, and as such, are the best pieces of the lot. Indeed, Danto's assessment of what Sontag meant to Western culture is one of the best things ever written about her: "As often happens with a death, we realize what our true feelings are. I knew from the intensity of my grief that she was irreplaceable as only someone we love is irreplaceable. She created a place for herself, and her uniqueness was such that the place died with her" (Arthur C. Danto). Artforum is an art, not a literary, magazine. Its remembrance of Sontag is a unique gesture, and testimony to the fact that Sontag's influence extended to the visual and performing arts, particularly film, contemporary art, and photography, in a way that no other American writer of our time ever exerted. Only a tiny handful of American authors get the same kind of exposure nowadays not because they are less accomplished or charismatic than Sontag, but because the very idea of Art (an end in itself) no longer has the life-and-death significance that Technology does (a means to an end that is now widely regarded as an end in itself). An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Susan Sontag collectors. This Magazine Issue is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. A rare copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 17803.
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Imprint: London, England, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1964 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 274 pages. The author's debut novel. Now considered a late-modern 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 tiny first print run as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Susan Sontag's "The Benefactor". Her astonishing, tour-de-force breakthrough. A little-known fact about the novel and its author: Set in France, it is a roman a clef on Antonin Artaud and Jean Genet, two of Sontag's formative influences as a writer, while its fully-realized protagonist, Hippolyte, is inspired by the real-life Rimbaud. It is also not entirely clear if Artaud and Genet ever met (although it was possible; neither one could ever have met Rimbaud, their great precursor and the founder of Modernism). Her subject is the overlap and difference between insanity (Artaud) and eccentricity (Genet), both of which are genuine sources of creative genius, particularly of the modern, Romantic kind. In a rare example of book jacket graphic design, the DJ art by Nicholas Jenkins vividly captures this divide. As such, it is written in the Continental picaresque manner, with vividly evoked, dream-like sequences that many critics, Hannah Arendt notably among them, found compelling. Sontag's ability to turn fantasies and dreams into a coherent narrative remains the novel's singular achievement. "The issue of my sanity cannot easily be dismissed. But after long consideration of the matter, I hold I was not insane. Call it eccentricity if you like. But the eccentric has made a choice which the insane person has not" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This title is a late-modern 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 beauty. Please note: Copies, particularly of the American Edition, available online have serious flaws, understandable enough for a book that was published more than fifty years ago, unless a copy was kept in storage, as this one, unread and showing no use at all, seems to have been. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 038526710X. Stock number: 20671. ISBN: 038526710X
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Imprint: New York City, NY, The New Yorker Magazine, 1991 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 100 pages. Rare Susan Sontag and New Yorker Magazine collectible item. Landmark New Yorker Magazine March 4, 1991 Issue. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Contributions by some of the world's finest writers, journalists, poets, humorists, and graphic/cartoon artists. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Unlike most books being published today, American magazines are still being printed in America; many of them are not only superior in quality, they will last in terms of production values. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Susan Sontag's "The Very Comical Lament of Pyramus And Thisbe". Her first and only short play. An allegorical dialogue between the eponymous Shakespearean characters from "A Midsummer Night's Dream", whom Sontag has appropriated to personify the former West and East Germany. The Berlin Wall is the subject of their melancholy and meditative dialogue on The Old versus The New as well as the Cold War and the Fall of Communism in 1989. Beautifully, allusively, and wittily written in the Beckett-ian mode, the piece appears in published form for the very first time (it appeared, ten years later and in slightly revised form, in "Where the Stress Falls", her last collection of essays). An activist all her writing life, Sontag considered herself a committed member of the American Radical Left early in her career. Her book-length essay, "Trip to Hanoi", is referred to by the great Leftist filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci in his film, "The Dreamers", as one of the key texts which influenced European students, thinkers, and activists during the tumultuous 1960's. She eventually became disillusioned with the Left, famously calling Communism "fascism with a human face", and adopted a more pragmatic, more open-minded, and (still-controversial) anti-ideological political stance towards the end of her life. In America, her position was necessarily a precarious and vulnerable one because the national dialogue is dominated by the ideological Left and Right. Her embrace of German culture as a Jewish-American writer did not prevent her from being recognized by Israel with the Jerusalem Prize. She was honored in 2003, the year before her death, with the "Friedenspreis", the German Prize. Along with The Nobel, The Goethe, The Prince of Asturias, and The Erasmus Prizes (Sontag also received the last two awards), the Jerusalem and "Friedenspreis" are the world's most prestigious literary awards, much more so than either the Pulitzer or Booker. Her only short play is unique in her oeuvre. An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This Issue is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. A rare copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 15792.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, The Paris Review, 1995 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 297 pages. Rare Susan Sontag collectible item. A fine copy of the Winter 1995 (Volume 137) Paris Review Interview Issue. Presents the most in-depth Interview with the great writer in late-career, with a ground-breaking body of work behind her. Appears in published form for the very time and has not been collected in book form. Celebrated for its brilliance and tenacity as one of the world's greatest literary publications, The Paris Review is perhaps the most influential and most important of its kind. The Paris Review is best-known for its Author Interviews, which are indispensable to an understanding and appreciation of 20th-century and contemporary literature. But the magazine has also published fiction and essays of the highest quality. "I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This title is a classic Issue. This is one of few copies still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 19335.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Columbia University Press, 2009 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 265 pages. New collection of posthumous essays on subject. The First Hardcover Edition. Should not be confused with the Softcover Edition, which was published simultaneously with it. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original by a University Press. It will not be reissued once all of the copies are sold. The production values are impeccable: Pristine-white archival stock paper, handsome brown cloth boards, invaluable Index, and other Gender and Culture titles appended at the end. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "The Scandal of Susan Sontag". All-new essays that collectively assess the achievement, legacy, and controversy that continue to surround Susan Sontag's "scandalous" career. Even more than a sober assessment, the collection is valuable in the sense that all of the contributors are also trying, in their own way, to continue Sontag's unfinished work, pointing to its unrealized possibilities and implications. More than seven years after her untimely death, the most cursory glance at printed commentary and blogs on Susan Sontag shows just how passionately people still feel about her work, for or against or somewhere in-between, never indifferent. While she was a cultural icon in her lifetime, that enviable stature was always under relentless attack from critics and detractors that her excruciating final bout with cancer and subsequent death did nothing to soften, mellow or dissipate. "Yields new insights on a most complex sensibility. The contributors accomplish this with sophisticated admiration, with originality, and with wit" (Publishers Weekly). Sontag was a lot more nimble and shrewd than her enemies (hence their frustration with her continuing relevance and their own "footnote" irrelevance). She always insisted on her right to keep an open mind, to change her mind, and therefore to never let anyone, not even herself, ever have The Last Word. If Harold Bloom is our sage, our true educator-guide to life, on every page the voice of age and wisdom, Sontag is our intellectual, our provocative questioner about life, in every line the voice of a human being's evolving and ecstatic engagement with literature and the arts. An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag 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. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0231149166. Stock number: 15736. ISBN: 0231149166
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 419 pages. The author's breakthrough third novel. One of the best American novels of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Susan Sontag's "The Volcano Lover". Her third and finest novel. The name Susan Sontag was synonymous with "intellectual par excellence". Sontag's resulting predicament as a writer was that her fiction was, with the occasional exception, seldom taken as seriously as her essays. "The Volcano Lover" changed all that. Although it is structurally a historical romance, it is primarily a novel of ideas, about modern politics, and more particularly, about collectors and the obsession called collecting. If one had to sum up Sir William Hamilton (referred to as the Cavaliere throughout the novel) in Cartesian fashion, it would be thus: "I collect, therefore I am". Sir William accumulates works of art - and just about everything else that gives him the frisson of serendipitous pleasure. He ends up "falling in love" with and collecting the Vesuvius volcano, the looming presence in the novel, a virtual "character". This erotic and apolitical relation to the world becomes, ironically, a political act with devastating consequences. Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest modernist and thriller-genre writers of the 20th century, called "The Volcano Lover" the best book she had read by an American writer in the last decade of the 20th century. "Sontag relates to the world in order to live in it, or perhaps better still, to allow it to live itself" (Dictionary of Literary Biography). "You have to know when to let the old life go, and go on and not look back and have regrets. Otherwise you will always be sad, because you are always losing something. That's the way life is if you let misfortunes strike you too hard, you won't see the new chance coming" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Susan Sontag. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America" and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374285160. Stock number: 17424. ISBN: 0374285160
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 419 pages. The author's breakthrough third novel. One of the best American novels of the 20th century. Uncorrected Proof. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, including the Advance Reader's Edition and the regular trade edition. Published in a tiny, one-time-only print run as a softcover original only for the exclusive use of the author and the publisher. There is no ISBN. The Uncorrected Proof is now rare. Presents, in its earliest publication-state, Susan Sontag's "The Volcano Lover". Her third and finest novel. The name Susan Sontag was synonymous with "intellectual par excellence". Sontag's resulting predicament as a writer was that her fiction was, with the occasional exception, seldom taken as seriously as her essays. "The Volcano Lover" changed all that. Although it is structurally a historical romance, it is primarily a novel of ideas, about modern politics, and more particularly, about collectors and the obsession called collecting. If one had to sum up Sir William Hamilton (referred to as the Cavaliere throughout the novel) in Cartesian fashion, it would be thus: "I collect, therefore I am". Sir William accumulates works of art - and just about everything else that gives him the frisson of serendipitous pleasure. He ends up "falling in love" with and collecting the Vesuvius volcano, the looming presence in the novel, a virtual "character". This erotic and apolitical relation to the world becomes, ironically, a political act with devastating consequences. Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest modernist and thriller-genre writers of the 20th century, called "The Volcano Lover" the best book she had read by an American writer in the last decade of the 20th century. "Sontag relates to the world in order to live in it, or perhaps better still, to allow it to live itself" (Dictionary of Literary Biography). "You have to know when to let the old life go, and go on and not look back and have regrets. Otherwise you will always be sad, because you are always losing something. That's the way life is if you let misfortunes strike you too hard, you won't see the new chance coming" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This copy of the Uncorrected Proof is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Susan Sontag. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the Uncorrected Proof available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: It is the single most beautiful copy of the Uncorrected Proof, which is rare in and of itself, we have ever seen. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America" and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 21286.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 419 pages. The author's breakthrough third novel. One of the best American novels of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition, issued as a Kroch's & Brentano's "The First Edition Circle" selection, and distributed to private subscribers only. 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 Susan Sontag's "The Volcano Lover". Her third and finest novel. The name Susan Sontag was synonymous with "intellectual par excellence". Sontag's resulting predicament as a writer was that her fiction was, with the occasional exception, seldom taken as seriously as her essays. "The Volcano Lover" changed all that. Although it is structurally a historical romance, it is primarily a novel of ideas, about modern politics, and more particularly, about collectors and the obsession called collecting. If one had to sum up Sir William Hamilton (referred to as the Cavaliere throughout the novel) in Cartesian fashion, it would be thus: "I collect, therefore I am". Sir William accumulates works of art - and just about everything else that gives him the frisson of serendipitous pleasure. He ends up "falling in love" with and collecting the Vesuvius volcano, the looming presence in the novel, a virtual "character". This erotic and apolitical relation to the world becomes, ironically, a political act with devastating consequences. Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest modernist and thriller-genre writers of the 20th century, called "The Volcano Lover" the best book she had read by an American writer in the last decade of the 20th century. "Sontag relates to the world in order to live in it, or perhaps better still, to allow it to live itself" (Dictionary of Literary Biography). "You have to know when to let the old life go, and go on and not look back and have regrets. Otherwise you will always be sad, because you are always losing something. That's the way life is if you let misfortunes strike you too hard, you won't see the new chance coming" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This copy of Kroch's & Brentano's "The First Edition Circle" is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the front free endpaper by Susan Sontag. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Kroch's and Brentano's "The First Edition Circle"/First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America" and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374285160. Stock number: 21663. ISBN: 0374285160
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Imprint: Berkeley, CA, Black Oak Books/Okeanos Press, 1992 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Susan Sontag collectible item. A pristine copy of the Excerpt from "The Volcano Lover" broadside, signed by Susan Sontag. Published in a one-time-only print run whose limitation is not stated. None of the copies was commercially sold. There is no ISBN. The broadside is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Okeanos Press: Vertical 7 X 13 inches format. Antique map illustration on top. Text by Susan Sontag in the middle. Her name in bold maroon letters at the bottom. In publisher's original shrinkwrap. Printed on cream, thick uncoated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of her reading at Black Oak Bookstore during her national book tour in 1992. Presents Susan Sontag's "The Volcano Lover" broadside. Her most successful and accomplished novel, which catapulted her to mainstream bestseller status. Features the last three paragraphs, uttered by a female character who comes to a horrific end, which sums up and ends the novel. "They thought they were civilized. They were despicable. Damn them all" are the novel's frequently-quoted last three sentences. Patricia Highsmith, one of the greatest Modernist and thriller-genre writers of the 20th century, called "The Volcano Lover" the best book she had read by an American writer in the last decade of the 20th century. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Susan Sontag collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on recto by Susan Sontag. It is signed directly on the broadside itself, not on a tipped-in page. This broadside is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: None of the copies was commercially distributed. Susan Sontag did NOT sign most copies of it. Being ephemera, few copies have survived: OCLC locates 1 unsigned copy in the Permanent Collection of Brown University. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 22247.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, The Noonday Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 30 pages. The author's short story on the AIDS crisis during its most crucial period. One of the greatest short stories of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in the United States. The British and American regular trade editions were both produced in the United Kingdom, published simultaneously as softcover originals only, and based upon the Artist Book by Susan Sontag and Howard Hodgkin. While the Artist Book is rare (it sold out shortly after publication), both trade editions are also now scarce. A brilliant adaptation/production by Howard Hodgkin: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine and large flaps, as issued. Text by Susan Sontag. Art by Howard Hodgkin. Printed on thick coated (for the art) and uncoated (for the text) stock paper in the United Kingdom to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Susan Sontag's "The Way We Live Now". Widely regarded as the single greatest fictional account ever written on the devastating illness. The author's story is interpreted by the greatest British abstract painter of our time in luminous aquatints that are beautifully reproduced in this edition. Hodgkin spent about four years working on them to ensure, by his own account, that he captured the short story's finely modulated emotional temperature accurately. The result is a series of profoundly moving images that are among Hodgkin's greatest work. Sontag presents the sufferer's illness from the points-of-view of his closest friends, who take turns visiting him, worrying about him, exchanging notes, and making life-saving arrangements. Each friend is named after a letter of the Roman alphabet (from A to Z), which is Sontag's concrete way of saying all of humanity has a stake in the illness and its sufferers' plight. Sontag's story was included in the "Best American Short Stories of the Twentieth Century" by John Updike. An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag and Howard Hodgkin collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen on the title page by Susan Sontag. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient is named, and was one of the late author's closest colleague/friends. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed 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. Copies of the Artist Book turn up online occasionally, commanding up to $5000 if all of the prints are intact. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Susan Sontag is Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". Howard Hodgkin is Winner of the Turner Prize, the most prestigious British artistic award, among numerous other honors. Two of the most influential and important artists of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG AND HOWARD HODGKIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374523053. Stock number: 12471. ISBN: 0374523053
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 204 pages. The author's fourth collection of essays. One of Susan Sontag's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Susan Sontag's "Under The Sign of Saturn". The essay-pieces she wrote as a mature essayist, and the necessary counterpoint to her debut, "Against Interpretation". The book is dedicated to the Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky, who once poetically described these essays as "mental music". These are inexhaustible testaments to the life of the mind that will endure. Includes the magisterial, sixty-page tour de force, "Approaching Artaud", which is itself intimidating to approach. Her generous and loving tribute to the European Modernist tradition to which she was deeply indebted, the essays are among the most challenging, complex, and rewarding that Susan Sontag ever wrote: Elias Canetti, Roland Barthes, Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, Paul Goodman, and the eponymous piece on Walter Benjamin, "the most important critic of the pre-war period and the writer to whom Sontag can be most relevantly compared" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen on the front free endpaper by Susan Sontag. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient is named. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed and inscribed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0863160522. Stock number: 13192. ISBN: 0863160522
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1980 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 204 pages. The author's fourth collection of essays. One of Susan Sontag's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Susan Sontag's "Under The Sign of Saturn". The essay-pieces she wrote as a mature essayist, and the necessary counterpoint to her debut, "Against Interpretation". The book is dedicated to the Nobel Laureate Joseph Brodsky, who once poetically described these essays as "mental music". These are inexhaustible testaments to the life of the mind that will endure. Includes the magisterial, sixty-page tour de force, "Approaching Artaud", which is itself intimidating to approach. Her generous and loving tribute to the European Modernist tradition to which she was deeply indebted, the essays are among the most challenging, complex, and rewarding that Susan Sontag ever wrote: Elias Canetti, Roland Barthes, Hans-Jurgen Syberberg, Paul Goodman, and the eponymous piece on Walter Benjamin, "the most important critic of the pre-war period and the writer to whom Sontag can be most relevantly compared" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the front free endpaper by Susan Sontag. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0863160522. Stock number: 21895. ISBN: 0863160522
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Conde Nast Publications, 1983 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 164 pages. Scarce Susan Sontag collectible item. The October 1983 Issue. Features the American author on the Cover of Vanity Fair Magazine. This is the third of five consecutive Issues in 1983 that featured great living writers on the cover: Italo Calvino (August); Philip Roth (September); Susan Sontag (October); Francine du Plessix Gray (November); and Woody Allen (December). Vanity Fair commissioned the late great Irving Penn to photograph all of them, and all five portraits, taken in extreme close-ups, are among the photographer's finest work. Pictorial softcovers, as issued. Contributions by various writers, journalists, photographers, and columnists. Printed on thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Unlike most books, magazines are still printed in the United States, with stunning results. Encased in its own protective plastic sleeve. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Susan Sontag on the cover of Vanity Fair Magazine. The occasion is the appearance of her great essay, "On Poet's Prose", which is one of the central pieces in her final essay collection, "Where the Stress Falls" (2001). As such, the former represents the very first appearance of the essay (almost twenty years before the book) in published form. The Issue also includes some of the very best essays, feature articles, and fiction that Vanity Fair Magazine has ever published, making it a "keepsake" rather than a "throwaway". Plus, the rare appearance of a beloved author on the cover of a mainstream, mass-circulation magazine is an experience that readers will not be privileged to have ever again. Susan Sontag died on December 28, 2004. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, Issue for Susan Sontag and Vanity Fair collectors. This Issue is now collectible. This is one of few copies still available online, is encased in its own protective plastic sleeve, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG AND VANITY FAIR MAGAZINE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 17865.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 288 pages. The author's fifth and final collection of essays. One of Susan Sontag'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. "Autographed Copy" round sticker pasted in front. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Susan Sontag's "Where The Stress Falls: Collected Essays". The last collection of essays published in her lifetime, a personal "summing-up" of a politically abysmal yet culturally vibrant century. Gathers forty-one of the author's best essays at the turn of the 21st century, demonstrating, for the last and most poignant time, Sontag's unique achievement as iconic writer/intellectual: These are definitive pieces that could only have been written by her. The book is divided into three parts: "Reading", "Seeing", and "There And Here". The latter section also includes a short play and her Sarajevo Diary, both of which appear in book form for the very first time. Individually and collectively, they illuminate Sontag's lifelong engagement with literary, philosophical, and aesthetic issues (and pleasures) as well as the problematic and unresolved evolution of her political and moral convictions. "Sontag combined a passion for new ways of seeing with a fidelity to Classical values (truth, beauty, decency), and thus built a bridge for us, showed us how to cross over into the modern" (The New Yorker Magazine). In the end, Sontag's much-misunderstood aesthetics (sometimes, even by her) is also an ethics, her permanent contribution being that aesthetics is not subservient to ethics, but is truly its co-equal power: Aesthetics is a form of ethics; ethics is a form of aesthetics. They are two very different philosophical quests. But they are inextricably linked and inescapably affect, refer, and relate to each other, in a way that our absolutist pundit-"thinkers" would reject and deny. When stated as such, it sounds so inherently true. In reality, it is neither obvious nor unmistakably clear "where the stress falls", and her essays illuminate our existential struggle with nuance, subtlety, and acute intelligence. "Thinking is a form of feeling; feeling is a form of thinking" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Susan Sontag collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Susan Sontag. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws yet are priced as though they had collectible value. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the MacArthur Genius Grant, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977 for "On Photography", the National Book Award in 2000 for "In America", and the Jerusalem Prize in 2001. Shimon Peres, in awarding the Jerusalem Prize, described Sontag as "one of the world's finest writers and greatest minds". One of the most influential and important writer-intellectuals of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374289174. Stock number: 20191. ISBN: 0374289174
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Columbia University Press, 1986 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 284 pages. The legendary dance critic/historian's landmark memoirs. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Walter Sorell's "Looking Back In Wonder". A major yet under-appreciated dance critic. Walter Sorrell has plenty of reason to look back in wonder because he covered the Golden Age of dance in America, notably the rise and eventual dominance of The New York City Ballet. Best-known for "The Dance Has Many Faces", a collection of essays on ballet and dance which he edited, this very personal book is a touchstone for lovers of one of the most sublime creations of man. "Dance is life; dance is about the essence and vitality of life" (Walter Sorell). An absolute "must-have" title for dance lovers/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 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. One of the finest American dance critics of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO ARLENE CROCE AND JOAN ACOCELLA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0231062788. Stock number: 1911. ISBN: 0231062788
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Imprint: Miami, FL, Kendall Campus Art Gallery, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 10 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. An austerely elegant production by Pablo Soria: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover, as issued. Photographs by Pablo Soria. Essay by Fernando R. Castro. Contribution by Jorge Luis Borges. Printed on glossy stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition held at the Kendall Campus Art Gallery in 2001. Presents a selection of Pablo Soria's memorial photographs. An immigrant-American of Argentine descent (and sensibility), his work is about the active recovery of memory through art, made more acute and necessary by physical and metaphysical distance. Soria depicts historical referents of Argentina's past with tenderness and longing that parallel Jorge Luis Borges' poetry. An absolute "must-have" title for Pablo Soria and Latin-American art and photography collectors. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Exhibition Catalog available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare copy thus. 5 color plates. One of the most brilliant immigrant-American artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. . Stock number: 19419.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Readers International, 1985 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 200 pages. The author's first book to be translated into English. One of the greatest novels of our time. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Vladimir Sorokin's "The Queue" in a felicitous English translation. His masterpiece. First published by the great exiled Russian writer Andrei Sinyavsky in France, banned/never published during the Soviet regime, and now widely considered a Modernist masterwork. Neither a play nor a novel, Sorokin has famously described his ground-breaking work as operating at the outermost limits of literature. His translator has written an Introduction that remains illuminating to this day: "More than anything perhaps, it resembles a musical score, the score of some bizarre street symphony. Its notes are words, grunts, cries, all the noises that humans make talking, cursing, drinking tea, swallowing sour cream, making love" (Sally Laird). Sorokin rejects the conventional novel, particularly in its Socialist Realism form, not literature itself, by turning the absurdities of modern life into his very own Theatre of The Absurd. At dawn, the people whose voices we hear throughout the book gather and form a queue. Like all of his great predecessors in Russian and Western literature, his book is a radical (and at the time, courageous and noble) attempt to re-think, re-create, and re-write writing. An absolute "must-have" title for Vladimir Sorokin collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Vladimir Sorokin 30.04.2011". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Sorokin made a rare appearance at the 2011 PEN World Festival. Laid-in is a copy of the 60-page Souvenir Program. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and dated copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Andrei Bely Award, the most important literary prize in Russia, for his body of work in 2001. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 093052344X. Stock number: 16507. ISBN: 093052344X
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Imprint: Gottingen, Germany, Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2007 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 60 pages. Retrospective collection of color photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Alec Soth and Gerhard Steidl: Regular-sized volume format. Gray cloth boards with black titles and design embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and brief text by Alec Soth. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with black titles on the spine, as issued. Presents Alec Soth's "Dog Days Bogota". One of his most beloved books: A heartfelt (but not mawkish or kitschy) photo album of his trip with his wife to Bogota to adopt a baby girl. While waiting for the baby's adoption papers to be processed (it took two months), Soth photographed the place, with dogs tying up the divergent strands of his journey, in the same way that beds tied "Sleeping By The Mississippi" together. Someday, when she's old enough, Alec Soth and his wife will show their daughter these photo souvenirs of what they did while waiting for her. They should be warned that she might cry like a baby. Alec Soth's books are about travel-as-journey, place-as-destiny, life-as-pilgrimage. His work is acutely beautiful because Soth handles these otherwise heavy philosophical themes with a lighter touch, that is to say, as an artist rather than a philosopher. And there is no life journey more meaningful - and beautiful - than having a baby. "I want to thank one woman in particular. In December 2002, a nurse at an orphanage walked into the office and placed a baby girl in my wife's arms. In a world that is so often marked by man's cruelty, this woman acted with selfless love" (Alec Soth). An absolute "must-have" title for Alec Soth collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Alec Soth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great art 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. It is the single most beautiful copy we have ever seen. A rare signed copy thus. 50 color plates. Alec Soth's "Sleeping By The Mississippi" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALEC SOTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3865214517. Stock number: 21531. ISBN: 3865214517
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Imprint: London, England, MACK Publishers, 2017 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 120 pages. New Edition of the photographer's classic. One of the greatest art photography books of our time. Limited Slipcased Edition of 150 numbered and signed copies. Should not be confused with the regular trade edition that was published simultaneously with it. Although there have been several editions of the book, this is its very first Limited Edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Alec Soth and MACK: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial cloth boards with titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Alec Soth. There are two images that appear for the very first time, and they "re-frame" the collection: The frontispiece, "Maiden Rock, Wisconsin", and "Green Island, Iowa", the final image. Essays by Patricia Hampl and Anne Wilkes Tucker. Original 10 X 8 inch color print of "Holt Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana" encased its own white folder and laid into the book. Commemorative 15 X 21 inch folded color poster. Archival slipcase. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition held at Beetles + Huxley Gallery London in 2017. Re-presents, in its ultimate collectible format, Alec Soth's "Sleeping By The Mississippi". Which now famously refers to the recurrence of beds throughout the sequence. "Captures America's iconic yet oft-neglected 'third coast'. Soth's richly descriptive, large-format color photographs present an eclectic mix of individuals, landscapes, and interiors. Elicits a consistent mood of loneliness, longing, and reverie. Like Robert Frank's classic, 'The Americans', merges a documentary style with a poetic sensibility. Not bound by a rigid concept or ideology, the series is created out of a quintessentially American spirit of wanderlust. Thirteen years since the book was first published, the artist's lyrical view has undoubtedly acquired a nuanced significance, one in which hope, fear, desire, and regret coalesce in the evocative journey along this mythic river" (MACK). "With most photography, you look at it, sigh, and pass on, but Soth's work keeps pulling you back to look again because he composes with the skill of the greatest of photographic artists. He's unafraid of humor and irony, which are impossible to leave out of any authentic American vision. He uses color as an integral part of his composition. That is not to say he photographs in color, but that his colors are as important as the people and the things he captures" (John Wood). An absolute "must-have" title for Alec Soth collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Slipcased Edition, indicated/numbered as such by the photographer on the accompanying print. It is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in pencil on the title page by Alec Soth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a 10 X 8 inch original color print of "Holt Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana" that is very prominently and beautifully numbered and signed in pencil on verso by the photographer. This title is a great photography book. 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. A rare signed copy thus. 46 color plates, 2 additional plates, 1 poster, 1 original color print. Selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALEC SOTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1910164895. Stock number: 21584. ISBN: 1910164895
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Imprint: London, England, MACK, 2014 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 144 pages. Collection of black-and-white photographs. One of the most beautiful and most valuable photography books in our Internet/Social Media Age. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Alec Soth and Gregoire Pujade-Lauraine: Oversize-volume format. Green cloth boards with titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Alec Soth. Quotation from Eugene Ionesco. Lyrics from The Great American Songbook by Cole Porter, Sammy Cahn, Johnny Mercer, and others. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Alec Soth's "Songbook". Black-and-white images from a Master Colorist. "Known for his haunting portraits of solitary Americans in 'Sleeping by The Mississippi' and 'Broken Manual', Alec Soth has recently turned his lens toward community life in the country. To aid in his search, Soth assumed the increasingly obsolescent role of community newspaper reporter. From 2012-2014, Soth traveled state by state while working on his self-published newspaper, The LBM Dispatch, as well as on assignment for the New York Times. From upstate New York to Silicon Valley, Soth attended hundreds of meetings, dances, festivals, and communal gatherings in search of human interaction in an era of virtual social networks. With 'Songbook', Soth has stripped these pictures of their news context in order to highlight the longing for connection at their root. Fragmentary, funny, and sad, 'Songbook' is a lyrical depiction of the tension between American individualism and the desire to be united" (Publisher's blurb). Soth's Songbook alternates seamlessly between solo ("individualism") and group ("unity") thematic portraits. It ends with a melancholy coda (a suite of eight photographs of solitary figures in the landscape) just as some of the most heartbreakingly beautiful songs do. When it comes to putting together a book that holds together perfectly, not a single false note, Alec Soth has few peers. Still, his work is not just a formalist exercise. It is acutely beautiful because Soth handles otherwise heavy socio-philosophical themes with a light touch, that is to say, as an artist (rather than a philosopher). An absolute "must-have" title for Alec Soth collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Alec Soth. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary 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 are subsequent printings. A rare signed copy thus. 73 black-and-white plates. Alec Soth's "Sleeping By The Mississippi" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALEC SOTH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 191016402X. Stock number: 19491. ISBN: 191016402X
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Imprint: London, England, Self-Published, 1955 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 7 pages. The author's very first Limited Edition publication. Self-published, it is Sir Stephen Spender's rarest title. Limited Edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. Privately printed by the great poet and his wife as a Christmas holiday present, given exclusively to their close friends and colleagues. There is no ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. It is a beautifully produced gem of a book: Small-size volume format. Gilt softcovers with black titles pasted on, as issued. Text by Stephen Spender. Each copy is numbered, signed, and inscribed by the author and signed by him and his wife, Natasha Spender. Printed on archival stock paper in the United Kingdom to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Stephen Spender's "Three Versions From The German: Poems by Stefan George And Hugo von Hofmannsthal". Three new translations by the British Poet Laureate of great poems by two great German poets, Stefan George and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, who were significant influences on Stephen Spender's own poetry. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Stephen Spender collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Edition of 100 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such ("Number 66") on the Back Limitation Page. It is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed and inscribed by the author and his wife: "To Alan and Jennifer, With Christmas And New Year Love, from Stephen and Natasha". The greeting-inscription was written and signed by the author in black ink-pen whereas Natasha Spender signed her own name in blue ink-pen. The recipients, who are both named, are a married couple who were close friends of the Spenders. This title is a classic. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and despite its imperfection (visible rubbing on gilt covers) is still in especially fine condition: Every single internal page is clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: The paper may have lasted 65 years (as of 2019), but the volume is still ephemera, fragile as such. Because of its gem-like size, it is easily mishandled, misplaced, and finally lost, as indeed most copies were over the years. A handful of copies have survived since its publication in 1955: OCLC locates 10 copies in the Permanent Collections of the usual suspects, Oxford as well as Harvard and Yale Universities, with access strictly restricted to recognized Spender scholars only. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest poets of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. . Stock number: 1500.
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Imprint: Montreal, Canada, Drawn & Quarterly, 2013 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 140 pages. Retrospective collection of the artist's oeuvre. One of the most beautiful and valuable art books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. It should also not be confused with the French-language version, which contains only half of the materials that are in this book. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Art Spiegelman and Drawn & Quarterly: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with red under-boards and titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Art, text, and vintage materials (drawn from his personal archives) by Art Spiegelman. Essays by two contributors. Printed on thick, archival stock paper to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in one lavish volume, Art Spiegelman's "CO-MIX: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, And Scraps". His ground-breaking, earth-shattering, sublime graphic art. The title refers to the multi-media mix that characterizes the artist's body of work, and also brilliantly plays on the word "comics", which remains Spiegelman's preferred word for his graphic novels. "In a career that now spans six decades, Art Spiegelman has been an influential figure with a global impact. His Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust memoir, 'Maus', established the graphic novel as a legitimate form and inspired countless cartoonists while his shorter works have enormously expanded the expressive range of comics. A comprehensive career overview of the output of this legendary cartoonist, showing for the first time the full range of a half-century of relentless experimentation. Provides a guided tour of an artist who has continually reinvented not just comics, but also made a mark in book and magazine design, bubble gum cards, lithography, modern dance, and most recently, stained glass. Demonstrates how he has persistently cross-pollinated the worlds of comics, commercial design, and fine arts" (Publisher's blurb). Not everything that can be said about Spiegelman, whose genius is inexhaustible, is in this book. But his greatest work, as personally selected by him, is here to savor forever and ever. An absolute "must-have" title for Art Spiegelman collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in red pen-marker on the title page by Art Spiegelman. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a bookplate, as copies available online are. This title is a great book. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Guggenheim Grant and the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for "Maus". The greatest American graphic artist of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ART SPIEGELMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1770461140. Stock number: 18997. ISBN: 1770461140
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Imprint: New York City, NY, The New Yorker Magazine, 2011 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Art Spiegelman and New Yorker Magazine collectible piece. A pristine copy of the "Ground Zero" 9/11 Memorial Art, issued as a framed Limited Edition Print, and signed by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly. Limited Tenth-Anniversary Edition of 250 numbered, stamped, and signed copies. There is no ISBN. The Limited Edition Print sold out before publication and is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly: Art by Art Spiegelman. Full frame size is 22 X 27 inches. Adapted by Francoise Mouly, The New Yorker Magazine's Art Director and Spiegelman's wife. Pristine-white borders. Plexiglas and black wood frame. Brown cardboard box. Without DJ, as issued. Issued on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of 9/11 on September 11, 2011. Presents, in its collectible Limited Edition format, Art Spiegelman's "Ground Zero". The single greatest work of art on 9/11 thus far, a Minimalist masterpiece. Spiegelman's somber and reflective "black-on-black" piece is simplicity itself: The Twin Towers can only be seen clearly against the light and at a certain angle. When the piece is viewed at eye level, the towers are invisible, which is, of course, Spiegelman's eloquent point: To remember is to mourn what has been taken away from us; to mourn is to remember that it is somehow still with us. The act of mourning and remembering, art as elegy, is the most difficult art of all. Aside from the fact that we are afraid to die, we expect our artists (and ourselves) to be heroes rather than victims, and so they (and we) fail miserably when the time comes to mourn. Yet elegy is the one necessary art, all other art is superfluous. Because we're not very good at it, elegy can easily descend into bathos and sentimentality. Despite the small consolation that 9/11's evil perpetrator is dead and gone, remembering and "never forgetting" matter, and always will. An absolute "must-have" piece for Art Spiegelman and 9/11 collectors. This is one of the framed Limited Edition Print, and it is very discreetly and beautifully numbered and signed in pencil on recto by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly. Instead of being glaringly prominent, their signatures are visible only from a certain angle, "black-on-black-on-black". This print is a great work of art. 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 signed copy thus. Winner of the Guggenheim Grant and the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for "Maus". The greatest American graphic artist of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO NEW YORKER MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 ISSUE AND OTHER ART SPIEGELMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 22149.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 64 pages. Landmark collection of comics stories. The second volume of the now-classic "Little Lit" Series. 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 scarce. A brilliant production by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly: Oversize volume format. Pictorial hard boards with colorful titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Contributions by various artists, cartoonists, writers, children's book illustrators, and graphic novelists. Stunning endpapers. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Art Spiegelman's and Francoise Mouly's "Little Lit: Strange Stories For Strange Kids" Volume Two. Some of the most fertile minds of the planet, telling stories that, despite the title, aren't just for weird kids. The "Little Lit" Series consists of funny, fractured, "for-all-ages" stories by some of the greatest living writers and artists. "Packs so much world-class talent into this hilarious, all-ages comics collection that will make it hard deciding what to read first. One will find some of the most hilarious, intelligent, and diverse short stories inside these pages: Maurice Sendak's omnivorous infant gobbles up everything in sight in 'Cereal Baby Keller'; David Sedaris pairs up with Ian Falconer to define true cuteness; 'Where's Waldo' Creator Martin Handford searches for old socks; Paul Auster and Jacques de Loustal's offering follows a man who has found he has disappeared; Crockett Johnson brings back the beginning of his classic '40s strip, 'Barnaby', a favorite of Duke Ellington and Dorothy Parker; and Spiegelman himself takes on 'The Several Selves of Selby Shelby'. The endpapers are brilliant, thanks to Kaz of 'Underworld' " (Publisher's blurb). "This generous, chock-full, over-the-top jungle of comic-book stories shows how rich the human imagination is. Will tickle your funny bone for years to come" (Art Spiegelman). An absolute "must-have" title for Art Spiegelman and graphic art-cum-writing collectors. This copy is very boldly, beautifully, and uniquely signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Art Spiegleman. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. His signature is within the "talk balloon" of a cartoon character that Spiegelman drew in full on the page. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only such signed 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. Please note: Copies of the "Little Lit" Series available online have serious flaws yet are priced as though they had collectible value. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. Some of the world's greatest graphic artists and writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ART SPIEGELMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0060286261. Stock number: 20380. ISBN: 0060286261
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Imprint: New York City, NY, The New Yorker, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 96 pages. Rare New Yorker Magazine collectible item. A fine copy of the The 9/11 Memorial Issue News Stand Edition. One of the first instant classics of literary and photographic reportage of our time. Pictorial softcovers, as issued. The cover features the reproduction of the black-on-black art, "9/11/01", by Art Spiegelman, one of his most brilliant creations. The Twin Towers can only be seen clearly against the raking light and from a certain angle. When the cover is viewed at eye level, they are invisible; all we see is the stark-black page, which is Spiegelman's eloquent and poignant point: The Towers are gone, but will somehow always be there in our mind's eye. Contributions by Donald Antrim, Jonathan Franzen, John Updike, Susan Sontag, Aharon Appelfeld, Denis Johnson, Rebecca Mead, Amitav Ghosh, Hendrik Hertzberg, and Roger Angell. Photographs by Joel Meyerowitz and Gilles Peress. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "The New Yorker Magazine September 11, 2001 Issue: 9/11/01". What remains. The single most poignant magazine coverage of 9/11, a great fallen city's greatest magazine reporting, reflecting upon, and mourning their - and America's - grave loss. All of the essays appeared for the first time and in almost all cases, did not appear in any other published form. Meanwhile, the Issue has spawned several memorial-tributes over the years: The photographs by Gilles Peress, which also appeared for the first time in this Issue, formed the basis of "New York September 11 by Magnum Photographers" (2001). Peress subsequently memorialized the First Anniversary of 9/11 with "Here Is New York: A Democracy of Photographs" (2002), now regarded as one of the greatest photography books of our time. Joel Meyerowitz published his own massive volume, "Aftermath", in 2006. On the occasion of 9/11's Tenth Anniversary, Art Spiegelman's cover art was re-issued as a Commemorative Limited-Edition Print, numbered, signed, and stamped by the artist and Francoise Mouly, his wife and The New Yorker Magazine's Art Editor. The act of mourning and remembering, art as elegy, is the most difficult art of all. Aside from the fact that we are afraid to die, we expect our artists (and ourselves) to be heroes (rather than victims), and so they (and we) often fail miserably when the time comes to mourn. Yet elegy is the one necessary art, all other art is superfluous. Because we're not very good at it, elegy can easily descend into bathos and mawkishness. Despite the small consolation that 9/11's evil perpetrator is dead and gone, remembering and "never forgetting" matter, and always will. An absolute "must-have" title for Modern First, contemporary literature, and photography collectors. This title is a great Issue. This is one of few copies still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: This is the News Stand Edition, with the vertical overlay (NOT included in the Subscription Edition) intact. ALL other copies available online have serious flaws. A rare copy thus. Some of the world's greatest writers, journalists, artists, and photographers. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER NEW YORKER MAGAZINE ISSUES AND ART SPIEGELMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 21981.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Harry N. Abrams, 2009 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 352 pages. Retrospective selection of TOON comics. One of the finest anthologies of its kind ever assembled in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Contributions by various graphic artists. Edited with Introductions by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly. Essay by Jon Scieszka. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents "The Toon Treasury of Classic Children's Comics". Some of the finest and most representative comics selected from what is widely acknowledged to be The Golden Age of American comics. "An unprecedented collection of the greatest comics for children, artfully compiled by two of the best-known creators in publishing and the field of comics. Focusses on comic books and contains humorous stories that range from a single-page to eight or even twenty-two pages, each complete and self-contained. The comics have been culled from The Golden Age of comic books, roughly from the 1940's through the early 1960's, and feature the best examples of works by such renowned artists and writers as Carl Barks, John Stanley, Sheldon Mayer, Walt Kelly, Basil Wolverton, and George Carlson, among many others" (Publisher's blurb). The anthology is divided into five parts: "Hey, Kids!", "Funny Animals", "Fantasyland", "Story Time!", and "Wacky & Weird". Spiegelman and Mouly introduce each section and provide brief biographies of the artists. The original comics books upon which this lavish volume is based are among the most collectible Americana, with the rarest commanding millions of dollars from private galleries and at auction. Essential, rewarding reading for parents and kids of all ages, here they are in one accessible volume. An absolute "must-have" title for American comics-book collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by both Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great collection. This is one of few such double-signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Some of the greatest graphic artists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ART SPIEGELMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0810957302. Stock number: 15653. ISBN: 0810957302
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Pantheon, 1994 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 111 pages. New rendition/interpretation of the Modernist classic. One of the most brilliant literary-cum-art books of the 20th century. Banned when it first appeared in 1928, it is now considered a modern classic. The First Edition Thus. 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 Thus is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Art Spiegelman: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Art by Art Spiegelman. Text by Joseph Moncure March. Blood-red velvet endpapers. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In matching pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents, in a definitive new edition, Art Spiegelman's rendition of Joseph Moncure March's "The Wild Party". Retrieves a lost masterpiece that now also showcases the inimitable graphic art of the creator of "Maus". "A poem that can make even readers with no time for poetry stop dead in their tracks. It is repulsive and fascinating, vicious and vivacious, uncompromising, unashamed, and unremittingly powerful. An amazing tour-de-force" (Louis Untermeyer). "The book that made me want to be a writer" (William S. Burroughs). An absolute "must-have" title for Joseph Moncure March and Art Spiegelman collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by the artist: "For Paul! Art Spiegelman". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, Paul Berlanga, who is named (his name is enclosed in a speech bubble by the artist), is the Chicago-based photography expert, an important artist/painter in his own right, and a great admirer of the book and Spiegelman. The latter also drew a brilliant liquor-cum-poison bottle, which is lifted from/appears in the book itself. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy (with original drawing) of the First Edition Thus/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most innovative American poets of the 20th century, interpreted by the greatest American graphic artist of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ART SPIEGELMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0679424504. Stock number: 21901. ISBN: 0679424504
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Imprint: Baden, Switzerland, Lars Muller Publishers, 2005 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. Unpaginated. Retrospective collection of color photographs. One of the greatest photography books of our time. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Jules Spinatsch and Winfried Heininger: Oversize-volume format. Black leatherette boards with titles on cover and spine and photographic reproduction pasted on the back, as issued. Photographs and text by Jules Spinatsch. Essays by Martin Jaeggi and Jamie Shea. Printed on glossy stock paper in Switzerland to the highest standards. The book ironically mimics the look and feel of an Annual Corporate Report. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Jules Spinatsch's "Temporary Discomfort". In five interrelated chapters. An anti-heroic visual approach is shown as the only possible antidote to the toxic effects of the imagery of power. "Spinatsch examines the waiting for the big event as meticulously planned down to the last detail. Whatever will happen is already inscribed in its security architecture. He creates landscapes that could serve as the antithesis to the Romantic tradition. He shows landscapes and cityscapes as they appear under the cold, strategic gaze of security planners, a terrain where every movement must be controlled and contained. Spinatsch mimics the gaze of power, power as a gaze that sees the world only as a security hazard to be contained. At the heart of the security architecture that Spinatsch shows us, we find a hermetically sealed vacuum in which politicians and managers meet to organize world trade in the name of liberal democracy while they smile at TV cameras, remote and untouchable. Spinatsch does not want to be a hero. He is a spy behind enemy lines. Only such a clever anti-strategist can show the cold and imperious glance of power so clearly and hauntingly" (Martin Jaeggi). In the Age of CNN and Fox News, power means having absolute control over the image that people see of power. By taking photographs of the preparations, security measures, and other precautions needed to achieve this goal (while no one else, including all other photographers, was looking or paying attention), Spinatsch exposes the heroic iconography of power as a pompous lie. An absolute "must-have" title for Jules Spinatsch collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen by Jules Spinatsch. 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. A rare signed copy thus. Jules Spinatsch's "Temporary Discomfort" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 3037780479. Stock number: 10926. ISBN: 3037780479
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Imprint: London, England, Picador, 2011 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 266 pages. Rare Edward St. Aubyn collectible set. A pristine copy of "At Last" First Hardcover Edition/First Printing, signed by Edward St. Aubyn, with pristine copies of the "Patrick Melrose" Film Tie-In First Edition Thus and Showtime Series Advance Press Kit With DVD. The fifth and final novel in the author's "Patrick Melrose" Series. One of the greatest literary achievements of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the American, which was published a year later. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Edward St. Aubyn's "At Last". The concluding, and most moving, novel of his pentalogy. It is preceded by, in order: "Never Mind", "Bad News", "Some Hope", and "Mother's Milk". "A work of glittering social comedy, profound emotional truth, and acute verbal wit" (Publisher's blurb). "Patrick Melrose" is Edward St. Aubyn. He wrote his masterpiece-series in a slightly earlier time (the late-20th century leading up to the first decade of the 21st). If he were writing today, he would probably give his very thinly veiled protagonist his own name, as Karl Ove Knausgaard has done in his "My Struggle" cycle. The basis of the "Patrick Melrose" television series, with a stupendous, career-peak performance by Benedict Cumberbatch. As such, a pristine copy of the complete, 857-page "Patrick Melrose" Film Series Tie-In First Edition Thus/First Printing and "Patrick Melrose" Showtime Advance Press Kit With DVD come with this copy. The Press Kit is superlative, lavishly illustrated with portraits and film stills of the five-part adaptation of every novel in Edward St. Aubyn's cycle, and a Souvenir DVD of the first two novel-episodes, "Bad News" and "Never Mind". As press kits go, this is the most beautiful we have ever seen, and we get a lot of them, a keeper of a souvenir-keepsake. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, set for Edward St. Aubyn collectors. This copy of "At Last" is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue fountain pen on the title page by Edward St. Aubyn. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It comes with pristine copies of the "Patrick Melrose" Film Tie-In First Edition Thus/First Printing and the "Patrick Melrose" Showtime Series Advance Press Kit With DVD. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy (with "Patrick Melrose" Materials) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, pristine beauties. Please note: Should NOT be confused with the American Edition, which was published one year later. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant novelists of our time. A fine collectible set. (SEE ALSO OTHER EDWARD ST. AUBYN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0330435906. Stock number: 22308. ISBN: 0330435906
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Imprint: London, England, Hogarth Press, 2017 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 215 pages. The author's ninth novel. One of finest titles in the Hogarth Shakespeare Series. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the American Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Edward St. Aubyn's "Dunbar". Appropriately enough, given his personal history, the author's very own "King Lear". "The pairing of St. Aubyn with 'King Lear' seems predestined. Who better to reckon with a play about frustrated power and familial resentment than the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, a five-book exorcism of ancestral demons? St. Aubyn rivals Shakespeare in his magnificently scathing language. There is no novelist alive who combines his irony and his satire of the upper classes with his acute comprehension of the bleakness of existence" (The Atlantic Monthly). At the same time, St. Aubyn deserves credit for insisting that literature is NOT a social event that people could carry out and discuss on social media, for example, as many aspiring writers now do, but an intense and private conversation between one intelligence (the writer) and another (the reader). "Our purest living prose stylist" (The Guardian). An absolute "must-have" title for Edward St. Aubyn collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black fountain pen on the title page by Edward St. Aubyn. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It is the single most beautiful signed copy we have ever seen. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (British) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the American Edition. Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER EDWARD ST. AUBYN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1101904283. Stock number: 22309. ISBN: 1101904283
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Hogarth Press, 2017 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 215 pages. The author's ninth novel. One of finest titles in the Hogarth Shakespeare Series. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the American Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Edward St. Aubyn's "Dunbar". Appropriately enough, given his personal history, the author's very own "King Lear". "The pairing of St. Aubyn with 'King Lear' seems predestined. Who better to reckon with a play about frustrated power and familial resentment than the author of the Patrick Melrose novels, a five-book exorcism of ancestral demons? St. Aubyn rivals Shakespeare in his magnificently scathing language. There is no novelist alive who combines his irony and his satire of the upper classes with his acute comprehension of the bleakness of existence" (The Atlantic Monthly). At the same time, St. Aubyn deserves credit for insisting that literature is NOT a social event that people could carry out and discuss on social media, for example, as many aspiring writers now do, but an intense and private conversation between one intelligence (the writer) and another (the reader). "Our purest living prose stylist" (The Guardian). An absolute "must-have" title for Edward St. Aubyn collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black fountain pen on the title page by the author: "For Clark, on his 60th birthday, Edward St. Aubyn". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. As the inscription clearly indicates, the recipient, who is named, is personally known to the author, which makes this signed and inscribed copy quite special. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (American) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: The more a writer leaves of himself (or herself) on the page, the better, not the other way around. Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER EDWARD ST. AUBYN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1101904283. Stock number: 22439. ISBN: 1101904283
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Imprint: London, England, Picador, 2014 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 265 pages. The author's eighth novel. One of Edward St. Aubyn's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the American Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Edward St. Aubyn's "Lost For Words". His thinly veiled assault on the Booker Prize. He was shortlisted for "Mother's Milk" (2006), the most polished novel in his "Patrick Melrose" cycle, word-for-word perfection, but ultimately lost (to Kiran Desai's "The Inheritance of Loss"). A satirist by temperament and therefore an acquired taste for many (if not most) readers, Edward St. Aubyn had what was probably his only chance at official recognition with "Mother's Milk". Not surprisingly, it was denied him by the notoriously politically correct prize, and to be fair, ALL literary awards need some kind of mainstream consensus, and sadly, even political correctness, to be accepted. So, he "returns with a hilariously smart send-up of a certain major British literary award. A witty, fabulously entertaining satire that cuts to the quick of some of the deepest questions about the place of art in our celebrity-obsessed culture, and asks how we can ever hope to recognize real talent when everyone has an agenda" (Publisher's blurb). In St. Aubyn's case, Booker or no Booker, genuine fame and glory did arrive, finally, belatedly, and permanently. At the same time, St. Aubyn deserves credit for insisting that literature is NOT a social event that people could carry out and discuss on social media, for example, as many aspiring writers now do, but an intense and private conversation between one intelligence (the writer) and another (the reader). "Our purest living prose stylist" (The Guardian). An absolute "must-have" title for Edward St. Aubyn collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black fountain pen on the title page by Edward St. Aubyn. 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: Precedes and should NOT be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly 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. One of the most brilliant novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER EDWARD ST. AUBYN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0330454226. Stock number: 22307. ISBN: 0330454226
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Bollingen Foundation/Pantheon Press, 1966 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 62 pages. Collection of essays. Two of the greatest literary texts of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition and the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only and as part of the legendary Bollingen Foundation Series. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Pantheon Books: Regular-sized volume format. Brown hard boards with black cloth overboards and gilt titles embossed on the spine, as issued. Text in the French original by Saint-John Perse. "On Poetry" is translated into English by W. H. Auden; "Dante", by Robert Fitzgerald. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Presents two of Saint-John Perse's magisterial essays in a felicitous English translation. "On Poetry", his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, was delivered in the French original on December 10, 1960. "Dante" was delivered as the Keynote Address on the occasion of Dante Alighieri's 700th Birthday on April 20, 1965. In such poems of soaring, epochal significance as "Anabasis", "Exile", "Winds", "Seamarks", "Chronique", and "Birds", among others (translated by some of the greatest Anglo-American poets such as T. S. Eliot, Louise Varese, W. H. Auden, and Robert Fitzgerald), Alexis Leger, a career diplomat who wrote poetry as another person, "Saint-John Perse", the Poet and Poetry in their most refined forms become one. They become the greatest and most sublime art ever invented by Man. "Civilizations do not perish from the pangs of one autumn; they merely shed their leaves. Inertia is the only mortal danger. The Poet is he who breaks for us the bonds of habit" (Saint-John Perse). An absolute "must-have" title for Saint-John Perse 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. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1960. One of the greatest poets of the 20th century. A fine copy. . Stock number: 17346.
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Imprint: Chicago, IL, Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1988 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 5 pages. Exhibition Catalog. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. A brilliant production by MCA: Oversize-volume format. Photographically-based art by Mike and Doug Starn. Essay by Lynne Warren, one of the single best pieces ever written on the artist/photographers. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 1988. Presents "The Starn Twins: Mike And Doug Starn Options 34". As in, star twins: Identical twins who have worked together as two formidable artists with a shared vision (rather than as co-dependents incapable of working independently of each other) from the beginning of their legendary career. The Starns got their major breakthrough at the Whitney Biennial in 1987. "Their complex and arresting use of multi-media imagery has made the Starn Twins the wunderkinds of the contemporary art world. They work as a unit, appropriating and recasting subject matter from a broad pool of art-historical sources. They begin with photographic images and add paper, plastic, chemicals, and other elements to complete their composition. Starn topics range from details of organic forms to double takes of persons or objects" (Paula Baxter). They have challenged traditional photography by cutting, tinting, creasing, tearing, and re-assembling prints. Their lapidary emphasis on building up surfaces with layered materials, quoting portions of paintings by Old Masters such as Rembrandt and Leonardo da Vinci, and maintaining a beauty in their work reminiscent of Romanticism are singular while indebted at the same time to Robert Rauschenberg, Gilbert and George, and Joel-Peter Witkin. An absolute "must-have" title for Mike and Doug Starn collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen in front by Mike Starn and Doug Starn. It is signed directly on the cover itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 3 color plates. Two of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MIKE AND DOUG STARN TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 21517.
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Imprint: London, England, Pavilion Children's Books, 2008 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. Unpaginated. New Edition of the children's classic. One of Ralph Steadman's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the American Edition, which appeared one year later. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. "Signed Copy" yellow round sticker pasted in front. The First Edition Thus is now scarce. A brilliant production by Ralph Steadman: Oversize-volume format. Yellow cloth boards with black titles on cover and spine, as issued. Art by Ralph Steadman. Text by Frank Dickens. 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, in a lovely collectible format, Ralph Steadman's and Frank Dickens' "Fly Away Peter". About two lonely animal-outsiders who bond together: Jeffrey, a giraffe with a short neck, and Peter, a bird who cannot fly. "Jeffrey, the giraffe with a short neck, and Peter, the bird who can't fly, quickly become friends because they are both a little different. When they decide to play together, they are surprised to find that a game of hide-and-seek will not only involve all the other animals, but also help solve their problems" (Publisher's blurb). One of the greatest artists of our time whose work has appeared in The New York Times and Rolling Stone Magazine, Ralph Steadman is best-known for his legendary collaboration with Hunter S. Thompson, the late great American journalist. Frank Dickens is beloved for his cartoons, including the popular characters Bristow, Albert Herbert Hawkins, and Boffo. He has won eight Cartoonist of The Year Awards. An absolute "must-have" title for Ralph Steadman and Frank Davis collectors. This Autographed Copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the half-title page by Ralph Steadman. 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 Edition Thus/First Printing (British) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: The British Edition precedes the American by a full year. Copies available online command as much as $175. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Two of the finest artists of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 184365122X. Stock number: 20676. ISBN: 184365122X
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