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Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 255 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Remainder marks on top edge at spine. Light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Kalamazoo, Ihling Bros. & Everard, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 524 pages. Hardcover. Brown leather covers with rubbing along edges. Narrow 1" separation at top of front cover hinge.Gilt title on spine. Clean, tight copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Middlebury, VMSBA, 1st, 1887, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 414 pages. Features black & white illustrations. Leather covers, with some rubbing to edges. Spine strip missing. Clean, tight copy.

New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages, illustrated throughout. A monograph on the artwork of James McMullan as well as a step-by-step guide to his approach to the design process with his reference materials, sketches, photographs of the artist at work, and the finished project. Introductory interview by Milton Glaser. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, minor foxing on top edge. Otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Softcover. Shelburne, Shelburne Museum, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, 180 pages. Softcover exhibition catalog. Features full color photographs and information related to furniture manufactured in the state of Vermont up to 1850. Light wear to covers. Clean, unmarked text. A nice copy.

Hardcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 3rd Revised, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 285 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Minor yellowing to dust jacket edges and spine. Previous owners inscription in pen to top edge of front flyleaf. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. 206 photographs, 16 in color. Follows the developments in the art and science of photography from the invention of the wet-collodion process through the evolution of dry plates.

Hardcover. New York, Dryden Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 114 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 66 black & white photographs. Previous owner has carefully glued-in additional black & white photographic images of related Chinese bronzes to preliminary pages front and rear, and to a few random pages. Dust jacket with chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover.

Hardcover. La Salle, Illinois, Open Court, 1st, 1974, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 151 pages. No. 14 of the Paul Carus Lecture Series. Tears on dust jacket and some foxing on rear of dust jacket. Dust jacket rubbing on front. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Small notes and markings in pencil on about 20 pages. Light creasing on top edge. Nice reading copy.

Hardcover. Boston, G. K. Hall & Co., 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 632 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth. Minimal wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Kampala Uganda, Saben's Directories, 1st, 1960, Hardcover, 312, 74, , 64 pages. Original publisher's brown cloth boards with black lettering at front and gilt lettering and illustration at spine. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Laid in is the envelope holding 3 folding maps: Uganda Protectorate Map, East African Railway Map, Kampala Street Plan. Some tanning at edges of pages. Binding is slightly cocked where maps were laid in. Previous owner's name inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Highlands Ranch CO, Santa Fe Railway Historical and Modeling Society, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Soft Cover. Spiral bound. 288 pages. Oblong 4to. B&w illustrations, photos throughout. Clean copy. Invaluable, handsome reference book on the refrigerator cars of the ATSF, from 1884 through 1971. Chapters cover 19th century cars, 20th century truss rod cars, USRA style cars, original ARA type design, USRA rebuilds (1935-50), ARA design rebuilds (1950-53), steel 40' cars (1935-53), 50' cars (1931-46), modernizing the fleet (1954-59), and ice cars (1908-71). With 9 appendices on lettering, rosters, slogan assignments by car, all-time reefer fleet totals, beer cars, diagrams, etc.

Softcover. NY/Oxford, Osprey Publishing, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 64 pages illustrated in color and b&w. An unrivaled illustrated reference source on fighting men and commanders of the period. The Sassanians ruled the last great imperial Empire of Persia before the Arab conquests of the 7th century. Rome's only equal in the classical world, the Sassanian Empire had an enormous impact on the development of architecture, mythology, arts, music, military tactics and technology. Within the Sassanian military, the cavalry was the most influential element, and Sassanian cavalry tactics were adopted by the Romans, Arabs, and Turks. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London/ New York, Dorling Kindersley, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A year by year overview of critical science fiction works (and movies and TV series), and a synopsis of all the major writers of serious,quality science fiction up to the mid-1990s (when the book was published). An invaluable reference for the avid science fiction fan, especially one who wishes to learn about the many overlooked, but decent, writers of yesteryear.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 330 pages. Engravings and illustrations throughout, some in color. Minor cover and corner edge wear and soiling. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Minor stain on bottom corner from page 305 to rear endpaper. Otherwise, all pages clean and binding tight.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 624 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture Foundation , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, navy blue cloth cover, silver lettering on spine, 156 pages. Features essays by Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin. Includes over 100 duotones taken from throughout the early years of Salgado's career. From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy bags of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa now swallowed by the encroaching desert, where emaciated, starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastiao Salgado explores the live of the planet's often ignored people with a critical eye and an empathetic heart. 'Published on the occasion of a major exhibition presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 4-December 2, 1990.'/ Includes bibliographical references (page 156). VG, dj has some edge wear, cover and pages clean and tight. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London, UK, Faber and Faber, 1st UK, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 238 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red cloth, gilt title to spine, white pictorial dust jacket. Slight shelf-wear to edges, dust jacket worn, with mild soiling and light bump to upper corner, price clipped. Overall a nice, tight copy

Hardcover. London, Dorling Kindersley, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages, hardcover with an unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated technological narrative. Unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 468 pages, b&w illustrations, some color. Illustrated from photographs, paintings, and other works of art, portraits, and plans. Eastlake (1793-1865), an artist, scholar, collector, and public administrator, served as president of the Royal Academy and the first Director of the National Gallery. Robertson covers the artists, writers, scholars, and statesmen of Eastlake's Victorian art world, as well as exhibitions and sales, critical controversies and art-historical writing. With appendices which include checklists of Eastlake's own paintings and private collection, a record of the National Gallery's acquisitions of 1824-1865, and much more. Includes bibliographical references and index. Rubbing, edge wear to dust jacket; closed tears to bottom of spine and rear top right corner. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. NY, Harcourt Brace and World, 1st pbk, 1966, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 261 pages. For whom was slavery profitable? Did it aid the slave, slaveowner, nonslaveholder, the South or all America? The readings here seek to clarify such questions. Front cover with light wear to fore-edge otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Tarrytown NY, Sleepy Hollow Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 310 pages. includes index, bibliography, b/w illustrations throughout the book plus middle section of full-color photos. Covers Phillipsburg Manor, Upper Mills & Van Cortland Manor and Washington Irving's Sunnyside.

Hardcover. New York, Assouline, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 349 pages, color illustrations throughout. DVD included. Representing Jean-Paul Goude's life and work from the late 1960s up to the present, the book spans Goude's years at Esquire; his revolutionary work with Grace Jones, his videos for MTV and for Azzedine Alaia; his advertising work for Chanel, and more. With text and images by Goude himself, So Far So Goude is the definitive book on the work of an extraordinarily innovative, talented and unorthodox man. With more than 350 illustrations in full color, this book is a fascinating reference for anyone interested in fashion illustration, photography, and all other avenues of commercial design and advertising.

Hardcover. New York, Assouline, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 349 pages, color illustrations throughout. DVD included. Representing Jean-Paul Goude's life and work from the late 1960s up to the present, the book spans Goude's years at Esquire; his revolutionary work with Grace Jones, his videos for MTV and for Azzedine Alaia; his advertising work for Chanel, and more. With text and images by Goude himself, So Far So Goude is the definitive book on the work of an extraordinarily innovative, talented and unorthodox man. With more than 350 illustrations in full color, this book is a fascinating reference for anyone interested in fashion illustration, photography, and all other avenues of commercial design and advertising.