“Reading a good book in silence is like eating chocolate for the rest of your life and never getting fat.” ~Becca Fitzpatrick.
We have a big selection of art and photography books in this batch. We also have children’s illustrated board books, and history, mostly American, Japanese and Chinese. Youll also find some fiction, religion and philosophy, sports and more. See all New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Recollections: Three Decades of Photography
Photographer, master print-maker, author, and workshop instructor, he is best known for his luminous, quiet, black and white photographs of the natural environment. Read More
$100.00
Vanessa Del Rio: Fifty Years of Slightly Slutty Behavior/With DVD
Retired since 1986, Vanessa del Rio remains a sexual icon who cuts across all ethnic boundaries. Its got stories, very explicit pictures. Read More
$300.00
Going into Town: A Love Letter to New York
Hilarious, dead-on look at Manhattan: where the city bird may well be the pigeon, the wildlife consists of mice, rats, and GIANT rats. Includes a great guide to the main museums and the parks. Read More
$25.00
Okagami: The Great Mirror (Fujiwara Michinaga (966-1027) and His Times)
Focuses on Fujiwara Michinaga, the leading political figure in the great family that dominated the court during most of the Helan period. Read More
$60.00
When Tillage Begins, Other Arts Follow: Grant Wood and Christian Petersen Murals
This book presents the first history of the Public Works of Art Project in Iowa and the first in-depth examination of the Grant Wood and Christian Petersen murals at Iowa State College. Read More
$75.00
Picturing Freedom: African Americans & Their Cars, A Photographic History (SIGNED COPY)
Pictorial history of the role of automobiles in African American history, highlighting the middle class and the affluent parts of the population. Read More
$80.00
Danny Lyon: Message to the Future
Comprehensive overview of an influential American photographer and filmmaker whose work is known for its intimacy and social engagement. Highlights include depictions of life inside a Chicago motorcycle gang and a Texas prison. Read More
$60.00
Photography at MoMA: 1920-1960
Documents the growth and MoMA’s quest to be repository of photographs that need to be preserved for future generations. Also describes various preservation strategies. Read More
$100.00
Tim Walker: Shoot for the Moon
Lavishly designed and produced. Walker’s insightful texts further illuminate his creative process, making this a must-have for art and fashion photography enthusiasts. Read More
$100.00
Edward Hopper: Light Years
While known for his oil paintings, Hopper was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Catalogue of 106 paintings, watercolors, etchings and drawings. Read More
$20.00
Alex Katz: New York/Maine
For decades, painter Alex Katz has split his time between New York and Maine, and the two very different locales have left their marks on his work. Read More
$90.00
A Troublesome Subject: The Art Of Robert Arneson
The story about an artist who consistently flunked his ceramics classes, and winds up becoming a ceramics artist with international stature. Read More
$70.00
On Ugliness
Exhaustively catalogues the artistic and social concept of ugliness throughout history. Deals primarily with western European societies since Roman times. Read More
$50.00
The Grape Grower: A Guide to Organic Viticulture
If you are serious about growing grapes this book is a must read. It’s comprehensive, detailed, and specific. Read More
$20.00
How Rocket Learned to Read
All Rocket wants to do is take a nap, but the little yellow bird wants to teach him to read. When Rocket ignores her, she starts to read out loud. Read More
$15.00
Mon Petit Busy Day
Concept book offering interactive learning opportunities with each page. Most of these interactions are through lift-the-flaps. Read More
$18.00
From Rebellion to Revolution. Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the Modern World
Great overview of the political economy of slavery during the Age of Revolution, why revolts occurred more often in some places, and less in others. Read More
$18.00
The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures
As soon as it arrives at an auction house, the questions begin: Is it an original? Who really created it? What’s it worth? Read how dealers deal with those issues and more. Read More
$15.00
Pictures of People: Alice Neel’s American Portrait Gallery
Vibrant chronicle of the life and work of prolific painter and bohemian eccentric Alice Neel from a career spanning the 1920s to the 1970s. Read More
$25.00
The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art and Auction Houses
Thompson recognizes the value of art as more often having to do with artist, dealer, or auction-house branding, and with collector ego, than it does with art. Read More
$15.00
The German Shepherd Book
Widely reviewed as the most complete German Shepherd Dog book on the market, it is encyclopedic in style with abundant content. Read More
$150.00
5 Different Books from Gus Was a Friendly Ghost series.
Gus the Friendly Ghost lives in an old house in the country. In the summer, the Scott family lives there, too. The Scott family doesn’t believe in ghosts. Read More
“Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.’” -Steven Wright.
No Boat Building books here. This list has a slew of art books: comic, fine arts, catalogs, monographs, sculpture, graphic arts, more. This lot of new arrivals also has lots of children’s illustrated, American history, Japanese history and photography. Plus the usual odds and ends. See all New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Madame d’Ora
Austrian fashion and portrait photographer who went by the moniker Madame d’Ora was the most acclaimed portraitist of fin de siècle Vienna. Read More
$60.00
Forbidden Fantasies: Men Who Dare To Dress In Drag.
A glimpse into the creative minds behind the vibrant drag queen culture of the 1980s. Captivating photography of a bygone era. Read More
$100.00
Kathe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist
A generation after her death, German artist Kathe Kollwitz was recognized as one of the great graphic artists of the 20th Century. Read More
$12.00
Don Heck: A Work of Art
While Don Heck was clearly one of the architects of the Marvel Age of Comics, he always stood in the shadow of Kirby and Ditko. Read More
$60.00
Tuggy The Tugboat
An adventure on the high seas that will capture the imagination of children. With colorful illustrations of a tugboat that could. Read More
$12.00
Faeries
This book both enchants and terrifies. The lore is fairly detailed. The art is gorgeous. It made Brian Froud famous and Alan Lee’s ethereal watercolors are just as breathtaking. Read More
$100.00
Tell Me a Story Where the Bad Girl Wins: The Life and Art of Barbara Shermund
Her witty cartoons that became a staple of the New Yorker back in the 1920’s. Her works appeared on nine covers and in more than 600 cartoons of the magazine. Read More
$70.00
Presenting Fun with Trout: Trout Fishing in Words, Paint & Lines
After the serving in the World War I, Everett opened an art studio and began producing pen and ink illustrations for a multitude of publications. Read More
$40.00
Flemish Painting, from the 16th to the 18th Century
Voldère runs a Paris gallery known for its expertise in Flemish paintings. Here she takes us through the Renaissance in Flanders in the form of a story in pictures. Read More
$200.00
Jacob et Abel Grimmer: Catalogue Raisonné
The works of Flemish Renaissance painters Jacob Grimmer and son Able employed simplification and systemisation of figures and landscapes leading to more naturalism in Flemish landscape painting. Read More
$250.00
Uzbekistan: Heirs to the Silk Road
Describes the lattice work of trading routes that made up the Silk Road traveled by merchants, explorers, adventurers, bringers of news from near and far. Read More
$60.00
Snoopy’s Facts & Fun Book about Farms
Snoopy and pals explore life on a farm including the animals, crops, and farmers. Peanuts is one of the most popular and influential cartoons in the history of the medium. Read More
$12.00
A Tale of Flowering Fortunes: Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period
A chronicle of the great aristocratic family of Fujiwara at the peak of its power and affluence during the tenth and eleventh centuries. Read More
$200.00
The Dominican Intervention
The Origins of the 1965 Dominican Crisis: Setting the Stage; The Decision to Intervene; Deploying the Troops; and Explaining the Dominican Intervention. Read More
$20.00
Politics in Tokugawa Bakufu, 1600-1843
A study of the bakufu, or administrative structure of the predominant ruling family in early modern Japan. The achievements of the Tokugawa family who gave Japan 250 years of peace Read More
$30.00
Korea’s Tragic Hours: The Closing Years of the Yi dynasty
The Yi dynasty, also known as the Joseon dynasty, was the last and longest-lived imperial dynasty of Korea, with 26 monarchs, ruled from 1392 until the Japanese annexation of Korea. Read More
$20.00
Canada Farmer, The (Volume 1, January to December, 1864 issues)
The Journal hoped to stimulate the Agriculturists of Canada to adopt an improved system of husbandry, by blending the lessons of modern science with the practical experience of the Canadian farmer. Read More
$250.00
Ford Model “A”, “As Henry Built It”: A Color, Upholstery and Production Facts Book
Comprehensive and detailed account of the Ford Model A, including its history, design, and engineering by men who worked for Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. Read More
$40.00
Philosophical Poems of Henry More
Thomas More, a Renaissance humanist who wrote Utopia (and coined the word.) He also opposed Henry VIII’s break with the Catholic Church and the annulement of Henry’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon for which More was beheaded. Read More
$50.00
Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (Washington irving
While officially known as “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.” It’s really from Washington Irving’s using pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon. Includes “Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. Read More
$150.00
Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament
Scholarly work that compiles and analyzes various ancient texts from the Near East that have relevance to the Old Testament. A compendium of source material for anyone interested in studying early history in the Levant. Read More
$60.00
Rutland in Retrospect
An excellent compilation of images, engravings, maps and other ephemera on this important city that served as a hub for the Rutland Railroad. Read More
