Hardcover. NY, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 200 pages. A look at the artistic and technical innovation of British printmaking from World War I to the eve of World War II, as artists from the Grosvenor School and beyond harnessed an emerging modernist style. This richly illustrated volume reintroduces rare print works from the collection of Leslie and Johanna Garfield into the narrative of modernism, demonstrating their relationship to other movements such as Cubism, Futurism, and Constructivism. Essays explore how artists turned to printmaking to alleviate trauma, memorialize their wartime experiences, and capture the aspirations and fears of the twenties and thirties. Special attention is given to the linocut technique revolutionized by Claude Flight and his students at London's Grosvenor School of Modern Art. Highlighted as well are the pioneering works of artists such as C. R. W. Nevinson, Sybil Andrews, Cyril E. Power, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth, Edith Lawrence, Ursula Fookes, and Lill Tschudi. In their quest to promote a more democratic art, these artists created innovative graphics that portrayed in subject, form, material, and technique the dynamic era in which they lived. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Munch/London/NY, Prestel, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap. 656 pages. Published on the twentieth anniversary of the founding of Neue Galerie New York, this stunning volume celebrates the varied achievements of modern art history in the German-speaking world by examining historical developments in Austria and Germany from 1890 to 1940. Illustrated throughout with exquisite reproductions of the museum's holdings, this book considers the influence of Friedrich Nietzsche and his writings on the fine arts and examines the founding of the Secessionist artists' organizations in Germany and Austria. Insightful essays trace the emergence of Expressionism and abstraction, as well as the development of such movements as Dada and New Objectivity. Evolutions in architecture and design are appraised through the legacy of the Arts and Crafts movement, as well as the establishment of the Darmstadt Artists' Colony and the Wiener Werkstatte. The book also examines the role of the German Werkbund and the founding of the Bauhaus school. Finally, the book briefly addresses the horrific impact of the National Socialists' degenerate art campaign, which resulted in incalculable damage and led to the exile and death of artists and designers of the era. From well-known artists such as Otto Dix, Josef Hoffmann, Vasily Kandinsky, Gustav Klimt, and Egon Schiele, to lesser recognized but equally important figures, including Albert Birkle, Alfred Kubin, Felix Nussbaum, and Dagobert Peche, this book offers an authoritative and kaleidoscopic look at a crucial moment in history and a portrait of radical thought that changed forever the way we experience art in our lives. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. MI, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial binding, 128 pages, 47 maps, 60 b&w illustrations. Mombasa is the largest and most important port on the East African coast. A brief history of it's European colonizers is followed by a study of the port city and how it empowered the economy in the 1960s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. illustrated throughout in color. Light edgewear to dust jacket with two small closed tears. Clean, tight copy. This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist's revolutionary achievement. Based on the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts delivered at the National Gallery of Art, The Moment of Caravaggio displays Fried's unique combination of interpretive brilliance, historical seriousness, and theoretical sophistication, providing sustained and unexpected readings of a wide range of major works, from the early Boy Bitten by a Lizard to the late Martyrdom of Saint Ursula. And with close to 200 color images, The Moment of Caravaggio is as richly illustrated as it is closely argued. The result is an electrifying new perspective on a crucial episode in the history of European painting. Focusing on the emergence of the full-blown "gallery picture" in Rome during the last decade of the sixteenth century and the first decades of the seventeenth, Fried draws forth an expansive argument, one that leads to a radically revisionist account of Caravaggio's relation to the self-portrait; of the role of extreme violence in his art, as epitomized by scenes of decapitation; and of the deep structure of his epoch-defining realism. Fried also gives considerable attention to the art of Caravaggio's great rival, Annibale Carracci, as well as to the work of Caravaggio's followers, including Orazio and Artemisia Gentileschi, Bartolomeo Manfredi, and Valentin de Boulogne.

Hardcover. NY, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In the first fully illustrated work of his illustrious career, David Thomson re-examines a series of moments - which readers will experience in beautifully reproduced imagery - from seventy-two carefully selected films across a hundred-year time span. His moments range from a set of Eadward Muybridge's pioneering photographs to sequences in films from the classic - Citizen Kane , Sunset Boulevard and The Red Shoes - to the unexpected - The Piano Teacher , Burn After Reading - immersing the reader via a groundbreaking marriage of imagery and the author's accompanying narrative. David Thomson's evocative, unflinching prose and profound understanding of what makes film and art form identify him as one of the great film writers of our time, making it likely that Moments that Made the Movies will be widely viewed as an important classic on the subject of international cinema. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 189 pages, color and b&w illustrations. This volume, a detailed survey of the political uses of cartography between 1400 and 1700 in Italy, France, England, Poland, Austria, and Spain, answers these questions: When did monarchs and ministers begin to perceive that maps could be useful in government? For what purposes were maps commissioned? How aCCU1rate and useful were they? How did cartographic knowledge strengthen the hand of government? The chapters offer new insights into the development of cartography and its role in European history. Light fading to areas of dj, no marking.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, reprints, 1899, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcover volumes, blue cloth covers with bright gilt decoration on spines. and front covers. Top edge gilt. Both volumes with original blue CLOTH dust jackets. Illustrated Holiday Edition with 45 photogravure plates. Vol. 1. Chapters I-XV (xix, 529 pages) - Vol. 2. Chapters XVI-XXXII (xv, 562 pages). Clean bright set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London, Dennis Dobson, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 76 pages, hardcover. Illustrated in color by Ronald Searle. PREVIOUSLY OWNED BY SEARLE'S AGENT (John Locke) with his stamp on front fly leaf. Very good condition. Dust jacket has age tanning to spine, one chip at bottom of spine.

Hardcover. Thomas Jefferson Foundation, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, oblong format, 80 pages. Each year approximately 500,000 people journey up the winding, narrow road from Charlottesville, Virginia, to visit Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. In 1990 a team of architects from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) made this same journey to record Jefferson's residence inside and out. Monticello in Measured Drawings presents HABS' unique set of plan, elevations, sections, and details of the house as it was actually built. They expose many of Monticello's behind-the-scenes mysteries. Seeral reveal the house's complex facade, while others details the relationship of individual floors and the fascinating array of architectural elements found throughout the house.

Hardcover. Thomas Jefferson Foundation, reprint, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, oblong format, 80 pages. Each year approximately 500,000 people journey up the winding, narrow road from Charlottesville, Virginia, to visit Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. In 1990 a team of architects from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) made this same journey to record Jefferson's residence inside and out. Monticello in Measured Drawings presents HABS' unique set of plan, elevations, sections, and details of the house as it was actually built. They expose many of Monticello's behind-the-scenes mysteries. Seeral reveal the house's complex facade, while others details the relationship of individual floors and the fascinating array of architectural elements found throughout the house.

Softcover. Greensburg PA, privately printed, 1st, 1913, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, octavo, 25 pages, sparsely illustrated in b&w. Book near fine with mild general shelfwear to wrap, stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked. Includes a b/w sketch by John Trumbull.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 184 pages. This is the sequel to caricaturist Drew Friedman's collection of portraits of famous comics creators.Spanning the birth of the industry to its first few decades, this book has approximately 100 full-color portraits of the legends of American comic books-publishers, editors, and artists. Its subjects are popular and obscure, men and women, and it includes several pioneering artists of color. Full-color illustrations throughout.

Hardcover. London, Thames And Hudson, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 239 pages, 91 b&w illustrations, 5 maps. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Thomas and Andrews, Abridged, 1798, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 388 pages. Hardcover. Printing date: June, 1798. "An Abridgment of the American Gazetteer..." Previous owners name on rear endpaper. All pages darkened with varied amounts of foxing. Fold-out map at front separated at fold. Leather covers with heavy wear, chipped at top and bottom of spine. Corners rubbed, bumped.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 389 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. The commander of a Georgia regiment through much of the Civil War mused later in his memoirs that the heaviest burden fell not upon the man at the front, but upon the woman who waited and prayed for victory: "While the men were carried away with the drunkenness of the war, she dwelt in the stillness of her desolate home." Sallie Brock Putnam spoke for Southern womanhood. She was a native of Madison County, Virginia, and seems to have come from a family of good social standing. The book contains an unexpectedly full history of the Civil War; the author exhibits a strong grasp of strategy and tactics. But at its heart is an incisive eyewitness account of life in a capital that was swollen to four times its normal population by the exigencies of war. Brock's descriptions of Jefferson Davis' inauguration and the Richmond Bread Riot of 1863 are dramatic, but no more so than her accounts of nameless refugees, race relations, opportunistic merchants and blockade runners. Confederate prisons and family matters. In contrast to other female Southern writers of the period, she was more sober and factual, less gossipy and speculative. She wrote with shrewdness and maturity, and with a remarkable lack of self-pity and exaggeration. Yet the reader cannot miss her courage, sacrifice and suffering. Sallie Brock Putnam died in 1911.

Hardcover. New York, Ralph Kenyan, 1st Edition, 1896, 511 pages. Hardcover. Over 200 b/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in gray cloth, beveled at edges, gilt title/decoration on spine, gilt title and decoration on front cover board, designed engraved on back cover board. cover boards have some rubbing and light soil, a touch of fraying to top and bottom of spine. Previous owner's inscription on front preliminary page. Binding tight. Spine slightly cocked. "...From the Diary of a Private, Supplemented and Verified with Official Reports of Federal Officers and Also of Mosby; With Personal Reminiscences, Sketches of Skirmishes, Battles and Bivouacs, Dashing Raids and Daring Adventures, Scenes and Incidents in the History of Mosby's Command."

Hardcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 308 pages, map endpapers. Light edge wear to dust jacket, small sticker on front cover. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Albany NY, State University of New York Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and tanned dust jacket, 208 pages with index. This book attempts to throw new light on that early labor movement, mainly by answering the questions that modern critics have raised concerning its authenticity, but the major concern of the volume is with the labor leaders' views regarding American society. If these were uncommon labor leaders, they were also uncommon Jacksonians. At a time when the mass of Americans seemed to be engaged in a frenzied contest for material gain, and increasingly optimistic about their chances, the labor leaders stood apart both from the pursuit of the main chance and from its moralistic critics. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Ticknor & Fields, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 501 pages, b&w illustrations. The Morgenthaus were one of those German-Jewish families who broke through the snobbish anti-Semitism of the wasp mainstream in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to be a force in American public life. This is a charming, intimate portrayal of three fascinating generations in American history. In a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, David McKay Company, 1st US, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. Autobiography of Britain's noted forensic examiner, highlighting his work in Egypt before & after WWI, work as professor of forensic medicine at Edinburgh University, & court battles with the renowned Sir Bernard Spilsbury. Foreword by Erle Stanley Gardner (Perry Mason author). In 318 pgs + Index, with lots of black & white crime scene photos. Orig. published in Britain, this is the FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, same year (1959). Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with faded gilt title on spine. There is a ring stain to front cover where a glass had been placed. Otherwise a clean copy. 139 pages, b&w fronts. portrait of Holmes. INSCRIBED TO STEPHEN S. WISE BY FRANKFURTER; "For S.S.W. /With the best regards of/FF" Stephen Samuel Wise (March 17, 1874 - April 19, 1949) was an early 20th-century American Reform rabbi and Zionist leader in the Progressive Era. Joining U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and others, Wise laid the groundwork for a democratically elected, nationwide organization of 'ardently Zionist' Jews, 'to represent Jews as a group and not as individuals'.[7] In 1917 he participated in the effort to convince President Woodrow Wilson to approve the Balfour declaration in support of Jewish settlement in Mandate Palestine.[8] In 1918, following national elections, this Jewish community convened the first American Jewish Congress in Philadelphia's historic Independence Hall.

Hardcover. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1st, 1916, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Hardcover. Features 46 tipped-in plates. Foxing throughout. Front hinged cracked. Covers worn with areas of staining, darkening to spine cloth.

Hardcover. Munich GR, Hirmer , 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. 110 pages, 80 color illustrations. This unique book shows an album of photos taken in May & June 1913 when James Radley drove from London to Vienna via Paris, Mont Cenis Pass, Brescia, Riva del Garda, Dolomites, & Loibl Pass. His car was entered in the famous Osterreichische Alpenfahrt, a gruelling 2650 kilometre route with 19 mountain passes to drive across in seven days. On the journey out to Vienna, one of Radley's passengers was his friend Reginald Hope, an amateur photographer who recorded the journey. Remarkably, both the car and Hope's photo album survived, making it possible to recreate the journey with the same car and repeat the photographs in the identical locations exactly 100 years later in May & June 2013. John Kennedy has been taking photographs since he could first afford to buy film for the family box camera. The digital cameras used nowadays are rather more capable, but the challenge was still the same. Clean copy. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 1993-10-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A collection of vintage stock photos depicting the salesman, circa 1950.

Hardcover. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, unpaginated. Illustrated throughout in b&w. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A collection of vintage stock photos depicting the salesman, circa 1950.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 157 pages. A study of the popular English children's writer, Mrs Sherwood, 1775-1851 considering her style, writings, relations with publishers, etc. Includes reprints of The little woodman and his dog Caesar originally published: London, Houlston, 1850 and Soffrona and her cat Muff originally published: Wellington, Salop, Houlston, 1828. Includes a 38 page bibliography. "No study of nineteenth - century children's books in England can afford to ignore Mrs. Sherwood. She produced over four hundred different titles - books, tales, tracts, texts, magazines, articles in periodicals, cbapbooks, and Sunday School rewards. There is evidence that the writings of her Evangelical period, in particular, had a remarkable influence upon Victorian literature for the young.

Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glazed pictorial boards, 40 pages. Brilliant, vibrantly colored pictures by Bruce Degen illustrate this story. 'With her reluctant student, Arnold, the Friz slips through a mysterious trap door and ends up in the Middle Ages. There, they explore a medieval castle, meeting the people who live there and learning about everyday life within the castle walls.' Sicker residue on rear cover, crease to front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this immensely learned and attractive book, Visser gives a chapter to each of the nine ingredients of a simple dinner: corn with salt and butter, chicken with rice, lettuce with olive oil and lemon juice, ice cream. Each of these foods has a "weird, passionate, often savage history of its own," which she relates in spirited prose, rich in surprising facts, unexpected connections, and a well-documented outrage at what modern technology and agribusiness have done to purity and quality. This presents a remarkable amount of information seamlessly and entertainingly. Stated First Edition but lowest in number line is 2. Clean copy.

Softcover. Washington DC, National Park Service,, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 58 pages, The famous cartoonist of WW2's Willie and Joe fame offers his take on America's War for Independence. Small price sticker on cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd Mead, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt ship stamped on cover in upper left-hand corner, gilt title on spine. 338 pages with 13 full page illustrations, 7 text illustrations, 4 text maps & 7 attractive color maps, some folding. Ex-library with bookplate on front fly leaf, lettered number on spine, otherwise a tight, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 385 pages, b&w photos. A fast-moving re-enactment of the thirty hours of Hitler's 1923 Munich beerhall putsch, based on newspaper reports, police documents, trial records, and the personal recollections of participants and eye-witnesses.

Hardcover. NY , Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a poor dust jacket with chipping, fading, especially to spine. Wheeler-Bennett worked as the director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs' information department. In particular, Wheeler-Bennett lived in Germany in 1927-1934 and witnessed firsthand the rise of Nazi Germany. After the Second World War, Wheeler-Bennett was a critic of Appeasement, and 10 years after the Munich Agreement wrote a book condemning it. Footnotes. Illustrations, Maps. Bibliography. Index. 507 pages, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. US, Borealis Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. In his popular Strange Days, Dangerous Nights, Larry Millett delivered Weegee-style images of midwestern noir from the photo files of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. He returns in this new volume with a focus on the "dangerous"murder cases from the forties and fifties, memorialized in intimate and telling photographs. There is Arthur DeZeler, accused of bludgeoning his wife, Grace, and sinking her body in a northern lake. Laura Miller, single and pregnant, ran for help after gunshots killed her married lover. Arnold Axilrod, a mild-mannered dentist with a penchant for over-sedating his female patients, was arrested when the lifeless body of one of those patients was discovered in a Minneapolis alley. And, finally, there is Arnold Larson, the personable salesman with a winning smile and a bad temper.Millett traces these four sensational crimes from the moment the victim was found, through the search for the killer, to the court trial and resulting imprisonment or acquittal--there are two of each. All are copiously illustrated with shots from the bulky Speed Graphic camera, which yielded rich, textured views in an era when photographers enjoyed unrestricted access to police matters ranging from found bodies to jail cells. The images dramatically evoke these crimes of passion now more than a half-century old, offering a thrilling immersion into Minnesota noir.

Hardcover. US, Borealis Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. "Larry Millett delivered Weegee-style images of midwestern noir from the photo files of the "St. Paul Pioneer Press. "

Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 210 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Smoke. Shadows. Moody strains of jazz. Welcome to the world of "noir musical" films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and struggle with their music and ill-fated love triangles. Sultry divas dance and sing the blues in shrouded nightclubs. Romantic intrigue clashes with backstage careers. In her pioneering study, Music in the Shadows, film noir expert Sheri Chinen Biesen explores musical films that use film noir style and bluesy strains of jazz to inhabit a disturbing underworld and reveal the dark side of fame and the American Dream. Clean copy.

Softcover. Calgary CA, University of Calgary Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 615 pages. Critical forces of culture and nature collide in this comprehensive history of Ellesmere Island in the age of contact. Surveying the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lyle Dick presents an impressive treatment of European-Inuit contact in the High Arctic (the area of what is now the Quttinirpaaq National Park) while considering the roles of the natural environment and cultures as factors in human history. As he charts the dynamic interplay between change and continuity in this forbidden land, Dick unravels the complexities of cultural exchange and human relationships to the Arctic landscape. Muskox Land provides a meticulously researched and richly illustrated treatment of Canada's High Arctic as it interweaves insights from historiography, Native studies, ecology, anthropology, and polar exploration. Winner of the Harold Adams Innis Prize for Best English Language Book in the Social Sciences, Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Clean copy.

Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages. Clean, like new.

Hardcover. New York, Penguin Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 692 pages, b&w photographs. Beautiful copy. Like new. An evaluation of Italy's notorious Fascist period under dictator Benito Mussolini considers its violence and demands for obedience, noting how it served as a model for other twentieth-century dictatorships while arguing that the nation's largely undeveloped country and tribal family structures helped Italians to devise creative survival and resistance methods.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2nd pr., 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue color with gilt stamping. 365 pages, frontispiece portrait and sixteen photographs. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, T.O.H.P. Burnham, 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 602 pages, maroon cloth covers with embossed design, color faded, especially on spine. Mild foxing to several pages, rear fly leaf with corner torn away. Still a tight, attractive copy of the day-to-day travels of an English journalist through America in the early years of the Civil War.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alice Provensen. In this illustrated "family album," Caldecott medalist Alice Provensen offers a unique glimpse of the people who shaped America, from Pocahontas to Edgar Allan Poe to Martin Luther King Jr. This 60-page, oversized hardcover is rich with portraits of artists, enduring icons, outlaws, radicals, visionaries, composers, writers, inventors, and reformers. On the "Naturalists and Ecologists" page, Rachel Carson is joined by water analyst Ellen Swallow Richards, painter and ornithologist John James Audubon, and agricultural chemist George Washington Carver. While quotations from famous Americans mark every page, the book's focus is purely pictorial. The visual montages present an interesting jumping-off point for further exploration of some of America's rogues and luminaries. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Alice Provensen. In this illustrated "family album," Caldecott medalist Alice Provensen offers a unique glimpse of the people who shaped America, from Pocahontas to Edgar Allan Poe to Martin Luther King Jr. This 60-page, oversized hardcover is rich with portraits of artists, enduring icons, outlaws, radicals, visionaries, composers, writers, inventors, and reformers. On the "Naturalists and Ecologists" page, Rachel Carson is joined by water analyst Ellen Swallow Richards, painter and ornithologist John James Audubon, and agricultural chemist George Washington Carver. While quotations from famous Americans mark every page, the book's focus is purely pictorial. The visual montages present an interesting jumping-off point for further exploration of some of America's rogues and luminaries. Clean copy.

Hardcover. OH, Kent State University, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 328 pages. During the nineteenth century-a time of great technical and cultural change-fashion was a cultivating force in the development of American society, influenced by one's social status, geographic location, and economic standing. My Likeness Taken is a collection of daguerreotype portraits of men, women, and children taken between 1840 and 1860. Selected from the top collections in the United States, each image is analyzed to clarify datable clothing and fashion components. With subjects from among the best-dressed members of society, these portraits-reproduced in full color-reflect the latest fashion developments, trends, and influences. For students of photographic and costume history, this is extraordinary material. Many of these images have never before been published, and Severa's keen analysis adds immeasurably to our understanding of the importance of dress in American society. Photo archivists and collectors, costume curators, social historians, material culturalists, and theater designers will find My Likeness Taken an invaluable resource.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In 1942, a timid, inexperienced twenty-one-year-old Lord reports to Atlantic City, New Jersey, to enlist in the US Army. This title tells the story of this young man's exposure to the terrors, dislocations, and horrors of armed conflict. Along the way he comes to terms with his own sexuality, experiences the thrill of first love and the chill of disillusionment with his fellow man, Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1945, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth covers with light wear, 436 pages. The author spent 25 years in China as a journalist. Powell's book covers the period between (1917-1945) and discusses the personalities of the day: Chiang Kai Shek, Yuan Shi Kai and Chang Husiliang as well the intrigues of the Soviets and the Japanese. Note: Powell lost both his feet to the Japanese at his stay at the Bridge House. No markings.

Hardcover. NY, Coward-McCann, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with mild edgewear. Scarce copy of this classic account by Hall of Fame baseballer Rogers Hornsby. 253 pages, b&w illustrations. Foreword by Casey Stengel. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth. Black and gilt spine lettering. 404 pages plus plates at back. 27 pages of plates and illustrations; Preface by W.E. Gladstone, M.P. Reprint of author's 1880 edition. Issued without a dust jacket. Schliemann's account of his excavations at the Greek Bronze Age citadel site of Mycenae. He carried out these excavations from 1876 to 1878, and were less damaging than those of his first excavations at Troy from 1871 to 1874. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1852, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original embossed brown cloth, 274 pages, plus 14 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Gilt lettering on spine. A collection of accounts of the supernatural. Several pages have tears to edges, limited to margins and not affecting text. Mild foxing. some residue to front and rear pastEdowns. Overall very good.

Hardcover. Mystic CT, Mystic Seaport Museum, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. 254 pages, b&w illustrations. Endpapers map. No dust jacket, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, A history of the Encyclopedia Britannica. 390 pgs. small bkpt on front pastedown, light stain to rear cover. still VG.