Book Beat 139
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Book Beat 137
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A complete collection of Frazetta’s comic book art and covers, along with essays and information about his work in the field. Features several full-page covers of Frazetta’s amazing brush work. Read More
$80.00
An American cartoonist and a landscape painter, Swinnerton experimented with narrative continuity, and played a key role in developing the comic strip at the end of the 19th century. Read More
$170.00
Beside the artists themselves, features include talk about the colors of the strip, the coloring process itself, whether Doré inspired Foster?, and how the script was turned into finished art. Read More
$150.00
Constable was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition, known principally for revolutionizing the genre of landscape painting with his pictures of Dedham Vale, Suffolk, England. Read More
$300.00
Except for winter painting in Vermont, Hibbard spent much of his life in Rockport, Massachusetts and helped evolve a style of painting known as The Rockport School of Painting. Read More
$80.00
Through documentary photography, photojournalism, portraiture, still life, self-portraiture, and constructed tableaux, women photographers define the world. Read More
$25.00
A seemingly simple memoir by the pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery turns into something greater – a philosophy of life, with all its complexities and anxieties revealed. Read More
$30.00
Billy, instrument repairman, takes you to sound stages, studios and shows for emergency repairs. It’s the story of another day with the music technician. Read More
$20.00
McCloskey both wrote and illustrated eight picture books, and won two Caldecott Medals from the American Library Association for the year’s best-illustrated picture book. Read More
$25.00
A good parody of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. A zombie awakes with a terrible appetite and eats his way through several groups of people until his appetite is fully satiated by a pile of brains. Read More
$25.00
The serendipitous use of Sloan’s horse liniment on a human back lead the Sloan brothers to begin selling even more of the liniment advertising it as “good for man and beast”. Read More
$40.00
History of four principal towns past the Revolutionary era. Beyond those four principal towns, this book chronicles the history of smaller surrounding towns on the bay, such as Jamestown. Read More
$80.00
Dieter Kafitz was Professor of Modern German Literary History. This book presents theories about structuralism, poststructuralism and feminist literature in current culture. German Text. Read More
$70.00
Through Lord Minto’s personal letters and official correspondence, the book sheds light on the challenges and complexities of British governance in India during a pivotal period in colonial history. Read More
$80.00
Jakobson (translator) was a Russian thinker who became one of the most influential linguists of the twentieth century by pioneering the development of structural analysis of language. Read More
$30.00
The Story of Atlantis is a fantasy novel by English author C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne. It is considered one of the classic fictional retellings of the story of the drowning of Atlantis Read More
$40.00
LAID IN: Bird’s Eye View Of The White Mountains 1890’s ORIGINAL MAP. This multi-colored view depicts the high peaks of the White Mountains and the surrounding region. Read More
$700.00
This is an interesting look at Billy Wilder’s Hollywood output, weaving in his background in Europe. Wilder was one of the most accomplished filmmakers ever to work in Hollywood. Read More
$28.00
Critic and writer Edgar Allan Poe acknowledged the popularity of Morris’s songs, “which have taken fast hold upon the popular taste, and which are deservedly celebrated”. Read More
$60.00
An intensely researched portrait of the man and the athlete, Illingworth writes a compelling story of secrecy, misconceptions, stereotypes, hype, greed, even racism. Read More
$25.00
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
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. He rose from slavery to establish a monarchy in northern Haiti, reigning from 1811 until his death in 1820. Read More
$80.00
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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 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, and one of the famed “Mighty Handful” of Russian nationalist composers. Read More
$35.00
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
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