Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 280 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with rubbing, short tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Canada, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 227 pages. Hardcover. Brown cloth cover boards, black title on spine and front cover. Pages clean and bright. Spine straight. Binding tight. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Brown endpapers. This book challenges widespread asumptions about common-sense philosophies and provides a major reassessment of an influential segment of the history of ideas.
Hardcover. Seattle, Salisbury Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Book with original wrap around band on cover. A nice copy.
Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller Ltd, 1st, 1956, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Contains black and white and color illustrations. Well bound and clean pages, with moderate tanning to text block edges. Light tanning to free endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and moderate crushing to spine ends. Book has noticeable backward lean, with heavy sunning overall. A exploration of the Great Barrier Reef.
Hardcover. New York, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 7th pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 90 pages. Black & white illustrations by Peter Spier. Light soiling to covers. Dust jacket witeh rubbing, edgewear. Brodart cover.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with black lettering in a bright dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 309 pages. Rear dj lists to Betty Zane. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. London, Herbert Jenkins, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 312 pages plus ads in rear. Hardcover. Orange cloth with black lettering. Stated Second Printing on copyright page. Spine a little cocked otherwise clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Funny Garbage Press, 1st, 2001, Hardcover, 212 pages. Legendary underground cartoonist Panter's comics are typically anarchic and fun, but they also delve deeper. First produced in 1983, Cola Madness is published here in book form for the first time. The work stars Jimbo, Panter's enduring punk everyman, sharing billing with a cast of idiosyncratic characters including Bob War; his calamitous brother, Uncle Garcia, a smart-talking dinosaur and beleaguered guardian in a bathrobe; and Kokomo, a native in an unspecified tropical land colonized by oil companies. Posited as the hallucinatory fever dream of Kokomo, Panter's farce follows Jimbo's misadventures as he tries to get a Moka Cola at the local Jack-in-the-McTacos, the whole zany affair culminating in an absurd, scatological climax at an automated fast food restaurant. Panter delivers a visionary response to contemporary American life viewed through the wrong end of some cosmic telescope. This delightfully inane story offers a selection of Panter's themes: humanity's troubled relationship with nature and technology; the tension between restraint and the uncontrollable urge; family relationships; and Jimbo's endearing, comical self-doubt. Panter's black and white "ratty line" drawing style offers great economy while suggesting a broad range of graphic style from art brut to bathroom graffiti, and calls to mind the works of legendary cartoonists Jack Kirby and Osamu Tezuka.
Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly, 1st, 1997, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 356 pages. Dark blue boards, black cloth spine with orange metallic titles, illustrated dust jacket with mylar protective covering, endpapers decorated with red map of Southern Blue Ridge mountains. Circular sticker to front panel of dust jacket with praise from John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. No wear to dust jacket or covers, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; an excelptionally clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, Collage has a relatively short, but incredibly rich history. The popularity of collage is on the increase again, partly as a result of such postmodernist concerns as pluralism, multiplicity and hybridity. This book features works by international artists Picasso, Schwitters and Ernst, through to Hannah Hoch, Martha Rosler, John Stezaker, Richard Hamilton, Layla Curtis, David Salle, Eduardo Poalozzi, Javier Rodriguez, Robert Rauschenberg, Mimei Thompson, David Thorpe, Fred Tomaselli and many more.
Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st pbk, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 472 pages. The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the sense of the postmodern in poetry and form the basis of most postwar free verse. The Collected Prose brings together in one volume the works published for the most part between 1946 and 1969, many of which are now out of print. A valuable companion to editions of Olson's poetry, the book backgrounds the poetics, preoccupations, and fascinations that underpin his great poems. Included are Call Me Ishmael, a classic of American literary criticism; the influential essays "Projective Verse" and "Human Universe"; and essays, book reviews, and Olson's notes on his studies. In these pieces one can trace the development of his new science of man, called "muthologos," a radical mix of myth and phenomenology that Olson offered in opposition to the mechanistic discourse and rationalizing policy he associated with America's recent wars in Europe and Asia. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Chelsea House, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 376 pages. Illustrated with black & white comic panels selected from the years 1929 - 1949. Introduction by Ray Bradbury. Minor wear to dust jacket. Additional postage required due to size and weight of book. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Clarkson N. Potter, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white examples of fine book design. Dust jacket shows standard wear with small tears or rubbing along edges.
Hardcover. New York , The Macmillan Co., 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 200 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated in black & white by Helen Sewell. Dust jacket with small chips, tears.
Softcover. Brunswick ME, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages, color illustrated wrappers. Black and white, color plates. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 459 pages. Green cloth with silver gilt lettering on spine. Book comes with a press release from "News From Cambridge". Black and white plates throughout. Thirty-one essays on colonial painting organized in three chronological sections: Origins and Beginnings, to 1680; The Transition, 1680-1840; and The Culmination, 1740-1790. Bibliography.
Hardcover. York, George Shumway, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 71 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Stain along dust jacket spine and edge of front and rear dust jacket cover. No slipcase. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Canada, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The material that was saved from Warsaw in 1939 included more than ten color slides. These slides are the only color photo documents showing that historic moment from the perspective of city residents. The slides were found only in recent years by the photographer's son, Sam Bryan. In addition to color slides this album also includes photographs recorded by Julien Bryan on black-and-white film at that time and iater subjected to a complicated process of colorizing. The colorizing took piace after Bryan's return to the United States in 1939.
Hardcover. London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co, reprint, nd, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations by John Leech plus 10 hand-colored plates by him. Raised bands on spine. Marbled covers and end papers. Previous owner's signatures on front flyleaf. Foxing to flyleaves. Wear to spine and corners, edges. Heavy rubbing to covers. Marbled edges.
Softcover. New York, Thames and Hudson, 2012, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 352 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrapper edges. 700 illustrations in black & white and color throughout.
Hardcover. NY , Harper and Row, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Black and white illustrations by Randy Gaul. dust jacket price-clipped. Four short stories: The Shade Cutter, Enemies of the Eye, Slaves of Sham, Country Pay. The tales present the adventures of itinerant artisans and tradesmiths as they travel through a small New England town in the year 1800.
Softcover. Norfolk VA, Jamestown Exposition Company, 1st, 1907, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A softcover booklet with orange covers picturing indian at a campfire, printed in black. 17 pages of copy with b&w illustrations. The main attraction here are the two folding maps attached to front and back covers. Front: Population near Hampto roads Virginia in 3-colors, about 15 X 22". The Rear: Historical Tidewater Virginia, detailing railroads and steamship lines (foreign and domestic). Bott maps clean, no tears.