Used, Rare & Out-of-Print Art Books

Book: Very Good, Color art by Richter of animals eating picnic table leftovers at night. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Softcover. Prestel, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Roland Penrose met Lee Miller's lips a year before he met the rest of her - in a painting by Man Ray. It was a fitting introduction for two artists who were linked by an art movement that delighted in chance encounters. Together they forged a life joined by a common cause - surrealism. This illustrated joint biography tells the story of how a fashion model turned photographer and an English Quaker turned art collector and surrealist painter influenced modern art with their vision and passion, and created a life together that was in itself a work of art.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 270 pages. Color and black and white comic strips, light edgewear to spine edges, otherwise clean, tight copy. Decades before Jurassic Park, Doc Dustibones brings Mickey to Cave-Man Island-a lost world where fossil monsters survive alive! From stampeding brontosaurs to saber-tooth tigers, all of Goofy's least favorite Stone Age scares are here... and Dustibones is building a blimp to carry them to America! What could possibly go wrong? Floyd Gottfredson produced a canon of legendary, rip-roaring tales starring Mickey as a daring, two-fisted hero-in a world-famous series of legendary adventures! Lost in Lands of Long Ago also includes several other stories and more than 30 pages of prehistoric extras! You'll enjoy rare behind-the-scenes art, vintage publicity material, and fascinating commentary by a clan of Disney cave bears. Rediscover the wild, unforgettable personality behind the icon: Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse. Partial color.

Mars Corporation, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Art "Hey fellows, look what mother sent me". Photographic art. 11 X 13", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

1971, Book: Very Good, Color art by Getz of tree shadow falling on a colonial style house. 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Softcover. Vanguard Publishing , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages. Color illustrations throughout.

Softcover. Paris, Editions Hazan ; New Haven : Distributed by Yale University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photography by Abbott throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pittsburgh steel mills at night, art by John Atherton. 10 1/4 X 13 1/2", very good. Mailing label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

1966, Book: Very Good, Color art by Allen of washer woman with a 2000 lb. weight - a head-scratching rhebus that somehow ties into Washington's Birthday (washing+ton). 8 3/4 X 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THE COVER ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper in clear plastic envelope, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. Written and Illustrated by Andrice Arp, Gabrielle Bell, Jonathan Bennett, Jeffrey Brown, Sophie Crumb, David Heatley, Paul Hornschemeier, Anders Nilsen, John Pham and Kurt Wolfgang. Designed by Jordan Crane. A quarterly anthology of literary comics.

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Hardcover without dust jacket. Extensive color and b&w illustrations throughout. Slight stains to front cover, otherwise clean, tight copy. Inspired by a real-life incident -getting his tie caught in a moving Moviola editing machine- Gene Deitch, cartoonist, animator, memoirist, renaissance man, created Nudnik, his Everyman character, a cross between Candide and Godot. The star of 12 Paramount-produced animated shorts that ran in theatres as an opening to the main movie in 1964 and 1965, Nudnik was one of Deitch's most creatively personal and commercially successful creations in a long career of innovative and successful work, including the award-winning animated versions of Jules Feiffer's Munro and Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. Nudnik is the well-intentioned, kind, cheerful, but bumbling naf, inspired by and reflecting such archetypal characters as Jackie Gleason's Poor Soul, Charlie Chaplin's Tramp, and Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown. He never gets a break, can't do anything right, but somehow muddles through, dignity more or less intact. Nudnik Revealed! finally collects all of Deitch's original drawings, sketches, model sheets, storyboards, and color set-up that he drew during the Nudnik production season of 1964-1965, all reproduced from original art, showcasing his lively pencil line and his slick, authoritative pen and ink work. Deitch, a born storyteller and one of the great raconteurs of comics and animation, accompanies the copious examples of art with a running commentary by turns, funny, spirited, and chock full of historical insights.

Portrait of glamorous woman in white fur, art by McClelland Barclay. 10 1/4 X 13 1/2", very good. Mailing label. During the 1920s and 1930s, Barclay's images were used by art directors for the nation's most popular periodicals including Collier's, Country Gentleman, Redbook, Pictorial Review, Coronet, Country Life, The Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies' Home Journal, Cosmopolitan, and a host of movie magazines. During the 1930s, Barclay also began painting movie poster art for Hollywood studios. He was one of the first artists to paint World War II pin-up girl, Betty Grable.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. INSCRIBED BY STEINBERG in blue pencil and dated Oct 79 on the half-title page. Inscribed to Silvano Arieti (1914-1981), a psychiatrist, regarded as the world's foremost authority on schizophrenia. He was also a longtime professor at New York Medical College. 256 pages, black and white and color reproductions, publisher's brown cloth-backed tan papered boards, lettered in gilt at spine, brown endpapers (minor chipping to rear bottom edge. Pictorial dust jacket minor toning and wear mostly to edges, very good.

Hardcover. Nelson-Atkins Museum, 1st, 2011, Hardcover, 252 pages. Clarence King's Survey, undertaken between 1867 and 1872, covered a vast swath of terrain, from the border of California eastward to the edge of the Great Plains. It was the first survey to include a full-time photographer--Timothy O'Sullivan--who produced about 450 finished photographs in large-format and smaller-format stereographs. O'Sullivan's images convey a distinct individual quality of perception, at once direct and laconic, as well as a perfect union of objective fact and personal interpretation. As such, O'Sullivan remains the most admired, studied, and debated photographer who worked on the great western surveys of the 19th century. The volume also includes an essential catalogue raisonne of O'Sullivan's King Survey work.

Softcover. New York , Popular Library, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Wraps with Bob Dylan and Mick Jagger hanging out, no page numbers, [146 pages]. The book consists of Rock n Roll icons in fantasy settings created by Cohn and Peel;aert as a tribute to these Rock n Roll and other musical greats. Color illustrations throughout. Back cover with some rubbing, light scratches, otherwise clean, bright copy.

Fisherman, cartoon art by Ed Koren. 9 x 11", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 140 pages. Text in English. 62 tipped in plates, 49 of which are in full color. Dust jacket has been price clipped, with a small closed tear at the crown of the spine. Clean copy.

Softcover. El Cajon CA, Blackthorne Publishing, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes, 72 pages each, illustrated in b&w. Reprints of the comic strip that featured a investigative reporter and his Indian sidekick, Chief Wahoo. These cover the mid-1940s. Clean, bright copies.

Hardcover. New York , Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Blue boards stamped in white, in an edgeworn dust jacket. 140 pages of b&w cartoons from the New Yorker.

Boy on garage roof ready to fly, art by John Falter. 10.5 x 13.5", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 280 pages. This American art history book explores the early cultural development of the movement in Chicago, pulling from previously unpublished primary sources. 20 color reproductions along with black and white photographs and sketches and a timeline in the back. First study of Modernism in Chicago, examining the struggle between the "old guard's" ideals of traditional 19th century art versus an "avant garde" of painters, illustrators, photographers, and sculptors. Focuses on the cultural context in which art evolved. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Horizon Press, 1st Ed., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 327 pages. Bound in black cloth with gold titling on the cover and spine. Illustrated with B&W political cartoons from the era throughout from Harper's Weekly, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Vanity Fair, Punch, etc. The illustrations are reproduced side-by-side with historical background and commentary by the author. Includes artwork by Thomas Nast, Matt Morgan, Frank Bellew, Louis Maurer, Sir John Tenniel, Currier and Ives, etc. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Dust jacket with light soil, chipping.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 420 pages, illustrated with mostly b&w plates, 8 color pages. Small remainder stamp on bottom edge. "Tiege was at one and the same time both an agent provocateur and seismograph, at once provoking action and debate and yet simultaneously reacting with the utmost sensitivity to the shifting political spectrum of his time."--from the introduction by Kenneth FramptonKarel Teige (1900-1951), a leading figure of the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s, participated in every important argument and controversy of those turbulent years. He edited the most influential avant-garde journals on Czech and international cultural affairs and wrote profoundly original essays and books on the theory and criticism of art and architecture. He also produced paintings, collages, photomontages, film scripts, book covers, and typefaces and participated in theatrical performances.

Executive cleaning his office plants, cartoon art by Charles Saxon. 9 x 11", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 275 pages. Translated from the French by Olivier Bernier. Preface by Virgil Thomson. The autobiography of a Jewish painter who fled from Bolshevik Russia to Spain, moved to France and who was imprisoned during WWWII by the Germans and who moved eventually to the U.S.

Hardcover. Paris, France, Guy Delcourt Productions, 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 48 pages. Hardcover. FRENCH TEXT. Color illustrations throughout. Decorated cover boards, glossy, very good. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. In excellent condition. Coutoo is dead. But Coutoo lives again. Coutoo, the mad killer with the terrifying face, once again haunts the streets of New York. Like his father before him, Inspector Krafft goes up the bloody trail taken up by this monstrous psychopath.

Hardcover. New York, Assouline, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, color photographs. In publisher's shrinkwrap. A beautiful collection of the work of contemporary artist Louise Lawler, who, for the past twenty years, has photographed art as it is situated and displayed, whether in private homes, public buildings, or museums, galleries, and auction houses. From an exhibition of Degas's materpieces to an Andy Warhol installation, this book invites you to discover Lawler's unique vision of modern and contemporary art. Lawler is fascinated by what "happens" to the art object after it leaves the artist's studio - where it goes, how it's displayed, how it's valued, what it means. In a Lawler photograph taken in a private home, the furnishings and objects surrounding the art are given as much attention as the art; in a museum, the view out of a window next to the artwork; in an auction house, the label identifying the artwork. Her striking and provocative photographs show us how the environment that surrounds it affects our perception of art and how it in turn affects all aspects of that environment.

Theatrical Number, curtain going up on dancing legs. Art by John Holmgren. 9 x 12", very good. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Decatur House Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-gray cloth with gilt lettering, 100 pages of text, plus 48 pages with 107 b&w illustrations. Includes the essay: The Problem of Francesco Traini; and two particular studies: A Madonna, and An Illuminated Inferno and Trecento painting in Pisa. Edited and with Introduction by Hayden B. J. Maginnis. Mild musty odor, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Last Gasp, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover unpaginated, [44 pages including covers], glossy color wraps, $2.25 cover price, b/w interior. Contributors include D. Worden, Dori Seda, Robert Armstrong, Drew Friedman, Elinore Nofflus, Terry Boyce, Kaz, Tom Bertino, B.N. Duncan, Jay Kinney reporting on the First Annula World SubGenius Convention, R. Crumb's "I Remember the Sixties." Photo-illustrated stories featuring Crumb in "Beauty and the Pest" and with wife Aline Kominsky-Crumb in "The Unfaithful Husband and La Malisma Tentadora!." Saddle stapled, magazine sized comic book.

Softcover. Milwaukee WI, Haggerty Museum of Art, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages, illustrated in color. Essays by Octavio Paz, Andre Breton and Sabine Eckman. Like new.

Barker at circus sideshow with boys, art by William Meade Prince. 10.5 x 13.5", very good. Mailing label. PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company/MOMA, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 228 pages illustrated in b&w, some color. Although falling well short of a definitive biography, this treatment of Rodin is chronologically sound, contains some evocative photographs, and a good bibliography, and serves as a solid point of departure for the student of monumental sculpture, and of turn-of-the-20th century French art. Biographical Outline, Selected Bibliography, List of Illustrations, and Index; [Notes] at the end of most topics. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Originally released as Minimum Wage Book One and a subsequent series of the Minimum Wage comics with new material added. Bob Fingerman tells the story of Rob and Sylvia, two twentysomethings navigating the labyrinth of contemporary life in New York From pandering and peddling porn, to battling bellicose Brooklyn bozos, grappling with unsatisfactory careers, potential parenthood, nuptials and vicissitudes aplenty."

Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 95 pages, b&w cartoons by Chon Day. The second collection of Brother Sebastian cartoons which ran in Look Magazine. Dust jacket with light edge wear, price clipped. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright yellow dust jacket with fading to spine. 170 pages, 16 color, 99 b&w illustrations. One of the standard exhibitions on this artist. Great plates, lengthy bibliography and list of exhibitions, index. Main essay written by Thomas B. Hess. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages. Includes 87 color plates, 13 duotones and 17 black and white illustrations. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. "Joyce Treiman, one of the finest American painters of the late twenteith century , was also one of the most individualistic, combining virtuosic draftsmanship and expressive brushwork wth a lifelong devotion to painting the human figure in images that are direct, visceral, and sensuous."

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 200 pages. Like a Velvet Glove... collects all 10 chapters of the serialized story Eightball. As Clay Loudermilk attempts to unravel the mysteries behind a snuff film, he finds himself involved with an increasingly bizarre cast of characters, including a pair of sadistic cops who carve a strange symbol into the heel of Clay's foot; a horny over-the-hill suburban woman whose sexual encounter with a mysterious water creature produced a grotesquely misshapen, but no less horny, mutant daughter; a dog with no orifices whatsoever (it has to be fed by injection); two ominous victims of extremely bad hair implants; a charismatic Manson-like cult leader who plans to kidnap a famous advice columnist and many more! This edition has a brand new cover, new title and end pages-plus: Clowes being the perfectionist that he is, there are tweaked and re-drawn panels that really make this a transcendent piece of storytelling art!

Hardcover. London, M Q Publications, 1st, 2006, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Like new. An exclusive collection of drawings that reveal the tender side of R. Crumb. Evocative haunting images of people and places such as Aline, his daughter Sophie, scenes from the village and region he lives in the South of France, Jesse Crumb, his first wife Dana and their son Jesse and of course the Blues musicians he treasures from his 78rpm record collection. Unpaginated, but about 120 pages.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a bright, pictorial boards. Approximately 100 pages of cartoon strips in black and white. Paper tanning slightly, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, United Publishers, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cartoon illustrations in black and white. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy with moderate fraying to cover edges.

Hardcover. NY, Assouline Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Diane von Furstenberg arrived in the fashion world in 1972 with her simple knit jersey wrap dresses. By 1976, Diane had sold more than 5 million of her signature wrap dresses, which had come to symbolize female power and liberation to an entire generation. Almost 20 years later, with the nostalgia for '70s fashion at its peak, Diane re-emerged on the New York fashion scene with her signature wrap modified for a new generation of chic young women. Now with smaller collars than the original wrap, the new version has been enthusiastically adopted by today's trendsetters and celebrities. This volume looks at the history of the "wrap" phenomenon, from its revolutionary early days to its ever-popular present.

Softcover. Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages, with 72 illustrations, 52 in color. Light edge wear to wrappers, else a very clean, tight copy. These monotypes are presented by Cecily Langdale in this book which was published in 1984. It contains a brief Biography of the artist that describes his influences, travels and contacts, and a general discussion about Monotypes which summarises their chronology, style and technique. These two essays are illustrated by 28 b/w figures. The monotypes are then presented, in colour, with commentaries on each by Langdale that integrate factual information and artistic significance. Addenda include a further 3 monotypes by the artist and there is a Bibliography of relevant publications. Prendergast executed his last monotypes in 1901-02, probably because of his increased interest on the complexities of oil painting techniques that he continued to explore for the remainder of his life. For anyone unfamiliar with monotypes, the information provided by Langdale is extremely useful to enable a full appreciation of the works presented in this book. The artist used oil paint in the preparation of his monotypes and may have used a spoon to transfer the images onto the Japanese tissue support.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 255 pages. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Second paperback printing. Bright and clean. Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543), one of the most versatile and admired painters of the Northern Renaissance, trained under his father in Augsburg and then worked for leading patrons in Switzerland before settling in England as Court Painter to Henry VIII. To commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of the artist's birth, Oskar Batschmann and Pascal Griener offer this richly illustrated book the first comprehensive monograph on the artist to appear in more than forty years which is a major advance in our understanding of Holbein's contribution to European art.

Softcover. New York, Harpercollins, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Softcover with minor wear to edges. Color artwork throughout. Clean.

Softcover. Northampton MA, Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. In 1960, Li'l Abner featured the return of one the wildest women ever to stalk the comics page when the sexy WOLF GAL armed the animal kingdom and declared war on the entire human race! Ten years before the first Earth Day, Al Capp delighted readers with this wild environmental fable, and horrified Fearless Fosdick fans with a tragic tale in which the rock-jawed detective gets fired from the force. Also in this volume, Capp skewered the rich and famous with a satire of Park Avenue plastic surgeons .

Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages, b&w illustrations. Newspaper clippings paper-clipped to front fly leaf. Previous price sticker on back cover. Edge wear, rubbing to wrappers, front cover slightly bent. Light stain to bottom edge. Else pages clean and tight.

Softcover. 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Article: Beyond the Blue: The Art of Maxfield Parrish, 11 page article, color illustrations. Related newspaper articl laid-in. Clean, sharp copy.

Hardcover. Washington, Smithsonian Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 292 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black and whote photos throughout. Clean, tight copy. The Smithsonian holds more than 13 million images spanning over 150 years of taking and collecting photographs. This largely unknown body of photography (most never before published) represents nothing less than the Smithsonian's effort, in the name of all Americans, to describe and comprehend the world. Open anywhere in these pages to be plunged into the history of our modernity, and see what the Smithsonian deemed important to document and preserve. The famous, the infamous, and the never-before-seen are here in a remarkable "democracy of images": Amelia Earhart, Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum and Tom Thumb, John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Lucille Ball, Greta Garbo, Babe Ruth; the earliest views of the moon and the earliest panoramic view of Damascus; rare Native American photography; views of Asia, Africa, and the American West; photographs of early flight, and much, much more. By recording the act of seeing, and of what was seen, both photography and the Smithsonian have shaped our sense of ourselves, as individuals, as a people, and as a country.