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Truman Capote reached a pinnacle that many writer’s dream of but few ever ascend. No one quite climbed to that summit like Capote did. The extravagant and outrageous lifestyle of flamboyance may be dim among today’s own breed of celebrity, but 50 years ago it was a beacon in the bight life of high society and American Letters. He was a mainstay of the New York social scene, an a noted Hampton’s regular. To celebrate his rise to the top of high society in 1966 Capote hosted what would become known as the famous Black and White Ball, a virtual “who’s who” of the day. Capote’s natural talent for weaving truth with fiction and his unflinching descriptions of his friends soon led to his rapid descent in popularity within the very social circles he had worked so hard to adopt. This rejection led to his increased drinking and drug use. His lack of continued sobriety in later years was matched only by his lack of work. Capote became more of a recluse and his last work, Answered Prayers (where he offended many of his friends) was published only after his death. Truman Capote died on August 25, 1984, but his presence remains alive in the 21st century, even among today’s celebrated caricatures.

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Description: Hard bound with dust jacket in custom 1/4 leather & cloth clamshell box. SIGNED ON THE FRONT FREE ENDPAGE BY TRUMAN CAPOTE. Stated first printing. Some minor wear to unclipped dust jacket edges, otherwise very good. The first of Truman Capote’s own “favorites” from among his works. Mustard cloth boards. Mylar-covered dust jacket (which shows $5.95 price and 2/63 date at bottom of front fold) Beautiful 1/4 leather clam shell box with gilt title on spine edge, shows only the most minoer edge wear. A rare signed copy!.

Bookseller Inventory # 19093

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Selected Writings of Truman Capote
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Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1963
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: First Edition
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Description: Hard bound limited edition HAND SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY TRUMAN CAPOTE. Near Fine without dust wrapper in publishers slipcase, as issued. A wonderful collection of some of Capote’s best essays. Copy #148 of 350 printed copies. A near fine copy in like slipcase, scarce!.
Bookseller Inventory # 19094
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Music for Chameleons
Capote, Truman
ISBN: 0394514645
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hard bound with price clipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BEN SHAHN on the front free endpage. Some wear to dust jacket and cloth boards. Minor chipping to spine edges and corners of dust jacket, otherwse very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 16300

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Ounce Dice Trice
Reid, Alastair and Shahn, Ben

Publisher: Atlantic – Little , Brown
Publication Date: 1958
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Good
Signed: Signed
Edition: First Edition

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Description: Hard bound first printing with unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed by John Irving ” Happy Birthday Al – John Irving”. Hand signed letter ( in which he discusses coaching, and wrestling ) and a picture of Brendan Irving ( just after he won the class “A” title) laid in. Some minor wear to dust jacket, otherwise very good. A very nice presentation copy.

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Bookseller Inventory # 17252

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A Prayer for Owen Meany
Irving, John

ISBN 10: 0688077080
ISBN 13: 9780688077082
Publisher: William Morrow
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author
Edition: First Edition

Description: FIRST U.K. Edition, hard bound with dust jacket. A nice copy with only the most minor edge wear. RARE!.

Bookseller Inventory # 16643

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ISBN: 0257667997
Publisher: Jenkins, London
Publication Date: 1969
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. #1818 in a limited printing of 2000 copies. Foreword by Peter Beard. A very nice copy, bright and clean. Now out of print, and sought after.

Bookseller Inventory # 19352

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Edith Bouvier Beale of Grey Gardens: A Life in Pictures
Beale, Eva Marie

Publisher: Verlhac Editions, Paris
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: As New
Dust Jacket Condition: As New
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hard bound first printing with dust jacket. The first full length study on the Theater work of Robert Wilson. Profusely illustrated. 240 pages. A pristine copy, bright and clean. Rare and sought after!.

Bookseller Inventory # 19211

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Robert Wilson
Quadri, Franco; Stearns, Robert & Bertoni, Franco

ISBN: 084782103X
Publisher: Rizzoli, New York
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition

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Lotz (Loetz) Glass was one of the premier glass works of the first part of the twentieth century. The studios were located in Bohemia, within the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Loetz glassware was exhibited at the Paris International Exposition of 1889, held beneath the newly constructed Eiffel tower. The Loetz pieces won critical acclaim there, in fact the Paris Exposition was the launching pad for many of the century’s finest glass works, and is widely accepted as the birthplace of Art Nouveau. Encouraged by the success of Loetz, numerous other Bohemian manufacturers became active in the production of glass. Lotz is often confused with the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany, and it is widely believed that glass workers from Loetz and other Bohemian factories defected to Tiffany’s works in New York City, which would have been a welcome haven for emigrant artisans in the early years of the early twentieth century.

Description: 2 volumes hard bound in dust jackets. 979 combined pages, profusely illustrated. (Vol. 1 – Werkmonographie, Vol.2 – Katalogue der Musterschnitte) Published on the occasion of the Kunstmuseum Dusseldorf exhibition, in association with Museum Fur Kunsthandwerk & Kunstgewerbemuseum Prag. Text in German. Few glass works have exploited the bluish-green combination of cobalt, copper and iron more successfully than Lotz. The definitive Art Nouveau glass studio. An exhaustive ref. work. 2 very nice copies, with dust jackets that show only the most minor edge wear.

Bookseller Inventory # 18734

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Lotz : Bohnmisches Glas 1880 – 1940 (2 volumes)
Ricke, Helmut

Publisher: Prestel
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Description: First installment of The Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture. With an introduction by Vincent Scully. Generally considered one of the most important titles in architectural theory of the last 50 years. Simply – the opening text of postmodernism. Dust jacket shows wear and soiling, now protected in Brodart plastic cover. RARE FIRST PRINTING IN JACKET!.

Bookseller Inventory # 18267

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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Venturi, Robert

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Publication Date: 1966
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Good
Edition: First Edition

Marilynne Robinson’s 1980 novel won a Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Housekeeping is a coming-of-age tale set aganist the backdrop of a isloated Pacific Northwest town. Fingerbone, an all but forgotten place, is overshadowed by the new post war America. Its narrator, a teenage girl named Ruth, had likewise been exiled from conventional comforts. Her family story is an extended study in abandonment, madness and tragedy. The tale is a meditation on what is needed to sustain one’s self and household aganist the forces of nature by which it is constantly eroded. Walker Percy called Housekeeping “a story told in a language as sharp and clear as light and air and water”.

Description: True first printing, hard bound with price clipped dust jacket. Some minor wear to edges of dust jacket. Some fading to edges of boards, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding tight. A Scarce copy of a classic modern first edition.

Bookseller Inventory # 14079


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Housekeeping
Robinson, Marilynne

ISBN: 0374173133
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Edition: First Edition

Description: SIGNED BY LINCOLN KIRSTEIN. Hard bound in blue cloth with dust jacket. 107 pages. Limited printing 1/3000 printed copies. Color photographs by Jerry Thompson throughout. 9 1/4 x 12 1/4″. Lush photographs of the Kirstein family’s collection of art, sculpture, and more.

Bookseller Inventory # 19160

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Quarry
Kirstein, Lincoln

Publisher: Twelvetrees Press
Publication Date: 1986
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: First Edition

p1050521p1050522p1050523Description: Massive exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the June 30 – October 8, 1972 German exhibition. Features screenprinted cover designed by Ed Ruscha. This orange standard two ring notebook includes artists index, introductory volume and tabbed indexed binder. 700 pages divided in 25 sections. Curated by Harald Szeemann, Arnold Bode, Karlheinz Braun, Bazon Brock, Peter Iden, Alexander Kluge. Text in German. Artists include Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Georg Baselitz, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Joseph Beuys, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Gilbert & George, Nancy Graves, Duane Hanson, Eva Hesse, Jasper Johns, Edward Kienholz, Imi Knoebel, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, Robert Smithson, Wayne Thiebaud, William Wegman, and many others! Some minor wear, otherwise very good.

Bookseller Inventory # 19115

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Documenta 5
Szeemann, Harald and Ruscha, Ed

Publisher: Documenta GmbH, Kassel, Germany
Publication Date: 1972
Book Condition: Very Good

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. A nearly perfect copy, with no visible wear. Alexis, Baron de Rede (1922-2004) was a man of exceptional elegance & style. An exquisite host, whose parties were legendary. He was never far from the epicentre of high society. His personal friends were diverse and included the Duke & Dutchess of Windsor, Nureyev, Dali, Cecil Beaton, Maria Callas, Liz Taylor and Richard Burton to name just a few. His was an extraordinary life in which aesthetic perfection was his aim. His Oriental ball in 1969 was the last in a world in which magnificent costume balls were given and the Beau Monde of the world invited. His memoirs, edited by Hugo Vickers, stand as a testament to the High Society of his day. A nearly flawless copy of a scarce and sought after book!

Bookseller Inventory # 15711

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Alexis : The Memoirs of the Baron de Rede
Vickers, Hugo
ISBN: 190434903X
Publisher: Dovecote Press
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Edition: First Edition

Early in the 1960s reacting to what he called the ” illusion ” in abstract painting Donald Judd began to create art that used ” real materials existing in real space “. He did not attempt to deliver his own political or social messages, but insisted his goal was to focus on the space occupied and created by his objects – their purity of form. This style of art was called minimalism, and Judd was one of it’s greatest proponents. He became well known for sleek, boxlike constructions made of industrial materials such as plywood, sheet metal, and plexiglass that were painted using commercial techniques. Stacked, aligned, cantilevered, or centered, their strict geometric arrangements eliminated the idea of composition and achieved a singular focus on the object itself. Although his art is resolutely three-dimensional, Judd refused to call them sculpture, a term he associated with the hand-crafted art of an earlier era. Instead, he referred to them as “specific objects“–a phrase meant to suggest their neutral and unique nature.

“I wanted to create reality
not a picture of it”
– Donald Judd

Description: Stiff wraps with brown paper dust jacket. 1/2750 printed copies. 134 pages. About 100 Pieces illustrated in full color. text in English, German & Dutch. A rare exhibition catalogue.

Bookseller Inventory # 19122

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Donald Judd Furniture: Retrospective
Judd, Donald

ISBN: 9069181398
Publisher: Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Publication Date: 1994
Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

A History of Men’s Fashion is divided into four parts that follow the sartorial evolution of the male wardrobe from the era of Beau Brummell to the “anti-fashion” trends of the early 1990s. Part One (1760-1850) traces the era of tails and the frock coat, the emergence of the pantaloon and the influence of Anglomania on European fashion. Men’s fashion in Europe’s fin de siecle climate, and the impact of ready-made garments are discussed in Part Two (1850-1914). Part Three (1914-1940) introduces the aesthetic of the sweater and the variations on the suit and vest as part of the post-World War I moral liberation and economic euphoria, and traces changes all the way through to the New Deal and the new American elegance. The post-World War II fashion revolution is described in Part Four (1940-1990) from zoot suits, spurred by the black American jazz scene, to London’s Mod fashion of the 60s, Pierre Cardin and the new French style, the emergence of Italian chic, and the hippie and punk styles of the 70s. The book is completed by a perceptive discussion of contemporary designers such as Jean-Paul Gaultier, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, Comme des Garcons, and Yohji Yamamoto.

Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. Hard bound with dust jacket. 336 pages profusely illustrated. Translated from the French by Deke Dusinberre. Preface by Richard Martin. With extensive notes, bibliography, and index. Illustrations drawn from fashion designs, paintings, drawings, cartoons, tailor’s model books, magazines, and rare photographs. This sought after title is becoming quite scarce!

Bookseller Inventory # 19018
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A History of Men’s Fashion
Chenoune, Farid

ISBN: 2080135368
Publisher: Flammarion, France
Publication Date: 1993
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

Internationally recognized photographer Peter Beard first visited Africa in 1955. After graduating from Yale, he returned to Africa and worked at Kenya’s Tsavo Park, during which time he photographed and documented the demise of over 35,000 elephants and 5000 Black Rhinos. The work done there led to the publication of The End of the Game books.

“When I first went to Kenya in August 1955, I could never have guessed what was going to happen. Kenya’s population was roughly five million, with about 100 tribes scattered throughout the endless ‘wild—deer—ness’ – it was authentic, unspoiled, teeming with big game – so enormous it appeared inexhaustible. Everyone agreed it was too big to be destroyed. Now Kenya’s population of over 30 million drains the country’s limited and diminishing resources at an amazing rate: surrounding, isolating, and relentlessly pressuring the last pockets of wildlife in denatured Africa.” —Peter Beard

Description: INSCRIBED IN THREE PLACES with with Beard’s own customary red ink hand print on the bottom edge of the title page. No Jacket, as issued. First printing of the 1977 revised edition published on the occasion of the I.C.P. exhibition in New York. Very good hardback as issued without dust jacket. The grey boards have some sunning to spine & evidence of light damp staining to the top right of the front board & this moisture exposure is echoed within very lightly showing as a 1 inch area of waviness to the upper outer edge of the pages. It is not very noticeable but I mention it in the interest of accuracy. This is a lovely edition of this rare Beard classic & the most difficult Beard title to find SIGNED & INSCRIBED!

Bookseller Inventory # 15711

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The End of the Game: The Last Word from Paradise A Pictorial Documentation of the Origins, History and Prospects of the Big Game in Africa
Beard, Peter H.

ISBN: 0385131240
Publisher: Viking
Publication Date: 1977
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author
Edition: 1st Edition Thus

299d_1-290x30011.} Hand print in red paint to half title page with the inscription ” Special delivery to Mickey 11/22/80 with warmest regards and memories as always Peter (Beard)”.

a96e_12.} Warm inscription by Peter Beard on verso of front free end page” D[picture of ear] Mickey – greetings from afar – what I am doing here? – and you there! Hurry back and join the rat race in the cement jungle – we miss you – was going to to do a long letter but I’m sending you a day of my life in chore city – hope you can read the true stress – relax and read while you can – we have been thinking of you all the time – drop me a line @ p. o. box. – ran into your mother last Wednesday after her trip to see you – ALL best from ALL here – in haste as ever, Peter 11/22/80″.

3.} Address in Ecuador printed by Peter Beard to the upper right hand corner of front free end page.

Antonio Saura (1930–1998) began painting and writing in 1947 in Madrid while suffering from tuberculosis, having already been confined to his bed for five years. He developed a highly personal style, creating numerous drawings and paintings with a dreamlike surrealist character that most often represent imaginary landscapes, employing a flat smooth treatment that offers a rich palette of colours.
In Paris he Started using the technique of scraping, adopted a gestural style and a radically abstract type of painting, still very colourful and boasting an organic, aleatory design. He began painting by occupying the space of the canvas in several very distinct ways, creating formal structures that now very much bear his distinctive stamp and which he continued to develop endlessly. Then we see the use of forms that will soon become archetypes of the female body or the human figure. These two fundamental themes are to take up the greater part of his work.  Starting in 1956 Saura tackles the register of what will prove to be his great series, Ladies, Nudes, Self-portraits, Shrouds and Crucifixions, which he paints on both canvas and paper. In Madrid founds the El Pasogroup in 1957 and serves as its director until it breaks up in 1960. Meets Michel Tapié. First solo exhibition at the Rodolphe Stadler Gallery in Paris, where he will regularly show throughout his life. Stadler will later introduce him to Otto van de Loo in Munich and Pierre Matisse in New York, both of whom will exhibit his work and represent the artist.

Now limiting his palette to blacks, greys and browns. Asserts a personal style that is independent of the movements and trends of his generation. His work follows in the tradition of Velasquez and Goya. It soon enters the major museums. Starting in 1959 begins creating what will prove to be a prolific body of works in print, illustrating in an original way numerous books like Cervantes’s Don Quijote, Orwell’s 1984, Nöstlinger’s adaptation of Pinocchio, Kafka’s Tagebücher, Quevedo’s Three visions, and many others. In 1960 begins practicing sculpture, creating works made of welded metal elements which represent the human figure, characters and crucifixions.

In 1967 settles permanently in Paris, joins the opposition to the Franco dictatorship and takes part in numerous debates and controversies in the fields of politics, aesthetics and artistic creation. Broadens his thematic and pictorial register. Along with his Femmefauteuil (literally Womanarmchair), the series Imaginary Portraits, Goya’s Dog and Imaginary Portraits of Goya begin to take shape.In 1971 abandons painting on canvas (which he will take up again in 1979) to devote himself to writing, drawing and painting on paper. In 1977 begins publishing his writings, creates several stage designs for the theatre, ballet and opera. From 1983 to his premature death, revisits and brilliantly develops all of his themes and figures, and produces perhaps the best work in his entire oeuvre.

Description: Hard bound with glassine dust jacket in publishers cardboard slipcase, as issued. Signed by the publisher Patrick Cramer. A very nice copy, bright and clean. This catalogue raisonné comprises the description and reproduction of 632 engravings, lithographs and silk-screen prints by the artist. When a piece by Saura is an integral part of a book, album or catalogue, the work is also described. A chronological presentation of the prints is followed by a chronological index, an alphabetical index and an index of the authors of the books illustrated by Saura. The catalogue concludes with a postface that addresses the links Antonio Saura maintained with the world of publishing and book illustration. Save for the specifications of the prints, which are written in French, all texts are given in French and Spanish.

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Antonio Saura : L’oeuvre Imprime La Obra Grafica
Cramer, Patrick

Publisher: Patrick Cramer
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
Signed: Signed by Publisher

FEATURED: EDEN

Eden… To the East of the interstate highway that bisects it are the railroad tracks… To the West a roadhouse (closed)… Extending beyond along the freeway are billboards advertising whiskey, real estate and ice. Except for casual greetings from the waitresses in the cafe, Eden is a place without human gentleness. the air is weighted by the sound of traffic. – Robert Adams, 1968

p1050538Description: Hard bound limited edition INSCRIBED BY ROBERT ADAMS “Eden at ’50’ Love A”. One of 1000 printed copies. Original quarter black cloth, black paper over boards, title stamped on the front board in red, pink, white and green.  Robert Adam’s earliest body of work from 1968. Tritone images expertly printed from the original negatives. A series of seventeen black and white photographs made in and around an off-ramp truck stop cafe in Colorado. Adams was among the first to capture the new themes brought about by America’s changing economical, environmental, and visual terrain. He was concerned with the moment of regional transition, in this case the suburbanization of Denver. Some minor rubbing to boards, otherwise fine. A rare and sought after title!.

Bookseller Inventory # 18736

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Eden
Adams, Robert

Publisher: Roth Horowitz, New York
Publication Date: 1999
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Signed: inscribed by Photographer
Edition: First Edition

Domenichino ( Domenico Zampieri 1581–1641), was a prominent Italian Baroque era painter of the Bolognese School of painters. He was born in Bologna the son of a shoemaker, and because of his small stature, he was nicknamed Domenichino, “little Domenico.” He left Bologna for Rome in 1602 and became one of the most talented apprentices to emerge from Annibale Carracci’s supervision there. The most classical Bolognese painter of his era, Domenichino sought the ideal form and grandeur known as disegno. By 1614 he had become Rome’s leading painter. In 1621 he began working as architect for Pope Gregory XV

“That he might devote his whole powers to the art, Domenichino shunned all society; or, if he occasionally sought it in the public theaters and walks, this was in order better to observe the play of the passions in the features of the people — those of joy, anger, grief, terror and every affection of the mind — and to commit them vividly to his tablets” -Gian Pietro Bellori

Description: Hard bound catalogue raisonne in 2 volumes (text and plates) A systematic complete study of the artist’s life and work. All known paintings, drawings, lost & rejected works of this master Baroque artist. Previous owners name to front free endpage, otherwise very good. Evelina Borea and Richard Spear have in their well researched catalogue raisonné resurrected the artist from the Victorian graveyard and re-established his place among the most important and influential painters of seventeenth-century Italy. In 1996 the first major exhibition of his work was held at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome.

Bookseller Inventory # 19121

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Domenichino
Spear, Richard E.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 1982
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY TENNESSEE WILLIAMS TO THE PRINT ARTIST FUMI KOMATSU.” To Fumi Komatsu best wishes always – Tennessee”. First printing of the motion picture edition, with Lustig designed cover. Original wrap around band present. Some rubbing to dust jacket and a few small chips, otherwise very good. 

Bookseller Inventory # 18354

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The Glass Menagerie
Williams, Tennessee

Publisher: New Directions
Publication Date: 1949
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition:Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author
Edition: First Edition Thus

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Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THORTON WILDER TO THE ARTIST FUMI KOMATSU ” For Miss Fumi Komatsu – with the regards and best wishes of Thorton Wider – Harvard University Nov. 3 1950″ Reprinted edition. Some wear and a few small chips to dust jacket edges. Interior clean and binding tight.

Bookseller Inventory # 18357

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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
Wilder, Thorton
Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap
Publication Date: 1927
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author

Description: Hard bound second printing with dust jacket. INSCRIBED by John O’Hara ” To Kate and Grannie with love from their little friend, John O’Hara – 5 July 1952 East Hampton”. Some wear to corners and edges of boards. Some minor foxing to end pages. Dust jacket shows some wear and minor chipping, otherwise very good. Interior clean and binding tight.

Bookseller Inventory # 17035

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The Farmers Hotel
O’hara, John

Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1951
Binding: Hard bound
Book Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author
Edition: Second Printing

Description: Hard bound first printing missing original dust jacket. INSCRIBED TO THE ARTIST FUMI KOMATSU BY ROBERT FROST ” For Fumi Komatsu from Robert Frost . 1958″. Some minor wear to boards, mostly to edges and corners. Slightly cocked, otherwise good.

Bookseller Inventory # 18356

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A Masque of Mercy
Frost, Robert
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co., New York
Publication Date: 1947
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Hard Bound
Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket
Signed: Inscribed by Author
Edition: First Edition

Pulitzer prize-wining author E. B. White was probably the most important contributor to the New Yorker, at a time when it was arguably the most important literary magazine in the country. He primarily wrote essays, and his columns for Harper’s and other magazines were widely read. In the nineteen thirties, at the request of a young relative he began to write fiction. He will probably be best remembered for his enduring children’s classics such as Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little.

Description: A rare signed presentation copy of White’s book of literary essays, poems and stories, many of which first appeared in the New Yorker. Hard bound with dust jacket INSCRIBED by E. B. White on the front free endpage ” To Helen. from E B White”. Early printing. Some minor foxing to end pages. Wear to boards and fading to spine edge, otherwise very good. Interior clean and free of marks. Binding tight. Dust acket shows only the most minor edge wear. A RARE inscribed copy!.

Bookseller Inventory # 16246

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The Second Tree From the Corner
White, E. B.

Publisher: Harper and Brothers, New York
Publication Date: 1954
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author

Description: Hard bound with dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY JOHN STEINBECK TO THE PRINT ARTIST FUMI KOMATSU! Modern library copy with Thomas Benton cover. Some wear to dust jacket with a few small closed tears and chips, otherwise good. A VERY RARE SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY!.

Bookseller Inventory # 18355

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The Grapes Of Wrath
Steinbeck, John

Publisher: Modern Library
Publication Date: 1939
Binding: Hard Bound
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Good
Signed: Inscribed by Author

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