viaLibri ~ Rare Books from 1982

Chiggio, Ennio (Hg.)
        Da Dada a Tata un Fluxus fragile.
      Padova, TOT oggetti e situatizioni ludiche, 1982 - 2°, ca 50 B. mit unterschiedlichen Papieren, zahlr. Abb., Ringorder., Min. angeschmutzt, sonst gutes Exemplar. Text it. Auflage 200. - Ennio Chiggio (*1938), italienischer Grafikdesigner, gründete zusammen mit Giulia Laverda in den späten 70iger Jahren die Galleria TOT in Padua um dort radikale Tendenzen der Gestaltung, Konzeptkunst, Ultramobile, Memphis, Alchemie, Gufram etc. zu zeigen. Ausserdem zusammenarbeit mit der Gruppo Tata. (GRUPPO TATA (nel 1980 Ennio Chiggio e Giulia Laverda aprono a Padova la galleria TOT, per la quale Chiggio cura, oltre a mostre sulle tendenze radicali del design contemporaneo come Ultramobile, Memphis, Alchimia, Gufram, le installazioni e ricerche concettuali sulla performatività del linguaggio ludico del gruppo TATA fondato assieme agli architetti Baruffi, De Santi, Rigo, Pavan, Zambon, agli artisti Garner, Pardini e al critico d'arte Ernesto Luciano Francalanci, con cui si unisce in un lungo sodalizio sia didattico che critico. Tale attività inizia con la pubblicazione del volume ?Del Ludico? edito da Mazzotta e prosegue con una serie di libri oggetto prodotta dalle Edizioni Tot. L'esperienza collettiva dei Ludici siconclude nel 1988. Di questo operare si sono occupati lo storico Ernesto L. Francalanci docente a Venezia ed Annamaria Sandonà dell'Università di Padova. ENNIO CHIGGIO: Ennio Chiggio è attivo nelle arti figurative dal 1959, quando fondò con altri 'coautori' il gruppo Enne. Si è interessato di musica sperimentale, poesia visiva, design grafico e industriale, anche come docente. Nel 1980 ha dato vita con un gruppo di'intellettuali' a un cripto movimento ludico, il ?Tataludico?, che ha esplorato le possibilità del linguaggio nel rapporto tra percettivo e logico filosofico, dopo gli avvenimenti Dada e Fluxus. Questa esperienza è terminata nel 1988.) 1200 gr.

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Chiggio, Ennio - Giulia Laverda (Hg.)
        Trompe-l?oeil. Ingano e/o mimesi.
      Padova, TOT oggetti e situatizioni ludiche, 1982 - 2°, insg. 36 Bl. (1 Orig.-Lithographie) aus unterschiedlichen Papieren und anderen Materialien (Plastik, Blätter etc.) zahlr. Abb., Ringorder., Min. berieben u. beschienen, 1 Bl. m. Abschnitt (kein Textverlust), sonst gutes Exemplar. Text it. Auflage 200. - Ennio Chiggio (*1938), italienischer Grafikdesigner, gründete zusammen mit Giulia Laverda in den späten 70iger Jahren die Galleria TOT in Padua um dort radikale Tendenzen der Gestaltung, Konzeptkunst, Ultramobile, Memphis, Alchemie, Gufram etc. zu zeigen. Ausserdem zusammenarbeit mit der Gruppo Tata. (GRUPPO TATA (nel 1980 Ennio Chiggio e Giulia Laverda aprono a Padova la galleria TOT, per la quale Chiggio cura, oltre a mostre sulle tendenze radicali del design contemporaneo come Ultramobile, Memphis, Alchimia, Gufram, le installazioni e ricerche concettuali sulla performatività del linguaggio ludico del gruppo TATA fondato assieme agli architetti Baruffi, De Santi, Rigo, Pavan, Zambon, agli artisti Garner, Pardini e al critico d'arte Ernesto Luciano Francalanci, con cui si unisce in un lungo sodalizio sia didattico che critico. Tale attività inizia con la pubblicazione del volume ?Del Ludico? edito da Mazzotta e prosegue con una serie di libri oggetto prodotta dalle Edizioni Tot. L'esperienza collettiva dei Ludici siconclude nel 1988. Di questo operare si sono occupati lo storico Ernesto L. Francalanci docente a Venezia ed Annamaria Sandonà dell'Università di Padova. ENNIO CHIGGIO: Ennio Chiggio è attivo nelle arti figurative dal 1959, quando fondò con altri 'coautori' il gruppo Enne. Si è interessato di musica sperimentale, poesia visiva, design grafico e industriale, anche come docente. Nel 1980 ha dato vita con un gruppo di'intellettuali' a un cripto movimento ludico, il ?Tataludico?, che ha esplorato le possibilità del linguaggio nel rapporto tra percettivo e logico filosofico, dopo gli avvenimenti Dada e Fluxus. Questa esperienza è terminata nel 1988.) 1200 gr.

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Caro, Robert.
        The Path To Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson.
      Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1982 - First edition. Octavo, original black cloth. Inscribed by the author to famed critic Alfred Kazin, "For Alfred Kazin- whose books have provided me with more than a little inspiration. Robert A. Caro May 9, 1983". Light wear, else fine in a near fine dust jacket. The first book in the author's acclaimed biography of President Lyndon Johnson, which went on to win the National Book Critics Circle Award. "Proof that we live in a great age of biography . . . [a book] of radiant excellence . . . Caro's evocation of the Texas Hill Country, his elaboration of Johnson's unsleeping ambition, his understanding of how politics actually works are---let it be said flat out---at the summit of American historical writing" (Washington Post). [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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Andre Kertesz
        Hungarian Memories
      A New York Graphic Society Book / Little, Brown, and Company, Boston 1982 - (1982). 4to. 1st edition. INSCRIBED by Andre Kertesz. Slightly leaning. Faint rubbing to cloth boards. VG/VG. Beginning his photographic career in Budapest at the age of sixteen, AndrÃ KertÃ sz quickly broke away from the romanticized style of his contemporarties to cultivate a distictive journalistic eye that would make him one of the most influential photographers of the early 20th century. Hungarian Memories collects his early photographs, showing the development of his unorthodox style through rural scenes of peasants and gypsies, his own experience as an Austro-Hungarian soldier during the First World War, and the darker realities of a post-war Budapest. This beautiful copy of the first edition was inscribed and dated by KertÃ sz on the title page in 1985, the year of his death. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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Runge, Philipp Otto.
        Van den Machandelboom. Vom Mandelbaum. The Juniper. Mit 14 zweifarbigen Original-Holstichen von Roswitha Quadflieg.,
      Hamburg Raamin Presse, 1982 - XXXXI, (VII) S.2 zweifarb. OHolzschnitt-Initialen, 2 zweifarb. OHolzstiche, 18 weinrote Initialen von Roswitha Quadflieg mit einer beiliegende Originalgraphik. Spindler 71/13 ; Katalog Zwang 50. Im Impressum von Roswitha Quadflieg nummeriert und signiert. Eins von 40 Exemplaren der Vorzugsausgabe (GA 180), denen eine Originalhozlstich aller Motive auf einem Blatt beiliegt (ebenfalls signiert und nummeriert von Roswitha Quadflieg.) "Handsatz aus der Oud Hollands, der Vendome, der Hammer-Unziale. Die Initialen der hochdeutschen Fassung sind Schmuckversalien der Garamond-Antiqua, die der plattdeutschen wurden nach Schnitten von Henric Lettersnider gezeichnet. Paier B.F.K. Rives Bütten." Impressum. Tadellos. Sprache: de Gewicht in Gramm: 7200 2° Handgebundener, englisch-roter OFabriano-Romana-Bütten-Pappband mit Lederkapital, illustriertem Vorderdeckelschild mit Negativ-Blindprägung nach einer Zeichnung von R. Quadflied und Titelzeile, Rückentitel in Blindprägung in hellblauem Originalbütten-Papierschuber (Ausführung: Werkstatt Chr. Zwang, Hamburg) [Attributes: Signed Copy]

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HARTUNG Hans) TRIVIER Marc
        Hans Hartung - Vache au bandeau. Photographies Originales.
      Par l'auteur 1982 - - Par l'auteur, S.l. 1982-1984, 22x22cm sur papier Ilford 30x40cm, 2 planches photographiques. - Diptyque de portraits photographiques originaux en noir et blanc réalisés et tirés par Marc Trivier. Les deux photographies, mises en regard, sont: - Un portrait photographique original de Hans Hartung à Antibes en 1982. - Une photographie originale de vache prise dans un abattoir en 1984. Portrait d'artiste, d'anonyme, de fou, d'abattoir ou d'arbre : Marc Trivier a photographié chaque sujet avec la même intensité interrogative. Toutes réalisées dans le même format carré, élémentaire et clos, sans retouche ni recadrage, les photographies semblent moins mettre en scène un sujet - célèbre ou inconnu, élu ou déchu, vivant ou mort - qu'interroger une présence. «Ce qui m'intéressait, ce n'était pas de photographier simplement un corps ou un visage, mais cette situation particulière qui est quelqu'un en train de faire la photo de quelqu'un d'autre.» En confrontant les portraits d'artistes à leur correspondant altéré, Trivier dévêt l'oeuvre de ses effets et dévoile l'énigmatique nudité du corps photographique. "Dans sa cosmogonie, chaque chose, chaque être, végétal, animal ou humain, mérite le même respect. Car tous sont confrontés à la même loi d'airain : la solitude. " (Luc Desbenoit in Télérama, le 05/03/2011 à l'occasion de la rétrospective Marc Trivier à la Maison Européenne de la Photographie). Tirages argentiques non signés, comme la plupart des oeuvres de Trivier. Epreuves uniques tirées par l'artiste. Deux pliures et une petite tache en marge de la photographie d'Hartung. Rarissime diptyque d'un des grands photographes contemporains. [Attributes: First Edition]

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JEAN LLUIS.
        ALBUM DE PHOTOGRAPHIES DE TOURNAGE CINEMATOGRAPHIQUE.
      Club des cinéastes amateurs. 1982 - RO20081294: Album photos réunissant : 30 photographies originales de films amateurs en couleurs et noir et blanc. de nombreuses coupures de journaux. 6 fiches de participations à des concours. Passages surligné en orange sur les coupures de journaux. Photographies du tournage du film du docteur Poirier : Le retour d'Anna. Photographies du film de Jean Hugout : Casse tête. Photographies du tournage de ILS. Photographies du tournage de 2512. Coupures de journaux portant sur : Diapos du C.A.C.B. , Club des amateurs cinéastes, Trucages pour amateurs, Soirée C.A.C.B., Film amateur, Super 8 au C.A.C.B. Concours : Brie d'or (fiches de cotisation) pour le film ILS, concours régional Albi 16 - 17 - 18 mars 1982. pour le film 2512. Festival du cinéma amateur à Villenave d'ornon le vendredi 12 juin 1981. Bon état Classification : 1300-Photos Anciennes Situées

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(LIBRARY OF AMERICA)
        Collection of American Literature and History
      The American Library, 19822001. 30 volumes, octavo. Finely bound for Aspreys in dark blue full morocco, titles and decoration to spines gilt, single rule to boards gilt, decorative endpapers, all edges gilt. Fine. A selection of American fiction - James Baldwin, Charles Brockden Brown, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, Carson McCullers, John Steinbeck, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Edith Wharton, and various American crime novels of the 1930s, '40s and '50s - together with the writings of Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Paine, Ulysses S. Grant, William Sherman, George Washington, Henry Adams, Abraham Lincoln and James Madison.

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Ansel Adams
        Yosemite and the Range of Light
      Bulfinch Pr September 1982 - SIGNE BY AUTHOR on bookplate. Very collectable condition. Appears unread, crisp, clean, bright and tight. Now protected with Durafold unattached to jacket. Near fine book/Near Fine Dust Jacket. BEAUTIFUL copy, very minimal edgewaer. Satisfaction guarantee. Filled with illustrations in black and white. Yosemite and the Range of Light contains 116 impressive prints demonstrating the mastery of Ansel Adams. The book contains poster classics like Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite Valley, 1944, Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, 1960, and Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, from Lone Pine, 1944 Fine in Fine dust jacket; With original $75 price on inside jacket flap. SIGNED by Ansel Adams and dated 1980 on Time/Life bookplate as issued by publisher. Second Printing 1979. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Svanascini, Osvaldo
        Grandes Premios SalÃ³n Nacional 1911-1982
      Buenos Aires: CÃ¡mara de la Industria de Higiene y Tocador, 1982. 169pp. Primera ediciÃ³n. Primer ejemplar (numerado en romano, I) de una tirada especial numerada del I al L y del 1 al 150. Ilustraciones a color y en negro. Con las firmas originales de los siguientes artistas plÃ¡sticos: Enrique Azcarate, Roberto Duarte, Ideal Sanchez, Ruben Alberto Locaso, Luis BarragÃ¡n, Cesar Ariel Fioravanti, Cesar Lopez Claro, Enrique Gaimari, Hector Nieto, Oscar Esteban Luna, Aurelia Macchi, Delia Fabre, Ermando Bucci, Jose Manuel MoraÃ±a, Alicia Orlando, Raul Alonso, Ary Brizzi, Enrique Romano, Carlos CaÃ±as, Fabriciano Gomez, Julio A. Leonelo MuÃ±eza, Ernesto Pablo Pesce, Julio BarragÃ¡n, Osvaldo Borda, Aida Maria Armagni, Armando Donnini, Norberto Russo, Luis Genaro Scafati, Abel Bruno Versacci, Miguel Davila, Lidia Juarez, Selva Vega, Gabriela Aberastury, Arturo Irureta, Hugo Cesar Carrizo, Cristina Santander, Margarita Portela Lagos, Juan Manuel Suero, Victor L. Rebuffo, Hemilce M. Safocarda, Magda De Pamphilis De Zanelli, Julia E. Vigil Monteverde, Carlos A. Aschero, Ana Maria Moncalvo, Juan Carlos Faggioli, Orestes Assali, Hector Alejandro Perazzo, Francisco Reyes, Beatriz Juares Quinteros, Mariano Pages, Sepucio Tidone, Naum Knop y Alberto Balietti.. Firmado Por El Autor - Signed By Author. Primera EdiciÃ³n - First Edition. CartonÃ© con sobrecubierta. Muy Buen Estado. Very Good./Buen Estado. Good Condition..

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Prip-Moller, Johannes
        Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Their Plan and Its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life
      Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong 1982 - July 1982, Third Impression of the historic 1937 Copenhagen Edition (the second edition was published in 1967). FINE . Handsome leather bound hardcover: clean, totally unmarked, firmly bound and complete with all plates and inserts. Profusely illustrated with black and white photographs of Buddhist monasteries and monks, sculpture, clothing, ceremonial artifacts and more. There are many architectural plans and drawings, one full color plate, two color drawings, four 2-color ordination certificates, a 2-color map and two tissue-guarded fold-out diagrams. Additionally, four large folding plans printed on heavy paper are inserted into a pocket affixed to the inside rear cover. The book includes Tables of Plates and Sketches, Index and Chronology. Richly bound in dark blue morocco leather boards with tan morocco leather spine. Calligraphic gilt stamping on front cover, title gilt stamped on spine. Pages clean and supple; very slight foxing to outer edges, otherwise fine. Cover is fresh and unworn. Binding and hinges firm, intact and straight. Danish architect Johannes Prip-Moller first traveled to China in 1921, commissioned to work on projects for missionary societies by the Circle of Architects, a Christian professional society. He later devoted himself to the study of Buddhist monasteries, both the architectural and social structures. His extensive travels through China from 1929 to 1933 resulted in this monumental work, originally published in 1937. 11-1/4 x 15-1/4"; 396 text pages. A heavy volume requiring additional postage for Priority or International mailing.avels through China from 1929 to 1933 resulted in this monumental work, originally published in 1937. 11-1/4 x 15-1/4"; 396 text pages. A heavy volume requiring additional postage for Priority or International mailing. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

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Bradley, Marion Zimmer
        The Mists of Avalon (Inscribed),
      Alfred A. Knopf, NY 1982 - 8vo. xi(i),876,(iv)pp. Black cloth spine, dark gray paper over boards, both blocked in copper foil. A trace of sunning along the top and a touch of foxing on the top edge else a fine copy. The dust wrapper is not price-clipped and is also fine. Inscribed by the author in the title page: "For George". The author was involved with the Society for Creative Anachronism ("SCA"). In 1968 The East Kingdom was founded in the SCA; it was started by Elfrida and Walter of Greenwalls (Marion Zimmer Bradley and her then husband Walter Breen). The Annotated History notes the following about the first Kingdom event (June 2, 1968 - AS III): "Held at the Cloisters, New York City, New York. A tourney was planned but it was rained out. Elfrida and Walter of Greenwalls were the seneschals and the autocrats." This copy is signed on the title page, not on a plate or slip of paper pasted in. "Historical writing on a grand scale, with all the magic conviction and resonance of ballad and ancient lore." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 4A-48. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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The Circle Jerks
        Group of Three Circle Jerks Flyers
      California. [circa 1980s]. First. Two black and white flyers measuring 8.5" x 11" and one measuring 5.5" x 8.5". Overall fine with very light spotting to one.1. R.R.Z. presents L.A.'s Invation [sic]. A flyer for a weekend at the punk venue, On Broadway, with live music by "The Circle Jerks with Social Distortion, plus, from Phoenix, The Meat Puppets, Friday Oct. 22nd"; and "Saturday Oct. 23rd The Circle Jerks, with Toiling Midgets and The Meat Puppets." Both featuring the artwork of Shawn Kerri, the American artist famous for working with punk bands in the late 1970s / early 1980s, most notably The Circle Jerks. Date not noted but probably 1982.2. Goldenvoice presents Circle Jerks Summer Skankoff. A flyer promoting a Circle Jerks show at Perkin's Palace, Friday, August 26, 1983 with Channel 3, MDC, The Dicks, and D.R.I. On the flyer is a drawing of a skanking punk, not noted but possibly Shawn Kerri artwork.3. A Polka Party to Remember. A flyer promoting a Circle Jerks show at the Polish Auditorium on Saturday, January 10th with Fear, 45 and The Mentors. It was an "all ages" show advertising "lots of cheap brewski." .

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Wright, Frank LLoyd
        Selected Drawings. Portfolio
      ADA Edita, Tokyo, Japan 1982 - This is the third and final volume published by Horizon / ADA Edita between 1977 and 1982. This is copy number 485 of 500 copies published by ADA Edita in 1982. The three volumes offer a display of Wright's work of extraordinary magnitude. Each volume, however, stands alone as a significant representation of Wright's work. The fifty plates that are slip-cased in this volume were chosen with an eye towards offering his work across the entirety of its scope. The result is a volume which offers little room for complaint from either scholar or fan. The volume is a 16" by 22" slip-cased folio, weighing roughly 18 pounds. The slipcase is of terra cotta cloth, and the plates are presented on archival papers, each covered with a tissue overlay. While the slipcase displays a stain to the lower spine and strips of fading to both front and rear boards, there is no evidence that the plates have ever been examined, nor are they marred in any manner. Contents fine in a very good slipcase. [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Rauschenberg, Robert (Artist/Photographer) & Ives, Colta (Contributor)
        PHOTOS IN + OUT CITY LIMITS: NEW YORK CITY ("PHOTOS IN & OUT CITY LIMITS: NEW YORK CITY") - Rare Signed Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing
      New York City, NY: ULAE Incorporated, 1982 - 1st Printing. Signed. 70 pages. Published in 1982. Collection of photographs on subject. One of the greatest photography books of the 20th century. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with the Softcover Edition. There is no ISBN. The book is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Robert Rauschenberg: Oversize-volume format. White linen cloth boards with metallic-silver titles beautifully embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Robert Rauschenberg. Essay by Colta Ives. Matching white linen cloth slipcase. Printed on thick uncoated stock paper in the United States to the very highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents the great artist's collection of black-and-white photographs on New York City, the partial fulfillment of his 30-year-old wish to photograph the entire United States, a project he never completed. Showcases his unique approach to photography as a process of discovery, selection, and assemblage of objects from everyday life. One of the least well-known facts about Rauschenberg is that he began his career as a photographer. He makes no distinction between his photography and his painting, and he brings the same acute eye to both. The photographs, like the paintings, are formally rigorous, sensuous, and piercing. His celebrated method of appropriating found images and objects to capture the fabric, tempo, and "feel" of modern life is photographically-inspired and characterizes his large body of work. The idea of appropriation is not unique to Rauschenberg. It is a central tenet of Surrealism and continues to be the latter Movement's enduring legacy. What makes Rauschenberg's work unique is the way he has "set in motion an interplay of shapes in which the human form is integrated to a rigorous yet flamboyant sense of design, pictures in which art and real life coincide" (Pontus Hulten). "A protean genius who showed America that all of life could be open to art. Rauschenberg didn't give a fig for consistency or curating his reputation; his taste was always facile, omnivorous, and hit-or-miss, yet he had a big-ness of soul and a richness of temperament that recalled Walt Whitman" (Robert Hughes). "Mine is the need to be where it will always never be the same again. Photography is the most direct communication of non-violent contacts" (Robert Rauschenberg). An absolute "must-have" title for Robert Rauschenberg collectors. This copy is very prominently and beautifully signed in charcoal pencil by Robert Rauschenberg. It is signed directly on the page, not on a tipped-in page even though it comes from the publisher. The signature beautifully matches the facsimile of his signature on the book's cover and title page. This title is now highly collectible. This is one of very few signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. Many copies have major flaws because the color white soils very easily. According to dealers who knew him, Rauschenberg basically stopped signing books in the 1990's. Signed copies still available online are vintage, not recent, and very few. A rare signed copy thus. 70 tritone plates. One of the greatest artists of the 20th century. A flawless collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

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BUTLER, Robert Olen; CLARK, Tom
        Typed Letter Signed and Book Review [The Launch of a Pulitzer Prize Winning Author]
      1982 - A typed letter signed by Butler to poet Tom Clark, regarding Clark's review. In 1981, Butler, who would later win the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his collection A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain, published his first book, The Alleys of Eden. It was reviewed by Clark in the February 11, 1982 Los Angeles Times, with the headline "Vietnamization of a Deserter's Mind." On May 12, Butler wrote to Clark, saying, in part: "I have received twenty major reviews of the book but none of them was more sensitive or insightful than yours. The best literary criticism actually explains an author to himself. That's what your review did. I understand my own book better after reading your review and I want to thank you for that." The letter is signed "Bob Butler." Also included here is Clark's original, 3-page manuscript review, signed by Clark: ".Desertion, Butler seems to say, is an inevitable act, made necessary by the human state. Every small movement is an abandonment of the past, with death looming over everything as the greatest desertion of all." Clark's review makes it clear that Butler's protagonist -- an Army intelligence officer who ends up deserting out of self-disgust over his involvement in the torture and death of a Viet Cong prisoner -- is an analogue for the larger society, which deserted both Vietnam and those who fought there, leaving both the Vietnamese and the veterans as "displaced persons," in both countries. Clark's review is penned on the back of copies from a book about Celine and folded in half; near fine. A photocopy of the published review is included. Butler's letter is folded for mailing; else fine in a near fine envelope. With a copy of Alleys of Eden [NY: Horizon (1981)], which is fine in a very near fine dust jacket with a short edge tear. An insightful review of one of the best novels to come out of the Vietnam war, and the author's appreciative response. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy]

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Cheloniidae Press. Robinson, Alan James
        An Odd Bestiary. Text compiled and annotated by Laurie Block
      [Easthampton, MA]: Cheloniidae Press. 1982. First Edition, one of 200 copies all on Rives lightweight paper, from a total issue of 300 copies, signed by the artist, Alan James Robinson, and hand-numbered by him on the colophon page. Page size: 13-1/2 inches x 9- 3/4 inches; 158pp including 6pp. Introduction by Laurie Block and 13pp. bibliography by Ms. Block. Bound by Grey Parrot: red quarter leather and light tan cloth over boards, tan cloth over boards folder for extra suite of engravings, clamshell box of tan linen over boards with red morocco spine stamped in gold gilt with title, fine. Each letter of the alphabet is exemplified by an animal whose name represents that letter. Each letter has its own page with a small woodengraving of the animal above printed text describing the animal. This is followed by an original full-page woodengraving of the animal with a caption and source printed in red by a page of text. The first letter of each of the 26 text sections is in red, original calligraphy by Betse Curtis in the style of Old English Gothic letters. The colophon features a red alphabet in Old English Gothic letters surrounding the debossed turtle (cheloniidae) with the colophon text printed in Arrighi. The text of the book is in Centaur as well as Arrighi, set in monotype by Mackenzie-Harris, with some hand-setting by Arthur Larson. & The text, compiled by Laurie Block from five centuries of travelers' accounts, is "the story of how men came to view the animate world as a reality with its own unique history, integrity, and order." The earliest bestiaries - full of fantasy and little fact - from the medieval period seem elementary in comparison to those produced by the scholarship of the Renaissance. Humans had renewed their efforts to portray and accurately describe those other living creatures that share their planet. And, their ever-expanding audience was delighted. This desire to see and know the living world continues unabated. Here is a textual survey from publications as early as the 1577 THE HISTORY OF TRAVAILE IN THE WEST AND EAST INDIES... by Richard Eden (for the Elephant's entry) to the 1839 NARRATIVE OF THE SURVEYING VOYAGES OF HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS ADVENTURE AND BEAGLE... by Charles Darwin (for the Tortoise's entry). There are 26 wood engravings by Alan James Robinson for each animal / letter of the alphabet. There are also 26 smaller linecuts which appear above the page of text with the first letter of the animal's name printed over / with the image. The woodengraving is a full-page image with a sentence, printed in red, below the engraving referring to the animal. This is an altogether welcome addition to the much sought after bestiary. Elegantly and beautifully executed, it is one of Mr. Robinson's most charming endeavors. <br>See an <A HREF= http://www.bookrouter.com/im/juvelisbks/3156.jpg >Image.</A><br>

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SAN FRANCESCO DASSISI.
        Cantico delle creature.: Con litografie originali di Enrico Paulucci, Bruno Saetti, Gennaro Piccini, Michele Cascella, Bruno Cassinari, Amintore Fanfani, Remo Brindisi, Virgilio Guidi, Pericle Fazzini.
      Grafica dei greci, Roma. 1982 - Copia, non dedicata, della tiratura ad personam di sole 50 copie. Allinterno è presente una superba riproduzione di tre pagine del codice 338 della Biblioteca comunale di Assisi riproducente parti del cantico e 9 litografie a piena pagina degli artisti Enrico Paulucci, Bruno Saetti, Gennaro Piccini, Michele Cascella, Bruno Cassinari, Amintore Fanfani, Remo Brindisi, Virgilio Guidi, Pericle Fazzini. Trattasi di litografie originali, in bassa tiratura, realizzate appositamente per lopera e tutte firmate a matita dagli autori. Legatura in tessuto di pregio con elaborati motivi zoomorfi. Cofanetto in mezza pelle con titoli al dorso. Non presente in ICCU. Rarissimo. Formato: 65, [2] p., 53 cm, bross., custodia in tessuto, cofanetto. Ottimo.

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Crowley, John.
        LITTLE, BIG.
      London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1982 - Octavo, boards. First British (and first hardcover) edition. Signed by Crowley. "A now recognized landmark of modern fantasy, Crowley's novel encompasses many worlds in its ambitious scope and triumphs on all counts . A literate, touching and unassuming masterpiece." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature, 4A-79. 1982 World Fantasy award winner. Pringle, Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 76. Some very light spotting to fore edges of the free endpapers, a nearly fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with some foxing to the verso with some bleed through along the edges, mild shelf wear along top edge, and small nick to jacket rear panel near spine fold. (#132158) [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB]

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GINSBERG, Allen
        Plutonian Ode
      San Francisco: City Lights (1982) - First Edition. A fabulous and potentially historically significant association copy, INSCRIBED by Ginsberg in 1983 to Hungarian writer István Eörsi: "There are many small / Changes & Typographical / Mistakes here - / We need to send you / Corrected Second / Printing. But I've checked out most of them by pen." On the title page Ginsberg has added: "Allen Ginsberg / for Istvan Eörsi / December 21, 1983." In the text there are several significant emendations in both Ginsberg and Eörsi's hand. In some cases it appears they were working together. A little light wear; just about near fine in wrappers. [Attributes: First Edition]

      [Bookseller: Harper's Books, ABAA]

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Stephen King
        The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger
      Donald M. Grant Publisher 1982. Hardcover Book Condition: Fine Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Donald M. Grant Publisher, New York 1982. First Edition / First Printing. Stated First Edition, no additional printings. Red cloth boards. Jacket priced at $20.00. Signed by Stephen King on a typed letter to a fan. Comes with the original envelope from 1988. The Signature is Guaranteed Authentic. Book Condition: Fine, clean boards and pages, tight spine. Name and date at the front endpaper. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine, soft shelf wear. Wrapped in a new removable mylar cover.

      [Bookseller: 1st Editions and Antiquarian Books]

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SPIEGELMAN, Art and Francoise Mouly
        Autograph Letter Signed ("Art + Francoise") to S. Clay Wilson with a Drawing by Spiegelman
      First. Octavo. Letter to S. Clay Wilson. Undated but 1982. Folded for mailing, else fine. The left-hand side of the page consists of a Spiegelman drawing of a man with a head made from a sticker for his magazine Raw. The text of the letter in full: "Hi Wiltz Herewith Rawz. Going to Yurrp til Sept. 2. then Raw 4. If you wanna show us stuff that might be appropriate... deadline, September 10. Have a good summer. All the best, Art + Francoise." The drawing and full text of the letter are in the hand of Spiegelman, except for the signature of Francoise. In 1975 Spiegelman and Bill Griffin founded the comic Arcade which featured the work of artists like Wilson and R. Crumb. Spiegelman and his wife Francoise Mouly founded Raw in 1980, and though it was relatively short lived it was extremely influential. A nice association between two founding members of the Underground Comics movement. Spiegelman won a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. .

      [Bookseller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABA]

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MARTIN ( Henri-Jean ) & CHARTIER ( Roger ) [ Avec la collaboration de Jean-Pierre Vivet ]
        HISTOIRE DE L'EDITION FRANCAISE. ---- Tome 1 : Le Livre conquérant . Du Moyen-Âge au milieu du XVIIe siècle .
      Promodis - Paris 1982. 1 Volume/1.- TOME 1 seul -- Reliure éditeur cartonnée sous jaquette illustrée. Formatin-folio( 30,5 x 22 cm )( 2415 gr ). --------- 629 pages avec nombreuses illustrations N&B in-texte + 60 en couleurs Hors-Texte sur 48 planches. ********************* "" Bien plus que dresser la bibliothèque d'un temps et d'un lieu, le premier volume de cette histoire de l'édition française cherche à mettre en évidence les. Lire la suite principales transformations d'une marchandise qui ne ressemble pas tout à fait aux autres, le livre, et l'histoire de ceux qui en furent les artisans, les commerçants ou les lecteurs. Une histoire qui commence bien avant Gutenberg, quand les copies des manuscrits sont mises en circulation. Comment un auteur éditait-il alors son uvre ? Comment fabriquait-on un manuscrit ? Au fil des siècles, les procédés évoluent, mais c'est surtout l'instauration de la séparation des mots qui bouleverse les habitudes intellectuelles puisqu'elle permet la lecture silencieuse, une lecture plus rapide donc, qui engendre une demande accrue de manuscrits. L'apparition de l'imprimerie engendre à son tour une véritable révolution culturelle, transformant le livre en instrument de communication, en instrument de propagande aussi. Marchands imprimeurs, imprimeurs libraires et tous ceux qui travaillent aux métiers du livre s'efforcent alors de conquérir des lecteurs nombreux. Typographie, mise en page, illustration, reliure : ces techniques, nouvelles ou renouvelées, modifient profondément la présentation des textes ; En moins d'un siècle et demi, le temps de l'humanisme et du classicisme, le livre devient un objet plus familier, plus lisible, plus maniable. Longtemps le livre reste l'apanage des seules élites, mais déjà apparaissent, dans les villes du moins, les premiers signes d'une " lecture populaire ". '' *************************** ref 510 [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

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Kinsella, W. P.
        Shoeless Joe
      Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1982 - 1st edition/1st printing. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by the author on the half-title page: 'For Ed Morris With best wishes Bill Kinsella May 24/82 Chicago'. A blind-stamped (no color) embossment directly below that inscription reads 'Library of Edward L. Morris E.L.M.', so the book's previous owner was the person the author's inscription was written to. Straight, clean, very tight book with only that blind-stamp ed embossment to keep it from being 'as new'. The price intact, crisp and clean dustjacket has just a touch of the lower spine end bluing to the green (much less than normal), and a couple of very tiny edge nicks at the flap fold ends, but is otherwise in excellent condition. A lovely copy of this classic which was made into the movie 'Field Of Dreams' and which won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. A baseball-based fantasy about the power of dreams to move people. ; Signed by Author [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Hard Cover]

      [Bookseller: AAABOOKS (Authors & Artists)]

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Ellison, Harlan
        Stalking the Nightmare
      Huntington Woods: Phantasia Press, 1982. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Signed By Author and Illustrator. 1st Edition. First edition, lettered state. Limited to ONLY 40 SIGNED AND LETTERED COPIES. Foreword by Stephen King. The book is bound in full black Oasis Morocco (goat-skin) with a gold stamped design by Jane Mackenzie of the white rabbit from ALICE IN WONDERLAND on the front cover. The rabbit has Harlan Ellison's face. The book is contained in a "grimoire box." The box is cast in a synthetic resin called Uncast Three, from original linden wood carvings by Steve Kirk. The box was then hand finished with intentional irregularities in surface and finish to produce a "stressed antique" appearance. The "carvings" on the faces of the box represent scenes from the stories in the book: Top face illustrates "Grail" and incorporates the publisher's logo and the sculptor's chop, hinge face illustrates "Final Trophy," lock face illustrates "Tracking Level," top end illustrates "Tiny Ally," bottom end illustrates "Invasion Footnotes" and the base illustrates "Visionary." The grimoire box is lined in black Siloma quilted velvet. The box has antiqued brass fittings, lock, and hasp, and two keys. The box is signed by the author and by the sculptor via a card inserted in a brass frame which is affixed to the inside of the box's lid. One of the most elaborate science fiction specialty press books ever produced. Fine in antiqued grimoire box. This state not issued in dust jacket..

      [Bookseller: Barry R. Levin Science Fiction & Fantasy]

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Swanson, Henry
        The Unknown Islands, Life And Tales Of Henry Swanson - 1st Edition/1st Printing
      Unalaska, AK: Cuttlefish VI. Fine. 1982. First Edition; First Printing; Signed by Author. Hardcover. A clean First Edition/First Printing in Fine condition, SIGNED by AUTHOR Henry Swanson on front endpaper. Little rubbing along bottom and side of spine; Produced and published by high school students at Unalaska, Alaska in 1982 as part of a community history project, The Unkown Tales tells as much about the history of the Aleutian Islands and its native tribes and immigrants at the turn of the century as it does about its author Henry Swanson. He recorded his life history for the high school students through a series of tales: childhood, the last sea otter hunts, Navy years, WWI, the fox business, the war out West, and back to Alaska after the war .

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Cartier-Bresson Henri.
        HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON [et Jean Clair]. Inscribed Association Copy.
      Fondation Nationale de la Photographie - Photo Poche, Paris 1982 - Cartier-Bresson Henri. HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON [et Jean Clair]. Inscribed. Association Copy. Paris: Fondation Nationale de la Photographie - Photo Poche - Delpire, Paris, 1982. Sm. 8vo., 145pp. [French text] Inscribed by Henri Cartier-Bresson to his close friend, writer & photographer, James Lord ['Plausible Portraits of James Lord: With Commentary by the Model', 2003] with a reference to Gérard [Macé] who is poet, writer, photographer & also a close friend of Cartier-Bresson - on the inside front cover: "A James / ce petit memento / + la pensée de / Gérard sur / la photo. / Avec toute / mon amitié / Henri". First edition. Glossy photographic wrappers. First edition of the second volume in the outstanding collection created by Robert Delpire in 1982 at the Centre National de la Photographie. Contains 64 full page photographt by HCB. A fine bright copy. [Attributes: First Edition; Signed Copy; Soft Cover]

      [Bookseller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library]

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