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Rizzoli,Milan 1980. Classici Dell'Arte Edition (Italian language). Hardcover, 31cm+ tall, no dust jacket, with pictorial boards - rear featuring Erik Larsen photo. Book has many full page lavish colour illustration, bibliographic and catalogue details. Very Good - text and images are clean and bright, upper board lifting slightly, light edge wear particularly at spine top and bottom. Essential information for the Van Dyck enthusiast.

Chronicle Chroma, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, 2021, SIGNED by Spike Lee on the title page. Large format hardcover without jacket (as published), 360 pages, 33 by 23 cm, shocking pink boards with bold gilt titling, with publisher's insert page laid in. gorgeous color and B&W photos, illustrations throughout. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine, packed securely in a sturdy box, heavy book - extra postage required for outside US or priority mail. SPIKE is a visual celebration of the remarkable life and career of Academy Award-winning filmmaker and cultural icon Spike Lee. This definitive monograph includes never-before-seen photographs from his films, commercials, and music videos, along with personal photos and quotes. SPIKE is the ultimate tribute to one of the most powerful voices in contemporary cinema, and is a must-have for every Spike Lee fan."This Book Revisits All Da Werk I've Put In To Build My Body Of Work. Film Is A Visual Art Form And That Sense Of My Storytelling Has Been… Read More

Funk & Wagnalls, New York, 1st Edition, September 1914. Hardcover, pp. 78, 17+ x 11 cm, boards decorated with pictorial (crazed) design, dark blue cloth spine with title in gold lettering. This book is in very good condition, light wear to boards at edges and corners. Lovely example of a classic and influential title which has stood the test of time and is now rare in this state.

Avon 29959 ($1.50), First Avon Printing September 1976, "First Paperback Appearance. The Modern Master of Science Fiction." MMPB, 192 numbered pages, pictorial wraps (surreal naked figure walking into distance). Condition: Near Fine. Crisp copy, clean pages, tight binding, minor edgewear. Theodore Sturgeon described Memoirs Found in a Bathtub as "A well-wrought nightmare indeed."Lem himself describes the book as a "combination of grim weirdness with humor". He writes that the novel goes beyond casual political satire: it puts forth the "totalization of the notion of intentionality". Explaining the concept, he writes that everything which humans perceive may be interpreted by them as a message, and that a number of "-isms" are based on interpreting the whole Universe as a message to its inhabitants. This interpretation may be exploited for political purposes and then run amok beyond their intentions.(Courtesy Wikipedia).

*1st Tor Ed,1st Printing 1996* BINDING: Trade Paper; CONDITION: Like New - crisp copy,clean pages,tight binding; SERVICE: Speedy dlvry, FREE tracking

William Morrow, New York, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 1982, introduction by Paul Bacon, foreword by John Hammond. Large format hardcover with dust jacket; pp. 360, 12+ x 9+ x 1.25 inches, maroon boards with attractive gold on black label design on upper board, gold lettering & piano image on black for spine design, photographs on every page after the introduction, including coloured centrefold and on front and rear of jacket. The book is in a Very Good condition in a Very Good jacket - bump on upper board corner affecting a few pages of text, dj has minimal edge wear and small crease on lower front corner. This is a very handsome production, benefiting from detailed research.

Dutton Books. New York, 1st Edition, Later Printing, SIGNED by Malinda Lo ON THE TITLE PAGE. Hardcover with dust jacket, 409 numbered pages, 22 by 15 cm, navy blue boards with gilt titling on spine, jacket features cartoon illustration of 1950s Chinatown nightlife, includes a Last Night at the Telegraph bookmark with charming matchbook illustration on the back. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, minimal shelfwear, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. "Last Night at the Telegraph" is the winner of the 2021 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, but has faced bans in schools in multiple states, and is included in NYPL's NYC Banned Books Challenge. "That book. It was about two women, and they fell in love with each other." And then Lily asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: "Have you ever heard of such a thing?"

Riverhead Books, New York, 1st Edition, 7th Printing, 2021, SIGNED by Patricia Lockwood is blue ink on the TITLE PAGE. Small format hardcover with dust jacket, 210 numbered pages, 21 x 14 cm, blue paper over yellow boards, silver titling on spine, jacket has "Eischer" ring in foreground over sunset scene. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. "One of the most incisive observers of the spectacle of digital discourse . . . Lockwood is a sharp and often funny social critic" (Courtesy Wall Street ournal). Named a Best Book of 2021 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, NPR, TIME, Vulture, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, PopSugar, Harper's Bazaar, LitHub and Publishers Weekly. Now everyone is talking about Savannah author Patricia Lockwood after Booker Prize recognition.

The Mole Press, Dublin, Georgia, 1975, limited edution of 500. Small oblong plain paperback (stapled) with dust jacket, 13 x 17 cm, 32 pages, featuring essays, poems, drawing, collages and photographs. Jacket is collage featuring newspaper format. Condition is Near Fine with slight tanning to spine of jacket, faint corner crease on cover of book, wraps clean and bright, spine edge clean, binding firm, clean pages. This is an extravagantly zany work from Black Mountain school, self-described as "an example of art as ecology" after the trio spent a week at St. Andrew's College in Laurinburg, North Carolina participating in a festival celebrating Jonathan William's Jargon Press.