Softcover. US, University of Kentucky Art Museum, na, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 151 page catalog of the January 25-March 15, 1981, exhibition at the University of Kentucky Art Museum. Numerous black and white illustrations. Five color plates. Mild crease on front and back cover. No marking. Kentucky's Resident-painters: From the Ante-Bellum Era to World War I by Arthur F. Jones; In Pursuit of Success: Kentucky and the Visiting Artist, 1805-1865 by Bruce Weber; Selected Bibliography; Catalog Entries; Illustrations.
Hardcover. Washington, D.C., National Rifle Association of America, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 124 pages plus 6 page reference index. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR KENDRICK SCOFIELD ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white photographs and illustrations throughout. Gilt title and decoration on blue cover. Corner and edge wear and fray, minor foxing throughout. Rubbing along spine and edges of blue cloth covers. Unmarked pages and text.
Hardcover. Nairobi, The English Press,, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black title on front, 117 pages + postscript. The Mau Mau, the black challenge to white supremacy and the need for British rule to remain in Kenya. Name on front fly leaf, light marking to margins on some pages.
Hardcover. Paris/NY, Editions Hazan / Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Catalogue of the exhibition 'Andre Kertesz' at Jeu de Paume, Paris (September 28, 2010-February 6, 2011). 359 pages. Profusely illustrated with black & white and color reproductions of photographs. This Hungarian photographer had a profound influence on mid 20th century artists like Brassai and H. Cartier-Bresson. A major exhibition catalogue devoted to his work in Budapest and New York. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Limited Editions Club, 1st Thus, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 238 pages. Limited Editions Club. SIGNED AND HAND NUMBERED BY ILLUSTRATOR HANS ALEXANDER MUELLER ON LAST PAGE - THIS BEING #1472 OF 1500. Bound in rust colored cloth. Title in silver on black leather on spine. Slipcase slightly age darkened, with pea size chip missing from top left corner. A clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, profusely illustrated in both color and black and white. 300 pages. 4to, glossy pictorial wrappers. Extensive monograph of artist's life and work. Published to accompany the exhibition held in NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, February 29 to June 2, 1996; two additional venues. Two exhibition mailings laid in, one addressed to film director Bob Rafelson. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams , reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages, softcover with French flaps. A major contribution to the social and art history of Paris in the early 20th century. Heavily illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Minor rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
Softcover. New York, Liveright, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to wrappers. Duotone comics throughout. Adding to a legendary career that includes a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, Obie Awards, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America, Jules Feiffer now presents his first noir graphic novel. Kill My Mother is a loving homage to the pulp-inspired films and comic strips of his youth. Channeling Eisner's The Spirit, along with the likes of Hammett, Chandler, Cain, John Huston, and Billy Wilder, and spiced with the deft humor for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill My Mother centers on five formidable women from two unrelated families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective. In a drawing style derived from Steve Canyon and The Spirit, Feiffer combines his long-honed skills as cartoonist, playwright, and screenwriter to draw us into this seductively menacing world where streets are black with soot and rain, and base motives and betrayal are served on the rocks in bars unsafe to enter. Bluesy, fast-moving, and funny, Kill My Mother is a trip to Hammett-Chandler-Cain Land: a noir-graphic novel like the movies they don't make anymore.
Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color and Black/white comics. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 32 pages illustrated in color by Grifalconi, Bright, unclipped dust jacket. Sissy, a pensive, round-faced, soft-eyed little black girl, mopes around her Georgia farm feeling neglected, lonely and "all grumpy-like." She is missing her father, who ". . . had died back when I was a baby girl." But her understanding uncle emerges from the fields, sees her sadness, and makes her feel better by reminding her that "we all be family." Uncle Dan knows that, just like his crops, she needs a little watering, a little love , and a little attention to shake off her blues. Sissy's Uncle Dan is able to cheer the little girl up when he takes her into the corn fields and points out to her how each and every one of the ears of corn is different from the other.
New York, Clarion, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 42 pages. Color illustrations by Dirk Zimmer. Even after his magical godfather sends him home from the Black Forest with a sackful of coins, a young man refuses to listen to his mother and be content with his simple life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston/NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Boston Globe reporter Haygood ( Two on the River ) weaves together interviews and research to create a nuanced yet vivid narrative about the crusading Harlem congressman who served in the House for 24 years and whose controversial behavior and womanizing often overshadowed his crucial contribution to the War on Poverty. Haygood astutely traces how the light-skinned Powell (1908-1972), who tried to pass as white when a Colgate student, later embraced his blackness and demanded acceptance in the white world. Mixing New York and national political history with Powell's rise as a Baptist minister and politician, Haygood adds deft cameos of characters like Hattie Dodson, Powell's devoted secretary, and Hazel Scott, the jazz star whose wedding to the divorced congressman was "the stuff of grand romance and intrigue." Expelled from Congress in 1966 for alleged misappropriations and an unpaid libel judgment, Powell, Haygood writes poignantly, was shunned by black leaders and, even after reinstatement by the Supreme Court, disparaged by many he had helped. Though less authoritative in assessing Powell's political milieu than Charles V. Hamilton's 1991 book, Adam Clayton Powell Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma , this is a richer portrait of Powell the man. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Co, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Silver gilt ornate decoration on front and spine. Previous owner's stamp on front fly leaf. Light soil on bottom spine, and light edgewear on edges. A period story set in the Okefenokee Swamp with illustrations by E.W. Kemble, including three images showing black people, and one scene of a dog fighting a cougar.
Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, First Edition, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 107 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with moderate wear, tears to edges & chipping, now protected with a plastic cover. Toning throughout. Clean & unmarked.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint , 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Contains black & white and red illustrations by Seuss. Some edgewear. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, creasing, small tears.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with black design. Shows some minor wear but mostly a clean, nice copy. Black & white illustrations by Daugherty. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Black Dog & Leventhal, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oblong hardcover, 143 pages. 41 superb photos of the early logging locomotives of the Northwest. Essay by John T. Labbe. Bright copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photos. 337 pages. Dj price clipped
Hardcover. Fort Worth, TCU Press, Reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes,. Volume 1 - 164 pages. Ceremonial Dance, Ritual and Song. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in clear plastic protective cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 323 pages. Myths, Legends and Folktales. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket in clear protective cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Red Cloth Boards. Front endpaper missing. Small black stain at top of front hinge. Foxing on top edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 286 pages. Kitchen Culture in America is a collection of essays that examine how women's roles have been shaped by the principles and practice of consuming and preparing food. Exploring popular representations of food and gender in American society from 1895 to 1970, these essays argue that kitchen culture accomplishes more than just passing down cooking skills and well-loved recipes from generation to generation. Kitchen culture instructs women about how to behave like "correctly" gendered beings. One chapter reveals how juvenile cookbooks, a popular genre for over a century, have taught boys and girls not only the basics of cooking, but also the fine distinctions between their expected roles as grown men and women. Several essays illuminate the ways in which food manufacturers have used gender imagery to define women first and foremost as consumers. Other essays, informed by current debates in the field of material culture, investigate how certain commodities like candy, which in the early twentieth century was advertised primarily as a feminine pleasure, have been culturally constructed. The book also takes a look at the complex relationships among food, gender, class, and race or ethnicity-as represented, for example, in the popular Southern black Mammy figure. In all of the essays, Kitchen Culture in America seeks to show how food serves as a marker of identity in American society. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Ungar, 1st Eng. transl., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 76 pages. Transl. from German by Max Born. Black & white cartoon drawings by Busch. Decorative stain to top edge. Dust jacket edgeworn, chipped, closed tear.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean, tight copy. More than 10,000 images reside in public archives and private collections, depicting every aspect of what popular historian Pierre Berton has called "one of the strangest mass movements in history." For this book, Berton selected 200 photographs, some iconic, some touchingly personal, and most previously unpublished.The Klondike Quest brings to life the panoramic drama of the great stampede for gold as seen by the ordinary gold-seeker. The photographs are beautifully reproduced and informatively and colorfully captioned. "One million people, it is said, laid plans to go to the Klondike. One hundred thousand actually set off. And so the Klondike saga is a chronicle of humanity in the mass.... For the next eighteen months, the Yukon interior plateau became a human anthill."
Hardcover. London, Pavilion, 1st UK, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 284 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illust. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR MICHAEL FOREMAN on title page. Clean, tight copy.