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Hardcover. NY, Dial Books, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 686 pages. The Uncle Remus tales, originally written down by Joel Chandler Harris, were first published over a hundred years ago, and serve as the largest collection of African-American folklore. In this four-book series, Julius Lester masterfully retains the flavor of the tales, while dropping the heavy dialect of the Harris originals and adding contemporary language and references-- ensuring that the stories will be understood and enjoyed by new generations of readers. The stories are beautifully illuminated by the slyly humorous full-color and black-and-white art of Jerry Pinkney.

Softcover. NY, Penguin Books, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages. A fascinating collection of news clippings from various papers (mostly from New York) detailing the 1908 National League pennant race. the author adds clarifications of references made by the scribes that may be unknown to today's reader and occasional footnotes but otherwise lets the articles speak for themselves. The 1908 baseball season culminated in a virtual three team tie until a tie breaker was played on October 8th. if you're a nostaglia buff, avid baseball fan or interested in popular styles of writing from long ago you will enjoy this book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Sussex, England, Amati, Ltd, 1st UK Edition, 1959-69, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1,344 pages (all books total). Hardcovers. A widely cited reference work providing information on approximately 9,000 violin makers. The work is based on the extensive notes of violinist and composer William Henley (1874-1957). Henley had in his youth studied with August Wilhelmj, and later became a professor of composition and principal of the violin at the Royal Academy in London. The book was the first to include a significant number of American craftsmen. B/w illustrations (plates) in vol. 7. Cover boards bound in burgundy cloth, gilt title on spine (slightly faded on vol. 1-5, but still quite bright on vol. 7. Bindings all tight. Spines straight. Some tanning and light foxing to edges from age, pages have some light foxing, especially on preliminary and hind pages, otherwise no markings. In beautiful condition.

Hardcover. Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 582 pages. Dark blue cloth covers, gilt titles. Very slight edgewear, previous owner's short ink inscription to front endpaper, pencil notations to rear endpaper, light pencil underlining to a handful of pages; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in white. 288 pages in b&w and color. In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees. Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically, with idiosyncratically deadpan titles, these "small books" were sought after, collected, and loved by Ruscha's fans and fellow artists. Over the past thirty years, close to 100 other small books that appropriated or paid homage to Ruscha's have appeared throughout the world. This book collects ninety-one of these projects, showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along with a description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha's books and an appendix listing all known Ruscha book tributes. These small books revisit, imitate, honor, and parody Ruscha in form, content, and title. Some rephotograph his subjects: Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Forty Years Later. Some offer a humorous variation: Various Unbaked Cookies (which concludes, as did Ruscha's Various Small Fires, with a glass of milk), Twentynine Palms (twenty-nine photographs of palm-readers' signs). Some say something different: None of the Buildings on Sunset Strip. Some reach for a connection with Ruscha himself: 17 Parked Cars in Various Parking Lots Along Pacific Coast Highway Between My House and Ed Ruscha's.

Hardcover. Madras, The Adyar Library, Reprint, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Text in Sanskrit and English. Previous owners name on front endpaper with brief note opposite. Light, neat notes in pen and pencil on some pages in first section of text. Overall, very good.

Hardcover. Claremont, Tracy, Chase and Company, 1st, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles in gilt on cover and spine. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Montpelier, State of Vermont, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with stamping and marking on endpapers. Illustrated with two black & white photographs. Features historical data, Vermont Roster 1898, etc. Green cloth covers with rubbing along edges. Clean, tight.

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Tuttle Co, 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 736 pages, leather-bound cover, gilt lettered spine. Definite wear to cover with leather rot clearly evident, chipping on edges and corners, discoloration of page edges, especially on endpages, previous owner's signature and inscription to front endpaper that has a tear at the gutter.

Hardcover. Boston, Briggs and Co., 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 352 pages, includes many ads with line illustrations. Black cloth spine with ad-illustrated cardboard covers, chipping to the paper covering the boards at edges. Otherwise clean, solid.

Hardcover. Boston, Union Publishing Co., 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 366 pages, includes many ads with line illustrations. Black cloth spine with ad-illustrated cardboard covers, chipping to the paper covering the boards at edges. Hinges cracked otherwise clean, solid.

Softcover. Montpelier VT, State of Vermont, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original color illustrated wrappers. 89 pages of text interspersed with dozens of b&w photos of Vermont landscapes. The copy details all the hotels, resorts and bed and breakfast accomodations, town by town. Information on rates and proprietors. Great reference, Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Montpelier, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Foxing and stains on covers. Clean, unmarked pages.

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated with 208 b&w photographs. Dust jacket has some wear and rubbing, unclipped. Great pictorial reference. Introduction and commentaries on the pictures by Betjeman.

Hardcover. New York, Facsimiles-Garland Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 volume hardcover set. 428+433+368 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper of all volumes. Faint pencil markings to a handful pages of each volume. Overall, a tight clean set.

Hardcover. Boston, NEHGS, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Genealogical reference. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Spine age darkened with foxing to cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Color and black and white pictures throughout. Originally born in Algeria, Yves Saint Laurent moved to Paris when he was 18, and only three years later he was handpicked by Christian Dior to take the reins as designer of his fashion house. Over time, Saint Laurent resurrected haute couture from the casual mores that predominated in the 1960s, but also offered chic cachet to ready-to-wear clothing. He was among the earliest of designers to incorporate non- European references into his work, and in 1983 he became the first living designer to be feted with a solo exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Vogue on Yves Saint Laurent is a stellar volume in the series from the editors of British Vogue, featuring 20,000 words of original biography and history and studded with more than 80 images from their unique archive of images taken by leading photographers.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. A colorful account of Le Corbusier's love affair with the automobile, his vision of the ideal vehicle, and his tireless promotion of a design that industry never embraced. Le Corbusier, who famously called a house "a machine for living," was fascinated-even obsessed-by another kind of machine, the automobile. His writings were strewn with references to autos: "If houses were built industrially, mass-produced like chassis, an aesthetic would be formed with surprising precision," he wrote in Toward an Architecture (1923). In his "white phase" of the twenties and thirties, he insisted that his buildings photographed with a modern automobile in the foreground. Le Corbusier moved beyond the theoretical in 1936, entering (with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret) an automobile design competition, submitting plans for "a minimalist vehicle for maximum functionality," the Voiture Minimum. Despite Le Corbusier's energetic promotion of his design to several important automakers, the Voiture Minimum was never mass-produced. This book is the first to tell the full and true story of Le Corbusier's adventure in automobile design. Architect Antonio Amado describes the project in detail, linking it to Le Corbusier's architectural work, to Modernist utopian urban visions, and to the automobile design projects of other architects including Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright. He provides abundant images, including many pages of Le Corbusier's sketches and plans for the Voiture Minimum, and reprints Le Corbusier's letters seeking a manufacturer. Le Corbusier's design is often said to have been the inspiration for Volkswagen's enduringly popular Beetle; the architect himself implied as much, claiming that his design for the 1936 competition originated in 1928, before the Beetle. Amado Lorenzo, after extensive examination of archival and source materials, disproves this; the influence may have gone the other way. Although many critics considered the Voiture Minimum a footnote in Le Corbusier's career, Le Corbusier did not. This book, lavishly illustrated and exhaustively documented, restores Le Corbusier's automobile to the main text.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Headline-making in every sense, the myriad works of art in which Andy Warhol used or referenced tabloids throughout his career are explored in this book as a coherent body for the first time. Obsessed with contemporary culture, Warhol celebrated the sensational as well as the mundane in every facet of society. His headline works, which were realized in a range of formats--from two-dimensional to time-based media such as film, video, and television--chart in real time the great shift in the technological means employed to deliver the news from the 1950s until the artist's death in 1987. This companion volume to a riveting exhibition brings together more than 80 works, from Warhol's earliest drawings and paintings of newspaper headlines, to his screen-printed canvases, photographs, and electronic media, and concluding with collaborative works he produced with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring illuminating essays and abundant reproductions of the headline works, as well as source materials and examples of Warhol's private scrapbooks of clippings, this unique and powerful volume demonstrates the rich intersection of mainstream media and fine art.

Hardcover. Beverly Hills CA, Petersen Galleries, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, the original softcover catalog, bound in faux-leather boards with gilt lettering. 124 pages. 40 color plates, plus numerous black and white photographs. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, October 30 through November 28, 1981. Great reference on the topic and much information on some lesser-known artists. Small ink price on front fly leaf, otherwise clean and bright.

Softcover. Paducah, Ky., Collector Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Softcover. Hanover NH, Dartmouth College, First Thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 149 pages. Softcover published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the graduation from Dartmouth College of Theodor Seuss Geisel. Grey cloth covers with silver titles to cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. New York, Van Nostrand, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages, illustrated throughout with numerous charts, illustrations and photos in b&w. Cream cloth, pictorial dust jacket. A very nice, tight copy.