Hardcover. New Castle DE, Oak Knoll, 1st, 2004, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A History of the Eragny Press, 1894-1914, is a full and exceptionally well-researched account of the Press. It begins with a brief survey of Lucien Pissarro's early career in France in order to establish the influences and motivations for his book designs and proceeds to examine Lucien's association with Charles Ricketts, the establishment of the Eragny Press, and the Press' relationship to the publishers Hacon & Ricketts. Eragny was not a commercial publisher, yet profits was an important motivation for the Pissarros. Included here is the first major account for a private press of the costs of production, profits, and marketing and distribution practices. Eragny Press books were promoted and sold in England, the Continent, and the United States. Two of the Eragny Press books were the results of commissions from French bibliophile clubs. This history of the Eragny Press includes a discussion of the influences and artistic theories that are the basis for the Pissarros' books and provides a critical reassessment of their significance within the history of the English Arts and Crafts Private Press movement. About half the book is devoted to an exhaustive and detailed bibliography of all the Eragny Press publications, with critical commentary on each. Accompanying the text and the descriptive bibliography are more than seventy-five reproductions of rare Eragny wood engravings ( by Lucien Pissarro, T. Sturge Moore, and others), title pages, borders and decorated initials, binding papers, and book covers. A History of the Eragny Press, 1894-1914, is an important book for anyone interested in the history of printing, the Arts and Crafts movement, Impressionism, private presses, the art of wood engraving, and illustrated and fine books.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A Knopf, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. Author won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1934. Clean tight copy..
Hardcover. Chicago, Stanton and Van Vliet Co, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 403 pages + glossary with illustrations, photos and fold-out charts in b&w. Light wear and fraying to black covers with a few small holes through the cloth. Internally very good.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 243 pages, 150 b&w plates. Illustrated covers, perfect binding, divided into seven sections organized by historical period, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Mild rubbing to covers, very minor markings to bottom of page block, front top right corner creased; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, The Fine Arts Society, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages, hardcover. Decorated boards with gilted top text block. Illustrated by Elizabeth M. Chettle. Homes and memorials of the founders of Virginia, the New England states, and Pennsylvania. Also includes the universities of Harvard and Yale, the first president of the United States and other illustrious Americans. Fading and edgewear to spine. Light bumping to corners with mild fraying. Moderate spotting to text block edges. Weak spine at front endpapers. Unmarked. A clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. 260 pages with b&w illustrations throughout. Covers all aspects of zoning, mapping, urban renewal, planned communities, land-use strategies, standards for street furniture, lighting, signs, community participation, preservation movement, transportation. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Dublin, Alexander Thom, 1st thus, 1879, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 424 pages, leather spine with dark blue boards, gilt stamping to spine. The leather is worn and rubbed, split along bottom edge of spine on front. Gutter cracked at title page with cover separating from binding at spine. Binding sound, interior pages very good.
Hardcover. Dublin, Alexander Thom, 1st thus, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 600 pages, leather spine with dark blue boards, gilt stamping to spine. The leather is worn and rubbed. Color frontispiece fold-out of specimen page from the original manuscript. Hinges cracked, scar to front endpaper where label was removed. Interior pages very good.
Hardcover. London, Batsford, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A history of the evolution of the Arts of Building, Decoration and Garden Design under classical influence. Many b&w photos, Illustrations. 528 pgs. Some sun-fading to spines, else a clean, tight set.
Hardcover. New York , Harrison House, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 150 vintage black-and-white 1920s and 1930s Hollywood star portraits (many/most full-page) with accompanying descriptive captions. "This book lets us see, with dramatic impact, the artistry of the Hollywood studio photographers, whose portraits (reproduced by the millions as cheap fan photographs) of Crawford, Garbo, Cooper and the others both revolutionized photographic portraiture and, to an enormous extent, formed our vision of the great Hollywood faces." 292 pages. Small previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. illustrated in b&w, some color. Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) was an American artist and educator. This monograph traces his life and work in nine chapters: Beginnings; Paris and Brittany; The Return; Japanese Currents; The Pratt Institute and the Launching of Composition; Ipswich and the World; Teachers College; and Conclusion. With extensive notes, bibliography, and 94 illustrations. Clean copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. illustrated in b&w, some color. Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) was an American artist and educator. This monograph traces his life and work in nine chapters: Beginnings; Paris and Brittany; The Return; Japanese Currents; The Pratt Institute and the Launching of Composition; Ipswich and the World; Teachers College; and Conclusion. With extensive notes, bibliography, and 94 illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, M. T. Richardson, 1st, 1887, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Boards covered in brown cloth with black design on front cover. Tear near the gutter on the first few pages including the frontispiece but it does not effect the image depicted. Still has previous owner's inscription from 1888. Some staining on pages but otherwise, a tight, clean copy. This book covers detailed illustrations of various methods of shoeing with special directions "for shaping shoes to cure different diseases of the foot".
Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard and b&w illustrations throughout. Green cloth cover with gilt titles on spine. Rubbing and edgewear to cover with cloth frayed at top and bottom of spine. Small tear to front flyleaf. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Some light spotting.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Following The Missing Person, her highly praised debut--"A seriously entertaining and probing novel," wrote The Washington Post Book World--Alix Ohlin gives us a collection of stories that demonstrates her impressive range. In their various locales, from Montreal (where a prosthetic leg casts a furious spell on its beholders) to the Southwest (where a Soviet-era exchange student changes a family's dynamic forever), the characters in Babylon are coming to terms with life's epiphanies, for good or ill. They range from the very young who, confronted with their parents' limitations, discover their own resolve, to those facing middle age and its particular indignities, no less determined to assert themselves and shape their destinies. A tenacious eight-year-old practices piano on paper keys; an expectant mother, settling into an idyllic farmhouse, discovers the tragic story of its previous, rightful inhabitants; and a fictional haunted hospital becomes an obsession for a ghostwriter grappling with her empty nest. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1st, 1914, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 355 pages. Illustrated by Charles M. Russell. Spine faded and ripped, cardboard showing, back cover faded. Foxing on edges. Ex-library copy with all usual stamping. Previous owner's inscription.
Hardcover. Metuchen NJ, Scarecrow Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with white lettering, 200 pages, b&w illustrations. SIGNED BY RUSSELL on front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy. No dust jacket issued.
Hardcover. Washington DC, National Portrait Gallery/Princeton University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Accompanied exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Illustrated. First major publication to focus on the development of silhouettes, gathers leading experts to shed light on the surprisingly complex historical, political, and social underpinnings of this ostensibly simple art form. This richly illustrated volume explores likenesses of everyone from presidents and celebrities to everyday citizens and enslaved people. Ultimately, the book reveals how silhouettes registered the paradoxes of the unstable young nation, roiling with tensions over slavery and political independence. Primarily tracing the rise of the silhouette in the decades leading up to the Civil War, Black Out also considers the ubiquity of the genre today, particularly in contemporary art. Historical research and four contemporary artists: Kara Walker, Kristi Malakoff, Kumi Yamashita, and Camille Utterback. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 218 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners names on front endpaper. Yellow highlighting of text throughout book. "Illustrated with Photographs from Moving-Picture Films - The "movie" illustrations are clippings from the reels of the ten-round bout between Philadelphia Jack O'Brien and Tommy Burns, the former heavyweight champion of the world." Darkening to endpapers, edges. Light wear.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 143 pages with 111 b&w photos. "This book presents a collection of socially and historically relevant photographs of Boston and vicinity, taken between 1890 and 1920 by G. Frank Radway, a highly perceptive if unknown photographer...." From the Introduction. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Rob Weisbach/William Morrow, Uncorr. proof, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Lime green wraps, uncorrected bound galleys. SIGNED BY DAVIS. A short story collection, the first of only two books by Amanda Davis before she was killed in a plane crash in North Carolina at 32 years old.
Hardcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 64 pages. Poet's first collection. SIGNED BY VOIGT on the title page, clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, The Overlook Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 358 pages, Illustrated with three sections of color plates. b&w maps, illustrations. Clean copy. A fascinating survey of the life and enduring legacy of perhaps the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the Roman emperors-written by a richly gifted historian. In 312 A.D., Constantine-one of four Roman emperors ruling a divided empire-marched on Rome to establish his control. On the eve of the battle, a cross appeared to him in the sky with an exhortation, "By this sign conquer." Inscribing the cross on the shields of his soldiers, Constantine drove his rivals into the Tiber and claimed the imperial capital for himself. Under Constantine, Christianity emerged from the shadows, its adherents no longer persecuted. Constantine united the western and eastern halves of the Roman Empire. He founded a new capital city, Constantinople. Thereafter the Christian Roman Empire endured in the East, while Rome itself fell to the barbarian hordes.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1884, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth stamped in red and gilt, 320 pages. Frontispiece, b&w plates and illustrations. Folding map. Spine sunned, light wear to extremities, previous owner's name, inscription on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London ; New York, Routledge, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 270 pages. Light foxing to top edge. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, illustrated with 2 portrait plates and a diagram. Gilt ruled brick-red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Edited by Atkinson. Bright, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 3rd Ed., 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Five volumes complete, 594, 576, 543. 645 and 593 pages. Olive cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt.Couple hinges tender. Bright, clean set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 294 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. A collection of short stories, from the author's earliest fiction in 1937 to her new novella "Dr. Heart". Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Bloomsbury Academic, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with no visible wear. Price sticker to back cover. Otherwise a tight copy. Many critics have interpreted Bob Dylan's lyrics, especially those composed during the middle to late 1960s, in the contexts of their relation to American folk, blues, and rock 'n' roll precedents; their discographical details and concert performances; their social, political and cultural relevance; and/or their status for discussion as "poems." Dylan's Autobiography of a Vocation instead focuses on how all of Dylan's 1965-1967 songs manifest traces of his ongoing, internal "autobiography" in which he continually declares and questions his relation to a self-determined existential summons.
Hardcover. London, William Tegg, 1st, 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 739 pages, rebound copy with gilt tile on spine and green cloth board. Minor edge fade, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 113 pages, beige canvas boards with salmon cloth spine, wood-grained dust jacket in mylar cover. A collection of poems by American author R. G. Vliet (1929-1984), his first book. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Rome, Leonardo-De Luca, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Italian text. Dust jacket with light edgewear.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 161 pages, black cloth, book slightly cocked. Dust jacket edgeworn with light chipping. INSCRIBED BY HARRIS ( "Joyce and Irving, with love, Wilson & Margaret 1990") on the title page to Joyce and Irving Adler. The book is heavily annotated and underlined in both ink and light pencil by Joyce who was a literary scholar who wrote two books on Harris.
Softcover. Crossroad Pub Co, reprint, January 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 720 pages. Light wear, creasing, rubbing to wrappers, faint soil to edges, small dent to spine. Previous owner's notation in ink on contents-page.
London, National Gallery, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 71 pages illustrated in color. A key member of the Hudson River School, Frederic Church (1826-1900) rose to fame as the creator of some of America's most iconic landscape paintings. He also traveled abroad extensively, making trips to Jamaica, South America, Europe, and the Middle East. At home and away, Church made numerous plein air oil sketches of the landscapes he saw, some magnificent, some humble, many of them later subjects for his full-scale paintings. Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch features some thirty sketches Church executed during his career. Many of these wonderful works come from Olana, the artist's magnificent home overlooking the Hudson River. As Andrew Wilton's essay explains, these informal and often spontaneous sketches played a vital role in the practice and pedagogy of landscape painting in American art just as they did in European art of the 19th century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Dunne Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. B&w photographs, spotless and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. 192 pages. A critical examination of American photographer Gertrude Kasebier. Features text by Barbara L. Michaels. Includes 120 duotone illustrations. NAME ON FRONT FLY LEAF, OTHERWISE CLEAN.
Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions Club, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige buckram and boards covered in dark blue paper. Copy #794 of 1500 designed and printed by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press and illustrated with 15 wash drawings in color by Charles Raymond. SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page. Dickens' tenth novel, unusual from his others in its short length, and for not having scenes set in London. The satirical novel is instead set in the fictitious industrial mill-town Coketown Dickens wrote this serialised novel hoping to boost the sales of his periodical 'Household Words', which it indeed did. In a blue slipcase with one corner with a minor bump.
Softcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 176 pages, illustrated in b&w, some color. In a charming, straightforward way, Benson tells of his life in photography. Benson presents a useful mix of his own photography with personal ancedotes and specific lists of how-to's. The photos are useful for showing some of the great moments that can be caught on film, as well as for giving the newer photographer something to aspire towards. Mixed in with the photo sections are pages of up-front writing about how Benson achieved what you are looking at. "Certain qualities are essential to a photojournalist -- an inherent love of photography, a strong determination to succeed, and a willingness to put everything second to your work. You also need a sense of history, an awareness of human behavior, physical stamina, a fascination with gossip, a survival instinct, a naive belief in yourself, and a bit of luck." -- Harry Benson
Softcover. North Slope Borough, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of an Inupiat village on Alaska's North Slope and how the people live off their surroundings. Whaling, caribou hunting, fox trapping, seal and walrus hunting and other methods of subsistence are covered. Maps, b&w photos. Crease to rear cover, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading to spine. A collection of 16 poems by Meredith, all based on the fictitious painter Hazard. #66 of 100 copies numbered and SIGNED on a tipped-in prelim page. In addition, also INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Softcover. Alexandria, Eyrie Publications, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in blue wrappers, 82 pages. B&w illustrations and photographs throughout. Previous owner's signature on top right corner of front cover. Minor rubbing to cover edges. SIGNED LETTER FROM AUTHOR LAID IN. A nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 416 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, and embossed design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Spine is slightly cracked at rear endpage. Some faint stains on front pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with more than 500 b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams. A nice copy.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 425 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, and embossed design. Some wear to corners and edges of spine. Some faint stains on front pages, otherwise inside is bright and clean, with more than 500 b&w illustrations, maps and diagrams. A nice copy.
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