Library Babel, First Edition (7 results)

Condition: New. 2023. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Color and b/w illustrations. Text in English and Japanese. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Erik Desmazieres (illustrator). First Edition. Dark gray cloth with a mounted plate to the front. There is a small bump to the lower spine end, otherwise about fine. Without names or bookplates. The dust jacket has a strip of fading along the fore edge folds and a bit to the upper, rear, near the fore edge. Not price clipped and otherwise fine. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 36 pages.

Soft cover. First edition. 28p + 13 plates, bound dos-a-dos. Designed by Buzz Spector. Exhibition catalogue of ca. 40 books by "emerging and mid-career" artists: Nayland Blake, John Boskovich, David Carrino, Andrew Masullo, Tim Maul, Maria Porges, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Cindy Smith, Buzz Spector, and Steve Wolfe. Checklist of works and artist information. Texts by Alden and Paul Holdengraber, both with much reference to Walter Benjamin. Uncommon. Can be sent outside the US for less than the default shipping rate. Very good (light handling soil).

First Edition. First edition. Softcover. Exhibition catalog for a group show that ran April 6 through May 31, 1991. Features acknowledgements by Charles A. Wright, Jr. and Todd Alden. Alden also contributes an essay as does Paul Holdengraber. Includes a black and white illustration and biographical information for each of these artists: Nayland Blake, John Boskovich, David Carrino, Andrew Masullo, Tim Maul, Maria Porges, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Cindy Smith, Buzz Spector, and Steve Wolfe. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers. An attractive catalog that was designed by Buzz Spector.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The universe is a library containing every book ever written and every book that could be written. Borges combined essay and short story to create his worlds of words, and every great story of his deserves a production like this one, combining image and text. Borges would be proud that Erik Desmazieres' etchings are his own and not a literal rendering of what's in the story, but they do enfold the reader into a mind-bending universe / library the same way the tale does. 36 pages. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine, price-clipped dust jacket. This separate issue of Borges' classic story addresses his universe consists of an enormous library much of which gibberish but also contains every coherent book ever written. Borges's famous meditation on language, alphabets, and the library that contains all knowledge is an allegory of our Universe, and in this edition is complemented and enhanced by the etching of the French artist, Érik Desmazières.