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New Heven, Dumont/Yale Univ. Press, 1st , 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color, black & white illustrations. 365 pages. Scholarly essays on the four artists.

Softcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st pbk, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 430 pages, b&w illustrations. A legendary capital of the arts, Paris hosted some of the most legendary developments in world culture -- particularly at the beginning of the twentieth century, with the flowering of fauvism, cubism, dadaism, and surrealism. In Bohemian Paris, Dan Franck leads us on a vivid and magical tour of the Paris of 1900-1930, a hotbed of artistic creation where we encounter Apollinaire, Modigliani, Cocteau, Matisse, Picasso, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald, working, loving, and struggling to stay afloat. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by author. SIGNED BY LUCKE. Stories of adult bad behavior (and civil disobedience) throughout history done in a humorous vein. Colorful gouache paintings on each spread feature figures from Hannibal and Napoleon Bonaparte to Susan B. Anthony and Rosa Parks, in their "time-out" locations in jail or in exile.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Egielski. Very nice, clean condition. Wittily sending up the "child prodigy'' (if not biography, history, and high seriousness itself), Yorinks and Egielski trace the course of Minski's genius. A child of the 18th Century, Minski prankishly ``discovers'' gravity and electricity, soon followed by his serene introduction of the telephone, airplane, automobile, aspirin, light bulb, etc. Leonardo da Vinci appears in 18th-Century Vienna to applaud Minski's ``noodle.'' But when Minski hears the (historical) Farinelli sing, he labors feverishly on a formula to transform himself from scientist to artist, and achieves a triumphant apotheosis as ``unequaled singer.'' Egielski's exuberantly detailed, warmly colored pictures make the most of the anachronisms, the caricatures, and the Old World setting.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Volume VI in The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. 463 pages, illustrated with maps (one fold-out) and b&w photos. Gilt on spine with fading, lacks dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 336 pages, World War II action/adventure from one of the all-time great cartoonists. No dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. Chicago, U.S. Publishing House, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 250 pages, containing maps of all the states and territories of the United States, all the continents, empires, kingdoms and republics, together with maps of the leading cities of the United States, and useful and instructive colored diagrams, charts and engravings. With all populations according to 1890 census. Large format, brown pebbled cloth covers, minor wear.

Hardcover. Stichting Kunstboak , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Photography offers a thousand possible ways of looking at the society we live in. Foremost among the talents that have brought Calvin Dondo international recognition is the ability to put into his work all the respect he has for the individual identities of those he captures on film. This artist who reveals the nature of Zimbabwe today freely tells us of his country and the history concealed within it. This book presents a new world in which images are an essential component. This first monograph to be devoted to a contemporary Zimbabwean photographer will encourage others, for the excellent reason that it is time to look at Africa through the clearsighted viewfinder of those working on its development. Text in English, French, Dutch and German.

Hardcover. NY, Atria Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In this genre-defying work of cultural history, the chief film critic of Slate places comedy legend and acclaimed filmmaker Buster Keatons unique creative genius in the context of his time. Born the same year as the film industry in 1895, Buster Keaton began his career as the child star of a family slapstick act reputed to be the most violent in vaudeville. Beginning in his early twenties, he enjoyed a decade-long stretch as the director, star, stuntman, editor, and all-around mastermind of some of the greatest silent comedies ever made, including Sherlock Jr., The General, and The Cameraman. Even through his dark middle years as a severely depressed alcoholic finding work on the margins of show business, Keatons life had a way of reflecting the changes going on in the world around him. He found success in three different mediums at their creative peak: first vaudeville, then silent film, and finally the experimental early years of television. Remainder mark on top edge, otherwise like-new.

Hardcover. NY, Bulfinch Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 112 pages. Abelardo Morell makes magical camera obsucra images in darkened interiors. The deceptively simple process - he blacks out all the windows, leaving just a pinhole opening in one of them - produces photographs of astonishing, complex beauty. Because of the nature of refracted light, the world outside is projected upside down into the nearly blackened room, in essence converting the space into the interior of a camera. Morell then photographs the results with a large-format view camera, often requiring exposures of eight hours or more. Locations around the world were chosen for the interesting details and juxtapositions they would elicit - the Empire State Building lies across a bedspread in a midtown Manhattan interior; the Tower of London is imprinted on the walls of a room in the Tower Hotel; the countryside in rural Cuba, Morell's birthplace, plays across the walls of a crumbling chamber that is rich with the patina of its own history. Clean copy.

Softcover. Crewe VA, E & H Publishing, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 465 pages, b&w illustrations. Captured, Not Conquered is a survey history of the American prisoner of war experience in the First World War. It encompasses U.S. forces as well as Americans in foreign service. It contains tables, charts and photographs from official records and documents over 100 escapes from Imperial German captivity. It documents German intelligence interrogation tactics, techniques and procedures, Allied intelligence activities, POW life and treatment and the evolution of POW intelligence. Includes bibliography, notes and index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Milwaukee, Kalmbach Publishing, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dust jacket, bound in black cloth with gold gilt lettering on spine. Text block edges stained red. Facsimile reprint of 1940 edition. Very good condition, 1352 pages. Incomparable reference work on industrial and passenger railroad cars just before World War II. The extensive sections on Pullman and sleeping cars, private cars, motor trains, lighting, provide excellent details on the railroads of the period. Hundreds of detailed photos and dimensioned construction drawings. All types of rolling stock is covered: Box, Hopper, Gondola, Reefer, Stock, Flat, Passenger-Pullman, etc. Details of braking systems, draft gear, trucks, coupler styles and more. Distributorstamp on front fly leaf otherwise tight and clean.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 76 pages in color. The first half of Milo Manara's two-volume epic biography of the hot-tempered Italian master painter. It depicts Caravaggio's early years in Rome as he struggles to capture truth on canvas, only to have his art condemned to be burned by the Church. He then is forced to flee the city when he kills a man in righteous fury over the death of a prostitute. Discover the bawdy, swashbuckling life of one of the greatest painters in history through Manara's passionate, personal tribute to his artistic idol, Michelangelo Merisi, whom the world would come to know as Caravaggio.

Hardcover. London, Conway, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages. During World War II, the British government issued a series of public warnings in the form of witty posters by the brilliant cartoonist Fougasse, a.k.a. Cyril Kenneth Bird. ("Don't forget that walls have ears!" a fashionable woman whispers to a friend, as Hitler's face peers ominously out of the wallpaper.) This illustrated tribute to one of Britain's most popular artists begins with his celebrated WWII posters and continues with his later work for Punch magazine and elsewhere. An important contribution to the history of both cartooning and propaganda, it compares the relative effectiveness of hard-hitting American wartime designs versus Fougasse's light touch.

Hardcover. London, Cassell Petter & Galpin, unknown, unknown, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in one. Volume I is 576 pages. Volume II is 588 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering and design, corners and edges are worn and frayed. Top edge gilt. Heavy foxing on title page and frontispiece, light foxing on some pages throughout, otherwise inside is bright and clean with many b&w illustrations. Previous owner's sticker on front endpage, reads "Used in tour around the world, 1881-1882." Previous owner was author and traveller Joseph Cook. A impressive and thorough copy. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Chicago, Haymarket Books, 1st US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 471 pages. Brings together leftist scholars from a variety of fields to explore the many different aspects of the origins, trajectories and consequences of the First World War. The collection seeks to visualise the conflict and all its immediate consequences (such as the Bolshevik Revolution and ascendency of US hegemony) as a defining moment in 20th century world politics, rupturing and reconstituting the 'modern' epoch in its many instantiations. Appeals to general readers and those focused on Marxian theory and strategy and leftist histories of the war.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 498 pages, index, B&W photos and illustrations culled from studio archives and privste collections, show the image of New York city in the world of film. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, The Monacelli Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Hardcover, 383 pages, b&w illustrations. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. "Born in Paris in 1903, she was hired as an assistant to the famously visionary modern architect Le Corbusier when she was just twenty-four. She soon became one of his closest collaborators, and their ten year working relationship yielded some of the best-known icons of modern furniture. Perriand went on to become a world renowned designer in her own right, at a time when that was almost unheard of for a woman."

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 436 pages, b&w illustrations. The humiliation of Russia by separatist rebels in the Chechen War marked a key moment in Russian - and perhaps world - history. In this new analysis Anatol Lieven offers a riveting account of the war as a means to explore the painful fate of the post-Soviet state. Lieven looks into the long, troubled history of Russian-Chechen relations, noting that each side despised the other for largely cultural reasons (the Chechens have long been involved in organized crime in major Russian cities, whereas Russians have long tried to strip Chechnya of its resources). He notes that Chechen society has historically been militarized (one Armenian said to Lieven, "The men are always fighting and the women are cooking for them, nursing their wounds, and bringing up their children"), making the mountain people a formidable foe. In the meanwhile, writes Lieven, the Russian military suffered from low morale and from corruption of various kinds: Russian field soldiers sold their guns to Chechen guerrillas for vodka and currency, while Russian officers stole their soldiers' pay and Russian politicians skimmed off the top. This is an extraordinary look at a little-known conflict. Clean copy.

Softcover. Jefferson NC, McFarland & Company, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages, b&w illustrations. "With a chapter on each World Series involving a Chicago team, this book covers 100 years of October baseball in the Windy City, from the 1906 classicwhich pitted the North Siders against the South Siders-to 2005, when the White Sox ended 88 years of frustration. Contemporary accounts from newspapers and sports publications complement the author's informed commentary". Clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. Schell, Orville [Foreword]; Parks, Gordon [Commentary]; Stepto, Robert B. [Commentary]. Shortly before the end of the Second World War, Wayne Miller was awarded a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation to photograph 'The Way of Life of the Northern Negro'." This project documented the wartime migration of African Americans northward, specifically looking at the black community on the south side of Chicago, covering all the emotions in daily life. The people depicted are mostly ordinary people, but some celebrities appear, such as Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Paul Robeson. He was a contributor to Magnum Photos beginning in 1958. Stamped name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , HarperChildrens, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 240 pages. Clean, tight copy. As children, C.S. Lewis and his brother W.H. Lewis created the fantasy world of Boxen. This book collects stories and illustrations, history, geography etc of Boxen. Reproduced original illustrations by the authors. Introduction by Douglas Gresham. The History of Boxen by Walter Hooper.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Asia Center, 1st pbk, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 445 pages, b&w illustrations. In China Made, Karl Gerth argues that two key forces shaping the modern world-nationalism and consumerism-developed in tandem in China. Early in the twentieth century, nationalism branded every commodity as either "Chinese" or "foreign," and consumer culture became the place where the notion of nationality was articulated, institutionalized, and practiced. Based on Chinese, Japanese, and English-language archives, magazines, newspapers, and books, this first exploration of the historical ties between nationalism and consumerism reinterprets fundamental aspects of modern Chinese history and suggests ways of discerning such ties in all modern nations. Clean copy.