Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1951, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unclipped with $3.00 on flap. The history of the Mississippi River Valley is told through the adventures of Minn, a snapping turtle, as she travels hundreds of miles downstream. As with all Holling books, it is lushly illustrated, containing many full-page color paintings, text pages that are also illustrated with black-and-white pen-and-ink drawings, and with explanatory captions in the margins. First published in Date: 1951, it received the Newbery Honor award the following year. Small ownership sticker to front fly leaf, otherwise clean and bright.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 143 pages. Beautiful black & white photos by Minor White (1908-1976) who is an icon in the world of photography. and was also the editor of "Aperture" for many years. There is a biographical essay by James Baker Hall and a chronology and title list of photographs in the rear. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers stamped in orange, yellow and white, 474 pages. The memoirs of a major American playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner for Street Scene. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hearst International Library, 1st, 1914, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 256 pages. Pseudonym of Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer. 21 captioned illustrations by E.W. Kimble. Brown cloth boards, stamped black image of Mirandy on front board, with pale yellow stamped text on front and spine. Tales told in black dialect.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages with photographic images throughout. Text by Francoise Sagan and Federico Fellini. Illustrated in black & white, some color. 12" high X 9" wide. More than seventy-five images from Paine?s first solo exhibition, and they look charmingly innocent by today?s standards. Working with a trio of regular models, the photographer was able to achieve a sense of sweet, playful intimacy and suggest moments of sexual abandon. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Essex, Pequot Press, First Edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 69 pages. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Frontis illustration, The Harpist, A Portrait of Miss Florence by Alphonse Jonghers, tipped-in & in full color. Dust jacket with same full color image on bright blue background. Dj has age related wear to edges. Clean, unmarked. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardbound, 230 pages. Black & white illustrations by Manning Lee. Rough edge. Red top edge. Chipping to dust jacket. Brodart cover.

hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 321 pages. A Swallows and Amazons adventure. Illustrated with black & white drawings by the author. 321 pages.. Map illustrated endpapers. Spine faded. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page, otherwise clean. A wonderful adventure story for young readers, on a voyage around the world in the Wild Cat, where the Swallows and Amazons and Captain Flint put out from their hundredth port into the China seas.

hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1942, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 321 pages. A Swallows and Amazons adventure. Black & white illustrations. Previous owner's inscription on prelim page. Spine faded. Light soil to front cover.

Softcover. Tucson, AZ, Arizona University Press , 1st paperback, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Black & white photos by George Alexander Grant. Some color fade to edges of cover. The Spanish missions founded by Padre Eusebio Kino in Sonora, Mexico, during the 1690s and early 1700s are historical as well as architectural marvels. Once self-supporting villages with central churches, the missions stand today as monuments to perseverance in the face of a hostile New World. These "Kino Missions" were surveyed in 1935 by the National Park Service to prepare for the restoration of the mission at Tumacacori, Arizona, then a National Historic Monument. That report, which was never published, provided insights into the missions' history and architecture that remain of lasting relevance. Perhaps more important, it documented these structures in photographs and drawings--the latter including floor plans and sketches of architectural detail--that today are of historic as well as aesthetic interest. This volume reproduces that 1935 report in its entirety, focusing on sixteen missions and including two maps, 52 drawings, and 76 photographs. With a new introduction and appendixes that place the original study in context,

Hardcover. New York, Century Co., 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated green cloth covers, 370 pages. Front and rear hinges cracked. Black & white illustrations. Text clean and unmarked. Cover shows light wear.

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Story, black & white photos by Hess. Because of its strong odor, the skunk has often been disliked and even feared. Lilo Hess shows how appealing this animal can be --and how helpful, too. A photography story book about a family of skunks. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth, black lettering on spine. 147 pages, tables, maps, charts, photographs: author spent most of his life in Portuguese East Africa and this is both a history and an authoritative study of the economic and political situation circa early 1960s. Clean copy.

Softcover. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2nd Ed., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages. Softcover. Tight copy. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs & architectural illustrations. One interior section includes full page, full color photographs. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Black Dog Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 192 pages. Hardcover no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards.

Hardcover. NY, Jonathan Cape /Harrison Smith, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 295 pages. Decorated cloth with black cloth spine, bright gilt lettering on spine. A French doctor's account of Chinese life & civilization, based on his twenty years of life, work & travel there; he was Director of the Imperial School of Medicine at Chengtufu. Typically patronizing and moralistic; the author credits China with having been great in the past, but now in the grip of a profound lassitude, only to be helped by Europeans. Translated from the French by Elsie Martin Jones. Previous owner's name, date on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 188 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Darkening to spine, light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Hardcover. NY, Tudor Publishing , 1st US, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, deep green cloth with gilt lettering. 164 pages, 110 plates. Covers modern French art of the early twentieth century in text and through black and white illustrations. Discusses such topics as Fauvism, Futurism, and popular art as well as specific French painters.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, Original black lettered cloth quarter laid on pictorial boards, 184 pages. A fascinating exploration of how photography, graphic design, and popular magazines converged to transform American visual culture at mid-century. This dynamic study examines the intersection of modernist photography and American commercial graphic design between 1930 and 1960. Avant-garde strategies in photography and design reached the United States via European emigres, including Bauhaus artists forced out of Nazi Germany. The unmistakable aesthetic made popular by such magazines as Harper's Bazaar and Vogue--whose art directors, Alexey Brodovitch and Alexander Liberman, were both immigrants and accomplished photographers--emerged from a distinctly American combination of innovation, inclusiveness, and pragmatism. Beautifully illustrated with more than 150 revolutionary photographs, layouts, and cover designs, Modern Look considers the connections and mutual influences of such designers and photographers as Richard Avedon, Lillian Bassman, Herbert Bayer, Robert Frank, Lisette Model, Gordon Parks, Irving Penn, Cipe Pineles, and Paul Rand. Essays draw a lineage from European experimental design to innovative work in American magazine design at mid-century and offer insights into the role of gender in fashion photography and political activism in the mass media.

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, BC Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. In the middle of a frigid Sunday night in January 1856, a twenty-two-year-old Kentucky slave named Margaret Gamer gathered up her family and raced north, toward Cincinnati and freedom. But Margaret's master followed just hours behind and soon had the fugitives surrounded. Thinking all was lost, Margaret seized a butcher knife and nearly decapitated her two-year-old daughter, crying out that she would rather see her children dead than returned to slavery. She was turning on her other three children when slave catchers burst in and subdued her.Margaret Garner's child-murder electrified the United States, inspiring the longest, most spectacular fugitive-slave trial in history. Abolitionists and slaveholders fought over the meaning of the murder, and the case came to symbolize the ills of the Union in those last dark decades before the Civil War.

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art, 2nd Ed., 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, quarterbound in burgundy cloth and gray paper with black titles. 116 pages with b&w illustrations throughout. Revised second edition. 69 b/w illustrations + 9 text figures, bibliography, index of artists. One of the handsomest of the early MoMA catalogues This revised edition (1938) was limited to 2,000 copies. No dust jacket. Clean.

Hardcover. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 111 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Black and white photographs throughout. Light rubbing to dust jacket. Forty-six plates from photographs; bibliography. A monograph on the early twentieth century pictorial work of the photographer Ruzicky. Text in English and Czechoslovakian.

Hardcover. London & New York , The Studio Publications, 1st, 1941, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black, 127 pages + ads, illustrated throughout in b&w. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Light rubbing, fraying to edges, binding slightly shaken. Internally very good.

Hardcover. NY, Donna Karan, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. black & white portraits, fashion photos by Herb Ritts. Large,oversized, 11-1/4" x 14-1/4" coffee table book of photos of such stars as Diana Ross, Isabella Rossellini, Fred Ward, Francesco Clemente and his wife Alba, no doubt wearing Donna Karan clothing. All photograhs are black & white of selected pieces from fashion designer Donna Karan's Fall 1995 collection by fashion photographer Herb Ritts. Clean.