John Wooster Robert (11 results)

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New preface by William E. Tydeman; new introduction by Holle Hunter. vii, 109p., stiff wrappers.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 109 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.25 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. pp. vii + 109 Illus.

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95 pp.; 27 x 26.6 cm.; staple bound; black-and-white & color; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed; May 1976 issue of Artforum, edited by John Coplans. Contents include: "Chris Burden," by Robert Horvitz; "Carol Andre: Art Versus Talk," by Jeff Perrone; "Carl Andre: Art Versus Talk," by Jeff Perone; "Marcel Broodthaers' Throw of the Dice," by Nicholas Calas; "Frida Kahlo: Her Life, Her Art," by Hayden Herrera; "Non-Theatrical Performance," by Allan Kaprow; "Nancy Spero," by Lawrence Alloway; "Drawing the Line," by Nancy Foote "The Ideal and the Literal Sublime," by Sidney Tillim. Reviews by Phil Patton, Roberta Smith, Steven Simmons, Barbara Baracks, Leo Rubinfien, Sherman Drexler, and Ann-Sargent Wooster. Cover: Chris Burden. Good. 2 cm. dog-ear to top right corner of recto with additional creasing and bumping of covers. Tearing of covers at spine edge adjacent to staples. Scratching of covers. 17.8 cm. crease to verso with embossment to pages. Contents clean and unmarked. Due to large size and weight additional shipping charges will be required for international orders.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Dust Jacket Condition: Bien. Essays "Chris Burden," by Robert Horvitz; "Carol Andre: Art Versus Talk," by Jeff Perrone; "Carl Andre: Art Verus Talk," by Jeff Perone; "Marcel Broodthaers' Throw of the Dice," by Nicholas Calas; "Frida Kahlo: Her Life, Her Art," by Hayden Herrera; "Non-Theatrical Performance," by Allan Kaprow; "Nancy Spero," by Lawrence Alloway; "Drawing the Line," by Nancy Foote; "The Ideal and the Literal Sublime," by Sidney Tillim. Reviews by Phil Patton, Roberta Smith, Steven Simmons, Barbara Baracks, Leo Rubinfien, Sherman Drexler, Ann-Sargent Wooster. Cover: Chris Burden.

[WEST TEXAS]. First edition thus. 8vo. Originally published in 1857. Limited to 300 copies. Gray cloth, titles on paper spine label, tan front and rear endpapers, 109 pp., preface, introduction, notes to the introduction, illustrated, map, appendix, index. Preface by Robert M. Utley. The Wrights were Irish immigrants who served in the Mounted Rifles on the Texas frontier for several years during the 1850s. As well as a military memoir this is also a travelogue of Texas in the antebellum years as written from the outlook of the foreign visitors. Fine, bright copy issued without a dust jacket of one of the rarest Texas books.

The correspondence relates to an article Dr. Wooster wrote on the coining of the word "xenobiology" (the study of the biology of alien life-forms) generally credited to Heinlein for use in "Star Lummox" (F&SF, May-July 1954; STAR BEAST, Scribner's 1954), which incorporates his correspondence with Heinlein, published in SCIENCE 134: 3473 (July 1961) 223-225. Harold Abbott Wooster (1919-2005) was the chief of the information sciences division of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research in the 1960s, a computer pioneer "whose decades-long career in information science influenced the development of computer technology and medical television . He left the Air Force's scientific research office, which considered him a pioneer in the information science field, in 1970. From 1970 to 1984, Dr. Wooster worked at the National Library of Medicine's Lister Hill Center for Biomedical Communications. He supervised experiments using television to connect patients in remote areas to doctors" (Washington Post obit 3 June 2005). Dr. Wooster published a single SF story, "Y + Sin X," ASTOUNDING (September 1943). See Patterson, William H., Robert A. Heinlein, Volume 2, p. 211. The letters are in fine condition. (#155753).