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NASA, Manned Space Center, 1970, red-numbered S-70-46645 on KODAK paper (watermark of "A KODAK PAPER", only manufactured until the early 1970s). The color image is of a cross-section of the rock sample 12017 collected during the Apollo 12 mission. Condition is Excellent with only slight curl at the right edge of the paper, and hint of wear at bottom corners. Sample 12017 is Pigeonite Basalt which has a complex gardening history on the lunar surface, with a glass splash (from meteorite impact) of c. 9000 years and a crystallization age of c. 3.2 billion years ago, roughly 500 million years later than the Apollo 11 basalts. Basalts are dark-colored rocks solidified from molten lava. They are a common type of volcanic rock on Earth and are found in places such as Hawai'i. Apollo 12 (November 14 – 24, 1969) was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Commander Charles… Read More

Light Work, Syracuse NY, 1978, Signed by Author, Limited Edition #7 of 400 in wraps. Chapbook (stapled) with paper dust jacket, pp. 23, 21 x 15 cm, book has pictorial cover, inside gray wraps with bold blue titling, 22 photographs of Fielding Dawson's collages. In Fine condition. From an exhibition at Light Work, a non-profit photographic center engaged in the visual arts. Tom Bryan was exhibition curator and catalog editor, Phil Block exhibition and catalog concept, Cecil Dorman design and production. Fielding Dawson (1930-2002) was an important member of both the Beat Generation and of the Black Mountain Poets.

Light Work, Syracuse NY, 1978, Signed by Author, Limited Edition #5 of 400 in wraps. Chapbook (stapled) with paper dust jacket, pp. 23, 21 x 15 cm, book has pictorial cover, inside gray wraps with bold blue titling, 22 photographs of Fielding Dawson's collages. In Fine condition. From an exhibition at Light Work, a non-profit photographic center engaged in the visual arts. Tom Bryan was exhibition curator and catalog editor, Phil Block exhibition and catalog concept, Cecil Dorman design and production. Fielding Dawson (1930-2002) was an important member of both the Beat Generation and of the Black Mountain Poets.

Harper & Row, New York, 1st Edition, 1977. Hardcover with dust jacket, 22 x 15 x 3 cm, pp. 297, black cloth boards with grey cloth overlay, publisher's 1817 device on upper board, jacket design by Wendell Minor. Near Fine in Good DJ. Small stain on top edge, faint lean to spine, jacket has small closed tear (front top) and water stain on rear. Richard Claxton Gregory is now recognized for the powerful Afrian American voice he was, at the forefront of political activism in the 1960s, when he protested the Vietnam War and racial injustice.

Riverhead Books, New York, 1st Edition, 7th Printing, 2021, SIGNED by Patricia Lockwood is blue ink on the TITLE PAGE. Small format hardcover with dust jacket, 210 numbered pages, 21 x 14 cm, blue paper over yellow boards, silver titling on spine, jacket has "Eischer" ring in foreground over sunset scene. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. "One of the most incisive observers of the spectacle of digital discourse . . . Lockwood is a sharp and often funny social critic" (Courtesy Wall Street ournal). Named a Best Book of 2021 by The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, NPR, TIME, Vulture, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, PopSugar, Harper's Bazaar, LitHub and Publishers Weekly. Now everyone is talking about Savannah author Patricia Lockwood after Booker Prize recognition.

Melville House, Brooklyn NY, 1st Edition, 1st Printing 2021 SIGNED by Richard O'Rawe on a tipped-in page. Hardcover with dust jacket, 262 numbered pages, 24 by 16 cm, red boards with silver titling on spine, jacket features vault illustration over gray background with red lettering. NEW (unread) book. Condition is Fine in Fine, packed securely in a sturdy (200# burst test) box. A fast-paced, suspenseful thriller based on one of the biggest (and still unsolved) bank-robberies in history. O'Rawe is a former IRA operative who did time for bank robbery and later did time in Long Kesh for political activity.

Syracuse University, Syracuse, 1970, staple-bound pamphlet, pp. 16, 9 x 6 inch, Johnston's illustrations are reproduced on cover and within book ( 5 full page, 2 within text), and (printed) handwritten additions to the catalogue. The book is in very good condition with light pencil tick marks the only fault. David Claypoole Johnston (25 March 1799 – 8 November 1865) was a populat antebellum American cartoonist, print-maker, painter, and actor from Boston, Massachusetts. He was the first American to master all the various graphic arts processes of lithography, etching, metal plate engraving, and wood engraving. This is an essential work for serious students of American comic artists.