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Hardcover. Vermillion SD, Buteo Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear. Book is clean, unmarked. A comprehensive record detailing the classification, migration, distribution, ecology, breeding, ecology and conservation of wild geese. The 16 full color identification plates help support the excellent chapter concerned with adult and first winter birds as well the plumage of all ages and species of birds and their variants. Good reference copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press , 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1911, famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted one of the first animated cartoons, based on his sophisticated newspaper strip "Little Nemo in Slumberland," itself inspired by Freud's recent research on dreams. McCay is largely forgotten today, but he unleashed an art form, and the creative energy of artists from Otto Messmer and Max Fleischer to Walt Disney and Warner Bros.' Chuck Jones. Their origin stories, rivalries, and sheer genius, as Reid Mitenbuler skillfully relates, were as colorful and subversive as their creations-from Felix the Cat to Bugs Bunny to feature films such as Fantasia-which became an integral part and reflection of American culture over the next five decades. Pre-television, animated cartoons were aimed squarely at adults; comic preludes to movies, they were often "little hand grenades of social and political satire." Early Betty Boop cartoons included nudity; Popeye stories contained sly references to the injustices of unchecked capitalism. "During its first half-century," Mitenbuler writes, "animation was an important part of the culture wars about free speech, censorship, the appropriate boundaries of humor, and the influence of art and media on society." During WWII it also played a significant role in propaganda. The Golden Age of animation ended with the advent of television, when cartoons were sanitized to appeal to children and help advertisers sell sugary breakfast cereals.

NY, Sterling, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Acclaimed artist and naturalist Jim Arnosky has created a breathtaking and informative reference on the subject, filled with intricately drawn prints from creatures both wild and domestic, as well as large-scale paintings of the animals in their environment. Best of all, many of the tracks are true to size, so children can compare the trace left by a big-footed polar bear (whose paws act as snowshoes in its icy environment) with that of a small bird. Adding to the eye-catching illustrations are four awesome gatefolds that display paintings of a bobcat, wolf, deer and a variety of hoofed animals right next to their prints. And the featured menagerie includes bighorn sheep and goats, chipmunks and rabbits, grizzlies and brown bears, horses and burros, domestic cats and dogs and even slithering reptiles!

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 90 pages, 37 plates. Internationally acclaimed artist Will Barnet reveals never-before-seen early drawings that profoundly influenced the direction of his career.These intimate drawings portraying Central Park during the Great Depression have never been exhibited or published-until now. The drawings have been stored in Will Barnet's studio for decades, always serving as a reference and source of inspiration for later projects (like the etchings included here) but never coming to light as an independent body of work.

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, January 25, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages with 60 color and 117 b&w plates. Still wrapped in plastic. Oversized. A bright, beautiful copy. This comprehensive book brings together nearly two hundred illustrations from Ore, The Inland Printer, The Chap-Book, Collier's Weekly, and other periodicals, books advertisements, and ephemera. Adding to the volume's reference value are an extensive list of Bradley's published works, bibliography, lists of public collections and exhibitions, and an appendix reprinting his "Primer of Ornament and Design," including previously unpublished material.

Hardcover. Oak Knoll Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, no dj issued. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the masters of book, magazine, and graphic design during the Art Nouveau period. This extensive work also contains a biography of Bradley, a bibliography, and author, title, and publisher indices.

Hardcover. Berkeley, California University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 164 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 279 pages. William Glackens was one of the most influential American painters in the first decades of the twentieth century. From his beginnings as a witty magazine artist-illustrator in Philadelphia and New York to his participation in the forward-thinking group of artists dubbed The Eight, Glackens was a perceptive interpreter of his surroundings. Glackens, one of the most versatile and popular artists of his time, assimilated the lighthearted modern French themes of spirited cafes and bustling parks and resorts in such canvases as Chez Mouquin (1905) and Sledding, Central Park (1912). An admirer of the more traditional figure painting of the Impressionist Renoir, his name also became closely linked to the modern artists who exhibited their works at the famous Armory Show of 1913, which Glackens helped organize. This important study, the first major monograph on Glackens, includes an insightful essay by Dr. William Gerdts and a complete catalog, introduced by curator Jorge Santis, describing the incomparable holdings of the Glackens Collection of the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. With a chronology, bibliography, and index, this profusely illustrated volume is sure to become the standard reference on Glackens for historians and collectors of twentieth-century art. Clean,bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. Published in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.With 103 illustrations including 44 plates in full color. Includes bibliiographical references and index.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 143 pages. 44 color, 59 bw plates. One of a series focusing on America's foremost artists from the colonial era to the present, this volume covers the work of American Impressionist, William Merritt Chase (1849-1916). Chase worked mainly in oil, but he also used watercolour and pastel, and produced prints. Includes bibliiographical references and index. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 524 pages. Top edge gilt. This fifth volume of Horace Traubel's "With Walt Whitman in Camden" is the first to appear in print without the benefit of a final reading by the author. His wife, Gertrude Traubel, corrected only obvious slips and unnecessary repetitions, checking references that seemed unclear. While the manuscript was sometimes difficult to decipher, it was never in disjointed notes, but always a continuous narrative. Final volume of Horace Traubel's compilation of his daily conversations with poet Walt Whitman, capturing much of the poet's philosophy. Traubel was Whitman s intimate friend, biographer, and literary executor. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2000, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 398 pages. The seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza was expelled from the Jewish community of Amsterdam the age of twenty-four for 'horrendous heresies', and was eventually reviled by all religious authorities for claiming that human beings are parts of a single, unified nature, that God is identical with nature, and that reason, not revelation, supplies the truth of any aspect of God. Undeterred, he made this thesis the basis for a rational crusade against superstition and prejudice. Dr Gullan-Whur's biography, the first for twenty-eight years, shows how Spinoza's central philosophical beliefs developed within the context of his own life. Drawing on very recent scholary research and making detailed reference to primary sources, some not previously explored, the author focuses on the philosopher's attempt to act solely through reason in the face of turbulent personal and national circumstances. This new approach demolishes the myth that Spinoza was a lofty ascetic. It exposes his emotional and sexual vulnerabilit arrogance and misogyny, yet shows his living philosophical experiment to be shrply relevant today. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Warner Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 245 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. A commemorative volume offers the definitive pictorial history of one of the most popular movies of all time.

Hardcover. Atglen PA, Schiffer Publishing , 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright dust jacket, 256 pages illustrated in color. Value Guide (for 1992) laid in. All the excitement and enchantment of over ninety years' worth of wonderful Wizard of Oz memorabilia awaits you on every page of this deluxe, full-color tribute to the collectibles and merchandise inspired by America's foremost fairy tale and everyone's favorite film! Oz experts Jay Scarfone and William Stillman have--for the first time ever!--compiled an astounding assemblage of over one thousand "Ozzy" artifacts documented and categorized for convenient reference in sixteen different sections. Autographs, books, buttons, dolls, games, puzzles, figurines, drinking glasses, postcards, novelties, publicity and promotion, posters and lobby cards, records, sheet music--it's all here AND SO MUCH MORE! You'll be amazed at the wealth of offerings to be found along that Yellow Brick Road of "Oz and ends." Supplemented by a timely value guide, this comprehensive volume is an absolute must for collectors of movie memorabilia, dolls, toys, Judy Garland, or anyone devoted to magical mementos of Ozmania! Like new, clean.

Softcover. Sydney AU, Sydney Wooden Boat School, 1st pbk., 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. In an extensive career Ian Hugh Smith has built over 80 boats and taught hundreds of first-timers the skills they need to build their own boats through the Sydney Wooden Boat School. A series of manuals on different methods of construction grew out of the different courses in the School, and now in retirement Ian has combined these manuals into one edition as well as adding some new work. The manuals cover Building a Traditional Clinker Dinghy, Epoxy Strip Planking, Plywood Clinker Construction and Building the Whiting Skiff. There is an extensive new section on Carvel Planking, and an article on choosing a putt-putt launch to restore. There is also a guide to the different methods of construction available and how you should choose which method to use, as well as choosing the design to build. All of the information embodies Ian's extensive experience in the field and distils the information you need to build your own wooden boat. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 185 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth. No dust jacket as issued. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Portsmouth, NH, Peter E. Randall Publisher, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 93 pages, with illustrations. Spotless and tight copy, with dust jacket. "A Collection with Comments" A bibliography based on the collection of Joyce Hanrahan for over 30 years, and additions she has seen. Listings include points for first editions, and price ranges. Sections on ephemera, periodicals, visuals and posters.

Hardcover. US, Sansom Foundation, Inc., 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The painter William Glackens (1870-1938) and his friends were among the liveliest and most influential American artists of the opening decades of the twentieth century. Their continued importance in the history of American art is explored in this informative collection of essays. Colin Bailey chronicles the beginnings of Albert C. Barnes' unparalleled collection of modern art, as well as Glackens' role in forming it, and Avis Berman investigates the friendship of John Sloan, Robert Henri and John Butler Yeats. Carol Troyen examines George Bellows' war paintings and Richard J. Wattenmaker probes the relationship between Glackens' paintings and sketchbooks. H. Barbara Weinberg documents how the leading American Impressionists and members of The Eight dealt with the pressures of economic survival. This profusely illustrated publication is an essential reference for curators, collectors and historians.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Features: Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Norman Mailer, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jean Cocteau, Harold Pinter, and more. Price clipped dust jacket with short closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Universityof Pennsylvania Press , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 411 pages, b&w illustrations. A guide to over 1,000 documents relating to the artist and his family. Like new in a dust jacket protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. First edition. Beige/light brown cloth with reddish lettering/decoration, top edge stained red as issued, 202 pages, illustrated with drawings. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in near fine condition with dust jacket in good condition--tears to upper and bottom spine of book, as well as nicks to upper, front edges. ix+ 185 pp. + color frontpiece; 148 b/w illustrations. Catalogue of 1108 works by 412 known artists (127 works by unidentified artists) in all media except prints. Preface by John Marshall Phillips; portraits arranged alphabetically by subject, with biographies of each; index of artists, with list of portraits by each.