“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
