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Paris, France: Photo Poche/Actes Sud, 2021. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Paris, France: Photo Poche/Actes Sud, 2021. Softcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 144 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. The single best introduction to the photographic art and achievement of Sabine Weiss. The First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Photo Poche: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Sabine Weiss. Text by Viriginie Chardin. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Paris, France to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "Sabine Weiss: The Photo Poche Edition". The… Leer más

Chicago, IL: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2017. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Chicago, IL: Stephen Daiter Gallery, 2017. Softcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 20 pages. Exhibition Catalog. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Exhibition Catalog is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Craig Cotsones: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial softcovers, as issued. Photographs by Sabine Weiss. Text by Stephen Daiter. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is exemplary in every respect, a work of love. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark exhibition of the same name held at the Stephen Daiter Gallery Chicago from February 10 through April 29, 2017. Presents "Sabine Weiss: Intimate Memory". The very first solo exhibition of… Leer más

New York City, NY: Magnus Books, 2011. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Magnus Books, 2011. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 258 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. 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 Edmund White's "Sacred Monsters". A "case-by-case" elaboration and summing-up of his deeply personal aesthetics. Here are twenty-two beautifully written essays on a gamut of modern and contemporary cultural figures. White calls them "sacred monsters", the literal (and felicitous) translation of the French "monstre sacre", someone who is, in his dictionary-worthy definition, "a venerable or popular celebrity so well-known that he or she is above… Leer más

Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press, 2011. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press, 2011. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 90 pages. The author's fictional account. One of Brian Dillon's finest achievements. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. It is neither a British nor American Edition as it was published in Berlin, Germany. As such, it is a German Edition even though it is in English. An austerely elegant production by Sternberg Press: Very small-size volume format. Blue cloth boards with red titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by Brian Dillon. Matching red page edges. Printed on archival stock paper in Berlin to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Brian Dillon's "Sanctuary". Dissolves the arbitrary line between essayistic speculation and pure fiction: The narrative as… Leer más

New York City, NY: The New Press, 1998. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: The New Press, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 278 pages. The author's second novel. The first appearance of the title in the United States. 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 Romesh Gunesekera's "The Sandglass". His marvellous "follow-up" novel, a triumphant achievement that deserves a much wider readership. His first novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1994 and was widely praised on both sides of the Atlantic. The second book, just getting it written at all, is often the "acid test" for every writer. Gunesekera passes the test with flying colors. Born and raised in the Philippines, a Sri Lankan by nationality, and now London-based, Romesh… Leer más

Amsterdam, Netherlands: Fragment Uitgeverij Amsterdam, 2000. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Fragment Uitgeverij Amsterdam, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 145 pages. Retrospective Monograph. The single most important and beautiful book on the erotic photographic art of Sanne Sannes. The true First Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Second Edition. It should also not be confused with and is superior (in terms of production values) to the 2016 "Sanne Sannes: Copyright/Archief" Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only and as the inaugural volume in the "Monographs On Dutch Photographers" Series. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Fragment Uitgeverij: Oversize-volume format. Gray cloth boards with purple titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs, film… Leer más

New York City, NY: Doubleday, 2005. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Doubleday, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 293 pages. The author's ninth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in the United States. 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 Ian McEwan's "Saturday". A masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. "Henry Perowne is a contented man. Outside the hospital, the world is not so easy or predictable. There is an impending war against Iraq, and a general darkening and gathering pessimism since the New York and Washington attacks two years before. On this particular Saturday morning, Perowne's day moves from the ordinary to the extraordinary" (Publisher's blurb) .… Leer más

Berlin, Germany: Kehrer Heidelberg Berlin, 2012. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Berlin, Germany: Kehrer Heidelberg Berlin, 2012. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 296 pages. Retrospective Monograph. The single most valuable book on the photographic art and achievement of Saul Leiter ever published. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, including its Facsimile Reissued Edition, which was released as a memorial tribute after Saul Leiter died the following year, on November 23, 2013. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out upon publication. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Kehrer Verlag: Oversize-volume format. Red cloth boards with black titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Saul Leiter. Essays by various contributors. Pictorial slipcase. Printed on… Leer más

Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2008. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. Gottingen, Germany: Gerhard Steidl Druckerei Und Verlag, 2008. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 152 pages. Exhibition Monograph. One of the most important books on the photographic art and achievement of Saul Leiter. 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 rare. A brilliant production by Gerhard Steidl: Regular-sized volume format. Gray hard boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Saul Leiter. Text by Agnes Sire and other contributors. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper by Steidl in Gottingen, Germany to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as… Leer más

New York City, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2005. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2005. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 474 pages. The author's fifth 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 Amy Tan's "Saving Fish From Drowning". Features a dazzling DJ design by the legendary Honi Werner. "Delivers another highly entertaining novel, narrated from beyond the grave. San Francisco socialite and art-world doyenne Bibi Chen has planned the vacation of a lifetime along the notorious Burma Road for twelve of her dearest friends. Violently murdered days before takeoff, she is reduced to watching her friends bumble through their travels from the remove of the… Leer más

New York City, NY: Columbia University Press, 2009. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Columbia University Press, 2009. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 265 pages. Retrospective collection of memorial essays. One of the best assessments on the literary career and ideas of Susan Sontag. The First Hardcover Edition. Should not be confused with the Softcover Edition, which was published simultaneously with it. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original by a University Press. The production values are impeccable: Pristine-white archival stock paper, handsome brown cloth boards, invaluable Index, and other Gender and Culture titles appended at the end. Without DJ, as issued. Presents "The Scandal of Susan Sontag". Posthumous essays that collectively assess the achievement, legacy, and controversy that continue to surround Susan Sontag's "scandalous" career.… Leer más

Iowa City, IA: University Of Iowa Press, 1995. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. Iowa City, IA: University Of Iowa Press, 1995. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 222 pages. Landmark monograph on subject. One of the most important photography books 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 and as part of the now-classic series on the early history of photography by the Iowa University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. An austerely elegant production by University of Iowa Press: Oversize-volume format. Maroon linen cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Text by John Wood. Foreword by John R. Stilgoe. Photographs by various contributors. Printed on archival, acid-free stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with… Leer más

New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 505 pages. The singer/interpreter's book-length account on subject. One of the best books on the musical art and achievement of Franz Schubert of our time. Advance Signed Copy of 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 Ian Bostridge's "Schubert's Winter Journey: Anatomy of An Obsession". His exploration of the world's most famous and challenging song cycle, "Winterreise". A definitive interpreter of the work, Bostridge "teases out the themes - literary, historical, psychological - that weave through the twenty-four songs that make up this legendary masterpiece. Completed in the… Leer más

Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 96 pages. Collection of essays on subject. One of the best books on film ever written in our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the British Edition, which looks exactly like it. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by a University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Gore Vidal's "Screening History". Essays that discuss the influence of the movies on American history and vice versa, with unexpected, Vidalian results. This is film criticism-as-autobiography, autobiography-as-film criticism, in the unique, seamless way that only Gore Vidal (and no other regular film critic) could possibly pull off. "Uses the movies of his youth as the… Leer más

New York City, NY: Viking Press, 2015. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Viking Press, 2015. Softcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 302 pages. The author's fifth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. Uncorrected Proof. Precedes and should not be confused with the regular trade edition. Published in a small and limited one-time-only print run as a softcover original only for the exclusive use of the publisher and author. There is no ISBN. The Uncorrected Proof is now scarce. Presents, in its earliest-state format, Geraldine Brooks' "The Secret Chord". Her best novel since "March" (2005) : A near-scandalous account on the endlessly fascinating King David. "A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David. Takes on one of literature's richest and most enigmatic figures: A man who shimmers between history and legend. Peeling away the myth to bring David to… Leer más

New York City, NY: Viking Press, 2015. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Viking Press, 2015. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 302 pages. The author's fifth 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. "Autographed Copy" round white sticker pasted in front. Presents Geraldine Brooks' "The Secret Chord". Her best novel since "March" (2005) : A near-scandalous account on the endlessly fascinating King David. "A rich and utterly absorbing novel about the life of King David. Takes on one of literature's richest and most enigmatic figures: A man who shimmers between history and legend. Peeling away the myth to bring David to life in Second Iron-Age Israel, Brooks traces the arc of his journey from… Leer más

New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 151 pages. Retrospective collection of notes, fragments, and aphorisms. One of Elias Canetti's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. 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 as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Elias Canetti's "Das Geheimherz der Uhr: Aufzeichnungen" in a felicitous English translation. More "jottings", that is, thinking-as-living, living-as-thinking. Taking up where "The Human Province" leaves off, these notes-to-oneself are all entries in the Notebooks he kept between 1973 and 1985: Brilliant, unsurpassed, and humane… Leer más

New York City, NY: New Directions, 2012. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: New Directions, 2012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 145 pages. Collection of the author's unfinished writings. Now considered a contemporary classic. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. 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 Roberto Bolano's "The Secret of Evil" in a felicitous English translation. Marks the very first collaboration between Chris Andrews and Natasha Wimmer, Roberto Bolano's indefatigable (and heroic) translators in English. It is the ultimate posthumous tribute to Roberto Bolano's genius: A collection of fragments and unfinished pieces he left behind that were found in his computer after his death. That they ostensibly… Leer más

New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 182 pages. The author's fifth novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly copies that are signed on a tipped-in page. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. Presents Jamaica Kincaid's "See Now Then". Her best book since her breakthrough, "At The Bottom of The River" (1983). "This piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters - a mother, a father, and their two children living in a small village in New England - as they move, in their own minds, between the… Leer más

New York City, NY: Harcourt, Inc. , 2006. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Harcourt, Inc. , 2006. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 307 pages. The author's tenth novel to be translated into English. One of Jose Saramago's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in the United States. 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 Jose Saramago's "Ensaio sobre a Lucidez" in a felicitous English translation. Known simply as "Seeing", the sequel to "Blindness". The latter had an almost mythic power "whereas its sequel, a political satire set in the same nameless city, opens with more wit and less heart. When Election Day coincides with a terrible rainstorm, the government worries that no one will venture out to vote. This fear… Leer más