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QST: Devoted Entirely to Amateur Radio: April 1932by: Kenneth B. Warner (Editor)

QST: Devoted Entirely to Amateur Radio: April 1932
by: Kenneth B. Warner (Editor)

Softcover. W. Hartford CT, The American Radio Relay League, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Single issue softcover magazine, 96 pages. B/w illustrations, ads. Articles include: Crystal Control for Ultra-High Frequencies, Stabilizing Superheterodyne Performance, Simplified Remote Control for Amateur Trasmitters, others. Wraps lightly worn, dust soiled.

Record # 371160

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Quaint Nantucketby: William Root Bliss

Quaint Nantucket
by: William Root Bliss

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black with gilt lettering on spine. Top edge gilt. 225 pages. A history of old Nantucket before the island was discovered by "the summer boarders", as the author explains in his Preface. Gutter partially cracked at title page, owner's small embossed stamp on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Record # 383646

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Quality of Foods and Beverages, The (2 Vols.)by: Charalambous (Ed.), George and George Inglett

Quality of Foods and Beverages, The (2 Vols.)
by: Charalambous (Ed.), George and George Inglett

Hardcover. New York, Academic Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes in blue cloth with gilt lettering. Volume 1: 443 pages, Volume 2: 390 pages. Some light marking to contents page in vol. 1, otherwise clean and tight set. Illustrated with b&w graphs and charts. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 403849

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Quality Time; Parenting Progeny and Pets by: Edward Koren

Quality Time; Parenting Progeny and Pets
by: Edward Koren

Hardcover. NY, Villard Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Oblong 6-5/8 inches high by 8-3/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in color pictorial white boards. [140] unnumbered pages, with full-page illustrations of Edward Koren's cartoons. Clean copy.

Record # 398381

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QUARRY IN THE BLACKby: Max Allan Collins

QUARRY IN THE BLACK
by: Max Allan Collins

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Laurel Blechman, Glen Orbik. With a controversial presidential election just weeks away, Quarry is hired to carry out a rare political assignment: kill the Reverend Raymond Wesley Lloyd, a passionate Civil Rights crusader and campaigner for the underdog candidate. But when a hate group out of Ferguson, Missouri, turns out to be gunning for the same target, Quarry starts to wonder just who it is he's working for. Like new.

Record # 372455

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Quarry's Exby: Collins, Max Allan

Quarry's Ex
by: Collins, Max Allan

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Even the enigmatic hit man called Quarry had to start somewhere. And for him that was the day he returned stateside from Nam to find his young wife cheating. He'd killed plenty overseas, so killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. He survived in this jungle as he had in that other one--by expecting trouble. What he didn't expect was ever running into her again. Remainder line to bottom edge, otherwise like new.

Record # 373738

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Queen of the Ring: Wrestling Drawings by Jaime Hernandez 1980-2020by:  Jaime Hernandez (Author), Katie Skelly (Contributor)

Queen of the Ring: Wrestling Drawings by Jaime Hernandez 1980-2020
by: Jaime Hernandez (Author), Katie Skelly (Contributor)

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 128 pages. Having created one of the most expansive and remarkable casts of characters of any cartoonist who ever lived (under the umbrella of the ongoing Love and Rockets comic book series), acclaimed graphic novelist Jaime Hernandez -- Will Eisner Hall of Famer; Eisner, Harvey, Ignatz, and PEN Award winner; L.A. Times Book Prize winner; and on a very short list of contenders for the title of America's Greatest Living Cartoonist -- has been privately amassing a body of work that no one else has ever seen for over 40 years. Until now. Creating a Love and Rockets-adjacent world, set in the heyday of 1960s and '70s women's wrestling and lucha libre, Queen of the Ring is a best-of book spotlighting the women who are often ignored in pro wrestling in 125 full color illustrations: pin-ups, action shots, fake wrestling magazine covers, all presented in a deluxe hardcover that echoes the lucha libre magazines of the 1960s.

Record # 371589

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Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985by: McCourt, James

Queer Street: The Rise and Fall of an American Culture, 1947-1985
by: McCourt, James

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton & Co, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 608 pages. A startling anecdotal history of gay life in twentieth-century New York explores the confluence of historical and social factors that made Manhattan a mecca for homosexuals in the second half of this century.

Record # 374124

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Quest of Ati Manu, Theby: Patchett, Mary Elwyn

Quest of Ati Manu, The
by: Patchett, Mary Elwyn

Indianapolis, Bobbs Merrill, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages, b&w illustrations by Stuart Tresilian. In a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. The Brevitt brothers find themselves being tracked down by two ruthless murders when they undertake a search for hidden treasure. Set in Australia.

Record # 600307

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Quincy, the Hobby Photographerby: Seibold, J. otto

Quincy, the Hobby Photographer
by: Seibold, J. otto

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2006, Hardcover, 64 pages. The dapper Quincy tells all in this lighthearted introduc-tion to the art of photographing dogs. He's generous with helpful hints, like "You can stop to smell the roses, but dogs don't hold their poses," and mindful of the smallest details, such as allowing the subject to sniff the camera. To top it off, Quincy shares his favorite snaps from the field in a quirky slide presentation. In his inimitable style, J. otto Seibold delivers a book over-flowing with heart, humor, and four-footed friends. Part silly picture book, part off-the-cuff instruction manual, Quincy, the Hobby Photographer is an ideal gift for dog lovers and for photo enthusiasts of all ages.

Record # 361500

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Quincy, the Hobby Photographerby: Seibold, J. otto

Quincy, the Hobby Photographer
by: Seibold, J. otto

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, 1st, 2006, Hardcover, 64 pages. The dapper Quincy tells all in this lighthearted introduc-tion to the art of photographing dogs. He's generous with helpful hints, like "You can stop to smell the roses, but dogs don't hold their poses," and mindful of the smallest details, such as allowing the subject to sniff the camera. To top it off, Quincy shares his favorite snaps from the field in a quirky slide presentation. In his inimitable style, J. otto Seibold delivers a book over-flowing with heart, humor, and four-footed friends. Part silly picture book, part off-the-cuff instruction manual, Quincy, the Hobby Photographer is an ideal gift for dog lovers and for photo enthusiasts of all ages.

Record # 361501

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Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quine by: W. V. Quine

Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quine
by: W. V. Quine

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 416 pages. Through the first half of the twentieth century, analytic philosophy was dominated by Russell, Wittgenstein, and Carnap. Influenced by Russell and especially by Carnap, another towering figure, Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) emerged as the most important proponent of analytic philosophy during the second half of the century. Yet with twenty-three books and countless articles to his credit-including, most famously, Word and Object and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"-Quine remained a philosopher's philosopher, largely unknown to the general public.Quintessence for the first time collects Quine's classic essays (such as "Two Dogmas" and "On What There Is") in one volume-and thus offers readers a much-needed introduction to his general philosophy. Divided into six parts, the thirty-five selections take up analyticity and reductionism; the indeterminacy of translation of theoretical sentences and the inscrutability of reference; ontology; naturalized epistemology; philosophy of mind; and extensionalism. Representative of Quine at his best, these readings are fundamental not only to an appreciation of the philosopher and his work, but also to an understanding of the philosophical tradition that he so materially advanced. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386152

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Quintessential Disney: A Pop-up Gallery of Classic Disney Moments (SIGNED COPY)by: Tieman, Robert and David Carter

Quintessential Disney: A Pop-up Gallery of Classic Disney Moments (SIGNED COPY)
by: Tieman, Robert and David Carter

Hardcover. New York, Disney Enterprises, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial gate-fold covers with magnetic closure, rear board slightly bowed, else fine. Five fabulous pop-up tableaux depicting scenes from Bambi, Lady & The Tramp, Peter Pan, Snow White and Pinocchio. This copy is SIGNED BY DAVID CARTER who designed the pop-ups.

Record # 354249

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R. B. Kitajby: Livingstone, Marco

R. B. Kitaj
by: Livingstone, Marco

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket,160 pages. Folio. gray cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Richly illustrated with 172 illustrations, 50 in full color. First monograph of this American-born artist who has lived most of his life in England. Includes a catalogue of all his work up until 1985.R.B. Kitaj (1932-2007) is one of the most intriguing 20th century artists. Born into a Russo-Jewish family near Cleveland, Ohio, 17-year old Kitaj spent 5 years at sea aboard a Norwegian freighter. He went on to study art in New York and Vienna. A Royal College of Art stipend made him move to London where he became a celebrated artist. Curating The Human Clay, a 1976 show of figurative contemporary British artists, he coined the term "School of London" for the artistic circle around Francis Bacon, Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, and Leon Kossoff. In 1991 he was elected a member of the Royal Academy, one of only three American painters to be thus honored in the history of the institution. A major 1994 retrospective at London's Tate Gallery failed to produce Kitaj's international breakthrough, but was unanimously panned by British critics instead. This, and the unexpected death of his wife Sandra, induced his increasingly paranoid perspective. Embittered he returned to the USA and settled in Los Angeles, where he finally took his own life in 2007. Kitaj left behind a manuscript unmatched among 20th-century artist autobiographies -- Confessions of an Old Jewish Painter. Eloquently describing his vices and sufferings, it stands in the traditions of both St. Augustine and Thomas de Quincey. Now published for the first time, it is a sensation, from both a literary and art historical point of view.

Record # 804710

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R. Crumb Sketchbook Volume 5: Dec. 1989 - Jan. 1998 by: Crumb, Robert

R. Crumb Sketchbook Volume 5: Dec. 1989 - Jan. 1998
by: Crumb, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black and white fantasy cartoon sketches, many scatological. 11" high X 8" wide, 443 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398334

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R. Crumb Sketchbook. Volume 1 June 1964 -Sept. 1968 by: Crumb, Robert

R. Crumb Sketchbook. Volume 1 June 1964 -Sept. 1968
by: Crumb, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black & white illustrations throughout on every page. 11" high X 8" wide, 439 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 398269

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R. Crumb Sketchbook. Volume 2 Sept. 1968-Jan. 1975 by: Crumb, Robert

R. Crumb Sketchbook. Volume 2 Sept. 1968-Jan. 1975
by: Crumb, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black and white fantasy cartoon sketches, many scatological. 11" high X 8" wide, 439 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398332

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R. Crumb Sketchbook. Volume 3 Jan. 1975-Dec. 1982. by: Crumb, Robert

R. Crumb Sketchbook. Volume 3 Jan. 1975-Dec. 1982.
by: Crumb, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black and white fantasy cartoon sketches, many scatological. 11" high X 8" wide, 443 pages. Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398333

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R. Crumb Sketchbook. Volume 4: Dec. 1982-Dec, 1989by: Crumb, Robert

R. Crumb Sketchbook. Volume 4: Dec. 1982-Dec, 1989
by: Crumb, Robert

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color frontispiece. Black & white illustrations throughout on every page. 11" high X 8" wide, 448 pages. The perfect tribute to the world's favorite dirty old man. It spans the years 1982 to 1989, a period when the artist was comfortably ensconced in rural California, raising his young daughter Sophie, who appears throughout this volume. But Crumb was still Crumb, declaring in one drawing, above a lovingly rendered tree, "As I get older I get more twisted, convoluted, depraved, cynical, embittered, self-centered, jaded, debauched, ruthless, greedy, conceited, set-in-my-ways, long-winded, absent-minded, prejudiced, closed-minded, misanthropic, nervous..." To prove this self-flagellating analysis he fills the pages with his signature perversions (in country settings), scathing social commentary, cruel self-portraits, experimental cubism... and some lovely sylvan landscape. His mastery of the Rapidograph pen is at its zenith here in his 40s, Clean, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Record # 398270

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R. Crumb's Head Comix by: Crumb, Robert

R. Crumb's Head Comix
by: Crumb, Robert

Softcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large format softcover, 64 pages of b&w comic art by Crumb. Introduction by Paul Krassner. Some tanning to edges of wrappers. Otherwise clean.

Record # 375403

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R. Crumb, Checklist of Work and Criticism: With a Biographical Supplement and a Full Set of Indexes by: Fiene, Donald M.

R. Crumb, Checklist of Work and Criticism: With a Biographical Supplement and a Full Set of Indexes
by: Fiene, Donald M.

Softcover. Cambridge MA, Boatner Norton Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Illustrated with black & white examples of works by Robert Crumb - 4 pages in full color.

Record # 367585

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R. Crumb. Sketchbook Vol. 6. 1998??"2011by: Crumb, R. (Robert)

R. Crumb. Sketchbook Vol. 6. 1998??"2011
by: Crumb, R. (Robert)

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. "Silly Fool Comics" fills the final page in this sixth volume, with a devilish creature telling the anguished Crumb, "YOU Will Soon Be DEAD!" He was a mere 67, but in his self-absorbed Crumbish way was obsessing about death, when not making intimate and loving portraits of his wife Aline and all the other women who'd tormented his libido since boyhood. Most impressive in this book are his historic tableau, some single page, others multi-page strips, including Piers the Ploughman of 14th century England, My Secret Life by "Walter," Rough Women of the Dark Ages and The Apache Dance, from a 1930s Parisian postcard. His Rapidographed cross hatching is superb as ever and we are treated to long screeds displaying his undimmed brilliance at analyzing the human condition, in a morbid but nonetheless amusing way. One could say there are no surprises in content, as Crumb has produced a consistent body of work over the last 40, if not 50, years, yet each page is also jarringly different from the one before, due to his personal juxtaposition of images. So much is packed in you can spend an hour and find you're only a quarter of the way through, with Crumb bemoaning his mortality, while continuing to prosper, every few pages. A fine stand-alone volume, and must-have completion for the sketchbook set.

Record # 398331

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R. Crumb. Sketchbook Vol. 6. 1998??"2011by: Crumb, R. (Robert)

R. Crumb. Sketchbook Vol. 6. 1998??"2011
by: Crumb, R. (Robert)

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. "Silly Fool Comics" fills the final page in this sixth volume, with a devilish creature telling the anguished Crumb, "YOU Will Soon Be DEAD!" He was a mere 67, but in his self-absorbed Crumbish way was obsessing about death, when not making intimate and loving portraits of his wife Aline and all the other women who'd tormented his libido since boyhood. Most impressive in this book are his historic tableau, some single page, others multi-page strips, including Piers the Ploughman of 14th century England, My Secret Life by "Walter," Rough Women of the Dark Ages and The Apache Dance, from a 1930s Parisian postcard. His Rapidographed cross hatching is superb as ever and we are treated to long screeds displaying his undimmed brilliance at analyzing the human condition, in a morbid but nonetheless amusing way. One could say there are no surprises in content, as Crumb has produced a consistent body of work over the last 40, if not 50, years, yet each page is also jarringly different from the one before, due to his personal juxtaposition of images. So much is packed in you can spend an hour and find you're only a quarter of the way through, with Crumb bemoaning his mortality, while continuing to prosper, every few pages. A fine stand-alone volume, and must-have completion for the sketchbook set.

Record # 371084

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R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collectionby: Crumb, R.

R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection
by: Crumb, R.

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hard cover in slipcase. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A landmark work that pays splendid homage to a forgotten era of seminal American music. Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap Thrills. It was an invitation the budding artist couldn't resist, especially since he had been fascinated with record covers-particularly for the legendary jazz, country, and old-time blues music of the 1920s and 1930s-since he was a teen. This early collaboration proved so successful that Crumb went on to draw hundreds of record covers for both new artists and largely forgotten masters. So remarkable were Crumb's artistic interpretations of these old 78 rpm singles that the art itself proved influential in their rediscovery in the 1960s and 1970s. Including such classics as Truckin' My Blues Away, Harmonica Blues, and Please Warm My Weiner, Crumb's opus also features more recent covers done for CDs. R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection is a must-have for any lover of graphics and old-time music. 450 four-color illustrations

Record # 350218

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R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collectionby: Crumb, R.

R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection
by: Crumb, R.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 96 pages, in slim decorated slipcase. Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap Thrills. It was an invitation the budding artist couldn't resist, especially since he had been fascinated with record covers-particularly for the legendary jazz, country, and old-time blues music of the 1920s and 1930s-since he was a teen. This early collaboration proved so successful that Crumb went on to draw hundreds of record covers for both new artists and largely forgotten masters. So remarkable were Crumb's artistic interpretations of these old 78 rpm singles that the art itself proved influential in their rediscovery in the 1960s and 1970s. Including such classics as Truckin' My Blues Away, Harmonica Blues, and Please Warm My Weiner, Crumb's opus also features more recent covers done for CDs. R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection is a must-have for any lover of graphics and old-time music. 450 four-color illustrations.

Record # 362808

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R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collectionby: Crumb, R.

R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection
by: Crumb, R.

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hard cover in slipcasse. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. A landmark work that pays splendid homage to a forgotten era of seminal American music. Robert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap Thrills. It was an invitation the budding artist couldn't resist, especially since he had been fascinated with record covers-particularly for the legendary jazz, country, and old-time blues music of the 1920s and 1930s-since he was a teen. This early collaboration proved so successful that Crumb went on to draw hundreds of record covers for both new artists and largely forgotten masters. So remarkable were Crumb's artistic interpretations of these old 78 rpm singles that the art itself proved influential in their rediscovery in the 1960s and 1970s. Including such classics as Truckin' My Blues Away, Harmonica Blues, and Please Warm My Weiner, Crumb's opus also features more recent covers done for CDs. R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection is a must-have for any lover of graphics and old-time music. 450 four-color illustrations

Record # 350217

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R. O. Blechman: Behind the Linesby: Blechman, R. O.

R. O. Blechman: Behind the Lines
by: Blechman, R. O.

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 188 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black & white illustrations throughout.

Record # 353540

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R. S. Surteesby: Cooper, Leonard.

R. S. Surtees
by: Cooper, Leonard.

Hardcover. London, Arthur Baker, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a poor, worn dust jacket with a large chunk gone from front panel. Book is bright and clean, 180 pages. Illustrated with color and b&w plates by John Leech. A biography of the novelist who wrote of country sports like hunting in a comical way.

Record # 382884

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Rabbit Is Rich (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Updike, John

Rabbit Is Rich (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Updike, John

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. Winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1982. INSCRIBED BY UPDIKE on the front fly leaf: " for Dee- Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Harry Angstrom and his friend John Updike". Stated First Edition of Updike's most famous book of the four-part Harry Angstrom saga. Clean.

Record # 387241

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Racing My Father: Growing Up with a Riding Legendby: Patrick Smithwick

Racing My Father: Growing Up with a Riding Legend
by: Patrick Smithwick

Hardcover. Lexington KY, Eclipse Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Patrick Smithwick has written an unusually moving memoir about growing up in the hell-bent-for-leather world of Thoroughbred racing as the son of Hall of Fame steeplechase jockey A.P. "Paddy" Smithwick. Racing My Father is the story of a son working alongside his father throughout summer mornings, and then hopping in a "hot car," windows up, heater blasting - so his father can sweat off a few more pounds - and driving his father to the track where the races will be held in the afternoon. Paddy Smithwick was a natural. He was a charismatic figure. He was the greatest steeplechase rider in America in the 1950s and '60s, winning all the big races, leading the country in raes won four times, dominating the sport with his style, ability, heart, and gentlemanly demeanor. Patrick Smithwick is also a natural. As a jockey, he won steeplechase races. As a writer, he's won awards. There are hints of the innocence of Huck Finn as Smithwick starts off his account of serving his apprenticeship with his father. The innocence ends when his father is paralyzed in a bad fall. Yet, the youthful Smithwick helps his father work his way back into racing, and the father-son, trainer-rider team ends up in the winner's circle at Saratoga Springs. Smithwick has recreated his own Yoknapatawpha County - with its gritty backsides and polished clubhouses, its knotty characters and sleek racehorses. Clean copy.

Record # 379581

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Rackstraw Downesby: Sanford Schwartz , Robert Storr , et al.

Rackstraw Downes
by: Sanford Schwartz , Robert Storr , et al.

Hardcover. Princeton University Press;, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 200 pages. Rackstraw Downes paints down-to-earth, often gritty features of today's American environment in an unflinching and highly realistic style. This book is the first to provide a multifaceted picture of his work, its intellectual foundations, and its place in the history of art--from both outside commentators and Downes himself. Beautifully illustrated, with copious examples from thirty years of the artist's work, the book makes eminently clear why Downes is widely regarded as a "painter's painter." It showcases many of the artist's panoramic pictures--painted with a strong sense of place and a miniaturist's sense of scale. The images, which depict industrial parks, construction sites, housing projects, refineries, razor wire, and landfills, stimulate fresh thoughts about these supposedly unattractive sights. Bathed in the light of a precise time, the paintings resonate with a strikingly evocative quality.

Record # 362813

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Radio Engineering Magazine April 1932 Vol. XII No.4by: McNicol (Ed.), Donald

Radio Engineering Magazine April 1932 Vol. XII No.4
by: McNicol (Ed.), Donald

Softcover. NY, Bryan Davis Publishing, 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine format, 52 pages, b&w illustrations, vintage ads throughout. Articles include: Circuits to Obtain Detection and Delayed AVC, Ionization in Vacuum Tubes, A Giant Tube for Radio Transmisson, others. Light soiling to wraps, otherwise clean.

Record # 371165

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Radio Engineering Magazine September 1931 Vol.XI No. 9by: McNicol (Ed.), Donald

Radio Engineering Magazine September 1931 Vol.XI No. 9
by: McNicol (Ed.), Donald

Softcover. NY, Bryan Davis Publishing, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine format, 56 pages, b&w illustrations, vintage ads throughout. Articles include: Hyper-Sensitive Detection Systems, Television Turns to Projection, Synchronization of Westinghouse Radio Stations, others. Dust soiling to wraps, otherwise clean.

Record # 371162

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Railway to the Grave (SIGNED COPY)by: Marston, Edward

Railway to the Grave (SIGNED COPY)
by: Marston, Edward

Hardcover. London, Allison & Busby Limited, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MARSTON on the title page. Yorkshire 1855. Colonel Aubrey Tarleton is a man respected by his neighbors in the small Yorkshire village of South Otterington - as much for his heroic feats in the army as for his social position. So the community is left stunned when Tarleton, deliberately, walks into the path of a speeding train. He is crushed to death on the track, but it is not his broken limbs that attract the attention of the train driver; rather, it is the note pinned to his chest, fluttering in the breeze: 'Whoever finds me, notify Superintendent Tallis of the Detective Department at Scotland Yard'. The famous Railway Detective, Inspector Robert Colbeck, finds his superior officer in great distress when he arrives at the Yard the following morning. Tallis is clutching a letter from his now-deceased friend. In it, Tarleton makes it clear that he no longer wishes to live if he has to do so without his beloved wife, who has disappeared. Clean copy.

Record # 378917

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Rajasthanby: Singh, Raghubir

Rajasthan
by: Singh, Raghubir

Hardcover. Paris, Arthaud, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages of French text followed by full color photographs of the people and culture of the Rajasthan region of India. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613445

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Ralph Earl: Recorder for an Eraby: Goodrich, Laurence B.

Ralph Earl: Recorder for an Era
by: Goodrich, Laurence B.

Hardcover. New York, State University of New York, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 96 pages, illustrated throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and fade, minor rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.Here at long last is the study of the life and paintings of Ralph Earl, the colorful eighteenth-century American artist whose pictures hang in the great galleries but about whom relatively little has appeared in print. A pioneer landscapist in a day when portraiture was the vogue, a Tory in Revolutionary New England, he nevertheless captured the stance and spirit of the new nation in the first decades after the Revolution. He portrayed the merchants and civic leaders of the time, often with their families, in their homes, orchards, business establishments--and the result is a record of post-Revolutionary American dress, design, and decoration as well as face and figure. Professor Goodrich has tracked down and assembled forty-one of Earl's paintings for this book, providing the first opportunity of viewing the artist's work as a body. The pictures range from a youthful re-creation of the Battle of Concord, through portraits done in England (whence he fled during the Revolution and which enabled him to absorb the techniques of the great eighteenth-century English portraitists), to his invaluable paintings of General von Steuben, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton, and other figures in the young United States.

Record # 853885

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Ralph Lauren A Way of Living: Home, Design, Inspirationby: Lauren, Ralph

Ralph Lauren A Way of Living: Home, Design, Inspiration
by: Lauren, Ralph

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This special volume presents a visual timeline of Ralph Lauren's remarkable history as a lifestyle innovator. Lauren's unparalleled ability to seamlessly blend fashion and the home is illustrated with the groundbreaking designs and innovative use of materials that have distinguished the home collection since its inception in 1983: menswear-inspired Oxford Cloth bedding that required the creation of special looms and took two years to refine; the sleek RL-CF1 chair, crafted of carbon fiber and inspired by Lauren's McLaren F1 racecar; and an appreciation for a timeworn, weathered aesthetic, as exemplified in the iconic Writer's Chair with its hand-burnished leather and rich patina. Historic achievements such as the opening of his first New York City flagship on Madison Avenue - which invited guests to experience the complete World of Ralph Lauren in a residential environment - and his renowned restaurants that offer the epitome of gracious hospitality, demonstrate the magnitude of Ralph Lauren's influence on the worlds of lifestyle design and hospitality. The timeline is complete with quotes from distinguished members of the design world and prominent figures of our culture including Oprah Winfrey, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and architecture critic Paul Goldberger. Ralph Lauren's signature ability to create transportive environments begins with his private homes that inspire his iconic lifestyle collections. Ralph Lauren: A Way of Living offers an in-depth look at all the places Lauren calls home, from a sprawling ranch in Colorado and an island retreat in Jamaica, to a Fifth Avenue penthouse overlooking Manhattan's Central Park, a seaside home in Montauk and a country estate in Bedford. Lauren's homes are deeply personal expressions of his vision for living; captivating imagery is complemented by essays and descriptions written in his own words that intimately express the meaning of home and share inspiration and anecdotes for each residence. The photos of Lauren's captivating homes are followed by a celebration of Ralph Lauren Home's lifestyle collections - cinematic worlds that are brought to life with iconic imagery showcasing Lauren's pioneering lifestyle approach and all-encompassing home collection. DUE TO WEIGHT. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 384768

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Ralph Lauren by Ralph Laurenby: Ralph Lauren

Ralph Lauren by Ralph Lauren
by: Ralph Lauren

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 480 pages. Large volume, 15.25 x 11.75" in a slipcase. Color drawings of fashion on endpapers, color and b&w photographs throughout of Ralph Lauren and his world. Foreword by Audrey Hepburn. Clean copy. Due to size and weight this volume is domestic shopping only.

Record # 380660

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Ralph Steadman's Extinct Boids by: Steadman, Ralph, / Levy, Ceri

Ralph Steadman's Extinct Boids
by: Steadman, Ralph, / Levy, Ceri

Hardcover. London/NY, Bloomsbury, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, decorated orange boards with silver stamping; in clean, crisp dust jacket with just a touch of shelfwear. Cartoonist and British national treasure Ralph Steadman's unique take on a variety of extinct birds. Ralph documents them all in this series of remarkable paintings, featuring unique interpretations of well-known birds such as the Great Auk, Passenger Pigeon and Dodo, along with less familiar members of the feathersome firmament. Text by Ceri Levy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398290

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Ralston Crawfordby: Haskell, Barbara

Ralston Crawford
by: Haskell, Barbara

Softcover. NY, Whitney Museum of Art, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers. 160 pages, 150 illustrations (50 in color), bibliography/exhibition list. A very colorful, well documented catalogue of this twentieth-century painter, best known for his "Overseas Highway" and his stark, solid colored industrial images from the 1930s.

Record # 371525

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Ramayana: Divine Loophole by: Patel, Sanjay

Ramayana: Divine Loophole
by: Patel, Sanjay

Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 186 pages. A 21st century retelling of a 2500-year-old story: Artist and veteran Pixar animator Sanjay Patel lends a lush, whimsical illustration style and lighthearted voice to one of Hindu mythology's best-loved and most enduring tales. Teeming with powerful deities, love-struck monsters, flying monkey gods, magic weapons, demon armies, and divine love, Ramayana: Divine Loophole tells the story of Rama, a god-turned-prince, and his quest to rescue his wife Sita after she is kidnapped by a demon king. Clean copy

Record # 385280

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Rambles in Old Londonby: Gordon, George Byron

Rambles in Old London
by: Gordon, George Byron

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, George W. Jacobs & Company, 1st Edition, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 334 pages. Hardcover. Color frontispiece and b/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate, stamp, and pencil markings on front endpapers. Some pages untrimmed. Blue leather cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover boards with two color decoration. Boards are excellent. Dust jacket has agewear, but present. binding very good. Pages and edges have some tanning. Top edge dyed. Dr. Gordon brings an artist's eye as well as the knowledge of a historian to the beautiful city of London and her historic landmarks.

Record # 99185

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Ramon Carrenoby: Ramon Carreno

Ramon Carreno
by: Ramon Carreno

Softcover. Bogota COL, Galeria Alfred Wild, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages with color photos of the Colombian artist's wood sculptures. Clean copy.

Record # 398919

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Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manilaby: James M. Scott

Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
by: James M. Scott

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 635 pages. The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific. "What Iris Chang did for our understanding of the Rape of Nanking, James M. Scott has now done for the Battle of Manila. Here is a sweeping tale of frenzied fighting and heartbreaking devastation, written by a meticulous historian who has unflinchingly probed the truth of this largely forgotten episode from the Pacific." Clean copy.

Record # 387539

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Ranch Life in the Far Westby: Roosevelt, Theodore / Frederic Remington

Ranch Life in the Far West
by: Roosevelt, Theodore / Frederic Remington

Hardcover. Flagstaff AZ, Northland Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip to rear panel. B&w drawings by Remington. Reprinted from a series of articles published in The Century Magazine in 1888. During the early 1880s, both Remington the artist and Roosevelt the writer were trying their hands at ranching, Remington in Kansas and Roosevelt in Dakota territory. Their respective records of the experience as perhaps the most important to survive of ranching in that era. Contains specific material on the severe winter of 1886-87 which put an end to ranching for many. Clean copy.

Record # 385821

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Randolph Caldecott - His Early Art Career - A Personal Memoirby: Blackburn, Henry

Randolph Caldecott - His Early Art Career - A Personal Memoir
by: Blackburn, Henry

New York, George Routledge, 1st , 1886, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, 172 B&W illustrations. An exceptionally bright, tight copy. Green beveled covers with gilt lettering, all edges gilt. Surprisingly scarce. First American Edition. A significant memoir, published in the year of Caldecott"s death.

Record # 303331

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Randolph's Dreamby: Mellecker, Judith

Randolph's Dream
by: Mellecker, Judith

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-pahinated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Robert Andrew Parker. Illustrated end papers. Review slip laid-In. In the summer of 1940, a young English boy whose family is separated by the war has a dream that he saves his father's life. Poignant tale with outstanding watercolors by a Caldecott artist.

Record # 203550

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Random Shotsby: Adeler, Max, Arthur B. Frost (Illustrator)

Random Shots
by: Adeler, Max, Arthur B. Frost (Illustrator)

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J. M. Stoddart & Co., 1st, 1878, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 326 pages. Hardcover. Scarce, early Frost work. Decorated endpapers. B/w illustrations throughout. Back endpapers have a mended rip at gutter. Cover boards bound in orange. Covers have some age wear. Pages are age-yellowed with a touch of foxing in places. Does not affect text or illustrations. In very good shape for its age.

Record # 31111

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Raphael - The Wrightsman Lectures by: Pope-Hennessy, John

Raphael - The Wrightsman Lectures
by: Pope-Hennessy, John

Hardcover. New York, NYUP, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 303 pages. Hardcover. 246 black & white illustrations, 6 in color. Light wear to dust jacket at corners, edges. Clean, tight copy. Raphael (The Wrightsman Lectures, Delivered Under the Auspices of the New York University Institute of Fine Arts) [Oct 01, 1979].

Record # 611830

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Raphael Soyer: Fifty Years of Printmakingby: Cole, Sylvan, Jr.

Raphael Soyer: Fifty Years of Printmaking
by: Cole, Sylvan, Jr.

Hardcover. New York, Da Capo Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 257 pages with 126 black and white illustrations. Biographical notes. List of printers. Index of Prints. Frontispiece is an original lithograph created especially for this volume. "The only catalogue of Soyer's prints. Contains 126 separate prints - from his first etched self-portrait to his most recent experiments in advanced lithographic technique. Each print is fully described, and each is illustrated - full size wherever possible - on a separate page." Very good in a bright dust jacket.

Record # 804703

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