Hardcover. Joliet IL, P.F. Volland Company, reprint, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. This delightful storybook tells about Little Big Bye-and-Bye who really REALLY wants a pony! His father told him he can have one when he is bigger, which seems marvelous at first - until he realizes he's not very big yet. Story and illustrations are by Holling Clancy Holling, who wrote and illustrated many wonderful Indian books such as "Claws of the Thunderbird", "Paddle-to-the-Sea", "Tree in the Trail" and others. The Hollings lived among Native Americans for a time, and their books have been praised for their authenticity. Boards lightly worn/soiled, mild thumbing, wrinkling to pages. Colors bright.

Softcover. Bennington VT, Bennington College, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in green stapled wrappers. No. 628 of 1,000 numbered copies. Published in the Bennington Chapbooks in Literature series & in memory of William Trot. A speech delivered by Malamud at Bennington College as Lecture Seven in the Belitt Lectureship Series, October 30th, 1984. Introduction by Nicholas Delbanco. Illustrated with 3 full-page black & white photos of Malamud. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Da Capo Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 276 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1971, as US forces hastened their withdrawal from Vietnam, a helicopter was hit by enemy fire over Laos & exploded in a fireball, killing four top combat photographers: Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Henri Huet of AP, Kent Potter of UPInternational, and Keisaburo Shimamoto of Newsweek. The remoteness of the crash site made a recovery attempt impossible. A story of four combat photographers who died in indochina--and the two journalists who kept their memory alive. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 217 pages. White cloth stamped with maroon lettering. This is a very good copy of the First American edition of this extraordinary oversize folio volume that reproduces Duchamp's handwritten notes and drawings in facsimile in the original French with English translations. The acetate dust jacket is not present. Mild fraying to top of spine, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Tokyo/NY, Kodansha USA, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover with a dust jacket, 152 pages. Highlights over 130 outstanding examples from the vast holdings of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Strikingly original and sumptuously colored, the ukiyo-e in these pages recapture the spirit of the period in which they were created. Here can be found the glamorous courtesans of the Yoshiwara pleasure quarters, the flamboyant vigor of kabuki theater, and the diversities of the Japanese landscape. Clean copy

Softcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 3rd Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 229 pages, illustrated with 210 photographs, drawings, and plans; bibliography. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1951, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unclipped with $3.00 on flap. The history of the Mississippi River Valley is told through the adventures of Minn, a snapping turtle, as she travels hundreds of miles downstream. As with all Holling books, it is lushly illustrated, containing many full-page color paintings, text pages that are also illustrated with black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings, and with explanatory captions in the margins. First published in Date: 1951, it received the Newbery Honor award the following year. Small ownership sticker to front fly leaf, otherwise clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, William Helburn, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with silver stamping. Folio, 9 1/4 X 13 1/2". 80 plates printed on one side only, most in color. No date given but appears to be late 20s/1930. With architect Albert Kahn's ownership signature in pencil on front fly leaf. Covers with edgewear but interior is clean and bright. Bookplate on inside front cover. Scarce. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, The Bronx Museum of the Arts , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong softcover. 66 pages with 21 illustrations, commentary on 56 works. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran July 30 through September 25, 1983. Essays by Philip Verre and Julie Saul. Includes numerous illustrations. A very good copy in lightly worn wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 598 pages, b&w and color illustrations. In 1827 the young Edward Lear (1812-1888) began to draw 'for bread and cheese'; later he became a renowned wildlife and landscape artist and, later still, the author of the famous limericks and songs. Reproducing many of his paintings and drawings, Jenny Uglow's critically acclaimed biography describes Lear the artist, traveler, writer of nonsense verse and self-appointed exile, and aims to discover 'how the layers are laid down, how they overlap and twist like strata' in a strange contradictory life of art and nonsense. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 128 pages. INSCRIBED BY BOTH EDITORS on the front endpapers. Contributors include Dziga Vertov ('The Factory of Facts and Other Writings'), Alfred H. Barr, Jr. ('Russian Diary 1927-28', along with Jere Abbott, John E. Bowlt, and Elizabeth Jones), A. V. Lunacharsky ('Gogol-Meyerhold's "The Inspector-General"'), Paul Schmidt (on Meyerhold), Margit Rowell (on Vladimir Tatlin), and Michelson. Related ephemera laid in.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a plain tanned dust jacket with just the title and author printed on spine. Navy blue cloth with gilt stamping on spine. 214 pages, many b&w diagrams including one fold-out. A lauded scholar of art history and theory as well as a prominent art collector, Denman Waldo Ross earned his bachelors and Ph.D. at Harvard where he served as a lecturer on art and design. Copyright page states 1912, no date on title page so probably an early reprint. Light pencil notations to blank pages in rear, owner's name on front fly leaf. Otherwise a bright copy.

Hardcover. Nieuwkoop , B. de Graaf, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth covers with gilt lettering, 159 pages with b&w diagrams and illustrations. Subjects include: The base of perspective illussions, third dimension, euclid, anamorphoses, the concave surface of the retina, Schickhardt's problem, eccentric positions of the observer's eye, rotations of the eyeball, visual size, pleudo-perspective, axial construction, rebirth of central perspective, Leon Battista Alberti, Paolo Uccello, the oblique position, Piero della Francesca etc.

Softcover. Washington DC, University Press of America, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. Albany, State University of New York Press , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 317 pages. Phenomenology in a Pluralistic Context contains papers selected from three years of meetings of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP). The essays are representative of the most current thinking among North American philosophers who have been influenced by the phenomenological movement. A majority of the selections reveals a considerable mutual influence between phenomenology and other philosophical currents. Special emphasis is given to issues in social and political theory; the philosophy of medicine, of art, of language, and of religion; phenomenology's relationship to Kantianism and to Marxism; and the figures of Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, and Heidegger. Clean copy.

Softcover. Newton MA, Stanley Motor Carriage Company, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages with stapled gray paper covers. B&w drawings/detailed diagrams of various parts, lists of parts with specs for the various models: running gear and mud guards, valves, boiler fittings, engine parts, etc. Includes prices circa 1910. Covers with soil, interior clean with mild wear.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in black cloth with a color paste-down on the front cover. Color illustrated title page. Nine additional full page color illustrations plus endpapers art in 2-colors by C. Bosseron Chambers. The gilt lettering on spine has faded. Interior clean, no dust jacket. Mild spotting to rear cover.

Softcover. London, Omnibus Press, Revised Ed., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 270 pages. Compiled by Solomon, Howard Pizzey and Martin Watson. Gives you instant answers to thousands of questions. Listed alphabetically by artists, is every top 50 entry, date of entry, number of weeks in chart, highest position reached, original label and catalogue number, plus details of any corresponding success in the U.S.charts. Clean.

NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A young New York illustrator leaves behind a promising career and returns to her hometown in the Florida panhandle to help the great-aunt who raised her resolve a puzzling series of events suddenly plaguing their decaying family home. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Zurich, Verlag fur Architektur], 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, lightly soiled dust jacket with a chunk missing from the rear panel. 180 pages. Text in German, French and English, illustrated in black and white throughout. History of Robert Maillart bridges. Previous owner's signature on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog. Introduction by John J. McKendry and texts by Robert Motherwell and Diane Kelder. Slim small quarto. Illustrated in black and white. Spine a bit tanned and wrappers with minor soil. The exhibition was held October 24 - December 3, 1972 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Softcover. Zurich, Galerie Andre Emmerich, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, small format, 24 pages, 9 color plates and b&w photo of Motherwell. Mild crease to rear cover, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth, 143 pages, color frontis., b&w plates. A pioneering exhibition, with essay and catalogue by James Thrall Soby and Dorothy C. Miller. The exhibition checklist cites 213 works by 121 artists, and nearly all are names you would recognize. More than 100 pieces are pictured here. One of 7500 copies. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Fischer Fine Art Limited, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Small format softcover, 40 pages illustrated in b&w and color, one fold-out color plate. Clean copy.