Related products

• Signed & Dated Five Days Prior to Publication

  

  Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi

  Half of a Yellow Sun

  $400.00

  The Accidental Bookseller

  Fourth Estate, London, 2006. First U.K. edition and true first. Winner of the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2007, awarded annually to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and named the “Best of the Best” of the Women’s Prize for Fiction (formerly known as the Orange Prize and Baileys Women’s Prize) in 2020, recognizing it as the best book to have won the prize in its 25-year history. Signed by the author and dated five days prior to the official publication date. Fine in fine dust wrapper, lightly crinkled at the spine tips. less

  more

  Offered for Sale by: The Accidental Bookseller

• Exhibition Program with Artist's Scarce Signature

  

  Sheeler, Charles

  A Retrospective Exhibition 1954

  $400.00

  The Accidental Bookseller

  Art Galleries, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA): 1954.  Foreword by William Carlos Williams. Signed boldly by Sheeler and scarce thus, as Sheeler’s signature is quite uncommon. Few creases, wear to spine, some loss of color.  Overall, very good in wrappers. Sheeler was a leading exponent of the innovative modernist style that arose after World War I in the United States and came to be known as Precisionism.  Artists associated with the movement fused a planar geometry developed from European Cubism with an interest in uniquely American subjects, often celebrating industry and a Machine Age aesthetic. Sheeler worked across artistic mediums and developed a versatile, complex practice in which his vision was expressed with equal artistic command and intellectual rigor, masterfully devising compositions of modern, geometric form from America’s burgeoning urban and industrial landscapes. (source: The Whitney Museum). less

  more

  Offered for Sale by: The Accidental Bookseller

• Extravagantly produced woodcuts with Biblical text

  

  Maty Grunberg; Linda Zisquit (tr)

  The Book Of Ruth

  $2,344.68 *
  * estimated currency conversion

  Dodman Books

  No.103 from an edition of 125, this extravagantly produced boxed set of 18 colour woodcuts, each signed by Grunberg, is in fine/as new condition throughout.  Each image is accompanied by Hebrew biblical text from the book of Ruth, and a free translation into English by Linda Zisquit who also provides an introduction. Each woodcut sheet is c.45x50cm with text facing. Smart black folio box, with purple lining, and bright gilt titling to front and spine.  less

  more

  Offered for Sale by: Dodman Books

• Diane di Prima's Copy with Orig. Drawing by Dunca

  

  Duncan, Robert

  A Selection of 65 Drawings from one drawing book 1952-1956

  $400.00

  The Accidental Bookseller

  Black Sparrow Press: Los Angeles, 1970.  65 loose prints, not bound (as issued).  A signed presentation copy from Duncan to Diane di Prima and her second husband Grant (Fisher), with a full page original drawing on card stock, measuring 6″ X 9″, in the style of drawings from the book.  The Black Sparrow Press item appeared with a publisher’s chemise and signed colophon page — these are not present here and presumably weren’t included in the author’s copies of the book. A few minor age spots to card stock, otherwise fine. When speaking of the impact of Duncan’s teachings, di Prima cited the lesson that poetry intensifies life. In an interview with fellow Beat poet David Meltzer, she recalled, “Robert was probably one of the closest, most intimate lovers I ever had, even though we never had a physical relationship. I learned a lot of different kinds of things from him. One of the things I learned—in a way no teacher of Buddhism ever showed me—was how precious my life was. How precious the whole ambience of the time. A real sense of appreciating every minute.” di Prima recalled their personal relationship in an August 2001 interview with poet David Hadbawnik: “Robert used to come and hang for days, he’d move into my house in Marshall in the ’70s, and bring his French mysteries that he was teaching himself idiomatic French from, and his notebook, and he’d stay for days. And he always came to Christmases with the kids, because Jess doesn’t like holidays, and so I’d have to say mid-’70s, through ’75 on, he was there many weekends, many mornings…. Eating fried herring from the bay for breakfast.” less

  more

  Offered for Sale by: The Accidental Bookseller