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Browser Book Beat Issue 133

These new arrivals include art, children’s, history (mostly regional), literature, building basics like everything you’d want to know about bricks, and photography. A lot of photography. Here’s a sampling. See all New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Sander, German portrait and documentary photographer, has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century".
August Sander: Citizens of the Twentieth Century.

August Sander, German portrait and documentary photographer, has been described as “the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century”. Read More


$180.00

Nicholas Nixon is an American photographer, known for his work in portraiture and documentary photography, and for using the 8×10 inch view camera.
Nicholas Nixon: Pictures of People

Nicholas Nixon, known for using the 8×10 inch view camera, shows in this collection how photographs of ordinary people can sometimes address the deepest of human values. Read More


$100.00

David LaChapelle, photographer and director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, is noted for his surreal, unique and often humorous style.
Hotel LaChapelle

LaChapelle is one of the most original fashion photographers of his time and place. There are images in this book that seem to come out of nowhere but his fantasy. Read More


$70.00

In staged photos, Dicorcia takes everyday events beyond the realm of banality and at times, his use of color, lighting and framing is incredible.
Philip-Lorca Dicorcia

Dicorcia’s pictures are imagined scenarios of everyday life stretching from normal daily household routine to the male prostitutes and drug addicts of Hollywood. Read More


$50.00

Life in Europe in last years of the previous century as seen by Josef Koudelka.
Exiles

Life in Europe in last years of the previous century as seen by Josef Koudelka. His raw, unsentimental style produces haunting black and white photographs of the ordinary. Read More


$70.00

Taro's career was brief, but had a great impact on photojournalism and helped invent modern war photography.
Gerda Taro

Taro’s career was brief, but with great impact on photojournalism. Taro and her partner Robert Capa helped invent the genre of modern war photography. Read More


$150.00

Capote's masterpiece of True Crime. The cold-blooded murders in Kansas in 1956 are described by a cold, distant narrator.
In Cold Blood

Capote’s masterpiece of True Crime. The cold-blooded murders in Kansas in 1956. Compelling and suspenseful even when you know how it all ends. Read More


$50.00

Misrach's photographs instigate new questions in landscape photography and the new definition of "beauty" in all visual studies.
Bravo 20: The Bombing Of The American West

For eighteen months in the mid-eighties, photographer Richard Misrach roamed through the natural beauty and man-made devastation in The American West. Read More


$30.00

Black artists, philosophers, writers, poets, musicians, politicians, and sports heroes are featured throughout.
Committed to the Image

Uncompromising, thought-provoking, often highly politicized images cover contemporary African American identity. Black artists, philosophers, writers, poets, musicians, politicians, and sports heroes are featured throughout. Read More


$28.00

Beautifully executed male nude studies. Mapplethorpe said he sought to convey Black men as the "Platonic ideal".
Robert Mapplethorpe: Black Book

Black Book was the first modern photographic collection to portray and celebrate the beauty of African American men. Mapplethorpe said he sought to convey Black men as the “Platonic ideal”. Read More


$40.00

Abbott draws on a range of primary sources to provide a thorough and accurate account of this pivotal period in American history.
The History of the Civil War in America Comprising a Full and Impartial Account…

A comprehensive look from the early tensions through the battles that shaped the course of the Civil War and the lives of those who fought in it. Read More


$400.00

Watts authored a text book on logic published in 1724. It became the standard text on logic at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale; being used at Oxford University for well over 100 years.
Sermons On Various Subjects, Divine And Moral

Isaac Watts was an English hymnwriter, theologian and logician. Credited with some 650 hymns. Many are in use today, and have been translated into many languages. Read More


$400.00

Author Henry J. Raymond was a member of the New York State Assembly, the Lieutenant Governor of New York, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and elected to the US House of Representatives.
The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln….

Author Henry Jarvis Raymond, journalist, newspaper publisher, and politician, co-founded both the Republican Party and The New York Times. Has sometimes been called the “godfather of the Republican Party”. Read More


$120.00

Earl Covey was one of the pioneers who opened the Adirondacks territory and built many camps for visitors who summered in those mountains.
The Earl Covey Story: A Biography

Earl Covey was one of the pioneers who opened the Adirondacks territory and built many camps for visitors who summered in those mountains. Read about Adirondacks history pre modern highways. Read More


$80.00

From 1919 till 1939 she Barton a column syndicated in & appearing daily in 400+ NEA and Scripps-Howard newspapers on child rearing and related subjects.
The Wonderful Land of Up

Olive Roberts Barton began writing children’s books as syndicated “serial” stories in the newspapers. Her oeuvre includes “Nancy & Nick”, “Story riddles in Rhyme & Prose”and “Bramble Bush riddles”. Read More


$40.00

The Ingalls settle into a sod house on the banks of Plum Creek in Minnesota. Life has challenges. They face a blizzard and a grasshopper infestation.
On the Banks of Plum Creek

After “Little House” the adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue when they travel by covered wagon to Minnesota where they face a blizzard and a grasshopper infestation. Read More


$50.00

Ira is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. The population was 368 at the 2020 census.
History of Ira, Vermont

Traces Ira, Vermont’s development through the 19th and early 20th centuries. Illustrated with photographs and historical documents. Read More


$80.00

Mother Goose nursery rhymes are enjoyed by children the world over. But beware. The rhymes have a historical sinister interpretation, too.
MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES

Mother Goose never gets old. This lovely version is Illustrated in color and b&w by Eulalie and Lois Lenski. For adults, the rhymes have a historical, sinister interpretation, too. Read More


$30.00

The book provides a detailed overview of the principles of brick engineering, including the science behind brick manufacturing, types of bricks, and the design principles.
Principles of Brick Engineering: Handbook of Design

The book provides a detailed overview of the principles of brick engineering, including the science behind brick manufacturing, types of bricks, and the design principles used in brick construction. Read More


$20.00

The book is aimed at beginners and students of mechanical drawing, providing clear and concise explanations of the principles and techniques involved.
Elementary Mechanical Drawing: Theory and Practice….

This guidebook provides a comprehensive introduction to mechanical drawing, from basic theory to practical applications. It’s an essential resource for anyone interested in engineering or design. Read More


$20.00

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