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Item #100206 The Life of Samuel Johnson. James Boswell

The Life of Samuel Johnson

Single-volume edition of one of the greatest English biographies, printed in two columns. Boswell follows Dr. Johnson through the arduous production of his major works, including his massive Dictionary of the English Language and his critical editions of Shakespeare and the English poets, and documents his friendships with Joshua Reynolds.....

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Item #10058 The White Album. Joan Didion

The White Album

First edition of Didion's classic collection of essays on the American 1970s, reflections on Jim Morrison, the Black Panthers, the women's movement, Nancy Reagan, Charles Manson, college activism, and the new role of the shopping center in American life. "I was meant to know the plot, but all I knew.....

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Item #10094 Work. Mitch Epstein

Work

First edition of this retrospective of Epstein's photography from 1973 to 2006: "The magic I felt when I made pictures as a young man was founded on surprise. And gratefully, the element of surprise is one thing in this world no person or institution has managed to squelch." This survey.....

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Item #100205 A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, and Engravers, Containing...

A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Architects, and Engravers, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Most Celebrated Artists, From the Earliest Ages to the Present Time

A very handsome first edition of this traveler's guide to the art of Europe: "though this work is presented to the Public in the compact and portable size of a pocket volume, yet it will be found to contain a greater variety of matter, and more useful information, than is.....

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Item #100169 Mr. Johnson's Preface to his Edition of Shakespear's Plays. Bound with: An...

Mr. Johnson's Preface to his Edition of Shakespear's Plays. Bound with: An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespear, compared with the Greek and French Dramatic Poets. With Some Remarks upon the Misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire. The Four

The scarce 1765 first separate edition of Samuel Johnson's preface to Shakespeare, bound with the 1777 fourth edition of Elizabeth Montagu's essay on Shakespeare. Both celebrated players on the London literary scene, Dr. Johnson and Mrs. Montagu bring their individual strengths to the task of identifying what makes Shakespeare great.....

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Item #10028 Project on the City 2: Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping. Rem Koolhaas, Chuihua...

Project on the City 2: Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping

First edition of this massive collection of essays, photographs, architectural plans, and maps documenting the evolution and experience of the modern retail space, with mostly dire implications. Pritzker-winning architect Rem Koolhaas contributes an impressionistic meditation on the mall: "The shiniest surfaces in the history of mankind reflect humanity at its.....

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Bygone Days

First edition of this found collection of early twentieth-century photography from Bison, South Dakota, with a foreword by Patti Smith. "Just friends and neighbors, everyday life in the West. Taken with no motive, just for joy, just to acknowledge what was before him. The twins bathing in a wooden bucket.....

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Item #10040 The Elements of Style. William Strunk, E. B White

The Elements of Style

First edition, later printing, of this whimsical illustrated version of Strunk and White's classic guide, with a foreword by Roger Angell, and an introduction by E.B. White. Cornell University professor William Strunk privately printed the first version of The Elements of Style for the benefit of his students, including E.B......

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Item #10041 A.L.T. Andre Leon Talley

A.L.T.

First edition of fashion writer Talley's moving memoir of the two women who shaped his life: Bennie Frances Davis, the grandmother who raised him in North Carolina, and Diana Vreeland, the editor who inspired and mentored his rise at Vogue. "I will get to evenings with Mrs. Vreeland eventually, and.....

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Item #10093 Painting Illustrated in Three Dialogues, Containing Some Choice Observations Upon the...

Painting Illustrated in Three Dialogues, Containing Some Choice Observations Upon the Art. Together with the Lives of The Most Eminent Painters, From Cimabue, to the Time of Raphael, and Michael Angelo, with an Explanation of the Difficult Terms

Three critical dialogues by Aglionby are accompanied here by the first appearance in English of eleven of Vasari's Lives: Cimabue, Giotto, Leonardo, Andrea del Sarto, Raphael, Giorgione, Michelangelo, Giulio Romano, Perino del Vaga, Titian, and Donato. Of Leonardo's Mona Lisa, Vasari writes: "this Piece was finished at a Rate, to.....

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Item #10071 I Wanted To Write A Poem. William Carlos Williams, Edith Heal

I Wanted To Write A Poem

First edition of this "autobiography of the works of a poet," signed by William Carlos Williams in his erratic post-stroke hand, additionally inscribed by editor Edith Heal to critic and scholar William York Tindall at Columbia University: "For W.Y. Tindall, from a student who appreciated and has used what he.....

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