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Working Space

Working Space

by Stella, Frank

The Return of the Real; The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century

The Return of the Real; The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century

by Foster, Hal

Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996. Paperback. 299 pg. paperback, 7 x 9 inches. Edges bumped on front and rear cover, rear free endpaper has been trimmed, else very good. Foster.
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£9.64
Complete Postcards from the Americas: Poems of Road and Sea, Translated, with an Introduction by Monique Chefdor

Complete Postcards from the Americas: Poems of Road and Sea, Translated, with an Introduction by Monique Chefdor

by Cendrars, Blaise

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976. Hardcover. viii, 251p., 5.75x8.75 inches, blue and white boards, without dust jacket. Boards lightly rubbed, else very good. Text appears in English and French.
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£28.10
Expressionist utopias; paradise, metropolis, architectural fantasy

Expressionist utopias; paradise, metropolis, architectural fantasy

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Paperback. 33p., 9x12 inches; wraps, still in publisher's shrinkwrap, as New.
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£20.08
MOTOR AUTOMATISM

MOTOR AUTOMATISM

by STEIN, Gertrude; Leon M. Solomons

New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1969. First Edition. thus. Near fine.. Reproduces two articles resulting from Gertrude Stein's medical studies at Johns Hopkins. The first, "Normal Motor Automatism" from the PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW, Sept. 1896, was not actually authored by Stein, but she was listed as co-author with Solomons. The second, "Motor Automatism" in the May 1898 issue of the same publication, was Stein's first published work. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect bound blue wraps. Near fine. Mild dampstain to... Read more about this item
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£20.08
THE NEW AMERICA: THE NEW WORLD

THE NEW AMERICA: THE NEW WORLD

by Wells, H. G

London: The Cresset Press, [1935].. Gilt lettered blue cloth. First edition. Bookplate on pastedown, otherwise very good in good dust jacket (spine tanned and slightly frayed at crown, with lower panel dust smudged). HAMMOND E33. WELLS 122.
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£40.15
Marxism and the City

Marxism and the City

by Katznelson, Ira

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. Paperback. xi, 320p., wraps slightly handled, mild soil on text-block edges, minor soil on front wrap, in good condition.
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£11.24
American Irrigation Engineering. ADVANCE COPY [see below]. American Society of Civil Engineers. Instituted 1852. Transactions, Vol. XXIV.. 1891

American Irrigation Engineering. ADVANCE COPY [see below]. American Society of Civil Engineers. Instituted 1852. Transactions, Vol. XXIV.. 1891

by Wilson, Herman M

not stated: American Society of Civil Engineers [unpublished], 1891. Original Wraps. 56p., tentative text with only one page showing corrections (in pencil, grammatical errors only), coverless signatures sewn with tough thread in good shape, the usual govt or quasi-govt publication in 9x6 inch self-wraps. Front cover (i.e., first page) bears an old ownership in pen & ink, dust-soil, handling crimps and a touch of foxing. Back cover has a spatter of ink (eighth-inch blobs) and more dust & foxing. As is,... Read more about this item
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£20.08
Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies

Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies

by Polanyi Karl; George Dalton, editor

Boston: Beacon Press, 1971. Paperback. liv, 346p., softbound in 8x5.5 inch stylized wraps, very good condition: quite sound, clean, unmarked in any way.
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£20.08
Collected poems 1958 - 1970

Collected poems 1958 - 1970

by MacBeth, George

New York: Atheneum, 1972. 254p., first American edition openweave cloth boards gilt in dj; a nice production job, text on calendared paperstock, in not quite collector's condition. Top-edge tint is faded, there is a minute nick in the head exposing a fleck of card, and the dust jacket has some ragged tears and missing chunks that obscure jacket titling. A good, sound, clean carry- to- the- coffee-shop copy. This particular George MacBeth "is married to a research geneticist and is a producer for the... Read more about this item
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£9.64
Toward Stonewall; homosexuality and society in the modern western world

Toward Stonewall; homosexuality and society in the modern western world

by Edsall, Nicholas C

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. Hardcover. xiii, 377p., preface, conclusions, notes, selected bibliography, index, very good first edition in cloth boards. On Europe (England, Germany and France) and the US.
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£20.08
A nation within; contemporary Native American writing, a special issue of Pacific Quarterly Moana vol. 8, no. 1

A nation within; contemporary Native American writing, a special issue of Pacific Quarterly Moana vol. 8, no. 1

by Salisbury, Ralph, compiler

Hamilton NZ: Outrigger Publishers, 1983. 108p., 8x6 inch bronze foil wraps, entire item has several pronounced crimps possibly from poor storage, else sound and clean.
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£9.64
The Spirituality of Friedrich von H�gel

The Spirituality of Friedrich von H�gel

by Whelan, Joseph P

London: William Collins, 1971. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Lower front corner bumped, else fine."CHRISTIANITY IS ESSENTIALLY A RELIGION OF INCARNATION: IT IS INDEED GOD REALLY BECOME FLESH IN TIME AND SPACE" First book edition of the American Jesuit's doctoral thesis, done at the University of London. Von Hugel was "an Anglo-Austrian scholar who, like Lord Acton, had a private income and an inexhaustible intellectual appetite for Catholic theology and history"... Read more about this item
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£32.12
Form as Compensation for Life: Fictive Patterns in Virgina Woolf's Novels

Form as Compensation for Life: Fictive Patterns in Virgina Woolf's Novels

by Holmesland, Oddvar

Columbia: Camden House,. Hardback. 199pp. A close reading analysis of Woolf's fiction that, whilst not ignoring the author's biography, seeks to prioritise the text and language again. Draws heavily on reader response and linguistic theories and is of interest to those examining the theories of Iser, Fish, Saussaure etc as well as to those interested in close textual analysis of Woolf's work. Attractively bound in a sea-green cloth with gilt titles. Near fine copy. . Hardback. 1998.
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£15.00
Humanist Manifestos I & II

Humanist Manifestos I & II

Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1973. Paperback. 31, [1]p., wraps. 8.5 x 5.25 in. Minor shelf wear, but overall a Very Good copy. The text of both the 1933 and 1973 Humanist Manifestos, with an introduction by Paul Kurtz and a printed list of signers (B.F. Skinner, Gunnar Myrdal, Isaac Asimov, etc.).
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£16.06
The Post-American Cultural Congress. Poems

The Post-American Cultural Congress. Poems

by Abrams, Sam

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc, 1974. Paperback. First printing of the softbound issue, a nice copy in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps. Contents leaf bears an inked-out stroke, appears to annul a personal accession number; back cover has a few offset smudges; item is otherwise unmarked, and is quite clean and sound. FYI, author's "note to reader" states that "Almost all of these poems can only be read aloud" but we didn't try. We silently gave up.
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£12.04
Modern Navajo Weaving [article in offprint] from Arizona Highways, September, 1964 issue

Modern Navajo Weaving [article in offprint] from Arizona Highways, September, 1964 issue

by Tanner, Clara Lee, author. Bernard M. Mergen, ADB director

Phoenix AZ: Arizona Development Board, 1960. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about a dozen pages in length with numerous exhibit and on-site photographs, rejiggered as a neat small pamphlet in 9.5x6.5 inch decorated wraps. Margins slightly toned and edgeworn, find an inconspicuous date-stamp (personal accession?) to upper right-hand cover corner, a generally sound, clean, otherwise unmarked copy.
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£9.64
Greece Without Columns; The Making of the Modern Greeks

Greece Without Columns; The Making of the Modern Greeks

by Holden, David

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1972. Hardcover. 336p., furnished with a nice clear line-map and, on its dust jacket, a spooky museum photo. Hardbound first edition in pale cloth boards gilt and enclosed in the dust jacket. A fine copy: perfectly sound, clear and unmarked.
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£12.04
Durer Today. Foreword by Max Brocker

Durer Today. Foreword by Max Brocker

by Bongard, Willi, and Matthias Mende

Bonn-Bad Godesberg: Inter Nationes, 1971. Paperback. 96p., museum catalog in semi-gloss alkaline paperstock, softbound in glossy 9.5x9 inch decorated wraps. Mild edgewear with two corner-tip creasings and a touch of dust-soil; otherwise sound & clean, and entirely unmarked. Numerous reproductions of classic and of little-known Durer works face parody images, the strongest of which are by one Michael Mathias Prechtl - Prechtl's meticulous ink drawing of Cranach the Elder shoulder to shoulder with Pablo... Read more about this item
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£14.45
La Strozzina: Mostre Permanenti d'Arte Figurativa 1. Palazzo Strozzi, 19 Febbraio - 10 Marzo 1949

La Strozzina: Mostre Permanenti d'Arte Figurativa 1. Palazzo Strozzi, 19 Febbraio - 10 Marzo 1949

by [La Collezione Guggenheim; Peggy Guggenheim]

Venezia; Firenza: Palazzo Strozzi; La Cenacolo, 1949. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (17.5 x 12 cm.), xxxviii pages. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. The catalogue of the landmark first exhibition at Peggy Guggenheim's Palazzo Strozzi in Venice. Although the exhibition was scheduled to begin February 19th, the opening was delayed until February 24th. Near fine in yellow printed wrappers. [OCLC locates six copies].
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£281.05
Sam Francis

Sam Francis

by Selz, Peter H.; with an essay on his prints by Susan Einstein

New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1975. Hardcover. 260p., first edition, 12x11 inches; b&w and color plates, fore-edge slightly toned, small tear between front bottom dj and front panel, spine and rear dj heavily toned and slightly soiled, minor edgewear and creasing on back dj, rear side of spine slightly rubbed, else very good.
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£32.12
Unraveled: a story in poems by Chanel Timmons

Unraveled: a story in poems by Chanel Timmons

by Timmons, Chanel

n.p.: Divas Rainbow Press, 2012. [24p.], pink chapbook bound with thread, cover decorated with a tied-on black ribbon, very good.
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£13.65
The Agricultural Development of the Middle East. A Report to the Director General Middle East Supply Centre May, 1945

The Agricultural Development of the Middle East. A Report to the Director General Middle East Supply Centre May, 1945

by Keen, B.A

London: Oxford University Press for His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1945. Hardcover. xii, 126p., plus appended b&w photographs (small but clear) and two splendid folded maps in colors, these in fine shape. Hardbound in 10x6 inch dark blue cloth boards spine-titled gilt. The gilt titling is legible though dim, item is entirely sound, clean and unmarked. No. 1 in a series prepared for the supply centre.
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£16.06
昭和文学アルバム Showa Bungaku Arubamu (Showa Literature Album)

昭和文学アルバム Showa Bungaku Arubamu (Showa Literature Album)

by 磯田光一 Isoda Kōichi

Tokyo: Shinchosha, 1986. Hardcover. 143 pg. hardcover with original paper band. Illustrated with color and black and white photographs. Very good. The Showa era, which lasted from 1926 to 1989, saw Japanese society undergo many different changes from the rise in militarism in the 1930s and 40s to the period of American occupation in the 1950s, and then periods of civil unrest in the 60s and 70s. The book reflects such changes in its featuring of modernist as well as proletarian literature.
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£20.08
Wiener Kunst Auktionen. 16 Kunstauktion, 30 Sept.1997: Kunst nach 1945

Wiener Kunst Auktionen. 16 Kunstauktion, 30 Sept.1997: Kunst nach 1945

Vienna: Wiener Kunst Auktionen, 1997. Unpaginated, displays items 300-421 from a multi-day multi-catagory auction. Softbound, 11.5x8.5 inch glossy (super-glossy!) white wraps; slightest edgewear, no markings, a very good copy.
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£12.04
THE MAKING OF AMERICANS: An Opera and a Play

THE MAKING OF AMERICANS: An Opera and a Play

by KATZ, Leon

Barton, VT: Something Else Press, 1973. First Edition. Near fine.. The published playscript of Katz's reworking of the text of Gertrude Stein's autobiograhical novel into a stage adaptation. One of the more uncommon Something Else Press Stein related releases. 186pp. Wraps. 8vo. Pictorial wraps. Trace handling wear. Clean, sharp.
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£24.09