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Book Beat 139

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This new group includes a wide range of books on art (comic, graphic, fine art, monographs, exhibition catalogs…), sports (including a lot of baseball), literature, children’s, photography, novels, social sciences, food and cooking, Also odds and ends like Electroplating and the Blackshirts in Little Italy. Here’s a sampling. See all of these New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
The book is divided into 5 chapters, each collecting a theme of the short-stories Frazetta worked on during his brief stint in comics. Features several full-page covers of Frazetta’s amazing brush work.
Telling Stories: The Classic Comic Art of Frank Frazetta Frazetta, Frank; Mason, Edward [Editor]

A complete collection of Frazetta’s comic book art and covers, along with essays and information about his work in the field. Features several full-page covers of Frazetta’s amazing brush work. Read More


$80.00

n 1940, he painted 50 backgrounds for Warner Bros. and Leon Schlesinger Productions for a Chuck Jones Merrie Melodies cartoon featuring the Canyon Kiddies, titled Mighty Hunters.
Jimmy! The Comic Art of James Swinnerton

An American cartoonist and a landscape painter, Swinnerton experimented with narrative continuity, and played a key role in developing the comic strip at the end of the 19th century. Read More


$170.00

Diego Cordoba did fantastic job in his choice and lay-out of Prince Valiant pages and panels. He uses not only the color page but also black and white linework, focussing on the excellence in the various artists' work.
Prince Valiant Artists (illustrators Hardcover Special #19) (Limited Edition)

Beside the artists themselves, features include talk about the colors of the strip, the coloring process itself, whether Doré inspired Foster?, and how the script was turned into finished art. Read More


$150.00

Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition, known principally for revolutionizing the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, Suffolk, England.
The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (2 Volumes)

Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition, known principally for revolutionizing the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, Suffolk, England. Read More


$300.00

Hibbard was an American plein air painter known for his landscape paintings, particularly his winter scenes in Vermont. He won multiple awards from the National Academy of Design.
A.T. Hibbard, N.A.: Artist in Two Worlds

Except for winter painting in Vermont, Hibbard spent much of his life in Rockport, Massachusetts and helped evolve a style of painting known as The Rockport School of Painting. Read More


$80.00

The exhibition speaks of the complex relationships among women, their environment, and their inner lives.
Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century Selections from the Helen Kornblum Collection

Through documentary photography, photojournalism, portraiture, still life, self-portraiture, and constructed tableaux, women photographers define the world. Read More


$25.00

Set in 1926 and ending by 1936, it begins with a young airman full of doubt as he is given his first long flight carrying mail. Bad weather leads to a reacherous journey.
Wind, Sand, and Stars

A seemingly simple memoir by the pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery turns into something greater – a philosophy of life, with all its complexities and anxieties revealed. Read More


$30.00

Musical emergencies come in the form of a young student anticipating the repair of their trumpet before their school concert to a backstage repair with thousands of fans waiting.
With The Band: Memoirs of a Music Shop Owner

Billy, instrument repairman, takes you to sound stages, studios and shows for emergency repairs. It’s the story of another day with the music technician. Read More


$20.00

Stories told with an aura of innocence and nostalgia.. Kindly policemen make life easier for a family of ducks. A boy and his harmonica save the day. A little girl enjoys the wonders of nature.
A Robert McCloskey Collection: Make Way for Ducklings/Lentil/One Morning in Maine

McCloskey both wrote and illustrated eight picture books, and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association for the year’s best-illustrated picture book. Read More


$25.00

A good parody of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. A zombie has to eat his way through several groups of people. Its humor a child would find funny, but adults would get more out of it.
The Very Hungry Zombie: A Parody

A good parody of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. A zombie awakes with a terrible appetite and eats his way through several groups of people until his appetite is fully satiated by a pile of brains. Read More


$25.00

In 1871, armed with several bottles of his father's horse liniment, Earl Sloan and his brother joined forces to buy and ship horses. Their success help make the Sloan liniment formula a big seller, too.
Sloan’s Handy Hints and Up-To-Date Cook Book: Choice Cooking Receipts, Valuable Hints, Useful Information, Pearls of Wisdom

The serendipitous use of Sloan’s horse liniment on a human back lead the Sloan brothers to begin selling even more of the liniment advertising it as “good for man and beast”. Read More


$40.00

History of four principal towns past the Revolutionary era. Beyond those four principal towns, it chronicles the history of smaller surrounding towns on the bay, such as Jamestown.
Narragansett Bay: Its Historic and Romantic Associations and Picturesque Setting

History of four principal towns past the Revolutionary era. Beyond those four principal towns, this book chronicles the history of smaller surrounding towns on the bay, such as Jamestown. Read More


$80.00

Dieter Kafitz was Professor of Modern German Literary History. This book presents theories about structuralism, poststructuralism and feminist literature in current culture.
Décadence in Deutschland: Studien zu einem versunkenen….

Dieter Kafitz was Professor of Modern German Literary History. This book presents theories about structuralism, poststructuralism and feminist literature in current culture. German Text. Read More


$70.00

Lord Minto in India presents a detailed portrait of Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, during his tenure as Governor-General of India from 1807 to 1814.
Lord Minto in India. Life and Letters of Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1807 to 1814….

Through Lord Minto’s personal letters and official correspondence, the book sheds light on the challenges and complexities of British governance in India during a pivotal period in colonial history. Read More


$80.00

Jakobson had a lifelong fascination with this medieval epic Russian poem about a doomed campaign led by Prince Igor.
La Geste du Prince Igor’, épopée russe du XIIe siècle…..

Jakobson (translator) was a Russian thinker who became one of the most influential linguists of the twentieth century by pioneering the development of structural analysis of language. Read More


$30.00

Deucalion's account of the lost continent of Atlantis describes his heroic but ultimately doomed battle to save Atlantis from destruction by its avaricious and selfish empress, Phorenice.
The Lost Continent

The Story of Atlantis is a fantasy novel by English author C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne. It is considered one of the classic fictional retellings of the story of the drowning of Atlantis Read More


$40.00

Multi-colored map view depicts the high peaks of the White Mountains and the surrounding region, bounded east and west by the Carter and Kinsman Ranges, and north and south by Lancaster and the Lakes Region.
Glimpses of the Great Pleasure Resorts of New England….

LAID IN: Bird’s Eye View Of The White Mountains 1890’s ORIGINAL MAP. This multi-colored view depicts the high peaks of the White Mountains and the surrounding region. Read More


$700.00

This is an interesting look at Billy Wilder's Hollywood output, weaving in his background in Europe. Wilder was one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood.
A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder’s American Films

This is an interesting look at Billy Wilder’s Hollywood output, weaving in his background in Europe. Wilder was one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Read More


$28.00

In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a poet and songwriter; especially well-known was his poem-turned-song "Woodman, Spare that Tree!"
The Songs and Ballads of George P. Morris

Critic and writer Edgar Allan Poe acknowledged the popularity of Morris’s songs, “which have taken fast hold upon the popular taste, and which are deservedly celebrated”. Read More


$60.00

An intensely researched portrait of the man and the athlete, Illingworth writes a compelling story of secrecy, misconceptions, stereotypes, hype, greed, even racism.
Mike Tyson: Money, Myth and Betrayal

An intensely researched portrait of the man and the athlete, Illingworth writes a compelling story of secrecy, misconceptions, stereotypes, hype, greed, even racism. Read More


$25.00

Book Beat 138

Browser Book Beat Issue 138

New arrivals include a large swath of photography books covering landscapes, monographs, essays, portraits, more. This batch also has a fair number of books about history, mostly German, leading up to WW II. As usual, there are art books from comic to fine arts, children’s illustrated and fiction. Also the usual Odds and Ends. Here’s a sampling. See all these New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
As of 2024, Gasoline Alley was the longest-running current strip in the United States, and the second-longest running strip of all time in the United States, after The Katzenjammer Kids.
Gasoline Alley Vol. 1 Daily Comics, 1964-1966

Gasoline Alley centers on the lives of patriarch Walt Wallet, his family, and residents in the town of Gasoline Alley, with storylines reflecting traditional American values. Read More


$50.00

Friedlander photographed nearly every facet of American life from the 1950s to the present. From factories in Pennsylvania, to the jazz scene in New Orleans, to the deserts of the Southwest.
Portraits: The Human Clay

Lee Friedlander’s work is widely known for transforming our visual understanding of contemporary American culture as he passionately embraces all subject matter. Read More


$50.00

Beaton was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as costume designer and set designer for stage and screen. His accolades include three Academy Awards and four Tony Awards.
Love, Cecil: A Journey with Cecil Beaton

British fashion, portrait, war photographer, diarist, painter, interior designer, costume designer, set designer for stage and screen. His accolades include three Academy Awards and four Tony Awards. Read More


$50.00

More than 20 celebrated children's book illustrators offer their thoughts about art and the source of their creative inspiration. Invites an opportunity to talk about art with children in a thoughtful yet fun way.
Wings of an Artist: Children’s Book Illustrators Talk About Their Art (SIGNED BY MULTIPLE ARTISTS)

Page after page of different art styles, techniques, & interpretations, more than 20 celebrated children’s book illustrators offer their thoughts about art and the creative process. Read More


$60.00

A wonderful story of a duckling facing discrimination just because of her appearance. The illustrations are in both black and white, as well as color in Fern Peat's distinctive style.
The Ugly Duckling

The classic Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale THE UGLY DUCKLING is upgraded with beautifully done illustrations by Fern Bisel Peat. Illustrations are in both black and white, as well as color in Peat’s distinctive style. Read More


$25.00

Dr. Seuss and his unique combination of hilarious stories, zany pictures and riotous rhymes, have been delighting young children and helping them learn to read for over fifty years.
Happy Birthday to You!

Bigger than New Year’s, the Fourth of July, and Halloween all rolled into one, birthdays are for celebrating with Dr. Seuss in his first all-color picture book, ‘Happy Birthday to You!’ Read More


$40.00

The classic poem from e. e. cummings is given sparkling treatment from the talented author-illustrator Chris Raschka.
Little Tree, The (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR)

This Christmas story inspired by e.e. cumming’s poem “Little Tree” focuses on a little tree who fulfills its destiny by becoming one family’s Christmas centerpiece. Read More


$50.00

This volume explores how Locke was appreciated by his contemporaries as a biblical interpreter and exegete. The essays address both theoretical and historical contexts of Locke’s analytical methodology.
Locke and Biblical Hermeneutics: Conscience and Scripture

Illuminating research carried out by international scholars of Locke and the early modern period. The essays address the theoretical and historical contexts of Locke’s analytical methodology. Read More


$100.00

We do not need to see God to know what He is like. We only need to think about the things that are like Him... sun, moon and stars, the air around us, mountains and hills and the deep mysterious sea.
A Book About God

For children of all faiths, this book has the direct appeal and the simplicity of the Twenty Third Psalm. We do not need to see God to know what He is like. Read More


$50.00

Harold Love, a leading scholar of seventeenth-century manuscript circulation, presents a scholarly text based on detailed examination of Wilmot's manuscripts, with full textual and explanatory notes.
The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

If you like poems about “swiving”, this is the book for you. John Wilmot proves a fascinating figure, one of the wittiest and most sexually explicit poets in English. Read More


$300.00

Known in English as "On the Nature of Things", long poem written in Latin as De rerum natura by Lucretius that sets forth the physical theory of the Greek philosopher Epicurus.
Titi Lucreti Cari: De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex (Three Volume Set)

Known in English as “On the Nature of Things”, long poem written in Latin as De rerum natura by Lucretius that sets forth the physical theory of the Greek philosopher Epicurus. Read More


$250.00

The Dutch involvement in North America started after Henry Hudson, sailing under a Dutch flag in 1609, traveled up the river that would later bear his name.
New Netherland: A Dutch Colony In Seventeenth-Century America

A comprehensive history of the Dutch colony on the Hudson from the first trading voyages in the 1610s to 1674, when the Dutch ceded the colony to the English. Read More


$80.00

A fascinating catalogue of the antiquities and arts exhibited at Ironmongers Hall in May 1861. Edited by George Russell French, and compiled by a Committee of the Council of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society.
A Catalogue of the Antiquities and Works of Art exhibited at Ironmongers’ Hall, London, in the month of May, 1861…(2 Vols.)

Fascinating catalogue of antiquities and arts exhibited at Ironmongers Hall in May 1861. Includes sections on ironwork, armour, portraits, Egyptian antiquities, paintings, books and book-binding, furniture, and more. Read More


$250.00

A look at how the German obsession with culture, sense of cultural superiority, and scorn of politics have affected its relations with other countries, France and the United States in particular.
The Seduction of Culture in German History

Explores how the German obsession with culture, sense of cultural superiority, and scorn of politics have affected its relations with other countries, France and the United States in particular. Read More


$18.00

A comprehensive analysis of the events that led to the Spartacist Uprising of 1919 in Germany. The book examines the relationship between political theory and party practice within the German socialist movement, and how this relationship ultimately led to the failure of the uprising.
The Spartacist Uprising of 1919

A comprehensive analysis of the events that led to the Spartacist Uprising of 1919 in Germany. The book examines the relationship between political theory and party practice within the German socialist movement. Read More


$30.00

An encapsulation of the year that began with the French occupation of the Ruhr, saw inflation become hyperinflation, and ended with Hitler's putsch, and the introduction of the Rentenmark to stabilize the economy.
Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler’s Putsch, and Democracy in Crisis

Encapsulation of the year that began with the French occupation of the Ruhr, saw inflation become hyperinflation, and ended with Hitler’s putsch, and the introduction of the Rentenmark to stabilize the economy. Read More


$25.00

The story of Bohemian artists in Paris from the 1890s through the 1930s. The book is a string of interlocking vignettes, organized more or less in chronological order, rather than a traditional history.
Bohemian Paris: Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and the Birth of Modern Art

Vivid, magical tour of the bohemian art world of Paris of 1900 to 1930 through a series of short vignettes on the daily life in Montmartre and Montparnasse with the drugs, the poverty, the sex…. Read More


$15.00

Mesmeric stream-of-consciousness prose poetry creates an idiosyncratic portrait of the lives of emigrant rural Irishmen scraping out a living in industrial England.
I Could Read the Sky: A Novel (SIGNED COPY)

Mesmeric stream-of-consciousness prose poetry creates an idiosyncratic portrait of the lives of emigrant rural Irishmen scraping out a living in industrial England. Read More


$40.00

August Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century".
August Sander: Photographs of an Epoch, 1904-1959

August Sander,German portrait and documentary photographer, best known for his series “People of the 20th Century,” which aimed to capture a cross-section of society during the Weimar Republic. Read More


$18.00

This is a great vegetable cookbook by Alice Waters from the famous Chez Panaisse restaurant. The book is divided up by vegetables and arranged alphabetically.
Chez Panisse Vegetables

A wonderful cookbook for vegetarians and meat eaters who want to try to incorporate more vegetables into their diet. You can find a recipe for almost any vegetable you can think of. Read More


$18.00