Chicago, Childrens Press, 1st, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Color, black & white pictures by Caroline Storck. Gutter at front endpapers split. Dust jacket with light wear to bottom edge, spine top and bottom.
Hardcover. Springfield Mass , McLoughlin Brothers , reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages. Hardcover. 12 full page color illustrations and smaller black & white illustrations throughout. Illustrated chapter headings. Center double page illustration with old clear tape over binding staples. Edge wear to top and sides. Some pages with short closed tears. Otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Berlin, Brinkmann & Bose, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, original publisher's tan cloth, over blue papered boards. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. German language edition but with notes in English by Fagiolo at rear. Ink inscription on half-title page. Light wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped in black. 144 pages, b&w drawings by Paul Brown. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Kelly O'Quinn, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover magazine, 68 pages. Very light wear. A periodical devoted to scientific speculation about the future. This issue contains: Kitt Peak- Guided Tour of Tuscan's Observatory, New Improved Human Genetic Engineers tackle the secrets of DNA, Interview John Varley, The Black Hole, unidentified Flying Oddball, Star Empires, The Whole World in Your Hands- Tomorrow's Computers Go into the Closet, Video Image- Preview of TV's Martian Chronicles, Brain Aldiss, and much more.
Hardcover. Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Epoque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the exquisitely comfortable suit that became her trademark. Early in the Roaring Twenties, Chanel made the first ever couture perfume - No. 5 - presenting it in the famous little square-cut flagon that, inspired by Picasso and Cubism, became the arch symbol of the Art Deco style. No. 5 remains the most popular scent ever created. This volume, published to accompany a landmark exhibition in Paris, traces the birth and evolution of Chanel's timeless style. Specially commissioned photographs by Julien T. Hamon showcase the clothing, while essays by fashion historians illuminate a period, an event or a theme. Rare archival documents, including portraits of Gabrielle Chanel herself, round out the book. Remainder line on bottom edge otherwise clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Three hardcover volumes in a pictorial slipcase, 1056 pages. Few cartoonists ever had as lavish a tribute as a three-volume-slipcased collection, but few are as deserving as Wilson. Collecting 50 years worth of his monthly single page gag cartoons from Playboy, it's a definitive overview of a remarkable talent and viewpoint. Considering the timeframe, Wilson's fabled black humor and art style remain remarkably consistent--as time passes, the drawing renders into slightly blobbier shapes that retain all of their wit just the same--but the source and degree of the humor is a constant. Although best known for his slightly lugubrious subjects--monsters, witches, corpses, vampires and skeletons are frequent visitors to these pages--Wilson also targets consumerism, materialism, and other basic human foibles. As publisher Gary Groth writes in a biography in the third volume, He has constructed a world that is eerily family, unsettlingly recognizable and lethally consistent. Beautifully designed and printed, the books contain cut-out pages, and the slipcase itself becomes a window for a trapped photo of Wilson. Text extras include Wilson's prose short stories and an appreciation by Neil Gaiman.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, j.M. Stoddart & Co., 1st Edition, 1873, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 488 pages. Hardcover. "Richly Illustrated with one hundred and fifty steel engravings, executed in the finest style of the art, mostly from original designs by distinguished artists." Light blue, fancy textured endpapers. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Cover boards elaborately bound in leather with raised bands and gilt title and decoration on spine. Front cover has engraved decoration in black, with gilt title and design, back cover board has same design without gilt (see image). Boards have some chipping around the corners and edges (see images). Elaborately decorative first title page (see image). All edges gilt (quite bright). Hinge cracked at gutter in one place (second page,--second page), binding remains tight, otherwise. Tanning to pages from age, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Some shadowing on a few pages due to previous owner's pressed flowers (now removed). This beautiful old volume was obviously meant to decorate someone's library, as well as provide some comfort at the beginning of the Twentieth Century.
Hardcover. Chicago, Agate Midway, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, stated first edition, 256 pages, b&w photos. "This is the completely fascinating, thorough and dispassionate biography of Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, the Swedish girl who became "one of the great ornaments and excitements of her age." Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcvoer with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Van Allsburg. SIGNED by Van Allsburg. Tight copy. Light rip on back of dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Kodansha International, Reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 228 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black & white and color photographs throughout. A tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Robert M. McBride & Company, 2nd Printing, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages. Hardcover. Black & white cartoons by Gardner Rea. Light foxing to preliminary pages. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. New York, Beaufort Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 375 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages. In this previously unpublished body of work, Gary Schneider presents a haunting series of nudes and faces that emerge and seem to float above a receding black ground. Each image is rendered through a long exposure and by exploring the surfaces of the skin with a small handheld light. Due to the prolonged time required and the inevitable movements and consequent distortions that occur in the process, the results both reveal and obscure the intimate physical details and personality of the individual who poses. The sensibility and the obsessions of the artist are reflected by his decisions to expose certain areas more than others. The skin-tones are lush and luminous as they emerge from the darkness, yet these portraits also disturb as a result of the exaggerations and irregularities--the blurred traces of unconscious gesture matched with a stiffness that implies the innate physicality and mortality within each body.
Hardcover. New York, Norman W. Henley & Co., 2nd Ed., 1902, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 304 pages plus publisher's ads for similar books in rear. Black and white technical drawings and plates throughout. This is the revised and enlarged edition of the 1900 book. Textured dark green cloth with gilt title on spine. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Avon/Flare, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 137 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. Introduction by Nat Hentoff.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 66 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY ORR on the title page. Black and white drawings by Brad Holland. The poet's second book.
Hardcover. London/NY, Hamlyn, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, black cloth with silver lettering, 96 pages, Illustrated profusely with 59 black-and-white and 40 color illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Cory, Adams & Mackay, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 84 pages. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket. Dust jacket shows heavy wear and rubbing, laminate is coming off the paper of the dust jacket. Moderately soiled. Cover boards are clean, internally clean and tight. There are 4 color plates tipped in; Black and white illustrations throughout.
Softcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 209 pages. This groundbreaking study explores the Harlem Renaissance as a literary phenomenon fundamentally shaped by same-sex-interested men. Christa Schwarz focuses on Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Richard Bruce Nugent and explores these writers' sexually dissident or gay literary voices. The portrayals of men-loving men in these writers' works vary significantly. Schwarz locates in the poetry of Cullen, Hughes, and McKay the employment of contemporary gay code words, deriving from the Greek discourse of homosexuality and from Walt Whitman. By contrast, Nugent-the only "out" gay Harlem Renaissance artist-portrayed men-loving men without reference to racial concepts or Whitmanesque codes. Schwarz argues for contemporary readings attuned to the complex relation between race, gender, and sexual orientation in Harlem Renaissance writing. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Tappan, Whittemore, and Mason, 1st, 1849, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages. Hardcover. Engraved map frontispiece, full page tissue guarded engraved plate of State House, preface page, black leather spine with gilt lettering and decoration, embossed patterned border to front and rear cover. Wear to cover, map frontispiece chipped, previous owner's inscription to title page, faded coin sized red stamps on title page, pages 19, 29, 55.
Hardcover. New York, Lewis Publishing Company, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 754 pages. Hardcover. Volume II Only. History of Vermont told through biographies of leading Vermont citizens. Illustrated with black and white portraits. Leather spine and corners over cloth, title in gilt on spine. Marbled endpapers. Moderate rubbing to cover edges. Clean, unmarked pages. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering, 733 pages. Many of the early settlers of Barbados eventually moved to the mainland of North America and settled in Virginia, Georgia, the Carolinas, and other colonies. Records of Barbados families exist in a variety of places and indeed a great many have been written up and published in the turn-of-the-century journal "Caribbeana" and "The Journal of the Barbados Museum and Historical Society". Unfortunately, back issues of these journals are no longer available, and copies can be found today in only a handful of libraries. With this present work, however, genealogists at last have access to both of these publications, for the book contains every article pertaining to family history ever published in these journals. The combined articles, reprinted here in facsimile, range from conventional genealogies and pedigrees to will abstracts and Bible records and refer to some 15,000 persons, all of whom are listed in the index. Besides the genealogies and family records, this compilation also contains a selection of notes on the connections between Barbados and New England families and four invaluable lists of Barbados Quakers.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Company, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, matching black cloth covers with gilt stamping. Vol. 1, 1139 pages, Families A-Z, Pre-American Notes on Old New Netherland Families. Vol. II, 1087 pages, A Genealogical History of New Jersey/Bible Records of New Jersey. Clean, bright copies. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. London, Herbert Jenkins, 9th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 256 pages, hardcover, green cloth with black lettering. Stated Ninth Printing on copyright page. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York , PowerHouse Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Every city-dweller has seen them, and ever city-dweller could list the telltale signs: the fur, the gold, the hats, the cars. They are the original macks, the original players. They are Big City pimps--the heroes of gangsta rap. Bob Adelman and Susan Hall dive headlong into their world in the classic investigative docudrama Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp, an in-depth exploration of the underworld figures that populate our streets at night. The first book of its kind, Gentleman of Leisure, originally published in 1972 and now reproduced in a facsimile edition, is a collection of photographs and interviews dramatically documenting the private life of a pimp and his prostitutes. The people who appear in this book are not models: they are real people with real lives. Only their names have been changed to protect the guilty, their stories are real. Armed only with a camera and a tape recorder, Adelman and Hall entered the lives of the pimp Silky and his women. What they found flew in the face of prevailing prejudices: stripped of stereotype and myth, the pimps and whores that shared their tales were complex people embroiled in romantic dramas, with a code of behavior as intricate as the Mafia's, and a defined sense of self.
Hardcover. New York , PowerHouse Books, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Every city-dweller has seen them, and ever city-dweller could list the telltale signs: the fur, the gold, the hats, the cars. They are the original macks, the original players. They are Big City pimps--the heroes of gangsta rap. Bob Adelman and Susan Hall dive headlong into their world in the classic investigative docudrama Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp, an in-depth exploration of the underworld figures that populate our streets at night. The first book of its kind, Gentleman of Leisure, originally published in 1972 and now reproduced in a facsimile edition, is a collection of photographs and interviews dramatically documenting the private life of a pimp and his prostitutes. The people who appear in this book are not models: they are real people with real lives. Only their names have been changed to protect the guilty, their stories are real. Armed only with a camera and a tape recorder, Adelman and Hall entered the lives of the pimp Silky and his women. What they found flew in the face of prevailing prejudices: stripped of stereotype and myth, the pimps and whores that shared their tales were complex people embroiled in romantic dramas, with a code of behavior as intricate as the Mafia's, and a defined sense of self.
Hardcover. NY, New American Library, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white photos by Bob Adelman. 189 pages. The life of a pimp. Text by Hall.
Softcover. Boston, The Solio Foundation, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 107 pages. Softcover with minor wear to edges. Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. Clean unmarked text.
Philadelphia, Lippincott , 1st , 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 64 pages. Black & white drawings by Leaf. Dust jacket worn, chipped. Children's names in crayon on inside front cover. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Pivately Printed, 1st , 1908, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 leather and marbled boards with gilt lettering on spine and raised bands. 16 pages of text by W. Stanton Howard. 261 pages. Black & white plates. Card of author tipped on front end paper. Previous owner's name & stamp. Bright, sharp condition.
Hardcover. Peacham VT, The Perpetua Press, 1st, 2002, Hardcover in the publisher's cream-colored linen over boards with spine and upper board gilt-stamped black leather labels. No dust jacket, as issued. 88 pages, only 500 copies printed. A collection of interviews done with Shaw from 1924 - 1945. Bright and clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, St Martins Press, 3rd pr, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 404 pages, with black & white photographs. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Publishing, 1st , 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 312 pages, illustrated throughout with drawings in b&w. Black blind-stamped boards, brown cloth spine with gilt title. White pictorial dust jacket. Light wear to covers and spine, else a very nice, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Taschen, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, A color facsimile of the complete pages of George Herriman's Krazy Kat 1935-44. One of the first comics to be considered a work of art, Krazy Kat delights with its characterization and visual-verbal creativity alongside the slapstick shenanigans between Krazy and Ignatz the mouse. This book comes with an illustrated introduction by Alexander Braun. The premise is simple: a black cat loves scheming a white mouse who incessantly throws bricks at the cat's head, which police dog Officer Pupp, secretly harboring a passionate love for the cat, tries to prevent. George Herriman endlessly plays with the above formula in his legendary newspaper strip Krazy Kat, published from 1913 until his death in 1944. Clean, bright copy, still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Houston, Rice University, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 142 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by George Krause. Clean, bright copy. For the past 45 years, George Krause has worked on four distinct series of photographs, each represented in this volume. "The Street" is an oblique journal of places, including Mexico, Spain, Italy, and Philadelphia, where the artist has lived and worked. The objects photographed in "Qui Riposa" are tombstones and cemetery monuments; in "Saints and Martyrs," religious statuary; and in "I Nudi," naked human models. From these common objects arise pictures of great beauty and mystery.
Softcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 95 pages, b&w photos by Tice. The enduring work of photographer George Tice is represented here in 80 black-and-white images, beautifully presented in a small format book. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, inc, 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, First edition, small folio, 254 pages, [1]; frontis portrait, 195 illustrations; biographical note by Thomas Beer, introduction by Eugene Speicher, edited by Emma S. Bellows; original coarse buckram lettered in black on upper cover and spine; very good. The catalogue raisonne of Bellows' lithographs.
Hardcover. New York, New York Graphic Society Books, 2nd pr., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 306 pages. b&w and color illustrations throughout. Exceptional copy. Based on the Exhibition at the National Gallery(1988-1989), "Georgia O'Keeffe: 1887-1986" 120 color and 11 black and white illustrations. The book is complemented by documentary photographs and portraits as well as over 120 letters--most of them never published before--written to artists, critics, and friends.
Softcover. New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover.This catalog of paintings by Georgia O'Keeffe features 117 black and white prints and 4 color prints. The front and back cover features "Sky Above Clouds IV." The cover is slightly smudged and worn, particularly on the back. All else is in fine condition.
Hardcover. Kunsthalle Bremen & Verlag Fred Jahn, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black cloth with dust jacket. Text in German by numerous contributors. illustrated checklist to the exhibition. 170 pages with 69 four-color plates and numerous b/w reference illustrations. GERMAN LANGUAGE.
Hardcover. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 3rd pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 303 illustrations 138 in color. Essay by Robert Storr and with an interview of Richter by Storr as well. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations, artist chronology, list of previous exhibitions, and a selected bibliography. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY February 14-May 21, 2002. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Paperback, tight and square, clean and bright. Unread mass market reprint of the 1958 Thompson classic.
Hardcover. Netherlands, Terra Lannoo, 1st, 2005, Hardcover, 168 pages. In English and Dutch. First edition. Book is published simultaneously with an exhibition 'Getting the Picture' at Jan Cunen Museum, Oss, The Netherlands, November 6, 2005 - February 6, 2006. A beautifully produced retrospective of this versatile London born photographer. From his early black and white photographs of 1950's New York and his famous photographic reportage of graffi (a collaboration with Norman Mailer), to his commercial work later in his career.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Michael McCurdy. Foreword by Garry Wills. Light edgewear to covers and dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 285 pages. Hardcover. Light toning throughout, some tanning to endpapers. Red cover boards with black titles to spine. Clean and unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 27 pages Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black & white illustrations by Michael McCurdy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.Black & white illustrations by Michael McCurdy.