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Art in America - Volume 52 - Number Two - April 1961 - 'New York Issue"


Art in America

Hardcover. New York, Art in America, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 144 pages. Hardcover magazine format. Previous owners name at top of front endpaper. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Features articles on: 'The River: Places and People', 'In the Museums', 'The Guggenheim International', 'Pedestrian Art', 'After Next, What?', 'Winslow Homer in New York State', 'Florine Stettheimer', 'Portrait of a Product', 'The Museum Explosion', 'Dealers-Eye View', and more. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612253


Price: $31.00 

 

Art of Transition, The: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis


Masiello, Francine

Paperback. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages, paperback. Indispensable reading for literary critics working on contemporary Latin America. Moderate rubbing and edgewear to wraps. Light fading to wraps as well. Light bumping to corners. Unmarked. A tight copy.

Record # 952264


Price: $15.00 

 

Artists of America, The: A Series of Biographical Sketches of American Artists; with Portraits and Designs on Steel


Lester, C. Edwards

Hardcover. New York, Baker & Scribner, 1st, 1846, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 257 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations on steel (by artist only mentioned in Preface as Mr. Burt) with tissue guards throughout. Cover boards bound in dark brown leather, gilt title on spine, raised bands and embossed design on covers and spine. Some chipping to top and bottom of spine, as well as corners of covers. Tanning from age and foxing to pages and edges, but doesn't affect legibility of text or illustrations. Beautiful old volume. Biographical sketches of eight American painters.

Record # 31725


Price: $63.00 

Authentic Voices: Arkansas Culture, 1541-1860Sarah, M. Fountain (editor)

Authentic Voices: Arkansas Culture, 1541-1860


Sarah, M. Fountain (editor)

Hardcover. Conway, AR, University of Central Arkansas Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469570


Price: $13.00 

 

Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, The


Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Phillips, Sampson and Company, First Edition, 2nd Printing, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 373 pages. Hardcover. Brown embossed boards with gilt titles to spine. Crack & fraying to crown & heel of spine, soiling to the first several pages including tissue paper of frontis illustration. Engravings in bw throughout, each protected with a tissue guard. Light foxing throughout. Insect marking pp. 11-70. Otherwise clean with striking illustrations.

Record # 751249


Price: $75.00 

 

Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky


Thomas, Jean

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 270 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610963


Price: $38.00 

 

Beattles and the Sixties, The


Assayas, Michka and Claude Meunier

Hardcover. NY, H. Holt, 1st US, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illust. 96 pages. Small stamp to front fly leaf otherwise VG.

Record # 64082


Price: $19.00 

 

Beautiful Brandon


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Softcover. Brandon, VT, Brandon Improvement Association, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Softcover. Staple binding. B/w illustrations (plates) throughout. Brown construction paper wrapper (agewear), orange title and decoration on front cover. Formerly on exhibit at Shelburne Museum, with stamp of proprietorship on front flyleaf. Just a touch of tanning to pages and edges, otherwise clean and unmarked. Beautiful photo-illustrated promotional travel book highlighting the sites of downtown Brandon, VT, circa 1910. Collector's delight.

Record # 32280


Price: $44.00 

 

Best Families - The Town & Country Social Directory 1846-1996, The


Patterson, Jerry E./Anthony T. Mazzola/Frank Zachary

Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 190 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612784


Price: $19.00 

 

Big Vote, The: Gender, Consumer Culture, and Politics of Exclusion, 1890s-1920s


Gidlow, Liette

Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 260 pages. Black cover with gilt lettering on spine.

Record # 511230


Price: $10.00 

Black America, A Photographic Journey: Past to PresentSmith, Marcia A.
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Black America, A Photographic Journey: Past to Present


Smith, Marcia A.

Hardcover. San Diego, Calif., Thunder Bay Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 400 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Slight wear on edges of cover but very tight and clean copy.

Record # 2230552


Price: $38.00 

 

Black Sun - The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby


Wolff, Geoffrey

Hardcover. New York, Random House, Reprint, 1976, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 367 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Covers slightly bowed. Dust jacket worn along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609357


Price: $12.00 

Bliss' Magazine - Volume VI - July, 1900 - Number 1 - Guide to Pensacola - Facts for Tourists, Pleasure Seekers, Sportsmen, Home Seekers and Investors Bliss, Chas. H.
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Bliss' Magazine - Volume VI - July, 1900 - Number 1 - Guide to Pensacola - Facts for Tourists, Pleasure Seekers, Sportsmen, Home Seekers and Investors


Bliss, Chas. H.

Softcover. Pensacola, Chas. H. Bliss, 1st, 1900, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 104 pages. Small format magazine measures: 6.5" H X 5" W. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages. Scarce.

Record # 614176


Price: $188.00 

 

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin


Lepore Jill

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 2nd, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 442 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Light green cover boards, dark green quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Deckled foreedge. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. The life story of Benjamin Franklin's sister, Jane Franklin.

Record # 31776


Price: $19.00 

 

BOOK OF THE AMERICAN WEST


Monaghan, Jay, editor.

Hardcover. New York, Julian Messner, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 608 pages. Illustrated with color and black and white plates. 4to. Gray cloth. Red color illustration of Indian buffalo hunt on front and back covers. Red spine title label with gilt titles. Gilt line decorations. Color pictorial spine panels. Neat name (pen) on front endpaper. Light wear to spine edges. Very Good. Color pictorial dust jacket. Some wear and tear along edges. Good.

Record # 219859


Price: $16.00 

 

California Called Them: A Saga of Golden Days and Roaring Camps


O'Brien, Robert

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 251 pages, b&w illustrations. Edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket with closed tear along spine. Internally very good.

Record # 856662


Price: $15.00 

 

Cezanne, The Steins and Their Circle


Rewald, John

Hardcover. New York, Tames and Hudson, 1st US, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 64 pages. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 610621


Price: $15.00 

Charisma and Sacred BiographyWilliams, Michael A. (ed.)
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Charisma and Sacred Biography


Williams, Michael A. (ed.)

Hardcover. US, Journal of the American Academy of Religion Studies, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 180 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Slight blemish on spine, otherwise clean and tight copy. JAAR, Thematic Studies 48/3 & 4.

Record # 2230621


Price: $25.00 

 

Charity & Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (SIGNED BY AUTHOR)


Cleves, Rachel Hope

Hardcover. Oxford, UK, Oxford University Press, Reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 267 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Spine slightly cocked. White cover boards, black title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Pages and edges clean and bright. Binding tight. In great shape. From 1807 to 1851, two ordinary women, Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake lived openly together as a married couple in Weybridge, Vermont. The story of these two women reveals that early America was both more diverse and more accommodating than modern society imagines.

Record # 32259


Price: $31.00 

 

Chippewa Child Life and Its Cultural Background


Hilger, Sister M. Inez

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian, 1st Edition, 1951, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations. Wrapper has some fading to spine and edges. Foxing/tanning to edges, agewear. Binding good. Pages have some light tanning, otherwise clean/unmarked. No rips/tears. Previous owner's initials on front cover (see image).

Record # 33485


Price: $23.00 

 

Christian Self-Culture - Counsels For the Beginning and Progress of a Christian Life


Bacon, Leonard

Boston, American Tract Society, 1st, 1862, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper. Previous owner's sticker on inside of front cover. Cover has edgewear. Front hinge cracked.

Record # 206815


Price: $30.00 

Chronicles of Windsor, 1761-1975Conlin, Katherine, E., Wilma Burnham Paronto, Stella Vitty Henry
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Chronicles of Windsor, 1761-1975


Conlin, Katherine, E., Wilma Burnham Paronto, Stella Vitty Henry

Hardcover. Taftsville, VT, Countryman Press, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, 272 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and front cover board with town seal. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spine straight. In immaculate condition, beautiful. History of the town of Windsor, VT.

Record # 32833


Price: $75.00 

 

Cincinnati Reds - An Informal History, The


Allen, Lee

Hardcover. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 302 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with 15 pages of black & white photographs. Moisture wrinkling to top half inch of spine cloth. A few pages with light moisture staining to very top edges. Dust jacket with chipping along edges, staining, previous owners repair with paper at top of spine. Clean, unmarked text.

Record # 614199


Price: $38.00 

Circus DreamsGoldsmith, Lynn (Photography and text)
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Circus Dreams


Goldsmith, Lynn (Photography and text)

Hardcover. New York, Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1st Edition, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover. Color illustrations throughout. Previous owner's impression stamp on front flyleaf. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Dark orange cloth cover boards, with title blind-stamped on front cover board and title in yellow on spine, boards are very good. Pages clean and bright. Top edge has some foxing A photographic documentary of the Great Circus parade in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The circus train travels across Wisconsin and Illinois for two days and arrives in Milwaukee to a show ground set with animal petting zoos, horse tents, bandwagons, and the Big Top.

Record # 32808


Price: $23.00 


  
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