Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth stamped in black and orange, 160 pages. A vintage school reader with 2-color illustrations throughout by Mary Spoor Brand. Near fine condition, clean copy.

Softcover. New York, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1st Thus, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover. Full color and black & white photographs by Boris Vallejo. Moderate wear. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Penn Publishing Co., 1st , 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Six black & white plates by F.A. Carter. Some spotting to covers otherwise very good internally.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Bros., Reprint., 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 286 pages. Compiled by Louis Rhead. Illustrated with 4 color plates and black & white drawings, map by Rhead. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Foxing to front flyleaf, title-page. Black cloth binding with mounted color plate on front. Spine with gold lettering. Spine edges worn.

Hardcover. London, Frederick Muller Limited, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, shows a little age wear, but in good condition. Covers bound in black, excellent. Pages unmarked and clean. Top edge dyed. In very good condition.

Hardcover. New York, Jr. Literary Guild/Winston, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Illustrated by Marguerite Kirmse. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Blue cloth with black drawing, lettering.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 495 pages. Boogaloo--the synonym of choice among the cognoscenti for rhythm and blues--is a stylish and profound meditation on the art, influence, and commerce of black American popular music. At once deeply knowing and keenly observant, Arthur Kempton reveals the tensions between the sacred and the profane at the heart of "soul music," and the complex centrality of "Aframericans" in the evolution of our mass musical culture. What that culture is all about, who owns it, and who gets paid--these are issues of moment in his epic narrative. Kempton brilliantly traces the interconnections among a century's worth of signal personalities, events, and achievements: from Thomas A. Dorsey, the so-called Father of Gospel Music, whose career ("Got to Know How to Work Your Show") sheds light on Mahalia Jackson, Aretha Franklin, and James Brown, among others, to the rise of that "handsome Negro lad," Sam Cooke (perhaps the greatest of soul singers) and his definitive crossover dreams; from Berry Gordy Jr.'s infatuation with Doris Day and his sharp business plan to capture and exploit the sounds of young America through Motown ("It's What's in the Grooves That Counts") to the founding of Stax Records and Memphis Soul by a white farm kid who grew up dreaming of being a country fiddler; from the visionary funk of George Clinton to the ascendancy of hip hop ("Sharecropping in Wonderland"), the murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, and the story of Death Row Records. Clean copy.

Bauer and Dean, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with black cloth spine. This alluring blend of art book and autobiography will capture the imagination. At its heart are hundreds of captivating 3 x 5-inch artworks? intricate collages and drawings created on old library checkout cards, each one representing a book that left an indelible mark on artist Barbara Page. She began creating these illustrated "book marks" as a colorful way to remember titles she was currently reading. Before long, Page embarked on a decade-long art project recreating her reading history, starting with picture books from early childhood. Every artwork serves as a bookmark for a moment in time connected to a specific title, and, as a collection, they present over seventy years of literature, politics, thought, and culture-as colored by one woman's reading choices. Some images may evoke your own memories of a story. Others may feel like little puzzles that require reading or rereading a title to interpret the artistic references.

Hardcover. NY/London, Lippincott/Heineman, 1st , n.d. (1912), Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 16 tipped-in color plates with black & white drawings of dogs opposite. Minor soil to cardboard covers.

hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 105 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white photos by Klich. Review-slip laid-in. Essays by Cornell Capa and Bengt Borjeson. By combining his intimate and disturbing photographs with police and hospital records, handwritten notes left behind by Beth, and other texts, author Ken Klich searches for a rationale -what could cause this intelligent child to end up as a prostitute and drug addict?

Hardcover. Oxford, Thomas Baskett and Robert Baskett, 1st, 1743, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated in parts. Leather binding shows heavy wear to edges, especially corners. Gilt decoration on spine and stamped embellishment on front. Heavy foxing on pages. Gutter cracked in center. Black and white illustrations.

Hardcover. Brooklyn, NY, PowerHouse Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout. Explores the genre of self-portraits through nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first-century photographic techniques, including also block prints, watercolor drawings, and accompanying essays.

hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt and black decoration. 315 pages, includes index. Descriptions of more than 400 games written in language that children can understand. Black & white illustrations by Jessie Gillespie. Light edgewear to covers.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, reprint, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 192 pages. Cloth boards. Illustrated by Marguerite de Angeli in color and black & white. Dust jacket worn with small chunks missing at top and bottom of spine, and corners.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 158 pages. Illustrated with black & white drawings by T. Ritchie and N. Montgomerie. Dust jacket with spine fade. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, reprint , 1923, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 274 pages. Illustrated with full color and black & white plates by Frederic Remington. Brown paper covered boards with cover pastedown of Remington drawing. black cloth spine. Copyright page with 1923 date and Harper's G-B code indicating later printing of 1st edition. Light foxing to outer edges of some pages and plates. Fraying to cloth at top of spine. Light darkening of pages close to gutter. Still an attractive copy.

Softcover. Camarillo CA, About Comics, 1st, 2021, Softcover, 154 pages, b&w cartoons. "Negro America's Favorite Cartoonist" That's what Langston Hughes called Ollie Harrington, whose cartoons and comic strips were a staple of America's Black newspapers for decades starting in the 1930s. In his single-panel series "Dark Laughter," Harrington brought out the vibrancy of Harlem life in its day, while serving some cutting looks at the politics of the time. At the heart of "Dark Laughter" is Bootsie, a cunning, conning, girl-chasing ne'er-do-well who is nonetheless beloved in his Harlem community... if often reluctantly. Bootsie is both the victim of the world's troubles and a frequent cause of them for others.Here's a collection of prime cartoons from the mid-1950s, drawn with the detailed joy that only Ol Harrington (who also worked as Oliver W. Harrington) could bring, finally available to a larger audience.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Cudahy/Covenant, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 182 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white illust. by Bernard Krigstein. Dust jacket chipped, edgewear, price clipped

Hardcover. Sweden, Scalo Publishers, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 87 pages. Very slight dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. Foreword by Gunilla Knape. Essay by Boris Groys. Illustrated with black-and-white and color photographs by Boris Mikhailov.

Hardcover. New York, Umbrage Editions, 2nd pr., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Full color and black & white photographs. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Amistad/HarperCollins, 3rd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 540 pages, b&w illustrations, index. An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously-inspired political movement for change-The Underground Railroad, a movement peopled by daring heroes and heroines, and everyday folk For most, the mention of the Underground Railroad evokes images of hidden tunnels, midnight rides, and hairsbreadth escapes. Yet the Underground Railroad's epic story is much more morally complex and politically divisive than even the myths suggest. Against a backdrop of the country's westward expansion,which brought together Easterners who had engaged in slavery primarily in the abstract alongside slaveholding Southerners and their slaves, arose a clash of values that evolved into a fierce fight for nothing less than the country's soul. Beginning six decades before the Civil War, freedom-seeking blacks and pious whites worked together to save tens of thousands of lives, often at the risk of great physical danger to themselves. Not since the American Revolution had the country engaged in an act of such vast and profound civil disobedience that not only subverted federal law but also went against prevailing mores.

Hardcover. NY, Artisan/Workman, 1st, 2024, Hardcover decorated gray boards with embossed gilt lettering. Knowledgeable, entertaining, and more than a little infatuated with his subject, award-winning food writer and chef Edward Lee gives us his insight into bourbon, telling us everything we should know about the mellow honey-brown treasure that's put Kentucky on the global map: How bourbon is made. Its history. How to read a label. A look inside the famous distilleries. The influence of oak. Tours of Kentucky's bourbon regions. How to taste bourbon like a professional. And, in the most delicious surprise, how to cook with bourbon, with 50 recipes from Bourbon-Glazed Chicken Wings and Blackened Salmon with Bourbon-Soy Marinade to a Bourbon and Butterscotch Pudding. Plus the best Old-Fashioned you'll ever mix. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. NY, United Technologies Corp., 1st , 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 120 pages. A catalogue for the exhibition Bourke-White: A Retrospective, organized and circulated by the International Center of Photography, New York, which toured various US museums in 1988-90. Black cloth with photo portrait of the legendary photojournalist with large-format camera perched on side of skyscraper affixed to front cover. Titles stamped in white on front boards and spine. Beautiful reproductions.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf/Jr. Literary Guild, 1st Jr. Literary Guild, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 179 pages. Black & white drawings and color frontispiece by Erick Berry. Light spine fade, wear to edges.