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Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. Black & white photography by Marjorie Content. Marjorie Content, a well-bred, intelligent woman who moved in artistic circles that included Georgia O'Keeffe and Jean Toomer (her last and worst husband), produced a body of sensitive black-and-white photographs in the 1920s and 1930s that were little known then but may reach a wider audience now. Quasha gathers them and a biographical essay in a lovely, pocketable volume that is a pleasure for those weary from hefting usually much heavier photography tomes. The pictures themselves are of familiar, early modernist types: close-ups of calla lilies and other plants, head-only portraits, and city vignettes. Quasha writes, "The photographs will not change our sense of photographic history . . . [but] will add to our understanding of what photography is capable of, especially in the lyric mode." More interesting, perhaps, is that Content exemplifies the kind of woman (more common in the past) who gives of herself to others and doesn't take her own work seriously enough, in spite of which she left behind a few lovely things that photography collections will cherish.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood and Company, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mustard cloth boards stamped on front and spine with a black and gilt design. 288 pages with b&w engraved illustrations. Artists include Frank Merrill, Henry Fenn, A.R. Waud, A.B. Shute, E.H. Garrett. others. All edges gilt. Hinges cracked. Otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st Thus, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Dobbs Ferry NY, Morgan & Morgan, Revised Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan covers with maroon lettering. No dust jacket. 164 pages. A revised edition of the famed photographic dance document. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Updated choreography record and statements by both Martha Graham and Barbara Morgan. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Morgan & Morgan , 2nd Ed., 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Sun fading to dust jacket spine. Black and white images throughout. Tight copy. Facsimile of the 1941 edition with an updated choreographic record. The B/W photographs, taken in 1935 to 1941; capture scenes of Martha Graham and members of her company performing 16 dances choreographed by Ms. Graham.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of color and black and white photographs from the famed Life photographer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Frederick A Stokes, 1st US, 1938, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, green cloth with faded gilt title on spine, 320 pages. Black and white illustrations and a color frontispiece by Isobel and John Morton Sale. Cloth dulled, faded on spine, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Marvel, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 248 pages. Collects Marvel Westerns from the 1960s: Marvel Comics has a long history of producing comics in the western genre, going back as far as the 1940s, before the company was even called Marvel. Some of their most popular gunfighters, like the Rawhide Kid, Two-Gun Kid, and Kid Colt, even hung on well after the superhero explosion of the 1960s, but it's been a long time since Marvel put any effort into its western universe. In this volume they attempt to harken back to their cowboy glory days by publishing a four-issue series called Marvel Westerns, which combines classic 1960s stories by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby with 21st-century interpretations of Marvel's classic western heroes. This hardcover contains the four issues of that series, along with some supplemental material. The Two-Gun Kid, Marvel Westerns: Western Legends, Marvel Westerns: Kid Colt and the Arizona Girl, Marvel Westerns: Strange Westerns Starring the Black Rider. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Ashgate, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt, 263 pages. (Early Modern Englishwoman: a Facsimile Library of Essential Works) Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Softcover. New York , Bouwerie Editions, 1st Ltd. Ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Folded signature laid into gray wrappers with Bouwerie blindstamped on the front wrap. Text and wrappers rubberstamped by William Katz, and contains a color photograph by Katz of "Mary"s Fancy." This copy is designated 47 of 100 and is signed by Creeley. Clean, bright copy in folded brown wrapping paper with a label sticker and the title stamped in black, limitation lettered in blue ink.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Green & black & white illustrations by Richard Egielski. Shows some very minor wear otherwise nice condition. Hardbound, unclipped dust jacket.

New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly chipped dust jacket. 64 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Margot Tomes. A tale of the King's birthday & the marzipan shop on the narrowest lane in England.

New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly chipped dust jacket. 64 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Margot Tomes. A tale of the King's birthday & the marzipan shop on the narrowest lane in England.

Hardcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with magenta gilt lettering on spine, 269 pages, b&w illustrations. Masculine Singular is an original interpretation of French New Wave cinema by one of Frances leading feminist film scholars. While most criticism of the New Wave has concentrated on the filmmakers and their films, Genevive Sellier focuses on the social and cultural turbulence of the cinemas formative years, from 1957 to 1962. The New Wave filmmakers were members of a young generation emerging on the French cultural scene, eager to acquire sexual and economic freedom. Almost all of them were men, and they wrote in the masculine first-person singular, often using male protagonists as stand-ins for themselves. In their films, they explored relations between men and women, and they expressed ambivalence about the new liberated woman. Sellier argues that gender relations and the construction of sexual identities were the primary subject of New Wave cinema.Sellier draws on sociological surveys, box office data, and popular magazines of the period, as well as analyses of specific New Wave films. No dust jacket, Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 108 pages. Black & white illustrations by Arnold Lobel. Dust jacket shows very minor wear and fading.

Hardcover. Boston, D.C. Heath and Company, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange boards with black cloth spine, 115 pages. A comprehensive scholarly examination of the enduring legacy and profound influence of the Roman poet Vergil. Mild edgewear to boards, light name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Scribner, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 338 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, tight copy. A novel about the author Henry James that attracted praise from reviewers nationwide. It's a bold writer indeed who dares to put himself inside the mind of novelist Henry James, but that is what Toibin, highly talented Irish author of The Heather Blazing and The Blackwater Lightship, has ventured here, with a remarkable degree of success. The book is a fictionalized study, based on many biographical materials and family accounts, of the novelist's interior life from the moment in London in 1895 when James's hope to succeed in the theater rather than on the printed page was eclipsed by the towering success of his younger contemporary Oscar Wilde. Thereafter the book ranges seamlessly back and forth over James's life, from his memories of his prominent Brahmin family in the States-including the suicide of his father and the tragic early death of his troubled sister Alice-to his settling in England, in a cherished house of his own choosing in Rye. Along the way it offers hints, no more, of James's troubled sexual identity, including his fascination with a young English manservant, his (apparently platonic) night in bed with Oliver Wendell Holmes and his curious obsession with a dashing Scandinavian sculptor of little talent but huge charisma. Another recurrent motif is James's absorption in the lives of spirited, highly intelligent but unhappy young women who die prematurely, which helped to inform some of his strongest fiction. The subtlety and empathy with which Toibin inhabits James's psyche and captures the fleeting emotional nuances of his world are beyond praise, and even the echoes of the master's style ring true.

New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st illust. thus., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with a pictorial label on front cover.403 pages with color illustrations and numerous pen & ink vignettes by John Rae. Internally and externally very good. Masterman Ready, (1841), was one of the first historical adventures written for young readers. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids, Periodical Publishing Company, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with slipcase. Features 101 black & white plates with design measurements and details. Book clean and tight, with bright gilt titles on cover and spine. Moderately worn slipcase with a deep abrasion confined to bottom right corner of spine - approx. 1".

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 720 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Tulsa OK, Winchester Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 147 pages including an index, bibliography, text and illustrated wtih hundreds of black and white and full color photographs. As stated on the jacket flap this "is the first book ever published on an important new art form...with brief biographical and critical accounts of more than sixty of America's very finest carvers, together with an unprecedented pictorial collection of their sculptures - more than 150 photos and sixteen pages in color." Also laid in are two hand-written letters and two postcards signed by one of the artists featured, Arnold Melbe. Clean, sharp copy.

Hardcover. New York, Ballantine Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white and color pictures throughout. Clean, tight copy. This beautifully printed volume belongs on your Hollywood shelf beside the works of Kobal, Trent & Lawton, Vieira, and anything else on or by George Hurrell. A brief 30-page recap of the history of still photography in the movie industry is followed by 255 pages showing examples of the work of 43 of the most notable stills men (including two women) who snapped the stars, scenes, and environment of the movies during their first 60 years. A brief chronology of the career (as far as it is known) of each photog is included.

Hardcover. New York, Kluwer Academic/Plenum , 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Previous owner's stamp in front fly leaf, otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers. Black and white pictures throughout.