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Guadalajara, Jalisco: Centro Metropolitano, 1988. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, black cloth covers stamped in gilt with a photographic label on front. A study of the Mexican artist's sculpture. Illustrated in b&w and color, 194 pages plus index. Clean copy. Record # 383165

NY: The Century Co., 1894. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Reginald Birch. Hardcover, decorative green cloth stamped in silver, gilt, and maroon. 26 b/w illustrations uncredited but done by Reginald Birch. A charming tale of a young orphan, whose benevolent nature helps him build friendships that defy all odds. Toinette, a Creole woman who raises Philip, encourages his growth and ensures that above all else he is kind of heart. Philip is content with his simple life until a stranger asks questions about his parents. When Philip questions Toinette, it is clear that there are secrets she is not ready to reveal. This is the second of Mrs. C. V. Jamison's books that is written about an orphan in New Orleans, and just as she was able to do in 'Lady Jane', her work will transport you to the streets of 19th century New Orleans. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Record # 385194

HY: Century Co. , 1903. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. W. Benda. Hardcover, cream spine with red boards, cloth. Illustrated front board with boy on circus tightrope, decorative spine. 13 black & white illustrations by W. Benda, 269 pages. A hurricane drastically changes the life of an orphan who makes his living as a street acrobat in late nineteenth-century New Orleans. An exceptionally bright, clean copy. Record # 385219

Acoustic Learning , 2022. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. V.T. Hamlin. Hardcover, pictorial boards. Go back in time to the prehistoric kingdom of Moo and follow the fantastic, whimsical — and often cleverly satirical — Stone Age adventures of V. T. Hamlin's irrepressible caveman, Alley Oop! This oversized volume collects every Alley Oop Sunday strip from 1939through 1941 in full color. Record # 380609

Chicago: Ludowici-Celadon Co., 1929-1932. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 26 softcover brochures, approx. 24 pages each. Illustrated with b&w photographs and drawings. Issues from 1929 to 1932. Very good condition. Record # 512069

Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 2010. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 51 pages. Softcover. Extensive b&w photographs by John Vachon throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Providing a unique view of American life during the Great Depression and Second World War, each Fields of Vision volume includes an introduction to the life of a Farm Security Administration (FSA)/Office of War Information (OWI) photographer with 50 evocative images selected from their work in the Library of Congress's collection. Transporting the viewer to American homes, farms, and streets of the 1930s and 1940s, they offer a glimpse of a new narrative and intimate style that defined America. Record # 352238

New York: Knopf, 2000. 1st . Very Good/Very Good . Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Record # 301310

New York: Knopf, 1993. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Record # 204414

Palo Alto CA: Jim Vadeboncoeur, 2003-14. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Seven softcover magazines, all 40 pages each, filled with lavish reproductions of illustrations from the early 20th Century. Record # 359500

Palo Alto CA: Jim Vadeboncoeur , 2006-10. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Three softcover volumes, 100 pages each. A collection of work from the Golden Era of Pen & Ink Illustration. Record # 359498

London/Berkeley: James Currey/University of California, 1989. Softcover. Softcover, 422 pages, despite a quarter century of "nation building," most African states are still driven by ethnic particularism--commonly known as "tribalism." The stubborn persistence of tribal ideologies despite the profound changes associated with modernization has puzzled scholars and African leaders alike. The bloody hostilities between the tribally-oriented Zulu Inkhata movement and supporters of the African National Congress are but the most recent example of tribalism's tenacity. The studies in this volume offer a new historical model for the growth and endurance of such ideologies in southern Africa. Name on front fly leaf, underlining to Introduction, otherwise clean. Record # 384287

NY: Hawthorn Books, 1973. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 243 pages, in a bright , price-clipped dust jacket. Clean copy. Record # 359134

Los Angeles: Getty Museum, 2004. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 448 pages, many b&w and color plates. This book celebrates the athletes, the games the sanctuaries, the cities and, above all the inspiring spirit of the ancient Greeks. Bright, clean copy in a similar dust jacket. Record # 353593

US: Rizzoli, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 110 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to boards, else a clean, tight copy. Valentino: Master of Couture is an exhibition at the Somerset House co-organized by Valentino himself, who selected over 130 dresses for the exhibition. The book focues as much on Valentino and his glamorous lifestyle as it does on his legendary dressmaking techniques and atelier. Record # 350457

NY: Oxford University Press, 1995. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 251 pages, light shelf wear. Clean. Why study women and the industrial revolution? Deborah Valenze's groundbreaking reassessment of this classic problem in European history reminds us that questions of gender and work are at the center of our experience in the modern world. Too often, the study of industrialization charts an inevitable and largely technological course. Valenze sets aside this approach in order to examine the underlying assumptions about gender and work that informed the transformation of English society, and in turn, our ideas about economic progress. How did England change from an agriculturally based nation, in which female labor played an active and acknowledged part, to an industrial power resting on a notion of male productivity? Through selective treatments of agriculture, spinning, and cottage industries, Valenze shows how the rise of values of productivity and rationality subordinated women of the… Read More

London: Serpent's Tail, 1998. 1st pbk. Very Good/None. Softcover, 167 pages. Stories that capture the absurdity of life. Valenzuela's view of life captures our imagination because we know how far it is from reality - cops in Buenos Aires are not afraid of dogs, latin lovers in cafes do make moves in the game of courtship, hotels in Venice overlook canals. Clean copy. Record # 384730

New York: Monacelli Press, 2005. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 352 pages, numerous illustrations. Pictorial boards in clear plastic dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new, in shrinkwrap. Record # 606477

New York: Monacelli Press, 2005. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 352 pages, numerous illustrations. Pictorial boards in clear plastic dust jacket. Beautiful copy. Like new, in shrinkwrap. Record # 362254

Koln GDR: Walther Konig, 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 242 pages 152 illustrations 87 in color. Text is in German and English Preface by Dietrich Karner. Introduction by Sabine Breitwieser. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Generali Foundation, Vienna 11 May-12 August 2001. List of Works in Exhibition. Biographies and Bibliography. To be able to take one's self off like a jacket and put on another self--who hasn't occasionally wished it were possible? Identity and transformation are among the central issues for contemporary art making, and Double Life pulls together a diverse selection of artists whose work embraces the possibilities of personality and appearance, racial and sexual stereotype, role-playing and reality. The artists in Double Life--from Marina Abramovic, Adrian Piper, and Andy Warhol to Ion Grigorescu, Eleanor Antin, Pierre Huyghe and Cindy Sherman--have all employed various strategies in their desire to assume different roles. Whether ironic,… Read More

NY: Delacorte Press, 1986. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket. Nice, bright copy. Record # 8992