essays

Hardcover. NY, MOMA, 2nd Pr., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages, 100 duotone plates. Szarkowski's classic work with critical essays on each picture. Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Mild shelf wear.

Softcover. London, Vintage, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 468 pages. Traces Klein's theories on childhood development, criminality and childhood psychosis, symbol formation, and the early development of conscience. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket with light tape repairs, 318 pages. Stated First Edition. No markings.

Hardcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 326 pages. Lucretius' didactic masterpiece De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) is one of the most brilliant and powerful poems in the Latin language, a passionate attempt at dispelling humanity's fear of death and its enslavement by false beliefs about the gods, and a detailed exposition of Epicurean atomist physics. For centuries, it has raised the question of whether it is primarily a poem or primarily a philosophical treatise, which also presents scientific doctrine. The current volume seeks to unite the three disciplinary aspects -- poetry, philosophy, and science -- in order to offer a holistic response to an important monument in cultural history. With ten original essays and an analytical introduction, the volume aims not only to combine different approaches within single covers, but to offer responses to the poem by experts from all three scholarly backgrounds. Philosophers and scholars of ancient science look closely at the artistic placement of individual words, while literary critics explore ethical matters and the contribution of Lucretius' poetry to the argument of the poem. Topics covered include death and grief, evolution and the cosmos, ethics and politics, perception, and epistemology.Name and date on front fly leaf, light pencil marking to about 25 pages.

Softcover. Los Angeles, CA, Taschen, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Luis Bunuel, one of the most brilliant representatives of the surrealist movement, chose to make films and was able to make them with unflagging fidelity to his principles for fifty years. After an audacious Parisian showing of Un Chien Andalou in 1929 (Bunuel carried stones in his pockets in case he needed them to fend off the audience), Bunuel's subsequent career in Spain (Las Hurdes), Hollywood and Mexico (Los Olvidados, Robinson Crusoe, El, Nazarin) before returning to France (Diary of a Chambermaid, Belle de jour, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, That Obscure Object of Desire), showed that the only subjects he cared to make films about were the three that are never supposed to be discussed in polite society: sex, religion, and politics.

Softcover. Wilkes-Barre PA, Etruscan Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 304 pages. This book of essays by Norman Mailer's biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising action of his life in literature, Lennon's remembrances track the influence not only of his literary pater familias, Norman Mailer, but his actual father, a booze-bitten blue-collar bibliophile with his own reputation for genius, and how together these mentors forged and focused the 20/20 literary vision Lennon takes to the work of some of the greatest writers of the Twentieth Century, from Baldwin and Bishop to Didion and DeLillo and, not least, Mailer himself.

Hardcover. Berg Publishers, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 528 pages. This historico-critical edition of Schopenhauer's manuscript remains contains Schopenhauer's entire surviving philosophical notes, from his university years until his death in 1860. Translated here into English for the first time, it provides a fascinating insight into the workings of Schopenhauer's mind and an important key to his philosophical work. Translated by E.F.J. Payne

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Co., 1st US, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 300 pages, maroon cloth covers with a chipped, edgeworn dust jacket. A collection of scholarly essays with subjects from Herodotus to Kipling, from Greek and Roman literature to Shakespeare.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams Inc, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Facsimile replica of David Hockney's sketchbook. Unpaginated Hardcover. Comes with 31 page explanatory softcover that accompanies hardcover, both in slipcase. Very clean, tight hardcover with marble leather boards. Yellowing to softcover wrapper edges, otherwise clean and unmarked. Minor soiling and wear to slipcover. Slight yellowing around edges. Color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. New York, Blurb, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Some slight shelfwear to dust jacket. Otherwise tight copy. Publishers note lain within. The never before told biographical and industrial history of Louis Marx & Co. as told by the men who lived it, through the creation of the world's largest toy company.

Softcover. New York, E. P. Dutton, Reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Covers in very good condition with light toning to rear cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 394 pages. Collects responses to Spiegelman's monumental work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status. The writers approach Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions, inspired by the material's complexity across four decades, from 1985 to 2018. The book is organized into three loosely chronological sections-- "Contexts," "Problems of Representation," and "Legacy"--and offers for the first time translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus. The book includes work from twenty-one leading critics, authors, and academics--including Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and Adam Gopnik--on the radical achievement and innovation of Maus, more than forty years since the original publication. Remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st US, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 288 pages. Chapters include Semiology and Architecture by Charles Jencks, Meaning into Architecture by Geoffrey Broadbent and 'La Dimension Amoureuse' in Architecture by George Baird, The Time House or Argument for an Existential Dwelling by Martin Pawley. Packed with black and white reproductions of unusual buildings. Mild edgewear to dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. Minor White was one of the twentieth century's most influential B&W art photographers. Rites & Passages, is a compilation of his writings and photographs, with a biographical essay by James Baker Hall. The book is well writen and edited, and is a significant insite into the thoughts and motivations of a great artist. With a generous number of stunning photographs, expertly printed on quality paper, it is a book worthy of any discriminating collection.

Hardcover. London , B. Blake, 1st Thus, 1837, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 848 pages. Hardcover. Marbled edges and endpapers. Raised bands on spine. Clipping of a silhouette of Edward Gibbon pasted on to front end paper. Previous owners notes in pencil on front endpapers. Wear to covers, especially corners. Rubbing. Chipping at spine. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 2nd Ed., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 241 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 897 pages. John Updike's fiftieth book and fifth collection of assorted prose, most of it first published in The New Yorker, brings together eight years' worth of essays, criticism, addresses, introductions, humorous feuilletons, and - in a concluding section, 'Personal Matters' - paragraphs on himself and his work. Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Dawn Powell, Henry Green, John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, and W. M. Spackman are among the authors extensively treated, along with such more general literary matters as the nature of evil, the philosophical content of novels, and the wreck of the Titanic. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. A photographic tribute to the beatified founder of the Mission of Charity visually documents her work in the impoverished streets of Calcutta, offering numerous images of her daily spiritual commitment to fighting poverty, in a volume complemented by the author's remembrances of their nearly thirty-year relationship.

Hardcover. Bath, England, Parragon Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Movie Stars uses stunning pictures from the Daily Mail archives, many reproduced here for the first time, Movie Stars Unseen Archives features a stellar cast of acting greats, from the stars of the silent era to those taking the honors at the 2005 Oscars.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 421 pages. A selection of vintage Hellman profiles, interspersed with certain shorter masterpieces of humor that have a quality all their own. Brilliant series of studies of extraordinary people: publisher Alfred A. Knopf, the Countess Mara of cravat-creating fame; the architect Le Corbusier, Alexander Calder, designer Norman Bel Geddes, and many more. Dust jacket rubbed, spine faded. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, MI, Ardis, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Fade to dust jacket spine, price-clipped flap. Otherwise, a clean, sharp copy.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. Previous owner dated signature on front flyleaf. Just a touch of wear to dust jacket at corners, still in very good condition. Binding tight.

Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st US, 1875, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth with black design and gilt lettering, 363 pages plus publisher's ads. A late nineteenth century reference on natural science and philosophy. Papillon's engrossing essays, written at various times and put together in this volume as - after the fashion of the time - an effort to dovetail science, metaphysics and philosophy into a higher understanding of life. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.