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Softcover. Los Angeles, Wilshire Bank, Ltd. Ed., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Signed in the plate by Ruscha. An upscale promotional print that was offered to new customers of The Wilshire Bank in Los Angeles. In the early 80s, the bank's ad agency suggested an off-beat idea to attract upscale accounts. Tony Haller, one of the partners of Haller Schwartz, knew Ed Ruscha from the ertist's early days in LA. He was able to arrange a limited number of the prints for the promotion. The number is unknown but estimated 200-300. The image features a landscape of the Hollywood hills against the early evening sky. Horizontal format, image size 6 X 24", total print 11 5/16 X 25 1/2".

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 276 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Condon has brought a half century of jazz into focus with his published scrapbook of photographs and recollections. This particular volume contains 16 original autographs obtained by a patron of his jazz clubs. Includes the signatures of all four house band leaders: drummer Buzzy Drootin (1947-1951), pianist Ralph Sutton (1948-1956), pianist Johnny Varro and cornetist Ed Polcer (1957). Also Johnny Blowers, Dick Cary, Peanuts Hucko, Cliff Leeman, Jack Lesberg, Rosy McHargue, Joe Muranyi, Red Norvo, Jess Stacy, Dick Wellstood, Spiegel Wilcox, and Teddy Wilson.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by the author. SIGNED BY MCPHAIL opposite half-title page. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A boy learns to read and becomes immersed in the adventures described on the pages of his books.

Hardcover. New York, Norton/Whitney Museum, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY LEVIN on title page. 506 illustrations in color and b&w of Hopper's commercial work. In a brght, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Co. , 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR on half title page. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. As a boy, Edward Hopper knew exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up: on the cover of his pencil box, he wrote the words EDWARD HOPPER, WOULD-BE ARTIST. He traveled to New York and to Paris to hone his craft. And even though no one wanted to buy his paintings for a long time, he never stopped believing in his dream to be an artist. He was fascinated with painting light and shadow and his works explore this challenge. In this striking picture book biography, Robert Burleigh and Wendell Minor invite young readers into the world of a truly special American painter (most celebrated for his paintings "Nighthawks" and "Gas").

Hardcover. Cambridge, Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 109 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white reproductions of drawings and paintings by Edward Lear. Dust jacket has small closed tear on front bottom edge. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Putnam, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 325 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black Remainder mark on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages. INSCRIBED BY GALVIN on the title page. These poems chronicle the waxing and waning of the seasons from one winter to the next in the area around Egg Island, the dunes near a small seacoast town on the outermost reaches of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Galvin's training as a naturalist and environmental writer is evident as his practiced eye roves the waves, marshes, and forests, finding meaning and beauty in the smallest detail-- bird-watching, rebuilding a woodpile, or the flight of bobwhite quail. Other poems recall the poet's affectionate memories of his deceased wife and the life they shared together, acknowledging grief without veering into the maudlin. Always present beneath the surface is the question of where humans fit into this wild, ever-changing landscape. Mild crease to front cover otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Anderson House, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth with blue lettering, unpaginated (about 100 pages). B&w cartoons throughout. SIGNED WITH A COLOR ILLUSTRATION BY CHESNEY on the inside cover. Clean, square copy. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY OTTO on the title page. This captivating novel opens in 1917 as Cymbeline Kelley surveys the charred remains of her photography studio, destroyed in a fire started by a woman hired to help take care of the house while Cymbeline pursued her photography career. This tension-- between wanting and needing to be two places at once; between domestic duty and ambition; between public and private life; between what's seen and what's hidden from view--echoes in the stories of the other seven women in the book. Among them: Amadora Allesbury, who creates a world of color and whimsy in an attempt to recapture the joy lost to WWI; Clara Argento, who finds her voice working alongside socialist revolutionaries in Mexico; Lenny Van Pelt, a gorgeous model who feels more comfortable photographing the deserted towns of the French countryside after WWII than she does at a couture fashion shoot; and Miri Marx, who has traveled the world taking pictures, but also loves her quiet life as a wife and mother in her New York apartment. Crisscrossing the world and a century, Eight Girls Taking Pictures is an affecting meditation on the conflicts women face and the choices they make. These memorable characters seek extraordinary lives through their work, yet they also find meaning and reward in the ordinary tasks of motherhood, marriage, and domesticity. Most of all, this novel is a vivid portrait of women in love--in love with men, other women, children, their careers, beauty, and freedom.

Hardcover. Cincinnati OH, Review Printing Co., 1st, 1885, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with black stamping, 174 pages. B&w frontispiece engraving of Sabin with tissue guard. Green floral pattern on endpapers. First blank page INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, DATED 1890.

New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, SIGNED BY COONEY on bookplate on front fly leaf. Color illustrations by the author.

Hardcover. New York, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 341 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Spotless copy. Curtis was a Newbery Medal winner for his title Bud, Not Buddy. This bookis the tale of eleven-year-old Elijah, born in Buxton, a settlement of runaway slaves across the border from Detroit and his journey through the horrors of slavery and aspirations of justice, courage and hope.

Hardcover. NY, Sei Swann, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. SIGNED BY HEYERT on the front fly leaf and dated 03/01/2003, difficult to see against the black endpapers. Stated first edition. Essay by John Guare. Conversation with Elizabeth Heyert and Stacey d'Erasmo. Illustrated throughout in black & white with Heyert's photographs. 12" high X 10" wide, 63 pages. Laid in is a receipt for purchase of the book from the Edwynn Houk Gallery in NY city dated 6/16/05. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 259 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on prelim page. Red boards. Color pictorial dj. Clean, unmarked, tight.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY GIBBONS on title page.

Hardcover. NY, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 543 pages. Black and white photographs. SIGNED BY ELLIOTT on the title page. A documentary photographer known for his black and white candid shots. Heavy volume. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

New York, Simon & Schuster , Reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Illustrated in 2-colors by Hilary Knight. SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf.

NY, Simon & Schuster, reprint , 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated in 2-colors by Hilary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT and dated 2000 on the front fly leaf. An excellent copy of this edition. A reprint of the scarce 1959 edition with a revised dust jacket.

New York, Simon & Schuster , reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Hillary Knight and SIGNED BY KNIGHT on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY HILLARY KNIGHT. What's this--a new Eloise, never before seen or published? News doesn't get better than that. Kay Thompson first wrote Eloise Takes a Bawth in Italy in the 1960s with Hilary Knight and pal Mart Crowley; it has been marinating until now for a release with all-new drawings by Hilary Knight. Of course, this time Eloise is not in Moscow, not in Paris, she is simply in the bawth at home in the Plaza Hotel. With Eloise, though, nothing is simple. Perhaps especially the notion of taking a bath, where you have to "skibble into the bathroom and take off all your clothes," then strike a pose and look in the mirror, and splawsh, and sing, and bathe with turtle Skipperdee and dog Weenie. And pretend to be the "loosest cannonball in all the Caribbean" and "Little Miss Mermaid but let's keep that between us." But what's this? Could Eloise's bathtime shenanigans be causing a drip that "has begun to drop within the walls and hallowed halls of the stately old Plaza?" Drenching the elite at the Venetian Masked Ball in the Grawnd Ballroom, no less? Fabulously decadent scenes of Eloise enacting wild battles and undersea dives in the bathtub on the "tip top floor" of the Plaza contrast deliciously with the resulting swampy splendor of the ballroom. Extended fold-out cross-sections of the hotel's plumbing system and a spectacular, colorful, double gatefold illustrating the underwater ball ("the sensation of the social season" thanks to Eloise!) add drama and silliness as well.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 65 pages. SIGNED BY HILARY KNIGHT on front fly leaf. Extensive color illustrations throughout. Includes scrapbook of photographs and drawings by Knight. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Simon and Shuster, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR KNIGHT on front flyleaf. Scrapbook section written by Marie Brenner. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Adhesive residue on rear dj. Light age toning to top text block edge. Color illustrations throughout. A bright and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, SIGNED BY BORGES on the title page. This collection of photographs by Phil Borges of indigenous and tribal people around the world is a testament to the strength and inherent dignity of the human spirit. Reproduced here are 80 hand-toned portraits of individuals who are striving to uphold their cultural diversity and traditions in countries where basic human rights are threatened - from Ethiopia and Kenya to Tibet, and from Mexico to Indonesia. This book is published in association with Amnesty International to mark the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document adopted by the United Nations in 1948 which outlines fundamental rights for all people. Clean copy.