Softcover. Woodstock NY, Ardis Publishers, REPRINT, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 496 pages. With an introduction by Susan Sontag. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Co., 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, faded dust jacket, 340 pages, b&w illustrations. A witty and penetrating study of a fascinating woman and her fabulous time. Fanny wrote her first book, Evelina, anonymously. and for 6 months heard guesses made as to its authorship. Hahn writes of Fanny with affection but with characteristically satirical enjoyment of the fluttering femininities and masculine struttings of the period but depicts the real genius of Fanny. A lively picture of a prim lady, and an entertaining view of 18th century literary London. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Softcover. Logan Airport, Northeast Airlines, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages, profusely illustrated with b&w photos. No author but with opening statement by Bill Michaels, President of the airline at the time. Lively commemorative booklet published by Northeast for its employees on July 31, 1972, the day before officially merging with Delta. Features many black & white photos of personnel, advertising and operations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent & Sons, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 53 pages with beautiful woodcut illustrations throughout by Gibbings, First published in 1935. The wood engraver, writer and publisher Robert Gibbings 1889-1958 owned the Golden Cockerell Press from 1924 to 1933 and illustrated over 50 books, including 17 with text by himself.Dust jacket price-clipped, clean copy.
Hardcover. Amsterdam / NY, N. Israel / Da Capo Press, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching hardcover volumes, 482 and 546 pages. High quality facsimile of the 1845 John Murray edition published in London. Illustrated with a black-and-white folding map. Mylar covers without dust jackets as issued. "With Some Account of the Beginning of the British Colonization of the Islands". Wakefield went to New Zealand with the first settlers in the Tory in 1839 and remained there until 1844, keeping his diary about the proceedings of the settlers. One of the most important works on the early settlement of New Zealand. Clean, bright copies. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Ann Arbor MI, Kylix Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 75 pages. Mild fading to dust jacket spine. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 594 pages. A landmark in postwar American literary criticism, forty-one extended essays on contemporary poets, including Robert Bly, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, W.S. Merwin, Denise Levertov, and James Merrill. Blending biography, textual analysis, and philosophical reflection, it defined a generation's poetic discourse. The book stands as both a map of mid-century American verse and a statement of Howard's erudite critical voice. Light shelfwear, fraying to top, bottom of dust jacket spine. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, New Directions, 1st pbk., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 152 pages. Walter Abish's delightful first novel, is an extraordinary linguistic tour de force, high comedy set in an imaginary dark continent that expands and contracts with ineluctable precision, as one by one the author adds the letters of the alphabet to his book, and then subtracts them. While the 'geoglyphic' African landscape forms and crumbles, it is, among other things, attacked by an army of driver ants, invaded by Zanzibar, painted orange by the transvestite Queen Quat of Tanzania, and becomes a hunting ground for a pair of murderous jewel thieves tracking down their nymphomaniac moll. INSCRIBED BY ABISH on the front fly leaf which also has previous owner's name in corner.
Softcover. NY, Random House, 1st pbk, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 360 pages. profusely illustrated with b&w photos. Portraits and interviews with Nevada test site workers, veterans who trained at the site, and people living nearby who suffered health problems from the radiation. Minor shelf wear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press , 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 208 pages. 100+ color plates and figures. Issued in conjunction with a series of 2010-2011 exhibitions. Features eighty-five works, illustrated and with extensive annotations; Includes works by John Marin, Georgia O'Keeffe, Charles Demuth, Charles Burchfield, Rockwell Kent, Jackson Pollock, Morris Graves, and many more. Includes essays by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Erin Monroe, and Carol Troyen. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages. As well-known as Robert Frank the photographer is, few can say they really know Robert Frank the man. Born and raised in wartime Switzerland, Frank discovered the power and allure of photography at an early age and quickly learned that the art meant significantly more to him than the money, success, or fame. The art was all, and he intended to spend a lifetime pursuing it. American Witness is the first comprehensive look at the life of a man who's as mysterious and evasive as he is prolific and gifted. Leaving his rigid Switzerland for the more fluid United States in 1947, Frank found himself at the red-hot social center of bohemian New York in the '50s and '60s, becoming friends with everyone from Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Peter Orlovsky to photographer Walker Evans, actor Zero Mostel, painter Willem de Kooning, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, Bob Dylan, writer Rudy Wirlitzer, jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Charles Mingus, and more. Frank roamed the country with his young family, taking roughly 27,000 photographs and collecting 83 of them into what is still his most famous work: The Americans. His was an America nobody had seen before, and if it was harshly criticized upon publication for its portrait of a divided country, the collection gradually grew to be recognized as a transformative American vision.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-gray cloth with white lettering and decoration on front cover, 279 pages, b&w illustrations by the author.
Softcover. NY, New Directions, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 367 pages. (previously published in hardcover by Doubleday in 1966). Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Cape Goliard Press/Grossman, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, A bright, clean copy in flax colored buckram, golden yellow enpapers, in a tan dust wrapper printed in dark blue, not price-clipped. This volume presents, for the first time in collected form, all the poems Charles Olson authorized for publication in his lifetime, from 1946 until his death in January, 1970, apart from the Maximus Poems sequence.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 4th pr., 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with light water stains. Book is undamaged, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 86 pages illustrated with b&w photos and diagrams. No markings.
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 319 pages, Introduction by Brian Shaw. The story of the British invasion of Tibet at the turn of the Nineteenth Century. Robert Peter Fleming (31 May 1907 - 18 August 1971) was a British adventurer, journalist, soldier and travel writer. He was the elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Monacelli Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages illustrated in color. Presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of the early 1900s. Born into a prominent New York family (she was the niece of Edith Wharton), Farrand eschewed the traditional social life of the Gilded Age to pursue her passion for landscape and plants. Many of her clients were members of the highest echelon of society with estates in Newport, the Berkshires, and Maine, but Farrand ultimately became a consultant for university campuses, including Yale and Princeton, and for public gardens, including the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and the Rose Garden at The New York Botanical Garden. Perhaps her best-known work is the extensive garden at Dumbarton Oaks, originally a private residence and now a research institute of Harvard University. Deeply influenced by the English landscape designer Gertrude Jekyll, Farrand was known for broad expanses of lawn with deep swaths of borders planted in a subtle palette of foliage and flowers. Her gardens have been photographed at their peak especially for this book, and these lush illustrations are complemented by beautiful watercolor wash renderings of her designs, now preserved at the library of the University of California at Berkeley. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, ex-lib copy, decorated cloth binding, 46 pages illustrated in color and b&w by Tudor. Stamping and residue to endpapers and title page. Interior clean but a tape repair to page 26/27. Captivating story about a perfect country Christmas. Tasha Tudor's wonderful illustrations tell the story of the preparations leading up to the big day through the eyes of ten-year-old Becky. An uncommon Tudor title.
Hardcover. Chicago, Lyons & Carnahan, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Child-Story Program. Guidance in Reading Series. Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in blue and orange. State of Texas textbook. Illustrated throughout in color by Vera Stone Norman. 154 pages. Clean copy. Like Dick and Jane series. Both part of "look-say" (whole-word) method of teaching reading popular in 1930s -1960s.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 228 pages. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new. A poetic and provocative book that explores the porous border between friendship and love. The author's debut novel.