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New York City, NY: Grove Press, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover 4to with orange cloth boards and gilt spine lettering in an illustrated dust jacket, 99 pp. Very good, slight bump to top right corner; otherwise, strong sound binding in a clean state with no interior markings, maintained bright plates and text blocks./Very good jacket, light chipping and tears to perimeter aspects, no large tears or missing sections, some minor fading/discoloration, overall very good.. Jacket Design by Roy Kuhlman. Published a year before Julius Nyere's anti-colonial imperative to liberate Tanganyika as a sovereign land in the formation of Tanganyika African National Union in 1954, this impressive collection of colored plates and history points to the "rites of initiation into a secret society...show a finely developed feeling for linear form and for symmetry, and an elaborate use of a few natural paints." Authored by government anthropologist H. Cory. very early Grove title published by Barney Rosset, who acquired…
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Wall-Paintings by Snakecharmers in Tanganyika
by H. Cory
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War of Time
by Alejo Carpenter
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970. First American edition. Hardcover, [octavo], blue cloth boards, gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 179 pp. Very good book; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, edge wear with close tears. Jacket by Muriel Nasser. Translated from the Spanish by Frances Partridge.
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The Watchmaker of Dien Bien Phu
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Hanoi: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1974. Signature-bound, octavo, pictorial wraps, 280 pp. Very good book, spine creased, wraps creased, rear wraps soiled, edge wear. A Collection of Vietnamese Short Stories (1945-1964) with contributions from Kim Lan, Nam Cao, Ho Phuong, To Hoai, Nguyen The Phuong, Huu Mai, Bui Hien, Xuan Sach, Vu Thi Thuong, Bui Duc Ai, Nguyen Kien, Ma Van Khang, Chu Van.
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Watermark : A Novella
by Laura Chester
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Berkeley, CA: The Figures, 1978. Perfect-bound, octavo, illustrated wraps, 135 pp. Very good condition. The the library of New York School poet, publisher and librettist, Kenward Elmslie. Inscribed on half-title: "For Kenward may we keep to the keen and sorrows- Love, Laura." A novella by the poet and co-publisher of small press The Figures.
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Ways of Curating
by Hans Ulrich Oberst
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New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover, black boards with silver lettering to spine. 181 pp. Near Fine/Near Fine jacket. Jacket Design by Devin Washburn.
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Ways of Sunlight
by Samuel Selvon
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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1957. First American edition. Hardcover, [octavo], black cloth boards, embossed gilt spine titles, pictorial dust jacket, 188 pp. Very good book, front free end paper owner inscription; very good dust jacket, spine ends chipped, edges and corners worn with few close tears.. Jacket design by Judith Spero.
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We Shot The War: Overseas Weekly in Vietnam
by Lisa Nguyen (Editor)
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- 9780817921644 / 0817921648
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Stanford: Hoover Institution Press. Hardcover, quarto, black boards with pictorial dust jacket. Near fine, in shrink wrap/Near fine.
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Werke 1946-1976: Musik - Fluxus - Video
by Nam June Paik
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Koln, Germany: Kolnischer Kunstverein, 1977. Perfect-bound octavo in pictorial wraps. 168pp. Very Good, wraps edge worn, soiled, toned; binding creased but sound and square.. Signed copy of this German-language book (although his original text left in English when reproduced) showcasing the first three decades of work from the multi-disciplinary conceptual artist, best-known and most-closely associated with the Fluxus movement. Inscribed "Happy Ring" in red marker to cover by Paik, with a hand-drawn arrow arcing over his own image and signed below.
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What Are Winds What Are Waters
by Hilda Morley
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Palo Alto, CA: The Matrix Press, 1983. Signature-bound, [octavo] with glossy = white papers wraps in glossy pictorial dust wrappers, 62 pp. Very good, light wear and soiling to jacket. Preface by Denise Levertov and signed by the author with half-title page inscription.
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What is Theosophy
by Charles J. Ryan
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San Diego, California: Point Loma Publications, Inc, 1975. Softcover octavo in yellow paper illustrated wrappers, 85 pp. Very good, 1 cm crease to middle top of spine, light soiling to wrappers, very light wear to paper edges and corners, otherwise very nice..
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When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks
by Austin Clarke
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Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1973. First edition. Hardcover, [octavo], yellow cloth boards, black spine titles, illustrated dust jacket, 243 pp. Very good book; good dust jacket, spine ends chipped with tears, cover edges creased with close tears and wear, flap seams rubbed and worn. Jacket design by John Renfer.
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When Home Won't Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art
by Ruth Erickson and Eva Respini
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- 9780300247480 / 0300247486
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Boston: Institute of Contemport Art, 2019. Hardcover, folio, yellow cloth boards with pictorial dust jacket, 240 pp. Very good/Very good jacket. Jacket design by Beverly Joel.
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When Texas Prison Scams Religion: Texas Board of Criminal Justice's 25-Year Legacy of Cover Ups A Dissertation on Trust & Evangelical Naivete
by Michael G. Maness
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- 9781728377544 / 1728377544
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Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2023. Second edition. Perfect-bound in glossy pictorial wraps, 8vo, 818 pp. Near fine.
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When They Came
by Don Webb
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- 9780976466017 / 0976466015
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Upper Montclair, NJ: Temporary Culture, 2006. Limited to 515 copies, one of 500 unsigned copies. Smythe sewn with glossy pictorial wraps, 222 pp. Near Fine.
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...When Words Sing
by R. Murray Schafer
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Scarborough, Ontario / New York: Berandol Music / Associated Music, 1970. Saddle-stapled, [octavo] with glossy illustrated wraps, 50 pp. Very good.
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Whence All But He Had Fled
by L.J. Davis
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New York: Viking, 1968. FIrst Edition. Hardcover [octavo] in illustrated dust jacket. Gray boards backed with brown cloth, gilt lettering stamped to spine. 247 pp. Very Good in a Very Good jacket.. Jacket design by Abner Graboff. Debut novel from L.P. Davis about a young Boise transplant to the New York City of the late 60s, the previously-underknown author whose star has recently risen thanks to the critical attention of Jonathan Lethem and a reissue of his follow-up novel A Meaningful Life on New York Review of Books.
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The Whispered
by Pagani, Matina
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Fendi, 2013. Soft cover. Near Fine. Faint wear to wrap, tight binding, clean square text block, and bright leaves free of soiling or creasing. Housed in original cardboard slip copver. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.
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White Country
by Peter Schjeldahl
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New York: Corinth Books, 1968. Signature-bound in pictorial wraps, 8-1/8 x 6 in. 48pp. Light edge wear, moderate rubbing to wraps. Very good or better.. Cover by George Schneeman. Inscribed to Kewnard Elmslie by Schjeldahl on title page: "To a peach of a guy (Kenward!) Love, Peter July 28, 1968". Schjeldahl's first book of poetry.
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The White Man's Future in Black Africa
by Thomas Patrick Melady
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New York: Macfadden, 1962. First edition. Hardcover in white boards and black lettering, 4 1/2" x 7 3/8", no dust jacket, 208 pp. Very good, lightly soiled boards, interior pages have become slightly brittle.
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
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New York: Viking Penguin Inc, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover octavo, silver stamped titling to quarter white cloth over gray boards, 326 pp. Near Fine, foxing to top of text block, toning to edges of boards, trace soiling, trifle edgeworn. Sound binding and bright, clean leaves./Near Fine unclipped jacket, trifle toned and edgeworn, else fine.. Jacket Design by Neil Stuart. Beautiful First Edition of DeLillo's most enduring and best known novel, widely considered to be his masterpiece.
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