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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.

Hardcover. NY, Funk and Wagnalls , 1st, 1903, Book: Good, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in green and black, 464 pages, b&w illustrations by Will Crawford. A version of Samuel Warren's 1839 novel, Ten Thousand a Year, which has been abridged by American author, Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861 - 1920). Warren (1807 - 1877), was a British barrister, novelist and MP with an in-depth knowledge of British common law and the original novel was based on a famous forgery case from the 1830s, where a claim was made to a vacant earldom using fake documents. Rear hinge cracked, shelf wear, name stamp on inside front cover.

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. NY, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped in black, 72 pages, illustrated in b&w by Nils Hogner. Clean 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. 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. Northampton MA, Kraushar Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with black lettering, 163 pages, b&w photos. Inspired by a visit to Stoney Reservation in Alberta, Canada, the author spent 15 years visiting & living among 47 tribes, and developed a touring show of pictures, songs, dances, stories & sign language. Clean, bright copy.

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.