Ty-Casper, Linda
Awaiting Trespass: A Pasion

Imprint: New York City, NY, Readers International, 1985
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 180 pages. The author's breakthrough novel. Now considered a late-modern classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Linda Ty-Casper's "Awaiting Trespass". Her masterpiece. Although extremely prolific, the Harvard-educated writer did not find an international audience until the publication of this novel. Banned in the Philippines during the Marcos regime, this is a novel of social satire and personal awakening seamlessly intertwined by the author: The story of two isolated people coming to find themselves in the midst of upheaval and the unintended social "message" of a controversial Papal Visit are effortlessly and beautifully evoked. As may be found in all her previous work, Linda Ty-Casper's concern as a novelist is the relation between the individual (and his right to a private life) and the inescapable and often brutal grip of History on him. Linda Ty-Casper has a degree in law from Harvard University but never practiced, deciding instead to devote herself to literature. An absolute "must-have" title for Linda Ty-Casper 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. One of the most accomplished Filipino writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LINDA TY-CASPER TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0930523113.

Stock number: 68. ISBN: 0930523113

$US 20.00

Tynyanov, Yury (Translated by Anna Kurkina Rush and Christopher Rush)
Young Pushkin: A Novel

Imprint: New York City, NY, The Rookery Press/Overlook Press, 2008
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 515 pages. The author's novel, published posthumously. One of the greatest novels of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Yury Tynyanov's "Young Pushkin" in a felicitous English translation. His masterpiece, finally published seventy years after the author's death in 1943. "First published in serial form between 1935 and 1943, it immediately achieved classic status in Russia. Although the author did not live to accomplish his full epic scheme, he did complete the first part, his fictional masterpiece of Pushkin's early years. In a blend of encyclopedic knowledge and creative imagination, Tynyanov thrillingly brings early nineteenth-century Russia to life, Napoleonic invasion, rapid political change, and a gallery of fascinating characters, including Pushkin's unusual family with its African blood stemming from his great-grandfather Abram Hannibal. At the center of it all is the young Pushkin, explosive, unpredictable, totally absorbed, constantly scribbling verses, consorting with women twice his age, and living it up in the capital with hussars and actresses before being exiled for his reckless liberal verse. Tynyanov's novel not only captures Pushkin's impulsive, swift genius, but also deftly foreshadows his place in Russian history. Includes Notes, Family Tree, and a selection of Pushkin's early poems" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Alexander Pushkin and Yury Tynyanov collectors. This title is a modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest writers of our time on one of the greatest writers of all time. A fine copy. . ISBN 1585679623.

Stock number: 17787. ISBN: 1585679623

$US 30.00

Ueda, Yoshihiko
Yoshihiko Ueda: Nudes: 1987-1989

Imprint: Kyoto, Japan, Kyoto Shoin, 1990
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. Unpaginated. Collection of male and female nudes. The first and only edition. Volume 87 of the Art Random Series. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An elegant production by Kyoto Shoin: Oversize-volume format. Glossy pictorial hard boards with black titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Yoshihiko Ueda. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Japan to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Yoshihiko Ueda's "Nudes: 1987-1989". The great Japanese artist/photographer's highly idiosyncratic interpretation of the nude. There are only two models, a man and a woman. The woman is attractively androgynous, which is a deliberate decision on Yoshihiko Ueda's part. It seemed the only way to do female nudes without looking like the highly influential and omnipresent Nobuyoshi Araki. The portraits of the male model show him completely naked in every photograph and holding a steel "hula-hoop"-like object created by the photographer. A sensual yet also conceptual re-interpretation of the nude genre as only a Japanese photographer can pull it off. An absolute "must-have" collection for Yoshihiko Ueda collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the First Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the most brilliant Japanese artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER YOSHIHIKO UEDA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 4763685880.

Stock number: 4381. ISBN: 4763685880

$US 100.00

Unidentified Subjects/Models & Anonymous Photographer
Male Nude: "fisting" Anal Sex Act Vintage Polaroid Photograph

Imprint: Los Angeles, CA, Unknown Photographer/Studio, 1980
Edition: First Edition

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare erotica collectible item. An original vintage Polaroid color print that shows a sex act being performed by an unidentified American male couple. It measures 3 X 4 inches and is printed on Polaroid paper (this is therefore the only copy) that has withstood both the passage of time and the erratic life-span of Polaroid color. Encased in its own protective plastic sheet. The couple is engaged in anal sex of the most unusual kind: "Fisting" or "fist-fucking", so-called. Evidently photographed with their knowledge and consent, and just as evidently, was un-rehearsed and "spur-of-the-moment", the photograph was taken by either a professional or an amateur with an assured camera technique ("vernacular"). The image remains as clear, crisp, and bright as the night it was first taken and printed. The late great philosopher of sex, Michel Foucault, famously asserted that our Modern Age witnessed only one genuinely new sex act, and it is this, the insertion (as far as possible) of one's hand (rather than sex organ or gadget substitute) into the anus. No other sex act practiced today, whether pervasively or as an acquired taste, is new. Still, fisting is not popular, is very rarely performed in real life, even among gays, and even in porn films, and will probably always remain as such. All other sex acts, including conventional anal sex and sado-masochism, have been around for thousands of years. Foucault was not just being provocative. He was being factual while celebrating the importance of the body, long marginalized by Western thought, as an active and central part of the human imagination. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for erotic photography collectors. This vintage Polaroid print is now collectible. Because every Polaroid is unique, this is the only copy available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. A rare copy thus. One of the most erotic prints of its kind. A fine print. .

Stock number: 15686.

$US 100.00

Updike, John
Just Looking: Essays On Art

Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1989
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 210 pages. The author's debut collection of essays on art. Limited Slipcased Edition of 350 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. The Limited Edition has the same ISBN as the regular trade edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Alfred A. Knopf: Regular-sized volume format. Marbled hard boards with black linen cloth overboards and spine and gilt titles embossed on the spine, as issued. Text by John Updike. Matching black linen cloth slipcase. Printed on glossy stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, John Updike's "Just Looking". His first book on art, a lifelong passion. "Free of abstraction and jargon and radiant in its curiosity and discernment, he can't help but bring a novelist's psychological insight to his discussion of art, even as he expertly considers technique and aesthetics. Updike is receptivity personified, writing about art with ardent attention, knowledge, and profound appreciation. Updike's immersion in art assures us that there are oases from the crassness of commercial images" (Donna Seaman). The title is almost self-consciously modest. Updike was not just looking; he was looking more keenly than most art "experts" and scholars. Written in Updike's characteristic lapidary style: Chiseled, polished, impeccable. There is such a thing as a John Updike line or sentence in the sense that there isn't in any other living American writer. Susan Sontag regarded him as the finest stylist in the English language of our time. John Updike died of lung cancer on January 27, 2009 at the age of 76. He leaves behind a very large body of work, but will still be missed. An absolute "must-have" title for John Updike collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Slipcased Edition, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very prominently and beautifully numbered and signed in blue ink-pen by John Updike. 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. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. A writer all his adult life, John Updike was probably the most-honored American writer of our time: Winner of numerous awards, among them the Guggenheim Fellowship (1959), Rosenthal Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1959), National Book Award for Fiction (1964), O. Henry Prize (1967-68), American Book Award (1982), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1982, 1990), Union League Club Abraham Lincoln Award (1982), National Arts Club Medal of Honor (1984), and the National Medal of the Arts (1989), the highest award the U. S. Government bestows on its artists and writers. In 1976, he became a member of American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2003, Updike received the National Medal for Humanities, joining a very small group of great living Americans who have been honored with both the National Medal of the Arts and the National Medal for the Humanities. Updike's greatest novels, "Rabbit is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest", won Pulitzer Prizes. One of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN UPDIKE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0394579046.

Stock number: 14360. ISBN: 0394579046

$US 200.00

Updike, John
Terrorist

Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2006
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 310 pages. The author's 22nd 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 that sold out shortly after publication. Subsequent printings do not have the topstain that has become a trademark of Updike's handsomely produced books. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents John Updike's "Terrorist". Ostensibly Updike's exploration of spirituality, religion, and fanaticism. Themes he explored in such novels as "The Coup" and "Toward The End of Time". Updike's genuine achievement is his protagonist, Ahmad Ashmawy Mulloy, the 18-year-old American suicide bomber/son of a present Irish mother and an absent Egyptian father. "He's my hero. I tried to understand him and to dramatize his world. Besides it's not just young Muslims who are killing themselves. We have all these American high school students, steeped in Protestantism and Judaism, who bring guns to school to shoot up the cafeteria knowing they're going to die at the end of this rush" (John Updike). "Tells his story with the thrilling, gorgeous prose we have come to expect of him. A terrible beauty" (Alden Mudge). Written in Updike's characteristic lapidary style: Chiseled, polished, impeccable. There is such a thing as a John Updike line or sentence in the sense that there isn't in any other living American writer. Susan Sontag regarded him as the finest stylist in the English language of our time. The novel provided a compelling reason for John Updike to emerge from the seclusion of his Beverly Farms, Massachusetts home and embark on his first (and final) national book tour in a very long time. John Updike died of lung cancer on January 27, 2009 at the age of 76. He leaves behind a very large body of work, but will still be missed. An absolute "must-have" title for John Updike 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. A writer all his adult life, John Updike was probably the most-honored American writer of our time: Winner of numerous awards, among them the Guggenheim Fellowship (1959), Rosenthal Award, National Institute of Arts and Letters (1959), National Book Award for Fiction (1964), O. Henry Prize (1967-68), American Book Award (1982), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (1982, 1990), Union League Club Abraham Lincoln Award (1982), National Arts Club Medal of Honor (1984), and the National Medal of the Arts (1989), the highest award the U. S. Government bestows on its artists and writers. In 1976, he became a member of American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2003, Updike received the National Medal for Humanities, joining a very small group of great living Americans who have been honored with both the National Medal of the Arts and the National Medal for the Humanities. Updike's greatest novels, "Rabbit is Rich" and "Rabbit at Rest", won Pulitzer Prizes. One of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN UPDIKE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0307264653.

Stock number: 9991. ISBN: 0307264653

$US 30.00

Valtat, Jean-Christophe (Translated by Mitzi Angel)
03: A Novel

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 85 pages. The author's second novel and first work to be translated into English. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jean-Christophe Valtat's "03" in a felicitous English translation. His second novel. The title is the departmental code of Montperilleux, the novel's fictional French suburb. The novel itself is a long, introspective monologue, "written in one unbroken paragraph, about a teenage boy's unrequited love for a mentally handicapped girl he sees every day at the bus stop. It roars, from the shallows of the dreariest French suburb, against such received ideas as the religion of childhood 'innocence', the comforting notion that we all 'grow' and 'develop', and the solace, offered by our teachers and our parents, that if we observe the proper rites, our futures will be meaningful and wholesome" (James Wood). Wood favorably compares Valtat to Thomas Bernhard and Albert Camus, which is pertinent because Valtat is writing in a rich European literary style that is virtually non-existent in the Anglo-American tradition. Our fiction is largely "narrative" (plot, characters, development, climax, The End) even if it comes with often perceptive "commentary" on outer reality. Valtat's daring is de rigueur in France: The telling of one individual's excruciating inner life, in all of his particular pain, longing, questioning, and at best, tentative resolution. James Wood is right not to see a similarity between Valtat and any of his English-writing counterparts because there is none (J. D. Salinger was the last American literary "philosopher" of the pain called adolescence). The love that the unnamed narrator feels for the retarded girl is not about compassion but identification: For all his obvious intelligence, he is just as "retarded" as she is, and in Valtat's hands, his inner life comes fully to life: "Don't we all discover at some stage or another that there are some things we'll never get any better at, even though we have no idea why and hardly ever notice it when it happens, even though we may have enjoyed these things and might not have been lagging behind last time we checked? Something in each of us was broken beyond repair" (Jean-Christophe Valtat). An absolute "must-have" title for Jean-Christophe Valtat collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed and dated (shortly after publication) in black pen on the title page by the author: "Jean-Christophe Valtat 09/22/2010". 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 and post-publication dated copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. "03: A Novel" was selected as one of the Best Books of The Year 2010 by the New Yorker Magazine. One of the most brilliant new voices in contemporary literature. A fine copy. . ISBN 0374100217.

Stock number: 15821. ISBN: 0374100217

$US 30.00

Van Kesteren, Geert (Photographer) & Various Contributors
Baghdad Calling: Reports From Turkey, Syria, Jordan And Iraq

Imprint: Rotterdam, Netherlands, Episode Publishing, 2008
Edition: First Edition

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 388 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most important photography books of our time. The First Edition. 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 that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Episode Publishing: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Geert van Kesteren. His "professional" photographs are interspersed with cellphone images by Iraqi-refugee "amateurs" to maximum effect. Printed on newsprint stock paper to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is gritty and exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Geert van Kesteren's "Baghdad Calling: Reports From Turkey, Syria, Jordan And Iraq". His brilliant sequel to "Why Mister, Why?", devoted to the aftermath of the devastating Iraq War. "Shows the disorienting reality of war-torn Iraq as he chronicles the lives of ordinary Iraqi people living in Baghdad, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey. Combines Van Kesteren's professionally photographed images with the stories of Iraqis in their own words, and hundreds of cellphone pictures and digital snapshots, taken by the Iraqis themselves. Some reveal places that journalists dare not tread. Others are a vivid chronicle of day-to-day life, as likely to show a beloved pet or two best girlfriends as the aftermath of a bombing attack" (Publisher's blurb). It seemed as though the achievement of "Why Mister, Why?" could not be repeated. Yet it cried out for a serious "follow-up". So here it is, another masterpiece of photographic reportage from the front lines. An absolute "must-have" title for Geert van Kesteren collectors. This title is a great photography book. This is one of few copies of the 2008 true First 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 yet are priced as though they had collectible value. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Hundreds of color plates. Geert van Kesteren's "Why Mister, Why?" and "Baghdad Calling" were selected as two of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER GEERT VAN KESTEREN TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 9059730836.

Stock number: 22000. ISBN: 9059730836

$US 200.00

Varga, Kamil (Artist/Photographer) & Benicka, Lucia (Contributor)
Kamil Varga: Spirals

Imprint: Poprad, Slovakia, Tatranska Galeria, 1993
Edition: First Edition

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 10 pages. Exhibition Catalog. Collection of photographs, presented as a series of discrete postcards. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a suite of postcards that are enclosed within a folder. The latter opens out on both ends. The folder and postcards are oversize, with text inside by the artist/photographer and Lucia Benicka. Printed on stiff, very thick, glossy stock paper in Poprad, Slovakia to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Tatranska Galeria Poprad, Slovakia in 1993. Presents Kamil Varga's "Spirals". A sequence of light photographs by the Slovakian artist/photographer. As with all of his other work, Varga deploys dazzling, blinding light using the technique called luminography. Nobody does it better. "From the multitude of photographic possibilities, techniques, and technologies, luminography determines Varga's work. Varga's approach is like that of a painter who re-paints a picture with new layers, but at the same time, takes care that the original remains part of the finished work and is important for an impression of the work. For Varga, the process is part of the work. Three basic themes overlap: The psychological, the metaphysical, and the ritual. These three elements determine the basis of his work. Sometimes, one approach is in the foreground; sometimes another, but in principle they are always inseparable in Varga's aesthetics" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Kamil Varga collectors. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the "Spirals" Exhibition Catalog available online. Both the folder and each postcard within are in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, pristine beauties. Please note: There are now many books on Kamil Varga, but the reproduction quality of these individual postcards surpasses anything we have seen of Varga's luminography works in published form. A rare set thus. 8 oversize postcards, 2 color plates within the folder. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine set. .

Stock number: 19391.

$US 50.00

Vargas Llosa, Mario (Author) & Grossman, Edith (Translator)
Death In The Andes

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1996
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 276 pages. The author's eleventh novel. One of Mario Vargas Llosa's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "Death In The Andes" in a felicitous English translation. His so-called "Revolutionary" novel. As such, it would not be his first (that honor belongs to "The War of The End of The World"), but it is his most personal, as Vargas Llosa comes to grips with Peru's tragic history dating back to pre-colonial Amerindian culture. For much of the late-20th century, Peru was held hostage and then almost completely paralyzed by the "Sendero Luminoso" ("Shining Path") Maoist movement, whose megalomaniacal leader, Abimael Guzman, a philosophy professor-turned-guerrilla leader, cultivated a cult of personality that surpassed many of the world's worst tyrants in its murderous madness. Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". He considers himself an heir to the great European cultural tradition yet his work is firmly grounded in Latin America's (not just his native Peru's) history and mythology. His aesthetics and literary practice - Vargas Llosa has embraced and appropriated every literary genre - prompted Roberto Bolano, his greatest successor, to consider him an inescapable influence, among a handful of others, on contemporary Latin-American literature. That is to say, to be a Latin-American writer is to become a Classical master of language and a Modernist artist, writing in language of the highest quality and reinventing literary form and convention at the same time. Literary genres are inventions of a particular culture's idea of imagination and storytelling, "templates" that Vargas Llosa transforms into "poetic tales" (in Harold Bloom's brilliant phrase). An absolute "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Mario Vargas Llosa. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It is also very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, and dated (in the month and year of publication) in black pen-marker on the same page by his great translator: "Edith Grossman 5-30-96 NYC". This title is a classic. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed and publication-month dated copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Among "Boom" writers, Mario Vargas Llosa has been grossly under-valued for the longest time even though he rarely does public signings. The collectible value of his books will not only keep but keep going up. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374140014.

Stock number: 15945. ISBN: 0374140014

$US 200.00

Vargas Llosa, Mario (Translated by Alfred Mac Adam)
In Praise Of The Stepmother

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 150 pages. The author's tenth novel. One of Mario Vargas Llosa's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "In Praise of The Stepmother" in a felicitous English translation. His homage to the erotic novel and to Gustave Flaubert, one of several homages to Flaubert as stylist and as sensualist, which began with "The Perpetual Orgy" (1975) and culminated with "The Bad Girl" (2007), a "remake" of "Madame Bovary". Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". He considers himself an heir to the great European cultural tradition yet his work is firmly grounded in Latin America's (not just his native Peru's) history and mythology. His aesthetics and literary practice - Vargas Llosa has embraced and appropriated every literary genre - prompted Roberto Bolano, his greatest successor, to consider him an inescapable influence, among a handful of others, on contemporary Latin-American literature. That is to say, to be a Latin-American writer is to become a Classical master of language and a Modernist artist, writing in language of the highest quality and reinventing literary form and convention at the same time. Literary genres are inventions of a particular culture's idea of imagination and storytelling, "templates" that Vargas Llosa transforms into "poetic tales" (in Harold Bloom's brilliant phrase). An absolute "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Mario Vargas Llosa. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Among "Boom" writers, Mario Vargas Llosa has been grossly under-valued for the longest time even though he rarely does public signings. The collectible value of his books will not only keep but keep going up. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374175837.

Stock number: 15902. ISBN: 0374175837

$US 150.00

Vargas Llosa, Mario (Translated by John King)
Making Waves: Essays

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1997
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 338 pages. Retrospective collection of literary and political essays. One of the finest collections of its kind ever published. 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. The DJ Cover features an original portrait of Vargas Llosa by Fernando Botero. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "Making Waves" in a felicitous English translation. Selected by the author himself. While he believes being provocative for its own sake is a cheap shot, many of these essays "made waves", that is, generated enormous controversy when they first appeared, and made the author more aware of the feelings behind even the most clinically dispassionate argument. Although much better-known as a novelist, Vargas Llosa's range as an essayist is breathtaking: Literature, especially the great literary figures of the 20th century such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, politics, Europe, Latin America, the United States, and the relations among them all. He writes about his subjects with a fresh voice and keen insight. Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". "Making Waves" won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in 1997, besting its American contenders. It was followed, with sustained brilliance, by "The Language of Passion" (2003) and "Touchstones" (2007). A self-described "European writer of Peruvian origin", Vargas Llosa's only equals as an essayist among Latin-American writers are Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz. Together with their forefather, Alejo Carpentier, the trio demonstrates the cosmopolitanism of the "Boom", a Cultural Revolution that brought Latin America out of the darkness of backwardness and provincialism (Vargas Llosa is especially scathing about his Peruvian predecessors) into the Paradise that Jorge Luis Borges dreamt about. An absolute "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in red fountain pen on the half-title page by Mario Vargas Llosa. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. His specimen-signature on this copy is one of the most elegant we have ever seen. This title is a classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Among "Boom" writers, Mario Vargas Llosa has been grossly under-valued for the longest time even though he rarely does public signings. The collectible value of his books will not only keep but keep going up. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374200386.

Stock number: 15952. ISBN: 0374200386

$US 150.00

Vargas Llosa, Mario (Author) & Edith Grossman (Translator)
The Bad Girl

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

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 276 pages. The author's fifteenth novel. One of Mario Vargas Llosa's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Bad Girl" in a felicitous English translation. His "remake" of "Madame Bovary", the single most influential novel on the author's art. As such, it is one of several homages to Gustave Flaubert and his masterpiece, which includes "The Perpetual Orgy" (1986), "In Praise of The Stepmother" (1990), "The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto" (1998), and even "The Feast of The Goat" (2001). "The Bad Girl" also bears a striking resemblance to Luis Bunuel's great last film, "That Obscure Object of Desire" (1977). Like Flaubert and Bunuel, Mario Vargas Llosa is a stylist, a critic of power, and a sensualist; for all three artists, erotic and romantic desire is the Good Side of the bad side of life called power. The protagonist's idealizing obsession - what Ricardo is willing to do and to sacrifice in order to attain his elusive object of desire - is incarnated in various femme fatales and played out against the tragic backdrop of History. "Bold, dynamic, and endlessly productive imagination. The canvases of these lives light up with the glow of his passion" (San Francisco Chronicle). His aesthetics and literary practice - Vargas Llosa has embraced and appropriated every literary genre - prompted Roberto Bolano, his greatest successor, to consider him an inescapable influence, among a handful of others, on contemporary Latin-American literature. That is to say, to be a Latin-American writer is to become a Classical master of language and a Modernist artist, writing in language of the highest quality and reinventing literary form and convention at the same time. Literary genres are inventions of a particular culture's idea of imagination and storytelling, "templates" that Vargas Llosa transforms into "poetic tales" (in Harold Bloom's brilliant phrase). An absolute "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Mario Vargas Llosa. It is signed diretcly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It is also very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the same page by his great translator, Edith Grossman. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Among "Boom" writers, Mario Vargas Llosa has been grossly under-valued for the longest time even though he rarely does public signings. The collectible value of his books will not only keep but keep going up. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374182434.

Stock number: 15961. ISBN: 0374182434

$US 200.00

Vargas Llosa, Mario (Author) & Grossman, Edith (Translator)
The Discreet Hero

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 325 pages. The author's fifteenth novel. One of Mario Vargas Llosa's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "El heroe discreto" in a felicitous English translation. Make that two indiscreet, unforgettable heroes. "Follows two characters whose lives are destined to intersect: Felicito Yanaque, a small businessman in Piura, who finds himself the victim of blackmail, and Ismael Carrera, the successful owner of an insurance company in Lima, who hatches a plan to avenge himself against his two sons who want him dead" (Publisher's blurb). Actually, it's three discrete hero-characters, as Don Rigoberto, who has appeared in Vargas Llosa's previous novels, is THE other central protagonist. Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". He considers himself an heir to the great European cultural tradition yet his work is firmly grounded in Latin America's (not just his native Peru's) history and mythology. His aesthetics and literary practice - Vargas Llosa has embraced and appropriated every literary genre - prompted Roberto Bolano, his greatest successor, to consider him an inescapable influence, among a handful of others, on contemporary Latin-American literature. That is to say, to be a Latin-American writer is to become a Classical master of language and a Modernist artist, writing in language of the highest quality and reinventing literary form and convention at the same time. Literary genres are inventions of a particular culture's idea of imagination and storytelling, "templates" that Vargas Llosa transforms into "poetic tales" (in Harold Bloom's brilliant phrase). An absolute "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Mario Vargas Llosa. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Vargas Llosa's signature on this copy is one of the most beautiful we have ever seen. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Among "Boom" writers, Mario Vargas Llosa has been grossly under-valued for the longest time even though he rarely does public signings. The collectible value of his books will not only keep but keep going up. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374146748.

Stock number: 22201. ISBN: 0374146748

$US 100.00

Vargas Llosa, Mario (Translated by Natasha Wimmer)
The Language Of Passion: Selected Commentary

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 292 pages. Retrospective collection of literary and political essays. One of the finest collections of its kind ever published. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Language of Passion" in a felicitous English translation. His second collection of essays, most of which originally appeared in his El Pais column, "Touchstone". The title captures both Vargas Llosa's sensibility and the response that his work often elicits: He is a critic of power and a sensualist who also worships reason; every essay is a passionate defense of "thinking-things-through" rather than ignorant reaction-ism. Although much better-known as a novelist, Vargas Llosa's range as an essayist is breathtaking: Literature, politics, Europe, Latin America, the United States, and the relations among them all. He writes about his subjects with a fresh voice and keen insight. Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". "Making Waves" won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in 1997, besting its American contenders. The sustained brilliance of "The Language of Passion" (2003) and "Touchstones" (2007) shows a writer at the absolute peak of his critical powers. A self-described "European writer of Peruvian origin", Vargas Llosa's only equals as an essayist among Latin-American writers are Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz. Together with their forefather, Alejo Carpentier, the trio demonstrates the cosmopolitanism of the "Boom", a Cultural Revolution that brought Latin America out of the darkness of backwardness and provincialism (Vargas Llosa is especially scathing about his Peruvian predecessors) into the Paradise that Jorge Luis Borges dreamt about. An absolute "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in red fountain pen on the half-title page by Mario Vargas Llosa. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. His specimen-signature on this copy is one of the most elegant we have ever seen. This title is a classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Among "Boom" writers, Mario Vargas Llosa has been grossly under-valued for the longest time even though he rarely does public signings. The collectible value of his books will not only keep but keep going up. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374183260.

Stock number: 15967. ISBN: 0374183260

$US 150.00

Vargas Llosa, Mario (Translated by Edith Grossman)
The Notebooks Of Don Rigoberto

Imprint: London, England, Faber & Faber, 1998
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 260 pages. The author's twelfth novel. Now considered a late-modern classic. The first appearance of the title in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto" in a felicitous English translation. The sequel to "In Praise of The Stepmother". For Vargas Llosa, eroticism is the one Good Side of the very bad side of life called power. Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". He considers himself an heir to the great European cultural tradition yet his work is firmly grounded in Latin America's (not just his native Peru's) history and mythology. His aesthetics and literary practice - Vargas Llosa has embraced and appropriated every literary genre - prompted Roberto Bolano, his greatest successor, to consider him an inescapable influence, among a handful of others, on contemporary Latin-American literature. That is to say, to be a Latin-American writer is to become a Classical master of language and a Modernist artist, writing in language of the highest quality and reinventing literary form and convention at the same time. Literary genres are inventions of a particular culture's idea of imagination and storytelling, "templates" that Vargas Llosa transforms into "poetic tales" (in Harold Bloom's brilliant phrase). An absolute "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Mario Vargas Llosa. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First British Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Among "Boom" writers, Mario Vargas Llosa has been grossly under-valued for the longest time even though he rarely does public signings. The collectible value of his books will not only keep but keep going up. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0571193099.

Stock number: 15920. ISBN: 0571193099

$US 200.00

Vargas Llosa, Mario (Translated by Helen Lane)
The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert And Madame Bovary

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1986
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 240 pages. Book-length account on subject. One of Mario Vargas Llosa's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "La Orgia perpetua" in a felicitous English translation. The culmination of the author's lifelong obsession with Flaubert and his masterpiece. "Deals with the story the novel tells and the sources it uses, the way in which it transforms itself into time and language. Examines the 'added element' Flaubert joined to his perceptions of reality: His humanizing of objects, obsession with pairs, and manipulation of fictional time and narrative. Finally, focussing on such issues as the anti-hero and interior monologue, the author discusses the place of 'Madame Bovary' in the development of the modern novel" (Richard Kuczkowski). Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". He considers himself an heir to the great European cultural tradition yet his work is firmly grounded in Latin America's (not just his native Peru's) history and mythology. His aesthetics and literary practice - Vargas Llosa has embraced and appropriated every literary genre - prompted Roberto Bolano, his greatest successor, to consider him an inescapable influence, among a handful of others, on contemporary Latin-American literature. That is to say, to be a Latin-American writer is to become a Classical master of language and a Modernist artist, writing in language of the highest quality and reinventing literary form and convention at the same time. Literary genres are inventions of a particular culture's idea of imagination and storytelling, "templates" that Vargas Llosa transforms into "poetic tales" (in Harold Bloom's brilliant phrase). An absolute "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Mario Vargas Llosa. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a late-modern classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws yet are priced as though they had collectible value. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374230773.

Stock number: 20626. ISBN: 0374230773

$US 200.00

Vargas Llosa, Mario (Translated by Alfred MacAdam)
The Real Life Of Alejandro Mayta: The Limited Edition

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 310 pages. The author's seventh novel. One of Mario Vargas Llosa's finest achievements. Limited Slipcased Edition of 125 numbered and signed copies. One of only two Limited Editions published by FSG of Vargas Llosa's books thus far (the other is "The War of The End of The World"), the limitation is among the smallest there is, considering it is a major work by a major writer. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Farrar, Straus & Giroux: Regular-sized volume format. Brown cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on the spine, as issued. Text by Mario Vargas Llosa. Cream hard board slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta" in a felicitous English translation. His astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary in the form of an account by a former friend. Through this prism, the novel examines the long, violent, and painful history of Latin-American politics. Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". He considers himself an heir to the great European cultural tradition yet his work is firmly grounded in Latin America's (not just his native Peru's) history and mythology. His aesthetics and literary practice - Vargas Llosa has embraced and appropriated every literary genre - prompted Roberto Bolano, his greatest successor, to consider him an inescapable influence, among a handful of others, on contemporary Latin-American literature. That is to say, to be a Latin-American writer is to become a Classical master of language and a Modernist artist, writing in language of the highest quality and reinventing literary form and convention at the same time. Literary genres are inventions of a particular culture's idea of imagination and storytelling, "templates" that Vargas Llosa transforms into "poetic tales" (in Harold Bloom's brilliant phrase). An absolute "must-have" edition for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Slipcased Edition, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen by Mario Vargas Llosa. This title is a great 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. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws yet are priced as though they had collectible value. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374247765.

Stock number: 16057. ISBN: 0374247765

$US 300.00

Vargas Llosa, Mario (Translated by Alfred MacAdam)
Who Killed Palomino Molero?

Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 151 pages. The author's eighth novel. Now considered a late-modern classic. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "Who Killed Palomino Molero" in a felicitous English translation. His "detective-thriller" novel, told in Vargas Llosa's inimitable antic vein. Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses of the so-called Boom: He refuses to be categorized, labeled, and reduced by ideology, whether it is Fascist conservatism, political correctness, or Leftist academicism, what he has condemned as "authoritarianism of the Left and the Right". He considers himself an heir to the great European cultural tradition yet his work is firmly grounded in Latin America's (not just his native Peru's) history and mythology. His aesthetics and literary practice - Vargas Llosa has embraced and appropriated every literary genre - prompted Roberto Bolano, his greatest successor, to consider him an inescapable influence, among a handful of others, on contemporary Latin-American literature. That is to say, to be a Latin-American writer is to become a Classical master of language and a Modernist artist, writing in language of the highest quality and reinventing literary form and convention at the same time. Literary genres are inventions of a particular culture's idea of imagination and storytelling, "templates" that Vargas Llosa transforms into "poetic tales" (in Harold Bloom's brilliant phrase). An absolute "must-have" title for Mario Vargas Llosa collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Mario Vargas Llosa. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Among "Boom" writers, Mario Vargas Llosa has been grossly under-valued for the longest time even though he rarely does public signings. The collectible value of his books will not only keep but keep going up. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Cervantes Prize, awarded to the greatest living writers in Spanish by the Spanish Government, in 1994. Winner of the Jerusalem Prize in 1995. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MARIO VARGAS LLOSA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0571147445.

Stock number: 15960. ISBN: 0571147445

$US 200.00

Various Photographers & Various Contributing Editors
Photography After Photography: Memory And Representation In The Digital Age

Imprint: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Overseas Publishers Association Amsterdam, 1996
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 308 pages. Book-length account on subject. One of the most important photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the 1997 Art Stock Facsimile Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by OPA: Oversize-volume format. Photographs by various artists. Text by various contributors. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Amsterdam to the highest standards. The reprodcution quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Photography After Photography: Memory And Representation In The Digital Age". That is, the work of art in the age of digital manipulation. "Thanks to the tremendous impact of the digital process and its capacity for manipulation, our current notions of what photography is as well as what a photograph represents is changing. Brings together a multitude of positions on the subject. For those who do not know much about photographic issues, whether historic or contemporary, this wide-ranging study is an interesting and fruitful place to start. Reviews, debates, and probes the potential of new technologies without ignoring the natural interactivity between photography and social norms. In that sense, this book can be read as a platform for cultural as well as artistic speculation. Now that we can technically alter the qualities of what used to be the smallest element, the pixel, we are verging on reinventing all notions of representation" (Susan M. Olcott). An absolute "must-have" title for photography book collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing (1996) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with the 1997 Art Stock Facsimile Edition. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white and color plates. Some of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 9057011018.

Stock number: 22175. ISBN: 9057011018

$US 100.00

Vasquez, Juan Gabriel (Translated by Anne McLean)
Reputations

Imprint: New York City, NY, Riverhead Books, 2016
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 190 pages. The author's fourth novel to be translated into English. One of Juan Gabriel Vasquez's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Juan Gabriel Vasquez's "Las reputaciones" in a felicitous English translation. His brilliant novel on the price and perils of fame. "The passing of Gabriel Garcia Marquez left a void in the literary world. But if there is a contemporary author capable of re-directing readers' attention back to Latin-American fiction, it is Juan Gabriel Vasquez. Apart from the inventive plot and Vasquez's knack for colorful similes, the writer's mastery of tense shines throughout the novel, which dances from the Present to the Past to the Future. The reader is left with plenty to ponder regarding morality and intention, the business of exposing hypocrisy, the dangers of fame, and the malleability of memory" (Nylon). Juan Gabriel Vasquez is the heir to both Gabriel Garcia Marquez (his inescapable Colombian predecessor) and Roberto Bolano (who would have been his contemporary mentor had the latter not died). His attempt to forge a new literary style that seemingly departs from Magical Realism will ultimately be seen for what is: A (necessary) misreading of Magical Realism. His stylistic innovations expand significantly upon the literary path that Bolano found. An absolute "must-have" title for Juan Gabriel Vasquez collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Juan Gabriel Vasquez. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Vasquez signed on top of the page, making his signature even more prominent. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for "The Sound of Things Falling" in 2014. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JUAN GABRIEL VASQUEZ TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1594633479.

Stock number: 20760. ISBN: 1594633479

$US 50.00

Vasquez, Juan Gabriel (Translated by Anne McLean)
The Sound Of Things Falling

Imprint: New York City, NY, Riverhead Books, 2013
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 275 pages. The author's third novel to be translated into English. One of the finest novels of our time. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Juan Gabriel Vasquez's "El ruido de las cosas al caer" in a felicitous English translation. Published to enormous critical acclaim. The novel is nothing less than an attempt to re-write (to equal if not transcend) Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "One Hundred Years of Solitude" (1970) as the true, authentic, and definitive history of Colombia in novel form. Its staggering ambition is, fortunately, matched by its formal invention and the author's sheer immense talent. "Maps the deep, cascading damage done to our world by greed and violence and concedes that even love can't repair it" (TIME Magazine). Juan Gabriel Vasquez is the heir to both Gabriel Garcia Marquez (his inescapable Colombian predecessor) and Roberto Bolano (who would have been his contemporary mentor had the latter not died). His attempt to forge a new literary style that seemingly departs from Magical Realism will ultimately be seen for what is: A (necessary) misreading of Magical Realism. His stylistic innovations expand significantly upon the literary path that Bolano found. An absolute "must-have" title for Juan Gabriel Vasquez collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated (in the year of publication) in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "Juan Gabriel Vasquez 2013". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Vasquez signed on top of the page, making his signature even more prominent. Laid-in are pristine copies of the Souvenir Materials of the event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and publication-year dated copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for "The Sound of Things Falling" in 2014. One of the most brilliant writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JUAN GABRIEL VASQUEZ TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1594487480.

Stock number: 18862. ISBN: 1594487480

$US 150.00

Veronesi, Sandro (Translated by Michael F. Moore)
Quiet Chaos: A Novel

Imprint: New York City, NY, Ecco Press/HarperCollins Publishers, 2011
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 425 pages. The author's second novel to be translated into English. One of the greatest novels of the decade. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent printings. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. The production values are impeccable: A lovely DJ design that utilizes an image from the film adaptation and printing on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Presents Sandro Veronesi's "Caos Calmo" in a felicitous English translation. His masterpiece. "Pietro Paladini saves a woman from drowning at the exact moment that his wife Lara suddenly dies. After the unexpected death, Pietro becomes enveloped in a strange calm, and he spends each day outside his daughter's school, observing the quiet rhythms of life. His bosses visit him to share cryptic information about a messy corporate merger and his co-workers, buckling under the strain of the merger, turn to him for advice and go a little crazy. Things get even messier when Pietro encounters the woman he rescued, Eleonora, a wealthy seductress, whose life has also been upended by that pivotal moment" (Publishers Weekly). The basis of the great film by Antonello Grimaldi (whose screenplay was written by Veronesi), with Alessandro Gassman, Antonella Attili, and Nanni Moretti. An absolute "must-have" title for Sandro Veronesi collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Sandro Veronesi. 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 copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Premio Viareggio Repaci and the Premio Campiello for "La Forza del passato" in 2000. Winner of the Premio Strega, the most important literary prize in Italy, for "Caos Calmo" in 2008. One of the most brilliant new voices in contemporary literature. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SANDRO VERONESI TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0061572942.

Stock number: 16504. ISBN: 0061572942

$US 100.00

Veruschka/Lehndorff, Vera (Artist); Trulzsch, Holger (Photographer) & Sontag, Susan (Contributor)
Veruschka: Trans-figurations ("veruschka: Transfigurations")

Imprint: Boston, MA, Little, Brown & Company, 1986
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 160 pages. Artist Book. One of the most beautiful art photography books of the 20th century. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Vera Lehndorff and Holger Trulzsch: Oversize-volume format. Cloth boards with black titles embossed on spine, as issued. Art by Veruschka/Vera Lehndorff. Photographs by Holger Trulzsch. Essay by Susan Sontag. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Japan to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Veruschka's "Trans-figurations". Perhaps the single most brilliant realization of the body as artistic medium. One of the most valuable contributions of Modernist art/philosophy is its emphasis on the body (it is important to be reminded that for two thousand years, philosophy regarded the body as marginal and contingent rather than central and essential to who we are). The very first supermodel, Veruschka's personality is inseparable from her body. She (her real name is Vera Lehndorff) examines her body in relation to beauty, through transfigurations, the single most interesting idea of Modernist art. She wants us to see that there is a difference between "transform" and "transfigure": The latter goes much deeper, is more radical, and is ultimately about transcendence. Ravishingly beautiful when she produced this great book, Veruschka uses her body to create sublime works of art. In each of them, she is completely changed, often beyond recognition. She becomes the cinematic beauties Marilyn Monroe and Rita Hayworth. In other Ovidian images, she denies her humanity altogether and becomes an animal, a statue, a stone. The most haunting transfigurations of all are the Series called "Oxydation", in which her body appears to disintegrate before our eyes. "Not merely beautiful but 'about' the beautiful, as it is very much concerned with the testing of beauty, through artifice, through distortion, and through transfiguration" (Susan Sontag). An absolute "must-have" title for Veruschka collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and inscribed in black ink-pen on the front free endpaper by the author: "To Michael, Veruschka". 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. This title is a great art photography book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First American Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Veruschka signed ALL other copies with her real name, Vera Lehndorff. This is the very first copy we have found where she signed with her iconic name. A rare signed copy thus. 163 plates. One of the most brilliant artists of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 0821216376.

Stock number: 15724. ISBN: 0821216376

$US 800.00

Vickers, Graham; Marcangeli, Catherine; Evans, Emily & Other Contributors
New York City Traditions

Imprint: New York City, NY, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1998
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 192 pages. Unusual and dazzling words-and-pictures guide to the great city. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by various artists and graphic designers: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with green nylon knot that runs from top to bottom of the book to keep it neatly tied-in. Contributions by various photographers, artists, and writers. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "New York City Traditions". In a breezily and colorfully accessible manner: Part travel guide, part cultural history, part gossip column. All-embracing. Eight contributors tackle various aspects of the city that are "must-knows" to any reader or fan. Nick Harris's contribution on the city's rich cultural history is particularly illuminating. However, all the other contributors have done a great job of telling the fascinating story of the city in words, illustrations, sidebars, captions, and photographs. Divided into eight sections: Architecture, Art, Fashion, Festivals & Religions, Food & Drink, Music, Sports & Leisure, and Theater & Literature. Lavishly illustrated with photographs by such figures as Sheila Metzner, Andy Warhol, and Bruce Weber, to mention only three of the biggest names. Practically everyone who has photographed New York City is represented here and then some. Beautifully assembled by a team of graphic designers and artists. A tour-de-force, worthy of its great subject, the greatest city in the world. An absolute "must-have" title for New York City and photography book collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of very few copies still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. The cultural capital of the Western world. A fine copy. . ISBN 0817460276.

Stock number: 4369. ISBN: 0817460276

$US 30.00