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Softcover. NY, Burns Archive Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 272 pages. SIGNED BY STANLEY BURNS on title page. Picturing Freedom chronicles and celebrates the photographic history of African Americans and their cars by focusing on personal images of the pride and joy of car ownership (1900-1980+). Owning a car was a significant life-changing achievement. It offered special freedoms--the freedom to travel, the freedom to work further from home, the freedom to visit family and friends, the freedom to avoid Jim Crow laws, and the freedom to migrate. The car was unequivocal evidence of Black success and an important symbol of status in a country that had long fought their advancement in every area. Car ownership was purposely and proudly photographed. All of the photographs were taken in Black communities by a family member or a friend and reveal how African Americans represented themselves. This 2022 IPPY award-winning compilation of over 450 unique photographs is an inspiring visual narrative of American life. Clean, bright copy.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 60 pages. Black & white illustrations by Victor Ambrus. Dust jacket with edgewear, fading to spine. A story that takes place during the Sanfrancisco earthquake. Price clipped.

Softcover. NY, Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Unpaginated (15 pages). Stiff wraps (stapled card wraps) with onionskin cover bearing author name, title, and gallery name on the onionskin, which is then superimposed over red, blue, black and white card cover. B&w illustrations. Onionskin wrapper torn along spine.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. The work of Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), whose orderly black-and-white squares, punctuated occasionally by primary colors are instantly recognizable, played a crucial role in shaping the avant-garde art of the twentieth century. Each section of this visual journey through his life and career takes its inspiration from the location of one of Mondrian's studios and traces his path from Amsterdam to Paris, and via the Dutch village of Laren to London and New York. Each of these locations represents a distinct stage in the development of Mondrian's art: from the naturalistic paintings of the 1890s and the experimental neo-Impressionist works of the early twentieth century to his involvement with the De Stijl movement and his famous grid paintings, and finally the bold dynamism of his late work in the United States, inspired by the rhythms of jazz and the buzzing metropolis. As Mondrian's art took the simplification of form to an extreme, the walls of his studios became an ever-changing surface made up of cardboard rectangles painted in primary colors, white, and gray. Illustrated by a wealth of paintings as well as personal photographs, documents, and texts written by Mondrian himself, the book captures every facet of this uncompromising artist's quest to represent the spirit of the modern world. Illustrated in color throughout

Hardcover. New York , Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Remainder mark to bottom edge, else like new in publishers shrink-wrap. White cloth hardcover in the dust jacket and name band , 244 page book . With color and black & white photo illustrations by Annie Leibovitz .

Hardcover. New York , Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 244 page book with color and black & white photo illustrations by Annie Leibovitz. Lacks title band over dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Random House, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Remainder mark to bottom edge, else like new in publishers shrink-wrap. White cloth hardcover in the dust jacket and name band , 244 page book . With color and black & white photo illustrations by Annie Leibovitz .

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 310 pages including publisher advertisements. B/w illustrations throughout, including frontispiece. Decorated ribbon bookmark, no longer attached, but laid in. Black cloth cover boards, gilight title on spine. Tanning to pages and edges, otherwise unmarked.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne and Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in lightly soiled and worn cloth covers. Profusely illustrated by the author with color and black & white pictures. A delightful book about Pindi Poo, a black dachshund puppy & her friend Puddle, a bull terrier. Inscription on front fly leaf otherwise clean inside. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Boston, Jordan, Marsh & Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, floral decorated cloth with a blue cloth spine design in gilt with a smiling Pinocchio. An early appearance of Pinocchio in English. Translated from the Italian with an Introduction by Hezekiah Butterworth. This is the first pirated edition. A second printing the following year (1899) had 4 color plates. This edition with Enrico Mazzanti's black-and-white in-text illustrations, not credited. 212 pages, bright, sharp condition.

NY, Burt/Blue Ribbon Books, reprint, circa 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, light green cloth with gilt & black decorated cover and spine labels. 258 pages. Four color plates by Charles Folkard, many b&w text drawings (not credited). Dust jacket chipped and worn. states translation by May M. Sweet, but title page gives M. A. Murray as translator. The mischievous adventures of an animated marionette named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto. It is considered a canonical piece of children's literature and has inspired hundreds of new editions, stage plays, merchandising and movies, such as Walt Disney's iconic animated version and commonplace ideas such as a liar's long nose. No markings.

Hardcover. US, Walt Disney Family Foundation Press, 1sr, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white & color photographs. In 1940, Walt Disney released his second feature film: Pinocchio, based on Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian children's novel. The film was groundbreaking: it pioneered the latest animation and sound technology of the era, and established a blueprint for Disney filmmaking that remains intact today. It became the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award® (in fact, it won two), and earned a place on the roster of the National Film Registry.

Hardcover. US, Walt Disney Family Foundation Press, 1sr, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white & color photographs. In 1940, Walt Disney released his second feature film: Pinocchio, based on Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian children's novel. The film was groundbreaking: it pioneered the latest animation and sound technology of the era, and established a blueprint for Disney filmmaking that remains intact today. It became the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award® (in fact, it won two), and earned a place on the roster of the National Film Registry.

Hardcover. US, Walt Disney Family Foundation Press, 1sr, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 351 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white & color photographs. In 1940, Walt Disney released his second feature film: Pinocchio, based on Carlo Collodi's 1883 Italian children's novel. The film was groundbreaking: it pioneered the latest animation and sound technology of the era, and established a blueprint for Disney filmmaking that remains intact today. It became the first animated feature to win a competitive Academy Award® (in fact, it won two), and earned a place on the roster of the National Film Registry.

Hardcover. Boston/New York, Books Inc, 1st thus, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, brown boards stamped in black, 252 pages. Charming and unusual b&w drawings by Louise Beaujon. Dust jacket worn, tape repaired on reverse.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill, 2nd, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 298 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. ames Oberg (Red Star in Orbit, Mission to Mars, etc.) is a spaceflight engineer at Houston Mission Control; Alcestis Oberg is the author of Spacefarers of the 80s and 90s. Here they offer an engrossing and vivid account of what life is like in an earth-orbiting spacecraft. Because relatively few American space-travelers have published tales of their experiences, the Obergs lean heavily on the diaries and memoirspublished in Russia and little known hereof pioneering Soviet astronauts, notably veterans of long-term Salyut missions like Ryumin and Berezovoy. Here is the human side of life in orbit. Few readers can fail to be grippedand occasionally amusedby revelations of the immediate problems (how astronauts contend with toilets, hygiene, sleeping), their technical perils (e.g., air contamination) and the psychological hazards they face, from crewmate incompatibility to depression and homesickness for Earth. Photos.

Hardcover. Springfield MA, Milton Bradley Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in worn, frayed black cloth with yellow lettering. The best reason to buy this book are the 12 bright color plates by Riesenberg. They include The Explorers Lewis & Clarke, The Pioneer Daniel Boone, The Trapper Kit Carson, The Riverboat Pilot Mark Twain right up to The Aviator Charles Lindbergh. Internally clean, very good, the outside, not so much.

Hardcover. NY, Rinehart & Co., 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering. SIGNED BY DEAN on the half-title page. 246 pages, a adventure story featuring pirates by this Vermont author. Clean copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Gilt stamped black cloth. The complete history of the legendary Pirelli Calendar. Launched in 1963 to a privileged shortlist of customers, the quality and creativity of Pirelli's photographers have made the limited-edition calendar a paradigm of the genre and a coveted collector's item. This volume contains all the calendars published since 1964--including the 1997 edition photographed by Richard Avedon--for a total of 264 full color images. Small chunk gone from rear of dust jacket. 407 pages.

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering, no dust jacket. The complete history of the legendary Pirelli Calendar. Launched in 1963 to a privileged shortlist of customers, the quality and creativity of Pirelli's photographers have made the limited-edition calendar a paradigm of the genre and a coveted collector's item. This volume contains all the calendars published since 1964--including the 1997 edition photographed by Richard Avedon--for a total of 264 full color images. 407 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good , Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages, B&W photos. In original shrink wrap. For almost sixty years Pirkle Jones has chronicled the people, politics, and landscape of Northern California-a "promised land" which has long held sway in the American cultural imagination. Within the confines of that locale, he has unearthed a universe of beauty and meaning, photographing everything from flea-market finds to some of the most important American social movements of the second half of the twentieth century. Operating primarily within a social-documentary framework, Jones has made images characterized by sensitivity and acute observation. With uncanny prescience, a sense of urgency, and a sympathetic eye, Jones often plays the dual roles of artist and witness, combining portraiture, landscapes, and architectural photographs to create thorough documents of social structure and upheaval. Among the photo-essays included in Pirkle Jones: California Photographs are a compassionate and controversial piece on the Black Panther Party in the San Francisco Bay Area, Jones's portraits of the Sausalito houseboat community known as Gate 5, and a notable 1956 photo-essay done in collaboration with Dorothea Lange photographing the destruction and dislocation of the Berryessa Valley before it was flooded on completion of the Monticello Dam. Produced as a single issue of Aperture magazine in 1960 under the name "Death of a Valley", this essay remains a powerful testament to the price of progress. The book also includes Jones's work from the last few decades, in which he shifted his focus to an extended series of elegant, contemplative landscapes. A biographical essay by curator Tim B. Wride frames Jones and his work within the context of photographic history, the people he collaborated with-including Ansel Adams as well as Lange-and the great scope of Californian life.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st , 1996, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 120 flower pictures in color, black & white by Mapplethorpe. Essay by John Ashbery. Slipcased. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 600 pages. Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made. This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. And this, we see, is the Wright of many other neglected aspects of his story: his close, and perhaps romantic, relationship with friend and early mentor Cecil Corwin; the eerie, unmistakable role of fires in his life; the connection between the 1921 Black Wall Street massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the murder of his mistress, her two children, and four others at his beloved Wisconsin home.In showing us Wright's facades along with their cracks, Hendrickson helps us form a fresh, deep, and more human understanding of the man. Clean copy.