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Book Beat 141

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Over 150 titles in this batch of new arrivals. Included are a fair amount of Anthropology, Art (monographs and auction catalogs), Children’s (fiction and illustrated), History, Literature, Novels, Philosophy, Photography, Regional titles (esp. Vermontiana) and a few stragglers. Here’s a sampling. See all of this group of New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
Mamet at his Pulitzer Prize winning best , writing about small-time, cutthroat real estate salesmen trying to grind out a living by pushing plots of land on reluctant buyers.
Glengarry Glen Ross (SIGNED COPY)

The Pulitzer Prize winner in 1984. Glengarry Glen Ross is a frenetically paced, dialogue driven, profanity laden play of desperation, greed, and corruption. Mamet at his best. Read More


$800.00

Nice good collection of Lovecraft stories written during his later years. Writer August Derleth completed those that were unfinished.
The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces

Nice collection of Lovecraft stories written during his later years. Stories are loosely connected and suggest the world is full of terror. Writer August Derleth completed those that were unfinished. Read More


$200.00

These photographs were taken in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Chad, Kenya, Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Congo Brazzaville.
Zagourski: Africa Lost

Outstanding photographic monograph from the Twenties and Thirties taken in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Chad, Kenya, Central African Republic, Cameroon, and Congo Brazzaville. Read More


$60.00

Contributions are from a broad swath: Papua and New Guinea and including expatriate authors from Australia and the U.K.
Second Waigani Seminar: The History of Melanesia

Melanesia is a subregion of Oceania in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It extends from New Guinea in the west to the Fiji Islands in the east. Contributions include expatriate authors from Australia and the U.K. Read More


$80.00

In 34 chapters, Forges proposes a general plan for the economic and financial reform of the kingdom when it was experiencing a severe economic crisis.
Des véritables intérêts de la Patrie

In 1764, France was reeling from its defeat in the Seven Years’ War and facing a severe economic crisis. Forges proposes a general plan for the economic and financial reform of the kingdom. Read More


$200.00

Marbot wrote perhaps the most famous memoirs of life and culture highlighting the environment of nobility and privilege before the upheaval of the Revolution.
Adventures of General Marbot

Marbot wrote perhaps the most famous memoirs of life and culture highlighting the environment of nobility and privilege before the upheaval of the Revolution. Read More


$38.00

Set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States, Pogo followed the adventures of its anthropomorphic animal characters, including the title character, an opossum.
Pogo The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips: Bona Fide Balderdash (Vol. 2)

Pogo was a daily comic strip set in the Okefenokee Swamp in the Southeastern United States. The strip was written for both children and adults, with layers of social and political satire targeted to the latter. Read More


$50.00

Little fat Gretchen is a wooden figure on top of a German music box. The written music for the music-box lullaby Gretchen sings to her baby appears on a few pages, so the lullaby can also be sung.
Little Fat Gretchen

Little Fat Gretchen is a wooden figure on top of a German music box who has a baby doll–her “puppchen”–in a little buggy. Then one day, to Gretchen’s dismay, her doll and buggy disappear. Read More


$40.00

Thiebaud makes cakes, ice cream, deli-counters, gum balls, candy etc. look delicious. He even did a picture of a hotdog that was mouth-watering.
Wayne Thiebaud: A Retrospective

Thiebaud makes the most mundane look sublime. It’s said his portrait of a white rabbit in pastel is so vivid you’d like to reach into the picture and pet it’s fur. Read More


$250.00

The history of a short local railroad which could not stand up to flooding and the harsh environment of Vermont. For railroad history aficionados.
A Whistle Up the Valley: The Story of the Peavine, Vermont’s White River Railroad

This book features a unique Vermont shortline train that ran through the White River Valley between Bethel and Rochester from 1898 to 1933. Read More


$100.00

Corbijn is a master at cutting through the celebrity persona and showing us little pieces of who these people really are. Corbijn's photographs are stark and grainy, dark and moody, and full of contrast.
Star Trak

Corbijn is a master at cutting through the celebrity persona and showing us little pieces of who these people really are. Corbijn’s photographs are stark and grainy, dark and moody, and full of contrast. Read More


$60.00

The discovery of more than 200 letters and hundreds of drawings and other items from the period 1940–1984 has provided scholars with material for understanding Brassai's later life and career.
Brassai in America, 1957

In the early 21st century, the discovery of more than 200 letters and hundreds of drawings and other items from the period 1940–1984 has provided scholars with material about Brassai’s later life and career. Read More


$50.00

Collection of essays that focus on artistic inspiration for Disney's work as well as showing how contemporary art can be influenced by Disney's iconic characters.
Upon a Time: Walt Disney: The Sources of Inspiration for the Disney Studios

Collection of essays that focus on artistic inspiration for Disney’s work. Includes chapter on Destino, the never realized collaboration between Disney and Dali. Read More


$70.00

Towle Silversmiths was founded in 1690 by William Moulton II, the first silversmith in Newbury, Mass.
The Life and Services of Benj. Franklin…

A collection of Towle’s Silverware catalogs bound in one volume. Towle Silversmiths has created numerous sterling silver flatware patterns including the “Marie Louise” in 1939, which became the official sterling silver pattern for U.S. embassies worldwide. Read More


$80.00

English writer Walter Copeland Jerrold was a career writer and editor. He edited many classic texts for the Everyman’s Library, he wrote biographies, he produced stories for children under the name of Walter Copeland.
The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes (Calla Editions)

After illustrating Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses (1896) to extremely popular success, Charles Robinson had a prolific career illustrating many fairy tales and children’s books. Read More


$40.00

Every book by the d’Aulaire’s is good. This one focuses on Lincoln’s childhood, lawyer life, and presidency to the end of the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln

This Caldecott-winner is a biography for young children. There is a fair amount of text, but also many detailed illustrations. It follows Lincoln from his birth to the end of the Civil War. Read More


$60.00

Architects whose work is featured include: Oscar Niemeyer, Paulo Mendes da Rocha, Affonso Eduardo Reidy, Jorge Machado Moreira, Juao Walter Toscano, Abrahao Sanovicz, Alvaro Vital Brazil, and Rino Levi.
Casa Modernista: A History of the Brazil Modern House

This is a comprehensive volume on modern residential architecture in Brazil featuring 40 houses built using the “modern” materials of concrete and reinforced glass, as well as wood and steel. Read More


$50.00

German printers Tauchnitz, published English language literature for distribution on the European continent outside of Great Britain, including this book and initial serial productions of Charles Dickens.
Sketches in Italy

Symonds was an English poet and literary critic. A cultural historian, he was known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as numerous biographies of writers and artists. Read More


$80.00

Tracy B. Strong is distinguished professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is a former editor of Political Theory and the author or editor of many books.
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration -Expanded Edition

Includes coverage of Nietzsche’s problem with ‘Newspeak’ later developed by George Orwell’s book titled ‘1984.’ Strong then points out Nietzsche’s problem with nihilism, a “dead God,” and the will to power. Read More


$15.00

While Dimock believed in a strong central government, and had experienced it firsthand during FDR’s administration, he also developed a distrust of large organizations, believing them to be depersonalizing.
Creative Religion: as seen by a social scientist

While Dimock believed in a strong central government, and had experienced it firsthand while working in FDR’s administration, he also developed a distrust of large organizations, believing them to be depersonalizing. Read More


$100.00

Book Beat 133

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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.
Exiles

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.
The Earl Covey Story: A Biography

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.
Principles of Brick Engineering: Handbook of Design

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