155 new titles are added in this batch of New Arrivals. Lots of poetry, mysteries, monographs and biographies. Artists from Rivers to Parrish. Baseball. Satire in cartoons and novels. And children’s illustrated, too. Prices range from $12 to $5,000. Here’s a sampling. See all 155 New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Popular Mechanics: Number Three: Mission Furniture, How to Make It, Part Two.
Founded in 1902 as a weekly review of current innovations; its original motto was, “Written so you can understand it,” defines its mission. Read More
$20.00
Baseball Has Done It
Features rare and candid interviews conducted by Jackie Robinson with ballplayers who played and lived through racial integration in baseball. Read More
$20.00
Casino Royale
The first James Bond novel introduces the iconic spy in a thrilling casino adventure. Bond plays baccarat, meets Vesper Lynd, and faces SMERSH in this classic thriller. Read More
$5000.00
Kris and Kristina (Kringle)
The story of how Kris Kringle got his wife, and how together they created magic of Christmas. Read More
$30.00
Paul Strand: Sixty Years of Photographs
Features the famous profile by Calvin Tomkins and excerpts from Strand’s correspondence, interviews, and other documents. Read More
$35.00
Turkistan: Notes of a Journey in Russian Turkistan Koland Bukhara and Kuldja
American consul in Russia spent 18 months during the 1860s traveling the Steppe Region and recording his observations of the Muslim people. Read More
$30.00
The Handmaid’s Tale
Futuristic dystopian novel explores themes of powerless women in a patriarchal society. Winner of multiple science fiction awards. Read More
$500.00
The Things They Carried (SIGNED COPY)
Linked short stories by novelist Tim O’Brien. His third book about Vietnam War. Based upon his experiences as a soldier in the 23rd Infantry Division. Read More
$80.00
Hogarth to Cruikshank: Social Change in Graphic Satire
200 plus satirical drawings from 18th and early 19th century England. Includes background on the people, events, fashions being satirized. Read More
$30.00
Scar Strangled Banger
Ralph Steadman’s paintings and drawings gleefully satirizing modern American life Read More
$40.00
Kubrick
“Michel Ciment’s Kubrick: The Definitive Edition remains the best work on the great director.” —Joel Coen Read More
$80.00
Stanley Kubrick: Drama & Shadows: Photographs 1945-1950
A selection of the photographic work that future filmmaker Stanley Kubrick did while working for Look Magazine in his youth, from 1945 to 1950. Read More
$80.00
Lee Miller: Photographs
What a life! Photographer, model surrealist muse. War correspondent for Vogue covering the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau. Read More
$60.00
Where I’m Calling From: New and Selected Stories (SIGNED COPY)
Raymond Carver writes about rehab for an alcoholic in book’s title story. Takes in the themes of loneliness, alienation, and the need for human connection and friendship. Read More
$250.00
Rebecca Horn: The Glance of Infinity
Rebecca Horn, German visual artist best known for installation art, film directing, and body modifications. Comprehensive survey of her work Read More
$70.00
Riddles of the Gobi Desert
Sven Hedin’s celebrated account of his expeditions into northern China and inner Mongolia in 1928 and 1929. Read More
182 volumes in this batch of new arrivals. There’s a range of subjects including nautical history, math and philosphy including: Letters and Papers Relating to the Cruises of Gustavus Conyngham, a Captain of the Continental Navy, 1777-1779, Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research, Traite de Geometrie Descriptive (2 Vols.) and Dialogues of Plato, The: Translated into English with Analyses and Introductions – Third Edition (5 Vols.) Here are some others. See all this group’s New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Artistic Horse-Shoeing: A Practical and Scientific Treatise
Methods of shoeing. Special directions for shaping shoes to cure different foot diseases and for correction of faulty action in trotters. Read More
$60.00
Shanghai, 1925…. (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)
On May 30,1925 modern China went on strike, closing businesses, stopping schoolwork, protesting, and boycotting foreign goods. Read More
$25.00
The Geography of Nowhere
How America went from Main Streets and communities to dead zones and wastelands Read More
$12.00
Jardins de Paris
Photographs give you a view of some of the most magnificent gardens in the world. French text. Read More
$40.00
Harvest of the Sea: Coastal Subsistence in Modern Wainright
Summary account of the Inupiat culture, centering on marine subsistence as practiced by the modern people of Wainwright. Read More
$28.00
Life an Death in Templo Mayor
Templo Mayor,” symbolic center of the Aztec Empire, destroyed when Cortez and his Spanish conquistadors razed the Aztec Nation. Read More
$12.00
The Power of the Polaroid: Instantly Forever
Advertising, marketing, and the photoshoot. The power of the Polaroid in that creative process. Read More
$40.00
Walker Evans: Starting from Scratch
Walker Evans, his work and his creative process is explored by art historian Svetlana Alpers who gives valuable insights into the poetry of his photography. Read More
$35.00
Salle
Salle, American Postmodern painter, printmaker, photographer, stage designer discusses work and influencers. Read More
$12.00
Primitive People (SIGNED COPY)
The primitive people of this darkly satiric novel are the wealthy inhabitants of the Hudson Valley in upstate New York. Read More
$30.00
Middle Aged Love Stories (SIGNED COPY)
Satirist Josephine Daskam explores love and relationships among the middle-aged in 1903. Read More
$60.00
Nightmare Journey
It’s a far, far future post-apocalypse story of mankind returning to a shattered Earth inhabited by mutant telepaths. Read More
$50.00
Tono Bungay
Tono-Bungay is a semi-autobiographical novel by H. G. Wells. It has been called “arguably his most artistic book”. Read More
$50.00
Hard Times for These Times
Charles Dickens’ novel surveys English society and satirizes the social and economic conditions of the era. Read More
$40.00
The Empire of Shadows (SIGNED COPY)
An action-packed historical thriller. New York City, August 1889…. “Tom Braddock” series 2. Read More
$30.00
Song and Dance: The Musicals of Broadway
The songs, the dances, the star-making performances – it’s all there. From the start to late 1990’s. For lovers of musical theater. Read More
$25.00
Of Mice and Magic A History of American Animated Cartoons
Extensive cartoons filmography compiled by renowned film critic and historian Leonard Maltin. A one-of-a-kind history. Read More
$15.00
Propaganda and Dreams: Photographing the 1930s in the USSR and the US
Revealing portrait and comparison between the United States and the Soviet Union of the 1930s. Read More
$30.00
The Collected Poems of Edith Sitwell (SIGNED COPY)
Distinguished British poet and critic who used sound pattern as an element of poem construction. Read More
$60.00
Hazard the Painter (SIGNED COPY)
Sixteen new poems that focus on the life and character of a fictitious painter named “Hazard.” Read More
