Robert De Maio (3 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Extensive analysis/specs of the Wart Hog. The pages are clean. The middle pages (4) have loosened from the staples but is included. The cover has light rubs/stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine unread condition blue boards, red cloth spine and silver spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Prologue and Index. Illustrated with two sections of black-and-white photographs. Also includes a 7 inch by 5 1/2 inch glossy black-and-white promotional advertisement photograph of Tracy Austin; the caption stating as follows: "Tracy Austin, author of BEYOND CENTER COURT (Morrow, 1992). Photo Credit: Carol Newsom." "At eight I decided that I wanted to be the best tennis player in the world. From then on, it was always in the back of my mind." For Tracy Austin, that dream came true when she was seventeen. Then it was taken away - twice. Still the youngest U.S. Open singles champion in history - and currently a sports commentator for NBC and USA Cable Network - at fourteen Tracy Austin was the youngest competitor at Wimbledon. In 1979 at the Italian Open, she stopped Chris Evert's six-year, 125-match clay-court dominacne. Number one in the world in 1980, she suddenly began to develop debilitating injuries, and then at twenty-one - an age when most people are just beginning theirs - Austin's career was over. She attempted several comebacks, and when she was finally physically ready to compete in the 1989 U.S. Open, she was in a near-fatal car accident. Tracy Austin's insightful autobiography is testimony to the fact that she has fully recovered. Beyond Center Court is the story of a young girl in pigtails and braces making her way through the world of big-money tennis and high-stakes matches. When she began playing the sport, Austin used a sawed-off racket and began demonstrating her intuitive ability to return every ball with an inner determination and talent few children possess. In spite of her increasing fame, Austin became one of the world's most normal celebrities - getting straign A's in high school and spending most of her time with her family. And this is a pattern that has prevailed as much as her steadiness on the court - even today she is an outstanding winner, an exemplary role model, and a gracious survivor. Tennis took Tracy Austin to every important national and international tournament, where she competed with Martina Navratilova, Chris Evert, Rosie Casals, Billie Jean King, and Pam Shriver. Her television commentating took her closer to the men's game of John McEnroe, Jimmy Connors, and Andre Agassi, and considerable charitable work has intorduced her to such celebrities as Ronald Reagan, Peter Jennings, Bill Cosby, Prince Philip, Farrah Fawcett, and Johnny Carson. These are all featured in this entertaining and reflective book, as are the members of her strong and supportive family, who've stood with her through it all. From Forest Hills to induction into the Tennis Hall of Fame, from a mixed doubles championship at Wimbledon with her brother John to analyzing the sport's newest rising stars, in Beyond Center Court Tracy Austin tells an inspiring story not only about life in tennis but also about what tennis teaches about life. As Austin says, "At the end of my life, I will want to have said lots of I love yous and I'm sorrys. I will want to look back to a life of love, laughs, learning, and trying everything I wanted to do.I'm a businesswoman and a TV commentator, and I intend to be a good wife and mother - and none of these rely on a good backhand." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Aulicino, Robert; Loew, ANthony (front jacket photograph); Newsom, Carol L. (rear jacket photograph and enclosed promo advertising photograph); De Maio, M. C. (book design) (illustrator). …

Condition: Near fine. RUBBER VOL. 1-4 (missing only vol. 1 nos. 1-3), Stempelplaats, Amsterdam, 1978-1981. This collection includes 39 issues in 32 publications, with an additional 5 invitation cards and 1 hand-stamped envelope invitation.The monthly magazine was published in Amsterdam by Stempelplaats and edited by Aart van Barneveld. The issues explore artists' use of rubber stampsthedemocraticandanti-elitist Mail Artmedium.This collection is an indispensable resource on the Amsterdam art scene,rubber stamp practicesandthe international Mail Art movement overall.RUBBER VOL. 1, 1978 (incomplete, missing no. 1-3):All issues:two folded sheets,235 x 160 mm. Nr. 4,Pawel Petasz, April 1978.Hand-stampedin colour. Nr5,Marie C. Combs, Rubber Stamp Acts, May 1978. Nr.6,Ulises Carrion, Rubberstamps, Theory and Praxis, June 78. Rubber-stamped in blue with a hole-punched element. Nr.7,Dik Walraven, July 1978.Handstamp in red. Nr.8,Elsa Stansfield, August 1978.Includes black and whitephotographic elementsand ahand-stamped plastic sheet insert. Nr.9,Ray Di Palma, September 1978. Hand stamped in purple. Nr.10,J.H. Kocman, October 1978. Hand-stamped in blue. Nr.11,Anna Banana&Bill Gaglione, November 1978.Hand stamped. Includes Dadaland Stampbook; an invitation to the artists' exhibition at Stempelwerke; a folded sheet printed withanAnna Banana design andlist ofRubber Stamp Shows and publications on the verso. Nr.12,Franz Immoos, December 1978.RUBBER VOL.2,1979 (complete): All issues:folded sheets,235 x 160 mm. Nr.1,Davi Det Hompson, January 1979. Hand stamped in green. Nr.2,Paulo Brusky et al.Karimbada, Brasil Issue, February 1979.Includes text byUlises Carrion. Nr.3,FluxPostKit 7, March 1979. Contributions from Nam June Paik. Includes aFluxus exhibition invite. Nr.4,Claudio Goulart, March 1979. Nr.5,Dieter Rot, May 1979. Hand-stamped in pink. IncludesaDieter Rotinvitation card.Nr.6.Bart Boumans, June 79.Hand-stamped in colour. Nr.7, DR post, George Brett/ Henryk Bidok, June 1979. Hand-stamped in colour. Nr.8, Ulises Carrion, Mail-Art project, August 1979. Hand stamped in colour. Nr.9,Ken Friedmann, September 1979. Hand-stampedincolour.Nr.10,R.Saunders, October 1979. Hand-stamped. Nr.11,Raul Marroquin, November 1979. Colour stampswith English text by Raul Marroquin. Nr.12,R.D.Schroeck and Eduard Bal, December 1979. Hand stamped.RUBBER VOL.3,1980 (complete):All issues edited byAart van Barneveld,c.235x 160mm.Nr.1,Stempelkunst in Nederland, 1980.Printed booklet with rubber stampsand intro byUlises Carrion. Edition size: 500.Includespaper brochureinsert.Unnumbered issue,P.J. Spettstösser, April 1980. Nr.46,Rubber Stamp Publications (An Index), April June 1980.Nr.79,Six Mail Art Projects/Zes Post-Kunst Projeckten, July September 1980.Includes work byPawel Petasz andothers. Nr.1012,Stempelakties / Stamp Actions, October December 1980.Featuresstamp action projectsbyEndré Totand others.RUBBER VOL.4,1981 (complete):All issues: edited byPim Wiersinga and Mekka,235 x 160 mm.Nr.1,Four Projects, January April 1981. Including: Robin Crozier,Table-project, January April 1981.Oosterbos,Letters,with various contributions.Claudio Goulart,Daily Art Poster,March 1981.Hand-stamped in colour. Rodolpho and Rolf Weijburg,Inviting the World at Home, August 1981. Nr.4, Vol.3,Zero zero, schrijvers stempels, March 1981.'Rubber 4',Rubber Stamp Publications II,1981.OTHER RUBBER EPHEMERAThis collection includes arare invitationto Rubber'sfirst exhibition, hand-stamped (possibly) by Ulises Carrion.Rubber cards by Robert Jacks, Anna Banana & Bill Gaglione, Davi Det Hompson, Paulo Bruscky and Leonhard Frank Duck and Dieter Rot (all between 1978-9).FULL LISTING AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.…