American Culture

Hardcover. New York , Rizzoli, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages, color illustrations. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Drawing from a rich and influential heritage that spans the 20th century, design in Palm Springs runs the gamut from Spanish hacienda-style architecture and interiors to classic mid-century constructions and contemporary experimentations. Its recent rediscovery by trend-setters like Tom Ford, Jonathan Adler, and Bruce Weber has made Palm Springs superhot again-as a destination and for design inspiration. This desert laboratory of avant-garde architecture, interior decorating, and freewheeling experimentation is now a focus for design and fashion fanatics around the world. Palm Springs Living showcases the inspiring, diverse range of exteriors and interiors in Palm Springs. Included are intimate peeks into the private homes of celebrity residents and brand-new photography of the legendary Modernist houses by Richard Neutra, Albert Frey, and many others.

Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. Previous owners inscription in a fine hand along top edge of inside front cover dated 1939. Full color and black & white illustrations by Barbara Latham. Rubbing to edges and corners of covers. Degree of age toning to page edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Softcover. NJ, Citadel Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 292 pages. Studies the distinctive personalities, problems, and cultural contributions of such women as Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, examining the extent to which romanticism encouraged intellectualism among women during the three decades prior to the Civil War. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 2008-12-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 60 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Close to 30 full-page color portraits of phone sex "operators" in the intimate setting of their own homes with comments from each on their work.

Hardcover. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 60 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Close to 30 full-page color portraits of phone sex "operators" in the intimate setting of their own homes with comments from each on their work.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 135 pages. Hardcover. Front cover and spine with black and white vertical stripes, and Black & white pastedown illustration. Features 6 black & white illustrations by E. W. Kemble. First edition with (1) at end of text. Dust jacket with light chipping, creasing along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Softcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2nd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Charles Moore. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2nd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Charles Moore. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Perigee Books, Reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 446 pages. Softcover with only light shelf wear to covers. Light marginal foxing to top edge. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations by Carol Nay. Some light library stamping and notation - endpapers and at bottom right corner of page 25. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.

Softcover. NY, Thunder's Mouth Press, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 259 pages. While the supremely popular Steal This Book is a guide to living outside the establishment, Revolution for the Hell of It is a chronicle of Abbie Hoffman's radical escapades that doubles as a guidebook for today's social and political activist. Hoffman pioneered the use of humour, theatre, and shock value to drive home his points, and in Revolution for the Hell of It he gives firsthand accounts of his legendary adventures, from the activism that led to the founding of the Youth International Party,or Yippies!, to the 1968 Democratic National Convention protests ("a Perfect Mess") that resulted in his conviction as part of the Chicago Seven. Clean. bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 672 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 276 pages. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st Edition, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages. Hardcover. Tan cloth cover boards, brown title on spine. Some tanning from age to covers, pages and edges. Top edge dyed red. Clear plastic mylar included. Good clean, tight copy. Social statement and opinion about those who live happily below the poverty line in the southern United States.

Softcover. Wooster, College of Wooster Art Museum, The, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 55 pages. Softcover. Minor wear to cover edges. Full page black & white photographs throughout. Clean unmarked text.

Hardcover. London, Chris Boot, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 95 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Monograph of color portraits shot with a 5x4 camera at the Folsom Street Fair in SF and Easter weekend in Berlin, about 70 nude and semi-nude fetish gear photos of gay men, near fine limited first edition of 1200 copies.

Hardcover. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st US, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 190 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. The documentary style that dominates American photography had its origins in the social reform publicity campaigns of the turn of the century. This book traces the history of this genre and its main participants, including Jacob Riis, Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Ben Shahn, and Russell Lee. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1st, 1893, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 822 pages, b&w illustrations, several color plates. Olive green cloth covers w/ gilt lettering on spine, gilt design of Native American bust on front cover. Clear plastic dust jacket. Light wear to edges and corners; rubbing to rear cover. Rear hinge cracked and separating. Foxing to edges. Else pages clean and tight.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 431 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 248 pages. Name on front fly leaf whited out, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 541 pages. b&w illustrations. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a challenge to suppressed sexuality, a philosophy of individual rebellion, and a youthful search for social change. Through portraits of iconic figures, Dinerstein illuminates the cultural connections and artistic innovations among Lester Young, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Marlon Brando, and James Dean, among others. We eavesdrop on conversations among John-Paul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir, and Miles Davis, and on a forgotten debate between Lorraine Hansberry and Norman Mailer over the 'white negro' and Black cool. We come to understand how the cool worlds of Beat writers and Method actors emerged from the intersections of film noir, jazz, and existentialism. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 2nd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardccover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 497 pages, b&w illustrations. An overview of what entertained America for 200 years, from opera to comics. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, PowerHouse, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Illustrated with full color photographs. Clean, bright copy. Rocking on tour with America"s heavy metal superstars--Kiss, Poison, Iron Maiden, Slaughter, Ted Nugent, Dokken, and Cinderella--photographer David Yellen tailgated among the headbangers, metalheads, burnouts, and self-styled fanatics waiting for the show or hanging around backstage hoping to meet their idols. The results are a captivating record of Yellen"s trip to metal"s Shangri-la.

Softcover. NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages. The story of westering Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been told most notably through photographs of American Indians. Unlike this vast archive, produced primarily by male photographers, which depicted American Indians as either vanishing or domesticated, the lesser-known images by the women featured in Trading Gazes provide new ways of seeing the intersecting histories of colonial expansion and indigenous resistance. Four unconventional women-Jane Gay, who documented land allotment to the Nez Perces; Kate Cory, an artist who lived for years in a Hopi community; Grace Nicholson, who purchased cultural items from the Karuk and other northern California tribes; and Mary Schaffer, who traveled among the Stoney and Metis of Alberta, Canada-used cameras to document their cross-cultural encounters. Trading Gazes reconstructs the rich biographical and historical contexts explaining these women's presence in different Native communities of the North American West. Their photographs not only record the unprecedented opportunities available for Euro-American women eager to shed gender restrictions, but also reveal how women's newfound mobility depended on the increasing restrictions placed on Native Americans in this era.