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Prairy Erthby: Heat-Moon, William Least

Prairy Erth
by: Heat-Moon, William Least

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. This is the author's account of his Chase County, Kansas travels--history, geology, people. All told with his unique style and insight in the significance of things that most people pass over. Contains a number of maps throughout drawn by the author, as well as endpaper maps. Clean copy.

Record # 382237

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Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrowby: Alexander Kendrick

Prime Time: The Life of Edward R. Murrow
by: Alexander Kendrick

Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown and Company, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and rubbed dust jacket, 548 pages. A biography of the famous CBS radio and television newsman Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965). Much of what Americans knew about the events in Europe during World War II were learned from Murrow's broadcasts. After the war, Murrow was a regular on prime-time television. B&w illustrations, index and bibliography. Spine faded. Clean copy.

Record # 381477

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Prison Notes by: Deming, Barbara

Prison Notes
by: Deming, Barbara

Hardcover. NY, Grossman Publishers, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, unclipped dust jacket. The personal memoirs of a participant in the Albany Georgia civil rights movement. 185 pages + photographic plates at end. No markings.

Record # 379922

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Private Picturesby: Angeli, Daniel; Dousset, Jean-Paul

Private Pictures
by: Angeli, Daniel; Dousset, Jean-Paul

Softcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Softcover with light wear to wrappers. Black and white pictures throughout of celebrities and famous people. Clean copy. Light spine cracking.

Record # 369051

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Private Picturesby: Daniel Angeli and Jean-Paul Dousset

Private Pictures
by: Daniel Angeli and Jean-Paul Dousset

Softcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Introduction by Anthony Burgess. Candid shots of the stars off their guard; Romy Schneider, Tom Jones, Dustin Hoffman, Raquel Welsh, Richard Burton, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Brigitte Bardot, Mick Jagger, Onassis, Edith Piaf. Many others.

Record # 361889

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Private Picturesby: Daniel Angeli and Jean-Paul Dousset

Private Pictures
by: Daniel Angeli and Jean-Paul Dousset

Softcover. NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages. Introduction by Anthony Burgess. Candid shots of the stars off their guard; Romy Schneider, Tom Jones, Dustin Hoffman, Raquel Welsh, Richard Burton, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Brigitte Bardot, Mick Jagger, Onassis, Edith Piaf. Many others.

Record # 396823

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Quebec and the Stars, Toby: Lovecraft, H. P. / L. Sprague de Camp (Editor)

Quebec and the Stars, To
by: Lovecraft, H. P. / L. Sprague de Camp (Editor)

Hardcover. West Kingston RI, Donald M. Grant, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover. Turquoise cloth covers. Collection of Lovecraft's nonfiction writings covering: Science, Literature and Esthetics, Philosophy, Travel, and History. Light wear. Dust jacket protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 614038

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Rajasthanby: Singh, Raghubir

Rajasthan
by: Singh, Raghubir

Hardcover. Paris, Arthaud, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages of French text followed by full color photographs of the people and culture of the Rajasthan region of India. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613445

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Raymond Depardon: Adieu Saigonby: Depardon, Raymond

Raymond Depardon: Adieu Saigon
by: Depardon, Raymond

Softcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Adieu Saigon covers a varied range of imagery from Saigon, where Depardon photographed two wars and, on visits as recent as 2014, the unrecognizable, globalized city now called Ho Chi Minh. Depardon's work bears witness to a city in transition.

Record # 353014

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Raymond Depardon: Adieu Saigonby: Depardon, Raymond

Raymond Depardon: Adieu Saigon
by: Depardon, Raymond

Softcover. Germany, Steidl, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Softcover. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Adieu Saigon covers a varied range of imagery from Saigon, where Depardon photographed two wars and, on visits as recent as 2014, the unrecognizable, globalized city now called Ho Chi Minh. Depardon's work bears witness to a city in transition.

Record # 353013

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Realist Cartoons, Theby: Persoff, Ethan (Editor)

Realist Cartoons, The
by: Persoff, Ethan (Editor)

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Founded by Paul Krassner, "The Realist" was a satirical magazine that took aim at American culture during the period of 1958 to 2001. Paul Krassner collaborates with Fantagraphics to create a collection of the best of "The Realist" drawings with contributions by R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, S. Clay Wilson, Jay Lynch, Wallace Wood and others. Illustrated front board, 291 pages plus annotations, black/white and 2-color images. Volume numbers and year published accompanies each cartoon.

Record # 352672

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Reality Hunger - A Manifesto
by: Shields, David

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 219 pages. Clean, bright copy. "I doubt very much that I'm the only person who's finding it more and more difficult to want to read or write novels," David Shields acknowledges in Reality Hunger, then seeks to understand how the conventional literary novel has become as lifeless a form as the mass market bodice-ripper. Shields provides an ars poetica for writers and other artists who, exhausted by the artificiality of our culture, "obsessed by real events because we experience hardly any," are taking larger and larger pieces of the real world and using them in their work. Reality Hunger is made of 600-odd numbered fragments, many of them quotations from other sources, some from Shields's own books, but none properly sourced--the project being not a treasure hunt or a con but a good-faith presentation of what literature might look like if it caught up to contemporary strategies and devices used in the other arts, and allowed for samples (that is, quotation from art and from the world) to revivify existing forms. Shields challenges the perceived superiority of the imagination and exposes conventional literary pieties as imitation writing, the textual equivalent of artificial flavoring, sleepwalking, and small talk. I can't name a more necessary or a more thrilling book.

Record # 610503

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Recollections of a Life Photographerby: Kirkland, Wallace

Recollections of a Life Photographer
by: Kirkland, Wallace

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 272 pages, b&w illustrations. Kirkland was a photographer for Life magazine when it started in 1937. Dust jacket with edge wear, chipping.

Record # 357553

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Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprisingby: Erich Lessing

Revolution in Hungary: The 1956 Budapest Uprising
by: Erich Lessing

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 249 pages. Marking the fiftieth anniversary of the October 1956 Hungarian revolt against Soviet domination after World War II, this imposing volume contains powerful black-and-white photographs taken during the years preceding as well as the outbreak and crushing of the uprising by a German member of the international photojournalist cooperative Magnum. Introduced by Lessing's recollections and Hungarian French historian Francois Fejto's precis of the momentous events, the pictures appear in three chapters, "Communist Hungary," "The Revolution," and "The Failure." Hungarian novelist George Konrad's intense impressions of the time, during which he carried a rifle as a revolutionary young intellectual, follow the first chapter, and French political scientist Nicolas Bauquet's assessment of the revolt's impact on Western Europe's Communist parties, the USSR, and subsequent European history follows the third. Views of the cemetery in which the uprising's martyrs are now buried conclude the book elegiacally, and brief last words by Lessing and the director of Hungary's Institute 56 indicate who may forget what happened and why the rest of us should always remember. An extraordinary document.

Record # 362348

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Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legendby: Susan Orlean

Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend
by: Susan Orlean

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. "Rin Tin Tin was more than a dog. He embodied the core paradoxes of the American ideal: He was a loner who was also a faithful companion, a brave fighter who was also vulnerable. I was astonished to learn from this delightful book that he has existed for eleven generations over a century. By chronicling his amazing ups and downs, Susan Orlean has produced a hugely entertaining and unforgettable reading experience." -- Walter Isaacson.

Record # 379584

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Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection by: Whelan, Richard /Translator: Mothe, Philippe

Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection
by: Whelan, Richard /Translator: Mothe, Philippe

Hardcover. London/NY, Phaidon, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, square format. Original photo-illustrated cover and spine, back cover black cloth, with white and black lettering on cover and spine. Contains nine hundred and thirty-seven photographs selected by Capa's brother Cornell Capa and Richard Whelan, Capa's biographer. The chronologically arranged photographs constitute a documentation of twenty-two years (1932-1954) of Capa's work, featuring many catastrophic and dramatic events with brief commentaries. Risking his life over and over again Robert Capa is considered the greatest combat and adventure photographer in history. He was the cofounder of Magnum Photos in 1947, an international photographic cooperative, and was awarded the Medal of Freedom by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1947 for his work recording World War II. No dust jacket issued. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398406

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Rustics in Rebellion: A Yankee Reporter on the Road to Richmond 1861-1865by: Townsend, George Alfred

Rustics in Rebellion: A Yankee Reporter on the Road to Richmond 1861-1865
by: Townsend, George Alfred

Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Press , 1st, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 292 pages. Light edgewear, rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 855253

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Safe Area Gorazde: The Special Editionby: Sacco, Joe

Safe Area Gorazde: The Special Edition
by: Sacco, Joe

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Cloth 3/4 spine cover with gilt lettering, with silver foil decoration and illustration on front. Remainder mark on bottom page block, Clean, otherwise unmarked copy with only minor wear to corners.

Record # 352572

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Sebastiao Salgado: An Uncertain Grace by: Salgado, Sebastian / Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin, (essays)

Sebastiao Salgado: An Uncertain Grace
by: Salgado, Sebastian / Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin, (essays)

Hardcover. NY, Aperture Foundation , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, navy blue cloth cover, silver lettering on spine, 156 pages. Features essays by Eduardo Galeano and Fred Ritchin. Includes over 100 duotones taken from throughout the early years of Salgado's career. From a Brazilian mine where 50,000 mud-covered men haul heavy bags of dirt up and down slippery ladders in search of a stray nugget of gold, to a former lake in western Africa now swallowed by the encroaching desert, where emaciated, starving people walk over its surface of sand, photographer Sebastiao Salgado explores the live of the planet's often ignored people with a critical eye and an empathetic heart. 'Published on the occasion of a major exhibition presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 4-December 2, 1990.'/ Includes bibliographical references (page 156). VG, dj has some edge wear, cover and pages clean and tight. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398288

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Sex Press: The Sexual Revolution in the Underground Press, 1963-1979by: Vincent Berniere and Mariel Primois

Sex Press: The Sexual Revolution in the Underground Press, 1963-1979
by: Vincent Berniere and Mariel Primois

Softcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages. From 1965 to 1975, an array of journals, magazines, fanzines, and underground presses were the voice of a dramatic sexual revolution. In Europe and the United States, this "sex press" consisted of publications such as Other Scenes, Yellow Dog, Actuel, Suck, The Body, and Screw--some of which were fully dedicated to sex, while others also engaged with the time's most riveting topical issues, including politics, human rights, war, women's rights, and gay and lesbian rights. Showcasing art from the most revolutionary publications of the era, the book traces the exuberant sexual liberation of the 1960s and then moves into the mid-1970s, with its more codified form of pornography. Illustrated by a vivid collection of full-page facsimiles, Sex Press offers a compelling visual tour through an extraordinary period of experimentation, creativity, and sexual freedom.

Record # 361841

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Shaking the Dust of Ages: Gypsies and Wanderers of the Central Asian Steppeby: Ljalja Kuznetsova , Inge Morath, et al.

Shaking the Dust of Ages: Gypsies and Wanderers of the Central Asian Steppe
by: Ljalja Kuznetsova , Inge Morath, et al.

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 168 pages. A native of Kazakhstan, Ljalja Kuznetsova traversed the expanses of the Central Asian steppe to photograph the gypsies, or Roma people, whose mysterious comings and goings have fascinated her since she was a child. Shaking the Dust of Ages: Gypsies and Wanderers of the Central Asian Steppe is the first book devoted to these pictures, for which Kuznetsova won the Mother Jones Leica Medal of Excellence and the Paris Grand Prix for Photography. Kuznetsova's photographs present rare, intimate portraits of gypsies-- whose freedom from the ties of civilization is reflected in the wild winds and unlimited vistas of the steppe landscape. As Kuznetsova traveled through Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and the Ukraine, the gypsies continually inspired her. She found in them a people without frontiers, living independent of politics, religious dispute, or social class. Though their presence on the steppe is becoming a thing of the past, Kuznetsova's cast of characters and their world seem timeless in these images.

Record # 363440

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Shoeleather and Printers' Ink: A Half-Century of the Stories Behind the Stories by New York Newspapermen by: Britt, George (editor)

Shoeleather and Printers' Ink: A Half-Century of the Stories Behind the Stories by New York Newspapermen
by: Britt, George (editor)

Hardcover. NY, Quadrangle/The New York Times, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. 370 pages. Experiences & Agterthoughts by New York Newspapermen on the Fiftieth Anniversary of Their Old Timers' Society, selected from issues of SILURIAN NEWS. Clean copy.

Record # 382509

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Shoot First! - Assignments of a Newsreel Cameramanby: Noble, Ronnie

Shoot First! - Assignments of a Newsreel Cameraman
by: Noble, Ronnie

Hardcover. London, George G. Harrap & Co. , 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear to dust jacket - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 614027

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Shooting Wars My Life as a War Cameraman, From Cuba to Iraq by: Durschmied, Erik

Shooting Wars My Life as a War Cameraman, From Cuba to Iraq
by: Durschmied, Erik

Hardcover. NY, Pharos Books , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 220 pages, b&w photos. Examines the life of the photographer who has, during his career, captured such events as the Vietnam War, the killing fields of Cambodia, and the Iran-Iraq War. Clean copy.

Record # 381482

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Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013by: Hamlin, Janet

Sketching Guantanamo: Court Sketches of the Military Tribunals, 2006-2013
by: Hamlin, Janet

Hardcover. Seattle WA, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 171 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. In 2006, Janet Hamlin went to Guantanamo as a courtroom sketch artist to serve as a visual witness to the courtroom proceedings and provide worldwide media with artwork drawn during them. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 350647

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Skyline: a Reporter's Reminiscences of the 1920sby: Fowler, Gene

Skyline: a Reporter's Reminiscences of the 1920s
by: Fowler, Gene

NY, Viking Press, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with faded spine. 314 pages. Fowler's last book, completed just before his death in 1960, Chapters on the famous celebrities of the period as well as profiles of panhandlers, defrocked doctors, kidnaperc and fellow reporters. Clean copy.

Record # 381486

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Sleeping with Ghosts: A Life's Work in Photographyby: MCCULLIN, DON

Sleeping with Ghosts: A Life's Work in Photography
by: MCCULLIN, DON

Hardcover. New York , Aperture Book, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Light yellowing to edges and light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. This book shows the life's work of one of the most brilliant photojournalists of our time, who raised the status of his craft to that of high art. In his bestselling autobiography, Unreasonable Behavior, Don McCullin told the extraordinary and sometimes harrowing story of how he grew up in north London's gangland and graduated from poverty to stardom as the most daring and self-sacrificing reporter of wars around the world - from Cyprus to Israel, the Congo and Biafra to Vietnam, Pakistan to Cambodia, Beirut to Iraq. But his interests go far beyond the battleground in all its degradation which he has captured so brilliantly. In this book he has collected some 200 of what he considers to be his best pictures. A few have become well-known icons, many have not been seen in a book before. They depict unemployed miners collecting coal from the beach at dawn, down-and-outs in the East End, the homeless in Bradford, but they also reveal a passion for landscape, especially in the mysterious light of India, and a moving contact between human beings in a harsh environment. DUE TO WEIGHT. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY

Record # 350728

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Slim Aarons: The Essential Collectionby: Waldron, Shawn

Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection
by: Waldron, Shawn

Hardcover. NY, Abrams , 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, large format, blue cloth with color paste-downs on covers. 430 pages. The ultimate and most comprehensive collection of Slim Aarons photography ever released, featuring more than 100 previously unpublished images. This deluxe edition provides a deep and comprehensive look at the groundbreaking career of Slim Aarons, spanning five decades. The book begins with Slim's field work as an Army photographer and continues through his fledgling days in Hollywood, opening the LIFE bureau in Rome, fashion and travel shoots for Holiday, and finally traveling the world for Harper's Bazaar. With a new and definitive biographical essay, spotlights on key moments in his career, and exclusive insight from former associates, Slim Aarons: The Essential Collection gives readers an unprecedented look into Slim's private world. Author Shawn Waldron's text digs into Slim's biography in unprecedented detail and reveals new information, while award-winning journalist, historian, and New York Times bestselling author Lesley Blume provides historical context to Slim's career. Additionally, Slim's former assistant and author Laura Hawk reveals the intricacies of her and Slim's friendship, and historian, author, and Vanity Fair contributing editor Nick Foulkes explores Slim's influence on our current cultural moment. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 396755

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South Africa In Transitionby: Alan Paton and Dan Weiner

South Africa In Transition
by: Alan Paton and Dan Weiner

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scibner's Sons, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, color frontis, 82 black & white photos by Dan Weiner. Dust jacket with chunks gone from all edges, closed tears. Clean copy.

Record # 385848

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Steichen At Warby: Christopher Phillips

Steichen At War
by: Christopher Phillips

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Edward Steichen virtually created the world of high fashion and advertising photography, but his military coverage of two World Wars was equally remarkable. He received the Croix de Guerre for pioneering photoreconnaissance as part of Pershing's American Expeditionary Force in 1918, and his team's shots of the American Navy's advance across the Pacific from 1942 to 1945 form the visual core of our memory of that crucial period. Tragically, however, Steichen's thousands of incisive images of military action were dissolved into the morass of the National Archives, and attempts to retrieve specific subjects of his are often as effective as trying to taste fine brandy after pouring it into a swimming pool. Hence the value of retrospectives such as Christopher Phillips' hefty book on Steichen's coverage of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific War. Combining skillfully chosen anecdotes from Steichen's life with vivid evocation of the pioneering photographer's joy in capturing memorable images, Phillips gives us not only an unforgettable slice of Steichen's work but also enough historical background to let readers sense the excitement and drama of a nation's best young warriors fighting for freedom's sake. Lieutenant Commander Steichen's parade of images didn't begin until after the pivotal Battle of Midway in June 1942, but the ensuing carrier warfare and savage island fighting appear in unforgettable clarity. As in all great photographs, the humanity of the subjects shines through amid their triumph, or pain, or mere existence. Students of both military history and photography can spend days poring over these astonishingly revealing images. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 398362

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Steichen At Warby: Christopher Phillips

Steichen At War
by: Christopher Phillips

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Edward Steichen virtually created the world of high fashion and advertising photography, but his military coverage of two World Wars was equally remarkable. He received the Croix de Guerre for pioneering photoreconnaissance as part of Pershing's American Expeditionary Force in 1918, and his team's shots of the American Navy's advance across the Pacific from 1942 to 1945 form the visual core of our memory of that crucial period. Tragically, however, Steichen's thousands of incisive images of military action were dissolved into the morass of the National Archives, and attempts to retrieve specific subjects of his are often as effective as trying to taste fine brandy after pouring it into a swimming pool. Hence the value of retrospectives such as Christopher Phillips' hefty book on Steichen's coverage of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific War. Combining skillfully chosen anecdotes from Steichen's life with vivid evocation of the pioneering photographer's joy in capturing memorable images, Phillips gives us not only an unforgettable slice of Steichen's work but also enough historical background to let readers sense the excitement and drama of a nation's best young warriors fighting for freedom's sake. Lieutenant Commander Steichen's parade of images didn't begin until after the pivotal Battle of Midway in June 1942, but the ensuing carrier warfare and savage island fighting appear in unforgettable clarity. As in all great photographs, the humanity of the subjects shines through amid their triumph, or pain, or mere existence. Students of both military history and photography can spend days poring over these astonishingly revealing images.

Record # 371717

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Stepping Through the Ashes by: Richards, Eugene & Janine Altongy

Stepping Through the Ashes
by: Richards, Eugene & Janine Altongy

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Stunning black and white photos by award winning photographer of the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack on NYC. These images are accompanied by Janine Altongy's dramatic interviews with family members who lost loved ones, with survivors, rescue workers, firefighters, a police officer, a funeral director, and other witnesses to September 11th.

Record # 305105

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Stepping Through the Ashesby: Richards, Eugene

Stepping Through the Ashes
by: Richards, Eugene

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w images. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Richards' response to the trauma of September 11, 2001, with interviews with some of the families who lost sons, daughters, husbands, wives, mothers, and fathers. According to one reviewer: "It may be the best photo book yet on those hard days." Photographs and afterword by Eugene Richards; interviews by Janine Altongy.

Record # 350438

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Stepping Through the Ashesby: Richards, Eugene

Stepping Through the Ashes
by: Richards, Eugene

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages, b&w images. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Richards' response to the trauma of September 11, 2001, with interviews with some of the families who lost sons, daughters, husbands, wives, mothers, and fathers. According to one reviewer: "It may be the best photo book yet on those hard days." Photographs and afterword by Eugene Richards; interviews by Janine Altongy.

Record # 350437

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Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazineby: Hagan, Joe

Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine
by: Hagan, Joe

Hardcover. London, Canongate, 1st UK, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 547 pages, b&w illustrations. The story of Jann Wenner, Rolling Stone's founder, editor, and publisher, and the pioneering era he helped curate, is told here for the first time in glittering, glorious detail. Joe Hagan provides readers with a backstage pass to storied concert venues and rock-star hotel rooms; he tells never before heard stories about the lives of rock stars and their handlers; he details the daring journalism (Tom Wolfe, Hunter S. Thompson, P.J. O'Rourke) and internecine office politics that accompanied the start-up; he animates the drug and sexual appetites of the era; and he reports on the politics of the last fifty years that were often chronicled in the pages of Rolling Stone magazine.

Record # 372911

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Susan Meiselas: Mediationsby: Meiselas, Susan

Susan Meiselas: Mediations
by: Meiselas, Susan

Hardcover. Bologna, Damiani, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages. This exhaustive monograph of Susan Meiselas will be released in occasion of the retrospective that will take place at Tapies Foundation in Barcelone, Jeu de Paume in Paris and SFMOMA in San Francisco. Mediations is published by Damiani/Jeu de Paume/Fondation Tapies. This exhibition and monograph propose a selection of works from the 1970s to today which reveal the particular approach of Susan Meiselas toward to the underlying reasons for making photographs, how the image concerns it's subject as much as the photographer and the role that these images can have at different levels in society and particularly in photojournalism. She questions the relationship between the image and the subject in such a way as to include the people portrayed in the image in the process of the making. There is nothing systematic in her approach: each work expresses in a very strong manner that context is vital to the understanding of photography. Therefore her work is specific to the persons portrayed, to the notion of community to which they belong and to the locality of the geographic and political territories that the artist addresses. The way of the showing the work is equally a part of the thought process. How does the spectator behold the artwork? It is often comprised of many parts, made in different media: each "layer" is used to document a level of meaning. For Meiselas one should be able to grasp why the image was taken. Both the subject of the image and the context in which the images are shown are taken into account in the elaboration of each project.

Record # 371136

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Swingin Round the Cirkle: His Ideas of Men, Politics, and Things as Set Forth in His Letters to the Public Press, During the Year 1866by: Nasby (Locke, David Ross), P

Swingin Round the Cirkle: His Ideas of Men, Politics, and Things as Set Forth in His Letters to the Public Press, During the Year 1866
by: Nasby (Locke, David Ross), P

Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard , 1st, 1867, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Maroon cloth with blindstamped rules to both covers. Spine with titles and decorations stamped in gilt. Nasby's look at Reconstruction, written in dialect, and dedicated to "Androo Johnson". 8 b&w illustrations by Thomas Nast. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. The popular work of ironic fiction written by journalist and political commentator David Ross Locke (1833-1888). Locke's greatest influence was through his satirical writings as "Petroleum Vesuvius Nasby". The Nasby letters harshly ridiculed the plight of peoples in the Confederate states and the complicity of Northern politicians. Both Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant recognized Nasby as a significant source of support for their presidencies.

Record # 186009

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Sylvia Plachy: Self Portrait With Cows Going Home (Aperture Monograph S)by: Plachy, Sylvia

Sylvia Plachy: Self Portrait With Cows Going Home (Aperture Monograph S)
by: Plachy, Sylvia

Hardcover. NY, Aperture, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. Photographer Plachy proves you can go home again and again in this stunning photographic voyage to her native Hungary. Plachy weaves together contemporary and vintage photographs, mementos and pictures of movie sets (including several from her son Adrien Brody?s Oscar-winning turn in Roman Polanski?s The Pianist). Together, these pieces come together like a puzzle, recreating an Eastern Europe that has weathered dictatorships, two world wars and is now opening up, confusedly, to democracy. The images of stray shadows, apartment buildings studded with bullet holes, and eerie reflections are as evocative as they are subtle. They remind us that great photographs don?t have to rely on shock value to move or disturb. Plachy accents her work with memorable vignettes of her childhood in Communist Hungary as well as of her repeated journeys back east as an adult and an American citizen. One of the most touching of these small stories involves the photographer?s grief-stricken mother, inconsolable after the deaths of her parents in Auschwitz. One day, while her mother stared at a framed photo of her deceased parents, she saw a gold moth land on the glass. "From then on golden butterflies and moths were sacred," writes Plachy. As the book goes on, relative after relative surrounds herself with images to bring back lost loved ones. By the book?s end, we see Plachy herself doing the same thing and realize that through this book she has invited us on a private tour of a lost world, a journey that?s as poignant as it is unforgettable. 22 four-color and 98 duotone images.

Record # 361883

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Talk Stories by: Lillian Ross

Talk Stories
by: Lillian Ross

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 301 pages. Stated First printing on copyright page, $5.95 price on front flap. A collection of articles written for The New Yorker 1958-1965. Some tanning to dj. small price stamp on front flap, otherwise clean.

Record # 398184

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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art and Auction Housesby: Don Thompson

The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art and Auction Houses
by: Don Thompson

Hardcover. NY, Palgrave Macmillan , 6thpr., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 268 pages, color illustrations. Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock's drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored.

Record # 397281

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The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasuresby: Philip Mould

The Art Detective: Fakes, Frauds, and Finds and the Search for Lost Treasures
by: Philip Mould

Hardcover. NY, VIking, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 261 pages, illustrations. Philip Mould takes a wonderfully interesting look at how art restoration works. But, in looking at restoration of existing paintings, he also delves into how he, as a gallery owner, along with his team, find work that has remained under-valued or unvalued for centuries. And then how that piece, now restored by Mould's experts, ventures back into the art world in renewed glory. Mould takes five or so examples of "found" paintings - one from his "Antique Roadshow" - and writes how instinct and education about a painter, his other work, the painting's subject's history, and other "intangables' go into Mould and his staff taking on an often dirty and undistinguished painting on the chance that the painting is "the real thing" - a real Rembrandt, a real Homer Winslow, etc. Probably the most interesting story was that of a Norman Rockwell painting on display at the Rockwell Museum in Massachusetts that...wasn't. Wasn't the "real" Rockwell painting, but rather one done by a disciple of Rockwell, who copied the original for reasons sort of murky, and donated to the museum. The "real" Rockwell was found by the copier's sons after his death and turned over to the museum. Clean copy.

Record # 397279

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The Bird that Swallowed Its Cage: The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparteby: Walter Murch (Translator), Lawrence Weschler (Foreword)

The Bird that Swallowed Its Cage: The Selected Writings of Curzio Malaparte
by: Walter Murch (Translator), Lawrence Weschler (Foreword)

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Counterpoint, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages. Walter Murch first came across Curzio Malaparte's writings in a chance encounter in a French book about cosmology, where one of Malaparte's stories was retold to illustrate a point about conditions shortly after the creation of the universe. Murch was so taken by the strange, utterly captivating imagery he went to find the book from which the story was taken. The book was Kaputt, Malaparte's autobiographical novel about the frontlines of World War II. Curzio Malaparte, an Italian born with a German heritage, was a journalist, dramatic, novelist and diplomat. When he wrote a book attacking totalitarianism and Hitler's reign, Mussolini, in no position to support such a body of work, stripped him of his National Fascist Party membership and sent him to internal exile on the island of Lipari. In 1941, he was sent to cover the Eastern Front as a correspondent for Corriere della Sera, the Milano daily newspaper. His dispatches from the next three years would be largely suppressed by the Italian government, but reverberated among readers as painfully real depictions of a landscape at war.

Record # 378316

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The Birth of a Republic: Francis Stafford's Photographs of China's 1911 Revolution and Beyond (A China Program Book)by: Lu, Hanchao

The Birth of a Republic: Francis Stafford's Photographs of China's 1911 Revolution and Beyond (A China Program Book)
by: Lu, Hanchao

Hardcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 210 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Stafford worked for Commerical Press in Shanghai and his photographs capture both sides of the revolutionary struggle in China.

Record # 350397

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The Comic Strip Art of Lyonel Feininger: The Kinder-Kids: Wee Willie Winkie's Worldby: Lyonel Feininger, Bill Blackbeard (Editor/Introduction)

The Comic Strip Art of Lyonel Feininger: The Kinder-Kids: Wee Willie Winkie's World
by: Lyonel Feininger, Bill Blackbeard (Editor/Introduction)

Softcover. Northhampton, MA, Kitchen Sink Press, 2nd printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 56 pages. Softcover. Wrapper very good, glossy, vibrant. Wrapper has a touch of rubbing to the back. Color illustrations throughout. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. In great condition. The first complete collection of the legendary work of one of comics' all-time greatest cartoonists.

Record # 363568

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The Dark Carnival: Portraits from the Endless Night by: Ridgers, Derek (Photographer)

The Dark Carnival: Portraits from the Endless Night
by: Ridgers, Derek (Photographer)

Hardcover. London, Carpet Bombing Culture, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards. 216 pages, b&w photos. A unique collection of portraits personally selected by one of the UKs foremost portrait photographers covering alternative London's unique counter-cultural history from Punks, New Romantics, Goths, Disco Queens, Soul Boys, Fetish Worshippers, Rockers, Cyberpunks, Ravers, Clubbers and Party Animals. Derek Ridgers has been a feature in the clubs and on the streets of the capital for over 50 years - indulging in his obsession for documenting the people dressed up for the glorious night.

Record # 370576

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The Face of Mercy: A Photographic History of Medicine at War by: Naythons, Matthew (produced by); with narrative by Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.; [Prologue by William Styr

The Face of Mercy: A Photographic History of Medicine at War
by: Naythons, Matthew (produced by); with narrative by Sherwin B. Nuland, M.D.; [Prologue by William Styr

Hardcover. NY, Epicenter Communications / Random House, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 272 pages. "contains over 230 of the most compelling photographs and images of healers in the battlefield, many of them in color, culled from over one hundred archives in more than a dozen countries... Beginning with Matthew Brady's photographs of surgery at Antietam during the Civil War... through two world wars, to Vietnam, the Gulf War, and regional struggles ongoing today." Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 396877

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The Fire of Life: A Book of Memories by: Harold Spender

The Fire of Life: A Book of Memories
by: Harold Spender

Hardcover. London, Hodder & Stoughton , 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt titles on spine, 328 pages, index. Spender (1864-1926) was a leading journalist in England and later ran for office (and lost) as a Liberal candidate in 1922. He covered major events in British history for major newspapers like the Manchester Guardian and Daily News from 1899 until 1914. He was the father of poet Stephen Spender. A clean copy with minor shelf wear.

Record # 371311

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The Glossy Rats by: David Cort

The Glossy Rats
by: David Cort

Hardcover. NY, Grosset and Dunlap, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A collection of essays, most previously appearing in Pageant, The New York Time, The New Republic and other publications in the 1960s. Subjects include Madison Avenue Foreign Policy, The Strange Case of Negro Superiority, Margaret Mead for President, A Solution for Leisure, among many others.

Record # 381507

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The Great Anti-War Cartoonsby: Yoe, Craig

The Great Anti-War Cartoons
by: Yoe, Craig

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 184 pages. Color frontispiece, b&w illustrations. The Great Anti-War Cartoons by Craig Yoe offers a "hard-hitting but hopeful" collection spanning centuries of anti-war drawings by some of the best graphic artists, from Honore Daumier to R. Crumb and many others. As noted in the foreword, the works included in this compilation of responses to war come from both the left and the right, and this is indeed one of the strengths of this book. The insightful, thought-provoking introduction is delivered by none other than Nobel Peace Prize Winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus and proves to be well worth reading in its own right.

Record # 351430

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The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Sommeby: Sacco, Joe/ Adam Hochschild (Contributor)

The Great War: July 1, 1916: The First Day of the Battle of the Somme
by: Sacco, Joe/ Adam Hochschild (Contributor)

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Fold-out in slipcase. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Launched on July 1, 1916, the Battle of the Somme has come to epitomize the madness of the First World War. Almost 20,000 British soldiers were killed and another 40,000 were wounded that first day, and there were more than one million casualties by the time the offensive halted. In The Great War, acclaimed cartoon journalist Joe Sacco depicts the events of that day in an extraordinary, 24-foot- long panorama: from General Douglas Haig and the massive artillery positions behind the trench lines to the legions of soldiers going "over the top" and getting cut down in no-man's-land, to the tens of thousands of wounded soldiers retreating and the dead being buried en masse. Printed on fine accordion-fold paper and packaged in a deluxe slipcase with a 16-page booklet, The Great War is a landmark in Sacco's illustrious career and allows us to see the War to End All Wars as we've never seen it before.

Record # 350808

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