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The Seashells of Sanibel and Captiva Islandsby: Ross W. Gundersen

The Seashells of Sanibel and Captiva Islands
by: Ross W. Gundersen

Softcover. Kenosha WI, privately printed, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 30 pages, almost 300 color photos of shells with a description underneath. Clean copy.

Record # 396393

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The Several Lives of Joseph Conradby: John Stape

The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad
by: John Stape

Hardcover. Canada, Bond Street Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 378 pages. Published to mark the 150th anniversary of his birth, The Several Lives of Joseph Conrad is a brilliant and highly readable biography of a literary figure of world-wide reputation. Conrad's impact has been so profound and far-reaching that, eighty years after his death, he remains an essential cultural reference point. Such phrases as "heart of darkness" and "The horror! The horror!" have entered the language, often cited without an awareness of their original contexts. His popular legacy extends to Latin American fiction, to the spy novel, to the terrorist and anarchist character, and to film. The writers he has influenced range from T. S. Eliot to William Faulkner to V. S. Naipaul and John Le Carre. For a writer of "difficult" fiction he has enjoyed a remarkably wide impact, yet as Marlow proclaims in Lord Jim of the figure whose story he tells,"he was one of us," and so Conrad remains in fascinating ways.

Record # 378958

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The Shenandoah Pottery by: Rice, A. H./John Baer Stoudt

The Shenandoah Pottery
by: Rice, A. H./John Baer Stoudt

Hardcover. Strasburg PA, Shenandoah Publishing House, 1st, 1929, Hardcover, purplish textured cloth with gilt letters on spine and gilt decoration on front cover. 277 pages. 7 color plates, 38 halftone illustrations and 100s of smaller bw depictions of stoneware. A wonderful solid copy of the original edition of this classic. Spine cloth faded. Otherwise clean.

Record # 383002

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The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biographyby: Lane, Margaret

The Tale of Beatrix Potter: A Biography
by: Lane, Margaret

Hardcover. London, Frederick Warne, Revised Ed., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 173 pages. Illustrated with 8 color and 30 b&w plates. Although Beatrix Potter is known and loved by generations of children brought up on "Peter Rabbit" and others, her life began in great joylessness and solitude. Drawing was her once fascination and her creative genius was able to flourish in the loneliness and isolation of her early years. Despite the fame that her skill was later to bring, she nevertheless preferred to maintain her privacy and hide behind the persona of a Lakeland farmer. Margaret's Lane biography recounts, with reference to letters and photographs, Beatrix Potter's sad childhood, her struggle for independence, her ill-fated love affair and happy marriage. Clean copy.

Record # 396584

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The Work of Atget, Vol. 2: The Art of Old Parisby: [Eugene Atget] Szarkowski, John and Hambourg, Maria

The Work of Atget, Vol. 2: The Art of Old Paris
by: [Eugene Atget] Szarkowski, John and Hambourg, Maria

Hardcover. NY, Museum of Modern Art , 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Volume Two Only. First Edition. Photographs by Eugene Atget. Essay and notes to the plates by Maria Morris Hambourg. Appendixes include Berenice Abbott's typewritten copy of Andre Calmette's handwritten letter to her (late 1928). Maroon cloth with debossed title blind-stamped on cover and in gilt on spine, with dust jacket. 192 pp. with 116 plates and 84 black and white reference illustrations. Printed by The Meriden Gravure Company from halftone negatives made by Richard Benson. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 398320

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The World's Major Languages by: Comrie, Bernard (Ed.)

The World's Major Languages
by: Comrie, Bernard (Ed.)

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1,025 pages. From English, French, Spanish and Russian to Pashto, Tagalog, and Swahili, this is the first comprehensive reference work to provide detailed information about the world's forty major languages. Written by acknowledged specialists in the field, the volume begins with a general introduction to language and language families, followed by language-family sections that provide an informative essay about that language, and individual chapters that discuss the history, distribution, syntax, grammar and punctuation, writing and spelling systems, standards of usage, and other important aspects of each language. Clean copy.

Record # 382092

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Theater Posters of James McMullan, Theby: McMullan, James

Theater Posters of James McMullan, The
by: McMullan, James

NY, Penguin Studio, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 129 pages, 13.5 X 10". Foreword by Bernard Gersten. Introduction by John Guare. Well-illustrated throughout in color. On buses, billboards, and train platforms, in newspapers and magazines, a poster's swift promise in glorious color or powerful dark tones offers a vivid impression of what awaits a theatergoer, and provides the lasting mental image of a play long after its closing night. No one creates such images with more invention, honesty, and beauty--sometimes disturbingly, but always memorably--than James McMullan. The Theater Posters of James McMullan is an illuminating collection of thirty-six posters from 1976 to the present (from Arcadia and Carousel to Six Degrees of Separation), almost all of them for New York's Lincoln Center Theater, by this artist for whom "the body itself becomes a quickly understood gesture like the movement of a mime or a dance." The ragman hanging off the lamppost with his flaming match in Road, the French-postcard wink of the Anything Goes woman, Eros aiming his arrow in Four Baboons Admiring the Sun . . . full-page reproductions of McMullan's posters accompany his stories of their geneses. Reference photographs, sketches, and alternate versions illustrate his search for the perfect visual metaphor. Most of all, the personalities and dramas of the theater people who surrounded each poster's birth--from Wole Soyinka and John Guare to Liv Ullmann, Patti LuPone, and Mike Nichols--fill this gift book of choice for all theater and art lovers.Newspaper review laid in. Clean, very goog in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Record # 358233

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Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Baconby: Steven Matthews

Theology and Science in the Thought of Francis Bacon
by: Steven Matthews

Hardcover. UK, Ashgate Publishing, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 150 pages. This study re-evaluates the religious beliefs of Francis Bacon and the role which his theology played in the development of his program for the reform of learning and the natural sciences, the Great Instauration. Bacon's Instauration writings are saturated with theological statements and Biblical references which inform and explain his program, yet this aspect of his writings has received little attention. Previous considerations of Bacon's religion have been drawn from a fairly short list of his published writings. Consequently, Bacon has been portrayed as everything from an atheist to a Puritan; scholarly consensus is lacking. This book argues that by considering the historical context of Bacon's society, and his conversion from Puritanism to anti-Calvinism as a young man, his own theology can be brought into clearer focus, and his philosophy more properly understood. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386502

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Theorie des Fonctions Algebriques et de Leurs Integralesby: Appell, Paul and Edouard Goursat

Theorie des Fonctions Algebriques et de Leurs Integrales
by: Appell, Paul and Edouard Goursat

Hardcover. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 530 pages, ex-library bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt titles. The usual stamping, end paper residue, sticker shadow and reference number at bottom of spine. Internally very good, clean. FRENCH TEXT.

Record # 405413

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Thomas Waterman Wood PNA:1823-1903 by: Lipke, William

Thomas Waterman Wood PNA:1823-1903
by: Lipke, William

Softcover. Montpelier VT, Wood Art Gallery, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, Color illustrated wraps, 63 pages. 36 bw repros. Lists 79 works exhibited. Essay by William Lipke. Exhibition held at Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vt., Sept. 11-Oct. 5. Includes bibliographical references. Clean copy.

Record # 371716

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Thornton W. Burgess - A Descriptive Book Bibliographyby: Wright, Wayne W.

Thornton W. Burgess - A Descriptive Book Bibliography
by: Wright, Wayne W.

Hardcover. Sandwich, MA, Thornton W. Burgess Society, 1st , 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 151 pages & index, B&W illustrations. Hardcover with dust jacket. Gutter cracked page 30, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 304406

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Three Physico-Theological Discourses (HIstory of Geology)by: Ray, John

Three Physico-Theological Discourses (HIstory of Geology)
by: Ray, John

Hardcover. New York, Arno Press, Reprint of 1713 edition, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 456 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on flyleaf. B/w illustated frontispiece (painting of author). Tan cover boards, black title on spine and front cover board. Some slight foxing to top edge. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. "Wherein are largely discussed, the production and use of mountains; the original of fountains, of formed stones, and sea-fishes bones and shells found in the earth; the effects of particular floods, and inundations of the sea; the eruptions of volcano's; the nature and causes of earthquakes."

Record # 99058

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Three Secret Poemsby: Seferis, George

Three Secret Poems
by: Seferis, George

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press,, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 69 pages. Greek and English texts. Translated, with a foreword and notes by Walter Kaiser. Bibliographical references. Dust jacket with upper cover illustration by Maud Morgan. Clean copy.

Record # 374460

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Throne of Wisdom - Wood Sculptures of the Madonna in Romanesque France, Theby: Forsyth, Ilene H.

Throne of Wisdom - Wood Sculptures of the Madonna in Romanesque France, The
by: Forsyth, Ilene H.

Hardcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 226 pages of text followed by section of corresponding black & white photographic illustrations. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy. No dust jacket.

Record # 611842

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Through Nineteenth-Century Eyes: The Lives of Sarah Etta King Ames and Mary Catherine Ames Coates of New York State.by: Coates, Charlotte C.

Through Nineteenth-Century Eyes: The Lives of Sarah Etta King Ames and Mary Catherine Ames Coates of New York State.
by: Coates, Charlotte C.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Mass., Charlotte C. Coates, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 250 pages. Ex-library stamp on title page. Ex-library residue and envelope on back endpaper. Otherwise, a very clean and tight copy.

Record # 852246

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Tintin and Co.by: (Herge), Farr, Michael

Tintin and Co.
by: (Herge), Farr, Michael

San Francisco, Last Gasp, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, a guide to the characters of the comic series presents information on the role in the strip of and real life models for Tintin, Snowy, Captain Haddock, General Alcazar, Professor Calculus and others. Each is shown in early and late incarnations, b&w and color, with fascinating historical facts and tidbits. 131 pages include index and color throughout.

Record # 360904

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Today's Country Housesby: Krauel, Jacobo

Today's Country Houses
by: Krauel, Jacobo

Hardcover. Structure/Links International, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color plates throughout. The best projects in the design of country houses around the world are profiled in this architectural and design book. Each project has been selected on the basis of its innovation in the field, making this a highly useful sourcebook for architects, designers, and students of architecture who are looking for creative directions in the design of contemporary country homes. All steps of the design process, from conception to construction, are exhaustively documented and include technical information and commentary contributed by the architects themselves.

Record # 351350

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Tom Swift and His Friends: Or The Men Who Wrote for the Boysby: Dizer Jr., John T.

Tom Swift and His Friends: Or The Men Who Wrote for the Boys
by: Dizer Jr., John T.

self published, circa 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, A typed/xeroxed manuscript in a 3-ring orange binder with metal clasps. A scholarly history of boys series books complete with an introduction, biographies, criticism, and lists of titles/authors. A valuable research tool by someone with a passionate interest in the field of children's writing. No date anywhere but around mid 1970s. About 250 one-sided pages, with some hand-written notations. Probably an early version of a manuscript later published in 1982 by McFarland in North Carolina. "Tom Swift & Company: Boys Books by Stratemeyer and Others".

Record # 373740

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Traditional Ballads of Virginia - Collected under the Auspices of The Virginia Folk-Lore Societyby: Davis, Jr. (Editor), Arthur Kyle

Traditional Ballads of Virginia - Collected under the Auspices of The Virginia Folk-Lore Society
by: Davis, Jr. (Editor), Arthur Kyle

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 634 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with a few black & white photographs. Bookplate on inside front cover. Features music and lyrics. 1 Fold-out map of Virginia. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610968

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Troy's One Hundred Years - 1789-1889by: Weise, Arthur James

Troy's One Hundred Years - 1789-1889
by: Weise, Arthur James

Hardcover. Troy NY, William H. Young, 1st, 1891, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 453 pages. Hardcover, dark green covers stamped in black. Previous owners name on preliminary page. Black & white illustrations. One fold-out city view. Title in gilt on spine. Cloth covers with areas of light surface rubbing. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 612894

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Twentieth Century Type Designers: New Edition by: Carter, Sebastian

Twentieth Century Type Designers: New Edition
by: Carter, Sebastian

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton, 2nd Ed., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 192 pages. Since its first publication in 1987, this book has become a standard reference work for typographers, designers and students alike. This new edition includes an examination of the latest technological developments in design and composition of type, and introduces the work of some of the more recent designers to have made their mark in the 20th century. Profiles of a new generation of typographers working in the latter half of the 20th century, such as Matthew Carter, Sumner Stone and others, bring the book up to date. Working with entirely different tools than their predecessors, they reflect the new typography in varying degrees. Filmsetting and digital typesetting have brought new opportunities - as well as new disciplines. Clean copy.

Record # 397974

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U. S. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Animal Industry. Special Report on the History and Present Condition of the Sheep Industry of the United States.by: Carman,

U. S. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Animal Industry. Special Report on the History and Present Condition of the Sheep Industry of the United States.
by: Carman,

Hardcover. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1000 pages. Black cloth cover, worn and soiled. Corners and edges of spine are bumped. Minor foxing on front endpaper. Front flyleaf has small tear, but no part of the page is missing. Pages untrimmed. Diverse topics include the history of sheep husbandry in the U. S. and a record of the sheep industry in Eastern and Western states. Inside is bright and clean, with 96 b&w plates depicting various sheep breeds and farms, also b&w statistic charts throughout. A nice copy.

Record # 852700

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Unforgettable Season: 1908 The Most Exciting And Calamitous Pennant Race Of All Time by: G. H. Fleming

Unforgettable Season: 1908 The Most Exciting And Calamitous Pennant Race Of All Time
by: G. H. Fleming

Softcover. NY, Penguin Books, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages. A fascinating collection of news clippings from various papers (mostly from New York) detailing the 1908 National League pennant race. the author adds clarifications of references made by the scribes that may be unknown to today's reader and occasional footnotes but otherwise lets the articles speak for themselves. The 1908 baseball season culminated in a virtual three team tie until a tie breaker was played on October 8th. if you're a nostaglia buff, avid baseball fan or interested in popular styles of writing from long ago you will enjoy this book. Clean copy.

Record # 382559

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Value and Distributionby: Davenport, Herbert Joseph

Value and Distribution
by: Davenport, Herbert Joseph

Hardcover. Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1908, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 582 pages. Dark blue cloth covers, gilt titles. Very slight edgewear, previous owner's short ink inscription to front endpaper, pencil notations to rear endpaper, light pencil underlining to a handful of pages; overall, a very neat, tight copy.

Record # 807271

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Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruschaby: Ruscha, Ed /Editors: Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton ,Hermann Zschiegner

Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha
by: Ruscha, Ed /Editors: Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton ,Hermann Zschiegner

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in white. 288 pages in b&w and color. In the 1960s and 1970s, the artist Ed Ruscha created a series of small photo-conceptual artist's books, among them Twentysix Gas Stations, Various Small Fires, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Real Estate Opportunities, and A Few Palm Trees. Featuring mundane subjects photographed prosaically, with idiosyncratically deadpan titles, these "small books" were sought after, collected, and loved by Ruscha's fans and fellow artists. Over the past thirty years, close to 100 other small books that appropriated or paid homage to Ruscha's have appeared throughout the world. This book collects ninety-one of these projects, showcasing the cover and sample layouts from each along with a description of the work. It also includes selections from Ruscha's books and an appendix listing all known Ruscha book tributes. These small books revisit, imitate, honor, and parody Ruscha in form, content, and title. Some rephotograph his subjects: Thirtyfour Parking Lots, Forty Years Later. Some offer a humorous variation: Various Unbaked Cookies (which concludes, as did Ruscha's Various Small Fires, with a glass of milk), Twentynine Palms (twenty-nine photographs of palm-readers' signs). Some say something different: None of the Buildings on Sunset Strip. Some reach for a connection with Ruscha himself: 17 Parked Cars in Various Parking Lots Along Pacific Coast Highway Between My House and Ed Ruscha's.

Record # 385663

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Vedantasara of Bhagavad Ramanujaby: Krishnamacharya (Editor), Pandit V./M. B. Narasimha Ayyangar

Vedantasara of Bhagavad Ramanuja
by: Krishnamacharya (Editor), Pandit V./M. B. Narasimha Ayyangar

Hardcover. Madras, The Adyar Library, Reprint, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Text in Sanskrit and English. Previous owners name on front endpaper with brief note opposite. Light, neat notes in pen and pencil on some pages in first section of text. Overall, very good.

Record # 611498

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Vermont in the Great Rebellion - Containing Historical and Biographical Sketches, Etc.by: Waite, Major Otis F. R.

Vermont in the Great Rebellion - Containing Historical and Biographical Sketches, Etc.
by: Waite, Major Otis F. R.

Hardcover. Claremont, Tracy, Chase and Company, 1st, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth with titles in gilt on cover and spine. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612495

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Vermont in the Spanish-American Warby: Johnson, Herbert T./The General Assembly, 1929/State of Vermont

Vermont in the Spanish-American War
by: Johnson, Herbert T./The General Assembly, 1929/State of Vermont

Hardcover. Montpelier, State of Vermont, 1st, 1929, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 163 pages. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with stamping and marking on endpapers. Illustrated with two black & white photographs. Features historical data, Vermont Roster 1898, etc. Green cloth covers with rubbing along edges. Clean, tight.

Record # 612765

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Vermont Justice and Public Officer: A Manual of Vermont Lawby: Harman, Henry A.

Vermont Justice and Public Officer: A Manual of Vermont Law
by: Harman, Henry A.

Hardcover. Rutland, VT, Tuttle Co, 1st, 1905, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 736 pages, leather-bound cover, gilt lettered spine. Definite wear to cover with leather rot clearly evident, chipping on edges and corners, discoloration of page edges, especially on endpages, previous owner's signature and inscription to front endpaper that has a tear at the gutter.

Record # 603999

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Vermont State Directory and Gazetteer for 1887-88by: Briggs and Co.

Vermont State Directory and Gazetteer for 1887-88
by: Briggs and Co.

Hardcover. Boston, Briggs and Co., 1887, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 352 pages, includes many ads with line illustrations. Black cloth spine with ad-illustrated cardboard covers, chipping to the paper covering the boards at edges. Otherwise clean, solid.

Record # 406880

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Vermont State Directory and Gazetteer for 1897-98by: N/A

Vermont State Directory and Gazetteer for 1897-98
by: N/A

Hardcover. Boston, Union Publishing Co., 1897, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 366 pages, includes many ads with line illustrations. Black cloth spine with ad-illustrated cardboard covers, chipping to the paper covering the boards at edges. Hinges cracked otherwise clean, solid.

Record # 383925

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Vermont Summer Resortsby: Vermont Bureau of Publicity

Vermont Summer Resorts
by: Vermont Bureau of Publicity

Softcover. Montpelier VT, State of Vermont, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original color illustrated wrappers. 89 pages of text interspersed with dozens of b&w photos of Vermont landscapes. The copy details all the hotels, resorts and bed and breakfast accomodations, town by town. Information on rates and proprietors. Great reference, Previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 374943

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Vermont's Stone Chambers: An Inquiry into Their Pastby: Neudorfer, Giovanna

Vermont's Stone Chambers: An Inquiry into Their Past
by: Neudorfer, Giovanna

Softcover. Montpelier, Vermont Historical Society, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 102 pages. Softcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Foxing and stains on covers. Clean, unmarked pages.

Record # 613325

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Victorian and Edwardian London from Old Photographsby: Betjeman, John

Victorian and Edwardian London from Old Photographs
by: Betjeman, John

Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated with 208 b&w photographs. Dust jacket has some wear and rubbing, unclipped. Great pictorial reference. Introduction and commentaries on the pictures by Betjeman.

Record # 357612

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View of the Principal Deistical Writers, 1755-1757, A - 3 volume setby: Leland, John

View of the Principal Deistical Writers, 1755-1757, A - 3 volume set
by: Leland, John

Hardcover. New York, Facsimiles-Garland Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 volume hardcover set. 428+433+368 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper of all volumes. Faint pencil markings to a handful pages of each volume. Overall, a tight clean set.

Record # 458638

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Vital Records of Bellingham, Massachusetts, To The Year 1850by: Woods (Editor), Henry Ernest

Vital Records of Bellingham, Massachusetts, To The Year 1850
by: Woods (Editor), Henry Ernest

Hardcover. Boston, NEHGS, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 222 pages. Genealogical reference. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Spine age darkened with foxing to cloth covers. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609487

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Vogue on Yves Saint Laurentby: Fraser-Cavassoni, Natasha

Vogue on Yves Saint Laurent
by: Fraser-Cavassoni, Natasha

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to boards. Color and black and white pictures throughout. Originally born in Algeria, Yves Saint Laurent moved to Paris when he was 18, and only three years later he was handpicked by Christian Dior to take the reins as designer of his fashion house. Over time, Saint Laurent resurrected haute couture from the casual mores that predominated in the 1960s, but also offered chic cachet to ready-to-wear clothing. He was among the earliest of designers to incorporate non- European references into his work, and in 1983 he became the first living designer to be feted with a solo exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Vogue on Yves Saint Laurent is a stellar volume in the series from the editors of British Vogue, featuring 20,000 words of original biography and history and studded with more than 80 images from their unique archive of images taken by leading photographers.

Record # 352774

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Voiture Minimum. Le Corbusier and the Automobile by: Amado, Antonio

Voiture Minimum. Le Corbusier and the Automobile
by: Amado, Antonio

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. A colorful account of Le Corbusier's love affair with the automobile, his vision of the ideal vehicle, and his tireless promotion of a design that industry never embraced. Le Corbusier, who famously called a house "a machine for living," was fascinated-even obsessed-by another kind of machine, the automobile. His writings were strewn with references to autos: "If houses were built industrially, mass-produced like chassis, an aesthetic would be formed with surprising precision," he wrote in Toward an Architecture (1923). In his "white phase" of the twenties and thirties, he insisted that his buildings photographed with a modern automobile in the foreground. Le Corbusier moved beyond the theoretical in 1936, entering (with his cousin Pierre Jeanneret) an automobile design competition, submitting plans for "a minimalist vehicle for maximum functionality," the Voiture Minimum. Despite Le Corbusier's energetic promotion of his design to several important automakers, the Voiture Minimum was never mass-produced. This book is the first to tell the full and true story of Le Corbusier's adventure in automobile design. Architect Antonio Amado describes the project in detail, linking it to Le Corbusier's architectural work, to Modernist utopian urban visions, and to the automobile design projects of other architects including Walter Gropius and Frank Lloyd Wright. He provides abundant images, including many pages of Le Corbusier's sketches and plans for the Voiture Minimum, and reprints Le Corbusier's letters seeking a manufacturer. Le Corbusier's design is often said to have been the inspiration for Volkswagen's enduringly popular Beetle; the architect himself implied as much, claiming that his design for the 1936 competition originated in 1928, before the Beetle. Amado Lorenzo, after extensive examination of archival and source materials, disproves this; the influence may have gone the other way. Although many critics considered the Voiture Minimum a footnote in Le Corbusier's career, Le Corbusier did not. This book, lavishly illustrated and exhaustively documented, restores Le Corbusier's automobile to the main text.

Record # 369415

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Warhol: Headlinesby: Molly Donovan , John J. Curley , et al.

Warhol: Headlines
by: Molly Donovan , John J. Curley , et al.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. Headline-making in every sense, the myriad works of art in which Andy Warhol used or referenced tabloids throughout his career are explored in this book as a coherent body for the first time. Obsessed with contemporary culture, Warhol celebrated the sensational as well as the mundane in every facet of society. His headline works, which were realized in a range of formats--from two-dimensional to time-based media such as film, video, and television--chart in real time the great shift in the technological means employed to deliver the news from the 1950s until the artist's death in 1987. This companion volume to a riveting exhibition brings together more than 80 works, from Warhol's earliest drawings and paintings of newspaper headlines, to his screen-printed canvases, photographs, and electronic media, and concluding with collaborative works he produced with Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Featuring illuminating essays and abundant reproductions of the headline works, as well as source materials and examples of Warhol's private scrapbooks of clippings, this unique and powerful volume demonstrates the rich intersection of mainstream media and fine art.

Record # 361813

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Wellsprings of a Nation: America before 1801. A Bicentennial Exhibition from the Collections of the American Antiquarian Society at the Worcester Art Museum April 19 June 5 1977. by:

Wellsprings of a Nation: America before 1801. A Bicentennial Exhibition from the Collections of the American Antiquarian Society at the Worcester Art Museum April 19 June 5 1977.
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Softcover. Worcester MA, American Antiquarian Society, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog. 141 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Tan stiff wrappers. Covers and spine slightly sunned, small stain to for-edge, dog-ears to upper page-corners. A nice, tight copy.

Record # 396797

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Western Masters: A Comprehensive Exhibition October 30 through November 28 1981 by: Stearn, Jean

Western Masters: A Comprehensive Exhibition October 30 through November 28 1981
by: Stearn, Jean

Hardcover. Beverly Hills CA, Petersen Galleries, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, the original softcover catalog, bound in faux-leather boards with gilt lettering. 124 pages. 40 color plates, plus numerous black and white photographs. Published in conjunction with the exhibition, October 30 through November 28, 1981. Great reference on the topic and much information on some lesser-known artists. Small ink price on front fly leaf, otherwise clean and bright.

Record # 382110

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Whitman Juvenile Books: Reference and Value Guideby: Brown, David

Whitman Juvenile Books: Reference and Value Guide
by: Brown, David

Softcover. Paducah, Ky., Collector Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 460491

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Who's Who and What's What in the Books of Dr. Seussby: Lathem, Edward Connery

Who's Who and What's What in the Books of Dr. Seuss
by: Lathem, Edward Connery

Softcover. Hanover NH, Dartmouth College, First Thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 149 pages. Softcover published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the graduation from Dartmouth College of Theodor Seuss Geisel. Grey cloth covers with silver titles to cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750524

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Whodunit? : A Guide to Crime, Suspense, and Spy Fictionby: Keating, H. R. F. (Editor)

Whodunit? : A Guide to Crime, Suspense, and Spy Fiction
by: Keating, H. R. F. (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Van Nostrand, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages, illustrated throughout with numerous charts, illustrations and photos in b&w. Cream cloth, pictorial dust jacket. A very nice, tight copy.

Record # 450477

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Wild Geeseby: Ogilvie, M. A.

Wild Geese
by: Ogilvie, M. A.

Hardcover. Vermillion SD, Buteo Books, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear. Book is clean, unmarked. A comprehensive record detailing the classification, migration, distribution, ecology, breeding, ecology and conservation of wild geese. The 16 full color identification plates help support the excellent chapter concerned with adult and first winter birds as well the plumage of all ages and species of birds and their variants. Good reference copy.

Record # 386420

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Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation by: Reid Mitenbuler

Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation
by: Reid Mitenbuler

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press , 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1911, famed cartoonist Winsor McCay debuted one of the first animated cartoons, based on his sophisticated newspaper strip "Little Nemo in Slumberland," itself inspired by Freud's recent research on dreams. McCay is largely forgotten today, but he unleashed an art form, and the creative energy of artists from Otto Messmer and Max Fleischer to Walt Disney and Warner Bros.' Chuck Jones. Their origin stories, rivalries, and sheer genius, as Reid Mitenbuler skillfully relates, were as colorful and subversive as their creations-from Felix the Cat to Bugs Bunny to feature films such as Fantasia-which became an integral part and reflection of American culture over the next five decades. Pre-television, animated cartoons were aimed squarely at adults; comic preludes to movies, they were often "little hand grenades of social and political satire." Early Betty Boop cartoons included nudity; Popeye stories contained sly references to the injustices of unchecked capitalism. "During its first half-century," Mitenbuler writes, "animation was an important part of the culture wars about free speech, censorship, the appropriate boundaries of humor, and the influence of art and media on society." During WWII it also played a significant role in propaganda. The Golden Age of animation ended with the advent of television, when cartoons were sanitized to appeal to children and help advertisers sell sugary breakfast cereals.

Record # 380192

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Wild Tracks!: A Guide to Nature's Footprintsby: Arnosky, Jim

Wild Tracks!: A Guide to Nature's Footprints
by: Arnosky, Jim

NY, Sterling, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Acclaimed artist and naturalist Jim Arnosky has created a breathtaking and informative reference on the subject, filled with intricately drawn prints from creatures both wild and domestic, as well as large-scale paintings of the animals in their environment. Best of all, many of the tracks are true to size, so children can compare the trace left by a big-footed polar bear (whose paws act as snowshoes in its icy environment) with that of a small bird. Adding to the eye-catching illustrations are four awesome gatefolds that display paintings of a bobcat, wolf, deer and a variety of hoofed animals right next to their prints. And the featured menagerie includes bighorn sheep and goats, chipmunks and rabbits, grizzlies and brown bears, horses and burros, domestic cats and dogs and even slithering reptiles!

Record # 380835

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Will Barnet: A Sketchbook, 1932-1934by: Barnet/ Robert C. Morgan (Intro.), Will

Will Barnet: A Sketchbook, 1932-1934
by: Barnet/ Robert C. Morgan (Intro.), Will

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 90 pages, 37 plates. Internationally acclaimed artist Will Barnet reveals never-before-seen early drawings that profoundly influenced the direction of his career. These intimate drawings portraying Central Park during the Great Depression have never been exhibited or published-until now. The drawings have been stored in Will Barnet's studio for decades, always serving as a reference and source of inspiration for later projects (like the etchings included here) but never coming to light as an independent body of work.

Record # 360836

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Will H. Bradley: American Artist in Print: A Collector's Guideby: Koch, Robert

Will H. Bradley: American Artist in Print: A Collector's Guide
by: Koch, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, January 25, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 206 pages with 60 color and 117 b&w plates. Still wrapped in plastic. Oversized. A bright, beautiful copy. This comprehensive book brings together nearly two hundred illustrations from Ore, The Inland Printer, The Chap-Book, Collier's Weekly, and other periodicals, books advertisements, and ephemera. Adding to the volume's reference value are an extensive list of Bradley's published works, bibliography, lists of public collections and exhibitions, and an appendix reprinting his "Primer of Ornament and Design," including previously unpublished material.

Record # 455423

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Will H. Bradley: His Workby: Bambace, Anthony

Will H. Bradley: His Work
by: Bambace, Anthony

Hardcover. Oak Knoll Press, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 216 pages, no dj issued. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the masters of book, magazine, and graphic design during the Art Nouveau period. This extensive work also contains a biography of Bradley, a bibliography, and author, title, and publisher indices.

Record # 351441

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