Search Results: Modernism

University of Arizona Press. As New with no dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0816501939 . 167 pages .

De Bezige Bij. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1987. Softcover. 9023423356 . Clean, crisp, unmarked; paper lightly age-toned; this copy is 1989 pub. Date with ISBN 9023423356; Bezige Pocket 31; 164 pages .

Arlington VA: the poetry journal, 2000. 52p., staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch wraps, very good copy of, dagnabbit, the very last issue.

London: The British Library, 1985. Paperback. 80p., profuse b&w and color exhibit photography, well-captioned, softbound in 9x7 inch color wraps. Slightest external signs of handling & age, entirely clean interior, a nice crisp copy.

Cambridge, UK Harper & Row: Icon Editions, 1988. Hardcover First Edition [1988]; First Printing indicated by a complete number line. First Edition [1988]; First Printing indicated by a complete number line. Very Near Fine in Very Near Fine DJ: Both book and DJ show only minute indications of use: The book shows just a hint of spine lean, a couple of barely discernible smudges at the outside edges of the text pages; the binding remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. The DJ shows only very mild rubbing; the price is unclipped; mylar-protected. Overall, very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.3 x 6.25 x 1.2 inches). xiv, 258 pages. 44 black & white illustrations. Notes. 29 essays. 1 pound, 5 ounces. Hardback with DJ. Topics include Duchamp, the Spiral Jetty, Eva Hesse, Laurie Anderson, Jonathan Borofsky, Video Art, Julian Schnabel, Warhol, and more.

New York: New Directions, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Gilt cloth. First U.S. edition, clothbound issue. Edited with an introduction by Sandra Whipple Spanier. Issued in the New Directions Revived Modern Classics series. Fine, in a near fine pictorial dust jacket featuring Marcel Duchamp's "The Chess Game." HARRISON, NEWTH & CANDIDO, p.121.

Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Paperback. xxiv, 354p., illustrated with b&w snapshot photography and line maps, a big softbound (9x6 inches) in colorphoto wraps.

London: Bantam Books; Todd Publishing Co, 1943. Pamphlet. 15p., 5x7 inches; slight edgwear, heavily rusted staples with some migration, minor foxing on rear wrap, else good.

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Paperback. xx+335p., trade paperback, maps & tables, very good. Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, 27.

San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1999. Paperback. Unpaginated, about ten pages of critical material and 31 full page color plates, first edition 9x7.5 inch frenchfold wraps, a very good copy of a nice production. A number of items show traditional figures in contemporary drag attire, dolls in sexual situations, Mao mockery, popular culture with an unpopular take.

New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Hardcover. 167p., first edition black boards titled silver in glossy dust jacket, mild shelfwear, else clean and sound, in very good condition. "Agnes Heller was born in Budapest in 1929. A pupil and co-worker of Lukács during the 1950s, she is today one of the communist movement's most distinguished theoreticians," (dust jacket blurb).

Bucharest: Arta Grafica, 1965. Paperback. Unpaginated, about fifty pages of color and b&w exhibit photography, with captioned reproductions recto-only, facing blank versos. Softbound in 7.5-inch-square color wraps. Fore margins affected by stain or age (front cover) and a heavy crease (back cover), otherwise good copy.

Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1993. Paperback. 90p., softbound in 8.5 x5.5 inch decorated wraps, the first wraps edition (simultaneous with the hardbound). Bound in, perhaps inadvertantly (too much binder's glue?), is a three-page publicity enclosure on Hanging Loose letterhead. A nice clean unmarked copy of a book that's hard to resist; the author, who then also taught math at University of Massachusetts, has taken found self-parody from newspapers (and overheard barroom talk) and turned it into blank verse. His line-breaks are masterful.

Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press, 1947. Paperback. Find text through p.38, followed by eight full page b&w plates, a small softbound item in 8.5x5.5 inch printed wraps (cardstock covers with a wraparound jacket). Worn copy, wraps have short splits at top and tail of spine, mild dust-soil and sunning. Textblock has a slightly bumped corner-tip, graphics unaffected. A good (good-only) copy. Author Turnbull argues that general Australian mediocrity has let a few flowers bloom. "The National Gallery in Sidney," he scoffs, "remains, largely, a chamber of horrors to this day..

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. Hardcover. xii, 211p., frontis, b&w photos in-text, color plate section, fine first edition in black cloth and gilt, unclipped dj.

New York: Welcome Rain Publishers, 2002. vii, 230p., first American edition boards gilt in dj; a fine unblemished copy.

New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974. Paperback. 202p., softbound in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps, exterior handling wear with a light vertical crease, else sound, and quite clean and free of markings. A good copy.

Phoenix AZ: Arizona Development Board, 1960. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about a dozen pages in length with numerous exhibit and on-site photographs, rejiggered as a neat small pamphlet in 9.5x6.5 inch decorated wraps. Margins slightly toned and edgeworn, find an inconspicuous date-stamp (personal accession?) to upper right-hand cover corner, a generally sound, clean, otherwise unmarked copy.

Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978. 264p., illustrated with b&w snapshot photography and line maps, hardbound, first edition in tan cloth boards gilt and dust jacket. As new, despite its age, a completely sound, clean and unmarked copy.

New York: Atheneum, 1972. 254p., first American edition openweave cloth boards gilt in dj; a nice production job, text on calendared paperstock, in not quite collector's condition. Top-edge tint is faded, there is a minute nick in the head exposing a fleck of card, and the dust jacket has some ragged tears and missing chunks that obscure jacket titling. A good, sound, clean carry- to- the- coffee-shop copy. This particular George MacBeth "is married to a research geneticist and is a producer for the B.B.C. Third Programme." Even more promising than the news that MacBeth has extra-poetical credentials, is his choice of dj blurbs: along with the usual high praise we are relayed several that are gloriously hostile, "wasted talents" and so forth.