Hardcover. London, Art/Books, reprint, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth with black decoration, 186 pages. A beautiful facsimile of the earliest English translation of Gauguin's frank and entertaining memoir, written just before he died, in which he reveals his most inner thoughts on art, life and love Unappreciated in his own lifetime, Paul Gauguin is now recognized as one of the giants of French post-Impressionism and a pioneer of early modernism. A rebel in both art and life, he rejected his bourgeois upbringing and comfortable stockbroker's job to devote his life to painting. Eventually, dismayed by the 'hypocrisy of civilization' and in search of a primitive idyll, he left his wife and children behind in Paris and took up residence in the South Seas, first in Tahiti and, later, in the Marquesas Islands. He would never return to Europe. In the final months of his life, he wrote this witty and revealing autobiographical memoir with the request that it be published upon his death. It first appeared in the original French in 1918, and was translated into English three years later. As his son Emile wrote in the preface, 'These journals are an illuminating self-portrait of a unique personality. They bring sharply into focus for me his goodness, his humor, his insurgent spirit, his clarity of vision, his inordinate hatred of hypocrisy and sham.' Wide-ranging and elliptical, these candid reflections reveal Gauguin's inner thoughts about many subjects, including frank views on his fellow artists back in Paris, his turbulent relationship with Van Gogh, and the charms of Polynesian women, while providing glimpses into his often far-from-idyllic life in the islands. This beautiful facsimile reproduces the first American translation of the journals, a rare limited edition privately published in New York in 1921 for a select group of subscribers. With full-page sketches by the artist, these entertaining and enlightening musings give us a unique insight into Gauguin the man and the artist. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Published to coincide with the Gauguin exhibition that traveled between Cleveland and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Lavishly illustrated with 254 images, of which 234 are in color.

Hardcover. NY, Albert & Charles Boni , 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original light gray cloth hardcover with gilt & green lettering on the spine and the front cover. 340 pages, 8 b&w plates including frontis self-portrait. No dust jacket, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. London, Phaidon, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. Paul Graham's intense color photographs map a social and cultural landscape. This work brings together portraits, landscapes and interiors from his British, European and Japanese series. Graham has exhibited worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Tate Gallery, London.

Softcover. Montreal , Drawn & Quarterly, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non paginated. Softcover. Extensive b&w illustrations by Michel Rabagliati throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Rabagliati`s strip "Paul: Apprentice Typographer" was one of the highlights of 1999`s Drawn & Quarterly anthology, and his first comic book Paul in the Country won the 2000 Harvey award for Best New Talent. This, his first graphic novel, is a sweet, unsentimental story about being a teenager and Rabagliati's crisp retro-modern 1950s drawing style. Paul Has a Summer Job continues the story of Paul, a Quebecois teenager in the 1970s, as he experiences the first conflicts of responsibility with his desire to be free.

Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. This is the first comprehensive survey of the work of Paul Himmel (b.1914) and the first publication about his work in 40 years. The son of immigrant Bohemian intellectuals, Himmel took up photography as a teenager and studied graphic journalism under art director Alexey Brodovitch. He worked from 1947 to 1969 as a professional photographer for such clients as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, and several of his photos were included in Edward Steichen's "Family of Man" exhibition. By 1969, he had become disenchanted with photography and retrained as a psychotherapist. An exhibit of his photographs in New York City in 1996 brought him back to public attention. Himmel's photographs are genuinely fresh and unusual. Many are high-contrast, emphasizing the design and patterns contained in an image; subjects range from New York City scenes to nudes reduced to grainy vestiges to color abstractions. This monograph richly reproduces Himmel's engaging pictures of humanity in all its variations and is recommended for all fine art and photography collections.

Softcover. Canada, Vancover Art Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 82 pages. Softcover with dust jacket. Light musty odor. Clean, tight copy otherwise. Black and white and color pictures throughout.

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover with gilt titles to spine. Full page, full color & black & white illustrations throughout. Features 131 illustrations, 31 in full color. Dust jacket with age toning to edges, tears to corners one closed tear (2 inches) to back of jacket. Otherwise clean, bright & unmarked.

Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 279 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. The work of Paul Klee (1879-1940) was deeply influenced by his passion for the theater. Throughout his life, the artist fervently attended theatrical performances, from the opera to puppet shows. Characters from plays or operas Hamlet, Falstaff, or Don Giovanni, for example populate his cryptic visual world. Various types of characters or theatrical elements, such as the clown or the mask, were firmly established themes in his pictorial repertoire. However, Klee primarily forged links between the theater and life, and in so doing, he took up the traditional theme of the world as a stage: people became actors or marionettes; theatrical events converged with scenes from everyday life. This publication sheds light on all of these aspects of Klee's captivation with the stage. A chronology reconstructs a panoramic view of his multifaceted experience with the theater. Selected works by contemporary artists make it clear that not only Klee was fascinated by the sharp-eyed perception of theatrical situations it is a topic that continues to engage artists even today. 394 plates, 212 in color. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 280 pages. Color and b&w illustrations. This publication sheds light on all of aspects of Klee's fascination with the arts of the stage. A chronology gives a panoramic outline of his several encounters with the theater and a selection of works by contemporary artists makes it clear that Klee was not the only artist to be fascinated with the sharp-eyed perception of theatrical scenarios--the topic is one that continues to engage artists today. Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Zentrum Paul Klee and Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels.

Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 344 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Gathers drawings and paintings by the modern Swiss artist, discusses the themes and techniques used in his work, and examines his influence on twentieth century art.

Softcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, First Edition, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Softcover published on occasion of the exhibition by the same title, touring various locations including the Museum of Modern Art, February 12 - May 5, 1987. Full page, full color and bw illustrations throughout. Frontis illustration, Twittering Machine, 1922. Light toning to spine. Otherwise clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 164 pages. "With assistant curator of photographs Paul Martineau's intriguing biographical essay (based, in part, on the Getty's archive of Outerbridge papers), 104 stunningly beautiful plates, a chronology, checklist, and index, this catalog offers a highly visual and seductive overview. A section featuring selected photographs from Outerbridge's California years, a period missing from earlier books, makes this publication of interest to specialists as well."--ARLIS/NA Reviews

Softcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 256 pages, color photographs. Pictorial French fold wrappers. 'American photographer Paul Outerbridge created shimmering "artifical paradises.' From Cubist still life images to nudes, his sensitivity to light and shadow and pioneering use of color transformed everyday scenarios into near-abstract compositions. This unique aesthetic helped him seductively champion the expressionistic, as much as commercial, potential of color photography.' Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Ostfildern GR, Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated paper-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Paul Pfeiffer. 80 pages with 35 four-color plates and 2 black-and-white plates. Essays (in German and English) by Valeria Liebermann and Stefano Basilico. Conversation with the artist (in German and English) by Thomas Ruff. Includes a list of works, biography, list of awards, exhibition history and publications. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Phaidon Press, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover, 255 pages, b&w and color photographs throughout. Light fading to dust jacket spine. Else a very clean, tight copy. "Paul Rand (1914-96) was a pioneering figure in American graphic design. Adopting what he called a 'problem solving' approach to design, he drew on the ideas of European avant-garde art movements, such as Cubism, Constructivism and De Stijl, and synthesized them to produce his own distinctive graphic language."

NY, Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Passionate and enormously talented, Paul Robeson lived one of the great lives of the twentieth century. Martin Duberman's classic biography is a monumental and powerfully affecting portrait of one of this century's most notable performers, political radicals, and champions of racial equality. Drawing on a vast archive of family papers and interviews with friends and relatives as well as FBI files, Paul Robeson charts the heroic and tragic course of Robeson's life: from his early days as the son of a former slave to his rise to unprecedented international acclaim as a stage actor and singer, and from his political awakening to his downfall as a victim of McCarthyism and the efforts of the U.S. government to destroy him. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture Foundation and Fundacion Televisa, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover issued without a dust jacket. This publication tells the story of the photographer's journeys through Mexico in the early 1930s. In search of a fresh start, Strand traveled to Mexico City in late 1932 at the invitation of Carlos Chavez, the eminent Mexican composer and conductor. The culmination of Strand's time in Mexico was his collaboration with Emilio Gomez Muriel and Academy Award-winning director Fred Zinnemann on the groundbreaking film, Redes (The Wave) (1936). A remastered DVD version of the film is included in this volume. Illus., 100 color/89 tritone/240 b&w. 356 pages.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 48 pages illustrated with tinted photos of actual Eskimo carvings. No dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Woodstock NY, The Overlook Press, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 576 pages. 16 pages of black & white plates, 48 line-drawings in text (one double-page), dark grey endpapers. Excellent copy in fine unclipped pictorial dustwrapper with photographs of Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore on flaps. Peake's Progress is a selection, compiled by his widow, Maeve Gilmore, from every period of his work as a writer and draughtsman. It contains a remarkable work from childhood, "The White Chief of the Umzimbooboo Kaffirs;" the early "Mr. Slaughterboard," which foreshadows the "Titus" books; two plays, "The Wit to Woo" and "Noah's Ark;" a broadcast version of "Mr. Pye," and a generous selection of Peake's short stories, poems and nonsense verses and drawings-all of them adding new perspectives on this prolific and astonishingly original writer.Including a new preface written by Mervyn Peake's son, Sebastian, this edition of Peake's Progress is published to coincide with the centenary of Peake's birth.

Hardcover. Washington DC, GPO, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, title in gilt on spine and insignia in gilt on front. B&w illustrations, 377 pages. First printing of first edition. Related article pasted to front endpapers, Book covers and interior bright and clean. Foreword by Rear Admiral Ernest McNeill Eller. Homer Norman Wallin (December 6, 1893 - March 6, 1984) was a vice admiral in the United States Navy, best known for his salvage of ships sunk in the attack on Pearl Harbor. In 1941, Captain Wallin became material officer for commander, Battle Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, and was serving in that position when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. He was placed in charge of the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's Salvage Division. Through most of 1942, he directed the Pearl Harbor ship salvage effort, a huge task that enabled the navy to recover the use of three sunken battleships.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st , 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket.Color illustrations by Atwell. Debby Atwell does a lovely job of conveying the sweep of history. The book's two narrative threads--the histories of the United States and of six generations of Pearl's family--intertwine neatly. The pictures are a delight, and their folk art style lends a nice sense of continuity to the book.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 312 pages. The first book to document the peasant rebellion against Soviet collectivization, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin retrieves a crucial lost chapter from the history of Stalinist Russia. The peasant revolt against collectivization, as reconstructed by author Lynne Viola, was the most violent and sustained resistance to the Soviet state after the Russian Civil War. Conservative estimates suggest that over the course of the 1920s and early 1930s, more than 1,100 people were assassinated, more than 13,000 villages rioted, and over 2.5 million people participated in this active struggle of resistance. This book is about the men and women who tried to preserve their families, communities, and beliefs from the depredations of Stalinism. Their acts were often heroic, but these heroes were homespun, ordinary people who were driven to acts of desperation by cruel and brutal state policies. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st revised, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 410 pages. The book that re-established Peckinpah's reputation--now thoroughly revised and updated! When critics hailed the 1995 re-release of Sam Peckinpah's masterpiece, The Wild Bunch, it was a recognition of Paul Seydor's earlier claim that this was a milestone in American film, perhaps the most important since Citizen Kane. Peckinpah: The Western Films first appeared in 1980, when the director's reputation was at low ebb. The book helped lead a generation of readers and filmgoers to a full and enduring appreciation of Peckinpah's landmark films, locating his work in the central tradition of American art that goes all the way back to Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. In addition to a new section on the personal significance of The Wild Bunch to Peckinpah, Seydor has added to this expanded, revised edition a complete account of the successful, but troubled, efforts to get a fully authorized director's cut released. He describes how an initial NC-17 rating of the film by the Motion Picture Association of America's ratings board nearly aborted the entire project. He also adds a great wealth of newly discovered biographical detail that has surfaced since the director's death and includes a new chapter on Noon Wine, credited with bringing Peckinpah's television work to a fitting resolution and preparing his way for The Wild Bunch.This edition stands alone in offering full treatment of all versions of Peckinpah's Westerns. It also includes discussion of all fourteen episodes of Peckinpah's television series, The Westerner, and a full description of the versions of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid now (or formerly) in circulation, including an argument that the label "director's cut" on the version in release by Turner is misleading. Additionally, the book's final chapter has been substantially rewritten and now includes new information about Peckinpah's background and sources.

Hardcover. New York, Praeger, 1st US, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 64 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Introduction and Translation by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy. Dust jacket with chunk of paper missing at top of spine, some additional lesser chipping along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. NY, Mark Batty, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. The volume offers a significant selection from the run of Peel Magazine, which exposes the key influence in the recognition of urban stickers, in particular in the USA.A good overview of artists, thematic selections, are peppered with fair interviews, and other elements of urban culture such as decorated or tuned-up toys, or several forms of street art without losing much track of stickers as such.

Hardcover. NY, Mark Batty, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. The volume offers a significant selection from the run of Peel Magazine, which exposes the key influence in the recognition of urban stickers, in particular in the USA.A good overview of artists, thematic selections, are peppered with fair interviews, and other elements of urban culture such as decorated or tuned-up toys, or several forms of street art without losing much track of stickers as such.

Hardcover. London, George Newnes Ltd., 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth, black, white and gilt decoration with Speaker of the house in profile on cover, 378 pages. Illustrated with text cartoons throughout and a color frontis by Gould. Sir Henry William Lucy JP, (1842 -1924) was one of the most famous English political journalists of the Victorian era. He was widely known on both sides of the Atlantic. Known as serious commentator of parliamentary affairs, he was also an accomplished humorist, and a parliamentary sketch-writer; acknowledged as the first great lobby correspondent. Owner's signature on blank prelim page, cloth is worn at spine edges with some fraying, title on spine faded. Binding is sound, tight.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N Abrams, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Long before the movies were created, peepshows were appealing to a public eager for entertainment and enlightenment. The peepshowman and his box were a common sight on bustling city streets and quiet village greens. The book includes nearly 200 annotated images, many never before published.

Hardcover. NY, Assouline, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 80 pages. Original publisher's red boards, lettered black on spine. Copiously illustrated in color and black and white throughout. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR Fred Marcellino on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With light-hearted, lavish illustrations, Caldecott Honoree Fred Marcellino makes the most--and more--of the fantasy and farce to a trio of Lear's best tales: The New Vestments, The Pelican Chorus, and The Owl and the Pussycat. Three splendid picture books in one!

Hardcover. New York, Watson - Guptill, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Illustrated with black & white examples of pen and ink drawing and brush techniques. Previous owners signature on front endpaper and bookplate on inside front cover. Light wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages. A mystery/adventure for young adults set in England. Library Ed. (NOT Ex-lib) Nice dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st US, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 512 pages, b&w illustrations. Penelope Fitzgerald was a great English writer whose career didn't begin until she was nearly sixty. She would go on to win some of the most coveted awards in literature--the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Now, in an impeccable match of talent between biographer and subject, Hermione Lee, a master biographer and one of Fitzgerald's greatest champions, gives us this remarkable writer's story. Lee's critical expertise is on dazzling display on every page, as it illuminates this extraordinary English life. Fitzgerald, born into an accomplished intellectual family, the granddaughter of two bishops, led a life marked by dramatic twists of fate, moving from a bishop's palace to a sinking houseboat to a last, late blaze of renown. We see Fitzgerald's very English childhood in the village of Hampstead; her Oxford years, when she was known as the "blonde bombshell"; her impoverished adulthood as a struggling wife, mother and schoolteacher, raising a family in difficult circumstances; and the long-delayed start to her literary career.

Hardcover. New York , Thames and Hudson, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Louis Stettner is one of the last living members of the avant-garde New York School of photography of the 1950s, which challenged many of the long-accepted foundations of art form. His Penn Station series of the late 1950s represents some of his most important work, gathered here in a single form for the first time. The series is less a portrait of the building than a study of people at once in transit and in suspension. 

Hardcover. Phaidon, 1st thus, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. Working in graphic, architectural, and product design, Pentagram is one of the most respected firms in the world. A collection of the work and thought of the Pentagram partners, this lavishly illustrated and--not surprisingly--beautifully designed book helps to explain the unique qualities of organization and creativity that have allowed the firm to prosper since its beginnings more than 20 years ago. The candid and insightful discussion of the business and artistic processes of design is useful for students as well as seasoned professionals. While the tone is occasionally a bit self-satisfied, the final feeling conveyed is that of a ceaselessly open and growing entity, astonished at its success, justifiably proud of its work, and aware of its status as an anomaly. Recommended for all collections with a focus on design.

Hardcover. New Jersey, Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2005-02-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible pictorial boards. 190 pages. This extraordinary and innovative marketing campaign was the brainchild of Abbott Pharmaceutical Company. Over 170 different postcards from about 80 different countries were sent over the course of 14 years.

Hardcover. New Jersey, Mark Batty Publisher, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Flexible pictorial boards. 190 pages. This extraordinary and innovative marketing campaign was the brainchild of Abbott Pharmaceutical Company. Over 170 different postcards from about 80 different countries were sent over the course of 14 years.

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 pages, b&w illustrations. In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s has informed jazz in the years since then. They bring nuance to historical accounts of the avant-garde, the New Thing, Free Jazz, "non-idiomatic" improvisation, fusion, and other forms of jazz that have flourished since the 1960s, and they reveal the contemporary relevance of those musical practices. Many of the participants in the jazz scenes discussed are still active performers. A photographic essay captures some of them in candid moments before performances. Clean copy. like new.

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press , 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 312 pages, b&w illustrations. In People Get Ready, musicians, scholars, and journalists write about jazz since 1965, the year that Curtis Mayfield composed the famous civil rights anthem that gives this collection its title. The contributors emphasize how the political consciousness that infused jazz in the 1960s and early 1970s has informed jazz in the years since then. They bring nuance to historical accounts of the avant-garde, the New Thing, Free Jazz, "non-idiomatic" improvisation, fusion, and other forms of jazz that have flourished since the 1960s, and they reveal the contemporary relevance of those musical practices. Many of the participants in the jazz scenes discussed are still active performers. A photographic essay captures some of them in candid moments before performances. Clean copy. like new.

Hardcover. NY, Dutton, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. 256 pages, Index. Maroon cloth, stamped in gilt. Copiously illustrated with watercolors by Karl Bodmer. Map on endpapers. The Firsthand Account of Prince Maximilian's Expedition Up the Missouri River, 1833-34. Wonderful color plates by Swiss-born Bodmer accompany extracts from Maximilian's text, enhanced by historical background from Thomas and Ronnefeldt. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Press, First Thus, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout including maps, photographs. Bright front cover, sunfade to rear cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Dust jacket with light edgewear, chips.

Hardcover. London, Fourth Estate, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large, oblong format. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine, pictorial onlay to front. With original paintings by Anthony Rhodes and photos by Piers Cavendish. This is a celebration of the Peregrine. With the specially commissioned photographs of Piers Cavendish and the paintings and drawings of Anthony Rhodes this book describes the distribution and habitat of the peregrine across the world, its life-cycle, relationship with man and its potency as a cultural icon in many countries. Printed in four-colour throughout on art paper the book will examine the global distribution of the various species, the different names given to the peregrine by different countries and cultures. From there the book will focus on historical references to the peregrine, its links with the monarchy and its various cultural significance across the world, in art and literature, myth and fable. The rest of the book comprises a naturalistic description of the peregrine in the wild, its annual - and life-cycle, its interaction with man, the captive breeding of peregrines and their place in falconry. The final chapter will anticipate the future of the peregrine. Bright, clean copy. No slipcase.

Hardcover. New York, George H. Doran Company, 1st Edition, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Illustrated by Ralph Barton. Cover boards bound in black cloth, yellow paste down on front cover board and spine with black titles. Deckled untrimmed edges. Light tanning from age to edges and pages. Binding tight, spine straight. A parody outline of etiquette by the author of "A Parody Outline of History".

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Lili Almog's color photos taken at three Carmelite monasteries (of nuns) are revealing of their faith.. The sisters showing their distinctive profession crucifixes (normally worn hidden under their scapulars, and pinned to their beds when they go to sleep) are revealing their personal symbols of "perfect intimacy." And the statues and/or holy cards of our holy mother St. Teresa, our holy father St. John of the Cross, St. Therese, and St. Joseph make Carmelites feel right at home. The monasteries are also significant: they are on Mt. Carmel (Haifa) and in Bethlehem--founded by Sister Miriam, "the little Arab"; and in Port Tobacco, Maryland, whose community is the oldest and first Discalced Carmelite convent founded in the US. The spartan surroundings emphasize the importance of the nuns' relationship with God. The photos of the sisters revealing their profession crucifixes, which they wear near their hearts and pin to their beds when going to sleep, I found especially moving. Almog's photos are neither stilted nor rigid, but reminiscent of the photos that St. Therese's sister Celine took of her! The quotations from Blessed Teresa of the Andes are very apt comments on the photos.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 320 pages. Hardcover, no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Perfect Nonsense tells the complete story behind one of the most innovative and under-rated Golden Age artists, classic children's illustrators, and nonsense poets in American history. For more than 50 years, George Carlson created thousands of distinctive and dynamic cartoons, comics, riddles, and games that thrilled both children and adults with their fanciful spirit and nonsensical humor

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages, 110 illustrations in color. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Includes signed print by Gordon.

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages, 110 illustrations in color. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Includes signed print by Gordon.