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Book Beat 137

Browser Book Beat Issue 137

140 volumes in this batch of new arrivals. We have a slew of art exhibition/auction catalogs. Also Novels, Children’s fiction and illustrated, Biographies, American and World history, literature, poetry and some odds and ends. Here’s a sampling. See all 140 New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Maroon label on spine reads UNITED STATES LAWS in gilt. Covers all three sessions: The second on the 4th of January 1790 and the 3rd session, held in Philadelphia, on the 6th of December 1790.
Acts Passed at the First Congress of the United States of America, Begun and held at the City of New York….

Acts Passed at the First Congress of the United States of America, Begun and held at the City of New York On Wednesday the Fourth of March One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Nine…. Read More


$500.00

Royall Tyler served as chief justice from 1807 through 1813 presiding over cases including slavery and smuggling on Lake Champlain.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Vermont ( 2 Vols.)

Tyler presided over many important trials like that of Stephen Jacob in 1802, involving slavery, and that of the Black Snake crew in 1808, dealing with smuggling on Lake Champlain. Read More


$300.00

Henri Christophe was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution and the first king of the Kingdom of Haiti, reigning from 1811 until his death in 1820.
Black Majesty: The Life of Christophe, King of Haiti

Henri Christophe was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution. He rose from slavery to establish a monarchy in northern Haiti, reigning from 1811 until his death in 1820. Read More


$80.00

Black jockeys were internationally famous in late 19th century as the first African American superstar athletes—and with wins in three Kentucky Derbies and countless other prestigious races, Murphy was the greatest of them all.
Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey

Born a slave in 1861, Murphy still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century. Read More


$20.00

The story of a trufflehunting terrier told from his point of view
“Teem”- A Treasure-Hunter

A brief, charming story told in the first person of a truffle hunting artist, a small terrier. Kipling’s last piece of fiction, published in the Atlantic in the US in 1936. Read More


$35.00

A cute story about Woody Woodpecker and his friend, Wally Walrus. Woody has a new job and does not realize it's Wally's birthday.
Woody Woodpecker Shoots the Works

Everyone loves Woody don’t they! Woody gets a new job and finds an inadvertent way to cheer a friend. Another Tell-a-Tale book with great pictures. Read More


$12.00

It's full of intimate accounts in sections about the British contact with the natives of India and the other states mentioned in the title of the book. Takes you on a roller-coaster ride through Indian history.
A Short History of India and of the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal, and Burma

One of the earlier accounts of the imperial contact with India, unadulterated by some of the later reconstructions of the history of the subcontinent. Read More


$30.00

Book discusses the place of the intellect as a guide to religious truth. The author's work brought principles from Quaker decision-making to bear on wider questions about democracy and religion.
Confucius: The Man and the Myth

Book discusses the place of the intellect as a guide to religious truth. The author’s work brought principles from Quaker decision-making to bear on wider questions about democracy and religion. Read More


$28.00

Description of the pre-20th century residential and commercial building of each town in Addison County Vermont. Building by building.
Historic Architecture of Addison County, The : Including a Listing of the Vermont State Register of Historic Places

Description of the pre-20th century residential and commercial building of each town in Addison County Vermont. Building by building. Read More


$70.00

A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records.
Arhoolie Records Down Home Music: The Stories and Photographs of Chris Strachwitz

A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records. Read More


$35.00

Reprints of the Flash Gordon Sunday strip from 1944-1948. Flash continues as the original guardian of the galaxy.
Flash Gordon: Classic Collection Vol. 4

Reprints of the Flash Gordon Sunday strip from 1944-1948. Flash continues as the original guardian of the galaxy. Read More


$70.00

Caniff won the first Cartoonist of the Year Award from the National Cartoonists Society for his work on Terry and the Pirates.
Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Vol. 11: 1945 – Reunion in Indo-China

Terry and the Pirates is an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff, which originally ran from October 22, 1934, to February 25, 1973. Read More


$150.00

Art and politics reside in Ai Weiwei’s work. Through sculpture, film, installation, photography and architecture he has campaigned for human rights. He was allowed to leave China in 2015.
Ai Weiwei: Beijing Photographs, 1993-2003

Art and politics reside in Ai Weiwei’s work. Through sculpture, film, installation, photography and architecture he has campaigned for human rights. He was allowed to leave China in 2015. Read More


$80.00

Steinberg critically evaluates and compares Rauschenberg's more recent work to the artist's earlier work evaluating Rauschenberg's silk-screen prints of the 1960s to the vegetable dye transfer prints of the 1990s.
Encounters with Rauschenberg: (A Lavishly Illustrated Lecture)

Leo Steinberg, American art critic and art historian, evaluates Rauschenberg’s silk-screen prints of the 1960s to the vegetable dye transfer prints of the 1990s. Read More


$12.00

Viola’s book offers the most comprehensive look into the peasants and their actions under collectivization.
Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance

Viola argues that the peasants did in fact actively resist collectivization, and that their unrest sprung from the “culture of peasant resistance” which led to earlier rebellions in Russia. Read More


$35.00

A fresh perspective on the origins, formative years, and subsequent development of Soviet literature and culture, and raises new issues for research and discussion.
Nietzsche and Soviet Culture: Ally and Adversary

The book examines the Nietzschean roots of early Soviet literature, theater and architecture, Soviet political culture, the work of disaffected writers and thinkers. Read More


$60.00

Meta-utopian narratives examine the complexities and contradictions of the singular vision of utopia. They often explore themes of disorientation and the fragmented nature of contemporary society.
Russian Experimental Fiction: Resisting Ideology After Utopia

Meta-utopian narratives examine the complexities and contradictions of the singular vision of utopia. They explore themes of disorientation and the fragmented nature of contemporary society. Read More


$28.00

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov is one of Russia's great musical figures. Largely self-taught, he became a professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and one of the famed "Mighty Handful" of Russian nationalist composers.
Rimsky-Korsakov: Letters to His Family and Friends

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov is one of Russia’s great musical figures. Largely self-taught, and one of the famed “Mighty Handful” of Russian nationalist composers. Read More


$35.00

Visual history of the collaboration between General Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson proved a winning combination in the battles leading up to July 1863: Second Bull Run
Gods and Generals: The Paintings of Mort Kunstler

Civil War history focused on time of collaboration between General Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson when the Confederacy dominated the battlefields. Read More


$30.00

Book four in the Thursday Next fantasy / sci-fi “literary detective” series. This series is "Fforde’s vividly fantastic, literary world". The plots are completely unrealistic, but great fun.
Something Rotten (INSCRIBED COPY)

The fourth installment of the Thursday Next series. It brings together all the plot lines set out earlier are woven together introducing political satire to the series. Read More


$30.00

Book Beat 136

Browser Book Beat Issue 136

We have a lot of solo exhibition catalogs of artists, sculptors and photographers. Also a lot of children’s illustrated books. And scattered throughout: Travel, Short Stories , Poetry, History, Novels, and Literature. Here’s a sampling. See all New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
A story about Pigs on an adventure with readers asked to search the pictures for hidden numbers. It's a fun and clever way to learn numbers.
Pigs from 1 to 10

A story about 10 Pig siblings on an adventure. Readers are asked to search the pictures for hidden numbers. It’s a fun and clever way to learn numbers. Read More


$12.00

A sweet young little boy, named Willie, takes his dog for a walk and tries and tries again to whistle. Ezra Jack Keats captures the mind and behavior of a 4 or 5 year old child.
Whistle for Willie

A simple story about a boy taking his dog for a walk and learning to whistle. The illustrations are beautiful, bright with vibrant colors. Read More


$12.00

"NightLife" is a photographic archive of the Graffiti Art of the compelling and illusive artist, Richard Hambleton, known for his recurring motif: the Shadowman.
Nightlife (SIGNED BY PALAIA)

“NightLife” is a photographic archive of the Graffiti Art of the compelling and illusive artist, Richard Hambleton, known for his recurring motif: the Shadowman. Read More


$40.00

Brother Thomas, strongly influenced by Asian pottery, often adapted traditional Chinese and Japanese pottery methods and materials to his work.
Of Measures Beyond the Perfect: Porcelains

Benedictine monk Brother Thomas, strongly influenced by Asian pottery, was renowned for his original glaze recipes and perfect forms. Read More


$20.00

Several of Petracca's "Pompeii Tagged" and "These are not my Shoes" are included in this exhibition catalog.
Antonio Petracca: Identity Theft (INSCRIBED COPY)

Exhibition catalogue includes examples of Petracca’s work from ‘These are not my Shoes’ and several from his series “Pompeii Tagged” that depicted ancient Pompeian frescos. Read More


$35.00

Patrick Webb is an American artist who has portrayed contemporary queer experience through representational narrative paintings.
Patrick Webb: 25 Years of Work

Webb is best known for his “Punchinello” paintings which feature a gay “everyman” based on the Italian stock character, Pulcinella. Read More


$15.00

Baladi works with marble to beautifully realize the replication of such common household objects as irons, toasters...even a life size Cadillac.
Baladi

Born in Cairo, Egypt, Roland Baladi is known for marble realism works such as the life size Cadillac he created from marble of Carrara, Italy. Read More


$20.00

Merton planned four issues: "The purpose of this magazine is to publish a few issues devoted to poetry and to some unusual prose and then go out of business."
Monks Pond: Thomas Merton’s Little Magazine

Merton planned four issues: “The purpose of this magazine is to publish a few issues devoted to poetry and to some unusual prose and then go out of business.” Read More


$100.00

Duran's " The History of the Indies of New Spain" was much criticised in his lifetime for helping the "heathen" maintain their culture.
Book of the Gods and Rites and the Ancient Calendar

Diego Durán was a Dominican friar best known for his authorship of one of the earliest Western books on the history and culture of the Aztecs. Read More


$100.00

Extraordinary, unflinching and insightful look at the height of the crack epidemic. It's profoundly sad, many addicts recount what bright futures they had.
Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue

Haunting photos of people shooting up, running from cops, sleeping in shacks, working the street, etc. with dialogue from addicts, and neighbors. Read More


$80.00

In his book Haiti, Bruce Gilden opens our eyes to this fascinating and ultimately tragic country, one of the poorest in the world.
Haiti

Gilden opens our eyes to this fascinating and ultimately tragic country. Haiti remains the least-developed country in the Western Hemisphere and one of the poorest in the world. Read More


$120.00

Alaska has been the site of a gold rush and an oil boom, but those great events comprise only a small portion of the state’s fascinating history.
Historic Photos of Alaska

Nearly 200 archival black-and-white photographs. captures the majesty, history, and beauty of America’s largest and most northern state. Read More


$28.00

When the circus is too full to take in Oliver, the talking elephant, Oliver must look for a new purpose in life. He tries many things before discovering his real talent, dancing.
Oliver

While searching for a purpose in life, Oliver, the talking elephant stops to just play with children. And it is then that he discovers his real talent, dancing. Read More


$18.00

From 1972 onwards, Kienholz assembled much of his artwork in close collaboration with his artistic partner and fifth wife, Nancy Reddin Kienholz.
Kienholz: A Retrospective

Edward Ralph Kienholz was an American installation artist and assemblage sculptor whose work was highly critical of aspects of modern life. Read More


$60.00

This valuable art-historical survey showcases the finest works that form the unparalleled collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Color and Fire

This valuable art-historical survey showcases the finest works that form the unparalleled collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Read More


$40.00

Richard Billingham documents his own dysfunctional family torn apart by the ravages of alcoholism and poverty.
Ray’s a Laugh

Billingham turns his camera lens on Raymond, his alcoholic father, stumbling through his life in a drunken stupor and his dysfunctional family. Read More


$300.00

Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is renowned for his elegant photographic series of seascapes, theaters, museum dioramas, and Buddhist statuary.
Sugimoto Portraits

Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto is renowned for his elegant photography.This new series presents life-size, black-and-white portraits of historical figures. Read More


$50.00

Ursula von Rydingsvard was the outdoor solo exhibition presented at Madison Square Park in 2006. Major permanent commissions of her work are on view throughout the country
Ursula von Rydingsvard: On an Epic Scale

Ursula von Rydingsvard is a sculptor best known for creating large-scale works influenced by nature, primarily using cedar and other forms of timber. Read More


$18.00

The Reading Company was a Philadelphia-headquartered railroad that provided passenger and freight transport in eastern Pennsylvania and neighboring states from 1924 until its acquisition by Conrail in 1976.
The Reading: Building a Modern Railroad

The Reading Railroad was a major American railroad that operated primarily in Pennsylvania, New York, and Delaware, known for transporting anthracite coal. Read More


$15.00

Twenty-seven and a half policemen are after Pierre who manages to evade his pursuers by way of the top of the Eiffel Tower and other historic spots.
The Magic Currant Bun

Pierre has a bun with magical currants. And lots of people are chasing him all over historic spots in Paris. Illustrated by graphic artist, Andre Francois. Read More


$35.00