Hardcover. NY, Baker & Goodwin, 1st, 1857, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 318 pages. Water stain to bottom of pages centered on the gutter, continues throughout book. Not terrible, binding is tight, solid. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with mild fading to the spine. Photo frontispiece. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. The Johnny Appleseed Bookshop became one of the most beloved bookstores in the state. Started by Ruth Hard the daughter of Walter and Margaret it soon attracted a following of from Vermont and nearby New York and Massachusetts. Major literary figures of the day, Robert Frost, Sinclair Lewis, Alexander Woollcott, Pearl Buck, all part time residents of the state, quickly became regulars. The store closed in 1980 after almost 50 years in business in Manchester, Vermont. Her bookshop sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 175 pages. For one full baseball season in 1976, Roger Kahn returned to his favorite sport to see how it was doing, talk to some of its practitioners and veterans, and try to find out whether it still the same old magic. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, J. Disturnell, 1st, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A Trip Through the Lakes of North America: Embracing a full description of the St. Lawrence River, together with all the principal places on its banks, from its source to its mouth (1857). Hardcover, original blind-stamped tan cloth, 364 pages + ads. 2 maps, one large fold-out in rear of the Valley of the St. Lawrence River and Lake Country, b&w engravings. Binding worn, clean, overall Good+.
Hardcover. NY, Horizon Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, original black cloth with silver and black lettering on cover, red and silver on spine. With an introduction by Harold Rosenberg. Illustrated with fifty full page b/w photographs by Aaron Siskind. The first monograph on Siskind, beautifully designed and printed; an important post-war photobook. There is a light water stain to rear panel of dust jacket, not affecting book. A clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 141 pages. Cartier-Bresson's usual stunning photos that capture the people and culture of place; this time, Russia/The Soviet Union. Included are the people and spaces of Leningrad, Moscow, Russian SSR, Baltic Countries, The Caucasus, and Central Asia (the "Stans"), with an introduction by the photographer. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket in publisher's slipcase. Illustrated with 127 b/w and full color plates, mostly full page some folding out. Essay by Edmund White. This is a very heavy/large book (12 x 13 inches approximately), DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Warhol's career as an artist has been a love affair with the United States. Culled from his photographic archives, "America" is a lavishly illustrated selection of Warholian images of people and places and a photographic portrait of modern life from Warhol's camera's eye. 1st edition in paperback. Clean, bright copy, like new.
NY, te Neues Publishing, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, illustrated with b&w portraits by Sandro, 76 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. BY, Aperture Foundation, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The first collection of the extensive and superlative work realized by Mary Ellen Mark in the United States. The book is composed of many previously unpublished images, as well as photographs from several of her best-known projects. From "Streetwise" to "The Damm Family," Mary Ellen Mark includes the most iconic images from these groundbreaking stories, as well as powerful, never-before-seen photographs Mark accomplished in subsequent years. She makes a deeply felt commitment to her subjects, and her empathy and humanity come through in every image. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, 436 and 485 pages. Illustrated in black and white. Navy blue cloth covered boards with gilt spine. Top edges gilt. Both volumes illustrated with photographs, portraits, and maps. Name on front fly leaf of both volumes, mild cover soil, otherwise a clean, bright set. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 310 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield Publishing, reprint, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated paper covered boards. Brown cloth spine. Color frontispiece. Illustrations in color and black and white in text. This is a reprint, the first printing had 6 color plates. Frances Trego Montgomery (February 18, 1858 - April 5, 1925) was a prolific writer of children's stories during the early twentieth century. She is best known for her popular "Billy Whiskers" series, which were about the misadventures of a mischievous but somewhat short-tempered goat. Many children loved the books--twenty-five in all--and couldn't get enough of them. Fair condition only, front and rear hinges cracked.
Softcover. NY, Grossman Publishers, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. A powerful photographic meditation on life for African-Americans in the U.S. in the 1960s. Includes numerous black and white images. A clean near fine copy in wrappers. with some very minor wear. Small tape repair to bottom of spine, otherwise bright and clean.
Hardcover. Switzerland, A. Guichard, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A very good hardcover copy, 126 pages with decorative burgundy boards and gilding on the spine and covers. A book of 164 facsimile tipped-in plates. Production by Edita S. A. Lausanne. Illustration by Imprimerie Centrale Lausanne S. A. Text by Offset Jean Genoud S. A. Lausanne. Engraving by Photogravure Dupuis & Cie Lausanne. Binding by Maurice Busenhart, Lausanne. At the age of seven, at the begining of the 20th century, Lartique received a camera as a gift from his father, and from then on, day after day, he would try to 'fix' scenes of his domestic life, having been allowed by the conditions of his life sufficient leisure to do so." Roger Therond. In this, Lartique's premier collection, presented in the form of an album of pasted-in pictures, we are treated to his madcap antics with flying machines and automobiles when they were still a novelty. With his cousins, we have pictures of their three-seater peddle racing machine of their own invention - gliders built and flown in the field, crashes included, an inflatable suit for drifting in the river without getting wet . These are photographs one would not see in a typical family album, rather, they are the record of a joyful and artistic youth. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 309 pages. Rear dj lists to Betty Zane. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Munich, Prestel, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, color and b&w photos. In this stunning photographic series, Pieter Henket presents images of the children of Odzala-Kokoua telling the oral history of the Congo in enchanting and creative ways. Shot over the course of a month, Henket documented the children of this remote region as they designed, planned, created costumes for, and acted out a series of myths - about their tribes, their landscape, and the animals and plants that they live among. Text in English and French. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, DC Comics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Uncover the origin of one of DC's wackiest heroes in this collection spanning the early days of Plastic Man! He can bounce, stretch, and crack wise, but can he save the day? And, more importantly, does he even want to? What business does a petty crook have playing superhero anyway? This volume collects Police Comics #1-36; Plastic Man #1-2. Patrick 'Eel' O Brian s life of crime just became a whole lot stranger! After an unfortunate accident leaves Eel s body transformed to have the properties of rubber, Plastic Man is born! But can Eel overcome his worst impulses and use his new abilities for good? Clean copy.
Softcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated with b/w photography throughout. 83 pages. Maggie Lee Sayre was born deaf near Paducah, Kentucky, in 1920. She lived 51 years of her life on a river houseboat as her family made a living fishing throughout Kentucky and Tennessee. This collection of her photos, accompanied by descriptive captions from Sayre, reveals a traditional river culture that is rooted in subsistence living. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a btight dust jacket. 352 pages. Monograph published in conjunction with a major exhibition. Essays by by Sandra S. Phillips and Neil Selkirk and an over 100 page chronolgy by Doon Arbus and Elisabeth Sussman. Also features an afterword by Doon Arbus and biographies by Jeff L. Rosenheim. Includes 200 full page duotones, many that have never been published before and numerous other smaller images. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Millerton NY, Aperture/MOMA, 1st pbk, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, (Twins on the cover). No additional printing stated indicating first softcover edition. 80 b&w plates by Arbus. Does contain the "Two girls in identical raincoats" photograph that was struck from all but a few copies due to legal controversy. Published posthumously, the year after her suicide, and in conjunction with a retrospective show at MOMA, the book was edited and designed by Arbus's daughter Doon and Marvin Israel. Diane Arbus left behind her career as a top fashion photographer and turned her attention to society's oddities and outsiders - twins, dwarves, giants, transvestites, the elderly and lonely. Her accent on these people was in no way mocking; rather, these portraits reveal her fascination with life's tragedies as destinies. Mild soil to wrappers.
Hardcover. The Library of America, 1st pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A first printing of the Library of America. Maroon cloth with spine printed in gilt. Patterned endpapers and attached blue ribbon bookmark. Ivory slipcase lettered and bordered in gilt. Arnold Rampersad wrote the notes for this volume. Includes: Lawd Today!, Uncle Tom's Children, and Native Son. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 96 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Edward Weston. Clean, bright copy. Among some of the portraits are D.H. Lawrence, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Orozco, Robinson Jeffers, Henry Fonda, James Cagney, Stravinsky, E.E. Cummgs and many distinctive nudes. Clean copy.