Recent Arrivals from Shorebound Books

Class Russian Proverbs illustrated.

1926-1927 edition in very good condition.

Princeton University Press, 2017. Hardcover. New. A stunning portrait of the nocturnal moths of Central and South America by famed American photographer Emmet Gowin. American photographer Emmet Gowin (b. 1941) is best known for his portraits of his wife, Edith, and their family, as well as for his images documenting the impact of human activity upon landscapes around the world. For… Read more about this item

A Japanese hare, winter white, dead in the snow. A traditional minka, thatched roof shedding summer rain. A silver-haired man gathering wood from the forest. In Otari - Pristine Peaks, Keiko Nomura documents life and ritual in mountainous far northwestern Japan. During a cycle of seasons around Otari Village, she photographs the landscape, the worship of spirits, hunting, cooking, growing… Read more about this item

Black Garden, second book in the trilogy, delves into the expansive geographical world known to the ancient Greeks in Turkey, Greece, Syria, Palestine, Israel, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Egypt. Black Garden moves into the mythological world of duality and opposites which are explored through the masculine/feminine and east/west divide. The book is divided in half with a double gatefold seascape… Read more about this item

Unread 4th printing from The Folio Society, London. Cover has a couple of very mildly faded spots. A clothbound, illustrated edition of the infamous children's tale The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnet. The story takes place in Misselthwaite Manor which holds two mysteries: a strange unhappy crying in the night and a walled garden with a door locked and forgotten… Read more about this item