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

Unpaginated artist's book, [ca. 104 pp.], illustrated throughout. 12mo. Triple signed and inscribed on the title page : "Dear Now Tina, Happy Birthday, New York City 1978, Lawrence" ; "One I Missed! Tina 5/26/78" ; "One of our acts, SH [Suzanne Harris]".) [1282]
With elements similar to Hard Light, Weiner's photographic book work with Ed Ruscha, Pertaining to a Structure pairs photos by Daniel Buren of "the players" (Madeleine Burnside, Steve Blutter, Norman Fisher, Suzanne Harris, Robert Stearns, and Ann-Sargent Wooster) with enigmatic texts by Weiner. The book is dedicated to the memory of Norman Fisher, who had died early that year of cancer. This exemplar is inscribed by Weiner to Tina Girouard (1946 – 2020) an important feminist artist and early founding participant of 112 Greene St., FOOD, the Clocktower and PS1, Creative Time, Performance Art and the Fabric Workshop. Girouard has also annotated the work's title page, regretting that she "missed" the action documented by Buren and Weiner.… Read More

Hardcover, first edition, first printing. Unpaginated book [ca. 100 pp.] of space-age nursey rhymes in English, illus. throughout. 8vo. Excellent. A clean, bright copy. Illus. dust jacket (very good, with handling marks with at top and base of spine) over blue cloth boards backed in black, silver foil spine and cover title. [1758]
Estate stamped on first free leaf, "from the library of Robert Gottlieb," legendary Manhattan editor of Knopf, and The New Yorker.

546 pp. text, illustrated throughout with portraits, including a large frontispiece of the author. 8vo. Very good, with minor spotting to ffep and front matter, interior contents else very good. Printed wrappers. Extremities show handling marks, with modest soiling to the front cover. Recent 1/2 leather, original printed wrappers bound in (wrapper extremities show handling marks, with modest soiling and scuffing to the front cover, and loss at lower left corner.)
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A foundational work of feminism in Mexico, Mujeres Notablas Mexicanas was first published nearly 15 years after its author's premature death at age 50. As a journalist and champion of women's rights during the middle of the 19th century, Wright de Kleinhans staked her career on proving the inherent equality of women to men at a time when Mexican public life was deeply chauvinistic. To make her case, she joined learned societies that had previously only admitted men, and started a feminist journal called Mujeres de Anáhuac, which… Read More