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	CARY, JOYCE The Horse's Mouth: A Novel New York, Harper & Brothers. 1944, Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, xxiii, 311 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Spine slightly cocked. Age toning. Dust jacket, lightly rubbed, protected in a mylar book cover. This comic novel was the basis of a film starring Alec Guiness depicting a young, "beatnik" painter. An attractive copy. Very Good/Very Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 005929 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	CHESSMAN, HARRIET SCOTT Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper: A Novel New York, Plume Books; Penguin. 2002, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0452283507) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xi, 164 pp. [5] leaves of plates, col. illus.; 19 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Plume Printing: November 2002." "Harriet Scott Chessman takes us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings through Mary's sister Lydia, whom the author sees as Cassatt's most inspiring muse. Chessman hauntingly brings to life Paris in 1880, with its thriving art world. The novel's subtle power rises out of a sustained inquiry into art's relation to the ragged world of desire and mortality. Ill with Bright's disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia contemplates her world narrowing. With the rising emotional tension between the loving sisters, between one who sees and one who is seen, Lydia asks moving questions about love and art's capacity to remember. Chessman illuminates Cassatt's brilliant paintings and creates a compelling portrait of the brave and memorable model who inhabits them with such grace. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper includes five full-color plates, the entire group of paintings Mary Cassatt made of her sister." - Publisher. Fine. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 034995 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	CHEVALIER, TRACY Girl with a Pearl Earring New York, Plume Books. 2001, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0452282152) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 233 pp.; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius..even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil." - Publisher. Fine. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 265] Book number: 011353 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	DOUMANI, CAROL Untitled, Nude: A Novel Venice, CA, Wave Publishing. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 096423596X) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, xii, 335 pp. illus.; 24 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Edition." Fine DJ. The setting of this novel is the LA art scene. Fine/Fine. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 015693 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HICKEY, ELIZABETH The Painted Kiss: A Novel New York, Atria Books. 2005, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0743492609) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 270 pp.; 23 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Edition." Fine DJ. "In her passionate and atmospheric debut novel, The Painted Kiss, Elizabeth Hickey reimagines the relationship between Gustav Klimt and the woman whose name he uttered with his dying breath. Vienna in 1886 was a city of elegant cafe;s, grand opera houses, and a thriving and adventurous artistic community. It was there that twelve-year-old Emilie Flöge met the con-troversial libertine and painter Gustav Klimt. When Klimt is hired by Emilie's bourgeois father to give her some basic drawing lessons, he introduces her to a subculture of dissolute artists, wanton models, and decadent patrons that both terrifies and fascinates her. The Painted Kiss follows the developing relationship between Klimt and Emilie, who blossoms from a naïve girl to a sanguine woman, becoming mistress to one of the twentieth century's most fascinating artists and the owner of an exclusive fashion house, which Klimt helps design. Fin de siècle Vienna glitters with wealthy, beautiful women for Emilie to dress in her salon and for Klimt to undress in his studio. It is a world overflowing with the greatest artists, composers, and writers of the era, and yet doomed by the imminent collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although she is never sure of her place in Klimt's life, Emilie is a constant presence, supporting him through tragedy, self-doubt, triumph, and scandal -- and ultimately serving as the model for his greatest masterpiece. The Painted Kiss is a moving love story that is as sensual and compelling as a work by Klimt himself." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 017470 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	LUSTBADER, ERIC Art Kills New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers; An Otto Penzler Book. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 0786708891) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 87 pp.; 20 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Fine/Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 018312 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	NICHOLSON, NICHOLAS B. A. Object of Virtue: A Novel New York, Simon & Schuster: A Touchstone Book. 2004, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0743257839) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 284 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Sasha Ozerovsky is a young expert in Russian art at Leighton's, an exclusive Manhattan auction house. When a dealer arrives from Moscow with an exquisite 1913 Fabergé figurine, Sasha immediately recognizes a rare masterpiece. But in the high stakes art world, the price of an object is tied to its history. If Sasha can determine for whom the bejeweled piece was made and where it has been hiding for the past century, its value -- and Sasha's career -- will soar. But as Sasha moves between New York's high society and Russia's new rich, he discovers that the piece once belonged to his family, and he must face questions about their past that he never dared to ask. Superbly plotted and evoking the elegance of Russia's gilded age, Object of Virtue is an enthralling tale that explores what happens to a family torn between vanity and virtue. / Nicholas B. A. Nicholson is an expert in Russian Decorative Arts. He was a specialist with Christie's Russian Works of Art Department and was the American Coordinating Curator of the blockbuster exhibition 'Jewels of the Romanovs: Treasures from the Russian Imperial Court.' He lives in New York City." - Publisher. Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 353] Book number: 017758 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	RAND, AYN The Fountainhead New York, Plume. 1994, 20th printing. (ISBN: 0452273331) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 736 pp.; 23 cm. With a special introduction by the author; afterword by Leonard Peikoff. Tight, clean copy. Spine slightly bowed. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. Very Good. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 040685 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	STADLER, MATTHEW Allan Stein New York, Grove Press. 1999, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0802136621) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight, clean copy. "Comic, erotic, and richly imagined, Allan Stein follows the journey of a compromised young teacher to Paris to uncover the sad history of Gertrude Stein's troubled nephew Allan. Having been fired from his job because of a sex scandal involving a student, the young teacher decides that a change of scenery is in order. He enlists his best friend, a museum curator by the name of Herbert Widener, to help him get out of Seattle. It so happens that Herbert had been planning a business trip to Paris to find Picasso's missing 1906 drawings of Allan Stein, the only child in the charmed circle of Gertrude Stein's Paris. After some convincing, Herbert allows his troubled friend to go in his place, using his own name and passport. In Paris 'Herbert' discovers an unusual family that welcomes him, and he becomes enchanted by one particular family member, a fifteen-year-old boy named Stéphane. As he unravels the gilded but sad childhood of Allan Stein, 'Herbert' is haunted by memories of his own boyhood, particularly his odd, flamboyant mother. Moving through the glitter and pomp of the Parisian art world, he becomes more and more entangled in his masquerade and finds himself increasingly bedeviled by his feelings for Stéphane, with whom he ultimately absconds to the south of France. Moving from the late twentieth century back to the 1900s, effortlessly blending fact and fiction, Allan Stein is a charged exploration of eroticism, obsession, and identity. / Matthew Stadler is the author of Allan Stein, Landscape: Memory, The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee, and The Sex Offender. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and Ingram-Merrill fellowships and a Whiting Writer's Award. He is the literary editor of Nest magazine and senior writer for The Stranger. He lives in Seattle." - Publisher. Fine. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 010498 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	VREELAND, SUSAN Girl in Hyacinth Blue Harmondsworth, Penguin Books. 2000. (ISBN: 014029628X) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 242 pp.; 19 cm. Tight, clean copy. Vermeer fantasy. "This luminous story begins in the present day, when a professor invites a colleague to his home to see a painting that he has kept secret for decades. The professor swears it is a Vermeer - but why has he hidden this important work for so long? The reasons unfold in a series of events that trace the ownership of the painting back to World War II and Amsterdam, and still further back to the moment of the work's inspiration. As the painting moves through each owner's hands, what was long hidden quietly surfaces, illuminating poignant moments in multiple lives. Susan Vreeland's characters remind us, through their love of this mysterious painting, how beauty transforms and why we reach for it, what lasts and what in our lives is singular and unforgettable." - Publisher. Fine. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 441] Book number: 013125 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	VREELAND, SUSAN Life Studies: Stories New York, Viking Press; Penguin. 2005, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0670031771) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 292 pp.; 24 cm. SIGNED. Literary Society bookplate (with small corner crease), signed by author & tipped-in/front free endpaper. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "With her richly textured novels Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of the artist's life. Now, in a collection of profound wisdom and beauty, she explores the transcendent power of art through the eyes of ordinary people. Life Studies begins with historic tales that, rather than focusing directly on the great Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masters themselves, render those on the periphery - their lovers, servants, and children - as their personal experiences play out against those of Manet, Monet, van Gogh, and others. Vreeland then gives us contemporary stories in which her characters - a teacher, a construction worker, and an orphan for example - encounter art in meaningful, often surprising ways. A fascinating exploration of the lasting strength of art in everyday life, Life Studies is a dazzling addition to Vreeland's outstanding body of work." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. SIGNED. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 010918 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	WINTERSON, JEANETTE Art and Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd New York, Vintage Books: Random House. 1996, First edition thus. (ISBN: 0679762701) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 206 pp. illus.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity. / A novelist whose honours include England’s Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy's E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d'argent at the Cannes Film Festival, Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene as a very young woman in 1985 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Her subsequent novels, including Sexing the Cherry, The Passion, Written on the Body, and The PowerBook, have also gone on to receive great international acclaim. Her latest novel is Lighthousekeeping, heralded as 'a brilliant, glittering, piece of work' (The Independent). She lives in London and the Cotswolds." - Publisher. Fine. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 007854 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	WINTERSON, JEANETTE Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd New York, Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book. 1995, First American Edition. (ISBN: 0679441816) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 206 pp. illus.; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First American Edition." Dust jacket, with a slightly creased front flap, protected in a mylar book cover. Please note: ISBN conflicts with another title. The title of this book is Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd: "One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity." - Publisher. Fine/Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 009292 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.

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	CARY, JOYCE The Horse's Mouth: A Novel New York, Harper & Brothers. 1944, Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Cloth, xxiii, 311 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. Spine slightly cocked. Age toning. Dust jacket, lightly rubbed, protected in a mylar book cover. This comic novel was the basis of a film starring Alec Guiness depicting a young, "beatnik" painter. An attractive copy. Very Good/Very Good. USD 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 16.75 \| £UK 15.25 \| JP¥ 2206] Book number: 005929 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	CHESSMAN, HARRIET SCOTT Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper: A Novel New York, Plume Books; Penguin. 2002, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0452283507) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. xi, 164 pp. [5] leaves of plates, col. illus.; 19 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Plume Printing: November 2002." "Harriet Scott Chessman takes us into the world of Mary Cassatt's early Impressionist paintings through Mary's sister Lydia, whom the author sees as Cassatt's most inspiring muse. Chessman hauntingly brings to life Paris in 1880, with its thriving art world. The novel's subtle power rises out of a sustained inquiry into art's relation to the ragged world of desire and mortality. Ill with Bright's disease and conscious of her approaching death, Lydia contemplates her world narrowing. With the rising emotional tension between the loving sisters, between one who sees and one who is seen, Lydia asks moving questions about love and art's capacity to remember. Chessman illuminates Cassatt's brilliant paintings and creates a compelling portrait of the brave and memorable model who inhabits them with such grace. Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper includes five full-color plates, the entire group of paintings Mary Cassatt made of her sister." - Publisher. Fine. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 034995 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	CHEVALIER, TRACY Girl with a Pearl Earring New York, Plume Books. 2001, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0452282152) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 233 pp.; 20 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl Earring tells the story of sixteen-year-old Griet, whose life is transformed by her brief encounter with genius..even as she herself is immortalized in canvas and oil." - Publisher. Fine. USD 3.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.25 \| £UK 2 \| JP¥ 265] Book number: 011353 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	DOUMANI, CAROL Untitled, Nude: A Novel Venice, CA, Wave Publishing. 1995, First Edition. (ISBN: 096423596X) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, xii, 335 pp. illus.; 24 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Edition." Fine DJ. The setting of this novel is the LA art scene. Fine/Fine. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 015693 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	HICKEY, ELIZABETH The Painted Kiss: A Novel New York, Atria Books. 2005, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0743492609) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 270 pp.; 23 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Edition." Fine DJ. "In her passionate and atmospheric debut novel, The Painted Kiss, Elizabeth Hickey reimagines the relationship between Gustav Klimt and the woman whose name he uttered with his dying breath. Vienna in 1886 was a city of elegant cafe;s, grand opera houses, and a thriving and adventurous artistic community. It was there that twelve-year-old Emilie Flöge met the con-troversial libertine and painter Gustav Klimt. When Klimt is hired by Emilie's bourgeois father to give her some basic drawing lessons, he introduces her to a subculture of dissolute artists, wanton models, and decadent patrons that both terrifies and fascinates her. The Painted Kiss follows the developing relationship between Klimt and Emilie, who blossoms from a naïve girl to a sanguine woman, becoming mistress to one of the twentieth century's most fascinating artists and the owner of an exclusive fashion house, which Klimt helps design. Fin de siècle Vienna glitters with wealthy, beautiful women for Emilie to dress in her salon and for Klimt to undress in his studio. It is a world overflowing with the greatest artists, composers, and writers of the era, and yet doomed by the imminent collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Although she is never sure of her place in Klimt's life, Emilie is a constant presence, supporting him through tragedy, self-doubt, triumph, and scandal -- and ultimately serving as the model for his greatest masterpiece. The Painted Kiss is a moving love story that is as sensual and compelling as a work by Klimt himself." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 017470 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	LUSTBADER, ERIC Art Kills New York, Carroll & Graf Publishers; An Otto Penzler Book. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 0786708891) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 87 pp.; 20 cm. AS NEW. Stated "First Edition." Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. Fine/Fine. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 018312 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	NICHOLSON, NICHOLAS B. A. Object of Virtue: A Novel New York, Simon & Schuster: A Touchstone Book. 2004, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0743257839) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 284 pp.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Sasha Ozerovsky is a young expert in Russian art at Leighton's, an exclusive Manhattan auction house. When a dealer arrives from Moscow with an exquisite 1913 Fabergé figurine, Sasha immediately recognizes a rare masterpiece. But in the high stakes art world, the price of an object is tied to its history. If Sasha can determine for whom the bejeweled piece was made and where it has been hiding for the past century, its value -- and Sasha's career -- will soar. But as Sasha moves between New York's high society and Russia's new rich, he discovers that the piece once belonged to his family, and he must face questions about their past that he never dared to ask. Superbly plotted and evoking the elegance of Russia's gilded age, Object of Virtue is an enthralling tale that explores what happens to a family torn between vanity and virtue. / Nicholas B. A. Nicholson is an expert in Russian Decorative Arts. He was a specialist with Christie's Russian Works of Art Department and was the American Coordinating Curator of the blockbuster exhibition 'Jewels of the Romanovs: Treasures from the Russian Imperial Court.' He lives in New York City." - Publisher. Fine. USD 4.00 [Appr.: EURO 2.75 \| £UK 2.5 \| JP¥ 353] Book number: 017758 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	RAND, AYN The Fountainhead New York, Plume. 1994, 20th printing. (ISBN: 0452273331) Soft Cover , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. xiii, 736 pp.; 23 cm. With a special introduction by the author; afterword by Leonard Peikoff. Tight, clean copy. Spine slightly bowed. Light edgewear to wraps, age toning. Very Good. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 040685 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	STADLER, MATTHEW Allan Stein New York, Grove Press. 1999, First paperback edition. (ISBN: 0802136621) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Tight, clean copy. "Comic, erotic, and richly imagined, Allan Stein follows the journey of a compromised young teacher to Paris to uncover the sad history of Gertrude Stein's troubled nephew Allan. Having been fired from his job because of a sex scandal involving a student, the young teacher decides that a change of scenery is in order. He enlists his best friend, a museum curator by the name of Herbert Widener, to help him get out of Seattle. It so happens that Herbert had been planning a business trip to Paris to find Picasso's missing 1906 drawings of Allan Stein, the only child in the charmed circle of Gertrude Stein's Paris. After some convincing, Herbert allows his troubled friend to go in his place, using his own name and passport. In Paris 'Herbert' discovers an unusual family that welcomes him, and he becomes enchanted by one particular family member, a fifteen-year-old boy named Stéphane. As he unravels the gilded but sad childhood of Allan Stein, 'Herbert' is haunted by memories of his own boyhood, particularly his odd, flamboyant mother. Moving through the glitter and pomp of the Parisian art world, he becomes more and more entangled in his masquerade and finds himself increasingly bedeviled by his feelings for Stéphane, with whom he ultimately absconds to the south of France. Moving from the late twentieth century back to the 1900s, effortlessly blending fact and fiction, Allan Stein is a charged exploration of eroticism, obsession, and identity. / Matthew Stadler is the author of Allan Stein, Landscape: Memory, The Dissolution of Nicholas Dee, and The Sex Offender. He is the recipient of Guggenheim and Ingram-Merrill fellowships and a Whiting Writer's Award. He is the literary editor of Nest magazine and senior writer for The Stranger. He lives in Seattle." - Publisher. Fine. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 010498 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	VREELAND, SUSAN Girl in Hyacinth Blue Harmondsworth, Penguin Books. 2000. (ISBN: 014029628X) Mass Market Paperback , 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 242 pp.; 19 cm. Tight, clean copy. Vermeer fantasy. "This luminous story begins in the present day, when a professor invites a colleague to his home to see a painting that he has kept secret for decades. The professor swears it is a Vermeer - but why has he hidden this important work for so long? The reasons unfold in a series of events that trace the ownership of the painting back to World War II and Amsterdam, and still further back to the moment of the work's inspiration. As the painting moves through each owner's hands, what was long hidden quietly surfaces, illuminating poignant moments in multiple lives. Susan Vreeland's characters remind us, through their love of this mysterious painting, how beauty transforms and why we reach for it, what lasts and what in our lives is singular and unforgettable." - Publisher. Fine. USD 5.00 [Appr.: EURO 3.5 \| £UK 3.25 \| JP¥ 441] Book number: 013125 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	VREELAND, SUSAN Life Studies: Stories New York, Viking Press; Penguin. 2005, First Edition, First Printing. (ISBN: 0670031771) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 292 pp.; 24 cm. SIGNED. Literary Society bookplate (with small corner crease), signed by author & tipped-in/front free endpaper. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. "With her richly textured novels Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of the artist's life. Now, in a collection of profound wisdom and beauty, she explores the transcendent power of art through the eyes of ordinary people. Life Studies begins with historic tales that, rather than focusing directly on the great Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masters themselves, render those on the periphery - their lovers, servants, and children - as their personal experiences play out against those of Manet, Monet, van Gogh, and others. Vreeland then gives us contemporary stories in which her characters - a teacher, a construction worker, and an orphan for example - encounter art in meaningful, often surprising ways. A fascinating exploration of the lasting strength of art in everyday life, Life Studies is a dazzling addition to Vreeland's outstanding body of work." - Publisher. Fine/Fine. SIGNED. USD 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 20.25 \| £UK 18.25 \| JP¥ 2648] Book number: 010918 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	WINTERSON, JEANETTE Art and Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd New York, Vintage Books: Random House. 1996, First edition thus. (ISBN: 0679762701) Trade Paperback , 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 206 pp. illus.; 21 cm. Tight, clean copy. "One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity. / A novelist whose honours include England’s Whitbread Prize, and the American Academy's E. M. Forster Award, as well as the Prix d'argent at the Cannes Film Festival, Jeanette Winterson burst onto the literary scene as a very young woman in 1985 with Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. Her subsequent novels, including Sexing the Cherry, The Passion, Written on the Body, and The PowerBook, have also gone on to receive great international acclaim. Her latest novel is Lighthousekeeping, heralded as 'a brilliant, glittering, piece of work' (The Independent). She lives in London and the Cotswolds." - Publisher. Fine. USD 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 5.5 \| £UK 5 \| JP¥ 706] Book number: 007854 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.
	WINTERSON, JEANETTE Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd New York, Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book. 1995, First American Edition. (ISBN: 0679441816) Hard Cover with dust jacket, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Collectible, 206 pp. illus.; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated "First American Edition." Dust jacket, with a slightly creased front flap, protected in a mylar book cover. Please note: ISBN conflicts with another title. The title of this book is Art & Lies: A Piece for Three Voices and a Bawd: "One of the most audacious and provocative writers on either side of the Atlantic now gives readers a dazzling, arousing, and wise improvisation on art, Eros, language, and identity." - Publisher. Fine/Very Good. USD 15.00 [Appr.: EURO 10.25 \| £UK 9.25 \| JP¥ 1324] Book number: 009292 Click here to order or inquire at Left Coast Books.