Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., reprint, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray-green cloth lettereed and decorated in gilt and black. 239 pages, Illustrated with 36 drawings by Frederic Dorr Steele. Frank Richard Stockton (April 5, 1834 ?- April 20, 1902) was an American writer and humorist, best known today for a series of innovative children's fairy tales that were widely popular during the last decades of the 19th century. Primarily a short story writer this is one of his few novels. A very clean, bight copy.
New York, Bedrick Blackie, 1st US, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 30 pages. Color illustrations by author. Dust jacket price clipped. Clean copy.
Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st Book Club Ed., 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, book club embossed dimple on rear board, first book club with 1951 on both title and copyright page with no other printings noted. Same format and quality as first trade edition. Lacks dust jacket, bookplate inside front cover. Otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Very Good in dust jacket with mild edgewear, chipping. Short tear with tape repair in reverse side. Folio. 236 pages, 35 full color and 150 black and white reproductions. Brown cloth in price clipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Very Good in dust jacket with mild edgewear, chipping. Short tear with tape repair in reverse side. Folio. 236 pages, 35 full color and 150 black and white reproductions. Brown cloth in price clipped dust jacket. NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown & Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated binding; designed by Decorated Designers (DD). No dj. Cover lettering and design intact, with some loss of gold, but lettering has disappeared from the spine. About 50 pages of black and white photos. A vivid and intimate record of Chinese life, revealing its glamour and fascination, its callousness and disregard of human values. Minor foxing to front endpapers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with dark maroon stamping, 236 pages. Illustrated with sixteen full-page black and white drawings by Seredy. The dramatic and heart-warming tale is set first on an estate in Hungary near the end of WW II, and then on a farm in the Hudson Valley, New York. Young Michael of Hungary carries an acorn all the way from his castle home in Chestry Valley, Hungary, to the warm soil of the Hudson Valley farm where he makes a new home after the war. He is accepted into an American family who accept Michael as one of their own. A compelling character is Midnight, the black stallion that has been trained to perform before princes. Bright, tight copy. Lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. Edinburgh and London], William Blackwood and Sons, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes bound in one, original half leather binding, marbled boards, leather corners. Red leather label on spine with gilt title, raised bands with ornate design in gilt. Marbled design on edges of text block, marbled endpapers. By the Author of 'A Modern Minister'. vi + 480 +474 pages. wood-engraved frontispiece and five plates in each volume, by the Dalziels (possibly after Frederick Sandys). 'A Modern Minister', also by Durrant, was the only other novel published under the series title of 'The Cheveley Novels'. It appeared in four volumes, in the same large format, between 1877 and 1879. Corners show wear, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick red cloth with white and black design on front cover. 219 pages, 8 b&w plates by Bertha Davidson. Rear cover rubbed, internally clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1882, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with red, black, and gilt embossed spine title, cover title, and bright cover illustration and decoration. Boards have beveled edges. All edges gilt. 70 pages, tissue-guarded frontispiece, 30 full-page illustrations; artists include A.B. Frost. Howard Pyle. Fredericks, J. S. Davis and others. A ballad written in Paris in 1841 at the time of the second funeral of Napoleon and is a narrative of French military history. Slender piece of cloth chipped away on rear cover, otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, lavender cloth with black lettering and design. End papers show the Dana girls reading a letter printed in dark green. Nancy Drew titles listed to The Mystery of the Ivory Charm. Name on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Counterpoint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 642 pages. Hailed in 1849 as "a new department in the literature of civilization," the slave narrative forms the foundation of the African American literary tradition. From the late-eighteenth-century narratives by Africans who endured the harrowing Middle Passage, through the classic American fugitive slave narratives of the mid-nineteenth century, slave narratives have provided some of the most graphic and damning documentary evidence of the horrors of slavery. Riveting, passionate, and politically charged, the slave narrative blends personal memory and rhetorical attacks on slavery to create powerful literature and propaganda.The Civitas Anthology presents the seven classic antislavery narratives of the antebellum period in their entirety: The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave , the first slave narrative published by a woman in the Americas; The Confessions of Nat Turner , written when Turner was asked to record his motivation for leading the bloodiest slave revolt in U.S. history; The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass , an international bestseller and the first narrative to fashion the male fugitive slave into an African American cultural hero; The Narrative of William W. Brown , an account that explored with unprecedented realism the slave's survival ethic and the art of the slave trickster; The Narrative of the Life of Henry Bibb , the story of the struggles of the most memorable family man among the classic slave narrators; Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom , a gripping chronicle of one of the most daring and celebrated slave escapes ever recorded; and Incidents in the Life of Slave Girl , a dramatic text that exposed the sexual abuse of female slaves and pioneered the image of the fugitive slave woman as an articulate resister and survivor.Born out of lives of unparalleled suffering, the slave narrative captures all the bravery, drama, and hope that characterized the African American struggle against slavery. From these beginnings came some of the most influential novels in American literature, for the works of writers such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and Toni Morrison owe much of their power and social resonance to the slave narrative tradition. The Civitas Anthology gathers the most important narratives in this tradition into one volume for the first time, an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and general readers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing Company, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 336 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Includes cartoonists: John Held, Jr., Charles Keene, George Herriman, A. B. Frost, Peter Arno, Saul Steinberg, Charles Addams, Virgil Partch, William Steig, Gerald Scarfe, Shel Silverstein, Tomi Ungerer, and more. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with chipping along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. Boston, Crosby Nichols and Co., 2nd Ed., 1853, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed and textured dark green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Title page in red and black states "From the Second English Edition". 322 pages. A book that delves into the personal and religious life of Charles V, one of the most powerful monarchs in European history. The book explores Charles V's decision to abdicate his throne and retire to a monastery, where he lived out the remainder of his life in seclusion and contemplation. Stirling provides a detailed account of Charles V's daily routine, his spiritual practices, and his interactions with the monks and other inhabitants of the monastery. The book also sheds light on the political and cultural context of Charles V's reign, including his conflicts with the Protestant Reformation and his relationships with other European leaders. Endpapers with residue, owner'e stamp on blank prelim page. A solid but edgeworn copy.
Softcover. Houston, TX, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. 93 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. White stiff wrappers, black/red titles. Light wear to edges and spine, front cover slightly sunned, small tear to spine, else a very nice, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare Head Press, Ltd. Ed., 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Eight hardcover volumes. The complete set published in an edition of 1060 copies. This set bound in gray boards with green cloth spines. Black lettering to spines, title pages in red and black, untrimmed edges. Mild wear to boards, Vol. 6 with cracked hinges and some pencil marking, otherwise a clean set. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.
Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art/ The Viking Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. In addition to being one of the preeminent American photographers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Alfred Stieglitz was an avid collector of the works of other photographers. From 1894-1910, he collected over 650 prints from a variety of photographers. He donated 400 of these to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1939, and the balance was given in a bequest to the museum in 1949. Photographers included in the collection include Edward Steichen, Gertrude Kasebier, Baron de Meyer, Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, and Julia Margaret Cameron. This substantial volume was produced by Weston Naef, who was Associate Curator of Prints and Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. It includes a black-and-white reproduction of all the photographs in the Stieglitz Collection, some full-page and many in smaller size. It also includes details about, and portraits and signatures of each of the painters. Small closed tears to dust jacket, otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Kentucky, Collector Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glazed boards illustrated in color. 252 pages. Black & white and color photographs.
London, Published at the Punch Office, 1st thus, 1846, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 252 pages of text. Full tan leather binding with elaborate decorative gilt tooling on spine and gilt ruling on edges of boards. Maroon leather spine labels. Original purple publisher's cloth is bound in at the rear (front cover and spine only). Title page is printed in red and black. Frontis portrait and title page engraving by Cruikshank. The first one volume edition. The classic parody of the Commentaries, it went through numerous English and American editions. Cruikshank was the leading English illustrator and caricaturist of his day. He is best known for work for William Hone and Charles Dickens. Lovely copy.
Softcover. Northhampton, MA, Kitchen Sink Press, 2nd printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good, glossy, vibrant. Wrapper has a touch of rubbing to the back. Color illustrations throughout. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. In great condition. The first complete collection of the legendary work of one of comics' all-time greatest cartoonists.
Softcover. New York, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. The definitive Comics Journal interviews with the cartoonists behind Zap Comix, featuring: Supreme 1960s counterculture/underground artist Robert Crumb on how acid unleashed a flood of Zap characters from his unconscious; Marxist brawler Spain Rodriguez on how he made the transition from the Road Vultures biker gang to the exclusive Zap cartoonists' club; Yale alumnus Victor Moscoso and Christian surfer Rick Griffin on how their poster-art psychedelia formed the backdrop of the 1960s San Francisco music scene; Savage Id-choreographer S. Clay Wilson on how his dreams insist on being drawn; Painter and Juxtapoz-founder Robert Williams on how Zap #4 led to 150 news-dealer arrests; Fabulous, Furry, Freaky Gilbert Shelton on the importance of research; Church of the Subgenius founder Paul Mavrides on getting a contact high during the notorious Zap jam sessions; and much more. In these career-spanning interviews, the Zap contributors open up about how they came to create a seminal, living work of art.
Hardcover. Minneapolis, University Of Minnesota Press, 2nd pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 228 pages, color and b&w illustrations. The haunting cry of the loon has for centuries fascinated people living in or near wilderness in northern parts of the world. The loon's call, its ability to dive, and its distinctive black and white feather pattern appear again and again in the myths and legends of North American Indians. There is included a disc recording of common loon vocalizations. Clean copy.
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 "The Casting Away of Mrs. Lecks and Mrs. Aleshine by: Frank R. Stockton")
 "The Cat Who Lost His Purr by: Coxon, Michele")
 "The Catcher in the Rye by: Salinger, J.D.")
 "The Charles M. Russell Book: The Life and Work of The Cowboy Artist by: McCracken, Harold")
 "The Charles M. Russell Book: The Life and Work of The Cowboy Artist by: McCracken, Harold")
 "The Charm of the Middle Kingdom by: Marsh, James Reid")
 "The Chestry Oak by: Kate Seredy")
 "The Cheveley Novels: Saul Weir by: Durrant, Valentine")
 "The Children on the Top Floor by: Rhoades, Nina")
 "The Chronicle of the Drum by: Thackeray, William Makepeace")
 "The Cinema of Stanley Kubrick by: Norman Kagan")
 "The Circle of Footprints (The Dana Girls Mystery Stories) by: Keene, Carolyn")
 "The Civitas Anthology of African American Slave Narratives by: William L. Andrews; Henry Louis Gates/editors")
 "The Classic Cartoons - A Definitive Gallery of the Cartoon as Art and as Humor by: Cole (Editors), William/Mike Thaler")
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 "The Collages of Robert Motherwell: A Retrospective Exhibition by: Carmean, Jr., E. A")
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 "The Comic Strip Art of Lyonel Feininger: The Kinder-Kids: Wee Willie Winkie's World by: Lyonel Feininger, Bill Blackbeard (Editor/Introduction)")
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