art history

Hardcover. Wheat Ridge CO, Hoflin Publishing, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright red cloth covers with gilt rules and lettering, color pastedown on front. 552 pages, 970 b&w illustrations. A wealth of information on every aspect of the German Shepherd Dog. Many contributors on a variety of topics: history, breeding, behavior and care. Front cover art with light rubbing, name and address on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 139 pages. How does a poet repeatedly make art over a lifetime out of an arbitrary assignment of fate? By asking this question of the work of four American poets--two men of the postwar generation, two young women writing today--Helen Vendler suggests a fruitful way of looking at a poet's career and a new way of understanding poetic strategies as both mastery of forms and forms of mastery. Fate hands every poet certain unavoidable "givens." Of the poets Vendler studies, Robert Lowell sprang from a family famous in American and especially New England history; John Berryman found himself an alcoholic manic-depressive; Rita Dove was born black; Jorie Graham grew up trilingual, with three words for every object. In Vendler's readings, we see how these poets return again and again to the problems set out by their givens, and how each invents complex ways, both thematic and formal, of making poetry out of fate. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The Glory Game recreates in breathtaking detail the 1958 National Football League Championship Game between the New York Giants and the Baltimore Colts, which many football fans feel was "The Greatest Game Ever Played." This first-hand, field level, "behind-the-helmet" account by ex-Giant Hall of Famer and longtime "Monday Night Football" broadcaster Frank Gifford brings back to life all the sights and sounds of the momentous contest that changed football forever, and offers vivid, indelible portraits of the legendary players--including Sam Huff, Andy Robustelli, Art Donovan, Lenny Moore, and Raymond Berry. The Giants-Colts clash of '58 was truly The Glory Game--and now readers can relive it in all its glory. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 536 pages, 1117 illustrations, 74 in color. Translated from the Dutch & edited by Elizabeth Willems-Treeman. The chapter headings are: iconoclasm & revolt 1566-1588; the artist's social position; the patrons; theories of art; realism & symbolism; different genres; the development of painting in the early 17th century; painting in Haarlem, Leiden, Amsterdam, the Northern Quarter, Utrecht, Delft, The Hague etc 1625-1650; The Republic in the third quarter of the 17th Century; painting in Haarlem, Leiden, Amsterdam, the Northen Quarter, Utrecht, Delft, The Hague etc 1650-1680. Name on half-titile page, otherwise clean. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. New York, Brooklyn Museum, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages, b&w and color photography. Very light edge wear, else a very clean, tight copy. Wonderful book on the great Brooklyn Bridge. Includes much historical material, chapters on the design of the bridge with several beautiful fold-outs, and many full color repros. of the many paintings and artwork that have been inspired by the beauty of one of the wonders of the modern world. Even includes a small filmog. of films that have used the Bridge as a background or a major location/set. Published on the 100th anniversary of the opening of the bridge and an exhibition celebrating it, held at The Brooklyn Museum.

Hardcover. Millbrae CA, Celestial Arts, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, oblong format in a bright dust jacket. 168 pages, map frontis. Period photographs throughout primarily from the San Francisco Public Library collection, as well as the Bancroft Library and Presidio Army Museum collections among others. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 296 pages, b&w illustrations. This is the first full scholarly study of the Great Wall of China to appear in any language, and it challenges many deeply held ideas about Chinese history. Drawing both on primary sources and on the latest archaeology, the book first demonstrates that the standard account of the Great Wall is untrue and misleading and then presents a convincing new account. It begins by tracing the various walls and systems of frontier defences that existed in early Chinese history, and shows how the greatest of these achieved a mythical symbolic stature which long survived the Wall itself. A striking concluding chapter traces how the true history of the Wall was lost in the early twentieth century as it was gradually transformed into a Chinese national symbol explained through historical myth. The book is an important contribution to the history of China's defensive policy, and her ideological attitudes, and will be of interest both to students of Chinese history and of international relations in the pre-modern world. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale /Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages. Chen Changfen (b. 1941) began to photograph the Great Wall twenty years before the Chinese government officially adopted it as the national symbol in 1984. This fascinating book presents a small fraction of his decades-long study of the monumental form and conveys the fertile range of themes and ideas that Chen has investigated, each informed by traditional Chinese art, history, and philosophy. Combining a unique blend of traditional and contemporary technical processes, Chen's richly evocative photographs at once celebrate the remarkable series of building campaigns that produced the Wall and memorialize the thousands of conscripted laborers whose lives were sacrificed to its construction.One of the most striking features of Chen's photographs is their unexpected variety of perspectives and moods, capturing the vicissitudes of weather, time, and human history that have acted upon it. By excluding the people, highways, factories, and modern buildings that encroach on and daily destroy sections of the Wall, however, Chen eliminates major aspects of the Wall's present reality from his pictures. In a thoughtful essay and interview with the artist, Anne Wilkes Tucker probes the meanings of such omissions and guides the reader through Chen's extraordinary images. The Great Wall of China is essential reading for photographers, historians, and travelers.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st pbk, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow wrappers, 258 pages. Examines the unique religious brotherhoods of Morocco, tracing their origins to two saints from the late 17th and early 18th centuries, Sidi Ali ben Hamdush and Sidi Ahmed Dghughi. Known for their dramatic and sometimes controversial rituals, such as trance dances and acts of self-mutilation, the Hamadsha are healers who address spiritual and psychogenic ailments through symbolic and therapeutic practices. Their activities, deeply rooted in the Moroccan cult of saints, reflect a complex interplay of Islamic mysticism, local traditions, and social dynamics. Through these rituals, the Hamadsha incorporate patients into their brotherhoods, providing them with new roles and a symbolic framework to articulate and resolve personal and societal tensions. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, historical analysis, and psychoanalytic perspectives, this study explores the Hamadsha's history, their organizational structure, and their relationship with Moroccan culture and religion. It examines the saints' tombs as focal points of veneration, the social dynamics of the brotherhoods, and their therapeutic methods, including pilgrimages and trance dances. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st thus, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers, 250 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Gilt title on spine. Chapters include: The heritage of Apelles; Light, form, and texture in fifteenth-century painting north and south of the Alps; The form of movement in water and air; The grotesque heads; The earliest description of the Triptych; 'As it was in the days of Noe'; From the revival of letters to the reform of the arts: Niccolo Niccoli and Filippo Brunelleschi; The leaven of criticism in Renaissance art: texts and episodes; The pride of Apelles: Vives, Durer and Bruegel. No dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with fading to spine, 289 pages, b&w illustrations. Turner's work on the frontier and on sectional development helped transform the teaching and writing of American history. Here are 150+ letters excerpted or given in full (to Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Schlesinger, Carl Becker, Merle Curti and others.

Hardcover. Taschen, 2nd pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Huge oversized hardcover, 16x11", 596 pages. The full, fascinating story of this fabled company, written and designed by EC-expert Grant Geissman. Even the most die-hard EC Fan-Addicts will find something new within these pages, with the Gaines family archives providing over 100 rarities that have never seen print. Cover images are reproduced from Gaines file copies. 1,000 illustrations include the rarest and most notorious covers, interior pages and panels, rare photos, vintage original artwork, and some of the most celebrated stories ever to be printed in four colors. Author Grant Geissman was a customer in Bud Plant's San Jose comic book store in 1968-69, long before he became a recording star and EC expert. Grant has written several books on EC and, in my mind, is the foremost authority on both Mad and EC. He generously did a special bookplate for us, which reproduces a "fantasy" cover for Incredible Science Fiction that he commissioned from Angelo Torres. It's in full color and signed by Grant.

Hardcover. NY, Creative Age Press, 2nd pr., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 368 pages, red cloth, black border and gilt title on upper cover. Black label with gilt title on spine. Second printing copy of this detailed look at FDR's New Deal. Jacket art by C.B. Falls. Some tape repair to dj, name on inside front cover hidden by dj flap. Otherwise a clean copy,

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 151 pages illustrated in b&w. Iowa Central Railway supporters fought for a north-south route across the state that would link Minneapolis and St. Paul and St. Louis. This is the history from station records, reports, newspaper articles, and interviews of "The Hook & Eye", which brought both the industrial and human sides of railroading into sharp and memorable view. Clean copy.

Softcover. St. Cloud MN, North Star Press Of St. Cloud, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages, b&w illustrations. The Hooked X is a secret symbol first found on an inscribed slab of rock, dated 1362, unearthed by a farmer in Minnesota in 1898. This mysterious symbol inspired the author to pursue a nine-year investigation on both sides of the Atlantic that led to the discovery of other artifacts and clandestine documents indicative of secret trips to North America long before Columbus. The trail of evidence led to a deep plunge into the shadowy areas of Freemasonry and the Knights Templar that most brethren of these orders are unaware of. This incredible true story reveals untold secrets of North America that weave from medieval times through today, forever changing history as we know it. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Athens, Greek Ministry of Culture, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 183 pages. Richly illustrated catalog for an exhibition in Washington on art from the Geometric, Orientalizing and Archaic periods. With a preface by Melina Mercouri. The chapters are: life in early Greece; the alphabet of history; the art of the Greek dark ages; geometric art; chart of vase shapes; vase painting; terracottas; bronzes; sculpture in stone. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrinkwrap. A deep dive into the history of the illustrated book jacket, tracing its development across the twentieth century, reflecting some of the most iconic designs of the era.

Hardcover. New York, Madison Square Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 355 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. SIGNED BY AUTHORS on half title page. Over 700 illustrations by 460 artists. Early masters such as Howard Pyle, Charles Dana Gibson, A. B. Frost.followed by Frederic Remington, Howard Chandler Christy, Maxfield Parrish, James Montgomery Flagg, John Held, Jr. , Norman Rockwell, Stevan Dohanos, Albert Dorne and more contemporarily, by Bernard Fuchs, Austin Briggs, Mark English, Bob Peak, Brad Holland and Milton Glaser. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Charlottesville, VA, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 185 pages. Black cloth cover with silhouette of Jefferson's head embossed to front and gilt lettering to spine, b&w illustrated dust jacket, 60 b&w figures, 8 b&w plates. Light wear to dust jacket; otherwise a very tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. Boca Raton FL, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy boards, 312 pages, color illustrations. This introductory text teaches students and practitioners how to combine neurological history and physical examination so they can localize pathologies within the nervous system and determine appropriate treatment. It provides a wealth of illustrations that emphasize the functioning nervous system, in addition to an invaluable DVD for further exploration and access to a state-of-the-art web-site with additional materials that are updated periodically. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 268 pages. After having a breakdown in the midst of working on a photo-essay on Pittsburgh in 1957, legendary photographer W. Eugene Smith holed up in a loft in New York's Chelsea, in the Tin Pan Alley area. There, over the next several years, he became deeply embroiled in the New York City jazz scene, opening his home as a practice and performance space for some of the great artists of mid-century jazz, including Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims and many others. Of course, he took pictures--both of musicians and of a window-size view of mid-century New York--and also wired the place for recording, logging hours and hours of tape, capturing the music and the talk around it. These photos and tapes had been thought lost--the stuff of rumor, buried in Smith's archive--until Stephenson dug them out and culled the best, along with transcriptions of material from the tapes, for this landmark book. Smith's stunning use of contrast makes figures like Monk seem dramatic and completely ordinary at the same time. The photos of the city offer a rare glimpse into a neighborhood being itself when it thought no one was watching. This will be an essential book for jazz fans, photography lovers and those interested in the history of New York.

Hardcover. NY, Super Genius, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 180 pages. Everyone knows Superman, but not everyone knows the story of two youngsters from Cleveland who created Superman. Based on archival material and original sources, "Truth, Justice, and the American Way: The Joe Shuster Story" tells the story of the friendship between writer Jerry Siegel and illustrator Joe Shuster, and puts it into the wider context of the American comicbook industry. Told in graphic novel format in color.

Hardcover. NY/Oxford UK, Berghahn Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 232 pages, pictorial boards. Milena Jesenska, born in Prague in 1896, is most famous as one of Franz Kafka's great loves. Although their relationship lasted only a short time, it won the attention of the literary world with the 1952 publication of Kafka's letters to Milena. Her own letters did not survive. Later biographies showed her as a fascinating personality in her own right. In the Czech Republic, she is remembered as one of the most prominent journalists of the interwar period and as a brave one: in 1939 she was arrested for her work in the resistance after the German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia, and died in Ravensbruck concentration camp in 1944. It is estimated that Jesenska wrote well over 1,000 articles but only a handful have been translated into English. In this book her own writings provide a new perspective on her personality, as well as the changes in Central Europe between the two world wars as these were perceived by a woman of letters. The articles in this volume cover a wide range of topics, including her perceptions of Kafka, her understanding of social and cultural changes during this period, the threat of Nazism, and the plight of the Jews in the 1930s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Ontario CA, Hanover Square Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Uncovers the life and work of Milicent Patrick--one of Disney's first female animators and the only woman in history to create one of Hollywood's classic movie monsters As a teenager, Mallory O'Meara was thrilled to discover that one of her favorite movies, Creature from the Black Lagoon , featured a monster designed by a woman, Milicent Patrick. But for someone who should have been hailed as a pioneer in the genre, there was little information available. For, as O'Meara soon discovered, Patrick's contribution had been claimed by a jealous male colleague, her career had been cut short and she soon after had disappeared from film history. No one even knew if she was still alive. As a young woman working in the horror film industry, O'Meara set out to right the wrong, and in the process discovered the full, fascinating story of an ambitious, artistic woman ahead of her time. Patrick's contribution to special effects proved to be just the latest chapter in a remarkable, unconventional life, from her youth growing up in the shadow of Hearst Castle, to her career as one of Disney's first female animators. And at last, O'Meara discovered what really had happened to Patrick after The Creature's success, and where she went. A true-life detective story and a celebration of a forgotten feminist trailblazer, Mallory O'Meara's The Lady from the Black Lagoon establishes Patrick in her rightful place in film history while calling out a Hollywood culture where little has changed since.