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1966Best.-Nr. 124803New York: New American Library 1966. Signed limited first edition of this collection of essays--which Rand in her introduction characterizes as "a nonfiction footnote to Atlas Shrugged." Octavo original half cloth. Boldly signed by Ayn Rand. Near fine in a near fine slipcase. With additional articles by Nathaniel Branden Alan Greenspan and Robert Hessen. This collection of 26 essays includes twenty by Ayn Rand as well as three essays by Alan Greenspan two by Nathaniel Branden and one by Robert Hessen. "One of the best defenses and explanations of capitalism one is likely to read" Walter E. Williams. New American Library hardcover books
1989Best.-Nr. 64383New York: Hudson Hills 1989. First Edition. First Edition. Fine and unread in a Fine dust jacket. Lavish production with 65 color plates and 389 duotone reproductions. Hudson Hills unknown books
1993Best.-Nr. UWHIWAL00afRunning Press 1993. Very Good. Whitman Walt. The Walt Whitman Reader: Selections from Leaves of Grass. Eliot Essays T.S.; Lawrence Essays D.H. Philadelphia: Running Press 1993. 320pp. 8vo. Hardcover. Book condition: Very good with slightly soiled text block edges. Bumped and rubbed extremities. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with lightly bumped edges and speckling on panels. Running Press hardcover books
1947Best.-Nr. 149099New York: Grolier Club 1947. First Edition. First Edition one of 600 copies. Catalog of an exhibition held at The Grolier Club from April 18 through June 16 1961. Photo-illustrated throughout with examples of the books. Very Good plus without dust jacket. Small dampstain to the bottom edge of some pages. Boards lightly soiled with light toning to the spine. Grolier Club unknown books
1997Best.-Nr. 171702Paris and Saint-Germain-en-Laye: Somogy and Musee departemental Maurice Denis-Le Prieure 1997. First edition. Softcover. 216 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 25 1997 through January 25 1998Text in French. Introduction by Agnes Delannoy. Essays by Claire Freches-Thory Gilles Genty and Brigitte Ranson Bitker. Includes over 100 color and black and white illustrations. A near fine copy in wrappers and with laid in promotional card. Somogy and Musee departemental Maurice Denis-Le Prieure unknown books
1967Best.-Nr. 1458751967. Archive of eight vintage borderless photographs three typescript essays and a carbon typescript of the first essay and first page of the second by photographer Jerry Bauer circa 1967 with the photographs corresponding to the topics of the essays. Bauer was an American photographer best known for his photographic portraits of writers with his portraits of Samuel Beckett being held in particularly high regard. Much of his work resides in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery in London. The first essay "The American Underground: Mind Expansion A Messiah 'Love'" is an examination of Timothy Leary and the "League for Spiritual Discovery" LSD a communal organization carrying out studies in the religious use of psychedelic drugs as well as the effects of LSD. Two photographs are of the New York Millbrook estate mentioned in the essay one of the centers for the group one photograph of the estate itself and the other of two participants on the porch. Another photograph shows three young people lounging on a bed a young man with beads in his hand matching the description in the essay of a subject's focus on "a set of beads" and a description of the living quarters being ". . . simple: mattresses on the floor." The second essay "American Underground : Mind Expansion The Poets 'Love' 2" is broken into three sections. The first is about the musical group The Fugs who Bauer describes as "the Beatles of the American underground." Two of the photographs in and around Washington Square Park feature members of The Fugs one of a gleaming Ed Sanders and Geoff Outlaw with two unidentified young women. In a second photograph the same group is on the grass along with Ken Weaver and a third unidentified young woman. The second section of the essay is about "the two stars" of the underground film movement Andy Warhol stars Baby Jane Holzer and Edie Sedgewick with a corresponding photograph taken in Warhol's Factory showing Ingrid Superstar sitting on a mattress Baby Jane Holzer on the floor with her back to the camera along with several unidentified subjects. Holzer is identified from a published photograph by Bauer titled "Baby Jane Holzer" taken at the same time as the one in the archive. The final section of the essay is a about American youth and drug culture in Greenwich Village as well as the neighborhood itself. Here the related photographs are of several young people seated on the grass one playing the guitar in Washington Square Park and one of several people standing around a Greenwich Village intersection. The third essay "Andy Warhol: Film Director of America's Underground" is a study of Warhol's early experimental films. Beginning with a brief summation of Warhol's early career Bauer goes on to postulate about Warhol's films discussing the director's various regulars including Elekro Baby Jane Holzer Sally Kirkland Nico here spelled "Nicot" and others. Photographs: Six photographs 10.75 x 8.25 inches two photographs 10.75 x 8 inches. Near Fine overall. Ribbon typescript essays: 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Typescript on onionskin stock six leaves bound with a silver corner clip. Near Fine. Carbon typescript essays: 8.25 x 10.75 inches. Carbon typescript on onionskin stock three leaves bound with a silver corner clip. Near Fine. unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 42833New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1947. First edition of this collection of essay regarding the influence of John Maynard Keynes. Octavo original blue cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson on the title page. In very good condition. Other contributors include John Maynard Keynes Wassily Leontief Lloyd Metzler Gottfried Haberler Wassily Leontief Abba Lerner Joan Robinson Joseph A. Schumpeter and Jan Tinbergen among others. Paul Samuelson is one of the developers of both neo-Keynesian and neoclassical economics the latter of which still dominates mainstream economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970. One of Samuelson's many novel contributions was that he generalized and applied mathematical methods developed for the study of thermodynamics to the field of economics. His inspiration for doing so came in part from his mentor polymath Edwin Bisdwell Wilson who was a former Yale student of the founder of chemical thermodynamics Willard Gibbs. Samuelson therefore is a successful example of interdisciplinarity and he combined these ideas in his magnum opus Foundations of Economic Analysis. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1999Best.-Nr. 143677New York: Hudson Hills 1999. First Edition. First Edition. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago from July 24 to October 10 1999. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Hudson Hills unknown books
2001Best.-Nr. 138808Oxford UK: Museum of Modern Art Oxford 2001. First Edition. First Edition. Nineteen photographers including Lee Friedlander Robert Frank Jeff Wall Garry Winogrand juxtaposed in celebration of the latter half of 20th century street photography. Essays by Kerry Brougher and Russell Ferguson. Fine and unread in wrappers. Museum of Modern Art Oxford unknown books
1947Best.-Nr. 15058New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1947. First edition of this collection of essay regarding the influence of John Maynard Keynes. Octavo original blue cloth. Signed by Nobel Prize winning-economist Paul Samuelson who contributed an essay to this volume. Fine in a very good dust jacket with some rubbing to the extremities. Other contributors include John Maynard Keynes Wassily Leontief Lloyd Metzler Gottfried Haberler Wassily Leontief Abba Lerner Joan Robinson Joseph A. Schumpeter and Jan Tinbergen among others. Paul Samuelson is one of the developers of both neo-Keynesian and neoclassical economics the latter of which still dominates mainstream economics. He was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1970. One of Samuelson's many novel contributions was that he generalized and applied mathematical methods developed for the study of thermodynamics to the field of economics. His inspiration for doing so came in part from his mentor polymath Edwin Bisdwell Wilson who was a former Yale student of the founder of chemical thermodynamics Willard Gibbs. Samuelson therefore is a successful example of interdisciplinarity and he combined these ideas in his magnum opus Foundations of Economic Analysis. Alfred A. Knopf hardcover books
1899Best.-Nr. 14880New York and London: Longmans Green 1899. Hardcover. Very good. First edition American issue. 8vo. pp. xxiv 490; with two folding maps 20 full-page plates many other illustrations in the text. Original blue cloth stamped in gilt top edge gilt. Very mild spine slant rubbing to extremities; internals clean and sound. Lady Brassey was a skilled photographer and botanist and also had an interest in medicine. She and her husband a Member of Parliament and accomplished sailor traveled extensively on their yacht "Sunbeam" and Annie's lively books about their adventures found an eager audience. This book published after she died of malaria at age 48 recounts travels in India Sri Lanka Indonesia Malaysia and Australia. Longmans, Green hardcover books
1987Best.-Nr. 810Durham NC: Duke University Press 1987. First edition of the photographer's second major photobook. Quarto original cloth. Signed by Helen Levitt on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Not to be confused with the more common paperback edition. Helen Levitt and the author James Agee first collaborated in 1945 on a documentary film set in Harlem called "In the Street." Psychologist Robert Coles contributed the essays to this volume. Owen Edwards from The New York Times has noted that "in common situations Miss Levitt finds the glint of an often bizarre beauty that most of us-including photographers-do not notice. . . . She brings to her pictures an intensity that can be almost hypnotic." "There is no fundamental difference in the great landscapes and quiet portraits of Edward Weston and the profoundly revealing pictures of children by Helen Levitt. Both are photographic perceptions of the highest order" Ansel Adams. Duke University Press hardcover books
2007Best.-Nr. 50859New York: Aperture 2007. First Edition. Quarto. Paper-covered boards in dust jacket; 143pp. Bottom edge of spine mildly bumped else a tight clean unmarked copy. Trivial toning to top edge and spine of jacket minor shelf wear showing to jacket. Near Fine. Aperture unknown books
1978Best.-Nr. 50835London: Arts Council of Great Britain 1978. Quarto. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 159pp. Exhibition catalog. Corners of boards mildly bumped. Margins of jacket flaps and interior of jacket showing minor toning. Jacket showing some external wear else a tight clean copy. Very Good. Arts Council of Great Britain unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 46721New Haven: Yale University Press 1999. First English Language Edition. Quarto 30.5cm; publisher's simulated cloth boards photo-illustrated dust jacket; 239pp; illus. throughtou. Light soil to dust jacket top fore-edge corner of upper cover bumped else Near Fine. Yale University Press unknown books
2001Best.-Nr. 44259Philadelphia / New Haven: Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale University Press 2001. First Edition. Quarto 31.5cm x 26cm. Blue-gray cloth boards hardcover with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 446pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to corner tips; faint soiling to bottom textblock corner else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to extremities else clean and sound. This volume was published on the occasion of the exhibition "Thomas Eakins: American Realist" organized by Darrel Sewell at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2001-2002 which traveled to the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York in 2002. Features essays by 11 prominant art historians and scholars. More than 250 reproductions of Eakins' paintings watercolors drawings photographs and sculpture. Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale University Press unknown books
2003Best.-Nr. 44276London: National Gallery Company Ltd 2003. First Edition. Quarto 33cm x 25cm. Black cloth boards hardcover with title embossed in black on cover and spine; pictorial dustwrapper; 320pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to extremities else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to extremities else clean and crisp. Extensively addressing the full range of the 16th-Century master El Greco's artistic production and exploring the artist's life through philosophical and religious perspectives this volume was published to accompany the exhibition "El Greco" organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York and the National Gallery London in 2003-2004. Hundreds of illustrations including color reproductions and details of 83 of Goya's paintings. National Gallery Company Ltd unknown books
1999Best.-Nr. 44435New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press / The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum 1999. First Edition. Quarto 29cm x 22.5cm. Gray cloth boards hardcover with titling embossed in red on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 222pp; illus. Near Fine copy; very slight shelf wear to bottom extremities else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper; very slight shelf wear to extremities else clean and crisp. Published as the catalogue for an exhibition organized by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Musuem this volume explores the innovations of Russian graphic arts during the period beginning with the explosion of artistic creativity initiated by Serge Diaghilev and ending with Stalin's control over the arts. 227 illustrations in color and b&w. Rutgers University Press / The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum unknown books
2002Best.-Nr. 42972New Haven: Yale University Press 2002. First American Edition. Quarto 28cm.; publisher's boards in glossy photo-illustrated dust jacket; xii173pp.; illus. throughout some in color. Pinpoint wear to jacket extremities else Near Fine. Substantial catalog of an exhibition mounted in Lisbon and Madrid. Yale University Press unknown books
2006Best.-Nr. 42632Hanover NH: Hood Museum of Art / University Press of New England 2006. First Edition. Quarto 28cm x 28cm. Pictorial glossy card wrappers paperback; 88pp; illus. Near Fine copy; small mark on back cover else fine. Published in conjunction with the exhibition "Protest in Paris 1968: Photographs by Serge Hambourg" held at the Hood Museum of Art Dartmouth College September 9-November 18 2006. Photographs by Serge Hambourg essays by Anne Sa'adah and Thomas Crow Introduction by Katherine Hart Foreward and Acknowledgements by Brian Kennedy. Hood Museum of Art / University Press of New England unknown books
1986Best.-Nr. 29879New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1986. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo 23.5cm; brown cloth and gray paper-covered boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 12 240pp. Fine in a very Near Fine dustjacket unclipped with just a hint of sunning to spine. Collection of essays arranged in three sections on Gustave Flaubert and Madame Bovary. Farrar, Straus and Giroux unknown books
2002Best.-Nr. 20824London: Belmont Press 2002. First Limited Edition. One of 100 standard copies numbered 101 to 200 of a total edition of 226 copies signed by the author and illustrator this being copy no.131. Octavo; 3/4 illustrated paper over quarter brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; 66pp 2; illus. A Fine copy without dustjacket as issued. Collection of four essays by the Booker Prize-winning author illustrated throughout by Eileen Hogan. Belmont Press unknown books
1971Best.-Nr. 18266Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky 1971. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; light brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 95pp. Top edge lightly foxed with faint spotting scattered along panels; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped lightly rubbed at extremities with a touch of sunning to spine; Very Good. A collection of 14 essays which survey the achievement of American literature covering a multitude of genres. The University Press of Kentucky unknown books
1987Best.-Nr. 18305New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1987. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo; 1/4 maroon cloth over maroon paper-covered boards with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; 303pp. Fine in a price-clipped else very Near Fine dustjacket. A collection of 16 essays. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich unknown books
1982Best.-Nr. 265807Metuchen: The Scarecrow Press 1982. Hardcover. x 350p. light pencil checks else a very good second edition in yellow cloth boards titled black. 4282 entries. The primary reference book for literature featuring gay characters. Revised and updated. The Scarecrow Press hardcover books
