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Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College Museum, 1986. First Edition, First Printing. . Exhibition Catalogue. Fine to Very Fine. One of 3,000 catalogues printed for the 1986 exhibition at Wellesley College of selected works of contemporary art from the Edward R. Downe, Jr., Collection. Reproduced in color are art works by Barlett, Fischl, Guston, Jenney, Murray, Ruscha, Gornik, Rothenberg, Sherman, Judd and Shapiro among others. With comments on the collector from Patterson Sims, Associate Curator, Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum; and on the collection from Suzanne Stroh, guest coordinator, whose work as a cataloguer of the collection while a Wellesley undergraduate led her to propose the exhibition; 10.5 x 12 inches, 120 pages bound in plastic-coated, black, printed card wrappers; text is clean, tight, square; wrappers show only very minimal shelf and surface wear. Collectable.

New York: Arch Cape Press, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A collection of over 250 full color photographs by some of the world's best aviation photographers attempting to capture the components of modern military air power. From the tactical jet fighters and strategic bombers to the spy planes, drones and ground support helicopters, to the tankers, transports and target tugs -- here are the people and technology that combine to create the immense power of a modern air force. Introduction by Walter J. Boyne, the former Director of the National Air and Space Museum of the Simthsonian Institurtion; Oversize 10.25 x 13 inches, 174 pages; boards and text are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear, no tears or chippings. Collectable.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. . Trade Paperback. Very Good to Near Fine. Vintage Paperback, Ridge Press; Levitas, a New York Times Magazine editor, supplies text and context for the dozens of black and white photos by Magnum photographers including Arnold, Capa, Lyon and Glinn, which illustrate the conflicts in America in the 1960s over issues such as the Vietnam War, civil rights, youth rebellion, and violent crime; 8 x 11 1/2" format; text and photos are clean, tight, square; white printed wrappers show light reading crease, some soiling and age-tanning, o/w minimal surface and edgewear. Scarce and collectable.

Zurich, Switzerland: Graphis Press Corp., 1992. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The full color catalogue of the 1992 illustrator and the environment exhibiliton contains 150 works of art delivering a powerful message about humanity's relationship to the environment. Each art work is accompanied by a personal statement from the artist along with a pertinent fact of environmental data relating to the subject of the art. The catalogue also contains commentary on the exhibition from Ray Bradbury, Tom Cruise, and Wendell Minor; 256 pages, 23.5 x 30 cm, text in English, German and French; boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket shows only minimal surface and edgewear, no chipping, tears or creases. Collectable.

New York: Art In American, Inc., 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. Volume 73, No. 10; featured articles include: The Postmodern Museum; Sean Scully: The Stripe Stikes Back; The Modernist Schwitters; Alice Trumbull Mason: Home-Grown Abstraction. Also, Issues & Commentary: Carter Ratcliff on "The Scheherazade Tactic;" Review of Books; Report from the MIdwest: The 39th Corcoran Biennial; Report from Berlin: Wall Painters; and Review of Exhibitions by Adam Cvijanovic, Peter Chevalier, Carroll Dunham, Leatrice Rose, Elmer Bischoff, Joan Mitchell, Arakawa, Tina Barney, Don Suggs, and Leslie Lerner. 8 1/2 x 11"; 194 pages in heavy paper wrappers showing a detail of Schwitters' "Glass Flower," 1940, assemblage; text is clean, tight, square; wrappers show only minor edgewear, trace of bumping at spine ends. Collectable.

New York: Art In American, Inc., 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. Volume 73, No. 11; featured articles: Interviews with Ten Sculptors including Tom Butter, R.M. Fischer, John Newman, Joel Fisher, Judy Pfaff and Robert Therrien; Hockney's Stage Designs; Two Dubious Caravaggios. Also, Review of Books, Report From Moscow, Issues & Commentary and Review of Exhibitions by Wade Saunders, Jane Irish, Jeff Koons, Roman Opalka, Peter Nadin, Martha Diamond and Dianne Blell. 8 1/2 x 11"; 190 pages in heavy paper wrappers with photo of Pfaff's Installation "3D", 1983, detail, on front cover; remnant of torn-off mail coupon along left margin of front cover, small, closed tear on lower edge of back cover, o/w text and wrappers are clean, tight, square and undamaged.

New York: Art In American, Inc., 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. Volume 73, No. 5; featured articles include: Abstract Naturalism: Arthur Dove three-gallery retrospective; New Work from Arneson and Matta; 1950s sculpture in New York; Metzker's Photographs: Elegant & Existential; Robert Mangold Retrospective. Also Kirk Varnedoe on the Claims and Critics of the MOMA "Primitivism" show; Reports from Paris and Moscow and Reviews of Exhibitions by John Torreano, Susan Smith, Larry Rivers, Theodoros Stamos, Jonathan Lasker, Chuck Close, Agnes Martin, and Bernard Faucon. 8 1/2 x 11", 208 pages in heavy paper wrappers with front cover showing Mangold's "Four Color Frame Painting #1," 1983; text is clean, tight, square; a small closed tear near lower end of spine extending a half-inch onto front cover; some minor soiling and wear along edges.

New York: Art In American, Inc., 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Near Fine to Fine. Volume 73, No. 12; featured articles: Photographers At War; Recent Work by Sigmar Polke, Wayne Thiebaud Retrospective; Tom Otterness's Cast-Bronze Sculptures; and Abstractions by Joan Thorne. Also, Review of Books, Report from Germany and Review of Exhibitions by James Lee Byars, Rhonda Zwillinger, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Paula Rego, Michele Zalopany and Avigdor Arikha. 8 1/2 x 11", 152 pages in heavy paper wrappers showing Thiebaud's "Sunset Streets," 1985 on front cover; wrappers and text clean, tight, square, in near-perfect condition. Collectable.

New York: Art In American, Inc., 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Good Plus to Very Good. Volume 73, No. 1; feature articles include: Election '84: "Sign on a Truck," Jenny Holzer and 21 other artists mount anti-Reagan video message; David Novros frescoes; Peter Saul: Radical Distaste; Linda Nochlin on Watteau; Ludwig Wittgenstein, Architect; Arthur B. Carles: Fringe Modernist. Also, reviews of two recent books on Diane Arbus and review of exhibitions by David Humphrey, Joseph Nechvatal, Marcia Clark, Peter Plagens, Clark Murray, Ida Applebroog, and Ed Blackburn. 8 1/2 x 11", 168 pages in heavy paper wrappers with Watteau's " The Shepherds", 1716 (detail) on the front cover; magzine's lower right corner bumped with creased pages and wrappers, o/w text is clean, tight, square with minimal surface or edgewear.

New York: Art In American, Inc., 1985. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. Volume 73, No. 2; featured articles include: Heartfield's photomontages in the context of their mass media origins; Frank Stella as "image administrator;" Keith Sonnier's sculpture; three Chicago naive artists. Also, Book Reviews; a Report from Spain; a Response to Stella's Norton Lectures and Reviews of exhibitions by Barbara Kasten, Crash and Daze,Ed Paschke, Louise Fishman, Walter Robinson, Nancy Grossman, Joe Zucker, and John Hilliard. 8 1/2 x 11", 176 pages in heavy paper wrappers, showing Stella's "La penna di hu," 1984; corners very slightly bumped, o/w text is clean, tight, square; wrappers show light wear and soiling along edges and spine.

New York: Art In American, Inc., 1984. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Near Fine to Fine. Volume 72, No. 8; featured articles include Bonnard's late paintings; hardship art; Morris Graves restrospective; new work from Jasper Johns and David Salle; Donald Judd on why there are so few masterpieces. Also Venice Biennale '84; Book Reviews; reviews of exhibitions by Oyvind Fahlstrom, Sidney Goodman, David Bowes, Lynda Benglis, Tom Stanton, Sue Miller; 8 1/2 x 11," 248 pages in heavy paper wrappers with cover photo of Philip Johnson's AT&T Building, 1983-84; text is clean, tight, square; wrappers show light reading crease, almost no other surface or edge wear. Collectable.

New York: Art In American, Inc., 1984. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. Volume 72, No. 4: Feature articles include The Aztecs: Art & Sacrifice; Elizabeth Murray; Anne & Patrick Poirier; Beauborg's Polish Presences show; Stanislaw Witkiewicz, Polish photographer, painter, draftsman; Beverly Pepper's new sculptures. Also, Suzi Gablik on " Art Alarms: Visions of the End;" Report From Germany; Book Reviews; and Exhibition Reviews of work by Youngblood, Frink, Berard, Haas, Korman, Flack, Heilman, Liebovitz, Thorne-Thomsen, Karsh, Bender, Colville and Eggleston; 8 1/2 x 11," 256 pages in heavy paper wrappers showing Robert Morris's untitled work from his "Firestorm" series, 1983-84, on the front cover; text is clean, tight, square; some light creasing on front cover, no tears, trace of wear at spine ends.

New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1998. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Survivor of 23 recorded earthquakes in the eight hundred years since its founding but severely damaged in the 1997 earthquake, the Basilica of St. Francis and its masterwork frescoes of the early Renaissance in Italy are shown in all their beauty in the full-color photography of this book with a text by Angiola Romanini, the eminent Medieval art historian, detailing the history of the basilica and its paintings. 8 1/2 x 12", 160 pages, with a foreword by Antonio Paolucci, former Minister of Cultural Heritage for Italy and a director of the Uffizi Galleries; blue cloth boards and text are clean, tight, square; dustjacket is nearly perfect, showing perhaps a trace of edgewear. Collectable.

London: PRC Publishing Ltd., 2001. Hardcover. Near Fine/About Very Good. The American Civil War was arguably the most important military event of the 19th century. It has spawned millions of words in thousands of books. This book, from "A -- Abolitionists" to "Z -- Zoaves" differs from most of the rest for its massive visual documentation, reproducing over 600 photographs, maps, drawings, letters and other documents related to every aspect of the war. First edition, first printing (as stated). Oversize, about 9 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches, 448 pages including preface, index and credits. Pictorial paper-covered boards show full-cover reproduction of a photo of Union siege mortar and crew on front cover and photos of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee & his staff (top) and a scene taken in Richmond, VA, after its capture by Union troops. The same photos and layout are also utilized on the dustjacket. Blue and white lettering also identical. The fep contains a gift inscription to the… Read More

New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1970. Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. Popular Photography's 1970 annual selection of fine color photographs by many of the era's best camera artists in a wide variety of genres including landscape, portrait, nudes, abstract and surreal; 8 1/2 x 11"; text is clean, tight, square; paper wrappers show only minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1969. Magazine. Good Plus to Very Good. Popular Photography's 1969 annual issue of fine color photography featuring the work of many of the best photographers of the 1960s in a variety of genres including landscape, portrait, nude, fashion and news; 8 1/2 x 11"; text is clean, tight, square; paper wrappers show minor wear along spine, o/w minimal surface and edgewear.

New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1969. Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. Popular Photography's 1969 annual issue of the best color photography with technical articles as well as a selection of photos by leading photographers of the 1960s including Paree, McCarthy, Ornitz, Orlando and Rothschild; 8 1/2 x 11"; text is clean, tight, square; paper wrappers show only minimal surface and edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. Hardcover. Good Plus/Good Plus. The "definitive, complete and official" history of Colt firearms from 1836 to the present (1979) researched and written by firearms expert and historian, R.L. Wilson. First edition, first printing (with complete numberline). About 11 x 8 3/4 inches, 358 pages including bibliography, index and serial number appendix. Also contains over 250 full-color photos and 105 in b & w. Bound in dark-blue cloth-covered boards with white lettering on spine. Pictorial dustjacke's front panel shows series of photos of Colt presentation pistols and revolvers and of Samuel Colt with black lettering against grey background. Back panel displays photos of presentation 1851 Navy Colt to Czar Nicholas I in 1854 and presentation Colt Python .357 for Colt Board Chairman George Strichman. Please note: This copy is ex-library, from a public library's reference department. It has library markings on text edges and end papers and gllue… Read More

New York: Ziff-Davis Publishing Co., 1968. First Edition, First Printing. . Magazine. Very Good to Near Fine. Popular Photography's annual issue featuring the finest color photos of 1968, including the work of artists such as Ansel Adams, Harvey Lloyd, Alfred Gescheidt, and Gary Winogrand; 8 1/2 x 11" magazine; text is clean, tight, square; paper wrappers show almost no surface or edgewear. Collectable.

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. ,. The third novel from the author of "A Rumor Of War," considered one of the best novels of the Vietnam War, is also about war and the competition between two photojournalists whose visions of war and how to photograph it are so opposed that somewhere between Vietnam and the battle-torn streets of Beirut it was inevitable they would make war on each other. Top edge of text lightly foxed, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows only some light soiling and minor surface and edgewear, no significant flaws, not price-clipped. A collectable copy.