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Book Beat 138

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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.
Titi Lucreti Cari: De Rerum Natura, Libri Sex (Three Volume Set)

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, and how this relationship ultimately led to the failure of the uprising.
The Spartacist Uprising of 1919

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.
I Could Read the Sky: A Novel (SIGNED COPY)

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