San Francisco Bay Area photography 1976
San Francisco: SECA/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1977. 68p., text only, no illustrations, 8.5x11 inch spiral-bound wraps. Good copy. Essays and resources. More
Cat.No: 94689
Modernism
The Memory of Trade; Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island
Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Paperback. xxiv, 354p., illustrated with b&w snapshot photography and line maps, a big softbound (9x6 inches) in colorphoto wraps. More
Cat.No: 249985
Elements of Italy
New York: Welcome Rain Publishers, 2002. vii, 230p., first American edition boards gilt in dj; a fine unblemished copy. More
Cat.No: 176119
Be a man! males in modern society
New York: Holmes and Meier Pub. 1979. Hardcover. ix+230p., introduction, notes, selective bibliography, index, illustrations, very good first edition hardbound in worn, torn dj with some chipping. More
Cat.No: 105468
The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. Hardcover. xxx, 452p., introduction, editorial statement, list of short titles, appendices including a chronology, bibliography, index, illustrated with photos, very good first edition in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj. More
Cat.No: 82491
Gertrude Stein's America
New York: Liveright, 1974. Paperback. 103p., pictorial warps, in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 274705
Broadsides: Architecture and Art
New York: Cooper Union, 1997. Pamphlet. [35]p. with a couple of b&w photoportraits of Stella, a fancy little pamphlet in glossy 9x5 inch white & hot pink wraps with bright blue endsheets and a totally anomalous translucent green dustjacket titled black. Laid in is a translucent green "Compliments of" per..... More
Cat.No: 229306
Baltazar si hazardul: casetofonului meu
Constanta: Metafora, 1997. 142p., paperback, mild handling wear. Text in Romanian. More
Cat.No: 238550
Aurora オーロラ haiku. Translated and edited by Masaharu Hirata
[Japan]: Umeda Printing Co., presumably for the author, 1999. 173p., vignette photo and vita of Suga, pink boards titled in rainbow foil and decorated with a chaste inkwash; mild signs of wear and a little soiling, very good copy, remarkably fine haiku. Signed in inkpen on the ffep with personal..... More
Cat.No: 169253
Uno sguardo sulla realta; la poesia di Giampiero Neri
no city: Joker, 2005. 212p., trade-size decorated wraps, very good copy. More
Cat.No: 166183
Ukiyoe Museums in Japan, Vol. 3
Japan: Kadokaswa Shoten Publishing Co., Ltd., 1996. 163p., entirely in color on heavy matte-white paperstock, openweave grey cloth boards in dj and obi, mildest edgewear to jacket, a fine copy. While curatorial comments are in Japanese only, basic captions are provided in English for each work. Vol. 3 of a...... More
Cat.No: 166335
William Carlos Williams and the American Scene 1920-1940
New York / Berkeley: Whitney Museum / University of California Press, 1978. Paperback. 168p., plentiful b&w illustrations, with a brief color-repro section, well-integrated with text, large softbound in 11x8.5 inch daffodil-yellow wraps, back cover has suffered a sharp vertical crease, otherwise quite sound, clean, unmarked. More
Cat.No: 284726
Literature East & West, 1973, Jun, Sep, Dec, Vol. 17, Nos. 2-4
Austin, TX: Oriental-Western Literary Relations group of the Modern Language Association, 1973. Paperback. One issue, 163-457pp., digest size, cover wraps toned, smudged and worn near edges and spine, else in very good condition. More
Cat.No: 263986
Unraveled: a story in poems by Chanel Timmons
n.p. Divas Rainbow Press, 2012. [24p.], pink chapbook bound with thread, cover decorated with a tied-on black ribbon, very good. More
Cat.No: 196984
The Traveler; Six Artists from Taiwan. Exhibition venue, Taipei Gallery. Exhibition dates, March 15-April 19, 2002
Taipei: Taipei Gallery / Chinese Information and Culture Center. 56p., color reproductions or enhancing spot-color on nearly every page, irresdescent endsheets, presswork in both Chinese and English on fine alkaline paperstock, softbound in frenchfold cardstock color-map wraps that fold out to a huge 11.5x31 inches. Clean, sound and unmarked, a...... More
Cat.No: 234216
Paravent; Extending the Range of Expression. David Bates, Deborah Oropallo, Robert Mapplethorpe, Markus Lupertz, Roy De Forest, Salome, Irene Pijoan, Robert Dix, Elvira Bach, Ed Ruscha
San Francisco: Artspace, 1984. Paperback. [46]p., high-gloss paperstock with profuse captioned color exhibit photography; softbound in 9x9 inch black wraps titled in electric blue, clean and sound, a very good copy. More
Cat.No: 198663
Todd Watts; New Lamps for Old. Essays by F. David Peat and Thomas W. Sokolowski
New York: Grey Arts Gallery & Study Center, 1994. 48p., nice production, the essays printed on flecked alkaline matte stock, the high-resolution exhibit photography on coated glossy. Softbound in 9x9 inch color cardstock in a run limited to 2,000 copies; slightest external signs of handling, entirely clean and sound within..... More
Cat.No: 236766
Shanghai, Crucible of Modern China
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1988. Leather Bound. xi, 299p., illustrated with b&w period photography and doublespread endpaper maps (two different ones), softbound in stiff cardstock wraps, 8.5x5.5 inches. Covers are slightly edgeworn, the only flaw we see, item is entirely sound, clean and free of markings. More
Cat.No: 252288
The persistence of modernity: essays on aesthetics, ethics, and postmodernism
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1991. Paperback. ix+266p., introduction, notes, index, very good first MIT paperback edition in wraps. More
Cat.No: 98966
Blackness and Modernism: the literary career of John Edgar Wideman
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989. Hardcover. viii, 167p., introduction, conclusion, interview, references, index, near-fine first edition, first printing stated in cloth boards and bright, unclipped dj. The first comprehensive literary study of the African American novelist. More
Cat.No: 22501
Twelve tips for Anna Karenina
Greensboro: March Street Press, 2000. 39p., 5.25x7.5 inches, very good pictorial wraps. More
Cat.No: 140389
Saludos! Poemas de Nuevo Mexico. Poems of New Mexico. Translations Edited by Consuelo Luz. Introdiction by Victor di Suvero.
Tesuque NM: Pennywhistle Press, 1995. Paperback. 287p., preponderantly English verse with facing Spanish originals where apropos, softbound in 9x6 inch colorphoto wraps. A clean, sound, unmarked, very good copy. More
Cat.No: 240483
Democracy, A Journal of Political Renewal and Radical Change Vol. 3, No. 4, Fall 1983
New York: The Common Good Foundation, 1983. Magazine. 152p., wraps, 7x10 inches, edge and shelf worn, some bumping of of cover, cover is showing some shelf & edge wear, else in good condition. Academic journal with social-democratic bent. Articles focus on "Modernism & Its Discontents" and include "The End of..... More
Cat.No: 286193
Chinese Illustration
London: The British Library, 1985. Paperback. 80p., profuse b&w and color exhibit photography, well-captioned, softbound in 9x7 inch color wraps. Slightest external signs of handling & age, entirely unmolested interior, a nice crisp copy. More
Cat.No: 264550
La Vie
no place: Galise Petersen, no date. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, glossy alkaline paperstock with eight fullpage full-color plates plus a photoportrait and two shots of Yoshida at work, and essays in French and English, plus one page-to-itself message in Japanese characters. Softbound in 9x9 inch stapled color wraps, a clean sound copy..... More
Cat.No: 234316