Hardcover. NY, Overlook Press, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY KESSLER on the title page. Clean copy.
Softcover. Burlington VT, Rumble Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 28 pages, plain stiff white paper wraps, outer layer of light purple rice paper with title label pasted on front, pages tied with string at spine, hand printed by Bruce Conklin, #82/400 copies, poems of self-awareness published in celebration of Sarton's eightieth birthday, Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The New Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 182 pages, b&w illustrations. Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural criticism, anthropology, and community activism for an in-depth look at how tourism sites are conceived and represented, and how they affect the places they transform. Critic Andrew Ross calls Lippard "the most surefooted tour guide you could hope for" in her exploration of being a tourist in one's own home, of how advertising and photography define place, of how antique shops function as populist museums, and of the commodification of indigenous cultures. With her characteristic breadth and critical eye, Lippard discusses the political economies of leisure spaces, the tourist's fascination with tragic destinations (such as the sites of massacres and nuclear weapons tests, or Holocaust memorials), and our willingness to let national parks and heritage sites define nature and history. Clae copy.
Hardcover. Denver CO, Big Mountain Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY GLAZIER on the front fly leaf and signed "Lyle". The poet's first book. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Clarkson N. Potter, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 300 pages, b&w illustrations by Earl Thollander. Willard Espy's memoir is delightful, filled with memorable characters, with no celebrities, from his family trove of people over the centuries, from witches in Salem, Massachusetts, to pioneer oystermen on the Pacific coast of Washington state. Drawing on conversations with aged relations and friends, on historic letters and documents, Willard Espy reconstructs his own personal past to provide an account of his family that was born, grew up, and died, as the United States was being born, shaped, formed, explored, expanded.
Softcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 183 pages. Profile by Calvin Tomkins; excerpts from correspondence, interviews, and other documents. This is a comprehensive survey of the power and force of one of the 20th century's major photographic figures. Before his death, Strand spent his last days going over his photographic prints and his many books with an eye to the completion of this book. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Popular Mechanics Company, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 120 pages. Light blue cloth cover, cloth faded on spine. Some wear to edges and corners. Back cover is stained. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Advertisement in back featuring other Popular Mechanics books. Inside is bright and clean, with many b&w instructional illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Petaluma CA, Cameron, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 176 pages in color. Beginning in the late 1960s, graphic artist David Edward Byrd pioneered the iconic visual styles that have come to define rock 'n' roll graphics. Byrd created poster, concert, and album art for Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Lou Reed, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shankar, Traffic, Van Halen, the Grateful Dead, the 1969 Woodstock Festival, and KISS, among others. In fact, the 1968 poster that Byrd created for the Jimi Hendrix Experience was voted #8 in the Top 25 Rock Posters by Billboard. Beyond this, he created the iconic imagery for many Broadway shows, including Follies, Godspell, Jesus Christ Superstar, Little Shop of Horrors, and more. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Entertainment, 1st, 2007, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 280 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY STOTTLEMYRE on title page. Dust jacket and front cover board beneath on front has scratches (small tears) and groves to bottom. Remainder mark on bottom page block.
Hardcover. London, Charles Knight, 1st, 1844-45, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, marbled boards with red leather spine and corners. Two volumes bound in one, 244 pages & 254 pages. Gilt designs and lettering on spine. Profusely illustrated with woodcuts from the author's drawings. Mild wear to spine, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Over sized book, 12 inches in height, 391 pages, heavily illustrated with approximately 200 full color photographs, many from her movies, Contributions by Carsten Ahrens, Lynne Cooke, Doris von Drathen, Bruce W. Ferguson, Carl Haenlein and Katharina Schmidt. Includes a list of illustrations, biography, exhibition history, filmography and a bibliography. Rebecca Horn is a multi-talented artist whose kinetic sculptures, films and installations have contributed to her unique international reputation. Her surreal installations and objects work as metaphors; often playfully erotic, they arouse curiousity and childlike amazement, yet also subconsciously evoke fear and uncertainty Glance of Infinity is a comprehensive survey of Rebecca Horn's work from 1970 up to the present day, This full scale monograph includes an interview with the artist, and essays by Brace W. Ferguson, Lynne Cooke, Doris von Drahten and Rebecca Horn, as well as a comprehensive index. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Washington,DC, U.S. War & Navy Dept., 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Issues for May-Aug. Dec. 1944. A magazine devoted to identifying war planes and ships. Many photos and drawings. 50 pages each. Allied & enemy planes covered. Light wear otherwise solid & clean.
Softcover. Tahiti, Pacific Comics Club, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four softcover volumes that cover the Rip Kirby comic strip for a full year, Dec. 5 1949 through Dec. 23 1950. Color wraps, daily strips in b&w. Titles: "White Inferno", "Gunpowder Dreams", "Buried Treasure", "The Missing Nightingale." Clean copies.
Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacker with a closed tear. 297 pages, color plates. Robert Rauschenberg is a work of collaborative oral biography that tells the story of one of the twentieth century's great artists through a series of interviews with key figures in his life-family, friends, former lovers, professional associates, studio assistants, and collaborators. The oral historian Sara Sinclair artfully puts the narrators' reminiscences in conversation, with a focus on the relationship between Rauschenberg's intense social life and his art. The book opens with a prologue by Rauschenberg's sister and then shifts to New York City's 1950s and '60s art scene, populated by the luminaries of abstract expressionism. It follows Rauschenberg's eventual move to Florida's Captiva Island and his trips across the globe, illuminating his inner life and its effect on his and others' art.
Hardcover. Rockaway NJ, Rockaway Borough Bicentennial Committee, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in gilt. Issued without dust jacket. Map endpapers. 156 pages with bibliography, section of genealogical charts of Jackson and Halsey families. Generously illustrated with vintage photographs and reproductions of engravings and manuscripts. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, American Planning Association, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 441 pages. Illustrated in b&w and color. Conventional planning techniques just aren't working in many rural and suburbanizing areas. Developments where people merely exist have replaced neighborhoods where people once thrived. Strip malls and checkerboard subdivisions prevail. Randall Arendt argues convincingly that this scenario is not inevitable. In Rural by Design he advocates creative, practical land-use planning techniques to preserve open space and community character. He shows how developments all across America have used these techniques successfully. This book examines a broad spectrum of nitty-gritty design topics in a lively, readable style. Topics range from sewage disposal and farmland preservation to greenway planning for interconnected open space and the design of rural subdivision streets. The book includes numerous case examples of residential, commercial, and mixed-use projects that have used these innovative design techniques. And it takes an in-depth look at the design elements of the traditional town--and how to reinvent those elements in today's communities. Names on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 310 pages. Brown cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Light wear and rubbing to covers and edges of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Topsfield MA, Salem House, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Not paginated but approximately 200 pages. Illustrated throughout in color and b/w by author. Steadman's 'portraits of the Nixon Years, Vietnam and Watergate, and now Reagan years, Pearlygate and the 1988 Presidential Election are powerful, disturbing and above all, savagely funny.' Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, 64 pages illustrated in b&w by Rachel Isadora. Two folktales, one from Ireland and one from Cornwall, about Tom and his encounters with a leprechaun and piskies, which convince him that they are real. "The visual balance of text and illustration completes the elegance of the book." --Booklist. Reissue of a title first published in 1979. Clean and bright.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scibner's Sons, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, color frontis, 82 black & white photos by Dan Weiner. Dust jacket with chunks gone from all edges, closed tears. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press , 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 240 pages. Stanley Kubrick Drama and Shadows is the first publication of early photographs by renowned filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999), taken between 1945 and 1950 - many of them never before seen by the general public. Kubrick made these photographs while he was a staff photographer for the New York-based Look magazine, following his graduation from high school and before he made his first films. Aimed at a broad audience, Stanley Kubrick Drama and Shadows reveals the director's early experimentations with image composition and his attraction to dramatic, often psychologically intense subjects and narratives that would both become elements of his recognizable style as a director. Divided into four thematic chapters ("Metropolitan Life," "Entertainment," "Celebrities," and "Human Behavior"), this book features a carefully selected group of approximately 350 photographs organized into approximately thirty photographic stories. An insightful introductory essay provides context and examines Kubrick's photographs in relation to the history of photography. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Persea Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 page. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR BELTH ON TITLE PAGE AND DATED August 31, 2007. Otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor rubbing on dust jacket edges.