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Modernism Books & Ephemera
Four Unposted Letters to Catherine
by Riding, Laura
Paris: Hours Press, 1930. First edition. 50, [3] pp. Decorative paper boards over brown leather backstrip, spine lettered in gilt. Touch of rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners, else fine. One of 200 numbered copies, signed by the author. Cover photomontage designs by Len Lye, of which the publisher Nancy Cunard commented, "they suggest stonelike figures and a sort of arabesque, [and] also evoke the thought of tapestry and Renaissance velvet." The critic Herbert Palmer noted the difficulty of...
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A$790.05
The Dada Painters and Poets: An Anthology
by [Dada]. Robert Motherwell, ed
New York: Wittenborn, Schultz, Inc, 1951. First edition. xxxxii, 390 pp. Blue decorated boards, reproducing Paul Rand's jacket design; with the dust jacket. Top edge a little browned, jacket spine sunned as usually seen, some edgewear to jacket. With both the Huelsenbeck and Tzara leaflets laid in. Scarce in good condition. Prepared by Motherwell with the collaboration of some of the major Dada figures, still the most comprehensive and important anthology of Dada writings in any language. It contains...
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A$711.05
Harmonium
by Stevens, Wallace
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1931. Second edition. 152 pp. Blue paper boards over smooth black cloth spine with printed paper label mounted, with the dust jacket. Slight fading to board edges, jacket toned on verso and extremities, spine browned, small snag on rear panel of jacket at top edge. Overall a remarkably clean copy. The second edition of Stevens' landmark first book, which added fourteen poems and removed three poems from the original publication. 1500 copies were printed. Edelstein A1.b....
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A$2,370.15
Selections from the John and Mary Lou Paxton Collection. May 27 - October 1, 2006
by Paxton, John and Mary Lou. Texts by Kelly Bridegum, Rachel Hartsough et alia
Reno NV: Nevada Museum of Art, 2006. Paperback. 47p., clay-coated matte paperstock throughout with color exhibit photos alternating with extensive texts. Softbound in 8.5x8.5 inch frenchfold wraps, a fairly expensive production. No ownership or any other markings; pace a tiny ding at the head and one creased corner-tip, very good condition.
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A$31.60
Ripostes. Whereto are Appended the Complete Poetical Works of T. E. Hulme, With Prefatory Note
by Pound, Ezra
London: Elkin Mathews, 1915. Fourth issue, with first edition sheets and cancel title-page. 63 pp. Original printed wrappers, with cover design by Dorothy Shakespear Pound. 400 copies were issued. Ex-libris of Shakespeare and Company, Paris, two plates mounted on both inside front cover and verso of front flyleaf. A rare and desirable issue, due to the striking cover, similar to Pound's Catholic Anthology published the same year. Gallup A8d.
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A$3,555.22
Redondillas, or Something of That Sort
by Pound, Ezra
[New York]: New Directions, 1967. First edition. [11] leaves. Blue paper boards over tan linen backstrip, printed paper label on spine. Introductory note by Noel Stock. One of 110 copies, printed by Robert Grabhorn and Andrew Hoyem in San Francisco, all signed by the author. Gallup A90. Fine copy.
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A$2,370.15
THE YEARS
by WOOLF, Virginia
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937. Royal blue cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine. 436 pp. Offsetting and neat collector's bookplate to upper endpapers, else a very good copy without a dust jacket. First American edition, later impression within 1937. The Years is considered one of Woolf's lesser-known but significant works, categorized as a hybrid between fiction and a kind of historical document. It follows the lives of the Pargiter family members from 1889 to the late 1930s, offering...
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A$66.36
Drafts & Fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII
by Pound, Ezra
New York: New Directions, 1969. First edition. 41 pp. Red cloth boards, printed paper label on the spine, in publisher's slipcase with label. One of 310 copies printed, signed by Pound. Gallup A91c.
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A$1,501.10
From Field to Factory; Community Structure and Industrialization in West Bengal
by Klass, Morton
Philadelphia: Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1978. 264p., illustrated with b&w snapshot photography and line maps, hardbound, first edition in tan cloth boards gilt and dust jacket. As new, despite its age, a completely sound, clean and unmarked copy.
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A$18.96
Muslims in Search of an Identity
by Silajdzic, Adnan
Sarajevo: Faculty of Islamic Studies Satajevo, 2007. Hardcover. 111p., 5.75x8 inches, in printed laminate black boards as issued, very good. English translation of Prof. Silajdzic's Bosnia book, Muslimani u traganju za identitetom, 2006.
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A$23.70
Telstra presents Transitions; 17 years of the national aboriginal & Torres Strait islander art award. A museum and art gallery of the Northern Territory travelling exhibition 2000
Darwin NT: Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territories, 2000. 119p., color reproductions on high-gloss alkaline paper, some site photography, extensive captions and a running text, presswork in two colors; an elaborate production in very good shape. Mildest external edgewear, and a seller's ghost pencilling on the titlepage (can't erase on high-gloss), softbound in 10.5x8 inch wraps. Sound and clean. FYI, Telstra is an internet doo-dad provider.
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A$39.50
Leo XIII
by Kiefer, William
Milwaukee: The Bruce Publishing Company, 1961. First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth, original illustrated dust jacket. Books' front corners bumped, gentle creasing to top of pack panel of bright dust jacket. A near-fine copy. "THE FIRST MODERN POPE"First edition of this first biography, by an American Marianist brother, of the first modern Pope, with a frontispiece photographic portrait. Gioacchino Pecci was in poor health when he was elected in 1878 but he would serve for 25 years as Pope Leo...
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A$79.01
The Spirituality of Friedrich von H�gel
by Whelan, Joseph P
London: William Collins, 1971. First edition. Octavo, original brown cloth, original dust jacket. Lower front corner bumped, else fine."CHRISTIANITY IS ESSENTIALLY A RELIGION OF INCARNATION: IT IS INDEED GOD REALLY BECOME FLESH IN TIME AND SPACE" First book edition of the American Jesuit's doctoral thesis, done at the University of London. Von Hugel was "an Anglo-Austrian scholar who, like Lord Acton, had a private income and an inexhaustible intellectual appetite for Catholic theology and history"...
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A$63.20
Tame Cat
by Pound, Ezra
New York: General Music Publishing Co, 1965. Original Wraps. Near Fine. Single sheet folded once, [3] pp. Musical setting by John Koch of Pound's poem for voice and piano, with dramatic cover illustration. Slight cover wear, else fine. Gallup E4n.
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A$118.51
Modernism's History. A study in twentieth-century art and ideas
by Smith, Bernard
Sydney: UNSW Press. 1998. Very Good condition. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 376 pages. A wide-ranging reformulation of art history in the 20th century. . 1st Edition. Trade Paperback.
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A$25.00
An Autobiographical Outline
by Pound, Ezra
New York: Nadja, 1980. First edition. Original Wraps. Fine. First edition. [5] pp. of text, printed on the rectos only. Sewn printed wrappers. A fine copy. Of 226 copies printed, one of 26 lettered copies, this copy letter "I." Originally written to Louis Untermeyer in a letter of 1930 "in order to put the facts straight", later printed in The Paris Review, vol. 7, no. 28, summer-fall, 1962, this is its first publication in book form. Gallup A103.
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A$158.01
Esprit de Corps. The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War, 1914-1925
by Silver, Kenneth E
London: Thames & Hudson, 1989. First edition. 502 pp. Blue cloth, spine lettered in silver and black, with the dust jacket. Corners slightly bumped. Profusely ilustrated. A heavy book, international shipping not recommended.
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A$118.51
1450-1950
by Brown, Bob
New York: Jargon/Corinth, 1959. First edition thus. Original Wraps. Fine. First edition thus. Unpaginated. Original printed wrappers, with a cover photograph of Bob Brown by Jonathan Williams. Very slight handling to covers, but still a fine copy. First published in 1929 in an edition of 150 copies by Black Sun Press. This new edition has several additions by Bob Brown. Blurbs on the back cover by Gertrude Stein, Marcel Duchamp, Carl Van Vechten, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, and others.
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A$118.51
Parts of a World
by Stevens, Wallace
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First edition. 182, [2] pp. Blue cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, front board decorated in blind, with the dust jacket. Some rubbing to head and tail of the spine, corners a little bumped; jacket shows some edgewear with minor chipping at the head and tail of the spine and a bit of soiling, but overall a clean copy, nicer than usually seen. Ownership signature of poet and editor William Abrahams, dated 1942, on the front free endpaper. Edelstein A5.a.1,...
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A$1,343.08
Des Imagistes; An Anthology
by [Pound, Ezra, ed.]
New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1914. First edition in book form, earlier published as an issue of The Glebe. 63 pp. Blue cloth, ruled in blind on the front board and lettered in gilt on the front board and the spine. Spine a little darkened, some spotting to spine and rear board edge. Slight rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. Interior clean and tight. Includes contributions by Richard Aldington, Hilda Doolittle, William Carlos Williams, Amy Lowell, James Joyce, Pound, Ford Madox Ford,...
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A$948.06
Anew
by Zukofsky, Louis
Prairie City, IL: The Press of James A. Decker, 1946. First edition. Original light-brown cloth, lettered in black on the front board and spine, with the dust jacket. 69, [3] pp. Some soiling to jacket, spine panel tips chipped, fold corners with tears, edges toned. Inscribed by Zukofsky on the front free endpaper and dated 1946. An early book by this perennially underrated poet, the fourth listing in Celia Zukofsky's 1969 bibliography.
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A$1,027.06
Ezra
by [Pound, Ezra]. James Laughlin
New York: Dim Gray Bar Press, 1994. First edition. [20] pp. Handmade paper wrappers, printed on the front cover, string-sewn. Minor sunning to edges, else fine. Cover illustration, repeated on title-page, by Guy Davenport. One of 100 numbered copies printed by Barry Magid at the Center for Book Arts, signed by Laughlin and Davenport. Two photographs of Pound, by Laughlin, mounted, as issued.
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A$316.02
The Close Chaplet
by [Riding], Laura Gottschalk
New York: Adelphi Company, 1926. First American edition. 77 pp. Paper boards, printed label on front cover. Boards faded at extremities, corners a little rubbed, slight rubbing to spine exposing webbing. Interior clean with slight glue staining to gutter of preliminaries, bookplate on front pastedown. Riding's first book, first published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press preceding this American edition, from the British sheets. Bibliographer Joyce Wexler noted of Riding's enigmatic...
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A$1,343.08
![Roland Penrose. The Friendly Surrealist [inscribed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/430/305/1449305430.0.b.jpg)
Roland Penrose. The Friendly Surrealist [inscribed]
by [Penrose, Roland]. Antony Penrose
Munich: Prestel, 2001. First edition. 192 pp. Dark blue cloth boards, spine lettered in light blue, with the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to upper edge of rear jacket panel, slight yellowing to page edges. Profusely illustrated. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland. Inscribed by the author on the title-page to Lyn [Keinholz, Los Angeles arts advocate].
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A$237.02
A nation within; contemporary Native American writing, a special issue of Pacific Quarterly Moana vol. 8, no. 1
by Salisbury, Ralph, compiler
Hamilton NZ: Outrigger Publishers, 1983. 108p., 8x6 inch bronze foil wraps, entire item has several pronounced crimps possibly from poor storage, else sound and clean.
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A$18.96
