Softcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Very light edge wear; else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Very light edge wear; else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 208 pages, 46 four-color plates, and 100+ b&w reproductions. The first fully illlustrated major study of the artist, considered one of the greatest painters of the American scene. Burchfield (1893-1967) 'painted 'the haunting lights and shadows of small-town America. He evolved 'quite alone anmd independently' in Ohio and New York, painting nostalgic fantasies, dreary small-town life; fanciful & poetic landscapes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 238 pages. b&w and color illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket. Decorative endpapers. Minor edge wear. A very nice. clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages, includes 40 color plates, (32 full page), as well as 19 b&w illustrations. Introductory biographical essay by author. Clean and well bound in blue cloth, very good condition. Dust jacket shows a little bit of wear around edges.

Hardcover. New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 88 pages, includes 40 color plates, (32 full page), as well as 19 b&w illustrations. Introductory biographical essay by author. Clean and well bound in blue cloth, very good condition. Dust jacket shows a little bit of wear around edges.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover 192 pages. On September 25, 1890, the Mormon prophet Wilford Woodruff publicly instructed his followers to abandon polygamy. In doing so, he initiated a process that would fundamentally alter the Latter-day Saints and their faith. Trading the most integral elements of their belief system for national acceptance, the Mormons recreated themselves as model Americans. Mary Campbell tells the story of this remarkable religious transformation in Charles Ellis Johnson and the Erotic Mormon Image. One of the church's favorite photographers, Johnson (1857-1926) spent the 1890s and early 1900s taking pictures of Mormonism's most revered figures and sacred sites. At the same time, he did a brisk business in mail-order erotica, creating and selling stereoviews that he referred to as his "spicy pictures of girls." Situating these images within the religious, artistic, and legal culture of turn-of-the-century America, Campbell reveals the unexpected ways in which they worked to bring the Saints into the nation's mainstream after the scandal of polygamy.

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1957, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 85 pages + prints. B&w illustrations. Blue leatherette, gilt lettering to spine. previous owner's inscription in front. Price clipped. Dust jacket with minor edge wear, somewhat sunfaded. Very nice, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Assouline, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 80 pages. Exploring the career of designer Charles James, this work looks at the way in which he revolutionized the fashions of the 1940s and 1950s with his designs, and above all his sculpted dresses.

Softcover. Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 95 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 155 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in orange cloth, gilt title on spine, all excellent. Dust jacket unclipped, has small puncture near spine on front cover (patched from inside a with tape, see image), otherwise very good. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. Hassrick's illuminating discussion of Russell's work, based on much new research, is set against the backgrond of the artist's experiences in the West.

Softcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and sun-fade to spine. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Clean, tight copy. Briefly traces the career of this contemporary American architect and shows examples of his houses, apartment buildings, libraries, museums, schools, hotels, churches, and conference centers.

Hardcover. NY, Watson Guptill, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. Publisher's full blue cloth, silver lettering on spine and front cover, contains 80 color plates and 28 black & white illustrations. Looks at the working methods of American artist Charles Pfahl (b. 1946), and includes "step-by-step photographic demonstrations of paintings in progress, with detailed technical captions showing how each step is painted."

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 119 pages, mostly illustrated in color. Essays by Paul Schimmel and Lisa Phillips. Illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued.

Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. Green cloth cover with gilt lettering to cover and spine, illustrated dust jacket, 90 tritone and 78 duotone illustrations, companion copy to "Charles Sheeler: Paintings and Drawings." Light wear to dust jacket; otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Eerdmans Publishing , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages. A brief account of Williams' life and examination of his early poems, the criticism, biographies and plays, the novels, the Arthurian poems and his theological writings. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 272 pages. 189 illustrations, including 98 plates in full color. Light brown cloth. Clean, bright copy. As good as new. Peale painted thousands of canvases and that provided a superb record of colonial and federal society. In mid-life Peale turned to the study of nature and assembled a museum in Philadelphia that was, at its time, the most important institution of its kind in the country.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, The American Philosophical Society, 1st, 1939-47, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes. 293+468 pages. B&w illustrations throughout both volumes. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Dust jackets in protective mylar cover, some pieces missing from spine and some dark age stains on vol. 2. Both copies excellent shape, volume 1 looks almost new, while volume 2 has aged gracefully. A very nice, tight and clean set.

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, Revised Ed., 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 296 pages, illustrated throughout with 80 plates in full color and numerous illustrations in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. The author, Frederic G. Renner, was a good friend of the artist, and devoted nearly 35 years to collecting and studying Russelliana.

Hardcover. New York , Ammo Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages, Harper's color illustrations of birds and animals throughout. No dust jacket as issued. Celebrated designer Todd Oldham opens another treasure trove of unseen and unpublished illustrations in the new AMMO Books release, "Charley Harper's Animal Kingdom." Todd has done it again by going deeper into Charley Harper's extensive archive to create the ultimate companion to "An Illustrated Life" and present the absolute best of Charley's previously hidden illustrations.Ranging from bugs and birds to all creatures of land and sea from the bountiful imagination of the artist, animal lovers and fans of Charley alike will be thrilled with this stunning new collection. Featuring more than 300 previously unseen illustrations, "Charley Harper's Animal Kingdom" includes illustrations created during a span of more than sixty years and appeals to a wide range of audiences both young and old.DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, quarter blue cloth over gray paper boards with pink lettering on the spine, and a blue decoration on the front board. Illustrated with full-page and in-text drawings by Joseph Schindelman. The follow up to Dahl's wildly popular books "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory." Dust jacket with edgewear, red title faded on spine, $3.95 price on flap. Stated First Edition on copyright page.

Hardcover. Cleveland, World Publishing, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages. Color art by Schulz. The story of "an all-star baseball team and its conscientious but misunderstood manager-pitcher, Charlie Brown. " The book was the basis of the second prime-time animated TV specials based on the Peanuts comic strip. C;ean copy.

NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped, 324 pages, b&w illustrations. The inside story of baseball's most colorful team and it's controversial owner. "Ambitious, obnoxious, passive-aggressive, unpredictable and never satisfied with anyone but himself. He built the 1970s Oakland A's dynasty then proceeded to tear it apart by his own relentless meddling. He drove staff and managers out of town by the busload. His own players, tired of his interference, bullying and cheapskatery, bided their time at the dawn of free agency and signed elsewhere at the first chance." Clean copy.

Hardcover. Atlanta, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Written by fresco painter Jean Charlot on the subject of 3 particular murals he painted during his year as artist-in-residence at the University of Georgia. 222 pages, illustrated with 178 (mostly black/white, few color) plates. Introduction by Lamar Dodd and photography by Eugene Payor. Cloth bound book is in good condition, some light stains on the cover, a few pages stick. Dust jacket shows slight edge wear.

Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 184 pages.The rear panel of the jacket quotes reviews of Stuart Little before concluding with the publisher's name on two lines. Original light beige cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black and blue, blue and white spider web-patterned endpapers. 47 charming black and white illustrations by Garth Williams. No First Edition or publisher's code on copyright page, so assumed a very early reprint. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, Angel City Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, 100 pages. We may never be able to toast Frank Sinatra with a Flame of Love martini, join Jimmy and Gloria Stewart over calf's liver and onions, or share a steaming bowl of Boiled Beef Belmont with the President and Mrs. Reagan on Tuesday nights. But we can come close. CHASEN'S has every great recipe that kept the stars coming back for more, plus its fascinating text stirs delivers the dish on the restaurant and its famous fans. Recipes include the world famous Chasen's Chili that Elizabeth Taylor had air-freighted to the Cleopatra set in Italy, the Chicken Pot Pie served to Queen Elizabeth, the Shirley Temple cocktail that Chasen's bartender invented for the curly-topped star, and a host of other favorites including Deviled Beef Bones, Banana Shortcake, Sole Hitchcock, Coupe Snowball, and the dish President Reagan always ordered, Boiled Beef Belmont.

Softcover. San Francisco, Backbeat Books, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 271 pages, b&w illustrations. Chasin' That Devil Music has the feel of a documentary about the making of a thrilling motion picture. The main focus is on the Delta blues singers of the early 20th century--artists such as Charley Patton, Tommy Johnson, Son House, and Blind Lemon Jefferson who've achieved near-mythic status in blues circles. In addition, many of the articles gathered in this splendidly illustrated volume capture the process and people involved in tracking long-lost recordings nearly as elusive as the performers who made them. Here, for example, is the story of author/blues scholar Gayle Dean Wardlow's three-year hunt for the death certificate of Robert Johnson, the celebrated Mississippi bluesman and a figure whose legend has grown greater with each year since his much-debated death in 1938. The text here is nearly as raw in spots as the music that sparked it, but, as with those sounds (which can be heard on a terrific CD sampler included with the book), enthusiasts will find Chasin' That Devil Music riveting. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A Sheriff Milt Kovak mystery, set in Prophesy County, Oklahoma. Clean copy

Hardcover. NY, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 284 pages, color illustrations. Winfred Rembert grew up in a family of Georgia field laborers and joined the Civil Rights Movement as a teenager. He was arrested after fleeing a demonstration, survived a near-lynching at the hands of law enforcement, and spent seven years on chain gangs. During that time he met the undaunted Patsy, who would become his wife. Years later, at the age of fifty-one and with Patsys encouragement, he started drawing and painting scenes from his youth using leather tooling skills he learned in prison. Chasing Me to My Grave presents Remberts breathtaking body of work alongside his story, as told to Tufts Philosopher Erin I. Kelly. Rembert calls forth vibrant scenes of Black life on Cuthbert, Georgias Hamilton Avenue, where he first glimpsed the possibility of a life outside the cotton field. Pulitzer Prize sticker on dj. Foreword by Bryan Stevenson. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 228 pages. As a key player in the University of Virginia's Miller Center Presidential Recordings Program, Hughes has spent more than a decade developing and mining the largest extant collection of transcribed tapes from the Johnson and Nixon White Houses. Hughes's unparalleled investigation has allowed him to unearth a pattern of actions by Nixon going back long before 1972, to the final months of the Johnson administration. Hughes identified a clear narrative line that begins during the 1968 campaign, when Nixon, concerned about the impact on his presidential bid of the Paris peace talks with the Vietnamese, secretly undermined the negotiations through a Republican fundraiser named Anna Chennault. Three years after the election, in an atmosphere of paranoia brought on by the explosive appearance of the Pentagon Papers, Nixon feared that his treasonous--and politically damaging--manipulation of the Vietnam talks would be exposed. Hughes shows how this fear led to the creation of the Secret Investigations Unit, the "White House Plumbers," and Nixon's initiation of illegal covert operations guided by the Oval Office. Hughes's unrivaled command of the White House tapes has allowed him to build an argument about Nixon that goes far beyond what we think we know about Watergate. Clean, unread copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, pictorial boards. A lighthearted exploration of pop culture's fascination with gag and practical joke novelty items celebrates the history of the industry, exploring the originality, if tastelessness, of such items as the Whoopee Cushion, the artificial ink spot, and the rubber chicken.

Hardcover. Geneva, Switzerland, Nagel Publishers, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 146 pages, with color plates and illustrations. 789 of 3000 limited edition first printing. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Minor foxing throughout in text areas, but illustrations are unaffected. Some creased color plates. Tight binding and overall good condition.

Softcover. New Haven, NJ, Yale University Art Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages, numerous b&w illustrations. Pictorial stiff wrappers. Light wear to edges and spine, else a nice, clean copy.

Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, PictureBox, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color illustrated boards, 79 pages. Mainly color illustrations. "Photographer and filmmaker Cheryl Dunn has been one of America's foremost chroniclers of the underground scene since the mid-1990s. This first retrospective looks at the worlds of street art, graffiti and life on the creative margins from an appreciative insider's point of view. Also included is a DVD documenting the scene imported to Tokyo and focused on 13 artists in particular." Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 606 pages. In this definitive biography of Chester B. Himes (1909-1984), Lawrence P. Jackson uses exclusive interviews and unrestricted access to Himes's full archives to portray a controversial American writer whose novels unflinchingly confront sex, racism, and black identity. Himes brutally rendered racial politics in the best-selling novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, but he became famous for his Harlem detective series, including Cotton Comes to Harlem. A serious literary tastemaker in his day, Himes had friendships-sometimes uneasy-with such luminaries as Ralph Ellison, Carl Van Vechten, and Richard Wright. Jackson's scholarship and astute commentary illuminates Himes's improbable life-his middle-class origins, his eight years in prison, his painful odyssey as a black World War II-era artist, and his escape to Europe for success. More than ten years in the writing, Jackson's biography restores the legacy of a fascinating maverick caught between his aspirations for commercial success and his disturbing, vivid portraits of the United States. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Farrar Straus Giroux , BC Ed,, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in b&w by Garth Williams. No price on dust jacket so assumed Book Club Edition.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 341 pages. First printing as indicated (per Random House protocol) by the stated "First Edition," with a number line ending in 2. Preface by Alice Waters. Notable for the artist Wayne Thiebaud's pen and ink drawings as well as his color art on the dust jacket. Clean copy with light fading to dj spine.

Softcover. Munich, Prestel/Art Institute of Chicago, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 480 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Published in association with the Art Institute of Chicago and in conjunction with an exhibition presented there in the summer of 1988, as well as in Paris and Frankfurt-am-Main in 1987-88. Contributors to the text include Robert Bruegmann, Sally Chappell, Meredith L. Clausen, Joan E. Draper and others.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Chicago Historical Society, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. History of the art of glass and ceramics in Chicago. Focuses on both small-scale, decorative works and larger, architectural pieces. Illustrated with 221 photographs (mostly black/white, few color). Dust jacket in very good condition, shows slight rubbing on the back, but cloth bound book in near fine condition with virtually no flaws.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. Schell, Orville [Foreword]; Parks, Gordon [Commentary]; Stepto, Robert B. [Commentary]. Shortly before the end of the Second World War, Wayne Miller was awarded a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation to photograph 'The Way of Life of the Northern Negro'." This project documented the wartime migration of African Americans northward, specifically looking at the black community on the south side of Chicago, covering all the emotions in daily life. The people depicted are mostly ordinary people, but some celebrities appear, such as Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington and Paul Robeson. He was a contributor to Magnum Photos beginning in 1958. Stamped name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley, University Of California Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with silver lettering in a bright dust jacket, 112 pages. An immensely important record of black life in Chicago at the near end of the 1940's. Apart from a few photos of entertainers the rest capture, in fascinating detail, life in Chicago's south side. The workplace and workers, interiors of homes and bars, parades, funerals, sport and street scenes with plenty of activity. The detail in all these pictures is impressive and typical of Miller's eye to capture a scene that reveals so much. Foreword by Orville Schell. commentaries by Gordon Parks and Robert Stepto. Small color sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Pawtuxet Cove, RI, Dale Chihuly, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 45 full page color reproductions. Beautiful catalog for exhibition traveling to Tucson Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art, and St. Louis Art Museum. Printed on Northwest Quintessence by Foremost Lithograph, Co. Slight wear on cover. All else in very good condition.

Hardcover. Chihuly Workshop, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Chihuly: On Fire encompasses four decades of his breathtaking work in an extensive, illustrated chronology with 177 illustrations, including 166 full-color plates and a comprehensive essay by art historian and acclaimed author, Henry Adams. This publication will take you on a visual journey through the artist's most important series: Cylinders, Baskets, Seaforms, Macchia, Soft Cylinders, Persians, Venetians, Putti, Ikebana, Jerusalem Cylinders, Rotolo and many more. Clean copy.

New York, Holt Rinehart Winston , 1st US, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. 128 pages. Black & white decorations by Antony Maitland. Ex-library with usual markings and stamping. Dust jacket with tear, library label on spine.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 217 pages. A 12 year old girl who knows little of her Chinese heritage is sent to San Francisco's Chinatown to live with her grandmother. Jane Addams Peace Award & Boston Globe-Horn Book Award. Color dust jacket art by Allen Say.

Hardcover. NY, Delacorte , 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Illustrated by the author throughout. Part of a series of publications for parents from the Boston Children's Medical Center. Dust jacket price clipped and minor wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Glazed pictorial boards, 176 pages, a collection of early cartoons and illustrations by the creators of the Berenstain Bears.

Softcover. Muncie, Ind., Ball State University, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 72 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light rubbing to wrappers, small tear to rear cover, else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. San Francisco , Pomegrante Artbooks, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, XV pages + 36 plates in full color. Light blue cloth, blue pictorial dust jacket. Light edgewear to jacket, else like new