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Browser Book Beat Issue 137

140 volumes in this batch of new arrivals. We have a slew of art exhibition/auction catalogs. Also Novels, Children’s fiction and illustrated, Biographies, American and World history, literature, poetry and some odds and ends. Here’s a sampling. See all 140 New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.

Maroon label on spine reads UNITED STATES LAWS in gilt. Covers all three sessions: The second on the 4th of January 1790 and the 3rd session, held in Philadelphia, on the 6th of December 1790. — Acts Passed at the First Congress of the United States of America, Begun and held at the City of New York….

Acts Passed at the First Congress of the United States of America, Begun and held at the City of New York On Wednesday the Fourth of March One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Nine…. Read More

$500.00

Royall Tyler served as chief justice from 1807 through 1813 presiding over cases including slavery and smuggling on Lake Champlain. — Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Vermont ( 2 Vols.)

Tyler presided over many important trials like that of Stephen Jacob in 1802, involving slavery, and that of the Black Snake crew in 1808, dealing with smuggling on Lake Champlain. Read More

$300.00

Henri Christophe was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution and the first king of the Kingdom of Haiti, reigning from 1811 until his death in 1820. — Black Majesty: The Life of Christophe, King of Haiti

Henri Christophe was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution. He rose from slavery to establish a monarchy in northern Haiti, reigning from 1811 until his death in 1820. Read More

$80.00

Black jockeys were internationally famous in late 19th century as the first African American superstar athletes—and with wins in three Kentucky Derbies and countless other prestigious races, Murphy was the greatest of them all. — Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey

Born a slave in 1861, Murphy still reigns as one of the greatest jockeys in American history. Black jockeys like Murphy were at the top of the most popular sport in America at the end of the nineteenth century. Read More

$20.00

The story of a trufflehunting terrier told from his point of view — “Teem”- A Treasure-Hunter

A brief, charming story told in the first person of a truffle hunting artist, a small terrier. Kipling’s last piece of fiction, published in the Atlantic in the US in 1936. Read More

$35.00

A cute story about Woody Woodpecker and his friend, Wally Walrus. Woody has a new job and does not realize it's Wally's birthday. — Woody Woodpecker Shoots the Works

Everyone loves Woody don’t they! Woody gets a new job and finds an inadvertent way to cheer a friend. Another Tell-a-Tale book with great pictures. Read More

$12.00

It's full of intimate accounts in sections about the British contact with the natives of India and the other states mentioned in the title of the book. Takes you on a roller-coaster ride through Indian history. — A Short History of India and of the Frontier States of Afghanistan, Nipal, and Burma

One of the earlier accounts of the imperial contact with India, unadulterated by some of the later reconstructions of the history of the subcontinent. Read More

$30.00

Book discusses the place of the intellect as a guide to religious truth. The author’s work brought principles from Quaker decision-making to bear on wider questions about democracy and religion. Read More

$28.00

Description of the pre-20th century residential and commercial building of each town in Addison County Vermont. Building by building. Read More

$70.00

A visual storytelling celebration of American roots music in its rich variety through unseen and newly scanned photographs by the founder of the legendary Arhoolie Records. Read More

$35.00

Reprints of the Flash Gordon Sunday strip from 1944-1948. Flash continues as the original guardian of the galaxy. Read More

$70.00

Caniff won the first Cartoonist of the Year Award from the National Cartoonists Society for his work on Terry and the Pirates. — Terry and the Pirates: The Master Collection Vol. 11: 1945 – Reunion in Indo-China

Terry and the Pirates is an action-adventure comic strip created by cartoonist Milton Caniff, which originally ran from October 22, 1934, to February 25, 1973. Read More

$150.00

Art and politics reside in Ai Weiwei’s work. Through sculpture, film, installation, photography and architecture he has campaigned for human rights. He was allowed to leave China in 2015. Read More

$80.00

Steinberg critically evaluates and compares Rauschenberg's more recent work to the artist's earlier work evaluating Rauschenberg's silk-screen prints of the 1960s to the vegetable dye transfer prints of the 1990s. — Encounters with Rauschenberg: (A Lavishly Illustrated Lecture)

Leo Steinberg, American art critic and art historian, evaluates Rauschenberg’s silk-screen prints of the 1960s to the vegetable dye transfer prints of the 1990s. Read More

$12.00

Viola’s book offers the most comprehensive look into the peasants and their actions under collectivization. — Peasant Rebels Under Stalin: Collectivization and the Culture of Peasant Resistance

Viola argues that the peasants did in fact actively resist collectivization, and that their unrest sprung from the “culture of peasant resistance” which led to earlier rebellions in Russia. Read More

$35.00

A fresh perspective on the origins, formative years, and subsequent development of Soviet literature and culture, and raises new issues for research and discussion. — Nietzsche and Soviet Culture: Ally and Adversary

The book examines the Nietzschean roots of early Soviet literature, theater and architecture, Soviet political culture, the work of disaffected writers and thinkers. Read More

$60.00

Meta-utopian narratives examine the complexities and contradictions of the singular vision of utopia. They often explore themes of disorientation and the fragmented nature of contemporary society. — Russian Experimental Fiction: Resisting Ideology After Utopia

Meta-utopian narratives examine the complexities and contradictions of the singular vision of utopia. They explore themes of disorientation and the fragmented nature of contemporary society. Read More

$28.00

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov is one of Russia's great musical figures. Largely self-taught, he became a professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and one of the famed "Mighty Handful" of Russian nationalist composers. — Rimsky-Korsakov: Letters to His Family and Friends

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov is one of Russia’s great musical figures. Largely self-taught, and one of the famed “Mighty Handful” of Russian nationalist composers. Read More

$35.00

Visual history of the collaboration between General Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson proved a winning combination in the battles leading up to July 1863: Second Bull Run — Gods and Generals: The Paintings of Mort Kunstler

Civil War history focused on time of collaboration between General Robert E. Lee and Thomas Stonewall Jackson when the Confederacy dominated the battlefields. Read More

$30.00

Book four in the Thursday Next fantasy / sci-fi “literary detective” series. This series is "Fforde’s vividly fantastic, literary world". The plots are completely unrealistic, but great fun. — Something Rotten (INSCRIBED COPY)

The fourth installment of the Thursday Next series. It brings together all the plot lines set out earlier are woven together introducing political satire to the series. Read More

$30.00

Browser Book Beat Issue 133

These new arrivals include art, children’s, history (mostly regional), literature, building basics like everything you’d want to know about bricks, and photography. A lot of photography. Here’s a sampling. See all New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.

Sander, German portrait and documentary photographer, has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century". — August Sander: Citizens of the Twentieth Century.

August Sander, German portrait and documentary photographer, has been described as “the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century”. Read More

$180.00

Nicholas Nixon is an American photographer, known for his work in portraiture and documentary photography, and for using the 8×10 inch view camera. — Nicholas Nixon: Pictures of People

Nicholas Nixon, known for using the 8×10 inch view camera, shows in this collection how photographs of ordinary people can sometimes address the deepest of human values. Read More

$100.00

David LaChapelle, photographer and director who works in the fields of fashion, advertising, and fine art photography, is noted for his surreal, unique and often humorous style. — Hotel LaChapelle

LaChapelle is one of the most original fashion photographers of his time and place. There are images in this book that seem to come out of nowhere but his fantasy. Read More

$70.00

In staged photos, Dicorcia takes everyday events beyond the realm of banality and at times, his use of color, lighting and framing is incredible. — Philip-Lorca Dicorcia

Dicorcia’s pictures are imagined scenarios of everyday life stretching from normal daily household routine to the male prostitutes and drug addicts of Hollywood. Read More

$50.00

Life in Europe in last years of the previous century as seen by Josef Koudelka. His raw, unsentimental style produces haunting black and white photographs of the ordinary. Read More

$70.00

Taro's career was brief, but had a great impact on photojournalism and helped invent modern war photography. — Gerda Taro

Taro’s career was brief, but with great impact on photojournalism. Taro and her partner Robert Capa helped invent the genre of modern war photography. Read More

$150.00

Capote's masterpiece of True Crime. The cold-blooded murders in Kansas in 1956 are described by a cold, distant narrator. — In Cold Blood

Capote’s masterpiece of True Crime. The cold-blooded murders in Kansas in 1956. Compelling and suspenseful even when you know how it all ends. Read More

$50.00

Misrach's photographs instigate new questions in landscape photography and the new definition of "beauty" in all visual studies. — Bravo 20: The Bombing Of The American West

For eighteen months in the mid-eighties, photographer Richard Misrach roamed through the natural beauty and man-made devastation in The American West. Read More

$30.00

Black artists, philosophers, writers, poets, musicians, politicians, and sports heroes are featured throughout. — Committed to the Image

Uncompromising, thought-provoking, often highly politicized images cover contemporary African American identity. Black artists, philosophers, writers, poets, musicians, politicians, and sports heroes are featured throughout. Read More

$28.00

Beautifully executed male nude studies. Mapplethorpe said he sought to convey Black men as the "Platonic ideal". — Robert Mapplethorpe: Black Book

Black Book was the first modern photographic collection to portray and celebrate the beauty of African American men. Mapplethorpe said he sought to convey Black men as the “Platonic ideal”. Read More

$40.00

Abbott draws on a range of primary sources to provide a thorough and accurate account of this pivotal period in American history. — The History of the Civil War in America Comprising a Full and Impartial Account…

A comprehensive look from the early tensions through the battles that shaped the course of the Civil War and the lives of those who fought in it. Read More

$400.00

Watts authored a text book on logic published in 1724. It became the standard text on logic at Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard and Yale; being used at Oxford University for well over 100 years. — Sermons On Various Subjects, Divine And Moral

Isaac Watts was an English hymnwriter, theologian and logician. Credited with some 650 hymns. Many are in use today, and have been translated into many languages. Read More

$400.00

Author Henry J. Raymond was a member of the New York State Assembly, the Lieutenant Governor of New York, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and elected to the US House of Representatives. — The Life and Public Services of Abraham Lincoln….

Author Henry Jarvis Raymond, journalist, newspaper publisher, and politician, co-founded both the Republican Party and The New York Times. Has sometimes been called the “godfather of the Republican Party”. Read More

$120.00

Earl Covey was one of the pioneers who opened the Adirondacks territory and built many camps for visitors who summered in those mountains. Read about Adirondacks history pre modern highways. Read More

$80.00

From 1919 till 1939 she Barton a column syndicated in & appearing daily in 400+ NEA and Scripps-Howard newspapers on child rearing and related subjects. — The Wonderful Land of Up

Olive Roberts Barton began writing children’s books as syndicated “serial” stories in the newspapers. Her oeuvre includes “Nancy & Nick”, “Story riddles in Rhyme & Prose”and “Bramble Bush riddles”. Read More

$40.00

The Ingalls settle into a sod house on the banks of Plum Creek in Minnesota. Life has challenges. They face a blizzard and a grasshopper infestation. — On the Banks of Plum Creek

After “Little House” the adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue when they travel by covered wagon to Minnesota where they face a blizzard and a grasshopper infestation. Read More

$50.00

Ira is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. The population was 368 at the 2020 census. — History of Ira, Vermont

Traces Ira, Vermont’s development through the 19th and early 20th centuries. Illustrated with photographs and historical documents. Read More

$80.00

Mother Goose nursery rhymes are enjoyed by children the world over. But beware. The rhymes have a historical sinister interpretation, too. — MOTHER GOOSE RHYMES

Mother Goose never gets old. This lovely version is Illustrated in color and b&w by Eulalie and Lois Lenski. For adults, the rhymes have a historical, sinister interpretation, too. Read More

$30.00

The book provides a detailed overview of the principles of brick engineering, including the science behind brick manufacturing, types of bricks, and the design principles used in brick construction. Read More

$20.00

The book is aimed at beginners and students of mechanical drawing, providing clear and concise explanations of the principles and techniques involved. — Elementary Mechanical Drawing: Theory and Practice….

This guidebook provides a comprehensive introduction to mechanical drawing, from basic theory to practical applications. It’s an essential resource for anyone interested in engineering or design. Read More

$20.00

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