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First softcover printing. 318 pages. An enormous tribute to the groundbreaking photography of Walker Evans, from images of the Great Depression onwards. His vision has shaped a modern perception of American life and profoundly influenced more contemporary photographers, such as Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe or Diane Arbus.

New York: Delacorte Pr, 1999. . First printing. . Hardcover.. Fine in near fine, now in a DEMCO covered dust-jacket. . 484 pp. A near-perfect copy with miniscule wear to DJ corners. Nothing can ever match Silence of the Lambs, but this comes pretty close. Only Harris can create such disgusting villains that we WANT Hannibal to kill them and maybe even eat parts of them too.

New York: Delacorte Press, 2006. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. Thomas Harris writes beautifully, even as his subject matter becomes darker and darker. This is fourth and last of the Lecter books, where his childhood is revealed and a sort of explanation for his later behavior is offered. You still would not want him to dinner though.

New York: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1981. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/fine. A lovely copy of Harrison's rather rare fifth novel, in which ancient evil is confronted by brute good humour coupled with the love of food and drink.

New York: Harper Collins, 2008. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. An English womman, married to an older New York Lawyer, finds her world crumbling when he has a stroke. Every member of the family is forced to confront what they truly believe in. SIGNED with a dedication.

London: Collins, 1969. First UK edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. This is a compilation from Pont's many books of cartoons of the British in the 30s and 40s - still startlingly relevant today. Killed at an early age (32), in 1940, he had had time to nail the social life of his day with drawings of unparalleled skill. Still by far the best cartoonist of his era and nothing, except the clothes, has changed.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1995. Second printing. Hardcover. As New/near fine. Early printing of Hornby's second novel and the one made famous by the movie, which transposed the action to America. The story of a Pop music junkie called Rob and his miserable record with women.

London: Harvill Press, 1999. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. The Great Fulminator's true love affair is not painting, but fishing, it seems. From earliest childhood dramas to tall tales picked up on the Sydney waterfront, Hughes confronts what it is to be a fish and what it is to want to catch one.

London: Harvill Press, 1997. First printing. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. Robert Hughes's monumental overview of American painting, from the earliest escapes from Europe to the creation of world dominance in the 1950s and beyond. By the 1980s, when speculative madness had completely overtaken the scene, he sees little hope for a society divided against itself in a welter of cynicism and greed. However, as he concludes, "Tomorrow is another day".

First edition, third printing.
Hughes' terrifyingly nasty series of poems about evil, in which Crow seems to stand for the Devil and all that is vile.
Crow is trapped inside his own nature, partly guilty and partly exultant as the destroyer.
Jacket has a perfect cover drawing by Leonard Baskin.

Hardcover.