“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
“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.
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
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
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
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 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
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 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
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
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. 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
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
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
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
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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
