Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Book Club Ed., 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black and gilt stamping. 1066 pages. A number-one bestseller when it was first published in 1948, this powerful novel is a compelling vision of nineteenth-century America with timeless resonance. Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life -- from the battles of the Civil War to the politics of the Gilded Age, from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father. This panoramic epic of the nineteenth century in Raintree County--particularly of the Civil War and its effects -- was produced after six years of research, writing, and revision. It continues to command attention and respect as a stylistically unique work of considerable force. Gutter crack at title page, sound, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 353 pages, hardcover. Gilt labeling intact on green cloth boards. Mild rubbing to boards, slight cocking to spine. Bumping to corners. Previous owners name stamped on front endpaper. Black-and-white frontispiece intact. A bright and clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , The Macmillan Co., 1st, 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. A Story of Boys' and Girls' Life on the Frontier. 297 pages, six full-page black & white illustrations, top edge gilt. Spine faded, Last 10 pages with top edge of paper scuffed, frayed. Beautiful gilt drawing on red cover.
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.
Hardcover. London, Smith Elder & Co., 2nd Ed., 1836, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 3/4 black calf with marbled boards, spine with leather labels, gilt lettering, raised bands. Title page states Second Edition. Previous owner's name in pencil on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. If we used Fine as a condition (we don't), this volume would qualify.
Hardcover. London, Smith Elder & Co., 3rd Ed., 1836, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown calf covers with embossed design, black leather spine label with gilt lettering, gilt-decorated raised bands. Title page states Third Edition. Clean, bright copy. If we used Fine as a condition (we don't), this volume would qualify.
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].
Hardcover. London/NY, Hodder And Stoughton, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, turquoise cloth with gilt and black stamping, 207 pages. Illustrated with 20 tipped-in color plates. Discover the life and world that shaped Raphael, from a quiet Umbrian town to the heart of Florence. This vividly written study traces how the artist's birthplace and family, the Montefeltro court, and the great patrons of Urbino and Florence formed the talents and vision that define his early masterpieces. It weaves biography with analysis, showing how environment, training, and early works set the path for Raphael's maturation as a painter and his emergence as a master of portraiture, Madonnas, and revolutionary composition. Small name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
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.
Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st Edition, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages. Hardcover. 246 illustrations in black & white. 6 full page, full color illustrations. Red cloth covers with gilt titles to spine. Bright dust jacket with tears to edges. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Edinburch and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 2nd revised edition, 1874, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Vol. 1: 463 pages. Vol. 2: 500 pages. Scarce. Hardcovers. Colored endpapers (black). Light pencil notes/marks in margins. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, light age wear to covers. Front endpapers' gutters are split, binding is good. Spines straight. Edges untrimmed, pages and edges have some tanning from age. Some foxing to preliminary pages. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st thus, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt and black stamping, in a cardboard slipcase. Gathers four of his greatest works in a single volume. Here is The Martian Chronicles in the complete form Bradbury came to prefer, its twenty-eight linked story-chapters offering visionary glimpses of our spacefaring future. In the dystopian thriller Fahrenheit 451, books and all they contain are forbidden. Dandelion Wine distills the enchanting essences of a childhood summer, while Something Wicked This Way Comes conjures the wild, centrifugal imaginings of youthful terror, in a fight to the death against supernatural foes. Biographer Jonathan R. Eller offers a newly researched chronology of Bradbury's life and career and detailed textual and explanatory notes. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 1199 pages, ribbon marker. In Raymond Chandler's hands, the pulp crime story became a haunting mystery of power and corruption, set against a modern cityscape both lyrical and violent. Now Chandler joins the authoritative Library of America series in a comprehensive two-volume set displaying all the facets of his brilliant talent. In his first novel, The Big Sleep (1939), the classic private eye finds his full-fledged form as Philip Marlowe: at once tough, independent, brash, disillusioned, and sensitive--and man of weary honor threading his way (in Chandler's phrase) "down these mean streets" among blackmailers, pornographers, and murderers for hire.In Farewell, My Lovely (1940), Chandler's personal favorite among his novels, Marlowe's search for a missing woman leads him from shanties and honky-tonks to the highest reaches of power, encountering an array of richly drawn characters. The High Window (1942), about a rare coin that becomes a catalyst by which a hushed-up crime comes back to haunt a wealthy family, is partly a humorous burlesque of pulp fiction. All three novels show Chandler at a peak of verbal inventiveness and storytelling drive. Stories and Early Novels also includes every classic noir story from the 1930s that Chandler did not later incorporate into a novel--thirteen in all, among them such classics as "Red Wind," "Finger Man," The King in Yellow," and "Trouble Is My Business." Drawn from the pages of Black Mask and Dime Detective, these stories show how Chandler adapted the violent conventions of the pulp magazine--with their brisk exposition and rapid-fire dialogue--to his own emerging vision of twentieth-century America. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Hatje Cantz, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with illustrated boards, 212 pages. Since the late 1970s, as a pioneer of Southern California underground culture, Raymond Pettibon has blurred the boundaries of "high" and "low," from the deviations of marginal youth to art history, literature, sports, religion, politics and sexuality. Rich in detail, his obsessively worked drawings pull freely from myriad sources spanning the cultural spectrum. The resulting, highly poetic constructions function as acute reflections of contemporary society. Throughout the years, his subjects have included political figures and historical events, with particular intensity since the events of September 11, 2001. Seen here are images of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, J. Edgar Hoover, both Bush presidents, the Kennedys, Hitler, scenes from the Vietnam War and protest movements, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the prisoner abuse of Abu Ghraib, President Obama and Osama bin Laden. Raymond Pettibon (born 1957) studied economics at UCLA around the same time he joined his brother in the punk band Black Flag. He soon began to contribute artwork to album covers, flyers and t-shirts, for the band and its label, SST Records, and exhibited his work in group shows in galleries in the 1980s. Since the 1990s his work has been the subject of numerous major solo exhibitions.
Hardcover. Boston, Lothrup, 1st, 1897, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 6 black & white illustrations by W. A. Rogers. Red cloth spine faded on parts of spine and rear panel. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Attractive gilt-decorated front cover.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Clean, tight copy with color illustrations throughout. Inspired by magazines like Mad and traditional superhero comics, Real Deal magazine was a self-published,independent comic book created in the 1990s by Lawrence Hubbard (a.k.a "RawDog") and H.P. McElwee (a.k.a. "R.D. Bone"). Peopled with a cast out of a blaxploitation movie - convicts, hustlers, drug addicts,crack whores, car thieves,and murderers - these cult-classic comics straddle the line between satirizing and showing the harsh realities of urban life.
Hardcover. New York , Random House , 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 180 pages, turquoise cloth with black and silver stamping. Bright unclipped dust jacket with light edgewear. INSCRIBED BY LURIE on front fly leaf .
Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Founded by Paul Krassner, "The Realist" was a satirical magazine that took aim at American culture during the period of 1958 to 2001. Paul Krassner collaborates with Fantagraphics to create a collection of the best of "The Realist" drawings with contributions by R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, S. Clay Wilson, Jay Lynch, Wallace Wood and others. Illustrated front board, 291 pages plus annotations, black/white and 2-color images. Volume numbers and year published accompanies each cartoon.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. Three complete unabridged mysteries in one volume. Detective Book Club Edition. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Scalo, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages. 89 color illustrations. "Postcard collages and texts by Rebecca Horn sent to Timothy Baum and friends," is the only explanation internationally known artist Rebecca Horn wanted to include in her latest book, probably her most accessible to a larger public. We do not know who Timothy Baum is. We have no idea who her friends are, nor when they received mail from this German artist, living in Berlin and Paris. We do not need to know: what Horn offers us is a revealing and, at the same time, enigmatic collection of her beautiful, often erotic, and most of all poetic, postcards. Horn presents to us a fragmented love story, told in painfully precise snapshots of lust and desire, intimate and precise, yet vague enough to be everyone's love story. By altering existing postcards, painting over them or gluing parts of different images on them, Horn creates collages that mirror life's beautiful and troubling contingencies. In what might be the artist's most personal book, Rebecca Horn presents life as a journey; we look at postcards from this journey from heaven. Or is it hell? In sharing her most intimate, most common emotional states in images and texts, Rebecca Horn creates an almost baroque dialogue between reality and the world of longing.
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow and Co./Books of Wonder, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket. 291 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by Helen Mason Grose. Afterword by Peter Glassman. Dust jacket with minor edgewear, price clipped.
Softcover. New York, Robert Miller Gallery, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Softcover with minimal wear to paper wrappers. 14 black and white plates. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 9 through May 4, 1996. Photographs of Strand's first wife, Rebecca Salisbury made between 1921 and 1932, and reproduced actual size from Strand's vintage platinum and silver prints. Edited and designed by John Cheim. Includes a total of 16 images with 14 internal plates and 2 images on the dust jacket. Tight copy with dust jacket wrapper.