Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st thus, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1715 pages. Hardcover. color illustrations throughout, illustrated by Salvador Dali. Pages unmarked (including back pages intedend for recording of family information). 2 red ribbon book marks attached at spine. No slipcase. Marbled decorated endpapers. leather cover boards, gilt title and decoration on spine and front cover board. Gilt edges (slightly faded). Binding beautiful. Spine straight. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Funk and Wagnalls, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in slightly worn dust jacket, 354 pages. Frontis, illustration, footnotes, genealogical table, sources and references, index. Originally published in 1935. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, New York Review Books, reprint, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w illustrations. A new edition of Beetle Bailey creator Mort Walker's riotous and immensely influential handbook for drawing and reading cartoons-a book that's both a parody of humorless how-to guides and a genuine (and genuinely instructive) ode to the art of making comics. Both a send-up of lofty how-to-draw books and a sincere and hilarious love letter to the art of drawing cartoons, the Lexicon is a joyously exhaustive cheat sheet to key comics visuals that has been referenced and treasured by generations of cartoonists. This new edition includes a foreword by Chris Ware and a meticulous appendix by Mort's son Brian Walker, who delves deep into the visual language of comics. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 198 pages. A rousing memoir of an ordinary man's extraordinary life - a great, true adventure tale. Celebrated scientist Tim Flannery has edited Nicol's original text, providing accompanying footnotes and an introduction that give historical context to the sailor's exploits. Contains a brief but interesting passage on Newfoundland, with references to other nautical destinations such as Canton, Gaspe, Hawaii, Bombay, Quebec, Nootka Sound, the Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Horn. In his many voyages the Scottish-born sailor John Nicol twice circumnavigated the globe, visiting every inhabited continent while witnessing and participating in many of the greatest events of exploration and adventure in the eighteenth-century.' Clean copy.

Hardcover. Newburyport MA, Towle Mfg. Co., 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None,

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with black and gilt stamping, 305 pages. A guide for parents who wish to understand the physical and psychological problems of early childhood. A pioneering work on early childhood development that is as relevant today as when it was first published in 1950. Covers with some discoloration to blue color, interior of book is clean, tight.

Softcover. Greenwich CT, Fairview Printers, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, glossy pictorial stiff wraps, softcover; 187 pages plus index; black and white illustrations and photographic illustrations; very good.

Softcover. Cleveland OH, The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 382 pages. Based on the field's most prolific, imaginative, and best-known scholars, this ultimate reference work on the Negro Leagues includes a complete register of all the players--3,400 names, with positions and teams from before the turn of the century into the 1950s--annual rosters, in-depth histories, and more than 75 original photographs.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 963 pages. An updated edition of the film reference provides more than 1,300 entries on leading international actors and actresses, directors, and producers, along with critical essays, profiles, and film analyses. Like new condition. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Augustan Reprint Society, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 40 pages, b&w frontis. Facsimile reprint of 18th century (1732) edition. An anti-Catholic play by Fielding, Introduction by Connie Capers Thorson. Includes bibliographical references.

Hardcover. Gerber Publishing, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, This is a two volume set of a total of 336 pages still in the original unopened cellophane wrapping that holds both volumes as originally received. Folios - over 12 - 15" tall. Each with pictorial dust jackets. The set consists of Volume Three A-J: which has. 3,800 color photos of Marvel Comics Covers and Volume Four K-Z: with 3.900 color photos. ISBN for Volume Four is 0-962-33285-2. Great guides to Marvel comic book covers with a wealth of information on collecting. Introduction by Stan Lee. Due to weight DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 1st pbk, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 324 pages. An illustrated history of the theory and practice of perspective, looking at key texts from the Renaissance to the present. Fifty-six b&w plates. Appendix: Mathematics and Perspective. References. Index. Crease to front cover, Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hudson Hills Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 304 pages. 243 color and 181 duo-tone illustrations. Extensive bibliography included at the back. Showcases these works by American artist Robert Motherwell (1915-1991). "Provides a definitive study of the artist's work as a printmaker. It includes a catalogue raisonne of all his graphic work from 1943 through 1984, covering nearly 350 prints in virtually every medium: engraving, lithography, silkscreen, etching, aquatint, mezzotint, monotype, collage, and others. Each work is documented and reproduced, more than 200 of them in full color." Clean copy.

Tulsa OK, Thomas Gilcrease Museum, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. light gray cloth with black lettering, 255 pages, b&w plates throughout. Thomas Moran (1837-1926) from Bolton, England was an American painter & printmaker of the Hudson River School in New York whose work often featured the Rocky Mountains. This catalog features 129 prints with extensive notes. Bibliography and index. Bright, clean copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Books, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 368 pages. The editors bring together for the first time nearly seventy of Wilbur and Orville Wright's published writings into a single, annotated reference. Spanning the decades from the brothers' turn-of-the-century experiments with gliders until Orville's death in 1948, the articles describe the design of their aircraft, early test flights, and camp life at Kitty Hawk. As the airplane evolved, the brothers frequently commented on such subjects as the future of commercial aviation and air travel, sport flying, air safety, and military aviation. Because Wilber's sudden death in 1912 ended any hope that the Wrights would produce a book of their own, the articles collected in this volume are their only published words. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge University Press, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes: Vol. 1: Books 1-V, 364 pages. Vol. 2: Books VI-X and Indexes, 531 pages. Previous owner's name, otherwise clean. James Adam (1860-1907) was a Scottish classics scholar who taught at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. A strong defender of the importance of Greek philosophy in a well-rounded education, Adam published a number of Plato's works including Protagoras and Crito. This two-volume critical edition of the Republic (1902) was another major contribution to the field. Though his preface claims 'an editor cannot pretend to have exhausted its significance by means of a commentary,' Adam's depth of knowledge and erudite analysis of the Greek text ensured that his edition remained the standard reference for decades to follow, and it remains a thought-provoking evaluation of one of the great works of Western thought.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 2nd pr., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue boards with dark blue cloth spine, paper title on spine. 410 pages, color frontis., many b&w illustrations, top edge gilt. An entertaining account of book collecting packed with anecdotes of books and bookmen. From the blurb: "In This Book-Collecting Game there are discussions of bindings, of the earmarks of editions, of auctions, of the "knock-out," of all the rewards and perils of the collector's life. And there are also the excursions in literature and friendship without which no book of Mr. Newton's would be natural or complete. Mr. Newton gives valuable and generous hints to enterprising lovers of books - hints which, shrewdly pursued, may start them on the same road to friendly fame and famous friendships which Mr. Newton himself has traveled. Clean, square copy.