New York, NY, USA: New Directions, 1985. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. "The snow will never be | so perfect again, blue in the dusk, | his weariness lit by candles in windows: not the slave's | heavy footfall here in Boston, on the way to Tremont Temple, | where messengers line up, | hand touching hand, Lincoln's pulse | already entering a telegrapher's wrist..." ("Frederick Douglass Waiting for News..... More

New York, NY, USA: Harry N. Abrams, 1988. First Edition. Hardcover. “Glass animals are among the most universally admired—and widely collected—art forms in glass. For more than 3,500 years artisans have fashioned animals, both real and fanciful, both wild and domestic, in an astonishing array of forms and for a wide diversity of uses—as figurines, perfume bottles, jewelry, paperweights, beakers, tiles, plaques, lamps, vases, and stained-glass windows.” (from front flap)..... More

New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992. First Edition. Softcover. “The ancient city of Susa (biblical Shushan) lay at the edge of the Iranian plateau, not far from the great cities of Mesopotamia. A strategically located and vital center, Susa absorbed diverse influences and underwent great political fluctuations during the several thousand years of its history. When French archaeologists began to excavate its site in the nineteenth century..... More

New York, NY, USA: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1988. First American Edition. Hardcover. "But where is what I started for so long ago? | And why is it yet unfound?" (Walt Whitman, pg. 228). A Writer's America: Landscape in Literature is a work of literary criticism by Alfred Kazin (1915-1998), the influential American author & critic best known for his 1942 debut On Native Grounds. Kazin's central argument in A...... More

New York, NY, USA: Putnam, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. “Thank you. I now stand before you as a role model, courtesy of Mayor Bart Peterson, and God bless him for this occasion. If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is. And just think of this: In only three year’s time, during World War Two, I went from Private to Corporal, a rank once held by both Napoleon and Adolf..... More

New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1987. First Edition. Hardcover. “The art created in Greece during the fifth century B.C. established the standards to which all Western art has aspired well into our own times. Indeed, the word "classical," when used either specifically or figuratively, usually refers to those ideals of beauty and proportion developed on the Greek mainland more than four hundred years before the birth of Christ..... More