Search Results: Authors starting with V from Exchange Value Books

American Folk Art Museum; New York, NY, 2015. 1st. Softcover. Very Good. Stapled exhibition pamphlet with card-stock covers. 50 pages. 2015. Collects short biographies from didactic panels to the museum's exhibition "Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet." Importantly, this is not the exhibition catalogue. This is a text to consult as one goes through the exhibition. Text clean. Top corner of back cover is darkened likely due to contact with water at some point.

Wendy's Subway; Brooklyn, NY, 2022. 1st Edition, 750 copies. Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. [POETRY]. Pages, Nico Vela. "Americon (Passage Series 3)." Brooklyn, NY: Wendy's Subway, 2022. First edition, limited to 750 copies. Printed in Latvia. English and Spanglish languages. Softcover. Text with black and white photos. 20 x 13 x 1.5 cm. 8 x 5.25 x 0.5 inches. 11 oz. 176 pp., [15]. Silver and black pages interspersed with the text. An elaborate design. Photo printed on reflective silver paper pasted to front cover. The bottom right-hand corners of a few of the last pages have been folded. Front cover slightly bows. Text clean. Near Fine. ISBN: 9781735924274. "Nico Vela Page’s Americon is a collection of poems in Spanglish that weaves a space for the queer, trans body to know the land, and itself, as extensions of each other. The land is the desert of Northern New Mexico, the forgotten Pan-American Highway, the space between our thighs, the quaking cordillera of… Read More

Oxford University Press, 1962. Soft cover. Near Fine. Yellowing.

VERNE, Julio [Jules]. Illustrated by Andrés Jullian. "Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino." Panamericana Editorial; Bogota, Colombia, 2006. Spanish language. Seventh impression. Softcover. 198 pages. Black and white illustrations. French flaps. Text clean. Wear and use evident on covers. Minor stains on back cover. Minor creasing on front cover. Very Good Minus. ISBN: 9789583006821.

William Morrow and Company, Inc.; New York, 1972. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 0x0x0. Hardcover, former library copy, sticker on spine, ink name on inside flyleaf, back flyleaf damaged and stamped, some ink notation inside. ISBN: 9780688000981. "Earning its author a third nomination for the Nobel Prize, this tale centers on a crane colony arriving at its breeding ground to play out a delicate drama, ending with the rarely observed ceremony of the ritual dance. All is observed by a transfixed child who has frozen into his background and become a piece of nature himself. With a kind of cinematic impressionism, this novel voyages back to episodes from childhood, adolescence, and maturity as well as conducts speculative forays into the unknown. Unfolding in a series of delicate sketches that record the changing moods of human experience, this story is at once pervaded by a sense of melancholy and a sensuous appreciation of nature. A profound and beautiful book, it is the summation of a literary… Read More

Softcover. Different cover. Signed by editor in ink on title page. Text clean. Wear to edges of page block. 322 pages. 1993. University of Pittsburgh Press.

Orlando Museum of Art, 2017. Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Price sticker on back cover. Softcover. "This exhibition presents the work of an international group of 18 artists who explore the impact of the vast scale of commerce and immigration worldwide on contemporary life. Using suitcases, trunks and crates to create works of art, these artists express provocative ideas about the mobility of global culture. These ideas often refer to the humanitarian, economic and political concerns of populations who are compelled to flee conflicts and hardship or to seek opportunities far from home. On an intimate level, baggage transports and holds personal belongings, and by implication is a rich metaphor for individual and family histories. The term baggage also carries significant psychological meaning, referring to the burdens or blessings of those things in life that cannot be left behind." ISBN: 9781880699164.

Los Angeles: Typecraft, 2021. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. 0x0x0. [PHOTOGRAPHY]. Vivian Rubin, Nazanin Mondschein, Leo Rubin. "EQ." Los Angeles: Typecraft, 2021. First edition. English language. Softcover. Text with full-color images. 9.5 x 6.5 x 0.25 in. 24 x 16 x 0.5 cm. 6 oz. pp. 44. Price in pencil on first page. Text clean. Fine. ISBN: 9780578969411."EQ, also known as emotional intelligence, is a vital part of our individual and collective well-being. Children experience a wide range of emotions every day, but they don't always have the words to describe them. The images and accompanying words in the book prompt us to think about and discuss emotions and how we view them.

Milan, IT: Skira, 2017. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. 8x0x11. [ART]. Volker Huller, Paola Gribaudo, Scott Indrisek, Tony Godfrey. "Volker Huller." Milan, IT: Skira, 2017. English language. Hardcover. Text and full-color images. 11 x 8.5 x 0.5 in. 29 x 21 x 1.5 cm. 27 oz. 103 pp. Notch on spine. Bottom right-hand corner slightly stubbed. Smudges on table of contents. Text clean. Very Good Plus. ISBN: 8857232840."Constantly shifting between figuration and abstraction, Huller's works disassemble their materials--both physically and conceptually--to compose new forms. In his paintings and large-scale etchings, fragmented figures seemingly dance, love, and fight.

Stuttgart: Wuerttemberischer Kunstverein, 1987. Soft cover. Good/Fair. Former library copy: library binding, jacket cover, stamps, card pouch, etc. Otherwise fine. Text in German. Softcover. 118 pages with numerous color & black & white plates. Catalog for the traveling exhibit of American & European contemporary artists.

New softcover still in shrink-wrap. Price sticker on front of shrink-wrap.