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Hardcover. Chicago, M.A. Donohue & Co., reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 98 pages, color illustrations by Gruelle. Cardboard covers with edge and corner wear, but clean and bright, black cloth spine.

Chicago, M.A. Donahue & Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. Color and b&w illustrations by Gruelle. Light corner wear to covers. Clean copy. First published by Volland in 1925, this is most likely a 1930s reprint.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford U. Press, 1st US, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 85 pages. Black & white and 2-color illustrations by Jones. Soiling to endpapers, covers.

Softcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages, illustrated in color. Celebrating the culture and design of the railroad from its beginnings in the Industrial Revolution through its 20th-century heyday, Railroad is a loving tribute to the unique aesthetic of trains. With hundreds of archival and contemporary photographs, it examines the glamorous early days, when train travel meant sumptuous, luxurious interiors with formal black-tie dining cars and private sleeping-suite cabins, up to the present with the sleek, streamlined design and record-breaking speeds of modern trains around the globe. Touching on every aspect of railroad design, from the interiors and exteriors of the trains, to railroad stations, signage, and trestles and tunnels, Railroad also abounds in such train ephemera as tickets, conductor uniforms, timetables, and advertisements, and is sprinkled with trivia and anecdotes illuminating railroading's colorful history. As both harbinger of modern engineering and nostalgic symbol of an earlier age, the railroad continues to exert a fascination over all those interested in travel, engineering, and design. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Brattleboro, Stephen Greene Press, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, cloth covered boards, 78 pages; black and white illustrations; a fine, clean, tight, unmarked copy in a very good, price clipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Princeton University Press, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with gilt and black title on spine, 353 pages. WITH THE AUTHOR'S INSCRIPTION pasted to front fly leaf. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Book Club Ed., 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black and gilt stamping. 1066 pages. A number-one bestseller when it was first published in 1948, this powerful novel is a compelling vision of nineteenth-century America with timeless resonance. Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life -- from the battles of the Civil War to the politics of the Gilded Age, from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father. This panoramic epic of the nineteenth century in Raintree County--particularly of the Civil War and its effects -- was produced after six years of research, writing, and revision. It continues to command attention and respect as a stylistically unique work of considerable force. Gutter crack at title page, sound, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages, hardcover. Gilt labeling intact on green cloth boards. Mild rubbing to boards, slight cocking to spine. Bumping to corners. Previous owners name stamped on front endpaper. Black-and-white frontispiece intact. A bright and clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , The Macmillan Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. A Story of Boys' and Girls' Life on the Frontier. 297 pages, six full-page black & white illustrations, top edge gilt. Spine faded, Last 10 pages with top edge of paper scuffed, frayed. Beautiful gilt drawing on red cover.

New York, George Routledge, 1st , 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, 172 B&W illustrations. An exceptionally bright, tight copy. Green beveled covers with gilt lettering, all edges gilt. Surprisingly scarce. First American Edition. A significant memoir, published in the year of Caldecott"s death.

Hardcover. New York, NYUP, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 303 pages. Hardcover. 246 black & white illustrations, 6 in color. Light wear to dust jacket at corners, edges. Clean, tight copy. Raphael (The Wrightsman Lectures, Delivered Under the Auspices of the New York University Institute of Fine Arts) [Oct 01, 1979].

Hardcover. London/NY, Hodder And Stoughton, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth with gilt and black stamping, 207 pages. Illustrated with 20 tipped-in color plates. Discover the life and world that shaped Raphael, from a quiet Umbrian town to the heart of Florence. This vividly written study traces how the artist's birthplace and family, the Montefeltro court, and the great patrons of Urbino and Florence formed the talents and vision that define his early masterpieces. It weaves biography with analysis, showing how environment, training, and early works set the path for Raphael's maturation as a painter and his emergence as a master of portraiture, Madonnas, and revolutionary composition. Small name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 257 pages with 126 black and white illustrations. Biographical notes. List of printers. Index of Prints. Frontispiece is an original lithograph created especially for this volume. "The only catalogue of Soyer's prints. Contains 126 separate prints - from his first etched self-portrait to his most recent experiments in advanced lithographic technique. Each print is fully described, and each is illustrated - full size wherever possible - on a separate page." Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages. Hardcover. 246 illustrations in black & white. 6 full page, full color illustrations. Red cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket with tears to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Edinburch and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 2nd revised edition, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 1: 463 pages. Vol. 2: 500 pages. Scarce. Hardcovers. Colored endpapers (black). Light pencil notes/marks in margins. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, light age wear to covers. Front endpapers' gutters are split, binding is good. Spines straight. Edges untrimmed, pages and edges have some tanning from age. Some foxing to preliminary pages. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st thus, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt and black stamping, in a cardboard slipcase. Gathers four of his greatest works in a single volume. Here is The Martian Chronicles in the complete form Bradbury came to prefer, its twenty-eight linked story-chapters offering visionary glimpses of our spacefaring future. In the dystopian thriller Fahrenheit 451, books and all they contain are forbidden. Dandelion Wine distills the enchanting essences of a childhood summer, while Something Wicked This Way Comes conjures the wild, centrifugal imaginings of youthful terror, in a fight to the death against supernatural foes. Biographer Jonathan R. Eller offers a newly researched chronology of Bradbury's life and career and detailed textual and explanatory notes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1199 pages, ribbon marker. In Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent. In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive--and man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler's phrase) "down these mean streets" among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire.In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler's personal favorite among his novels, Marlowe's search for a missing woman leads him from shanties and honky-tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering an array of richly drawn characters. The High Window (1942), about a rare coin that becomes a catalyst by which a hushed-up crime comes back to haunt a wealthy family, is partly a humorous burlesque of pulp fiction. All three novels show Chandler at a peak of verbal inventiveness and storytelling drive. Stories and Early Novels also includes every classic noir story from the 1930s that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel--thirteen in all, among them such classics as "Red Wind," "Finger Man," The King in Yellow," and "Trouble Is My Business." Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazine--with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue--to his own emerging vision of twentieth-century America. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with illustrated boards, 212 pages. Since the late 1970s, as a pioneer of Southern California underground culture, Raymond Pettibon has blurred the boundaries of "high" and "low," from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics and sexuality. Rich in detail, his obsessively worked drawings pull freely from myriad sources spanning the cultural spectrum. The resulting, highly poetic constructions function as acute reflections of contemporary society. Throughout the years, his subjects have included political figures and historical events, with particular intensity since the events of September 11, 2001. Seen here are images of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, J. Edgar Hoover, both Bush presidents, the Kennedys, Hitler, scenes from the Vietnam War and protest movements, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the prisoner abuse of Abu Ghraib, President Obama and Osama bin Laden. Raymond Pettibon (born 1957) studied economics at UCLA around the same time he joined his brother in the punk band Black Flag. He soon began to contribute artwork to album covers, flyers and t-shirts, for the band and its label, SST Records, and exhibited his work in group shows in galleries in the 1980s. Since the 1990s his work has been the subject of numerous major solo exhibitions.

Hardcover. Boston, Lothrup, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 black & white illustrations by W. A. Rogers. Red cloth spine faded on parts of spine and rear panel. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Attractive gilt-decorated front cover.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean, tight copy with color illustrations throughout. Inspired by magazines like Mad and traditional superhero comics, Real Deal magazine was a self-published,independent comic book created in the 1990s by Lawrence Hubbard (a.k.a "RawDog") and H.P. McElwee (a.k.a. "R.D. Bone"). Peopled with a cast out of a blaxploitation movie - convicts, hustlers, drug addicts,crack whores, car thieves,and murderers - these cult-classic comics straddle the line between satirizing and showing the harsh realities of urban life.