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[Cambridge, Massachusetts]: Harvard University, 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Small Quarto (10 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches; 260 x 190 mm), [22] unnumbered pages, in side-stapled illustrated wrappers. Catalogue of an exhibition of Indian painting that ran from March 10 to April 20, 1965, at Harvard, featuring works from the collections of Mrs. John F. Kennedy, John Kenneth Galbraith, Stuart Cary Welch, and the Fogg Art Museum. (The economist John Kenneth Galbraith had been President Kennedy's ambassador to India. Stuart Cary Welch was a Harvard scholar and a collector of Indian art.) Black-and-white illustrations of 10 works, as well as a tipped-in color illustration of a painting owned by Galbraith. Introduction by Milo Cleveland Beach, Galbraith, and Welch. UNCOMMON. CONDITION: General handling wear, foxing to some pages, previous owner's light pencil notations on first blank. A Very Good copy.

SIGNED on the title page by the editor, John Updike, as well as all the other contributors: Louis Auchincloss, Jack Beeson, Hortense Calisher, Ada Louise Huxtable, Wolf Kahn, R.W.B. Lewis, Richard Lippold, Norman Mailer, Cynthia Ozick, and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Copies signed by all 11 contributors are scarce to the market.
This volume is a history of the National Institute of Arts & Letters and the American Academy of Arts & Letters. Heavily illustrated with black-and-white photos. Issued without a dust jacket.
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Quarto 10 1/4 x7 1/8 inches; 260 x 180 mm), xii, [4] 346 pages, in red cloth, gilt titles to upper board and spine. No dust jacket was issued.
CONDITION: Front hinge a bit loose but holding. Some minor rubbing to the boards, small stain to upper board's right edge, small scrape to the lower board's list of contributors, not affecting any text. Internally clean and unmarked. Very Good or better.

[Austin, Texas]: Quagga, 1963. First Edition.
The "major and concluding part" of a cycle of poems by Emrich Urban in Quagga, a literary magazine, Volume II, No. 3, edited by James W. Smith. "This poem was written in 1960, during a brief and dwindling interval of happiness. A former Siamese twin, Mr. Urban worked his way through a great midwestern university through appearances in freak-shows." One of 500 copies. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 7/8 x 6 inches; 227 x 151 mm), 41, [1] pages, in stapled, illustrated wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Heavy toning and some soiling to covers, ghost of sticker to rear cover but internally clean and unmarked. Good or better.

Dortmund, Germany: Galerie Utermann, 1994. Quarto, np., hard cover. Profusely illustrated catalogue that Galerie Utermann (Dortmund, Germany) prepared for Art Basel in 1994. Text in German. Boards slightly rubbed. Issued without a dust jacket.  An attractive copy.