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Book Beat 131

Browser Book Beat Issue 131

“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.
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.
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

Steven Kellogg is an author and illustrator who has contributed over 90 books for children. He is best known for writing books about animals, for which he credits his grandmother.
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 life of the Cossacks living in the Don River valley during the early 20th century, starting around 1912, just prior to World War I.
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

Events spanning from 1918 up to 1947, covering the history of Italian immigration in America, and the Italian language for the last two hundred years.
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

Chile produces a third of the world’s copper and has the largest known lithium reserves, and we utilize these resources daily.
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

This book is filled with illustrative diagrams and drawings that help evaluate the potential impact of design decisions for creating carbon emissions.
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

Teaches proper footwork and body positioning, how to lure opponents into vulnerable positions, and how to utilize clinches to control the fight and more.
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

Polo recorded first impressions of important people of the time like Genghis Khan. And he traveled through many modern nations.
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

O'Hara wrote personal and urban poems that captured the immediacy of life and influenced the postmodernist movement.
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

Penone's work strives to assimilate the natural world with his artistic practice, unifying art and nature.
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

This is a sweet and somewhat melancholy story about a man who spends his last years restoring a church and helps a hurt pigeon.
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

Beginning around 1880, "Margaret Vandegrift" published collections of poetry, adventure novels, short stories, and fairy tales for young readers.
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

Dennis Stock is one of the most prolific and varied photographers of 20th century. He has photographed nearly every element of American culture.
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

Random-seeming portraits of people around the country, doing whatever it is they were doing. Collectively it's a portrait of America.
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

This is a good collection of the Pirelli Calendar art photography. The book appears to include every picture from the 1964-1997 era calendars, as well as some behind-the-scenes shots.
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

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.
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" was penned by Lu Yu during the eighth century. It was T'ang Dynasty time during Lu Yu's time period.
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

Crowe captures the essence of teenage years in this book – not just the authentic voice but the feeling of being a teenager in their own separate world from both children and adults.
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

John Updike was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.
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

If you're a story artist this is a must have for your writer's room. The Art of telling a story through timing, staging, atmosphere, all without words is all here.
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


$80.00