New arrivals include art, biography, novels, lots of photography, some children’s including The Complete Alice: 22 Books Collection Box Set, history, several facsimile reprints of plays from the1700s, plus several odds and ends. Here’s a sampling. See the complete batch. Availability subject to prior sale.
The Americans
Two years of road trips. 28,000 shots. 83 shots chosen. This iconic photo book by Robert Frank captures the quintessential America of the mid 1950s. Read More
$600.00
Norman Foster: Works 3
This third volume of Pritzker Award-winning architect, Foster, focuses on the projects realised from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Read More
$120.00
Nipper 1965-1966
Wright was a master of economical lines, able to convey a lot without words, as in this pantomime strip. Read More
$15.00
The Art of Film: John Box and Production Design
Not-quite memoir and not-quite analysis. Chapters track Box’s career chronologically. Box was record-setting 4-time Oscar and BAFTA winner, production design. Read More
$28.00
The Chicagoan: A Lost Magazine of the Jazz Age
Harris pays homage to the artful, witty “The Chicagoan,” counterpart to the New Yorker, but which never had the same chance. Read More
$40.00
H.N. Werkman: Het Complete Oeuvre
Multifarious ingredients come together to form the whole of Werkman’s own poetic and mysterious work. Read More
$100.00
Origins of the Chinese Avant-Garde: The Modern Woodcut Movement
Excellent Chinese art history (including political history), seen through the perspective of the woodcut movement. Read More
$50.00
Mr. Ferlinghetti’s Poem
Mr. Ferlinghetti’s poem recalls a long hot summer in Brooklyn. Frampton’s woodcuts capture motion and color beautifully. Read More
$15.00
Firehouse
In the tradition of Studs Terkel’s “Working” comes this powerful collection of first-person accounts of dramatic, intense and sometimes terrifying firefighting experiences. Read More
$200.00
Trade and Market in the Early Empires; Economies in History and Theory
Economic anthropologist,Polanyl presents a cultural version of economics, which emphasizes the way economies are embedded in society and culture. Read More
$60.00
The Wars of the Lord: Volume One, Book One – Immortality of the Soul
A major treatise of Levi ben Gershom of Provence (1288-1344), one of the most creative and daring minds of the medieval world demonstrates that the Torah, properly understood, is identical to true philosophy. Read More
$28.00
The Queen’s Twin and Other Stories/Tales
Sarah Orne Jewett’s last published collection of short stories includes the evolving role of women in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Read More
$60.00
Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography
Beautifully compiled over sized photography book of outstanding architecture from the cameras of renowned and emerging photographers. Read More
$100.00
Advertisements for Myself
Compilation of Mailer’s early work including stories from high school, Harvard and Village Voice to a scathing review of the work by his contemporaries. Read More
$60.00
Clover
Clover is the fourth book in the popular What Katy Did series and focuses on Katy’s little sister, Clover. Read More
$80.00
The New System of Educating Horses Including Instructions on Feeding, Watering, Stabling, Shoeing, Etc.
Magner was dedicated to the humane caring for horses. His principles of subduing vicious horses constituted his “new technique”. Read More
$60.00
Lalla Rookh: An Oriental Romance
Lalla Rookh is an Oriental romance by Irish poet Thomas Moore, published in 1817. The heroine is the fictional daughter of the 17th-century Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. Read More
$40.00
The Seven Ages of Childhood (Jessie Willcox Smith)
Images by “one of the greatest pure illustrators” Jessie Willcox Smith including a color frontispiece and six color plates. Read More
