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Imprint: New York City, NY, PowerHouse Books, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. Unpaginated. Landmark collection of color photographs on subject. One of the most valuable photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Polly Borland and Martin Murray Sorrell: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Polly Borland. Essay, "Borland's Babies", by Susan Sontag. The essay, which is brilliant, appears in published form for the very first time, and has not appeared anywhere else. Edited by Mark Holborn. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Artegrafica in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Polly Borland's "The Babies". Riveting images of male adults who are afflicted (if that is the right word) with a rare case (or fetish) of infantilism. Many of them are Australian, but there are also American, British, and French baby-wannabes. As predilections go, it is hard to think of something more puzzling, and in many ways, more deeply disturbing, than the adult wish, unacknowledged by mainstream culture (though not illegal), to revert to babyhood. The subjects are individuals whom Borland patiently followed over many years. She explores their little-understood world, artfully framing the inner lives of "adult babies" alongside their other external manifestations. These men function normally in society as truck drivers, accountants, investment bankers, businessmen, and teachers, may have suffered as children, and as such, are left obsessed with the warmth, care, and protection experienced by infants and toddlers. But then again, maybe not necessarily so, and this is just convenient psychological reductionism (just as Diane Arbus and Michel Foucault, among others, dismissed the normative understanding of the internally logical world of the insane). They dress up in (adult-sized) baby clothes, powder their bottoms, drink mother's milk from baby bottles and surrogate mothers' breasts, and play like babies. Why? According to them, to re-create a lost attachment and to get sexually aroused. Still, Polly Borland's photographs are not about arousal (for them or for us), but about an attempt to understand them, even if only as an anthropologist-photographer. As Susan Sontag points out, Borland's most notable achievement is to make her subjects a "felt presence". They pull us in and turn us into sympathizers rather than mere observers. An absolute "must-have" title for Polly Borland collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and dated in black pen-marker on the title page by the photographer: "Polly Borland 2003". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed 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. Please note: Borland signed very few copies through the publisher only. A rare signed copy thus. 95 color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SUSAN SONTAG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1576870839. Stock number: 21165. ISBN: 1576870839
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Imprint: Paris, France, Marval Collection Annees 30, 2003 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 160 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. The single best contemporary book on the photographic art and achievement of Pierre Boucher. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only and as part of Marval Publishing's "Collection Annees 30" Series. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Marval: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Pierre Boucher. Text by Christian Bouqueret, who put the book together. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Paris, France to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Pierre Boucher: Photomonteur". Remembrance of the photographer as a remarkable pioneering figure worthy to rank with his more well-known contemporaries: The French Man Ray. Boucher's mastery of advertising and modern graphic techniques marked his artistic approach, just as it did later, iconic figures like Andy Warhol and Ed Ruscha. His peripatetic trips to Spain, Egypt, Morocco, Monaco, Russia, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, and the United States yielded a massive collection of photographs. Still, he made his most lasting mark for helping to bring photography into the Modern Era, specifically as an artistic material in its own right, using mechanical imaging techniques. Working during the period of the New Objectivity Movement, Boucher explored other aspects of photography instead: He created Surrealist-inspired male and female nudes, which are some of the most formally and sensually beautiful ever created in the history of photography, as well as photograms, photo-collages, solarizations, and overprints. "Today, I am hunting images. We must be satisfied with a quick glance, seize movement in flight, and capture life in what it offers that is most moving" (Pierre Boucher). An absolute "must-have" title for Pierre Boucher collectors. This title is a photography book classic. It comes with a pristine 4 X 6 inch postcard of "La Chute des Corps, 1937" (trio of female nudes) that is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on verso by Pierre Boucher, a rare signature. The image appears as Plate 25 (on page 77) of the book. As far as we know, this is the only copy (with signed postcard) of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, pristine beauties. Please note: Pierre Boucher signed the postcard, NOT the book. Copies available have serious flaws and have no collectible value. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 86 plates, 1 signed postcard. One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible set. . ISBN 2862343676. Stock number: 22230. ISBN: 2862343676
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking Press, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 303 pages. The author's sixth collection of short stories. 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 T. Coraghessan Boyle's "After The Plague". Sixteen short stories from a late-modern master of the genre. Without missing a beat, the author offers a fresh, new collection of short stories after his massive retrospective, "T. C. Boyle Stories". Nine of them originally appeared in The New Yorker Magazine, three of which were selected as among the "Best American Short Stories" in the year they first appeared. "Skinny, ear-ringed, satanically goateed, T. Coraghessan Boyle is the trickster figure of American letters. Part court jester, part holy fool, he slips in and out of various narrative disguises as it suits him. Nowhere is this more evident than in his short fiction, in which he bounces from psychological naturalism to giddy slapstick, dreamy surrealism to biting satire, sometimes within the space of a single tale" (Mary Park). If Gore Vidal is America's preeminent literary historian, T. C. Boyle is its preeminent literary anthropologist. An absolute "must-have" title for T. Coraghessan Boyle collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by T. Coraghessan Boyle. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670030058. Stock number: 10087. ISBN: 0670030058
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking, 2006 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 340 pages. The author's eleventh novel. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents T. Coraghessan Boyle's "Talk Talk". Tackles in the form of a sophisticated literary thriller the very contemporary anxiety called identity theft. "Will appeal even to John Grisham readers. For those who like literary meat in their page-turners, Boyle's knack for nuanced and intelligent characterization and language hasn't deserted him here. Although it's difficult to put it down once the chase begins, few readers will be able to make it past the first chapters without frantically heading to the Internet to learn how to obtain their annual credit reports" (The Los Angeles Times). If Gore Vidal is America's preeminent literary historian, T. C. Boyle is its preeminent literary anthropologist. Boyle's singular look at the Age of the Internet. An absolute "must-have" title for T. Coraghessan Boyle collectors. This copy is boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by T. Coraghessan Boyle. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER T. CORAGHESSAN BOYLE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670037702. Stock number: 9966. ISBN: 0670037702
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Imprint: Sao Paulo, Brasil, Cosac & Naify, 1997 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 98 pages. Artist Book. One of the greatest photography books of the 20th century. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Miguel Rio Branco and Jean-Yves Cousseau: Small-size volume format in square shape. Pictorial hard boards with red titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Miguel Rio Branco. There is no text. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Miguel Rio Branco's "Silent Book". Some of the photographer's most stunning images, all of them in "bleed" format. Miguel Rio Branco's work has been hailed for the way it vividly depicts the quiet anguish, carnal sensuality, and explosive violence of Latin America. It is the Latin spirit (rather than the continent itself) that interests him, and he has photographed in Europe to capture this "Latinity". His sequencing of images has also been called "musical". It is not an accident that many of his books include a CD that is put together by him and is meant to be listened to while one views the images. "Silent Book" is the outstanding exception, his tribute to the deafening silence at the heart of his dissonant images. The violence depicted is ritualistic rather than actual (many of the photographs were taken in a boxing gym and at a bullfight) and its true purpose is not, "as some suggest, to incite violence outside, but to mitigate or break the cycle" (Martin Parr and Gerry Badger). A member of Magnum, it is hard to think of him as a documentary photographer. Indeed, his work is about the fundamentally subjective, non-documentary character of reality. The robust and simmering physicality of his images is the work of an artist/photographer who shows the underbelly of Roman Catholicism in all of its "Latinity, an extreme lyricism, contrasting affectivity and violence" (Adolfo Montejo). "My work has a lot to do with skin, for that is the surface connecting us to the world, in pleasure as much as in pain. Skin is a dialogue between outside and inside, a separation that is also a connection" (Miguel Rio Branco). An absolute "must-have" title for Miguel Rio Branco collectors. This title is a great photography 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 beauty. Please note: Copies that occasionally turn up online have all kinds of flaws: Rubbing, bumping, crushing, soiling, you name it. It's probably because it's a small and fragile volume. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 75 color plates. Miguel Rio Branco's "Silent Book" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest artist/photographer of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MIGUEL RIO BRANCO, GERARDO SUTER, AND ALEX WEBB TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 8586374210. Stock number: 13862. ISBN: 8586374210
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Aperture Foundation, 1998 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 150 pages. Exhibition Monograph. Retrospective collection of photographs. The very first, and one of the best, retrospectives on the photographic art of Miguel Rio Branco in English. 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 Aperture: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Miguel Rio Branco. Essay by David Levi-Strauss. Appreciation by Sebastiao and Leila Salgado. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark retrospective exhibition held at Aperture Foundation New York City in 1999. Presents Miguel Rio Branco's "Photographs". Masterly, indelible images. "His colors seep out of their borders like bodily fluids, staining and contaminating everything around them. Bodies, bindings, wounds, and walls are wet with color. Even his mirrors bleed. Rio Branco's is an art of contamination, contagion, and corrosion, but also of resistance and transcendence" (David Levi Strauss). Miguel Rio Branco's work has been hailed for the way it vividly depicts the quiet anguish, carnal sensuality, and explosive violence of Latin America. It is the Latin spirit (rather than the continent itself) that interests him, and he has photographed in Europe to capture this "Latinity". A member of Magnum, it is hard to think of him as a documentary photographer. Indeed, his work is about the fundamentally subjective, non-documentary character of reality. The robust and simmering physicality of his images is the work of an artist/photographer who shows the underbelly of Roman Catholicism in all of its "Latinity, an extreme lyricism, contrasting affectivity and violence" (Adolfo Montejo). "My work has a lot to do with skin, for that is the surface connecting us to the world, in pleasure as much as in pain. Skin is a dialogue between outside and inside, a separation that is also a connection" (Miguel Rio Branco). The only American photographer whose work is of comparable power, beauty, and anguish is Alex Webb, who was clearly influenced by Rio Branco. An absolute "must-have" title for Miguel Rio Branco collectors. This title is a late-modern photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have all kinds of flaws: Rubbing, bumping, crushing, soiling, you name it, but are priced as though they had collectible value. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. Miguel Rio Branco's "Silent Book" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MIGUEL RIO BRANCO, GERARDO SUTER, AND ALEX WEBB TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0893818011. Stock number: 20411. ISBN: 0893818011
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Magnum Editions/Miguel Rio Branco, 2016 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Miguel Rio Branco collectible item. A pristine copy of his "Matador" original color print, signed by Miguel Rio Branco. The print measures 6 X 6 inches. Enclosed in its own inner protective plastic sheet and outer cardboard flat box. Processed on FujiColor paper. Eminently suitable for framing. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in a collectible format, Miguel Rio Branco's "Matador". One of the photographer's single most beautiful images. It perfectly captures Rio Branco's aesthetic. His work has been hailed for the way it vividly depicts the quiet anguish, carnal sensuality, and explosive violence of Latin America. It is the Latin spirit (rather than the continent itself) that interests him, and he has photographed in Europe to capture this "Latinity". A member of Magnum, it is hard to think of him as a documentary photographer. Indeed, his work is about the fundamentally subjective, non-documentary character of reality. The robust and simmering physicality of his images is the work of an artist/photographer who shows the underbelly of Roman Catholicism in all of its "Latinity, an extreme lyricism, contrasting affectivity and violence" (Adolfo Montejo). "My work has a lot to do with skin, for that is the surface connecting us to the world, in pleasure as much as in pain. Skin is a dialogue between outside and inside, a separation that is also a connection" (Miguel Rio Branco). The only American photographer whose work is of comparable power, beauty, and anguish is Alex Webb, who was clearly influenced by Rio Branco. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Miguel Rio Branco collectors. This original color print is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on verso by Miguel Rio Branco. As far as we know, this is the only print available online, is enclosed in its own inner protective plastic sheet and outer cardboard flat box, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Rio Branco prints command thousands of dollars. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed print thus. 1 original color print. Miguel Rio Branco's "Silent Book" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible print. (SEE ALSO OTHER MIGUEL RIO BRANCO, GERARDO SUTER, AND ALEX WEBB TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 20509.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Pantheon, 1984 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 96 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. Now considered a late-modern photography classic. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Louise Fili: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Bill Brandt. Essay by Mark Haworth-Booth. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Bill Brandt's "London In The Thirties". His classic photographs. First published in magazines, they were collected for publication in book form by the photographer, who died just before the book was published. The three sections present London life as experienced by The Poor, The Middle Class, and The Toffs (a "mildly derogatory term for someone with an aristocratic background or belonging to the landed gentry, particularly someone who exudes an air of superiority"). Bill Brandt (1904-1983) was one of the medium's most influential and protean image-makers, a man whose work ranged from starkly realistic images of industrial workers to Surrealist studies of the human body. His career epitomizes the history of modern photography itself: A stint as an assistant to Man Ray; early photojournalism, which shows the influence that Brandt and Brassai had on one another; dark portraits of England's industrial North; haunting images of London during the Blitz; evocative series of English landscapes; and abstract nudes. An absolute "must-have" title for Bill Brandt collectors. This title is an art photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked yet are priced as though they had collectible value. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. 96 plates. One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BILL BRANDT TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0394535650. Stock number: 16594. ISBN: 0394535650
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1999 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 320 pages. Massive Retrospective Monograph. The single best overview of the photographic art and achievement of Bill Brandt. 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 Harry N. Abrams: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 5 pounds. Ribbed black hard boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Bill Brandt. Introduction by the great British painter and photographer David Hockney. Curated and edited by Nigel Warburton. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark retrospective exhibition held at the Barbican Centre London in 1999. Presents "The Photography of Bill Brandt". Now widely regarded as THE standard reference on the great photographer's body of work. "A comprehensive study of his life-work. Brandt's work falls across a number of categories. He created Surrealist compositions, stemming from his early work in Man Ray's Paris studio, as well as telling images conveying social comment on Britain in the 1930's. His intensely dark portrayals of London and the industrial towns of Northern England contrast with his softer and more lyrical evocations of landscape. He is perhaps best-known for his sequence of ever more abstracted studies of the nude, but his telling portrayals of artists from the same period remain immediate and perceptive decades later. Explores, on a large scale, all the different aspects of Brandt's work" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Bill Brandt collectors. This title is a great photography reference 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. Please note: Copies available online are remainder-marked or have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. 350 plates. One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BILL BRANDT TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0810941090. Stock number: 21185. ISBN: 0810941090
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Imprint: Pennsylvania, Paul Cava Fine Art, 2002 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 29 pages. Retrospective collection of vintage photographs. Limited Edition of 1500 copies. The first and only edition. Published as a softcover original only by a small fine press. The Limited Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Paul Cava Fine Art: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover, as issued. Photographs by Frank Brangwyn. Edited and curated by Paul Cava. Essay, "The Photographic Art of Frank Brangwyn", by the great American poet and photography scholar John Wood. His piece is supplemented by another essay by Libby Horner. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Frank Brangwyn: Photographs: Nude And Figure Studies". A remarkable selection of photographs, nothing less than an "archaeological" find and recovery of the British artist from neglect and oblivion. Frank Brangwyn was not like Disfarmer or Bellocq. In his lifetime, he was known to and collected by an esoteric circle as a serious painter. The photographs in the present collection were taken over a twenty-five year period, between 1901 and 1925, mainly for his personal pleasure and study. "The discovery of Brangwyn's photographic work could not have come at a more propitious moment. The most avant-garde work in photography today has a decidedly derriere-garde look about it, both in subject matter and in technique. It is clearly about a return to beauty and humanistic values. One thinks of Tom Baril, Keith Carter, Toni Catany, Cy DeCosse, John Dugdale, Kelly Grider, Luis Gonzalez Palma, John Metoyer, Sheila Metzner, Robert ParkeHarrison, Vincent Serbin, Joyce Tenneson, among many others" (John Wood). Brilliant contemporary figures, all of them are influenced (consciously and unconsciously) by the aesthetics and achievement of an artist/photographer who was active during photography's early period, as one of the first academically-trained artists who took photography's potential as an art form seriously. His images resonate: Sensuous, erotically charged, and as vital today as when they were first taken more than one hundred years ago. An absolute "must-have" title for Frank Brangwyn collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws. A rare copy thus. 18 plates. One of the most important artist/photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN WOOD TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0970796609. Stock number: 21941. ISBN: 0970796609
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Thames & Hudson, 2013 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 310 pages. Retrospective Monograph. One of the most beautiful books on the art and achievement of Brassai. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, which feature a different image on the cover. The true First Edition is an exact facsimile of the "Chez Suzy, 1931" French Edition Cover Image of a nude French prostitute, which was immediately replaced with a more familial and "safer" image (such as the one shown on Amazon, ABEBooks, and other major platforms in English). Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Thames & Hudson: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with black cloth overboards and titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Brassai. Text by Sylvie Aubenas and Quentin Bajac in felicitous English translations. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Spain to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Brassai: Paris Nocturne". The dazzling English-Language Edition of "Brassai, le flaneur nocturne", the French original. "Brassai's night photography of Paris assures his place among the great photographers of the twentieth century. Brassai was the first, and still the most famous, photographer to chronicle Paris after dark. Through his eyes, Paris becomes a world of shadows, in which light, the prerequisite for any photograph, is reduced to dimly lit windows, streetlamps in the fog, or reflections on a rain-soaked pavement. Analyzes the unique nature of his photographic vision: Part reportage, part social document, part poetic exploration" (Publisher's blurb). "The meaning of art is not authenticity but the expression of authenticity" (Brassaļ). An absolute "must-have" title for Brassai collectors. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the true First Hardcover Edition/First Printing/First-State DJ (English-Language Edition) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: The true First Edition is an exact facsimile of the "Chez Suzy, 1931" French Edition Cover Image of a nude French prostitute, which was immediately replaced with a more familial and "safer" image (such as the one shown on Amazon and other major platforms in English). A rare copy thus. 296 plates. One of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 0500544255. Stock number: 21994. ISBN: 0500544255
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Imprint: Tucson, AZ, Nazraeli Press, 2008 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 52 pages. Retrospective Catalog, presented as an Artist Book. 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 scarce. An austerely elegant production by Nazraeli Press: Oversize-volume format. Cream cloth boards with photographic reproduction pasted in front and titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Josef Breitenbach. Essay by Larisa Dryansky. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In publisher's original plastic wrappers. Without DJ, as issued. Published in conjunction with The Josef Breitenbach Trust. Presents Josef Breitenbach's "Manifesto". A most beautiful portfolio. "Born in Munich in 1896, Josef Breitenbach began taking photographs while working in the family wine merchant business. Proving less than successful at the latter, he opened his first photographic studio in 1932. Munich at that time was a stronghold of libertarians and bons vivants, and Breitenbach's clients included actors, cabaret stars, writers, and political figures. It was a short-lived venture. When Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, the photographer escaped to Paris, where he stayed for the next six years. There, Breitenbach's close friendship with Max Ernst brought him into contact with the Surrealist Movement although he never became a formal member of that group. His work was included in a number of exhibitions, alongside that of Man Ray, Brassai, and Cartier-Bresson. After the outbreak of war and a period of internment, he fled to New York and established himself as a teacher and commercial photographer. His early work remained unseen until its surprise re-discovery after his death, in 1984" (Publisher's blurb). Josef Breitenbach was the classic Modernist case: A tough-minded, serious, soulful artist whose work was ahead of its time even as he absorbed whatever he found useful among the Movements swirling around him. He is now considered a major forerunner of Andy Warhol in his application of color to black-and-white photographs through toning and bromoil transfer. His Bauhaus-inspired work, especially the photograms (such as "Bird, New York, 1948") are masterpieces that have all the color, warmth, and detail of a painting combined with the clarity, precision, and fluidity of a photograph. Breitenbach's most famous champion/collector today is Sir Elton John, who has amassed what is probably the finest collection of his work. The Sir Elton John Photography Collection has been promised to the City of Houston, which should help make Breitenbach's magnificent work permanently available to the public. An absolute "must-have" title for Josef Breitenbach collectors. This title is a contemporary art photography book classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online, is still in the publisher's original plastic wrappers, and isinespecially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws because the cream cloth covers soil very easily. A scarce copy thus. 29 full-page plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOSEF BREITENBACH TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1590051858. Stock number: 20240. ISBN: 1590051858
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Continuum Press, 2003 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 200 pages. Book-length account on subject. One of the most valuable books on the cinematic art and achievement of Robert Bresson. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the 2004 Reissued Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Joseph Cunneen's "Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style In Film". A film-by-film analysis of Robert Bresson's austerely elegant and beautiful films, which continue, unabated, to enjoy a global cult following. There are quite a few cinephiles and critics who believe that Robert Bresson was the greatest film artist of the 20th century. They especially admire his emotional self-regulation - often more than they do the specific narratives, many of which are Bresson's distilled adaptations of large literary works - as the aesthetic ideal: To forgo the instant gratification that our popular culture offers in favor of a postponed, deeper, and more enduring reward. These admirers include some of the greatest names in cinema: "Is it as tough as Bresson? Is meaning ruthlessly pared down, as direct, as unflinching in its gaze at aspects of life I might feel more comfortable ignoring?" (Martin Scorsese). Bresson himself wrote one of the most influential books on cinema, "Notes On Cinematography" (1977). Starting with the title of his book, Cunneen's book is influenced, as everything else inescapably is that has since been written on Bresson, by Susan Sontag's seminal essay, "Spiritual Style In The Films of Robert Bresson". Cunneen's book joins Bresson's and Sontag's manifesto-essays as an invaluable guide to the art of the one filmmaker who made (Roman Catholic-inspired) asceticism an aesthetic ideal, "depth within narrowly defined limits" (Andrei Tarkovsky). An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Bresson collectors. This title is a contemporary film book 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: This is a copy of the true First Edition. Should NOT be confused with the 2004 Reissued Edition or the Softcover Edition. 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. Lavishly illustrated with film stills. One of the greatest film artists of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT BRESSON TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0826414710. Stock number: 12977. ISBN: 0826414710
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Urizen Books, 1977 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 72 pages. Rare Robert Bresson collectible set. A fine copy of "Notes On Cinematography" with a pristine copy of "Quatre Nuits D'Un Reveur" ("Four Nights of A Dreamer") film transfer on Blu-ray. Retrospective collection of aphoristic essays. 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 a hardcover original. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Robert Bresson's "Notes On Cinematography" in a felicitous English translation. The auteur's aesthetics, in ruminative bits and pieces. Bresson created a "spiritual" style that is identifiably his own. For Bresson, every film style - what he means by "cinematography" - needs to be uniquely cinematic rather than derivative of theater. Now, for many film directors, actors, and moviegoers, acting is "performance", a theatrical notion. The film actor is more than that, becomes a Bressonian presence who embodies the spiritual dimension. In practice, this means that the actor must be shorn of all traces of the theater's methods and mannerisms. "Entertainment", yet another idea from theater, remains the reason most people watch movies whereas Bresson persevered in creating a film experience that is immersive rather than escapist, whereby the medium's vast resources are pared down to their bare essence in order to create great art, "depth within narrowly defined limits", working within self-imposed limits, not Hollywood excess. One especially admires Bresson's emotional self-regulation as the aesthetic ideal: To forgo the instant gratification that popular culture offers in favor of a greater aesthetic experience. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Bresson collectors. This title is a classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in fine condition overall: Clean, crisp, and bright. It comes with a pristine copy of "Quatre Nuits D'Un Reveur" ("Four Nights of A Dreamer") film on Blu-ray. Produced as a Limited Edition of 500 copies in Japan only (in the French original with Japanese subtitles; a detailed scene-by-scene description in English by Joseph Cunneen is included), the Blu-ray is exemplary in every respect, the best version of the film we have ever seen (the streaming version on Amazon is abominable), and is now rare. Please note: Should NOT be confused with the Softcover Edition. Copies of the book available online have serious flaws. Copies of the Blu-ray available online command hundreds of dollars when they occasionally turn up. A rare set thus. One of the greatest film artists of the 20th century. A fine collectible set. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT BRESSON TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0916354288. Stock number: 22178. ISBN: 0916354288
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 308 pages. The author's autobiographical novel. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Breyten Bryetenbach's "Memory of Snow And of Dust'. Complex and allusive, a modern novel by the acclaimed author. "Both a gripping investigation of the South African predicament and also a meditation on exile, betrayal, love, and creation" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Breyten Breytenbach collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. It is one of the 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 copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BREYTEN BREYTENBACH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374207666. Stock number: 671. ISBN: 0374207666
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Imprint: Santa Barbara, CA, Horace And Masako Bristol Estate, 2000 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 60 pages. Memorial Souvenir Catalog. The first and only edition. Published in a tiny one-time-only print run as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Catalog is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Henri Bristol: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Horace Bristol. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Horace Bristol: Photographs". A rich sampling of his life-work, presented in three sequences: "California And The West", "World War Two", and "Asia". "In the tradition of Alfred Eisenstaedt and Dorothea Lange, Horace Bristol used his camera to record the human, intimate moments in the grand sweep of history: The best and the worst of the 20th century, from poignant images of the urban poor and migrant farm workers during the Great Depression to the battle scenes of World War II, and compelling portraits of post-war Japan and Southeast Asia. One of the first photographers for LIFE magazine, Bristol was tireless in his pursuit of the revelatory image. Wildly prolific in the 1930's and 1940's, he later gave up photography, and his work languished in obscurity for nearly thirty years. Recently re-discovered, Bristol has come to be recognized as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. Combining aesthetic purity with human interest, Horace Bristol's pioneering photography is imbued with an accuracy, strength of composition, and humility that is as striking today as it was ground-breaking in its time" (Publisher's blurb). One of his single most famous photographs, "PBY Blister Gunner, 1944", is a typical anomaly from this intrepid photographer being at the right place at the right time: It is a historic war photograph, taken during actual battle, and it is also a great male-nude portrait of an American Air Force pilot, who took off his clothes to rescue a fellow soldier from drowning in the Pacific Ocean (the pilot would have drowned too if he kept his heavy military gear on). Then having successfully rescued his fellow soldier, the pilot goes back on duty without bothering to put on his discarded clothes: An act of sheer daring and courage, captured for posterity, in an unposed image of breathtaking physical beauty. An absolute "must-have" title for Horace Bristol collectors. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Memorial Souvenir Catalog available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with duotone plates. One of the finest American photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. . Stock number: 21324.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 596 pages. The author's second collection of short stories. 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 scarce. Presents Harold Brodkey's "Stories In An Almost Classical Mode". A masterly collection. Since 1958, when he published his first book of short stories, "First Love And Other Sorrows", Harold Brodkey had become something of a mystery man, elusive and silent. The present volume collects, in chronological order, work published in various literary magazines over the past three decades. The stories are "classical" in the sense that they avoid trendy experimentation: There isn't a trace of Minimalism, Metafiction, or Magic Realism in any of them. Brodkey's subject is the "Sturm und Drang" of human relationships, especially sexual relationships. Acutely sensitive, intensely analytical, he writes with "the authority of being on one's knees in front of the event". No matter what the situation, the narrative voice is invariably eloquent and intelligent. An absolute "must-have" title for Harold Brodkey collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, dated, and inscribed in black pen on the title page by the author: "April 9, 1989 For Lynne, On a blurry, snowy evening in Chicago, Harold Brodkey". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, who is named, is personally known to the author. The signature is done vertically, as Brodkey often did almost as a trademark. He also underlined his signature three times and drew a wistful April Spring-time tree at the bottom of the page, as Chicago is indeed known to have snow well into late spring. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, dated, and inscribed 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 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. "First Love and Other Stories" is regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the canonical titles of the 20th century. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HAROLD BRODKEY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0394506995. Stock number: 14905. ISBN: 0394506995
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1988 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 596 pages. The author's second collection of short stories. One of the greatest literary collections 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 Harold Brodkey's "Stories In An Almost Classical Mode". His second retrospective collection. Since 1958, when he published his first book of short stories, "First Love And Other Sorrows", Harold Brodkey had become something of a mystery man, elusive and silent. The present volume collects, in chronological order, work published in various literary magazines over the past three decades. The stories are "classical" in the sense that they avoid trendy experimentation: There isn't a trace of Minimalism, Metafiction, or Magic Realism in any of them. Brodkey's subject is the "Sturm und Drang" of human relationships, especially sexual relationships. Acutely sensitive, intensely analytical, he writes with "the authority of being on one's knees in front of the event". No matter what the situation, the narrative voice is invariably eloquent and intelligent. An absolute "must-have" title for Harold Brodkey collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Harold Brodkey. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The signature is done vertically, as Brodkey often did almost as a trademark. 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 ("price-clipped" is endemic), are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. "First Love and Other Stories" is regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the canonical titles of the 20th century. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HAROLD BRODKEY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0394506995. Stock number: 4479. ISBN: 0394506995
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 835 pages. The author's debut novel. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Harold Brodkey's "The Runaway Soul". His most eagerly anticipated novel. Originally called "Party With Animals", this is "the most famous unpublished work in America". "Dense, ambitious, and over 800 pages long. Its hero is Wiley Silenowicz, adopted in 1930 and raised by his cousins S. L. & Lila Silenowicz in St. Louis. Not quite as crafty as his name, but possessed of a fiercely observant intelligence that unfolds experience endlessly like a flower, Wiley must abide a glamorous, self-absorbed mother, an obnoxious sister, and a smooth-talking father who says things like, 'I won't wear another man's shoes. But I'll tell another man's jokes. I'm the father to another man's child'. In the course of the novel, Wiley grows up, observes his parents, suffers his sister, experiences sexual longing, and then sex. In short, nothing much happens except language: Brodkey's lush, carefully observed antidote to Minimalism that will alternately enthrall and exasperate readers. Brilliant, maddening, and essential for readers of good literature everywhere" (Library Journal). Harold Brodkey achieved immense youthful success with his collection of short stories, "First Love and Other Sorrows", which is still widely considered his masterpiece. An absolute "must-have" title for Harold Brodkey 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. 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. "First Love and Other Stories" is regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the canonical titles of the 20th century. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HAROLD BRODKEY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374252866. Stock number: 926. ISBN: 0374252866
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1991 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 835 pages. The author's debut novel. One of Harold Brodkey's greatest 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 Harold Brodkey's "The Runaway Soul". Originally called (and more poetically as such) "Party With Animals". It is "the most famous unpublished work in America". "Dense, ambitious, and over 800 pages long. Its hero is Wiley Silenowicz, adopted in 1930 and raised by his cousins S. L. & Lila Silenowicz in St. Louis. Not quite as crafty as his name, but possessed of a fiercely observant intelligence that unfolds experience endlessly like a flower, Wiley must abide a glamorous, self-absorbed mother, an obnoxious sister, and a smooth-talking father who says things like, 'I won't wear another man's shoes. But I'll tell another man's jokes. I'm the father to another man's child'. In the course of the novel, Wiley grows up, observes his parents, suffers his sister, experiences sexual longing, and then sex. In short, nothing much happens except language: Brodkey's lush, carefully observed antidote to Minimalism that will alternately enthrall and exasperate readers. Brilliant, maddening, and essential for readers of good literature everywhere" (Library Journal). Harold Brodkey achieved immense success as a very young man with his collection of short stories, "First Love and Other Sorrows", which is still widely considered his masterpiece. "The Runaway Soul" is his contrapuntal response to his youthful achievement. An absolute "must-have" title for Harold Brodkey collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, dated (in the year of publication), and inscribed in red pen on the title page by the author: "1991 NYC For Max Kahn, Memory on memory. You and I have had a good time now and then. Harold Brodkey". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, who is named, is unmistakably a close friend of the author, and as such, Brodkey's inscription on this copy is the most beautiful we have ever seen. The book is enclosed in an elegant, custom-made black cloth slipcase. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, publication-year dated, and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. "First Love and Other Stories" is regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the canonical titles of the 20th century. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HAROLD BRODKEY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374252866. Stock number: 3314. ISBN: 0374252866
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Henry Holt And Company, 1997 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 312 pages. Posthumous collection of the author's finest short stories. One of Harold Brodkey'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 Harold Brodkey's "The World Is The Home of Love And Death". Published one year after his untimely death from AIDS. Harold Brodkey completes the extraordinary literary voyage that began with the publication of his first short story in The New Yorker Magazine in 1952. During the past four decades, Brodkey established himself as a Modern Master of short fiction. In this extraordinary collection, Harold Brodkey returns to themes he has treated so memorably in the past: The conformity and stupefying monotony of suburbia, the malevolence of cocktail-party conversation, bringing to them a new refinement and compression. In all of these stories, Brodkey proves that there has never been a more acute translator of the language of power, coercion, and ultimately, love. It is altogether appropriate that Brodkey's final return to fiction should be to the short story, a form that he has influenced so profoundly. An absolute "must-have" title for Harold Brodkey 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. "First Love And Other Stories" is regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the canonical titles of the 20th century. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HAROLD BRODKEY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0805055134. Stock number: 929. ISBN: 0805055134
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Imprint: London, England, Phaidon Press, 2002 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 272 pages. Pictorial biography/monograph on the artist/graphic genius/photographer. One of the most important books on the singular art of Alexey Brodovitch. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Hans Dieter Reichert: Oversize-volume format. Hard boards with blue linen cloth overboards and titles on cover and spine, as issued. Art and photographs by Alexey Brodovitch. Text by Carrie William Purcell. Her meticulous, accessible, and insightful writing is now regarded as the definitive text on Brodovitch. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents "Alexey Brodovitch". Reviews and assesses one of the most brilliant and influential artistic careers of the 20th century. "Brodovitch was one of the pioneers of graphic design in the 20th century. He was the Art Director of Harper's Bazaar for two decades (1934-58), produced several exquisite books, was a great photographer himself, and trained a younger generation of photographers who went on to become famous artists in their own right. A comprehensive monograph, drawing from interviews with a wide range of colleagues and collaborators and never-before-published archival material to offer an analysis and appreciation of Brodovitch's unique and lasting contribution to the visual arts" (Publishers Weekly). The photographers who studied with Brodovitch include Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Robert Frank, and Lisette Model, four of the greatest photographers of our time. The books he helped bring to fruition include Andre Kertesz's "Day of Paris", Richard Avedon's "Observations", and his own masterpiece, "Ballet". This book reproduces "Ballet", "Day of Paris", and "Saloon Society" as well as covers and every spread from all the issues of Portfolio Magazine. Rare materials such as the book covers, posters, spreads, and covers for Harper's Bazaar as well as contact sheets of photographs he took with a concealed camera in the 1960's while he was a patient at a mental hospital (Brodovitch was gay, endured several mental crises as a result of it) are all reproduced here. An absolute "must-have" title for Alexey Brodovitch collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online command hundreds of dollars. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. 300 plates. Alexey Brodovitch's "Ballet" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest artist/photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 0714841633. Stock number: 21934. ISBN: 0714841633
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking/Penguin Books, 2011 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 306 pages. The author's fourth novel. One of the most important literary events of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Geraldine Brooks' "Caleb's Crossing". Solidifies her standing as one of our finest historical novelists. "Takes a remarkable shard of history and brings it to vivid life. In 1665, a young man from Martha's Vineyard became the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. Upon this slender factual scaffold, Brooks has created a luminous tale of love and faith, magic and adventure. The narrator is Bethia Mayfield, growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans. Restless and curious, she yearns after an education that is closed to her by her sex. She slips away to explore the island's glistening beaches and observe its native Wampanoag inhabitants. She encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. Bethia's minister father tries to convert the Wampanoag, awakening the wrath of the tribe's shaman, against whose magic he must test his own beliefs. One of his projects becomes the education of Caleb, and a year later, Caleb is in Cambridge, studying Latin and Greek among the colonial elite. There, Bethia finds herself reluctantly indentured as a housekeeper and can closely observe Caleb's crossing of cultures" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Geraldine Brooks collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for "March". One of the finest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GERALDINE BROOKS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670021040. Stock number: 18392. ISBN: 0670021040
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking Press, 2005 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 280 pages. The author's breakthrough second 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 Geraldine Brooks' "March". Her masterly novel on the American Civil War. "Imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's 'Little Women'. His narrative begins with cheerful letters home, but March gradually reveals to the reader what he does not to his family: The cruelty and racism of Northern and Southern soldiers, the violence and suffering he is powerless to prevent, and his reunion with Grace, a beautiful, educated slave. Brooks, who based the character of March on Alcott's Transcendentalist father, Bronson, relies heavily on primary sources for both the Concord and wartime scenes. Her characters speak with a convincing 19th-century formality yet the narrative is always accessible. Through the shattered dreamer March and a host of achingly human minor characters, Brooks's affecting, beautifully written novel drives home the intimate horrors and ironies of the Civil War and the difficulty of living honestly with the knowledge of human suffering" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Geraldine Brooks collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for "March". One of the finest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GERALDINE BROOKS TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670033359. Stock number: 9598. ISBN: 0670033359
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking Press, 2005 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 280 pages. The author's breakthrough second 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 Geraldine Brooks' "March". Her masterly novel on the American Civil War. "Imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, the absent father in Louisa May Alcott's Little Women. His narrative begins with cheerful letters home, but March gradually reveals to the reader what he does not to his family: The cruelty and racism of Northern and Southern soldiers, the violence and suffering he is powerless to prevent, and his reunion with Grace, a beautiful, educated slave. Brooks, who based the character of March on Alcott's Transcendentalist father, Bronson, relies heavily on primary sources for both the Concord and wartime scenes. Her characters speak with a convincing 19th-century formality yet the narrative is always accessible. Through the shattered dreamer March and a host of achingly human minor characters, Brooks's affecting, beautifully written novel drives home the intimate horrors and ironies of the Civil War and the difficulty of living honestly with the knowledge of human suffering" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Geraldine Brooks collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Geraldine Brooks. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Brooks' signature on this copy is one of the most beautiful we have ever seen: Big, flowing, elegant. 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: Signed copies available online command as much as $400. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for "March". One of the finest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GERALDINE BROOKS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670033359. Stock number: 18794. ISBN: 0670033359
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking Press, 2015 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 302 pages. The author's fifth novel. One of Geraldine Brooks' finest achievements. Advance Reader's Edition/Uncorrected Proof. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only for the exclusive use of the publisher and author. The ARC/Uncorrected Proof is now rare. Presents, in its Uncorrected Proof format, Geraldine Brooks' "The Secret Chord". A deeply moving re-imagination of King David. "Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. In her skillful hands, the issues of The Past echo our own deepest concerns: Love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality" (Alice Hoffmann). Her novel is a literary attempt to restore in full what we have heard - and has been written, in bits and pieces - about the lost Book of Nathan, and brilliantly casts King David in a whole new light for our time as only Geraldine Brooks can: Together with (rather than apart from) its sexually very explicit passages, "the picture that emerges is dramatic. Brooks also misses no opportunity to darken our view of the King of Israel, recasting his infatuation with Batsheva as a matter of rape rather than seduction. She renders David's character with complexity and shows how his flaws and hard-heartedness nonetheless make him a terrifyingly effective ruler" (The New Yorker Magazine Best Books of The Year). An absolute "must-have" title for Geraldine Brooks collectors. This copy of the Advance Reader's Edition/Uncorrected Proof is very boldly and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (two days after the official release of the regular trade edition) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Geraldine Brooks 10.8.15 NYC". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, placed, and post-publication dated copy of the Advance Reader's Edition/Uncorrected Proof 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 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for "March". One of the finest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GERALDINE BROOKS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 20069.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking Press, 2015 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 302 pages. The author's fifth novel. One of Geraldine Brooks' 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 Geraldine Brooks' "The Secret Chord". A deeply moving re-imagination of King David. "Brooks is a master at bringing the past alive. In her skillful hands, the issues of The Past echo our own deepest concerns: Love and loss, drama and tragedy, chaos and brutality" (Alice Hoffmann). Her novel is a literary attempt to restore in full what we have heard - and has been written, in bits and pieces - about the lost Book of Nathan, and brilliantly casts King David in a whole new light for our time as only Geraldine Brooks can: Together with (rather than apart from) its sexually very explicit passages, "the picture that emerges is dramatic. Brooks also misses no opportunity to darken our view of the King of Israel, recasting his infatuation with Batsheva as a matter of rape rather than seduction. She renders David's character with complexity and shows how his flaws and hard-heartedness nonetheless make him a terrifyingly effective ruler" (The New Yorker Magazine Best Books of The Year). An absolute "must-have" title for Geraldine Brooks collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Geraldine Brooks. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title will become a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2006 for "March". One of the finest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GERALDINE BROOKS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670025771. Stock number: 20157. ISBN: 0670025771
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Laurence Miller Gallery, 1986 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 10 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 Laurence Miller Gallery: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers, as issued. Art by Gary Brotmeyer. Essay by G. A. Wardle. Printed on glossy stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Laurence Miller Gallery New York City in 1986. Presents Gary Brotmeyer's "Make-Believe History". Sublime, Surrealist-inspired collage art. While his artistic roots hark all the way back to the earliest experiments of Surrealism, his works, polished, meticulous, and quirkily beautiful, have an unmistakably and distinctly American inflection. "While the collage elements are drawn from many sources, the iconography is American. At times, Gary's images appear anecdotal, but taken in totality, they comprise a unique American portrait gallery designed to help us re-imagine ourselves" (G. A. Wardle). See these photographically-based collage images, and believe. An absolute "must-have" title for Gary Brotmeyer 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 full-page color plates. One of the most brilliant American artists of our time. A fine copy. . Stock number: 19389.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, 2011 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 325 pages. Rare Scott Brown and Americana collectible set. A pristine copy of "Against All Odds" with a pristine copy of the very first Cosmopolitan Magazine "Centerfold" Issue, in which he is the Centerfold. The former is signed, dated, and inscribed by Scott Brown. 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 Scott Brown's "Against All Odds: My Life of Hardship, Fast Breaks, And Second Chances". Only in America. His personal and political journey, whose title says it all. "Tells the story of his difficult, often nomadic childhood, shunted from house to apartment, and town to town, seventeen times over his first eighteen years. His rise was even more improbable: A first-year law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan Magazine's 'America's Sexiest Man' and was vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modelling at the height of the 1980's. Here are the secrets from the unprecedented Senate race that captured the country's imagination" (Publisher's blurb). The snobbish New York Review of Books gave the book a favorable review, praising its candor (particularly Brown's account of the relentless homosexual abuse he endured) plus the fact that Senator Scott Brown was a genuine anomaly: A more-or-less moderate Republican, more good-looking than most Democrats, who won in ultra-liberal Massachusetts, then lost partly because he would not obey the Tea Party's marching orders. Although he is now, just as improbably, Ambassador to New Zealand, this is essentially, and poignantly, his remarkable American life: A Senate stint, a well-written book, and the memory of his youthful virility as a Cosmo model. An absolute "must-have" set for Scott Brown and Americana collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed, dated (in the year of publication), and inscribed in black pen-marker opposite the title page by the author: "Keep the faith! Scott Brown XXI". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. There is no recipient named. It comes with a pristine copy of the Cosmopolitan Magazine "Centerfold" Issue, which shows that Scott Brown had it all. This title is a contemporary Americana classic. As far as we know, this is the only set available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, pristine beauties. A rare set thus. One of the best American autobiographies of our time. A fine set. . ISBN 0062015540. Stock number: 17798. ISBN: 0062015540
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Imprint: Los Angeles, CA, Bruce Of Los Angeles, 1962 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Bruce of Los Angeles collectible item. An original vintage photographic print of one of the photographer's finest male nude portraits. The print measures 5 X 7 inches and is encased in a protective plastic sheet. It shows the unidentified model at the peak of his beauty: Young, handsome, and sexily (though not overly) buffed, in a full-frontal pose. He is shown facing the camera with his fully erect penis (which casts a shadow on his body). This is not a digital print or a later, contemporary print but was printed directly from the original negative during Bruce of LA's lifetime. It is very beautifully developed, with great clarity and subtle contrasts, on Double-Weight Fiber photographic paper, the paper Bruce of LA used. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Bruce of LA and male erotic art photography collectors. This original vintage photographic print is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare copy thus. One of the most important and most influential photographers of the male nude of the 20th century. A fine print. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOE DALLESANDRO AND BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14659.
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Imprint: Salford, United Kingdom, Contraband Imprint/Saraband, 2017 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 258 pages. The author's second novel to be translated in English. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is NO American Edition. Presents Raymond Brunet's "The Accident On The A35" in a felicitous English translation by Graeme Macrae Burnet, his champion in the English language and virtual co-author. A masterpiece, recently (and appropriately enough, accidentally) re-discovered among his French publisher's archives. Brunet had published exactly one novel, "La Disparition d'Adele Bedeau", and it's a great novel too, before he committed suicide in 1992 (it was the basis of the great 1989 film adaptation by Claude Chabrol). Brunet withheld his second novel from publication because it is autobiographical. The novel has two accidents: The physical one at the beginning and the protagonist's accidental discovery of a long-buried secret at the end. If the explosive revelation - withheld until the very last pages, impossible for the reader to guess beforehand, with the rest of the novel building up to it inexorably like Greek tragedy - is factual, it explains why Brunet stipulated that it be published after his mother's death (in order to spare her the pain of knowing) and why he himself committed suicide (because he could not bear the pain of knowing). As such, Brunet's handling of suspense as a novelist is on the same level of mastery as Hitchcock at the filmmaker's very best. "Burrows deep into the psyches of its characters and explores the forgotten corners of small-town life" (Publisher's blurb). Graeme Macrae Burnet, the author of "His Bloody Project: Documents Relating To The Case of Roderick Macrae", regards Raymond Brunet as THE major influence on his own work, and has written a brilliant Essay, which appears in the book as an Afterword. The near-identical similarity between his Scottish surname, Burnet, with that of Brunet makes one feel as though French writer and Scottish author-collaborator are one and the same voice if not person. An absolute "must-have" title for Raymond Brunet and Graeme Macrae Burnet collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and inscribed ("lined") in black ink-pen on the title page by the author/translator: " 'There did not appear to be anything remarkable about the accident in the A35'. Graeme Macrae Burnet". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The inscription is the very first line of the novel. Burnet also red-stamped the page with the road warning sign that appears on the cover. This title is a great book in the mystery-thriller genre. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, stamped, and inscribed ("lined") copy of the First British Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: There is NO American Edition. A rare signed copy thus. Finalist of the Booker Prize for "His Bloody Project: Documents Relating To The Case of Roderick Macrae" in 2016. One of the most brilliant novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GRAEME MACRAE BURNET TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1910192872. Stock number: 21703. ISBN: 1910192872
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Laurence Miller Gallery, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 50 pages. Exhibition Catalog. One of the most beautiful catalogs on the photographic art and achievement of Wynn Bullock. 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 scarce. An austerely elegant production by Laurence Miller Gallery: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers, which feature one of the photographer's most celebrated images on the cover, and titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Wynn Bullock. Introduction by Laurence Miller. Essay by Keith F. Davis. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the Laurence Miller Gallery in New York City from October 18 to December 21, 2001. Presents "Wynn Bullock: Realities And Metaphors". The unpublished - and in many instances up until then, largely unknown - work of the artist/photographer who died in 1975, in sumptuous reproductions. A posthumous exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1976 helped cement Wynn Bullock's reputation as one of America's most important photographers, which the present exhibition updates and explores further. Such images as "Let There Be Light" (1954) and "Child In Forest" (1951) are now iconic and widely collected. Abstract studies, nudes, landscapes, experimental work (particularly the eerily haunting 1970 photogram, "Forest And Sun"), and portraits of rural American life that are strangely unsentimental yet deeply affecting: Whether he was taking photographs to express a rich mental life or simply capturing ordinary reality, Wynn Bullock left his indelible mark on each image. An absolute "must-have" title for Wynn Bullock collectors. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: This is an Exhibition Catalog, and as such, is neither a full-fledged book nor a monograph. But it is a pioneering landmark publication for Wynn Bullock completists, is very beautifully produced, and comes with an Essay by Keith F. Davis that appears in this catalog only. Copies available online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. 35 tritone plates. One of the greatest artist/photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER WYNN BULLOCK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 22352.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, The Ecco Press/A Polaroid Book, 1987 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 64 pages. Retrospective collection of portrait-photographs. One of Bill Burke'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. The book is elegantly produced on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest stamdards. Presents Bill Burke's "Portraits". Appalachia, with Atlantic City and Brazil thrown in for good measure. "We follow Bill Burke through Appalachia in the 1970's, as he documents rural souls in the American South. His subjects are wandering between an old-world community burdened by its history and a more socially connected 20th-century landscape. Bits of modern culture - rock music, discos, and contemporary clothing - blend with traditional values, customs, and ideals. Many of his portraits are defiantly tragic while others are hopeful for something new. Some are just pleased to be living and breathing in a world that most American audiences would view as foreign" (Victor Lee). That's because there is a pervasive Arbus-ian voyeurism melded to Burke-ian empathy that characterizes the images but also makes them stand apart. An absolute "must-have" title for Bill Burke collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Bill Burke. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. 32 plates. Bill Burke's "I Want To Take Picture" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BILL BURKE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0880011629. Stock number: 18950. ISBN: 0880011629
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Imprint: London, England, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2011 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 168 pages. Juxtaposition of vintage and contemporary photographs. One of the most valuable and beautiful photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Dewi Lewis and Simon Norfolk: Oversize-volume format. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on the cover and spine and black cloth overboards, as issued. Photographs by John Burke and Simon Norfolk. Text by Paul Lowe, Simon Norfolk, and David Campbell. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Simon Norfolk's "Burke + Norfolk". The photographer's specialty: "Archaeological" layerings that illuminate the human condition. "In 2010, Simon Norfolk returned to Afghanistan. This time, he followed in the footsteps of the 19th-century Irish photographer John Burke, a superb yet virtually unknown war photographer. Burke's eloquent and beautiful photographs of the Second Anglo-Afghan War (1878-1880) provide an extraordinary record. Using unwieldy wet-plate collodion negatives and huge wooden cameras he shot landscapes, battlefields, archaeological sites, street scenes, portraits of British officers, and ethnological group portraits of Afghans in what amount to a richly detailed record of an Imperial encounter. These are also the first-ever pictures made in Afghanistan. With this book, one hundred and thirty years too late, John Burke's time has come at last. Norfolk's new work looks at what happens when you add half a trillion US war dollars to an impoverished and broken country such as Afghanistan" (Publisher's blurb). Mikhail Bakhtin coined the word "chronotope" to describe "a place that allows movement through space and time simultaneously, a place that displays the layeredness of time". Norfolk's "chronotopic" project is to turn time into space so that we can "see" time. "Afghanistan has been ravaged by war. The Soviet Union, the Mujaheddin, the Taliban, and the United States have all played their part. Afghanistan is unique, utterly unlike any other war-ravaged landscape. In Bosnia, Dresden, or the Somme, the devastation appears to have taken place within one period of time. The sheer length of the war in Afghanistan means the ruins have a bizarre layering: Different moments of destruction lying like sedimentary strata on top of each other" (Simon Norfolk). An absolute "must-have" title for John Burke and Simon Norfolk collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated (in the month and year of publication) in black ink-pen by the photographer: "Simon Norfolk May 2011". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and publication-month dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 100 plates. Simon Norfolk's "Afghanistan: Chronotopia" (2002) is regarded as one of the greatest photography books of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 1907893113. Stock number: 16609. ISBN: 1907893113
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Hyperion Books, 1997 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 288 pages. The author's sixteenth novel. One of James Lee Burke's finest achievements. Advance Reader's Edition. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The ARC is now scarce. Pictorial softcovers, as issued. Text by James Lee Burke. Printed on pristine-white, archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents James Lee Burke's "Cimarron Rose". His beloved masterpiece. "A beautiful writer. His descriptions are glorious. One can almost see the ghost of Billy Bob's partner, feel the Texas thunderstorms, and see the town of Deaf Smith" (Library Journal). Firmly labeled as a "mystery writer", James Lee Burke is an American literary treasure, and more than any other living "mystery writer", his novels completely inhabit and transcend their genre at the same time. An absolute "must-have" title for James Lee Burke collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue pen on the title page by James Lee Burke. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page or bookplate. The author has stopped doing public signings since his arthritic condition worsened in recent years, making signed copies of his books highly collectible. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the Advance Reader's Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMES LEE BURKE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 10164.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Hyperion Books, 1997 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 288 pages. The author's sixteenth novel. One of James Lee Burke's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents James Lee Burke's "Cimarron Rose". His beloved masterpiece. "A beautiful writer. His descriptions are glorious. One can almost see the ghost of Billy Bob's partner, feel the Texas thunderstorms, and see the town of Deaf Smith" (Library Journal). Firmly labeled as a "mystery writer", James Lee Burke is an American literary treasure, and more than any other living "mystery writer", his novels completely inhabit and transcend their genre at the same time. An absolute "must-have" title for James Lee Burke collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by James Lee Burke. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page or bookplate. The author has stopped doing public signings since his arthritic condition worsened in recent years, making signed copies of his books highly collectible. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMES LEE BURKE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0786862580. Stock number: 10166. ISBN: 0786862580
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Imprint: London, England, Orion Books Limited, 1997 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 278 pages. The author's sixteenth novel. One of James Lee Burke'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 James Lee Burke's "Cimarron Rose". His beloved masterpiece. "A beautiful writer. His descriptions are glorious. One can almost see the ghost of Billy Bob's partner, feel the Texas thunderstorms, and see the town of Deaf Smith" (Library Journal). Firmly labeled as a "mystery writer", James Lee Burke is an American literary treasure, and more than any other living "mystery writer", his novels completely inhabit and transcend their genre at the same time. An absolute "must-have" title for James Lee Burke collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by James Lee Burke. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page or bookplate. The author has stopped doing public signings since his arthritic condition worsened in recent years, making signed copies of his books highly collectible. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. The American Limited Edition is priced as much as $350, as though it were the true first, which it is not. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JAMES LEE BURKE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0752804863. Stock number: 10167. ISBN: 0752804863
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Imprint: Santa Fe, NM, Twin Palms Publishers, 2008 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 60 pages. New Reissued Edition of the photographer's classic. One of the greatest photography books of the 20th century. Limited Slipcased Edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. They have the same ISBN. The Limited Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Bill Burke and Jack Woody: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 4 pounds. Pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Bill Burke. The images were produced using the original halftone and duotone films made by the photographer. Black cloth slipcase. Stunning endpapers. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Re-presents, in a Limited Edition format, Bill Burke's "I Want To Take Picture". An exact replica of the original. "In 1982, I decided to give myself my own Southeast Asia experience. I wanted to make pictures in a place where I didn't know the rules, where I'd be off balance. Friends who had been there recommended Thailand; nice people, easy transportation, good food. Another friend told me that as long as I was going to Thailand I should go see the refugees coming out of Cambodia. He set me up with The International Rescue Committee, which was working at the Thai-Cambodian border. Each day, I was thinking about practicality, is my pass in order, how do I get there, who do I meet that will get me through. The philosophical thoughts came later. When I realized that I had access to the camps and could see the Khmer Rouge, it was like being able to see The Devil. It seemed to be an incredible opportunity" (Bill Burke). "I Want To Take Picture" has a deceptive, child-like innocence (starting with the title), which is a ruse that belies the photographer's horror of staring at evil incarnate. The Khmer Rouge systematically killed 1.7 Million Cambodians, more than half the entire population, while, as is often said, the world "watched" helplessly. Bill Burke did not just watch, he took pictures. They deal a fatal blow to all of our preconceived notions about photography and objectivity, truth and beauty. An absolute "must-have" title for Bill Burke collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Slipcased Edition of 100 numbered and singed copies, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen-marker by Bill Burke. 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. 60 plates. Bill Burke's "I Want To Take Picture" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BILL BURKE AND "THE KILLING FIELDS" TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 193188563X. Stock number: 13128. ISBN: 193188563X
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Imprint: Glasgow, Scotland, Contraband Imprint/Saraband, 2016 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 282 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most sensational literary debuts of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover AFTER it was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, by popular demand. The 2015 First Edition was a softcover original only. The First Edition Thus is now scarce. Re-presents, in its Hardcover Edition format, Graeme Macrae Burnet's "His Bloody Project: Documents Relating To The Case of Roderick Macrae". Ostensibly, a historical thriller set in nineteenth-century Scotland. In reality, a riveting psychological novel, not simply a thriller, of and for our time. Beautifully written, awash in ambiguity, with twist after excruciating twist, Burnet's subversive book presents an anguished, complex character and shows how the injustice and oppressiveness of a deeply entrenched social system insidiously corrupts, destroys, and kills him - and everybody else. As only literature, NOT textbook psychology or The Law, could subtly and powerfully make us see anew, as if for the very first time. The novel is in two parts: A first-person narrative, Roderick Macrae's "Account" (of his life, not just the murders he committed), followed by its counter-narrative, his "Trial" (both are preceded by prologues in the form of brief, legal depositions). Apart from the vitality of his prose (whose depiction of the physical aspect of life is often breathtaking), Burnet's achievement remains his protagonist. Roderick Macrae, multiple-murderer and alienated loner, is the most sympathetic and self-aware anti-hero of a novel with a large cast of characters up and down the social ladder, all of them victims, rich and poor, educated and un-educated alike, of socially and culturally pre-determined mores, logic, and reasoning. Graeme Macrae Burnet savors a macabre sense of lineage and identification with his literary creation: The killer's name is Macrae, an apparent ancestor, a writer whose innate brilliance and eloquence are belied by his youth, poverty, and insufficient formal education. His account is so articulate that the usual suspension of disbelief is required. An absolute "must-have" title for Graeme Macrae Burnet collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed ("lined") in black ink-pen by the author: " 'May God have mercy on your soul', Graeme Macrae Burnet". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Brunet also stamped the page with a bloody thumbprint, which beautifully matches the cover design. The inscription is the last sentence of "The Trial" counter-narrative (Page 274). This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed and inscribed ("lined") 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. Finalist of the Booker Prize for "His Bloody Project: Documents Relating To The Case of Roderick Macrae" in 2016. One of the most brilliant novelists of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GRAEME MACRAE BURNET TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 191019266X. Stock number: 21955. ISBN: 191019266X
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Imprint: Los Angeles, CA, Kensington Road Studio, 1987 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 3 pages. Rare David Burrill and Kensington Road Studio collectible set. Three (3) original vintage color photographic prints of David Burrill, one of the most popular and most good-looking male-nude models of our time, as photographed by Kensington Road Studio of Los Angeles. The prints measure 5 X 7 inches, are "bleed", and are original vintage prints, reproduced on archival FujiColor photographic paper. Each is encased in a protective plastic sheet. Each photograph shows David Burrill posing full-frontal nude, shot with saturated lighting. Kensington Road Studio's grittiness, explicitness, and brazen-ness have strongly influenced the work of such photographers as Terry Richardson, especially its unpretentious, "come-and-get-it", "what-are-you-waiting-for" look. As Richardson has noted, there is a tenderness, sweetness, and even an innocence about these photographs that the more artistically-inclined photographers of both the male and female nudes looked down upon and that our Terry almost singlehandedly, pun not intended, revived/made mainstream in his magazine, fashion/lifestyle, and gallery work. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for David Burrill and male erotic art photography collectors. These original vintage color photographic prints are now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only set available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and has no flaws, pristine beauties. A rare set thus. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A flawless set. (SEE ALSO JOE DALESSANDRO, BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES, AND BLAKE PALMER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14551.
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Imprint: New York, Grove Press, 2009 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 300 pages. The 50th Anniversary Edition And Restored Text of the author's novel. The first appearance of the title in this edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent printings. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The Slipcased First Edition Thus is now scarce. A brilliant production by Grove Press: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on the spine, as issued. The design reproduces the novel's 1959 Olympia Press cover. Text by William S. Burroughs, restored by James Grauerholz and Barry Miles. Afterword by David Ulin. Black page edges. Green hardboard slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Re-presents, in a dazzling, collectible-edition format, William S. Burroughs' "Naked Lunch". His seminal masterpiece. "A cry from hell" (Newsweek). "Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius" (Norman Mailer, in the 1959 review of the book's publication). "Burroughs' voice is hard, derisive, inventive, free, funny, serious, poetic, indelibly American" (Joan Didion). An absolute "must-have" title for William S. Burroughs collectors. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the Slipcased First Edition Thus/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies of this edition available online are Later Printings. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0802119263. Stock number: 17055. ISBN: 0802119263
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Imprint: Santa Fe, NM, Twin Palms Publishing, 2002 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 172 pages. Landmark second collection of portrait-photographs. 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. An eerily beautiful production by Jack Woody: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard covers that feature one of the photographer's most memorable closeup portraits with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by Nancy Burson. Essay by Michael L. Sand. In transparent glassine DJ, as issued. The stunning image underneath is visible but mediated by the DJ, making this one of the most beautifully conceived photography books in a very long time. Presents Nancy Burson's "Seeing And Believing". The work of one of the most innovative portrait photography specialists working today. Burson immediately established herself with her previous collection, "Faces", as a rapidly rising star. "Nancy Burson's catalogued work can be divided into three distinct phases: Between 1979 and 1991, she created computer-generated images of fantastic faces: Composites, aged portraits, and digitally manipulated facial anomalies. From 1991 to 1995, she made photographic portraits of what she calls 'special faces', children and adults whose appearances have been altered by disease, nature or circumstance. From 1996 to the present, she has been engaged in a range of projects that interlace her natural penchant for the fantastic, her paradoxical relationship with science, and an awareness of the spiritual connections between all living things. In each of these bodies of work, Burson has gone against the grain of technological change. Her early work with computers preceded her later straight photography whereas many photographers have in recent years integrated the computer into their image-making process. Her current production combines these two strategies with a twist" (Michael L. Sand). An absolute "must-have" title for Nancy Burson collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the half-title page by Nancy Burson. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 95 black-and-white and color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 1931885036. Stock number: 5790. ISBN: 1931885036
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Houghton And Mifflin, 2004 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 805 pages. Landmark account on its subject. Widely praised when it first came out, the book is now considered the definitive reference. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents "The Chronology of American Literature: America's Literary Achievements From The Colonial Period To Modern Times". Surveys more than 8400 literary works by more than 5000 writers. "Sections for each year are grouped in five chapters by period, from 1582 to 1999. Within each year, entries are grouped by genre, such as diaries and other personal writings, fiction, essays, literary criticism and scholarship, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. Within each genre, authors are listed alphabetically. Each chapter has an Introduction that gives an overview of the major events of the period. Not surprisingly, increasing attention is given to more recent years. The last chapter, 'Modernism and Postmodernism', treats the years 1950-1999 and fills 245 pages, compared to the 86 pages of 'The Colonial Period' (1582-1789). Interspersed throughout the text are black-and-white images, primarily of writers, and tables of events, such as births and deaths from the period, bestsellers, and literary awards and prizes. The author and title indexes are indispensable. Includes the widest array of both popular and little-studied authors. 'The Chronology of American Literature' is easy to browse and for book lovers, difficult to put down" (Booklist). An absolute "must-have" title for every collector of American literature. This title is a 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. One of the finest accounts of its kind ever written. A fine copy. . ISBN 0618168214. Stock number: 13075. ISBN: 0618168214
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Imprint: Milwaukee, WI, Milwaukee Art Museum/Aperture Foundation, 2013 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 280 pages. Retrospective Exhibition Monograph. One of the best books on color photography in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. A brilliant production by Milwaukee Art Museum: Oversize-volume format. Maroon cloth boards with black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by various contributors, a Who's Who of American photography. Texts by Katherine A. Bussard, Curator of Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, and Lisa Hostetler, Curator of Photography, Milwaukee Art Museum. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ, which features the painterly photograph, "Bouquet of Flowers", by Alfred Stieglitz, and titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark retrospective exhibition of the same name held at the Milwaukee Art Museum in 2013, which travelled on to the Art Institute of Chicago. The show was underwritten by the Aperture Foundation New York. Presents "Color Rush: American Color Photography From Stieglitz To Sherman". Perhaps the single best - and most beautiful - overview of the arrival of color as a serious medium for art photography. Since photography's inception, color has always been the technological goal and just as important, consumer desire. But serious photographers (those who considered the medium as THE exciting, new vehicle for artistic expression) were slow to take it seriously, partly because they were concerned that photographs would look like paintings (which they do, as the Stieglitz Cover Image, however brilliant, clearly shows). Today, in 2017, many artists (like Robert Frank, the greatest photographer of our time) do appreciate color, but have deliberately chosen to work mainly, if not exclusively, in black-and-white (and for a melancholy artist-sufferer like Frank, understandably so). For perspective, cinema, the "moving picture" by-product and end-result of photography, is now predominantly in color, and is almost unimaginable in black-and-white unless a specific (and commercially risky) point is being made by the artist. This magnificent volume seeks to redress the imbalance, by drawing attention to the substantial achievement of color in mass media and the ground-breaking work of figures like Alfred Stieglitz, Harry Callahan, Saul Leiter, Irving Penn, William Eggleston, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Shore, Joel Sternfeld, Nan Goldin, and Cindy Sherman, among others. That is, photographers who have worked successfully in color as well as photographers who could work ONLY in color (like Martin Parr today, among Brits). Robert Frank once described color as "superfluous". Superfluity is precisely what color offers: Abundance, excess, extravagance, beauty-as-plenty. An absolute "must-have" title for photography book collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black ink-pen on the title page by Katherine A. Bussard and Lisa Hostetler. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. There is no recipient named. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. Some of the greatest photographers of the 20th and 21st centuries. A fine copy. . ISBN 1597112267. Stock number: 21195. ISBN: 1597112267
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 225 pages. The author's eleventh 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 Robert Olen Butler's "Fair Warning". Beautifully and flawlessly written, perhaps his finest achievement since "A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain". Butler shows once again how well he understands the female psyche and how unique he is among contemporary writers in being able to write about female protagonists convincingly, sympathetically, and wonderfully. "Limns a time of questioning in the seemingly successful life of Amy Dickerson, a 40-year-old art auctioneer who works for a major New York establishment just sold to a French concern. Amy will survive this pattern of questioning, of course; this is not a set of life-and-death emergencies, only profoundly emotional ones. Amy is beset by family distractions: An uneasy relationship with her unsteadily married sister and an unresolved relationship with her troubled, widowed mother, both of whom require Amy's time and professional expertise. The elements of a traditional life, marriage and children, fail to strike chords with her. Poses universal questions despite its setting in the rarefied art world. In the end, all readers can relate to Amy's search for answers about what is one's own personal truth" (Publishers Weekly). An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Olen Butler collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated (shortly after publication) in black pen on the title page by the author: "3/22/2002 Robert Olen Butler". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1993 for "A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT OLEN BUTLER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0871138336. Stock number: 3813. ISBN: 0871138336
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 225 pages. The author's eleventh 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 Robert Olen Butler's "Fair Warning". Beautifully and flawlessly written, his finest achievement since "A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain". Butler shows once again how well he understands the female psyche and how unique he is among contemporary writers in being able to write about female protagonists convincingly, sympathetically, and wonderfully. "Limns a time of questioning in the seemingly successful life of Amy Dickerson, a 40-year-old art auctioneer who works for a major New York establishment just sold to a French concern. Amy will survive this pattern of questioning, of course; this is not a set of life-and-death emergencies, only profoundly emotional ones. Amy is beset by family distractions: An uneasy relationship with her unsteadily married sister and an unresolved relationship with her troubled, widowed mother, both of whom require Amy's time and professional expertise. The elements of a traditional life, marriage and children, fail to strike chords with her. Poses universal questions despite its setting in the rarefied art world. In the end, all readers can relate to Amy's search for answers about what is one's own personal truth" (Publishers Weekly). An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Olen Butler collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Robert Olen Butler. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1993 for "A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT OLEN BUTLER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0871138336. Stock number: 10132. ISBN: 0871138336
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Imprint: Huntington Beach, CA, James Cahill Publishing, 1994 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 333 pages. The author's seventh novel. Limited Slipcased Edition of 150 numbered and signed copies. The true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, including the regular trade edition. There is no ISBN. The Limited Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by James Cahill Publishing: Regular-sized volume format. Hard marbled boards with pale-blue leather overboards and titles on spine, as issued. Text by Robert Olen Butler. Matching blue slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in a Limited Edition format, Robert Olen Butler's "They Whisper". Details the rich, erotic life of Ira Holloway, an ordinary 40-year-old guy. "The most interesting aspect is the stream-of-consciousness 'I' of Ira that becomes the 'I' of various women, yielding a novel told from many points-of-view. Butler's women are vivid. Fiona emerges as his most significant other, becoming his wife and a mother to his son. She concludes the novel a la Molly Bloom, in a soliloquy to the spirituality of sex: She is in love with Jesus, a sexual Jesus. There are many such strange and marvelous passages in Butler's novel" (John Mort). An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Olen Butler collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Slipcased Edition of 150 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very boldly and beautifully signed in red pen-marker by Robert Olen Butler. It is one of the most beautiful specimen-signatures by Robert Olen Butler we have ever seen. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1993 for "A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT OLEN BUTLER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 10454.
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Imprint: Los Angeles, CA, Brian Buzzini's Personal Collection, 1986 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 2 pages. Rare Brian Buzzini collectible set. Two (2) original vintage color photographic prints of Brian Buzzini, the Playgirl Magazine model, who is one of the sexiest and most good-looking male-nude models of our time, both signed and titled by Brian Buzzini. The prints measure 5 X 7 inches, are in rich and warm tones, and incredibly well-preserved. Encased in their original protective plastic sheets. Shows "full-frontal" nude shots of Brian Buzzini by Richard Armas of Playgirl Magazine. Brian Buzzini is best-known as the first Playgirl Magazine "Man of the Year" (1986, please refer to the US Playgirl Magazine Issues in our scan) to pose with a full erection. Sexy and handsome in an almost menacing and somewhat intimidating way (the exact opposite of the All-American beauty), one cannot help looking and keep looking, and cannot pull one's eyes away from Brian Buzzini. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, set for Brian Buzzini and male erotic art photography collectors. These original vintage color photographic prints are very prominently and beautifully signed and titled in black pen on verso by the subject/model: "Brian Buzzini" (his signature) followed by block text in his own handwriting: "Brian Buzzini Playgirl's European Series by Richard Armas 1986". Please note: These particular photographs did NOT appear in the US Issues of Playgirl Magazine. As Buzzini himself indicates, they were shot for and appeared in Playgirl Magazine's European Issue. The photographs come directly from Buzzini's personal collection. These prints are now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed set available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and has no flaws, pristine beauties. A rare signed set thus. 2 original vintage color photographic prints. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A flawless collectible set. (SEE ALSO JOE DALESSANDRO, BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES, JIM STRYKER, AND WALTER KUNDZICZ TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14736.
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Imprint: Los Angeles, CA, Brian Buzzini's Personal Collection, 1986 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 2 pages. Rare Brian Buzzini collectible item. One (1) original vintage color photographic print of Brian Buzzini, the Playgirl Magazine model, who is one of the sexiest and most good-looking male-nude models of our time. The print measures 5 X 7 inches, is in rich and warm tones, and incredibly well-preserved. Encased in its original protective plastic sheet. Shows one of the "full-frontal", fully erect nude shots of Brian Buzzini taken by Richard Armas of Playgirl Magazine. Brian Buzzini is best-known as the first Playgirl Magazine "Man of the Year" (1986) to pose with a full erection. Sexy and handsome in an almost menacing and somewhat intimidating way (the exact opposite of the All-American beauty), one cannot help looking and keep looking, and cannot pull one's eyes away from Brian Buzzini. This is the genuine article, an absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Brian Buzzini and male erotic art photography collectors. This original color photographic print is very prominently and beautifully signed and titled in black pen on verso by the subject/model: "Brian Buzzini" (his signature) followed by block text in his own handwriting: "Brian Buzzini Playgirl's European Series by Richard Armas 1986". Please note: This particular photograph did not appear in the US Issue of Playgirl Magazine. As Buzzini himself indicates, it was shot for and appeared in Playgirl Magazine's European Issue. The photograph comes directly from Buzzini's personal collection. This print is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the print available online, is eminently suitable for framing, and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 1 original color photographic print. One of the iconic American male-nude models of the 20th century. A flawless collectible print. (SEE ALSO JOE DALESSANDRO, BRUCE OF LOS ANGELES, JIM STRYKER, AND WALTER KUNDZICZ TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 14777.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Ophelia Editions, 2000 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 72 pages. Revised And Expanded Edition. One of the most controversial photography books of our time. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Alaistair Johnson: Oversize-volume format. Hard boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Fabio Cabral. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Tokyo, Japan to the highest standards. In publisher's original shrinkwrap. In pictorial DJ with black titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Fabio Cabral's "Anjos Proibidos". Forbidden angels. "So-called because they do not appear to be of this world in which they have been captured. Instead they inhabit a realm of sensuality that is still in the process of becoming. They are forbidden because, having been fleetingly captured, they must be freed again to return to that realm to which they belong" (Publisher's blurb). Cabral paid dearly for wanting to capture his otherworldly angels. In Brazil, his book was burned, the negatives confiscated and damaged, his studio shut down, and his gallery sued by the Federal Government. After winning his case, he had problems all over again with the American publication (one of the models, back to earth and now full-grown, felt her privacy was violated). Hauled back into court, Cabral ultimately prevailed. By then, the damage had been done, effectively rendering his book unavailable to the mass market. It is, of course, the quintessential collector's item. The late great fashion designer Gianni Versace considered the Brazilians as the world's most beautiful people. Since Versace was from Italy, where the idea and actual presence of youthful beauty have been celebrated and depicted since the Renaissance, his judgment was controversial in a different way. Cabral's problems did not stem from the fact that Brazil is Roman Catholic and has had a long history of authoritarian rule. It is because, compared to Gianni Versace, he is completely unknown, with no socially prominent supporters, and even less money. The Brazilian Edition contained 24 images. The Complete Series, which includes another 27 plates, is presented in this edition only. An absolute "must-have" title for Fabio Cabral collectors. This title is an erotic art photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare copy thus. 51 duotone plates. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 1888425172. Stock number: 17893. ISBN: 1888425172
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