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1793rif. 333Zürich / Leipzig 1793. Erster Band alles erschieneneMit Anmerkungen zum ersten Bande Tafel VII fehlt oder wurde nicht eingebunden. Insgesamt guter Zustand. Einzelne Kupfer mit Einrissen. Neuerer Besitzername auf Vorsatzbl. Rara Ziegler 8°. Hldr. d. Zt. Raetica unknown
1792rif. 20391792. Vierter Band Guter Zustand Barth 21871 Kl.-8°. Pbd. Raetica unknown
rif. BN45066Ulisses Medien und Spiel Distribution GmbH. Hardcover. 210 x 300 mm. Enthält die Abenteuer "Siebenstreich" und "Rausch der Ewigkeit". Wie schon in den ersten drei Bänden "Rückkehr der Finsternis" "Meister der Dämonen" und "Invasion der Verdammten" sind auch die in diesem Band enthaltenen Abenteuer komplett überarbeitet und ergänzt Autor: Thomas Finn wurde 1967 in Chicago geboren und lebt heute in Hamburg. Bekannt und preisgekrönt wurde er als Mitautor des bekanntesten Fantasy-Rollenspiels 'Das schwarze Auge'. Nach einigen Jahren als Lektor und Dramaturg arbeitet er heute hauptberuflich als Roman- Spiele- Theater- und Drehbuchautor.EAN ISBN-13: 9783890644349 ISBN ISBN-10: 3890644341 Erscheinungsjahr: 2007 Herausgeber: Wachholz Mark Weste Anton Ulisses Medien und Spiel Distribution GmbH ISBN/EAN: 3890644341 ISBN: 3-89064-434-1 978-3-89064-434-9 Autor des Buches: finn thomas gleichmann falkenhagen lena mark wachholz Titel des Buches: die mächte des schicksals das auge des die schwarze sieben gezeichneten das schwarze auge abenteuer das schwarze uge macht des schicksals dsa war sieben wachholz kam das abenteuer gezeichnet invasion der verdammten spiel schicksals DSA auge maechte schicksals gezeichnete schicksals kampagnenband Titel: Die Sieben Gezeichneten; Die Sieben Gezeichneten Mächte des Schicksals - Die Sieben Gezeichneten 4 SG 4 Verlag: Ulisses Medien und Spiel Distribution GmbH 288 Seiten Erscheinungsjahr: 2007 zahl. schw.-w. Ill. Belletristik Fantasy; Fantasyliteratur; DSA; Gezeichnete; Das Schwarze Auge; Rollenspiel; Fantasy Reihe/Serie: Die Sieben Gezeichneten; 4 Redaktion: Mark Wachholz Anton Weste Zusatzinfo: zahl. schw.-w. Ill. Sprache: deutsch Maße: 210 x 300 mm Einbandart: gebunden Literatur Fantasy Science Fiction Fantasy Das Schwarze Auge Das Schwarze Auge Fantasy-Rollenspiel DSA Fantasy Fantasy-Rollenspiele Gezeichnete Rollenspiel ISBN-10: 3-89064-434-1 3890644341 ISBN-13: 978-3-89064-434-9 9783890644349 Literatur Fantasy Science Fiction Fantasy Das Schwarze Auge Das Schwarze Auge Fantasy-Rollenspiel DSA Fantasy Fantasy-Rollenspiele Gezeichnete Rollenspiel Enthält die Abenteuer "Siebenstreich" und "Rausch der Ewigkeit". Wie schon in den ersten drei Bänden "Rückkehr der Finsternis" "Meister der Dämonen" und "Invasion der Verdammten" sind auch die in diesem Band enthaltenen Abenteuer komplett überarbeitet und ergänzt Autor: Thomas Finn wurde 1967 in Chicago geboren und lebt heute in Hamburg. Bekannt und preisgekrönt wurde er als Mitautor des bekanntesten Fantasy-Rollenspiels 'Das schwarze Auge'. Nach einigen Jahren als Lektor und Dramaturg arbeitet er heute hauptberuflich als Roman- Spiele- Theater- und Drehbuchautor.EAN ISBN-13: 9783890644349 ISBN ISBN-10: 3890644341 Erscheinungsjahr: 2007 Herausgeber: Wachholz Mark Weste Anton Ulisses Medien und Spiel Distribution GmbH ISBN/EAN: 3890644341 ISBN: 3-89064-434-1 978-3-89064-434-9 Autor des Buches: finn thomas gleichmann falkenhagen lena mark wachholz Titel des Buches: die mächte des schicksals das auge des die schwarze sieben gezeichneten das schwarze auge abenteuer das schwarze uge macht des schicksals dsa war sieben wachholz kam das abenteuer gezeichnet invasion der verdammten spiel schicksals DSA auge maechte schicksals gezeichnete schicksals kampagnenband Titel: Die Sieben Gezeichneten; Die Sieben Gezeichneten Mächte des Schicksals - Die Sieben Gezeichneten 4 SG 4 Verlag: Ulisses Medien und Spiel Distribution GmbH 288 Seiten Erscheinungsjahr: 2007 zahl. schw.-w. Ill. Belletristik Fantasy; Fantasyliteratur; DSA; Gezeichnete; Das Schwarze Auge; Rollenspiel; Fantasy Reihe/Serie: Die Sieben Gezeichneten; 4 Redaktion: Mark Wachholz Anton Weste Zusatzinfo: zahl. schw.-w. Ill. Sprache: deutsch Maße: 210 x 300 mm Einbandart: gebunden ISBN-10: 3-89064-434-1 3890644341 ISBN-13: 978-3-89064-434-9 9783890644349 Ulisses Medien und Spiel Distribution GmbH hardcover
2020rif. SBBI-mon0000145261BIBLIOTHEQUE 2020. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. BIBLIOTHEQUE paperback
1978rif. SBBI-mon0000104517Jacaranda Press 1978. unknown_binding. Acceptable. Stains to cover page edges and/or pages inside. Writing/highlighting/drawing/colouring present inside or on cover. Please see the condition note after this for details if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining water damage writing missing dustjacket etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Jacaranda Press unknown
1989rif. SBBI-mon0000132364Hachette Jeunesse 1989. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Hachette Jeunesse paperback
rif. 9935Black & white illus. throughout. 16 pp. incl. wrappers. 4to printed wrappers staple-bound. Warsaw: Galeria Remont 1976. An extremely scarce exhibition catalogue published for Carrión’s first exhibition at Henryk Gajewski’s Galeria Remont. Gajewski b. 1948 the Polish artist and filmmaker founded this contemporary art space in a dormitory student club at the Warsaw University of Technology. The gallery operated from April 1972 to November 1979 hosting performance art exhibitions of photography stamp art and bookworks and many other events. This catalogue contains the artist’s celebrated manifesto “The New Art of Making Books” which had been published for the first time the previous year in Plural no. 41 in Spanish and Michael Gibbs’s Kontexts nos. 6-7 in English. Galeria Remont became one of Carrión’s most important international connections in the vast network of collaborators he formed. Following this show he curated another exhibition at the Warsaw space — Inne Ksiazki 8-30 May 1977 — and gave lectures and performances there related to mail and stamp art. Most of the text in the catalogue reproduces Carrión’s characteristic bold script. In a very frank artist’s statement he elucidates his pivot from Mexican literary wünderkind to avant-garde language artist: “After extensively publishing short stories and theater plays in Mexico U. C. began using language outside the mould of what is usually called literature. Since then rather than writing poems ‘in the form of’ an advertisement or a dictionary old literature under new masks he situates dictionaries phone-books ads or any other manifestations of language as autonomous structures. His aim is to reveal the beauty and richness of these structures regardless of their referential content. U. C. is still a writer — and he insists on calling himself such — who writes very little or doesn’t even write at all. This is a radical shift in attitude which enables U. C. to concern himself not only with verbal languages but also with any system of symbols he may come across. He presents such systems either in the form of a book or as a display on a wall.” A fine copy but for faint browning to the wrappers. â§ Juan J. Agius & Ricardo Ocampo eds. Ulises Carrión: Books & More Catalogue Raisonné 2013 p. 116. unknown
rif. 11413Black & white illus. throughout. 24 leaves printed on rectos only. Small 4to 210 x 152 mm. orig. pictorial wrappers. Amsterdam: Cres Publications & Agora Studio July 1978 but 1979. First edition of this scarce bookwork. Conceived by Ulises Carrión 1941-89 it was the "July-Special" edition of Cres a bi-monthly publication and produced in an edition of 400 copies. Although it is dated "July 1978" on the upper wrapper a correction slip in this copy states that it is correctly dated July 1979. "In Alphabetical Order consisted of a set of twenty-four black-and-white photographs of a small wooden index card holder with a label saying 'a-z.' In each photograph some of the cards are placed vertically so that they stand out from the others. They are clearly different each time. The type and size of the card holder suggests that the index cards record personal details. It could be the file of Ulises Carrión's friends although all the friendships are obviously not considered equal nor do they all belong to the same social group or cultural scene. The series showed the wide range of possible categories of a single human group that has been sorted in alphabetical order."-Javier Maderuelo "An Archive Is an Archive Is an Archive Is an Archive" in Guy Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don't read. 2016 p. 58. Near fine copy; some minor creasing to the spine internally pristine. Photographs by John Liggins; layout by Thomas Gravemaker. unknown
rif. 9935Black & white illus. throughout. 16 pp. incl. wrappers. 4to printed wrappers staple-bound. Warsaw: Galeria Remont 1976. An extremely scarce exhibition catalogue published for Carrión’s first exhibition at Henryk Gajewski’s Galeria Remont. Gajewski b. 1948 the Polish artist and filmmaker founded this contemporary art space in a dormitory student club at the Warsaw University of Technology. The gallery operated from April 1972 to November 1979 hosting performance art exhibitions of photography stamp art and bookworks and many other events. This catalogue contains the artist’s celebrated manifesto “The New Art of Making Books” which had been published for the first time the previous year in Plural no. 41 in Spanish and Michael Gibbs’s Kontexts nos. 6-7 in English. Galeria Remont became one of Carrión’s most important international connections in the vast network of collaborators he formed. Following this show he curated another exhibition at the Warsaw space — Inne Ksiazki 8-30 May 1977 — and gave lectures and performances there related to mail and stamp art. Most of the text in the catalogue reproduces Carrión’s characteristic bold script. In a very frank artist’s statement he elucidates his pivot from Mexican literary wünderkind to avant-garde language artist: “After extensively publishing short stories and theater plays in Mexico U. C. began using language outside the mould of what is usually called literature. Since then rather than writing poems ‘in the form of’ an advertisement or a dictionary old literature under new masks he situates dictionaries phone-books ads or any other manifestations of language as autonomous structures. His aim is to reveal the beauty and richness of these structures regardless of their referential content. U. C. is still a writer — and he insists on calling himself such — who writes very little or doesn’t even write at all. This is a radical shift in attitude which enables U. C. to concern himself not only with verbal languages but also with any system of symbols he may come across. He presents such systems either in the form of a book or as a display on a wall.” A fine copy but for faint browning to the wrappers. â§ Juan J. Agius & Ricardo Ocampo eds. Ulises Carrión: Books & More Catalogue Raisonné 2013 p. 116. unknown books
rif. 11413Black & white illus. throughout. 24 leaves printed on rectos only. Small 4to 210 x 152 mm. orig. pictorial wrappers. Amsterdam: Cres Publications & Agora Studio July 1978 but 1979. First edition of this scarce bookwork. Conceived by Ulises Carrión 1941-89 it was the "July-Special" edition of Cres a bi-monthly publication and produced in an edition of 400 copies. Although it is dated "July 1978" on the upper wrapper a correction slip in this copy states that it is correctly dated July 1979. "In Alphabetical Order consisted of a set of twenty-four black-and-white photographs of a small wooden index card holder with a label saying 'a-z.' In each photograph some of the cards are placed vertically so that they stand out from the others. They are clearly different each time. The type and size of the card holder suggests that the index cards record personal details. It could be the file of Ulises Carrión's friends although all the friendships are obviously not considered equal nor do they all belong to the same social group or cultural scene. The series showed the wide range of possible categories of a single human group that has been sorted in alphabetical order."-Javier Maderuelo "An Archive Is an Archive Is an Archive Is an Archive" in Guy Schraenen ed. Dear reader. Don't read. 2016 p. 58. Near fine copy; some minor creasing to the spine internally pristine. Photographs by John Liggins; layout by Thomas Gravemaker. unknown books
1865rif. 146695New York: W. J. Widdleton 1865. Early printing of this anecdotal history of eatery; from the library of the eighteenth President of the United States. Octavo bound in contemporary three quarter calf over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands morocco spine labels all edges marbled marbled endpapers. Ulysses S. Grant's bookplate to the front pastedown. In very good condition. Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States 1869–77. As Commanding General of the United States Army 1864–69 Grant worked closely with President Abraham Lincoln to lead the Union Army to victory over the Confederacy in the Civil War. He implemented Congressional Reconstruction often at odds with Lincoln's successor Andrew Johnson. Twice elected president Grant led the Republicans in their effort to remove the vestiges of Confederate nationalism and slavery protect African-American citizenship and supported unbridled nationwide industrial expansionism during the Gilded Age. W. J. Widdleton hardcover
rif. 10001London: Anvil Press Poetry 1981. First Edition First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Thin octavp. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. xiv 114 pp. Fine in original black cloth-backed boards and fine pictorial dust jacket. Signed on the half-title by Odysseus Elytis. The great Greek romantic poet won the Nobel Prize in literature in 1979. Very scarce signed. Anvil Press Poetry hardcover
1981rif. 469525New York: Anvil Press Poetry 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Chosen and introduced by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Translated by Edmund Keeley George Savidis Philip Sherrard John Stathatos and Nanos Valaoritis. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Elytis on the title page and with both a flyer for a reading and a publisher's order form laid in. A lovely copy. Elytis won the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature. Anvil Press Poetry hardcover
rif. 333098London: Anvil Press Poetry 1980. First English edition. 103 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in gold fine in fine dust jacket with publisher's band the band a bit soiled with one short creased tear. First English edition. 103 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by Odysseus Elytis to Michael Curtis on the title page. Laid into the book is an announcement by the Arts Council Shop in London for a 1980 reading by Elytis and an advertisement for the Anvil Press printing of Selected Poems and The Axion Esti. Elytis won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1979. Michael Curtis was editor of the liberal News Chronicle at the age of 34. His opposition to the Suez Invasion led to the paper taking a significant hit in popularity. His attempts to modernize the paper fell afoul of the owners the Cadbury family and he resigned in 1957 after three years. He then worked as executive press aide to the Aga Khan founding the Daily Nation which played a major role in helping smooth Kenya's transition to independence in 1963. He worked for the Aga Kahn's social welfare institution until his retirement. Anvil Press Poetry unknown
1981rif. 469525New York: Anvil Press Poetry 1981. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Chosen and introduced by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Translated by Edmund Keeley George Savidis Philip Sherrard John Stathatos and Nanos Valaoritis. Fine in fine dust jacket. Signed by Elytis on the title page and with both a flyer for a reading and a publisher's order form laid in. A lovely copy. Elytis won the 1979 Nobel Prize for Literature. Anvil Press Poetry hardcover books
rif. 333098London: Anvil Press Poetry 1980. First English edition. 103 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in gold fine in fine dust jacket with publisher's band the band a bit soiled with one short creased tear. First English edition. 103 pp. 8vo. Inscribed by Odysseus Elytis to Michael Curtis on the title page. Laid into the book is an announcement by the Arts Council Shop in London for a 1980 reading by Elytis and an advertisement for the Anvil Press printing of Selected Poems and The Axion Esti. Elytis won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1979. Michael Curtis was editor of the liberal News Chronicle at the age of 34. His opposition to the Suez Invasion led to the paper taking a significant hit in popularity. His attempts to modernize the paper fell afoul of the owners the Cadbury family and he resigned in 1957 after three years. He then worked as executive press aide to the Aga Khan founding the Daily Nation which played a major role in helping smooth Kenya's transition to independence in 1963. He worked for the Aga Kahn's social welfare institution until his retirement. Anvil Press Poetry unknown books
2005rif. f15499Easton Press 2005. hardcover. Like New. 0x0x0. Complete 6 Volume Set. Easton Press Full leather with gilt lettering and decoration linen end papers and ribbon page marker. Books are in excellent condition text is unmarked and pages are tight. Books have no markings and comes with original unattached/unused easton press bookplates and pamphlets. Easton Press hardcover
1885rif. 14539New York: Charles L. Webster 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Large octavo 2 volumes. A very good set in the publisher's deluxe half morocco binding. Some wear to the corners tiny number stamp to a front blank in volume I else unmarked. Light rubbing to outer joints. Otherwise a nice set with inner hinges intact the spines fresh and unfaded and the contents appearing unread with all foldouts intact. A popular and well-regarded memoir among the best in both the military and presidential classes. Grant finished the memoirs on his deathbed and was convinced by his friend Mark Twain to use his publisher Charles L. Webster who sold the book by subscription only. Many of the book's "salesmen" were not really professional salesmen but veterans of the war who held Grant--warts and all--in very high esteem for his leadership during the conflict. These veterans often showed up to their neighbors' homes wearing their old uniforms; it's hard to imagine saying "no" to such a "salesman. Charles L. Webster hardcover
1932rif. 11253Paris, Les Exemplaires, 1932 ; in-8, broché, étui orange ; 74 [75], (1 bl.), (2) pp., couverture beige clair rempliée, imprimée en rouge et noir, 8 pointes sèches de Jean-Louis Boussingault (1883-1943).
rif. 9675105 6 pp. Small 4to 200 x 146 mm. orig. printed pictorial softcover minor wear to spine title on spine. Mexico: Ediciones Era 1966. First and only edition of Carrión’s first published book. In 1966 Carrión 1941-89 was one of Mexico’s emerging literary talents. A number of his short stories had been published in leading journals and his first play El Gran Espectáculo was performed at the Casa de la Cultura de Tlacotalpan Veracruz to rave reviews. Following his studies in philosophy and letters at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México he spent time in France and Germany 1964-65 learning both languages. La muerte de Miss O consisting of six short stories — La muerte de Miss O Y el olvido… Las palabras Graciela y yo El asalto and Como la serpiente — was lauded in an effusive review published in El Colegio de México’s Diálogos: Artes Letras Ciencias humanas. “La muerte de Miss O. 1966 a collection of six stories in which he fluctuates between psychological and realistic prose is perhaps his most well-known and highly acclaimed work. Skillfully employing the interior monologue somewhat reminiscent of both Marcel Proust and William Faulkner Carrión creates vivid and engaging characters whose psychological self-expression is tinged with realism.”––Eladio Cortés ed. Dictionary of Mexican Literature 1992 p. 147. In very good condition; small crease to corner of the upper cover and minor shelfwear to edges. Price sticker to recto of first blank leaf. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. â§ Juan J. Agius & Ricardo Ocampo eds. Ulises Carrión: Books & More Catalogue Raisonné 2013 pp. 22-23. Reviewed in Diálogos: Artes Letras Ciencias humanas Vol. 2 No. 6 12 October-November 1966 p. 31. unknown
rif. 9675105 6 pp. Small 4to 200 x 146 mm. orig. printed pictorial softcover minor wear to spine title on spine. Mexico: Ediciones Era 1966. First and only edition of Carrión’s first published book. In 1966 Carrión 1941-89 was one of Mexico’s emerging literary talents. A number of his short stories had been published in leading journals and his first play El Gran Espectáculo was performed at the Casa de la Cultura de Tlacotalpan Veracruz to rave reviews. Following his studies in philosophy and letters at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México he spent time in France and Germany 1964-65 learning both languages. La muerte de Miss O consisting of six short stories — La muerte de Miss O Y el olvido… Las palabras Graciela y yo El asalto and Como la serpiente — was lauded in an effusive review published in El Colegio de México’s Diálogos: Artes Letras Ciencias humanas. “La muerte de Miss O. 1966 a collection of six stories in which he fluctuates between psychological and realistic prose is perhaps his most well-known and highly acclaimed work. Skillfully employing the interior monologue somewhat reminiscent of both Marcel Proust and William Faulkner Carrión creates vivid and engaging characters whose psychological self-expression is tinged with realism.”––Eladio Cortés ed. Dictionary of Mexican Literature 1992 p. 147. In very good condition; small crease to corner of the upper cover and minor shelfwear to edges. Price sticker to recto of first blank leaf. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. â§ Juan J. Agius & Ricardo Ocampo eds. Ulises Carrión: Books & More Catalogue Raisonné 2013 pp. 22-23. Reviewed in Diálogos: Artes Letras Ciencias humanas Vol. 2 No. 6 12 October-November 1966 p. 31. unknown books
rif. Z1-X-021-00349Peter Lang Inc. International Academic Publishers. Used - Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library so some stamps and wear but in good overall condition. May contain underlining and/or highlighting. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry. Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers unknown
rif. 143753Mexico: Joaquín Mortiz 1970. First edition and only edition number 533 of 3000 copies of Carrión's second book a collection of six short stories employing the interior monologue by "perhaps Mexico's most important conceptual artist" Torre. Uncommon on the market: we were unable to trace any other copies for sale or at auction. Ulises Carrión 1941-1989 wrote De Alemania after his language and literature studies in France and Germany. In 1972 Carrión left Mexico and moved to Amsterdam where he founded the legendary Other Books and So bookstore and event space. He remains best known for his decisive role in defining and conceptualising the artistic genre artists' book through his manifest The New Art of Making Books 1975 "in which he extols the virtues of the book as a three-dimensional medium and convincingly refutes the idea of its being an accidental container of literature: 'A book is not a case of words nor a bag of words nor a bearer of words.' Arguing that if in the 'old art the writer writes texts . in the new art the writer makes books' Carrión urged writers and artists to take advantage of the possibilities that new printing technologies such as the mimeograph had to offer to bypass the market and to form alternate distribution networks by fostering communities of like-minded practitioners" Torre. Octavo. Original pictorial white wrappers printed in purple and black titles to spine and front cover in black and white. Extremities a little rubbed vertical creasing to spine the binding otherwise firm and unfaded slight spotting to top edge internally clean and fresh; a very good copy indeed. Mónica de la Torre "Ulises Carrión's The Poet's Tongue" in BOMB January 2013. unknown
rif. 147821Rare Javanese kris commonly used in the pencak silat martial art native to Indonesia from the collection of General William T. Sherman preserved in his military trunk. Ulysses S. Grant a close friend of Sherman’s went on a “World Tour” after his second presidential term had ended. It has been suggested that Grant collected a few souvenirs for his dear friend while visiting Asia. When the Grant family returned from their trip Sherman greeted Grant at a reunion held by the veterans of the Army of the Tennessee. In good condition with handle missing. The piece measures 14.5 inches. General William Tecumseh Sherman and General Ulysses S. Grant were key figures in the Union Army during the American Civil War forming a close personal and professional relationship that significantly influenced the war’s outcome. Grant known for his strategic leadership recognized Sherman’s military talents early in the war and the two collaborated on major campaigns including the Vicksburg Campaign 1863 and Sherman’s March to the Sea 1864–1865. Their coordinated efforts exemplified the Union’s strategy of total war aimed at crippling the Confederacy’s resources and morale. After the war their partnership continued with Sherman succeeding Grant as Commanding General of the U.S. Army in 1869 when Grant became President. Their mutual trust and shared military philosophy played a crucial role in shaping U.S. military strategy and post-war reconstruction efforts. unknown