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Working Space

Working Space

by Stella, Frank

EAT (Original photograph of Robert Indiana's art installation for the 1964 World's Fair)

EAT (Original photograph of Robert Indiana's art installation for the 1964 World's Fair)

by Robert Indiana (artist); Eric Pullitzer (photographer)

Garden City Park, NY: N.p., 1964. Vintage photograph of Robert Indiana's 1964 art piece, "EAT," created for the 1964 New York State Pavilion for the World's Fair in Queens, New York, and displayed on the side of Philip Johnson's Theaterama. The sign was later exhibited at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, in 2009, for the exhibition "Robert Indiana and the Star of Hope." 7.25 x 9.5 inches. Discrete pinholes at the corners, else about Near Fine.
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SGD 512.14
EMILIO PETTORUTI (1892-1971).; Con un texto de Mario H. Gradowczyk. Cronología por Patricia Artundo

EMILIO PETTORUTI (1892-1971).; Con un texto de Mario H. Gradowczyk. Cronología por Patricia Artundo

by Sullivan, Edward J. y Nelly Perazzo

Buenos Aires: Asociación Amigos del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Fundación Pettoruti, La Marca editora, 2005. color port. frontis, color and b/w plates, cat., ind., bio/chron., black cloth boards, color pict. d.j. Pettoruti is considered to be a precursor to modern painting in Argentina. His work is related and is almost contemporary to that of the European movement, referring to maximums of cubism, futurismo and abstract painting. He opposed the impressionist characteristics and the prevailing... Read more about this item
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SGD 61.46
MEXICO: REVISTA MENSUAL ILUSTRADA, AÑO I, N° 2

MEXICO: REVISTA MENSUAL ILUSTRADA, AÑO I, N° 2

México, D.F.: [s.n.], 1914. (Light wear and some chipping to extremities of wrappers). b/w plates, advts., illus. wrappers. Modernist journal of early 20th century Mexico with illustrations by Saturnino Herrán, Roberto Montenegro, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and Alberto Garduño, Germán Gedovius, Angel Zárraga. No copies show in OCLC.
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SGD 409.71
MEXICO: A Play

MEXICO: A Play

by STEIN, Gertrude

Kobenhaven/Los Angeles: Green Integer, 1999. First Edition. thus. Near fine.. A play by Stein, first published in the 1922 collection GEOGRAPHY AND PLAYS. A charming little edition. Wraps. 24mo (6" by 4.25" approx). Photographic wraps. Near fine. Wraps mildly curling. Bright and clean throughout. 71pp.
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SGD 27.31
REFLECTIONS ON THE DEATH OF A PORCUPINE AND OTHER ESSAYS

REFLECTIONS ON THE DEATH OF A PORCUPINE AND OTHER ESSAYS

by LAWRENCE, D. H

Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Hessian cloth backed, gloriously marbled decorated boards. First edition, US issue, which preceded the UK edition by nine years. An unnumbered copy of the 925 copies bearing the US imprint. Fine, partially unopened, bright copy, lacking the often derelict slipcase. ROBERTS A32.
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SGD 255.39
The Bridge and the building; the art of government and the government of art

The Bridge and the building; the art of government and the government of art

by Radford, Dr, Evelyn Morris

Danville: Pradbin for the author, 1998. Paperback. unpaginated, foreword, preface, introduction, bibliography, appendix, very good second edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps.Self-published study of the Frank Lloyd Wright- designed Civic Center as affected by the building and design of the Golden Gate Bridge. Signed by the author.
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SGD 20.49
Interventions; Native American art for far-flung territories

Interventions; Native American art for far-flung territories

by Ostrowitz, Judith

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2009. Hardcover. xii, 211p., frontis, b&w photos in-text, color plate section, fine first edition in black cloth and gilt, unclipped dj.
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SGD 16.39
THE COCKTAIL PARTY A COMEDY BY [...]

THE COCKTAIL PARTY A COMEDY BY [...]

by ELIOT, T. S

London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1950. First edition. Fine./Very good.. Gilt green cloth. Fine, in lightly nicked dust jacket with short snag at top edge of rear panel.  First edition, corrected state of 29:1 - implying no precedence of issue as all copies were bound and distributed simultaneously. The first printing consisted of just short of 20,000 copies. The play was produced at the Edinburgh Festival in 1949 and repeated at Brighton later that year. A list of the original cast and the score of the... Read more about this item
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SGD 292.26
GRANITE AND RAINBOW ESSAY BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

GRANITE AND RAINBOW ESSAY BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

by WOOLF, Virginia

London: The Hogarth Press, 1958. Octavo. Sky-blue cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. 240pp. 8 ⅝ x 5 ½ in. All edges trimmed. Editorial note by Leonard Woolf. White dust jacket printed in black and sky-blue, designed by Vanessa Bell with her initials and date in the design. Slight offsetting to endpapers, edges dust-speckled, else a near fine copy in an unmarked, unclipped dust jacket with a lightly toned spine, else about fine. Formerly in the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator,... Read more about this item
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SGD 512.14
The Leathers / I C U O I / Die Leder / Les Cuirs. 2a edizione

The Leathers / I C U O I / Die Leder / Les Cuirs. 2a edizione

by Cassina

Milano: Cassina S.p.A., 1989. Pamphlet. 40p., high-end leatherwork shown in color exhibit photography on coated alkaline paperstock, softbound as a pamphlet in 12.5x9.5 inch stapled cardstock wraps. Descriptive texts in four languages. Slight abrasion to spine fold, mild crimpings and edgewear to covers, a very good copy. Find many behind the scenes photos, chairs in great variety, and a saddle or two; classic meets modern meets bank account.
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SGD 34.14
The Priest

The Priest

by William L. Sullivan

Hardcover as pictured, binding tight, boards with light shelf wear, text block clean and unmarked, your purchase helps support our small village library. s (AR)
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SGD 30.05
Ascendancy of American Painting. April 3 - June 2 1963

Ascendancy of American Painting. April 3 - June 2 1963

Columbia, SC: Columbia Museum of Art, 1963. Staplebound. 16p., illustrations, wraps. Exhibition catalog for a show intending to show the rise of U.S-American art from early- to mid-20th century, beginning with Josef Albers and concluding with Diebenkorn, Rauschenberg, and Pollock.
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SGD 34.14
LIKE A BULWARK

LIKE A BULWARK

by MOORE, Marianne

New York: Viking Press, 1957. First Edition. Very Good in a very good jacket.. First edition of this brief, later verse collection from Moore. Hardcover. 8vo. Original boards. Very good in like jacket. DJ unclipped. Rear panel toned. Tape offsetting to top and bottom of jacket near spine with matching offsetting internally. Surprisingly unobtrusive. PO name to ffep. Else clean and sound. Handsome. 32pp. with notes.
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SGD 54.63
Empire Life

Empire Life

by Albon, George

Los Angeles: Littoral Books, 1998. Paperback. 72p., softbound in 8.5x6 inch glossy decorated wraps; "The first, full-length edition of Albon's work," per back-cover text; covers yawn a bit and bear a couple of very faint small smudges, a very good copy. Titlepage is inscribed and signed (as "George") with the slogan "long live the invisible streamers!
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SGD 27.31
Wiener Kunst Auktionen. 21 Kunstauktion, 2 Dez.1998: Antiquitaten

Wiener Kunst Auktionen. 21 Kunstauktion, 2 Dez.1998: Antiquitaten

Vienna: Wiener Kunst Auktionen, 1998. Unpaginated, displays items 201-422 from a very large, multi-day, multi-catagory auction. Softbound, 11.5x8.5 inch glossy (super-glossy!) white wraps; slight edgewear, no markings, a very good copy.
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SGD 20.49
THE LADYBIRD

THE LADYBIRD

by LAWRENCE, D. H

London: Martin Secker, 1931. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Gilt cloth. Later printing of the Secker "Thin Paper" Edition. Spine slightly sunned, gilt very bright, 1934 ownership signature of poet/publisher James Laughlin, else very good.
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SGD 28.68
The Logic of Modern Physics

The Logic of Modern Physics

by Bridgman, P.W

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1954. Hardcover. A much-reprinted text, publisher Macmillan continues to find it saleable although unaltered from 1927, year of first issue. Smallish hardbound in 8.5x5.5 inch black cloth boards lettered gilt. A sound copy that has been varnished --successfully, no spills-- and thus is oddly shiny; a former owner has rubberstamped the front pastedown and autographed the front free endpaper. Other than this peculiar varnishing, good to very good: sound, square, clean, and... Read more about this item
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SGD 24.58
The Postmodern Political Condition

The Postmodern Political Condition

by Heller, Agnes, Ferenc Feher

New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. Hardcover. 167p., first edition black boards titled silver in glossy dust jacket, mild shelfwear, else clean and sound, in very good condition. "Agnes Heller was born in Budapest in 1929. A pupil and co-worker of Lukács during the 1950s, she is today one of the communist movement's most distinguished theoreticians," (dust jacket blurb).
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SGD 16.39
THE ELDER STATESMAN A PLAY BY [...]

THE ELDER STATESMAN A PLAY BY [...]

by ELIOT, T. S

New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959. First edition. Near fine./Very good.. Black cloth, gilt stamped spine. A near fine copy in a very good, only minimally rubbed, price-clipped typographic dust jacket.   First U.S. edition, first printing. Eliot's last play, drafted originally in 1955 but not completed until three years later, and first performed at the Edinburgh Festival in 1958. The cast of the original production is included at the conclusion of the play. Lord Claverton, an eminent former... Read more about this item
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SGD 73.75
The Hungarian avant garde; the eight and the activists. Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Hungarian Institute for Cultural Relations

The Hungarian avant garde; the eight and the activists. Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Hungarian Institute for Cultural Relations

by Willet, John, Julia Szabo, Krisztina Passuth, Janos Brendel, Tamas Aknai

[London]: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1980. Paperback. 127p., wraps a tad worn, slight tear on tail of spine, name of artists neatly penciled under the photographs, else good.
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SGD 20.49
D. H. LAWRENCE A FIRST STUDY

D. H. LAWRENCE A FIRST STUDY

by [LAWRENCE, D. H.]: POTTER, Stephen

London: Jonathan Cape, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Gilt cloth. Portrait frontispiece, two further portraits in text. First edition. Near fine in a somewhat dusty, price-excised dust jacket with only minimal signs of use. ROBERTS F5.
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SGD 50.53
Elements of Italy

Elements of Italy

by St Aubin de Teran, Lisa; editor

New York: Welcome Rain Publishers, 2002. vii, 230p., first American edition boards gilt in dj; a fine unblemished copy.
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SGD 16.39
Street Music," contained in THE NATIONAL REVIEW. №. 205 March 1905

Street Music," contained in THE NATIONAL REVIEW. №. 205 March 1905

by STEPHEN [WOOLF], Miss Virginia: MAXSE, L. J. [ed]

London: L. J. Maxse, 1905. Very good.. Folio. Printed wrappers. vii,192,ix-xii pp. Cracking and losses to spine with a one-inch square loss to rear panel near upper spine; bookplate of Hogarth Press and all things Bloomsbury-related collector, William Beekman affixed to verso of upper wrapper, else very good. Rare. There has been little critical attention to the representation of rhythm in Woolf's early fiction, even though it was in this period that Woolf published THE VOYAGE OUT (1915) wherein the... Read more about this item
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SGD 329.13
Cheng Zheng: Paintings. Oil Paintings. Ink Paintings

Cheng Zheng: Paintings. Oil Paintings. Ink Paintings

by Cheng Zheng (b.1955). Per Hovdenakk, introductory

Beijing: National Gallery, 1992. Paperback. 50p., ads (principally for Scandanavian Airlines), high-gloss alkaline paperstock throughout, softbound in frenchfold cardstock wraps, 10x7 inches. Find a vignette artist's photoportrait in b&w and profuse fullcolor fullpage reproductions of her splashes and squiggles. Clean, sound and unmarked; has a seller's small sticker (blank) on cover, and several leaves bear tiny smudges (none affecting graphics), a very good copy. The artist saw an Edvard Munch show in... Read more about this item
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SGD 40.97
The art of baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

The art of baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

New York: Francis M Naumann, Fine Art, LLC, 2002. Pamphlet. 25p., [i.], 7x8.75 inch pictorial wraps; in very good condition.
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SGD 102.43