new arrivals + escher pettibon

 Of Gemini interest: Hannah Arendt's biographty of RAHEL VARNHAGEN  (b. 19 June 1771), the famous Jewish Berlin saloniste, voluminous correspondent, bluestocking and proto-feminist, a close sister to Margaret Fuller, Fanny Burney, Mary Wortley Montague; $5

and the Phaidon RAYMOND PETTIBON (b. 26 May 1957) an artist who holds hand, so to speak, with other geminis like Saul Steinberg, Escher and Albrecht Durer. (The two hands on top are Pettibon. One day I'll figure out this layout business.) $15

M. C. Escher (b. 17 June 1898)

        I sit at my desk and scribe the endless message from myself to my                                                 own hand.    Allen Ginsberg, Planet News

(Durer)

                                                                                                                    Planet News, 4th printing,  $10

Durer's Drawings, Berlin 1937, Vol 2. superb oversize

(13"x10") cloth covered, from which most of the Durer drawings seen here were scanned. $150.