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Hardcover. New York, William Morrow, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Black and white illustrations and photographs. Cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Pictorial dust jacket shows light edgewear. Containing nearly 600 black-and-white photographs and illustrations, and articles by numerous experts, Amelia Peabody's Egypt sparkles with unforgettable glimpses of the exotic and the bizarre, the unusual and the unfamiliar -- a treasure trove that overflows with Egyptological riches, along with wonderful insights into the culture and mores of the Victorian era, including the prevalent attitudes on empire, fashion, feminism, tourists, servants, and much more.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, reprint, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 321 pages, with 80 illustrations by F. H. Townsend. Gilt titles. Corner and spine edge wear, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Otherwise, clean pages and tight binding.

Softcover. Southampton, NY, The Parrish Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Tan covers with little wear; only a few minor scratches and marks. Spine is faded and creased. Clean and crisp pages with descriptions of artists along with reproductions of their work. Catalogue of a traveling exhibition, with 65 works by Chase, Duveneck, Ferris, Gifford, Monks, the Moran family, Parrish, Platt, Weir, Whistler, and many more artists. Extensively documented. 62 pages.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton & Co., 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 74 pages. Hardcover. Green Pebbled cloth. Gilt title and decoration on front cover. Black & white illustrations by Toby. Front endpaper has been removed. Previous owners name on inside front cover and preliminary page. Moderate fraying at bottom of spine, light rubbing to corners. All edges gilt. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page & Co., 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, clean, square and tight in grey pictorial embossed buckram with no internal markings. Top page edges gilt. Little Pilgrimage Series. Illustrated throughout with 33 b&w photos, etchings and small b&w engravings. Tissue present between first illustration and title page. 1904 on title page in roman numerals. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Haven, Mercatorfonds, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 224 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The flourishing of photography as a medium in the mid-19th century coincided with a rise in curiosity about China on the part of the Western world. As the number of foreigners living and traveling in China increased, early photographs of China were taken by and for an international audience. Among the Celestials assembles 250 fascinating images of China in the second half of the 19th century and first half of the 20th, captured by the Western camera lens. The photographs portray the gritty side of the country as well as stunning views of palaces, temples, harbors, and gardens. This juxtaposition of the sordid and the serene provides a multidimensional picture of China's physical and social landscape before Mao Zedong's ascent to power changed the country forever. The photographs, many published here for the first time, are both beautiful and moving, and together offer a new understanding of a social and cultural history associated with a time of significant historical change.

Hardcover. London, Octagon Press, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in dust jacket with fading to spine, 203 pages. Subtitled: "An Account of Travels in Asia and Africa, and Four Years Studying the Dervishes, Sufis and Fakirs, by Living Among Them." The author documents the largely ignored and forgotten ancient mystic organizations and their practices. Pages tanning otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, James R. Osgood & Co., 1st, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt stamping, 184 pages, illustrated with 4 b&w plates with tissue guards. Previous owner's inscription on blank prelim page, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, John Lane Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with faded gilt lettering. Written by Isaac Frederick Marcosson, an American magazine editor, on his travels through Africa and along the Congo. Complete with 48 illustrations including photographs, maps and frontispiece of King Albert. Newspaper photo of author pasted to inside front cover, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 3rd pr., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 223 pages. A young American's experience in a district school in Tanganyika and traveling in Rhodesia and South Africa as a member of the Peace Corps. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Pasadena CA, Pasadena Museum of California Art, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 149 pages, illustrated in color. Bright, clean copy in similar dust jacket. Catalog of an exhibition organised by the Pasadena Museum of Californian Art and held there and at the Gibbes Museum, Charleston, South Carolina, in 2005-6. The book presents 77 works, reproduced in excellent colour as half and full page plates, including nudes, figures and urban and rural landscapes. William Gerdts offers a scene-setting Introduction after which Solon provides an in-depth study of the artist's life and work. This includes his marriage, travels abroad including Europe, Panama and Mexico, experience as an aerial photographer in the Great War, return to Southern California and life in Pasadena, a region that was recommended for health reasons, and a final decade marked by ill-health that contributed to the general decline in his reputation outside of the local art community.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue-gray cloth with white lettering and decoration on front cover, 279 pages, b&w illustrations by the author.

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. An Empire of Facts presents a fascinating account of the formation of French conceptions of Islam in France's largest and most important colony. During the period from 1870 to 1914, travelers, bureaucrats, scholars, and writers formed influential and long-lasting misconceptions about Islam that determined the imperial cultural politics of Algeria and its interactions with republican France. Narratives of Islamic mysticism, rituals, gender relations, and sensational crimes brought unfamiliar cultural forms and practices to popular attention in France, but also constructed Algerian Muslims as objects for colonial intervention. Personal lives and interactions between Algerian and French men and women inflected these texts, determining their style, content, and consequences. Drawing on sources in Arabic and French, this book places such personal moments at the heart of the production of colonial knowledge, emphasizing the indeterminacy of ethnography, and its political context in the unfolding of France's empire and its relations with Muslim North Africa. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Flammarion, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 80 pages illustrated in b&w. A previously unpublished body of work from the late, great photographer Andre Kertesz, featuring a collection of photographs that capture the ephemeral beauty of Paris in 1963. Andre Kertesz, a master photographer of the twentieth century, was a pioneer in photographic composition and photojournalism who gained critical acclaim for his image distortions. Born in Hungary, he moved from Paris to New York during World War II. In 1963, he returned to Paris and took more than 2,000 black-and-white photographs and nearly 500 slides that capture the city's essence--from Montmartre to the banks of the Seine to its gardens and parks. Kertesz edited these photographs into book form, but the work was set aside and was only recently rediscovered in his archives, twenty-five years after his death. The previously unpublished material is reproduced here as he originally intended and completed with archival documents and a critical essay.

Softcover. NY, Grolier Club Of New York, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A lively look at an under-explored niche in the history of American ads: pop-ups. Drawing from Ellen G. K. Rubin's extensive collection of more than 7,000 pop-up books and related ephemera, Animated Advertising demonstrates how animated and dimensional paper devices have been used throughout US history to promote products, art, entertainment, and ideas. The book displays the creativity of advertisers in food, fashion, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, travel, music, politics, and more. Rubin's diverse examples of historical paper pop-ups show how they leaped from the pack of standard marketing materials to catch the eye and inform patrons and clientele about the items being sold. Illustrated with two hundred and fifty color images, and published to coincide with a Winter 2023 exhibition at the Grolier Club's New York headquarters, Animated Advertising is a lively look at an under-explored niche in the history of American marketing, graphic design, and paper engineering.

Softcover. NY, Grolier Club, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages. A lively look at an underexplored niche in the history of American ads: pop-ups. Drawing from Ellen G. K. Rubins extensive collection of more than 7,000 pop-up books and related ephemera, Animated Advertising demonstrates how animated and dimensional paper devices have been used throughout US history to promote products, art, entertainment, and ideas. The book displays the creativity of advertisers in food, fashion, tobacco, pharmaceuticals, travel, music, politics, and more. Rubins diverse examples of historical paper pop-ups show how they leaped from the pack of standard marketing materials to catch the eye and inform patrons and clientele about the items being sold. Illustrated with two hundred and fifty color images, and published to coincide with a Winter 2023 exhibition at the Grolier Clubs New York headquarters, Animated Advertising is a lively look at an underexplored niche in the history of American marketing, graphic design, and paper engineering. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.

Softcover. New York , Aperture, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. This issue features the work of Raghubir Singh, Raghu Rai, Roaslind Solomon, Linda Connor, Mitch Epstein, Alex Webb and others.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 518 pages, b&w illustrations. Appetite for America is the incredible real-life story of Fred Harvey--told in depth for the first time ever--as well as the story of this country's expansion into the Wild West of Bat Masterson and Billy the Kid, of the great days of the railroad, of a time when a deal could still be made with a handshake and the United States was still uniting. As a young immigrant, Fred Harvey worked his way up from dishwasher to household name: He was Ray Kroc before McDonald's, J. Willard Marriott before Marriott Hotels, Howard Schultz before Starbucks. His eating houses and hotels along the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe railroad (including historic lodges still in use at the Grand Canyon) were patronized by princes, presidents, and countless ordinary travelers looking for the best cup of coffee in the country. Harvey's staff of carefully screened single young women--the celebrated Harvey Girls--were the country's first female workforce and became genuine Americana, even inspiring an MGM musical starring Judy Garland. Clean copy.

NY, Hearst Books International, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Black & white and color photos and illustrations. 191 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Childs and Peterson, 1st, 1856, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volumes, 464 pages and 467 pages. Publisher's brown decorative cloth stamped in blind, gilt spines. Volume 1 has a frontispiece portrait, added engraved title, 1 folded map and 11 other plates; Volume 2 has a frontispiece portrait, added engraved title, 1 folded map, 1 full-page map (plate), and 7 other plates. Both volumes are also illustrated with appromimately 300 in-text wood-engravings. Both volumes with mild chipping to cloth at top of spine otherwise a clean, bright set.

Hardcover. Krause Publications, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. As the 2004 Presidential Election was beginning to take shape, Kyle Cassidy took note of the important role the simple concept of gun ownership was playing. Hardly anyone he knew didn't have an opinion in the debate over owning guns. Why was a constitutionally protected right so heavily debated, and who exactly as these folks that own guns? "I began to wonder who these seventy or so million Americans were, how they lived and what was important to them. I set out to photographs as many gun owners as I could and ask them one question: "Why do you own a gun." Cassidy traveled over 20,000 miles, crisscrossing the country to meet with gun owners in their homes. Cassidy's photo essays create a powerful, thought provoking and sometimes startling view of gun ownership in the U.S. These "everyman" portraits, and the accompanying views of gun owners, fashion a riveting and provocative book.

Hardcover. Krause Publications, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. As the 2004 Presidential Election was beginning to take shape, Kyle Cassidy took note of the important role the simple concept of gun ownership was playing. Hardly anyone he knew didn't have an opinion in the debate over owning guns. Why was a constitutionally protected right so heavily debated, and who exactly as these folks that own guns? "I began to wonder who these seventy or so million Americans were, how they lived and what was important to them. I set out to photographs as many gun owners as I could and ask them one question: "Why do you own a gun." Cassidy traveled over 20,000 miles, crisscrossing the country to meet with gun owners in their homes. Cassidy's photo essays create a powerful, thought provoking and sometimes startling view of gun ownership in the U.S. These "everyman" portraits, and the accompanying views of gun owners, fashion a riveting and provocative book.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, Revised, Limited Edition, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 371 pages. Hardcover. Revised, limited edition - this edition being two hundred and forty-five copies, of which this is handstamped #38. Black & white illustrations, includes fold-out map. Darkening to spine label. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Rutland, VT , Tuttle Company, 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 213 pages. Light green cloth covers with photo and gilt lettering. Light foxing throughout, all edges. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Black & white photographs. Tight binding. Author was Dorothy Canfield Fisher's mother.