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1935ref. 3117276BOSTON: Little Brown and Company. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First edition. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. 243pp. 5 1/4" X 7 3/4" Jacket would be fine were it not for some spotting at bottom of spine on jacket and a couple spots on rear panel. Comes with the rare 4p. Advance promo for Eric Hatch's other titles. Made into one of the greatest of all screwball comedy films starring William Powell and Carol Lombard. Re-printed immediately and uncommon in the first printing. ; 5 1/4" x 7 3/4"; 243 pages . Little, Brown and Company hardcover
ref. 14444New York: Hatch & Co. Lithograph of the handsome Hudson River steamer that was referred to in a NY Times article in July 1865 "We have been admitted to royal and imperial palaces in England France Holland Belgium Austria &c. without pressing carpets richer or more expensive than those which adorn the magnificent saloons of the Dean Richmond." 23.5x17.75" plus margins. Lightly & uniformly browned sml. watermark on right margin. In period brown painted frame with gilt inner margin. Frame measures 29.25 x 23.25 Hatch & Co unknown
2001ref. BRG-45_1_318White Wolf Publishing 2001-08-06. hardcover. Very Good. 8x0x11. Very Good condition.Crisp pages. Clean cover and pages. Book shows minimal shelf wear. No highlighting/marking. Not Satisfied Contact us to get a refund. White Wolf Publishing hardcover
ref. Z1-C-026-00943Bibliolife. Used - Like New. Used - Like New. Book is new and unread but may have minor shelf wear. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less usually same day. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. 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. Bibliolife unknown
1976ref. 64220Gallery. As New. Paperback. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request – – IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 174 pp. With 104 ills. 25 x 19 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- . 1976. Gallery paperback
2012ref. 100713The MIT Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 348 pages; well-illustrated in color and black and white. -- with a bonus offer--; October Books; In a career that spanned five decades most of them spent in San Francisco Bruce Conner 1933--2008 produced a unique body of work that refused to be contained by medium or style. Whether making found-footage films hallucinatory ink-blot graphics enigmatic collages or assemblages from castoffs Conner took up genres as quickly as he abandoned them. His movements within San Francisco's counter-cultural scenes were similarly free-wheeling; at home in beat poetry punk music and underground film circles he never completely belonged to any of them. Bruce Conner belonged to Bruce Conner. Twice he announced his own death; during the last years of his life he produced a series of pseudonymous works after announcing his "retirement." In this first book-length study of Conner's enormously influential but insufficiently understood career Kevin Hatch explores Conner's work as well as his position on the geographical cultural and critical margins. Hatch finds a set of abiding concerns that inform Conner's wide-ranging works and changing personas. A deep anxiety pervades the work reflecting a struggle between private unknowable interior experience and a duplicitous world of received images and false appearances. The profane and the sacred the comic and the tragic the enigmatic and the universal: each of these antinomies is pushed to the breaking point in Conner's work. Generously illustrated with many color images of Conner's works Looking for Bruce Conner proceeds in roughly chronological fashion from Conner's notorious assemblages BLACK DAHLIA and RATBASTARD among them through his experimental films populated by images from what Conner called "the tremendous fantastic movies going in my head from all the scenes I'd seen" his little-known graphic work and his collage and inkblot drawings. . 2012. 0262016818 . The MIT Press hardcover
2012ref. 97824The MIT Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 354 pp. ; 104 illus. 55 in color. -- with a bonus offer--; October Books; In a career that spanned five decades most of them spent in San Francisco Bruce Conner 1933--2008 produced a unique body of work that refused to be contained by medium or style. Whether making found-footage films hallucinatory ink-blot graphics enigmatic collages or assemblages from castoffs Conner took up genres as quickly as he abandoned them. His movements within San Francisco's counter-cultural scenes were similarly free-wheeling; at home in beat poetry punk music and underground film circles he never completely belonged to any of them. Bruce Conner belonged to Bruce Conner. Twice he announced his own death; during the last years of his life he produced a series of pseudonymous works after announcing his "retirement." In this first book-length study of Conner's enormously influential but insufficiently understood career Kevin Hatch explores Conner's work as well as his position on the geographical cultural and critical margins. Hatch finds a set of abiding concerns that inform Conner's wide-ranging works and changing personas. A deep anxiety pervades the work reflecting a struggle between private unknowable interior experience and a duplicitous world of received images and false appearances. The profane and the sacred the comic and the tragic the enigmatic and the universal: each of these antinomies is pushed to the breaking point in Conner's work. Generously illustrated with many color images of Conner's works Looking for Bruce Conner proceeds in roughly chronological fashion from Conner's notorious assemblages BLACK DAHLIA and RATBASTARD among them through his experimental films populated by images from what Conner called "the tremendous fantastic movies going in my head from all the scenes I'd seen" his little-known graphic work and his collage and inkblot drawings. . 2012. 0262016818 . The MIT Press hardcover
2015ref. 111497Chronicle Books. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened - -- with a bonus offer-- . 2015. 1452134332 . Chronicle Books hardcover
2012ref. 98838Yale University Press. New. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request - IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy brand new pristine never opened -- 288 pp. ; 208 illus. 177 in color. -- with a bonus offer--; Were Thomas Jefferson to walk the grounds of Monticello today he would no doubt feel fully at home in the 1000-foot terraced vegetable garden where the very vegetables and herbs he favored are thriving. Extensively and painstakingly restored under Peter J. Hatch's brilliant direction Jefferson's unique vegetable garden now boasts the same medley of plants he enthusiastically cultivated in the early nineteenth century. The garden is a living expression of Jefferson's genius and his distinctly American attitudes. Its impact on the culinary garden and landscape history of the United States continues to the present day. Graced with nearly 200 full-color illustrations "A Rich Spot of Earth" is the first book devoted to all aspects of the Monticello vegetable garden. Hatch guides us from the asparagus and artichokes first planted in 1770 through the horticultural experiments of Jefferson's retirement years 1809–1826. The author explores topics ranging from labor in the garden garden pests of the time and seed saving practices to contemporary African American gardens. He also discusses Jefferson's favorite vegetables and the hundreds of varieties he grew the half-Virginian half-French cuisine he developed and the gardening traditions he adapted from many other countries. 20111020 . 2012. 0300171145 . Yale University Press hardcover
ref. Z1-C-084-01763Wiremill Publishing Ltd. 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 and may have sticker on cover but in good overall condition. 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. Wiremill Publishing Ltd unknown
1965ref. 151182Cairo: self-published 1965. A collaborative work from the height of Cairo's Black American creative movement First edition first printing of this collaborative book of poetry about racialized violence in America inscribed by Hatch one of the co-authors on the front free endpaper: "To Jackie would you believe two volumes of verse Love you for supporting the unpopular arts Jim". This self-published volume was a collaboration between Camille Billops a Black American artist her partner James Hatch a White American poet and Ibrahim Ibn Ismail a Black American poet whom the couple met in Cairo at that time the epicenter of pan-African art and politics. Ibrahim Ibn Ismail travelled to Cairo in May 1964 to study at Al-Azhar which was established as a university in 1961. He was drawn to the city as a hub of creativity for black Muslims with "notable Black American intellectuals artists and activists from the United States and even African nations like Ghana relocating to Egypt during the 1960s" Alhassen. In the US Ismail had been involved with the Black Muslim Movement but chose to leave having "suffered mistreatment at the hands of officials and becoming disillusioned with the BMM" Alhassen. In 1964 fellow activist Malcom X visited the city where the two men swiftly became friends. While speaking in Cairo Malcom X "made the following observations about the city: 'Cairo is probably one of the best examples for the American Negro. You know if ever a people should know how to practice brotherhood it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt". This work includes the full text of Ismail's "Epitaph for Malcolm X". This book was the first artistic collaboration between the couple Hatch and Billops. Billops was an artist activist and filmmaker of Black diaspora who contributed the illustrations to this volume. Billops's first solo exhibition was shown in Cairo at the Gallerie Akhenaton the same year. Hatch who was granted a Fulbright appointment to teach at the High Cinema Institute in Cairo had moved to the city with Billops in 1961. On their return to America Hatch and Billops established their Soho home as a collaborative space for poets musicians academics and playwrights and together curated a significant archive of African American culture and art beginning in 1968 while both teaching at the City College of New York. Their collection is now housed at Emory University. The "Jackie" in the inscription may be the academic Jacqueline Bobo who had connections with Billops and thereby Hatch through her work on Black female filmmakers. Billops co-edited a special 'Black Film Issue' of Black American Literature Forum featuring contributions from William Greaves Bell Hooks Marlon Riggs and Bobo herself. In turn Bobo edited Black Women Film and Video Artists 1998 in which Billops's work features. Octavo. With 5 black and white illustrations in the text. Original brown paper wrappers titles to front cover in black. Joints firm but a little creased a few small marks to covers. An excellent copy. Maytha Alhassen The "Three Circles" Construction: Reading Black Atlantic Islam through Malcolm X's Words and Friendships Journal of Africana Religions Vol. 3 No. 1 pp. 1-17. unknown
1935ref. 77300Boston: Little Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Hardback in dust jacket. First edition bound in pink cloth with black lettering lightly edgeworn in a scarce darkened dust jaket which is NOT price clipped though the $2.00 is very faded. From the American First Editions collection of Donald C. Scriven 1948-2019. Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature! . Little, Brown, and Company hardcover
1935ref. 77300Boston: Little Brown and Company. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1935. First Edition. Hardback in dust jacket. First edition bound in pink cloth with black lettering lightly edgeworn in a scarce darkened dust jaket which is NOT price clipped though the $2.00 is very faded. From the American First Editions collection of Donald C. Scriven 1948-2019. Don relished points of issue and the primacy of the dust jacket but above all he loved the literature! . Little, Brown, and Company hardcover books
1990ref. SBBI-mon0000010168Firebrand Books 1990. hardcover. 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. Firebrand Books hardcover
ref. AISLE10/Box73/RSi8/050826May 04 2000. Good. This copy is in Good condition — a loved and well-read book with visible signs of use. The text is fully readable and complete with no missing pages. There may be some cover wear mild creasing to the spine or minor marks inside but nothing that detracts from the reading experience. BIT CREASED ON THE FRONT COVER. FEW MARKS ON THE SPINE. Every book we list is individually hand-checked by our team at Kisharon Langdon New Chapters. We take pride in honest accurate grading — what you read is what you receive. New Chapters is a social enterprise supporting people with Learning Disabilities and Autistic People into meaningful work. Your purchase makes a real difference. unknown
1976ref. mon0000099747R. E. Krieger Pub. Co 1976-01-01. Paperback. Good. 0.4000 in x 9.1000 in x 6.2000 in. R. E. Krieger Pub. Co paperback
1958ref. mon0000036174Prentice-Hall; Bailey & Swinfen 1958-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. 1965 2nd edition Prentice-Hall; Bailey & Swinfen hardcover
1945ref. 140939613Albany: Albany Institute of History and Art 1945. First Edition. About Very Good. First edition. Original wraps. About Very Good with staining and separation to front wrapper at bottom staple small chip nearby; faint dampstain to fore edge of prelims and front wrap. An illustrated collection of biographies of prominent African American artists with an introduction by Alain Locke the philosophical architect of the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement. Each artist is listed with a biography and pictures of select works. Artists include Romare Bearden Eldzier Cortor Lois M. Jones and many others. Uncommon. Albany Institute of History and Art unknown
1945ref. 140939613Albany: Albany Institute of History and Art 1945. First Edition. About Very Good. First edition. Original wraps. About Very Good with staining and separation to front wrapper at bottom staple small chip nearby; faint dampstain to fore edge of prelims and front wrap. An illustrated collection of biographies of prominent African American artists with an introduction by Alain Locke the philosophical architect of the Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro Movement. Each artist is listed with a biography and pictures of select works. Artists include Romare Bearden Eldzier Cortor Lois M. Jones and many others. Uncommon. Albany Institute of History and Art unknown books
1945ref. 527667Albany New York: Albany Institute of History and Art 1945. Softcover. Good. Exhibition catalog. Forward by John Davis Hatch Jr. Introduction by Alain Locke. Tall octavo. vii 77pp. Illustrated with halftone portraits and images of artworks. Owner name "Alma H. Powell" possibly the African-American Michigan librarian Alma Harrod Powell on the title page. Ms. Powell has filled portions of four blank pages with relevant inked or penciled notes and newspaper clippings along with one brief inked note in the text. Most of the spine held together with tape and with a chip at the crown and the split at the base topedge and first page of the foreword ink-stained the foreword is still legible wartime publication label tipped on the front fly with a bit of loss affecting a couple of words sound but good only. Includes brief biographies of the artists. Albany Institute of History and Art unknown
1945ref. 527667Albany New York: Albany Institute of History and Art 1945. Softcover. Good. Exhibition catalog. Forward by John Davis Hatch Jr. Introduction by Alain Locke. Tall octavo. vii 77pp. Illustrated with halftone portraits and images of artworks. Owner name "Alma H. Powell" possibly the African-American Michigan librarian Alma Harrod Powell on the title page. Ms. Powell has filled portions of four blank pages with relevant inked or penciled notes and newspaper clippings along with one brief inked note in the text. Most of the spine held together with tape and with a chip at the crown and the split at the base topedge and first page of the foreword ink-stained the foreword is still legible wartime publication label tipped on the front fly with a bit of loss affecting a couple of words sound but good only. Includes brief biographies of the artists. Albany Institute of History and Art unknown books
1941ref. 562362New York 1941. Unbound. Near Fine. Original art. Image measuring approximately 13" x 17½" on 15" x 20" board. Airbrush and acrylic. Blank verso with adhesive residue and the image with two tiny imperfections that appear to have been painted over near fine. Signed "Nancy Hatch Oct 41" in the bottom right corner. More than a clever advertisement: Aerolux actually made light bulbs with colorful flower-shaped filaments from the 1930s to the 1970s. A charming piece of commercial art by a female artist. unknown
1941ref. 562362New York 1941. Unbound. Near Fine. Original art. Image measuring approximately 13" x 17½" on 15" x 20" board. Airbrush and acrylic. Blank verso with adhesive residue and the image with two tiny imperfections that appear to have been painted over near fine. Signed "Nancy Hatch Oct 41" in the bottom right corner. More than a clever advertisement: Aerolux actually made light bulbs with colorful flower-shaped filaments from the 1930s to the 1970s. A charming piece of commercial art by a female artist. unknown books
2011ref. mon0004244914University of Nebraska Press 2011-03-01. Paperback. Good. 1.2000 9.9000 6.9000. University of Nebraska Press paperback
1923ref. 23077Chicago: The Caxton Club 1923. FIRST and LIMITED EDITION one of only 160 copies printed on handmade Fabriano Paper. With 21 plates three of which are in beautiful full colour with printed tissue guards. Also with fine engraved ititials and tables throughtout. 4to publisher’s original half vellum over buff boards with small vellum corner-pieces. 24pp plates. A very fine copy near as pristine. SCARCE LIMITED TO ONLY 160 COPIES. A study of the genealogical tables used to decorate Boccaccio's great mythological work from manuscripts and the early printed editions. Genealogia deorum gentilium known in English as On the Genealogy of the Gods of the Gentiles is a mythography or encyclopedic compilation of the tangled family relationships of the classical pantheons of Ancient Greece and Rome written in Latin prose in circa 1360 by the Italian author and poet Giovanni Boccaccio. The first printed edition was in Venice at the early date of 1472. By 1499 no fewer then eight editions had published attesting to the popularity of the work. Ernest Hatch Wilkins was a respected authority on Italian literature. His teaching career began at Amherst as an instructor of Romance languages from 1900 to 1904 and continued at Harvard where he taught from 1906 to 1912 and again from 1947 to 1950 as a visiting lecturer on Italian literature. In 1912 he went to the University of Chicago where he was successively Associate Professor and Professor of Romance languages until his move to Oberlin in 1927. From 1923 to 1926 he served the University as Dean of its College of Arts Literature and Science Wilkins served as Oberlin College's seventh president from 1927 until his retirement in 1946. He authored several respected works on Dante Petrarch and Papini. He was a corresponding member of the Accademia Della Crusca in Florence and was decorated with the Cavaliere della Corona d'Italia in 1920 for his international promotion of Petrarch and Dante. The Caxton Club hardcover