A new batch of 181 titles has arrived. Includes some unusual travel like The Empire of the Snakes
An account of the Wakaioka, the snake-people of the Nyamwezi tribe of Tanganyika territory. Also a few German text esoteric turn-of-the-century math books (Hypergeometrische Function anyone?) And of course art, architecture, children’s illustrated, fiction and photography. Here’s a sampling. See all 181 New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
To Kill a Mockingbird (SIGNED COPY)
Told through eyes of his daughter Scout, Atticus Finch defends a black man in Maycomb, Alabama 1933-1935. Read More
$800.00
Green Ginger Jar: A Chinatown Mystery, The
Twelve year old accidentially gives away a valuable ginger jar. From “They Came From” series of historical fiction books about immigrants coming to America. Read More
$70.00
Tito – The Pig of Guatemala
Children’s “chapter book” story of Tito, the pig, who belongs to a little Indian Boy, Diego & his Sister, Petrona. They travel to a fiesta and trouble ensues. Read More
$20.00
Oranges
It started as a short magazine article about oranges and orange juice. It ended as a fascinating book on everything oranges and orange juice. Read More
$60.00
Les Dessins Tex Avery: 1908-1980
Wonderful collection of storyboards from the great Tex Avery’s animated cartoons at MGM. Read More
$40.00
Verve – Artistic and Literary Quarterly – Vol 1, No. 3 Fall 1938
Verve, modernist Parisian art magazine embodied the creative aesthetic of the first half of the 20th century. Includes lithographs by Marc Chagall, Joan Miro, Abraham Rattner, and Paul Klee. Read More
$420.00
Ultima Thule – Explorers and Natives in the Polar North
Ultima Thule: the furthest possible place in the world. This book is an illustrated history of 170 years of Arctic exploration and its indigenous peoples. Read More
$40.00
Palestine and Syria: Handbook for Travellers
17 Maps, 44 Plans, and a Panorama of Jerusalem. Elaborate information on buildings, streets, and culture of the covered areas. Read More
$150.00
The Theory of the Gene
At Columbia University Morgan established the famous “fly room. His early experiments are classics in genetics. Read More
$40.00
Maritime Fiction: Sailors and the Sea in British and American Novels, 1719-1917
Maritime Fiction is an original exploration and comprehensive discussion of the relationship between national identity, fiction and the sea. Read More
$60.00
F. Rojankovsky’s ABC – An Alphabet Of Many Things
Each letter of the alphabet is accompanied by Rojankovsky’s illustrations of familiar objects such as airplane, button, clown, etc. Read More
$20.00
The Godfather Notebook
Coppola’s notes scene-by-scene, page-by-page in preparation of turning Puzo’s novel into a cinematic masterpiece. Read More
$60.00
Bugle: A Puppy in Old Yorktown
A little boy and his puppy Bugle in Colonial Virginia. When Dad’s away fighting in Revolutionary War, Bugle protects the family farm from Redcoats. Read More
$12.00
Tunisian Mosaics: Treasures from Roman Africa
Works of art in themselves the Roman Mosaics are also an invaluable record of
everyday life. They were common in private homes and public buildings across the Roman Empire Read More
$18.00
Sylvia Beach and the Lost Generation
Beach opened her own English-language bookshop and lending library, Shakespeare and Company made famous by literary expatriates who were drawn to it. Read More
$12.00
Orquidea: April 1983
The subject is orchids. Articles about growing them published by Mexican growers organization. Mexico has around 1250 native species. Read More
$50.00
Monarchs, Ministers and Maps: The Emergence of Cartography as a Tool of Government in Early Modern Europe.
Story of why and how maps and the men who produced them became so important during the sixteenth century as
instruments for bringing territories under the control of centralized government. Read More
$35.00
The Culture of Architecture in Enlightenment Rome
Well-illustrated study of how the culture of Enlightenment influenced seven important building projects in Rome that spanned the years 1730 to 1758. Read More
$100.00
Abyssinian Adventure
A first-hand account by a British soldier of serving in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya and Ethiopia fighting against Italians during 1940-41. Read More
$15.00
Martha’s Vineyard
Martha’s Vineyard beckons the reader to experience her through the collaboration of essays by Hough and photographs by Eisenstaedt. Read More
