New arrivals include art, biography, lots of poetry, lots of children’s fiction and illustrated, a good number of mysteries, and a few Africa/Mid-East history, travel and true crime. Here’s a sampling. See all New Arrivals in this group. Availability subject to prior sale.
Imperfect Thirst (SIGNED COPY)
Recollections of childhood, snapshots of impassive cruelty, reflections on art and nature from Galway Kinnell, one of America’s great poets. Read More
$25.00
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova: Expanded Edition
Encyclopedic in scope, with more than 800 poems, 100 photographs, a historical chronology, index of first lines, and bibliography. Read More
$35.00
The Complete Crepax: Evil Spells: Volume 3
Vol 3 of collection of classic comics by one of Italy’s most important cartoonists and a major influence on magazine art, fashion and design. Read More
$120.00
Two Little Trains
Margaret Wise Brown’s classic picture book about two trains and their cross-country journey from east to west gets a bold new look from Geisel Award–winning artist Greg Pizzoli. Read More
$15.00
The Life and Times of Mickey Rooney
Definitive biography of Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) and his extravagant, sometimes tawdry life. At one point he was the biggest star in the world. Read More
$18.00
The Year of the Gorilla
Classic account of Schaller’s experiences studying the mountain gorillas mostly in the Congo starting back in the early 60s. Read More
$12.00
Mungo Park and the Niger: Great Explorers
This work focuses on the travels of Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer of West Africa who is famous for his exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796. Read More
$25.00
Fighting Ships of the U.S.A.
Provides detailed information on the development of various naval vessels and the major conflicts in which these ships played a significant role. Read More
$15.00
Life isn’t everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends
From escaping the Nazis to becoming an amazing theatre and film director. Mike Nichols is remembered by the people who knew him best. Read More
$12.00
Streetcar Advertising in America
Over 250 unpublished and restored images make up this fascinating gallery of pioneering advertisements that appeared on streetcars in a bygone era. Read More
$35.00
The King’s Breakfast
First published in When We Were Very Young (1924). It is a poem about “a monarch who sulks when the cow refuses to provide milk. Read More
$60.00
Granny Goose
Verses and pictures for your children is Nursery rhymes. A children’s book illustrator, Rae was primarily known for illustrating more than forty stories set in the Land of Oz, Read More
$60.00
The Great Northern Express: A Writer’s Journey Home (SIGNED COPY)
At 65, recovering from radiation therapy, Mosher set out alone in his 20 year old junky car on a 20,000-mile sojourn. This rollicking adventure ensued. Read More
$30.00
Canning Season, The
Ratchet is sent to spend the summer with her great aunts – 91 year old twins, Tilly and Penpen. Friendship follows. Read More
$12.00
The Embroidered Sunset
Lucy Culpepper, an aspiring pianist, dreams of being taught by the renowned Max Benovek and will defy all odds to achieve it. Read More
$30.00
Aesop’s Fables
Tony Palazzo’s charmingly illustrated rendition of Aesop’s Fables. Read More
$40.00
The Mousewife
Godden’s lovely fable about the unexpected ways in which dreams can come true. Great Pene du Bois illustrations. Read More
$25.00
Pleasure Dome: New and Collected Poems
Over twenty-five years of work, including early uncollected poems and a rich selection of new poems. Read More
New arrivals include art, biography, novels, lots of photography, some children’s including The Complete Alice: 22 Books Collection Box Set, history, several facsimile reprints of plays from the1700s, plus several odds and ends. Here’s a sampling. See the complete batch. Availability subject to prior sale.
The Americans
Two years of road trips. 28,000 shots. 83 shots chosen. This iconic photo book by Robert Frank captures the quintessential America of the mid 1950s. Read More
$600.00
Norman Foster: Works 3
This third volume of Pritzker Award-winning architect, Foster, focuses on the projects realised from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Read More
$120.00
Nipper 1965-1966
Wright was a master of economical lines, able to convey a lot without words, as in this pantomime strip. Read More
$15.00
The Art of Film: John Box and Production Design
Not-quite memoir and not-quite analysis. Chapters track Box’s career chronologically. Box was record-setting 4-time Oscar and BAFTA winner, production design. Read More
$28.00
The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age
Harris pays homage to the artful, witty “The Chicagoan,” counterpart to the New Yorker, but which never had the same chance. Read More
$40.00
H.N. Werkman: Het Complete Oeuvre
Multifarious ingredients come together to form the whole of Werkman’s own poetic and mysterious work. Read More
$100.00
Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde: The Modern Woodcut Movement
Excellent Chinese art history (including political history), seen through the perspective of the woodcut movement. Read More
$50.00
Mr. Ferlinghetti’s Poem
Mr. Ferlinghetti’s poem recalls a long hot summer in Brooklyn. Frampton’s woodcuts capture motion and color beautifully. Read More
$15.00
Firehouse
In the tradition of Studs Terkel’s “Working” comes this powerful collection of first-person accounts of dramatic, intense and sometimes terrifying firefighting experiences. Read More
$200.00
Trade and Market in the Early Empires; Economies in History and Theory
Economic anthropologist,Polanyl presents a cultural version of economics, which emphasizes the way economies are embedded in society and culture. Read More
$60.00
The Wars of the Lord: Volume One, Book One – Immortality of the Soul
A major treatise of Levi ben Gershom of Provence (1288-1344), one of the most creative and daring minds of the medieval world demonstrates that the Torah, properly understood, is identical to true philosophy. Read More
$28.00
The Queen’s Twin and Other Stories/Tales
Sarah Orne Jewett’s last published collection of short stories includes the evolving role of women in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Read More
$60.00
Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography
Beautifully compiled over sized photography book of outstanding architecture from the cameras of renowned and emerging photographers. Read More
$100.00
Advertisements for Myself
Compilation of Mailer’s early work including stories from high school, Harvard and Village Voice to a scathing review of the work by his contemporaries. Read More
$60.00
Clover
Clover is the fourth book in the popular What Katy Did series and focuses on Katy’s little sister, Clover. Read More
$80.00
The New System of Educating Horses Including Instructions on Feeding, Watering, Stabling, Shoeing, Etc.
Magner was dedicated to the humane caring for horses. His principles of subduing vicious horses constituted his “new technique”. Read More
$60.00
Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance
Lalla Rookh is an Oriental romance by Irish poet Thomas Moore, published in 1817. The heroine is the fictional daughter of the 17th-century Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Read More
$40.00
The Seven Ages of Childhood (Jessie Willcox Smith)
Images by “one of the greatest pure illustrators” Jessie Willcox Smith including a color frontispiece and six color plates. Read More
