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Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by the Dillons. SIGNED BY THE DILLONS on title page.This gorgeous picture book by Newbery Honor winner Patricia C. McKissack and two-time Caldecott Medal-winning husband-and-wife team Leo and Diane Dillon is sure to become a treasured keepsake for African American families. Set in West Africa, this a lyrical story-in-verse is about a young black boy who is kidnapped and sold into slavery, and his father who is left behind to mourn the loss of his son. Here's a beautiful, powerful, truly unforgettable story about family, memory, and freedom.

Softcover. NY, Theo. Audel & Company, 1st, 1896, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft maroon leather lettered in gilt, aeg, 541 pages. Illustrated in-text with electrical machines and tools. Addressed not to "the experimenter or to the toy-maker, nor to the scholar in school or college, but to those who have to deal with Electricity as a part of their life work," this volume seeks to provide an introduction to the theory and scientific discourse concerning electricity. Author Nehemiah Hawkins (1833-1928) was an American inventor, publisher, and author who sometimes wrote under the pen name Theodore Audel or the pseudonym William Rogers. Minor shelf wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1893, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 121 pages. Illustrated with numerous drawings and photographs by the author. All edges gilt. Original full dark blue cloth binding. Front board decorated in gold with a design of a overshot water wheel. Exceptional condition, bright and clean.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Clean, toght copy with only light edge wear to dut jacket and cover boards.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 4th pr., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VIII in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 435 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, Dust jacket flaps pasted on front endpapers otherwise clean, tight copy.

hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1909, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Red cloth hardcover with gilt lettering, 424 pages. 98 Black & white and 25 color illustrations by Joseph Pennell. Color illustrated frontispiece with tissue-guard. Light edgewear to covers. Rear and front hinge cracked.

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 176 pages. Adrian Tomine's illustrations and comics have been appearing for more than a decade in the pages (and on the cover) of The New Yorker. Instantly recognizable for their deceptively simple and evocative style, these images have garnered the attention of The New Yorker's readership and the approbation of such venerable institutions as the Art Directors Club and American Illustration.New York Drawings is a loving homage to the city that Tomine, a West Coast transplant, has called home for the past seven years. This lavish, beautifully designed volume collects every cover, comic, and illustration that he has produced for The New Yorker to date, along with an assortment of other rare and uncollected illustrations and sketches inspired by the city. Complete with notes and annotations by the author, New York Drawings will also feature a new introductory comic focusing on Tomine's experiences as a New York illustrator.

Newport RI, Redwood Library and Athenaeum, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. No. 65 of 500 copies SIGNED BY AUTHOR on a tipped in subscriber page. 510 pages, illustrated in color and black & white throughout; original blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Ribbon marker. Enclosed in a blue cloth slipcase with a pictorial label. All clean, very good plus.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 330 pages with index. At the close of the nineteenth century, new printing and paper technologies fueled an expansion of the newspaper business and publishers were soon reeling off as many copies as Americans could be convinced to buy. Newspapers quickly saturated the United States, especially its cities, which were often home to more than a dozen daily papers apiece. Using New York, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, and Chicago as case studies, Julia Guarneri shows how city dailies became active agents in creating metropolitan spaces and distinctive urban cultures. Newsprint Metropolis offers a vivid tour of these papers, from the front to the back pages. Paying attention to much-loved features, including comic strips, sports pages, advice columns, and Sunday magazines, she tells the linked histories of newspapers and the cities they served. Themed sections for women, businessmen, sports fans, and suburbanites illustrated entire ways of life built around consumer products. Guarneri also argues that while papers provided a guide to individual upward mobility, they also fostered a climate of civic concern and responsibility. Charity campaigns and metropolitan sections painted portraits of distinctive, cohesive urban communities. Real estate sections and classified ads boosted the profile of the suburbs, expanding metropolitan areas while maintaining cities' roles as economic and information hubs. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1941`, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 277 pages. Black & white drawings by Armstrong Sperry. Bright dust jacket with closed tears to top and bottom edges, spine edgewear.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black with gilt title on front and spine. No date on title page but states Twenty-First Edition. 416 pages. An early printing of the second Uncle Remus book, illustrated with frontispiece and 19 plates by Frederick Church. While working for the Atlanta Constitution in 1876, Harris "invented Uncle Remus" He published Uncle Remus pieces regularly in the Constitution, and they were extremely popular. In 1880 he collected them into his first book. Remus was a composite of three elderly slaves he had known, the stories themselves were his retellings of old African American tales. He rigorously researched his material, often collecting several versions of the same story until he felt he had the most authentic one. Hinges cracked, but generally a bright, clean copy of this title.

Hardcover. Boston, Gambit, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 194 pages. A collection of David Levine's political cartoons, which were selected and introduced by John Kenneth Galbraith, a companion to Pens and Needles, another volume of literary caricatures by John Updike. It covers the American political scene in detail from Joseph McCarthy to Nixon, along with drawings of Lyndon Johnson, and Hubert Humphrey. Illustrated in black and white and indexed.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, lovely color plates by Pamela Paparone. INSCRIBED BY LINDBERGH on the half-title page. Born a century ago, Bessie Coleman worked in the cotton fields and dreamed of flying. As a young African-American woman in the 1920s, her chances of leaning to fly were slim. But Bessie never let her dream die and instead became the first licensed African-American aviator in the world. Written by the daughter of aviator Charles Lindbergh. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Bill Hodges Gallery, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Profusely illustrated with color plates and figures. Accompanied a 2009 gallery exhibition; Includes an artist chronology and list of exhibitions; One of 2000 copies in this edition. Clean copy.

Softcover. Newport RI, The American Civilization Foundation, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 350 pages, color plates throughout. A collection of paintings from The National Museum of American Illustration featuring prominent artists of the the period. Many worked for the Saturday Evening Post: Stevan Dohanos, John Clymer, John Falter, George Hughes, Mead Schaeffer and others. Samples of their original paintings and a short profile on each. Like new.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Dust jacket missing half-dollar sized chunk at top of spine with additional small chunks and chips missing along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 209 pages, fine fold over card covers. Color throughout. This volume exhibits a remarkable collection of select original works spanning six decades, providing a comprehensive look at his career and including all of his vintage Saturday Evening Post covers. This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition by the same title, on view at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, England. SIGNED LETTER FROM EDITORS laid in as well as related ephemera, articles.

Softcover. NY, American Youth Hostels, 2nd Ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, stapled binding. An illustrated guide to great bicycle touring in the 1960s. Maps, diagrams of routes throughout the states. Small name stamp on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Softcover. New York, Crown Publishers, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Color illustrated softcover, 120 full color plates. Very light wear to cover; overall a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Secaucus NJ, Chartwell Books, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 255 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Folio. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2nd printing, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 348 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Overall, a tight clean copy. "In this original and authoritative work, Vance argues that the railroad in North America is a distinct indigenous creation and not an importation from Britain and Europe. His combined familiarity with railroading, routes and cities, facilities, and North American geography is unsurpassed and the result is quite unlike anything in the historical or specialist literature."--Donald Meinig, Syracuse University"No previous book has presented the over-all picture of the development of the North American railroad network with Vance's emphasis on the reciprocal relationships among the economic and technological conditions on the one hand and the geographic aspects of development on the other. The scope of the presentation is virtually encyclopedic -- and there is no doubt that the book will quickly become a standard reference on the subject." -- Harold M. Mayer, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Softcover. NY, Plume/New American Library, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 470 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Film historian and critic, Leonard Maltin's extensively researched book about the world of animated cartoons. Illustrated with drawings, photographs, and color posters. With studio filmographies, Academy Award nominees and winners, glossary of animation terms, source listings, and index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, War Department, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, Large folio volume (17x12 inches) in pebbled red embossed cloth with gilt lettering, modest wear at the extremities with bottom corners bumped. Marbled edges, 584 pages. Hundreds of woodcut illustrations with no stains or flaws. Massive work which reproduces hundreds of black and white engravings of the Civil War. The illustrations originally appeared in Leslie's Magazine during the war. Narrative and descriptions by John Clark Ridpath, Rossiter Johnson, General Fitzhugh Lee, General John T. Morgan, George L. Kilmer, General Joseph B. Carr. No makings. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.