Small Fires, First Edition (24 results)

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. B/W Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition 1st printing with full number line and a long inscription (which always means to a particular person) from co-editor Christopher Cerf on the ffep. Light soil, edgewear, sunning and two small surface tears on dj (including part of title on spine), two small stains on back ep, light soil/foxing on edge, else fine. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Light wear, slightly bumped lower corners, small divot on the top edge of one page. Nice copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small round coffee (?) stain to fore edge o/w clean, tight copy. BP/Poetry.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition. Fine book in Fine dustjacket. "Letters from the Soviet people to 'Ogonyok' magazine, 1987-1990." [050311].

Paperback. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Summit Books, 1990. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new.100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. In very good condition, a small piece of a sticker on front cover.

Condition: Very Good. 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket. . . . .

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Near fine in wrappers, a paperback. Minor stain on front cover. Otherwise nice condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 267 pp., Brn Illus Hardback, VG in DJ with edge tearouts, 1st ed (Inscribed by Author). Inscribed by Author(s).

Exhibition Announcement Cards. This is not a book. The original announcement card for an exhibition of work by Robert Morris titled "Small Fires and Mnemonic Nights" and held at Leo Castelli, NYC, January 28 - March 19, 2005. Stiff card, printed both sides; 5 x 7 inches. Condition: Fine. Laid-in is the gallery press release. Will be sandwiched securely between stiff layers of cardboard and shipped the next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed to the title page. Brand new copy. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. 303, [1] pages. Illustrations. Glossary. Index. Introduction by Vitaly Korotich. Afterword by Andrei Sakharov. Afterword by Olzhas Suleimenov. There is an inscription on the fep signed by the Editor (Albee) The inscription reads To Senator Leahy: Russia is a long way from Vermont, but at least I knew how to keep warm there. My best wishes to you and your family. Marina Albee. Christopher Cerf (born August 19, 1941) is an American author, composer-lyricist, voice actor, and record and television producer. He has contributed music to Sesame Street, and co-created and co-produced the PBS literacy education television program Between the Lions. Cerf's father was Random House co-founder, publisher, editor and TV panelist Bennett Cerf. Cerf also work as an author and satirist. In 1970, he helped launch the National Lampoon, serving as a Contributing Editor from its first issue until the mid-1970s. Marina Albee was a Ph.D. student at The Harriman Institute at Columbia University in NYC in 1985. She decided to go there because of dynamic professor Jonathan Sanders, who had organized the construction of an antenna on the roof of the Institute to watch Soviet television. Marina began to study the Soviet Union through its television and Mikhail Gorbachev's USSR was changing it every day. The inventor of the system went on tour to Moscow and she accompanied him to Gosteleradio. This led to a career spanning 30 years, doing live satellite TV, to TV and film production, to music production, to telecom servicing. She teaches at the European University at St. Petersburg. From Library Journal: This compendium of both published and unpublished letters sent to Ogonyok , Russia's leading illustrated weekly, provides vivid glimpses of Soviet citizens burning with rage at a state bureaucracy that has yet to experience glasnost and perestroika below the highest governmental levels. The Soviet substitute for Larry King, Dear Abby, and the Better Business Bureau, this column serves a broader purpose than letters' columns in the United States, and some of the stories recounted here--by retirees, homemakers, and parents of Soviet soldiers--are heartbreaking. Soviet society has never been portrayed in a more wretched light. - Robert Decker, Columbia. Patrick Joseph Leahy (born March 31, 1940) is an American politician and attorney who represented Vermont in the United States Senate from 1975 to 2023, and also served as the president pro tempore of the United States Senate from 2012 to 2015 and from 2021 to 2023. A member of the Democratic Party, he chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Agriculture Committee at various points during his 48-year tenure. Leahy is the third-longest-serving U.S. senator in history, and is the longest-serving member of the United States Congress to solely serve as a U.S. senator. In April 2023, Mayor Miro Weinberger announced that Burlington International Airport would be renamed Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport.

8vo, pp. 47, [1] blank, [2] publisher's advertisement and blank, including 10 full page plates (some partially coloured in red); some occasional light foxing and marginal browning, with neat repair to gutter of p. 33; with contemporary newspaper review pasted on to front paste down, and contemporary manuscript note giving an 'epitome of a paper given by Teale'; in the original burnt sienna publisher's cloth, neatly recased, upper cover ruled and decorated in black, head and tail of spine a little rubbed, spine and upper cover somewhat soiled and darkened, a good copy. First edition of this instructive work by the noted surgeon to the General Infirmary at Leeds, and renowned domestic sanitarian Thomas Pridgin Teale, junior (1831 - 1923). According to the preface, Economy of Coal is an expansion of 'a lecture delivered on November 22nd, 1882, before the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society' and was published 'in the hope that it may contribute to the diminution of soot and smoke throughout the Kingdom, and so further one great aim of the sanitary reformers, the improvement of the atmosphere of towns; that it may effect a large reduction in the amount of cinders and ashes, and so lessen municipal rates; that it may enhance the comfort of the sick room by rendering a fire more free from noise and dust and more lasting; and that it may induce many persons, including the delicate, the invalid, and the hard worked family doctor, to look upon a fire in the bedroom, not as a superfluous extravagance, but as a much needed comfort, nay, as a profitable investment towards the maintenance of health' (Preface). Teale describes his new device for controlling the draft of a fireplace from below, the "Economiser" in full, showing how effective it is in contrast to ordinary fireplaces, which he illustrates with graphic captions. It soon became standard and was known as the "Teale Grate", and was 'the result of several years' experience and of a number of experiments to determine the best means of obtaining an open fireplace with slow combustion and a maximum of heating power. It abolished the old iron grate, placed high up in the fireplace, with black bars for winter and polished steel bars for summer use. The idea, however, was not wholly new, as Teale discovered to his great delight one day when, visiting Hatfield House, he found the principles he advocated were embodied there in grates of the sixteenth century' (Plarrs Lives Online - Royal College of Surgeons). By 1890, the Teale Fireplace Company had been established in Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, with works in Kelsall Street, run by Lionel Teale, presumably the son of the inventor, and Richard Somers. It manufactured every kind of heating apparatus.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pages unnumbered, illustrated in B&W. - Various Small Fires (second edition 1970) - Edward Ruscha - SIGNED : To Maria ! : Ed Ruscha 1970 - very good copy, interior fine with some small spots on the last two pages, a fragile protective paper cover is pasted on the inside cover. Size: 178 x 140 Mm. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Fine in white printed wrappers with dark gray titles in the original clear glassine protective wrapper. Clear acetate protective wrapper supplied. (48pp. ) (5 1/2" X 7") Features 16 offset black & white photographs. The artist's second artist book limited to only 400 copies. Scarce this nice. (B); 5 1/2" x 7"; 48 pages.

First Edition. First edition in English, being a translation of Gauger's translation of Mécanique du feu (Paris, 1713), with additions; 12mo, pp. [12], 7-161, [12]; 9 engraved folding copperplates ( the first two slightly dampstained at the top, 1 other with a short repair in the upper corner - no loss - and one with a ragged lower margin - again, no loss); advertisement leaf in neat facsimile; joints starting, but in all a nice copy in contemporary full paneled calf. The book was reprinted in London by Senex and Curll in 1736, and another edition appeared in Paris as late as 1749.

[Los Angeles], [Edward Ruscha], 1970. [44] unnumbered pp. [16] monochrome ills (b./w. and pale yellow photographs) by Ed Ruscha. Orig. softcover (printed wrappers) with glassine cover. [18 x 14 cm.]. - Glassine cover sl. discol. on back cover; tiny little light stripe on the front. Second edition, published in a limited edition of 300 copies (The first edition of 196 was published in only 400 copies). - This booklet is Ed Ruscha's second photographically illustrated artist's book. Contains photographic images of fires, including a gas stove, a cigarette, a pipe, a cigar, a welding torch, a highway flare, and more; the final image shows a glass of milk. "Ed Ruscha's works retain their capacity to surprise, delight, and bewilder in equal measure. In the decades since their publication, they have been exhibited, written about, and analyzed extensively, yet somehow they remain objects of mystery and fascination, beguiling in their utter simplicity and unwavering accuracy. At the time of their publication, they were largely overlooked by much of the photography world. The seeming anti-formalism and indifferent technique of Ruscha's photographs were mocked; the perfect formalism of each book as art object was unappreciated. Ruscha's interest in, and indebtedness to, two of photography's greats - Walker Evans and Robert Frank - was also ignored." From: The Photobook: A History Volume II / Martin Parr and Gerry Badger. London, Phaidon, 2004.

First edition of Nauman's seminal self-published artist's book. A reworking of Ed Ruscha's 1964 work 'Various Small Fires and Milk', Nauman tore apart Ruscha's earlier book, burning and photographing its pages to to be rearranged on a single large sheet in the form of a new work. This is a rare and early work, reacting to both the introverted aesthetic nature of 1960's conceptual art (incapsulated here in Ruscha's cold, neutral, documentary photobooks) and the ongoing political and human chaos of the Vietnam War and the approaching end of the decade of protest. Original card wrappers, offset lithograph in colours. Single folded sheet, 93 x 127 cm unfolded, 36 x 24 cm folded. Housed in a red cloth flat-back box by the Chelsea Bindery. Wrappers with small bend to top right corner and some slight discolouration. Single folded sheet in excellent condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A FINE FIRST EDITION SECOND PRINTING IN ACETATE Los Angeles: Anderson, Ritchie and Simon, 1964 (but 1970). 8vo. Publisher's white stiff wrappers titled in black, glassine jacket. Very light wear and toning. Second edition.

Softcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Glossy printed plain white wraps with original glassine jacket. 5.55" x 7.05" An extraordinary copy of the second of Ruscha's iconic publications, in pristine condition. The glassine jacket is original and unscathed. The jackets exhibit some age-toning and offsetting from where it was part of a small stack of three Ruscha books which set on top of each other for some period of time as if in a display. The superior condition of this book cannot be overstated. From what can be pieced together, this book was part of a group which was likely sent to a New York Art Book store as part of a marketing campaign to sell the books, which originally did not sell well for Ruscha. This is a first edition. VARIOUS SMALL FIRES AND MILK is dated 1964 at the base of the title-page and is copyrighted 1964, and one of 400 copies printed by Anderson Ritchie & Simon, Los Angeles. An extraordinary copy.

RUSCHA, EDWARD. Various Small Fires and Milk. Unpaginated artist's book with 16 b&w illustrations. 8vo, wraps. 1964. First edition. Photographs "document" a variety of small fires, including a gas range, a cigarette, a blow torch and a highway flare. The final photograph shows a glass of milk.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. ONLY 400 COPIES PRINTED. VERY FINE COPY. A REPLACED GLASSINE JACKET SO IT HAS NONE OF THE BROWNING OF MOST GLASSINES. NEW GLASSINE JACKET HAS A TINY FLAW ON SPINE AND 1/4" TEAR NEAR SPINE. IT'S 55 YEARS OLD. ORIGINAL GLASSINE IS AVAILABLE IF YOU REQUEST IT. BUYER SELECTS AND PAYS FOR SHIPPING.