Book Beat 139

A complete collection of Frazetta’s comic book art and covers, along with essays and information about his work in the field. Features several full-page covers of Frazetta’s amazing brush work. Read More

$80.00

An American cartoonist and a landscape painter, Swinnerton experimented with narrative continuity, and played a key role in developing the comic strip at the end of the 19th century. Read More

$170.00

Beside the artists themselves, features include talk about the colors of the strip, the coloring process itself, whether Doré inspired Foster?, and how the script was turned into finished art. Read More

$150.00

Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition, known principally for revolutionizing the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, Suffolk, England. Read More

$300.00

Except for winter painting in Vermont, Hibbard spent much of his life in Rockport, Massachusetts and helped evolve a style of painting known as The Rockport School of Painting. Read More

$80.00

Through documentary photography, photojournalism, portraiture, still life, self-portraiture, and constructed tableaux, women photographers define the world. Read More

$25.00

A seemingly simple memoir by the pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery turns into something greater – a philosophy of life, with all its complexities and anxieties revealed. Read More

$30.00

Billy, instrument repairman, takes you to sound stages, studios and shows for emergency repairs. It’s the story of another day with the music technician. Read More

$20.00

McCloskey both wrote and illustrated eight picture books, and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association for the year’s best-illustrated picture book. Read More

$25.00

A good parody of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. A zombie awakes with a terrible appetite and eats his way through several groups of people until his appetite is fully satiated by a pile of brains. Read More

$25.00

The serendipitous use of Sloan’s horse liniment on a human back lead the Sloan brothers to begin selling even more of the liniment advertising it as “good for man and beast”. Read More

$40.00

History of four principal towns past the Revolutionary era. Beyond those four principal towns, this book chronicles the history of smaller surrounding towns on the bay, such as Jamestown. Read More

$80.00

Dieter Kafitz was Professor of Modern German Literary History. This book presents theories about structuralism, poststructuralism and feminist literature in current culture. German Text. Read More

$70.00

Through Lord Minto’s personal letters and official correspondence, the book sheds light on the challenges and complexities of British governance in India during a pivotal period in colonial history. Read More

$80.00

Jakobson (translator) was a Russian thinker who became one of the most influential linguists of the twentieth century by pioneering the development of structural analysis of language. Read More

$30.00

The Story of Atlantis is a fantasy novel by English author C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne. It is considered one of the classic fictional retellings of the story of the drowning of Atlantis Read More

$40.00

LAID IN: Bird’s Eye View Of The White Mountains 1890’s ORIGINAL MAP. This multi-colored view depicts the high peaks of the White Mountains and the surrounding region. Read More

$700.00

This is an interesting look at Billy Wilder’s Hollywood output, weaving in his background in Europe. Wilder was one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Read More

$28.00

Critic and writer Edgar Allan Poe acknowledged the popularity of Morris’s songs, “which have taken fast hold upon the popular taste, and which are deservedly celebrated”. Read More

$60.00

An intensely researched portrait of the man and the athlete, Illingworth writes a compelling story of secrecy, misconceptions, stereotypes, hype, greed, even racism. Read More

$25.00