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Book Beat 139

January 23, 2026 By browsingbooks

Browser Book Beat Issue 139

This new group includes a wide range of books on art (comic, graphic, fine art, monographs, exhibition catalogs…), sports (including a lot of baseball), literature, children’s, photography, novels, social sciences, food and cooking, Also odds and ends like Electroplating and the Blackshirts in Little Italy. Here’s a sampling. See all of these New Arrivals. Availability subject to prior sale.
The book is divided into 5 chapters, each collecting a theme of the short-stories Frazetta worked on during his brief stint in comics. Features several full-page covers of Frazetta’s amazing brush work.
Telling Stories: The Classic Comic Art of Frank Frazetta Frazetta, Frank; Mason, Edward [Editor]

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

n 1940, he painted 50 backgrounds for Warner Bros. and Leon Schlesinger Productions for a Chuck Jones Merrie Melodies cartoon featuring the Canyon Kiddies, titled Mighty Hunters.
Jimmy! The Comic Art of James Swinnerton

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

Diego Cordoba did fantastic job in his choice and lay-out of Prince Valiant pages and panels. He uses not only the color page but also black and white linework, focussing on the excellence in the various artists' work.
Prince Valiant Artists (illustrators Hardcover Special #19) (Limited Edition)

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.
The Later Paintings and Drawings of John Constable (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) (2 Volumes)

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

Hibbard was an American plein air painter known for his landscape paintings, particularly his winter scenes in Vermont. He won multiple awards from the National Academy of Design.
A.T. Hibbard, N.A.: Artist in Two Worlds

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

The exhibition speaks of the complex relationships among women, their environment, and their inner lives.
Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century Selections from the Helen Kornblum Collection

Through documentary photography, photojournalism, portraiture, still life, self-portraiture, and constructed tableaux, women photographers define the world. Read More


$25.00

Set in 1926 and ending by 1936, it begins with a young airman full of doubt as he is given his first long flight carrying mail. Bad weather leads to a reacherous journey.
Wind, Sand, and Stars

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

Musical emergencies come in the form of a young student anticipating the repair of their trumpet before their school concert to a backstage repair with thousands of fans waiting.
With The Band: Memoirs of a Music Shop Owner

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

Stories told with an aura of innocence and nostalgia.. Kindly policemen make life easier for a family of ducks. A boy and his harmonica save the day. A little girl enjoys the wonders of nature.
A Robert McCloskey Collection: Make Way for Ducklings/Lentil/One Morning in Maine

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 has to eat his way through several groups of people. Its humor a child would find funny, but adults would get more out of it.
The Very Hungry Zombie: A Parody

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

In 1871, armed with several bottles of his father's horse liniment, Earl Sloan and his brother joined forces to buy and ship horses. Their success help make the Sloan liniment formula a big seller, too.
Sloan’s Handy Hints and Up-To-Date Cook Book: Choice Cooking Receipts, Valuable Hints, Useful Information, Pearls of Wisdom

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, it chronicles the history of smaller surrounding towns on the bay, such as Jamestown.
Narragansett Bay: Its Historic and Romantic Associations and Picturesque Setting

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.
Décadence in Deutschland: Studien zu einem versunkenen….

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

Lord Minto in India presents a detailed portrait of Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, during his tenure as Governor-General of India from 1807 to 1814.
Lord Minto in India. Life and Letters of Gilbert Elliot, First Earl of Minto, from 1807 to 1814….

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 had a lifelong fascination with this medieval epic Russian poem about a doomed campaign led by Prince Igor.
La Geste du Prince Igor’, épopée russe du XIIe siècle…..

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

Deucalion's account of the lost continent of Atlantis describes his heroic but ultimately doomed battle to save Atlantis from destruction by its avaricious and selfish empress, Phorenice.
The Lost Continent

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

Multi-colored map view depicts the high peaks of the White Mountains and the surrounding region, bounded east and west by the Carter and Kinsman Ranges, and north and south by Lancaster and the Lakes Region.
Glimpses of the Great Pleasure Resorts of New England….

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.
A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder’s American Films

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

In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a poet and songwriter; especially well-known was his poem-turned-song "Woodman, Spare that Tree!"
The Songs and Ballads of George P. Morris

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.
Mike Tyson: Money, Myth and Betrayal

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

Book Beat 133

August 20, 2025 By browsingbooks

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.
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

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