Book Beat 148
Archives for April 2026
Book Beat 147 Golden Age of Illustration 1
![Falter received a major break with his first commission from Liberty Magazine to do three illustrations a week in 1933.[4] "They paid me $75 a week," Falter said, "just like a steelworker."](https://www.browsingisarousing.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/413611-233x300.jpg)
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An examination of what we do when we think, of where we are when we think, of why we think at all. Arendt freely moves through the entire philosophical history of thinking and willing. Read More
$100.00
In the early 70’s Eggleston purchased the first portable video recorder and took hours of footage of his crazy friends around Memphis and New Orleans. This book includes the only film William Eggleston ever made. Read More
$70.00
Harpur and Iles series book. Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur investigates the murder of thirteen-year-old Mandy Walsh, a drug runner, who was caught in the crossfire between two rival drug gangs. Read More
$15.00
From an exciting era in the history of Black fiction. The first detective novel written by an African American. Fisher’s witty novel has a gripping plot and vividly drawn characters. Set in 1930s New York. Read More
$15.00
The now classic story centers on totalitarianism with its mass surveillance and repressive regimentation of people. Introduced “Newspeak”, “Doublethink”, “Big Brother”, and the “Thought Police” into the English language. Read More
$200.00
Wifeless, childless, bulldog Mugsy, enjoys life without responsibilities. Then his nephews come to visit for Christmas. Ugh. Of course, Mugsy comes to appreciate family. Wonderful illustrations. Poetic text. Read More
$50.00
Ewing celebrated queer culture and documented it with his amateur photographs. Chronicles the swirling social rounds of New York City in the 1920’s and early 1930’s. Read More
$50.00
No photographer came close to capturing the sensations, scandals, and catastrophes of 1930s and ’40s New York like Weegee. He had the uncanny ability to be at the right place at the right time and ready to shoot. Read More
$70.00
Vollmann went to Afghanistan in 1982, during the Soviet-Afghan War, planning to gather information and images to help determine who most deserved American aid. Along the way he realized he was clueless. This is the book about that adventure. Read More
$70.00
China fought with Allied Forces during WW II against the Axis powers, specifically Japan. Rosset was an Army photographer stationed in China. This is a collection of the remarkable photographs he took of actual confrontations between Chinese and Japanese units. Read More
$100.00
Sankara, a military officer, Marxist and Pan-Africanist, became president of Burkina Faso in 1983 after a military coup. He held that position until 1987, when he was killed during another coup. A must-read for anyone interested in the man or revolutionary movements. Read More
$30.00
Ibadism is the third-largest branch of Islam. It is a moderate Islam subsect that has continued to persist, leading to the creation of Ibadi communities in areas of the Arabian Peninsula, the Maghreb, and sub-Saharan Africa. Read More
$35.00
Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. Read More
$100.00
After World War II, Yugoslavia practiced a unique form of self-managed socialism, allowing workers to have democratic control over their workplaces. It lasted until the country’s dissolution in the early 1990s. Woodward argues about why it failed. Read More
$50.00
Brezina’s creation of this entirely new genre represents the apotheosis of his work, as well as a prime example of his ability to apply metaphorical language to an exploration of the mystical links between art and life and between the visible and invisible worlds. Read More
$50.00
Archibald Rutledge writes about his thirty years of hunting along the game trails of the Santee Delta of South Carolina. He observed the demise of many plantations and the rebirth of nature. Read More
$90.00
The political and social changes of the 1990s in Central and Eastern Europe forced Russian oil companies to reinvent themselves, and to create new identities as market-facing business organisations. Read More
$70.00
The Rwandan genocide, aka the Tutsi genocide, occurred from April 7 to July 19, 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. An estimated 800,000 were killed. Longman explores how its government responded. Read More
$25.00
Compiled by the Vermont Town of Corinth History Committee. The book includes family biographical sketches & genealogy plus old maps, 20 chapter titles that include Charters and Reservations, Early Settlers and Land Records, Folklore, and much more. Read More
$60.00
The printing press was invented around 1440. This book offers comprehensive accounts of the men who modified and improved presses through each revolution of the industry. Read More
$40.00
Beyond magazine advertising, posters and billboards for companies, Ronald McLeod did considerable illustration of stories and covers for “Collier’s” magazine and others. Read More
$15.00
Peck was a early student of Howard Pyle at the Howard Pyle School in Brandywine. He became a Prolific artist illustrator under Pyles influence. His first illustration was published in 1903 for Leslie’s Popular Monthly Magazine. Read More
$15.00
During the 1920s and 1930s, Barclay’s images were used by art directors for the nation’s most popular periodicals. During the 1930s, Barclay began painting movie poster art for Hollywood studios. He was one of the first artists to paint World War II pin-up girl, Betty Grable. Read More
$15.00
Flagg is probably best remembered for his political posters, especially his 1917 poster “Uncle Sam Wants You.” At his peak, Flagg was reported to have been the highest-paid magazine illustrator in America. Read More
$13.00
Underwood illustrated more than 40 Post covers between 1903 and 1926. Many showed active women fishing, playing tennis, canoeing, even plowing a field. Read More
$18.00
Schaeffer produced 46 covers for the weekly Saturday Evening Post. His work as a war correspondent for the Post during World War II resulted in a well-known series of covers illustrating American military personnel. Read More
$18.00
Stevan Dohanos was a founder of the Famous Artists School in Westport, Connecticut and was considered an ‘American Realist.’ A proponent of simplicity, he has said, “A clean, strong, uncluttered image forms the basis of a good picture.” Read More
$18.00
Maxwell Coburn Whitmore was known for his Saturday Evening Post covers, and as a commercial artist whose work included advertisements for Gallo Wine and other brands. Later in life, he also became known as a race-car designer. Read More
$15.00
Many of Constantin’s illustrations were covers for magazines like The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, and Fortune. He also illustrated many books, including the first edition of George Gershwin’s Song Book. Read More
$15.00
Amos Sewell was an American illustrator best known for the covers and illustrations he designed for many magazines and major advertisers. He was did black and white dry-brush illustrations for popular pulp magazines. Read More
$18.00
Falter received a major break with his first commission from Liberty Magazine to do three illustrations a week in 1933. “They paid me $75 a week,” Falter said, “just like a steelworker.” Read More
$15.00
Atherton was an American painter, magazine illustrator, printmaker, writer and designer. Among his work, the deco stone lithograph poster for the 1939 New York World’s Fair. Read More
$18.00
A young girl is swimming in the ocean, probably off Nantucket. She’s looking back with trepidation at the big wave coming up behind her. Maginell spent nearly 30 years portraying Nantucket’s’s historic architecture, picturesque landscape, and quaint customs in illustrations for calendars, magazines, and books for children. Read More
15.00
Saxon worked at Dell Publishing as editor of the satire magazine Ballyhoo before serving as a bomber pilot in the Army Air Corps during World War II. His first appearance in The New Yorker was a spot illustration in 1943. Read More
$18.00
In addition to magazine covers, Jackson illustrated manuscripts involving romance and high society. However, he also illustrated for a wide variety of genres, including murder mystery and masculine adventure. Read More
$18.00
Kemble was a staff political cartoonist for Collier’s and Harper’s. His cartoons attracted the attention of Mark Twain, who employed Kemble to illustrate Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Kemble subsequently illustrated several other famous books. Read More
$18.00
N.C. Wyeth created more than 3,000 paintings and illustrated 112 books, 25 of them for Scribner’s — the Scribner Classics, which is the body of work for which he is best known. Read More
$35.00
Sawyer and her husband lived in China from 1937 to 1942. While there she painted scenes filled with vibrant life as the Chinese people really lived — ones that ignored pre-war stereotypes or misconceptions from other Western artists. Read More
$18.00
Neysa began her career as an illustrator and during World War I. She traveled across France entertaining military troops with Anita P. Wilcox and Jane Bulley and made posters to support the war effort. Read More
$35.00
Syd Hoff cartoons appeared in a multitude of genres, including advertising commissions for such companies as Eveready Batteries, Jell-O, OK Used Cars, S.O.S Pads, Rambler, Ralston Cereal, and more. Read More
$18.00