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Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1996. First Edition, First Printing. Profusely illustrated catalogue of the Reyes collection of Chinese paintings presented to the Ashmolean Museum in 1995. The catalogue accompanied an exhibition at the Ashmolean in autumn 1996. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Quarto (9 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 245 x 175 mm), 96 pages, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Very light soiling to the white rear cover but internally clean, bright, and unmarked. Near Fine.

Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2000. First Edition, First Printing.
Beautifully illustrated catalogue of Chinese paintings in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Quarto (9 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 245 x 175 mm), 253, [1] pages, in illustrated wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Lightest of edge wear, internally clean, bright, and unmarked. Near Fine.

Zwolle: Waanders uitgevers, 2000. Nicely illustrated catalogue for an exhibition of works by Belgian Symbolist Xavier Mellery (1845-1921). The exhibition took place at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam and at the Musée d'Ixelles in Brussels in 2000. The book contains numerous high-quality color plates. Invitation card for the opening of the Brussels exhibition laid in. Text almost entirely in French, although some painting descriptions and the colophon are also in Dutch. PHYSICAL DETAILS: Small Quarto (9 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches; 245 x 172 mm), 152 pages, in illustrated boards, no dust jacket as issued (hard cover). CONDITION: Fine. A beautiful copy.

Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988. First Edition, First Printing. A chronological survey of Tennessee Williams's short fiction by a professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Octavo, 142 pages. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Very slight age-toning to pages, as well as to flaps of dust jacket.

East Lansing, Michigan: Red Cedar Review, 1972. First Edition, First Printing. Scarce issue of the Red Cedar Review, a quarterly arts magazine published at Michigan State University. This issue was devoted to seven East Lansing poets: Daryl Jones, Mary Davis, Douglas Lawder, Barbara Drake, Roger Meiners, Linda Wagner, and D.M. Rosenberg. There's a photo and short bio of each poet, accompanied by several poems. DETAILS: Small Quarto (9 5/8 x 6 3/4 inches; 245 x 170 mm), 51, [3] pages, printed on reddish-orange paper, in stapled, illustrated wrappers (soft cover). CONDITION: Sunning to extremities, particularly to the rear wrapper but internally clean and unmarked. Very Good or better.

[San Francisco?]: Self-published, 1981. Octavo (8 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 212 x 135 mm), [42] pages, in stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers (soft cover).INSCRIBED on the lower wrapper to Nathan May, the editor and publisher of Beatitude #32, the San Francisco magazine of Beat poetry. A collection of poems by the Berkeley street poet (1943-2018) reflecting her street-smart sensibilities.OCLC shows these institutional holdings: Berkeley, Harvard, Fuller Theological, Delaware, Emory, and Texas at Arlington. SCARCE. CONDITION: Creasing to lower corner, extending throughout the book. Small stain to lower wrapper. Internally, clean, bright, and unmarked. Very Good or better.

n.p.: Earthsign Press, n.d. but ca. late 1970s. First Edition. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 3/8 inches; 210 x 135 mm), [36] pages, in stapled, photo-illustrated wrappers (soft cover).BOLDLY SIGNED by Julia Vinograd on the front free end paper. A collection of poems by the Berkeley street poet (1943-2018). Many of the verses are extremely short: "Everybody / is an oppressed minority." (What It All Comes Down To), while there are longer meditations on life, such as "I Remember When I Was Human.""In approximately 50 poetry books one titled 'Eye Contact Is a Confession' Vinograd channeled her thoughts and observations into verse. Or as she put it in a July 2017 profile on the Quirky Berkeley website: 'Poems walked by and I wrote them.'" (Online obituary from the East Bay Times.)OCLC shows only a handful of institutional holdings: Berkeley, California State Long Beach, Fuller Theological, Yale, and Harvard. SCARCE. CONDITION: Light wear and sunning to wrapper extremities. Internally, clean and unmarked. Very Good… Read More

Tuscaloosa, Alabama: University of Alabama Press, 2002. First Edition, First Printing. Essays on the influence of popular culture on Tennessee Williams (and vice versa); his relationship to Hollywood; his struggles with censorship and depictions of gender and sexuality, etc. Octavo, 251 pages. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. An attractive copy.

Voznesensky, Andrei. Antiworlds and The Fifth Ace. New York: Basic Books, Inc., 1967. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo (9 x 6 1/4 inches; 227 x 158 mm), xxiii, [1], 296 pages, in black cloth, titles to spine in pink and red, pink topstain, in an illustrated, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED by Andrei Voznesensky (1933-2010) in black marker across the title page. First edition in English of this collection of the Russian poet's work, edited by Patricia Blake and Max Hayward, with an introduction by W.H. Auden, and featuring translations by Auden, Jean Garrigue, Hayward, Stanley Kunitz, Stanley Moss, William Jay Smith, and Richard Wilbur. This is a bilingual edition, with the poems in Russian and English. Two pieces of ephemera are laid in: a card announcing a reading by Voznesensky at the Poetry Center of the 92nd Street YM-YWHA, dated November 14 (no year given) and inscribed by Voznesensky "For Riva." The other is a folded program for an appearance by Voznesensky at another reading, also at the… Read More

[Chicago?]: Ceskoslovenská národní rada v Americe [Czechoslovak National Council of America], 1956.
A scarce satirical guidebook to Prague written by a Czech-American author who lived in Czechoslovakia, highlighting the poor conditions under Communist rule. Want to know why the hotels are so expensive? (Translating from the Czech): You didn't realize what was included in the room price: free-of-charge eavesdropping on your phone, maybe even a secret camera, opening your mail without damaging the envelope and recording it in the police register, photographing your more important correspondence. Want to look around? Over here is the prison, over there is secret police headquarters, this is where Jan Masaryk was pushed out of a window to his death... Theres plenty more in this vein (text entirely in Czech). The author, Vlasta Vrázová (1900-1989), directed American relief work in Czechoslovakia in the years following World War II. In 1949, the Communist government held her for a week on espionage… Read More