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New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards, stamped yellow and white spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 219 pp. Near fine book; very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Milton Glaser.
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Paid Servant
by E.R. Brathwaite
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Painted Turtle: Woman With Guitar
by Clarence Major
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Los Angeles: Sun and Moon, 1988. First edition. 8vo, brown cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine in an illustrated jacket, 160 pp. Good+, slightest push to tail of spine, some light highlighting throughout text by former owner./Very Good+ jacket, very minor handling wear.. One of 26 signed and lettered copies, of which this is letter "k," signed a second time on title page.
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The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosinski
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- Used - Fair, ex-library with related stamps, stickers, and wear, writing throughout in margins, jacket is affixed to boards, cracked fr
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo, brown cloth boards with black lettering on spine, in illustrated dust jacket, 272 pp. Fair, ex-library with related stamps, stickers, and wear, writing throughout in margins, jacket is affixed to boards, cracked front hinge, significant wear to edges of boards, tape around flaps and onto pastedowns./Fair jacket, in library plastic, torn at edges of flaps where affixed to boards, cannot be removed from book, wear consistent with history as library book.. Kosinski's most famous and infamous book.
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The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol
by Jeffrey Deitch (ed)
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Los Angeles & New York: MOCA/Skira Rizzoli, 2012. Hardcover quarto, pictorial boards, 240 pp. Very Good+, some gentle pushing to corners, light shelving wear, else clean.
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The Palestine Gazette no. 662. Thursday 28th January, 1937
by [British Mandatory Government of Palestine]
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Jerusalem: Palestine Authority, 1937. Saddle-stapled tall quarto in printed self-wrappers. [20]pp, with printed page numbers picking up in the greater volume's sequence at pp79 and ending on pp98. Good, folded vertically in half, some splitting to spine ends, light creasing, edgewear, finger soiling.. Number 662 of the weekly official organ of the colonial British Mandatory government of Palestine, detailing land sales, contracts issued and terminated, citation orders, and more. Detailed statistical accounting of all emigration to and from Palestine, which offers a snapshot into the land's swelling Jewish immigration of the pre-WWII period.
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Pan-Africanism: A short political guide
by Colin Legum
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London, England & Dunmow, England: Pall Mall Press, 1962. Hardcover 8vo charcoal boards with white lettering in an illustrated jacket, 296 pp. Near Fine, light rubbing to boards at top edge, corners and top of spine; strong sound binding with clean interior./Very Good jacket, light chipping at ends of spine with 1/2" section missing from top, a few light creases along top and bottom of front with light wear to edges, 1" tear to top right corner, interior has mild damping.. Gift inscription on front free end paper: "For Wayne Fredericks with all good wishes Carl Legum London March 1962". [J.] Wayne Fredericks was a career diplomat, notably the top to Africa in the JFK administration.
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A Panel Discussion
by Serge Chermayeff, Heinz Von Foerster, Ralph Caplan, SIbyl Moholy-Nagy
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Industrial Design Education Association, 1962. Saddle-stapled octavo in illustrated card wraps. 69 pp. Very Good (+). Four lectures delivered at a March 1962 conference by this assembly of some of the world's premiere thinkers in architecture and design.
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Paris-Les Halles: Concours 2004
by Nouvel, Jean; Maas, Winy; Koolhaas, Rem; Mangin, David
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- 9782281192346 / 2281192342
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Paris, France: Le Moniteur Editions, 2004. Hardcover. Very Good. Tight binding, bump to crown and tail of spine, corners lightly pushed, general shelving and handling wear, clean and unmarked within. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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Penguin Modern Poets 24
by Kenward Elmslie, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler
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Hardomondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1973. Perfect-bound, octavo, green paper wraps, 215 pp. Very good, upper cover moisture rippling to fore edge and first few leaves, soiling to textblock edges, spine lightly creased.. From the collections of New York School poet, publisher and librettist, Kenward Elmslie. Elmslie's proof copy, with his name penned on front cover, of the 24th installment in the Penguin Modern Poets series, as guest edited by John Ashbery.
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A Penny for the Poor
by Bertolt Brecht
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New York: Hillman, Curl, 1938. First American edition. Hardcover, octavo, red cloth boards, black spine and cover titles, lacking dust jacket, 396 pp. Fair condition, spine cocked and loose at backstrip, dampstaining to board edges resulting in some color bleed to edges of endpapers and tops of last few leaves.. From the library of New York School poet, publisher and librettist, Kenward Elmslie. Written in blue ink on front free endpaper:"Kenward Gray Elmslie / April 27, 1947" in his hand. Adaptation of Brecht's famous The Threepenny Opera, translated by Desmond I. Vesey ad Christopher Isherwood. Brecht is cited as an important influence not just on Elmslie but also his partner of the 1950s, librettist and lyricist John La Touche, for whom the goal of translating The Threepenny Opera was an unrealized fixation.
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Penpoints, Gunpoints, and Dreams: Towards a Critical Theory of the Arts and the State in Africa
by Ngugi wa Thiongo
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- 9780198183907 / 0198183909
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New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, [vii], iv, [iii], 139, [3] pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, lightly scuffed with worn edges. Author-inscribed on front free endpaper.
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The People One Knows
by Robert Boles
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Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], quarterbound black cloth and yellow boards, white and black spine titles, black end papers, pictorial dust jacket, 177 pp. Near fine book in very good dust jacket, close tears and wear to spine ends, light soiling to covers, and toning to top 1/8" of flaps.. Jacket design by Anita Kahrl.
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People & Places
by Robert Kareka
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- 9781953252708 / 1953252702
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Loveland, Ohio: Dos Madres Press, 2023. Softcover, oblong duodecimo, in illustrated wraps 184 pp. Near fine. Book design by Kathleen Canavan.
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Perceptions of Promise: Biotechnology, Society and Art
by Caulfield, Sean; Gillespie, Curtis; Caulfield, Timothy
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- 9780969989844 / 0969989849
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Department of Art and Design, University of Alberta, 2011. Soft cover. Near Fine. Slight edge wear to dust jacket. Tight binding, clean text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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Perdition: A play in two acts
by Jim Allen
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London: Ithaca Press, 1987. 8vo, illustrated paper wraps, 152 pp. Very Good (+), light shelving and handling wear.. Contains hand-tipped-in pages that were removed by publisher under threat of legal action. Inscribed to Tuli Kupferburg of Fugs fame on inside cover by Akiva Orr, whose accompanying article on the Kastner case on which this play deals with is included after the play's text.
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Period: The Real Story of Menstruation
by Kate Clancy
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- 9780691191317 / 069119131x
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Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023. First edition. Hardcover, octavo, black cloth boards with gilt lettering in pictorial dust jacket, 249 pp. Near fine/Near fine jacket. Jacket design by Karl Spurzem.
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Periplum: Or, I The Blaze
by Peter Gizzi
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Pengrove, CA: Avec Books, 1992. Perfect-bound in pictorial wraps, 8-1/2 x 5 in. 61pp. Near fine, with some rubbing along front hinge, and a tiny spot of liquid soiling to leading corner of textblock top.. Cover and three interior drawings by Trevor Winkfield.. Inscribed by Gizzi on the title page: 'For Kenward [Elmslie]- "We're dressing for the movies" With love + postcards xxxx Peter Gizzi 9/7/92". Gizzi's first book.
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Peru 1965: Notes on a Guerrilla Experience
by Hector Bejar
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New York/London: Monthly Review Press, 1970. First printing. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 142 pp. Very good book, front free end paper owner inscription; very good dust jacket, spine creased and chipped, edges creased and worn, covers rubbed. Jacket design by Karolina Harris.
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Peter Bialobrzeski: Neon Tigers
by Hanig, Florian; Ribbat, Christof
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- 9783775713948 / 3775713948
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ostfilden-ruit, germany: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Book is in very good condition, corners sharp, binding tight and square, clean and unmarked within. Overall in very good condition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall.
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Peter Nagy. Entertainment Erases History Works 1982 to 2004 to the Present
by Milazzo, Richard
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- 9780615497921 / 0615497926
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Brooklyn, NY: Eisbox Projects, 2014. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Book is in very good condition, tight square binding, minor bump to bottom corner of front board as well as both corners of rear boards, minor shelving and handling wear, clean and unmarked within. Jacket is in very good condition, small closed tear to crown of jacket spine, bump to lower corner of front panel. Overall in very good condition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall.
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