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Book Beat 141

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Over 150 titles in this batch of new arrivals. Included are a fair amount of Anthropology, Art (monographs and auction catalogs), Children’s (fiction and illustrated), History, Literature, Novels, Philosophy, Photography, Regional titles (esp. Vermontiana) and a few stragglers. Here’s a sampling. See all of this group of New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Mamet at his Pulitzer Prize winning best , writing about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers.
Glengarry Glen Ross (SIGNED COPY)

The Pulitzer Prize winner in 1984. Glengarry Glen Ross is a frenetically paced, dialogue driven, profanity laden play of desperation, greed, and corruption. Mamet at his best. Read More


$800.00

Nice good collection of Lovecraft stories written during his later years. Writer August Derleth completed those that were unfinished.
The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces

Nice collection of Lovecraft stories written during his later years. Stories are loosely connected and suggest the world is full of terror. Writer August Derleth completed those that were unfinished. Read More


$200.00

These photographs were taken in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Chad, Kenya, Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Congo Brazzaville.
Zagourski: Africa Lost

Outstanding photographic monograph from the Twenties and Thirties taken in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Chad, Kenya, Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Congo Brazzaville. Read More


$60.00

Contributions are from a broad swath: Papua and New Guinea and including expatriate authors from Australia and the U.K.
Second Waigani Seminar: The History of Melanesia

Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from New Guinea in the west to the Fiji Islands in the east. Contributions include expatriate authors from Australia and the U.K. Read More


$80.00

In 34 chapters, Forges proposes a general plan for the economic and financial reform of the kingdom when it was experiencing a severe economic crisis.
Des véritables intérêts de la Patrie

In 1764, France was reeling from its defeat in the Seven Years’ War and facing a severe economic crisis. Forges proposes a general plan for the economic and financial reform of the kingdom. Read More


$200.00

Marbot wrote perhaps the most famous memoirs of life and culture highlighting the environment of nobility and privilege before the upheaval of the Revolution.
Adventures of General Marbot

Marbot wrote perhaps the most famous memoirs of life and culture highlighting the environment of nobility and privilege before the upheaval of the Revolution. Read More


$38.00

Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an opossum.
Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Bona Fide Balderdash (Vol. 2)

Pogo was a daily comic strip set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States. The strip was written for both children and adults, with layers of social and political satire targeted to the latter. Read More


$50.00

Little fat Gretchen is a wooden figure on top of a German music box. The written music for the music-box lullaby Gretchen sings to her baby appears on a few pages, so the lullaby can also be sung.
Little Fat Gretchen

Little Fat Gretchen is a wooden figure on top of a German music box who has a baby doll–her “puppchen”–in a little buggy. Then one day, to Gretchen’s dismay, her doll and buggy disappear. Read More


$40.00

Thiebaud makes cakes, ice cream, deli-counters, gum balls, candy etc. look delicious. He even did a picture of a hotdog that was mouth-watering.
Wayne Thiebaud: A Retrospective

Thiebaud makes the most mundane look sublime. It’s said his portrait of a white rabbit in pastel is so vivid you’d like to reach into the picture and pet it’s fur. Read More


$250.00

The history of a short local railroad which could not stand up to flooding and the harsh environment of Vermont. For railroad history aficionados.
A Whistle Up the Valley: The Story of the Peavine, Vermont’s White River Railroad

This book features a unique Vermont shortline train that ran through the White River Valley between Bethel and Rochester from 1898 to 1933. Read More


$100.00

Corbijn is a master at cutting through the celebrity persona and showing us little pieces of who these people really are. Corbijn's photographs are stark and grainy, dark and moody, and full of contrast.
Star Trak

Corbijn is a master at cutting through the celebrity persona and showing us little pieces of who these people really are. Corbijn’s photographs are stark and grainy, dark and moody, and full of contrast. Read More


$60.00

The discovery of more than 200 letters and hundreds of drawings and other items from the period 1940–1984 has provided scholars with material for understanding Brassai's later life and career.
Brassai in America, 1957

In the early 21st century, the discovery of more than 200 letters and hundreds of drawings and other items from the period 1940–1984 has provided scholars with material about Brassai’s later life and career. Read More


$50.00

Collection of essays that focus on artistic inspiration for Disney's work as well as showing how contemporary art can be influenced by Disney's iconic characters.
Upon a Time: Walt Disney: The Sources of Inspiration for the Disney Studios

Collection of essays that focus on artistic inspiration for Disney’s work. Includes chapter on Destino, the never realized collaboration between Disney and Dali. Read More


$70.00

Towle Silversmiths was founded in 1690 by William Moulton II, the first silversmith in Newbury, Mass.
The Life and Services of Benj. Franklin…

A collection of Towle’s Silverware catalogs bound in one volume. Towle Silversmiths has created numerous sterling silver flatware patterns including the “Marie Louise” in 1939, which became the official sterling silver pattern for U.S. embassies worldwide. Read More


$80.00

English writer Walter Copeland Jerrold was a career writer and editor. He edited many classic texts for the Everyman’s Library, he wrote biographies, he produced stories for children under the name of Walter Copeland.
The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes (Calla Editions)

After illustrating Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses (1896) to extremely popular success, Charles Robinson had a prolific career illustrating many fairy tales and children’s books. Read More


$40.00

Every book by the d’Aulaire’s is good. This one focuses on Lincoln’s childhood, lawyer life, and presidency to the end of the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln

This Caldecott-winner is a biography for young children. There is a fair amount of text, but also many detailed illustrations. It follows Lincoln from his birth to the end of the Civil War. Read More


$60.00

Architects whose work is featured include: Oscar Niemeyer, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Jorge Machado Moreira, Juao Walter Toscano, Abrahao Sanovicz, Alvaro Vital Brazil, and Rino Levi.
Casa Modernista: A History of the Brazil Modern House

This is a comprehensive volume on modern residential architecture in Brazil featuring 40 houses built using the “modern” materials of concrete and reinforced glass, as well as wood and steel. Read More


$50.00

German printers Tauchnitz, published English language literature for distribution on the European continent outside of Great Britain, including this book and initial serial productions of Charles Dickens.
Sketches in Italy

Symonds was an English poet and literary critic. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies of writers and artists. Read More


$80.00

Tracy B. Strong is distinguished professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is a former editor of Political Theory and the author or editor of many books.
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration -Expanded Edition

Includes coverage of Nietzsche’s problem with ‘Newspeak’ later developed by George Orwell’s book titled ‘1984.’ Strong then points out Nietzsche’s problem with nihilism, a “dead God,” and the will to power. Read More


$15.00

While Dimock believed in a strong central government, and had experienced it firsthand during FDR’s administration, he also developed a distrust of large organizations, believing them to be depersonalizing.
Creative Religion: as seen by a social scientist

While Dimock believed in a strong central government, and had experienced it firsthand while working in FDR’s administration, he also developed a distrust of large organizations, believing them to be depersonalizing. Read More


$100.00