Search Results: Modernism

University of Arizona Press. As New with no dust jacket. 1970. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0816501939 . 167 pages .

De Bezige Bij. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1987. Softcover. 9023423356 . Clean, crisp, unmarked; paper lightly age-toned; this copy is 1989 pub. Date with ISBN 9023423356; Bezige Pocket 31; 164 pages .

London: The British Library, 1985. Paperback. 80p., profuse b&w and color exhibit photography, well-captioned, softbound in 9x7 inch color wraps. Slightest external signs of handling & age, entirely clean interior, a nice crisp copy.

Arlington VA: the poetry journal, 2000. 52p., staplebound 8.5x5.5 inch wraps, very good copy of, dagnabbit, the very last issue.

Cambridge, UK Harper & Row: Icon Editions, 1988. Hardcover First Edition [1988]; First Printing indicated by a complete number line. First Edition [1988]; First Printing indicated by a complete number line. Very Near Fine in Very Near Fine DJ: Both book and DJ show only minute indications of use: The book shows just a hint of spine lean, a couple of barely discernible smudges at the outside edges of the text pages; the binding remains perfectly secure; the text is clean. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. The DJ shows only very mild rubbing; the price is unclipped; mylar-protected. Overall, very close to 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. (9.3 x 6.25 x 1.2 inches). xiv, 258 pages. 44 black & white illustrations. Notes. 29 essays. 1 pound, 5 ounces. Hardback with DJ. Topics include Duchamp, the Spiral Jetty, Eva Hesse, Laurie Anderson, Jonathan Borofsky, Video Art, Julian Schnabel, Warhol, and more.

New York: New Directions, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Gilt cloth. First U.S. edition, clothbound issue. Edited with an introduction by Sandra Whipple Spanier. Issued in the New Directions Revived Modern Classics series. Fine, in a near fine pictorial dust jacket featuring Marcel Duchamp's "The Chess Game." HARRISON, NEWTH & CANDIDO, p.121.

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.

Phoenix AZ: Arizona Development Board, 1960. Pamphlet. Unpaginated, about a dozen pages in length with numerous exhibit and on-site photographs, rejiggered as a neat small pamphlet in 9.5x6.5 inch decorated wraps. Margins slightly toned and edgeworn, find an inconspicuous date-stamp (personal accession?) to upper right-hand cover corner, a generally sound, clean, otherwise unmarked copy.

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. Paperback. xiii, 272p., glossy 9x6 inch wraps; faint handling, else very good condition paperback.

npl: Pennsylvania Railroad, 1949. Pamphlet. [20]p.; alkaline coated paperstock with b&w pix, descriptions and technical stats for a number of specialized choo choos including six curious switching engines: electric, diesel, steam and combinations. Staplebound pamphlet in 5.5x8 inch oblong pictorial wraps, cover bears an unobtrusive smudge and a couple numerals in red pencil, else an unhandled-looking copy, nice and sound.

Constanta: Metafora, 1997. 142p., paperback, mild handling wear. Text in Romanian.

Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1996. Paperback. 299 pg. paperback, 7 x 9 inches. Edges bumped on front and rear cover, rear free endpaper has been trimmed, else very good. Foster.

New York: Atheneum, 1972. 254p., first American edition openweave cloth boards gilt in dj; a nice production job, text on calendared paperstock, in not quite collector's condition. Top-edge tint is faded, there is a minute nick in the head exposing a fleck of card, and the dust jacket has some ragged tears and missing chunks that obscure jacket titling. A good, sound, clean carry- to- the- coffee-shop copy. This particular George MacBeth "is married to a research geneticist and is a producer for the B.B.C. Third Programme." Even more promising than the news that MacBeth has extra-poetical credentials, is his choice of dj blurbs: along with the usual high praise we are relayed several that are gloriously hostile, "wasted talents" and so forth.

Albion, CA: Albion Imprints, 1978. 8p., 5.5x8.5 inches, long prose poem, illustration on rear inner cover, foxed edges and covers, chapbook in stapled glossy white wraps.

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.

New York: Monthly Review, 1995. 334p., wraps, very good condition.

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. Hardcover. xii, 211p., frontis, b&w photos in-text, color plate section, fine first edition in black cloth and gilt, unclipped dj.

Bucharest: Arta Grafica, 1965. Paperback. Unpaginated, about fifty pages of color and b&w exhibit photography, with captioned reproductions recto-only, facing blank versos. Softbound in 7.5-inch-square color wraps. Fore margins affected by stain or age (front cover) and a heavy crease (back cover), otherwise good copy.

Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Paperback. xxiv, 354p., illustrated with b&w snapshot photography and line maps, a big softbound (9x6 inches) in colorphoto wraps.

San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1999. Paperback. Unpaginated, about ten pages of critical material and 31 full page color plates, first edition 9x7.5 inch frenchfold wraps, a very good copy of a nice production. A number of items show traditional figures in contemporary drag attire, dolls in sexual situations, Mao mockery, popular culture with an unpopular take.