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Hardcover. NY, The Society of Illustrators, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 452 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A fascinating history of modern American illustrations traces 140 years of endeavor and the work of more than 450 artistis--including such masters as Maxfield Parrish, Rockwell Kent, and Theodore Geisel--and discusses the different schools of illustration, styles, artistic innovations and trends, and more. DUE TO WEIGHT, This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. New York, George Braziller, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 189 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with spine fading, light wear at corners, edges. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, The Free Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 263 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Color illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. A touch of foxing on spine, otherwise clean inside. Binding tight, in great shape.

Softcover. Charleston SC, Arcadia, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages, b&w illustrations. As the twentieth century dawned, the Boston & Maine Railroad Company controlled virtually all of the rail lines in New Hampshire, as well as much of the service in Maine and Massachusetts. Ultimately, the company operated more than 2,000 stations in northern New England. The train was the most important mode of travel, and the stations were the center of the community. Boston & Maine in the 20th Century continues the first pictorial history of the railroad company, entitled Boston & Maine in the 19th Century. With more than 200 rare images and historical narrative, the book details the trains and their destinations: the terminals, stations, depots, and whistle stops to which they sped. Times changed, and the railroad was passed by; however, its legacy lives on. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with silver lettering, 384 pages, b&w illustrations. Say "New England" and you likely conjure up an image in the mind of your listener: the snowy woods or stone wall of a Robert Frost poem, perhaps, or that quintessential icon of the region--the idyllic white village. Such images remind us that, as Joseph Conforti notes, a region is not just a territory on the ground. It is also a place in the imagination. This ambitious work investigates New England as a cultural invention, tracing the region's changing identity across more than three centuries. Incorporating insights from history, literature, art, material culture, and geography, it shows how succeeding generations of New Englanders created and broadcast a powerful collective identity for their region through narratives about its past. Whether these stories were told in the writings of Frost or Harriet Beecher Stowe, enacted in historical pageants or at colonial revival museums, or conveyed in the pages of a geography textbook or Yankee magazine, New Englanders used them to sustain their identity, revising them as needed to respond to the shifting regional landscape. Clean copy. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Steidl/The George Eastman House , 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 288 pages. Imagining Paradise is the first book to showcase the treasures of The George Eastman House's incomparable Richard and Ronay Menschel Library. It features over 250 rare books, each beautifully illustrated here and accompanied by commentary from prominent scholars. A large and handsome volume itself, as befits its subject, it ranges over the history of the medium of photography, its practitioners and its processes -- from bucolic landscapes, to travel and exploration, science and medicine, the literary and the illustrious. It encompasses the incunabula of William Henry Fox Talbot through the reveries of Maxime Du Camp and Francis Frith; the vision of Peter Henry Emerson to Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work and 291; and the exceptional published and unpublished books by Alvin Langdon Coburn. It documents works illustrated with tipped-in original salt prints, albumen prints, platinum prints, photogravures, carbon prints, collotypes and Woodburytypes. It includes translations in five languages of Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre's seminal instructional manual describing the daguerreotype process and works of great and unusual beauty, such as a red leather, bronze-trimmed Bible, illustrated in the 1860s with 56 photographs by Francis Frith. No other library in the world holds this breadth and depth of the history, aesthetics and technology of photography and no other book can bring them so thoroughly into the reader's hands. This exceptional collection of rare books was formed from the Eastman Historical Photographic Collection of the Kodak Company, which encompassed the collections of many of the most important photographic scientists, historians and collectors in the world. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Lewes, DE, GILES, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy. Like new still in publishers shrinkwrap. In addition to color plates of all works in the exhibition--nearly one hundred paintings, works on paper, and sculptures--this volume features essays by exhibition curators Douglas Dreishpoon and Tyler Cann, as well as poet and critic Raphael Rubinstein, and an illustrated chronology by academic and granddaughter of the artist Cary Cordova. From his early Abstract Expressionist-inspired paintings to his organic, anthropomorphic figure-ground compositions and later diagrammatical, hard-edged works, Imperfections by Chance charts the full range of Feeley's influential life and career.

Softcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press , reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 329 pages. An analysis of how culture, class and gender shaped American foreign policy during the Cold War. The author examines the institutions that shaped the members of the US foreign policy establishment, including all-male prep schools and Ivy-League universities.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Ten Speed Press, Revised Ed., 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Revised Edition of a book first published in 1990 in London. 204 pages illustrated with detailed color and b&w photographs. Court fashion of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).

Hardcover. London, Macmillan Co., 2nd pr., 1898, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 604 pages, 3 fold-out color maps in rear of book. Red coth covers, hinges tender, spine with fading. An account of the landscape, vegetation and wildlife of southern Africa precedes an historical survey of the non-European inhabitants and the arrival and spread of the European settlers.

Hardcover. Lewes, DE, GILES, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 232 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrinkwrap. Over 140 color illustrations. Provides analysis of this single panel painting of St. Francis, rendered by Italian Renaissance painter Giovanni Bellini

Barre, MA, Barre Publishers, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, photographs by Curtis. Introduction and commentary by Don D. Fowler. One hundred and eighteen superb representative photographs have been selected from Curtis's monumental work and reproduced in this book by The Meriden Gravure Company. Don Fowler describes Curtis the photographer and ethnographer, and the Indian groups depicted, commenting on the unique cultural characteristics of each tribe.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 335 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribners, 1st, 1890, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 hardcover volumes. Volume 1 - 547 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Features black & white Illustrations and fold-out map in rear pocket. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Light wear to green cloth covers. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 540 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Features black & white illustrations and 2 fold-out maps in rear pocket. Title in gilt on front cover and spine. Light wear to green cloth covers. Clean, tight set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 232 pages. Political theorist Michael Walzer reports his findings after decades of thinking about the politics of the Hebrew Bible. Attentive to nuance while engagingly straightforward, Walzer examines the laws, the histories, the prophecies, and the wisdom of the ancient biblical writers and discusses their views on such central political questions as justice, hierarchy, war, the authority of kings and priests, and the experience of exile. Because there are many biblical writers with differing views, pluralism is a central feature of biblical politics. Yet pluralism, Walzer observes, is never explicitly defended in the Bible; indeed, it couldn't be defended since God's word had to be as singular as God himself. Yet different political regimes are described in the biblical texts, and there are conflicting political arguments--and also a recurrent anti-political argument: if you have faith in God, you have no need for strong institutions, prudent leaders, or reformist policies. At the same time, however, in the books of law and prophecy, the people of Israel are called upon to overcome oppression and "let justice well up like water, righteousness like an unfailing stream." Name on front fly leaf, light pencil marking to pages.

Softcover. Caldwell, NJ, Heritage Committee of The First Presbyterian Church at Caldwell, 1st Edition, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 69 pages. Soft cover. Vivid color illustrations throughout. Wrapper in beautiful condition. pages have just a touch of tanning around edges, otherwise clean and bright. Binding tight. In excellent shape. "Part of Daugherty's legacy to us is the sixty works in this book entitled 'In His Image'. These paintings were done in the period 1940 to 1960. They are executed in a powerful, emotional mood."

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket., 310 pages, color and b&w illustrations. In Montparnasse begins on the eve of the First World War and ends with the 1936 unveiling of Dali's Lobster Telephone. As those extraordinary years unfolded, the Surrealists found ever more innovative ways of exploring the interior life, and asking new questions about how to define art. In Montparnasse recounts how this artistic revolution came to be amidst the salons and cafes of that vibrant neighborhood. Sue Roe is both an incisive art critic of these pieces and a beguiling biographer with a fingertip feel for this compelling world. Beginning with Duchamp, Roe then takes us through the rise of the Dada movement, the birth of Surrealist photography with Man Ray, the creation of key works by Ernst, Cocteau, and others, through the arrival of Dali. On canvas and in their readymades and other works these artists juxtaposed objects never before seen together to make the viewer marvel at the ordinary--and at the workings of the subconscious. We see both how this art came to be and how the artists of Montparnasse lived. Roe puts us with Gertrude Stein in her box seat at the opening of The Rite of Spring; with Duchamp as he installs his famous urinal; at a Cocteau theatrical with Picasso and Coco Chanel; with Breton at a session with Freud; and with Man Ray as he romances Kiki de Montparnasse.

Hardcover. Boston, Richard B. Badger, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 292 pages. Octavo in original gilt lettered red cloth and gilt top edge with b&w plates (including frontispiece) from photos and maps on endpaper. "The author spent several seasons in (the) .Labrador interior, 1903-10, and records here his knowledge of the country, the trails, hunting & fishing among the Montagnais Indians." Previous owner's bookplate otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, The Cresset Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 256 pages. Blue cloth cover, gilt lettering, some minor wear to edges of spine. Dust jacket has some wear, and a small tear on bottom of spine. Library sticker on front endpaper. Eight page section of b&w photographs. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy.

Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with a wraparound title band. This handsome volume explores the modern discipline of fashion collecting, presenting remarkable works from one of the greatest private collection of 20th-century costume. This group of clothing and accessories, assembled over several decades by Sandy Schreier, includes many rare and historically significant pieces that define key moments in fashion. Her collection features not only iconic garments by established designers but also looks by pioneering couturiers rarely represented in museum collections. Outstanding works, by designers that include Gilbert Adrian, Cristobal Balenciaga, Boue Soeurs, Gabrielle Chanel, Christian Dior, Mariano Fortuny, Karl Lagerfeld, Paul Poiret, and Valentina, are illustrated with new photography by fashion photographer Nicholas Cope. An informative introduction traces the progress of her collecting from its roots in Detroit to the present day. The book also includes descriptions of over 80 works, including garments, accessories, and rare designer drawings, in addition to a lively interview with Schreier by Andrew Bolton that reveals her collecting philosophy.

Hardcover. Boston, New York Graphic Society, BC Ed,, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, black cloth covers, red title and author lettering to the spine. 239 pages, 100 b&w illustrations. With Contributions by Alan Barbour & Matei Cazacu. Book club edition in very nice condition.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, Ltd Ed, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in full black leather with gilt title and elaborate design. Moire end papers and silk ribbon. All edges gilt. SIGNED by White on a front end paper, with tissue guard. Frontispiece: great caricature of author by Sandy Huffaker. The life of an astounding reporter and writer, but also providing an inside view into the U.S. from his birth in 1915 to the publishing of the book in 1963.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 411 pages plus index. This book was written between 1946 and 1952, and first published in 1953. It is now widely regarded as the standard portrait of the European and American theater in the turbulent and seminal years following World War II. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. College Station TX, Texas A&M University, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth, 145 pages. The subjects of Craig Clifford's ruminations range from Willie Nelson to Walter Prescott Webb, from German philosophers to an Irish immigrant out to save the American West, and in them Clifford voices the concerns of a new generation of Texans and other earthlings. Clean copy, no dust jacket.