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Imprint: Portland, Oregon, Howard Henry Chen Studios, 2007 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 25 pages. Artist Portfolio. Entirely created and hand-made by the photographer in an edition of one. There is no ISBN. The Artist Portfolio is the only one of its kind that exists. Presents, in a handmade original, Howard Henry Chen's "Multiple Entry Visa". A sequence of images that have been exhibited but have yet to be collected and published in book form. They are photographs taken in Vietnam, taken while the Vietnamese-American photographer was visiting family who stayed after the end of the American War (Chen was among the very last to escape, in the dramatic American evacuation of Saigon in 1975). "Chen's preconceptions of which Vietnamese landscapes should have the most resonance evolved as he realized that those ideas were formed by faulty memories and partial histories. This tension of trying to imagine (or remember) Vietnam as a bloody battlefield, an Orientalist's fantasia, or a traveler's playground fascinated the artist, especially as almost all of the images are representations of manufactured fictions anyway: Surreal theme parks inspired by native mythologies or solemnly contrived, propagandized war monuments or places that portray a Vietnamese interpretation of Western culture's view of itself: Australian-designed, EU-financed water parks cool down polyglot expat kids as they splash together on weekends. Ochre-hued walls of Indochine-style buildings never get painted, by design. Rusty US Army helicopters put up as trophies are snubbed by those they are meant to awe. Once-neglected temple ruins of the Cham are re-built brick-by-brick. Monuments of an ancien regime have morphed into magnets for middle-class Chinese tourists from Shenzhen" (Howard Henry Chen). Chen uses the panoramic shot as his primary visual trope. It's one very wide-angle shot that he then breaks up into triptychs or diptychs. The effect is brilliant, as the broken-up pieces/fragments of the whole image stand on their own while also remaining an integral part of a coherent whole. An absolute "must-have" portfolio for Howard Henry Chen collectors. This Artist Portfolio is one-of-a-kind. As far as we know, it is the only piece the photographer ever made (in lieu of a full-fledged book of his work). A rare portfolio-piece thus. Lavishly illustrated with panoramic color plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine collectible piece. . Stock number: 19653.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, 2002 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 307 pages. The author's second memoir. The sequel to "Colors of The Mountain" and the second title in a projected trilogy. 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 "Sounds of The River". Mesmerizing sounds. Da Chen won a full scholarship to Columbia University Law School and had a successful Wall Street practice. He gave up the law to become a writer, and while he is a master of both Mandarin and English, he writes exclusively (like Ha Jin) in English. He is also a renowned calligrapher and classical flutist. In short, he is a genius. "16-year-old Da Chen moves to Beijing to study English. The book's character studies and small moments of triumph and defeat do most of the narrative work: The amazement of the other students at Chen's deep tan from working in the fields; the serious professor who teaches the class the multiple uses of the word 'fuck'; a Buddhist monk who surreptitiously loves the theater; a friend who introduces high heels, torn T-shirts, and jeans to Beijing. Chen delicately weaves his own personal story with that of the Cultural Revolution" (Publisher's blurb). Da Chen has since published a "kung-fu" adventure novella, "Wandering Warrior", and his first novel, "Brothers", to considerable acclaim. An absolute "must-have" title for Da Chen collectors. This copy is magnificently signed and inscribed in black-ink brush, Chinese calligraphy style, by Da Chen. He also stamped it with his red seal. Da Chen also signed, placed, and dated (in the month and year of publication) and inscribed the copy in black pen on the front pastedown: "Good Health, Da Chen, 3/8/02 Chicago". "Good Health" is a sly reference to the unhealthy band of his youth, whose kindness he never forgot. We have seen very few signed and inscribed copies that are as beautiful as Da Chen's books. This title is a contemporary 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. 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 finest American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER DA CHEN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0060199253. Stock number: 10081. ISBN: 0060199253
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Ecco Press, 2013 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 325 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. One of the most important literary debuts of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Bill Cheng's "Southern Cross The Dog". Quirkily titled, epically evoked, beautifully written. "The bonds between three childhood friends are upended by the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. In its aftermath, one young man must choose between the lure of the future and the claims of the past. Having lost virtually everything in the fearsome storm - home, family, first love - Robert Chatham embarks on an odyssey that takes him through the Deep South. Teeming with language that renders both the savage beauty and complex humanity of our shared past, a tour-de-force that heralds the arrival of a major new voice" (Publisher's blurb). Despite its accessible prose, it is a demanding (but rewarding) read. Hailed by critics as our "Southern Gothic" novelist, the successor to Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, and Cormac McCarthy; the only other contemporary writer of comparable ambition and stature is Philipp Meyer ("American Rust"). An absolute "must-have" title for Bill Cheng collectors. This copy is very densely and beautifully signed, dated (shortly after publication), and inscribed ("lined") in black ink-pen on the title page by the author: "5/20/13 'I look on you and I'm the one who has been left behind. Sometimes I can glimpse the world in which you live. It's a place better than this one - where our sons still live, and we are young, and your husband is a better man, and not this damned fool beside you, holding out his nigger heart'. Bill Cheng". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is the only such signed, post-publication dated, and inscribed ("lined") copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American novelists of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0062225006. Stock number: 20294. ISBN: 0062225006
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Imprint: Seoul, Korea, Beebong Publishing Company, 2010 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 155 pages. Collection of color photographs, presented as an Artist Book. One of the most dazzling and moving photographic projects 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 Monica Cheon: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles (in English and Korean) on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Monica Cheon. Essay (in the English original and its Korean translation) by Jean Caslin. Text by various contributors. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Seoul, Korea to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Monica Cheon's "Mask, Unmask". One of the most visually stunning photographic projects of our time. All of her subjects are wearing 900-year-old Korean ritual masks, whose place and significance in the Korean universe is all-encompassing. "A spiritual journey that connects Monica Cheon's experiences of myth, vision, and the natural world. Literal and metaphorical edges are the basis of her work, as she looks for the opening of the veil between space and time. Her luminous photographs are lyrical and poetic. She creates passionate, soulful art that is authentic and inspired. What begins as a personal journey for the artist becomes a universal experience for her viewer. It's as if she's unleashing the human imagination to envision a primordial landscape before recorded time" (Jean Caslin). The "veil between space and time" = The Mask. "Unmasked", that is, released and re-vitalized, by Monica Cheon's artistic transmutation of a great people's ancient history. An absolute "must-have" title for Monica Cheon collectors. This title is a contemporary photography book classic. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 8937603772. Stock number: 19652. ISBN: 8937603772
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Imprint: Cambridge, Massachusetts, Human Rights Watch, 2015 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Noam Chomsky collectible item. A pristine Souvenir Color Photograph of the author, signed by Noam Chomsky. The print measures 5.5 X 8.5 inches. It is laid into a protective plastic sheet that has the publisher's paper board backing. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Noam Chomsky's Souvenir Color Photograph. A formal portrait of the greatest linguist of our time, taken in his personal library, and released for publicity purposes. A thinker who is also a major radical voice in American and global politics, Chomsky is a major figure of Analytic Philosophy and one of the founders of the field of cognitive science. Based at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since 1955, where he is Institute Professor Emeritus, he is the author of over 100 books. Like him or not (it will always be a hung jury), he is the iconic American intellectual figure of our time. An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Noam Chomsky collectors. This Souvenir Color Photograph is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by Noam Chomsky. It is signed directly on the print itself, not on a tipped-in page. As far as we know, this is the only such signed color photograph available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed item thus. One of the greatest thinkers of our time. A fine item. . Stock number: 21472.
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Imprint: La Jolla, California, La Jolla Museum Of Contemporary Art, 1981 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 145 pages. Exhibition Monograph. Limited Edition of 5000 copies. The first and only edition. Published as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Christo: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Art by Christo. They are his original drawings for planned as well as realized projects throughout the world. Essay by Jan van der Marck. 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 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art from November, 1981 through January, 1982. Presents "Christo: Collection On Loan From The Rothschild Bank AG Zurich". The latter being one of the great Conceptual installation artist's earliest and most dedicated supporters/collectors. A comprehensive and absorbing overview of various "wrap" installation projects, as conceived through the meticulous sketch-designs by Christo Vladimirov Javacheff of each project, all of them eventually executed and realized in indispensable collaboration with his wife, Jeanne-Claude, and their indefatigable team of artists, engineers, and construction workers. The "wrap", their monomaniacal, signature technique/medium was also their statement, their "medium-is-the-message" way of "transforming common objects and places into strange and evocative presences. Christo studied the way the Old Masters used drapery to simultaneously conceal and reveal the human form" (Calvin Tomkins). Landscape projects which have moved and also caused quite a stir worldwide are represented here, from original sketches to finished project. Apart from securing government funding for their enormous projects, Christo sold Limited Edition prints of his original sketches - now very valuable - to raise funds. Some of these sketches have commanded the highest prices among collectors; others are in Permanent Collections of major museums, and of course, the legendary Rothschild Swiss bank. Christo's masterly draftsmanship is stunning, but is understandably overshadowed by the projects themselves. Because the finished work is, by design, ephemeral (once installed, they are viewable for a limited, "one-time-only" period), site-specific (you have to be there to see it, often aerially), and destructible (nothing is ever preserved after the event), what we do have left for posterity are these sketches and Wolfgang Volz's photographs: The concept and the record. An absolute "must-have" title for Christo collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in brown pen-marker on the title page by Christo. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. This is one of few such signed copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws because it is a fragile softcover original only. A rare signed copy thus. 75 plates. One of the most brilliant artists of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER CHRISTO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 22031.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1981 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 104 pages. Book-length account on the project as a "work in progress". The true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the 2004 Reissued Facsimile Edition (with the same ISBN) and the book on the completed project. Published in a small and limited one-time-only print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Christo: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Art by Christo. They are his original drawings for the planned project BEFORE its actual realization. Interspersed with ground-level and aerial photographs by Wolfgang Volz of Central Park. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In publisher's original plastic wrappers. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Christo: The Gates: Project For Central Park, New York City". Their most ambitious masterpiece, still a "work in progress" at the time of publication. The now-legendary "wrap" installation project, as conceived through the meticulous sketch-designs by Christo Vladimirov Javacheff. "First conceived in 1979, Christo and Jeanne-Claude's vision of 7500 gates, each of them sixteen feet high, that tread Central Park's twenty-three miles of footpaths, will transform Central Park. Orange saffron fabric panels will hang above the ground blowing in the wind and delighting the public walking beneath with a warm glow of translucent color and free-floating grace. The project will remain for sixteen days" (Publisher's blurb). The "wrap", their monomaniacal, signature technique/medium was also their statement, their "medium-is-the-message" way of "transforming common objects and places into strange and evocative presences. Christo studied the way the Old Masters used drapery to simultaneously conceal and reveal the human form" (Calvin Tomkins). Christo's masterly draftsmanship is stunning, but is understandably overshadowed by the projects themselves. Because the finished work is, by design, ephemeral (once installed, they are viewable for a limited, "one-time-only" period), site-specific (you have to be there to see it, often aerially), and destructible (nothing is ever preserved after the event), what we do have left for posterity are these sketches and Wolfgang Volz's photographs: The concept and the record. An absolute "must-have" title for Christo collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in orange pen-marker on the title page by Christo and Jeanne-Claude. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The orange pen is an exact color match of "The Gates" saffron fabric material. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online, is still in the publisher's original plastic wrappers, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Precedes and should NOT be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the 2003 Reissued Facsimile Edition (with the same ISBN) and the book on the completed project. A rare signed copy thus. 38 color plates. Two of the most brilliant artists of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER CHRISTO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0883630036. Stock number: 22033. ISBN: 0883630036
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Imprint: Rockford, IL, Valparaiso University Press/University Of Illinois Press, 2009 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 160 pages. Retrospective collection of black-and-white photographs. One of the most important photographic documents of an American place in our time. Review Copy. Review Material 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 that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. The book is very beautifully produced, with black cloth boards, full-page photographic plates by Gary Cialdella, and illuminating Essays by various contributors. Printed in tritone on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Gary Cialdella's "The Calumet Region: An American Place". "A series of black-and-white images by an insightful observer of Northwest Indiana's industrial/residential landscape". "A professional architectural photographer, fine artist, educator, and historian, Gary Cialdella found himself drawn to the region of his youth for a photographic exploration that has lasted more than twenty years, and that has resulted in hundreds of rich and complex works. Those images appear in this book, reflecting the artist's sensitive, sustained vision and the changes the region itself has experienced through economic shifts and the general effects of time. Examines this heavily industrialized area extending from South of Chicago to the Northwest corner of Indiana, an area of the United States that is often overlooked, but is vitally important to the country's history: Steel mills, tank farms, and refineries coexist with neighborhood houses in the artist's beautifully composed pieces, which please the eye with their full tonal range and crisp focus. Cialdella himself provides descriptions and explanations of his working methods, sources of inspiration, and life-experiences to add even greater richness to his images. Essays by Gregg Hertzlieb and John Ruff reflect on Cialdella's work as the definitive photographic treatment of the region's landscape. Offers an unforgettable portrait of a place that impresses with its strength and that moves us with the poignancy of its struggle" (Publisher's blurb). "Brings his soft, painterly eye to his subject, and provokes you to think beyond the forest, through the trees, into the banal and the oblique essence of decay" (Larry Fink). An absolute "must-have" title for Gary Cialdella collectors. This is a Review Copy. The Review Material is laid-in. This title is a contemporary photography 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. A scarce copy thus. 100 tritone plates. One of the finest American photographers of architecture, place, and landscape of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0252034562. Stock number: 20336. ISBN: 0252034562
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Imprint: New York City, NY, New York University Press, 2004 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 144 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs on subject. 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 Vincent Cianni and Yolanda Cuomo: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Vincent Cianni. Text by the photographer and various other skateboarders. DVD enclosed in its own slipcase that is pasted on the back endpaper. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated and uncoated stock papers to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Vincent Cianni's "We Skate Hardcore: Photographs From Brooklyn's Southside". Stunningly beautiful photographs of skateboarders at ease and in flight. "Reveals the determination, the dreams, and the rough-and-tumble story of urban Latino youth coming of age in New York City. Cianni spent eight years photographing and documenting a group of Latino skaters in the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Weaves together images of the skaters with their own words, showing the skaters' struggles to find a place to skate and build skate parks, and just to survive in the city. In the evacuated industrial spaces of their neighborhood, the skaters carve out places for enjoying their sport and showing off their skills, often thwarting established rules and authority figures in the process. Their stories are both personal and resonant. They reflect the trials and tenacity of a young urban culture as well as life in Southside's Latino community. Includes DVD with footage of the skaters featured in the book" (Publisher's blurb). "You see their desire for life, family, home, and community, to move forward, and to become someone. You also see in these bold as well as intimate portraits, scenes, action shots, and still-video sequences, the life, blood, spirit, conscience, pride, and zeal of young skaters" (Review Quotes). An absolute "must-have" title for Vincent Cianni collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Vincent Cianni. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white and color plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0814716423. Stock number: 21508. ISBN: 0814716423
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Arcade Publishing, 1991 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 256 pages. Retrospective collection of literary and philosophical essays and aphorisms. One of E. M. Cioran'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, particularly the 2012 Reissued Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents, in one brilliant volume, E. M. Cioran's "Aveux et anathemes" and "Exercices d'admiration" in definitive English translations by Richard Howard, the great American poet, who is widely regarded as chiefly responsible for successfully translating Cioran's voice, not just his words, into English. The author's seventh work to be translated into English, it is a most remarkable collection of twenty-two philosophical and literary essays. The otherwise "all over the place" aphorisms are grouped under individual essays although none of the latter is meant to cohere. In the crowded and competitive field called Modernism, E. M. Cioran stands out: The singular voice of rationality and Reason, on the one hand, and the Nietzschean spokesman of profound, not just residual, attachment to mysticism and myth, Un-Reason, on the other. "Portraits and evaluations of Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Paul Valery, and Mircea Eliade, among others. Insights on such topics as solitude, flattery, vanity, friendship, insomnia, music, mortality, God, and the allure of disillusion" (Publisher's blurb). The full-length essays, "Joseph De Maistre: An Essay On Reactionary Thought", the longest piece in the collection at 57 pages, and "Valery Facing His Idols", are nothing less than two of the greatest essays ever written in the history of Western philosophy and literature. They prove, if proof were still needed, that Cioran is indeed "one of the most delicate minds of real power" (Susan Sontag). The essay on De Maistre, first published ages ago, in 1957, will make anyone who patiently reads it understand BOTH the conservative ("Right") and progressive ("Left") ideologies of our time as no contemporary pundit, politician, or thinker, every single one of them pedestrian, blind partisans, ever could. An absolute "must-have" title for E. M. Cioran collectors. This title is a great collection. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing (1991) still available online and despite its imperfection (visible fading on the DJ spine, a publisher's flaw present in all copies) is still in especially fine condition: Every single internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws (abusive highlighting, underlining, and writing on inside pages that every Cioran book is subjected to) or are the 2012 Reissued Edition. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest writer-philosophers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER E. M. CIORAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1628729252. Stock number: 22355. ISBN: 1628729252
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking Press, 1975 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 181 pages. Retrospective collection of philosophical essays. E. M. Cioran's inaugural masterpiece in French. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. 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. The First Edition is now rare. Presents E. M. Cioran's "Precis de decomposition" in its definitive English translation by Richard Howard, the great American poet, who is widely regarded as chiefly responsible for successfully translating Cioran's voice, not just his words, into English. The author's fourth work to be translated into English, it was his "breakthrough" book in the French original. When it was first published (in 1949), it prompted comparison with Wittgenstein as the solitary philosopher par excellence (Wittgenstein, while writing in the Analytic tradition, has strong affinities with Cioran stylistically and temperamentally), placed him firmly in the Continental tradition of Nietzsche and Kierkegaard, and earned him unqualified admiration as a literary stylist of the first rank from no less than Nobel Laureate St-John Perse. The book is a breakthrough in the profoundest sense: It marks Cioran's full-fledged break from his native Romania, his serious involvement with Fascist Nationalism, and his engagement with Catholicism. More than any other modern thinker, Cioran described the intimate - and fatal - connection between religious and nationalist fanaticism, surely in part because of his own personal history. If we read this nearly-hundred-year-old book today, we will understand why we are living in the 21st century through the ugly resurgence of Fascism in Europe and America, seemingly unthinkable until it happened. In the crowded and competitive field called Modernism, E. M. Cioran stands out: The singular voice of rationality and Reason, on the one hand, and the Nietzschean spokesman of profound, not just residual, attachment to mysticism and myth, Un-Reason, on the other. There is no contemporary pundit, politician, or thinker, every single one of them pedestrian, blind partisans, who can be favorably compared to Cioran. An absolute "must-have" title for E. M. Cioran collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, placed, dated, and inscribed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by the poet/translator: "With the translator's salute, Richard Howard '96 NYC/Houston". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It is very prominently and beautifully signed again on the title page by Richard Howard. The recipient is named. This title is a great collection. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed, placed, dated, and inscribed copy of the First American Edition/First Printing (1975) available online and despite its imperfection (visible wear and closed tear on the DJ) is still in especially fine condition: Every single internal page is clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Richard Howard is widely regarded as chiefly responsible for successfully translating Cioran's voice, not just his words, into English. Copies available online have serious flaws (abusive highlighting, underlining, and writing on inside pages that every Cioran book is subjected to) or are subsequent editions, of which there are many. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the greatest writer-philosophers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER E. M. CIORAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670641227. Stock number: 22360. ISBN: 0670641227
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Imprint: Chicago, IL, University Of Chicago Press, 1995 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 128 pages. Book-length account on subject. One of E. M. Cioran's earliest and 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 by a University Press. The First Edition is now rare. Presents E. M. Cioran's "Lacrimi si sfinti" in a felicitous English translation. The philosopher's most valuable book in Romanian. "Inspired by Nietzsche's 'Beyond Good And Evil', Cioran searched for the origin of tears. He asked himself if saints could be the sources of our tears' better light" (Publisher's blurb). The seeds of Cioran in his full maturity (in French) were all planted in this ground-breaking book, including his seductive, gnomic voice, which one imitates at one's peril. In one of the most unusual philosophical quests on Western mysticism, Cioran sought to understand the essence of sainthood: That is, how a human being, "only human", can nevertheless renounce being human, which is the basis of his subsequent philosophy. In the crowded and competitive field called Modernism, E. M. Cioran stands out: The singular voice of rationality and Reason, on the one hand, and the Nietzschean spokesman of profound, not just residual, attachment to mysticism and myth, Un-Reason, on the other. There is no contemporary pundit, politician, or thinker, every single one of them pedestrian, blind partisans, who can be favorably compared to Cioran. An absolute "must-have" title for E. M. Cioran collectors. This title is a modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing (1995) still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws (abusive highlighting, underlining, and writing on inside pages that every Cioran book is subjected to) or are subsequent editions, of which there are several. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. One of the greatest writer-philosophers of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER E. M. CIORAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0226106721. Stock number: 22364. ISBN: 0226106721
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Self-Published By Larry Clark, 1987 Second Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 150 pages. Revised And Expanded Edition of the photographer's classic. One of the most important photography books of the 20th century. The Second "Revised And Expanded" Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. The Second Edition includes additional images that do not appear in the 1983 First Edition. Like the latter, it is also now rare. An austerely elegant production by Larry Clark: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial softcovers, whose front cover features the now-iconic image of a young naked couple having sex, and black titles on the spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Larry Clark. The book is presented in a scrapbook style with scrawled (instead of typeface) captions accompanying the photographs. The 27-page Diary, which recounts Clark's own wild adolescence, is appended at the end. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Meriden Gravure Printing in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Larry Clark's "Teenage Lust: An Autobiography". The definitive - and Clark's preferred - edition of the sequence of images about his second addiction: Sex. Includes thirteen additional pages, which were taken after the First Edition was published in 1983: The latter "seems incomplete to me. I prefer the second" (Larry Clark). His breakthrough, "Tulsa", about his and his friends' addiction to heroin, contains unflinching images of encounters with The Needle. "Teenage Lust" completes the picture of that experience. Its raw, erotic power was ahead of its time. More important, it remains just as powerful, if not even more so, in our Age of The Selfie, our sex-saturated culture. This is because what is finally most disturbing about Larry Clark's work is that all of his subjects are Americans who have opted out of or given up on the American Dream. His lasting contribution will always be to honor their choice rather than analyze, moralize about, or politicize it, in the cautionary manner of all other "legitimate" mainstream discourse, whether it be serious American literature, the human sciences (particularly sociology), or Hollywood pop culture. All of LC's subsequent works, including "Kids", "Another Day In Paradise", "Bully", "Ken Park", "Wassup Rockers", "Marfa Girl", and "The Smell of Us", come from this seminal collection. An absolute "must-have" title for Larry Clark collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the bottom corner of the title page, as is his custom, by Larry Clark. Impeccable Provenance: This copy once belonged to and came directly from Larry Clark. This title is a great photography book. This is one of few such signed copies of the Second "Revised And Expanded" 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 command as much as $3000 because the book is rare in any condition. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 101 plates. Larry Clark's "Tulsa" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". Both "Tulsa" and "Teenage Lust" were selected as two of the "Seminal Photography Books of the 20th Century" in the "Book of 101 Books". One of the most influential photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LARRY CLARK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ASIN B00071ZLGA. Stock number: 21537. ISBN: B00071ZLGA
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Imprint: Zurich, Switzerland, Scalo Publishers, 1995 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 175 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. The First Scalo 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 Larry Clark and Hans Werner Holzwarth: Oversize-volume format. Black hard boards with titles printed on spine, as issued. Photographs, photo-narratives, and photo-collages by Larry Clark. There is no text. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Zurich, Switzerland to the highest standards. In publisher's original shrinkwrap. In pictorial DJ with white titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Larry Clark's "The Perfect Childhood". The photographer's continuing obsession with the darker side of the young American male. Please note: Young = eighteen and older; all of the models who appear in Larry Clark's books are consenting adults. For Larry Clark, "childhood" is the recollection and representation of his troubled adolescence. "Larry Clark confronts us with lucid images of male sexuality and its equally creative and destructive impulses. Combines an overview of Clark's work ranging from collages and found images to photographs from his native Oklahoma in the late 1960's, with a new series of tender and erotic portraits of a skater, the latest incarnation of the mythical eternal youth Clark investigates and idolizes in his work. Creates one new work of art, overwhelming proof of the consistency of Clark's artistic vision. His work is a mirror for those strong enough to face the truth about growing up" (Publisher's blurb). What is often seen (and criticized) as Larry Clark's voyeuristic and sensationalistic depiction of youthful lives is the photographer's way of expressing his admiration for the path they have chosen, a path that will clearly not lead them to the American Dream. An absolute "must-have" title for Larry Clark collectors. This title is a contemporary photography classic. This is one of few copies of the First Scalo Edition/First Printing still available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare copy thus. 110 color, 48 duotone plates. Larry Clark's "Tulsa" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". Both "Tulsa" and "Teenage Lust" were selected as two of the "Seminal Photography Books of the 20th Century" in the "Book of 101 Books". One of the most influential photographers of our time. A flawless collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LARRY CLARK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 3931141128. Stock number: 18574. ISBN: 3931141128
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Imprint: London, England, J. W. Anderson, 2015 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 40 pages. Fashion Catalog, presented as an Artist Book. Collaboration between the director/photographer and the fashion and book designer arising from the former's eponymous film. The first and only edition. None of the copies was sold commercially. Made available in London only. There is no ISBN. The Catalog is now rare. A brilliant production by Larry Clark and Jonathan Anderson: Regular-sized volume format. Wraparound pictorial softcovers with white titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Film stills by Larry Clark. Fashion photographs by Jonathan Anderson. There is no text. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United Kingdom to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in a lovely collectible format, Larry Clark's and Jonathan Anderson's "The Smell of Us". Provocative film stills, of mostly nude and sexually explicit scenes, interspersed with color photographs of the actors, most of them fully dressed in the cult favorite J. W. Anderson Teen Wear. This is Jonathan Anderson's homage to Larry Clark and his film, "The Smell of Us", which he admires. The actors, who all appeared in LC's film, look cool in J. W. Anderson's popular street-inspired fashion, a good fit, as it were between Clark and Anderson. Produced and shot entirely in France, the film version was shown in limited release on January 15, 2015. Now that he has made it, LC regards the film retrospectively as the culmination of a trilogy that he began with "Kids" (1995) and continued with "Ken Park" (2002). Clark's films are the cinematic counterpart of his ground-breaking photography books, "Tulsa" (1971) and "Teenage Lust" (1983). "Visited Larry Clark today. He showed me The Smell Of Us. His new movie. Fucking masterpiece. MASTERPIECE" (Richard Prince). An absolute "must-have" title for Larry Clark collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of very few copies of the Fashion Catalog still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: None of the copies was sold commercially. All of the copies were available in London only. Copies available online command hundreds of dollars. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. Larry Clark's "Tulsa" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". Both "Tulsa" and "Teenage Lust" were selected as two of the "Seminal Photography Books of the 20th Century" in the "Book of 101 Books". One of the most influential photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LARRY CLARK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 21589.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Grove Press, 2000 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. Unpaginated. New Edition of the photographer's masterpiece. One of the most important photography books of the 20th century. Limited Slipcased Edition of 250 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with the Grove Press regular trade editions that were published simultaneously with it. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Grove Press: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs and Captions by Larry Clark. Original 10 X 8 inch photographic print laid-in. Matching black cloth slipcase. In publisher's original shrinkwrap. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Re-presents, in a Limited Edition format, Larry Clark's "Tulsa". Images of heroin addicts "shooting up" in a photobook that visually narrates, and as such, is perfect. Almost fifty years later, in our jaded time, they have lost none of their power to shock and disturb, and remain Clark's best work. The knowledge that nearly everyone in the book is dead (and they were all very young), with the notable exception of Larry Clark himself (who has said he may as well be dead, too), is heart-breaking. "Tulsa" 's influence has been immense: A ground-breaking book like Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" (1986) owes itself to "Tulsa", particularly the way Larry Clark captures a way of life that is anti-American in the deepest sense: A personal (therefore radical rather than merely political) rejection of the myth called the American Dream. "Once the needle goes in, it never comes out" (Larry Clark). An absolute "must-have" title for Larry Clark 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 black ink-pen by Larry Clark. Laid-in is an original 10 X 8 inch photographic print, also very prominently and beautifully numbered and signed in pencil on verso by the photographer. This title is a great photography book. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online, is still in the publisher's original shrinkwrap, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies of "Tulsa" available online command thousands of dollars even if they have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with duotone plates, 1 original print. Larry Clark's "Tulsa" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". Both "Tulsa" and "Teenage Lust" were selected as two of the "Seminal Photography Books of the 20th Century" in the "Book of 101 Books". One of the most influential photographers of our time. A flawless collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LARRY CLARK TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0802116787. Stock number: 20864. ISBN: 0802116787
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Atria Books / Simon & Schuster, 2005 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 163 pages. The author's second novel. Stanley Bennett Clay's finest achievement. 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 Stanley Bennett Clay's "In Search of Pretty Young Black Men". His erotic thriller. "An engaging novel that will have readers caught up from page one. Stanley Bennett Clay has a poetic way with words, and the erotic scenes are as steamy as they come. A lust-laced hallelujah" (Zane). Stanley Bennett Clay is best-known as a screenwriter and playwright. He adapted both "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" and "Looking For God" to enormous critical acclaim. His debut novel, "Diva", was a surprise bestseller. "In Search of Pretty Young Black Men" is his book on his adopted city, Los Angeles, where he has pretty much lived most of his writing life. It opens with a poignant quote from W. E. B. Dubois: "Los Angeles is wonderful. Nowhere in the United States is the Negro so well and beautifully housed nor the average efficiency and intelligence in the colored population so high. Out here, there would seem to be no limit to your opportunities, your possibilites" (W. E. B. Dubois). Clay depicts Los Angeles as few others have: He does not leave out any of the steamiest, sleaziest, and dirtiest details, and the all-consuming American Dream that has always driven them. Anyone who wants to understand the sex appeal of the Black Stud to white women, black women, and white men should read this "unputdownable" book. Anyone who simply wants a good read, ditto. An absolute "must-have" title for Stanley Bennett Clay collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Stanley Bennett Clay. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Bennett Clay's signature is one of the most elaborately beautiful we have ever seen. This title is now collectible. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0743497155. Stock number: 8107. ISBN: 0743497155
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Imprint: Milan, Italy, Edizione Charta, 2011 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 240 pages. Retrospective collection of art. Now considered a classic. The true 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. "Autographed Copy" white sticker pasted in front. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Francesco Clemente and Charta: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Art by Francesco Clemente. Text by Salman Rushdie. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Milan, Italy to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Francesco Clemente's "Made In India". His art, as seen from the vantage point of the influence of Indian art and culture. "Clemente first visited India in 1973 and was immediately enchanted by its chaotic blend of modernity and antiquity. In the country's larger cities like New Delhi and Madras, Hindu iconography joins in the larger visual cacophony of advertisement posters and hoardings found on temple exteriors, wayside shrines, cinema houses, shops, restaurants, buses, and taxis, proliferating in an irreverent bombardment of spirituality and commerce. Reaches deep into Indian religious art and its extraordinary presence in urban visual culture. His art is profoundly characterized by this resource as well as by other spiritual traditions flourishing in India. Compiles hundreds of drawings, collages, and notebooks made over the past few decades, revealing Clemente's ever-active, image-hungry eye, and conveying the great wealth of the iconographic archive upon which his work draws" (Publisher's blurb). Francesco Clemente first came to prominence in the 1970's in the context of the so-called Terrorist Generation ("Transvanguardia"). There was a crisis of late-capitalism (and of Western values themselves), which informed such major ideas in Clemente's work as "the fragmentation of the self" and "the refutation of reason by art". By his own account, Clemente learned to trust geography ("place") over history ("time"), in contrast with almost all other Italian Masters of his time and of course, the past. His highly personal iconography is stamped by a peripatetic life continually spent in Madras, New York, Rome, New Dehli, Srinagar, and the remotest places of Afghanistan. An absolute "must-have" title for Francesco Clemente collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Francesco Clemente. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It is also very prominently and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the following title page by Salman Rushdie. This title is a contemporary art book classic. As far as we know, this is the only such double-signed copy of the First Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies availbale online have serious flaws. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the greatest artists of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER SALMAN RUSHDIE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 8881588099. Stock number: 21894. ISBN: 8881588099
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Imprint: New York City, NY, PowerHouse Books, 1999 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 189 pages. Artist Book. Retrospective collection of portrait-paintings. One of the most beautiful Artist Books of our time. Limited Slipcased Edition of 400 numbered and signed copies that sold out shortly after publication. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Francesco Clemente and Francesca Richer: Oversize-volume format. Red-orange cloth boards with titles on spine, as issued. Art by Francesco Clemente: Watercolor, oil, and dry media. Essay by Vincent Katz. 9 X 14 inch original lithograph ("Self-Portrait"), encased in its own glassine-and-rice paper sheet, laid-in. It is meant to be framed. Hard board pictorial slipcase with two reproductions, one on each side. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ, which reproduces the portrait of his wife and muse, Alba Clemente, and titles on the spine, as issued. Published to coincide with the landmark retrospective exhibition held at the Guggenheim Museum New York in 1999, which travelled on to the new, Frank Gehry-designed Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in 2000. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, Francesco Clemente's "Life Is Paradise". Perhaps the single most sensuously beautiful of his Artist Books: A celebration of life as only this Italian aesthete-artist can pull it off. Life is beautiful in Clemente's masterly hands. Seven thematic sequences: "Poets", "Oil On Wood", "Great Expectations", "Children", "Devi", "New York Muses", and "Voices". They include a rich selection of celebrity portrait-paintings that are meticulously chosen, as though they belonged to the artist's personal pantheon of divinities (starting with Alba Clemente) : John Ashbery, Anne Bancroft, Robert Creeley, the late Allen Ginsberg (with whom Clemente collaborated on several major projects), Philip Glass, Fran Lebowitz, Toni Morrison, and Gwyneth Paltrow, to name a motley few. Still, it is the art itself, the rendition, that mesmerizes and enthralls. Some of Clemente's portraits are precise and delicate. Others are dark and fierce. The subject's eyes are always dominant, but each one is rendered differently: Mask-like in one portrait, empathetic and humane in another. Clemente's sheer range will leave the viewer thinking about the infinite number of ways to portray, not just present, a particular human face. "One can wallow for days on end in these faces" (Vincent Katz). An absolute "must-have" title for Francesco Clemente collectors. This is a copy of the Limited Slipcased Edition. It comes with a pristine 9 X 14 inch original lithograph ("Self-Portrait") that is very prominently and beautifully numbered and signed in pencil on recto by Francesco Clemente. The artwork comes in its own glassine-and-rice paper sheet, and is meant to be framed. This title is a great Artist Book. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Clemente signed the artwork, NOT the book, as is his and the publisher's custom. Given an art market in which Clemente commands thousands of dollars, the artwork has been separated from the book in most cases because among art collectors (versus book collectors), it is much more valuable by itself. A rare signed copy thus. 100 plates, 1 original artwork. One of the greatest artists of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER FRANCESCO CLEMENTE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1576870537. Stock number: 21178. ISBN: 1576870537
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Imprint: Paris, France, Self-Published, 1980 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 1 pages. Rare Lucien Clergue collectible piece. A framed poster of his classic "Matador" Exhibition Poster (circa 1980), signed by Lucien Clergue. There is no ISBN. The Poster is vintage, and is now rare. Poster size is 17 X 23 inches. Framed size is 18 X 24 inches. Professionally framed on solid black wood and Plexiglas by Craig Cotsones/Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago. Eminently suitable for display. Printed on archival, thick coated stock paper in Paris, France to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Lucien Clergue's "Matador". An exquisite reproduction of his image of a Spanish "torero"/bullfighter. It is brilliantly cropped: We do not see his face, as is usually the case, only his torso and famously elaborate accoutrement: Costume, red cape, and shiny sword, in a balletic pose. The elegant image is in contrast with Clergue's sequence in "Toros Muertos" (1966), where he depicts the bull as hapless victim (rather than something ferocious or fearful) : The "toro" is shown in visible pain, dying a slow, agonizing death, dead, and finally, a carcass hanging in an abattoir. For the philosophical Clergue, the bullfighter, the bull, and their duel represent the struggle called life itself: "In the concept of the universe, life and death are on the same level, on the same line, in the same hour. Still, between the two, there is so much to be seen and done: Let us try to discover the secret world of our nature" (Lucien Clergue). This "secret world" shows Man as capable of less-than-human, "animal" barbarism and Animal as his human-like victim. "The Monet of the camera" (Pablo Picasso). An absolute "must-have" collectible, not just memorabilia, item for Lucien Clergue collectors. This framed copy of the "Matador" Exhibition Poster is magnificently signed in black pen-marker directly underneath the image by Lucien Clergue. Clergue's signature on this poster is vintage, NOT contemporary, and it's the best we have ever seen. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the Exhibition Poster available online, is professionally framed on solid black wood and Plexiglas, and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Lucien Clergue vintage prints command thousands of dollars from galleries and online. This vintage poster is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. 1 framed poster. Lucien Clergue's "Toros Muertos" was selected as one of the greatest photography books in "The Photobook". One of the greatest artist/photographers of our time. A fine collectible poster. (SEE ALSO OTHER LUCIEN CLERGUE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 20429.
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Imprint: Akron, OH, Akron Art Museum, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 270 pages. Retrospective Monograph. One of the most beautiful and valuable books on art and photography in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Lowie & Lowrey Los Angeles: Oversize-volume format. Orange cloth boards with titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Art by various contributors, a Who's Who of modern and contemporary art and photography. Curated with Essay by Barbara Tannenbaum, one of the most influential curators of our time, and various other leading specialist-writers such as Keith F. Davis and Luc Sante. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Akron Art Museum Since 1850: An Introduction To The Collection". An impressive and immersive artistic experience in book form. "One hundred paintings, sculptures, and photographs from the collection of the Akron Art Museum are lavishly reproduced and thoughtfully discussed. Each with a brief Essay written by a member of the Museum or one of 16 guest authors. Stresses the collection's three areas of special strength: Turn-of-the-century American painting, painting and sculpture since 1960, and twentieth-century photography. Artists include William Merritt Chase, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Philip Guston, Nancy Graves, Chuck Close, Claes Oldenburg, Lewis Hine, Lee Friedlander, Gilbert & George, Carrie Mae Weems, and Lari Pittman" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for art and photography collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, dated (shortly after publication), and inscribed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by the museum curator/author: "For Martha - Thanks for your support of the museum and for being such a champion of photography and photographers. Barbara Tannenbaum Oct.10, 2001". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. The recipient, Martha Schneider, who is named, is one of the most important figures of contemporary art photography. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, post-publication dated, and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. 100 black-and-white and color plates. Some of the greatest American artists and photographers ever. A fine copy. . ISBN 0940665050. Stock number: 22177. ISBN: 0940665050
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Imprint: New York City, NY, One World Publishing, 2017 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 375 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. One of the most important 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 that sold out shortly after publication. "Autographed Copy" round white sticker pasted in front. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Ta-Nehisi Coates' "We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy". His sequel-of-sorts to "Between The World And Me" (2015). Confirms Ta-Nehisi Coates' stature as the most important American public intellectual of our time, black or white. "The First White President" is the best essay on its subject ever written thus far, clarifying in a dispassionate, fact-based, and intricately argued manner, why Donald Trump won. Yes, of course, this question will be litigated and re-litigated for the next fifty years if not the rest of the 21st century. Still, Coates' dazzling synthesis will remain indispensable. In sum: It was NOT Hillary Clinton who ran a "politically correct", "identity politics" campaign. It was Trump, and he won because it united a narrow but decisive white majority - including, devastatingly, white women - who felt threatened by the rise of their fellow Americans as a political force: African-Americans, Hispanics, and the LGBTQ community, all of whom did vote for HRC in overwhelming numbers. Coates persuasively argues that Trump did not win because he appealed to the economic anxieties of the "forgotten" working class unless by the latter, one means the white working class. In which case, he prevailed because he, a New York City billionaire, cynically exploited their cultural-identity anxieties, not economic ones. The fact is that Clinton won, again in overwhelming numbers, the non-white working class, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians, who are all less affluent than the "anxious" white working-class voter. Coates remembers the Obama Years with an Essay assessing each of his eight years in power, building up to then tragically ending (hence the book's title) with Trump's victory, a massive Obama backlash (for Trump, this was deeply personal) that turned Clinton (who fully embraced Obama) into collateral damage. Make America Great (White) Again, the racist platform through which Trump ran, won, and now governs, will persist through both a fully-articulated ideology as well as deeply ingrained prejudice. No one has unpacked both with the same penetrating insight as Coates has. An absolute "must-have" title for Ta-Nehisi Coates collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black pen-marker on the title page by Ta-Nehisi Coates. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER TA-NEHISI COATES TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0399590560. Stock number: 21619. ISBN: 0399590560
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Imprint: London, England, The Scorpion Press, 2004 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 370 pages. The author's "stand-alone" thriller/mystery novel. One of Harlan Coben's finest achievements. Limited Edition of 90 numbered and signed copies. Published as part of the eminently collectible Scorpion Press Series of great contemporary mystery and thriller novels. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition, British or American. The Limited Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by The Scorpion Press: Regular-sized volume format. Marbled hard boards with black leather overboards and gilt titles embossed on spine, as issued. Text by Harlan Coben. Introduction by the brilliant American novelist Robert Crais. Pink topstain. Printed on archival stock paper in the United Kingdom to the highest standards. In glassine DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Limited Edition collectible format, Harlan Coben's "Just One Look". Independent of his celebrated "Myron Bolitar" Series, a brilliant, "stand-alone" realization of Coben's lifelong themes as a novelist: The search for the truth that is buried in The Past, which truth suddenly (and very dangerously) catches up with and upends The Present. When, in this case, and in one instant, an ordinary snapshot causes a mother's world to unravel completely. "After picking up her two young children from school, Grace Lawson looks through a newly developed set of photographs. She finds an odd one in the pack: A mysterious picture from twenty years ago, showing four strangers she could not identify. But there is one face she recognizes: Her husband, before she met him. When her husband sees the photograph that night, he leaves their home and drives off without explanation. She doesn't know where he's going or why he left. Or if he's ever coming back. Nor does she realize how dangerous the search for him will be. Because there are others interested in both her husband's past and the photograph. Such as Eric Wu: A fierce, silent killer who will not be stopped from finding his quarry, no matter who or what stands in his way. Her world turned upside down, filled with doubts about herself and her marriage, Grace must confront the dark corners of her own tragic past as she struggles to learn the truth, find her husband, and save her family" (Publisher's blurb). The title refers to our modern relation to the photographic image, as something whose significance - but not necessarily its meaning - we immediately grasp, in a way we would never be able to do with any other image of either a painting or drawing. The novel itself refers to the power of photography as evidence and physical trace, not just as the representation or imitation, of reality. One of about five American thriller writers of our time who completely inhabit and transcend the thriller genre at the same time. An absolute "must-have" title for Harlan Coben collectors. This copy is one of the Limited Edition, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page. It is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black pen by Harlan Coben. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the Limited Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online command as much as $175. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO GEORGE P. PELECANOS LIMITED EDITION TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1873567650. Stock number: 20583. ISBN: 1873567650
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Imprint: London, England, Harvill Secker Press, 2007 First Edition / First Printing. As New in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 231 pages. The author's eleventh novel. One of the greatest novels of our time. Deluxe Leatherbound And Slipcased Edition of 100 numbered and signed copies. Except for the Australian, the Deluxe Edition precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. The Deluxe Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Harvill Secker Press: Regular-sized volume format. Blue goatskin leather binding with gilt titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by J. M. Coetzee. Marbled endpapers. Maroon cloth slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United Kingdom to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its ultimate collectible format, J. M. Coetzee's "Diary of A Bad Year". Addresses the profound unease of countless people in modern democracies. "An eminent, seventy-two-year-old Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled 'Strong Opinions'. It is a chance to air some urgent concerns. He writes short essays on the origins of the state, on Machiavelli, on anarchism, on Al-Qaida, on Intelligent Design, on music. What, he asks, is the origin of the state and the nature of the relationship between citizen and state? How should the citizen of a modern democracy react to the state's willingness to set aside moral considerations and civil liberties in its War on Terror? How does the state handle outsiders? In the laundry-room of his apartment block, he encounters an alluring young woman. When he discovers she is between jobs, he claims failing eyesight and offers her work typing up his manuscript. Anya has no interest in politics, but the job provides a distraction, as does the writer's evident and not unwelcome attraction toward her. An utterly contemporary work of fiction from one of our greatest writers and deepest thinkers" (Publisher's blurb). Unlike most contemporary writers, J. M. Coetzee has been an "engaged" writer from the beginning, during his anti-Apartheid days in South Africa. He has also always offered the greatest aesthetic pleasure, in prose of the highest literary quality and in his profoundly speculative, anti-didactic, anti-dogmatic, and anti-propagandistic reflections on the major issues of our time. The novel's title is an allusion to Coetzee's idol, Daniel Defoe ("Journal of The Plague Year") while being at the same time, a novel of ideas in the grand tradition of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Kafka. An absolute "must-have" title for J. M. Coetzee collectors. This copy is one of the Deluxe Leatherbound And Slipcased Edition, indicated/numbered as such on the Front Limitation Page (Number 49). It is very prominently and beautifully numbered and signed in black ink-pen by J. M. Coetzee. This title is a great book. This is one of few copies of the Deluxe Edition still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Lannan Award in 1998, the Jerusalem Prize in 1999, the Booker Prize in 1983 for "The Life & Times of Michael K" and in 1999 for "Disgrace", the first writer to win the most prestigious British literary award twice. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER J. M. COETZEE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1846551668. Stock number: 12721. ISBN: 1846551668
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking Press, 2007 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 304 pages. The author's fourth collection of literary essays. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents J. M. Coetzee's "Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005". The companion volume to "Stranger Shores". A rewarding "follow-up" collection that tackles nineteen of the most important writers of the 20th century, plus an essay on Walt Whitman. "Cosmopolitan in range and erudite in texture, Coetzee's bio-critical explications delve into the art, times, and humanity of among others, Italo Svevo, Robert Musil, Paul Celan, Gunter Grass, Graham Greene, and W. G. Sebald. Coetzee is attuned to literature under pressure as writers write in lands other than home, contending with language gaps and facing a world in violent upheaval. Coetzee brings an unusual perspective to Walt Whitman's eroticism, Faulkner's vision of the South, Philip Roth's 'The Plot Against America', and Arthur Miller's screenplay for 'The Misfits'. In each case, Coetzee tells a story as much as he interprets the work, riding in the slipstream of his subject's life and writings as he parses matters personal, technical, aesthetic, moral, and political with both subtlety and vigor. Coetzee's profound fascination with the clarity and mystery of literature reaffirms its significance" (Donna Seaman). An absolute "must-have" title for J. M. Coetzee collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Lannan Award in 1998, the Jerusalem Prize in 1999, the Booker Prize in 1983 for "The Life & Times of Michael K" and in 1999 for "Disgrace", the first writer to win the most prestigious British literary award twice. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. One of the greatest writers of our time. A flawless copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER J. M. COETZEE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670038652. Stock number: 14956. ISBN: 0670038652
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 295 pages. Landmark collection of literary essays. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents J. M. Coetzee's "Stranger Shores". His literary essays. "An acclaimed novelist, J. M. Coetzee is also a rigorous essayist, as evident in his collection on censorship, 'Giving Offense' (1996), and in his serious literary criticism. This gathering of 26 essays displays the range and interpretative richness of his profound involvement in other writers' work, beginning with an intriguing inquiry into how Daniel Defoe was eclipsed by his own creation, the now mythic Robinson Crusoe, and Coetzee's vision for a screen adaptation of Samuel Richardson's 'Clarissa'. Writing from a consistently elevated political perspective as well as academically calibrated aesthetics, Coetzee also digs into Joseph Frank's monumental five-volume biography of Dostoevsky, discusses the work of Czech writer Josef Skvorecky, and roughs up A. S. Byatt. Caribbean novelist Caryl Phillips comes in for searing criticism even as Coetzee praises him for 'remembering what the West would like to forget'. Aharon Appelfeld, Naguib Mahfouz, and a constellation of South African writers, including Nadine Gordimer and Doris Lessing, Daphne Rooke and Breyten Breytenbach, are all treated with equal measures of skepticism and respect to illuminating ends" (Publishers Weekly). An absolute "must-have" title for J. M. Coetzee collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by J. M. Coetzee. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First 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 rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Lannan Award in 1998, the Jerusalem Prize in 1999, the Booker Prize in 1983 for "The Life & Times of Michael K" and in 1999 for "Disgrace", the first writer to win the most prestigious British literary award twice. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER J. M. COETZEE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670899828. Stock number: 21470. ISBN: 0670899828
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Viking/Penguin Books, 2009 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 266 pages. The author's autobiographical novel. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents J. M. Coetzee's "Summertime". The fictional sequel-counterpoint to his memoirs, "Boyhood" (1998) and "Youth" (2003). "A young English biographer is researching a book about the late South African writer John Coetzee, focusing on Coetzee in his thirties, at a time when he was living in a rundown cottage in the Cape Town suburbs with his widowed father, a time, the biographer is convinced, when Coetzee was finding himself as a writer. Never having met the man himself, the biographer interviews five people who knew Coetzee well, including a married woman with whom he had an affair, his cousin Margot, and a Brazilian dancer whose daughter took English lessons with him. These accounts add up to an image of an awkward, reserved, and bookish young man who finds it hard to make meaningful connections with the people around him. An inventive and inspired work of fiction that allows J. M. Coetzee to imagine his own life with a critical and unsparing eye, revealing painful moral struggles and attempts to come to grips with what it means to care for another human being. Incisive, elegant, and often surprisingly funny, a compelling work by one of today's most esteemed writers" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for J. M. Coetzee collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. Winner of the Lannan Award in 1998, the Jerusalem Prize in 1999, the Booker Prize in 1983 for "The Life & Times of Michael K" and in 1999 for "Disgrace", the first writer to win the most prestigious British literary award twice. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. One of the greatest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER J. M. COETZEE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670021385. Stock number: 17790. ISBN: 0670021385
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Aperture Foundation/Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago, 2012 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 145 pages. New And Expanded Edition of the artist/photographer's classic. One of the most important Conceptual 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 Thus is now scarce. A brilliant production by Aperture and Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago: Oversize-volume format. Glossy pictorial hard boards with titles on spine, as issued. Photographs by Lynne Cohen. Text by Britt Salvesen and David Byrne. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Singapore to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In thick pictorial plastic DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Re-presents, in its definitive format, Lynne Cohen's "Occupied Territory". Space as "topographic" reality before it was even recognized and named as such. "In 1987, Aperture published Lynne Cohen's first monograph, an exploration of space as simulated experience: A sham reality, artificial, idealized, and standardized. This Expanded And Updated Edition situates her work within the lineage of Lewis Baltz, Stephen Shore, and other celebrated 'New Topographics' photographers. In the twenty years of work contained in the book, Cohen turns her camera toward classrooms, science laboratories, testing facilities, waiting rooms, and other interior spaces where function triumphs over aesthetics. What decorations the inhabitants might have added to these rooms to make them more inviting, mostly attempts at warmth or individualism, only serve to amplify their artifice and uniformity. Surveys a society of surface, contradiction, and social engineering. In her hands, clouds peel off walls, forest glades invade indoor tennis courts, and the awkward lives of furniture are revealed. Records the world's readymade sculptures, waiting to be framed by the photograph" (Publisher's blurb). Includes twenty images that appear in published form for the very first time (there were 87 plates in the original, 107 in this new edition), which enhance our re-appraisal and renew our appreciation of Cohen's visionary project. An absolute "must-have" title for Lynne Cohen collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Lynne Cohen. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a strip of white paper (that was then pasted on the page) through which most copies were signed. Cohen's signature on this particular copy is one of the best we have ever seen. This title is a late-modern art photography classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the New And Expanded Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Towards the end of her life (she died in 2012), Cohen carried on despite her severely debilitating illness. Her signature often became unsteady although it was still legible, and as a trace of her, quite moving as such. A rare signed copy thus. 107 duotone plates. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LYNNE COHEN TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1597111457. Stock number: 22009. ISBN: 1597111457
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Thames And Hudson, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 160 pages. Retrospective Monograph. One of Lynne Cohen's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only simultaneously in the United Kingdom and the United States. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Lynne Cohen: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 2 pounds. Black hard boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Lynne Cohen. Text and Interview by Ann Thomas. Preface by Pierre Theberge and William A. Ewing. Printed on pristine-white, glossy stock paper by EBS in Verona, Italy to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with white titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Lynne Cohen's "No Man's Land". Some of the artist/photographer's most powerful images from the 1970's through the turn of the new century. Cohen began her career as a successful sculptor, then turned to photography full-time in 1971. She has never looked back even though she retained one crucial aspect of modern sculpture: The site-specific installation. Cohen scrounges around for archival, vintage, and "found" photographs "from the real world", and then re-assembles them as her own coolly sensuous "synthetic" installations. It is her Duchamp-inspired celebration and critique of the world we live in, and how it came to be that way. She is concerned with "psychological, sociological, intellectual, and political artifice, and her pictures reveal a preoccupation with deception, manipulation, and control. These are images that force us to ask ourselves what kind of world we have made" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Lynne Cohen collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by Lynne Cohen. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Cohen's signature on this copy is vintage, and is one of the best we have ever seen. This title is a late-modern art photography classic. As far as we know, this is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Towards the end of her life (she died in 2012), Cohen carried on despite her severely debilitating illness. Her signature often became unsteady although it was still legible, and as a trace of her, quite moving as such. A rare signed copy thus. 120 plates. One of the most brilliant artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER LYNNE COHEN TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0500542406. Stock number: 8990. ISBN: 0500542406
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Imprint: New York City, NY, PowerHouse Books, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 199 pages. Retrospective Monograph. 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 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 Yolanda Cuomo: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by John Cohen. Essay by Greil Marcus. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents John Cohen's "There Is No Eye". A long-overdue retrospective of the artist/photographer's body of work, in all its singularity and humanity. "A guided tour through the worlds of artists, poets, and musicians. Cohen's lyrical stories of the cultures he has encountered complement his photographs taken over the past five decades. Featuring never-before-seen photographs of legendary Beat Generation icons, from literary lions Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso to artists and photographers Grace Hartigan, Franz Kline, Red Grooms, and Robert Frank, and a panoply of American Roots musicians, from Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, and Muddy Waters to Doc Watson, Elizabeth Cotton, and Roscoe Holcomb" (Publisher's blurb). The book's title is from the classic Bob Dylan song, "Highway 61 Revisited": 'You are right John Cohen / Quazimoto was right / Mozart was right / there is no eye / there is only a series of mouths, long live the mouths / your rooftop, if you don't already know, has been demolished". In his illuminating Essay, Greil Marcus interprets this to mean that Cohen's photographs, like all true art, somehow transcend and surpass his original intention (documentation or self-expression). He concludes that Cohen's "eyeless" images are great because they make no tendentious attempts whatsoever to make a point or statement, to convince us of something, or to promote a didactic point-of-view. "There is a saying that the treasures of the universe may be found between the eyes of a horse. One could say that the treasures of the earth may be found between the eyes of John Cohen. For we find in his images the wisdom of simplicity" (Patti Smith). An absolute "must-have" title for John Cohen collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by John Cohen. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. He signed on top of the page (as was his custom with this title), making his otherwise tiny signature more prominent. This title is a late-modern 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: Copies available online have serious flaws because the book soils easily. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with duotone plates. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN COHEN TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 157687107X. Stock number: 22008. ISBN: 157687107X
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Powerhouse Books, 2003 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 72 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs on subject. One of the most beautiful books devoted to Bob Dylan. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Francesca Richer and John Cohen: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and text by John Cohen. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Young Bob: John Cohen's Early Photographs of Bob Dylan". That is, before he became iconic and Nobel Laureate-famous. "In 1962, the young John Cohen and the young Bob Dylan went to Cohen's East Village loft and rooftop for a few hours to take some photos in 'a moment of invention, without planning, and with the freedom that comes from uncertainty'. These never-before-published photographs reveal the soon-to-be-legendary musician on the cusp of fame, just before the release of his revolutionary first album. Cohen has also painstakingly transcribed and edited forgotten radio interviews that aired between 1961 and 1963. The interviews conjure voices from the past, where you can hear a youthful Dylan joking and quipping with WBAI's Cynthia Gooding, WNYC's Oscar Brand, and WFMT's Studs Terkel. With a flourish of color, Cohen's recently re-discovered Ektachromes shot in 1970 for the album, 'Self Portrait', appear at the end" (Publisher's blurb). "These are pictures from a more innocent time at the beginning of Bob Dylan's career: What he looked like when he first arrived in New York. We weren't into creating a persona for Bob. The session was a free-flowing pursuit of picture-making" (John Cohen). An absolute "must-have" title for Bob Dylan and John Cohen collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by John Cohen. 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 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 duotone plates. One of the greatest American musical artists, photographed in his youth by one of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER JOHN COHEN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1576871991. Stock number: 21874. ISBN: 1576871991
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2003 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 60 pages. The author's fifth collection of poems. One of Henri Cole's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Publisher's removable "Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award" round gold sticker pasted (NOT printed) in front of the First-State DJ. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Henri Cole's "Middle Earth: Poems". Melancholy and ecstatic poems on desire. The Japanese "Zo-onna" mask shown on the DJ Cover alludes to the poet's intimate connection to Japan. He was born there, has written about his Japanese-inspired rituals and ways in his poetry, and wrote the poems in this particular collection while living in Kyoto on a "US-Japan Friendship" fellowship. "Written in an open style that is both erotic and visionary. Thrillingly portrays the physical world, man's creaturely self, the cyclical strain of desire and self-reproach" (Boston Review). "The fullest culmination to date of an original voice and a central poet of his generation" (Harold Bloom). "I don't have the time to invest in what / I purport to desire" (Henri Cole). An absolute "must-have" title for Henri Cole collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, dated, and inscribed in black ink-pen on the front free endpaper (his dedication) and title page (his signature) by the author: "April 16, 2004 To John and Billie, friends to poetry, With gratitude, Henri Cole". It is signed directly on the pages themselves, not on a tipped-in page. Henri Cole's signature is clean, flowing, and elegant. The recipient-couple, who are named, are unmistakably close to the author. This title is a great book. As far as we know, this is the only such signed, dated, and inscribed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Henri Cole does NOT do public signings. 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 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award in 2004 for "Middle Earth: Poems". Regarded by Harold Bloom as a canonical American poet. One of the most brilliant poets of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER HENRI COLE TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0374208816. Stock number: 22340. ISBN: 0374208816
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Imprint: Houston, TX, Museum Of Fine Arts Houston, 2012 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 606 pages. Monumental Exhibition Monograph. One of the most valuable photography books of our time. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 17 pounds. Black cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by various contributors, THE Who's Who of the history of war photography. Curated with texts by Anne Wilkes Tucker and other prominent scholar-contributors. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by SYL in Spain to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark retrospective exhibition held at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston in 2012, which travelled on to other major venues. Presents "War/Photography: Images of Armed Conflict And Its Aftermath". Indisputably, the one indispensable volume on its subject for our time: War photography, the medium's oldest, and in many ways, most important, genre. "Surveys both iconic and newly-discovered photographs of war and conflict, from daguerreotypes documenting the Crimean and American Civil Wars to digital images made by soldiers in 21st-century Iraq" (Publisher's blurb). The slash of the title is itself significant: There is war and there is the photography of war. They are two different phenomena even if we now experience them as one and the same thing. War imagery is familiar to every modern viewer, which tells us everything about the photographically-based notion we have of reality in general, the reality of war in particular. Such imagery is susceptible to familiarity precisely because the only experience most of us (especially in the West) will have of war is mediated - by photography and its lurid extensions, television and the Internet. "Exhaustive, harrowing, brilliant, and essential" (Vince Aletti). An absolute "must-have" title for photography book collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the half-title page by five photographers: Carolyn Cole, Ashley Gilbertson, Edouard H. R. Gluck, David Hume Kennerly, and Will Michels. They signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. It is also very prominently and beautifully signed in black ink-pen by the Editor/Curator Anne Wilkes Tucker. 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 beauty. Please note: There is a Limited Slipcased Edition signed by thirty-two photographers that now sells for $3000. However, Ashley Gilbertson, the brilliant Iraq War photographer, and David Hume Kennerly, the iconic Vietnam War photographer, were NOT among the signatories. This is the only copy they signed. A rare signed copy thus. 525 black-and-white and color plates. Some of the greatest photographers of all time. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 0300177380. Stock number: 22298. ISBN: 0300177380
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Imprint: London, England, Puffin Books/The Penguin Group, 2000 First Edition / First Printing. As New in As New Dust Jacket. 200 pages. The author's fourth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. This Hardcover Edition was issued after the phenomenal success of "Artemis Fowl", and has become as coveted as its softcover original-predecessor. Eoin (pronounced "Owen") Colfer achieved global fame with his "Artemis Fowl" Series, and deservedly so. Presents Eoin Colfer's "The Wish List". His best novel before he began his celebrated Series belongs on every Colfer reader/collector's shelf. "The Wish List" has rich Dickensian undertones and one of Colfer's most brilliantly imagined twists: Meg Finn has had the prototypical miserable Irish life. First, her mother dies, leaving her with a nasty stepfather. Angry and alone, Meg finds herself committing acts of petty crime. Just as she is about to go straight, she gets killed in a botched robbery attempt. St. Peter and Beelzebub cannot decide which way Meg is supposed to go because she is "one in a million": A soul perfectly balanced between Good and Evil. They finally decide that Meg has to go back and somehow tip the scales up. She is assigned to help the last person she hurt, a man with a wish list of wrong choices that he wants to make right. "Refreshing, inventive, witty, and original" (Prue Goodwin). A soul perfectly balanced between Good and Evil: It may be a fantasy, but Colfer somehow makes us believe that many, if not most, of us start out that way and like Meg, work our way up. An absolute "must-have" title for Eoin Colfer collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Eoin Colfer. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER EOIN COLFER TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0670913855. Stock number: 13534. ISBN: 0670913855
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Charles Lane Press, 2011 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 70 pages. The photographer's debut collection of color portrait-photographs. One of the most beautiful photography books of our time. Limited Edition of 500 copies. The first and only edition. The Limited Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Ian Van Coller and Andrew Sloat: Oversize-volume format. Cream cloth boards with titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Ian Van Coller. Essay by Sindiwe Magona, one of the most acclaimed South African writers of our time. Edited by fellow-photographer Richard Renaldi. Separations by Robert J. Hennessey. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper to the highest standards. The reproduction is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Presents Ian Van Coller's "Interior Relations". A photographic gallery of and for our time: Delicate and reverential portraits of South African housekeepers, nannies, and maids. "While Ian van Coller was growing up in the 1970's, the black women working in his parents' upper-class home in a whites-only suburb of Johannesburg were valued as members of the family. Nannies and maids who helped raise the children and run the household, they were ever-present confidants and friends. And yet they were conspicuously absent from family vacations and photo albums. Apartheid, though it has been officially consigned to history, continues to live on in nearly a million South African homes, where blacks still serve the needs of the white minority. Deftly probes this enduring racial fault line with a simple yet elegant premise: Black housekeepers, nannies, and maids pose for formal portraits in the homes that they care for. Though the subjects' white employers are never shown, evidence of their privilege crowds around the women, forever out of reach, every portrait a cameo of Apartheid in redux. For Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa's most celebrated writers, working as a domestic in her youth provided a desperately-needed but meager income that she was forced to supplement by selling sheep heads on the street. Serving white families represented a constriction of the soul that was broken only by the force of will to become a writer. Magona channels the voices of Van Coller's subjects through her own years as a domestic worker. Offers a starkly original view of the intersection of race and class in post-Apartheid South Africa" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Ian Van Coller and Sindiwe Magona collectors. This copy of the Limited Edition is very prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Ian Van Coller. 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 Limited Edition available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Van Coller did NOT sign most copies of the book. Copies available online, all un-signed, command as much as $800 because the Limited Edition is scarce. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates. One of the most brilliant photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0981877036. Stock number: 21710. ISBN: 0981877036
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Little, Brown & Company, 1998 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 393 pages. The author's seventh novel. One of Michael Connelly's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Michael Connelly's "Blood Work". Indefatigable and relentless in his quest for justice for life's victims as well as for his deeply troubled protagonist. "Written with a poet's eye and cunning, writing at its absolute best" (Publisher's blurb). "The top notch of the new generation of crime writers" (Los Angeles Times). An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Connelly collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Michael Connelly. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. This is the one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American novelists of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MICHAEL CONNELLY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0316153990. Stock number: 10413. ISBN: 0316153990
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Little, Brown & Company, 2002 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 394 pages. The author's eleventh novel. One of Michael Connelly's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Michael Connelly's "City of Bones: A Harry Bosch Novel". As dark and angst-ridden as any of Bosch's past outings. "It also crackles with energy especially in the details of police procedure and internal politics that animate virtually every page. What other crime writer could make such dramatic use of the fact that the front door of a house trailer swings out rather than in, creating problems for a two-man team of detectives? Who else would create to such credible narrative effect an egotistic celebrity-coroner who jeopardizes an investigation because she lets a TV camera crew from Court TV follow her around or an over-aged female rookie cop so in love with danger that she commits an unthinkable act? When the bones of an abused 12-year-old boy who disappeared in 1980 turn up in the woods above Hollywood, the case stirs up Bosch's memories of his own troubled childhood. Connelly is such a careful, quiet writer that he can slow down the story to sketch in some relatively minor characters without missing a beat" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Connelly collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Michael Connelly. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American novelists in the crime thriller genre of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MICHAEL CONNELLY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0316154059. Stock number: 10192. ISBN: 0316154059
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Little, Brown & Company, 2006 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 376 pages. Retrospective collection of reportage and other journalism pieces. One of Michael Connelly's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. "Autographed Copy" blood-red sticker pasted in front. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Michael Connelly's "Crime Beat: A Decade of Covering Cops And Killers". His gripping and often gruesome nonfiction, written prior to his becoming a full-fledged novelist, now gathered together in one handsome volume. "Before he became a novelist, Michael Connelly was a crime reporter, covering the detectives who worked the homicide beat in Florida and Los Angeles. In vivid, hard-hitting articles, Connelly leads the reader past the yellow police tape as he follows the investigators, the victims, their families and friends, and of course, the killers, to tell the real stories of murder and its aftermath. Connelly's first-hand observations would lend inspiration to his novels, from 'The Black Echo', which was drawn from a real-life bank heist, to 'Trunk Music', based on an unsolved case of a man found in the trunk of his Rolls Royce. The vital details of his best-known characters, both heroes and villains, would be drawn from the cops and killers he reported on, from loner detective Harry Bosch to the manipulative serial killer The Poet. Stranger than fiction and every bit as gripping, these pieces show once again that Michael Connelly is not only a master of his craft, but also one of the great American writers in any form" (Publisher's blurb). Enjoyable in and of itself, "Crime Beat" illuminates the oeuvre of the most exciting noir writer of his generation just as James Ellroy's "Crime Wave" illuminated his. An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Connelly collectors. This Autographed Copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Michael Connelly. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. There is also a Limited Edition available online, which commands hundreds of dollars, rightly so. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. One of the finest American novelists in the crime thriller genre of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MICHAEL CONNELLY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 031615377X. Stock number: 22331. ISBN: 031615377X
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Little, Brown & Company, 1997 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. 383 pages. The author's sixth novel. One of Michael Connelly's finest achievements. Uncorrected Proof/Advance Reader's Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only for the exclusive use of the publisher and author. Pictorial softcovers, as issued. Text by Michael Connelly. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Michael Connelly's "Trunk Music: A Harry Bosch Novel". Has it all working together. "Skillful dialogue, solid plotting, nuances of race and status, and a pace that will leave readers gasping to keep up. Connelly's early promise has been borne out nicely by succeeding novels. His best yet" (Publishers Weekly). An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Connelly collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Michael Connelly. 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 Uncorrected Proof/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 rare signed copy thus. One of the finest American novelists in the crime thriller genre of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MICHAEL CONNELLY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 10189.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Little, Brown & Company, 2000 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 394 pages. The author's ninth novel. One of Michael Connelly's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Michael Connelly's "Void Moon". Ingenious (on his and his protagonist's part) and infernal (his villains) being the author's metier. "Infernally ingenious" (The New York Times). "The top notch of the new generation of crime writers" (Los Angeles Times). An absolute "must-have" title for Michael Connelly collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Michael Connelly. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the finest American novelists in the crime thriller genre of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER MICHAEL CONNELLY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0316154067. Stock number: 10409. ISBN: 0316154067
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1998 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 752 pages. The author's account on subject. The first appearance of the title in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Peter Conrad's "Modern Times, Modern Places". A masterwork, a grand "processional" review of the 20th century. "The single most extensive study of Modernism ever produced. Dazzlingly comprehensive in range" (Times Literary Supplement). An indispensable book for every reader who desires a rewarding and illuminating critique of the tumultuous 20th century, this is widely regarded as Conrad's magnum opus. An absolute "must-have" title for Peter Conrad collectors. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few copies of the First American Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the most brilliant intellectual/writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 037540113X. Stock number: 737. ISBN: 037540113X
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Imprint: New York City, NY, HarperCollins Publishers, 1994 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 212 pages. Rare Barnaby Conrad and Clara Gatzert Spiegel collectible item. A fine copy of the author's memoirs, signed by Barnaby Conrad with a one-of-a-kind presentation/portrait on the book itself. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Barnaby Conrad's "Name Dropping". Oh, memory. "Diplomat, bullfighter, writer, artist, Conrad has led a colorful life. This aptly titled memoir contains anecdotes about well-known friends and acquaintances, including Bing Crosby, Truman Capote, David Niven, Lucille Ball, and Sinclair Lewis. Many of the stories recount evenings at El Matador, the San Francisco carbaret Conrad opened with the proceeds from his best-selling novel, 'Matador' (1952) " (William Gargan). A larger-than-life figure who has written numerous books and remains the only American matador ever, Barnaby Conrad is also a brilliant artist. His portraits of various figures are interspersed throughout the book. An absolute "must-have" title for Barnaby Conrad collectors. This copy is magnificently signed, dated (in the year of publication), and inscribed in blue pen on the half-title page by the author: "Lots of X'Mas love to Clara from Mary and Barny 1994". In addition, Barnaby Conrad drew an exquisitely detailed portrait of the recipient, Clara Spiegel, catching a monster-size trout fish. This title is a contemporary classic. This is the only such signed, publication-year dated, and inscribed copy (with original drawing) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Clara Gatzert Spiegel (1904-1997) was the quintessential American cosmopolitan figure, a cross between Brooke Astor and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. The wife of the Chicago-based magnate Frederick W. Spiegel, she was a bona-fide member of the American elite. She was also an accomplished novelist, short story writer, and patron of the arts. Her biography recounts how she caught a 23-inch trout while seated in a wheelchair two weeks before her death in 1997 at the age of 93. A rare signed copy thus. Two of the iconic American figures of the 20th century. A fine collectible copy. . ISBN 006258507X. Stock number: 14844. ISBN: 006258507X
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2000 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 372 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. Christopher Cook's cult classic, an unrecognized masterpiece. 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 Christopher Cook's "Robbers". A cut way above the rest: The harsh, foreboding essence of "Cormac McCarthy Texas", recaptured in gritty yet tender prose. "Cook's bloody, bittersweet novel, charting the adventures of two criminal drifters and their pursuer. From the disturbing opening scene in which Eddie and Ray Bob kill a convenience store clerk, the running buddies lash their way across Texas, shooting gas station attendants and shopkeepers, and stealing small amounts of money and food. Young and broke, Eddie is an aspiring blues guitarist, baffled by the violence of Ray Bob, a natural predator for whom killing is not just a thrill but a calling. The boys' aimless adventure eventually includes Della, a woman who patterns her life on women's magazines and desperately aspires to middle-class respectability. While hiding out in a rundown beach house near Galveston, Della and Eddie fall for each other, much to the disgust of Ray Bob. Eddie and Ray Bob split up, Eddie to pursue his romance and career, and Ray Bob to continue his plunder. Just as a crafty Texas Ranger, Rule Hooks, picks up their scent. Hooks, a tracker by training and instinct, relies on modern police methods as well as his gut instincts to sniff out his prey. Cook's plot tumbles from scene to scene with jarring brilliance, the pathos of his characters lending his otherwise brutal world a certain beauty. His imagery is striking, almost lyrical. This gritty crime drama is not for the faint of heart, but Cook's prose sets it a notch above many like novels" (Publishers Weekly). The narrative is familiar terrain of the Southern Texas sub-genre. After all, Cormac McCarthy appropriated it too, virtually unchanged, for "No Country For Old Men" (2005). It's his intricate subtleties and nuances as well as the tenderness amidst the violence that makes his novel so rewarding. An absolute "must-have" title for Christopher Cook collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in black ink-pen on the title page by Christopher Cook. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Cook's signature on this copy is the best we have ever seen. This title is a cult classic. It inexplicably remains largely unrecognized by the literary mainstream. This is one of few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant American writers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 0786707763. Stock number: 10974. ISBN: 0786707763
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Pantheon Books, 1972 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 281 pages. The author's fifth work of fiction to be translated into English. One of Julio Cortazar's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. The title comes from a characteristic Cortazar conceit: The novel is inspired by and derived from Chapter 62 of Cortazar's greatest novel, "Hopscotch". Presents Julio Cortazar's "62: A Model Kit" in a felicitous English translation. His other masterpiece. "Here again is the Cortazar world, a special place of fantasy, comedy, cities, snatches of conversations, and brief encounters; of characters' lives which begin at any moment and end in intense, brilliant encounters with others on a train, in poignant love-making, or at a restaurant. The construction of this world is so free and open, without the usual restraints of traditional novelistic order as to take the reader on a daring and exciting new experience of life itself, where Fate is waiting to close the games" (Publisher's blurb). Using some of the most innovative Modernist literary techniques, Cortazar pioneered what many other writers, including John Updike and Philip Roth, have since explored with great success. His oeuvre is marked by a unique blend of profound existential dread and mastery of form that remains unsurpassed among the Latin-American writers who became world-famous at the height of the "Boom". Still, Cortazar had little in common with a writer like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and was the cosmopolitan writer par excellence, like Jorge Luis Borges, with whom he apprenticed in Buenos Aires before moving permanently to Paris. An absolute "must-have" title for Julio Cortazar collectors. This title is a great book. 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. The DJ colors, in particular, are the brightest we have ever seen. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. A fine copy. . ISBN 0394468228. Stock number: 16793. ISBN: 0394468228
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Imprint: Buenos Aires, Argentina, Casa De La Cultura San Pedro De Pinatar, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. Unpaginated. Exhibition Catalog. Retrospective collection of digitally-altered color portrait-photographs and diorama-like panoramas. One of the most emotionally resonant, cutting-edge photographic projects of our time. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. A brilliant production by Eduardo Cortils: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Eduardo Cortils. Text by various contributors. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Buenos Aires, Argentina to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark eponymous exhibition held at the Casa de la Cultura San Pedro de Pinatar in 2001. Presents Eduardo Cortils' highly experimental yet emotionally evocative photographs. They allude to a metaphysical reality while being deeply rooted in history (mainly, Latin America's colonial past). Digitally altered, the images vibrate, and are indelible. Cortils' considerable body of work is presented in three suites, beautifully reproduced, particularly his vast diorama-like panoramas, which are amazing in their meticulous attention to detail and raw power. An absolute "must-have" title for Eduardo Cortils collectors. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only copy of the Exhibition Catalog available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a pristine beauty. A rare copy thus. Lavishly illustrated with color plates and panoramas. One of the most brilliant Latin-American artist/photographers of our time. A fine copy. . Stock number: 19649.
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Imprint: Tokyo, Japan, Gallery Min, 1987 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in No Dust Jacket, As Issued. Unpaginated. Exhibition Catalog. Landmark collection of photographs. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only by a Japanese gallery. The Exhibition Catalog is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Gallery Min: Oversize-volume format in square shape. Pictorial softcovers with white titles on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Eileen Cowin. The technical aspect of each photograph is noted at the bottom. The texts consist of brief quotations from a wide array of sources, from David Byrne to Daniel Boorstin to Gustave Flaubert. There is also a brief essay, "Real Images of An Illusory World", by Mark Johnstone. Artist's Resume appended at the end. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Eileen Cowin". Which amounts to a fragmentary photo-narrative/"docudrama" involving a couple and their family members, who include elders and children. Since there is no real accompanying text, the images, which demand to be seen in the sequence the photographer presented them, can be said to be about a lot of things. Even the basic "storyline" is wide open to interpretation. The couple seem to be going about their daily life: They eat, date, have fun, go shopping, quarrel, make love. There is an illness in the family; there is an adulterous affair. Towards the end, the images take on an otherworldly, fantastic quality that departs from the realistic, documentary look of everything that came before it. Because each image is described technically at the bottom ("gelatin silver print", "cibachrome", "ektacolor print", and so on), we are constantly reminded that these are just photographs (that, among other things, Gallery Min is offering for sale). Still, Eileen Cowin's point is akin to Jean Cocteau's famous one about art as proof: "I do not narrate the passing through mirrors; I show it, and in some manner, I prove it. The greatest power of a film is to be indisputable with respect to the actions it determines and which are carried out before our eyes" (Jean Cocteau). By showing something, all photographs exist as proof, an "assertion of accuracy in the spirit of maximum vehemence". All photographs may be seen, in Cocteau's dictum, as an attempt to be indisputable with respect to the actions it represents. Cowin quotes The Master himself: "All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry" (Gustave Flaubert). The more staged the picture, the more it has the feel and look of reality: Cowin's style is closer to Jeff Wall and Philip-Lorca diCorcia than to Nan Goldin's. An absolute "must-have" title for Eileen Cowin collectors. This title is now collectible. This is one of few copies of the Exhibition Catalog still available online and is in especially fine condition: Every page is clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the most brilliant American photographers of our time. A fine copy. . ISBN 4906265154. Stock number: 6667. ISBN: 4906265154
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1977 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 340 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. One of the most important essay collections on music, literature, and the performing arts of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Robert Craft's "Current Convictions: Views And Reviews". All in all, still his best collection. Previously published in various publications in slightly or significantly different form. The essays appear in their final, definitive version in this book. Best-known as Igor Stravinsky's lifelong (and fanatically loyal) friend, colleague, interpreter/conductor, and amanuensis, Robert Craft is also a music and literary critic of the first rank. This collection demonstrates that fact, and covers the stunning breadth of interests of Robert Craft, Renaissance Man, that is to say, the vanishing embodiment of civilized learning and wisdom. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Craft collectors. This copy is very prominently, neatly, and beautifully signed, placed, and dated in black pen on the front free endpaper by the author: "Robert Craft New York May 1984". 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, placed, and dated copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and despite its imperfection (a ding on top front board corner, but it's there) is still in especially fine condition: The DJ and every single internal page are clean, crisp, and bright. It is priced accordingly. Please note: Craft did NOT do a single public signing during his long and high-profile career as a public intellectual and music authority. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant critics of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO ROBERT CRAFT AND IGOR STRAVINSKY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). Stock number: 20630.
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Imprint: New York City, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1984 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 433 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. One of the most important essay collections on music, literature, and the performing arts of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Robert Craft's "Present Perspectives: Critical Writings". A magisterial collection. Previously published in various publications (mainly The New York Review of Books) in slightly or significantly different form. The essays appear in their final, definitive version in this book. Best-known as Igor Stravinsky's lifelong (and fanatically loyal) friend, colleague, interpreter/conductor, and amanuensis, Robert Craft is also a music and literary critic of the first rank. This collection demonstrates that fact, and covers the stunning breadth of interests of Robert Craft, Renaissance Man, that is to say, the vanishing embodiment of civilized learning and wisdom. An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Craft collectors. This title is a late-modern classic. This is one of few copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright, a beauty. Please note: Copies available online have serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A scarce copy thus. One of the most brilliant critics of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO ROBERT CRAFT AND IGOR STRAVINSKY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 039453073X. Stock number: 20629. ISBN: 039453073X
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Imprint: Nashville, TN, Vanderbilt University Press, 1996 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 325 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. Robert Craft's final collection on music, literature, and the performing arts. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Robert Craft's "The Moment of Existence: Music, Literature, And The Arts 1990-1995". "A tour-de-force of cultural appreciations, drawn from essays and reviews by one of the most celebrated writers on music and the arts". Previously published in various publications (mainly The New York Review of Books) in slightly or significantly different form. The essays appear in their final, definitive version in this book. Best-known as Igor Stravinsky's lifelong (and fanatically loyal) friend, colleague, interpreter/conductor, and amanuensis, Robert Craft is also a music and literary critic of the first rank. This collection demonstrates that fact, and covers the stunning breadth of interests of Robert Craft, Renaissance Man, that is to say, the vanishing embodiment of civilized learning and wisdom. "This is how a discerning mind thinks, and every time I read a book by Robert Craft, I can't help but to wonder why other writers lack his clarity of thought or fortitude of conviction. He captures the essence of music, art, and new work. I recommend this book to anyone who often feels on the outside looking in on the arts" (Library Journal). An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Craft 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 brilliant critics of the 20th century. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO ROBERT CRAFT AND IGOR STRAVINSKY TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0826512763. Stock number: 20631. ISBN: 0826512763
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Imprint: New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 2001 First Edition / First Printing. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. 320 pages. Book-length account on subject. One of the most valuable books on American literary culture ever published in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Caleb Crain's "American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, And Literature In The New Nation". On the intimate relation between emergent American literature and male friendship. "In the history of friendship in early America, Caleb Crain sees the soul of the nation's literature. In a sensitive analysis that weaves together literary criticism and historical narrative, Crain describes the strong friendships between men that supported and inspired some of America's greatest writing: The Gothic novels of Charles Brockden Brown, the essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and the novels of Herman Melville. Crain demonstrates the many ways in which the struggle to commit feelings to paper informed the shape and texture of American literature" (Publisher's blurb). The beauty of Crain's narrative-argument lies in its duality: It is about the homo-eroticism of masculine friendships, recounted by the author with grace and subtlety. Homo-eroticism is not homosexuality; indeed, it precludes the latter. At the same time (and having done his homework), Crain also shows, compellingly, the undeniably homosexual strain, however deeply repressed and sublimated, in American literature. The works of Herman Melville and Ralph Waldo Emerson are not "period pieces" of early American literature. These are great, transcendent writers whose achievements remain immensely influential. They have not been superseded much less surpassed by their modern counterparts. An absolute "must-have" title for Caleb Crain collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed, dated, and placed in black pen on the title page by the author: "Caleb Crain 22 Sept 2013 NYC". It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. Laid-in is a pristine copy of the Souvenir Material of the Brooklyn Book Festival 2013, during which event his signature was obtained. This title is a contemporary classic. This is one of few such signed and dated 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 CALEB CRAIN TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 0300083327. Stock number: 18350. ISBN: 0300083327
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