Caffery, Debbie Fleming (Photographer) & Bauret, Gabriel (Editor)
Debbie Fleming Caffery: The Collection L'oiseau Rare Edition

Imprint: Trezelan, France, Filigranes Editions/L'Oiseau, 2000
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. Unpaginated. Retrospective collection of the photographer's work, presented in a handy format. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only and as the third volume in the now-iconic Collection L'Oiseau Rare Series. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Gabriel Bauret and Agnes Propeck: Small-size volume format. Glossy pictorial stiff paper boards with white titles on the cover and black titles on the spine, as issued. Photographs by Debbie Fleming Caffery. Edited with Captions by Garbriel Bauret. Brief Biography appended at the end. Printed in gravure on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in France to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Debbie Fleming Caffery". Some of her finest and most representative work, created after her highly acclaimed breakthrough, "Carry Me Home" (1990). "Draws upon the mysteries of light and shadow, creating an ethereal world of brooding darkness punctuated by a sense of hope. Debbie Fleming Caffery's images can be seen as articles of faith. The relentless insistence of subject and symbol in these images is assuredly their greatest strength. This vigor results from a tension that can be both visual and emotional. In this marshy no-man's-land between description and illusion, her photographs serve as an able guide to truths that are better sensed than seen” (John Lawrence). An absolute "must-have" title for Debbie Fleming Caffery collectors. This copy is very boldly, beautifully, and elaborately signed and inscribed in black pen-marker on the title page by the photographer: "For Martha, Best wishes Debbie [Fleming Caffery]". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, who is named, is the curator/owner of Schneider Gallery Chicago, and is one of the most important figures in contemporary art and photography. We have not seen a more unusual and beautiful signature than Debbie Fleming Caffery's. Her signature can truly be said to be a work of art in itself. This title is now collectible. This is one of few such signed 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 because the book is small-sized and fragile as such. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with gravure plates. One of the finest American artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DEBBIE FLEMING CAFFERY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 2910682943.

Stock number: 22116. ISBN: 2910682943

$US 40.00

Callahan, Harry; Siskind, Aaron; Sommer, Frederick (Photographers) & Various Writers
Callahan Siskind Sommer: At The Crossroads Of American Photography

Imprint: Santa Fe, New Mexico, Radius Books, 2009
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 150 pages. Retrospective Monograph. One of the best books on photography ever published in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Radius Books: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. Essays by Keith F. Davis and other distinguished specialist-contributors. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents "Callahan Siskind Sommer: At The Crossroads of American Photography". A stunning re-consideration of the photographic art and achievement of the Institute of Design's triumphant triumvirate. "Examines the aesthetic and personal interrelationships of photographers who helped define the course of American photography after Stieglitz: Frederick Sommer (1905-1999), Harry Callahan (1912-1999) and Aaron Siskind (1903-1991). Although each member of this 'holy trinity' has been honored with numerous retrospectives, this is the very first full-fledged comparison of their work: An exploration of their robust, prescient exchange of ideas about photography, abstraction, and metaphor over the course of their 25 years as colleagues and friends. Helped shape the evolution of photography as an art form, creating a bridge between the purity of photography at mid-century and the hybrid approaches to the medium today. Brings to light contrasting philosophies of the artist/photographer's role - influenced by Existentialism for Siskind and Spinoza for Sommer -, their interest in chance as an artistic process, the expressive potential of found objects, and experimental abstraction" (Publisher's blurb). The influence of the visual arts on photography and photography's decisive influence upon the visual arts are foundational and seminal, not incidental or accidental. It is not possible to think of The New Bauhaus, Abstract Expressionism, and perhaps most important, Surrealism without taking into account the give-and-take between photography and these great moments of Modernism. An absolute "must-have" title for Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer collectors. This title is a contemporary photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws yet are priced as though they had collectible value. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with tritone plates. Three of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine copy. . ISBN 1934435155.

Stock number: 22139. ISBN: 1934435155

$US 80.00

Callahan, Harry; Evans, Walker; Frank, Robert; Ishimoto, Yasuhiro; Friedlander, Lee & Others
Photographs From The Collection Of Lasalle National Bank

Imprint: Chicago, IL, LaSalle Bank/Distributed Art Publishers, 1995
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 188 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most beautiful photography books ever published. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The book was the very first title in the now-legendary Series by LaSalle Bank of its Permanent Photography Collection. LaSalle Bank was subsequently acquired by Bank of America, which promptly dispersed LaSalle Bank's photography collection, the largest and finest of its kind in the world, to its own offices. This book is now the only venue where the photographs remain intact as a collection. An austerely elegant production by The Stinehour Press: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by various contributors, a Who's Who of 20th-century and contemporary photography. Essay by Carol Ehlers. Introduction by Thomas C. Heagy. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ, which features an image by Thomas Struth, and with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents some of the greatest photographs ever taken in its entire history, from the Early Days of photography to the vibrant Present. The images have been culled from LaSalle Bank's 4, 000 photographs, listed in alphabetical order at the back. A nostalgia trip down memory lane and the fast lane. An absolute "must-have" title for photography book collectors. This title is a photography 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: 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. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white and color plates. Some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century and our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO "CHICAGO PHOTOGRAPHS: THE LASALLE BANK PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION" TITLE IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 19648.

$US 50.00

Calvino, Italo (Translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks & William Weaver)
The Complete Cosmicomics

Imprint: New York City, NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing, 2014
Edition: First Edition

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 432 pages. Definitive Edition of the author's masterwork. One of the greatest literary achievements of the 20th century. Advance Reader's Edition (ARC). Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Published in a small and limited one-time-only print run as a softcover original for distribution to the industry and the press. None of the copies was sold commercially. There is no ISBN. The ARC is now rare. Presents, in one volume, all of Italo Calvino's "Cosmicomics" in definitive English translations. Brings together for the very first time all of the enthralling stories, including quite a few never before translated, in a 432-page tome. The stories were previously issued as individual volumes - "Cosmicomics", "t zero", and "Numbers In The Dark" - and are now further expanded with the addition of seven previously un-translated stories. "Primordial beings cavort on the nearby surface of the moon, play marbles with atoms, and bear ecstatic witness to earth's first dawn. Exploring natural phenomena and the origins of the universe, these beloved tales relate complex scientific concepts to our common sensory and emotional world" (Publisher's blurb). "It's a joy to have all the 'Cosmicomics' within one cover. A landmark in fiction, the work of a great master" (Ursula K. Le Guin). The Italian Master was first introduced to the Anglo-American world by Gore Vidal, who wrote that "Calvino does what very few writers can do: He describes imaginary worlds with the most extraordinary precision and beauty". "Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us" (John Updike). An absolute "must-have" title for Italo Calvino collectors. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Advance Reader's Edition (ARC) available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ITALO CALVINO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 21797.

$US 20.00

Calvino, Italo (Translated by Martin McLaughlin)
Why Read The Classics?

Imprint: New York City, NY, Pantheon, 1999
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 278 pages. Retrospective collection of the author's literary essays. One of the greatest 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 posthumously, Italo Calvino had been planning the book himself before his sudden death in 1985. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Italo Calvino's "Why Read The Classics?" in a felicitous English translation. His literary criticism in its late, and most acute, stage. It is quite a high-wire act: The ultimate "post-modernist" writer defends the enduring importance of the Western Classical canon. "Why read Italo Calvino's book on the classics? Because it passes his own test for what a classic is and its brisk prose can blast your concept of the word clean of the dusty associations that cling to it. Calvino gives fourteen definitions of 'classic', 'a work which constantly generates a pulviscular cloud of critical discourse around it, but which always shakes the particles off', being probably the most ironic. His sharp essays on Conrad, Dickens, Diderot, Flaubert, Ovid, and others constitute an act of self-criticism, a novelist's imaginative autobiography. Italo Calvino distills a writer's essence in a vivid phrase: Money, for instance, serves as 'the motive force of Balzac's narrative, the true test of feeling in Dickens, but in Mark Twain, money is a game of mirrors, causing vertigo over a void' " (Tim Appelo). An absolute "must-have" title for Italo Calvino collectors. This title is itself a classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ITALO CALVINO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0679415246.

Stock number: 18274. ISBN: 0679415246

$US 30.00

Canin, Ethan
Blue River: The Advance Reader's Edition

Imprint: Boston, MA, Houghton And Mifflin, 1991
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 220 pages. The author's debut novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. Advance Reader's Copy. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Published in a small and limited print run for distribution to the trade and friends of the publisher and author only. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by Ethan Canin. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Ethan Canin's "Blue River". His highly acclaimed debut novel, following the success of "Emperor of The Air", his debut collection of short stories and first book. "Two very different brothers live out their separate lives and then come together after years of being apart. Dr. Edward Sellers is a wealthy ophthalmologist and responsible family man, cautious to a fault. His brother Lawrence lives in a wild, ragged world of his own unhinged imagination and shattered dreams. While Edward was always the good son, Lawrence brought his family shame. As the brothers are reunited, their past seizes them both, revealing the power of their bond, the complexity of their love, and the shocking betrayal of one by the other. A novel that plumbs the depths of family, indeed of love itself, a truly unforgettable literary event" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Ethan Canin collectors. This copy of the Advance Reader's Copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in blue pen on the title page by the author: "For Tim - All good luck, Ethan Canin". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient is named. It is a vintage signature, signed by Canin in full, as opposed to his contemporary signature, which consists mainly of his faint initials. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the Advance Reader's Edition 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 Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. Selected by The New Yorker Magazine as one of the "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ETHAN CANIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 1257.

$US 30.00

Canin, Ethan
Carry Me Across The Water

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

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 206 pages. The author's fourth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. Review Copy. Review Materials laid-in. 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 Ethan Canin's "Carry Me Across The Water". His fourth and most fully realized novel. "Tells the story of 78-year-old German immigrant August Kleinman. Having recently lost his beloved wife and sensing that the end is near, August flashes back to key moments in his past, struggling to see the patterns that have shaped his life. He escaped Nazi Germany when he was just a boy, and his mother's courage and counsel ('Take the advice of no one') always stayed with him. He fought in World War II, married his high-school sweetheart, had three children, and made a fortune by starting his own brewery. August misses his wife terribly and frets about what to do with his money, but the key moment he returns to again and again is a frightening confrontation he had with a young Japanese soldier in a cave. He ultimately decides to go to Japan, where he intends to make reparations to the family of the young soldier. Canin struggles mightily here to reach for the resonance of fable. There are some beautiful passages, most notably in the wry exchanges between August and his daughter-in-law" (Publishers Weekly). An absolute "must-have" title for Ethan Canin collectors. This is a Review Copy. The Review Materials are laid-in. This title is a contemporary classic. As far as we know, this is the only Review 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 scarce copy thus. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. Selected by The New Yorker Magazine as one of "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century". One of the finest American writers of our time. A flawless copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ETHAN CANIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 4007.

$US 20.00

Canobbio, Andrea (Translated by Abigail Asher)
The Natural Disorder Of Things

Imprint: London, England, MacLehose Press/Quercus, 2008
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 345 pages. The author's first novel to be translated into English. One of the most important literary debuts of our time. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United Kingdom. Precedes and should not be confused with the American Edition, which was published as a softcover only. Published in a small and limited first print run simultaneously as hardcover and softcover originals. The First Hardcover Edition did not exceed 500 copies. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Andrea Canobbio's "Il naturale disordine dele cose" in a felicitous English translation. Intelligently engrossing. "Canobbio's narrative comes to a breakneck, virtually cinematic conclusion that knots all the plot's threads into a convincing, though shockingly unexpected, dramatic conclusion, giving way to a reflection too bittersweet-ly true to reveal" (The Los Angeles Times). As it is often said, no one understands disorder to be the natural order of things as Italians do. As the editor of the great Italian publishing house, Einaudi, Andrea Canobbio is one of the most important literary figures in Europe. He has also published five novels, of which "The Natural Disorder of Things", the first to be translated into English, is regarded as the finest thus far. The others, "Vasi cinesi", "Traslochi", "Padri di padri", and "Indivisibili" are bestsellers in Italy and await imminent translation into English. And they should be because "Andrea Canobbio straddles the worlds of murder mystery and literary fiction. A writer this talented deserves to have all of his work in translation" (Vendela Vida, Dave Eggers' better half). An absolute "must-have" title for Andrea Canobbio collectors. This title is a cult classic. This is one of few copies of the First British Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online are remainder-marked or have serious flaws. The American Edition is a softcover original only. A scarce copy thus. One of the most brilliant novelists of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 1847242502.

Stock number: 17786. ISBN: 1847242502

$US 20.00

Caponigro, Paul (Photographer) & Sinsheimer, Karen (Contributor)
Meditations In Silver: Photographic Studies By Paul Caponigro

Imprint: Tucson, AZ, Nazraeli Press/Santa Barbara Museum Of Art, 2008
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 68 pages. Exhibition Monograph. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. The companion volume to Paul Caponigro's "Meditations In Light". The First Hardcover Edition. Published in a small and limited print run of 500 copies only. As print runs go, it is the smallest ever for a Caponigro title. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Chris Pichler: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Paul Caponigro. Essay by Karen Sinsheimer. List of Plates appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Hong Kong to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition of the same name held at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art from January 26 through April 6, 2008. Presents Paul Caponigro's "Meditations In Silver". Some of the photographer's finest and most representative still lifes in a quietly yet arrestingly beautiful format. "In the 1960's, following a move to New York City, Paul Caponigro focussed his attention on still lifes. His iconic image, 'Apple, New York City, 1964', sums up Caponigro's exploration of still life at that time as it looks forward to his later work. In 1999, 35 years later, and after a hiatus of six years from all things photographic, Caponigro stated simply, 'Objects collected from nature started to wink at me'. One senses that the meticulously composed still lifes presented on these pages are personal elegies as well as archetypical totems, inviting viewers to explore their own personal mythology. They are psychological revelations about the passage of time and the mortality that all humans share. The invitation to unfoldment is extended with a caveat requiring not only silence and time, but also the willingness to see beyond commonplace appearances of rock, leaf, and seed" (Karen Sinsheimer). An absolute "must-have" title for Paul Caponigro collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Paul Caponigro. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Caponigro did NOT sign a single copy of the book for the publisher. A rare signed copy thus. 45 duotone plates. One of the greatest American photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PAUL CAPONIGRO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1590052269.

Stock number: 13418. ISBN: 1590052269

$US 150.00

Capote, Truman (Author) & Price, Reynolds (Contributor)
The Complete Stories Of Truman Capote

Imprint: New York City, NY, Random House, 2004
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 300 pages. Retrospective collection of short stories. One of the greatest literary collections 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. Although all but one of the pieces have appeared in book form, this is the very first time that they are gathered together in one volume. The First Edition Thus is now scarce. A brilliant production by Random House: Regular-sized volume format. Hard boards with gilt titles embossed on spine, as issued. Text by Truman Capote. Introductory Essay, "Usable Answers", by the great American novelist Reynolds Price. The latter piece, which alludes to "Answered Prayers", appears in this edition only. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In wraparound DJ, which features the celebrated photograph of the 21-year-old Capote by Henri Cartier-Bresson, and titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents "The Complete Stories of Truman Capote". Nothing less than some of the high spots of modern American literature. Capote will always be remembered (rightly so) for his masterpiece, "In Cold Blood" (1965). Still, his short stories and his novellas, that is to say, his long short stories ("Other Voices, Other Rooms", "The Grass Harp", and "Breakfast At Tiffany's") are among the finest literary achievements by an American writer whose life was tragically cut short by what amounted to a slow, self-inflicted death from depression, alcoholism, and drug addiction. The enduring interest in Capote The Celebrity tends to distract us from the greatness of Capote The Writer. Capote wrote his best work as a very young man and died in 1984 at the age of 60, writing virtually nothing in the last decade of his life, unable to finish his much-anticipated novel, "Answered Prayers", whose manuscript has never been found (because it was never written). Capote's idol was Flaubert and his stated goal was punitively Flaubertian: Perfection. There is no living American writer who writes as beautifully as Capote did at the height of his powers. Many fashionable young American writers today denigrate his achievement because they just can't do it, and we tend to hate what we cannot do. The book includes "The Bargain", which appears in published form for the very first time. An absolute "must-have" title for Truman Capote collectors. This is a Review Copy. The Review Material is laid-in. This title is a modern classic. As far as we know, this is the only Review 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 scarce copy thus. Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" is widely regarded as one of the greatest books of the 20th century. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER TRUMAN CAPOTE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0679643109.

Stock number: 18404. ISBN: 0679643109

$US 50.00

Carey, Peter (Author) & Biers, Nanette (Artist/Illustrator)
The Tax Inspector: The First Edition Society Limited Edition

Imprint: Franklin Center, PA, Franklin Mint Library, 1991
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 280 pages. The author's fourth novel. One of Peter Carey's finest achievements. The First Edition Society. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the regular trade edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a Leatherbound Edition which sold out upon publication. There is no ISBN. The Limited Edition is now scarce. An elegant production by Franklin Library: Regular-sized volume format. Leather boards with gilt titles and design on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by Peter Carey. Art by Nanette Biers. Printed on thick, uncoated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in a Limited Edition format, Peter Carey's "The Tax Inspector". A major work in style and vision. "Carey is in the prime of his creative life" (The Montreal Gazette). "The sheer exuberance and heightened visual power of Carey's prose is, sentence by sentence, as brilliant and pleasurable as ever, no matter how dark his vision" (Jay McInerney). An absolute "must-have" title for Peter Carey collectors. This is a copy of the First Edition Society. It is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the Front Limitation Page by Peter Carey. It is also very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by the author. His signature on the title page itself was obtained in person. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Program and Bookmark of the event during which his signature was obtained. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed copy of the First Edition Society available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. Regarded by Harold Bloom as one of the canonical writers of the 20th century. Winner of the Booker Prize in 1988 for "Oscar & Lucinda" and in 2001 for "True History of the Kelly Gang". Carey is only the second novelist to win the prestigious British prize twice, a feat first achieved by J. M. Coetzee and now matched by him. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PETER CAREY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 19489.

$US 100.00

Carol, David J.
All My Lies Are True: Photographs By David J. Carol

Imprint: Chicago, IL, David J. Carol, 2009
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 50 pages. The photographer's second collection. One of the most beautiful photography books of our time. The first and only edition. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by David J. Carol: Regular-sized volume format. Pristine-white hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by David J. Carol. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents David J. Carol's "All My Lies Are True". His even more brilliant follow-up to his debut: Some of the most tender, evocative, and humorous street and landscape photography one is likely to see. "A refreshing reminder that somewhere wanders the photographer, creating images of the mundane and the absurd. Showcases the beauty that allows photography to be the means of an adventure born of travel, humor, and intelligence, a journey that does not end once the shutter is released, but rather continues to develop into a diary of genuine and often humorous photographs. Serves as a vehicle for Carol's photographs rather than an object produced for the object's sake. Exemplifies the nature of photographs: Visual outward appearance is irrelevant. What truly matters is imaginative honesty, along with the acceptance that the journey never quite ends" (Photoeye). An absolute "must-have" title for David J. Carol collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen-marker on the front free endpaper by the photographer: "For Paul, David J. Carol". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient is Paul Berlanga, the Chicago-based painter and photography expert. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Carol did NOT sign most copies of the book. A rare signed copy thus. 43 duotone plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine copy. .

Stock number: 22089.

$US 50.00

Carrara, Alfonso (Photographer/Author) & Berlanga, Paul (Contributor)
Alfonso Carrara Happenchance: World War Ii Photographs Italian Campaign 1942-1945

Imprint: Chicago, IL, Italian Cultural Institute, 2015
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 185 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most valuable photographic documents of the 20th century. Limited Edition of 1000 copies. The first and only edition. None of the copies was sold commercially by the Italian Cultural Institute. There is no ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by ICI: Oversize-volume format. Blood-red cloth boards with photographic reproduction pasted in front and white titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Alfonso Carrara. Essay by Paul Berlanga. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark travelling retrospective exhibition held at the Italian Cultural Institutes of Chicago, San Francisco, and New York in 2015. Presents "Alfonso Carrara Happenchance: World War II Photographs, Italian Campaign 1942-1945". Recently re-discovered photographs of the bloody Italian Campaign that remain mesmerizing in their immediacy and pathos, more than seventy years later. "Everything happened along the way, by chance, to Alfonso Carrara. Barely in his twenties, Carrara, the handsome and gifted son of Italian immigrants, had just moved to California from Chicago, where he had studied at the renowned Chicago Institute of Design. He was suddenly drafted into the Army to serve overseas. Arriving in Italy ahead of the Landing at Anzio, Carrara had the opportunity to witness, and document, the Allied troops' massive effort to dislodge German Nazi and Italian Fascist troops from Europe. Having issues with handling weapons, he will never use them even once, and will spend his time on the Italian Front wearing a camera instead of a weapon. History gave Carrara opportunities that a war reporter would have killed for. On one occasion in 1945, his commander asked him to photograph the bodies of a Fascist leader and his accomplices. It turned out to be the bodies of Il Duce Benito Mussolini, his lover Claretta Petacci, and Achille Starace, Secretary of the Fascist Party" (Publisher's blurb). Upon his return to the United States, Carrara boxed his photographs, forgot about them, and moved on to become an immensely successful and wealthy architect. He worked with Frank Lloyd Wright on the iconic Johnson Wax Building in Racine, Wisconsin. But as happenstance would have it, he will surely be remembered instead (Carrara died in 2012) for these stunning war photographs, a treasure trove of historic value and significance. An absolute "must-have" title for Alfonso Carrara and war photography collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Edition of 1000 copies. It is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on his Contribution by Paul Berlanga. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a valuable photographic document of the 20th century. As far as we know, this is only such signed copy of the Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: None of the copies was sold commercially by the Italian Cultural Institute. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with duotone plates. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALFONSO CARRARA TITLE IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 21191.

$US 80.00

Carroll, Patty (Photographer) & Various Contributions
Anonymous Women: Photographs By Patty Carroll

Imprint: Chicago, IL, Daylight Foundation, 2017
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 95 pages. Retrospective collection of draped female portraits. One of the most brilliant portraiture projects 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. A brilliant production by Patty Carroll: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with gilt titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Patty Carroll. Quotations from various iconic figures such as Virginia Woolf and Mahatma Gandhi. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Patty Carroll's "Anonymous Women". The full-fledged sequence that was first published as the Artist Book, "Anonymous Women Draped" (2012), the result of twenty, working years of meticulous preparation and fruitful realization. Deploys all of the conventional elements of portraiture, except for the most important one: The Face, which she covers completely. A breakthrough in contemporary portrait photography (the idea would not have worked as well or at all in any other medium). Carroll calls the work "un-portraits". Her project touches on the feminist themes of female domesticity and its effect on the individual's personal identity. Why, after all, do women in Islamic countries have to cover or hide their faces? Religious considerations aside, the point is surely to deny them their individual identity. Patty Carroll sees a similar phenomenon working, more subtly and insidiously, in contemporary Western societies: "The work stems from my obsession with the idea of home: What it means, where it is, and what it feels and looks like. Sometimes, the home can be a place to hide in or where you silently go about chores that nobody ever notices. It can be a place of contemplation and mystery, myth, or a familiar place to go, but also a place where personal psycho-dramas get played out. I began to think about the obsession we have with The Home, but in particular, women and home. It's like men and cars. Women become obsessed with the home. The drapery pictures are about becoming the dwelling itself, the home as engulfing the person, it being a part of you, and you being a part of it. You don't need to see the face in order to appreciate these personalities" (Patty Carroll). No, of course not, if one's personality is self-defined by the home. An absolute "must-have" title for Patty Carroll collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Patty Carroll. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary art photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First 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 full-page color plates. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PATTY CARROLL AND LALLA ESSAYDI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1942084196.

Stock number: 21587. ISBN: 1942084196

$US 50.00

Carroll, Patty (Photographer) & Codrescu, Andrei (Contributor)
The World Of Elvis Tribute Artists

Imprint: Chicago, IL, Living The Life, Llc/Verve Editions, 2005
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 100 pages. Retrospective collection of color photographs. One of the most engaging and fascinating books on American and global pop culture 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 Verve Editions: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Patty Carroll. Essay by Andrei Codrescu, one of the most brilliant American critics of our time. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Patty Carroll's "The World of Elvis Tribute Artists". Elvis lives! "An in-depth exploration of the worldwide phenomenon of Elvis impersonators. There are between 10, 000 and 30, 000 people who are Elvis impersonators in the world. For more than ten years, Patty Carroll travelled across the globe to photograph over 300 of them. The fruit of the singular obsession of this self-described normal person is a fabulously funny, totally engrossing portrayal of a slice of life of consuming interest to millions of people throughout the world. A vivid, exciting, richly colorful series of portraits of Elvis impersonators in full costume, fully believing that they have been re-created as The King. The portraits are presented together with commentaries and written responses about themselves and their relation to Elvis drawn from interviews by the photographer. Represents the ultimate realization of years of researching, photographing, interviewing, talking, listening, hanging out, observing, and being totally immersed in the world of Elvis impersonators. There is no end in sight for this amazing culture: It continues to expand too fast to ever really document them all. The impersonators are a diverse, un-regulated, self-obsessed, and self-promoting group of people who all have the same fantasy of being Elvis. These men, women, and children range in age, size, girth, nationality, race, religion, and profession, and include every type of person imaginable. Impersonators are at the core of a worldwide phenomenon in which Elvis Presley continues to be adored, admired, and imitated since his death in 1977" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Elvis and Patty Carroll collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed and inscribed in black pen by the photographer: "TCB, Patty Carroll". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. TCB stands for "Taking Care of Business". This title is a contemporary photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PATTY CARROLL AND LALLA ESSAYDI TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0966035291.

Stock number: 21590. ISBN: 0966035291

$US 50.00

Cartagena, Alejandro (Photographer) & McDonald, Jessica (Contributor)
Carpoolers: The Deluxe Edition

Imprint: Baja, Mexico, Alejandro Cartagena Studios, 2016
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 112 pages. Artist Book. Collection of color photographs. One of the most beautiful photography books of our time. Deluxe "Clamshell Box" Edition of 30 numbered, dated, and signed copies. Should not be confused with either the first or second regular trade editions. The Deluxe Edition is now rare. A stunningly beautiful production by Alejandro Cartagena: Oversize-volume format. Plain cardboard covers with exposed spine, as issued. Photographs by Alejandro Cartagena. Essay by Jessica McDonald. The book itself is enclosed in integral plastic wrappers that are printed in front. Two original 8 X 12 inch color prints, one tipped into the clamshell box, the other loose within. Assorted Souvenir Items created by the artist/photographer enclosed. Red cloth clamshell box with black titles embossed on the cover. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Mexico to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its most collectible Deluxe Edition format, Alejandro Cartagena's "Carpoolers". His masterpiece. "Asks us to consider the political and economic structures that move energy, labor, and wealth throughout Mexico. Conceptualized as one layer of a lifelong project, Cartagena's Carpoolers Series makes visible one more space between major points in the urban power grid" (Publisher's blurb). "The hypnotic repetitive beginning, respectful to the series as we've known it so far, slowly gets more and more interrupted by frames and pieces of frames that drive you into a new kind of hypnotic state, but this time almost as if you were inside the car yourself looking at and experiencing the road, and not from above anymore" (Cristina De Middel). "I shoot from a pedestrian overpass that looks over the cars coming out of a small tunnel and 'predict' which trucks might have people in the back. These images present a not-so-subtle observation of overgrowth issues in Mexico, where suburbs are being built in faraway lands, far from the urban centers, causing greater commutes and consumption of gas" (Alejandro Cartagena). An absolute "must-have" title for Alejandro Cartagena collectors. This is a copy of the Deluxe "Clamshell Box" Edition, indicated/numbered as such on the Back Cover. It is very prominently and beautifully signed and dated (in the year of publication) in black ink-pen by the photographer: "Alejandro Cartagena 2016". It is signed directly on the Back Cover itself, not on a tipped-in page. It comes with two original 8 X 12 inch color prints that are also very prominently and beautifully numbered (the numbers match that of the book's), dated, and signed on verso by the artist/photographer. This title is a great photography book. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Deluxe Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 110 color plates, 2 original color prints. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ALEJANDRO CARTAGENA TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0692226605.

Stock number: 21515. ISBN: 0692226605

$US 1,000.00

Carter, William (Photographer) & Naef, Winston (Contributor)
Illuminations: Photographs By William Carter

Imprint: San Francisco, CA, Editions One, 1996
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 120 pages. Retrospective collection of female nudes. One of the most beautiful erotic art photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition. 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 Editions One: Oversize-volume format. Gray cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by William Carter. Essay by Winston Naef, Curator of Photography, Getty Museum Los Angeles. Printed in tritone 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. Presents William Carter's "Illuminations". Luminous female nudes, masterly studies in chiaroscuro, celebrations of the sinuous female form. "Capping the author's 35-year career, this work is both a culmination and a starlingly fresh departure. Printed on sumptuous paper by state-of-the-art press in Florence, Italy, at once a highly fresh, personal view of the human body, and an affirmation of many civilizations' deeply held values of form and beauty" (Publisher's blurb). "One reason I photograph the nude is that I am concerned with universals. Clothing is specific to time and place. The body is not. In the fifteen years I needed to bring this book to fruition, the camera became, for me, a kind of third eye: An open gateway beween the inner and the outer, my models and my perceptions of them" (William Carter). An absolute "must-have" title for William Carter collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by William Carter. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It is signed on top of the page, making it even more prominent. This title is a contemporary erotic art photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with tritone plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of the female nude of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER WILLIAM CARTER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1881529150.

Stock number: 21196. ISBN: 1881529150

$US 100.00

Cartier-Bresson, Henri; Davidson, Bruce; Koudelka, Josef; Meiselas, Susan; Peress, Gilles & Others
In Our Time: The World As Seen By Magnum Photographers

Imprint: New York City, NY, The American Federation Of Arts, 1989
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 460 pages. Retrospective Monograph. One of the most important and most beautiful photography books of the 20th century. The true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are many. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Robert Delpire: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by various Magnum contributors, a Who's Who of photographic history. Text by William Manchester, the great American journalist, and other contributors. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United Kingdom 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 American Federation of Arts Minneapolis in 1989. The show travelled on throughout the world. Presents "In Our Time: The World As Seen By Magnum Photographers". The Golden Age of photojournalism summed up in one volume: The heartbreaking, the heroic, the pathetic, the tragic, THE story of our shared humanity. Spanning the momentous period called the 20th century, "In Our Time" was a blockbuster that brought together Magnum's historically significant and iconic photographs, images synonymous with photography itself, including Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Bruce Davidson, Elliott Erwitt, Leonard Freed, Burt Glinn, Philip Jones Griffiths, Josef Koudelka, Hiroji Kubota, Susan Meiselas, Gilles Peress, Dennis Stock, and Alex Webb, among others. "Each picture is a comment upon our experience of the twentieth century. A repository of the masterpieces of photography" (Publisher's blurb). "This stirring volume of extraordinary photographs, presenting our times in all their elegance, squalor, courage, hope, betrayal, agony, sacrifice, heroism, and majesty, is as unsparing of its audience as it was unsparing of its photographers" (William Manchester). Magnum's recent resurgence inescapably harks back to this foundational collection. An absolute "must-have" title for Magnum and photography book collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by (from top to bottom) : Leonard Freed, Hiroji Kubota, Elliott Erwitt, Philip Jones Griffiths, Josef Koudelka, Bruce Davidson, Burt Glinn, Thomas Hoepker, Kryn Taconis, Richard Kalvar, Eugene Richards, Gilles Peress, and Susan Meiselas. They signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a great photography book. As far as we know, this is the only such multi-signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: The thirteen photographer-signatories are some of the greatest names in photography today, perhaps of all time, and a figure like Philip Jones Griffiths is a most elusive signature at best. Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This copy was buried in storage by a dedicated collector for more than thirty years (as of 2019), and has no discernible flaws. A rare multi-signed copy thus. 300 plates. Some of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 0393027678.

Stock number: 21650. ISBN: 0393027678

$US 2,000.00

Carucci, Elinor (Photographer) & Prose, Francine (Contributor)
Mother

Imprint: Munich, Germany, Prestel Verlag, 2013
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 145 pages. Collection of color photographs that add up to a visual narrative. 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. A brilliant production by Elinor Carucci and Prestel Verlag: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Elinor Carucci. Essay by the great American novelist Francine Prose. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Elinor Carucci's "Mother". The sequel to her brilliant debut. "When Elinor Carucci gave birth to her twins, she discovered the highs and lows that are part of every new mother's experience. A photographer accustomed to documenting very intimate moments, Carucci used her camera to deal with the maelstrom of emotions. She followed her babies as they grew into toddlers, then children, with their own complex relationships. Carucci's dramatic use of light and shadow and her uncanny ability to capture the freedom with which children express themselves imbue her images with a marvelous clarity. By turns touching, surprising, sensual, joyful, and unflinching, these striking pictures convey moments that are at once personal and universal" (Publisher's blurb). "Images that seem new no matter how well we may think we know the experiences and feelings they depict. Nothing, we feel, is left out" (Francine Prose). The father, this time, is nowhere to be seen. Carucci is too shrewd to have overlooked Eran (he does appear in two photographs, as an oblique presence). He was the intriguing, attractive figure in "Closer", which she did not call "Wife" precisely because it was about him. She is essentially affirming what people often say about marriage: First, the focus of the woman's attention is the husband. But once the children come, the focus dramatically shifts. "Mother" is best appreciated together with "Closer" (the books are designed as companion volumes). An absolute "must-have" title for Elinor Carucci collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Elinor Carucci. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First 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. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ELINOR CARUCCI AND EILEEN COWIN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3791348159.

Stock number: 19796. ISBN: 3791348159

$US 200.00

Cerejido, Elizabeth (Artist/Photographer) & Pau-Llosa, Ricardo (Contributor)
Escucho/i Listen: Nudes By Elizabeth Cerejido

Imprint: Boca Raton, FL, Boca Raton Museum Of Art, 1999
Edition: First Edition

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 60 pages. Exhibition Catalog, presented as an Artist Book. Collection of female nudes. One of the most beautiful erotic art photography books of our time. The first and only edition. Published in a tiny print run as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Elizabeth Cerejido: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover, as issued. Photographs by Elizabeth Cerejido. Essay by Ricardo Pau-Llosa. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition of the same name held at the Boca Raton Museum of Art in 1999. Presents, in a lovely collectible format, Elizabeth Cerejido's "Escucho"/"I Listen". A darkly beautiful collection of female nudes. "The body is an ear. It is not the heart but the organ of sound that rules over feelings and will. Birth, sex, and death - our primal states of nakedness - function as the iconic turning points for self-knowledge and actualization. Cerejido recovers the image of the nude in ways that owe more to music, dance, and theater than they do to the visual arts. She catches the model on the way to a pose or between congealing stances. For all of Cerejido's exquisite formal sense and impeccable taste, her nudes are not about the Minimalist poetry of the figure. Instead, they are the dreamt paradigm of Eros, divested of heat and trembling" (Ricardo Pau-Llosa). For Cerejido (as for most major artists and photographers in the Western tradition) : Eros is Woman. She incarnates sex-as-reality, sex-as-ideal, sex-as-beauty, and sex-as-power. An absolute "must-have" title for Elizabeth Cerejido collectors. This title is a contemporary erotic art photography classic. 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. 30 plates. One of the most brilliant American artist/photographers of the female nude of our time. A fine copy. .

Stock number: 19362.

$US 20.00

Chabon, Michael
The Mysteries Of Pittsburgh: The Uncorrected Proof

Imprint: New York City, NY, William Morrow & Company, 1988
Edition: First Edition
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 287 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most sensational literary debuts of our time. Advance Reader's Copy/Uncorrected Proof. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by Michael Chabon. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Michael Chabon's "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh". A national (and international) bestseller that immediately established the very young author as a major new voice in American literature. A "coming-of-age" story, which seems inevitably and inescapably every young writer's subject, handled by Michael Chabon with grace and empathy, it demonstrates the author's immense talent, one that would be triumphantly fulfilled in his masterpiece, "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Chabon collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Michael Chabon. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page or bookplate. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Program, "Michael Chabon", issued to celebrate the publication of "The Yiddish Policemen's Union". The signature was obtained during the event. The Advance Reader's Copy/Uncorrected Proof was not sold commercially and distributed only to the trade. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the Advance Reader's Copy/Uncorrected Proof 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. Selected by The New Yorker Magazine as one of "Twenty Writers for the 21st Century". Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay". One of the finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MICHAEL CHABON TITLES IN OUR CATALOG).

Stock number: 11873.

$US 30.00

Chamlee, Paula (Photographer) & Jussim, Estelle (Contributor)
Natural Connections: Photographs By Paula Chamlee: The Limited Edition

Imprint: Revere, PA, Lodima Press, 1994
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback , With Dust Jacket
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 112 pages. The photographer's breakthrough debut collection. One of the finest landscape photography books of the last decade of the 20th century. Limited Slipcased Edition of 250 numbered and signed copies. Superior to and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. The Limited Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Paula Chamlee and P. M. Design Studios: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 3 pounds. Pale gray cloth boards with silver titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Paula Chamlee, accompanied by selections from her journals. Essay, "The Evocative Art of Paula Chamlee", by Estelle Jussim, the renowned art historian and critic. Red cloth slipcase with silver titles embossed on one side. Printed using the patented laser "Silver-Lit Tones", the first time ever the process has been used in the reproduction of photographs, in the United States to the highest standards. Every detail of production was supervised by the photographer. Produced to the exacting standards that are a hallmark of Lodima Press, this monograph reproduces Chamlee's contact prints with astounding fidelity to the delicacy and luminosity of the original photographs. In pictorial DJ with white titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Paula Chamlee's "Natural Connections". The photographer's series of landscape photographs in the classic, large-scale tradition of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, one of very few contemporary female (or male) photographers to attempt such an ambitious project. "She extends the tradition in photographs that are both sensuous and lyrical yet subtle and complex. Chamlee's beautiful and arresting photographs transcend their recognizable subject matter while remaining deeply rooted in her profound connection to the natural world" (Publisher's blurb). Paula Chamlee began her career as a painter before turning exclusively to photography. It is no wonder then that these landscapes are truly monumental, showing "the intensity of her vision, which reverberates like solemn and glorious music" (Estelle Jussim). An absolute "must-have" title for Paula Chamlee collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Slipcased Edition of 250 numbered and signed copies, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page (Number 148). It is very prominently and beautifully numbered and signed in black pen by Paula Chamlee. This title is a late-modern photography classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 44 plates. One of the finest American photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER PAULA CHAMLEE AND MICHAEL A. SMITH TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0960564675.

Stock number: 8479. ISBN: 0960564675

$US 200.00

Chang, Chien-Chi (Photographer) & Khan, Anna-Patricia (Editor)
Jet Lag: Photographs By Chien-chi Chang

Imprint: Ostfildern, Germany, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2015
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardback
Inscription: Signed, inscribed or annotated

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 116 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most brilliant 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 Chien-Chi Chang: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with white titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text ("On The Road") by Chien-Chi Chang. Edited by Anna-Patricia Khan. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Chien-Chi Chang's "Jet Lag". Brilliant images of profoundly enervated globalization. "Planes, beds, and flickering screens provide the only continuity. There is little human warmth, except the body heat of the passenger in the next seat and the sounds coming through the wall from the adjacent room. Weaves together a visual summation documenting the mundane moments and ultimate disconnection during life on the road. For those who travel a lot, the world becomes a steel-and-concrete construct of interchangeable flight crews, hotel rooms, and check-in counters. In this jet-setting life, the most important thing is that the power adapter fits. Reality is less a touchstone than a distraction: The crucial space is 'between' " (Publisher's blurb). Today is Monday, so this must be Zurich: The Taiwanese-born, Austria-based Chien-Chi Chang is a rigorous Minimalist who creates unforgettable images. Just as important, he makes some of the most beautiful photobooks being published today. An absolute "must-have" title for Chien-Chi Chang collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed and inscribed in both Chinese characters and Roman alphabet ("English") in black pen-marker on the title page by Chien-Chi Chang. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It is also magnificently marked throughout the page with passport stamps from all over the world by the photographer. Each signed copy is one-of-a-kind, uniquely stamped and personally inscribed to each recipient by the photographer. This title is a contemporary photography book classic. As far as we know, this is the only such signed and stamped copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 120 plates. Chien-Chi Chang's "The Chain" is widely regarded as one of the greatest photography books of our time. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 3775740252.

Stock number: 20488. ISBN: 3775740252

$US 200.00

Chen, Da
Brothers

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

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 422 pages. The author's debut 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 Da Chen's "Brothers". Drawing on his experiences growing up during the Cultural Revolution. Da Chen has written a brilliant and moving novel about two brothers caught in the maelstrom of the momentous changes that have buffeted China. "Chen's inventive and sprawling family saga eloquently recreates a time of enormous upheaval" (Publishers Weekly). An absolute "must-have" title for Da Chen collectors. This copy is magnificently signed and inscribed in black-ink brush, Chinese calligraphy style, on the front free endpaper by Da Chen. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It fills up the whole page. He also stamped it with his red seal. Da Chen wrote in black pen the word "Happiness", a Chinese New Year wish, underneath and signed it in Roman alphabet. We have seen few signed and inscribed copies that are as beautiful as Da Chen's books. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed and inscribed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DA CHEN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1400097282.

Stock number: 10922. ISBN: 1400097282

$US 40.00

Chen, Da
Brothers

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

First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 422 pages. The author's debut 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 Da Chen's "Brothers". Drawing on his experiences growing up during the Cultural Revolution. Da Chen has written a brilliant and moving novel about two brothers caught in the maelstrom of the momentous changes that have buffeted China. "Chen's inventive and sprawling family saga eloquently recreates a time of enormous upheaval" (Publishers Weekly). An absolute "must-have" title for Da Chen collectors. This copy is magnificently signed and inscribed in black-ink brush, Chinese calligraphy style, on the front free endpaper by Da Chen. It fills up the whole page. He also stamped it with his red seal. Da Chen wrote in black pen the words "Good fortune", a Chinese New Year wish, underneath and signed it in Roman alphabet. We have seen few signed and inscribed copies that are as beautiful as Da Chen's books. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed and inscribed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DA CHEN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1400097282.

Stock number: 11057. ISBN: 1400097282

$US 40.00