Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy. Black & white and color images throughout. Tight copy. Introduction by Martin Scorsese.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to edges. Color pictures throughout. Photographs and ephemera, many from private family albums, and personal recollections of the director. Complete visual, historical, and critical narrative of Altman?s films and his process. Introduction by Martin Scorsese.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 300 pages. This book accompanies a major traveling exhibition that showcases works by some of the most visionary designers and architects, from chairs and tables to jewelry and entire buildings.

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, W. Heffer & Sons, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and soiled dust jacket. 395 pages, b&w illustrations, charts. Alur Society became a classic for a number of reasons. Being much more than a descriptive account of an African society, it was the first intensive ethnography to adopt the ideas of Max Weber. It pioneered the idea that religion and ritual could be the basis of political action. It also showed how state systems could evolve not just on the basis of conquest but as a result of societies without kings inviting those with kings to govern them. Southall's theory of the segmentary state was adopted by many political anthropologists and political scientists, being applied not just to Africa but also to India and other parts of the world. Previous owner's signature inside front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Art New York, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, clean inside and out.

Hardcover. US, Edition Stemmle, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, illustrated throughout in sepia. Light edgewear and tanning to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966) is remembered today as one of photography's early masters and great innovators. This monograph investigates the unconventional nature of his personal and artistic achievements. Coburn's landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, and Vortographs reflect his unprecedented steps towards the creation of a photography of symbol and abstraction.

Softcover. Cincinnati OH, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages with color illustrations throughout. This exhibition catalog contains 80 full-page vintage posters, another 100 posters and archival photographs illustrate the text. Beautiful, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dorling Kindersley, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 48 pages, large format. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Full-color artwork, including cutaway illustrations and exploded views, explores some of the world's most famous architectural landmarks, including the Paris Opera, the Taj Mahal, and Grand Central Station. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Bulfinch Press, First Edition, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 127 pages. Hardcover. Wine cloth boards with silver titles to spine. Full page, black & white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Giverney, France, Library of Congress/Musee d'Art Giverny, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new. An exhibition held in Paris a century ago demonstrated the key role American women photographers played in the international pictorialist movement. Each of the 29 artists, including such well-known figures as Gertrude Kaesebier, Amelia van Buren and Zaida Ben-Yusuf, is represented in a selection of approximately 70 breathtaking color plates drawn from the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection at the Library of Congress and the National Museum of American History. The photographs include landscapes, portraiture, genre scenes, and still-lifes, all of which are evocatively composed and delicately toned using a variety of photographic techniques.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Library of Congress/Musee d'Art Giverny, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover exhibition catalog with a dust jacket. 200 pages, 218 bw plates. An exhibition held in Paris a century ago demonstrated the key role American women photographers played in the international pictorialist movement. The accomplishment of these professional and amateur photographers clearly demonstrated a mastery of the medium and made a strong impression on those in attendance. Ambassadors of Progress explores this largely unknown event. Each of the 29 artists, including such well-known figures as Gertrude Kaesebier, Amelia van Buren and Zaida Ben-Yusuf, is represented in a selection of approximately 70 breathtaking color and b&w plates.

Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations and photographs. Cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Pictorial dust jacket shows light edgewear. Containing nearly 600 black-and-white photographs and illustrations, and articles by numerous experts, Amelia Peabody's Egypt sparkles with unforgettable glimpses of the exotic and the bizarre, the unusual and the unfamiliar -- a treasure trove that overflows with Egyptological riches, along with wonderful insights into the culture and mores of the Victorian era, including the prevalent attitudes on empire, fashion, feminism, tourists, servants, and much more.

Chicago, Chicago Review Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The presidential election of 1844 was one of the two or three most momentous elections in American history. Had Henry Clay won instead of James K. Polk, we'd be living in a very different country today. Polk's victory cemented the westward expansion that brought Texas, California, and Oregon into the union. It also took place amid religious turmoil that included anti-Mormon and anti-Catholic violence, and the "Great Disappointment," in which thousands of followers of an obscure preacher named William Miller believed Christ would return to earth in October 1844.Author and journalist John Bicknell details even more compelling, interwoven events that occurred during this momentous year: the murder of Joseph Smith, the religious fermentation of the Second Great Awakening, John C. Fremont's exploration of the West, Charles Goodyear's patenting of vulcanized rubber, the near-death of President John Tyler in a freak naval explosion, and much more. All of these elements illustrate the competing visions of the American future--Democrats versus Whigs, Mormons versus Millerites, nativists versus Catholics, those who risked the venture westward versus those who stayed safely behind--and how Polk's election cemented the vision of a continental nation. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Warhol's career as an artist has been a love affair with the United States. Culled from his photographic archives, "America" is a lavishly illustrated selection of Warholian images of people and places and a photographic portrait of modern life from Warhol's camera's eye. 1st edition in paperback. Clean, bright copy, like new.

Hardcover. GR, Steidl, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 272 pages. One of the most intriguing and little studied forms of nineteenth-century photography is the tintype. Introduced in 1856 as a low-cost alternative to the daguerreotype and the albumen print, the tintype was widely marketed from the 1860s through the first decades of the twentieth century as the most popular photographic medium. The picture-making preference of the people, it was almost never used for celebrity portraiture: It was affordable, portable, unique and available almost everywhere. Because of its ubiquity, the tintype provides a startlingly candid record of the political upheavals that rocked the four decades following the American Civil War-and the personal anxieties they induced. As this book's author, Steven Kasher, argues, the tintype studio became a kind of performance space in which sitters could act out their personal identities. Sitters brought to the tintype studio not just their family and friends but also the tools of their trade, costumes, toys, stuffed animals and other such props. Often they would enact stereotypes and fantasies that reflected or challenged conventional gender, race and class roles. Surprisingly, the tintype was almost exclusively an American phenomenon, rarely used in other countries, and this book demonstrates how this modest form of photography provides extraordinary insight into the development of national attitudes and characteristics in the formative years of the early Modern era. Featured in this book are more than 200 remarkable examples of tintypes, mostly drawn from the Permanent Collection of the International Center of Photography in New York.

Hardcover. New York, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 415 pages with 18 Color and 136 Black and White Plates. Cream colored boards. A reprint of the 1931 Doubleday edition. Some foxing to boards and edges, else very good. No dust jacket, as issued. Light smudging to covers and top and bottom edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial pastedown on paper-covered boards, brown cloth spine. 100 b&w editorial cartoons reprinted from The New York Herald. Rogers was one of the country's top illustrators and a star in the Harper stable of artists. INSCRIBED BY ROGERS on the front fly leaf with a sketch of a boot kicking two Hun-like jackals. Light edgewear to boards.

Hardcover. NY, Gulliver Books, 1st, 2000-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Illustrated throughout in color by Terry Widener. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. This picture-book biography covers the life of Gertrude Ederle, highlighting her world-record breaking, long-distance swims. In 1926, women were thought to be the weaker sex, but this indomitable young athlete broke the men's record by two hours when she swam the English Channel. Fascinating tidbits about her 21-mile swim will entice readers: "She floated on her back and ate chicken and drank beef broth." For her victory, she was rewarded with a ticker-tape parade and a letter from President Coolidge calling her "America's Best Girl." More information about her life is appended. In the acrylic paintings, characters with large bodies and small heads, suggesting Depression-era art, are set on impressionistic backgrounds. The pictures of the swirling, rough water add fluidity and motion, and the perspectives that show the small figure of the swimmer in the vast sea capture the immensity of Ederle's endeavor.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 295 pages, illustrated in color and b&w, index. Great collection of comic strip art and a history of the art form seen through careers of 16 famous cartoonists: Outcault, Dirks, McKay, Herriman, others. Large, heavy book. Bright, clean copy in a dust jacket.

New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 144 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by the Petershams. Edgewear, chipping, soiling to dust jacket. Brodart cover.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 476 pages illustrated in b&w and color displaying beautiful pieces of colored glass and pottery. Clean and bright copy. Dust jacket slightly stained. Previous owner's inscription present. Lavishly illustrated and exhaustively researched reference on Art Nouveau designs in glass produced in America from 1890 to 1925, marking a high spot in the decorative arts. Includes a detailed study of various manufacturers and their histories, with special emphasis on those artisans who created identifiable and collectable pieces, including Louis Comfort Tiffany, A. Douglas Nash, the Durand family, and Frederick Carder. Contains four useful appendices reproducing a complete 1932 catalog published by the Steuben Division of Corning Glass Works, several pages from a circa 1928 Vineland Flint Glass Works catalog, pages from a circa 1914 C. Dorflinger & Sons catalog, and a "Belle Ware" catalog of Carl V. Helmschmied.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 311 pages, 394 illustrations including 41 tipped-in color plates. Small previous owner's embossed mark on title page, otherwise like new in a bright dust jacket. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO SIZE & WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, Dover, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. Harrison Fisher's portraits of healthy, poised, active, and confident women set the standard for the concept of American beauty during the early years of the twentieth century. The artist enjoyed enormous popularity from 1905 to 1920, serving as a judge in nationwide beauty contests and maintaining a celebrity status that was unparalleled for an illustrator. This original publication recaptures the images that made Fisher famous, compiling his very best black-and-white and color illustrations for Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post, and The Ladies Home Journal as well as for books and other publications. The successors to the stylish Gibson Girls created by Charles Dana Gibson, Fisher's idealized women reflect an aspirational degree of wealth and social ease. They ride horses, play tennis, swim, go motoring in newfangled automobiles, and graciously bask in the admiration of attractive young men. These century-old images from a moment in our country's cultural history will appeal to enthusiasts of graphic art and illustration as well as to students of American art and popular culture.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages, hardcover illustrated in color and b&w. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, reveals that great design and great style were consistent elements in the work of American's best fashion designers. Patricia Mears introduces many great forgotten figures, as well as many familiar names: work by lesser-known figures such as Jessie Franklin Turner, Ronaldus Shamask, and Charles Kleibecker is discussed alongside pieces by more celebrated creators, such as Halston and Charles James; work by designers of the past is juxtaposed with that of present-day designers such as Rick Owens, Yeolee Teng, and Maria Comejo.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages, hardcover illustrated in color and b&w. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, reveals that great design and great style were consistent elements in the work of American's best fashion designers. Patricia Mears introduces many great forgotten figures, as well as many familiar names: work by lesser-known figures such as Jessie Franklin Turner, Ronaldus Shamask, and Charles Kleibecker is discussed alongside pieces by more celebrated creators, such as Halston and Charles James; work by designers of the past is juxtaposed with that of present-day designers such as Rick Owens, Yeolee Teng, and Maria Comejo.

Softcover. New York, Abrams, Wraps, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages of great advertising art. 160 illustrations, 150 in color. Oblong Paperback.

Hardcover. New York , R.R. Browker Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 290 pages, red cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Kansas City, Hallmark Cards, 2nd Ed., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged, one of a series from the hallmark Photographic Collection celebrating the history and art of photography. Blue gilt stamped cloth over boards, 590 pages, Notes, Bibliography, Index, 499 illustrations, including 448 in tritone, 48 in full-color, and 3 in duotone. Bright, clean copy. This new edition is nearly fifty percent larger than the first. The entire text has been revised, and a great number of new artists, images, and themes have been added.

Hardcover. New York , Edmund and George W. Blunt, 18th Edition., 1857, Dust Jacket: None, 739 pages, contains 4 fold-out maps and charts. 2 maps with tears, one detached, all present. Original calf covers with spine label. Edges worn, hinges cracked, some tan staining to some page margins. Soiling to rear end papers and text block, top and bottom edges. Overall good plus.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 570 pages. An in-depth history of the American comic strip. From the Civil War era art of Thomas Nast, to the moral panic of the 1950's, the 'Super Hero Boom' of the 60's and 70's, to the rise of complex story telling in graphic novel format. 570 pages with Index, 6-1/2" X 9-1/2". Remainder dot on top of text block, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University , 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Catalogue of an exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery, 10 November 1989 - 3 January 1990. Hardcover, 8.75 x 11 inches, 126 pages, illustrated, annotated.

Softcover. New York, Robert Miller Gallery , 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Softcover. Extensive color photographs throughout. Illustrated end papers and paste downs. Creasing to covers, otherwise clean, tight copy. An autobiographical and transitional work, American Family explores the various roles Renee Cox has assumed throughout her life: Catholic schoolgirl, wife, mother, woman who knows and shows her sexual pleasure, and black woman artist contesting an art history that has all but excluded her race. A cross between Diary of a Mad Housewife and The Sensual Woman, American Family is a veritable minefield of taboos, revealed by the miscegenated family album and the erotic display of the artist's own beautiful body. Compartmentalized into sections called Family Room, Erotica, and the Salon, American Family accompanied an exhibition which included a video projection, large scale Cibachrome prints mounted on aluminum, a series of smaller black-and-white diptychs and triptychs, as well as photographs culled from the artist's own family album.Essay by Jo Anna Isaak.

Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 62 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. 70 photographs from the collection of Patricia McCabe. Christie's Auction Catalogue for the Auction that took place in New York on April 14, 2010. An amazing collection of rare Penn images from an assistant who worked with him.

Softcover. Newark NJ, Newark Museum, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, brick-red paper wraps. Exhibition catalogue featuring American folk sculpture, including wood carvings, decoys, and weather vanes. 108 pages with 24 black/white plates to accompany essays and catalogue entries. Near fine condition, some edge wear, small ink mark inside the cover.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, still in publisher's shrink wrap. Jean Patchett was both model and muse, a famous face from New York's vibrant midcentury popular culture and the most successful high-fashion model of her time.A small-town girl from rural Maryland, Patchett had no firm ambitions until a friend suggested she drop out of college and go to New York and become a model. Within a year Jean had left school, met model agent Eileen Ford, and begun a career that saw her photographed by the greatest photographers of her era, with more than 58 magazine covers over 14 years."A young American goddess in Paris couture," was Irving Penn's epitaph for the model he photographed for a classic series in Lima, Peru where, pushed past their limits, Patchett and Penn created passionate art with a possible passionate relationship as well. Penn would go on to create stunning images of Patchett forVogueand later, for a series of nudes he called "the major artistic experience of my life." Letters from Patchett to her family show a young woman in love with her life and eager to share the thrills and struggles of her career. Quotes from photographers Cecil Beaton, John Rawlings, William Helburn, Jerry Schatzberg, and Francesco Scavullo reflect their admiration for her technical skills as a model as well as her unique beauty. A work diary from 1951 allows us to see how-and with whom-she worked from day to day.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, still in publisher's shrink wrap. Jean Patchett was both model and muse, a famous face from New York's vibrant midcentury popular culture and the most successful high-fashion model of her time.A small-town girl from rural Maryland, Patchett had no firm ambitions until a friend suggested she drop out of college and go to New York and become a model. Within a year Jean had left school, met model agent Eileen Ford, and begun a career that saw her photographed by the greatest photographers of her era, with more than 58 magazine covers over 14 years."A young American goddess in Paris couture," was Irving Penn's epitaph for the model he photographed for a classic series in Lima, Peru where, pushed past their limits, Patchett and Penn created passionate art with a possible passionate relationship as well. Penn would go on to create stunning images of Patchett forVogueand later, for a series of nudes he called "the major artistic experience of my life." Letters from Patchett to her family show a young woman in love with her life and eager to share the thrills and struggles of her career. Quotes from photographers Cecil Beaton, John Rawlings, William Helburn, Jerry Schatzberg, and Francesco Scavullo reflect their admiration for her technical skills as a model as well as her unique beauty. A work diary from 1951 allows us to see how-and with whom-she worked from day to day.

Softcover. Philadelphia, Casemate Publishers, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 226 pages, b&w illustrations. With his parting words "I shall return", General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain named Russell Volckmann refused to surrender. He disappeared into the jungles of north Luzon where he raised a Filipino army of over 22,000 men. For the next three years he led a guerrilla war against the Japanese, killing over 50,000 enemy soldiers. At the same time he established radio contact with MacArthur?s HQ in Australia and directed Allied forces to key enemy positions. When General Yamashita finally surrendered, he made his initial overtures not to MacArthur, but to Volckmann. This book establishes how Volckmann's leadership was critical to the outcome of the war in the Philippines. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Fort Lauderdale, FL, Richard Stuart Gallery, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 76 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Light rubbing, soiling to white wrappers. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover exhibition catalog, 165 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. INSCRIBED BY MARGARET & RAYMOND (HOROWITZ) TO JOHN WILMERDING, art historian and author. Also laid in is the business card of JOHN K. HOWAT - curator of this exhibition at the Metropolitan. Tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 247 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. 163 color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. A tight copy. Christopher Felver has collected over 240 photographs from tours and encounters with musicians over the past 25 years. From Doc Watson to John Cage and Mavis Staples to Sonny Rollins, this collection celebrates the tapestry and diversity of musical styles that make up the American sonic landscape.

Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 228 page, illustrated throughout with 126 plates in b&w. Lightly bumped corners and mild shelf-wear, else a clean, tight copy. Artists include: James McNeill Whistler, Joseph Pennell, Albert Sterner, Margaret Lowengrund, Tatyana Grosman, June Wayne, George Bellows, Thomas Hart Benton, Rockwell Kent, and others.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edge-worn dust jacket that's price-clipped. B&w and color photography by Hans Namuth, includes art, biographical information about, and essays on eight American artists: Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis; Jackson Pollock; Willem de Kooning; Mark Rothko; Robert Rauschenberg; Andrew Wyeth; Joseph Cornell. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Office of the Chief of Military History, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt eagle seal at top front, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with selections from the Department Of Defense files . Forty-seven maps by B. C. Mossman . This is a team effort by a number of the nation's leading scholars including Matloff , Kent Greenfield , Richard Leighton , and other leaders of the Army Historical Series. The volume covers through the Vietnam war. Small name blacked out on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. US, Laurence King Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy. This is the first comprehensive survey of Modernist graphic design as it emerged in America in the period from 1920 and 1960 in various media--advertising, information design, brand identity, magazine design, book design, and posters. It examines the great works which by mid-century had defined American graphic design. The book begins with a section devoted to the emergence of Modernism and its major historical influence, such as European avant-garde movements, popular culture, educational innovations such as the Bauhaus School, architecture, industrial design, and photography. The heart of the book includes the key works of mid-century Modernism as it matured into a fully-formed American style, bringing together such great names as Alexey Brodovitch, Lester Beall, Paul Rand, Saul Bass, Will Burtin, and Alvin Lustig. The final section looks at the impact of and reactions to this new movement as graphic design in America matured in the 1960s and beyond.

Softcover. Jackson MS, University Press of Mississippi, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 520 pages. Whitney Balliett's long-awaited 'big book.' In it are all the jazz profiles he has written for The New Yorker during the past 24 years. These include his famous early portraits of Pee Wee Russell, Red Allen, Earl Hines, and Mary Lou Williams, done when these giants were in full flower; his recent reconstructions of the lives of such legends as Art Tatum, Coleman Hawkins, Jack Teagarden, Zoot Sims, and Dave Tough; His quick but indelible glimpses into the daily (or nocturnal) lives of Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus; and his vivid pictures of such on-the-scene masters as Red Norvo, Ornette Coleman, Buddy Rich, Elvin Jones, Art Farmer, Michael Moore, and Tommy Flanagan. Also included are such lesser known but invaluable players as Art Hodes, Jabbo Smith, Joe Wilder, Warne Marsh, Gene Bertoncini, Joe Bushkin, and Marie Marcus. Clean, like new.

Softcover. NY, International Publishers, 7th pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 409 pages. Years ago, the controlling view held that the response of the slaves in the United States to their bondage 'was one of passivity and docility'. That opinion, so decisive a part of the chauvinism afflicting the nation, is shown to be false in this book and in the material accumulated since its initial appearance has further substantiated this thesis; namely, that the African-American people, in slavery, forged a record of discontent and of resistance comparable to that marking the history of any other oppressed people. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A luminous collection of essays from Louise Gluck, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and one of our most original and influential poets. Five decades after her debut poetry collection, Firstborn, Louise Gluck is a towering figure in American letters. Written with the same probing, analytic control that has long distinguished her poetry, American Originality is Gluck's second book of essays-her first, Proofs and Theories, won the 1993 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction. Gluck's moving and disabusing lyricism is on full display in this decisive new collection. Clean copy.

Softcover. Southampton, NY, The Parrish Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Tan covers with little wear; only a few minor scratches and marks. Spine is faded and creased. Clean and crisp pages with descriptions of artists along with reproductions of their work. Catalogue of a traveling exhibition, with 65 works by Chase, Duveneck, Ferris, Gifford, Monks, the Moran family, Parrish, Platt, Weir, Whistler, and many more artists. Extensively documented. 62 pages.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 243 pages, 150 b&w plates. Illustrated covers, perfect binding, divided into seven sections organized by historical period, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Mild rubbing to covers, very minor markings to bottom of page block, front top right corner creased; otherwise a very clean, tight copy.