Resultados de búsqueda: Títulos que empiezan por F de Modern Rare

New York City, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2004. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 2004. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 128 pages. Retrospective monograph on subject. The single best book on the art of the Faberge Flower. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents "Faberge Flowers". Some of Carl Faberge's greatest creations. "At one time, the royal families of Europe and Russia were accustomed to having their every whim satisfied, even apparently impossible desires like freezing and preserving Nature in its most perfect form. This collection of photographs and essays documents Carl Faberge's attempts to do just that for the Russian Imperial Family and other aristocrats throughout Europe. In the late 1800's and… Leer más

Berlin, Germany: Thomas Kellner Studios, 2004. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Berlin, Germany: Thomas Kellner Studios, 2004. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 70 pages. Collection of color photographs of building facades, presented as an Artist Book. According to the artist/photographer himself, he created only a handful of copies of the book, five in all, none of which were sold commercially. There is no ISBN. The Artist Book is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Thomas Kellner: Oversize-volume format. Black cloth boards with white titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Thomas Kellner. There is no text. 8 X 6 inch original color print tipped-in. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Thomas Kellner's "Facades". Altered/"pixilated" photographs of building facades. "I want to… Leer más

New York City, NY: Powerhouse Books, 2002. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Powerhouse Books, 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 145 pages. Retrospective collection of black-and-white photographs, accompanied by a journal. One of the most valuable photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Valdir Cruz and Daniel Power: Oversize-volume format. Red cloth boards with black titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs and journals by Valdir Cruz. Essays by Kenneth Good, Vicki Goldberg, the Photography Critic of The New York Times, and Trudie Styler. Together with her rock star-husband Sting, Styler is the founder of the Rainforest Foundation. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated… Leer más

New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1988. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 185 pages. The author's debut memoir. Now considered a late-modern classic. Limited Slipcased Edition of 250 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the regular trade edition. The Limited Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by FSG: Regular-sized volume format. Orange cloth boards with gilt titles embossed on spine, as issued. Text by Philip Roth. Matching cream cloth slipcase. Printed on archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in its Limited Edition format, Philip Roth's "The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography". His first memoir, about himself, followed and completed by… Leer más

Chicago, IL: Art Institute Of Chicago, 1993. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Chicago, IL: Art Institute Of Chicago, 1993. Softcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 62 pages. Exhibition Catalog. The single best book on the photographic art and achievement of Luis Medina. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. The Exhibition Catalog is now scarce. A brilliant production by the Art Institute of Chicago: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Luis Medina. Essays by David Travis and Ricardo Pau-Llosa. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the posthumous exhibition of the same name held at The Art Institute of Chicago from November 6, 1993 through January 19, 1994. Presents Luis Medina's… Leer más

Chicago, IL: Art Institute Of Chicago, 1993. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Chicago, IL: Art Institute Of Chicago, 1993. Softcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 62 pages. Exhibition Catalog. The single best book on the photographic art and achievement of Luis Medina. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. The Exhibition Catalog is now scarce. A brilliant production by the Art Institute of Chicago: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Luis Medina. Essays by David Travis and Ricardo Pau-Llosa. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the posthumous exhibition of the same name held at The Art Institute of Chicago from November 6, 1993 through January 19, 1994. Presents Luis Medina's… Leer más

New York City, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2002. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 225 pages. The author's eleventh novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Robert Olen Butler's "Fair Warning". Beautifully and flawlessly written, perhaps his finest achievement since "A Good Scent From A Strange Mountain". Butler shows once again how well he understands the female psyche and how unique he is among contemporary writers in being able to write about female protagonists convincingly, sympathetically, and wonderfully. "Limns a time of questioning in the seemingly successful life of Amy Dickerson, a 40-year-old art… Leer más

Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2005. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 124 pages. New And Expanded Edition of the photographer's classic. The First Edition Thus. Published in a small and limited print run of 1500 copies that sold out shortly after publication. Mark stated that the book is vastly superior in terms of production values to the original. The First Edition Thus is now scarce. A brilliant production by Mary Ellen Mark and Diana Hass: Oversize-volume format. Blue cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Mary Ellen Mark. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is outstanding in every respect. In pictorial DJ, with a portrait of "Putla" on the cover, and… Leer más

New York City, NY: Scribner, 2007. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Scribner, 2007. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 246 pages. The author's fourteenth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The wraparound DJ design utilizes the famous photograph of the Twin Towers, still standing tall, surrounded by clouds. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Don DeLillo's "Falling Man". Another DeLillo masterpiece. The title alludes to the often-suppressed photograph of the man who, rather than be engulfed in flames, jumped to his death from one of the Twin Towers on 9/11. DeLillo vividly tells the aftermath through what happens to one of the imaginary survivors, Keith Neudecker. He then "rewinds" at the end and takes the… Leer más

New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 182 pages. The author's debut collection of essays. One of Andre Aciman's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. The DJ design is dazzling, featuring an evocative and apt reproduction of Andre Kertesz's celebrated photograph, "Martinique, January 1, 1972". Presents Andre Aciman's "False Papers: Essays On Exile And Memory". Award-winning, Proustian reminiscences and reflections on the poignant and problematic experience of loss. "Ponders the nature of memory in a series of linked essays in which he not only remembers the past and revisits former… Leer más

New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 289 pages. The author's third collection of essays. Now considered a late-modern classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Cynthia Ozick's "Fame & Folly: Essays". Seventeen essays that offer more ample proof, if proof were ever needed, that the author is not only a fine novelist and short-story writer, but also one of America's finest literary critics. Includes essays on T. S. Eliot, Henry James, Isaac Babel, Mark Twain, George Steiner, Saul Bellow, and Salman Rushdie, among others. An Ozick essay is always cause for celebration. She writes piercingly and critically but always with an… Leer más

New York City, NY: Doubleday, 1991. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Doubleday, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 500 pages. The author's breakthrough novel. Ben Okri's finest achievement. The first appearance of the title in the United States in its First Printing and First-State DJ (NO "Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize" imprint). Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are several. Published in a small and limited first print run by Doubleday Books as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Ben Okri's "The Famished Road". His opalescent masterpiece, the cycle of life, death, and rebirth evoked vividly with the force of memory, myth, and local color. "The narrator is a spirit-child who exists between life and death, destined to an endless cycle of death and rebirth. But this time, born with a smile on his face,… Leer más

New York City, NY: Scribner's, 2016. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Scribner's, 2016. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 578 pages. Retrospective collection of essays on subject. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Andrew Solomon's "Far & Away: Reporting From The Brink of Change: Seven Continents, Twenty-Five Years". Travel as the best way to learn about The Other, and be illuminated. The Other being the underlying thread running throughout Andrew Solomon's body of work. Collects Solomon's writings about places undergoing seismic shifts: Political, cultural, and spiritual. Provides a unique window into the very idea of social change. With his signature brilliance and… Leer más

Fairbanks, Alaska: Far To The North Publishing, 2005. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Fairbanks, Alaska: Far To The North Publishing, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 48 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs on subject. One of the most beautiful art photography books on a pristine natural landscape ever published in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Dennis Witmer: Oversize-volume format. Khaki cloth boards with photographic reproduction pasted on the cover and black titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Dennis Witmer. Poem, "Allegiances", by William Stafford. Text Excerpt from "Why We Photograph" by Robert Adams. Printed in duotone on pristine-white,… Leer más

New York City, NY: The Library Of America, 2009. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: The Library Of America, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 924 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. One of the most important film collections of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents, in one meticulously edited and elegant volume, "Farber On Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber". ALL of the great film critic's essays. A consistently top-notch body of work that reminds us, in almost 1000 pages, how film criticism was once practiced as if it were an art form, and was treasured as such by cinephile-readers. "With serious film criticism in a serious and inexorable decline due to… Leer más

Dueren, Germany: Sparkasse Dueren In Focus Galerie Cologne And Art Galerie Siegen Cologne, 2010. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Dueren, Germany: Sparkasse Dueren In Focus Galerie Cologne And Art Galerie Siegen Cologne, 2010. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 74 pages. Exhibition Catalog. Retrospective collection of photographs. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. There is no ISBN. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Thomas Kellner: Oversize-volume format. Orange hard boards with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Thomas Kellner. Essay by Dr. Gunter Zehnder. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Dueren, Germany to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Published in conjunction with the award given to Thomas Kellner. Re-presents and gathers together, in one exquisitely produced volume, Thomas… Leer más

New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 413 pages. The second novel in the author's Gay Trilogy. One of Edmund White's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents "The Farewell Symphony". The third and final volume of the author's ground-breaking trilogy. The latter was inaugurated by "A Boy's Own Story" (1982) and followed by "The Beautiful Room Is Empty" (1988). The novel deals with the devastation and decimation of an entire community by AIDS, a human loss as much as a creative one, from which American culture has not recovered if one considers, even casually, the abject mediocrity of the arts… Leer más

New York City, NY: Soho Press, 1998. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Soho Press, 1998. Softcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 312 pages. The author's breakthrough second novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. Advance Reader's Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a tiny print run as a softcover original only that was not sold commercially. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by Edwidge Danticat. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Edwidge Danticat's "The Farming of Bones". Her breakthrough novel. A writer of limpid, luminous, and often achingly poetic prose, Danticat is The Real Thing: A writer without a "message", but with a sensibility, mastery of the English language, and acute powers of observation and insight distinctly her own. Every book by Edwidge Danticat is quietly enthralling.… Leer más

New York City, NY: Alfred A Knopf, 2013. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Alfred A Knopf, 2013. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 500 pages. Biography on subject. One of the finest literary biographies of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Blake Bailey's "Farther And Wilder: The Lost Weekends And Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson". "The Lost Weekend" and its author revisited and re-contextualized, with grace and humanity, by one of our best literary biographers, himself apparently afflicted, but no less brilliant and accomplished as such. The title is the working title of the last, unfinished book Jackson was working on when he suddenly died. Charles Jackson's great novel "is entirely based on… Leer más

Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2007. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2007. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 140 pages. Collection of photographs. One of the most important photography books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by Fazal Sheikh and Gerhard Steidl: Oversize-volume format. The book weighs 3 pounds. Khaki cloth boards with maroon titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs and text by Fazal Sheikh. Printed on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued.… Leer más