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, 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. Boston, The Paul Revere Memorial Association, 1st pbk, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial black wrappers, 191 pages. Issued in conjunction with a 1988-1989 exhibition featuring the silver work of Paul Revere (1735-1818). With illustrated essays by Patrick M. Leehey, Janine E. Skerry, Deborah A. Federhen, Edgard Moreno, and Edith J. Steblecki. Includes a bibliography and many views of Revere's silversmithing capabilities. 236 b&w illustrations. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Row, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 217 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Scarce biography of Robeson by Hamilton, a noted African-American children's book author.
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. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 183 pages. Profile of Strand by Calvin Tompkins. Features excerpts from correspondence, interviews, and other documents along with numerous black and white images by Strand. Clean copy.
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, Aperture, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 143 pages. Illustrated with 113 black & white photographs. Clean, bright copy. An Intimate Portrait by Catherine Duncan. Critical Essay by Ute Eskildsen. From 1950 to 1976 Paul Strand embarked on a series of photographic journeys through France, Italy, the Hebrides, Egypt, Morocco, Romania, and Ghana. This volume is devoted to those photographs, made by Strand in the last twenty-six years of his career.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 259 pages. Illustrated with 16 black & white photographs. Previous owners signature at top of front endpaper. Dust jacket missing 3 small chunks at top and bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Westport CT, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 210 pages. Professor Dunn presents an account of the making of the Japanese peace treaty. He discusses the international environment from the outbreak of World War II to 1950, the San Francisco conference of September 1951 and the security arrangements which the United States helped to create in the Pacific and Asian area. Originally published in 1963 by Princeton. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, British Library, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 224 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Ernest Cromwell Peake arrived in the Hankow region of inland China in 1899, the first medical missionary to attempt to bring modern medicine to the rural Chinese. Black and white images throughout.
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. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Large format hardcover with dust jacket. Color comics throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Since their original publication, Peanuts Sundays have almost always been collected and reprinted in black and white. But many who read Peanuts in their original Sunday papers remain fond of the striking coloring, which makes for a surprisingly different reading experience. The early- to mid-1960s strips in our latest volume houses the first golden age of Peanuts Sundays in one gorgeous, full-color coffee table book. Linus, Charlie Brown, Pig-Pen, Shermy, Violet, Sally, Patty, and Schroeder are all present, but the rising star is undoubtedly Snoopy. Peanuts Every Sunday: 1961-1965 has been scrupulously re-colored to match the original syndicate coloring - allowing readers to plunge into Charles Schulz's marvelous world. Full-color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Chicago, Thompson & Thomas, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 303 pages, b&w illustrations by Heath. Blue cloth covers with black, red and white illustration. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page.
Hardcover. NY, Hurst & Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. Illustrated cloth boards. Black & white illustrations by G. C. Widney. Previous owners name on front endpaper and top of title page. Back hinge loose. Light rubbing and wear to cover corner and edges.
Hardcover. NY, Hurst Co., reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages. Two stories in one volume. 6 color plates along with many b&w line illustrations. Light water stain pg. 134-160. Light green cloth with black and blue design, gilt on spine. Back hinge cracked. Humorous episodes of a red headed boy playing practical jokes on his Uncle Ike.
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. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription in a fine hand along top edge of inside front cover dated 1939. Full color and black & white illustrations by Barbara Latham. Rubbing to edges and corners of covers. Degree of age toning to page edges. Clean, unmarked copy.
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, 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, Century Co., 1st, 1919, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped with black design, 240 pages illustrated with b&w photos. A book that covers many aspects of life in China through the eyes of an extraordinary woman: "Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873 - 1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. After WW1, LaMotte travelled to Asia, where she witnessed the horrors of opium addiction. These travels provided her with material for six books, three of them explicitly dealing with the opium problem, this being the first. Covers show shelf wear, soil.
Hardcover. New York, Platt & Munk, 1st illustrated thus, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with light green stamping. Color and black & white illustrations by Eulalie. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Light soiling to endpapers.
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. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin & Company , 2nd, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Penelope's Experiences England - 176 pages. 53 black & white illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Green cloth covers with bright gilt title and decorations on spine and cover. Clean, tight copy. Penelope's Experiences Scotland - 301 pages. 55 black & white illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Green cloth covers with bright gilt title and decorations on spine and cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY EISENSTAEDT on front fly leaf. Photographs of over 300 well-known people by the Prussia born Life Magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995). Black & white photos. 260 pages. Clean in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 177 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illust. by Leo & Diane Dillon. Clean, tight copy with minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 178 pages. Black & white illustrations by Leo & Diane Dillon. Dust jacket shows some wear and chipping at edges.
Hardcover. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 32 tipped-in color plates, 32 small black & white illustrations by Jungman. Intro. by Gordon Hume. Light spotting to covers.
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. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 338 pages, several b&w woodcut illustrations. Black cloth spine with marbled boards, top edge gilt. Author Theodore Morrison's copy with his signature on front fly leaf. Minor corner wear.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 352 pages, several b&w woodcut illustrations. Black cloth spine with marbled boards, top edge gilt. Minor corner wear.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 319 pages, several b&w woodcut illustrations. Black cloth spine with marbled boards, top edge gilt. Minor corner wear.
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. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles to spine and front cover. Red fabric covered. Some age wear to dust jacket, otherwise very clean copy, bright pages. Previous owner signature on front flyleaf. Published to accompany an exhibition. From the front flap: "The photographs are presented to the greatest advantage in full-color plates and stunning tritone and duotone black-and-white reproductions. The 22 essays by leading historians, novelists, journalists, and environmentalists trace the shifting perceptions of the arid lands of the American West from a wide range of literary and scholarly perspectives.
Hardcover. New York, Plenum Press, rep, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Previous owner's stamp in front fly leaf, otherwise, clean, tight copy with minor wear to covers. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Miramax/Hyperion, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 191 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.Profusely illustrated with black and white film stills. With a knowledgeable text by the director and film historian. Clean.
Hardcover. New York, Regan Arts, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy. Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Regan Arts, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and black & white illustrations throughout. Tight copy.
Hardcover. London, B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 169 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth edition. Top edge stained red. Illustrated with 126 black & white photographs and a few in color. Previous owners name embossed at top of rear interior dust jacket flap. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, minor smudges at upper left corner - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 3rd pr., Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth stamped with blue decoration, 427 pages. B&w drawings by Helene Carter. "The intrepid Swallows (explorers John, Susan, Titty, and Roger Walker) and fearsome Amazon pirates (Nancy and Peggy Blackett) sail the high seas, outwitting a pirate and his cutthroat crew, sharks, and the ravenous creatures of Crab Island in search of buried treasure." Hinges tender, pencil notation on dedication page otherwise clean. Mild shelf wear.
Softcover. NY, Platt & Munk Co., 1st thus, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A fresh, clean, well bound copy. 6 leaves (12 pages) including the cover. Color illustrated front cover with interior of alternating spreads of color and black and white. Illustrations by Eulalie Banks. Stapled binding. Pages are clean and bright.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st illust thus, 1921, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black, light blue and gilt. 185 pages. 12 color plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations throughout by Mabel Lucie Attwell. Front hinge cracked with spine cloth starting to separate, binding shaken but holding. All 12 color plates present, in excellent condition and without tears, creases or rubs. Covers edgeworn with bump to bottom corner of cover. Gilt faded on spine and front board, a bookplate on the front fly leaf. a lighter gutter crack between pages 22 and 23. Despite flaws, an attractive copy of the scarce American edition.
Hardcover. London, Blackie & Son, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, color pictorial boards with beige cloth spine, 64 pages. B&w illustrations by Frank Adams. No date or printing. Inscription on inside front cover otherwise clean and bright.
New York, Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Black & white illustrations by the authors. Front flyleaf detached but laid in. Light chipping to cover and spine edges. Horizontal crease to bottom front cover. Unobtrusive marking on top front. Otherwise good dust jacket, in protective mylar cover. Internally very good. Peter's activities are blended with the beauty of Utah, and the history of the Mormons. A city boy adapts to ranch life.
Hardcover. Philadephia, Charles J. Peterson, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 leather with black cloth covers, raised bands on spine, gilt lettering. January thru December 1870, all hand-colored plates and fold-outs present, dozens of steel and wood engravings. Edge and corner wear, chipping to black leather, front hinge cracked but volume is solid, binding sound. Previous owner's leather label, ruled and lettered in gilt, on front cover.
Hardcover. Paris, Tchou, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages, b&w cartoon drawings by Copi. White cloth covers with black design. A collection of quotes from writers of the Surrealist movement in France. Long preface by Corvin. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR (HIS WITH A SKETCH OF A BIRD) to Roger Shattuck, author and chronicler of the period. Publishers complimentary card laid in. Small tan stain to cloth at top of front cover, otherwise very good.
Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 162 pages. Part of a whole gang of street artists--from Barry McGee to Swoon--who have broken into the art world in the last decade or so, Phil Frost's signature style is a funky tribalism--Hawaii by way of New York City--infused with a quirky sense of art history and design. In the 1990s, Frost honed his skills by painting walls, found objects and street detritus with his intricate, compulsive and highly evolved form of tagging. Frost's gallery exhibitions are crowded affairs, filled with wildly patterned totemic objects and baseball bats while the walls are stacked with colorful mixed media paintings. He crafts his painstaking paintings by collaging layers of found imagery on grounds of symmetrical black-and-white patterning, which he paints with correction fluid, and that often morph into language-like glyphs or symbols. Frost states, "I believe [my work] is indigenous to myself. I believe that within every person there is an indigenous expression of themselves." Including an essay by New York journalist Carlo McCormick and notorious lowbrow artist Pusshead, this is Frost's first monograph, and an invaluable introduction to the evolution of his style.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt & Co,, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Very nice copy in brodart cover.
Softcover. Scranton, PA, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog. Approx. 115 pages. 91 B&W and color prints. Red pictorial cover with slight wear around edges and spine. Black marks on front endpaper and flyleaf, binding glue also visible. Previous owner marking (Evergood) on spine. Overall, a clean, nice copy.