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New Directions, 1984. Tall octavo, [48] pages (unpaginated). First English language edition, limited to 150 numbered copies, signed by the author and the translator. Printed at the Grenfell press and bound by Claudia Cohen. Illustrated with 10 ideograms, printed in teal blue. A fine copy in cream cloth, with a teal blue printed spine label and paste down to front cover, in a fine cream cloth-covered slipcase with pastedown. ... more information

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Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri, (1989). Thick octavo, 509 pages. Third edition. Text in the original Italian. Text block slightly age toned, otherwise very good in publisher's red cloth, with a slightly rubbed, but near very good dust jacket. Boldly, and very likely swiftly, signed by the Italian philosopher and novelist on the free front end paper. ... more information

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Solomon Guggenheim Foundation/Museum of Non-Objective Painting, 1945. Quarto 117 pages. First edition. Illustrated with full page black and white reproductions and line drawings in the text. Includes "Text Artista - an Autobiography" by Kandinsky, as well as other texts, and a list of materials exhibited. Some fading to the gilt letering on the spine and front panel of publisher's black cloth, otherwise a near fine copy. ... more information

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Grant Richards Ltd. , 1913. Small octavo, 202 pages + ads. First edition of this collection of early lectures given by the leader of the English wine trade for most of the first half of the 20th century, and the "Grand Old Man of Literate Connoisseurship." He was both Officier de la Legion d'Honneur and holder of the Order of the British Empire. In publisher's gilt decorated light blue cloth. left side of the spine with two dark stains, otherwise very good throughout. Inscribed boldly by Simon on... more information

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E.P. Dutton & Company, 1947. Octavo, 216 pages. First edition of the author's second novel. Very good copy in publisher's black cloth, with a somewhat worn and soiled dust jacket with a tear to the front panel and jacket hinges starting to separate. ... more information

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Yale French Studies, (1957). Octavo offprint, 35 pages. First edition thus. Translation of a lecture given May 9, 1957 at the Sorbonne, Paris. Light fading to the publisher's wrappers, otherwise a very good copy. With: Jan Miel. Jacques Lacan and the Structure of the Unconscious. Octavo offprint, 10 pages, from the same issue of YFS. Very good condition. ... more information

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Juillard, 1955. Translated from the French by RenŽ Guyonnet. Octavo, 338 pages. First French edition of this expose of American racism, by the author best known for his 1954 expose, The Klan Unmasked, in which he describes his time underground in this most reprehensible American institution. In recent months, Kennedy's story has come under fire from journalist Stephen J. Dubner and economist Steven D.Leavitt, authors of the best-selling book Freakonomics. The two claim that many of the undercover por... more information

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G.P. Putnam & Sons, (1912). Translated by T.E. Hulme. Authorized Edition, Revised by the Author, with Additional Material. Small octavo, 92 pages + 4 pages ads. Third printing of the first edition. A clean bright near fine copy in publisher's gilt-stamped dark green cloth. About one-inch chip from printed, sun-faded dust jacket. ... more information

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Doubleday, 1972. Small octavo, 190 pages. First edition of this late work of the inventor, designer and cosmologist, a call for mankind to open its mind to the larger patterns of the universe, in poetic form. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. ... more information

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