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Hardcover. Palm Springs CA, Palm Springs Art Museum, 1st, 2009, Hardcover, white boards with b&w photograph and black lettering. 263 pages with b&w photos throughout. No dust jacket, as issued. Catalogue from the exhibition held January to April 2009 in Palm Springs, June to September in Tucson, and Fall 2010 in San Jose. With an essay by Daniell Cornell.

Hardcover. Schirmer/Mosel, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 108 pages. A classic, indeed perhaps the best of the Mapplethorpe books. And for many most certainly the most typical Mapplethorpe, now available once again thanks to this re-edition. The Black Book, first published in 1986, presents 96 formally stringent and highly erotic nudes, all of them photographs of black men, either as full figures, or staged as details, as fragments of their bodies. Stylized as classical statues or provocatively in all their presence and sensuous radiance. Black-and-white photography was Mapplethorpe's preferred medium. And his obsessive aesthetics was based on completely mastering it, as this enabled him to visualize any number of tonal gradations and penetrate deep into the very pores of the gleaming black skin. It is a method that reached a climax in these images. The Black Book, Mapplethorpe s homage to the black male body, has always been one of the most important visual contributions to the discussion on beauty, sensuality, and sexuality in photography.

Softcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalog. Introduction by John J. McKendry and texts by Robert Motherwell and Diane Kelder. Slim small quarto. Illustrated in black and white. Spine a bit tanned and wrappers with minor soil. The exhibition was held October 24 - December 3, 1972 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 585 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white photographs throughout.

Hardcover. Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine. 191 pages, b&w frontis. of Hawker. Small name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. London / NY, Nister / Dutton, Unknown, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 brilliant chromolith plates + 80 Black & white drawings. 3 color and gilt illustrated cover. All edges red. Small town library bookplate, envelope in rear. Previous owner's inscription dated 1897. Very Attractive Copy.

Kansas City, Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and black & white photos and Illustrations. Clean, tight copy. Dust jacket has small chip missing on front bottom.

Hardcover. Pantheon, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 136 pages. Numerous black & white and sepia illustrations, a few in color. Details Rodchenko's art, photography and domestic design work in the context of a transformative period in Russian society.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc., 2nd Printing, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 448 pages. Illustrated with 16 pages of black & white photographs. Dust jacket with wear and darkening along top edge. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1934, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, red cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, 237 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Frank E. Schoonover. Mild soil to edges, covers. Historical fiction for young adults based on the life of Roland, warrior of France, nephew of Emperor Charlemagne. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Dial, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A black family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.

Hardcover. Bologna IT, Damiani , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 128 pages. In 1978 two of Joseph Szabo's high school students invited him to join them at a Rolling Stones concert at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. Sensing a promising photo opportunity, Szabo agreed, packing three 35mm cameras and plenty of black-and-white film. Some 90,000 Rolling Stones fans converged on the stadium for the concert, where Szabo captured them drinking, kissing, smoking, dancing and hanging out. Their young subjects transported by the music, the drugs, the alcohol and the community, Szabo's Rolling Stones Fans photographs show unguarded moments of absorption and abandon in the sublimity of the rock and roll gig. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket,110 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Exhibition catalog bound in black cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. Clean.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st US, October 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oversized. Black cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges and corners. Inside is bright and clean, many b&w photographs throughout. A nice copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate Communications, 1st, 2004, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 136 pages, b&w photos of the artist at work. Foreword by David Driskell, introduction by Ruth Fine.

Hardcover. New York , Parents Magazine Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 48 pages with b&w photos by Gloir Kitt Lindauer and Carmel Roth. Clean, bright copy with unclipped dust jacket, $3.95. Mild soil to jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, gray/green cloth stamped with a black and white design. In a dust jacket with two chunks gone from spine. A naturalist ruminates on birds (mostly) and woodchucks in these essays on wildlife. B&w illustrations by R. Bruce Horsfall,Most of these pieces were previously published in magazines.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Edward Stern & CO., 1st, 1906, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 16 full color plates, black & white line drawings by V. Floyd Campbell. 180 pages. Color plate of bears on front cover. Heavy wear to green covered cardboard covers. Pages browning.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, reprint, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 373 pages. Black and white frontispiece, 15 black and white photos and illustrations. Reminiscences of the writer's relationship with Theodore Roosevelt with a focus on their early years, family, and acquaintances. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, Book Club, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. 60 pages illustrated in 3-colors. A Parisian birdseller's pet turtle Rosalie goes missing, and Gaston the talking blackbird must help find her. Weekly Reader Edition. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Century Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers, 179 pages. End papers illustration, 2-color frontispiece and black & white illustrations by Weda Yap. Light edgewear. No dust jacket. Corners a bit bumped.

NY, Greenwillow Books, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Anita Lobel. Previous owner's inscription on front paste-down endpaper. Price blacked out on dust jacket front flap. "In this fine book in which text and illustration build upon each other...cumulative verse unites with watercolor illustrations to convey the simple story of a garden's solitude being overturned by a fieldmouse, a cat, and a once-slumbering bee."--School Library Journal.

Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, revised, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 107 pages. B&W and color plates. Illustrates beautifully the contemporary Southwest on canvas with vibrancy and refreshing perspective. Light blue pictorial cloth, silver lettering to spine. Dust jacket with minor wrinkles and smudges. Dust jacket folded off-center, otherwise a nice, clean and tight copy. "This comprehensive, expanded volume on Stefan and his work contains forty full-color reproductions of oils along with numerous black-and-white drawings, a panorama of the Southwest and a tribute to a fine painter."

Hardcover. Montpelier, Vermont General Assembly, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1665 pages, black leatherette binding with gilt lettering. Bright, clean copy.