ART FARE. PHOTOGRAPHS by ANDY FREEBERG. SIGNED by ANDY FREEBERG and also by the W.M. Hunt, who wrote the book's essay. Both signatures are below their printed names on the page facing the title page. Published by Sojourn Books, 2014. First Edition. LIMITED EDITION. From the Copyright Page: "Art Fare is printed in a first edition of 1,000 copies". ISBN: 9780615938332. Hardcover Book, no dustjacket as issued, 14x11 inches oblong. Filled with 42 color photographic plates, each on its own page, most with blank versos. There is an essay by W.M. Hunt at the end of the book. NEAR FINE condition, the covers have some shelf rubs, overall tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A lovely copy. Hard to Find, especially so SIGNED by the PHOTOGRAPHER and ESSAYIST. NTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This book will require additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact us ahead of time to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

ANDY GOLDSWORTHY Two Autumns

Exhibition Catalogue SIGNED by ANDY GOLDSWORTHY in black ink on the title page.

Published by Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts / Setagaya Museum, Japan, 1993. First edition. Softcover, illustrated wrappers with raised printing, 10" x 9", 121 pages, text in English and Japanese, beautifully illustrated throughout with color photographs of Goldsworthy's amazing installations. VERY GOOD CONDITION: a touch of light wear to the covers, internally tight, bright, clean, unmarked and Andy Goldworthy's signature is bold and bright. An excellent copy. Uncommon, just 11 copies in OCLC collections worldwide.

Andy Goldsworthy (b. 1956) British sculptor, photographer and environmentalist who continues to create some of the worlds most renowned site-specific art installations, both ephemeral and permanent works in natural and urban settings using natural materials, such as branches, leaves, sand, ice, and stone that originate from the local site.

FTL SOFTNESS MOVEMENT AND LIGHT : TODD DALLAND / NICHOLAS GOLDSMITH. Architecture Monograph on architects Todd Dalland and Nicholas Goldsmith, and their company FTL (Future Tents Limited). By Robert Kronenburg. Published by Academy Editions, London, 1997. First Edition. Published as Architectural Monographs No. 48. SIGNED by both TODD DALLAND and NICHOLAS GOLDSMITH on the half title page. Softcover Book, French flaps, 10x12 inches, 128 pages. Illustrated throughout. VERY GOOD condition, the covers have shelf rubbing and a bit of wear to their corner tips and spine ends, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, very nice copy. INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: This book is rather large and heavy and will require additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the additional charges and be able to accept or reject them before your payment is processed. Or you can contact me to find out the shipping charge to your country. Thanks.

POEMS OF W.B. YEATS. Published by ARION PRESS, San Francisco, 1990. ILLUSTRATED with SIX ETCHINGS by RICHARD DIEBENKORN.

SIGNED by DIEBENKORN on the limitation page.

This is Copy "L" of 26 LETTERED COPIES for distribution to the "participants in this publication", out of a total limitation of 426 copies.

Red goatskin leather backed spine and cloth covered boards, 8x10.5 inches (20x26.5 cm), xxv, 171 pages plus the unnumbered Diebenkorn etching plates, in cloth and paper covered slipcase. Includes its original prospectus.

FINE BOOK and SLIPCASE. Simply lovely. The prospectus has a light crease to the upper spine corner area, otherwise bright and clear.

One of the nicest copies of the ARION PRESS YEATS / DIEBENKORN fine printing that I have seen.

SCARCE, especially so in the LETTERED EDITION.

THE CRETAN GOATHERDER. Poem by MICHAEL ANDREWS with FOUR ORIGINAL SILKSCREENS - TWO by PINDAROS MICHAELEDES and TWO by BERTRAIND BRACAVAL.

ARTIST'S BOOK. SIGNED and NUMBERED by the Poet, Michael Andrews, on the limitation page (the last page), and EACH SILKSCREEN is SIGNED and NUMBERED by its ARTIST, Pindaros Michaeledes or Bertrand Bracaval. This is Copy #7 of only 15 SIGNED copies, out of a total run of 60 copies.

Loose leaves in brown paper wrappers titled and speckled in silver, 7.5x11 inches (19x28cm) oblong, in the Publisher's handmade slipcase.

Published by Pré Nian Editions, Retaud, France, 2014.

Condition: FINE copy, lovely.

From the Colophon / Limitation page: "THE CRETAN GOATHERDER / poem by Michael Andrews...silkscreens by Pindaros Michaeledes and Bertrand Bracaval / hand-set in Vendome and printed by letterpress by Pré Nian Editions in the Atelier de Retaud / hand-made slipcase by Jeanne Frere / 60 copies, plus 15 author copies numbered and signed in August 2014".

BALOGH LASZLO - ART MONOGRAPH / EXHIBITION CATALOG. Published by the Szentendre Gallery, Szentendre Hungary, on the occasion of the László Balogh retrospective exhibition, 1990. The catalog was edited and the exhibition curated by Ferenc Hann.

An art monograph on the Hungarian painter Laszlo Balogh. Introductory text in Hungarian, English and German. Illustrated with 37 b&w and color reproductions of Laszlo's paintings.

SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by BALOGH LASZLO, in German, on the title page.

Softcovers, small format 5.5x7.25 inches (14x18 cm), 38 unnumbered pages of introductory text followed by 37 illustrations each on its own page.

GOOD condition: the covers have shelf rubs, scratches and some soiling; internally nice, "NFS" is written at the top corner of the title page, otherwise the pages are tight, bright, clean and clear, and the Laszlo Balogh inscription is sharp and bright.

About LASZLO BALOGH (from Wikipedia):

******László Balogh, b.1930 d.2023, was a Hungarian painter from Szentendre. Since 1956, his works have been shown both in Hungary and abroad, and his paintings can be found in private and public collections in Hungary, Germany, the United States, Switzerland, France, Austria, Sweden, Finland and Spain.******

HANDWRITTEN TWO PAGE LETTER by BOOTH TARKINGTON to SILBERMAN (Elkan or Abris of E. & A. Silberman Galleries). The brothers Elkan and Abris Silberman ran a major New York Gallery and were greatly responsible for building and caring for Booth Tarkington's art collection. Tarkington's letter references a number of artworks that are in need of repair. The letter is written in a friendly and jocular tone, reminiscent of much of Tarkington's writing.

The letter is long, written on both sides of a 9x15.5 inch piece of heavy stock paper. The letter has several folds where it was likely folded to fit into an envelope (no envelope is present). It is dated May 12, 1939. The letter comes with a two page typed transcript on onion skin paper. I don't know who made this early transcript, perhaps Silberman or another previous owner of the book and letter.

The letter is laid-into a special SIGNED, LIMITED, FIRST EDITION of "SOME OLD PORTRAITS", by BOOTH TARKINGTON. The limitation/signature page states this is copy #34 of 247 copies. Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co., New York, 1939. Hardcovers, 7.5x10 inches, xx +249 pages, Illustrated with portraiture plates.

Interesting that Tarkington's letter to his art dealer friend was written in the same year as his non-fiction book about art was published.

Condition: NEAR FINE book, sharp, tight, bright, clean and unmarked, one of the nicest copies I have seen. The letter is in GOOD solid condition, folds and signs of handling but still solid with handwriting that is bright and clear. The typed transcript of the letter has tears, creases and areas of the blank margin are torn away, but it is still textually complete and fully legible.

Booth Tarkington was a collector of art and was quite knowledgeable about the subject. He served for many years as a trustee of the John Herron Art Museum. The New York art dealers Elkan and Abris Silberman (E. & A. Silberman Galleries) helped build his collection and became his friend. Tarkington and the Silbermans corresponded for many years. He even used the brothers as the basis for nis 1934 romantic novel "Rumbin Galleries". In 2016 the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields held an Exhibition of works from Tarkington's collection, titled: "A Gentleman Collector from Indiana: Portraits from the Collection of Booth Tarkington".

About E. & A. SILBERMAN GALLERIES (from Wikipedia):

******E. & A. Galleries was founded in 1938 by brothers Elkan Silberman, d.1952, and Abris Silberman, d.1968, from Austria. In the 1920s, the Silberman brothers owned the E. & A. Silberman art dealership in Vienna. After the 1938 Anschluss their company was expropriated. Fearing persecution the Silbermans left for the United States where they founded a new art dealership in New York under the name E. & A. Silberman Galleries, Inc. They built a reputation as the art dealership "that had helped form museum collections", as well as the collections of G. H. A. Clowes, Dan Fellows Platt, Booth Tarkington, and L. M. Rabinowitz.******

METABIOTICA / METABIOTICS. Monograph on the Brazilian Graphic Street Artist ALEXANDRE ORION.

SIGNED and DATED by ORION on the back cover.

Printed in Sao Paolo, Brazil, by EGM Grafica, 2006. Polyglot edition, text in Portuguese, English, French and Spanish. ISBN 10: 8598614033 ISBN 13: 978-8598614038.

Softcover book in printed slipcase, 12x12 inches (30x30 cm), 80 pages. Fully illustrated throughout.

Condition: NEAR FINE book, tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a VERY GOOD slipcase that has a touch of wear at its folds. A lovely copy.

RARE, especially so SIGNED.

About ALEXANDRE ORION (from Wikipedia):

******Alexandre Orion, b.1978 in Sao Paulo, is a Brazilian street artist, multimedia artist and muralist.

He started as a graffiti artist in 1992, soon expanding into murals, photography and multimedia. Orion has held a number of solo exhibitions internationally and his work has been exhibited or acquired by such venues as the Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Centro Cultural da Caixa, Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, Fondation Cartier Pour l'Art Contemporain in Paris, Centrum Beeldende Kunst of Rotterdam, Milwaukee Museum, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Spencer Museum of Art, and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York.******

THE CROOKED LINES OF GOD : POEMS 1949-1954, by BROTHER ANTONINUS (aka WILLIAM EVERSON).

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by BROTHER ANTONINUS on the front free endpaper (with a small mark of the cross at the top of the inscription): "This book is for Burke / Brother Antoninus / Advent 1962".

Published by the University of Detroit Press, 1962. Third Edition, limited to 1000 copies. From the Colophon Page (the least page): "1000 copies of this third edition have been printed by photo-lithography. Originally designed & printed letterpress by the Albertus Magnus Press, St. Albert's College, Oakland, California, the types used are Centaur & American Uncial." This was the first work published in the University of Detroit's Contemporary Poets Series.

Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, 8.5x9 inches, 88 pages.

Condition: VERY GOOD book, the gilt titling on the spine has mostly rubbed away, otherwise sharp, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. In a GOOD dustjacket that has closed tears to

the front fold and a couple small closed edge tears (all of which have been repaired and reinforced with clear tape on the blank backside), and a bit of spine end wear, otherwise the dj is bright, clear, and doing its job well, and it retains its original $4.00 printed price at the top of the front flap.

You can read about Brother Antoninus / William Everson on Wikipedia. An interesting man who led an interesting, both Catholic and Secular, poetic life.

CARL G. HEMPEL - THREE BOOKS / 2 SIGNED

(1) ASPECTS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION: And Other Essays in the Philosophy of Science, by Carl G. Hempel. SIGNED & INSCRIBED by HEMPEL. Published by The Free Press, New York, 1965. First edition, with the 1965 date on the copyright page with no indication of additional printings. Hardcover book, burgundy cloth covered boards, silver printing on the spine, top page edges stained black, 6x9.5 inches, 505 pages. GOOD condition, the covers have a bit of wear to the spine ends and corner tips, the page edges (page edges of the closed book) have some light stains and soiling, internally there are some relevant margin notes in pencil here and there, otherwise the book is tight, bright, clean and clear. The SIGNATURE and INSCRIPTION are on the title page. The inscription reads; "To John Asherhurst / with best wishes and thanks for his help in proofreading! / Carl G. Hempel / 10-16-65". The hardcover first edition of this book is scarce (the later 1970 paperback is rather common). The first edition is almost impossible to find signed and inscribed.

(2) SCIENCE AND SUBJECTIVITY, by ISRAEL SCHEFFLER, Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. This is CARL G. HEMPEL'S COPY which he SIGNED and DATED on the first blank page: "C. G. Hempel / 10-3-67". There are also some relevant notes on the first page, possibly in Hempel's hand. Published by the Bobbs Merrill Company, 1967. First Printing, so stated on the copyright page. Softcovers, 5.5x8 inches, 132 pages. GOOD condition, some scraping and soiling to the covers, otherwise tight, bright, clean and clear.

(3) DER TYPUSBEGRIFF IM LICHTE DER NEUEN LOGIK, von Carl G. Hempel und Paul Oppenheim. (THE CONCEPT of TYPOLOGY in LIGHT of the NEW LOGIC, by Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim.) Published by A.W. Suthoff's, Leiden, Netherlands, 1936. First edition. Paper wrappers, 6x9 inches, 130 pages. Text in German. GOOD MINUS condition, soiling to the covers, front spine fold is tender but holding, some margin marks and underlining here and there throughout, stamp of "University of Pennsylvania Libraries" (where Hempel was a Professor starting in 1977) at the bottom of a blank prelim page, the stamp has been lined out in black and there are no other ex-library marks in or on the book, otherwise a respectable, complete copy of this early book by Carl G. Hempel and Paul Oppenheim, with an ex-lib association to the University of Pittsburgh where Hempel was a Professor.

About CARL G. HEMPEL (from Wikipedia):

******Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel, b.1905 d.1997, was a German writer, philosopher, logician, and epistemologist. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the standard model of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the Raven Paradox, aka "Hempel's Paradox".

After moving to Berlin, Hempel met Rudolf Carnap and became involved in the Berlin Circle of philosophers associated with the Vienna Circle.

In 1937 Hempel emigrated to the United States, where he accepted a position as Carnap's assistant at the University of Chicago. He later held positions at the City College of New York, Yale University, and Princeton University, where he taught alongside Thomas Kuhn and remained until made emeritus in 1973. In 1977 he became the University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1989 the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University renamed its Three Lecture Series the "Carl G. Hempel Lectures" in his honor. He was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society for which he served as President.******

Typescript Draft of the novel DAYS WITHOUT WEATHER by CECIL BROWN, an African-American author and screenwriter.

Copy of an original draft typescript. This early photocopy of the original typed pages was probably made for distribution to agent, editor and/or publisher.

The last page is Signed and Dated: "July 3, 1981 / Hollywood-Berkeley 1979, 81 / Cecil Brown" (again, this is a draft COPY of the actual signed page, not a hand signature on this draft) . The author's typed name "Brown": is at the top of every page. 296 pages, printed on plain 8.5x11 inch paper, printed on one side only (i.e. there are 296 sheets of paper).

Accompanying this typescript draft is a HAND SIGNED and INSCRIBED First Edition of DAYS WITHOUT WEATHER. Hardcover book in dustjacket, 5.5x8 inches, 250 pages. Published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 1983. "First Edition 1983" stated on the copyright page. The inscription is on the front free endpaper: "To Stanley / Here's to the new friendship! / Cecil Brown / Sept. 6 1987".

The TYPESCRIPT is in GOOD condition: the pages are lightly age toned; the first page has some closed edge tears, corner creases, and edge wear; the first 25 pages have corner creases; the last 10 pages have corner creases; the last several pages have edge wear, closed edge tears, and creases; the last page has a lot of creasing and edge tears; there are early photocopy machine smudges, marks, and lines here and there throughout. Overall, ALL PAGES, including the first and last page, remain bright and clear. The BOOK is in NEAR FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and clear; the DUSTJACKET is in GOOD condition, substantially sunned / faded at the spine, otherwise solid and bright. A nice, signed, first edition copy.

SCARCE WORKING DRAFT of the BITTER & FUNNY NOVEL "DAYS WITHOUT WEATHER" by the BLACK NOVELIST and SCREENWRITER CECIL BROWN, along with a first edition, signed and inscribed copy of the published book.

About CECIL BROWN (from Wikipedia):

******Cecil Brown, b.1943, is an African-American author, screenwriter, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His noted works include The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger and work as a screenwriter on the 1977 Richard Pryor film Which Way Is Up?

Born in rural Bolton, North Carolina, Brown attended North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University of Greensboro, North Carolina, where he earned his B.A. in English in 1966. He later earned his Ph.D. in African American Studies, Folklore and Narrative from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently a Professor at U.C. Berkeley in the African American Studies Department. His published books include: The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger (1969); Pryor Lives (1969); Days Without Weather (1983); I, Stagolee (1993); Stagolee Shot Billy (2003); and Dude, Where's My Black Studies Department? (2007).

Awards include: Professor John Angus Burrell Memorial Prize, Columbia University, 1966; Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award for DAYS WITHOUT WEATHER, 1984; Berlin Literary Fellowship, 1985; UC Berkeley, Mentor Fellowship, 1992.******

CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI - STRIP THE AUCTIONEER at CHRISTIE'S.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by JANKOWSKI on the first page: "For Marcher / Christian Jankowski / 4.3.10".

Softcovers, 8.5" x 10.5", 48 unnumbered pages PLUS a bound-in 48 page booklet, with 36 pages in English and German that describe the auction, and 12 pages of reactions by the winning bidders of the various items.

VERY GOOD condition, some light creases to the covers from handling, overall just lightly used and still tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, very nice copy.

Shows the actual AUCTION EVENT that took place at CHRISTIE'S, Amsterdam, where the LONGTIME AUCTIONEER ARNO VERKADE stripped and auctioned off much of his clothing, piece by piece, with the last piece being his personal Auctioneer's Hammer. (If you are wondering, yes, he left his pants on.)

The auction was incorporated into a PERFORMANCE PIECE / EXHIBITION put together by the CONTEMPORARY GERMAN ARTIST CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI. The Christie's "STRIP THE AUCTIONEER" was broadcast live into the Jankowski Exhibition on its opening day, as part of the exhibition. It was then shown on video repeatedly during the life of the exhibition. Published by Walther König, Köln, Germany, 2011.

Looks like a Christie's Auction Catalogue, but is actually a photographic revisiting of the auction, with photos by a Christie's photographer. It was published after the auction took place, showing, through photographs, how it took place, how the auctioneer stripped, the items sold, and the prices they obtained. There is also a bound-in booklet that shows the winning bidders and gives their reactions to the items they won, the high prices they paid, and to the event as a whole.

The pieces of clothing that the auctioneer removed and then auctioned included his shoes, socks, shirt, jacket, etc. Each item (i.e. one left shoe) went for approximately two thousand euros, blurring the line between what is art, what is collectible, and what is just a dirty sock that the auctioneer has just taken off his foot.

SCARCE SIGNED and INSCRIBED by JANKOWSKI.

You can read about the Contemporary German Multi-Media Artist CHRISTIAN JANKOWSKI on Wikipedia.

L'HISTOIRE DES GUERRES MITHRIDATIQUES VUE PAR LES MONNAIES, par François de Callatay.

(HISTORY of the MITHRIDATIC WARS as SEEN through its COINS, by Francois de Callatay.)

SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by the AUTHOR on the half title page: "March 15, 2003 / To my friend Buzz Owen / With all my very best wishes / François de Callatay".

Also, laid-in is a brief handwritten letter from the author, along with its mailing envelope. "Brussels / January 14th, 2003 / To Buzz (Owen) / The most enthusiastic buyer of my Mithridatic book! With recent but true friendship! / Francois (de Callatay)". The return address on the envelope is Koninklijke Bibliotheek Van Belgie (The Royal Library of Belgium) where Francois de Callatay was head of the Cabinet des Medailles.

Published by Département d'Archéologie et d'Histoire de l'Art / Séminaire de Numismatique Marcel Hoc, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, 1997. First edition.

Hardcovers, green cloth covered boards, gilt titles on the front cover and spine, gilt Pegasus on the front cover, 8.5x11 inches (21x27 cm). Pagination: xii, [2], 480, [6] pp. With 54 PHOTOGRAPHIC PLATES of ANCIENT COINS depicting the era of the MITHRIDATIC WARS.

TEXT in FRENCH.

VERY GOOD condition, the upper front and bottom rear cover corners are bumped, otherwise the covers are solid with bright gilt on the front cover and spine; internally near fine, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. A nice, very presentable copy.

RARE, especially so SIGNED and INSCRIBED.

About the MITHRIDATIC WARS (from Wikipedia):

******The Mithridatic Wars were three conflicts fought by Rome against the Kingdom of Pontus and its allies between 88 BC and 63 BC. They are named after Mithridates VI, the King of Pontus who initiated the hostilities after annexing the Roman province of Asia into its Pontic Empire (that came to include most of Asia Minor) and committing massacres against the local Roman population known as the Asian Vespers.******

About François de Callatay (from Wikipedia):

******François de Callatay, b.1961, is a Belgian ancient historian, professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne - Paris), who has written significant studies of coinage in the ancient Mediterranean world.******

INTERNATIONAL BIDDERS PLEASE NOTE: This book is heavy and will require substantial additional shipping charges. After placing your order you will be notified of the charges and be able to accept or reject them before payment is taken. Thanks!

POETRY BROADSIDE "32 BEAMS OF LIGHT..." by DAVID MELTZER, with a tipped-on WOODCUT by JAMES HIBBARD.

Published by the Yes! Press in an edition of only 100 copies in 1970, as stated in the colophon at the bottom of the sheet.

The BROADSIDE is SIGNED by DAVID MELTZER above his printed name. The WOODCUT is SIGNED by JIM HIBBARD below the printed image, and hand dated 12/6/70.

The BROADSIDE SHEET, including the tipped-on woodcut, is 9x13 inches. The woodcut is 5.25x5.75 inches and is tipped-on to the upper part of the broadside.

GOOD condition, some creasing to the margins and corners, otherwise solid and bright.

About DAVID MELTZER, Poet (from Wikipedia):

******David Meltzer, b.1937 d.2016, was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. One of the key poets of the Beat generation, Meltzer was also a jazz guitarist, Kabbalist scholar, and the author of books of poetry and prose. Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as one of the great post WWII San Francisco poets.******

About JAMES HIBBARD, Artist (from the Hallie Ford Museum of Art / Willamette University Museum website):

******Jim Hibbard, b.1936 d.2022, was an important Northwest artist who, after a 30-year career of exhibiting and teaching in Portland, established a new home and studio in Guanajuato, Mexico, where he continued to work productively almost until his death in 2022. The HFMA will have an retrospective of his artworks from Mexico and his earlier Portland years titled: Jim Hibbard: Back in View. The exhibition will run from May 6 - August 12, 2023.******

AUTOBIOGRAPHY of DORIS DURANTI. Italian book, illustrated with photographs. Titled: DORIS DURANTI : Il Romanzo Della Mia Vita. A cura di Gian Franco Vene. (DORIS DURANTI : The Novel of My Life. Edited by Gian Franco Vene.) Published by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan, Italy, 1987. Second edition (printed in the same year as the first edition). TEXT IN ITALIAN. SIGNED and INSCRIBED by DORIS DURANTI to ROBERTO PASTORINO, who at the time was the U.S. AMBASSADOR to the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. The Signature and Inscription of Doris Duranti are on the front free endpaper. Hardcover Book in Dustjacket, blue cloth covered boards with gilt titling on the spine, 5.5x8.5 inches (14x21 cm), 310 pages plus 16 pages of b&w photographs. Condition: VERY GOOD book, light foxing to the page edges (page edges of the closed book), otherwise sharp cornered, tight, bright, clean and unmarked; in a GOOD dustjacket that has some edge creasing, rubs, and light signs of handling, but remains solid and bright, and retains its 23,000 Lire price at the bottom of the rear flap. About DORIS DURANTI (excerpted from Wikipedia and other Internet sites): ******DORIS DURANTI (b. Livorno Italy 1917 d. Santo Domingo Dominican Republic 1995). Doris Duranti was an ITALIAN FEMME FATALE ACTRESS active mainly in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1940 she became the mistress of the cruel Italian Fascist Alessandro Pavolini. In 1945 Pavolini was captured and killed by the Italian Partisans who then hung him upside down along with Mussolini, Mussolini's mistress, and others. Doris Duranti managed to escape to Switzerland just days before she would have been captured and killed, then to Brazil. She returned to Italy in 1949, but her film career was over. Not many years later she moved to Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic, where she remained for the rest of her life.****** About AMBASSADOR ROBERT PASTORINO (excerpted from various online obituaries): ******Ambassador Robert S. Pastorino, b. 1940 d. 2014, served from 1967 to 1994 as a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State in Washington D.C., and in Mexico, Venezuela, Portugal, Colombia, Honduras and Dominican Republic. In 1986 Pastorino was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Inter-American Affairs, and also served as a commodities negotiator and financial analyst at the Department of State. In 1988 Pastorino was appointed by President Ronald Reagan to serve as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, as Senior Director of Latin American Affairs on the National Security Council staff. In 1991 he was named Ambassador to the Dominican Republic by President George H. W. Bush.******

DORIS LESSING POSTER. "AN EVENING TO BENEFIT THE AFGHAN REFUGEE FUND / DORIS LESSING". The "Lecture and Conversation" event took place on April 9 (1984) in Berkeley, California.

SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by DORIS LESSING in Silver Ink: "With good wishes / Doris Lessing / 9th April 1984".

The poster is 13 x 19.5 inches. It is in VERY GOOD condition, with some creases from handling to the right margin, overall bright and lovely.

The poster was stored rolled, and will be shipped in its natural rolled state. Would look great mounted and/or framed.

This event took place a few years before the publication of her book "The Wind Blows Away Our Words". The book was about the horrors taking place in Afghanistan and how the West was doing little to help.

An unusual Doris Lessing item.