Hardcover. Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, one of 425 copies, publisher's device vignette by T. Sturge Moore on title page, minor offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally, publisher's cloth-backed blue boards, paper label on spine is chipped, black lettering to upper cover, blue endpapers, spine and extremities slightly toned, else very good. One of 425 copies, printed at the Cuala Press, with the date misprinted as 'MCMXXVIV' on the title page (as noted by Wade). The Cuala Press originally started out as the Dun Emer Press in 1903, founded by Evelyn Gleeson. Influenced by the Gaelic revival occurring in Ireland, it promoted Ireland's cultural heritage, while at the same time training women to work in a useful trade. Eventually the two sisters of W.B. Yeats took over the press, continuing Gleeson's work, and renaming it The Cuala Press in 1908. No dust wrapper, as issued. There is some tanning/foxing to last 8 pages including colophon.
Hardcover. Ghent, Ludion Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 406 pages, b&w plates. Marcel Duchamp left behind a large volume of correspondence, more than a thousand documents forming a valuable archive of primary source materials on one the 20th Century's most important cultural figures. In his letters, Duchamp writes about his latest plans, works in progress, concepts such as the 'ready-made,' his passion for chess, the mundane details of life, as well as extraordinary ideas. The letters are reproduced in their entirety along with chronological and biographical data illuminating the circumstances behind the letters. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Translated by Marc Romano. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a chipped dust jacket. Blue cloth. Previous owner's inscription on title page, otherwise clean
Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood, 1st, 1876, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth on boards with bright gilt titling and gilt publisher's device to spine. Beveled edges and blind stamped border ruling, the book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings inside and out. A collection of prose pieces on Dante, Spenser, Wordsworth, Milton and Keats. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 167 pages, 132 plates in duotone and color. Light wear to dust jacket. This book focuses on surprisingly atypical choices from the oeuvres of 125 seminal artists, such as Walker Evans, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alexander Rodchenko, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Ulrich Tillman. Over 130 images in duotone and color illustrate the aesthetic differences between various styles, genres, and authors, and show diversities and affinities among different continents, cultures and periods. This extraordinary recombination of photographs by master artists offers viewers a fresh look at the world of photography.
Hardcover. Bonn GR, Weidle Verlag, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 92 pages, color plates. Essay by John Yau and an interview with the artist. Clean copy.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Ata Books, 1st pbk, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 303 pages. A fictionalized account of the relationship between Italian revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi and Anita Ribeiro de Duarte, the fiery Brazilian girl who left her husband to fight beside Garibaldi in South America and Italy. Clean copy.
Softcover. Boston/NY, Little, Brown, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 418 pages, b&w illustrations. Ansel Adams wrote literally thousands of letters to fellow photographers, environmentalists, politicians, family, and friends during his long life - letters that reveal the growth of the artist and the man, while contributing a unique overview of twentieth-century photography and the environmental movement. Among those with who he corresponded are such eminent names as Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Nancy and Beaumont Newhall, and Jimmy Carter. Wallace Stegner notes in his foreword that the letters 'show him as his family and friends knew him, in the intimate interchange of daily life and at the highest reaches of his thinking and feeling. Remainder line on bottom edge, otherwise clean.
Softcover. NY, Spuyten Duyvil, 1st, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 187 pages, Essays on contemporary American literature. Small bump to edge causing a slight wave to top edge, Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st pbk., 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 546 pages, b&w illustrations, Apollinaire champions Picasso, Braque, Cezanne, Delaunay, Duchamp, Rousseau ,cubism, surrealism, and much more. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Bellevue Literary Press, 1st, 2007, Softcover, 236 pages. Without awkwardness we would not know grace, stability, or balance. Yet no one before Mary Cappello has turned such a penetrating gaze on this misunderstood condition. Fearlessly exploring the ambiguous borders of identity, she mines her own life journeys from Russia to Italy to the far corners of her heart and the depths of a literary or cinematic text to decipher the powerful messages that awkwardness can transmit. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 5th pr., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, Has black & white photos scattered throughout. A wild ride inside the glowing head of Dennis Rodman--the NBA's greatest rebounder and America's most outspoken and outrageous athlete. At a time when most celebrities and professional athletes try to control their public persona like politicians and refrain from expressing their true beliefs, Dennis Rodman is a refreshingly unique, uncompromising individual who both transcends his world and refuses to conform to it. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 2nd pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price clipped dust jacket, 342 pages, b&w illustrations. Paul W. (Bear) Bryant's story in his own words. Together with John Underwood a Sports Illustrated writer, Bryant tells of his years coaching football from his days at Maryland, Kentucky, Texas A & M, and Alabama where he coached for 28 years. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Antonio TX, Wings Press, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 208 pages, b&w photos. On October 28, 1959, John Howard Griffin underwent a transformation that changed many lives beyond his own he made his skin black and traveled through the segregated Deep South. His odyssey of discovery was captured in journal entries, arguably the single most important documentation of 20th-century American racism ever written. More than 50 years later, this newly edited edition which is based on the original manuscript and includes a new design and added afterword gives fresh life to what is still considered a contemporary book. The story that earned respect from civil rights leaders and death threats from many others endures today as one of the great human and humanitarian documents of the era. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Roaming Paris streets by night in the early 1930s, Brassai created arresting images of the city's dramatic nocturnal landscape. First published in French in 1932, this new edition brings one of Brassai's finest works back into print. The back alleys, metro stations, and bistros he photographed are at turns hauntingly empty or peopled by prostitutes, laborers, thugs, and lovers. "Paris by Night" is a stunning portrait of nighttime in the City of Light, as captured by its most articulate observer. 62 photos. Short closed tear to rear panel of dj, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 319 pages, mostly b&w photographs (some color), essays by 7 contributors including Henry Miller. Preface by Jean-Jacques Aillagon. Text essays excerpted from the work of Brassai himself as well as contributions from his wife Mme. Gilberte Brassi and close friends Roger Grenier, Henry Miller, Jacques Prevert and Werner Spies. End-matter includes Biography, Bibliography, Exhibitions and List of Illustrations. Illustrated with 308 photographs, 14 of which are in color. Stated first American edition. A presentation of Brassi's art from his nude drawings and sculpture to his fascination with graffiti but principally featuring on his photographs of nocturnal Paris and the demimonde creatures which inhabited its streets. Remainder mark to top edge, otherwise clean. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. London, Martin Lawrence, 1st UK, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with black lettering on spine, 300 pages. Translated by Z. Mitrov & J. Tabrisky. No date, no edition stated.
Hardcover. NY, Bonanza Books, reprint, n.d., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 112 pages, many b&w illustrations plus gorgeous color plates by Frederick Chapman. A reprint of the 1955 edition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 203 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Catina's Haircut: A Novel in Stories spans four generations of a peasant family in the brutal poverty of post-Unification southern Italy and in an immigrant's United States. The women in these tales dare to cross boundaries by discovering magical leaps inherent in the landscape, in themselves, and in the stories they tell and retell of family tragedy at a time of political unrest. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Santa Rosa CA, Black Sparrow Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 67 pages. Printed paper over boards backed in brown cloth with matching paper spine label. Acetate dust jacket. Remainder mark to top edge.
Hardcover. NY, Mariner Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 374 pages, b&w photos. Mike Krzyzewski, known worldwide as "Coach K," is a five-time national champion at Duke, the NCAA's all-time leader in victories with nearly 1,200, and the first man to lead Team USA to three Olympic basketball gold medals. Through unprecedented access to Krzyzewski's best friends, closest advisers, fiercest adversaries, and generations of his players and assistants, three-time New York Times bestselling author Ian O'Connor takes you behind the Blue Devil curtain with a penetrating examination of the great but flawed leader as he closes out his iconic career. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The MacMillan Co., 3rd pr., 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 200 pages. Endpaper maps, b&w illustrations by the author. Inns and colorful personalities of Groton, Hanover and Old Boston Post Road. Five of the principal routes of New England's earlier days are the focus of this book. With these routes, the writer recalls much of the romance of these ancient highways over which our ancestors jogged on horseback with saddlebags, in jolting stage-wagons, or in the later Concord coach. Clean copy.