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Hardcover. Columbia, Univeristy of Missouri Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 142 pages. B&W photography and illustrations throughout. pictorial dust jacket, slightly worn at corners and spine. Price clipped. Black boards with silver gilt title to spine. Frontispiece. Overall, a nice, clean copy.

Hardcover. Middlesex UK, Country Life Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 hardcover volumes in slipcase. Volume 1 - 414 pages plus section of black & white "Under-wing Plates". Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. A clean, bright copy. Volume 2 - 500 pages. Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. A clean, bright copy. Both volumes with brown cloth covers, gilt titles and decoration. A set that shows minimal wear to books and slipcase. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Athens, Georgia, The University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 246 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. AN important study of early gravestone carvers in Georgia and South Carolina and the influences of their likes from New England. Black cloth with silver lettering to spine. Gray pictorial dust jacket with minor wear to edges of spine, else like new.

Hardcover. Montipelier, VT, Norbert J. Towne/H.J. Dodge, 1st Edition, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 98 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout including frontispiece and foldout map. Black cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Previous owner's inscribed bookplate on front endpaper and ID stamp on front flyleaf.

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 218 pages. Dust jacket spine slightly sunned, else like new. 21 black & white plates (some folding), and facsimiles. Edited by Nicholas Barker, and published posthumously. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. A major work examining the history and development of early Italian writing books from one of the world"s most noted typographic historians.

Hardcover. London, Farrand Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 374 pages. Black & white illustrations. Minor fading to cover cloth. Clean, tight copy. B&w frontispiece & 282 illustrations. An important study of the wide range of uses to which lithography was put through the 19th century, with chapters on military manuals, music printing, shorthand, facsimiles including the publications of Sir Thomas Phillipps; with a catalogue of 423 examples traced by Professor Twyman. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Praeger, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 117 pages of text followed by black & white plates. Minor age darkening along top edge. Dust jacket worn along edges - now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "A tour de force of black humor, Easeful Death pits a "dead" man against his double-dealing, back-stabbing family and fans in an offbeat, ironic game of subterfuge." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Calla/Dover, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages. These Scandinavian fairy tales have had many interpretations through the years, but never have they been so beautifully illustrated as in this sumptuous edition. Golden Age artist Kay Nielsen, a master of fantasy, lavished the text with 25 intricately detailed color and numerous black-and-white images that glow with his phantasmagorical style. With 15 stories that include the popular "Billy Goat's Gruff," this is one of the most stunning children's books ever produced. A Calla Edition, originally published by George H. Doran Company, New York, 1914.

Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black boards stamped with gilt lettering, brown buckram spine with gilt lettering on spine badly faded. Pastedown illustrated on upper cover a couple on a horse. Endpapers design by Nielsen in black and gold ink. 24 tipped-in color plates by Nielson plus the color frontispiece along with b&w drawings throughout. The binding is fragile and the boards have edge wear and spotting, but the brilliant plates are all present. This volume is a mystery as it does not conform th other books described on various sites with yellow buckram covers with red lettering. No date anywhere.

Softcover. Eastham Tercentenary Committee, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in heavy blue textured wrappers, stamped with gilt titles and design. 184 pages illustrated with black and white photographs, with an introduction by Henry Beston. This copy is in very good condition, tight and unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped in black. 301 pages, b&w photos. SIGNED BY PASTERNAK on the front fly leaf. Pasternak's career as a producer spanned 40 years and he produced more than ninety feature-length films earning him both Oscar and Golden Globe Award nominations. He produced a number of popular films, including Destry Rides Again (1939), The Great Caruso (1951) and musicals with Elvis Presley, Doris Day and Connie Francis. Clean, square copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. West Plains MO, Russ Cochran, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Some of the most beautiful visions of 1950s science fiction from artists Al Feldstein, Wally Wood, Al Williamson, Harvey Kurtzman, Joe Orlando, Jack Kamen & others. From 1952 writer Ray Bradbury's stories were adapted & several are featured here. Other science fiction writers were also sampled without their knowledge. 4 volume slipcased set. Published originally by William M. Gaines (1950-53). Black and white reproductions of the comics with color reproductions of the covers. Books and slipcase clean, very good.

Hardcover. West Plains MO, Russ Cochran, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four volumes in a slipcase, pictorial cloth covers in color. Black and white reproductions of the comics with color reproductions of the covers. Books and slipcase clean, very good.

Softcover. IDW/Idea & Design Works, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, the smaller (8 1/4 X 12") Artisan Edition. Collects more than 140 EC covers by their best and brightest talents. The luminaries included in this elegant tome include: Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, Graham Ingels, Al Williamson, Johnny Craig, Frank Frazetta, Jack Davis, Al Feldstein, and more. Each cover in this collection has been scanned from the original art. While appearing to be in black and white, these images were scanned in COLOR, enabling the reader to see all the subtle nuances that make original art unique. Blue pencil notations, zip-a-tone, Duoshade, whiteoutall of these and more are clearly visible. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Idea & Design Works/ IDW, 1st thus, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers. EC Comics, under the guidance of publisher Bill Gaines, was--according to the editor of this collection--the greatest line of comics ever done. This once-in-a-lifetime Artist's Edition collects more than 140 EC covers by their best and brightest talents. The luminaries included in this gigantic (12 x 8 inches!) tome include-Wally Wood, Harvey Kurtzman, Graham Ingels, Al Williamson, Johnny Craig, Frank Frazetta, Jack Davis, Al Feldstein, and more! Each cover in this collection has been scanned from the original art. While appearing to be in black and white, these images were scanned in COLOR, enabling the reader to see all the subtle nuances that make original art unique. Blue pencil notations, zip-a-tone, Duoshade, whiteout-all of these and more are clearly visible.

Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 47 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, LIKE NEW in publishers shrinkwrap. Ruscha's work comprises five black-and-white Los Angeles landscapes made in 1992 paired with color representations of the same sites as they appeared ten years later and draws attention to how often-overlooked changes in the evolving urban landscape are redolent of economic might and globalization or decline and stagnation.

Softcover. New York, Billboard Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 656 pages. Softcover with no dust jacket. Remainder mark on top edge, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy. Light edgewear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout. Mann, a novelist and author of books on film history, presents this biography of director John Schlesinger (1926-2003), based on interviews with the director and his family following his stroke in 2001, in addition to other primary source documents, articles, and reviews. He describes Schlesinger's childhood; his early days as a documentary director at the BBC; his films during the era of New Hollywood; and Midnight Cowboy, which won an Academy Award. His other films, such as Billy Liar, Darling, Cold Comfort Farm, and The Day of the Locust, are discussed, as well as his accurate depictions of homosexuality, and his personal and professional relationships.

Hardcover. US, VH1 Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color and Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. Edith and Little Bear try to clean up New York City. Illustrated with black and white photos by Wright, endpapers are a panoramic of NYC which includes the Twin Towers. Light musty odor, sun fading to spine edge, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Dare Wright. Previous owners name and address at top right corner of front endpaper. Dust jacket with surface stain at back of doll image, interior tape repairs - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Hingham, MA, Pierce Galleries, 1st, 1980, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 253 pages. b&w illustrations and color plates throughout. Documents Tarbell's journey from being labeled "just a Boston painter" to being one of the most sought-after, outspoken, teachers in the country. Black leatherette, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. In mint condition. Looks brand new.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no publication date listed, circa 1916. Beige front boards with decorations in slate blue and black. Boards are in very nice condition, with only minor wear. Decorative endpapers and text pages are clean. 15 beautiful full color tipped in plates including frontispiece by Edmund Dulac. Previous owner's signature on detached title page. Light wood smoke odor.