Search Results: Titles starting with R from Modern Rare

Berkeley, CA: Hit & Run Press, 2015. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Berkeley, CA: Hit & Run Press, 2015. Softcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 1 pages. Broadside of the author/poet's piece. One of Adam Zagajewski's finest achievements. Limited Edition of 20 numbered and signed copies. None of the copies was commercially distributed. There is no ISBN. The Broadside is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Hit & Run Press: Oversize format at 9 X 12 inches. Poem by Adam Zagajewski. Translated from the Polish original by (the estimable) Clare Cavanagh. Art by Roberto Chavez. It shows a sketch-rendering of three gray rats directly underneath the title. Printed on cream, uncoated Rives BFK Gray Vandercook SP-15 Proof Press stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. Eminently suitable for framing. Enclosed in thick plastic sheet with brown cardboard backing. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Adam… Read More

New York City, NY: Alfred A Knopf, 1995. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Alfred A Knopf, 1995. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 1519 pages. Omnibus Edition of the author's tetralogy. One of the greatest literary achievements of the so-called American Century. The First Everyman's Library Edition in its First Printing. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are several, improbably so, given the volume's 1519-page heft. Published in a regular first print run by Alfred A. Knopf/Borzoi Books as a hardcover original only. Although designed as an affordable volume, the production values are nevertheless superior in every respect. Presents, in a collectible Omnibus Format, John Updike's "Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels". The Four R's. "An imagination possessed of the ability to lay bare, with seemingly effortless animal grace, the enchantments… Read More

Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2009. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 120 pages. Retrospective Exhibition Monograph. The single best introduction to the ground-breaking art of Ragnar Kjartansson. The first and only edition. Precedes and should not be confused with "The End: Venezia" Exhibition Catalog, which is focussed exclusively on the artist's Venice performance-installation. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. A brilliant production by Ragnar Kjartansson and Christian Schoen: Oversize-volume format. Black hard boards with white titles on cover and spine, as issued. Art by Ragnar Kjartansson. Text by various contributors, many of whom have worked with the artist, notably Pall Haukur Bjornsson. Printed on glossy stock paper in Germany to the highest standards. In… Read More

New York City, NY: Houghton And Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2012. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Houghton And Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2012. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 365 pages. The author's fourteenth novel to be translated into English, published posthumously. Jose Saramago's breakthrough novel, it immediately precedes "Baltasar And Blimunda" (1982) , and is now finally available in translation thirty-two years later. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Jose Saramago's "Levantado do Chao" in a felicitous English translation. His most autobiographical (and stylistically, most realistic) novel. "A multigenerational family saga that paints… Read More

Middletown, CN: Wesleyan University Press, 1978. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Middletown, CN: Wesleyan University Press, 1978. Hardcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 144 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most valuable art photography books of the 20th century. Deluxe Slipcased Edition of 20 numbered and signed copies. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Limited Edition of 100 copies and the regular trade edition. There is no ISBN. The Deluxe Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Ralph Steiner: Oversize-volume format. Gray cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on the spine, as issued. Photographs by Ralph Steiner. Essay by Willard Van Dyke. 10 X 8 inch silver-gelatin print. Matching gray hard board slipcase. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. The reproduction… Read More

New York City, NY: Hyperion, 2008. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Hyperion, 2008. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 207 pages. Definitive version of the author's final lecture. One of the most valuable inspirational texts of our time. The First Hardcover Edition in its First Printing and First-State DJ. Published in a regular first print run by Hyperion as a hardcover original only that sold out upon publication. The book remains available in innumerable subsequent printings. The DJ design changed many, many times. Presents, in its true first format, Randy Pausch's "The Last Lecture". Encouraged and edited by Jeffrey Zaslow, the author's poignant and enlightening summing-up of the meaning of life, suffused with ironies that are not lost on the dying author. "A lot of professors give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider their demise and to ruminate on what… Read More

Farmingdale, NY: Artnews Magazine, 1977. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Farmingdale, NY: Artnews Magazine, 1977. Softcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 128 pages. Rare Robert Rauschenberg collectible item. A fine copy of the ARTNews Magazine January 1977 Monthly Issue, signed by Robert Rauschenberg. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a softcover original only. There is no ISBN. The Magazine Issue is now rare. Pictorial softcovers, which feature Robert Rauschenberg on the cover, as issued. Art by Rauschenberg and other artists. Contributions by various journalists, art critics, and scholars. Printed on pristine-white, archival stock paper in the United States to the highest standards. American magazines, when they were still being printed regularly, almost always surpassed books in terms of production values. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the artist's major… Read More

New York City, NY: Little, Brown & Company, 2000. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Little, Brown & Company, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 389 pages. The author's breakthrough debut novel. Now considered a contemporary classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Peter Moore Smith's "Raveling". Unputdownable. "The novel's strength lies in the deftness with which Peter Moore Smith captures Pilot's schizophrenia. The reader follows Pilot in each unsteady attempt to negotiate the ever-fluctuating boundary between reality and illusion. Weaves the fragile threads that bind families and selves into a tapestry that both cloaks its characters and leaves them starkly vulnerable" (Kelly Flynn).… Read More

New York City, NY: Abrams ComicArts, 2013. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Abrams ComicArts, 2013. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 80 pages. The author's fourth novel-in-pictures. Even by Audrey Niffenegger's exacting standards, it is one of the most beautifully realized book productions of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, including the British Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The First Edition is now scarce. A stunningly beautiful production by Audrey Niffenegger and Sara Corbett: Regular-sized volume format. Pictorial hard boards with black titles on spine, as issued. Art and text by Audrey Niffenegger. Pale gray gilt edges, which match the color of the DJ. Printed on thick glossy stock paper to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with… Read More

New York City, NY: Aperture Foundation, 1999. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Aperture Foundation, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 148 pages. Retrospective collection of landscape photographs. Now considered a contemporary art photography classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. An austerely elegant production by Wendy Byrne: Oversize-volume format. Pale gray cloth boards with metallic-silver titles embossed on spine, as issued. Photographs by Ray K. Metzker. Essay, "Voyage of Discovery", by Evan H. Turner. Printed on pristine-white, thick coated stock paper in Italy to the highest standards. In pictorial DJ with titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Published on the occasion of the landmark… Read More

Berlin, Germany: Only Photography, 2009. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. Berlin, Germany: Only Photography, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 120 pages. Retrospective collection of photographs. One of the most beautiful art photography books of our time. Limited Edition of 500 numbered and signed copies. Published as a hardcover original only. The Limited Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Roland Angst: Oversize-volume format. Purple cloth boards with gray titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Ray K. Metzker. Preface by Roland Angst in the German original and felicitous English trasnlation. Essay by David Travis in the English original and German translation. Biography and List of Plates (with matching thumbnail reproductions) appended at the end. Printed in tritone by Medialis Offsetdruck GmbH Berlin on pristine-white, thick uncoated stock paper to the highest standards. The reproduction quality is… Read More

New York City, NY: New York Review Of Books, 2000. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: New York Review Of Books, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 64 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. One of V. S. Naipaul's finest achievements. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only that sold out shortly after publication. The first print run must have been much smaller-than-usual because Second Printings proliferate. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents V. S. Naipaul's "Reading & Writing". His literary/artistic credo, summed up in two sublime essays. "Sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days in England, and his earliest attempts at writing, seeking the experiences of life and reading that shaped his imagination and his growth as a… Read More

New York City, NY: Random House, 2003. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: Random House, 2003. Softcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 347 pages. The author's memoir on subject. Azar Nafisi's finest achievement. Uncorrected Proof. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a tiny print run as a softcover original only for the exclusive use of the publisher and author. There is no ISBN. The Uncorrected Proof is now rare. Presents, in its earlier publication state, Azar Nafisi's "Reading Lolita In Tehran". Her breakthrough and masterpiece. A Professor of English literature at the University of Tehran, Azar Nafisi was expelled when she refused to wear the veil and eventually found political asylum in the United States, where she teaches at Johns Hopkins University. "I was enthralled and moved by Azar Nafisi's account of how she defied, and helped… Read More

New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 310 pages. The author's seventh novel. One of Mario Vargas Llosa's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Mario Vargas Llosa's "The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta" in a felicitous English translation. His astute psychological portrait of a modern revolutionary, in the form of an account by a former friend. Through this prism, the novel examines the long, violent, and painful history of Latin-American politics. Mario Vargas Llosa is the writer/intellectual/philosopher par excellence among the Latin-American geniuses… Read More

New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 312 pages. The author's novel in late-career. One of Alejo Carpentier's finest achievements. The first appearance of the title in English and in the United States. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents Alejo Carpentier's "El Recurso del Metodo" in a felicitous English translation. Erudite, labyrinthine, and opaque, formally mirroring as such its ostensible subject: The mind and fate of a paranoid and ruthless Head of State. He "survives, suppressing all dissent, confiscating all RED literature (including 'Le Rouge et le Noir' and 'The Scarlet Letter'), facing down in his Presidential quarters the most… Read More

New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1973. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 254 pages. The poet's debut and only novel. Now considered a late-modern classic. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. The book is one of the finest productions we have ever seen: Brilliant DJ design by Janet Halverson and austerely elegant black topstain, which matches the DJ design's predominantly black color scheme. The DJ back cover shows the author at various stages of his career, from dashing young poet to grizzled bearded survivor, prematurely and irreversibly aged. Presents John Berryman's "Recovery". Published posthumously with an Introduction, "John Berryman",… Read More

New York City, NY: The Penguin Press, 2015. First Edition. First Printing.. Softcover. Fine/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. New York City, NY: The Penguin Press, 2015. Softcover. Fine/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 291 pages. The author's breakthrough debut collection of short stories. One of the most sensational literary debuts of our time. The First Softcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent printings. Published in a small and limited first print run as a softcover. Publisher's removable "National Book Award Winner" Gold Seal pasted in front. Presents Iraqi veteran Phil Klay's "Redeployment". His first book. Described by the New Yorker Magazine as "the best literary work thus far" on the Iraq War, it tells a different - and deeper - truth about the American involvement in Iraq than any journalistic account published on the subject. It is a direct descendant of one of our greatest literary traditions: The… Read More

New York City, NY: The Penguin Press, 2014. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/As New Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: The Penguin Press, 2014. Hardcover. As New/As New. First Edition/First Printing. 291 pages. ISBN 1594204993.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2000. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 620 pages. Retrospective collection of essays. One of the most important and valuable books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, particularly the Second Edition and the Softcover Edition. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only by Harvard University Press. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Edward Said's "Reflections On Exile And Other Essays". His massive, "summing-up" book, published towards the end of his tragically truncated life. Comes with his magisterial Introductory Essay, which appears in this volume only, and does just that, sums up his life-work. "With their powerful blend of political and aesthetic concerns,… Read More

New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. Fine/Fine Dust Jacket.. New York City, NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Edition/First Printing. 126 pages. Book-length essay on subject. The author's last book. Now considered a contemporary classic. Review Copy. Review Material laid-in. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions, of which there are several. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now rare. Presents Susan Sontag's "Regarding The Pain of Others". A brilliant, melancholy meditation on war photography. The sequel-of-sorts to "On Photography" (1977) , Sontag revisits some of the same issues she raised in her earlier book, and subjects them to renewed scrutiny. While relatively short, it ranges nimbly across a breadth of cultural and intellectual references. She… Read More