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London: Phaidon , 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound in a bright-orange cloth cover and with bright and sharp gilt lettering to spine and illustration to cover. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. 117 illustrations, all quite gorgeous. Foreword by Arnold Toynbee, with eight chapters including a final that has four Appendixes, followed by notes, bibliography, and a list of illustrations. [6], 7-145 [1] pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, very lightly bumped spine head and foot, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in gray cloth over boards, sharp and distinct gilt lettering to spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. 71 illustrations, 40 being in full color. [5], 6-128 pp. Double-column text. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Plentiful black-and-white photographs, maps and charts, and with scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xi [1], 3-207 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Phoenix, Arizona: The Heard Museum, 1980. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. Signed by Author. Exceedingly scarce in the trade in this state (signed and First Edition), being SIGNED boldly by both authors on 12/11/80 at title page. Good looking, structurally sound copy in tall octavo oblong format, featuring the collections of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fine exhibition catalog from a show that ran in five cities from 1981 and 1982. Duotone illustration at the front cover, then special acknowledgments by Michael J. Fox at the Heard Museum, then a page of fine black-and-white cameo photographs of mary Hemenway, Jesse Walter Fewkes, Alexander M. Stephen, Frank Hamilton Cushing and Thomas V. Keam. A fine monograph devoted to Hopi pottery, primitive ware, polychrome, orange colored ware, red ware, cream-colored ware, transition ware, and more modern productions. Full bibliography and glossary. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to… Read more

Berkeley, California: Heyday Books, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. As New. The title continues: A True StoryWherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear to the pictorial boards not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. 129 pp. and with illustrated endpapers front and rear. Foreword by Heather Dundas. From the publisher's blurb, the book tells of the iconic French philosopher as speaking "nostalgically of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, [and] nice people,'" when in 1975 Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade ostensibly in preparation for a lecture to be delivered at the Claremont Graduate School. "Part search for higher consciousness, part bacchanal, this book… Read more

Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1997. Second Cloth Printing. As New/Fine. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. The publisher's blurb says, "This original and sharply observant book gives new significance to three important figures in the history of twentieth-century art: Eva Hesse, Lee Krasner, and Georgia O'Keeffe. Anne Wagner looks at their imagery and careers, relating their work to three decisive moments in the history of American modernism: the avant-garde of the 1920s, the New… Read more

New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. A probing, lively, accessible social history of the Stein family, of Gertrude, Leo and Michael and their father, the influence of Alice B. Toklas, and of European literary and social circles. A superior copy inside and out, being a sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, paper-backed, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Gift-quality condition inside and out. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xvii [2], 3-346 [1] pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

San Francisco: Triangle Gallery. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Very Good. Carl Morris. Reprinted from a 1974 issue of The Malahat Review, Number 32, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia. Illustrated softcover wraps, light wear and tear thereto, creasing to one corner, clean, unmarked interior. Opening essay, "The Journey of Carl Morris," by David Wagoner, "Comment" by Robin Skelton, and replete with roughly a score fine reproductions of Morris's work in full color. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hartford, Connecticut: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1963. First Edition. Softcover. As New. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Glossy, pictorial covers, and featuring the sculptural work of Alexander Calder, Naum Gabo, Peter Grippe, David Hayes, William Kent, Conrad Malicoat, Thomas Morin, Mike Nevelson, David Von Schlegell, Hugh Townley, and H.C. Westermann. Unpaginated, but roughly 22 pp. Foreword by C.C. Cunningham, the Director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Gallery, then a lengthy essay by Samuel J. Wagstaff, Jr., the Curator of the Museum. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: Faber and Faber, Ltd, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond some edge-wear and especially at spine top, protected by a plastic coat, price-clipped. Bound in medium blue cloth, a bit of discoloration to and sunning of bottom edge and spine foot, with gilt lettering to spine, and over black title label. [6], 7-64 pp. including index, and then presented are several score black-and-white photographs printed on glossy paper. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Berlin, Germany: Verlag Der Sturm, 1924. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. A still quite sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy of an important and scarce item, illustrated beautifully at front cover with a lovely cubist painting by Franz Marc. Unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Published in stated Third Edition in Berlin by Verlag Der Sturm, 1924, Beautiful black and white illustrations in the text. Contributions by a number of heavy hitters, from Arp and Archipenko to Tour Donas and Umberto Boccioni, Carlo D. Carra, Delaunay, Chagall, Feininger, Kandinsky, Klee, Kokoschka, Leger, Macke, Moholy-Nagy, Picasso, Schlemmer, Schwitters, Severini, Uhden, Walden and Wauer. Additional paintings and engravings, too. 175 pp., and illustrations printed on coated paper. Still a tank-like volume, and protected by a stiff Mylar jacket. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards.… Read more

Peter Stuyvestant Station, New York: Angel Hair, 1968. First Edition. Softcover. Good. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy and printed in First Edition, First Printing state. Tall, skinny quarto softpaper format, red wraps soiled lightly and worn along the edges. Interior is clean and bright, unmarked but for two of the following contributors' names being bracketed neatly and a couple of post-it notes being still affixed to their contributions: Kenward Elmslie Anne Waldman Tom Clark Sotere Torregian DIck Gallup Jonathan Cott Clark Coolidge Lewis Warsh Joanne Kyger Ron Padgett John Stanton Philip Whalen Peter Schjeldahl Larry Fagin Kenneth Koch Kathleen Torregian Ted Greenwald Allan Kaplan Ted Berrigan Lee Harwood John Perreault Tom Veitch Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Peter Stuyvestant Station, New York: Angel Hair, 1958. First Edition. Softcover. Good. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy and printed in First Edition, First Printing state. Tall, skinny quarto softpaper format, blue wraps soiled lightly and worn along the edges. Interior is clean and bright, unmarked but for six of the following contributors' names being circle neatly and a couple of post-it notes have been pulled, several remaining: Edwin Denby, Ron Padgett, Barbara Guest, Lorenzo Thomas, Frank Lima, Michael Brownstein, Catherine Murray, Ted Berrigan, James Schuyler, Joe Ceravolo, Bill Berkson, Clark Coolidge, Tom Clark, Aram Saroyan, Joe Brainard, John Ashbery, Mary Ferrari, John Giorno, Tony Towle, Jim Brode,y Ron Padgett, Barbara Guest, Ted Berrigan, Joe Brainard. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Suffolk, England: Antique Collectors' Club, 2001. Revised Second Edition. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Another fine contribution to the Price Guide Series, this being a revised reprinting of the Second Edition of the to-that-point definitive price guide to antique silver. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound in gray buckram cloth, with gilt lettering to cover and to spine. Illustrated endpapers front and rear. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. 1,100 photographs in black-and-white. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography.[8], 9-365 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy… Read more

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1991. First U.K. Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Catherine Deeter. Stated First U.K. Edition, published first in New York in the same year, and illustrated beautifully by Catherine Deeter in half-page, full-page and even page-and-a-half format. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound in two-tone, purple paper over boards, green linen weave cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat that is a bit scratched and word but that has done its job, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Unpaginated, but roughly 24 pp. and with sumptuous illustrations. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, 1995. Second Edition. Hardcover. As New/As New. Catherine Deeter. Stated First Printing, with "A" in the "number" line, being a First Edition reprint of the 1967 original. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound in burgundy paper over boards, gilt-stamped title at front cover, burgundy cloth-backed. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Dublin, Ireland: Royal Irish Academy, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Another fine contribution to the series A New History of Ireland, under the general editorship of T.W. Moody, F.X. Martin, and F.J. Byrne. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear beyond to spine head and foot, not price-clipped. Contributions from the editor, Brian M. Walker, and then county-by-county vote tallies for the long 19th century. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. xvi + 438 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Dublin / Belfast / Belfast: Royal Irish Academy / The Institute of Irish Studies / The Queen's University of Belfast, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition. Another fine contribution to the series A New History of Ireland, under the general editorship of T.W. Moody, F.X. Martin, and F.J. Byrne. Special attention paid to Irish history through parliamentary elections focused on Westminster, Belfast, Dublin and Strasbourg. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. Contributions from the editor, Brian M. Walker, and then county-by-county, parish by parish vote tallies for the short 20th century. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. viii + 358 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and… Read more

London: Thames and Hudson , 1998. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. As New/Fine. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Burgundy colored cloth, with gilt lettering to spine and lovely gilt illustration to cover. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, not price-clipped. One hundred forty-five illustrations, 108 being in full color, illustrating the finest Indian carpets in the Islamic/Mughal Era. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. The book arose from a spectacular exhibition of 16th and 17th century carpets in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. xviii [2], 3-199 pp. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

London: William Clowes and Sons, Ltd. Reprint Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copies of two exhaustive catalogues of the so-called Wallace Collection, the Sixth Edition having been published originally in 1905 and the Sixteenth Edition, extensively added to, having been published most recently in 1968, a Collection that stretches back to the early 17th century. Minor wear of covers and text-blocks, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copies. Marred only by Michael Unger's ink-stamps and penned inscriptions, else clean, bright and unmarked. Bound in blue printed wraps, with auction house's devices to front cover. Replete with plentiful black-and-white photographs of fine art works printed on high-gloss paper. 214 pp., xxxii [1], 2-471 pp., and with Preface by the Director, F.J.B. Watson, to the Sixth Edition. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for… Read more