Hardcover. NY, Modern Library, 1st thus, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, this is the first edition in the Illustrated Modern Library series, 410 pages with Index of First Lines & About the Artist in rear, blank endpapers. quarter green cloth over boards covered in pastel decorative green paper, with red title box to spine, edged & lettered in bright gilt. Housed in a green cardboard slipcase with a color illustration pasted to the front. Minor wear to corners of slipcase. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 144 pages. B&w drawings throughout by Paul Hogarth. Small ownership stamp to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth with blue lettering, 309 pages. Historical novel set in New Bedford takes up the story of Russell Ashmead, the mildly rebellious middle son of a prosperous New Bedford family, when he is in his late teens, and follows him to the brink of old age. Over the course of the book he assists the escape of a fugitive from enslavement, sails as a foremast hand on a whaling ship, and is witness to fraud, riot, mutiny, and murder. He experiences romance at home and abroad, manages a textile mill, and becomes a shipowner. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Central Point OR, Hellgate Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 246 pages, b&w illustrations. Lost Black Sheep tells two amazing stories. The first chronicles the wartime exploits of Marine Corps Ace Chris Magee, former member of the famous Black Sheep Squadron, his improbable postwar odyssey, and the surprising developments of his later years. The second describes the author's personal quest to find a man who seemed to have dropped off the face of the earth and the startling revelations that follow when he finds him. Clean copy.
Softcover. Manchester VT, Southern Vermont Arts Center, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 66 pages, 14 color and b&w illustrations. A collection of paintings by Italian-American artist Luigi Lucioni (1900-1988). One of his most-known pieces, 'Farewell to the Birches,' appears on the cover. With essays by Stuart P. Embury and Robert L. McGrath. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, 5th pr., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 682 pages with b&w drawings by Francis Lee Jaques including a fabulous color moose illustration on the dust jacket. First published in 1947. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale gray cloth stamped in blue, 217 pages. Blue endpapers, frontis. and 9 b&w illustrations by Armstrong Sperry. A story about the building of Old Ironsides. Name on front fly leaf and half title page. Interior tight and clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth decorated in black and bright gilt. 245 pages with index, many b&w illustrations of plants and insects by Gibson. Bright and clean copy in exceptional condition.
Hardcover. NY, Peter Pauper Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Small hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A lovely little book containing poems and short essays about nature. Beautiful woodcuts in color by Eric Carle. One of the award-winning children's illustrator's early books. small ownership stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 174 pages. Unclipped dust jacket with very minor wear at very edges. A nice copy. The fourth novel by National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Updike features Joey Robinson, an advertising consultant in Manhattan who describes the recent visit he, his second wife and his eleven-year-old stepson made to the Pennsylvania farm where he grew up.
Softcover. Munich , Prestel, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 192 pages. Chronologically arranged, each chapter focuses on a particular work or idea that changed the course of photography. Presented in beautiful spreads and with informative text, the book opens with photography's genesis in the form of the camera obscura. Centuries later, Daguerre, Niepce, and Talbot invented their own means of capturing light on paper. The book covers groundbreaking genres such as still life, landscape, portraiture, and nudes. Sections on the role of photography in journalism illustrate how the camera's presence on battlefields, on city streets, and in factories helped inform and reform the modern world. Fashion, animals, Surrealism, and staged portraits are also explored. Perfect for perusing or reading from cover to cover, this book illustrates how photography developed from a concept to a world-changing force--one that attempted to shed light on truth yet can also obscure and alter reality in dazzling ways. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering. SIGNED BY DEAN on the half-title page. 246 pages, a adventure story featuring pirates by this Vermont author. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Victoria Silvstedt on cover,The Timothy McVeigh Story, Dennis Rodman Interview, Carmen Electra, centerfold Carrie Stevens, George Carlin humor.
Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Baywatch Babes on fold-out cover. This month articles feature: Navy flier shows her stuff, breaks the Playboy barrier; Interview with Paul Reiser; Nascar, history of the sexual revolution, 60 to 69 (make love not war), playmate Anne Randalll and more.
Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Faye Resnick on cover, '3001: The Final Odyssey' by Arthur C. Clarke, Clint Eastwood interview, 20 questions for Michael Jordan, article on Don King, Miss March Jennifer Mariam and more.
Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear to bottom of rear cover 10 pages in rear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Claudia Schiffer on cover. Full of beautiful women as always including supermodels.Highlights: Lynn Thomas as Miss May, Donald Trump Article, Saul Bellow interview, 20 Questions for Lucy Lawless, and more.
Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1989, Book: Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear to bottom edge, rear cover. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Donna Mills on cover, centerfold Renee Tenison. Stories on sex inthe Cinema 1989 pictorial; abortion opinions; Donna Mills Knots Landing; interview with Garry Kasparov; solving the murder of Jimmy Hoffa; confessions of an SOB and more.
Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1997, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Pamela Anderson and Jenny McCarthy on cover,180 pages Features Jenny, playmate of the month Nikki Schieler, "a tribute to blonde ambition"; Christopher Walken interview; NFL preview; Fred Goldman's grand obsession, dream girls Pamela and... Chris Farley's size XXXL mind; 25 hot sex sites online and more.
Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Holiday anniversary issue. Grant Hill interview. Billy Bob Thornton's outrageous ex; Bettie Page's story. Teri Hatcher 20 questions. How smart are you about Seinfeld. Queen of the B's, Shannon Tweed. Shel Silverstein's Street Smart hamlet. playmate review. Centerfold: Heather Kozar.
Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Baywatch babe Marliece Andrada on cover, also as Centerfold Miss March; Kevin Kline interview; swimsuit issue, playboy style; the real boogie nights - life and death of John Holmes and more.
Softcover. Chicago, Playboy Press, 1998, Book: Very Good, Single issue. Soft cover. Very Good. Minor wear. Centerfold intact. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictorial wraps with Lisa Rinna Melrose Place mom on cover & Pregnant Pictorial; sweet life of Ahmad Rashad; smartest women in porn; Patrick Moynihan inteview; Vanessa Gleason Miss September and more.
Hardcover. London, Chatto & Windus, 3rd Ed., 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, faded gilt title on spine, 480 pages. Contains local folklore under various heading such as Giants, fairies, Tregeagle, mermaids, sorcery & witchcraft etc. A few black and white illustrations by George Cruikshank. Previous owner's stamp to front fly leaf. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Twin Palms, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated, black cloth in pictorial dust jacket (with pink belly band dj present and intact). Lavishly illustrated in duotone photographs of female nudes. During the 1920s. a time when the United States was, from all appearances, open to artistic experimentation, a Bay Area photographer named Albert Arthur Allen unwittingly took on the Goliath of nudity and politics. An obscure figure who operated outside the margins of the fine art community, Allen was known to a small coterie of clients who bought boudoir studies, pictures of comely young voluptuaries. (In Europe these photographic etudes were an acknowledged integral part of the academic tradition.) A homespun aesthetician who had a marked propensity for self-invention, Allen produced photographic protfolios that were initially inspired by the naturist movement. Today his images, which are typically perceived as high camp, are more familiar than his name.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. Winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982. INSCRIBED BY UPDIKE on the front fly leaf: " for Dee- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Harry Angstrom and his friend John Updike". Stated First Edition of Updike's most famous book of the four-part Harry Angstrom saga. Clean.