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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1978. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear. Introduction by Richard Burton. An in depth look at the career and films of Joseph Mankiewicz whose career spanned nearly half a century. His credits include such classics as The Philadelphia Story; A Letter to Three Wives; All About Eve, and Five Fingers. 443 pages, b&w photos. Clean copy. Record # 384826

Santa Fe, NM: Museum of New Mexico Press, 1998. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 166 pages. Toba Tucker's expressive portraits honoring Pueblo artists were made over a two-and-a-half year sojourn in the Southwest. These photographs form a record for history and art at the end of the twentieth century and portray Tucker's interest in the individuals and families who pass their artistic traditions from one generation to the next. Remainder stamp on bottom edge otherwise clean. Record # 372090

NY: Harper & Brothers, 1911. Very Good/None. W.L. Jacobs. B&w illustration of kids taking off riding the horse-drawn grocery wagon. Art by W.L. Jacobs. Approx. 13 X 10".PLEASE NOTE: The image shown is a scan of the actual product you are purchasing. What you see is what you get. The sheet may have some imperfections beyond the cropped area shown. You are buying THIS PAGE ONLY- not the entire magazine. Your order will be placed carefully between stiff paper and an acetate overlay, then packed in a rigid cardboard sleeve to prevent bending. Record # 382416

NY/London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1925. 1st. Hardcover. Dugald Stewart Walker. Hardcover, gray cloth with blue design featuring a winged horse on the cover. Illustrations by Dugald Stewart Walker, with a color frontispiece and b&w drawings throughout the text and decorative endpapers of blue and white illustrations of a Centaur hunter and forest scene. Blue lettering on spine faded, inscription on half title in ink, another on ext blank page in pencil. Record # 382275

New York: Jordan-Volpe Gallery, 1995. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 160 pages. Front cover completely illustrated in full-color, 77 b&w figures throughout text and chronology, 45 beautiful full-page full-color plates, 91 b&w figures through catalogue of selected still-lifes. Very slight rubbing to covers, else a beautiful copy. Record # 806512

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Karl Larsson. 50 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Previous owner's signature front end paper. Color illustrations by Karl Larsson. Dust jacket shows much wear, soiling, chipping, some small tears, one large tear at top left hand corner of back cover. Internally there is some soiling but mostly clean. Record # 110043

NY: Holt Rinehart Winston , 1974. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Ray Cruz. Black & white illustrations by Ray Cruz. Shows minor wear, otherwise nice condition. Hardbound, dust jacket. Record # 109730

New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/None. Trina Schart Hyman. Hardcover, 56 pages. Two-color pictures by Trina Schart Hyman. Front endpaper bottom corner creased. Pictorial cover onlaid front and back on heavy paper covered boards. Record # 503258

Paris: Hector Bossange, 1829. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover. Two parts in one volume, 136 + 203 pages, bound in maroon half leather over marbled boards, gilt design on spine. Edition Stereotype: D'apres le procede de Firmin Didot. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and blank prelim page, moderate foxing to pages. Record # 406891

NY: Da Capo Press, 1969. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Maroon boards, [vi] 270 pages, no illustrations. Series: Library of American Art. This is the 1969 Da Capo reprint of the 1895 original; made possible by the Kennedy Galleries. This version is an unabridged republication of the first edition. No dust jacket, as issued. Light wear to lower edges and spine, overall a very clean, tight copy. Record # 371993

NY: Century Co., 1919. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover, yellow cloth stamped with black design, 240 pages illustrated with b&w photos. A book that covers many aspects of life in China through the eyes of an extraordinary woman: "Ellen Newbold La Motte (1873 - 1961) was an American nurse, journalist and author. After WW1, LaMotte travelled to Asia, where she witnessed the horrors of opium addiction. These travels provided her with material for six books, three of them explicitly dealing with the opium problem, this being the first. Covers show shelf wear, soil. Record # 373216

London: Ashgate, 2010. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 248 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Silver gilt on spine. 'Like "the ring" itself, this book is viral: it gathers into itself literature and film, disease and survival, cultural studies and aesthetics, Japan and America, technology and the family. We won't read Suzuki's novels or watch the films in the same way again. A thoroughly readable and teachable text!' Steven Bruhm, Robert and Ruth Lumsden Professor of English, The University of Western Ontario, and author of Reflecting Narcissus: A Queer Aesthetic 'Taking as its point of departure the phenomenon of The Ring in all its manifestations”the Japanese novel, the Japanese film, the American film, and the various sequels”The Scary Screen offers an in-depth and sustained speculation about the anxiety created by the development of communication technologies. The collection introduces startling insights into the relationship… Read More

New York: Prestel, 2015. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. The Bauers. 496 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations throughout. Clean, tight copy. Record # 8230008

US: Stern Portfolios, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 96 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Like new in publishers shrinkwrap. In 1975, the young Parisian photographer Brigitte Lacombe met Donald Sutherland and Dustin Hoffman at the Cannes Film Festival; these new acquaintances would go on to open doors for her. That same year she was hired as a photographer for the filming of Fellini's Casanova. Since then, Lacombe's famous images have reflected a who's who of Hollywood cinema. This collection spans a masterfully choreographed array of photographs Lacombe took - all the way from the sets of 1970's cinema classics to film milestones of the new millennium, including Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, and Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards. Conveying a certain intimacy without unmasking any mystery, Lacombe's images capture classical beauty in a way that is fresh and exciting. Record # 369107

US: Stern Portfolios, 2013. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 96 pages. Hardcover with laminated boards. Like new in publishers shrinkwrap. In 1975, the young Parisian photographer Brigitte Lacombe met Donald Sutherland and Dustin Hoffman at the Cannes Film Festival; these new acquaintances would go on to open doors for her. That same year she was hired as a photographer for the filming of Fellini's Casanova. Since then, Lacombe's famous images have reflected a who's who of Hollywood cinema. This collection spans a masterfully choreographed array of photographs Lacombe took - all the way from the sets of 1970's cinema classics to film milestones of the new millennium, including Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men, Martin Scorsese's Gangs of New York, and Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Bastards. Conveying a certain intimacy without unmasking any mystery, Lacombe's images capture classical beauty in a way that is fresh and exciting. Record # 56

US: Prestel, 2014. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, 304 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This massive retrospective volume profiles the work of Philippe Halsman, one of the world’s most revered photographers. Salvador Dali’s flamboyant moustache, Richard Nixon jumping in the West Wing, Grace Kelly’s amazing profile—these are just a few of the images that achieved iconic status and helped make photographer Philippe Halsman an icon in his own right. Comprising hundreds of photographs and insightful accompanying texts, this volume explores Halsman’s oeuvre in a variety of aspects. It examines his early career exhibiting works at the avant-garde La Pleiade Gallery in Paris; his experiments with portraiture, particularly the series of stunning images of Marilyn Monroe and his more than 100 covers for Life magazine; his pictures of the contemporary art scene that include famous dancers, movie stars, stage actors, and musicians and the birth of his "jumpology" concept;… Read More

NY: Random House, 1968. 1st US. Very Good. Hardcover, black cloth stamped in green on front, gilt on spine. 313 pages. Lacouture's biography of Ho Chi Minh examines the North Vietnamese leader's political development from his early years in France, through World War Two, and up until 1968 when this book was first published. Lacouture doesn't avoid the negative aspects of his political career, but these negatives (e.g. harsh control of the starving North Vietnamese in the 50s) only help to put in perspective Vietnam's similarly harsh treatment by Western and Eastern powers alike. A former Le Monde correspondent, author has also written books on Vietnam and DeGaulle. Internally bright and clean. Record # 383318

France: Diffusion Glenat, N/A. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sunfading to dust jacket spine. An otherwise very clean, unmarked copy. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT FLYLEAF. Record # 353512

Mexico: Secretaria De Relaciones Exteriores, 2003. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Articles in English and Spanish. 108 pages plus advertisements. Color illustrations throughout. Black pictorial cover with wear to edges and covers. Overall, a clean, tight copy. Record # 850619

NY: Nesterman Publishing., 1943. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, maroon cloth stamped in gilt. 263 pages, b/w illustrations by Al Coleman. SIGNED BY BOTH AUTHORS on the front fly leaf. A memoir of growing up on farms in central and western New York before the turn of the century. A hilarious account that recalls all the joys and a few of the mishaps that accompanied Horse and Buggy days on the farm. Clean, tight copy. Record # 371155