Hardcover. New York, Holt Rinehart Winston, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 535 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket has edgewear.
Hardcover. NY, New York Graphic Society, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 192 pages. 200 black-and-white photographs by Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, Carl Mydans, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, Arthur Rothstein, Jack Delano, Russell Lee, and Others. Black cloth, missing dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped in gilt. 350 pages illustrated with photographs taken by H. A. Chase and the author. Endpapers map detailing the author's travels. Previous owner's inscription on verso of frontis., otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, reprint, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with a green and black decoration to the front cover. 4 b&w plates by George Varian. Light shelf wear. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 123 pages. Black & white illustrations by John Polgreen. Previous owner's stamp front endpaper. Light soiling endpapers. Dust jacket with chipping. Brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, William Morrow & Co., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth covers stamped in black. 126 pages, b&w illustrations by author.14 games such as guessing game, tross ball, toss and catch, Indian rattles, Hopi Kachinas. Name on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Rand Avery Company, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering, 92 pages, 7 b&w plates. A collection of folklore from in and around the "Crystal Hills" of New Hampshire gathered from tales of old settlers and records in historical societies and town libraries. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Hartfort CT, privately printed, 1st, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 11 page introduction plus 93 pages, green cloth with black rules, lettering. One of only 250 copies. Previous owner's bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Hartford CT, Hurlbut, Scranton & Co., 1st, 1864, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 763 pages, illustrated with many full-page plates, most hand-colored (including second title page). Leather bound with some splitting along spine edges. Black spine label with gilt lettering. Internally very good, minor foxing.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 126 pages. Illustrated in b&w by Phyllis Rowand. Red cloth cover. Child's name printed on front endpaper. Cover bumped at spine and corners. Clean copy. An imaginative dialogue between father and son interspersed in a story the father is creating about the two of them arriving in preColumbian America. Kind of an odd take on "Redskins" but an interesting book.
Hardcover. Munchen, Georg Muller , 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt design on front cover, gilt lettering on spine. 124 pages of text in German, followed by 248 b&w plates of portraits and scenes in India. One of a series of books on indigenous cultures by this publisher. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, W W Norton , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Hardcover with clear plastic dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. Takarajima Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 119 pages. The female nude has long been an important subject for photographer Gibson, but in earlier books, his nudes appeared as elements in sequences of all kinds of images. With Infanta, Gibson abandons the sequencing, presenting instead a collection of big, rather simplified black-and-white images. Like Lee Friedlander in his Nudes (1991), in middle age Gibson expresses an intense fascination with the bodies of young women. Whereas Friedlander used the camera to awkwardly describe specific details, Gibson uses his to idealize beautiful body fragments. Gibson's high-contrast, grainy printing style and abstract compositions have hardly changed in two decades. Alexandra Anderson-Spivy's accompanying essay perceptively responds to Gibson's work, but Mary Gaitskill's vulgar afterword (the memoir of a stripper) seems jarringly inappropriate to the idealism of the photographs.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnams, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volume set in limp black leather covers with bright gilt decoration. 394, 411 pages. Hildegarde Ed. with ribbon markers.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, Revised Ed., 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 272 pages. The definitive retrospective of Dan DeCarlo, the great Archie Comics artist -- a fitting tribute to the life and art of one of the world's all-time best cartoonists, lavishly designed and now expanded with nearly 350 illustrations, including rare cartoons and strips, and of course, lots of those fabulous DeCarlo ladies!Dan DeCarlo worked mostly on wholesome all-American features like Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica and My Friend Irma, but he populated these innocent stories with his irresistibly attractive women. His unique blend of hilarious homespun humor and libido-sparking art made DeCarlo's work outshine the competition. Though best known as the definitive Archie Comics artist and creator of Josie and the Pussycats and Sabrina the Teenage Witch, DeCarlo also brought his unique style to dozens of other characters including Millie the Model, Big Boy, Batman, and The Simpsons.Fan, friend, and fellow cartoonist Bill Morrison has produced the ultimate book on this remarkable artist, lavishly designed with nearly 350 illustrations. Included are rare World War II-era cartoons, original Humorama pinups, seldom-seen newspaper strips, examples of his justly famous commercial comics work, and of course, lots and lots of those fabulous DeCarlo ladies! Full color and black-and-white illustrations and photographs throughout. First published in 2006 with 40 fewer pages, this is the new, revised and expanded edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Hartford, CT, American Publishing Company, 1st Edition, 1870, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 651 pages plus publisher's ads. Hardcover. Front and back hinges cracked, binding tight otherwise. Frontispieces with tissue guard. Tanning to edges. Pages clean with just a touch of tanning. Spine straight. Cover boards bound in black cloth, gilt title on spine and design on front cover board. Borders and decoration blind-stamped to front and back cover boards. Some agewear to boards: fraying/chipping at top and bottom of spine and corners, rubbing. "Being some account of the steamship Quaker City's pleasure excursion to Europe and the Holy Land; with descriptions of countries, nations, incidents and adventures, as they appeared to the author." Perfect for any collector's bookshelf.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated with 16 pages of black and white photographs, 338 pages. With wry humor and sharp observation, playwright Pifer elegantly mixes memory and research to reconstruct the world of his South African boyhood from 1933 to 1945. Pifer's father, an idealistic mining engineer in search of challenge and stability during the Depression, found it in Africa, but his earnest American egalitarianism soon put him in conflict with Afrikaner mine overseers, and his career under magnate Sir Ernest Oppenheimer stalled. The author deftly evokes his family--"my mother had the freedom of a disobedient daughter"--and the isolation of the desert town of Oranjemund. The book is even more resonant in its snapshots of mid-century Southern Africa: the still-simmering enmity between Afrikaners and the English; the ripples from Hitler's war in what prior to WW I had been the German territory of South West Africa (currently Namibia). Pifer's knowing account of the travails of servants--"the chasm that exists between white mistress and African maid"--still rings true today. Clean copy.
Philadelphia, Lippincott, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 192 pages. Illustrated with black & white photos. Foreword by J. Edgar Hoover. Dust jacket with chunks gone from top and bottom front cover, closed tears, spine wear, fade.
Hardcover. Lausanne, Clairefontaine, 1st , 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages. Black & white photos by Schuh printed in gravure. Documentary images of people in the Cartier-Bresson style. FRENCH TEXT by Fouchet. Nice condition. Schuh's early work as freelance photojournalist for several magazines, including "Paris Match" and "Life," led him throughout Europe and as far as Indonesia. In this work, Schuh presents the realities of daily life through a selection of his early photographs, including his two most famous: "Enfant javanais jouant" (a boy stretched out playing a game), and "Danseuses sacrees de Bali" (temple dancer), both taken in Indonesia in 1938-39.
Softcover. Santa Cruz CA, Kayak Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original illustrated yellow wrappers. Profusely illustrated in black & white throughout. by Matta. In Spanish (the poet was born in Chile) with English versions on facing pages by Matthew Zion and Lennart Bruce. Printed on blue and pink paper and profusely illustrated. One of 800 copies.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcovers in a black cloth slipcase. Josef Albers's masterwork, Interaction of Color, is one of the most influential books on color ever published. Originally issued in 1963 as a limited-edition set of commentary and 150 silkscreened color plates, the book introduced generations of students, artists, designers, and collectors to Albers's unique approach to complex principles. This beautiful edition brings Interaction back into classrooms and studios and onto bookshelves, where it will find an eager new audience. It replicates Albers's revolutionary exercises, explaining concepts such as color relativity and vibrating and vanishing boundaries through the use of color, shape, die-cut forms, and movable flaps that illustrate his astonishing demonstrations of the changing and relative nature of color. Also included for the first time are studies from the Albers archive, produced by the artist's students in the early 1960s. Clean set.
Hardcover. New York, Publishers Company, 2nd edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 5 volumes: 291, 291, 317, 304, and 306 pages. Light brown cloth covers, with silver and black titles, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Slight rubbing to covers, small brown stain to spines of Theater and Civil War volumes, previous owner's embossed stamp to all title pages, ex-lib bookplates to all copyright pages, pages very crisp and unmarked, tight binding; overall, volumes are in clean, tight condition. NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT AND SIZE, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 209 pages, black cloth covers in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. With the same piercing intelligence as the bestselling Say it Loud!, Interracial Intimacies hits a nerve at the center of American society: race relations and our most intimate ties to each other. Analyzing the tremendous changes in the history of America's racial dynamics, Randall Kennedy challenges us to examine how prejudices and biases still fuel fears and inform our sexual, marital, and family choices. He takes us from the injustices of the slave era up to present-day battles over race matching adoption policies, which seek to pair children with adults of the same race. He tackles such subjects as the presence of sex in racial politics, the historic role of legal institutions in policing racial boundaries, and the real and imagined pleasures that have attended interracial intimacy. Clean copy.