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
This slew of new arrivals includes Children’s Illustrated, Biography, Art, New York History and Genealogy, and Philosophy (Historic and current encompassing sciences, history, medical and religion.)Here’s a sampling. See the complete batch. Availability subject to prior sale.
Newspaper Datelines of the American Revolution, Vol. 1: April 18, 1775 to November 1, 1775
Collection of articles from 34 American newspapers April 18, 1775 to November 1, 1775. Includes letters, proclamations, speeches, affidavts as well as unconfirmed reports and fabrications. Read More
$25.00
Lucian’s Science Fiction Novel: True Histories: Interpretation and Commentary
This is the first substantial commentary on Lucian’s Verae Historiae (“True Histories”), a fantastic journey narrative considered the earliest surviving example of Science Fiction in the Western tradition. Read More
$80.00
Steven Kellogg’s Yankee Doodle
This book tells the story of “Yankee Doodle”. While you read it you can sing along. Includes some Steven Kellogg full-page pictures, too. Read More
$12.00
The Paintings of J. M. W. Turner. (2 Vols)
A 2-volume set. The Text volume includes detailed discussions of every painting in Plate volume including popular fortunes of paintings. Read More
$100.00
Exeunt Murderers: The Best Mystery Stories of Anthony Boucher
A collection of puzzling whodunits featuring amateur sleuth Sister Ursula, and alcoholic ex-cop Nick Noble. Read More
$28.00
Lois Lenski’s Big Big Book of Mr. Small
Describes the activities of a traffic policeman, a cowboy working on the Bar S Ranch, and a farmer whose chores include plowing and milking the cows. Read More
$28.00
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Leroux’s landmark tale of foul play, deception, and unbridled ambition remains a blueprint for the detective novel genre. Read More
$25.00
Posidonius; edited by L. Edelstein & I. G. Kidd
Collection of surviving attested fragments of Posidonius, the leading stoic philosopher of his time in the first half of the first century, B.C. Read More
$50.00
Porphyry Against the Christians
His critique of Christianity purportedly constituted the most erudite and systematic work on the subject. Only fragments attributed to him have survived. Read More
$80.00
Tom And Jerry In Model Mice
Tom and Jerry first premiered in 1940, featuring a cat named Tom chasing a mouse named Jerry leading to awkward situations. Read More
$12.00
Revised History of Harlem, Volume 1
Riker’s Harlem is an extremely detailed historical and genealogical account of Harlem from its establishment to the end of the 17th century. Read More
$30.00
Archimedes
Dijksterhuis, distinguished historian of science. wrote about Archimedes in the 1930s and 1940s. Archimedesis regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Read More
$28.00
History of New Paltz, New York…1678 to 1820
Definitive history of New Paltz, one of the oldest Huguenot settlements in America and the cradle of surrounding settlements in Ulster and Orange Counties, New York. Read More
$28.00
The Meaning of Stoicism
Contains an extremely erudite series of lectures on the classical philosophical Stoic school delivered by Professor Edelstein in 1956. Read More
$28.00
The Philosophy of Marsilio Ficino
Ficino combined elements from different philosophical, religious, and literary traditions to become one of the most famous philosophers of the Italian Renaissance. Read More
$80.00
Pogo: Pockets Full of Pie – The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Volume 7
This volume includes a pig esemblaning Nikita Khrushchev and a goat who looks like Fidel Castro. Both assure Okefenokeeans that a one-party system is the way to go. Read More
$80.00
Superman: The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1
The Silver Age Omnibus Vol. 1 contains stories from Action Comics #241-265 and Superman #122-137. Read More
$100.00
Kamen’s Kalamity and Other Stories
Includes all 13 of Kamen’s classic “Grim Fairy Tales.” Bonus: seven crime and horror stories by other EC artists. Read More
$50.00
Locke on Persons and Personal Identity
Boeker argues that Locke endorses a moral account of personhood, according to which persons are subjects of accountability Read More
