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The Moment and Other Essays
by Virginia Woolf
A selection of twenty-nine essays. "[Woolf's] essays...are lighter and easier than her fiction, and they exude information and pleasure.... Everything she writes about novelists, like everything she writes about women, is fascinating.... Her well-stocked, academic, masculine mind is the ideal flint for the steel of her uncanny intuitions to strike on" (Cyril Connolly, New Yorker). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.
World Geographic Atlas A Composite Of Man's Environment Privately Printed For Container Corporation Of America, 1953 Edited And Designed By Herbert Bayer
by Herbert For Container Corp America Bayer
Metal Unto Art
by William I, Text; J F Bartholomew, Type and Presswork; Herbert Ridelstein, Cover Art Garren
Kurt Kranz Bauhaus and Today Exhibition Dates
by John David Farmer, Theodore Heinrich, Alfred Moir, Stephen Reichard, George Rickey and Eduard Sekler Texts By Max Bense
Shared Visions Native American Painters and Sculptors In the Twentieth Century
by Margaret Archuleta and Dr Rennard Strickland
Modernism Books & Ephemera
L. Sanz, Fabricant de Meubles. Tarif applicable a dater du 10 Fevrier 1938 pour marchandises frises a l'usine
by Sanz, L
Paris: the maker, 1938. Eight sepia rotogravues showing bedroom and diningroom ensembles, and six types of chair (on a singleton plate). Graphics measure 9x11 inches on 10x12.5 inch alkaline leaves; a cover letter (carbon copy) identifies each piece and price. These descriptions (and a pencilled note reading "8 planches") confirm the packet to be complete as sent (remnant of packaging accompanies). Horrid semi-modernist stuff. Item touting them is in all respects very good.
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SGD 34.47
Chinese Illustration
by Wood, Frances
London: The British Library, 1985. Paperback. 80p., profuse b&w and color exhibit photography, well-captioned, softbound in 9x7 inch color wraps. Slightest external signs of handling & age, entirely clean interior, a nice crisp copy.
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SGD 13.79
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...
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SGD 41.36
ORLANDO A BIOGRAPHY
by WOOLF, Virginia
Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1928. Near fine./Rare, good.. Octavo. Orange cloth, lettered in gilt. 300pp. 8 ⅝ x 5½ in. White dust jacket printed in black. The jacket reproduces an unidentified portrait from the Worthing Art Gallery. Frontispiece and seven black and white photographic plates. Index. Spine lightly sunned, else a near fine copy in a dusty dust jacket with a triangular piece missing from the lower edge where it is creased; at...
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SGD 2,360.33
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 27.57
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 20.68
Untold Story; A Short Narrative History of Our Time
by Sawyer, Paul Winslow
Los Angeles: Fidelity Educational Press, 2010. Paperback. 431p., photo section on glazed inserted paperstock, softbound first edition in 8.5x6 inch glossy black wraps, decorated with characters in Chinese, in which Sawyer became fluent. Mildest edgewear (superficial abrasion) else entirely sound, clean and unmarked. A sort of Howard Zinn approach (one of Sawyer's outstanding profs) to brutal global interference as practiced by Uncle Sam at his worst.
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SGD 34.47
Marx, Freud, and the critique of everyday life: toward a permanent cultural revolution
by Brown, Bruce
New York: Monthly Review Press, 1974. Paperback. 202p., softbound in 8x5.5 inch decorated wraps, exterior handling wear with a light vertical crease, else sound, and quite clean and free of markings. A good copy.
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SGD 16.54
The Black Swan of Trespass: The Emergence of Modernist Painting in Australia to 1944
by McQueen, Humphrey
Sydney: Alternative Publishing Cooperative, 1979. Hardcover. vii, 178p., cloth-covered boards, 7.5x10 inches, illus., one corner bumped, sticker shadow on free front endpaper, else very good first edition in an unclipped and lightly edgeworn dj with a 1.25 inch closed tear on the front panel.
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SGD 41.36
Weaving a Persian Heartbeat - A Photo Story of Orley Shabahang Persian Carpet Weaving. Photographs by Ethan S. Orley in Association with Vignelli Associates
by Orley, Geoffrey and Bahram Shabahang
New York: Orley Shabahang, 2009. Paperback. Unpaginated, about seventy pages, fullsize captioned color and b&w photos throughout on fine alkaline paperstock, find a rear pocket containing five 9x6 inch color design cards (as called for; mostly modernist & abstract). Item is an 8.5x11 inch oblong softbound in fine shape: perfectly sound, clean and unmarked. These rug entrepreneurs found five tiny rural villages snug between rice paddies and a fearsome mountain range (see doublespread photo) where the...
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SGD 48.25
Pittura Scultura Futuriste (Dimanismo Plastico) Con 51 riproduzioni. Quadri sculture di Boccioni - Carra - Russolo - Balla - Severini - Soffici
by BOCCIONI (Futurista)
Milano: Edizioni Futuriste di "Poesia, 1914. First Edition. Softcover. Good (defective). Square octavo, 448pp. (lacking pp. 449-469). A defective copy, lacking the frontispiece and the last 20pp., and rebound in period-style plain wraps with the original spine laid down. Most pages unopened; a clean example. Housed in a custom-made blue cloth clamshell box, titled in red. All of these repairs were done at some expense, seemingly by someone who had not realized that the book was missing some pages. A...
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SGD 275.74
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 517.01
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 55.15
The Memory of Trade; Modernity's Entanglements on an Eastern Indonesian Island
by Spyer, Patricia
Durham: Duke University Press, 2000. Paperback. xxiv, 354p., illustrated with b&w snapshot photography and line maps, a big softbound (9x6 inches) in colorphoto wraps.
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SGD 16.54
Dream visions and other selected stories
by Cankar, Ivan; Anton Druzina, trans
Willoughby Hills, OH: Slovenian Research Center of America, Inc, 1982. Hardcover. xii, 203p., illustrated boards, no dust jacket; illustrations throughout, in very good condition.
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SGD 62.04
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 34.47
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 34.47
Exhibition of Rumanian Tapestry
Bucharest: Arta Grafica, 1965. Paperback. Unpaginated, about fifty pages of color and b&w exhibit photography, with captioned reproductions recto-only, facing blank versos. Softbound in 7.5-inch-square color wraps. Fore margins affected by stain or age (front cover) and a heavy crease (back cover), otherwise good copy.
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SGD 16.54
Modern Religious Movements in India
by Farquhar, J.N
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Hardcover. xvi, 471p., illustrated with a number of b&w photographs, mostly portraits, second printing of the first issue, hardbound in dark blue cloth boards gilt. Pretty good condition: spine panel bears a faint splash stain, casing slightly edgeworn, an otherwise impressive book, sound and square and cleanly within. Author Farquhar is a Christian evangelist with a deep interest in the Hinduism (&c) of this era.
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SGD 23.44
Wiener Kunst Auktionen. 16 Kunstauktion, 30 Sept.1997: Gemalde. Bilder des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts
Vienna: Wiener Kunst Auktionen, 1997. Unpaginated, displays items 1-215 from a very large, multi-day, multi-catagory auction. Softbound, 11.5x8.5 inch glossy (super-glossy!) white wraps; slightest edgewear, no markings, a very good copy.
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SGD 20.68
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 20.68
Bureaucracy and Rural Development in Malaysia; A Study of Complex Organizations in Stimulating Economic Development in New States
by Ness, Gayl D
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967. xvi, 257p., hardbound in 9x6 inch yellowgreen cloth boards and a remnant dust jacket. The book itself is sound, clean and free of any markings; its jacket has many large chips from margins, though no texts are affected.
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SGD 20.68
Art Here; Buvelot to Nolan
by Turnbull, Clive
Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press, 1947. Paperback. Find text through p.38, followed by eight full page b&w plates, a small softbound item in 8.5x5.5 inch printed wraps (cardstock covers with a wraparound jacket). Worn copy, wraps have short splits at top and tail of spine, mild dust-soil and sunning. Textblock has a slightly bumped corner-tip, graphics unaffected. A good (good-only) copy. Author Turnbull argues that general Australian mediocrity has let a few flowers bloom. "The National Gallery in...
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SGD 16.54
The Politics of Muslim Cultural Reform: Jadidism in Central Asia
by Khalid, Adeeb
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Paperback. xx+335p., trade paperback, maps & tables, very good. Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies, 27.
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SGD 16.54
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 27.57
