New York, NY: Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., 2007. First Edition. Softcover. Inscribed & signed by James Rosenquist. The original catalog for an exhibition of artworks by James Rosenquist (1933-2017), the canonical American artist who was among the foremost exponents of the Pop Art movement. The exhibition took place during October-December 2007 at the prestigious Acquavella Gallery in Manhattan, NYC. With a scholarly, informative introduction by the noted art curator Sarah..... More

New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. "The myth of Marie Curie- the penniless Polish immigrant who through genius and obsessive persistence endured years of toil and deprivation to produce radium, a luminous panacea for all the world's ills, including cancer- has obscured the remarkable truth behind her discoveries. Marie Curie's shrewd though controversial insight was that radioactivity was an atomic property that could be..... More

San Francisco, CA: Michael McClure, 1972. First Printing. Folded Single Sheet. Signed & Inscribed by Michael McClure. "Saturnalian Tule Fog in the San Joaquin / Big holes made out of light between the clouds / Coyote bushes in bloom are California snow / Fields of cotton caught on dry brown stems / Rooting rabbit nibbles dry brown tamarisk needle from dust / Inside there's country gravy and cream pie alamode..... More

New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Rachel S. Cox. "In the spring of 1941, with Europe consumed by war and occupation, Britain stood alone against the Nazi menace. The United States remained wary of joining an increasingly costly and destructive conflict. But for five extraordinary young Americans, the global threat of fascism was too great to ignore. Six months before Pearl Harbor, these courageous idealists..... More

London, England: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First Edition. Hardcover. "'A Mortal Flower,' Han Suyin's second volume on the China that evolved during the last fifty years, continues the story of an epoch as seen and experienced by herself and her family. The period covered by 'A Mortal Flower' is the decade from 1928 to 1938, when Chiang Kaishek (sic) rose to power and Mao Tsetung in his mountain fastness gathered the..... More

London, England: Macmillan, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Published in 1968, Robert Conquest’s “The Great Terror: Stalin’s Purge of the Thirties” was among the very first legitimate biographical undertakings to illustrate the depraved and truly horrifying “purges” put into action by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Works like Conquest’s “Great Terror” were necessary at the time of publication, and still are necessary now; too few know about the horrors of..... More

New York, NY: Viking Penguin/ Penguin Putnam Inc., 2002. First American Edition. Hardcover. "The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Reich in January 1945. Frenzied by their terrible experiences with Wehrmacht and SS brutality, they wreaked havoc- tanks crushing refugee columns under their tracks, mass rape, pillage and destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred..... More

Hanover, NH; Austin, TX: Dartmouth College; University of Texas Press, 2002; 1962. First Editions. Hardcovers. One Volume Signed by Margarita Valladares, Wife of Jose Clemente Orozco. Offered here is a supreme bundle of work by (& relating to) Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949), the Mexican muralist, painter, and dissident. The phrase "Mexican muralist" (especially if you've been to the Detroit Institute of Arts) may bring to mind Orozco's celebrated contemporary, Diego..... More