Hardcover. New York, Artisan, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by William Steig. Introduction by John Updike. A study of the life and work of the eminent cartoonist, New Yorker cover artist, and humorist. Steig also served as art director of the New Yorker.
Hardcover. New York, Artisan, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages. Black & white and color illustrations by William Steig. Introduction by John Updike. A study of the life and work of the eminent cartoonist, New Yorker cover artist, and humorist. Steig also served as art director of the New Yorker.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 530 pages, b&w illustrations. The dramatic story of W. E. B. Du Bois's reckoning with the betrayal of Black soldiers during World War I-and a new understanding of one of the great twentieth-century writers. When W. E. B. Du Bois, believing in the possibility of full citizenship and democratic change, encouraged African Americans to "close ranks" and support the Allied cause in World War I, he made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life. Seeking both intellectual clarity and personal atonement, for more than two decades Du Bois attempted to write the definitive history of Black participation in World War I. His book, however, remained unfinished. In The Wounded World, Chad Williams offers the dramatic account of Du Bois's failed efforts to complete what would have been one of his most significant works. The surprising story of this unpublished book offers new insight into Du Bois's struggles to reckon with both the history and the troubling memory of the war, along with the broader meanings of race and democracy for Black people in the twentieth century. Drawing on a broad range of sources, most notably Du Bois's unpublished manuscript and research materials, Williams tells a sweeping story of hope, betrayal, disillusionment, and transformation, setting into motion a fresh understanding of the life and mind of arguably the most significant scholar-activist in African American history. In uncovering what happened to Du Bois's largely forgotten book, Williams offers a captivating reminder of the importance of World War I, why it mattered to Du Bois, and why it continues to matter today. Remainder mark on top edhge, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards, black cloth spine with gilt lettering. 101 pages, two b&w frontispieces, clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Boston, Charles E. Lauriat, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Beige cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Multiple illustrations and plates with detailed engravings. Limited to 500 copies, reprint of 1808 1st London edition, with appendix from the 1819 2nd London edition. Subtitled: A key to the leading of rigging, and to practical seamanship. A knowledgeable and comprehensive manual by Darcy Lever designed to assist young gentlemen of the Royal Navy from the early 19th century.
Softcover. Oxford UK, Blackwell, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 332 pages. The Zizek Reader - which includes a Foreword by Zizek and a new, previously unpublished essay on cyberspace - provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the flamboyant work of a figure who has been variously described as 'one of the most arresting, insightful and scandalous thinkers in recent memory' and 'the Giant of Ljubljana'. His work is an extraordinary mix of Hegel and Hitchcock, Schelling and science fiction, Kant and courtly love, Stalin and Stephen King, all of which is strongly seasoned with Lacanian psychoanalysis. Divided into three parts - Culture, Woman and Philosophy - the Reader not only provides careful explications of the individual extracts within each section but also connects these extracts in a general introduction, mapping the shiftings of Zizek's thought within the Lacanian framework. The essays on woman offer feminism ammunition from unexpected sources, within a reading of Lacan that goes counter to his ambiguous reception by feminists. In fact, at this collection dazzlingly demonstrates, Zizek provides us with one of the most limpid and persuasive readings so far produced of Lacan's difficult thought. Name on inside of front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy. Covering many styles and movements, it includes work by pioneers such as Edward Sheriff Curtis, seminal figures like Walker Evans, Cecil Beaton and August Sander, as well as artists such as Martin Parr, Cindy Sherman and Philip-Lorca diCorcia - With over 300 black and white and color photographs, this book offers a new perspective on the history of photography by examining the personalities both behind and in front of the camera.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 324 pages, color and black and white illustrations throughout. A masterly survey of the world's stages brings to the contemporary reader the entire panorama of the theatre, including its formative stages among primitive peoples and the richly stylized traditions of the East.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 324 pages, color and black and white illustrations throughout. A masterly survey of the world's stages brings to the contemporary reader the entire panorama of the theatre, including its formative stages among primitive peoples and the richly stylized traditions of the East.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Oblong hardcover in turquoise cloth lettered in yellow, Color illustrated endpapers. Illustrated with color and black and white drawings by the author. INSCRIBED BY DE ANGELI on tile page and dated 1940. Stated First Edition. In a bright dust jacket with light edgewear that's unclipped ($2.00). The story of two little Quaker girls living in Philadelphia just before the Civil War.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with illustration label, gilt design on front. 55 pages. Black & white illustrations by Peter Newell. No dust jacket. Faded black top edge. An amusing story of two boys of Mount Pisgah who attempt to make their first formal social call on the neighboring girls.
Softcover. New York, NY, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 79 pages. Exhibition catalog. Black-and-white and color illustrations. Some shelf-wear on rear cover. Light sun-fade to spine. A little soiling to bottom edge. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 331 pages, putty color cloth covers with black lettering on spine. Dust jacket with edgewear, chipping. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday Page , 1st, 1927, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 252 pages. Black & white illustrations by Mary Whitson Haring. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Corners a bit bumped. Wear to corners and spine. Darkened spine. Title rubbed off of spine. Markings to covers.
Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Based on a tale by Nathaniel Hawthorne, here retold in verse. Black and white drawings and silhouettes by Marc Brown. Dust jacket with closed tear, edgewear at top of cover.
Hardcover. London, Collins, 1st UK, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, unpaginated (approx. 64 pages), illustrated in b&w by Irene Haas. This is a picture book that introduces young readers to a variety of useful French phrases by describing the trip of two intrepid young travellers by sea to France, by boat train to Paris, and then through sight-seeing adventures. Each phrase is accompanied by a detailed, witty, black and white pictures showing when it might be used. A wonderful picture-book for the young French language learner. Clean. No dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations, 416 pages. Presents Black history in America as a force of strong resistance to racism and slavery rather than accommodation and discusses the people and events of this struggle. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 203 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Don Herold. Light wear to covers. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, George H. Doran, 2nd pr., 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, 302 pages. Early American edition ("B" on copyright and no publisher's colophon). Interconnected short stories, and basis for a 1931 film of the same name, directed by Louis Mercanton. "The author calls his book 'a tapestry of the fortunes, follies, adventures, gallantries of a certain lovely lady and her friends and companions in this tale.' ... Mischievousness, then, is the delicate and all-important ingredient in this account of some fashionables of Mayfair." A collection of interconnected short stories (a few with fantasy/horror elements), it was published in England in 1923, a year before Arlen's sensational best-seller "The Green Hat," which vaulted him to international fame and fortune. Lacks dust jacket, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York, Hawthorn, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 159 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Lincoln NE, Bison Books/University of Nebraska, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages, b&w illustrations. Through in-depth interviews with players, their families, coaches, teammates, and league officials, Ron Thomas tells the largely untold story of what basketball was really like for the first Black NBA players, including recent Hall of Fame inductee Earl Lloyd, early superstars such as Maurice Stokes and Bill Russell, and the league's first black coaches. They Cleared the Lane is both informative and entertaining, full of anecdotes and little-known history. Not all the stories have happy endings, but this unfortunate truth only emphasizes how much we have gained from the accomplishments of these pioneer athletes.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in black with title and moose face on front. 40 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Seuss. Later issue, with the 7-line copyright notice. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges, corners of cover. Owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. The story of a moose who was too hospitable for his own good told in humorous verse.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, reprint, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn and chipped dust jacket with 2.95 price on flap, blue cloth covers stamped in black with title and moose face on front. 40 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Seuss. Later issue, with the 7-line copyright notice. The story of a moose who was too hospitable for his own good told in humorous verse.
Hardcover. NY, Otto Penzler, 1st hardcover, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1st hardcover edition of book, first published as paperback in 1966. Black boards with gilt titles to spine, color illustrated dust jacket.