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Harcourt Brace, NY [Modern Classics], 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/ Fine "Lewis's scathing satire of middle-class America: Babbitt explores the social pressures of conformity and materialism... the story of George Babbitt, a middle-aged family man who becomes disillusioned with both conformity and his belated attempts at rebellion. Set in the fictional Midwestern town of Zenith, Babbitt offers a powerful critique of the American Dream and all it entails." [Pub. Info] The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 was awarded to Sinclair Lewis "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters". [Nobel prize website] Owner name. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST Thus.

Farrar Straus & Giroux, NY , 1992. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Andy Warhol's 'Brillo Box' of 1964 constituted a radical attack on the traditional definition of artwork and, in Danto's view, brought the history of Western art to a close. 'Beyond the Brillo Box' considers the aftermath and the consequences of Warhol's work on three levels. Danto first discusses what he calls the master narrative of Western art... He then takes up the current, post-historical period, which began with Warhol and the collision of 'high' and 'low' art... Finally, Danto addresses the philosophical idea of the master narrative from Plato to Wittgenstein and beyond..." [Dust Jacket] Danto won the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. There is a protective mylar cover. STATED 1ST EDITION

Cambridge University Press, UK, 1992. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "At the time of its 'discovery', the American continent was identified as the Fourth World of our planet. Today the term has been taken up again by its 'Indian' or native peoples to describe their own world - both its threatened present condition and its political history, which stretches back thousands of years before Columbus. Using indigenous sources as primary sources, 'Book of the Fourth World' explores the landscapes and chronologies of this world as they have been seen and interpreted from the inside. Mapping the continent by this literary means, it pays particular attention to the well-documented traditions of the Nahuatl (Aztec) and Maya to the north of the isthmus, and of the Quechua-speaking Inca to the South... it offers detailed analyses of texts ranging far back into the centuries of civilized life that antedated Columbus." [Pub. Info] 478 pages, 18 color plates; 68 figures (illuatrations); 6 maps and 5 tables.] Detailed… Read More

Sleepy Hollow Press, NY, 1978. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists, A Medley was written by Washington Irving in 1821, and published in 1822. This episodic novel was originally published under his pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. As this is a location-based series of character sketches, there are a number of individual plots. The tales centre on the occupants of an English manor (based on Aston Hall, near Birmingham, England, which was occupied by members of the Bracebridge family and which Irving visited." [Pub. Info] 1ST THUS

Black Dog & Leventhal, New York, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. ntroductory interview with Frank O Gehry, noted American architect. Essays on bridges and nearly 50 profiles of bridges around the world. Impressive text and pictures. List of the 100 longest bridges in the world. Large format book, 1ST EDITION, LATER PRINTING

W W Norton, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "The Broken Tower' reads with all the drama of a psychological novel and the inexorable force of a Greek tragedy. Few poets have lived as extraordinary and fascinating a life as Hart Crane, the American poet who made his meteoric rise in the late 1920s and then as suddenly flamed out, killing himself at the age of thirty-two and thus turning his life and poetry into the stuff of myth. [Pub. Info] ""Extremely welcome . . . written with verve and intelligence . . . [one] of the best companions to the complexities and highs of Crane's slim oeuvre. [Boston Book Review] Illustrations and photographs Definitive biography.