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Book Beat 130

Browser Book Beat Issue 130

“It’s called ‘reading’. It’s how people install new software into their brains.” -Randy Glasbergen. With that as the basis, we have lots of software available. This batch includes art, Russian authors, fiction, sports, poetry, biographies, history, and literature. Plus included are the first of many uploads of photography books from a recently acquired impressive photo library. Here’s a sampling. See all these New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Mabel Lucie Attwell's delicate illustrations in watercolor and pen-and-ink are delightful enhancements to Barrie's enduring story.
Peter Pan and Wendy

Mabel Lucie Attwell’s delicate illustrations in watercolor and pen-and-ink are delightful enhancements to Barrie’s enduring story. Read More


$100.00

Donald Andrew Hall Jr., American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic, authored more than 50 books across several genres including 22 volumes of verse.
The Alligator Bride: Poems New and Selected

Donald Hall, one of the major American poets of his generation. gained early success with his first collection, Exiles and Marriages (1955), his later poetry is generally regarded as the best of his career. Read More


$18.00

Fifteen major-league baseball managers are interviewed representing six decades of baseball. Stories show how the game has changed.
The Man in the Dugout: Fifteen Big League Managers Speak Their Minds

Baseball managers reminisce primarily about the 1920s-40s. Stories are filled with charm and color showing how the game has changed. Read More


$12.00

Johnny Bench was the first catcher in history to lead the league in home runs.He hit 45 home runs in 1970, which was a single-season record for catchers until Salvador Perez hit 48 in 2021.
From Behind the Plate

Johnny Bench was the leader of the Reds team known as the Big Red Machine that dominated the National League in the mid-1970s. Read More


$15.00

Tolstoy's two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time.
Tolstoy’s Letters (2 Volumes)

Many consider Tolstoy among world’s greatest novelists. Tolstoy had spiritual awakening in the 1870s, and became noted as a moral thinker and social reformer. Read More


$60.00

Mowatt presents a theoretical account of which Europeans came to North America first and the harsh conditions of life and the voyage.
The Farfarers: Before the Norse (SIGNED COPY)

Fascinating mix of archaeology, history, and speculation that the Albans were really the first Europeans to come to North America. Read More


$38.00

Edward Jean Steichen was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter and curator and a pioneer of fashion photography.
Edward Steichen: Selected texts and bibliography.

Steichen’s gown images for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 were the first modern fashion photographs to be published. Read More


$100.00

So dedicated to learning lacquering Gray kept working even when suffering "lacquer disease", a painful rash on her hands.
Eileen Gray: Design and Architecture, 1878-1976

During World War II, Gray was interned as a foreign national, and her houses were looted. German soldiers used the walls of the famed E-1027 for target practice. Read More


$40.00

Vicki Goldberg, leading photography critic works with private collection of Keith de Lellis in exhibit of the new renaissance of post-WWII Italy.
La Strada: Italian Street Photography

Vicki Goldberg, leading photography critic works with private collection of Keith de Lellis in exhibit of the new renaissance of post-WWII Italy. Read More


$400.00

Werner Bischof was one of the most outstanding photographers of the post WW II period, whose work set new standards in photojournalism.
Werner Bischof. 1916 – 1954. His Life and Work.

Werner Bischof was one of the most outstanding photographers of the post WW II period, whose work set new standards in photojournalism. Read More


$50.00

Margherita Sarfatti first met Benito Mussolini in 1911 at the socialist daily Avanti! In what became a turbulent love affair.
My Fault: Mussolini As I Knew Him

Margherita Sarfatti was a writer, art critic, and after becoming his lover, a major adviser to Mussolini, the founder of the Fascist party. Read More


$150.00

Lady Chatterley's Lover has been one of the most controversial books of 20th-century classical literature. Branded as pornography and called "the foulest book in English literature".
Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Lady Chatterley’s Lover has been one of the most controversial books of 20th-century classical literature. Branded as pornography and called “the foulest book in English literature”. Read More


$350.00

Landmark book from Spitzka, M.D., President of the New York, Neurological Society; formerly Physician to the Department of Nervous Diseases of the Metropolitan Throat Hospital.
Insanity: Its Classification, Diagnosis and Treatment, a Manual for Students and Practitioners of Medicine

Spitzka, who authored this landmark psychiatric manual, was an eminent late-19th century alienist, neurologist, and anatomist. He pioneered studies of the anatomy of the human nervous system. Read More


$100.00

Bobby makes it clear that the Panthers and any other revolutionary organization must fight for survival by addressing the problems affecting their communities.
Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P Newton

Seale, the Panther’s co-founder, offers an oral history of the Party’s origins, which becomes a revisionary history of the Party’s distorted public perception. Read More


$200.00

Brassai captured the sometimes seedy night life that filled the urban scenes from the 1930s lit by the moon and lamplight.
Brassai: Paris by Night

A collection of night photographs filled with atmosphere of urban scenes from the 1930s. Lit by the moon and lamplight, they capture that magic which rises from the gutters after the sun has set. Read More


$80.00

Ray Petri and Buffalo uncannily foreshadowed the current trends for gender-fluid fashion, breaking down stereotypes along the way.
Buffalo

Ray Petri, fashion designer and founding member of Buffalo changed the face of menswear in the 1980s pulling together influences from a number of seemingly random sources. Read More


$90.00

Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are lyrically combined by Kerouac in a loose format inspired by jazz and the blues.
Mexico City Blues (242 Choruses)

Mexico City Blues is Kerouac’s most important verse work. It incorporates all the elements of his theory of spontaneous composition and his interest in Buddhism. Read More


$18.00

In his usual style, Yeats draws the reader into his musings on a variety of subjects, making this book one that is impossible to put down.
A Packet for Ezra Pound

In his usual style, Yeats draws the reader into his musings on a variety of subjects, making this book one that is impossible to put down. Read More


$300.00

This book examines the inscriptions on the walls in a historical context. Interviews with survivor and family included.
Desperate Inscriptions: Graffiti from the Nazi Prison in Rome 1943-1944

Studies the context of the scrawled graffiti and inscriptions on the walls of Via Tasso, Rome, where anti-fascist partisans were imprisoned by the Nazis. Read More


$150.00

Author Lawrence Kilham was a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union, professor of microbiology emeritus of Dartmouth Medical School, and a distinguished virologist.
The American Crow and the Common Raven

The social systems of Crow and the Common Raven, from cooperative breeding to predator mobbing is covered as is topics like ‘play’ and ‘thinking’. Read More


$12.00

Book Beat 129

Browser Book Beat Issue 129

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ~Cicero This batch of 167 titles has a lot of art – fashion and comic as well as classic. We’ve also got children’s books including a number of St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks and a group of The Bedtime Story Book series by Thornton W. Burgess with drawings by Harrison Cady. This upload also has literature, American and WW II history, photography, fiction, poetry, and sports. Here’s a sampling. Here’s a sampling. See all the New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Niehues' method of painting ski trails begins with aerial photographs of the mountain that he either takes himself or obtains from Google Earth.
The Man Behind The Maps: Legendary Ski Artist James Niehues

Niehues has been called “the Michelangelo of snow”, “Rembrandt of the ski trail”, “Monet of the mountain”, and the “Norman Rockwell of ski resorts”. Read More


$120.00

Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, minister, abolitionist, and poet who led the Transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century.
The Letters of Ralph Waldo Emerson (6 Volumes)

Known for leading the Transcendentalist movement, Emerson’s works emphasized individualism, nature, and self-reliance, significantly impacting American literature and thought. Read More


$180.00

Davis tells how she spent her teen years fighting for freedom as a member in the Belgian resistance during WW2.
Girl in the Belgian Resistance: A Wakeful Eye in the Underground

Davis writes Insightful and adventurous stories about her experience as a teen Belgian resistance fighter during World War II. Read More


$20.00

An archaeological/art history textbook that is fun and interesting because it was like an adventure story. The rock art paintings are amazing.
Cave Paintings Of Baja California: Discovering the Great Murals of an Unknown People

A full-color account of one of the five greatest sites in the world for amazing primitive rock art known as The Great Murals Of Baja California. Read More


$35.00

At 21 Al Williamson was already well-regarded enough as a Western and science-fiction illustrator to be recruited for the EC Comics staff roster.
The Atlas Artist Edition No. 2: Al Williamson the City That Time Forgot and Other Stories

Illustrator supreme. Inker extraoardinaire. Member of the Eisner Hall Of Fame. His career spanned seven decades. Read More


$180.00

A specially curated selection of photographs by renowned American photographer Richard Avedon, Learn more about the subjects, dates, and locations of his work.
Avedon 100

An exhibition catalog to celebrate the centenary of the iconic photographer’s birth. Makes clear why Avedon had enduring influence on photography and visual culture worldwide. Read More


$80.00

Arnold Scaasi was a Canadian clothing designer whose exuberant creations were worn by generations of first ladies, socialites and Hollywood stars.
Scaasi: American Couturier

Arnold Scaasi was a Canadian clothing designer whose exuberant creations were worn by generations of first ladies, socialites and Hollywood stars. Read More


$35.00

When Alley Oop began time-traveling adventures, plot lines were expanded and Oop began visiting historical figures.
Alley Oop Meets Julius Caesar 1949-1950

Alley Oop, the strip’s title character, began time-traveling adventures, plot lines were expanded and Oop began visiting historical figures. Read More


$120.00

F.G. Cooper created designs for New York Edison, Westinghouse, and the U.S. War Department, among many others.
The Lettering And Graphic Design Of F.G. Cooper

Spot cartoons, full-page comics, lettering examples, and clever monograms Cooper created for notable people and companies from Eisenhower to Westinghouse. Read More


$40.00

The Sky Masters newspaper strip is one of the most fascinating and obscure works by comics legend Jack Kirby.
Sky Masters of the Space Force, The Complete Sunday Strips in Color 1959-1960

Wallace Wood’s inks are incredible over Jack’s art, so fans and scholars shouldn’t miss out on this chance to experience the pairing of these two legendary talents. Read More


$100.00

Everything you'd expect from the kitchen at Chez Panisse - simple, accessible, elegant and most importantly, tasty recipes on every page.
Chez Panisse Desserts

Recipes from Chez Panisse, the Berkeley, California, restaurant, known as one of the originators of California cuisine and the farm-to-table movement. Read More


$120.00

Testino’s work with Moss over the years has created many memorable campaigns for each of them.
Kate Moss by Mario Testino

Testino has been shooting Moss for years. These photographs follow the close, familiar and intimate relationship between photographer and subject. Read More


$28.00

Like the title says, this book covers cartoon music history. Each chapter focuses on a specific arranger, composer and performer.
The Cartoon Music Book

Essays and interviews, mostly from composers, about cartoon show themes, for Casper, Simpsons, Rugrats, Casper the Friendly Ghost, and more. Read More


$18.00

James Ford was a nationally known archaeologist. His accomplishments include the development of the ceramic seriation technique.
Measuring the Flow of Time: The Works of James A. Ford, 1935-1941

Ford was part of a well-known debate about typology with fellow archaeologist Albert Spaulding. The Ford-Spaulding Debate of the early 1950s is still taught in graduate programs across the country. Read More


$20.00

Insight into Highsmith's interesting, original mind. Also a sad life that took no hostages.
Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: 1941-1995

Described by some as raw and breathtaking, Highsmith’s most private thoughts laid bare. Can feel intrusive yet compelling. Read More


$40.00

His monumental work, L'Action explores the relationship between human action and a recognition of an orientation towards God.
Total Commitment: Blondels L’Action

His monumental work, L’Action explores the relationship between human action and a recognition and an orientation towards God. Read More


$200.00

When the adults decide to scrap Busby, the school bus, the children come to the rescue.
The Bingity-Bangity School Bus

Busby the school bus might be old and clankety, but the children adore him. The adults, however, think he’s ready for the junkyard. Read More


$12.00

When Jimmy Skunk curls up to take a nap in an old barrel, and Peter Rabbit can't help but prank him. Good clean, loving fun ensues.
The Adventures of Jimmy Skunk

Delightful, whimsical adventures that combine the excitement of a good story with gentle lessons about nature, wildlife and such virtues as courtesy, kindness, and preparedness. Read More


$18.00

Chinese swordsmanship, also known as jianshu, refers to various types of swordsmanship native to China and is a part of Chinese martial arts practice.
Chinese Swordsmanship: The Yang Family Taiji Jian Tradition

Excellent guide to historical Chinese swordsmanship.The steps for every movement are carefully described and photographed with a focus on application in combat. Read More


$80.00

The story of a scrawny, unproductive but pure-hearted cow in Lichtenstein who wants to win fame at an annual festival.
Ludmila: A Story of Liechtenstein (SIGNED COPY)

Strange story, set in 1823, of a dairy cow wanting to win fame at an annual festival. This gentle, sentimental tale offers the possibility of an animal’s ability to pray. Read More


$50.00

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