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Softcover. Sound binding. Pages clean and bright. Wrappers have light handling wear. Contents: Articles, definitive and otherwise. Barber, From transformation to desire: art and worship after Byzantine iconoclasm. Openshaw. Weapons in the daily battle: images of the conquest of evil in the early medieval Psalter. Wolfthal, "A hue and a cry": medieval rape imagery and its transformation. Mandel, Felix culpa and Felix Roma: on the program of the sixtine staircase at the Vatican. Bell, Zaccolini's theory of color perspective. Mann, The Annunciation chapel in the Quirinal Palace, Rome: Paul V, Guido Reni, and the Virgin Mary. Chapman, Persona and myth in Houbraken's life of Jan Steen. Stemmler, The physiognomical portraits of Johann Caspar Lavater. Reviews. Abstracts of articles. 11.5" tall; 191 pages. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. NOZOMI. The Written Part. No Place: By the Author, 1969. 8vo. Typed, mimeographed sheets, folded and stapled. 'For Ruth Witt-Diamant' inscribed on front endpaper. Typed letter, signed by the poet to Witt-Diamant regarding her 27th birthday, and preparations to depart (Japan? ) for (San Francisco State University? ) and ' Do you have a dog (Ruth) ? I wish I can have a dog. If I can keep a dog, I will call him Jeremiah'. NOZOMI. O Wonder! No Place: By the Author, [1970]. 8vo. Typed, mimeographed sheets, folded and stapled. Inscribed in purple pen "To Mrs. Witt-Diamant" above printed quotation front page 'Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful? ' "from Nozomi, Jan. 1970. EDWARD MYCUE: Damage Within The Community. Inscribed, with holograph letter, geeting card, and notes, to Ruth Witt-Diamant. San Francisco: Panjandrum Press, [1977]. 2nd Printing. Unpaginated; illustrated blue wrappers. Inscribed by the author: "for Ruth Witt-Diamant, with a love note and a hand full of blossom." Signed also by the author on title page. In addition: a one page h. L. S. , 1973 soliciting response on the poem A Fight for Air. Mycue states that he typed up a copy for her but the typescript is not included here. "Your very definitely lucid about your reactions: that's why I would be glad for some kind of response from you." The greeting card note, written on a folded Asian Art Museum card reproducing Monkeys by Mori Sosen, "Ruth, we really enjoyed last evening . . . Here's the poem Root Route & Range [this IS included in a 7 page mimeograph] seen earlier (in its more jack-in-the-box form) , Ed (& Richard; P. S. , also enclosed is a poem by Juliet Garfinkel, (your former student . . . ). This piece, The Children's Poem, is also present in a typed manuscript, signed by Garfinkel. The book shows slight age toning to spine. VICTOR M. DI SUVERO: Consider Now. With holograph note to Ruth Witt-Diamant. [San Francisco]: By the author, July 1983. Unpaged; 11" x 8.5; Xeroxed on one side of thick ivory stock; bound in 'report' folder with clear mylar front cover. With a holograph note on the author's letterhead to Ruth Witt-Diamant, founder of the Poetry Center at San Francisco State University. "Dear Ruth, Here is this one - I hope you like it and that we'll have a chance to chat again soon - about the Academy and all the rest of it - Best wishes, Victor," dated with home address, phone, etc. ROBERT PETERSON: Leaving Taos. N. Y. : Harper & Row, [1981]. First Edition. ISBN: 0060908750. 8vo; wrappers. Inscribed by the author "with affection & respect" to Ruth (Witt-Diamant). LAWRENCE FIXEL: The Book of Glimmers. Berkeley & London: Cloud Marauder Press; Menard Press, [1979]. 1st Edition. 53 pp. ; 8vo; white wrappers. Inscribed "for Ruth [Witt-Diamant], with love, Larry, February 1980." Laid in is a broadside announcement printed on card stock for "Once and Upon" A Memorial Retrospective of Paintings, Madeline Gleason; Gallery Become, One Haight Street at Market, San Francisco, 1980. DIANE MANN, ed. 58 Franciscan. [Ruth Witt-Diamants copy of the1958 Yearbook for San Francisco State University]. San Francisco: [San Francisco State University], 1958. 209 pp. ; 4to; white fabricoid with alligator illustration on front cover; black & white photos with commentary & name captions throughout; local advertising. Light soil to covers. Ruth Witt-Diamant was the founder of the Poetry Center in 1953, and a long time educator in poetics at San Francisco State University. Her ownership name is written in pen on top edge of front endpaper, with a note "see page 23", which is a two page spread featuring the Poetry Center with a photo of her seated in her office along with photos of Center activities showing Charles Olson in front of a classroom, Kenneth Rexroth, Witt- Diamant and others in discussion, and a photo of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Robert Duncan, possibly Dan Langton and one fellow we cannot identify. Laid in is a Xerox copy of an article on Ruth Witt-Diamant and the founding of the Poetry Center in West View, and an envelope with her written return address in San Francisco. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.