151. Brenner, Summer.

Dancers and the Dance. Stories by Summer Brenner.

First Edition. Minneapolis, Coffee House Press, 1990. 14cm x 21.5cm. 144 (1) pages. Original Paperback. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed / signed by the author.

152. Benetton, Simon / Moderna, Galleria Civica d’Arte (Editor).

Simon Benetton – L’Immagine plastica come idea architettonica / A Plastic Image as architectonical Idea. [SIGNED / INSCRIBED] 1 Aprile – 6 Maggio 1984, Comune d Ferrara. Assessorato Istituzioni Culturali, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Palazzo dei Diamanti Ferrara, Sala d’Arte “Benvenuto Tisi”.

O.O., o.V., 1984. 8°. 95 Pages. Original Softcover (titled, illustrated). Beautifully inscribed and signed by Simon Benetton in Italian on front free endpaper.

153. Attali, Jacques.

Les trois mondes: pour une théorie de l’après-crise.

Paris, Fayard, 1981. Octavo. 335 pages. Broche / Softcover. A theory of post-crisis economics by the bold and dashing thinker and statesman, one of the somehow representative presences on the French intellectual scene during the post-structuralist period. Very good in publisher’s printed wraps, rear and front covers bumped at top with resulting crease to covers and pages. Inscribed by the author to Stephen Graubard.

154. Amichai, Yehuda.

Great Tranquillity: Questions and Answers. Translated from the Hebrew by Glenda Abramson and Tudor Parfitt.

First edition, New York / Cambridge and others, Harper & Row, 1983. 14.5 cm x 20.9 cm 90 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed and signed by Yehuda Amichai to american poet William Jay Smith and his wife Sonja: “To Bill and Sonja – with much affection – Yehuda – NY – 2-10-84”.

155. Aksyonov, Vassilii Pavlovich.

The Burn. A novel in three books (Late Sixties – Early Seventies). Translated from the Russian by Michael Glenny.

New York, Random House, 1984. 528 pages. Hardcover / Original cloth with dustjacket. First US edition of “Ozhog” – this portrait of life during the Kruschev years, whose publication in Italy forced Aksyonov to emigrate in 1980. Probably his major work to date. Near fine in very good+ dust jacket. Inscribed and signed by Aksyonov on the front free endpaper.