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Fine Bird Books 1700-1900 by: Sitwell, Sacheverell and others
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Fine Bird Books 1700-1900
by: Sitwell, Sacheverell and others

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st revised, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. An illustrated guide to collecting colorplate bird books. 52 full-page color illustrations, 180 pages. A reprint of the 1953 edition with a revised text. An excellent reference book.

Record # 66999

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Fish Decoy, The: Volume II by: Kimball, Art, Brad Kimball, Scott Kimball

Fish Decoy, The: Volume II
by: Kimball, Art, Brad Kimball, Scott Kimball

Hardcover. Boulder Junction, Wisconsin, Aardvark Publications, Incorporated, 1st , 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Very minor wear on spine edge and cover corners. Lots of pictures, almost all in color. In excellent condition, a very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852257

Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00 

Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804-1865: American Marine Painter by: Wilmerding, John
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Fitz Hugh Lane, 1804-1865: American Marine Painter
by: Wilmerding, John

Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 100 pages, b&w illustrations. A checklist of 387 paintings, lithographs, watercolors and drawings, with appendix including excerpts from Lane's will and bibliography. One of Wilmerding's first of many works, this is a pioneering monograph on the artist, best known for his luminous marine paintings. Clean copy.

Record # 396764

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Focal Encyclopedia of Film and Television Techniques, The by: Spottiswoode, Raymond (Ed.)
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Focal Encyclopedia of Film and Television Techniques, The
by: Spottiswoode, Raymond (Ed.)

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.

Record # 200162

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Folk Art in the Soviet Union by: Razina, T. M. (Tat?eiiana Mikhaaeilovna)
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Folk Art in the Soviet Union
by: Razina, T. M. (Tat?eiiana Mikhaaeilovna)

Hardcover. New York, Aurora, 1st, Aurora, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 459 pages, 1430 illustrations, including 705 plates in full color. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with small scratch to front cover. Excellent reference copy.

Record # 460605

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Forty Years on the Pacific: The Lure of the Great Ocean by: Coffee, Frank
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Forty Years on the Pacific: The Lure of the Great Ocean
by: Coffee, Frank

Hardcover. San Francisco, Oceanic Publishing Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with white rules and lettering, 375 pages, b&w illustrations. Errata slip tipped-in. The book is a comprehensive reference guide for travelers interested in exploring the Pacific Ocean and its surrounding regions. The author shares his personal experiences and observations from his four decades of traveling the Pacific, including his encounters with the people, cultures, and landscapes of the various countries and islands he visited. In addition to providing practical travel advice, the book also offers a glimpse into the history, politics, and social customs of the Pacific region. With its vivid descriptions and engaging storytelling, a delightful read for armchair travelers. Clean copy.

Record # 472137

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Frazetta Book Cover Art: The Definitive Reference by: J. David Spurlock and Frank Frazetta
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Frazetta Book Cover Art: The Definitive Reference
by: J. David Spurlock and Frank Frazetta

Hardcover. Mesquite TX, Vanguard Productions, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. This book is devoted solely to the artist's single, most beloved venue, Book Cover Art. By focusing on this specific area, the book boasts room enough to feature every single one of Frazetta's famous and highly collectable illustrated book covers, beautifully and authentically reproduced at a larger size on a page to itself. All are presented in chronological order which, gives readers a unique ability to follow Frazetta's evolution as an artist. Accompanying text includes commentary, original publication titles, publishers, dates, and rare quotes from the artist himself. For this Definitive Reference to feature the Complete Collection of Frazetta's decades of book cover illustrations, in a single beautifully produced volume, is a dream come true for Frazetta fans, art and book collectors and historians alike.

Record # 379591

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00 

Frazetta: The Definitive Reference (Vanguard Classics) by: James Bond (Author), David Winiewicz (Author)
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Frazetta: The Definitive Reference (Vanguard Classics)
by: James Bond (Author), David Winiewicz (Author)

Softcover. Vanguard, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 208 pages. Fantastic reference for artists; great entertainment for fans. The work of Frank Frazetta--THE greatest heroic-fantasy artist of all time--has influenced generations of artists, fans, designers, and movie directors. Now more than 400 of his unforgettable images have been collected in Frazetta, The Definitive Reference. With essays by experts and collectors, this one-of-a-kind volume traces the entire arc of Frazettas career. From his early 1950s comics; to his breathtaking book covers featuring Tarzan, Pellucidar, King Kong, and John Carter of Mars; to his 1960s monster mags, including Creepy, Eerie, and Vampirella; to his major movie posters, including After the Fox, The Night They Raided Minsky's and Whats New Pussycat?; and, of course, his revolutionary Conan paintings--its all here. Frazetta - The Definitive Reference overflows with fantastic images, an index of every published Frazetta work and insightful commentary on this fantasy-art icon. Compiled by James A. Bond (no relation to the international spy). Edited by J. David Spurlock and Andrew Steven with a foreword by Frazetta close personal friend Dr. David Winiewicz.

Record # 361272

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

From Mother Goose To Dr. Seuss - Children's Book Covers 1860-1960 by: Darling, Harold
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From Mother Goose To Dr. Seuss - Children's Book Covers 1860-1960
by: Darling, Harold

Softcover. San Francisco, COLOR, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 173 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Color illustrations. Tight copy.

Record # 396512

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

From Mother Goose To Dr. Seuss - Children's Book Covers 1860-1960 by: Darling, Harold
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From Mother Goose To Dr. Seuss - Children's Book Covers 1860-1960
by: Darling, Harold

Softcover. San Francisco, COLOR, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 173 pages. Softcover with light edge wear to paper wrappers. Color illustrations. Tight copy.

Record # 203256

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

G.A. Henty: A Bibliography by: Dartt, Robert L.
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G.A. Henty: A Bibliography
by: Dartt, Robert L.

Hardcover. Cedar Grove NJ/UK, Dar-Web/John Sherratt & Son, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 184 pages, b&w illustrations. In a very good, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 405897

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Gas Engine Construction: A Practical Treatise describing the theory and principles of the action of gas engines of various types and the Design and Construction of a half horse power gas engine by:
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Gas Engine Construction: A Practical Treatise describing the theory and principles of the action of gas engines of various types and the Design and Construction of a half horse power gas engine
by:

Hardcover. New York, Norman W. Henley & Co., 2nd Ed., 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 304 pages plus publisher's ads for similar books in rear. Black and white technical drawings and plates throughout. This is the revised and enlarged edition of the 1900 book. Textured dark green cloth with gilt title on spine. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 403624

Price: $100.00
Price: $100.00 

Gautama's Nyaua Sutras (With Vatsuayana-Bhasya) by: Jha, Ganganatha (English translation with revised notes)
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Gautama's Nyaua Sutras (With Vatsuayana-Bhasya)
by: Jha, Ganganatha (English translation with revised notes)

Hardcover. POONA, Oriental Book Agency, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 567 pages. Hardcover. Boards bound at spine with orange quartercloth, has fading and foxing to spine from age. Gray cardboard cover boards (some agewear). Pages and edges have some tanning, but otherwise unmarked. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. This work is a product of seven manuscripts. It begins with the English tranlation of lectures on Nyayasutras by Gautama. The author has also used his notes from Bodhasiddhi.

Record # 99164

Price: $150.00
Price: $150.00 

Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance by: Schwarz, A.B. Christa
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Gay Voices of the Harlem Renaissance
by: Schwarz, A.B. Christa

Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 209 pages. This groundbreaking study explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men. Christa Schwarz focuses on Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Richard Bruce Nugent and explores these writers' sexually dissident or gay literary voices. The portrayals of men-loving men in these writers' works vary significantly. Schwarz locates in the poetry of Cullen, Hughes, and McKay the employment of contemporary gay code words, deriving from the Greek discourse of homosexuality and from Walt Whitman. By contrast, Nugent-the only "out" gay Harlem Renaissance artist-portrayed men-loving men without reference to racial concepts or Whitmanesque codes. Schwarz argues for contemporary readings attuned to the complex relation between race, gender, and sexual orientation in Harlem Renaissance writing. Clean copy.

Record # 381605

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Gerhard Richter Editionen 1965-1993 by: Butin, Hubertus
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Gerhard Richter Editionen 1965-1993
by: Butin, Hubertus

Hardcover. Kunsthalle Bremen & Verlag Fred Jahn, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black cloth with dust jacket. Text in German by numerous contributors. illustrated checklist to the exhibition. 170 pages with 69 four-color plates and numerous b/w reference illustrations. GERMAN LANGUAGE.

Record # 362296

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Giovanni Pisano Sculptor by: Ayrton, Michael/Henry Moore/Ilario Bessi
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Giovanni Pisano Sculptor
by: Ayrton, Michael/Henry Moore/Ilario Bessi

Hardcover. New York, Weybright and Talley, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 370 black & white plates and a color frontispiece. Introduction by Henry Moore. Photographs by Ilario Bessi in collaboration with Henry Moore. Brown canvas, spine lettered in gilt, upper cover blocked in gilt with publishers' device, Dust jacket with light surface wear to back cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611838

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Glorious Visions: John Soane's Spectacular Theater by: Furjan, Helene
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Glorious Visions: John Soane's Spectacular Theater
by: Furjan, Helene

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.

Record # 386020

Price: $65.00
Price: $65.00 

Golden Dictionary, The - 1030 Words and more than 1500 pictures in color by: Walpole/ Miss Elliott, Ellen Wales
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Golden Dictionary, The - 1030 Words and more than 1500 pictures in color
by: Walpole/ Miss Elliott, Ellen Wales

NY, Golden Press, 37th p.r, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated pictorial boards, 94 pages. Mild edgewear to covers. Color illustrations by Gertrude Eliott. Clean copy.

Record # 201485

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Gopsill's Philadelphia Business Directory for 1897 by: James Gopsill

Gopsill's Philadelphia Business Directory for 1897
by: James Gopsill

Hardcover. Philadelphia, James Gopsill's Sons, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 581 pages, includes many ads. Black cloth spine with ad-illustrated cardboard covers. Covers edgeworn, interior bright and clean.

Record # 383923

Price: $40.00
Price: $40.00 

Government Lawyer by: Hoffman, Malcolm A.
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Government Lawyer
by: Hoffman, Malcolm A.

Hardcover. New York, Bookman Associates, Inc., 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 242 pages. Page after copyright page torn out. Rubbing to corners and spine. Small tear to paper at front hinge.

Record # 507366

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Grand Army Blue Book, Containing the Rules and Regulations of the Grand Army of the Republic, The by: Black, John C.
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Grand Army Blue Book, Containing the Rules and Regulations of the Grand Army of the Republic, The
by: Black, John C.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, Reprint 1904, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's inscription, Sgt. A. A. Niles, 9th Vermont Infantry, Civil War Veteran, Morrisville Vermont on front flyleaf. Gilt title to spine. Light foxing to edges throughout. Overall, clean tight copy.

Record # 750083

Price: $120.00
Price: $120.00 

Graphis Poster Annual 2002 by: Porciello (Ed.), Michael
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Graphis Poster Annual 2002
by: Porciello (Ed.), Michael

Hardcover. Graphis Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, 250 color plates featuring the best poster art of the year from all over the world. Like new in publisher's shrinkwrap. Outstanding creative works by world-renowned designers, selected from thousands of entries and reproduced in full-color, large format reproductions. As a contemporary reference and source of inspiration for successful promotional graphic design, Poster Annual 2002 is conveniently organized into a range of client categories ? from sports, film, architecture, and fashion, to festivals, museums, retail, public service, competitions, and corporate communications. This edition features extensive captions, detailed indexes, and informative credits, making it a valuable resource for designers, art directors, and clients.

Record # 402288

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Grass Scapes - Gardening with Ornamental Grasses by: Quinn, Martin/Catherine Macleod
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Grass Scapes - Gardening with Ornamental Grasses
by: Quinn, Martin/Catherine Macleod

Softcover. Batavia, Ball Publishing, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 191 pages. Softcover. Profusely illustrated, full color photographs, throughout. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Light toning to covers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750348

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Great American Paperback, The by: Lupoff, Richard A.
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Great American Paperback, The
by: Lupoff, Richard A.

Hardcover. Portland, Collectors Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Large hardcover, 319 pages. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy. Chronicles the growth of the paperback industry from its 19th century forerunners to its glory days of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Extensively illustrated in color with interesting commentary. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 608688

Price: $80.00
Price: $80.00