![Item #4974] The Roosevelt I Knew. Frances Perkins](/pictures/medium/4974.jpg?v=1657149106)
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1946. First Edition, Third Printing. Hardcover. "Franklin Roosevelt was not a simple man...He was the most complicated human being I ever knew; and out of this complicated nature there sprang much of the drive which brought achievement, much of the sympathy which made him like, and liked by, such oddly different types of people, much of the detachment which enabled him to forget his..... More
[Item #4974]![Item #4911] Time Blades (Exhibition Catalog). James Rosenquist](/pictures/medium/4911.jpg?v=1643069048)
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
[Item #4911]![Item #4908] Rembrandt's Eyes with: Ephemera. Simon Schama, Rembrandt van Rijn, Peter Paul Rubens](/pictures/medium/4908.jpg?v=1643069024)
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House, Inc., 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "More than three centuries after his death, Rembrandt remains the most deeply loved of all the great masters of painting, his face so familiar to us from the self-portraits painted at every stage in his life, yet still so mysterious. As with Shakespeare, the facts of his life are hard to come by...Rembrandt's Eyes, about which Simon..... More
[Item #4908]![Item #5172] The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God. George Bernard Shaw](/pictures/medium/5172.jpg?v=1667847269)
London, England: Constable & Company Limited, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. "I hold, as firmly as St. Thomas Aquinas, that all truths, ancient or modern, are divinely inspired; but I know by observation and introspection that the instrument on which the inspiring force plays may be a very faulty one, and may even end, like Bunyan in The Holy War, by making the most ridiculous nonsense of his message." (from afterword..... More
[Item #5172]![Item #4923] Eminent Victorians. Lytton Strachey](/pictures/medium/4923.jpg?v=1643741467)
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons/ The Knickerbocker Press, 1918. First American Edition. Hardcover. "It is not by the direct method of a scrupulous narration that the explorer of the past can hope to depict that singular epoch (the Victorian era). If he is wise, he will adopt a subtler strategy...He will row out over that great ocean of material, and lower down into it, here and there, a little..... More
[Item #4923]![Item #4868] The Quest for Corvo with: Ephemera. A. J. A. Symons](/pictures/medium/4868.jpg?v=1641838811)
London, England: Cassell & Co. Ltd., 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. "Since 1913, when Fredrick Rolfe, self-styled Baron Corvo, died in bitterness and poverty, critics one by one have become aware of this acrimonious author's masterpiece, Hadrian VII, a book now admitted to an unique position in English literature. They have also heard something of the truly astonishing life that lay behind its writing and is reflected through every page of..... More
[Item #4868]![Item #5045] Transit No. 20 (Autumn 2008). Kevin Ring, Jim Burns, Trevor Carolan, Bruce Conner,...](/pictures/medium/5045.jpg?v=1661266401)
Coventry, England: Beat Scene Press, 2008. First Printing. Stapled Wrappers. This twentieth number of "A little magazine of the Beat Generation" published by Kevin Ring in the UK features Ring's intensive essay on poet Ted Berrigan's 1967 interview with Jack Kerouac which appeared in The Paris Review (Vol, 11, No. 43, Summer 1968); a "Bloomsday" (June 16, 2008) interview with Joanne Kyger (1934-2017), the prolific Beat Generation poet who was..... More
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