Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 143 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Yellowing and wear to dust jacket edges. A collection of ghoulish cartoons conducts an irreverent tour of such American institutions as teenage dating, Las Vegas, automobiles, New England Calvinism, and witchcraft by Gahan Wilson.
Hardcover. London, Routledge, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 198 pages illustrated in color and b&w. Focusing on the house and museum and its considerable collections of architectural fragments, models, drawings folios and publications, this book is about thirteen Lincoln's Inn Fields in London, England, built in the early 1800s by the renowned eighteenth-century architect Sir John Soane. The book maps the influences, references, connections, extensions, and productions at play in Soane's house-museum. The house, still a public museum, was highly original in its period, and it continues to influence and impress architects and historians alike. Today's visitor is confronted by a dense, complex series of spaces, a strange aCCU1mulation of rooms, objects and effects. This book examines the ways in which Soane enlisted light, shadow, color, fiction and narrative, vistas, spatial complexity, the fragment, and the mirror to produce a spectacular space. No dj issued, clean copy.
Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st pbk, 2022, Softcover, 483 pages. An engaging, richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England, from the Anglo-Saxons to the mid-sixteenth century. Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. In this comprehensive study, Nicholas Orme shows how they came into existence, who staffed them, and how their buildings were used. He explains who went to church, who did not attend, how people behaved there, and how they--not merely the clergy--affected how worship was staged. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Cleveland OH, The Cleveland News Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, illustrated wrappers, 96 pages. Lettering & Embellishments Conceived & Executed by W. J. Morgan & Co. Covers worn with light soil, spine paper worn. Still a solid copy. Name on rear cover. Amusing humor from the turn of the last century. Profusely and humorously illustrated with many in-text sketches. Ezra Freemont Kendall was an American actor-comedian, humorist, playwright and author who was known for his depiction of typical New England Yankees. During his time in vaudeville Kendall was said to have been among the highest paid monologist in America.
Hardcover. NY, Four Winds Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated biography of England's Queen Elizabeth I, written for young readers. Art by Diane Stanley. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harmony Books, 1wt, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages. full blue cloth, silver lettering on spine. Illustrated with B&W and color photographs and reproductions. A visual tour of the great country English houses through the ages. Clean copy.
Softcover. Washington DC, United States Air Force, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated, approximately 300 stapled pages. A guide to the SAC's worldwide bases, circa 1959. 8 1/2 X 11", three hole punched. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos of airfields, barracks, NCO clubs, housing for airmen and other facilities covering bases in the states, England, Guam, Germany, etc. Also maps showing locations. Not classified in the early days of the Cold War. Front fly leaf with and introduction by Thomas Power, Commanding General.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 255 pages. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Second paperback printing. Bright and clean. Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543), one of the most versatile and admired painters of the Northern Renaissance, trained under his father in Augsburg and then worked for leading patrons in Switzerland before settling in England as Court Painter to Henry VIII. To commemorate the five-hundredth anniversary of the artist's birth, Oskar Batschmann and Pascal Griener offer this richly illustrated book the first comprehensive monograph on the artist to appear in more than forty years which is a major advance in our understanding of Holbein's contribution to European art.
Hardcover. London, England, Adam & Charles Black, 1st Larger Size Edition, 1909, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Top edge gilt. Deckled edges. Previous owner's book plate and pen marks on front endpapers. Front hinge cracked, binding still good. Red decorated cover boards, gilt title on spine (faded). Pages have some foxing and tanning from age. Illustrations still very vivid and in excellent condition. Artist memoir and beautiful look at her life in England, painted by her own hand. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
hardcover. NY, Appleton-Century, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 166 pages. Black & white illust. by Reginald Birch. Dust jacket worn, large chunk gone from front panel. Previous owner's bookplate on half-title page.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century, 1st, 1937, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 166 pages. Black & white illustrations by Reginald Birch. Edgewear. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping, soiling. Brodart cover.
Softcover. Old Lyme. CT, Florence Griswold Museum, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 89 pages, b&w illustrations, 29 color plates, illustrated tissue guard. Light wear to wrapper corners. Else a very clean, tight copy. A book examining the life and work of an artist noted for his joie de vivre and for his versatility as an artist from winter views of New England to undersea paintings of the Bahamas. 89 pages, 29 color & 40 b/w illustrations with unique color frontispiece on vellum.
Hardcover. NY, Spanierman Gallery, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 112 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Illustrated, laminated boards, no dust jacket issued. Clean, tight copy. This is a beutifully produced catalog of a NY retrospective for the Australian/British/American painter Hayley Lever (1876-1958). His painting also crossed boundaries including elements of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism & Tonalism. Perhaps it was this refusal to sit in one box that accounts for his being so nearly forgotten. There are many lovely pictures here, mostly of St Ives & the coasts of New England.
Hardcover. London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green boards with beige buckram spine, black lettering on spine and front cover. 425 pages with index. The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks. Diagrams by the author and numerous illustrations, colored lithographs and collotype reproductions from ancient examples. Gutter cracked at half-title page, previous owner's name otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 3rd Edition reprint, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 741 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrated frontispiece. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Pages clean, unmarked. Binding good. Spine straight. Dark blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket has some agewear, price-clipped. An impressive eye-witness account of life in India at the turn of the century. It combines descriptions of the Hindu religion and Hindu sociology with masterful portraits of the intimate lives of the people among whom the author lived.
Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2nd pr., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with elaborate decoration in gilt, green and black on front cover and spine. Pages are deckle-edged with gilt on top. Frontis. illustration of Plymouth in 1622 with tissue guard. Information on Maine: Portland; Massachusetts: Rutland, Salem, Cambridge, Concord, Boston, Plymouth, Cape Cod, Deerfield; Rhode Island: Providence, Newport; and Connecticut: Hartford, New Haven. B/W illustrations. 599 pages, indexed. Extra illustrated by former owner with photo clippings tipped-in. Large folding map titled "Boston and its Environs in 1775" facing page 206. Fascinating histories of Early American towns, biographies of individual Pilgrims and settlers. Clean, tight copy.
London, Baynard Press, 1st, N.D., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 124 pages, Illustrated with 5 b&w portraits of Generals, 15 fold-out maps in color. Label on front cover is torn, chipped, with paper loss to 3 sides. Otherwise book is very good with all maps in excellent condition. Scarce.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Brothers, 1st Edition, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2326 total pages. 4 volume set. Hardcovers. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. B/w illustrated fold-out map in volume 1. Decorated marbled edges. Decorated endpapers. Decorated cover boards with leather corners and quarter cloths. Leather spines with raised bands, gilt title and decorations. Spines straight. Light tanning from age to pages.
Hardcover. NY, Walker and Company, 1st US, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w and with 17 full color plates. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, dust jacket edge wear and minor foxing on top and fore edge. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover set. Volume I: 558 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by Hogarth. Dust jacket quite worn along edges with some tape repair to small tears. Clean, tight copy. Volume II: 557 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of works by Hogarth. Fore-edge shows slightest foxing. Dust jacket worn along edges with small tears and creases. Clean, tight copy. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT AND SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages illustrated in color and b&w. One page(128) creased in production. This is the first book to tell the story of British photography as a coherent whole, from the pioneers of the early 19th century to photographers today who display their images on websites, on computer screens?even iPods. The authors have traveled the length and breadth of the UK, researching both well-known and forgotten bodies of work. Many famous names are here: Henry Fox Talbot, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Bill Brandt, Madame Yeronde, Angus McBean, Susan Lipper, and Tom Hunter are just a few. Among the works shown are postcards, family albums, photographic illustrations in books, medical photographs, wartime propaganda, and social documents. Through their exhaustive research the authors demonstrate the extraordinary range and diversity of roles that photography has played in British cultural life over the past 150 years.
Hardcover. Chiselbury, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards, 356 pages. An amazing real-life story of espionage, of courage and resistance, and of friendship and love. It pulls back the veil on the hidden history of the struggle for the identity of the Resistance in France. The life of 'André' Joseph Scheinmann is more intriguing and compelling than any work of fiction. His true-life story of derring-do starts as a Jewish youth in Munich, whose family moves to France in 1933 to escape the Nazi tide. He joins the French army at the outbreak of WW2 and escapes from a prisoner-of war camp after the bitterly brief fight for France in the summer of 1940. André becomes a spy and saboteur for the British and Free French whilst working undercover as translator and liaison with the German high command at the Brittany headquarters of the French National Railroads. Summoned by the British, he clandestinely crosses the Channel for initiation and training as an MI6 agent in England. His network betrayed during his absence, he is arrested on his return to France. André then begins an even more perilous journey with interrogation in Gestapo prisons and the little-known Natzweiler concentration camp in Alsace, before being transferred to Dachau and Allach, ahead of the advancing Allies. Illustrated with over 120 vintage and color photographs and letters. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Harvill Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a translucent dust jacket, 165 pages. Illustrated with Steve Pyke's b&w photographs. SIGNED BY BOTH O'GRADY AND PYKE on the title page. Stranded in a dismal flat in England, the protagonist remembers his happy childhood in Ireland, the rough living and working conditions in England, and his only love. The language is quite simple and often Hiberno Irish, but deeply imaginative and so lyrical, that the line between prose and poetry gets blurred. The beautiful black/white pictures added to this book, and the author's ability to portray Irish music help to give an insight into Irish culture. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, The Book Service / MacDonald & Co. / Webb & Bower, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.