Ventura, California: ARTLIFE, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 120 copies. The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Issue and final publication of ARTLIFE (or ART/LIFE), which billed itself as the longest continually published artists’ periodical of the Twentieth... More about ARTLIFE: Volume 25, Number 11 – Issue No. 276
New York: Schocken Books, 1976. Trade paperback. Fifth printing. Photographic study of the religious absorption of Jewish life in Poland, with an introductory essay by Abraham Joshua Heschel. Signed by Vishniac on the title page... More about POLISH JEWS: A Pictorial Record
Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. An authoritative guide to the burgeoning Etruscan scholarship. More than 300 photographs and maps. Tall octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A near fine copy... More about ETRUSCAN Life and Afterlife: A Handbook of Etruscan Studies
London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2002. Trade paperback. Square quarto. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A fine copy - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap. More about ARTHUR RACKHAM
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited to 750 copies. "The title work is a dramatic poem of considerable length in blank verse, having as its basis a free interpretation of the... More about THE WORLD THAT GOD DESTROYED AND OTHER POEMS
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. The first American edition. A stunning abecedary by the Ukranian-born French artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, founded the Orphism art movement... More about ALPHABET
New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Presents a collection of Buddhist paintings, textiles, and manuscripts discovered in 1900 in a cave at Dunhuang in western China. Edited by Anne Farrer, with contributions... More about CAVES OF THE THOUSAND BUDDHAS: Chinese art from the Silk Route
New York: Hastings House, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. "A distinguished Chinese family presents the philosophy and history of Chinese cuisine in this guide to planning, preparing and serving classic and regional dishes for the modern... More about CHINESE GASTRONOMY
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. A volume in the Images of Asia series. Small octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. Near fine. More about ACEH: Art and Culture
Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. A volume in the Images of Asia series. Small octavo. Original glossy boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy. More about CHINESE PAPER OFFERINGS
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970. Hardcover. Third printing. "This is a group of popular stories from Eastern and Western literatures, linked to one another by their common concern for the problem of man's eternal conflict... More about THE KING AND THE CORPSE: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 1997. Hardcover. "...a unique marriage of philosophical investigation and artistic endeavor that produced finely wrought lyrical expressions of Brezina's aesthetic and mystical beliefs." Small octavo. Very light bumping to the corners... More about HIDDEN HISTORY: Translated from the Czech by Carleton Bulkin
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. "At Bonampak, in Chiapas, Mexico, are the finest Classic Maya wall paintings known today - the last major decorative programs of the Maya realm. Although the murals... More about THE MURALS OF BONAMPAK
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover. The first authorized American edition, published shortly after the poet's death. Blunt (1840-1922) is best known for his elegant erotic verse and his expression of anti-imperialism... More about POEMS
London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Clifford Odets based his screenplay for the 1936 American film starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll on this novel, which was unpublished at the time... More about THE GENERAL DIED AT DAWN
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. The author's first book. Born in Evansville, Wisconsin, Calkins (1895-1968) graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1918 and worked in a Milwaukee artillery shell packing... More about POEMS
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Published shortly after the Teasdale's suicide, this poignant collection includes her final poem: "There Will Be Rest". Frontispiece portrait by Marcel Maurel, with a tipped-in facsimile... More about STRANGE VICTORY
Valencia, California: The Newhall Land and Farming Company, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition thus, an update and expansion of her earlier work, The Newhall Ranch (1958). Incorporated on the combined land holdings of railroad... More about A CALIFORNIA LEGEND: The Newhall Land and Farming Company
London: Chapman and Hall, 1918. First Edition. Hardcover. A selection of verse written before September 1914. Shortly thereafter, Armstrong (1882-1974) volunteered with the British Army and served in France as a Private in the Artists'... More about THIRTY NEW POEMS
New York: Creative Age Press, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Born Oscar Kaplan in Letychiv, Ukraine, Williams (1900-64) earned the Yale Younger Poets Prize with his first book, Golden Darkness (1921). Several more volumes followed; however... More about THAT'S ALL THAT MATTERS
Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. The poet's first book, inscribed and dated in the year of publication by Cassity on the half-title: "For Mr. + Mrs. Morton, this collection of stills... More about WATCHBOY, WHAT OF THE NIGHT?
Santa Barbara, California: Black Sparrow Press, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. This is #11 of 200 copies signed by the poet. Octavo. Original printed paper-covered boards over a brown cloth spine, with a printed paper spine... More about GOAT DANCES
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. "...explores the essential continuities of the real and unreal through a close examination of Indian myths." Frontispiece, with 16 plates and 8 figures... More about DREAMS, ILLUSION AND OTHER REALITIES
Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University, 2009. First Edition. Trade paperback. Signed by Cassarino on the title page. Octavo. Original paper wrappers. A fine copy. More about ZERO AT THE BONE
New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. The classic Disney version of Bambi told in story form and illustrated with studio artwork from the original 1942 production, along with a lengthy discussion... More about Walt Disney's BAMBI: The Story and the Film