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Hardcover. Lyons Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 142 pages illustrated in color. For many children of the sixties, the gift of a Schwinn was a ticket to freedom, a chance to feel the wind on their face and the steady rotation of rubber at their feet. The Schwinn took many through their childhood adventures, with memories filled of after school, free-range bike rides around the neighborhood with friends, the late afternoon sun shining off of the gleaming painted frame and stainless steel fenders. The 1960s and 70s saw a boom of Schwinn Sting-Rays, which appealed to young riders who had to have the hottest 'muscle' bike in town, and sold like hotcakes to parents everywhere scrambling to get the best Christmas present ever for their kids. From its early years dominating the youth market with Sting-Rays to the teen-friendly Varsity and Continental models to its most recent parent-friendly iterations of the Easy-Steer and Roadster Trikes, the Schwinn weaves itself through 120 years of American history. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, oblong format, color illustrations throughout. "Combining pictures, words, and a wealth of personal ephemera, scrapbook makers preserve on the pages of their books a moment, a day, or a lifetime. This illustrated book focus on the history of American scrapbooks - their origins, their makers, their diverse forms, the reasons for their popularity, and their place in American cultural life." Examines the evolution of scrapbooks from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present, concentrating on the first half of the twentieth century. She includes color photographs from more than two hundred scrapbooks, some made by private individuals and others by the famous, including Zelda Fitzgerald, Lillian Hellman, Anne Sexton, Hilda Doolittle, and Carl Van Vechten.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Studio, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. SIGNED BY BASKIN on the front fly leaf. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket, a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Studio, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light edgewear, rubbing and scratching to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Gardiner ME, Tilbury House, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 366 pages. Illustrated with vintage photographs throughout. A history of the final decades of American square-rigged sail. First-hand accounts of voyages made by three well-born young men from Massachusetts; two were sons of whaling families and a third sailed the Pacific. Original brown cloth publisher's covers with silver spine lettering. Published in conjunction with Martha's Vineyard Historical Society and the New Bedford Whaling Museum. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Oliver & Boyd, 1st UK, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 232 pages, illustrated in b&w by Robert Hales, translated by Evelyn Ramsden. Astrid Lindgren (1907-2002) was a Swedish children's book author and the author of the Pippi Longstocking series. Seacrow Island was published in Sweden in 1964. This volume from 1968 is the stated first English edition by Oliver & Boyd Ltd., London, published before the Viking American edition (Copyright page is at the back of the book). Light yellow cloth binding with illustration of a boy holding a dog on front board and printing on spine. Dust jacket with light edgewear, price-clipped. Binding is tight, square, clean and bright.

Softcover. Chicago, American School], reprint, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, brown wrappers with black type, 126 pages. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, The text pages are clean and bright. Included are four folded schematics which are clean and untorn. The rear cover gas some light water stains, but not affecting the inside contents. Previous pwner's name on title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 272 pages. Color illustrations throughout, very clean and tight copy. American adman and image-maker George Lois (b. 1931) was a leader of the Creative Revolution of the 1960s and is the mind behind an astonishing array of branding campaigns and unforgettable magazine covers during his fifty-year career. Illustrated with the original ads and images, $ellebrity presents the stories behind the ads, explaining how each ad was conceived and produced, and the unexpected pitfalls, scuffles, and friendships that ensued.

Hardcover. Springfield, MA, Pond Ekberg, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Limited edition. #219/500 copies SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Blue cloth spine. blue paper boards, gilt titles. No dust jacket. Light wear around edges and spine, front cover slightly sunned with tape mark from old price-sticker. Bookplate. A nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. More than 500 illustrations with 67 in full color. Here are countless examples of fabled but long-unseen American Sherlockian art: story illustrations, comic strips and cartoons, motion picture advertisements, and business advertisements incorporating the Holmes image. Stories are included also - hilarious American burlesques of Arthur Conan Doyle's Great Detective; and there are critics' reviews of old and new Holmes stage productions and of the many Holmes films. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, David Mckay, 2nd, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Profusely illustrated in b&w by author. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Depicts early sailing vessels such as Egyptian reed boats, Viking longships, Chinese junks, and American frigates.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, New York / South Street Seaport Museum, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated throughout in full color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 156 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Related bulletin from the California Historical Quarterly laid-in. Front endpaper and top edge stamped by 'American Seamen's Friend Society'.

Hardcover. Cologne GR, Taschen, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 245 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. An extensive collection of hand-illustrated shop window designs from 1938 to 1950. These spectacular, often grandiose plans for grocery stores, shoe shops, beauty salons, bakeries, and more are reminders of a time when stores were sacred shrines for the congregation of American shoppers - impressive and even slightly intimidating, just like the future itself.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume IX in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 413 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with light fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, John Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Starkly beautiful photos of abandoned and converted movie theaters with new essays by Peter Bogdanovich, Molly Haskell, Andrew Sarris, and Chester H. Liebs. The single-screen movie theaters that punctuated small-town America's main streets and city neighborhoods since the 1920s are all but gone. The well-dressed throng of moviegoers has vanished; the facades are boarded. In Silent Screens, photographer Michael Putnam captures these once prominent cinemas in decline and transformation. His photographs of abandoned movie houses and forlorn marquees are an elegy to this disappearing cultural icon.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Books/ Doubleday Doran , 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, 245 pages. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and b&w drawings by Carl Moon. Soiling and spotting to edges. Spine darkened. Red top edge. Corners bumped.

Hardcover. New York, Harper Collins, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Non-paginated. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR WENDELL MINOR ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Features SKELETON HAND September/October 1952 to July/August 1953 Issues 1-6 and also CLUTCHING HAND July/August 1954 Issue 1.

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. self-published, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt rules and a drawing of a fern on front cover, "WH" with dates on spine. 253 pages, an exceptionally bright copy with no markings and a like-new binding, appearance. 1st Ed., portraits, maps, plates. Howes H-500. Privately printed for friends. Hinchman was with Palmer on the 1867 surveying expedition to find the best route for a railroad to California thru Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. A most interesting account, various Indian troubles including the attack of the Apaches in Sycamore Canyon Arizona. Much on ranching, Indians including Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Sioux, Comanche, Crow, Blackfoot, and Kiowa. Profusley illustrated with drawings and nature studies by Hinchman, many in color. Very scarce item.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 171 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. In 2006, Janet Hamlin went to Guantanamo as a courtroom sketch artist to serve as a visual witness to the courtroom proceedings and provide worldwide media with artwork drawn during them. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with short repaired tear, 155 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Skippy was a comic strip drawn by Percy Crosby-considered by many to be one of the classics of the American newspaper strip. This excellent book contains a biography of Crosby as well as a generous selection from Skippy. Introduction by Jules Feiffer. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, The New Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 403 pages. Edited by Ira Berlin, the Bancroft Prize-winning author of Many Thousands Gone, and Leslie Harris, Slavery in New York brings together twelve new contributions by leading historians of slavery and African American life in New York. Published to accompany a major exhibit at the New York Historical Society, the book demonstrates how slavery shaped the day-to-day experience of New Yorkers, black and white, and how, as a way of doing business, it propelled New York to become the commercial and financial power it is today. Powerfully illustrated with images from the New York Historical Society exhibit, Slavery and the Making of New York will be the definitive account of New York's slave past.