Softcover. NY, Vintage, Unc. Proof, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, uncorrected proof. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. The debut novel by the author of CHANGO'S FIRE, the story of the "king" of Spanish Harlem and the smart, promising young man to whom he turns for a favor.

Softcover. New York, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1st Thus, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. Full color and black & white photographs by Boris Vallejo. Moderate wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Softcover. New York, Dell Publishing, rep, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Paperback. Dell Book #D327. Minor wear to paper wrappers. Cover art by Robert McGinnis. Minor reading crease to spine. Notation on first page.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st , 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very good in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Co., 1st , 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Six black & white plates by F.A. Carter. Some spotting to covers otherwise very good internally.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 313 pages. The Consolations of Philosophy by Boethius, whose English translators include King Alfred, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Queen Elizabeth I, ranks among the most remarkable books to be written by a prisoner awaiting the execution of a tyrannical death sentence. Its interpretation is bound up with his other writings on mathematics and music, on Aristotelian and propositional logic, and on central themes of Christian dogma. Chadwick begins by tracing the career of Boethius, a Roman rising to high office under the Gothic King Theoderic the Great, and suggests that his death may be seen as a cruel by-product of Byzantine ambitions to restore Roman imperial rule after its elimination in the West in AD 476. Subsequent chapters examine in detail his educational programme in the liberal arts designed to avert a threatened collapse of culture and his ambition to translate into Latin everything he could find on Plato and Aristotle. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Reagan Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages. Through striking illustrations and stunning photographs, Bohemian Modern explores the unique structural and interior designs that have put California's ultra-chic Silver Lake neighborhood at the forefront of a new style phenomenon. One of the country's most renowned modernist architects, Barbara Bestor has fully embraced and perfected Silver Lake's "bohemian modern" style: a practical philosophy that is Californian in origin but achievable anywhere. It is a look that favors raw, authentic materials, brilliant colors, creative space planning, and a natural flow between indoors and outdoors. The results, as Bohemian Modern presents, are striking: a flawlessly restored Neutra house decorated with both whimsy and restraint, a rooftop constructed for viewing the stars, a lavish outdoor garden delicately integrated into the surrounding architecture, a double-sided bookcase that soars three stories and serves as a functional art installation...there is no limit to the creativity and beauty of Silver Lake style.

Hardcover. NY, Reagan Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 272 pages. Through striking illustrations and stunning photographs, Bohemian Modern explores the unique structural and interior designs that have put California's ultra-chic Silver Lake neighborhood at the forefront of a new style phenomenon. One of the country's most renowned modernist architects, Barbara Bestor has fully embraced and perfected Silver Lake's "bohemian modern" style: a practical philosophy that is Californian in origin but achievable anywhere. It is a look that favors raw, authentic materials, brilliant colors, creative space planning, and a natural flow between indoors and outdoors. The results, as Bohemian Modern presents, are striking: a flawlessly restored Neutra house decorated with both whimsy and restraint, a rooftop constructed for viewing the stars, a lavish outdoor garden delicately integrated into the surrounding architecture, a double-sided bookcase that soars three stories and serves as a functional art installation...there is no limit to the creativity and beauty of Silver Lake style.

Hardcover. London, Knockabout/Palmano Bennett, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, b&w illustrations by Bolland, 112 pages. Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. New York , Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages, 225 color plates of over-the-top posters for Indian movies. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Softcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Light edgewear to spine corners. From the early 20th century to the present day, this large-scale, brightly colored, coffee table book features the very best (and also the very cheesiest) advertisements for the hottest movie releases and stand-alone Hindi classics.

Softcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 3rd, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 152 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Previous owner's signature scribbled over on front end paper, light wear to edges and spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , powerHouse Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Hardcover, 128 pages with 120 color plates featuring the conceptual artist's graffiti-like images. Claw was the first famous graffiti artist who later expanded her work into the world of fashion.

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st US, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Preface by Jean Leymarie. Translated from the French by Sebastian Wormell. Vivid recollections of life at La Cannet and descriptions of the house and garden, accompanied by reproductions of related drawings and paintings. With 130 illustrations, 77 in color. Including 14 photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Light fading to dust jacket top edge and spine. Mild rubbing to dust jacket as well. A tight and clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st US, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 351 pages, 60 color, 476 b&w plates. Gathers all of the French painter's posters, lithographs, and book illustrations and provides commentary on Bonnard's style and technique. Select bibliography, list of exhibitions of Bonnard's graphic works, and index. Introduction by Antoine Terrasse. Small stain to foredge of front fly leaf, otherwise bright and clean copy. DUE TO SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by Watson. INSCRIBED BY WATSON. A collection of colorful illustrations, simple text, riddles, a scary tale and rhymes shows children how to celebrate this popular holiday--from costume parade, to Halloween party, to trick or treat.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 495 pages. Boogaloo--the synonym of choice among the cognoscenti for rhythm and blues--is a stylish and profound meditation on the art, influence, and commerce of black American popular music. At once deeply knowing and keenly observant, Arthur Kempton reveals the tensions between the sacred and the profane at the heart of "soul music," and the complex centrality of "Aframericans" in the evolution of our mass musical culture. What that culture is all about, who owns it, and who gets paid--these are issues of moment in his epic narrative. Kempton brilliantly traces the interconnections among a century's worth of signal personalities, events, and achievements: from Thomas A. Dorsey, the so-called Father of Gospel Music, whose career ("Got to Know How to Work Your Show") sheds light on Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown, among others, to the rise of that "handsome Negro lad," Sam Cooke (perhaps the greatest of soul singers) and his definitive crossover dreams; from Berry Gordy Jr.'s infatuation with Doris Day and his sharp business plan to capture and exploit the sounds of young America through Motown ("It's What's in the Grooves That Counts") to the founding of Stax Records and Memphis Soul by a white farm kid who grew up dreaming of being a country fiddler; from the visionary funk of George Clinton to the ascendancy of hip hop ("Sharecropping in Wonderland"), the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, and the story of Death Row Records. Clean copy.

Bauer and Dean, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. This alluring blend of art book and autobiography will capture the imagination. At its heart are hundreds of captivating 3 x 5-inch artworks? intricate collages and drawings created on old library checkout cards, each one representing a book that left an indelible mark on artist Barbara Page. She began creating these illustrated "book marks" as a colorful way to remember titles she was currently reading. Before long, Page embarked on a decade-long art project recreating her reading history, starting with picture books from early childhood. Every artwork serves as a bookmark for a moment in time connected to a specific title, and, as a collection, they present over seventy years of literature, politics, thought, and culture-as colored by one woman's reading choices. Some images may evoke your own memories of a story. Others may feel like little puzzles that require reading or rereading a title to interpret the artistic references.

Hardcover. NY/London, Lippincott/Heineman, 1st , n.d. (1912), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 16 tipped-in color plates with black & white drawings of dogs opposite. Minor soil to cardboard covers.

Hardcover. Oxford, Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, 1st, 1743, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated in parts. Leather binding shows heavy wear to edges, especially corners. Gilt decoration on spine and stamped embellishment on front. Heavy foxing on pages. Gutter cracked in center. Black and white illustrations.

Hardcover. New York, Heritage Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 107 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Decorative stain to top edge. Wear, chipping, rubbing to dust jacket. Spine of dust jacket sightly faded. Else a tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, b&w art throughout by Crumb. Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking that we would do a take off of Adam and Eve, Crumb became so fascinated by the Bible's language, "a text so great and so strange that it lends itself readily to graphic depictions," that he decided instead to do a literal interpretation using the text word for word in a version primarily assembled from the translations of Robert Alter and the King James bible. As Crumb writes in his introduction, "the stories of these people, the Hebrews, were something more than just stories. They were the foundation, the source, in writing of religious and political power, handed down by God himself." Crumb's Book of Genesis, the culmination of 5 years of painstaking work, is a tapestry of masterly detail and storytelling which celebrates the astonishing diversity of the one of our greatest artistic geniuses.

Hardcover. New York , W.W. Norton & Co., 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, b&w art throughout by Crumb. Envisioning the first book of the bible like no one before him, R. Crumb, the legendary illustrator, reveals here the story of Genesis in a profoundly honest and deeply moving way. Originally thinking that we would do a take off of Adam and Eve, Crumb became so fascinated by the Bible's language, "a text so great and so strange that it lends itself readily to graphic depictions," that he decided instead to do a literal interpretation using the text word for word in a version primarily assembled from the translations of Robert Alter and the King James bible. As Crumb writes in his introduction, "the stories of these people, the Hebrews, were something more than just stories. They were the foundation, the source, in writing of religious and political power, handed down by God himself." Crumb's Book of Genesis, the culmination of 5 years of painstaking work, is a tapestry of masterly detail and storytelling which celebrates the astonishing diversity of the one of our greatest artistic geniuses.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, color decorations by Will Jenkins. This antique hardcover book is bound in olive-green cloth boards with a large color paste-down cover illustration of a woman by Will Grefe with gilt lettering. Features a variety of large color plates (about 12) from well-known illustrators of the day, many of which are suitable for framing, accompanied by verses of love. Bright, clean and tight.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, reprint , 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 274 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white plates by Frederic Remington. Brown paper covered boards with cover pastedown of Remington drawing. black cloth spine. Copyright page with 1923 date and Harper's G-B code indicating later printing of 1st edition. Light foxing to outer edges of some pages and plates. Fraying to cloth at top of spine. Light darkening of pages close to gutter. Still an attractive copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 50 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations by Elizabeth Shippen Green throughout. Quarter cloth hard cover with pictorial paper over boards. Prior owner's signature (dated 1916) and address label on front flyleaf. Tissue cover on frontispiece illustration. .A bit of soil on covers, and moisture stain on top edge. Binding still tight, in very good condition for its age. Charming old book of children's poetry.

Hardcover. Cincinnati, Stewart Kidd, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 197 pages. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering. B&w photos. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, dust jacket. 32 pages illustrated in color by author. SIGNED BY LUCKE. Stories of adult bad behavior (and civil disobedience) throughout history done in a humorous vein. Colorful gouache paintings on each spread feature figures from Hannibal and Napoleon Bonaparte to Susan B. Anthony and Rosa Parks, in their "time-out" locations in jail or in exile.

Hardcover. US, Last Gasp, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink wrap. Clean, tight copy. The Book of Weirdo is the definitive - and hugely entertaining- examination of Weirdo magazine, renowned underground comix cartoonist Robert Crumb's legendary humor comics anthology, which was originally published throughout the 1980s. A "low-brow" counterpoint to Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouley's rather high-faluttin' RAW comix publication, Weirdo influenced an entire generation of alternative and neo-underground artists, as well as creative refuge for the underground comix veterans, and this book features the complete story of the well-recalled comics magazine, along with testimonials from over 130 of the publication's contributors, including interviews with Weirdo's three editors - R. "Keep on Truckin'" Crumb, Peter "Hate" Bagge, and Aline "The Bunch" Kominsky-Crumb - and publisher "Baba Ron" Turner. 288 pages.

Softcover. Camarillo CA, About Comics, 1st, 2021, Softcover, 154 pages, b&w cartoons. "Negro America's Favorite Cartoonist" That's what Langston Hughes called Ollie Harrington, whose cartoons and comic strips were a staple of America's Black newspapers for decades starting in the 1930s. In his single-panel series "Dark Laughter," Harrington brought out the vibrancy of Harlem life in its day, while serving some cutting looks at the politics of the time. At the heart of "Dark Laughter" is Bootsie, a cunning, conning, girl-chasing ne'er-do-well who is nonetheless beloved in his Harlem community... if often reluctantly. Bootsie is both the victim of the world's troubles and a frequent cause of them for others.Here's a collection of prime cartoons from the mid-1950s, drawn with the detailed joy that only Ol Harrington (who also worked as Oliver W. Harrington) could bring, finally available to a larger audience.

Hardcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket featuring a retro-style illustration by Michael Koelsch. On the border between El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, five lives are about to collide--with fatal results. You'll meet MARTY--the professional gambler who rolls the dice on a night with...MEG--the bored divorcee who seeks excitement and finds...LILY--the beautiful hitchhiker lured into a live sex show by...CASSIE--the redhead with her own private agenda...and WEAVER--the madman, the killer with a straight razor in his pocket, on the run from the police and determined to go down swinging! This is MWA Grand Master Lawrence Block at his rawest and most visceral, a bloody, bawdy, brutal story of passion and punishment--and of lines that were never meant to be crossed. Small remainder dot on bottom edge otherwise like new.

Hardcover. Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. The 1901 expedition documented in this fascinating new book was organized to deliver supplies to Peary and to search for his wife and child. The book comprises the annotated diaries and photographs of two participants in the expedition, Clarence Wyckoff and Louis Bement, close friends from Ithaca, New York who paid to join the voyage.

Hardcover. New York, Scalo Verlag , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This book contains a never-before published series of work from the early 1980s: Mikhailov photographed ''The Dancers'' in his hometown in the Ukraine during a period when the former Soviet Union was a reality, before the appearance of Gorbachov and "perestroika". We observe the open-air dancing scene with great astonishment; seeing older and younger people enjoy themselves in a way that might be contradictory to the images we might have about everyday life in the old Soviet Union. These cheerful images remind us how little women and men need to have a good time. An essay by Russian art critic Boris Groys and an exhaustive interview make this volume a must have for readers and libraries interested in contemporary art and photography. 65 duotone illustrations.

Hardcover. New York, Scalo Verlag , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Thisbook contains a never-before published series of work from the early 1980s: Mikhailov photographed ''The Dancers'' in his hometown in the Ukraine during a period when the former Soviet Union was a reality, before the appearance of Gorbachov and "perestroika". We observe the open-air dancing scene with great astonishment; seeing older and younger people enjoy themselves in a way that might be contradictory to the images we might have about everyday life in the old Soviet Union. These cheerful images remind us how little women and men need to have a good time. An essay by Russian art critic Boris Groys and an exhaustive interview make this volume a must have for readers and libraries interested in contemporary art and photography. 65 duotone illustrations.

Hardcover. NY, R & S Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. One evening when Boris is watching television, he notices that the picture looks blurry. The repairman who comes over tells him that the problem is not the television but, rather, Boris's eyesight. A trip to the eye doctor confirms the diagnosis - Boris is an astigmatic. How important this sounds! When he gets his glasses, a whole new world unveils itself to him. Boris decides to get a job with his "talent" and starts work at the radio factory as a foreman. However, nothing turns out as Boris expects in this sweet story enlivened by Olof Landstrom's sprightly cartoon-like illustrations.

Hardcover. New York, Little, Brown and Company, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 503 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known -- in the late 1940s, no less -- to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? An eccentric, a gregarious recluse, an enigmatic auteur of whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes -- but who was the real Edward Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose? He published over a hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker, Gilbert & Sullivan, and others. At the same time, he was a deeply complicated and conflicted individual, a man whose art reflected his obsessions with the disquieting and the darkly hilarious. Based on newly uncovered correspondence and interviews with personalities as diverse as John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and Anna Sui, Born to Be Posthumous draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Edward Gorey.

Hardcover. NY/Boston, Little Brown, 3rd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 503 pages. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known -- in the late 1940s, no less -- to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? Dery draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Gorey. Small remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st US, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 631 pages. Green cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket slightly worn and soiled with small tears to upper edge of spine, in clear brodart cover.

New York, Charlotte Zolotow/ HarperCollins, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 101 pages. A young adult novel by a Newbery medalist, about an Ohio farm girl's life. Mothers give birth in the borning room. The dying take their departure there. Outside the Lott family's Ohio farmhouse, the Civil War rages, slavery falls, and the world marvels at the wonder of electricity. Inside, within the walls of the borning room, Georgina Lott will experience her life's greatest turnings. Across the years, she discovers womanhood and first love, experiences the mourning that comes with loss, and, as did her mother and grandmother, at last takes her place in the room as another precious life is about to begin.

hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st US, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color illust. by Gary Kelley. Small hole in dust jacket spine. Short tear starting in gutter on title-page.

Hardcover. Boston, The Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 1st, 1973, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in near fine condition with dust jacket in very good condition (minor nicks and wear to back cover and edges). pp. xxv, 294; frontispiece portrait, title-page vignette, and 143 illustrations throughout the text, many full-page.

Hardcover. San Francisco, Pomegranate, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 124 pages. MF Cardamone creates artwork that harks back to centuries past but is deeply rooted in the present. Her cultural and sociological commentary, delivered in words and images, reveals her sly sense of humor and love of all things botanical. An artist fluent in various media, including painting, sculpture, and limited-edition clothing, Cardamone discovered her passion for plants when she restored a garden at her seventy-five-year old farmhouse near Philadelphia. She enrolled in the Barnes Foundation Arboretum School and learned to collect specimens and create herbarium sheets, documenting the many medicinal uses of plants along with their history and landscaping potential. She picked up old books of botanical illustration, and herbals from a time when a pharmacist might prescribe a homemade tea to cure whatever ailed you. When her studies expanded to medical QiGong and Hatha yoga, her artwork took on a spiritual dimension. Cardamone begins with a plant specimen and watercolor paper, then turns to gouache, pen and ink, and digital imagery. She balances the scientific aspect of her work with a large dose of humor in the selection and placement of cultural icons from the plant's home environment. 

Hardcover. Portland OR, Pomegranate, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 124 pages. MF Cardamone creates artwork that harks back to centuries past but is deeply rooted in the present. Her cultural and sociological commentary, delivered in words and images, reveals her sly sense of humor and love of all things botanical. An artist fluent in various media, including painting, sculpture, and limited-edition clothing, Cardamone discovered her passion for plants when she restored a garden at her seventy-five-year old farmhouse near Philadelphia. She enrolled in the Barnes Foundation Arboretum School and learned to collect specimens and create herbarium sheets, documenting the many medicinal uses of plants along with their history and landscaping potential. She picked up old books of botanical illustration, and herbals from a time when a pharmacist might prescribe a homemade tea to cure whatever ailed you. When her studies expanded to medical QiGong and Hatha yoga, her artwork took on a spiritual dimension. Cardamone begins with a plant specimen and watercolor paper, then turns to gouache, pen and ink, and digital imagery. She balances the scientific aspect of her work with a large dose of humor in the selection and placement of cultural icons from the plant's home environment

Hardcover. NY, Abbeville Press, 2nd ed., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 336 pages, lavishly illustrated throughout in full color. Large heavy volume. Minor shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Second edition of Lightbown's original 1978 monograph, expanded here; A full account of Botticelli's life and work; Winner of the Prix Vasari;Reassesses Botticelli's major works, examines his use of color, and traces his career as an artist.

Hardcover. New York , Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Original B&W cartoons by VIP on drinking, all published here for the first time. Introduction by Clyde Carley, cartoon editor of True Magazine. Original pink of cardboard covers faded, otherwise Very good.

Hardcover. Atglen PA, Schiffer Publishing, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 133 pages plus bibliography and appendix. A thoroughly researched reference by an impassioned aficionado to a type of artwork that became popular around 1900 and lasted until roughly 1940. About 1,000 etchings and lithographs were created in France by some 100 engravers (Louis Icart was the pioneer); the pictures depict sensual, dreamy women lounging seductively in lingerie or various stages of undress a kind of softer-than-soft porn. Abundantly illustrated. 9.25x12.25". Like new, clean.

Hardcover. NY, Artisan/Workman, 1st, 2024, Hardcover decorated gray boards with embossed gilt lettering. Knowledgeable, entertaining, and more than a little infatuated with his subject, award-winning food writer and chef Edward Lee gives us his insight into bourbon, telling us everything we should know about the mellow honey-brown treasure that's put Kentucky on the global map: How bourbon is made. Its history. How to read a label. A look inside the famous distilleries. The influence of oak. Tours of Kentucky's bourbon regions. How to taste bourbon like a professional. And, in the most delicious surprise, how to cook with bourbon, with 50 recipes from Bourbon-Glazed Chicken Wings and Blackened Salmon with Bourbon-Soy Marinade to a Bourbon and Butterscotch Pudding. Plus the best Old-Fashioned you'll ever mix. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Edinburgh, Constable & Co., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 54 pages. #514 of 1025 copies. B&w and some color illustrations by Clare Winsten. Cloth pictorial boards. Gilt lettering along spine. Gilt top edge. Some tinting to end papers. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. First Second, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes in a pictorial slipcase, pages. The Boxers & Saints Boxed Set from Gene Luen Yang, one of the greatest comics storytellers alive, brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing work. In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful.But in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missionaries and finds, for the first time, a home with them. As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity.

Softcover. First Second, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes in a pictorial slipcase, pages. The Boxers & Saints Boxed Set from Gene Luen Yang, one of the greatest comics storytellers alive, brings all his formidable talents to bear in this astonishing work. In two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. The first is of Little Bao, a Chinese peasant boy whose village is abused and plundered by Westerners claiming the role of missionaries. Little Bao, inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. Against all odds, their grass-roots rebellion is successful.But in the second volume, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missionaries and finds, for the first time, a home with them. As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must decide whether to abandon her Christian friends or to commit herself fully to Christianity.