Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Enjoying the annual baseball game between the married and single men in his community, twelve-year-old Willard Babson assists talented baseball star Babe Ruth when the latter's car accidentally slides into a ditch. Watercolors by Barry Moser. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar & Rinehart, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, unpaginated. Foreword by Wolcott Gibbs. Dust jacket faded. George Price (1901-1995) was an American cartoonist. Price started doing cartoons for The New Yorker magazine in 1929. He continued contributing to the New Yorker well into his eighties, displaying a talent for both graphic innovation (many of his cartoons consisted of a single, unending line) and for a wit that somehow combined the small issues of domestic life with a topical sensibility.
Hardcover. White Plains NY, Peter Pauper Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Soothe little ones' nighttime fears with this unique bedtime book! Shine the beam of a light (not included) through the page ''windows'' to cast pictures on the wall as you read with your child. It's a fun and comforting way to end the day and experience a book together. PUBLISHER'S NOTE: For best results, use this shadow book with a small, single-bulb light source. A small pen light, other single-LED light, or the light on the back of a smartphone is recommended. Multi-LED flashlights are not recommended. If you have trouble getting a clear image, try moving your light closer to or farther away from the page. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 3rd pr., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Eric Carle. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Tape along the spine of dust jacket. The Bible Story of Noah as told by the great Jewish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer. The illustrations are by the children's illustrator, Eric Carle. Singer is a Nobel Prize winner and Newbury winner. Carle's bright illustration set the mood of this Bible Story.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd pr., 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers. The story of the 60 foot sloop "Elizabeth", the first 'single-sticker' ever to sail from New York to Canton, told through the eyes of two young boys hired on as cabin boys just before she sailed. The book recounts a real historical event and uses all the characters' real names. Five colored two page illustrations, including the title page, and black and white chapter headings by Elizabeth Black Carmer. Spine cloth faded.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 132 pages. Illustrated throughout with Jackson's black and white photographs. In this fascinating book, Laurie Lawlor tells parallel stories of the settling of the western United States and the wanderings of a man who captured much of that history in singular and beautiful photographs. Lawlor includes forty of Jackson's photographs as illustrations for her narrative. Bibliography, timeline, glossary, and index. 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. NY, Random House, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, The photographs by Annie Leibovitz in Women, taken especially for the book, encompass a broad spectrum of subjects: a rap artist, an astronaut, two Supreme Court justices, farmers, coal miners, movie stars, showgirls, rodeo riders, socialites, reporters, dancers, a maid, a general, a surgeon, the First Lady of the United States, the secretary of state, a senator, rock stars, prostitutes, teachers, singers, athletes, poets, writers, painters, musicians, theater directors, political activists, performance artists, and businesswomen. "Each of these pictures must stand on its own," Susan Sontag writes in the essay that accompanies the portraits. "But the ensemble says, So this what women are now -- as different, as varied, as heroic, as forlorn, as conventional, as unconventional as this."
Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrinkwrap. Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) proudly described his monumental painting Prometheus Bound as first among "the flower of my stock." This singular work demonstrates how Rubens engaged with and responded to his predecessors Michelangelo and Titian, with whom he shared an interest in depictions of physical torment. The Wrath of the Gods offers an in-depth case study of the Flemish artist's creative process and aesthetic, while also demonstrating why this particular painting has appealed to viewers over time. Many scholars have elaborated on Rubens's affinity for Titian, but his connection to Michelangelo has received far less attention. This study presents a new interpretation of Prometheus Bound, showing how Rubens created parallels between the pagan hero Prometheus and Michelangelo's Risen Christ from the Sistine Chapel's Last Judgment. Christopher D. M. Atkins expands our understanding of artistic transmission by elucidating how Rubens synthesized the works he saw in Italy, Spain, and his native Antwerp, and how Prometheus Bound in turn influenced Dutch, Flemish, and Italian artists. By emulating Rubens's composition, these artists circulated it throughout Europe, broadening its influence from his day to ours.
Softcover. NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps. 39 pages, 15 b&w, 25 color plates. Issued in conjunction with a 1996 exhibition. With a preface by Stuart P. Feld and a 7-page illustrated introduction by Gregory Hedberg. The 30 catalogue entries are annotated. Artists include Henry Inman, James McNeil Whistler, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, John Wellington, et al. Also includes Andy Warhol's portrait of John Lennon and Nelson Shanks portrait of Princess Diana.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 58 pages plus notes on the woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Dust jacket shows some wear. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, edgeworn dust jacket with $4.50 flap price, 0966 code on bottom of front flap. White cloth, gilt decorations border/front cover. 90 pages. A collection of short works from the from the winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature. Includes illustrations by Maurice Sendak. Small hole to spine of dust jacket, otherwise clean.