Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 143 pages. The Danish photojournalist travels to Nicaragua to flush out the legacy of that country's revolution and subsequent return to capitalism, focusing on teenage girls who prostitute themselves to escape the streets. Long rip to rear panel of dust jacket, including two-inch chunk missing from top edge, though dust jacket still makes very neat presentation in mylar covering, slight rubbing to dust jacket, clean boards, pages crisp and unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Prestel, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 345 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Discover how the designers of women's sporting attire navigated the worlds of fashion, function, and propriety, from the beginning of the 19th century to 1960. This book offers a stunning visual record of the evolution of women's sporting attire over nearly two centuries. With selections from Keds, Pendleton, and Spalding and garments by Coco Chanel, Claire McCardell, and Jean Patou, among many others, it features familiar names in fashion, as well as significant rediscoveries. At the intersection of the history of fashion and feminism, Sporting Fashion highlights the extraordinary impact of new technologies and evolving social mores on women's clothing for sport. It explores how the basic forms of women's sportswear we know today--from swimsuits to sneakers--were developed during a time when women were achieving more freedom. Full color illustrations of sport and leisure ensembles are included, along with magazine spreads and archival images. This very heavy book will require extra postage if shipped overseas.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 64 pages, color designs by Al Nagy. SIGNED BY O'NEILL on front fly leaf. Stamp and name to rear endpapers, but no other sign of being ex-lib copy.

Hardcover. Boston, W.A. Wilde Co., 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with paste-down illustration and black lettering on cover. The story follows the adventures of a young man named Jack Hampton, who dreams of becoming a pilot and joining the United States Army Air Service during World War I. Despite facing many challenges, including a disapproving father and a rival for the affections of a young woman, Jack perseveres and eventually earns his wings. Once in the air, Jack proves himself to be a skilled and daring pilot, participating in a number of dangerous missions against the German enemy. Front hinge partially cracked, light shelf wear.

Softcover. London/NY, Verso Books, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 226 pages, b&w illustrations. Unravels the appalling mass of lies, hypocrisy and betrayals that have surrounded accounts of the 1961 assassination of Patrice Lumumba-the first prime minister of the Republic of Congo and a pioneer of African unity-since it perpetration. Making use of a huge array of official sources as well as personal testimony from many of those in the Congo at the time, Ludo De Witte reveals a network of complicity ranging from the Belgian government to the CIA. Patrice Lumumba's personal strength and his quest for African unity emerges in stark contrast with one of the murkiest episodes in twentieth-century politics.

Softcover. Syracuse NY, Gustav Stickley, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, approx. 200 pages, b&w illustrations, ads. Gustav Stickley showed his designs and ideas through his magazine The Craftsman. Published monthly between Oct 1901 and Dec 1916, The Craftsman was "the bible" of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the United States, which emphasized spare design, hand-crafting, and the importance of the individual craftsman. This issue features his article "Ornament: Its Use and Its Abuse". Also articles on The Development of the Public Library, The Future of Ceramics in America, Old Pewter Plate, The Modern House Beautiful, others. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Shelton CT, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 176 pages. SIGNED BY DOOLITTLE on the half-title page. Nicely illustrated with Doolittle's signature artwork, including black-and-white pencil sketches overlaid with detailed color paintings. At the end of the novel there is a fold-out poster illustration. This book will have the most appeal to those interested in Doolittle's dramatic illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in marbled boards with a green cloth spine, 304 pages, 9 1/4 by 12 inches. Ex-lib of Harvard University with bookplate on inside front cover, light stamping. "Reprinted from the Memoirs of the California academy of sciences, vol. IV." 225 pages of text and charts followed by 33 exquisite b&w plates of fish. Sound attractive copy despite scratches, edgewear to cover boards. This book is more for an ichthyologist than a fisherman. Very technical. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st transl. thus, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 113 pages. In this superbly imaginative collection of quasi-stories by the award-winning author of Indian Nocturne, the reader meets a flying creature of ambiguous species in a priest's vegetable garden, and a revolutionary who is told her incredible future by Mademoiselle Lenormand, a fortune teller from the shadow world. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 472 pages. A very neat, tight, clean copy. Hailed as a literary masterpiece, Robertson Davies' The Cornish Trilogy comes to a brilliant conclusion in the bestselling Lyre of Orpheus. There is an important decision to be made. The Cornish Foundation is thriving under the directorship of Arthur Cornish when Arthur and his beguiling wife, Maria Theotoky, decide to undertake a project worthy of Francis Cornish -- connoisseur, collector, and notable eccentric -- whose vast fortune endows the Foundation. The grumpy, grimy, extraordinarily talented music student Hulda Schnakenburg is commissioned to complete E. T .A. Hoffmann's unfinished opera Arthur of Britain, or The Magnanimous Cuckold; and the scholarly priest Simon Darcourt finds himself charged with writing the libretto.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 199 pages illustrated in color. This book provides a new way of thinking about eighteenth-century French art and visual culture by prioritizing production over reception. Abandoning the ideologically driven discourse that distinguished fine from decorative art between the 1690s and 1770s, The Mobile Image reveals how the two have been inextricably bound from the earliest stages of artistic instruction through the daily life of painters' workshops. In this study, author David Pullins defines artisanal and artistic means of learning, seeing, and making through a system of "mobile images": motifs that were effectively engineered for mobility and designed never to be definitive, always awaiting replication and circulation. He examines the careers of Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and Francois Boucher, situating them against a much broader cast of actors--such as printmakers, publishers, anonymous studio assistants, and architects, among others--to place eighteenth-century painting within a wider context of media and making. clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Albany NY, Mount Ida Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, B&w photos and plans; 11" - 13" tall; 160 pages. Traces the history of Roosevelt?s long-forgotten retreat near Hyde Park? from the president?'s original drawings for the modest, two-bedroom cottage to its recent preservation by the Open Space Institute, the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute and the National Park Service. Examines Top Cottage as a symbol of Roosevelt?s love of the Hudson Valley and as one of the country?s first barrier-free buildings. Top Cottage joins Thomas Jefferson?s Monticello and Poplar Forest as the only homes designed by a U. S. President while in office. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 304 pages, illustrated in color. Russian avant-garde books made between 1910 and 1934 reflect a vivid and tumultuous period in that nation's history that had ramifications for art, society, and politics. The early books, with their variously sized pages of coarse paper, illustrations entwined with printed, hand-written, and stamped texts, and provocative covers, were intended to shock academic conventions and bourgeois sensibilities. After the 1917 Revolution, books appeared with optimistic designs and photomontage meant to reach the masses and symbolize a rational, machine-led future. Later books showcased modern Soviet architecture and industry in the service of the government's agenda. Major artists adopted the book format during these two decades. They include Natalia Goncharova, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, the Stenberg brothers, Varvara Stepanova, and others. These artists often collaborated with poets, who created their own transrational language to accompany the imaginative illustrations. Three major artistic movements, Futurism, Suprematism, and Constructivism, that developed during this period in painting and sculpture also found their echo in the book format. The more than 600 color illustrations are accompanied by incisive essays, a bibliography, and a checklist of the 1,200 items in the full collection. Expect additional shipping charges especially if sent overseas.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 477 pages. The Scent of Buenos Aires is the first collection of Uhart's to be published in English, drawing together her best vignettes of quotidian life, stories that sneak up on you. Refreshingly approachable, they are punctuated by street talk and saturated with a cryptic wit that recalls Lydia Davis. Uhart renders moments at the zoo, the hair salon, or a homeowners association meeting with delightfully eccentric insight. These stories cast an unusual, intimate light on the inner lives of plants, animals, and humans, magnifying the minute, everyday quirks of Argentina's small towns: a cat curls around his owner to humor him, a classroom of children sway like trees when their teacher turns her back. Smiling to herself, Uhart reveals the infinite ways we show ourselves to one another. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Ward,Lock & Co Limited, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages, 24 color plates by Harry G. Theaker. No date. The Sunshine Series. Green cloth spine, illustrated cardboard covers. Hinges cracked, edge and corner wear to covers, internally very good.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 pages illustrated in 2 colors by Most. Anthony, a little boy discovers an "ape" behind the drape. The ape leads Anthony on a merry chase as it hides behind a cape, behind a newspaper, behind some grapes, and even on top of a skyscraper. At the end of the book Anthony almost catches the ape... but the ape escapes. Library binding (NOT ex-library), Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 512 pages. The novels of Thomas Hardy have a permanent place on every booklover's shelf, yet little is known about the interior life of the man who wrote them. A believer and an unbeliever, a socialist and a snob, an unhappy husband and a desolate widower, Hardy challenged the sexual and religious conventions of his time in his novels and then abandoned fiction to reestablish himself as a great twentieth-century lyric poet. In this acclaimed new biography, Claire Tomalin, one of today's preeminent literary biographers, investigates this beloved writer and reveals a figure as rich and complex as his tremendous legacy. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Funk and Wagnalls , 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in green and black, 464 pages, b&w illustrations by Will Crawford. A version of Samuel Warren's 1839 novel, Ten Thousand a Year, which has been abridged by American author, Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861 - 1920). Warren (1807 - 1877), was a British barrister, novelist and MP with an in-depth knowledge of British common law and the original novel was based on a famous forgery case from the 1830s, where a claim was made to a vacant earldom using fake documents. Rear hinge cracked, shelf wear, name stamp on inside front cover.

Hardcover. Chicago, Frederick J. Drake and Co., 1902, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 164 pages plus publisher's ads. 86 illustrations, frontis portrait of author. Only date is the copyright year 1902. Features detailed explanations and diagrams of numerous feats with coins-most prominent among them the author's world-famous original creation, "The Miser's Dream," a much-imitated act climaxing in the production of a shower of half-dollars. In this complete manual of the art of conjuring with coins, Downs shares his secrets for scores of "fakes" and sleights, including passing a coin through the bottom of a hat, the money-producing cigarette, the mysterious claret glass, the crystal coin ladder, the obedient coins, and many more. He also offers a wealth of suggestions for stage "business" involving handkerchiefs, goblets, hats and other props, as well as helpful tips on presentation, patter and other techniques. Overall fair, fragile condition with some chipping to cloth on front cover.

Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Stephen Daye Press, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, 247 pages, b&w illustrations. Folklore, history and spelunking information about the caves that lie underneath the New England area. SIGNED BY PERRY on the front fly leaf above a previous owner's inscription. Also a b&w photo and related ephemera laid in. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Rochester MI, Grand Army Press, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering, 204 pages plus 50 page appendix. A History of Company F, First United States Sharp Shooters. A limited printing (#119 of 750), a facsimile from the 1883 edition. The 1st United States Sharpshooters were an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. During battle, the mission of the sharpshooter was to kill important enemy targets, i.e., officers, NCOs, and artillery crews from long range.

Hardcover. NY, Skira, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages. A splendid monograph on an unconventional photographer who developed a unique and deeply personal vision of the world surrounding him. Walter Chappell (1925-2000) is considered one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century American photography. His thinking and vision of the world were closely connected with the intimistic, spiritual explorations undertaken between the 1950s and the 1970s by artists like Minor White and Paul Caponigro. While Chappell photographed various subjects, his inner eye was stimulated in particular by the form of the human body and landscapes as well as the combination of both, through which he endeavored to perceive the creative flow, the energy that runs through and connects all things. Produced to accompany the first major European retrospective of Walter Chappell's work, this catalog presents over 130 photographs, all originals, as well as the unfinished and previously unpublished album World of Flesh, which the photographer intended as the primary publication on his work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 80 pages in color. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Lourie skillfully describes the delicate three-way relationship that exists among the Inupiat of Alaska, the bowhead whales, and the scientists who are there to collect data and study the animals. The Inupiat have hunted bowheads for thousands of years and their very existence depends upon the harvesting of the leviathans. The scientists are there to determine whether the whaling done by these communities is sustainable and not decimating the bowhead population. Using a day-in-the-life format, Lourie follows one particular scientist, John Craighead George, as he goes about collecting the necessary data. The biologist is careful not to disturb the integrity of the harvest and, in fact, works closely with the Inupiat to do what he needs to do. Interwoven throughout this daylong saga are historical information, scientific facts, and cultural tradition. Crisp color photographs on every page provide a lush complement to the engaging, informative text. Young readers will come away with a stronger appreciation of the bowhead whales, the people who both hunt and respect them, and the scientists who straddle the traditional and modern worlds to gather important information. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st transl. thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 109 pages. Dedicated to Duras' companion with whom she spent her last decade of life, Yann Andrea Steiner is a haunting dance between two parallel stories of love and solitude: the love between Duras and the young Yann Andrea and a seaside romance observed - or imagined - by the narrator between a camp counselor and an orphaned camper, a Holocaust survivor who witnessed his sister's murder at the hands of a German soldier. Memory blurs into desire as the summer of 1980 flows into 1944. An enigmatic elegy of history, creation, and raw emotion. Clean copy.