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American Film Now: The People, The Power, The Money, The Movies


Monaco, James

Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 540 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning. Cover boards bound in blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Pages clean, binding tight, spine straight. In very good shape. Investigates the business and art of the American film in the 1970s, comments on the decade's most interesting writers, directors, producers, actors, and actresses, and suggests ways to restructure the movie industry to insure financial and artistic independence.

Record # 31832


Price: $19.00 

 

American Fish-Culture: Artificial Breeding and Rearing of Trout; The Culture of Salmon, Shad and Other Fishes.


Norris, Thaddeus

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter & Coates, 1st, 1868, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 304 pages. Gilt lettering along spine. B&W frontispiece. Boards are torn around edges. Foxing throughout. Small crack to spine.

Record # 855711


Price: $50.00 

 

American Folk Sculpture


Bishop, Robert

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 392 pages. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Some shelf-wear, edge-wear, creasing, and closed tears to dust jacket, particularly around spine. A little tape on back of dust jacket. Now protected by clear, plastic cover. Minor tanning along top edge of flaps. Nice, unmarked copy.

Record # 856536


Price: $25.00 

 

American Fruit Culturist: Containing Practical Directions for the Propagation and Culture of All Fruits Adapted to the United States


Thomas, John J.

Hardcover. New York, William Wood & Co., reprint, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 576 pages, beautiful full color lithograph of fruit as frontispiece, 500 b&w line illustrations. Brick red cloth with black and gilt design. Top 2 inches of spine cloth missing, binding still solid. Gutter cracked at Preface page.

Record # 401987


Price: $50.00 

 

American Glance at Paris, An - 37 Works Belonging to Terra Foundation for the Arts


Reymond, Nathalie

Softcover. Giverny, Musee d'Art Americain, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 109 pages. Softcover. Text in French and English. Small museum stamp at top right corner of front endpaper. Full color illustrations. Degree of fading to spine. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 613847


Price: $25.00 

 

American Home Life 1880-1930: Social History Spaces Services


Foy, Jessica H.

Softcover. Univ Tennessee Press, 2nd PB printing, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 284 pages, illustrations in b&w. Small scratch on spine, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 458974


Price: $19.00 

 

American Iconology: New Approaches to Nineteenth-Century Art and Literature


Miller, Mr. David C.

Hardcover. US, Yale University Press, 1st, 1993-09-22, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 344 pages, b&w illustrations. Faint foxing to top edge, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463561


Price: $23.00 

 

American Illustrators: Catalog Four


Goffman, Judy and Alan

Softcover. Blue Bell, PA, Judy & Alan Goffman, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy, tan, illustrated covers in excellent condition, with bottom corner slightly bent. Staple binding is tight, though a little worn. Pages are clean and crisp, a few creases but otherwise in great condition. 11 color plates, including covers, each with a description.

Record # 807053


Price: $30.00 

 

American Illustrators: Catalog Three


Goffman, Judy and Alan

Softcover. Blue Bell, PA, Judy & Alan Goffman, 1st, na, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy illustrated cover in excellent condition. Staple binding is tight. Pages are in great condition, clean and crisp. 37 color plates, including covers, most full page and all in pristine condition, each with a listing.

Record # 807051


Price: $30.00 

 

American Illustrators: Catalog Two


Goffman, Judy and Alan

Softcover. Blue Bell, PA, Judy & Alan Goffman, 1st, na, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy brown covers in great condition. Corners are slightly worn and there are a few creases near the spine. Staple binding is tight, with a little wear on the spine. Pages are in great condition, clean and crisp. 48 plates with 11 of those in color including the cover plates, and each with its own listing.

Record # 807054


Price: $30.00 

 

American Illustrators


Goffman, Judy and Alan

Softcover. Blue Bell, PA, Judy & Alan Goffman, 1st, na, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy brown covers, illustrated with publishers' sticker on front and back. Minor rubbing. Staple binding is tight with a little bit of wear at the top of the spine. Clean and crisp pages with 37 plates, 7 of those in color, including covers, each with a listing.

Record # 807050


Price: $30.00 

 

American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House


Meacham, Jon

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 483 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated endpapers. Deckled foreedges. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Binding tight, spine straight. Pages clean. Remainder mark (red dot) on bottom edge. In great condition. Andrew Jackson, his close group of friends, and his tumultuous times are at the heart of this remarkable book about the man who rose from nothing to create the modern presidency.

Record # 31802


Price: $15.00 

 

American Painting - First Flowers of Our Wilderness


Flexner, James Thomas

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 368 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with chipping, closed tears along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613124


Price: $23.00 

 

American Painting - From the Colonial Period to the Present


Prown, Jules David/Barbara Rose/John Walker

New York, Skira/Rizzoli, Revised, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color tipped-in plates. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611713


Price: $31.00 

American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular CultureStreeby, Shelley
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American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture


Streeby, Shelley

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 384 pages. Softcover. Clean and tight copy, very minor fading to back cover and foxing to text block.

Record # 2230962


Price: $19.00 

American Small Town, The: Twentieth-Century Place ImagesJakle, John A.
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American Small Town, The: Twentieth-Century Place Images


Jakle, John A.

Hardcover. Hamden, CT, Archon Books, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 195 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light rubbing to dust jacket edges and small tears to corners. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 2233593


Price: $25.00 

 

American Woman, Italian Style: Italian Americana's Best Writings on Women


Albright, Carol Bonomo and Moore, Christine Palamidessi

Softcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st ed., 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 363 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 855690


Price: $19.00 

 

Ancient Greek Dress


Abrahams, Ethel & Lady Evans and Marie Johnson (ed)

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Argonaut, Inc., Publishers, 1st American, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Book and dust jacket in very good condition. Dust jacket has a clean illustration and clear text on the back. Small smudge on the back of the dust jacket and minor wear on the edges. Tight binding, with minor rubbing along the spine, and pages in excellent condition.

Record # 806789


Price: $25.00 

 

Ancient Mexico: An Introduction to the Pre-Hispanic Cultures


Peterson, Frederick, Jos

Hardcover. New York, NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st U.S.A., 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 313 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has some tanning, covered in protective plastic, no rips. Some tanning from age to pages and edges, doesn't affect text or illustrations. In very good shape for its age. Books presents a coherent picture of ancient Mexico from the days of the early elephant hunters to the Spanish Conquest, and deals with all the major groups: Aztecs, Maya, Totonacs, Olmecs, Toltecs, Tarascans, Mixtecs and Zapotecs.

Record # 32162


Price: $23.00 

 

Arapaho Child Life and Its Cultural Background


Hilger, Sister M. Inez

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian, 1st Edition, 1952, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Some light underlining in a few places. Some foxing/tanning to edges, fading to wrapper, other wise wrapper good. No rips/tears. Binding good. Previous owner's name on front cover (see image).

Record # 33486


Price: $23.00 

 

Architecture of the Old South


Lane, Mills

Hardcover. New York, Abbeville Press, 1st Edition, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover brick cloth boards in very good condition. Bright dust jacket with full color photography, Frederick Stanton house, Natchez, Mississippi. Full page, full color photographs throughout. Clean & bright copy.

Record # 750194


Price: $25.00 

 

Art in America - December-January 1965-66 - Number Six


Art in America

Softcover. New York, Art in America, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Magazine. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Features articles on: 'Christmas for Children', 'Kinesis Continued', 'Art on TV', 'William Copley, Artist as Collector', 'Paris: The No-Color Look', 'Germany: Prophets Without Honor', and more. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612251


Price: $23.00 

 

Art in America - September-October 1967 - Number Five


Art in America

Softcover. New York, Art in America, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 160 pages. Magazine. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Features articles on: 'Sculpture of the Sixties', 'John Marin's Sketchbook-Summer 1951', 'The Urbanization of the Skyscraper', 'Art and Science on the Charles', 'Textiles for a Museum Collection', 'Collector: Lydia Winston', 'Rediscovery: An American Way of Death', 'London: The Simplifiers', and more. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612249


Price: $23.00 

 

Art in America - Volume 49 - Number Two - 1961


Art in America

Hardcover. New York, Art in America, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 136 pages. Hardcover magazine format. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Features articles on: 'What Should a Museum Be?, 'A Day with John Marin', 'Antiques for the Avant-Garde', 'Notes Toward an Ideal School of Fine Art', 'American Art International', 'Paris Letter: Nouveux Realistes', and more. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612252


Price: $31.00 


  
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