Hardcover. New York, St. Martins Press, 1st Edition, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 338 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with only minor wear. Light foxing to edges. Otherwise clean unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Spanish Fork UT, Hillcrest Publications, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 160 pages. 212 black-and-white photographs, 76 fine color plates, 16 illustrations and 2 maps and 8 decoy profiles. SIGNED BY BOB WHITE who wrote the Foreword. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout. Focusing on Ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating or sorrowful world"), the colourful woodblock prints that are the most popular form of Japanese art, this book introduces the little-seen collection held by the Library of Congress. This collection of prints, drawings and books, one of the largest outside Japan, has never been exhibited and has rarely been handled. The art form of Ukiyo-e first flourished in 17th-century Edo (now Tokyo), depicting landscapes, portraits of courtesans and actors. This book includes known masterpieces by such names as Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kunisada, as well as rare and unusual prints that have not been explored before, and thus serves as a survey of its subject.
Hardcover. London, George Allen, 5th Ed., 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, flexible black cloth with red and gilt stamping, edges stained red. 343 pages with a 10 page catalogue of Hare's other titles in rear. With 22 illustrations and a double page color map. Detailed information on the history and landmarks of Florence. Clean, bright copy of this vintage travel guide.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st US, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with gray cloth spine. Rojan (Rojankovsky) illustrations in color and black and white. A baby rabbit's experience. Delicate landscapes of woodland and meadow, some labeled diagrams, black and white lithos in text. Corners bumped, worn.
Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 59 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated from original black & white "Free Hand Cuttings" by Ann Eliza Sample. Standard age darkening to front cover pastedown. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 260 pages. Hardcover. Front endpaper has been removed. Full color frontis. Some black & white illustrations. Foxing to edges. Blue cloth covers with dark smudges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1st thus, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial green cloth covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout, 128 pages. Other stories include Coaly-Bay: The Outlaw Horse and Way-Atcha: The Coon Raccoon of Kilder Creek. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Hastings House, 1st , 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 1,100 pages. Large, heavy hardcover. Black & white diagrams and illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Some wear to price-clipped dust jacket. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Atria Books, 1st Hardcover, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark to bottom edge of textblock. Otherwise a very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to dust jacket. Black and white photographs. Tracing the highs and lows of fashion photography from the late 1940s to today, Gross vividly chronicles the fierce rivalries between photographers, fashion editors, and publishers like Conde Nast and Hearst, weaving together candid interviews, never-before-told insider anecdotes and insights born of his three decades of front-row and backstage reporting on modern fashion. An unprecedented look at an eccentric and seductive profession and the men and women who practice it on the treacherous shifting sands of pop and fashion culture, Focus depicts--perhaps most importantly--the rewards and cost, both terribly high, of translating an artist's vision of beauty for an often cold and cruel commercial reality.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday Page & Co., 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 129 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Gilt decoration and laid in art on front cover. Black & white illustrations by Charles Livingston Bull.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 211 pages. Hardcover with light foxing to edges, preliminary pages and dust jacket interior. Published on occasion of the exhibition, Louisiana State University Union Art Gallery, Baton Rouge, August 20, 1990 - September 22, 1990 among other locations. Black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket with minor edgewear. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Moffat, Yard and Co, 3rd, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 463 pages. Contains black & white photographs. Light soiling to covers.
Hardcover. London, Blackie & Sons, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth stamped in 3-colors, 352 pages. Color frontis and 4 b&w plates, illustrator not credited. The narrative follows the protagonist, William Gale, who embarks on a series of adventures during the tumultuous period of the last Afghan War. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 541 pages. Hardcover. Ivory & black cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with only marginal wear to edges. Clean, light toning, a nice copy. A masterful storyteller, Simon Baatz has written a gripping account of the infamous Leopold and Loeb case. Using court records and recently discovered transcripts, Baatz shows how the pathological relationship between Leopold and Loeb inexorably led to their crime.
Softcover. Rochester, NY, Austen Press, 1st trade, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 139 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, with drawing. Black and white comics throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Princeton University Press , 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth-covered boards, gilt titles to spine on black ground, 350 pages., illustrated with tables. The book sets out to "describe the inception, organisation, and administration of the Nazi foreign labor program and the relationship of the program to the Nazi war economy and government". It uses captured documents as well as material published during the war. Spine slightly cocked, clean copy.
Hardcover. Privately Printed, 1st, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue paper-covered boards, black cloth spine with paper label, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, frontis portrait and other black-and-white illustrations. Glassine wrapper present, chipped and worn. These letters document the nascent history of Smith College, Northampton, Mass. Pages unopened. Clean copy.
Softcover. Charleston, SC, Arcadia Publishing, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w photos throughout. At the foot of the Huachuca Mountains, the U.S. Army founded one of the most crucial military posts for American expansion into the southwest frontier. Soldiers had been stationed in the region for decades, but in 1877 Fort Huachuca became the symbolic cornerstone of America's western domain. The Native American word huachuca, meaning "place of thunder," described the sporadic but marvelous electrical storms in the area, but the skies would not be the only thing booming. During the tumultuous campaigns to resolve American and Indian disputes, the U.S. infantry and famed Buffalo Soldiers faced off with Geronimo and his Apache nation in both tense negotiations and bitter combat. As time marched on, the fort developed into a permanent installation with barracks, modern training grounds, and other facilities to accommodate troop rotations and eventually became the innovative Center for Military Intelligence. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering, 304 pages. Clean and bright except for faded spine.
Hardcover. New York, Watson Guptill, 1st Ed., 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in 3 colors. 300 b&w illustrations, 24 in color. Profiles famous illustrators of the 1940s and includes their photo, examples of their work, a step-by-step demonstration of their working methods, and text written from interviews. Artists are: Constantin Alajalov, Boris Artzybasheff, John Atherton, Ernest Hamlin Baker, Walter Biggs, V. Bobri, Harrison Cady, Fred Cooper, Mario Cooper, Dean Cornwell, Gregory D'Alessio, Floyd Davis, Stevan Dohanos, Albert Dorne, Harvey Dunn, Carl Erickson, John Gannam, Glenn Grohe, George Giusti, Stuart Hay, Peter Helck, Earl Oliver Hurst, Walter Klett, Robert Lawson, Ervine Metzl, Wallace Morgan, William Oberhardt, Henry C. Pitz, George Price, Ray Prohaska, Robert Riggs, Leslie Ragan, Norman Rockwell, Martha Sawyers, Howard Scott, Amos Sewell, Donald Teague, Aldren A. Watson, Denys Wortman, and N. C. Wyeth. Top of spine has cloth frayed, rear edge of spine, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Faber & Faber, 1st, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 161 pages, black cloth, book slightly cocked. Dust jacket edgeworn with light chipping. INSCRIBED BY HARRIS ( "Joyce and Irving, with love, Wilson & Margaret 1990") on the title page to Joyce and Irving Adler. The book is heavily annotated and underlined in both ink and light pencil by Joyce who was a literary scholar who wrote two books on Harris.
Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, Reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket with only minor shelf wear. Clean, unmarked text.