Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 208 pages, 174 color plates. Window-Shopping through the Iron Curtain presents a selection of more than 100 images of shop windows shot by David Hlynsky during four trips taken between 1986 and 1990 to Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, East Germany, and Moscow. Using a Hasselblad camera, Hlynsky captured the slow, routine moments of daily life on the streets and in the shop windows of crumbling Communist countries. The resulting images could be still-lifes representing the intersection of a Communist ideology and a consumerist, Capitalist tool-the shop window-with the consumer stuck in the middle. Devoid of overt branding or calculated seduction, the shop windows were typically adorned with traditional yet incongruous symbols of cheer: homey lace curtains, paper flowers, painted butterflies, and pictures of happy children. Some windows were humble in their simple offerings of loaves and tinned fishes; others were zanily artistic, as in the modular display of military shirts in a Moscow storefront; and some illustrated intense professional pride, such as a sign in a Prague beauty salon depicting a pedicurist smiling fiendishly over an imperfect sole. The photographs are accompanied by essays by art historian Martha Langford and cultural studies specialist Jody Berland, as well as Hlynsky's own account of his time as a flaneur in the shopping plazas of the collapsing Soviet empire-"a vast ad-hoc museum of a failing utopia" that in 1989 began to close forever. No dj issued.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pink cloth covers with black drawing and lettering, 55 pages illustrated in b&w by Mircea Vasiliu. This copy INSCRIBED BY THE ILLUSTRATOR WITH A DRAWING OF A SEAGULL CARRYING A FLOWER TO FELLOW ILLUSTRATOR KURT WIESE, dated 1957. Quite a scarce book even without the signature. Clean, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, blue cloth stamped in dark blue, 89 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Berta and Elmer Hader. Previous owner's inscription front endpaper. Mild spine faded. Corners and spine rubbed.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in embossed green boards with a yellow cloth spine. No dust jacket, but both flaps glued nicely to front fly leaf, the rear one with a photo of Tudor. Ageless poems selected by Tudor, and interpreted artistically and charmingly in many pencil and charcoal drawings, and five color plates. 119 pages, over 50 poets are represented. Color card art by artist pasted to inside front cover.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY GRAEME BASE, WILLIAM JOYCE, MICHAEL MCCURDY, ROBERT SABUDA AND SUSAN JEFFERS. Crisp, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , Hyperion, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 63 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrated by Brian Selznick. SIGNED BY BOTH WELLS AND SELZNICK. Tight copy.
NY, Garden City, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. 64 pages, illustrated in color by Lee Ames. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Light tape residue where dust jacket was taped to covers.
Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Inc., reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 40 pages. Poems selected by Barbara Rogansky with illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Light edgewear and soil to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Light edgewear and soil to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Young Scott Books, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-Paginated. INSCRIBED BY HURD ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Color illustrations by Clement Hurd. Dust jacket shows wear with darkened paper and small tears. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alan E. Cober. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping and spine a bit sunned.
Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alan E. Cober. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping and spine a bit sunned.
Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Delightful chronicle of a cat named Revey- a red tiger with white shirt, white shoes & splotch of red on nose - and the story of a year in his life & how very much Revey (& his siblings) are intrigued with snow. All told with b&w photos by the author.
Softcover. Hollywood CA, Walt Disney Enterprises, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folio, stiff pictorial linen-like covers, slight rubbing else very good. Illustrated by the Disney Studios with 12 almost full page color illustrations including covers. Donald Duck appears in large bill and Peter Pig is also featured. The number 888 appears on bottom of front cover. Clean.
Hardcover. NY , F. A. Stokes, 2nd pr., 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with dust jacket. B&W drawings by Wyncie King. Ex-lib with stamping and marking, residue to end papers. Dust jacket shows chipping and chunks missing from top-bottom spine, all four corners. Gutter crack and light soil internally.
Hardcover. New York, Parent's Magazine, 1st, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover with no dust jacekt. Heavy soil on top and spine. Fraying to corners. Gutter crack in front, otherwise good copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth decorated in gilt, orange, black and gray. 353 pages. Publisher catalogue at rear. Frontis, map & 6 b&w illustrations by Wal Paget. A bright, clean book in the original pictorial binding.
Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's and Sons, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Illustrated by Katherine Milhous. Book club edition as per dust jacket and spine, but copyright page shows "A." Green cloth covers with orange creche design on front and orange lettering on spine. Dust jacket back cover lightly soiled, top edges worn. Boards are slightly bowed. End papers lightly foxed, pages in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing , 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Color illustrations by Frank Schoonover. White stamped lettering, decoration worn on front, light fraying to green cover boards, light soil. Internally good.
Hardcover. NY, Liveright, Inc./Junior Literary Guild, Book Club Ed., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 313 pages, black cloth, yellow lettering, Decorative endpapers. B&w illustrations By Raphael Doktor. An illustrated history of Jesuit missions in North America starting in 1632. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st US, 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth illustrated boards with gilt lettering on cover and spine. 380 pages plus 26 pages of publisher's catalogs at end. 10 b/w illustrations by William Rainey and three one page maps. Spine a bit faded, light soil to rear cover,otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Blackie & Son, reprint, nd, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped in 2-colors. 384 pages illustrated with three maps and a color frontis and 4 b&w plates by William Rainey. Clean copy.
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