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1003 pp.; 25.2 x 17.8 cm.; sewn bound; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Large-scale compendium of artists' writings edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz. Artists include Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Louise Bourgeois, Alfred H. Barr Jr., Lucio Fontana, Anselm Kiefer, Yves Klein, Ad Reinhardt, Ellsworth Kelly, Anne Truitt, Joseph Albers, Frank Stella, Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Agnes Martin, Brice Marden, Alice Neel, David Hockney, Leon Golub, Nancy Spero, Philip Guston, Francesco Clemente, Eric Fischl, Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Conner, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Ray Johnson, Edward Ruscha, Keith Haring, Barbara Kruger, Laurie Anderson, Shigeko Kubota, Christian Boltanski, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Gordon Matta-Clark, James Turrell, Eva Hesse, Richard Tuttle, Lynda Benglis, Joseph Beuys, John Cage, Allan Kaprow, Yoko Ono, Cindy Sherman, Dan Graham, Seth Siegelaub, Lawrence Weiner, Jenny Holzer, John Baldessari, Group Material and many, many others. Includes a bibliography and index. Very Good. Light rubbing of cover edges and dusting of text block edge. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.

Condition: Good. Good condition. (philosophy and aesthetics, criticism and interpretation, bibliography, discography) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Revised edition. 8vo, pp. 470. Notes and bibliography. Paper wraps. Some underlining in text, cover little soiled, o/w a VG tight copy. Essays on esthetics by many authors, including John Cage, Jose A. Arguelles, L. Moholy-Nagy, Marshall McLuhan, Merce Cunningham, Linda Nochlin, Maureen Turim.

Paperback. 375p., preface, prelude, source notes, bibliography, chronologies, index, b&w photo section, very good first US edition, first printing stated trade paperback in pictorial wraps.

Hardcover. 375p., preface, prelude, source notes, bibliography, chronologies, index, b&w photo section, red star stamp on endpaper else a very good first US edition, first printing stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped, edgeworn dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 375 pages, [16] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Age toning, top edge lightly soiled. Stated First U.S. Edition. Dust jacket, with light shelfwear, protected in a mylar cover. "Composer John Cage is often described as the most influential musician of the last half-century. He has defined - and continues to define - our whole concept of 'avant-garde', not just in music but increasingly as writer and visual artist. 'The Roaring Silence' is the first full-length biography of Cage. It documents his life in unrivalled detail, interweaving a close account of the evolution of his work with an exploration of his aesthetic, political and philosophical ideas. David Revil maintains that Cage's extraordinary productivity and versatility are best understood in the light of his inner development. His life, work and ideas have clarified, refined and reinforced one another, and thereby Cage has made himself what he is. While never assuming specialist knowledge, this book discusses all of Cage's works in depth and sets them in the context of his compositional, theoretical and personal development. Also included are the most comprehensive worklist, discography and bibliography available to date, as well as many previously unpublished photographs. The author draws judiciously on extensive library and archive material, and on exclusive interviews and conversations with Cage and many of his friends and associates. The result is a true-to-life and true-to-form appreciation of a genuine original, of interest not only to the serious researcher and the musician but to everyone interested in the cultural influences that have shaped, and are shaping 20th century thought." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Book club edition. Jacket edges rubbed with some tears. Top page ridge foxed. 1979 Hard Cover. 393 pp. Jacket art by Gary Viskupic. CONTENTS: Preface; Introduction; Spectator Sport - John D. MacDonald; Feedback - Katherine MacLean; Bettyann - Kris Neville; Dark Interlude - Frederic Brown & Mack Reynolds; What Have I Done' - Mark Clifton; DP! - Jack Vance; The Liberation of Earth - William Tenn; A Bad Day for Sales - Fritz Leiber; Saucer of Loneliness - Theodore Sturgeon; Heirs Apparent - Robert Abernathy; 5,271,009 - Alfred Bester; Short in the Chest - Margaret St. Clair; The Academy - Robert Sheckley; Nobody Bothers Gus - Algis Budrys; Happy Birthday, Dear Jesus - Frederik Pohl; A Work of Art - James Blish; The Country of the Kind - Damon Knight; The Education of Tigress McCardle - C.M. Kornbluth; The Cage - A. Bertram Chandler; The Last of the Deliverers - Poul Anderson; Adrift on the Policy Level - Chan Davis; Afterword: Love O Careless Love - Barry N. Malzberg; Selected Bibliography.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Ann Ball (Maps) (illustrator). Book Club Edition. viii, [4], 252, [2] pages. Pencil erasure residue noted on fep. Includes Author's Note, 19 chapters, bibliography and index. DJ worn. For eighteen days, the heavily outnumbered soldiers of Canada surpassed all expectations, winning lasting honor on the battlefield before being marched off to spend four and a half years in Japanese prison camps. They had endured constant air strikes, artillery barrages, vicious assaults, and hand-to-hand combat. Their heroic sacrifice was made all the more tragic when one realizes that, from the start, they were considered expendable. Based on interviews with survivors of the battle and the POW cages, this book is a powerful tale of human courage in the face of impossible odds. The Hong Kong expedition was a shameful tragedy. Nearly two thousand Canadian soldiers, poorly trained and badly equipped, were sent to help defend an outpost that Winston Churchill had already written off as expendable. After only seventeen days' fighting, the British colony collapsed on Christmas Day 1941, and the survivors spent the remainder of the war in barbarous POW camps. Over three decades later, the Hong Kong veterans had impaired physical health, recurring nightmares, and a high rate of alcoholism. For ten years, Ted Ferguson worked as a newspaper reporter, television critic, sports columnist, and magazine writer, before becoming a full-time freelance writer. He has published eight books, including the Alberta Non-Fiction Book Award winner, Desperate Siege. His book Blue Cuban Nights was published in 2006. His memoir, Back Roads, was published by NeWest in 2008. Derived from a Kirkus review: In 1941 the British had held Hong Kong for a hundred years and it was called "the Gibraltar of the Orient." Even so, Churchill and others thought it indefensible and were reluctant to "waste" first-rate troops in its defense. So the Royal Rifles of Canada and the Winnipeg Grenadiers were secretly dispatched to the colony--the worst-trained, raggedy-ass misfits bearing arms in Canada. This is the story of how these misfits sustained the siege of Hong Kong from December 8, 1941 to Christmas Day, a period of resistance nearly double that envisioned by the Japanese. From interviews with the survivors, Ferguson presents eyewitness reports of the fighting. There were 12,000 British troops holding the area, but "malaria and Hong Kong's fairyland atmosphere had softened the core of all the units," according to Major General Maltby, commander Of the Hong Kong garrison. All the garrison's big guns were trained outward to repel invasion by sea, but the 60,000-man enemy strike force descended in mobile semi-guerrilla fashion from the mainland border with China. A rumor that Chiang Kai-shek had massed 60,000 troops to bring in against the Japanese proved false. Kowloon, on the mainland, fell. The battle on Hong Kong island itself became a block-by-block British retreat--punctuated, one quiet Sunday morning, by the haunting voice of Vera Lynn singing "We'll Meet Again": a musical propaganda broadcast by the Japanese. Chinese shopowners tried to ignore the noise of battle and keep up business as usual. And despite the ferocious Canadian resistance, despite the rape, murder, and massacre that accompanied the Japanese, when the captured British were transferred from Hong Kong, "crowds gathered on Kowloon streets, jeering, spitting, and throwing rocks at the 'foreign devils' who had risked their lives defending them." Some memorably ghastly highpoints, but mostly a straightforward account, steadily interesting and ironic.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. xii, 70 pages. Paperback: H 27.75cm x L 21.5cm. White glossy paper covers tanning on back cover and front cover near spine as may be seen in the images provided. All pages clean without markings, notations or folds. Binding is firm. With Lenders to the Exhibition, Foreword by Abram Lerner, Introduction by Daniel P. Moynihan, Index of Subjects, Biographical Note, Bibliography, and Public Collections. Catalog of the Exhibition (pages 1-66) features a diverse collection of David Levine's b/w caricatures of iconic historic, artistic, and cultural figures including Rembrandt, Honore Daumier, Auguste Rodin, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, Edgar Degas, David Levine (self-portrait), Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Humphrey Bogart, W.C. Fields, Liza Minelli, Marlon Brando, Charles Chaplin (Charlie Chaplin), Walt Disney, John Cage, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Mahler, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, Max Beerbohm, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Thomas Mann, James Joyce, Albert Camus, Ernest Hemingway, etc. Published to accompany an exhibit held at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden from March 4 to June 6, 1976 and thereafter touring under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Exhibition invitation laid in. See images provided.

Hardcover first edition - First UK printing. An unusual book of over a century of American literary history - "Each chapter of this inventive consideration of American culture evokes an actual meeting between two historical figures. In 1854, Henry James, as a boy, goes with his father to have a daguerreotype made by Mathew Brady. . Sarah Orne Jewett, who in turn is a mentor to Willa Cather. Mark Twain publishes Grants memoirs; W.E.B. Du Bois and his professor William James visit the young Helen Keller; and Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz argue about photography. Later, Hart Crane goes out on the town with Charlie Chaplin; Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston write a play together; Elizabeth Bishop takes Marianne Moore, who was photographed by both Van Vechten and Richard Avedon, to the circus; Avedon and James Baldwin collaborate on a book; John Cage and Marcel Duchamp play chess; and Norman Mailer and Robert Lowell march on the Pentagon in the antiVietnam War demonstration of 1967." Notes, bibliography, index. xvii, 363 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Fine in fine dust jacket.

First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran November 11, 1977 through January 1, 1978. Includes black and white illustrations after works by Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Robert Barry, Bernhard and Hilla Becher, John Cage, Christo, Chuck Close, Mark Di Suvero, Richard Francisco, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Long, Richard Nonas, Lucio Pozzi, Richard Tuttle, and several others, checklist, and a bibliography. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some very minor wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. This work takes the reader on a tour of Hollywood egotism, crassness, and gross excess. It is a fast-paced, funny, and occasionally horrifying portrait of a compulsive personality and the culture of excess that both created and destroyed him. The book contains photographs, notes, a bibliography, and an index. This copy is clean and solid. Appears to be unread.

Paperback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Very Good. Paperback. Physically Trade Paperback (9¼" x 6") (0.6 kg); (x) 261pp; Index; Bibliography; First in this, paperback, edition. ISBN: 0761955186 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #170613|| Condition:

Hardback in Dust Wrapper. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper (blue boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 12" x 8½" (1.2 kg); (ix) 99pp; Index; Bibliography; In the Cage & Aviary series; Includes: Distribution maps; Colour photographs, on individual leaves; Colour plates; Black & white plates; Black & white drawings; Plans; ISBN: 0-9045-5851-7 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #198969|| Condition: Very Good in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Dust wrapper slightly age toned with the price clipped. Minor age-toning to the lining papers. The contents complete, clean and tight otherwise.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Apparently unread, spine still crackles. Contributions by the editor, Anne Seymour, who is Director of the Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, and by Susan Sontag, Judy Adam, Richard Francis, Mark Rosenthal, David Sylvester, and David Vaughan, friends and colleagues of these artists. Sterling condition hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear; not ex-library, with neither underlining nor highlighting anywhere. Bound handsomely in pumpkin-colored cloth, the title being blind-stamped into the front cover and spine. Bright and shiny dust jacket, illustrated, showing only very minor wear, protected by a plastic coat, dust jacket not being price-clipped. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. [8], 9-165 pp., and augmented with many lovely illustrations and photographs printed on high-gloss paper included at frontis, a fine black-and-white portrait of John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Jasper Johns. There are over a dozen full-color reproductions of Johns's paintings (including two in fold-ut!), 19 duo-tone reproductions of pages from a John Cage manuscript, and over two doze duo-tone photographs of Merce Cunningham and his dancers in rehearsal and performance. Learned, accessible essays based on the 1989 exhibition presented by the Anthony d'Offay Gallery of London.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Laminated illustrated wrappers, 4to, 27 cm, 170 pp, colour ills. lots. The sale comprised autograph letters, manuscripts, early printed and manuscript music including: The autograph manuscript of J.S Bach's cantata Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein, BWV2; Important autograph letter by Beethoven about the 5th Symphony; Autograph notebooks by John Cage; Autograph manuscript of Donizetti's opera Elisabetta; A substantial collection of letters by Massenet; Important manuscripts of music by Purcell and Elgar; Autograph manuscript of part of Stravinsky's Les Noces and letters by J. C. Bach, A Scarlatti, Schoenberg, Mahler, and others to Egon Wellesz; important first editions of music by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven; an autograph poem by Baudelaire from Les Fleurs du Mal; Corrected typescript of Anna Akhmatova's Poem without a Hero, Scientific notes by Luigi Galvani; Letters, books, portraits and memorabilia relating to Napoleon I and St Helena Very Good. List of prices realized laid in.

Second Edition. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 272 p., 8 plates. 22 cm. Notes; Bibliography: p. 265-267. Contents; New universities in perspective / John Fulton -- Opening the mind / J.P. Corbett -- Undergraduates and their problems / Maurice Hutt -- Drawing an new map of learning / Asa Briggs -- The place of English studies in the Sussex scheme / David Daiches -- European studies / Martin Wight -- The School of Physical Sciences / Roger Blin-Stoyle -- The School of Education and Social Work / Boris Ford -- The Library of a new university / Dennis Cox -- Steps leading to the foundation of the university / W.G. stone -- From the cage : an undergraduate view / Granville Hawkins -- Building a new university / Basil Spence -- Afterword / David Daiches -- Appendix A: The university curriculum -- Appendix B: List of books and articles quoted and used in chapter 3. Subjects; University of Sussex. Experiments. Educational text. New universities. 1 Kg.

hardback, 375 pages, chronology, bibliography. 16 pages of plates. Owner inscription. Book condition is FINE, dust jacket VG+. 0.0.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series; 20th-century composers. Physical description; 239 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm. Notes; "Classified lists of works": pages 218-227. Includes bibliographical references (page 228) and index. Discography: pages 229-232. Contents; La Monte Young and Terry Riley -- Steve Reich, minimalist -- Steve Reich, maximalist -- Philip Glass, minimalist -- Philip Glass, maximalist -- Adams, Monk, and post-minimalism -- Europeans : Nyman, Andriessen, Pärt. Subjects; Reich, Steve (1936-) Criticism and interpretation. Young, La Monte Criticism and interpretation. Glass, Philip. Adams, John (1947-). Monk, Meredith. Nyman, Michael.Andriessen, (Louis 1939-2021). Cage, John (1912-1992). Glass, Philip (1937-). Monk, Meredith (1942-). Nyman, Michael (1948-). Part, Arvo (1935-). Reich, Steve (1936-). Riley, Terry (1935-). Andriessen, Louis (1939-). Glass, Philip (1937-). Monk, Meredith (1943-). Pärt, Arvo (1935). Young, La Monte (1935-). Composers. Minimal music. Music United States 20th century History and criticism. Composers United States 20th century. Minimal music History and criticism. Music 20th century History and criticism. Composers ; Biography. Music United States 20th century History and criticism. Minimalism. Music. 20th Century. History. Music United States History 20th century. Composers ; Biography. Music United States 20th century History and criticism. United States. Composers Biography. Minimal music History and criticism. Genres; Bibliography. Biographies. Biography. Biography. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Discography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

paperback. Condition: Very Good. profusely illustrated (illustrator). Illustrated study of Neo-Dada, published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Neo-Dada Redefining Art 1958-62', Scottsdale Center for the Arts November 4 1994 - January 1 1995 (and touring); texts by Susan Hapgood, Maurice Berger, and Jill Johnson, and with interviews and texts with/by Arman, Kaprow, Oldenburg, Spoerri, Cage, Johns, and Niki de Saint Phalle; includes bibliography; illustrated throughout in colour and b&w; mild curling of covers at edges, o.w. Very Good; wraps lightly rubbed. . 153pp. sm 4to. Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression 1992 near fine hardback in a near fine dust wrapper, corners and edges lightly rubbed, light surface scratches to cover. Protected by clear removable archival covering. Owner's nameplate on front endpaper. Price clipped. 224 pages with index. Maps. Endpaper Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography.

Originalbroschur, 17*22,5 cm. Condition: Gut. 47 S. Ein tadelloses Exemplar. - text deutsch und englisch. - Inhalt/Contents: Yilmaz Dziewior: Psychogeographie / Psychogeography -- Jörg Heiser: .Like Dancing about Architecture -- Biografie / Biography -- Bibliografie / Bibliography. - Aus dem Text: Als Robert Morris 1960 von San Francisco nach New York zog, änderte er nicht nur seinen Wohnort, auch seine künstlerischen Aktivitäten verlagerten sich von einer am Abstract Expressionism" orientierten Malerei hin zu konzeptuell performativen und skulpturalen Strategien. In New York schloß er sich einer Gruppe von Tänzern, Komponisten, Choreografen und Künstlern an, die eng mit dem Judson Dance Theater verbunden waren. Zu ihnen zählten unter anderem John Cage, Yvonne Rainer und Robert Rauschenberg. Genau in dieser Zeit entstand die erste Skulptur von Morris, ein aus zwei rechteckigen Pfeilern bestehendes Arrangement mit dem Titel Two Columns". Diese Arbeit stellte Morris zuerst nicht im Kunstkontext aus, sondern benutzte sie für eine Performance im New Yorker Living Theater, indem er einen der Pfeiler für dreieinhalb Minuten senkrecht stehend auf die Mitte der Bühne postierte und ihn dann an einer für das Publikum nicht sichtbaren Schnur aus dem Off zu Fall brachte. Nach weiteren dreieinhalb Minuten war die Performance zu Ende. Mit diesen Positionen waren die beiden wichtigsten choreografischen Grundstellungen definiert, der stehende und der liegende Tänzer. Eigentlich hatte Morris beabsichtigt, selbst in dem Hohlraum des Pfeilers zu stehen, verletzte sich aber bei der Probe und verzichtete deshalb auf den Einsatz seines Körpers. Im Ausstellungskontext werden die Pfeiler jeweils als ein liegender und ein aufrecht stehender präsentiert, wodurch ihr antropomorpher Charakter betont wird. In mehreren Collagen von Kolding tauchen Abbildungen von Morris Two Columns" auf, jedoch hat Kolding den senkrecht stehenden Pfeiler abgeschnitten und erweckt so den Eindruck eines Kubus, während der rechteckige, liegende Pfeiler noch deutlich als Ganzes zu erkennen ist. Kolding beschneidet somit im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes den antropomorphen Charakter der Skulptur von Morris und betont stärker ihre Zugehörigkeit zur Minimal Art. / When Robert Morris moved from San Francisco to New York in 1960, he not only changed his place of residence. His artistic work also underwent a transition by shifting from an "Abstract Expressionism"-oriented form of painting to a work based on conceptual performances and sculptural strategies. Once in New York, Morris joined a group of dancers, composers, choreographers, and artists who were closely connected to the Judson Dance Theater. The group consisted of among others John Cage, Yvonne Rainer and Robert Rauschenberg. It was during this period that Morris created his first sculpture two rectangular columns simply entitled "Two Columns". Morris chose not to exhibit this work within a typical art context, but rather, employed the piece in a performance in New York s Living Theater. For the performance, Morris positioned one of the columns in the middle of the stage, where it stood upright for three and a half minutes. At that point, Morris who was hidden offstage from the audience pulled on a string connected to the column, causing it to fall down. After another three and a half minutes had passed, the performance came to an end. These positions defined the two most important basic positions in choreography a standing dancer and a dancer lying down. Actually, Morris had originally intended to stand inside the hollow column, but had injured himself during a rehearsal and therefore refrained from using his own body for the performance. Whenever the two columns are exhibited within an art context, they are arranged so that one is standing while the other one is lying horizontally. Such an arrangement emphasizes their anthropomorphous nature. In several of Kolding s collages, copies of the "Two Columns" appear. The artist, however, has cut the top off of the standing column, causing it to appear like a cube. The rectangular, horizontal column remains in its original form. Kolding therefore literally circumsizes the anthropomorphous character of Morris sculpture, thereby more poignantly emphasizing its place within the sphere of Minimal Art. ISBN 3934823203 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition in English. First impression of the first edition in English. Translated by Alfred Sutro. Illustrated with black and white line drawing frontispiece showing white ants guarding the queen. ***Very good in olive-green cloth-covered boards with black titles and black ant illustration to spine. Edges of boards slightly rubbed. Top corners slightly bumped. Tiny, brown printed and cream contemporaneous bookseller's book label to bottom of front free endpaper: 'John M. Watkins Publisher and bookseller 21 Cecil Court, W.C.2'. Light offsetting to front free endpaper and rear pastedown. A few bottom page corners creased towards the rear. Pages clean. Spine tight. No dustwrapper. 192mm x 132mm. 213 pages including bibliography to rear plus two-pages of publisher's adverts for Maeterlinck essays (The Life of the White Ant is the last listed) and plays, and also Nature Books by Frances Pitt to the rear. ***Chapters: Introduction (by the author); The Termitary; The Problem of Nutrition; The Workers; The Soldiers; The Royal Pair; The Swarming; The Devastations; The Occult Power; The Morality of the Termitary; Their Destiny; Instinct and Intelligence; Bibliography. ***'The greatest problem of the hive confronts us again in the termitary, where it becomes even more insoluble for the reason that the organisation is more complex. What is it that governs here? What is it that issues orders, foresees the future, elaborates plans and preserves equilibrium, administers, and condemns to death? Not the sovereigns, those miserable slaves to their duties, dependent for their food on the good will of the workers; the sovereigns are imprisoned in their cages, they alone in the city have not the right to circulate within its precincts. The king is a sorry creature, timid, frightened, always crouching beneath the conjugal abdomen. As for the queen, she is perhaps the most pitiful victim of an organisation in which there are only victims, sacrificed to an unknown god. She is sternly guarded; and when her subjects consider her laying to be no longer adequate, they cut off her supplies; she dies of starvation, they devour the remains - for nothing is allowed to waste - and replace her. For this purpose, as we have seen, they always keep in reserve a certain number of undifferentiated adults; and, thanks to the prodigious polymorphism of the race, can quickly turn one into a reproducing agent. ***Nor is it the warriors, unfortunate monsters crushed by their weapons, cumbered with pincers, devoid of sex, devoid of wings, stone-blind, and unable to eat. It is not the winged adults, who make only one dazzling appearance, as tragic as it is ephemeral: ill-starred princes and princesses martyred for reasons of State, or by its collective cruelty. There remains the workers, who are the stomachs and bellies of the community; they seem to be at once the slaves, and masters, of all. Is it this horde which forms the Soviet of the city?' ' (quote from page 137, ch IX: The Occult Power). ***Maurice Maeterlinck (1862-1949) was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who was Flemish but wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. Recurring themes in his work are death and the meaning of life. His plays form an important part of the Symbolist movement. Maeterlinck was accused of plagiarism with his 'Life of the White Ant' (La Vie des Termites) which plagiarized the entomological book 'The Soul of the (White) Ant' by the Afrikaner poet and scientist Eugène Marais. ***First impression of the first edition in English in its original cloth-covered boards. Of interest to collectors of entomological and literary first editions by Maurice Maeterlinck. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book softcover First Edition, pp38 of text, 59 plates, Essay by Alan R Solomon (pp1- 25), Interview with John Cage (pp26-35) Bibliography. Condition Very Good, Internally clean, unmarked and firm aside from small marginal stains along bottom edge pp33-36 (max 5cm in length and 0.5 cm in height. Sharp edges and corners. Spine undamaged. Some small scrapes on front upper and lower margins of cover illustration. Back cover has striations of light pink staining.(see sellers images).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. xv, [1], 624, [2] pages. Map illustrating end papers. Illustrations. Maps. Appendix A. Appendix B. Notes and Sources. Bibliography. List of Illustrations. Index. Frank Welsh (born 1931) is a historian, novelist and former international banker. He graduated from Magdalene College, Cambridge, and retired after a successful banking career. He has written extensively on imperial British history, notably Hong Kong, Australia and South Africa. Derived from a Kirkus review: Scholarly history of the Crown Colony, from former international banker Welsh. British Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston sacked the envoy who negotiated the island's cession- -and, ever since, the colony has irritated Whitehall with scandals over drugs, prostitution, corruption, and, now, this dreary hand- over business. On China's end, it's the principle of the thing, a scar symbolic of a great wound. Here, Welsh covers events large and small. In 1854, he tells us, Hong Kong Governor Sir John Bowring precipitated a second Anglo-Chinese war, and, through his efforts, China was opened up to European travelers, missionaries, and traders. The 1960's were the golden years of economic freedom, but, even though the populace prospered, hundreds of thousands suffered wretched temporary living conditions--such as sleeping in cardboard boxes near the Star Ferry terminal and even in wire cages at Mongkok. The events of 1972--when Hong Kong's future was decided by Britain and China--are still shrouded in a secrecy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Fowler, Ralph (book design); Kaarl, Anita (hand lettering); Leibovitz, Annie (back jacket photograph); Fontana, John (jacket design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition purple boards with silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Appendix: Sequels; Notes; Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographic front and rear endpapers. "Intensely well researched and an un-put-downable read, Tina Brown's extraordinary book parts the brocades velvet and allows us an unprecedented look at the world and mind of the most famous person on the planet. A social commentary, a historical document, and a psychological examination, written by a superb investigative journalist." -- Academy Award-Winning Actress Helen Mirren. "Ten years after her death, Princess Diana remains a mystery. Was she "the people's princess," who electrified the world with her beauty and humanitarian missions? Or was she a manipulative, media-savvy neurotic who nearly brought down the monarchy? Only Tina Brown, former editor-in-chief of Tatler -- England's glossiest gossip magazine -- Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, could possibly give us the truth. Tina knew Diana personally and has far-reaching insight into the royals and the Queen herself. In The Diana Chronicles, you will meet a formidable female cast and understand as never before the society that shaped them: Diana's sexually charged mother, her scheming grandmother, the stepmother she hated but finally came to terms with, and bad-girl Fergie, her sister-in-law, who concealed wounds of her own. Most formidable of them all was her mother-in-law, the Queen, whose admiration Diana sought till the day she died. Add Camilla Parker Bowles, the ultimate "other woman," into this combustible mix and it's no wonder that Diana broke out of her royal cage into celebrity culture, where she found her own power and used it to devastating effect." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.

First edition. Hardcover. 451 pages. Published in conjunction an exhibition that ran February 8 through July 30, 2017 at the Walker Art Center and then February 11 through April 30, 2017. Edited by Fionn Meade and Joan Rothfuss with contributions by Bruce Altshuler, Carlos Basualdo, Juliet Bellow Philip Bither, Victoria Brooks, John Cage, Roger Copeland Mary L. Coyne, Douglas Crimp, Robert Ellis Dunn, Simone Forti, Danielle Goldman, Hiroko Ikegami, Kelly Kivland, Claudia La Rocco, Fionn Meade, Aram Moshayedi, Benjamin Piekut, ,Joan Rothfuss, and David Vaughan. Includes numerous illustrations, illustrated chronology, several appendices, a selected bibliography, list of catalogue contributors, reproduction credits, and an index. A fine copy in illustrated cloth boards. No dust jacket as issued. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping.

Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Condition: Very Good. Hardback. Physically 8" x 5¼" (0.5 kg); (xi) 89pp; Index; Bibliography; In the Images of Asia series; Includes: Black & white photographs; Colour photographs; ISBN: 0-1958-8999-1 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #186585|| Condition:

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. xiv, [2], 147, [5] pages. Illustrations. Map. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Black ink underlining noted on several text pages. Includes List of Illustrations, Acknowledgments, Introduction, Notes, Bibliography, and Index, as well chapters on The Long Hearbreak Begins; Voyage to a Frozen Hell and Deadly Camp; Man in a Cage; The Unit 731 Doctors Come to Mukden; Unit 731 Doctors Call Again and Again; The Colonel's Rules and His "Hospital"; The MKK Factory: Daily Toil, Fear, and Sabotage; Major Stanley Hankins: A Major Military Embarrassment; Escape; Red Cross Double-Crossed; Another Escape: An Ongoing Mystery; B-29s Bring Death, Hope, and Rescue; The Long Road Back; Justice in the Aftermath?; Back in Time; and Epilogue. Linda Goetz Holmes has been interviewing, writing and publishing work about World War II prisoners in the Pacific for the past 30 years. She was the first Pacific War historian appointed to the U.S. Government Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working group (IWG), under the aegis of the National Archives, tasked with locating and declassifying material about World War II crimes. The IWG presented its final report to Congress in April 2007. Her 1994 book, 4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home, about Allied prisoners of war forced to build infamous Burma Railway during World War II, was selected for inclusion in the John E. Taylor Collection of Military History and Intelligence and the National Archives in College Park MD. Linda Goetz Holmes reveals the truth behind the rumors and horrors of the Mukden prisoner of war camp. Like an onion, Holmes peels away the layers of secret horrors, one layer at a time. At last, we see the proof of Japanese medical experiments by the notorious Unit 731 on American prisoners at Mukden, the largest fixed POW camp in the Empire. She carefully documents the use of germ warfare experiments upon the men and the endless brutality and torture of the prisoners by Japanese guards and Japanese nationals. The full story of the four men who sought to escape is told in detail and Holmes traces not just their escape but their capture and the abuse of the remaining POWS in revenge for the 'loss of face' by the guards. Holmes spares no one in telling the truth about the Mukden camp, including the utter incompetence of most American officers, especially the ranking officer, Major Stanley H. Hankins. Few ever cared about the suffering of their subordinates and were willing to steal their food and medicine for their personal use. It is not a story of honor, but truth is rarely pretty. A magnificent work of research and narrative that is destined to be the definitive work about the Mukden POW camp." Roger Mansell, director, Center For Research Allied POWS Under the Japanese "It is high time that we are provided with a truthful and revealing account of that large Japanese camp for American prisoners of war who suffered not only the brutality and deprivations of most captured by the Japanese, but were also the first victims of the horrendous biological warfare experiments of the notorious Unit 731, and after liberation have been shamefully ignored and mistreated by their own government." Gerhard L. Weinberg, author of A World at Arms "Linda Holmes' informative narrative is the most complete account of the Japanese treatment of U.S. POWs at the Mukden POW camp. She skillfully weaves her extensive interviews with former POWs into a compelling tale of life and death in Japanese captivity." Edward J. Drea, author of Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and fall, 1853-1945. In World War II more than 36,000 American men, mostly military but some civilian, were thrown into Japanese POW camps and forced to labor for companies working for Japan's war effort. At Japan's largest fixed military prison camp, Mitsubishi's huge factory complex at Mukden, Manchuria, more than 2,000 American prisoners were subjected to cold, starvation, beatings, and even medical experiments while manufacturing parts for Zero fighter planes. Those lucky enough to survive the ordeal required the efforts of an OSS rescue team and a special recovery unit to make it home alive. The dramatic story that unfolded at Mukden is told in rare detail by Holmes, who spent two decades tracking down the POWs. In addition to the well-researched story of the brutal captivity and forced labor at the hands of the Japanese that these POWs endured, she shows conclusively for the first time that some Americans at Mukden were singled out for experiments by Japan's infamous biological warfare team. "Linda Holmes chronicles the epic of the horrific wartime experiences of Allied prisoners of war under the Japanese. The story of the Mukden prison camp should remind all readers of the terrible price paid by Allied prisoners during World War II: the brutal captivity, the terrible `hell ships,' the inhospitable camp conditions, the brutal treatment by the prison cadre, the slave labor they were forced to perform, and, in the special case of those POWs held in the Mukden camp, the `experiments' they were subjected to by the infamous Japanese biological warfare organization, Unit 731. Robert J. Hanyok, former federal historian and author of Eavesdropping on Hell and West Wind Clear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First British. 375 pp. Illustrated with b/w photos. Source notes, bibliography, chronology of works, index. "I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry." -- John Cage.