Hardcover. Philadephia PA, Penn Publishing Co, 1st, 1924, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 224 pages. Black & white illustrations by Henry Pitz. Green cover with black writing and color illustration pasted on. Previous owner's inscription front end paper. Corners bumped. Spine wear. Small dents to spine. No dust jacket.
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. London, Adam & Charles Black, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket. 159 pages with 48 plates in color and b&w.
Hardcover. Roslyn NY, Walter J. Black, Book Club Ed., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. Three mystery novels in one volume. Detective Book Club Series. Clean, bright copy. No markings.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering to spine. 307 pages, b&w photos. No dust jacket. The biography of actor Leslie Howard, star of great movies such as "Of Human Bondage" and "The Scarlet Pimpernel". En route from Lisbon to London, Howard was shot down by German fighters. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, reprint, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth stamped in gilt and black. Reprint edition of this charming tale of an adventurous toad who wished to see if the world were really round and found that it was the "Roundest place I ever was in". Four color and many b&w illustrations by Leslie Brooke. No date, but assumed 1930.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black, 314 pages. Color frontis and endpaper drawing by Rowland Hilder, b&w illustrations by Richard Southern. An historical adventure set on the high sea. Mild shelf wear to covers, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Limited Editions Club, Ltd. Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") handsewn and handbound in full crimson Oasis goatskin leather stamped in black. The original French with the acclaimed English translation by Paul Schmidt on facing pages. Copy #794 of 1000 numbered copies illustrated with 8 hand-pulled dust-grain photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe printed in two colors on handmade paper and SIGNED by the photographer and the translator. "Of the arresting photographs used to illustrate the book, several of the images rank among the photographer's most famous".
Softcover. NY, Noonday Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, full color as well as B&W illustrations. Detailed overview of American Black movies from 1915 to 1965. Introduction by Donald Bogle. Foreword by Spike Lee. A collection of movie posters featuring black actors, with brief comments on each plus a brief history of the black cinema. Pages are bright and clean (no writing, underlining, or highlighting). Binding is tight with no cracks or breaks.
Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, 1st, 1917, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth boards with red lettering and gilt decoration; b&w plates, frontis. by Alice Barber Stephens. Small bookplate on inside front cover. A memoir of growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, Garland recalls individuals, their relationships, and the colorful drama that made up their daily lives offers a glimpse into pioneer life in 19th-century mid-America. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. This book has an international bent: Hand has taken photographs in more than fifty countries over the past fifty-five years. These 162 black-and-white photographs present a sampling of his best work from around the world and show how the railway is a compelling subject no matter the locale. An introduction by well-known transportation reporter and railroad columnist Don Phillips explains how Hand got interested in railways and how his approach to the subject developed; extended captions provide historical context. The book includes an afterword by rail and photography historian Jeff Brouws.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum Books, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black. Color art by Haley. Discover how an African trickster god made it possible for people to tell stories in this brightly illustrated, Caldecott Medal-winning picture book. Long, long ago there were no stories on earth for children to hear. All stories belonged to Nyame, the Sky God. Ananse, the Spider man, wanted to buy some of these stories, so he spun a web up to the sky to bargain with the Sky God. The price the Sky God asked was Osebo, the leopard-of-the-terrible-teeth, Mmboro the hornet-who-stings-like-fire, and Mmoatia the fairy-whom-men-never-see. Can Ananse capture these sly creatures and give the children of earth stories to tell? No dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Truth Seeker Company, 1st, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in black and gilt. Morgan Andrew Robertson [1861-1915] was an American author and the self-proclaimed inventor of the periscope. This title is apparently his rare first book- a narrative poem about heaven versus the devil. B&w frontis and great text illustrations by A. Carey K. Jurist. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Scribner's, 1st, 1905, Hardcover, black cloth with 3-color decoration of horseman's carriage on front cover, red lettering on spine, 372 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Illustrated with ten plates in b&w by Cyrus Cuneo. Some of the white ink on cover appears to have flaked off. The are 4 lines in pencil on inside front cover. There are several dog-earred pages just before page 300. Otherwise a very nice copy of this first edition by Hornung.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 191 pages. "As her all black high school becomes more racially mixed, Talley befriends a white girl who shares her passion for running and becomes romantically involved with a drug dealer ." Dust jacket art by the Dillons. Clean.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1st US thus., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 421 pages. With black & white illustrations. Red cloth cover with gilt title and illustration on front. Spine slightly faded, embossed title complete. First U.S. edition with both titles in one volume.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1s, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Light green cloth, lettered and bordered in gilt, top text block edge in gilt. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates by Clifton Johnson. Light shelf wear, bookplate on inside front cover with black marking. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth, 262 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. This portrait of Disderi and the carte de visite he patented in Paris in 1854 is far more than a biography. The c-d-v, or photographic calling card, was a relatively inexpensive product that made the photographic portrait available to the middle class . McCauley's carefully documented work explores Disderi's career and oeuvre , the impact of mass-produced celebrity cartes on the social and cultural life of mid-19th-century France, and aesthetics in c-d-v portraiture. The final third of the book is an art historical evaluation of the importance of the c-d-v for portrait painting of the period . The fine bibliography, generous illustrative matter, and detailed notes add to the value of this work for the avid student of photohistory or 19th-century studies.
Hardcover. NY, Horizon Press, 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, original black cloth with silver and black lettering on cover, red and silver on spine. With an introduction by Harold Rosenberg. Illustrated with fifty full page b/w photographs by Aaron Siskind. The first monograph on Siskind, beautifully designed and printed; an important post-war photobook. There is a light water stain to rear panel of dust jacket, not affecting book. A clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. London, England, Gret Western Railway, 1st edition, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 154 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrated frontispiece, color and b/w illustrations, including several fold out blueprint diagrams, throughout. Previous owner's ID stamp on front flyleaf. Red cover boards (some fading), black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board. Pages unmarked, some light tanning from age. Binding good, spine straight. With additional chapter on "Monastic Life and Buildings" by A. Hamilton Thompson, M.A., D.LITT., F.S.A. Professor of Mediaeval History in the University of Leeds. With One Hundred Illustrations by Photographic Reproduction, fifty-six drawings, thirteen plans, seven color plates and map (in pocket on back endpapers).
Hardcover. NY , Century Co., 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Color frontispiece, 24 black & white plates by C.M. Relyea. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust with light chipping. Many black-and-white illustrations throughout by Sloane, from old books to farm implements all listed and drawn alphabetically. 64 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Leipzig, F.H. Brockhaus, 1st?, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, 414 pages. German text. Many black & white photos and color plate illustrations. Fold-out map at rear of book. Stapled binding. Big color illustration front cover with engraved dark blue & gold decoration and gold embossed lettering. Spine gold lettering, has markings. Minor scratches to back cover. Endpapers green illustration. Previous owner's signature preliminary page. Corners a bit bumped.
Hardcover. NY, Greenwillow, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Autobiography by the award-winning children's book author. Black & white photos.Clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black, 70 pages illustrated throughout in 2-colors by Kurt Wiese. For whatever reason, a very scarce title. The adventures of a churchmouse as he travels from town to town with his knapsack. From a summer camp library with light stamping, edgewear. Wonderful drawings by Wiese.
Softcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2008, Softcover, 190 pages, decorated wrappers. Now the world's foremost blues, rockabilly, soul and rock 'n' roll reissue label, Ace Records has been responsible for unearthing lost classics and neglected pioneers for over three decades, and provided some of the finest and most influential records of the post-war era. Illustrated with many unseen archive photographs dating back to the 1920s, rare artwork and newspaper clippings. Written by established music journalist and author David Stubbs.
Softcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages, pictorial wrappers. Now the world's foremost blues, rockabilly, soul and rock 'n' roll reissue label, Ace Records has been responsible for unearthing lost classics and neglected pioneers for over three decades, and provided some of the finest and most influential records of the post-war era. Illustrated with many unseen archive photographs dating back to the 1920s, rare artwork and newspaper clippings. Written by established music journalist and author David Stubbs.
Hardcover. Chicago, American Photo-Engravers Association, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, simulated leather decorated in blind and stamped with a red and yellow eagle on the front cover, top edge gilt. 488 pages.A massive compendium of articles and illustrations concerning the arts of photo-engraving and printing. Numerous printers submitted various inserts that to the Photo-engraver's and Printer's Union for compilation in this huge book. Hundreds of inserts from printers across the country reflect everything from black and white to eleven color zinc plate printing. This work offer a nice overview of the various printing techniques of the early twentieth century. Publisher's rare prospectus laid-in. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Philadephia, PA, J.B. Lippincott Comapny, 6th pr., 1913, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 page. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Gutter cracked on title page with fabric showing through. Spine lettering faded. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with edge wear, short closed tears. The first full-length biography--and likely the authoritative one for years to come--of the flamboyant black congressman who, as civil-rights gadfly and as libertine, exemplified the gap between our nation's ideals and practices that was given a name in Gunnar Myrdal's ``American Dilemma.'' Blessed with good looks, eloquence, and a bully pulpit (he succeeded his father as head of the Abyssinian Baptist Church, the nation's largest black congregation), Powell became ``Mr. Civil Rights'' in the pre-King era by combining agitation and electoral politics. As congressman from Harlem, Powell denounced racist southern colleagues and introduced the ``Powell Amendment'' to deny federal funds to projects or organizations that practiced discrimination. In 1960, he became chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, then the strongest position ever held by a black in the US government. Columbia Univ. political-science professor Hamilton also highlights how the Democratic politician became a thorn in the side of ally and foe alike. Powell was a maverick seldom bound by party (he endorsed Eisenhower for President), duty (a high absentee rate), or conventional morality. Inevitably, after an income-tax evasion trial, a suit filed by a Harlem resident he called a ``bag woman,'' and a European junket with two attractive female aides, Powell was stripped of his chairmanship by the House of Representatives despite his cry of double standards for white counterparts. Blending scholarship and ironic detachment, an admirably balanced treatment of a politician who provoked anything but objectivity during his Marion Barry-like career.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages. Tan and black cover with illustration. Some fraying on edges and spine. Faint smudges on spine. Pages untrimmed. Inside crisp, clean and contains b&w illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1922, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 203 pages. Tan and black cover with illustration. Some fraying on edges and spine. Title on spine label slightly chipped away. Small stain on back cover. Pages untrimmed. Some foxing Inside, but otherwise crisp, clean and contains b&w illustrations throughout.
Softcover. New York, The Arts Publisher, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. 174 pages illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Black pictorial stiff wrappers with light wear and sun to covers. Light waviness due to moisture to upper edge of front cover, but not to pages. Overall a very nice, tight, clean copy. Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) was one of the leaders of the New York School of Abstract Expressionism. This beautiful volume is the only one that covers the full scope of Gottlieb's acheivement, including 124 of his finest paintings, sculptures, and works on paper.
Hardcover. London, Longmans, Green & Co., 1st, ND (1915), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 55 pages, 6 b&w tipped-in illustrations by Raemaekers. English and French rendered in black and red calligraphy by Margaret Calkin. Thin white cloth covers with gilt design, light soil. A short mystery play written by the noted Belgian playwright and Great War poet, inspired by a visit he paid to the Belgian trenches during Christmas week and written in the style of a Nativity Play: it depicts the Virgin and Child amongst ordinary soldiers in a miserable Western Front dug-out.
Chicago, Beckley-Cardy Co., 1st, 1932, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover school primer, blue cloth decorated in black and orange. 303 pages, three-color illustrations by Clara Atwood Fitts. About 10 pages with some chipping and short tears.
Hardcover. US, PS Publishing, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers. Color, Black and white pictures throughout.
Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 322 pages, b&w illustrations, in a bright dust jacket. This book examines the issue of racial stereotyping and with the issue of skin color as seen by such radio show broadcasts as Amos 'N' Andy. Some Blacks did not like the show when released, while others saw it as a humane portrayal of African-American Life. Overall, the show became the most popular radio show of all time. Later, it was touted by the Civil Rights Movement as offensive and racist.
Hardcover. NY, Albert & Charles Boni, 3rd pr, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a black cloth spine. 376 pages with illustrations, endpapers, and cover design by Miguel Covarrubias. Frontispiece loose, otherwise a clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown , reprint, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illustrations by Harrison Cady. Part of the Bedtime Story-Books series. Soiling, chipping, closed tears to dust jacket. Cover boards clean.
Hardcover. Brussels, B. Le Francq, 1st Thus, 1798, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 4 volumes. Leather bound hardcovers. Text in ENGLISH & FRENCH Books measure: 3.75"W by 5.75"L. Volume 1 - Front cover loose from book. Crack in leather length of spine - text block still firm. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. 2 black & white illustrations. Moderate rubbing to leather covers. Volume 2 - Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Half of front endpaper removed. 2 black & white illustrations. Moderate rubbing to leather covers. Volume 3 - Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. 1 black & white illustration. Moderate rubbing to leather covers. Volume 4 - Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. 1 black & white illustration. Moderate rubbing to leather covers.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1939, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in red and black, 204 pages, color frontispiece and b&w illustrations by Joyce Brisley. The charming tale of a little wooden horse, who goes out in the world to seek his fortune so that his master can thrive. Covers show light soil, edgewear, small stamp inside front cover. This original edition of the book is uncommon in any condition.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 244 pages. Black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese.
Hardcover. Hanover NH, Dartmouth College, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 387 pages plus ads. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Minor rubbing at top and bottom of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, Stanton and Van Vliet Co, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 403 pages + glossary with illustrations, photos and fold-out charts in b&w. Light wear and fraying to black covers with a few small holes through the cloth. Internally very good.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-green cloth stamped in black. 89 pages, b&w illustrations by Anderson. A horse story for young people. Through patience and gentle handling, Judy and the jumper Fair Lady both recover their nerve. No dust jacket, no marking. Back cover with water stains to cloth,
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 337 pages, Index. Black & white photographic illustrations. Cream cloth with red & black illustration and lettering. The exciting story of the author's travels by car with Paris Benga, the famous Negro dancer, on a tour which zigzagged through the French colonies, the French and British mandates, and the Gold Coast to study the native dances in the districts most remote from civilization. This is also a study of the government and religion, the sex-life and marriage ritual, habits and customs, and the emotional and mental character of these West African Negroes. Mild stain to corners of front cover, not affecting the interior. Otherwise clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Westport CT, Negro Universities Press , reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Originally published in 1852 this is an in depth study of the African people , both in Africa and in America. A great deal of material on slavery and the South, as well as early material on Liberia. Presented in a series of "conversations", this is an in-depth history of the African continent's peoples, the colonization of Africa, and subsequent African American slavery in the United States. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Babcock Galleries, 1s, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 48 pages illustrated in color. Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name; Includes images of and images by African-Americans, including William Sidney Mount, Thomas Worth, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Lyell E. Carr, Sol Eytinge, Eastman Johnson, Sheldon Orrin Parsons, and others. Clean copy.