Softcover. New York, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Clean, tight copy. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. The definitive Comics Journal interviews with the cartoonists behind Zap Comix, featuring: Supreme 1960s counterculture/underground artist Robert Crumb on how acid unleashed a flood of Zap characters from his unconscious; Marxist brawler Spain Rodriguez on how he made the transition from the Road Vultures biker gang to the exclusive Zap cartoonists' club; Yale alumnus Victor Moscoso and Christian surfer Rick Griffin on how their poster-art psychedelia formed the backdrop of the 1960s San Francisco music scene; Savage Id-choreographer S. Clay Wilson on how his dreams insist on being drawn; Painter and Juxtapoz-founder Robert Williams on how Zap #4 led to 150 news-dealer arrests; Fabulous, Furry, Freaky Gilbert Shelton on the importance of research; Church of the Subgenius founder Paul Mavrides on getting a contact high during the notorious Zap jam sessions; and much more. In these career-spanning interviews, the Zap contributors open up about how they came to create a seminal, living work of art.

Hardcover. Minneapolis, University Of Minnesota Press, 2nd pr., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 228 pages, color and b&w illustrations. The haunting cry of the loon has for centuries fascinated people living in or near wilderness in northern parts of the world. The loon's call, its ability to dive, and its distinctive black and white feather pattern appear again and again in the myths and legends of North American Indians. There is included a disc recording of common loon vocalizations. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Black Dog & Leventhal , 1st thus, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. In fine unread condition, complete with two unopened disks featuring all 68,647 cartoons ever published in the magazine. Easy to browse CDs allow the reader to find cartoons by favourite artists, subject and date. 650+ flawless pages of cartoons spanning 8 decades, complete with an index of the artists.

Hardcover. Princeton WI, Remco/Kitchen Sink Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 95 pages in color, black cloth covers, bright and unclipped dust jacket. Introduction by Art Spiegelman. Cliff Sterrett was one of the outstanding newspaper cartoon artists in the formative period of this 20th Century art: a skilled draftsman, borderline (and sometimes over the line) surrealist, and humorist.

Hardcover. Seattle, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, mostly b&w, some color, 472 pages. The Venus in Furs, Casanova, and Milanese photographer Valentina embark on erotic adventures in this collection of classic Italian comics which spans 1977-1989. The character Valentina, a music, art, and fashion-loving Milanese photographer, ages in "real time." First, she saves Effi, a German heiress, from kidnappers, and they become lovers. Valentina also has an affair with Bruno, a young cellist. Dangerous Liaisons follows our heroine into middle-aged home life with her longtime partner, Phil, with whom she has a grown son, Mattia. Two of Crepax's lauded graphic adaptations: "Venus in Furs" and "The Memoirs of Casanova" are featured in this volume. Black & white illustrations. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 344 pages. As the 1970s wind down, the last two recurring Peanuts characters have fallen into place: Snoopy's brother Spike and the youngest Van Pelt sibling, Rerun. But that doesn't mean Schulz's creativity has diminished. For instance, in an epic five-week sequence, when Charlie Brown, found guilty by the EPA of biting the Kite-Eating tree, he goes on the lam and ends up coaching the "Goose Eggs," a group of diminutive baseball players, Austin, Ruby, Leland, and -did you know there was a second Black Peanuts character, aside from Franklin?-Milo. Also: a tennis-playing Snoopy ends up reluctantly teamed with the extreme Type "A" athlete Molly Volley... who then reappears later in the book, nowfacing off against her nemesis, "Crybaby" Boobie. All in addition to the usual cast of beloved characters.

Hardcover. San Diego, Idea & Design Works/IDW, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Celebrating the centennial of cartoonist Milton Caniff's birth, IDW Publishing published a six-book series, collecting the entirety of Caniff's groundbreaking newspaper adventure strip Terry and the Pirates. The Sunday pages are reproduced in their original color, alongside the daily black-and-white strips. Volume One contains more than 800 consecutive strips, from the series' beginning in October 1934 through the end of 1936.

Hardcover. West Plains MO, Russ Cochran, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Hardcover Very Good+ Two volume set in a slipcase. Volumes entitled: Weird Science-Fantasy No. 23-29 and Incredible Science Fiction No. 30-33. Black and white reproductions of the comics with color reproductions of the covers. Featuring tales by Frank Frazetta, Wally Wood, Al Williamson, Reed Crandall, and Joe Orlando.

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth covers, black lettering to spine, 288 pages. About 1307 a remarkable woman in Japan sat down to complete the story of her life. The result was an autobiographical narrative, a tale of thirty-six years (1271-1306) in the life of Lady Nijo, starting when she became the concubine of a retired emperor in Kyoto at the age of fourteen and ending, several love affairs later, with an account of her new life as a wandering Buddhist nun. Through the vagaries of history, however, the glory of Lady Nijo's story has taken six and half centuries to arrive. The Confessions of Lady Nijo or Towazugatari in Japanese, was not widely circulated after it was written, perhaps because of the dynastic quarrel that soon split the imperial family, or perhaps because of Lady Nijo's intimate portrait of a very human emperor. Whatever the cause, the book was neglected, then forgotten completely, and only a single manuscript survived. This was finally discovered in 1940, but would not be published until after World War II in 1950. This translation and its annotations draw on multiple Japanese editions, but borrow most heavily from the interpretations offered by Tsugita Kasumi. No dust jacket. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Lincoln NE, University of Nebraska Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages. A 1913 novel about a black homesteader in South Dakota based on the author's experiences in the midwest as a young man. He later went on to fame as a celebrated early filmmaker. Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Black Lizard Books, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass market paperback, 125 pages. A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, everyone is guilty, and the worst crimes are unpunishable. Bookseller's stamp on inside front cover, price stamp on first page.

NY, Harper & Row, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with some rubbing to rear panel. 133 pages. Black & white illustrations by Laszlo Kubinyi. When Bridget sees her younger brother, Simon, standing at the window under a full moon, begging unseen musicians to allow him to come back, then hears a careless remark made by an angry old woman, she begins to suspect that he is a changeling, a fairy child sent to replace her real brother, abducted in infancy. This would explain his volatile personality---sweet and coaxing one minute, angry and vicious the next---and his refusal to go near her blacksmith father's forge.Clean copy.

NY, Viking Press, 3rd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black and white drawings by Harold Berson. The story of Camilla, a camel who dances.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st US, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with front and spine printed in black and gilt, 417 pages. This volume publishes his speeches, broadcasts, messages, statements, and letters made, sent, and issued between 22 February and 31 December 1944. A full and momentous year, 1944 included the Normandy invasion, the largest amphibious operation in history, which re-established the Allied military presence in German-occupied Europe. Light spotting to covers, otherwise clean.

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. NY, Macmillan, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 127 pages; black and white illustrations. Discusses American birds of prey, such as eagle, hawk, osprey, and falcon, giving technical information as well as anecdotes of the author's experience with them. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with pictorial cover label, 462 pages. 9 color plates, title-page & eps illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Bookplate on front endpaper. Title page has a tear with tape repair. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, rust colored cloth, stamped in black and silver, 307 pages. Stated first printing. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, brown cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 377 pages. Dust jacket art and four b&w illustrations by W. H. D. Koerner. Bottom quarter of spine gone, short blue mark to front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Philadelphia, Porter and Coates, 1st thus, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 46 pages, b&w line illustrations, including frontispiece, by Hammatt Billings. No date. Ivory spine, white laminated covers with beveled gilt edges and rounded corners, bright silver, gold gilt and black decoration to the front panel. All edges gilt. Some light spotting to rear cover which is light beige color. Otherwise, a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dial Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A view of American film-making from the author's viewpoint.

Hardcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1959-1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Four hardcover volumes: Vol. 1, East Africa November 1889 to December 1890, 432 pages. Vol. 2, East Africa December 1890 to December 1891, 481 pages. Vol. 3, East Africa January 1892 to August 1892, 454 pages. Vol. 4, Nigeria 1894-5 and 1898, 444 pages. Black-and-white illustrations and maps; Bindings vary: Vols. 1, 3 and 4 are matching green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Vol. 2 is terra-cotta cloth with a black clorh spine. Previous owner'e signature in 1 and #. Otherwise clean and tight set.

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes , 1st, 2003, Hardcover set, two volumes complete, black cloth with red and gilt titles on spine, 1116 pages, ribbon bookmarks. No slipcase. In this Dictionary, more than four hundred biographical entries encompass all the Dutch thinkers who exercised a major influence on the intellectual life of the Golden Age, as well as those who developed their ideas and beliefs through interaction with other scholars. Additional entries describe foreign philosophers who lived in the country temporarily and whose work was influenced by their stay. These include John Locke, Rene Descartes and Pierre Bayle. Ther is some pencil marking to the endpapers, mostly in Vol. 1. Otherwise clean, tight copies. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 122 pages, in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Six animal stories with full page black and white illustrations by author. Previous owner's inscription and SIGNED UNDERNEATH BY SAVITT. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light brown cloth with black lettering on spine. 101 pages illustrated with b&w photos throughout. Two children take a ride in an airship. Published before the Hindenburg disaster in May of 1937. Scarce, Clean tight copy, lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chicago, Ziff-Davis Publishing , 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket that has the $2.50 flap price. The Brooklyn Dodgers and Leo "Lippy" Durocher were made for each other. Here are the breezy accounts of internal struggles, clubhouse brawls and front-office tempests that marked the Dodgers climb to national fame and the National League Pennant. Has green boards and is in good condition. Has a number of black and white photos: Pete Reiser, Pee Wee Reese, Al Gionfriddo's World Series catch, and Leo arguing with the umpires. Mild soil and rubbing to rear of dj, book is bright and clean.

Softcover. London, Castle Communications/Penguin, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, Fantastic collection of color & black & white photos with lots of info about the band. Contains color reproductions of psychedelic posters for The Doors concerts. Discography. Light chipping to paper spine, otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. NY, Curt Valentin, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured beige boards with a green cloth spine. 94 pages of text and 58 black & white plates. Limited to 1,000 copies. Clean copy.

Hardcover. MY, Harcourt Brace & Co., 2nd pr., 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in black, 267 pages, b&w illustrations by James MacDonald. A boy's novel about track and field competition. Jim Wellington, Harvard senior and Waterloo, Iowa native, already the U. S. collegiate record holder for the two-mile, heads to Berlin for the Olympics. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, bright copy. Lacks dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, W.A. Henry Press, 3rd Ed., 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial gray cloth stamped in black and white. 330 pages, top edge gilt. frontis., b/w plates, text illustrations appendix, index. A highly regarded social history of Nantucket treats the purchase and settlement of the island, the early proprietors, and various events in Nantucket history, such as Nantucket's role in the Revolution. The balance of the work consists of histories of some thirty founding families. Genealogists should also consult the appendices for a list of Quakers who visited Nantucket between 1664 and 1847. Small embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise a bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Washington D. C., Eastern High School, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with heavy gray wrappers stamped in blue and black, 40 pages, stapled. Magazine format. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings, local ads. Cover chipped, interior clean, sound.

Hardcover. Duke University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 440 pages. Black cloth, no dust jacket. The Edge of Surrealism is an essential introduction to the writing of French social theorist Roger Caillois. Caillois was part of the Surrealist avant-garde and in the 1930s founded the College of Sociology with Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris. He spent his life exploring issues raised by this famous group and by Surrealism itself. Though his subjects were diverse, Caillois focused on concerns crucial to modern intellectual life, and his essays offer a unique perspective on many of twentieth-century France's most significant intellectual movements and figures. Including a masterful introductory essay by Claudine Frank situating his work in the context of his life and intellectual milieu, this anthology is the first comprehensive introduction to Caillois's work to appear in any language. These thirty-two essays with commentaries strike a balance between Caillois's political and theoretical writings and between his better known works, such as the popular essays on the praying mantis, myth, and mimicry, and his lesser-known pieces. Presenting several new pieces and drawing on interviews and unpublished correspondence, this book reveals Caillois's consistent effort to reconcile intellectual rigor and imaginative adventure. Perhaps most importantly, The Edge of Surrealism provides an overdue look at how Caillois's intellectual project intersected with the work of Georges Bataille and others including Breton, Bachelard, Benjamin, Lacan, and Levi-Strauss.

Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Alain (the pen name of Daniel Brustlein, painter, book illustrator, magazine illustrator, and cartoonist). Stamp to front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available again with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the color plates of the original edition. This deluxe new edition features ninety black-and-white pictures and sixteen dazzling five-color plates by Oz artist John R. Neill. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st US, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers lettered in gold with black letterbox, 322 pages. Contains speeches throughout 1942. This year was a low point of the war, full of setbacks and disappointments across the globe for the British. Throughout the year Churchill's speeches conveyed sober, resolved, and eloquent defiance - with of course an occasional sparkle of Churchillian wit, even in the dark hours of the war. The title of this volume comes from Churchill's 10 November 1942 speech at the Lord Mayor's Day Luncheon in London at a time when fortune finally favored the British with victories in North Africa: "The Germans have received back again that measure of fire and steel which they have so often meted out to others. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Light marking to front endpapers.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st thus, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 87 pages. Foreword, black and white photographs, and colophon. A description of the Allied bombing campaign from the perspective of the German survivors.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Marbled boards and black spine lettered in gilt. the complete set of copper plate engravings Zichy made in an edition of 200 for private sale in 1911. He then destroyed the plates. This is from one of the rare original copies and contains 40 of the most exquisitely executed works of erotica ever made. Claen copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd. Ed., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red leather stamped in gilt. Facsimile edition of a book that was first published in 1909 by Hodder & Stoughton. 152 pages. 23 full page illustrations in color by Detmold plus various line illustrations in black and white throughout the text. #337 of 500 copies as indicated on tipped-on plate inside front cover. All edges gilt. No slipcase.

Hardcover. London, Ingram, Cooke, and Co., 1st transl. thus, 1853, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, marbled boards with black leather spine and corners. 100 pages, illustrated frontis, drawing on title page. Preface on Fable, The Fabulists and La Fontaine by the translator, text is formatted in double columns per page. Name on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Stein & Day, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, unclipped. Quarter bound in publisher's gray cloth over brick boards, gilt lettering on brown panel on spine, author's facsimile signature, gilt, on cover, green endpapers, 457 pages with 164 black & white plates and 39 black & white line drawings. Red top edge. Corners a bit rubbed. Dust jacket with edgewear, closed tear.

Hardcover. NY, A. C. Armstrong & Son, 1st, 1883, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, stamped in gilt and black, beveled edges, all edges gilt. 29 plates and one map, a very sound and bright copy. including Yosemite Falls of Yellowstone, upper Falls of Yellowstone, and the map of the Niagara region.

Hardcover. NY, Amphoto, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. 192 pages with 80 color pages and over 80 black and white illustrations. This book goes behind the scenes in the fascinating world of fashion photography. It shows how the illusion of fashion photographs is created--shows the people, planning, and hard work behind these striking and sensual images. A combination of finished fashion photos, background shots, and interviews with top people in fashion, Moves step-by-step through the intricate process of producing a fashion photograph for a major magazine, newspaper, or catalog. Minor wear to dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York , Phaidon, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Unpaginated (432 pages ), with 278 black-and-white plates. 11-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches. An epic collection of poignant and often controversial stories photographed and written by acclaimed social documentary photographer Eugene Richards.

Hardcover. New York , Phaidon, 1st , 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Unpaginated (432 pages ), with 278 black-and-white plates. 11-3/4 x 8-3/4 inches. An epic collection of poignant and often controversial stories photographed and written by acclaimed social documentary photographer Eugene Richards.

Hardcover. NY, Robert M. McBride, 2nd pr., 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, floral decorated boards, black cloth spine, paper title labels, lacking dust jacket. American playwright, Green won the Pulitzer in 1927 for In Abraham's Bosom. 317 pages, top edge stained red. A clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 597 pages, no dust jacket. Title page dated 1939, An early reprint without the 'A'. Bound in red cloth with black signature on top board and gold titles against black labels of spine. Light wear to top of cloth spine, mild darkening to spine. Clean copy.

Boston, Little Brown , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. B&w drawings by Erik Blegvad. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf other wise very good, clean. A banker rents a house to Peter Finch, charging him next to nothing because there's a small volcano in the basement. Eventually, there is a volcanic eruption, but of course, not in the basement. The house is spared, the family is safe, the town officials get re-elected, and everyone lives happily ever after.

Hardcover. New York, Franklin Watts, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 83 pages. Black & white illustrations by Douglas Gorsline. Dust jacket has light edgewear. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 280 pages. Preface by Geoff Dyer. Essay by David Van Reybrouck. Includes 20 color plates and 80 halftones. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. The First World War presents a startlingly different perspective, one based on rare glass plate photographs, that reveals the war with previously unseen, even uncanny, clarity.Scanned from the original plates, with scratches and other flaws expertly removed, these oversized reproductions offer a wealth of unusual moments, including scenes of men in training, pictures of African colonial troops on the Western front, landscapes of astonishing destruction, and postmortem portraits of Belgian soldiers killed in action. Readers previously familiar with only black-and-white or sepia-toned prints of the hostilities will be riveted by the book's many authentic color photographs, products of the early autochrome method. From children playing war games to a wrenching deathbed visit, these images are extraordinary not only for their subject matter, but also for the wide range of emotions they evoke.

Hardcover. NY, Junior Literary Guild, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with mild discoloration, 278 pages, previous owner's signature on page opposite half-title. Color frontis painting and black & white illustrations by Herbert Rogers.