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Kearney NE: Morris Publishing, 1999. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 273 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. The Tin Box captures the life of George Varney, Brevet Brigadier General and Colonel of the 2nd Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment from Bangor during the Civil War. The book is based on a collection of letters, newspaper clippings, and military documents found in a metal box when Varney's only grandson died. Varney wrote to his mother from June 1861 to March 1863; from the first battle of Bull Run to Chancellorsville; from his capture at Gaines Mill to his head injury at Fredericksburg. From letters to General Varney from friends he made on the battlefield -- Generals Joshua Chamberlain, Thomas Hyde, Fitz John Porter, and others -- the book reveals the life-long impact on Varney of the war that consumed the nation. Newspaper clippings recount the glorious homecoming of the 2nd Maine, the Bangor reception of President Grant, and the first reunion of the veterans of the… Read More

Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ Press, 1983. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover, 487 pages. Slight edgewear and sunning to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 457080

New Haven CT: Yale University Press/Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 2015. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 184 pages, 148 color plates. A landmark examination of iconic and provocative portraits by Warhol and Mapplethorpe, presented side by side and in depth for the first time. Record # 353186

New York: PaceWildenstein, 2017. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Unpaginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only edgewear. Full page color photographs throughout. A tight copy. Record # 353326

New York: Pantheon, 1948. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 300 pages, b&w illustrations. Title on spine: "The American Art Museum". Blue cloth, gilt title, no dust jacket. Light wear to edges and spine, slight foxing to top edge, else a very nice, tight, clean copy. Record # 606350

Sandport, ID: Lost Horse Press, 2013. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 319 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, bright copy. Record # 374998

Boston: David R. Godine, 1987. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A book length series of poems, looking at life in all its imperfections through the viewpoint of an inextinguishable character whose spirit triumphs through humor. Clayfeld, a comic everyman, is the center of these poems about the nature of beauty, sorrow, and art, as well as the potential for happiness. Thwarted continually by ordinary defeats, Clayfeld endures and laughs, loves and remembers. Critic Harold Bloom called poet Robert Pack an heir to Robert Frost and Edwin Arlington Robinson. Record # 381826

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press , 1972. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover, 68 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket. Otherwise, a tight clean copy. Record # 855896

London: Chatto and Windus, 1964. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY PACK on the half tittle page. Clean copy. Record # 381781

New York : Random House , 1963. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 79 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper, with signed poem laid in. Black cloth, gilt title to spine, no dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 855913

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press , 1976. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 87 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on half title page. light sunning to yellow wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 855895

Boston: David R. Godine, 1984. 1st pbk. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 75 pages. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by Pack on the title page. Inscribed to Victor Reichert (friend of Frost, Rabbi and fellow poet) in 1984. Clean copy. Record # 381775

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 141 pages. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket. Record # 381827

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 141 pages. INSCRIBED BY PACK on the title page. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket. Record # 356333

NY: Random House, 1963. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover in black cloth with gilt lettering on spine. No dust jacket. SIGNED BY PACK on title page. Clean copy. Record # 381782

New York: Macmillan, 1961. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Nola Langner. Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Illustrations by Nola Langner. 'Library Edition' specification printed on back cover of book. Light wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 613465

NY: George Doran, 1920. reprint. Hardcover. Good/None. 306 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. No colophon on © page. Spine cocked. Record # 9933

Bostom: Small Maynard & Co., 1910. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, green cloth stamped in bright gilt. Essays on nature, originally published in the Boston Transcriot in rhe early 1900s. B&w drawings by Charles Copeland. Top edge gilt. An exceptional copy of a scarce title. Record # 381368

NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A riveting examination of a nation in crisis, from one of the finest political journalists of our generation American democracy is beset by a sense of crisis. Seismic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, allowing unprecedented freedom while rending the social contract, driving the political system to the verge of breakdown, and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. In The Unwinding, George Packer, author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, tells the story of the United States over the past three decades in an utterly original way, with his characteristically sharp eye for detail and gift for weaving together complex narratives. Clean copy. Record # 381976

New York: Rizzoli, 2012. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, like new. Best known for dazzling illustrations in Women’s Wear Daily, Vogue, the New York Times, Interview, and for high fashion labels, Antonio Lopez (1943–1987) was a major force in the fashion world for three decades. In the ’60s, Lopez’s vibrant illustrations helped usher youth culture into the pages of magazines, setting a new, free-flowing, sexually liberated standard for fashion imagery. Living in Paris during the 70s with his creative partner Juan Ramos, Lopez launched the modeling careers of Jerry Hall, Grace Jones, and Jessica Lange among others, and worked with design royalty like Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent. Returning to New York City in 1976, Antonio documented the sexy influence of athletic-wear, puffy, down coats, and break-dancing style, inspiring such designers as Norma Kamali and Anna Sui. Lopez produced an incredible number of drawings, illustrations, paintings, photographs, and fantastic… Read More