Softcover. Chicago, American School], reprint, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, brown wrappers with black type, 126 pages. Illustrated with photographs and drawings, The text pages are clean and bright. Included are four folded schematics which are clean and untorn. The rear cover gas some light water stains, but not affecting the inside contents. Previous pwner's name on title page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Burlington VT, 3X120 Press., 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, a collection of arresting black and white photographs of the dairy farms of the northeast. Skye Chalmers, a Vermont native, has brought his keenly honed eye and deep love of the land to this project and created a work of documentary photography at its finest. Sending Milk captures all aspects of dairy life - the families, the cows, the fields and barns, the equipment, the stunningly sublime and the hardships. An introduction by award-winning Vermont author, educator, and journalist Stephen Kiernan is the only text in this volume. The images speak for themselves. Clean, brighy copy.
Hardcover. New York , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover. Author's first book. Pages are age toned. Black & white photo section with a degree of damp wrinkling to the upper third of pages. Stain at top edge of rear inside cover. Black cloth cover, spine cloth heavily faded. No dust jacket. Unmarked text. Good.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound in green cloth with dark blue design and lettering, 308 pages. Black & white illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. Light soiling to endpapers, covers. Blue top edge. Clean copy.
NY, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt title on spine, 383 pages. INSCRIBED BY ROREM on front fly leaf. Clean copy, lacks dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Random House, First Edition, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 217 pages. Hardcover. Brown tweed cloth with brown & black printed titles to spine. Navy top edge. Toning to edges. Original dust jacket, bright with light toning & edgewear. Very clean & unmarked copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, no dust jacket. A little boy and his great-aunt live in the heart of Paris, and when the boy's uncles plan a visit, she sends little Emile to the market armed with a string bag, a cat and a series of rhymes to help him remember what to buy. Somewhere along the way, he gets mixed up and comedy ensues. Black & white and color wood block illustrations by the author. Clean, no markings.
Hardcover. NY, Birch Lane Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, white cloth covers with black lettering on spine, no dust jacket. 238 pages with b&w photos. Biography by nephew of Malcolm X. Clean copy.
Softcover. San Francisco, Rip Off Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 32 pages plus color wraps. Staple bound, $2.00 cover price. Black and white art by Selton inside. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Helga M. Rogers, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in bright dust jacket. In the Sex and Race series, first published in the 1940s, historian Joel Augustus Rogers questioned the concept of race, the origins of racial differentiation, and the root of the "color problem." Rogers surmised that a large percentage of ethnic differences are the result of sociological factors and in these volumes he gathered what he called "the bran of history"--the uncollected, unexamined history of black people--in the hope that these neglected parts of history would become part of the mainstream body of Western history. Drawing on a vast amount of research, Rogers was attempting to point out the absurdity of racial divisions. Indeed his belief in one race--humanity--precluded the idea of several different ethnic races. The series marshals the data he had collected as evidence to prove his underlying humanistic thesis: that people were one large family without racial boundaries. Self-trained and self-published, Rogers and his work were immensely popular and influential during his day, even cited by Malcolm X. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Chelsea House, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 215 pages. Color and black & white illustrations of comic art. Light rubbing to extremities. A colorful exploration of an engrossing subject with illustrations by artists such as Milton Caniff, John Byrne, Ron Embleton, Richard Corben, Burton Clarke, Chester Gould, Val Mayerik and many more.
Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Sex, Rock 'N' Roll, & Optical Illusions is Victor Moscoso's first major, career-spanning retrospective, from his earliest poster work in 1966 to his most recent graphic experimentation. Optical Illusions contains his best posters that advertised bands playing in San Francisco's famous dance ballrooms of the time - the Avalon, the Matrix, and the Fillmore - as well as many of his Zap Comix contributions, and his solo comix work, many in Moscoso's signature color. This wide-ranging career retrospective - Moscoso's famous technique employing "vibrating colors" that he pioneered in his posters is impeccably reproduced with as much fidelity to the original as modern printing can achieve, his black-and-white and full color comix work is collected here for the first time - is an intense, vibrant, and revelatory experience. Introductions by Steve Heller and Milton Glaser.
Hardcover. Phildelphia, W.B. Saunders Company, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth binding with spine labeling in black and gilt. Clean text; 842 pages, indexed; with bibliography and appendices. Title page with 1953 and no other printings indicated so assumed first printing. Based on data collected from 8,000 females, this book covers all aspects of sexuality as it relates to the human female. Owner's small embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Phildelphia, W.B. Saunders Company, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth binding with spine labeling in black and gilt. Clean text; 804 pages, indexed; with bibliography and appendices. Title page with 1948 and no other printings indicated so assumed first printing. Pioneering study -- influential and highly controversial, followed five years later by the companion "Sexual Behavior in the Human Female." Owner's small embossed stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. Zurich, Scalo, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 288 pages Illustrated with 206 b&w photos. What began as simple curiosity blossomed into an object of national pride; when Seydou Keita bought a camera to take pictures of his family, neighbors assumed his services were for hire and enlisted him to take portraits of themselves and their homes, turning a carpenter into a photographer and a hobby into artistic expression. In such a way did the self-taught Keita become the official photographer of Mali from 1962 to 1977, based almost solely on his impeccable reputation for quality and originality that developed by word of mouth. This stunning collection of 206 black-and white-portraits illustrates Keita's pride in his country and his gift for capturing the personalities of his subjects. His aim was to create the most natural settings and poses for the people in front of the lens, putting them at ease and gently nudging them into surrendering their inhibitions. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glazed pictorial boards, 47 pages. Black & white illustrations by Lillian Hoban. Darkening to spine. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. The Maple Street Club is putting on a play. But Seymour refuses to kiss the sleeping princess.
Softcover. NY, Da Capo Press, 1st US, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, First edition thus. Softcover. Features the original introduction by Cyril Connolly along with a new one by Mark Haworth-Booth. Includes 144 black and white images, with many of Brandt's best known images featured. A tight very good copy in wrappers with some very minor wear.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press / A Studio Book, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine. A classic retrospective monograph with an introduction by Cyril Connolly. Includes many of Brandt's best known images. Survey of the British photographer's images from the 1930s-60s, including nudes, landscapes, portraits of many artists and writers, and shots of British every day life among the various classes. Notes by Marjorie Beckett. Mostly black and white photographs, but a few color shots at the rear. Clean, bright copy with fragments of dust jacket laid in.
Hardcover. New York, Longmans Green & Co., 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 268 pages, b&w illustrations by Henry Pitz. Red cloth covers with black decoration. Book shows light wear overall, spine faded, black spot on top edge. Scarce.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, tan cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 278 pages. Rear dj lists to Wild Horse Mesa. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, First Edition, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black boards with white titles to front & spine. Purple top edge. Dust jacket with age toning, some soiling, price clipped, now protected with a plastic cover. Toning to endpapers & edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red and blue cloth with black stamping, 334 pages. Clean copy. Portraying the dark, authoritarian side of the utopian dream, this classic novel tells the story of the Reverend Harmston, a man devoted to building a microsociety in which there is a balance between the order that is necessary to produce livelihood and the freedom to fully explore sexuality. Setting up a commune in the remote Guyanese forest with the creed, "Hard work, frank love, and wholesome play," the reverend attempts to construct an ideal society that opens up cross-cultural dialogue between the spirit of European enlightenment and the culture of the native Amerindians. Underneath its generally comic tone, however, there are notes of a darker spirit at play--such as Harmston's unquestioned authority and the brutal punishments he hands out--that eerily foreshadow the actual 1978 Jonestown Massacre, a violent event that occurred 27 years after the novel's initial publication.
Hardcover. New York, Viking Studio, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. A gallery of the most compelling images from baseball's history. Beginning with a team portrait of the Cincinnati Red Stockings taken in 1869, the books charts the sport through the Black Sox scandal, when giants like Honus Wagner, Ty Cobb and Shoeless Joe Jackson roamed the field; all through the Babe Ruth years, WWII, the Negro League and Jackie Robinson's first day in the major leagues. As well as the many famous famous, many unknowns are also shown with the criteria for inclusion being the artistic merit of the photograph.
NY, Harper & Row, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 182 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Maurice Sendak. Early edition. Ex-lib with stamped pocket on back endpaper. Paste remains on front and back paste-down endpapers, spine label. Dust jacket price clipped and bottom of front flap missing. Little Davie lavishes attention on his pet rabbit & saves him when the little animal disappears. Sensitive & riveting tale.