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Willocks, Tim. Green River Rising Signed copy. Jonathan Cape, London, 1994.
Price: US$12.94 + shipping
Description: First UK edition, 1994. Signed "All the best, Tim Willocks" to the title page. Hardback. 348pp. Black cloth boards. Dust jacket in a protective sleeve. In Green River State Penitentiary 2,800 convicts sweat it out under the glare of the panoptic machine, a vast labyrinth of granite, glass and steel where the ancient violence of men lurches unseen towards a cataclysm of astonishing ferocity. Dr Ray Klein has served three years' hard time working in the Aids-infested prison infirmary. On the day Klein wins his parole the disciplinary perfection of the panopticon is rent apart by the paroxysms of tribal war and for the first time in a hundred and four years the prison falls into the hands of its inmates. As the River sucks them all - psychopaths and lovers, dying and the insane - towards the abyss, Klein must choose: whether to claim his freedom or to risk all and fight.A dark, violent and compelling novel. Book in near fine condition and appears unread. Dust jacket near fine. Unclipped and with only a trace of edge wear.
Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$14.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: BA1 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book SIGNED by Mary Jo Powell and Donald B. Powell and inscribed to previous owner on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and chipping on the edges, scattered scratches and rubbing, book lightly cocked, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Number Fifty-Three The Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University. 11"x8.5", 157 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. They always win the halftime. Members of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band, embodying the spirit, camaraderie, and excellence of the school they represent, have marched and played proudly for one hundred years. Here is the story of the music, the precision, the tradition of that exceptional band. Illustrated with 121 black and white photographs and eight pages of color pictures of bands and band members past and present, this lively history pays tribute to the bandmasters and musicians who have made the organization the pulse of the spirit of Aggieland. Organized around the tenure of its founder, Joseph Holick, and its directors Richard J. Dunn, E. V. Adams, Joe T. Haney, and Ray E. Toler, the men who became "The Colonel" to generations of Aggie Band members the book marches through a century of tradition and excellence. From the birth of the band, through the development of its marching style and its stirring, distinctive music, to its most recent triumphs of precision maneuvers and military music, the story is as bold and bright as the band itself. War years, fish bands, boots, band lyres, corps trips, parades, and other traditions known and loved by former band members and other former students of Texas A&M University fill the book's pages. An appendix lists all of the band's seven thousand-plus present and former members. This is a story of the determination, discipline, and enduring pride that rests deep in the heart of those young men and women who have been tough enough, proud enough, and good enough to be The Fightin' Texas Aggie Band. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Bookmarc's, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed By Author.Hard Cover, Dust Jacket. Very Good Condition. Life As An African-American Child Brought Up On The Southside Of Chicago In The Ida B. Wells Projects. He Tells Of The Violence That He Faced And How He Made Major Decisions As A Youth In High School That He Would Overcome These Detrimental Obstacles. Later, As A Young Man After Gaining A Scholarship And Playing Football In College, He Faced Heart Aching Problems When His Two Best Friends Were Murdered. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Livres Norrois, Quebec, QC, Canada
aumann, Francis M.. New York Dada, 1915-23. Abrams, New York, 1994.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: Orange cloth with color pictorial glossy dustjacket. 255 pp., 42 color and 178 bw plates. "For about ten years, beginning with the Armory Show in 1913, New York City was host to the odd-sounding accents and queerer-looking paintings and constructions of a mixed bag of European and American avant-gardists. Besides the inscrutable figure of artist Marcel Duchamp, the European contingent included such iconoclastic visitors as the playboy painter Francis Picabia, the composer Edgard Varese, the diplomat Henri-Pierre Roche (author of Jules et Jim and adviser to the extraordinary collector John Quinn), and painters Albert Gleizes and Jean Crotti. Among the Americans were the photographer/painter/constructor Man Ray, the Precisionist painter and Fortune photographer Charles Sheeler, the Futurist Joseph Stella, and the Pennsylvania artists Charles Demuth and Morton Schamberg." "New York Dada is the first comprehensive study devoted exclusively to the accomplishments of these vanguard artists in America in the period 1915-23 - among the most underappraised, though most influential periods in the history of American art. Within months after the word "Dada" was discovered by a group of refugee artists and writers living in Switzerland, news of the movement reached artists in New York, who, by then, had already made works of art and engaged in activities that were similar in spirit to those produced by their European counterparts." "For this groundbreaking book, Francis M. Naumann has interviewed virtually all the survivors and has amassed a wealth of rare photographs and newspaper clippings, including pictures of early installations of modern art in homes and exhibitions, to capture the spirit of New York Dada in a work that is both informative and captivating. In view of the current trend to investigate the potential of a conceptually oriented approach to art and to the art-making process, it is perhaps no coincidence that New York Dada is now finally recognized for the important role it played in the formative phases of a modernist aesthetic."--Jacket. Contents as follows: Preface and Acknowledgments; (starting p. 6) --; Introduction; (starting p. 8) --; 1; Proto-Dada; (starting p. 12) --; 2; The Arensbergs; (starting p. 22) --; 3; Marcel Duchamp; (starting p. 34) --; 4; Francis Picabia; (starting p. 56) --; 5; Man Ray; (starting p. 76) --; 6; The Arensberg Circle; (starting p. 94) --; Albert Gleizes and Juliette Roche; (starting p. 96) --; Jean and Yvonne Crotti; (starting p. 100) --; Edgard Varese; (starting p. 105) --; Henri-Pierre Roche; (starting p. 109) --; Beatrice Wood; (starting p. 112) --; Clara Tice; (starting p. 117) --; Charles Sheeler; (starting p. 121) --; Morton Schamberg; (starting p. 126) --; Charles Demuth; (starting p. 130) --; John Covert; (starting p. 134) --; Joseph Stella; (starting p. 142) --; The Stettheimer Sisters; (starting p. 148) --; Katherine Dreier; (starting p. 155) --; Arthur Cravan and Mina Loy; (starting p. 162) --; Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven; (starting p. 168) --; 7; The Independents; (starting p. 176) --; 8; New York Dada; (starting p. 192) --; 9; Aftermath; (starting p. 212) --; Notes; (starting p. 224) --; Selected Bibliography; (starting p. 244) --; Index; (starting p. 250) --; Photograph Credits; (starting p. 255).
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
Otto, Whitney. Now You See Her A Novel. Villard Books, New York, 1994.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: SIGNED by author on full title page. "Playing with time and space, fact and fiction, illusion and reality - even the figures of Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse - Now You See Her keeps the reader enchantingly off-balance and entertained." Ships same or next business day. Slight slant to spine. Minor edge wear. Small bumps on spine ends. Light soiling on head edge. Otherwise, free from major defect. Dust jacket protected in archival cover. DJ has minimal edge and shelf wear. Small creases on top corners and spine head. Crease along fore-edge of back flap. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 303 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$67.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SIGNED/INSCRIBED by Ray Stern on the first page. Softcover book is sturdy, clean and complete. Rated only "Good" because the covers are curled and there are some folds to the covers and a few pages.
Seller: Foster Books, Board of Directors FABA, Davie, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 77, [1] p. Signed by Bill Kinsella. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is their second co-authored book of poetry. From Wikipedia: "William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBC (born May 25, 1935) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who is well known for his novel Shoeless Joe (1982), which was adapted into the movie Field of Dreams in 1989. His work has often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and other Canadian issues.According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, W.P. Kinsella's literary output primarily consists of two cycles of work dealing with two fictive universes: those dealing with baseball and those depicting the indigenous people of Canada. Kinsella's first published book was called Dance Me Outside (1977), which was a collection of seventeen short stories about the lives of people on a First Nations reserve in his native Alberta. Kinsella was criticized for writing from the point-of-view of Native people, appropriating their voice. Kinsella rejected the criticism on the grounds that a writer has the license to create anything they so chose. These stories use the ineptness of the white bureaucrats on reservations as background, and Kinsella defended them, saying, "It's the oppressed and the oppressor that I write about. The way that oppressed people survive is by making fun of the people who oppress them. That is essentially what my Indian stories are all about." In the field of baseball, Kinsella has written nearly 40 short stories and three novels. Shoeless Joe (1982), his first novel, blends fantasy and magical realism to tell the story of a poor Iowa farmer who, yielding to voices in his head, builds a baseball field in his corn field that attracts the spirits of the 1919 Chicago White Sox. The Iowa Baseball Confederacy (1986), another book blending fantasy and magical realism, recounts an epic baseball game a minor league team played against the 1908 World's Champion Chicago Cubs. Box Socials (1991), an evocation of life in rural Alberta during the Great Depression and World War II, features a growing boy as its protagonist and the adventure of a hometown baseball hero who gets to bat against the great pitcher legend Bob Feller. Shoeless Joe remains Kinsella's most famous work. The book was mildly controversial in that it used a living person, the reclusive author J.D. Salinger, as one of its main characters. Kinsella, who had never met him, created a wholly imagined character (aside from his being a recluse) based on the author of The Catcher in the Rye, a book that had great meaning to him when he was a young man. To get a feel for Salinger, he re-read his body of work. "I made sure to make him a nice character so that he couldn t sue me." In an example of metafiction, he named his protagonist in Shoeless Joe "Ray Kinsella", a character from Salinger s uncollected story A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All. Salinger had also used the surname shared by writer and protagonist in The Catcher in the Rye (Holden Caulfield's friend Richard Kinsella). Known for his litigiousness, Salinger contacted Kinsella's publisher via his attorneys to express outrage over having been portrayed in Shoeless Joe. Kinsella denied that Salinger, as a writer, had any real influence on his own writing, despite rumors to the contrary. (Some rumors held that Kinsella had actually met Salinger in person. ) Shoeless Joe won Kinsella the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship and the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1982. The book garnered good reviews, sold very well, and was made into a popular movie. Ann Knight met Kinsella ina writing class in Iowa in 1976 and they were married in 1978.
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
BAJ, Enrico, Luciano Caprile. BAJ AND COMPANY. (SIGNED). Bandecchi & Vivaldi,, Pontedera,, 1994.
Price: US$129.36 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Wraps. 4to. pp 69. Original publisher's green illustrated wraps, lettered black on spine and covers. Text in French. Signed presentation from the author on the inside cover, 'To Manuel, writing for a future collaboration, Baj'. Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Castello Monumentale di Lerici, 12 June-24 July 1994. Copiously illustrated in colour and black and white throughout. Contributors include: Herve Di Rosa, Lucio Fontana, Man Ray, Asger Jorn, Ugo Nespolo. Very good+.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed and inscribed by author on first page. Soft cover published in 1994. Glossy pictorial covers. Upper corner of front cover is bumped some, and covers curl slightly along side edge. Book is in very good condition. 167 pages, 1 lb.; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall; 167 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Inside the Covers, Lancaster, TX, U.S.A.
Barzilay, Frederic,. La Mirada en el Cos.. Eivissa [= Ibiza-Stadt], "Sa Nostra", 1994., 1994.
Price: US$133.08 + shipping
Description: 4°. OKart. mit illustr. OUmschl. (schwach geknickt). 77 SS., 1 Bl. mit zahlr. Fotos. Sprache: Spanisch, Erste Ausgabe. - Zu dem bekannten Aktfotografen und Freund von Yves Klein, Paul Eluard, Brassai, Pablo Neruda und Man Ray vgl. ausführlich das französische Wikipedia. - Gutes Exemplar. - Titelblatt von Frédéric Barzilay signiert. - Beiliegt: Eh. Begleitbrief [an Reinhold Mißelbeck] m.U. bei dem er sich für dessen Unterstützung in Deutschland bedankt. 4°. 1 S. mit Briefkopf. Dat. Paris le 27 / 02 / 95. - Der Katalog in Katalanisch, der Brief auf Französisch.
Seller: Antiquariat Frank Albrecht (VDA / ILAB), Schriesheim, Germany
Naumann, Francis M.. New York Dada 1915-23 (signed by author with drawing). Harry N. Abrams, 1994.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover with dustjacket, 256 pages; very good condition; except dj crinkled on rear; this copy inscribed and signed by Francis Naumann with a drawing of a shovel; no other internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.
Seller: ANARTIST, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Softcover book bound in stiff printed wrappers. 23 cm. 141 pages. Contains black-and-white illustrations throughout. This copy has been inscribed and signed by Euneta and Pete Kirby (Bashful Brother Oswald) on the first blank page. Beecher Ray "Pete" Kirby, better known as Bashful Brother Oswald, was an American country musician who popularized the use of the resonator guitar and Dobro. He played with Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys and was a member of the Grand Ole Opry. The book is in near fine condition. No ownership marks/writing present within. Hinges tight, interior pages bright. Light edge wear/bumping to the covers.
Seller: JNBookseller, Palm Harbor, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. One of 150 signed and numbered copies in blackcloth and matching slipcase. 286pp. 6 x 9 inches."Erdrich's novels of Native American life, Love Medicine , The BeetQueen and Tracks , have earned her a secure place as anobservant, intensely poetic chronicler of her people's lives,spanning much of the 20th century. But if The Bingo Palace is acapstone to the saga, as its interweaving of characters and halfrememberedstories from previous volumes rather suggests, itdisappoints. Its hero, Lipsha Morrissey, is a young man, bastardson of irresponsible June Kashpaw and jailbird Gerry Nanapush,whose mother tried to drown him as an infant. He seems like abright person of wasted promise, who drifts aimlessly betweenjobs taken on a whim until he returns to the reservation andfalls under the spell of lovely Shawnee Ray Toose. But ShawneeRay is the consort of Lyman Lamartine, the smart, opportunisticentrepreneur who gets rich by feeding on his tribespeople's bingofrenzy."
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.20 + shipping
Description: Trade paperback, Fine Minus/pictorial wraps, inscribed and signed by Ray Stern in 1996, probable 1st edition (no additional printings listed); light wear to covers and small amount of creasing to top front corner, publisher's sticker on inside of rear cover. The fabulous story of Ray "Thunder" Stern and his successes and adventures with bodybuilding, business, and life, illustrated, 4to., 167 pages., 0.0 0.0 0.0
Seller: The Warm Springs Book Company, Fremont, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$258.72 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Signed in near fine condition. Set in a London full of sinister con-men and vagrant bohemians, this is a novel written by the author of "Lud Heat", "White Chapell, Seaclet Tracings" and "Downriver". The main characters are Silleen, addicted to X-rays of his own body, and Helen, a film-maker obsessed with clouds and light.
Seller: The Old Bookshop Collection, Blaenavon, United Kingdom
Koontz, Dean. Dark Rivers Of The Heart. Charnel House, E-067, 1994.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Charnel House, Lynbrook, NY. 1994. 497 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. Number 197 out of 500 signed limited copies. Signed by Dean Koontz and Stephen Gervais on the limitation page. First Edition/First Printing. Issued in a blue cloth slipcase. Slipcase lightly rubbed and worn to the extremities. Bound in checkered Japanese blue cloth boards with medallions present to the blue boards. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Do you dare step through the red door? Spencer Grant had no idea what drew him to the bar with the red door. He thought he would just sit down, have a slow beer or two, and talk to a stranger. He couldnt know that it would lead to a narrow escape from a bungalow targeted by a SWAT team. Or that it would leave him a wanted man. But now Spencer is on the run from mysterious and ruthless men. He is in love with a woman he knows next to nothing about. And he is hiding from a past he cant fully remember. On his trail is a shadowy security agency that answers to no oneincluding the U. S. Governmentand a man who considers himself a compassionate Angel of Death. But worst of all, Spencer Grant is on a collision course with inner demons he thought hed buried years agoinner demons that could destroy him if his enemies dont first. Acknowledged as "America's most popular suspense novelist" (Rolling Stone) and as one of today's most celebrated and successful writers, Dean Ray Koontz has earned the devotion of millions of readers around the world and the praise of critics everywhere for tales of character, mystery, and adventure that strike to the core of what it means to be human. E-45; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 477 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.