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Polly and Her Pals is an American comic strip. It is now considered one of the masterpieces of American comic strips of the Interwar period, for its graphic qualities, storytelling, and humor. Read More
$70.00
An overview of Jack Kirby’s art for the Fantastic Four. Lots of historical information. Includes the covers from issue #1 to #102. Each issue introduces new heroes and villains for the Fantastic Four to encounter. Read More
$120.00
Gorringe details his expedition to retrieve “Cleopatra’s Needle” from Alexandria and plant it in New York’s Central Park. He also included a study of the other standing obelisks in Paris and London. Read More
$400.00
In 1952 Che Guevara and a friend traveled through South America on a motorbike. This is the record he kept of that remarkable journey in his own words, and illustrated with contemporary photographs. Read More
$60.00
The Granada riot in 1499 was a local event but it gave the Christian government the opportunity to try to systematically eliminate the Islamic presence from Spain. This is that story. Read More
$20.00
The Falashas, living in a remote mountainous region of northwestern Ethiopia, believed themselves to be the sole surviving Jews of the world. Since their rediscovery in the 18th century they have the subject of study. Read More
$18.00
“Bill” Mauldin, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, was most famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe. Read More
$70.00
Beautiful first edition of Storke’s history of the American Civil War, Volume 1 only. Explores the underlying causes, significant events, and far-reaching consequences of the rebellion. Includes Biographical Sketches and Portraits of its Principal Actors. Read More
$400.00
The story of Mr. Cathcart, a man obsessed with owning islands as a means to escape society. He attempts to create a perfect world by moving to increasingly smaller islands. Read More
$120.00
Nihonjinron is a school of thought about Japanese persons exceptional uniqueness espoused by Japanese intellectuals in the early 20th century. Dale reasons that the “nihonjinron” should be treated as mythological. Read More
$100.00
Many know Lee Miller’s name in connection to her inspirational World War II reportage. Few are aware of the volume of her British fashion images that were published on British Vogue’s pages from 1939 to 1944. Read More
$60.00
McCullin was knighted in 2017, recognized for his war photography and images of urban strife. He also took the photographs of Maryon Park in London used in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 film Blowup. Read More
$60.00
William Lee, vice president of Baum’s publisher Reilly & Lee, solicited author Ruth Thompson to continue the Oz series. Between 1921 and 1939, she wrote one Oz book a year. Read More
$200.00
Sixth in a series of Blackie Bear books about anthropomorphized, clothes-wearing animals of the Smoky Mountain region. “Blackie” introduces children to nature through his woodland antics and wildlife adventures. Read More
$60.00
Three-Field Crop Rotation in Russia in the 18th and 19th Centuries: A Study in Rural Economics and Sociology. FRENCH TEXT. Read More
$70.00
Burchfield was an American painter and visionary artist, known for his passionate watercolors of nature scenes and townscapes. And he kept a 10,000 page diary. Read More
$160.00
A compilation of the photography of Lee Friedlander spanning more than 30 years. He was considered “master of the black and white snapshot”, and was known for his innovative images of city streets. Read More
$160.00
Maurer created many objects using LEDs. The first was the lighting object Bellissima Brutta in 1996. In 2001 he presented a table lamp with LEDs with the name EL.E.Dee. Read More
$60.00
In 1902 Hofmannsthal published a fictive letter purportedly written in 1603 by Philip, Lord Chandos, to Francis Bacon. Chandos spoke of his growing distrust of what language had become in the Modern era. Read More
$50.00
In 2004 Menashe became the first poet honored with the “Neglected Masters Award” given by Poetry magazine and the Poetry Foundation. Read More
$35.00
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 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
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
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 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. Read More
$38.00
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 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 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
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. Read More
$60.00
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. Includes chapter on Destino, the never realized collaboration between Disney and Dali. Read More
$70.00
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
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
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
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
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
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 while working in FDR’s administration, he also developed a distrust of large organizations, believing them to be depersonalizing. Read More
$100.00