Hardcover. London, Harper Collins, 1st UK, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 581 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black cloth, blue lettering. Very good pictorial dust jacket in mylar. SIGNED BY AUTHOR.
Hardcover. Boulder CO, Westview Press, 2nd pr., 1999, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 264 pages, color and b&w illustrations. This introduction to the life and works of one of the giants of Western painting also surveys the golden age of Venetian painting from Bellini to Veronese and its place in the history of Western art. Sometimes referred to as the founder of modern painting Titian's legacy and influence was immense and continuing?: Italian Baroque painting, El Greco, Rubens, Rembrandt and Dutch painting, French 18th century painting, Velazquez, and Picasso. There are 119 black and white illustrations integrated with the text and 8 plates in full color, a selected bibliography and index. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Prestel Publishing, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 452 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color pictures throughout. Black covers with gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's signature and bookplate on front flyleaf. Light wear and rubbing to dust jacket. This excellent catalog of the 1990-1991 exhibition in Venice and Washington is a work of permanent value. Featuring essays by 16 authorities, primarily Italian and American, on every aspect of the art of Titian (Tiziano Vecelli, c. 1490-1576), the quintessential Venetian artist of the high Renaissance, the work transcends the limits of spatial and temporal exhibition to summarize and extend current scholarship. At the same time, the text is accessible, well translated, and aimed at a broad audience. Many of the works in the exhibit were conserved or cleaned, so the book features fresh illustrations and a hefty amount of technical discussion of specialist interest.
Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, illustrated boards with black cloth spine, 74 pages. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Color and black & white illustrations. Purple illustrated endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and worn. Clean.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages. As the Civil War drew to a close, newly emancipated black women workers made their way to Atlanta-the economic hub of the newly emerging urban and industrial south-in order to build an independent and free life on the rubble of their enslaved past. In an original and dramatic work of scholarship, Tera Hunter traces their lives in the postbellum era and reveals the centrality of their labors to the African-American struggle for freedom and justice. Household laborers and washerwomen were constrained by their employers' domestic worlds but constructed their own world of work, play, negotiation, resistance, and community organization. Hunter follows African-American working women from their newfound optimism and hope at the end of the Civil War to their struggles as free domestic laborers in the homes of their former masters. We witness their drive as they build neighborhoods and networks and their energy as they enjoy leisure hours in dance halls and clubs. We learn of their militance and the way they resisted efforts to keep them economically depressed and medically victimized. Finally, we understand the despair and defeat provoked by Jim Crow laws and segregation and how they spurred large numbers of black laboring women to migrate north. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with black and gilt lettering on spine. A scarce study of suicide published in the thirties. B&w photo of co-author Dublin laid-in. Both writers worked for the Metropolitan Insurance Company. Clean copy.
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. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages. Hardcover. Features 136 black & white photographs by Robert Adams. Poem by Cid Corman and an essay by Adams. Beautifully reproduced landscape images. Very good in very good, unclipped dust jacket. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 4th pr., 2000, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 670 pages, b&w illustrations. Written by the most prominent of the new generation of historians, this superb volume offers the most up-to-date and authoritative account available of African-American history, ranging from the first Africans brought as slaves into the Americas, to today's black filmmakers and politicians. Here is a panoramic view of African American life, rich in gripping first-person accounts and short character sketches that invite readers to relive history as African Americans experienced it. We begin in Africa, with the growth of the slave trade, and follow the forced migration of what is estimated to be between ten and twenty million people, witnessing the terrible human cost of slavery in the colonies of England and Spain. We read of the Haitian Revolution, which ended victoriously in 1804 with the birth of the first independent black nation in the New World, and of slave rebellions and resistance in the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War. There are vivid accounts of the Civil War and Reconstruction years, the backlash of notorious "Jim Crow" laws and mob lynchings, and the founding of key black educational institutions. The contributors also trace the migration of blacks to the major cities, the birth of the Harlem Renaissance, the hardships of the Great Depression and the service of African Americans in World War II, the struggle for Civil Rights in the 1950s and '60s, and the emergence of today's black middle class. From Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass to Martin Luther King, Jr., and Louis Farrakhan, To Make Our World Anew is an unforgettable portrait of a people. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown And Company, 1st US, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Travels in Samarkand and Bokhara, the forbidden cities of Turkestan; Central Asia, from the Caspian to the Chinese border. Illustrated with over 100 of the author's own photographs. 144 pages. Illustrated with a two-page map, 16 color photographs, and numerous black and white photographs.Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st England Edition, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 632 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in tan cloth, black title on spine and front cover board. Top edge dyed red, slightly faded toward spine. Binding tight, spine straight. Some slight tanning to edges and pages from age, otherwise clean. No dust jacket. This brilliant informal history of the Third Reich traces the path which led from the flaming Reichstag to Germany in cinders.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. A spectator's guide. Illustrated with 62 black and white photographs. Second printing of the second American edition (revised and enlarged). Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt decoration, 500 pages. Color frontispiece and 246 illustrations, the majority black and white photographic illustrations. 3 maps and endpaper maps. Index. Gifford Pinchot (1865-1946) was an American forester, the first head of the US Forestry Service, the person for whom the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in Washington state is named, and a governor of Pennsylvania. In 1929 Pinchot and family took a seven-month cruise to the South Seas during which time he collected specimens for the National Museum. On board were other naturalists and representatives of scientific institutions. Profusely illustrated.
Hardcover. Scarsdale NY, Bradbury Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in black. Folklore about a Japanese farmer who digs up a huge imo (yam). Ed Young style pencil drawings by Japanese artist Mitsu Yashima. No dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with pictorial label on front, 252 pages. Beautiful full color frontispiece illustration of Toby Tyler with a monkey (repeated on cover), plus 21 line drawings by W.A. Rogers.
Hardcover. NY, Harper Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt and decorated in red and black, front cover stamped in black, red and gilt. Floral endpapers. 21 line drawings by W.A. Rogers. No date on title page, assumed late 1880s reprint.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st , 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 248 pages. Color, black & white drawings by A. H. Watson. Front & back hinges tender. Page 84 color plate loose and laid-in. Red cloth binding with stain to back cover, spine fade.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 161 pages. Blue cloth hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Marguerite Davis. Short stories selected by the Literature Committee of the Association for Childhood Education. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Light foxing to foredge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Zebra Books, First Edition, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Hardcover. Grey & navy cloth board with silver titles to spine. Black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket with light toning, very good condition. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Boston, LeRoy Phillips, rep, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 412 pages. Color frontispiece, black & white illustrations by Hugh Thomson. Dark green cloth covers with gold lettering and decoration. Gilt edges. Rubbing to extremities. Spine slightly cocked. Soiling to covers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Boston, LeRoy Phillips, reprint, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, 412 pages. Color frontis and b&w plates by Hugh Thomson. Black cloth with colorful pasted-on paper label to cover, With a heavily worn dust jacket with a split along spine edge. First published in 1857. Illustrated to fine effect by the master-draftsman Thomson, a classic take on life and problems in a boys' school in early Victorian England. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Century Co., 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original decorated two-part blue and mustard cloth, front and rear covers stamped in black, spine panel stamped in gold. 254 pages, b&w illustrations by W.A. Rogers. Boys' fiction set in New York City of a hunt for gold coins stolen during the American Revolution. Mild soil to covers, no markings
Hardcover. New York, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages plus 3 pages of publishers ads. Hardcover. Previous owners inscriptions in pencil on preliminary pages. Black & white illustrations by R. Emmett Owen. Dust jacket with light wear along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked text.
NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 253 pages. Black & white drawings by Margery Gill. Foreword by Leonard Clark. Price clipped dust jacket with light soil, wear to edges.
Hardcover. NY, The Junior Guild and Doubleday & Company, Book Club Ed., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering on the spine and illustration in black on front cover. 220 pages. Illustrated by Grace Paull. A tomboy's hilarious escapades in her attempts to be a proper young lady. Clean copy, no dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1915, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 290 pages. Hardcover. Features 48 black & white illustrations by Harrison Cady. Mustard colored cloth covers with green and orange illustrations, Light wear along edges. Spine cocked. Clean, unmarked text.
Hardcover. New York, Charles E. Graham, 1st, 1912, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 126 pages. Some discoloration to endpapers. Black & white illustrations. Light wear to corners and spine. Covers a bit warped.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st, 1896, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 322 pages plus 4 pages of ads. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Albert D. Blashfield. Rear hinge cracked. Light rubbing to cover corners. Slight cock to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, MacMillan Company, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-pag., hardcover. Illustrated in lithographs by the author. Brown cloth cover boards, black title on spine and front cover. Oblong, no dust jacket. Pages/edges are slightly tanned from age. Former school library book in very good condition, lightness to spine where former library labels were removed. Illustrated story of the life of a champion racehorse
Hardcover. New York , Viking Press , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket with creases to both front and rear flap. Internally very good.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 28 pages. Hardcover ith price clipped dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by James Stevenson, his second children's book. Light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton-Century Co., 1st, 1943, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 198 pages. Black & white illustrations by Scott Lusby. Light soiling to endpapers. Soiling to edges, covers, especially spine. Corners a bit bumped.
Hardcover. NY, Longmans Green and Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-colored cloth stamped in black, 270 pages illustrated in b&w by Pelagie Doane. A mystery for young readers. Alice Ware spends a summer vacation away from home with the Frasier family and their daughter, Theodora. Adventures follow. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Black & white illustrations by William Pene du Bois. Dust jacket price-clipped with light soiling, HarperCrest label on spine.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a nice, price-clipped dust jacket. 64 pages, Black & white illustrations by Donald Carrick. In a library binding, but NOT ex-library. Clean copy.
San Marino, Huntington Library, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 446 pages. Hardcover. Black covers with title and decoration in silver. Black & white illustrations. Some light pencil marking scattered throughout. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 368 pages plus fold-out list of plates. Hardcover. 54 full color plates plus hundreds of black & white works by Toulouse-Lautrec. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy. Complete coverage of works in lithography and drypoint including fine prints, posters, illustrations, book jackets, sheet music, etc.
Hardcover. NY, Henry Z. Walck, Inc., 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, black & white illustrations by Ezra Jack Keats. Light edgewear to dust jacket, short tears at bottom. Ex-library stamp on both end papers, otherwise clean. Dust jacket price clipped .
Softcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st pbk, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, yellow card wraps with b&w designs and black lettering. 287 pages with 55 b/w line drawings and 96 b/w plates. The first publication in English that gives a general survey of the development of the inner structure of the town from a dual point of view: that of the function of the square in the life of the community and that of its conception in purely aesthetic terms. Zucker shows a continuous development from Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, to the creative heights of the 17th and 18th centuries, periods which he considers the culmination of this development. The concluding chapter surveys the role of the square in early American life. Clean copy.
Softcover. New York, Harcourt Brace and Co., 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Advance Review Copy, rose colored wraps stamped in black. Cover and next two blank pages loose from spine, spine has paper loss, exposing signatures. Still a firm binding except for cover and first two pages, clean.
Hardcover. Lunenburg, Town of Lunenburg Historical Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners bookplate on half-title page. Some light underlining in pen of residents names on front endpaper. Cloth covers age darkened along spine and edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, First Edition, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 371 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth covered boards with black printed titles to spine. Dust jacket with age toning to edges, chipping to spine, now protected with a plastic cover. Green top edge. Light toning to edges throughout. Clean & unmarked pages throughout. A very nice copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped, lightly soiled dust jacket. Yellow cloth stamped in purple and black; 370 pages, illustrated with drawings by Leslie Saalburg. Here Gingrich, the publisher of Esquire, shares his feelings on food, automobiles, smoking pipes, violins, haberdashery and a litany of other esoteric subjects.
Hardcover. NY, Columbia University, 1st, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt stamping, 126 pages. Ex-library with light markings and stamping. Much on the fur trade, early agriculture, gold dust and Civil War currency and trade in Oregon during the 1800s.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 634 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with a few black & white photographs. Bookplate on inside front cover. Features music and lyrics. 1 Fold-out map of Virginia. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Hartford CT, American Publishing Co., 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages, terra-cotta cloth stamped in black and gilt, light gray end papers. Marginal illustrations throughout. 1894 on title page and copyright page, title page in red and black. Front hinge cracked, tape shadow on inside front cover, otherwise very good.
Softcover. Salt Lake City, Gibbs Smith, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 160 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Trailer Travel showcases the rich visual history of America's enduring fascination with life on the road. Beautifully reproduced color and black-and-white images culled from public archives and the private collections of passionate trailerites vividly document the travel trailer?s storied past. This engaging volume offers a look at motor-camping trips in the early 1900s, the unparalleled innovations in trailer design during the thirties, rare and unique trailer models and interiors, and an extensive array of bold and graphic promotional material, literature, and postcards that illustrate the undeniable attraction of living on wheels.
Hardcover. Hartford CT, American Publishing Co, 1st, 1880, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 631 pages. 328 black & white illustrations by various artists. Both hinges cracked. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Soiling to covers. Tears to cloth on spine. Wear to corners, spine.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st US, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with red lettering, 268 pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Clean and bright except for faded spine. A scarce Sabatini title, featuring Captain Peter Blood and his swashbuckling exploits along the Spanish Main.