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New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. BN1 - DJ is mylar protected. DJ is glued to the sides opposite the spine on the front and back and back inside flap, light discoloration and shelf wear otherwise very good. Book has library markings on the top page edges, back loose endpaper, title page and copyright page, black dot on the first few pages, discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise very good. Book was signed by Kinky Friedman on the title page. Foreword by Linda Ellerbee. Afterword by Kinky Friedman. Here are scores of stories that span a twenty-five-year period, exposing the madness behind the methodology.. Signed. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1978. I2 - DJ is mylar protected. DJ has label on the lower spine, wrinkling and crease on the edges and corners, some dust stain, inside flaps glued to the fixed endpaper, discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise good. Book has chipping and wear on some cover edges, library stamping on the top and bottom page edges, title page, and back loose endpaper with label and cardholder adhered, library rules adhered on the front loose endpaper, some stains on the page edges, discoloration, and normal shelf wear otherwise good. Frederic Remington and the West sheds new light on the remarkably complicated and much misunderstood career of Frederic Remington.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library.

New York: Public Affairs, 2002. BV3 - A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by John Taliaferro on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, cupping on the spine, light discoloration and shelf wear. Great White Fathers is at once the biography of a man and the biography of a place, told through travelogue, interviews, and investigation of the vast records left behind by one of America's most eccentric, and emblematic, visionaries. 9.5"x 6.5", 453 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Mount Rushmore National Memorial is centered on a sculpture carved into the granite face of Mount Rushmore in the Black Hills in Keystone, South Dakota. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum created the sculpture's design and oversaw the project's execution from 1927 to 1941 with the help of his son Lincoln Borglum. The sculpture features the 60-foot (18 m) heads of Presidents George Washington… Read More

Staten Island, New York: John Noble and Allan A. Noble in association with The John A. Noble Collection, 1993. BA1 - A first edition (stated) hardcover book in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and chipping on the edges, scattered rubbing, scuffing and light scratches, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, light vertical wrinklong on the bottom of some last pages, light discoloration and shelf wear. 9.25"x12.25", 269 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. BORN IN PARIS IN 1913, JOHN A. NOBLE is the son of the noted American painter, John ("Wichita Bill") Noble. He spent his early years in the studios of his father and his father's contemporaries, innovative artist and writers of the early part of this century. He moved with his family to this country in 1919, a year which had a great significance to him and foreshadowed his life's work. "It was the greatest wooden ship launching… Read More

New York: William Morrow, 2007. CM4 - An uncorrected proof trade paperback book in near fine condition that has label, light discoloration and shelf wear. Satisfaction Guaranteed.. Trade Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Advance Reading Copy (ARC).

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960. BN3 - Book is slightly cocked, wrinkling on the spine edges, tanning on the spine, chipping and wear on the cover edges, back, and some on the front, lighlty bumped cover corners, previous owner's library plate glued on the front fixed endpaper, remains of the back inside flap of the DJ glued on the back loose endpaper, some soiling, mmoderate discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise good. Foreword by Tom Lea.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Secaucus, New Jersey: Castle Books, Inc., 1980. U1 - DJ is mylar protected. DJ has chipping and wear on the insides of the spine, edges, and sides near the spine, wrinkling on some parts, discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise good. Book has chipping and wear on the cover edges, lightly bumped on the upper spine, previous owner's inscription written on the top right corner of the front loose endpaper, discoloration, and shelf wear otherwise good. This beautiful volume traces Leonardo's explosive career from his early work through his masterpieces giving the reader an opportunity to examine the lonely life of this gifted man.. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Berkeley, California, USA: University of California Press, 1976. BC3 - DJ is mylar protected. A tight, clean, sound copy in black vinyl covered boards with gold lettering on the spine and a large gold graphic on the front with minor overall shelf waer with a remainder mark on the bottom outside paper edges plus there is some foxing on the top outside paper edges plus there is some very slight warping of the boards plus is a gift inscription in ink on the half title page. The dust jacket shows minor overall shelf wear with some moderate overall rubbing plus there is some foxing on the endflaps and on the front plus there is some very, very light edge wear and chipping at the bottom right corners on the front and back and along the right edge of the back endflap. A biographical study of the photographic work and experimentation of Eadweard Muybridge, born edward Muggeridge. Indexed, 207p. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Remainder.

Northland Publishing, 1995. Q5 - A first edition (First Impression) hardcover book SIGNED by Joan Frederick on the half-title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has some wrinkling on the edges and corners, dust jacket and book have some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. 10"x10.5", 199 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. Tommy Wayne "T.C." Cannon was to the world of contemporary Native American art what James Dean was to American movie culture. Killed in a car accident in 1978 at the young age of thirty-one, T.C. Cannon is regarded as the most eloquent and innovative of the Native American artists, one who helped change the direction of traditional Indian art to the "New Wave" movement that characterizes that genre today. In T.C. Cannon: He Stood in the Sun, Joan Frederick, working cooperatively with T.C. Cannon's father, presents the most comprehensive information available about this talented and… Read More

Piscataway, New Jersey: New Century Publishers, Inc., 1981. K5 - An 11th printing hardcover book SIGNED and inscribed by Joan Kufrin to previous owner on the front free endpaper in very good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has price clipped, some wrinkling, chipping, crease, and some small tears and open tears on the edges and corners, couple of small tears on the back lower right side, some scattered light scratches, rubbing, and scuffing, light tanning and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, some light stains on the page edges, light tanning and shelf wear. With photography by George Kufrin. 10.25"x7.25", 173 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. In unusually candid personal meetings and interviews with nine women of genius, Joan Kufrin has drawn from those outstanding artists their own expressions of how and why, of all the talented people in the world, they had managed to reach the peaks of their artistic fields. When had… Read More