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Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Chicago Historical Society, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. History of the art of glass and ceramics in Chicago. Focuses on both small-scale, decorative works and larger, architectural pieces. Illustrated with 221 photographs (mostly black/white, few color). Dust jacket in very good condition, shows slight rubbing on the back, but cloth bound book in near fine condition with virtually no flaws.

Hardcover. Chicago, Chicago Historical Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with silver lettering and design. A comprehensive look at the history of objects made of metal from Chicago between 1844 to 1970. Includes numerous black and white illustrations by Walter W. Krutz. 141 pages. SIGNED BOOKMARK by author laid in. Clean copy. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. Chicago IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 263 pages. When the Chicago Daily News closed its doors in March 1978 after over a century of publication, the city mourned the loss of an American original. The Daily News boasted the inventive, aggressive writing of such luminaries as Carl Sandburg and Ben Hecht. It was also one of the first newspapers in the country to feature black-and-white photography. In 1900, staffers from the paper's art department began lugging bulky cameras, heavy glass plates, and explosive flash powder throughout the city. A labor strike, a boxing match, or a crime scene--it was all in a day's work for the Daily News photographer. These cameramen helped sell papers, but, as Mark Jacob and Richard Cahan reveal, they also made art. Chicago under Glass: Early Photographs from the Chicago Daily News is the first collection of images from the photo staff's early years, 1901 to 1930. Jacob and Cahan, seasoned journalists themselves, have selected more than 250 images--many of which have never before been published--from the nearly 57,000 glass negatives housed at the Chicago History Museum. They include rare photographs of a young Buster Keaton with his wife and child, waiting to board a train and the notorious Al Capone outside a courtroom, smoking a cigar and consulting with his lawyer. Each thematic section begins with a fascinating introduction by the authors, and each image is accompanied by insightful historical commentary.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. Schell, Orville [Foreword]; Parks, Gordon [Commentary]; Stepto, Robert B. [Commentary]. Shortly before the end of the Second World War, Wayne Miller was awarded a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation to photograph 'The Way of Life of the Northern Negro'." This project documented the wartime migration of African Americans northward, specifically looking at the black community on the south side of Chicago, covering all the emotions in daily life. The people depicted are mostly ordinary people, but some celebrities appear, such as Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Paul Robeson. He was a contributor to Magnum Photos beginning in 1958. Stamped name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University Of California Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with silver lettering in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. An immensely important record of black life in Chicago at the near end of the 1940's. Apart from a few photos of entertainers the rest capture, in fascinating detail, life in Chicago's south side. The workplace and workers, interiors of homes and bars, parades, funerals, sport and street scenes with plenty of activity. The detail in all these pictures is impressive and typical of Miller's eye to capture a scene that reveals so much. Foreword by Orville Schell. commentaries by Gordon Parks and Robert Stepto. Small color sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

New York, Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. Color and black & white photography and illustrations. "Chicken Run" is the first feature from Aardman Animation, the animation studio responsible for the award-winning "Wallace & Gromit" films. This book tells the complete story of the making of this epic adventure, taking the reader into Aardman's magical world.

New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 128 pages. Black & white decorations by Antony Maitland. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Dust jacket with tear, library label on spine.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 1990, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 208 pages. From the late 1880s to around 1915, Childe Hassam, America's foremost impressionist, frequently visited the Isles of Shoals, the site of a summer resort popular with many American artists and writers. Paintings from Hassam's Isles of Shoals series are among the most familiar icons of late nineteenth-century American art. But until now, a comprehensive selection of these beautiful works had not been collected in one place. David Park Curry's informative text provides the background essential to a full appreciation of these works. 105 full-color reproductions and100 black-and-white photographs.

Softcover. San Diego, Green Tiger Press, 2nd printing, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 100 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Light and minor wear to cover edges. Color and black and white pictures throughout.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 230 pages. Color and black & white illustrations by Richard H. Rodgers. Cover has edgewear.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers,192 pages. Black & white lithographs by Grace Paull. Red top edge. Decorated endpapers. No dust jacket. True stories of children and their crafts, such as quilting, book-making, gardening, etc. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. 4 b&w plates. Covers with edge wear, gilt slightly faded. Library bookplate inside front cover, otherwise clean, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 4th pr., 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 550 pages. Hardcover with light wear, light rubbing to board edges. Tight binding, tight signatures. Decorative header illustrations throughout in black & white. Clean inside and out.

Hardcover. New York, Windmill Books/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Black & white pencil drawings by Edna Eicke. Bottom corner of front inside flap clipped. Dust jacket with some light foxing - jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Softcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black & white photographs throughout.

Hardcover. New Brunswick, Rutgers, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 340 pages. Illustrated with black & white stills. 1 of 500 copies in Hardcover. No dust jacket. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 200 pages. Black & white illustrations by Helen Finger. Red top edge. Dust jacket with chipping, soiling. Price clipped. Clear plastic protective cover. Quaint story of a little Bavarian town in medieval days.

Softcover. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 236 pages. Paperback with faded paper wrappers. Black and white and colored pictures throughout. Tight copy

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 496 pages, b&w illustrations. Sir Henry 'Chips' Channon's extraordinary diaries, first published in 1967, are now considered a modern classic. The years covered in this volume, 1934-53, recall a vanished world where Channon's privileged orbit circled every social and public figure of the day in a round of parties, balls, country-house weekends and endless gossip. His position as a MP enabled him to chronicle, famously, the Abdication Crisis, when King Edward VIII's love for 'jolly, plain 'unprepossessing' Mrs Simpson reduced him to 'a broken man at bay'. Culled from some three million words in the original, Robert Rhodes James's selection gives us the moments and characters of history etched indelibly by a master observer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY/London, Macmillan / A&C Black, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with yellow lettering, color illustrated paste-down, 14 color plates by J.H. Hartley. 26 songs with music, 58 pages. Endpapers with mild foxing, otherwise clean

Hardcover. Burlington, Chittenden County Historical Society, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 494 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 114 pages, illustrated in b&w by John Burningham. Book is bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. Edition is not stated, no date on the title page, copyright page states 1964. Contains 111 numbered pages with an additional 3 unnumbered. 16 line dedication. All pages are very clean and the binding is tight. Top edge stained black, dust jacket has light edgewear. Price of $3.50 on the front flap. Would appear to be a second or third printing of the first edition.

Hardcover. New York , Random House , reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 114 pages, illustrated in b&w by John Burningham. Book is bound in red cloth with gilt lettering. Edition is not stated, 1964 on the title page. Contains 111 numbered pages with an additional 3 unnumbered. 16 line dedication. All pages are very clean and the binding is tight. Top edge stained black, dust jacket has light edgewear. Price of $3.50 on the front flap. Would appear to be a second or third printing of the first edition.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering, 292 pages. Super clean, tight copy.