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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. 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. 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. 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

Browser Book Beat Issue 137

140 volumes in this batch of new arrivals. We have a slew of art exhibition/auction catalogs. Also Novels, Children’s fiction and illustrated, Biographies, American and World history, literature, poetry and some odds and ends. Here’s a sampling. See all 140 New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.

Maroon label on spine reads UNITED STATES LAWS in gilt. Covers all three sessions: The second on the 4th of January 1790 and the 3rd session, held in Philadelphia, on the 6th of December 1790. — Acts Passed at the First Congress of the United States of America, Begun and held at the City of New York….

Acts Passed at the First Congress of the United States of America, Begun and held at the City of New York On Wednesday the Fourth of March One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Nine…. Read More

$500.00

Royall Tyler served as chief justice from 1807 through 1813 presiding over cases including slavery and smuggling on Lake Champlain. — Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Vermont ( 2 Vols.)

Tyler presided over many important trials like that of Stephen Jacob in 1802, involving slavery, and that of the Black Snake crew in 1808, dealing with smuggling on Lake Champlain. Read More

$300.00

Henri Christophe was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution and the first king of the Kingdom of Haiti, reigning from 1811 until his death in 1820. — Black Majesty: The Life of Christophe, King of Haiti

Henri Christophe was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution. He rose from slavery to establish a monarchy in northern Haiti, reigning from 1811 until his death in 1820. Read More

$80.00

Black jockeys were internationally famous in late 19th century as the first African American superstar athletes—and with wins in three Kentucky Derbies and countless other prestigious races, Murphy was the greatest of them all. — Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey

Born a slave in 1861, Murphy still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century. Read More

$20.00

The story of a trufflehunting terrier told from his point of view — “Teem”- A Treasure-Hunter

A brief, charming story told in the first person of a truffle hunting artist, a small terrier. Kipling’s last piece of fiction, published in the Atlantic in the US in 1936. Read More

$35.00

A cute story about Woody Woodpecker and his friend, Wally Walrus. Woody has a new job and does not realize it's Wally's birthday. — Woody Woodpecker Shoots the Works

Everyone loves Woody don’t they! Woody gets a new job and finds an inadvertent way to cheer a friend. Another Tell-a-Tale book with great pictures. Read More

$12.00

It's full of intimate accounts in sections about the British contact with the natives of India and the other states mentioned in the title of the book. Takes you on a roller-coaster ride through Indian history. — A Short History of India and of the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal, and Burma

One of the earlier accounts of the imperial contact with India, unadulterated by some of the later reconstructions of the history of the subcontinent. Read More

$30.00

Book discusses the place of the intellect as a guide to religious truth. The author’s work brought principles from Quaker decision-making to bear on wider questions about democracy and religion. Read More

$28.00

Description of the pre-20th century residential and commercial building of each town in Addison County Vermont. Building by building. Read More

$70.00

A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records. Read More

$35.00

Reprints of the Flash Gordon Sunday strip from 1944-1948. Flash continues as the original guardian of the galaxy. Read More

$70.00

Caniff won the first Cartoonist of the Year Award from the National Cartoonists Society for his work on Terry and the Pirates. — Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Vol. 11: 1945 – Reunion in Indo-China

Terry and the Pirates is an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff, which originally ran from October 22, 1934, to February 25, 1973. Read More

$150.00

Art and politics reside in Ai Weiwei’s work. Through sculpture, film, installation, photography and architecture he has campaigned for human rights. He was allowed to leave China in 2015. Read More

$80.00

Steinberg critically evaluates and compares Rauschenberg's more recent work to the artist's earlier work evaluating Rauschenberg's silk-screen prints of the 1960s to the vegetable dye transfer prints of the 1990s. — Encounters with Rauschenberg: (A Lavishly Illustrated Lecture)

Leo Steinberg, American art critic and art historian, evaluates Rauschenberg’s silk-screen prints of the 1960s to the vegetable dye transfer prints of the 1990s. Read More

$12.00

Viola’s book offers the most comprehensive look into the peasants and their actions under collectivization. — Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance

Viola argues that the peasants did in fact actively resist collectivization, and that their unrest sprung from the “culture of peasant resistance” which led to earlier rebellions in Russia. Read More

$35.00

A fresh perspective on the origins, formative years, and subsequent development of Soviet literature and culture, and raises new issues for research and discussion. — Nietzsche and Soviet Culture: Ally and Adversary

The book examines the Nietzschean roots of early Soviet literature, theater and architecture, Soviet political culture, the work of disaffected writers and thinkers. Read More

$60.00

Meta-utopian narratives examine the complexities and contradictions of the singular vision of utopia. They often explore themes of disorientation and the fragmented nature of contemporary society. — Russian Experimental Fiction: Resisting Ideology After Utopia

Meta-utopian narratives examine the complexities and contradictions of the singular vision of utopia. They explore themes of disorientation and the fragmented nature of contemporary society. Read More

$28.00

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov is one of Russia's great musical figures. Largely self-taught, he became a professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and one of the famed "Mighty Handful" of Russian nationalist composers. — Rimsky-Korsakov: Letters to His Family and Friends

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov is one of Russia’s great musical figures. Largely self-taught, and one of the famed “Mighty Handful” of Russian nationalist composers. Read More

$35.00

Visual history of the collaboration between General Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson proved a winning combination in the battles leading up to July 1863: Second Bull Run — Gods and Generals: The Paintings of Mort Kunstler

Civil War history focused on time of collaboration between General Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson when the Confederacy dominated the battlefields. Read More

$30.00

Book four in the Thursday Next fantasy / sci-fi “literary detective” series. This series is "Fforde’s vividly fantastic, literary world". The plots are completely unrealistic, but great fun. — Something Rotten (INSCRIBED COPY)

The fourth installment of the Thursday Next series. It brings together all the plot lines set out earlier are woven together introducing political satire to the series. Read More

$30.00

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