Softcover. Utica NY, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Museum of Art, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 212 pages. Very good condition with thick card covers, printed with graphic design by Ivan Chermayeff. Contents includes information about the exhibit and The Henry Street Settlement Creative Arts Center, color reproductions of American and European works, and articles and memorabilia about the artists and the Armory shows. Related ephemera laid in. Owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Printed by the Proprietor and Sold by James Carpenter and Son, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive-colored morocco covers with gilt borders, spine with raised bands and gilt design and lettering. Attractive collection of Burnet's three principal works bound together with a general title page: Practical Hints on Composition in Painting (6th edition 1845), Practical Hints on Light and Shading in Painting (2nd edition 1927), and Practical Hints on Colour in Painting (2nd edition 1828). 25 pages of plates of which 8 are hand-colored. Bookplate on inside front cover, name on blank page opposite half-title dated 1917. Overall very good with minor rubbing to covers.

Hardcover. White Plains NY, Peter Pauper Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 48 pages illustrated in color by Simler. From New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book artist Isabelle Simler, a picture book (and nature guide!) to linger over. Look closely as a spider -- both a collector and an artist -- skillfully crafts a masterpiece from all that falls into her path. Patient and observant, she appreciates all the wonders that make up her landscape -- from ferns and feathers to bugs and butterflies. Readers will come back again and again to the luscious and intricate illustrations, soaking up all of Simler's delicate details. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle Wa, Eastland Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 300 pages. This book marks the first original collection of acupuncture case histories in English. Included are over one hundred case histories contributed by prominent practitioners of acupuncture in China. The case histories represent a broad spectrum of disorders for which acupuncture is used in contemporary China. Each of the case histories provides a thorough discussion of the traditional Chinese diagnosis and syndrome differentiation, together with the points and techniques selected for treatment. The course of therapy is described, and alterations in the diagnosis and treatment regimen are analyzed. The results of treatment--both favorable and unfavorable--are noted. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Paris, Gimpel Fils , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog in red stapled wrappers. 14 pages with 7 color plates. Clean copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Frederick S Wight Art Gallery, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. B&w and color illustrations. Issued in conjunction with several 1977-1978 exhibitions featuring the work of Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915-1995). The entire book is an illustrated essay by Gerald Nordland that serves as a good introduction to the man and his craft. Also includes a chronology and an expansive exhibition history. Faint crease to front cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, William Morrow , 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in worn beige cloth covers with dark brown lettering and drawing on front cover, no dust jacket. Charming story of helpful snake named Amanda illustrated with color illustrations and drawings in red by the author. Wolo, whose given name was Wolff Erhardt Anton George Trutzschuler von Falkenstein, was a puppeteer, author, illustrator, and caricaturist. AMANDA is one of five children's books he authored and illustrated for William Morrow and Company. Covers with light soiling, some paper peeling. Inside is clean.

Softcover. NY, Martha Jackson Gallery, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, color and b&w plates. Exhibition catalog, Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill , 1st, 1979, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 228 pages. Edgar Tafel was an apprentice who lived and worked with Frank LLoyd Wright. With his insights and insider information, this fascinating history shows a personal, social, and work life, and how Wright's creativity evolved, the processes in his designs, building, and constructions, and more. Clean copy.

Softcover. Anchorage Museum of History and Art, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages. Illustrated from photographs, plans, and drawings .In original white self-wrappers. Chipperfield's proposal for the Anchorage Museum's addition, completed in 2010. Includes examples of Chipperfield's other museum work, his statement on "Presence" and essays by others on the building process. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Folio(12 x 12.25 in.), 340 pages. Brown burlap covered boards with stamped pink-beige lettering on front and spine. Binding is strong. The original clear vinyl jacket cover is present. It has "fogged" with age but is still flexible and in one piece. This is a time capsule of the mid-sixties progressive art movement, showcasing a group of artists who went on to expand their profiles. A difficult book to describe except to say it is engaging and, occasionally, fascinating. The copyright page, title page, contents page and Kaprow essay are in the middle of the book, printed on tan pages. A significant pioneering work on performance and environmental art. Allan Kaprow explored his own concept of the artistic field of "happenings" while simultaneously examining various works from the same movement, bringing them together in this publication. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Simon And Schuster, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 253 pages. Thirty-two essays by the New Yorker magazine humorist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Interlink Publishing, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages. "Baladi" means "my home, my land, my country," and Joudie once again pays homage to her homeland of Palestine by showcasing its wide ranging, vibrant and truly delicious dishes. Experience the wonderful flavors of Palestine through Daoud Basha (lamb meatballs cooked in a tamarind and tomato sauce), khubzet za'atar (za'atar brioche twists), samak makli bil camun (fried fish selection with zucchini, mint and yogurt dip), atayef (soft pancakes filled with cream in an orange blossom sugar syrup), and many more sublime flavor combinations. Color illustrations, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 414 pages, b&w photos. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly rubbed dust jacket, 560 pages, b&w illustrations. In this first major biography since Fitzgerald's death, music historian Judith Tick draws on deep archival research, family interviews and newly available recordings and concert footage to show how Fitzgerald fused a Black vocal aesthetic with mainstream popular repertoire to revolutionise American music. From Fitzgerald's first audition at the Apollo Theatre to swing-era success at the Savoy, Tick shows how this 'girl singer' broke new ground: as a female bandleader, as a ground-breaking bebop improviser and as the arbiter of the American canon with her Song Book recordings. Yet even as she electrified concert halls and sold millions of records, jazz critics belittled her as 'naive'. Tick reveals instead an ambitious risk-taker with a stunningly diverse repertoire, whose exceptional musical spontaneity (often radically different on stage than in the studio) made her a transformational artist. Remainder dot to top edge otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2003, Hardcover in pictorial boards, color illustrations throughout. From the creators of Emily the Strange and Oopsy Daisy comes Bon Bon, the half-Japanese and half-French girl who possesses a sophisticated and mysterious imagination. From Vespas to Verner Panton, Pucci to Pop Art, space age lounge to 1960s sound, Bon Bon is always looking for the next intoxicating adventures. Leaf through the psychedelic and highly designed Bon Bon on the Go-Go to watch her transform the mod, mod, mod world she lives in. Clean copy.

...and Ferdinando-Laude, Jean. Softcover. Paris, Cahiers d'Art, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None. Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 123 pages. Many bw and some color illustrations. Sommaire: Christian Zervos, 'Jeune peinture et Critique' ; Dora Vallier, 'Braque, la Peinture et Nous' ; Antonio Frova, 'Peinture romaine en Bulgarie' ; Jacques Dupin, 'Giacometti sculpteur et peintre' ; Franco Russoli, 'La restauration de la Cene de Leonard' ; Christian Zervos 'Images de Picasso peintes cette annee' ; Germain Bazin, 'Variations museologiques' ; Ferdinando Reyna, 'Des origines du ballet' ; Dora Vallier, 'La XXVII Biennale de Venise' ; Christian Zervos, 'Expositions' ; Jean Laude, 'Livres d'art'. FRENCH TEXT. Minor wear to spine otherwise a clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University , 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages. Devoted to the most important American Continental philosopher of his generation and one of the discipline's founding fathers, and featuring some of the field's most distinguished luminaries, this anthology constitutes a critical document in Continental philosophy, reflecting its recent history, its present state, and its debt to Calvin Schrag. Taking up themes central to Schrag's own philosophical concerns, these essays refer throughout to his salient "interventions" in the dialogue of late twentieth-century thought characterized as "postmodernity." In doing so, all contributors address, implicitly or directly, the question of philosophy's role and responsibility, or "task." The volume begins with an overview of this task and of Schrag's contributions to it, written from the perspective of a resolute defender of the phenomenological tradition that Schrag's work has extended and reconfigured. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Ernest Benn, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcovers, four volume set complete. Matching gray-brown buckram cloth with gilt front cover decoration and gilt spine lettering. Set from architect Albert Kahn's library with his pencil signature on each fly leaf. Vol. 1 Text, cxlvi plus 168 page index with detailed descriptions of plates. B&w frontispiece. Vol. II Plates 1-205. Vol. III Plates 206-421. Volume IV Plates 422- . Small stickers on bottom of spine. An exceptional set and reference. Very heavy volumes. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, Christie's, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 71 pages with 49 illustrations 31 in color. Stiff Illustrated wraps. Essay by William Paton. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Architectural Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, in yellow linen boards with titling in gold. 156 pages illustrated in b&w and color. Civilia: The End of Sub Urban Man, addresses "urban living" in the mid- to late twentieth century with reference to the impact of technology, new town planning, the death of the automobile, and a tongue-in- cheek attitude towards the then contemporary issues informing the development of urbanism in both academic and public imagination. At times bitingly critical, and at others erudite if not wholly 'politically correct' Civilia: The End of Sub Urban Man is a refreshing look back at 'cutting edge' developments in architecture and urbanism from the 1970s, and is surprisingly relevant given our current situation. An uncommon title by the great promoter of modernism. the author edited Architectural Review and wrote several articles for it as well as books under the pseudonym, Ivor De Wolfe. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London/NY, Chelsea House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 274 pages. 378 illustrations, including many hand-mounted color plates. Catalogue raisonne of drawings and prints from 1958 to 1960. Folio. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. A very clean, crisp and attractive copy in excellent condition. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st pbk, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 366 pages. In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on in-depth interviews and extended ethnographic research in a range of hotel jobs, including concierge, bellperson, and housekeeper, Sherman gives an insightful analysis of what exactly luxury service consists of, how managers organize its production, and how workers and guests negotiate the inequality between them. She finds that workers employ a variety of practices to assert a powerful sense of self, including playing games, comparing themselves to other workers and guests, and forming meaningful and reciprocal relations with guests. Through their contact with hotel staff, guests learn how to behave in the luxury environment and come to see themselves as deserving of luxury consumption. These practices, Sherman argues, help make class inequality seem normal, something to be taken for granted. Throughout, Class Acts sheds new light on the complex relationship between class and service work, an increasingly relevant topic in light of the growing economic inequality in the United States that underlies luxury consumption. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Faber and Faber, 1st UK, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine, 330 pages. The Collected Early Poems of Ezra Pound contains the complete text, the poet's first six books, their title pages in facsimile (A Lume Spento, 1908; A Quinzaine for This Yule, 1908; Personae, 1909; Exultations, 1909; Canzoni, 1911; Ripostes, 1912), and the long poem Redondillas (1911). There are, in addition, twenty-five poems originally published in periodicals but not previously collected, as well as thirty-eight others drawn from miscellaneous manuscripts. Ezra Pound's 1926 collection, entitled Personae after his earlier volume of that name, was his personal choice of all the poems he wished to keep in print other than some translations and his Cantos. Edited by Michael King under the direction of Louis L. Martz, who wrote the introduction. Clean copy.