Almost 200 volumes in this batch of new arrivals. A lot of photography, both traditional and off the beaten path. There’s a slew of Zane Grey reprints in dust jackets. As always, some comic art including 6 Crumb volumes. Also included, a nice scattering of American regional history, biography, children’s, novels, sports, dogs and more. Here’s a sampling. See all New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
The Springer Spaniel
Maxwell Riddle was a world renown Dog Show Judge, author of 14 breed books and Associate Editor of DOG WORLD. This is his complete care guide for the Springer Spaniel. Read More
$25.00
The Heart of A Dog
These endearing and adventurous dog stories will thrill any dog lover and convert the indifferent. Plus beautiful color and b/w illustrations by Marguerite Kirmse. Read More
$25.00
Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle (SIGNED)
The definitive user’s guide and then some to Matthew Barney’s epic five-part film series, The Cremaster Cycle. Read More
$600.00
Falkland Road: Prostitutes of Bombay
A collection of very candid, matter-of-fact, even raw pictures of female and transvestite prostitutes at work in the red-light district of Mumbai. Read More
$60.00
R. Crumb. Sketchbook Vol. 6. 1998–2011
After High school Crumb found work as an illustrator for the American Greeting Card company. Three years later he followed his true calling, joining the staff of Kurtzman’s short-lived satirical magazine “Help!” Read More
$120.00
R. Crumb Sketchbook Volume 5: Dec. 1989 – Jan. 1998
Crumb, American counterculture comic book artist and social satirist, is known for his distinctive artwork and excellent marriage of drawing and narrative. Read More
$150.00
The First Settlers of Virginia, an Historical Novel….
An 1806 historical novel based on the alleged love story of Captain John Smith and Pocahontas and the founding and survival of the Jamestown settlement. Read More
$800.00
America
Candid pictures by Warhol juxtaposed with commentary by Warhol on what it means to be an American. Lavishly illustrated. Read More
$100.00
George Herriman. Krazy Kat. The Complete Color Sundays 1935-1944
Herriman created Krazy Kat after a fall from a scaffold ended his house painter career. Many consider “Kat” the finest strip ever produced. Utilized poetic dialogue, stark and surrealistic landscape backgrounds based on the Arizona desert. Read More
$200.00
Treasure Island
The villainy of that most ambiguous rogue Long John Silver sets the tempo of this tale of treachery, greed, and daring. First Wyeth illustrated edition. Read More
$300.00
The Shepherd of Guadaloupe
Another great Zane Grey western that has it all: A gripping story, strong characters, memorable dialogue and a classic romance. Read More
$20.00
Pomiuk: A Waif of Labrador
Based on true story of a young boy who came from Labrador to participate in an Inuit (Eskimos) exhibit in the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893. These “World Fairs” were held in Chicago. Read More
$50.00
The Work of Atget, Vol. I, Old France
A ground-breaking pioneer of documentary photography, Atget was dedicated to documenting the architecture and street scenes of Paris before their disappearance to modernization. Read More
$100.00
Black in White America
Freed photographed Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement, but he also focused on daily life for African Americans in the segregated America of the 1960s. Read More
$70.00
I Shot New York: Photographs by Ralph Ginzburg
After retiring from publishing books and magazines, Ginzburg became a freelance photographer for the New York Post, specializing in New York scenes. Read More
$25.00
Workers: An Archaeology of the Industrial Age
Startling, gripping, intoxicating. Salgado passionately investigates the condition gloabally of those living at and beyond the margins. Read More
$120.00
Boyhood Photos of J.H. Lartigue: The Family Album of a Gilded Age
Lartigue was given a large-plate camera at age seven that he operated by standing on a stool. He grew up to become famous for photographing automobile races, planes and female Parisian fashion models. Read More
$100.00
The Survival of the Bark Canoe
Henri Vaillancourt made birch-bark canoes the same way the Indians did. McPhee describes an expedition he made with Vaillancourt while tracing the evolution of the bark style canoe. Read More
$30.00
Slovenly Peter: Or Pretty Stories and Funny Pictures for Little Children
Classic tales in verse about naughty boys and girls and the fates that befall them when they misbehave. Read More
$18.00
The Alphabet from A to Y With Bonus Letter Z!
Great for children with a sense of humor. Steve Martin silliness, Roz Chast weird art. Plus a great book to teach both couplets and alliteration. Read More
“So many books, so little time,” ~Frank Zappa. This batch has a slew of Art books, mostly Exhibition Catalogs, also covers film and animation. There’s also more photography, especially monographs. American history, literature, biography, children’s, novels. And a few stragglers worth checking out. Below a sampling. See all 150 New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Treasure Island
For pure adventure, Treasure Island has never been surpassed. It’s a page turner from the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew. Read More
$25.00
Pinkerton & Friends: A Steven Kellogg Treasury (SIGNED)
Here’s a collection of Steven Kellogg’s eleven previously-published books about Pinkerton, Jimmy’s boa, and other creatures. Kellogg has authored/illustrated over 90 children’s books. Read More
$40.00
The Silent Don (2 Volumes in slipcase) And Quiet Flows the Don & The Don Flows Home to the Sea
Sholokhov is known for writing about life and fate of Don Cossacks during the Russian Revolution, the civil war and the period of collectivization. Read More
$100.00
A Camp Without Walls
One man’s journey from the rise of fascism in Italy to capture, survival in and rescue from a Nazi Prison Camp to reaching the United States, and the affect on his future family. Read More
$35.00
Jamey Stillings: Atacama: Renewable Energy and Mining in the High Desert of Chile (INSCRIBED COPY)
Chile produces a third of the world’s copper and has the largest known lithium reserves, and we utilize these resources daily in our cars, computers and smartphones. Read More
$80.00
Carbon: A Field Manual for Building Designers
A comprehensive approach to get started with LCA (Life Cycle Assessment)in building construction with focus on CO2 or carbon as well as concepts for decarbonization. Read More
$70.00
Boxing: The Naval Aviation Physical Training Manuals
Teaches proper footwork and body positioning, how to lure opponents into vulnerable positions, and how to utilize clinches to control the fight and more. Read More
$100.00
The Travels of Marco Polo
Some of Polo’s adventures were “mythological”. He clarified that the “gryphon bird,” was not half bird half lion, but big enough to pounce on an elephant. Read More
$60.00
In Memory Of My Feelings
O’Hara wrote personal and urban poems that captured the immediacy of life and influenced the postmodernist movement. Read More
$80.00
Giuseppe Penone: The Imprint of Drawing
Penone’s work strives to assimilate the natural world with his artistic practice, unifying art and nature. Read More
$50.00
Angelo (SIGNED COPY)
Angelo finds an injured pigeon and nurses her back to health. As he ages, the pigeon encourages him through his final days of a church restoration. Read More
$40.00
Under the Dog-Star: From the Dog-Latin of Jock
Jock, the dog, writes about life. Chapter’s include, “The well is dug, and I am cruelly misunderstood” and “I visit the outlaw cat, and learn and important lesson. Read More
$100.00
Made in USA: Photographs 1951 – 1971
Stock has photographed nearly every element of American culture, from jazz musicians and movie stars to biker gangs and hippie communes. Read More
$50.00
Stranger Passing
Joel Sternfeld is an artist-photographer whose work is concerned with utopic and dystopic possibilities of the American experience. Collectively it’s a portrait of America. Read More
$90.00
The Pirelli Calendar 1964-1997
The Pirelli Calendar, known and trade-marked as “The Cal”, is an annual trade calendar published by the UK subsidiary of the Italian tyre manufacturing company Pirelli since 1964. Read More
$60.00
Elizabeth Heyert: The Sleepers (SIGNED COPY)
Working with a large format view camera from a balcony, Heyert documented modern men and women, in all their diversity, sleeping naked, singly and in couples. Read More
$150.00
The Classic of Tea
“The Classic of Tea” was penned by Lu Yu during the eighth century. Lu Yu provides tea drinkers with practical and spiritual information about all aspects of tea. Read More
$80.00
Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story
it’s one that could stand as a record of teenage culture in the late 20th century, at the end of the Boomer teenage era when young people were allowed unparalleled freedoms. Read More
$200.00
The Witches of Eastwick (SIGNED COPY)
America in the seventies, a small provincial town, three divorced women following occult practices, a lot of boredom, and suddenly a Man arrives … “he was the novelty, the magnetism.” Read More
$60.00
Paper Dreams: The Art & Artists of Disney Storyboards
It’s a technique that first helped bring Mickey Mouse to life — and today’s greatest movie makers, from Martin Scorcese to Tim Burton, couldn’t make a film without it. Read More
