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Hardcover. NY, Tudor Publishing , 1st US, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, deep green cloth with gilt lettering. 164 pages, 110 plates. Covers modern French art of the early twentieth century in text and through black and white illustrations. Discusses such topics as Fauvism, Futurism, and popular art as well as specific French painters.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Original black lettered cloth quarter laid on pictorial boards, 184 pages. A fascinating exploration of how photography, graphic design, and popular magazines converged to transform American visual culture at mid-century. This dynamic study examines the intersection of modernist photography and American commercial graphic design between 1930 and 1960. Avant-garde strategies in photography and design reached the United States via European emigres, including Bauhaus artists forced out of Nazi Germany. The unmistakable aesthetic made popular by such magazines as Harper's Bazaar and Vogue--whose art directors, Alexey Brodovitch and Alexander Liberman, were both immigrants and accomplished photographers--emerged from a distinctly American combination of innovation, inclusiveness, and pragmatism. Beautifully illustrated with more than 150 revolutionary photographs, layouts, and cover designs, Modern Look considers the connections and mutual influences of such designers and photographers as Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, Herbert Bayer, Robert Frank, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Cipe Pineles, and Paul Rand. Essays draw a lineage from European experimental design to innovative work in American magazine design at mid-century and offer insights into the role of gender in fashion photography and political activism in the mass media.

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, BC Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. In the middle of a frigid Sunday night in January 1856, a twenty-two-year-old Kentucky slave named Margaret Gamer gathered up her family and raced north, toward Cincinnati and freedom. But Margaret's master followed just hours behind and soon had the fugitives surrounded. Thinking all was lost, Margaret seized a butcher knife and nearly decapitated her two-year-old daughter, crying out that she would rather see her children dead than returned to slavery. She was turning on her other three children when slave catchers burst in and subdued her.Margaret Garner's child-murder electrified the United States, inspiring the longest, most spectacular fugitive-slave trial in history. Abolitionists and slaveholders fought over the meaning of the murder, and the case came to symbolize the ills of the Union in those last dark decades before the Civil War.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 2nd Ed., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, quarterbound in burgundy cloth and gray paper with black titles. 116 pages with b&w illustrations throughout. Revised second edition. 69 b/w illustrations + 9 text figures, bibliography, index of artists. One of the handsomest of the early MoMA catalogues This revised edition (1938) was limited to 2,000 copies. No dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white photographs throughout. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Forty-six plates from photographs; bibliography. A monograph on the early twentieth century pictorial work of the photographer Ruzicky. Text in English and Czechoslovakian.

Hardcover. London & New York , The Studio Publications, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, 127 pages + ads, illustrated throughout in b&w. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Light rubbing, fraying to edges, binding slightly shaken. Internally very good.

Hardcover. NY, Donna Karan, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. black & white portraits, fashion photos by Herb Ritts. Large,oversized, 11-1/4" x 14-1/4" coffee table book of photos of such stars as Diana Ross, Isabella Rossellini, Fred Ward, Francesco Clemente and his wife Alba, no doubt wearing Donna Karan clothing. All photograhs are black & white of selected pieces from fashion designer Donna Karan's Fall 1995 collection by fashion photographer Herb Ritts. Clean.

NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 5th, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 290 pages. Black & white illustrations by Louis Slobodkin. Previous owner's bookplate on front end paper. Color illustrated dust jacket with chunks gone from top & bottom of spine, edgewear. Nice reading copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 4th pr., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 290 pages. Black & white illustrations by Louis Slobodkin. Light wear to top & bottom of spine, edgewear. Nice reading copy.

Hardcover. NY, National Travel Club, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt. 358 pages. Map endpapers, frontispiece, notes, map, appendices. Introduction by Edward Garnett. Frontispiece of the author on a horse as Sheikh Mohammed El Fasi. Mild fade to spine lettering, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Marie Chardin/privately printed, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 64 pages illustrated in 2-colors and full color by Bess Bethell. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Red cloth with black type and drawing of a penguin on front. Fraying to top of spine, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Dust jacket worn, chipped. A children's reader, number and alphabet book, all in French.

Hardcover. NY, Blackie & Son Ltd. , 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Jean Claverie. Toy book with cut-outs, pop-ups, movable parts. Bright laminated illustrated boards.

Hardcover. London, John Baker, 1st , 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Nickless.

Hardcover. New York, John Day, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. Illustrated with black & white photographs. INSCRIBED BY SIPPRELL on the half-title page and dated in 1966. Dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy. Clara Sipprell (1885-1975) was a Canadian-born, early 20th-century photographer who lived most of her life in the United States. She was well known for her pictorial landscapes and for portraits of many famous actors, artists, writers and scientists.

Hardcover. New York, John Day, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Non-Paginated. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Chicago, Illinois, Mongerson Galleries, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 page catalog from October 1981 exhibition at The Mongerson Gallery. Numerous black and white prints and photographs. Brief artist biographies. Textured cover features color artwork and exhibits some wear, particularly along binding edge. Interior in near fine condition.

Hardcover. NY, Rae D. Henkle, 1st , 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 318 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black cloth stamped in red on the front and the spine. Previous owner's bookplate front end paper. A New England mystery, beginning with a strike at a tannery. Another challenge for Detective Peter Creighton.

Hardcover. Tucson AZ, Dennis McMillan, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Firmly rooted in the hard-boiled tradition, these 13 stories from Phillips showcase the cool exuberance of black Los Angeles PI Ivan Monk, whose family connections tend to prod him into taking cases no one in his right mind would investigate. Nostalgia is a recurrent theme, as in "Through the Fog Softly," which introduces Monk's father, Josiah Monk, as a soldier in Korea, and in Monk's love of 1950s and '60s cars. Some tales verge on fantasy, such as "The King Alfred Plan," which imagines a scheme to round up blacks into concentration camps. A pseudo-screenplay, "Bring Me the Head of Osama Bin-Laden," is the weakest effort in an otherwise strong collection. At his best, Monk displays something of the cockiness of Robert Parker's Spenser and the racial awareness of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins. Monk has a toughness all his own, however, and a noir sensibility shines brightly in stories like "Lowball" and "The Raiders." Clean copy.

Hardcover. North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, very good.

Hardcover. New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 103 pages. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Turquoise cloth cover with black lettering. Faded and worn spine. Edgewear. Corners bumped. Spotting back cover. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 142 pages, b&w illustrations. In 1950, future Hall of Famer Earl Lloyd became the first African American to play in a National Basketball Association game. A warm and gracious man, widely loved and respected, Lloyd has lived what he describes as an 'incredible journey' and has spent eighty years gathering passionate lessons from that experience. He was born in Virginia, a state he describes as 'the cradle of segregation', only sixty-two years after the end of the Civil War. Nicknamed 'Moonfixer' in college, Lloyd led West Virginia State to two CIAA Conference and Tournament Championships and was named All-American twice. One of three African Americans to enter the NBA at that time, Lloyd played seven games for the Washington Capitals before the team folded. He joined the Syracuse Nationals for six seasons and later played for the Detroit Pistons before he retired in 1961. Throughout his career, he quietly endured the overwhelming slights and exclusions that went with being black in America. Yet he has also lived to see basketball - a demonstration of art, power, and pride - become the black national pastime and to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama. In a series of extraordinary conversations with Sean Kirst, Lloyd reveals his fierce determination to succeed, his frustration with the plight of many young black men, and his sincere desire for the nation to achieve true equality among its citizens. CLEAN COPY.

Hardcover. New Rochelle, Arlington House, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 554 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Moderate foxing to edges. An important reference book on this legend of the big band era. Clean, tight copy.

NY, St. Martins, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black & white illustrations. 442 pages. The story of the popular Rocky and Bullwinkle show. The legendary Jay Ward and Bill Scott produced the gleeful wonder and cumulative joy that transcended the crude drawings and occasionally muddy sound. Jay Ward was the magnificent visionary, the outrageous showman, while Bill Scott was the genial, brilliant head writer, coproducer, and all-purpose creative whirlwind. With exclusive interviews, original scripts, artwork, story notes, letters and memos, Keith Scott has written the definitive history of Jay Ward Productions.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1930, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers with title and drawing of rooster on front cover in brown. Black and white drawings by Kurt Wiese. Endpapers design with montage of farm animals. A fair copy only with worn and soiled covers. Title page states 1930, no other printings on copyright page. The second book in the Freddy series, in which the animals form a company, Barnyard Tours. Led by clever Freddy, they endure a dangerous voyage to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.