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.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover New in new dust jacket. 326 pages. Quarter bound in cloth over paper covered boards. First edition, second printing. SIGNED on the title page by the author. An exceptional copy of a classic.
Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 222 pages. Dust jacket edge wear and tear. Price clipped. Minor spotting on front flyleaf, title page and dedication page. Clear protective cover and in overall clean condition.
Softcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art , 2nd pr., 203, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages illustrated with 224 color plates, 86 black & white. One of America's most innovative artists, Romare Bearden (1911-1988) made colorful and passionate images that reflected his life in a time of creative ferment. His influences ranged from the old masters to African art, as well as the world around him: popular religion and ritual, jazz clubs and brothels, the history and literature of his time, and the places he lived (the rural South, Pittsburgh and Harlem, the Caribbean island of St. Martin). The resulting images are fresh and evocative, filled with quirky details and rhythmic forms. This authoritative and beautiful book, which accompanies a major retrospective opening at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., provides a provocative and absorbing look at a beloved artist. The Art of Romare Bearden showcases compelling examples of his pioneering work: complex collages and photostats; watercolors, gouaches, and oils; little-known landscapes; his only known sculpture; costume designs; and book illustrations. Mildwear to corners otherwise very good, clean copy.
Hardcover. Rutland VT, Charles E. Tuttle, 1st US, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Illustrated with 190 pages of Cruikshank's drawings. Clean copy in a bright dust jacket. the author's third art monograph, reproducing Cruikshank's illustrations of Dickens, Ainsworth, Sterne, Smollett, and others, with extensive commentary and context. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The sixth novel, and one of the best, in the award-winning Block's bestselling mystery series featuring Bernie Rhodenbarr, New York City bookseller and burglar. Bernie's second-hand bookstore is turning a small profit until his new landlord wants to raise his rent $10,000 per month. So going back to his former profession of burglar, he slips into a supposedly un-tenanted apartment, steals a very large amount of untraceable cash and spots a naked man, dead, in the bath. The apartment just happens to be his new landlord's brother-in-law's, and, not only is the cash missing, but a million-dollar baseball collection is also missing and Bernie's been framed for it. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 145 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Los Angeles Detective Harry Bosch combats a civil suit aimed at branding him as a rogue vigilante cop while pursuing a serial killer who seems to have returned from the dead. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st thus, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated pictorial stamped paper-covered boards. Book is in fine condition, crisp and clean, with tight binding and sharp corners. The poem is illustrated throughout in color with the watercolors and drawings of A. J. Keller. Includes facsimile of Lowell's handwritten manuscript.
Hardcover. NY, Morrow, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Matt Scudder title. SHAMUS AWARD WINNER. Block's recovering alcoholic Matt Scudder is an example of an evolving series character. Once isolated by guilt, angst, and booze, Scudder was the quintessential loner. Now, as his never-ending recovery continues, his world has begun to expand. He has a true friend in Mick Ballou, a sidekick in street urchin T. J., and a lover in former hooker Elaine. Hired by the brother of a mentally handicapped vet accused of the murder of attorney Glenn Holtzmann, Scudder finds that the victim was both less and more than he appeared to be. Much to his surprise--because he loves Elaine--Scudder becomes involved with Holtzmann's widow. The resolution of the case is a logical surprise that will leave readers contemplating an indifferent universe.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volume set. Matching gold cloth boards with titles in gold on spine, in bright dust jackets. Transcribed and with Introduction by Lilian M.C. Randall. B&w illustrations of the sculptures, paintings, drawings and etchings that Lucas dealt with while in Europe. Double-column English text. Provides an extraordinary archive for historians and dealers. Provides a hugely empirical database for prices paid and commissions issued to artists, dealers, and craftsmen. George A. Lucas's acquaintances include Daumier, Cassatt, Whistler and Barye, among many, many others. Volume Two is given over wholly to Lucas's daily diary, which ran for an extraordinary length of time. Volume 1: xv [2], 3-148 pages.; Volume 2: iv [ii], 3-965 pages. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Toronto, Ontario, McClelland & Stewart, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket ($22.95 flap price). True first edition, Canadian. A dystopian novel set in a future totalitarian America run by religious fundamentalists, where fertile women are enslaved as breeders to the country's leaders, brought her international acclaim and financial success, winning the Governor General's Award, the Los Angeles Times Prize, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction and the Commonwealth Literary Prize, and being shortlisted for the Booker Prize (UK) and the Ritz-Paris-Hemingway Prize (Paris). The work was made into a film in 1990, an acclaimed opera by the Royal Danish Opera Society in 2000, and recently was adapted for television. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st US, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 242 pages. Gray cloth cover with minor bumping to corners and edges. Residue from small sticker on front flyleaf. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. A series of short stories based around the Nazi regime during it's tenure in Germany and Europe.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk Co., 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, orange cloth with black stamping, in a worn and tape-repaired dust jacket. 62 pages with color illustrations by Bess Goe Willis. Several early pages with mild chipping, wear to fore-edge, name on inside front cover.
Softcover. NY, Stone Street Press, 1st , 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, green paper wrappers with illustrated label on front. SIGNED BY MCCORMICK on (C) page Lino cut Illustrations, calligraphy & translation by McCormick. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Giles , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with a color illustration label, 64 pages. Marking the 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt van Rijn, this fourth volume in the Frick Diptych series offers fresh insight into one of the artist's most romantic and enigmatic portraits-The Polish Rider. This painting has been on view at The Frick Collection since the museum opened to the public in December 1935, and has inspired countless theories about its subject, meaning and history. An illuminating essay by Xavier F. Salomon, the Frick's Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, addresses the many questions of provenance, attribution, and historical and artistic context. In a creative, vibrant piece, New York based author and illustrator Maira Kalman, captures the elusive nature of the painting; an imaginary musing about Rembrandt, being Polish, a traveller, and her enduring fascination with the Frick. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. NY, A. S. Barnes & Co., reprint, 1854, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt decoration to cover, 437 pages, frontis. engraving of author. The first part contains two manuscripts that were sermons or addresses that the Rev. Walter Colton use when preaching in behalf of seamen. The author writes about: The Ocean in its Grandeur and Sublimity; The Sailor's Chivalric Devotion to Woman; Humanity of the Sailor; Navy Chaplains; Genoa and the Genoese; City of Pisa; We are Robbed of our Cigars; etc. The second part contains his writings about travel to France and Italy. Also includes his poetry, editorials, aphorisms, etc. Includes a memoir of the Rev. Walter Colton by Rev. Cheever. Light chip, wear to spine. Circulating library sticker on inside front cover otherwise clean. Covers with minor edgewear. Title page states 1854, copyright page is 1851.
Hardcover. NY, Crown, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, color illustrations by Sylvie Wickstrom. A young boy overcomes his fear of the squeaky noise his door makes when his grandmother closes it each night before he goes to sleep. Library edition. NOT ex-lb, a squeaky clean copy.
Softcover. The New Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 364 pages. Collects the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian's remarkable conversations with some of the greatest luminaries of film and theater. Originally published under the title The Spectator, this "knowledgeable and perceptive" (Library Journal) look at show business presents the actors directors, playwrights, dancers, lyricists, and others who created the dramatic works of the twentieth century. Among the many highlights in these pages, Buster Keaton explains the wonders of unscripted silent comedy, Federico Fellini reflects on honesty in art, Carol Channing reveals that she is far more serious than she lets on, and Marlon Brando turns the tables and wants to interview Terkel. We learn about crucial artistic decisions in the lives of Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and Edward Albee and hear from a range of film directors, from Vittorio De Sica and King Vidor to Satyajit Ray. We even get to witness Terkel playing straight man to a wildly inventive Zero Mostel. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Clean, tight copy with only light edge wear to covers. Autographed copy sticker on front dj. Marcus Clay and Dimitri Karras return from the acclaimed thriller, King Suckerman, as they square off against drug lords and racists on the crime-ridden streets of the nation's capital in the midst of the 1980s.