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13 Most Wanted Men: Andy Warhol and the 1964 World's Fair: Conversationsby: Ballon, Hilary

13 Most Wanted Men: Andy Warhol and the 1964 World's Fair: Conversations
by: Ballon, Hilary

Softcover. New York, Queens Museum, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. Softcover. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This volume brings expert opinion and first-hand testimony to bear upon the events surrounding the creation and destruction of Andy Warhol's Thirteen Most Wanted Men at the 1964 New York World's Fair. The complex constellation of art, politics and gay life surrounding Warhol's mural and its painting-over comes alive in 13 interviews-with historian Hilary Ballon, critic Douglas Crimp, poet Diane di Prima, 1964 World's Fair head of television Albert Fisher, poet John Giorno, art historian Anthony Grudin, civil rights historian Felicia Kornbluh, former Warhol assistant and poet Gerard Malanga, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, art historian Richard Meyer, former Warhol assistant and photographer Billy Name, Rockefeller biographer Richard Norton Smith and architect and critic Mark Wigley. The interviews are introduced by the show's co-curator Larissa Harris, and accompanied by reproductions of all of the Thirteen Most Wanted Men; photographs of Warhol and the Fair by Factory regulars and photojournalists; and rarely seen archival documents from Warhol's Time Capsules.

Record # 353268

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13 Most Wanted Men: Andy Warhol and the 1964 World's Fair: Conversationsby: Ballon, Hilary

13 Most Wanted Men: Andy Warhol and the 1964 World's Fair: Conversations
by: Ballon, Hilary

Softcover. New York, Queens Museum, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages. Softcover. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. This volume brings expert opinion and first-hand testimony to bear upon the events surrounding the creation and destruction of Andy Warhol's Thirteen Most Wanted Men at the 1964 New York World's Fair. The complex constellation of art, politics and gay life surrounding Warhol's mural and its painting-over comes alive in 13 interviews-with historian Hilary Ballon, critic Douglas Crimp, poet Diane di Prima, 1964 World's Fair head of television Albert Fisher, poet John Giorno, art historian Anthony Grudin, civil rights historian Felicia Kornbluh, former Warhol assistant and poet Gerard Malanga, filmmaker Jonas Mekas, art historian Richard Meyer, former Warhol assistant and photographer Billy Name, Rockefeller biographer Richard Norton Smith and architect and critic Mark Wigley. The interviews are introduced by the show's co-curator Larissa Harris, and accompanied by reproductions of all of the Thirteen Most Wanted Men; photographs of Warhol and the Fair by Factory regulars and photojournalists; and rarely seen archival documents from Warhol's Time Capsules.

Record # 353267

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150 Years of Photojournalism (2 Vol.) by: Yapp, Nick & Hopkinson, Amanda

150 Years of Photojournalism (2 Vol.)
by: Yapp, Nick & Hopkinson, Amanda

Hardcover. London```, Konemann UK Ltd, Reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 2 VOLUME SET. 920 pages. Oversize hardcovers. Both volumes very clean and unmarked. Only minor wear to dust jacket edges. In a unique collection of hundreds of photographs, 150 Years of Photo Journalism gives a visual record of the years 1850 - 1918, the last and greatest period of European dominance of the world in culture, science and weapons of destruction. VERY HEAVY- extra charges for overseas shippimg.

Record # 353367

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30 Miles for Ice Cream (SIGNED COPY)by: Hoyt, Murray

30 Miles for Ice Cream (SIGNED COPY)
by: Hoyt, Murray

Hardcover. Brattleboro, VT, Stephen Greene Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 194 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON FRONT FLY LEAF. Clean, tight copy with light rubbing to cover edges. Dust jacket has crease and small closed tear on rear.

Record # 750316

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A Book of Common Praiseby: Boyers, Robert

A Book of Common Praise
by: Boyers, Robert

Hardcover. Keene NY, Ausable Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 264 pages. Miniature critical essays on contemporary poets and fiction writers. Originally written as introductions to public readings, these essays are unabashedly celebratory, a welcome relief from the usual critical fare. As a critic, Boyers has been praised by such literary giants as Harold Bloom and John Bayley. Authors covered: Joseph Brodsky, Carl Dennis, Seamus Heaney, Robert Lowell, Howard Nemerov, Robert Pinsky, Saul Bellow, Nicholas Delbanco, Bernard Malamud, Jay McInerney, Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Sontag, and many others. Clean copy.

Record # 397629

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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninetyby: Hall, Doald

A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
by: Hall, Doald

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Donald Hall lived a remarkable life of letters, one capped most recently by the New York Times bestseller Essays After Eighty, a "treasure" of a book in which he "balance[s] frankness about losses with humor and gratitude" (Washington Post). Before his passing in 2018, nearing ninety, Hall delivered this new collection of self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both. He intersperses memories of exuberant days--as in Paris, 1951, with a French girl memorably inclined to say, "I couldn't care less"--with writing, visceral and hilarious, on what he has called the "unknown, unanticipated galaxy" of extreme old age. "Why should a nonagenarian hold anything back?" Hall answers his own question by revealing several vivid instances of "the worst thing I ever did," and through equally uncensored tales of literary friendships spanning decades, with James Wright, Richard Wilbur, Seamus Heaney, and other luminaries. Cementing his place alongside Roger Angell and Joan Didion as a generous and profound chronicler of loss, Hall returns to the death of his beloved wife, Jane Kenyon, in an essay as original and searing as anything he's written in his extraordinary literary lifetime.

Record # 371627

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A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin Americas Long Cold War by: Joseph, Gilbert M./Grandin, Greg

A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin Americas Long Cold War
by: Joseph, Gilbert M./Grandin, Greg

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st pbk, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 443 pages. Latin America experienced an epochal cycle of revolutionary upheavals and insurgencies during the twentieth century, from the Mexican Revolution of 1910 through the mobilizations and terror in Central America, the Southern Cone, and the Andes during the 1970s and 1980s. In his introduction to A Century of Revolution, Greg Grandin argues that the dynamics of political violence and terror in Latin America are so recognizable in their enforcement of domination, their generation and maintenance of social exclusion, and their propulsion of historical change, that historians have tended to take them for granted, leaving unexamined important questions regarding their form and meaning. The essays in this groundbreaking collection take up these questions, providing a sociologically and historically nuanced view of the ideological hardening and accelerated polarization that marked Latin America's twentieth century. Clean copy.

Record # 382332

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A Garden of Simples by: Martha Bockee Flint

A Garden of Simples
by: Martha Bockee Flint

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown boards with a blue cloth spine with title label. First edition, title page dated 1900. Essays on gardening, with practical advice, commentary on its benefits and history, 307 pages. cover with light edgewear, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 383829

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A Horn Book Sampler: On Children's Books and Readingby: Norma R. Fryatt (Ed.)

A Horn Book Sampler: On Children's Books and Reading
by: Norma R. Fryatt (Ed.)

Hardcover. Boston, Horn Book, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 261 pages. Brown top edge. Yellowing to dust jacket, chipping to top of spine; in Brodart. Essays about children's literature selected from 25 years of the 'Horn Book Magazine'; 1924 - 1958. Introduction by Bertha Mahony Miller. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 397920

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A Piece of My Mind; Reflections at Sixty by: Wilson, Edmund

A Piece of My Mind; Reflections at Sixty
by: Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Small chip to bottom of spine. Clean copy.

Record # 381868

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A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life by: Harrison, Jim

A Really Big Lunch: The Roving Gourmand on Food and Life
by: Harrison, Jim

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Jim Harrison was one of America's most beloved writers, a muscular, brilliantly economic stylist with a salty wisdom. He also wrote some of the best essays on food around, earning praise as 'the poet laureate of appetite' (Dallas Morning News). A Really Big Lunch collects many of his food pieces for the first time - and taps into his larger-than-life appetite with wit and verve. Clean copy.

Record # 380758

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A Year in the Field: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs by: Burroughs, John

A Year in the Field: Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
by: Burroughs, John

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1s, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Light green cloth, lettered and bordered in gilt, top text block edge in gilt. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates by Clifton Johnson. Light shelf wear, bookplate on inside front cover with black marking. Otherwise clean.

Record # 381531

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Act and the Actor: Making the Selfby: Harold Rosenberg

Act and the Actor: Making the Self
by: Harold Rosenberg

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with pages and covers in pristine condition. Like new, in shrinkwrap. Rosenberg's critial essays on the theatre. Originally published in 1970. CONTENTS: The stages: geography of action; A psychological case; From play acting to self; Criticism-action; Actor in history; Guilt to the vanishing point; Missing persons. Clean copy.

Record # 387554

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Additional Volume to the Works of Samual Johnson, LL.Dby: N/A

Additional Volume to the Works of Samual Johnson, LL.D
by: N/A

Hardcover. London, S. Highley, Fleet-Street, 1st, 1792, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, half-leather over marbled boards, 556 pages. A collection of essays, letters, dedications, poems and other pieces purported to be the work of Johnson in the editor's Preface. The anonymous compiler makes the case that the pieces should have been included in the Dr. Johnson's Works lately published. Their authenticity may be questionable in some cases. A penciled note inside the front cover suggests this is Vol. 14 of his works with a new title page and "without Stockdale adds(?)..." Curious edition not found elsewhere. Front cover and first page detached, a solid binding, two bookplates, otherwise clean.

Record # 383185

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Adventures in Geniusby: Durant, Will

Adventures in Genius
by: Durant, Will

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with faded gilt title on spine, 426 pages. A collection of profiles on great thinkers and writers through the ages. B&w frontis of Walt Whitman, 9 other b&w portraits. Clean copy.

Record # 397627

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Advertisements for Myselfby: Norman Mailer

Advertisements for Myself
by: Norman Mailer

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with minor wear. 532 pages. An essential guide to the life and work of one of America's most controversial writers, Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailer's essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a witty, belligerent and vigorous writer, this manifesto of Mailer's key beliefs contains pieces on his war experiences in the Philippines (the basis for his famous first novel The Naked and the Dead), tributes to fellow novelists William Styron, Saul Bellow, Truman Capote and Gore Vidal and magnificent polemics against pornography, advertising, drugs and politics.

Record # 387012

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Affecting Presence, The: An Essay in Humanistic Anthropologyby: Armstrong, Robert Plant

Affecting Presence, The: An Essay in Humanistic Anthropology
by: Armstrong, Robert Plant

Hardcover. Urbana, University of Illinois, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 212 Pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. EX-LIB with usual markings, stamps. Card residue on rear fly leaf. Tight copy.

Record # 750334

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African Madnessby: Shoumatoff, Alex

African Madness
by: Shoumatoff, Alex

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 202 pages. A collection of four pieces on African history or culture. "The Woman Who Loved Gorillas" is a stark, unflattering look at Dian Fossey. Differing from the usual hagiography about Fossey, this essay focuses on her mistreatment of the Africans, her erratic and supposedly violent behavior, and her anti-social arrogance. It's not a slam piece, though, offering motives about her murder and admitting that Dian did much for the gorillas of Rwanda. "The Last of the Dog-Headed Men" is a look at the elusive indri, a "singing" lemur of Madagascar. "The Emperor Who Ate His People" is a look back at the career of Central African Republic dictator Bokassa. Finally, "In Search of the Source Of AIDS" is both a quest for possible sources of the virus and a look at how the disease is ravaging Africa (circa 1987). Clean, bright copy.

Record # 381893

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Afternoon of an Author - A Selection of Uncollected Stories and Essaysby: Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Afternoon of an Author - A Selection of Uncollected Stories and Essays
by: Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Hardcover. New York, Scribners, Reprint, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 226 pages. Cover cloth slightly faded with rubbing at corners. Dust jacket worn with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 607797

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Agee on Film - 2 Volumesby: Agee, James

Agee on Film - 2 Volumes
by: Agee, James

Hardcover. New York, McDowell, Obolensky, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Volume 1 - 432 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings by Tomi Ungerer. Dust jacket worn with chipping and small tears along edges. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 488 pages. Dust jacket with light rubbing and small closed tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 608593

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AIDS and Its Metaphorsby: Susan Sontag

AIDS and Its Metaphors
by: Susan Sontag

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 95 pages. Sontag's classic essay about the sociology of AIDS, published as an extension of her thoughts about the stigma of illness originally expounded in her book Illness as Metaphor. Clean copy.

Record # 387551

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Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry Politics Consciousness by: Allen Ginsberg; Gordon Ball (edited by)

Allen Verbatim: Lectures on Poetry Politics Consciousness
by: Allen Ginsberg; Gordon Ball (edited by)

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 269 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 398071

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American Musicians II: Seventy-one Portraits in Jazzby: Whitney Balliett

American Musicians II: Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz
by: Whitney Balliett

Softcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 520 pages. Whitney Balliett's long-awaited 'big book.' In it are all the jazz profiles he has written for The New Yorker during the past 24 years. These include his famous early portraits of Pee Wee Russell, Red Allen, Earl Hines, and Mary Lou Williams, done when these giants were in full flower; his recent reconstructions of the lives of such legends as Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, Jack Teagarden, Zoot Sims, and Dave Tough; His quick but indelible glimpses into the daily (or nocturnal) lives of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus; and his vivid pictures of such on-the-scene masters as Red Norvo, Ornette Coleman, Buddy Rich, Elvin Jones, Art Farmer, Michael Moore, and Tommy Flanagan. Also included are such lesser known but invaluable players as Art Hodes, Jabbo Smith, Joe Wilder, Warne Marsh, Gene Bertoncini, Joe Bushkin, and Marie Marcus. Clean, like new.

Record # 383604

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American Musicians: 56 Portraits in Jazzby: Whitney Balliett

American Musicians: 56 Portraits in Jazz
by: Whitney Balliett

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 414 pages. Contains a wealth of jazz profiles he has written for The New Yorker during the past twenty-seven years. He gives us, in this spectacular volume, his famous early portraits of Pee Wee Russell, Red Allen, Earl Hines, and Mary Lou Williams, written in their brilliant twilight. Clean, like new.

Record # 383603

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American Originality: Essays on Poetryby: Gluck, Louise

American Originality: Essays on Poetry
by: Gluck, Louise

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A luminous collection of essays from Louise Gluck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poets. Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Gluck is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Gluck's second book of essays-her first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Gluck's moving and disabusing lyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection. Clean copy.

Record # 397607

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An Essay On the Origin of Evil (2 Volumes)by: King, William / Law, Edmund (transl.)

An Essay On the Origin of Evil (2 Volumes)
by: King, William / Law, Edmund (transl.)

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, red cloth with gilt stamping to spines. A reprint of the 1758 Fourth Edition. Introduction by Victor Nuovo. 555 total pages plus Index. Vol. 1 with fading to spine and part of front cover, otherwise tight and clean.

Record # 397786

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ANNALES MONEGASQUES. Revue d'histoire de Monaco: No. 37 by: Archives du Palais Princier

ANNALES MONEGASQUES. Revue d'histoire de Monaco: No. 37
by: Archives du Palais Princier

Softcover. Monaco, Archives du Palais Princier, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages, color illustrations. FRENCH TEXT. Scholarly essays on the history of Monaco. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386052

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Answerable to None: Berrigan, Bronk, and the American Real:Essays and Reviews by: Edward Foster

Answerable to None: Berrigan, Bronk, and the American Real:Essays and Reviews
by: Edward Foster

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.

Record # 398068

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Apricots from Chernobyl (SIGNED COPY)by: Novakovich, Josip

Apricots from Chernobyl (SIGNED COPY)
by: Novakovich, Josip

Softcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st wraps, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, SIGNED BY NOVAKOVICH on title-page.

Record # 358849

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Argument And Song: Sources & Silences in Poetryby: Plumly, Stanley

Argument And Song: Sources & Silences in Poetry
by: Plumly, Stanley

Hardcover. US, Handsel Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 322 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 465628

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Aristos, The: A Self-Portrait in Ideasby: Fowles, John

Aristos, The: A Self-Portrait in Ideas
by: Fowles, John

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown & Co., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 246 pages. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Dust jacket with light edgewear and chipping. Protective mylar cover.

Record # 500253

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Art and the Empire Cityby: Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover and John Howat (Editor)

Art and the Empire City
by: Voorsanger, Catherine Hoover and John Howat (Editor)

Hardcover. New York/New Haven, Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 636 pages, b&w and color illustrations throughout, illustrated end papers. A very clean, tight copy. Between the completion of the Erie Canal and the outbreak of the Civil War, New York City grew to become an economic and cultural center of international importance. This magnificent book discusses the proliferation of the visual arts during this exciting era as well as the development of an increasingly sophisticated New York audience for these arts. The book is lavishly illustrated with hundreds reproductions of works from the period. This book accompanies an exhibition that opened at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on 11 September 2000.

Record # 452560

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Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies by: Keith Moxey; Michael Ann Holly

Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies
by: Keith Moxey; Michael Ann Holly

Softcover. Williamstown MA, Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press., 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages. Art history, aesthetics, and visual studies today find themselves in contested new philosophical and institutional circumstances. This fascinating and challenging volume explores the connections and differences among these three methods of investigating visual representation. What are the dominant aesthetic assumptions underlying art historical inquiry? How have these assumptions been challenged by visual studies? Are questions of quality, form, content, meaning, and spectatorship culturally specific? Can we still define the parameters of what should properly constitute the objects of the history of art? Fifteen distinguished scholars answer these and other questions, critically examining the relationships among these three scholarly fields from their founding moments through their contemporary practices. Clean copy.

Record # 396785

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Art on the Edge: Creators and Situationsby: Harold Rosenberg

Art on the Edge: Creators and Situations
by: Harold Rosenberg

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with pages and covers in pristine condition. Like new, in shrinkwrap. Rosenberg's essays on modern art.

Record # 387553

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Art studies for an editor: 25 essays in memory of Milton S. Fox by: N/A

Art studies for an editor: 25 essays in memory of Milton S. Fox
by: N/A

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 301 pages. Fox was Editor-in-Chief of Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 6 color plates, 105 b/w photos. 301 pages, clean and clear. Blue endpapers, with previous owner's name and address on ffep. White cloth cover, with silver titles on the spine.

Record # 374058

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Arthur Machen Selected Letters - The Private Writing of the Master of the Macabreby: Machen, Arthur

Arthur Machen Selected Letters - The Private Writing of the Master of the Macabre
by: Machen, Arthur

Hardcover. UK, Aquarian Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations, 256 pages. "Arthur Machen (1863-1947) .was acclaimed in his day as one of the finest stylists in English prose.The sequences of letters to his friends A.E.Waite, Colin Summerford, and John Galsworth, and to fellow authors and publishers, illuminate Machen's courageous struggles against poverty and adversity, while reflecting his lifelong preoccupations with literature, the occult, the Christian faith, and Celtic myth."

Record # 200270

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Artworks & Packagesby: Harold Rosenberg

Artworks & Packages
by: Harold Rosenberg

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red card cover, with pages and covers in pristine condition. Like new, in shrinkwrap. Rosenberg's essays cover art's relationship with the media, pop art, art as thinking; Pollock's methods; Josph Cornell's boxes; Russian constructivism; big paintings; the artist's hand; action painting, Dada etc etc. First published in 1969.

Record # 387552

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As I See Itby: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise

As I See It
by: Rabbi Stephen S. Wise

Hardcover. NY, Jewish Opinion Publishing Corporation, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 285 pages+ portrait frontis. Original full cloth binding, edges browned. Original dust jacket, chipped, tanning. First Edition. Stephen S. Wise (1874-1949) was born in Budapest and as a child emigrated to New York, where he received his Jewish and secular education. He was ordained as a rabbi in the New Jewish Theological Seminary and went on to become a Reform rabbi and ardent Zionist and Anti-fascist. This book was published to mark Rabbi Wise's 70th birthday. his comments on Zionism, Hitlerism, the fate of the Jews - as WW2 was drawing to a close - were enormously influential.

Record # 375153

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Assorted Proseby: Updike, John

Assorted Prose
by: Updike, John

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. A collection of Updike's nonfiction prose written the previous decade, with topics including Ted Williams, J.D. Salinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Muriel Spark, Max Beerbohm, among others. Yellow cloth covers with spotting, concealed by the dj. Otherwise clean.

Record # 381960

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Baudelaire and Caricature: From the Comic to an Art of Modernityby: Hannoosh, Michele

Baudelaire and Caricature: From the Comic to an Art of Modernity
by: Hannoosh, Michele

Hardcover. University Park, Pa., Penn State University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 348 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Baudelaire's illustrations throughout. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean, bright and tight copy.

Record # 457439

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Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values by: Robert Adams

Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values
by: Robert Adams

Softcover. NY, Aperture, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 108 pages with b&w illustrations. The eight essays in Beauty in Photography provide a critical appreciation of photography by one of its foremost proponents. The result is a rare book of criticism, alive to the pleasure and mysteries of true exploration. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397257

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Beginnings: Intentions and Method by: Edward W. Said

Beginnings: Intentions and Method
by: Edward W. Said

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 414 pages. A work of literary criticism in which Said differentiates between the concept of "origin" and "beginning", also reflecting reflexively on the role of criticism and of the intellectual within a larger culture. Clean copy.

Record # 385432

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Behaviorismby: Watson, John B.

Behaviorism
by: Watson, John B.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, in black cloth with pasted on "Lectures in Print, Behaviorism, John B.Watson " on spine and cover. Twelve lectures delivered by Watson at the People's Institute, whose publishing arm would soon become the legendary W.W. Norton. First appearing as 12 separate pamphlets, each published after Watson delivered a lecture for the adult education program at The People's Institute from 1924 to 1925, BEHAVIORISM gathers these important lectures in book form for the first time.

Record # 375059

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Belief Magic and Anomie: Essays in Psychosocial Anthropologyby: Parsons, Anne

Belief Magic and Anomie: Essays in Psychosocial Anthropology
by: Parsons, Anne

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. A collection of 15 essays. No markings.

Record # 380305

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Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photographyby: Morris, Errol

Believing is Seeing: Observations on the Mysteries of Photography
by: Morris, Errol

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 310 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color pictures throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The author untangles the mysteries behind an eclectic range of documentary photographs. With his keen sense of irony, skepticism, and humor, Morris shows how photographs can obscure as much as they reveal, and how what we see is often determined by our beliefs.

Record # 352203

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Bill Owensby: Homes, A.M.

Bill Owens
by: Homes, A.M.

Hardcover. New York, Damiani, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 170 b&w and color photographs. A comprehensive monograph, this volume consists of several sections of work from 1969 to the present, opening at the height of flower power, with images of the Beat generation, Woodstock and the protests against Vietnam.

Record # 353063

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Bill Owensby: Homes, A.M.

Bill Owens
by: Homes, A.M.

Hardcover. New York, Damiani, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Over 170 b&w and color photographs. A comprehensive monograph, this volume consists of several sections of work from 1969 to the present, opening at the height of flower power, with images of the Beat generation, Woodstock and the protests against Vietnam.

Record # 353056

Price: $60.00 
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Blue Four, The - Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee in the New Worldby: Barnett (Ed.), Vivian

Blue Four, The - Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Paul Klee in the New World
by: Barnett (Ed.), Vivian

New Heven, Dumont/Yale Univ. Press, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color, black & white illustrations. 365 pages. Scholarly essays on the four artists.

Record # 69510

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Boris Mikhailov: The Hasselblad Award 2000by: Knape, Gunilla

Boris Mikhailov: The Hasselblad Award 2000
by: Knape, Gunilla

Hardcover. New York, Scalo Verlag , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Thisbook contains a never-before published series of work from the early 1980s: Mikhailov photographed ''The Dancers'' in his hometown in the Ukraine during a period when the former Soviet Union was a reality, before the appearance of Gorbachov and "perestroika". We observe the open-air dancing scene with great astonishment; seeing older and younger people enjoy themselves in a way that might be contradictory to the images we might have about everyday life in the old Soviet Union. These cheerful images remind us how little women and men need to have a good time. An essay by Russian art critic Boris Groys and an exhaustive interview make this volume a must have for readers and libraries interested in contemporary art and photography. 65 duotone illustrations.

Record # 353136

Price: $30.00 
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Boris Mikhailov: The Hasselblad Award 2000by: Knape, Gunilla

Boris Mikhailov: The Hasselblad Award 2000
by: Knape, Gunilla

Hardcover. New York, Scalo Verlag , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This book contains a never-before published series of work from the early 1980s: Mikhailov photographed ''The Dancers'' in his hometown in the Ukraine during a period when the former Soviet Union was a reality, before the appearance of Gorbachov and "perestroika". We observe the open-air dancing scene with great astonishment; seeing older and younger people enjoy themselves in a way that might be contradictory to the images we might have about everyday life in the old Soviet Union. These cheerful images remind us how little women and men need to have a good time. An essay by Russian art critic Boris Groys and an exhaustive interview make this volume a must have for readers and libraries interested in contemporary art and photography. 65 duotone illustrations.

Record # 353144

Price: $30.00 
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