Condition: very_good. Roberto Appiani; Michael Bainbridge; Modris Baum; Dan Behnke; Joe Budd; Thomas Calligaro; Jeff Scovill; William B. Simmons; Joachim Zang; Gary Zito; Berthold Ottens; Ed Raines; Stefan Weiss; Herwig Pelckmans; George F. Kunz; Gilla Simon; John Smolski (illustrator). Item may have minor cosmetic defects marks, wears, cuts, bends, crushes on the cover, spine, pages or dust cover. Shrink wrap, dust covers, or boxed set case may be missing. Item may contain remainder marks on outside edges, which should be noted in Product Details. Item may be missing bundled media.
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Roberto Appiani; Michael Bainbridge; Modris Baum; Dan Behnke; Joe Budd; Thomas Calligaro; Jeff Scovill; William B. Simmons; Joachim Zang; Gary Zito; Berthold Ottens; Ed Raines; Stefan Weiss; Herwig Pelckmans; George F. Kunz; Gilla Simon; John Smolski (illustrator). Used, minor damage to upper right corner, does not inhibit quality of the pages. Great condition otherwise. Book is filled with information on the subject of Garnet and the related minerals that it is found with in relation to its locality. Stunningly beautiful photographs of Garnet in its crystalline forms and garnets prized for their unique formations and famous attributions through history.
Published by Poetry, Chicago, Illinois, 1957
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
Softcover. First Edition. Octavo, 218 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Wraps have mild general bending wear and moderate general soiling and moderate age-toning along spine. Textblock has mild scuffing and moderate age-toning, faint brown liquid stain along fore edge; mild tearing and moderate adhesive staining along rear cover hinge. Signed by John Ashbery on pages 163 and 165. Shelved Room C. 1398493. Special Collections.
Published by The Living Age Company, Boston, M.A., 1926
Seller: Black's Fine Books & Manuscripts, Toronto, ON, Canada
First Edition
Wrappers. First Edition, First Printing. pp. [1], 2-77. Octavo., measuring 16.5 x 24cm. Twice-stapled wrappers. A single issue of the venerable magazine in its original bright-orange covers. This issue comprises a variety of articles by Roger Labonne, F. de Garando, Leopold Weiss [Muhammad Asad], Luciano Magrini, Robert Graves, Charles Bonnefon, Gustav Cassel, Arthur Martens, Pedro Prado, Dudley Carew (who offers a critique of Virginia Woolf "Impressions of an Impressionist"), Desmond McCarthy, Frederic Lefevre, Charles Petrie, alongside several other articles and poems, together with some period advertisments. Light wear along the edges, else, bright, unmarked, and tightly-bound. The Living Age was a long-running and intellectually driven periodical (especially so its 1920s - 30's issues) which offered readers a rich cross-section of early 20th-century thought. Notable for its curated selections of travel writing, literary criticism, political commentary, and poetry drawn from major European and American journals, it is particularly valued for its insight into interwar cultural discourse and transatlantic intellectual currents.
Hardcover. Red buckram, gilt letters on spine and front cover; approx. 400 pp. charts, 1 BW illus. of author. Weiss served as the executive director of the Library Binding Institute from 1952-1982. This memoir offers a history of the organization as well. A rare account. WARMLY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the page with his portrait on it. VG (WARMLY INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the dedicated page.).