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Approaching Nowhere: Photographsby: Brouws, Jeff (Photographer) - Product Image

Approaching Nowhere: Photographs
by: Brouws, Jeff (Photographer)

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Like many who grew up during the spread of sprawl--with its predictable landscape of housing developments, shopping malls, interstate highways, and big-box construction--acclaimed photographer Jeff Brouws is drawn to places that still embody the vernacular past as well as to those that starkly portray the soulless, franchised American landscape. What began as cultural geography of Main Streets became a visual critique of the myth of upward mobility that created this car-centered, paved-over universe. Some images look outward to the edges of suburbia where sprawl is encroaching upon nature. Others turn inward, documenting the devastated inner cities. All the stunning color photographs reflect the complex beauty and desolation of visual life in our time. 100 color photographs.

Record # 351767

Price: $65.00 
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Approaching Nowhere: Photographsby: Brouws, Jeff (Photographer) - Product Image

Approaching Nowhere: Photographs
by: Brouws, Jeff (Photographer)

Hardcover. New York , W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2006, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Like many who grew up during the spread of sprawl--with its predictable landscape of housing developments, shopping malls, interstate highways, and big-box construction--acclaimed photographer Jeff Brouws is drawn to places that still embody the vernacular past as well as to those that starkly portray the soulless, franchised American landscape. What began as cultural geography of Main Streets became a visual critique of the myth of upward mobility that created this car-centered, paved-over universe. Some images look outward to the edges of suburbia where sprawl is encroaching upon nature. Others turn inward, documenting the devastated inner cities. All the stunning color photographs reflect the complex beauty and desolation of visual life in our time. 100 color photographs.

Record # 351766

Price: $65.00 
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Bingleman's Midway (SIGNED BY MOSER)by: Ackerman, Karen/Barry Moser - Product Image

Bingleman's Midway (SIGNED BY MOSER)
by: Ackerman, Karen/Barry Moser

Hardcover. Honesdale, Boyds Mills Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 31 pages. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR BARRY MOSER ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 612195

Price: $30.00 
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Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubsby: David Grazian - Product Image

Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs
by: David Grazian

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 320 pages. Light marking to several pages in margins, otherwise clean. In Blue Chicago, David Grazian takes us inside the world of contemporary urban blues clubs to uncover how such images are manufactured and sold to music fans and audiences. Drawing on countless nights in dozens of blues clubs throughout Chicago, Grazian shows how this quest for authenticity has transformed the very shape of the blues experience. He explores the ways in which professional and amateur musicians, club owners, and city boosters define authenticity and dish it out to tourists and bar regulars. He also tracks the changing relations between race and the blues over the past several decades, including the increased frustrations of black musicians forced to slog through the same set of overplayed blues standards for mainly white audiences night after night. In the end, Grazian finds that authenticity lies in the eye of the beholder: a nocturnal fantasy to some, an essential way of life to others, and a frustrating burden to the rest.

Record # 374310

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Charlevoix: Vacation Glimpsesby: Babst, Earl D. (Ed.) - Product Image

Charlevoix: Vacation Glimpses
by: Babst, Earl D. (Ed.)

Hardcover. Charlevoix MI, Charles Francis Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 56 pages, b&w line drawings. History of a private resort area in Michigan. Bottom corner bumped otherwise clean, editor's business card laid in.

Record # 378484

Price: $30.00 
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Chicago Yesterdayby: Hartray, John - Product Image

Chicago Yesterday
by: Hartray, John

Softcover. Corte Medera CA, Gingko Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 96 pages, nicely reproduced b&w historical photographs of the city. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 200547

Price: $20.00 
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Competing Rails: The Milwaukee Road's Legacy in Evanston and Wilmette (Shore Line IHS Dispatches, 2) by: Carlson, Norman (Ed) - Product Image

Competing Rails: The Milwaukee Road's Legacy in Evanston and Wilmette (Shore Line IHS Dispatches, 2)
by: Carlson, Norman (Ed)

Softcover. Lake Forest IL, Shore Line Interurban Historical Society, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 11" x 8.5"; 83 pages in b&w and color. Fold-out maps in center.

Record # 378115

Price: $30.00 
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Constructing Chicagoby: Bluestone, Daniel - Product Image

Constructing Chicago
by: Bluestone, Daniel

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press,, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 235 pages. Includes bibliographical references, index, notes, and numerous black and white and color illustrations and maps. Bright dust jacket. light foxing to text block fore-edge.

Record # 362543

Price: $18.00 
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Coronation Exhibition Great White City 1911 Official Guide & Catalogueby: N/A - Product Image

Coronation Exhibition Great White City 1911 Official Guide & Catalogue
by: N/A

Softcover. London, Bemrose & Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Softcover with heavy wear to paper wrappers. Maps and black and white pictures. Previous owner's markings on rear and throughout. Spine paper removed.

Record # 368495

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Distinctly American: The Photography of Wright Morrisby: Alan Trachtenberg and Ralph Lieberman - Product Image

Distinctly American: The Photography of Wright Morris
by: Alan Trachtenberg and Ralph Lieberman

Hardcover. Merrell, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 144 pages. Wright Morris was the poet laureate of Middle America. An icon of the 1940s, he died in 1998. Honored many times for his literary work, Morris twice received the prestigious American Book Award for The Field of Vision (1957) and Plains Song (1981), and pioneered the "photo-text." But Morris also created memorable images capturing the soul and mystique of the Midwest. Morris's images are the expression of his life-long quest to discover a vernacular and imagined America. His images brilliantly subvert such "cliched" motifs as grain elevators, Model T Fords, a farmer's cutlery set, or dusty badlands. Here, for the first time, the full emotional impact of his extraordinarily beautiful photographs-as forceful as his more celebrated writing-has been given free reign.

Record # 362416

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For Love and Money: Portraits of Wisconsin Family Businessesby: Corey, Carl - Product Image

For Love and Money: Portraits of Wisconsin Family Businesses
by: Corey, Carl

Hardcover. Madison WI, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 1st, 2014-03-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 119 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Carl Corey turns his camera on Wisconsin family-owned businesses in existence fifty years or longer. The businesses portrayed here--bakeries and barbecue joints, funeral homes and furniture builders, cheesemakers, fishermen, ferry boat drivers--have survived against all the odds, weathering tough economic times and big-business competition. The owners are loyal to their employees, their families, and themselves. And they are integral to their local economies and social fabric.

Record # 350318

Price: $35.00 
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Gentlemen on the Prairie (SIGNED COPY)by: Harnack, Curtis - Product Image

Gentlemen on the Prairie (SIGNED COPY)
by: Harnack, Curtis

Hardcover. Ames IA, Iowa State University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 254 pages. A very clean hardcover edition in dust jacket and INSCRIBED BY HARNACK on the title page. The book 'focuses on the formation in the 1880s of a colony of upper-class British immigrants who viewed Iowa pioneering as a way of perpetuating the Victorian gentleman's code. It covers a broad range of social history of the latter part of the 19th century, from London drawing rooms to Iowa pig farms, and includes a careful scrutiny of Walter and James Cowan, brothers who were typical of Victorian gentlemen in this special venture'.

Record # 371626

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Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plainsby: Fitch, Steve - Product Image

Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains
by: Fitch, Steve

Softcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 178 pages, 70 color plates by Fitch of deserted buildings and locations in the Great Plains. Soft cover edition, published simultaneously with the hardcover. In publisher's shrink wrap.

Record # 351145

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Governor Geary's Administration in Kansas with a Complete History of the Territory until June 1857by: Gihon, MD, John H. - Product Image

Governor Geary's Administration in Kansas with a Complete History of the Territory until June 1857
by: Gihon, MD, John H.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, J.H.C. Whiting, 1st, 1857, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 348 pages. Hardcover with stamping, heavy wear on edges. spine torn on bottom and top with missing fabric. Heavy pencil markings on end papers and fly leaves and some internal pages by previous owner. Heavy foxing throughout. Gutter cracked on page 217. Moderate soiling for age.

Record # 354175

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In the American West 1979-1984: Photographs (SIGNED COPY)by: Avedon, Richard - Product Image

In the American West 1979-1984: Photographs (SIGNED COPY)
by: Avedon, Richard

Hardcover. New York, Harry N Abrams Inc, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY RICHARD AVEDON on front flyleaf. 172 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with some minor shelf wear to dust jacket. A master of American fashion and art photography turns his artistry to capturing, in a series of photograph portraits, the cowboys, roustabouts, drifters, gamblers, bar girls, and others who characterize the modern Western experience.

Record # 353061

Price: $500.00 
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Maryville Illustratedby: Maryville Tribune - Product Image

Maryville Illustrated
by: Maryville Tribune

Softcover. Maryville MO, Maryville Tribune, 1s6t, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, unpaginated but about 100 pages."A Photographic Reproduction of Public Buildings, Prominent People, Picturesque Scenes, Pretty Homes". A souvenir booklet published by the local paper. Nice condition, Clean.

Record # 380879

Price: $80.00 
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Ohio's Best In Amateur Wrestling : Thorough look at Ohio Wrestling from 1938-1997by: Mark Osgood  - Product Image

Ohio's Best In Amateur Wrestling : Thorough look at Ohio Wrestling from 1938-1997
by: Mark Osgood

Softcover. Ohio's Best, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 353 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. All of us, wrestlers and coaches, think and talk about those athletes from long ago. Here are their stories, pictures, and records. Those who threw the first double leg take downs, half nelsons, bear hugs, and chicken wings. Front cover has light sun-fading, otherwise clean copy.

Record # 372816

Price: $80.00 
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One-Room Schools of the Middle West: an Illustrated History by: Fuller, Wayne E. - Product Image

One-Room Schools of the Middle West: an Illustrated History
by: Fuller, Wayne E.

Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with a bright dust jacket. B&w vintage photos throughout. The Midwest's one-room schools were, Fuller observes, the most democratic in the nation. Located in small, independent school districts, these schools virtually wiped out illiteracy, promoted democratic values, and opened up new vistas beyond the borders of their students' lives. Entire communities, Fuller shows, revolved around these schools. At various times they were used as churches, polling places, sites of political caucuses, and meeting halls for local organizations. But as America urbanized and the movement to consolidate took hold in rural counties, these little centers of learning were left at the margins of the educational system. Some were torn down, some left to weather away, some sold at auction, and still others transformed into museums.

Record # 360681

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People, Places & Flingsby: n/a - Product Image

People, Places & Flings
by: n/a

Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, Geranium Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 95 pages, b&w photographs throughout. Minor wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454917

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The Hook and Eye: A History of the Iowa Central Railwayby: Don L. Hofsommer - Product Image

The Hook and Eye: A History of the Iowa Central Railway
by: Don L. Hofsommer

Hardcover. Minneapolis, Univ Of Minnesota Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 151 pages illustrated in b&w. Iowa Central Railway supporters fought for a north-south route across the state that would link Minneapolis and St. Paul and St. Louis. This is the history from station records, reports, newspaper articles, and interviews of "The Hook & Eye", which brought both the industrial and human sides of railroading into sharp and memorable view. Clean copy.

Record # 378105

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Three Years Travels throughout the Interior Parts of North-America for more than five thousand miles...by: Carver, Captain Jonathan - Product Image

Three Years Travels throughout the Interior Parts of North-America for more than five thousand miles...
by: Carver, Captain Jonathan

Hardcover. Boston, Isaiah Thomas & Company, 1st, 1813, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 282 pages. Hardcover leather binding. Moderate shelf wear, Front hinge starting to separate. Pages heavily foxed and tanned. Previous owner's name and markings throughout.

Record # 354182

Price: $150.00 
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Twelfth Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Agricultureby: Cox, Prof. E.T. - Product Image

Twelfth Annual Report of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture
by: Cox, Prof. E.T.

Hardcover. Indianapolis, State of Indiana, 1st, 1870, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with blind-stamp design, gilt title on spine. 432 pages interspersed with dozens of b&w detailed engravings of farm machinery from the period. Light foxing throughout.

Record # 372387

Price: $80.00 
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