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Hardcover. NY, Schwartz & Wade, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Illustrated in color by Chuck Groenink. This simple nonfiction picture book about the beloved American poet William Carlos Williams is also about how being mindful can result in the creation of a great poem like 'The Red Wheelbarrow'--which is only sixteen words long. In this lovely picture book, young listeners will see how paying attention to the simplest everyday things can inspire the greatest art, as they learn about a great American poet.

Softcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in a cardboard slipcase. A large-scale publication dedicated to the 1950s as captured in the pages of American Vogue. This book is illustrated by fashion's greatest photographs of that period-the era when the magazine became the cultural force it is today. One of only seven editors in chief in American Vogue's history, Jessica Daves has remained one of fashion's most enigmatic figures. Diana Vreeland's direct predecessor in the role, it is Daves who first catapulted the magazine into modernity. A testament to a changing America on every level, Daves's Vogue was the first to embrace a "high/low" blend of fashion in its pages and to introduce world-renowned artists, literary greats, and cultural icons into every issue, offering the reader a complete vision of how design, interiors, architecture, entertaining, art, literature, and culture all connected and contributed to refining and defining taste and personal style. Daves profiled icons of American style, from John and Jackie Kennedy to Charles and Ray Eames, alongside Dior, Chanel, Givenchy, and Balenciaga creations. Organized in multifaceted, thematic chapters, 1950s in Vogue features carefully curated photographs, illustrations, and page spreads from the Vogue archives (with iconic images as well as lesser-known wonders), and unpublished photographs and letters from Jessica Daves's personal archives. Clean, bright copy. Slipcase with minor wear, line in bottom edge. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 436 pages, hardcover in publisher's original deep navy cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. Folio 12 1/2 '' x 10 1/4 ''. Contains 436 printed pages of text with 350 color and approximately 550 monochrome illustrations throughout. Illustrator Raeburn Van Buren's copy with his ownership signature on the half-title page dated February 24, 1978. His illustrations featured on several pages. Foreward by Norman Rockwell, notes on the artists, bibliography. Dust jacket bright with minor shelf wear.

Hardcover. Portland, Paul E. Merrill, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 166 pages plus additional 28 page pamphlet laid-in. Hardcover. Both hardcover and pamphlet illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Both book and pamphlet have musty odor. Dust jacket with wear and tape repaired tears along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with half the spine missing, Blue cloth with silver and black eagle on cover and silver and black lettering. Black lettering on spine. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated in b&w and 3-colors by Charles Child. Biographical rhyming verse: Columbus to Woodrow Wilson, some generic categories. Name on page opposite half-title, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 240 pages. This stylish book re-creates the charmed life of two American expatriates in France at the turn of the 20th century-the noted artist Walter Gay and his wife, Matilda, whose glittering social circle included John Singer Sargent, Edith Wharton, Henry James, and many other artists and aristocrats. Narrated by witty excerpts from Matilda Gay's recently discovered journal, and richly illustrated with Walter Gay's remarkable, sought-after paintings of the rooms in which they and their friends lived, in Paris, Fontainebleau, Venice, and elsewhere, A Charmed Couple offers an intimate glimpse of a long-gone social milieu whose hold on the popular imagination continues to this day. WILLIAM RIEDER is a curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Author of numerous articles, most on European furniture, in such journals as Architectural Digest, Connoisseur, and Antiques, he lives in New York City. 128 illustrations, 55 in full color, 81/2 x 101/2".

Hardcover. Chicago, Monarch Book Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 166 pages. Sixteen color plates by Louis Betts. Yellow cloth cover with title and illustration on front. Spine very slightly darkened. Private library sticker on inner front cover, no other markings. First published by Herbert Stone in 1900, this edition undated but appears to be soon after as quality color plates appear to be from that printing. Clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in dark green with gilt lettering, 431 pages plus publisher's ads. Color frontis and 7 b&w plates by Irma Deremeaux. Name on front endpaper, otherwise clean. Henry Augustus Shute (1856-1943) was an American lawyer, judge and writer, who was best known for his humorous stories of small-town New England life, particularly his series of Plupy books inspired by his boyhood in Exeter, New Hampshire.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray-green cloth with gilt. silver and black decoration to front board and spine. 238 pages profusely illustrated in b&w by various illustrators. Endpapers feature a map of the Island of Guernsey with the author's previous books opposite. Susan Coolidge is the pen name of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835-1905) American author of children's books. Previous owner's name on blank prelim page, hinge cracked at front, binding a little shaken. Lettering on spine faded.

Hardcover. Hartford CT, J. Seymour Brown, reprint, 1842, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a worn leather binding, spine stamped in gilt with title and decorations fairly bright. 654 pages with 60 engravings. Front fly leaf missing so book opens to title page. History of the US from Columbus through the beginning of the Harrison/Tyler administration (including the death of Harrison). Marbled edge pages. Endpapers tanning, interior clean with minor foxing, binding tight.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2006, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Large heavy monograph illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket and boards. "I don't have two lives," Annie Leibovitz writes in the Introduction to this collection of her work from 1990--2005. "This is one life, and the personal pictures and the assignment work are all part of it." Portraits of well-known figures-Johnny Cash, Nicole Kidman, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Keith Richards, Michael Jordan, Joan Didion, R2-D2, Patti Smith, Nelson Mandela, Jack Nicholson, William Burroughs, George W. Bush with members of his Cabinet-appear alongside pictures of Leibovitz's family and friends, reportage from the siege of Sarajevo in the early Nineties, and landscapes made even more indelible through Leibovitz's discerning eye. The images form a narrative rich in contrasts and continuities: The photographer has a long relationship that ends with illness and death. She chronicles the celebrations and heartbreaks of her large and robust family. She has children of her own. All the while she is working, and the public work resonates with the themes of her life.

Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Ronald Himler. This picture-book biography focuses mainly on the War of 1812, but also mentions Madison's contributions to the Constitution and the creation of the three branches of government. Although this is a biography of the couple, there is more specific information on James Madison than on Dolley. Still, readers do learn some interesting facts about her, such as how she rescued a portrait of George Washington while the Executive Mansion burned. Adler's writing is clear yet not oversimplified, and is without fictionalization.

Softcover. NY, Noonday Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, full color as well as B&W illustrations. Detailed overview of American Black movies from 1915 to 1965. Introduction by Donald Bogle. Foreword by Spike Lee. A collection of movie posters featuring black actors, with brief comments on each plus a brief history of the black cinema. Pages are bright and clean (no writing, underlining, or highlighting). Binding is tight with no cracks or breaks.

Hardcover. Kent OH, Kent State Univ Pr, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Zoar, Ohio, a German-Christian utopian community founded in 1817, encouraged tourism and "gawkers." This has left a rich photographic record of the community, which includes tourists's photos and Zoarite-produced postcards. Fernandez uses many previously unpublished photos, captioned with the words of journalists, diarists, and other visitors.

Hardcover. NY, The Truth Seeker Company, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in black and gilt. Morgan Andrew Robertson [1861-1915] was an American author and the self-proclaimed inventor of the periscope. This title is apparently his rare first book- a narrative poem about heaven versus the devil. B&w frontis and great text illustrations by A. Carey K. Jurist. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, D Appleton Century Company, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 234 pages. Illustrated end pages, front cover and spine slightly soiled.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J B Lippincott Company, 1st US, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A Romantic Narrative of the Loss of Captain Grant of the Brig Britannia and of the Adventures of the Children and Friends in his Discovery and Rescue. Hardcover. First American edition (and first edition in English). 620 pages. with pictorial title and illustrated with 170 engravings by Riou . Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's full brick cloth, spine and front stamped in gilt and black, beveled edges. This was Verne's fifth book, originally published in French in 1867 as Les Enfants du Captain Grant. Previous owner's discreet signature on half-title page dated November 1874. Otherwise clean and bright.

Hardcover. Chicago, The Lakeside Press, 1st, 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt, 137 pages. Tight, attractive copy of this early "Lakeside Classic," the annual keepsake presented by this printer/publisher to friends and clients starting in 1903. Illustrated with two portraits of the author. So many pioneer stories were written at the request of a child or grandchild. What makes Christiana Tillson's humorous memoir different was her background. Tillson's story records the reactions produced upon a refined New England woman by an environment at once predominantly southern and wholly frontier. Her youth in 1822 and her parting from all that she had known in the East were common of many later Western migrants. But when she and her husband went out to try their fortunes, the "West" was what we today call the Midwest. It was still a wild, dangerous, and uncertain place to try to make a future. Clean, bright copy.

New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dustjacket. Color illustrations by Ted Lewin. Unpaginated. Skinny as a beanpole and tall for his age, an awkward young boy learns that Abraham Lincoln was called "gorilla, baboob, backwards hick." Yet along with big feet and big hands, Lincoln had a big heart and the great ability to keep a nation together. And what the boy learns as he studies Lincoln opens his mind to great possibilities for his own future.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust with light chipping. Many black-and-white illustrations throughout by Sloane, from old books to farm implements all listed and drawn alphabetically. 64 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 32 pages illustrated by author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Color illustrations. When a school girl gets separated from her tour of the White House, and finds herself in the Lincoln bedroom, she also discovers the ghost of the great man himself. Illustrations by Lane Smith. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition.