168 volumes in this batch of new arrivals. We recently acquired a collection of philosophy books and will be uploading them over the next several months. As usual this group includes art: graphic comic and serious. Also includes ship-building during WWI, lots of children’s books (fiction and illustrated) and biographies. Here’s a sampling. See all 168 New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
The Story of Little Black Sambo
A little boy cleverly outsmarts four tigers and makes it home to eat 169 pancakes for his supper. A classic that has been universally loved by generations of children. Read More
$60.00
The Spirit Achives: Volume 15
Continues the saga of the legendary “Spirit” masked adventurer and his never-ending quest to “aid the weak and the oppressed.” Read More
$50.00
London Couture and the Making of a Fashion Centre
How design collaboration, networks, and narratives contributed to the establishment of a recognized English couture industry in the 1930s and 1940s. Read More
$35.00
A Shipyard at War: Unseen Photographs from John Brown’s Clydebank, 1914-1918
A wonderful compilation of professional images that detail how WWI and other ships were built between 1914 and 1920. Read More
$38.00
Where We Lived: Discovering the Places We Once Called Home
Fascinating look at early American buildings and the story they tell of how people lived from the late 1700s to the 1840s. A mixture of architecture and sociology. Read More
$30.00
Ooh La La (Max In Love)
While in Paris, dog poet, Max see the Dalmation Crepes Suzette perform at the Crazy Wolf Nightclub and he’s smitten. Read More
$15.00
Yesterday’s Authors of Books for Children. (2 Vols.)
An overview of the life and works of well-known authors of children’s books who died before 1961 Includes bibliographical references and index. Read More
$135.00
Ancient Iraq
A deep dive into the political, cultural, and socio-economic history from Mesopotamia days of prehistory to the Christian era. Read More
$15.00
Year Book & Guide to East Africa 1958
East Africe 1958: includes Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya,Uganda, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, Portuguese East Africa, the Congo, Mauritius, Madagascar, Reunion, Seychelles and more. Read More
$30.00
Alice’s Adventures
Alice Hawkins’s work explores the importance of individuality, role play, dressing up, fantasy, and playfulness. Read More
$30.00
Comics Sketchbooks: The Private Worlds of Today’s Most Creative Talents
The private notebooks of eighty-two of the world’s most inventive graphic artists
selected by the field’s leading critic. Read More
35.00
Federico Fellini: The Films
Film critic and Fellini confidant Tullio Kezich reveals he director’s dilemmas and personal battles. Features Fellini’s drawings, storyboards, notes, and commentary, and behind the scenes photos. Read More
$90.00
Buddhist Sculpture of Northern Thailand
Richly illustrated with photographs and line drawings, this volume is an indispensable reference and guide to Buddha image. Read More
$120.00
Nakedness, Death, and the Number Zero
Brooks Haxton embraces life, from our naked beginnings to the first signs of middle age and beyond, in this inviting collection of poems. Read More
$18.00
Thomas Hobbes Translations of Homer: 1. The Iliad & 2. The Odyssey [Clarendon Edition]
This version of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey are heavily influenced by Hobbes’ own beliefs. Some say he used his last major work as a continuation of his masterpiece, Leviathan by other means. Read More
$280.00
The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes edited by Noel Malcolm
Hobbes was a polymath and wrote on a variety of disciplines; theology, metaphysics, physics, and more. All of these interests are reflected in his correspondence. Read More
$350.00
Betsy Bowen’s Gathering: A Northwoods Counting Book
Counting book with life in Minnesota northwoods for a year theme. From awakening spring to harsh winters. Read More
$15.00
Cagliostro: Savant or Scoundrel? The True Role of this Splendid, Tragic Figure
Charlatan, magician, and adventurer Cagliostro enjoyed enormous success in Parisian high society pre French Revolution. Ultimately died in prison. Read More
A new batch of 181 titles has arrived. Includes some unusual travel like The Empire of the Snakes
An account of the Wakaioka, the snake-people of the Nyamwezi tribe of Tanganyika territory. Also a few German text esoteric turn-of-the-century math books (Hypergeometrische Function anyone?) And of course art, architecture, children’s illustrated, fiction and photography. Here’s a sampling. See all 181 New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
To Kill a Mockingbird (SIGNED COPY)
Told through eyes of his daughter Scout, Atticus Finch defends a black man in Maycomb, Alabama 1933-1935. Read More
$800.00
Green Ginger Jar: A Chinatown Mystery, The
Twelve year old accidentially gives away a valuable ginger jar. From “They Came From” series of historical fiction books about immigrants coming to America. Read More
$70.00
Tito – The Pig of Guatemala
Children’s “chapter book” story of Tito, the pig, who belongs to a little Indian Boy, Diego & his Sister, Petrona. They travel to a fiesta and trouble ensues. Read More
$20.00
Oranges
It started as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice. It ended as a fascinating book on everything oranges and orange juice. Read More
$60.00
Les Dessins Tex Avery: 1908-1980
Wonderful collection of storyboards from the great Tex Avery’s animated cartoons at MGM. Read More
$40.00
Verve – Artistic and Literary Quarterly – Vol 1, No. 3 Fall 1938
Verve, modernist Parisian art magazine embodied the creative aesthetic of the first half of the 20th century. Includes lithographs by Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Abraham Rattner, and Paul Klee. Read More
$420.00
Ultima Thule – Explorers and Natives in the Polar North
Ultima Thule: the furthest possible place in the world. This book is an illustrated history of 170 years of Arctic exploration and its indigenous peoples. Read More
$40.00
Palestine and Syria: Handbook for Travellers
17 Maps, 44 Plans, and a Panorama of Jerusalem. Elaborate information on buildings, streets, and culture of the covered areas. Read More
$150.00
The Theory of the Gene
At Columbia University Morgan established the famous “fly room. His early experiments are classics in genetics. Read More
$40.00
Maritime Fiction: Sailors and the Sea in British and American Novels, 1719-1917
Maritime Fiction is an original exploration and comprehensive discussion of the relationship between national identity, fiction and the sea. Read More
$60.00
F. Rojankovsky’s ABC – An Alphabet Of Many Things
Each letter of the alphabet is accompanied by Rojankovsky’s illustrations of familiar objects such as airplane, button, clown, etc. Read More
$20.00
The Godfather Notebook
Coppola’s notes scene-by-scene, page-by-page in preparation of turning Puzo’s novel into a cinematic masterpiece. Read More
$60.00
Bugle: A Puppy in Old Yorktown
A little boy and his puppy Bugle in Colonial Virginia. When Dad’s away fighting in Revolutionary War, Bugle protects the family farm from Redcoats. Read More
$12.00
Tunisian Mosaics: Treasures from Roman Africa
Works of art in themselves the Roman Mosaics are also an invaluable record of
everyday life. They were common in private homes and public buildings across the Roman Empire Read More
$18.00
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
Beach opened her own English-language bookshop and lending library, Shakespeare and Company made famous by literary expatriates who were drawn to it. Read More
$12.00
Orquidea: April 1983
The subject is orchids. Articles about growing them published by Mexican growers organization. Mexico has around 1250 native species. Read More
$50.00
Monarchs, Ministers and Maps: The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe.
Story of why and how maps and the men who produced them became so important during the sixteenth century as
instruments for bringing territories under the control of centralized government. Read More
$35.00
The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome
Well-illustrated study of how the culture of Enlightenment influenced seven important building projects in Rome that spanned the years 1730 to 1758. Read More
$100.00
Abyssinian Adventure
A first-hand account by a British soldier of serving in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya and Ethiopia fighting against Italians during 1940-41. Read More
$15.00
Martha’s Vineyard
Martha’s Vineyard beckons the reader to experience her through the collaboration of essays by Hough and photographs by Eisenstaedt. Read More
