Hardcover. John Wiley and Sons, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with white lettering, 261 pages. INSCRIBED BY ORGANSCHI on the half-title page. A comprehensive approach to design that integrates sustainable principles and design strategies for decarbonized construction. Offers professionals in the field an approach to sustainable design that embraces building science principles, life-cycle analysis, and design strategies in carbon neutral construction. The book also contains background information on carbon in construction materials and in the building design process. This book is filled with illustrative diagrams and drawings that help evaluate the potential impact of design decisions for creating carbon emissions. Written by and for designers and builders, the book includes a compelling pair of case studies that explore carbon-reducing strategies, suggests steps for assessing a building's carbon footprint, and reviews carbon storages and circulation of materials. Clean copy, like new.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with black stamping. B&W illustrations by Rod Ruth, 204 pages. Ex-library copy but clean and tight, light stamping and residue."Tuktu is the name by which the Barren Ground caribou is known to nearly all of the Eskimo tribes of Arctic America." A fictional story based on the near extinction of the caribou poputation and it's effect on native tribes.
Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 100 pages. From the author of Ghost World and Patience. Anchored by the title story, Caricature also includes eight other stories, including "Green Eyeliner," "MCMLXVI," the full-color "Gold Mommy," "Glue Destiny," "Gynecology," "Immortal, Invisible," "Blue Italian Shit," "Like a Weed, Joe," "Black Satin," and more.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 2nd pr., 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt and black decoration, 321 pages. Illustrated with decorated endpapers (map) and vintage black and white photographs. Carl Than Akeley (1864-1926) was a taxidermist, naturalist and inventor was born near Clarendon, New York. Akeley would make five expeditions to Africa collecting specimens, first for the Field Museum in Chicago, and then for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. In 1911 he proposed to Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the museum, a plan to present animal groups against painted backgrounds that would faithfully recreate the habitat which the animals lived. He had many adventures on the trips to Africa, including one where he was attacked by a leopard. Akeley died on his last expedition in his camp, near Mount Mikeno. This book is an account of Akeley's last expedition, and has a foreword by Henry Fairfield Osborn. The book is shaken and binding a little loose but holding, no loose pages. Previous owner's inscription on blank pelim page otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 2nd pr., 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover,163 black and white plates illustrating Milles' sculptures. Oversized. A comprehensive book on the foremost sculptor of Sweden, Carl Milles (1875-1955). Beautiful black and white photographs of his stone and bronze sculpture - mostly depicting commissions in the U.S. as he was a professor at Cranbrook and a permanent resident in the U.S. Clothbound, In very good condition, Index. Dust jacket torn along bottom edges with a large chunk missing from top of spine. Tape repairs to reverse of dust jacket. Some slight yellowing to pages, but all plates are in very good condition.
Hardcover. Sao Paulo, Brazil, Dorea Books & Art, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Illustrated with Black & white photographs by Claudio Edinger. Texts by Arnaldo Jabor, Jorge Amado and Roberto Damatta. Clean, tight copy. A collection of photographs taken during the Carnaval celebration in Brazil.
softcover. New York, Theatre Communications Group, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Softcover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, Zephyr Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Illustrated with nearly 100 color plates of various carousel animals, as well as other color and black/white photographs. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket shows some rubbing and slight curling at the edges. Shows horses and menagerie animals carved out of wood for American and European carousels, traces the history of carousel rides, and looks at some prominent manufacturers.
Hardcover. NY, Distributed Art Publishers (DAP), 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with silver lettering. One of the most influential American artists working today, Carrie Mae Weems has investigated narratives around family, race, gender, sexism, class and the consequences of power for more than 40 years. Her complex oeuvre-always ahead of its time, and profoundly formative for younger generations of artists-has employed photography (for which she is best known), fabric, text, audio, digital images, installation and video. Writing in the New York Times, Holland Cotter succinctly described Weems as "a superb image maker and a moral force, focused and irrepressible." This volume, spanning four decades of work, is the most thorough survey yet published. It includes Weems' earliest series, such as Family Pictures and Stories, for which she photographed her relatives and close friends; the legendary Kitchen Table Series, in which she posed in a domestic setting; and other critically acclaimed works and series such as Ain't Jokin', Colored People, From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Not Manet's Type, The Jefferson Suite, Monuments, Roaming, Museums, Constructing History (A Class Ponders the Future), Slow Fade to Black and the Obama Project, among many others. Contextualizing these pieces are essays by LaCharles Ward and Fred Moten and a chronology by Raul Munoz. The book also includes a visual essay by Weems that presents a personal selection of her own works from the artist's perspective. In publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 287 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 98 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on animator Grim Natwick, John Romita the Spider-Man artist, Garfield and Jim Davis, Alfred Andriola, c.omic strip history by Bill Blackbeard.
Softcover. Fairfield CT, Cartoonist Profiles, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 98 pages, b&w illustrations throughout. Quarterly magazine for cartoon fans, articles, interviews and biographies on cartoonists and their work. Articles on Dik Browne and Hagar the Horrible, editorial cartoonist Jim Borgman, Reminensces by Jack Markow and I. Klein, the Walt Disney archives, Q and A's by Bill Blackbeard.
New York, Scribners, 1st, 1933, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black stamping, 329 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Cover has light edgewear.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in black cloth with red heart on front cover, red lettering to spine, stated "First Published 1953" on copyright with no other printings indicated. No dust jacket. Aside from two flaws this copy is a very good-fine copy. There is a light price sticker shadow to front fly leaf. The second flaw is scraping to the bottom fore-edge of front cover., exposing the board underneath. More detailed close-ups available on request. Otherwise a bright, tight copy of the first novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series.
Hardcover. New York, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 263 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Orange covers with black stamped decorations and gilt panel on spine. Gutter cracked throughout. Rear hinge starting. Captain John Hardy, Retired, a weather-beaten, somewhat eccentric old sea dog of 59 recounts the exciting, sometimes amusing tale of his running away from home at eighteen to become a sailor/mate on a ship bound for the Arctic seas to hunt seals to harvest their valuable pelts.
Hardcover. London, The Great Western Railway, 1st, 1926, Hardcover, maroon boards with black cloth spine, 230 pages. The result of two interesting journeys, devoted to castle-seeking, one in 1924, covering Wales and the English counties along the Welsh border; and the other in 1925 devoted to Somerset, Devon and Cornwall ".The text is accompanied by 105 illustrations, 77 drawings, 1 Plate, 2 colored Plates, and 2 Maps, a color map folded into rear pocket inside cover. Previous owner's inscription on half-title page. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. New York , Random House, Early edition, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Illustrated in red, blue & black by Seuss. Beginner Book. No price on front flap, unclipped. Rear flap with reviews of Cat in the Hat. Back panel lists other Beginner Books, ending with: Are You My Mother? Clean, beautiful copy.
Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white illustrations throughout. At the age of 21, Gene Deitch discovered The Record Changer, a jazz fan magazine. Every jazz swinger in the '40s was called a "cat," so Gene Deitch created a cartoon feature titled "The Cat," which quickly became a fixture of the magazine. He also started drawing the covers, which graced almost every issue from 1945 to 1951. Deitch's stylistically virtuoso images exquisitely embodied the essence of the 1950s hipster, and was a visual paean to the joy of collecting records and appreciating jazz. The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove collects all of Deitch's Record Changer work in one gorgeous, coffee-table art book, with commentary and reminiscences by Deitch himself.
Softcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white illustrations throughout. At the age of 21, Gene Deitch discovered The Record Changer, a jazz fan magazine. Every jazz swinger in the '40s was called a "cat," so Gene Deitch created a cartoon feature titled "The Cat," which quickly became a fixture of the magazine. He also started drawing the covers, which graced almost every issue from 1945 to 1951. Deitch's stylistically virtuoso images exquisitely embodied the essence of the 1950s hipster, and was a visual paean to the joy of collecting records and appreciating jazz. The Cat on a Hot Thin Groove collects all of Deitch's Record Changer work in one gorgeous, coffee-table art book, with commentary and reminiscences by Deitch himself.
Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 3rd Printing, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 57 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ELIZABETH COATSWORTH AT BOTTOM OF FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white illustrations by Lynd Ward. Winner of the Caldecott Medal in 1931. Front cover with areas of foxing to cover hinge and along right edge - approximately 3/4" from top to bottom. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth stamped with orange lettering. 64 pages of b&w photos of kittens at play by Spillman, words by Paul Dehn. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Printed by Order of the Trustees, 1st, 1892, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Orange cloth covers with black lettering and rules on spine and both covers, 443 pages with hundreds of pictures. Front and rear hinges partially cracked, previous owner's initials on front fly leaf, otherwise the book is very good, clean throughout.
Hardcover. Chicago / New York, Eugene Dietzgen Co., 11th pr., 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in black, 404 pages. Dietzgen was a manufacturer of drawing materials, surveying instruments, & measuring tapes. Profusely illustrated with b&w illustrations of tools offered. Pocket on back cover does not have a price list. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.