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Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in publisher's shrink-wrap. 160 pages, illustrated with 110 color images. Photographer Laura McPhee, noted for her stunning large-scale landscapes and portraits of the people who live and work in them, has been traveling to eastern India for over a decade. There she has devoted her perceptive vision to picturing layers of history, culture, religion, and class as they appear in private heritage homes and public markets, in lively street festivals, and in the faces of city dwellers in Calcutta (also known as Kolkata). This exquisitely produced book features a selection of McPhee's works made in and around India's former capital.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics Books, 1st, 2023, Hardcover, pictorial boards. During a golden moment in the early 1950s, EC Comics lovingly adapted 25 classic Ray Bradbury stories into comics form, scripted by Al Feldstein and brilliantly interpreted and illuminated by all of EC's top artists: Johnny Craig, Reed Crandall, Jack Davis, Will Elder, George Evans, Frank Frazetta, Graham Ingels, Jack Kamen, Roy Krenkel, Bernard Krigstein, Joe Orlando, John Severin, Angelo Torres, Al Williamson, and Wallace Wood. This special companion collection to our EC Comics Library series features all 25 official adaptations plus an additional ten related stories with stunning art reproduced in generously oversized coffee table dimensions! Highlights in this singular volume include: "Home to Stay"- a clever combination of two Bradbury science fiction stories that Bradbury himself proclaimed topped his originals (available in no other form or medium), masterfully woven together by Al Feldstein and Wallace Wood. "A Sound of Thunder" - the classic time-travel-gone-wrong story brilliantly illustrated by Al Williamson and Angelo Torres. "Touch and Go" - an obsessive psychological thriller tautly executed by Johnny Craig. And many more, including "The Million Year Picnic" (Elder), "I, Rocket" (Williamson and Frazetta), "Zero Hour" (Kamen), "Mars Is Heaven" (Wood), and "There Will Come Soft Rains..." (Wood). Plus a cornucopia of bonus features, including introductions and commentary by Greg Bear, Ted White, Dr. Benjamin Saunders, Bill Mason, and Thommy Burns; a wry reminiscence by Ray himself; and two full-color paintings by Frank Frazetta. DUE TO SIZE AND WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 318 pages. From the time they emerged in American cities in the 1820s, commercial luxury hotels were far more than places where a traveler could eat and sleep-they were icons of style, opulence, and technological sophistication. Molly W. Berger offers a compelling history of the American hotel and how it captured the public's imagination as it came to represent the complex-and often contentious-relationship among luxury, economic development, and the ideals of a democratic society. From New York to San Francisco and points in between, Berger profiles the country's most prestigious hotels, including Boston's 1829 Tremont, which served as a model for luxury hotel design; San Francisco's world famous Palace, completed in 1875; and Chicago's enormous Stevens, built two years before the great crash of 1929. The fascinating stories behind their design, construction, and marketing reveal in rich detail how these buildings became cultural symbols that shaped the urban landscape. Clean copy.

New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 375 pages including index, color and b&w illustrations. When George Washington embarked on his presidential tours of 1789?-91, the rudimentary inns and taverns of the day suddenly seemed dismally inadequate. But within a decade, Americans had built the first hotels?, large and elegant structures that boasted private bedchambers and grand public ballrooms. This book recounts the enthralling history of the hotel in America?a saga in which politicians and prostitutes, tourists and tramps, conventioneers and confidence men, celebrities and salesmen all rub elbows. Hotel explores why the hotel was invented, how its architecture developed, and the many ways it influenced the course of United States history. The volume also presents a beautiful collection of more than 120 illustrations, many in full color, of hotel life in every era. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AT BOTTOM OF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Shulevitz. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AT BOTTOM OF TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Shulevitz. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket, 276 pages with index. INSCRIBED BY BODGER on the front fly leaf. Over fifty years ago, Joan Bodger, her husband, and two children went to Britain on a special literary quest. They were seeking the world that they knew and loved through children's books. In Winnie-the-Pooh Country, Mrs. Milne showed them the way to that enchanted place on the top of the Forest [where] a little boy and his Bear will always be playing. In Edinburgh they stood outside Robert Louis Stevenson's childhood home, tilting their heads to talk to a lamplighter who was doing his job. In the Lake District they visited Jemima Puddle-Duck's farm, and Joan sought out crusty Arthur Ransome to talk to him about Swallows and Amazons. They spent several days messing about in boats on the River Thames, looking for Toad Hall and other places described by Kenneth Grahame in The Wind in the Willows. Mud and flood kept them from attaining the slopes of Pooks Hill (on Rudyard Kiplings farm), but they scaled the heights of Tintagel.

Hardcover. Boston, Macullar Parker & Co., 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages with 250 photographs and maps, including a color fold-out map in rear. Blue cloth with bright gilt on front cover. Previous owner's inscription opposite title page.

Softcover. London, Tate Publishing, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages illustrated in color and b&w. One page(128) creased in production. This is the first book to tell the story of British photography as a coherent whole, from the pioneers of the early 19th century to photographers today who display their images on websites, on computer screens?even iPods. The authors have traveled the length and breadth of the UK, researching both well-known and forgotten bodies of work. Many famous names are here: Henry Fox Talbot, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Bill Brandt, Madame Yeronde, Angus McBean, Susan Lipper, and Tom Hunter are just a few. Among the works shown are postcards, family albums, photographic illustrations in books, medical photographs, wartime propaganda, and social documents. Through their exhaustive research the authors demonstrate the extraordinary range and diversity of roles that photography has played in British cultural life over the past 150 years.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 320 pages. George Rodger began his photographic career with the BBC as a stills photographer. His baptism as a photo reporter came with his appointment as a 'stringer' for Life magazine during the Blitz on London in the most threatening days of 1940. Many of his images from that time are still in constant use, because his instinct has always been to concentrate on the humanity of his subjects, even in the face of terrible adversity.It was for Life that George Rodger embarked on a series of adventures that were to take him to almost every theatre of the Second World War in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.The fulcrum of his career came with the liberation of Belsen. As for the first few days he was the only photographer present, the images he captured became crucially important in making known the depravity of the camps.1948 he embarked on a campaign of photography rediscovering humanity, starting with an expedition from Cape Town to Cairo by road. He found in Africa tribes almost untouched by European influence and was able to create images of enormous power that quickly became world-famous.This book presents the pictures that define George Rodger's long career and a commentary on his extraordinary journey. With a Foreword by Henri Cartier-Bresson and over 260 powerful images, it represents a fitting tribute to George Rodger and a celebration of his life's work.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Brandon Stanton created Humans of New York in 2010. What began as a photographic census of life in New York City, soon evolved into a storytelling phenomenon. A global audience of millions began following HONY daily. Over the next several years, Stanton broadened his lens to include people from across the world. Traveling to more than forty countries, he conducted interviews across continents, borders, and language barriers. Humans is the definitive catalogue of these travels. The faces and locations will vary from page to page, but the stories will feel deeply familiar. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Kensington, NSW, Bay Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages, frontispiece, text with numerous b/w. and color illustrations, list of illustrations, bibliography, index, bound in original maroon cloth, title lettered in white on spine, very good copy. The history of Australian exploration and discovery has already been told in many ways. This book gives modern day Australians and 'eye witness' account of those early days when the country was unknown and the possibilities seemed unlimited. The story is revealed through the diaries and log-books of the explorers. Their own plans, experiences and observations are all recorded here. Clean copy. 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. Santa Fe NM, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folio, 60 pages, VG+ in pictorial boards, as issued, without dust jacket. Lavishly illustrated in b&w. Bill Burke's seminal book originally published by Nexus Press in 1987. In the early 1980's Burke traveled to Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as Cambodia where he documented the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime. The book was produced using the original plates, and features the same layout and scale as the first edition.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Twin Palms Publishers, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Folio, 60 pages, VG+ in pictorial boards, as issued, without dust jacket. Lavishly illustrated in b&w. Bill Burke's seminal book originally published by Nexus Press in 1987. In the early 1980's Burke traveled to Thailand and Viet Nam, as well as Cambodia where he documented the aftermath of the Khmer Rouge regime. The book was produced using the original plates, and features the same layout and scale as the first edition.

Hardcover. Portfolio, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 194 pages. A great book by the bestseller author Sigurgeir Sigurjonsson. In this breathtaking new book about Icelandic landscape Sigurgeir entwines nature and culture in a dramatic, vivid and unforgettable moments. You can really feel the energy and flow of all that Iceland has to offer while going through the pages. This is the large edition 25x25 cm. The book comes in a beautiful bag.

Hardcover. Chicago, Rand, McNally & Co., 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering, 686 pages. Maps on endpapers, frontis. portrait of author. Profusely illustrated with b&w photos. The social attitudes of the author are typical of his time, still, an interesting picture of Africa in the 1920s. Bookplate on first blank page, small tear to top of cloth spine, otherwise very good, clean.

Hardcover. US, The Book Service / MacDonald & Co. / Webb & Bower, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 248 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Faint foxing to edges, else a clean, tight copy.

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. 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. 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. NY, Abbeville Press, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Silver titles on spine and blind stamped on front of black cloth covers, 144 pages illustrated in color and b&w including bibliography and index. Updated and expanded edition of material first published in 1985. A fascinating look at the stories and creations of individuals obsessed with outer space and extraterrestrials. The author travelled around an collected the stories and photographs for the book. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st , 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. 161 color photographs by Arnold. Dust jacket with light wear. This book represents the result of two years traveling the USA. Arnold was a member of Magnum and though born and raised in the US, spent some 30 years in Britain; this was her way of reconnecting with her birth country and thus provides a look at US culture in the late 1970s/early 80s. Eve Arnold (1912-2012) was an American photojournalist. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951 as the first women, and became a full member in 1957. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Melbourne, Melbourne Pub. Co., 1st , 1919, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Many black & white photos throughout. Previous owner's name on front end paper.Staining on front cover, spine faded and light rubbing and edge wear. Tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Century Company, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth decorated in red, black and gilt. Illustrated throughout with black-and-white images. Includes two fold-out color maps. The publisher's laud Powell's travel book for its "discussion of historical, religious, racial, and political questions for those contemplating a travel to French North Africa, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco during the 1920s." Rear hinge cracked, spine with small tears/punctures otherwise clean copy.