Search Results: Authors starting with B from Arthur Fournier Fine & Rare

Unpaginated artists' book [ca. 40 pp.], texts and images. 4to. Very good. Illus. stiff wraps; stab stapled. [1219]
Green-tone photographs of Egypt, mostly of graffiti, painted commercial lettering and signage, superimposed with a daily list of expenses printed in red. Uncommon.

30 pp. text printed recto only in mimeograph. 4to. Very good, rust at staples, minor handling marks. Stab stapled. [1119]
A fascinating inside view of the role of social and political youth groups in the early days of liberated Ghana under Kwame Nkrumah. The author considers Nkrumah's role in fostering a utopian socialist viewpoint and physical health culture in members of the Ghana Young Pioneers, as well as the group's dismantlement after the coup of 1966. A scarce and useful primary source for scholars interested in African independence movements and socialist utopian politics in the Global South during the 1960s. As of November 2020, we can find no copies online, and no record of institutional holdings in North America.

86 pp. Sunday magazine supplement. Small folio (approximately 10.25 × 12.5 inches) Very good overall ; handling marks and curling at the corners. Ilustrated wrappers. [1624]
Includes the seminal 11-page cover story on Basquiat, written by Cathleen McGuigan. "Since I was seventeen, I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix," he remarks, in McGuigan's story. "I had a romantic feeling of how people had become famous. Even when I didn't think my stuff was that good, I'd have faith." In the eyes of some observers, the piece helped cement Basquiat's reputation in the firmament of the 1980s New York art world. A scarce and sought after ephemeron.

224 pp. book, charmingly illustrated with four double-page plates in color, else chiefly text. 4to. Signed by the author with an original drawing. Near fine in Excellent dust-jacket. Publisher's original yellow cloth embossed in red. [522]
Inscribed to prominent Minnesota-native James Taylor Dunn with a full-page watercolor by Bemelmans, dated July 10, 1941, with Bemelmans' hand-addressed mailing label to the recipient laid in. Altogether an exquisite and charming copy of the scarce trade first.

Unpaginated photobook, ca. 22 pp. (11 panels of bristol board) mounted with original silver gelatin photographic prints. 8vo. Very good. Plastic comb binding, clear acrylic sheet protecting front board. [1242]
Including the front board, the work contains 10 photographic prints showing city views and daily life in Ludlow, Massachusetts, including images of townsmen, patrol officers, and other citizens going about their business. Apart from the title page, only one line of text appears in the book, on its final page: "The story of this town is without end. Ludlow is like the circumference of a circle, existing around the center, monotony." As a vernacular photobook, we find the title appealing, capturing the poetry and alienation of small town life in postwar America.