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réf. 71-1610Milwaukee WI.: Milwaukee Art Center 1969. 8vo. Square. 14 pp. Soft Cover. Stapled Wraps. Brochure. Good minor rubs to the covers several creases to covers interior sheet edges lightly toned but clean and intact.From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. Milwaukee, WI.: Milwaukee Art Center, 1969. paperback
réf. 71-1277Riverside CA.: University of California Riverside 1987. 8vo. Square. 72 pp. Soft Cover. Color plates throughout. Very Good. Minor wear on covers.Tipped-in is the invitation to the exhibition opening at UC San Diego.Provenance: From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. Riverside, CA.: University of California, Riverside, 1987. paperback
réf. 18-0771Prague: Vydala Stredoceska Galerie K Vystave 1992. 4to. 60 pp. Very Good. Soft covers. Pages fine. Duotone plates throughout. Czech born Kriz migrated to the USA where he worked for Dorothea Lange and MoMA before he became the professor of photography at the California College of Arts & Crafts in Oakland. This was a Prague retrospective of his work. Text in English and Czech. Scarce. ISBN 10: 8070560118 ISBN 13: 9788070560112. Prague: Vydala Stredoceska Galerie K Vystave, [1992]. paperback
2026réf. LRB7002311Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 496 pages. Printed on premium paper. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1824. Periodical volume offering a wide-ranging survey of early nineteenth-century literary culture with reviews of new publications biographical notices essays on literature the arts and sciences together with anecdotes and topographical descriptions. A useful source for readers interested in the intellectual social and editorial life of the period. This volume brings together reviews of contemporary publications biographical pieces essays on literature the arts and sciences as well as anecdotes and topographical observations. Of particular interest for bibliographical research and for the study of early nineteenth-century literary and cultural taste. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
réf. 3791346229.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1975réf. 29550Boston :: Godine 1975. Signed Limited Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket in a fine slipcase. This is copy # 40 of only 225 copies of this signed limited edition. The color blue is the most suitable color of interior life.the one color that moves easily through our various states of feeling. Blue pencils blue noses blue movies laws and stockings. The dumps Mondays; the ocean the sky and the deep deep ice. The Whale and the grass in Kentucky. This essay into the "world of blue" is at the heart of Gass’s oeuvre. Godine, unknown
réf. CS-4062International. Brand New. Brand New unknown
2001réf. 29527San Francisco:: Sierra Club 2001. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. In this collection of twenty-one meditative essays on our environment Duncan reflects his child-like delight in the natural world with a shaman's wisdom previously experienced in the writings of Thoreau and Whitman. Sierra Club, unknown
1979réf. 29419New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with previous owner name on flyleaf in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with a small nick to the head of the spine. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Simon & Schuster, unknown
1988réf. 29494New York:: Scribner's 1988. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine bright clipped dust jacket. This copy is signed and inscribed by Lopez. This volume collects 14 naturalist essays by the author of Arctic Dreams and River Notes. In Crossing Open Ground writer Barry Lopez offers beautiful and thought-provoking reflections on how the natural world can define and illuminate our sense of self. Whether he’s traversing the Arctic tundra or the deserts of the American Southwest recalling the devastating beaching of forty-one sperm whales along the Oregon coast or reveling in the remarkable migrations of wild geese Lopez shows readers the world’s special places its remarkable people and stunning natural events. He thoughtfully explores humankind’s place in this vast natural scheme and opens our eyes to its breathtaking complexity. Scribner's, unknown
2007réf. 29454New York:: Random House 2007. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. Portraits and Observations is the first volume devoted solely to all the essays ever published by this most beloved of writers. Included are such masterpieces of narrative nonfiction as “The Muses Are Heard” and the short nonfiction novel “Handcarved Coffins” as well as many long-out-of-print essays including portraits of Mae West Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe. From his travel sketches of Brooklyn New Orleans and Hollywood written when he was twenty-two to the author’s last written words composed the day before his death in 1984 the recently discovered “Remembering Willa Cather” Random House, unknown
1979réf. 29244New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine tight copy with remainder mark on bottom edge in a Very Good plus unclipped dust jacket with sunning to the author's name on the spine. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Simon & Schuster, unknown
1988réf. 29100Livingston:: Clark City Press 1988. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy of this paperback original in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. This copy is signed by Chatham. Russell Chatham is best known as a painter of the highest quality. But he is also a fine writer with a painter's eye for detail. In this volume Chatham writes on a variety of subjects including Roderick Haig-Brown the lore of flies culinary delights drinking and fly fishing in various locales ranging from Baja California New Zealand Montana France and British Columbia. Clark City Press, paperback
1986réf. 29098Lewiston::: Confluence Press 1986. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The thirteen essays in this remarkable collection by the son of poet William Stafford provide the poet's personal vision with a regional evocation of place and character. Kim Stafford writes "with the wisdom of the folklorist and the clarity of the poet." These are wonder-filled stories that nourish and illuminate life. Confluence Press,, unknown
1987réf. 29133Harrisburg :: Stackpole Books 1987. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy in a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with light sunning to the extremities. This is Rick Bass's second book. This copy is inscribed by Bass. The thirteen personal essays in this collection addresses Bass's love for the natural world and his search for the solace that that world provides him. Collectively they tell us much about the relationship between the wildness in ourself and the daily lives we live. Stackpole Books , unknown
2002réf. 29187New York:: Knopf 2002. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Tests of Time brings us fourteen witty and elegant essays by novelist and literary critic William H. Gass "the finest prose stylist in America" Steven Moore Washington Post. Whether he's exploring the nature of narrative the extent and cost of political influences on writers or the relationships between the stories we tell and the moral judgments we make Gass is always erudite entertaining and enlightening. Knopf, unknown
1979réf. 28906New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Very Good plus copy with light sunning to the boards in a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with a closed edge tear and toning to the extremities. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Simon & Schuster, hardcover
2016réf. 28852Los Angeles:: Getty Research Institute 2016. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight unread copy in a Fine dust jacket. Man Ray 1890 –1976 was a pioneer of the Dada movement in the United States and France and a central protagonist of Surrealism. Man Ray: Writings on Art fills a conspicuous gap in scholarship on the artist and his period. It brings together his most significant writings many of them published here for the first time. These occasionally quixotic texts which include artist books essays interviews letters and visual poems reveal the incredible scale of the artist’s output and the remarkable continuity of his aesthetic and political beliefs. This volume offers a long overdue vision of Man Ray as someone who used words both as a creative medium and as a means of articulating ideas about the nature and value of art. With richly reproduced illustrations it provides powerful insight into art history. Getty Research Institute, unknown
2007réf. 28806Emeryville:: Shoemaker & Hoard 2007. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. tTis collection of essays by Gary Snyder blazes with insight. In his most autobiographical writing to date these essays employ fire as a metaphor for the crucial moment when deeply held viewpoints yield to new experiences and our spirits and minds broaden and mature. Snyder here writes and riffs on a wide range of topics from explorations of southwestern European Paleolithic cave art to his own personal poetic history with haiku; from reminiscences of youthful West Coast logging and trail crew days to talks given in Paris and Tokyo on art and archetypes. He honors poets of his generation like Philip Whalen and Allen Ginsberg and meditates on art labor and the making of families houses and homesteads. This is not a collection of essays but a cohesive presentation of Snyder's life and work expressed in his characteristically straightforward prose. Shoemaker & Hoard, unknown
1989réf. 28454New York:: Knopf 1989. First Printing of the First Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. The Outermost Dream brings together essays and reviews by William Maxwell one of America's foremost writers and editors. Maxwell chose deliberately to focus on biography memoir diaries and correspondence when reviewing books: In reading his reviews we are struck by Maxwell's skill in choosing the one particular the haunting moment that further illuminates our understanding of the power of an individual life. His discernment is equally telling whether writing about literary luminaries such as Virginia Woolf Lord Byron E.B. White Isak Dinesen or delving into the diaries of an unknown Victorian curate with vivid dreams of murder and mayhem. Knopf, unknown
1979réf. 28113New York:: Simon & Schuster 1979. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Examining key events figures and trends of the era-including Charles Manson the Black Panthers and the shopping mall-through the lens of her own spiritual confusion Joan Didion helped to define mass culture as we now understand it. Written with a commanding sureness of tone and linguistic precision The White Album is a central text of American reportage and a classic of American autobiography. Simon & Schuster, unknown
1992réf. 28212New York:: Simon & Schuster 1992. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine dust jacket. This is Didion's third collection of essays primarily published in The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. In this collection Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives that elude other observers: Didion tells us about the fantasies the media construct around crime victims and presidential candidates; she gives us new interpretations of the stories of Nancy Reagan and Patty Hearst; she charts America's rollercoaster ride through evanescent booms and hard times that won't go away. Simon & Schuster, unknown
1999réf. 27480New York:: Lyons Press 1999. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. In the nine essays in this collection Montana novelist Tom McGuane animates the wide prairie the ranches where cattle roam and cutting horses are trained and the packed coliseums in which these horses compete for prestige and prize money. Best of all McGuane brings to life the horses he has known celebrating the unique glories that make each of them memorable. McGuane's writing is infused with a love of the cowboy life and the animals and people who inhabit that world where the intimate dance between horse and rider is as magical as flight--well beyond what the human body could ever discover on its own. Lyons Press, unknown
2002réf. 27159New York:: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2002. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Near Fine copy with a small dent to the lower of the front board in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. Whether autobiographical topical or specifically literary these writings circle the central preoccupying questions of Seamus Heaney's career: "How should a poet properly live and write What is his relationship to be to his own voice his own place his literary heritage and the contemporary world" This collection includes Heaney's finest lectures and a rich variety of pieces not previously collected in volume form ranging from short newspaper articles to radio commentaries. In its soundings of a wide range of poets -- Irish and British American and Eastern European predecessors and contemporaries -- Finders Keepers is as its title indicates "an announcement of both excitement and possession." Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, unknown
1989réf. 27279New York:: Farrar Straus & Giroux 1989. First Printing of the First US Edition. S Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In his volume of critical essays The Government of the Tongue Seamus Heaney scrutinizes the poetry of many masterful poets. Throughout the collection Heaney's gifts as a wise and genial reader are exercised with characteristic exactness and we are reminded above all of the essentially gratifying nature of poetry itself. Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, unknown
