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Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1968, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, ex-library copy with residue to endpapers, stamping to copyright page, spine sticker. 155 pages, illustrated with color and sepia tone plates. Documents the years when John Russell Bartlett (1805-1886)was commissioner of the Mexican Boundary Survey of 1850. A very nice collection of images drawn by a better than average hand. They depict the scenes witnessed by Bartlett along with a biographical text recounting the artist and his travels.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Baseball, the sport that helped reunify the country in the years after the Civil War, remains the National Pastime. The Library of Congress houses the world's largest baseball collection, documenting the history of the game and providing a unique look at America since the late 1700s. Now Baseball Americana presents the best of the best from that treasure trove. From baseball's biggest stars to street urchins, from its most newsworthy stories to sandlot and Little League games, the book examines baseball's hardscrabble origins, rich cultural heritage, and uniquely American character. The more than 350 fabulous illustrations--many never before published--featured first-generation, vintage photographic and chromolithographic baseball cards; photographs of famous players and ballparks; and newspaper clippings, cartoons, New Deal photographs, and baseball advertisements.

Hardcover. Lexington, KY, University Press of Kentucky, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 286 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Unfortunate musty smell, else in flawless condition.

Softcover. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1st, 1914, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 355 pages. Illustrated by Charles M. Russell. Spine faded and ripped, cardboard showing, back cover faded. Foxing on edges. Ex-library copy with all usual stamping. Previous owner's inscription.

Cambridge, MA, Candlewick Press, 1st U.S., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, unpaginated, color illustrations by P. J. Lynch, DVD "Making Fairy Tales" inside front cover, very clean, tight copy, like new. Brought to new life with enchanting illustrations by award-winning artist P. J. Lynch, this comic American folktale concludes with a final, satisfying twist that says much about fate, identity, and the captivating power of bees.

Hardcover. New Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 177 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Price clipped dust jacket with wear along edges - now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy. Report on the men and women who lived in the South and created work songs, spirituals, blues, and jazz.

Hardcover. New York , Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 579 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket, many BW illus. The third book in a triology, prefaced by The Parade's Gone By ... (1968) and The War, the West and the Wilderness (1979). Offers a full and illustrated "exploration of a vital and now almost forgotten chapter of American moviemaking: the response of early producers and directors to the agonizing social problems of the decades before World War I. ... An essential work of silent-film history, certain to become a standard reference." Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. US, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. The paintings, murals, and graphics of Ben Shahn (1898-1969) have made him one of the most heralded American artists of the twentieth century, but during the 1930s he was also among the nation's premier photographers. Much of his photographic work was sponsored by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration, where his colleagues included Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans.Ben Shahn's American Scene: Photographs, 1938 presents one hundred superb photographs from his most ambitious FSA project, a survey of small-town life in the Depression. John Raeburn's accompanying text illuminates the thematic and formal significance of individual photographs and reveals how, taken together, they address key cultural and political issues of the years leading up to World War II. Shahn's photographs highlight conflicts between traditional values and the newer ones introduced by modernity as represented by the movies, chain stores, and the tantalizing allure of consumer goods, and they are particularly rich in observation about the changes brought about by Americans' universal reliance on the automobile. They also explore the small town's standing as the nation's symbol of democratic community and expose the discriminatory social and racial practices that subverted this ideal in 1930s America.

Softcover. US, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. The paintings, murals, and graphics of Ben Shahn (1898-1969) have made him one of the most heralded American artists of the twentieth century, but during the 1930s he was also among the nation's premier photographers. Much of his photographic work was sponsored by the New Deal's Farm Security Administration, where his colleagues included Dorothea Lange and Walker Evans.Ben Shahn's American Scene: Photographs, 1938 presents one hundred superb photographs from his most ambitious FSA project, a survey of small-town life in the Depression. John Raeburn's accompanying text illuminates the thematic and formal significance of individual photographs and reveals how, taken together, they address key cultural and political issues of the years leading up to World War II. Shahn's photographs highlight conflicts between traditional values and the newer ones introduced by modernity as represented by the movies, chain stores, and the tantalizing allure of consumer goods, and they are particularly rich in observation about the changes brought about by Americans' universal reliance on the automobile. They also explore the small town's standing as the nation's symbol of democratic community and expose the discriminatory social and racial practices that subverted this ideal in 1930s America.

Hardcover. Santa Fe, New MExico, Santa Fe East Gallery, 1st, 1981, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 96 pages, illustrated in color and black & white with Ben Shahn works of art; historical black & white photographs of New York City scenes; chronology. Textured, cream-colored cloth with titling in dark gray on the spine & front cover; onionskin-type paper dust jacket with titling in black on spine, and Shahn design on the front panel. Still in original shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. New York, Vanguard Press, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrated frontispiece. Some age wear to covers. Bound in gray fabric. Previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper. Deckled edges. Some age yellowing to pages and edges. In good condition for its age.

Softcover. Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, 1st, 1989, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 119 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Blue pictorial stiff wrappers. Lovely copy. Like new.

Softcover. Washington , Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. 202 pages, illustrated throughout with 148 plates in b&w. White pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to covers, small tear to upper edge of spine, else a very nice, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, N.Y., Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 63 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson , 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan boards with a color photo label. 144 pages illustrated in color. Bernard Plossu has been called "the most American of French photographers" by his friend and colleague Lewis Baltz. Although he is best known for his work in black and white, often capturing a bohemian world of free-spirited adventure, Plossu has also shot in color throughout his career.This book showcases 88 bold and cinematic color photographs, many of which are previously unpublished, dating from the 1970s and early 80s, when Plossu was resident in the US. Strikingly rendered using the Fresson carbon printing process, these images depict an unmistakably American landscape of motels and rodeos, deserts and highways; a realm that is both rugged and dreamlike, haunted by the mythic imagery of the Old West. They combine to form a memorable and atmospheric collection of work by a supremely talented photographer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 4th printing, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 327 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to illustrated boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 4th printing, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 327 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to illustrated boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 360 pages. Hardcover. Extensive b&w and color illustrations throughout. Includes extensive bibliography. Very slight edge wear, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, E P Dutton & Co., 1st US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with pictorial boards, Illustrated in color by Derrick Sayer. First American edition. Delightfully witty and utterly absorbing tales about Nichols' three cats, Four, Five, and Oscar. No dust jacket, Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, E P Dutton & Co., 1st US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket with matching pictorial boards, Illustrated in color by Derrick Sayer. First American edition. Delightfully witty and utterly absorbing tales about Nichols' three cats, Four, Five, and Oscar. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Phoenix, AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. 181pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Gray pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else like enw.

Hardcover. Washington, D. C., National Geographic, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. INSCRIBED BY DIANA WALKER ON TITLE PAGE. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs by Diana Walker. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Norton, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages. A self-described "desert rat" who rocketed to fame at the age of twenty-two, Bill Mauldin used flashing black brush lines and sardonic captions to capture the world of the American combat soldier in World War II. His cartoon dogfaces, Willie and Joe, appeared in Stars and Stripes and hundreds of newspapers back home, bearing grim witness to life in the foxhole. We've never viewed war in the same way since. This lushly illustrated biography draws on private papers, correspondence, and thousands of original drawings to render a full portrait of a complex and quintessentially American genius.92 illustrations

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages. The definitive biography of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation. "The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week, Mauldin defied army censors, German artillery, and Patton's pledge to "throw his ass in jail" to deliver his wildly popular cartoon, "Up Front," to the pages of Stars and Stripes. "Up Front" featured the wise-cracking Willie and Joe, whose stooped shoulders, mud-soaked uniforms, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect bore eloquent witness to the world of combat and the men who lived-and died-in it. This taut, lushly illustrated biography-the first of two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Bill Mauldin-is illustrated with more than ninety classic Mauldin cartoons and rare photographs. It traces the improbable career and tumultuous private life of a charismatic genius who rose to fame on his motto: "If it's big, hit it."