Search Results: Titles starting with U from Browsing Is Arousing

NY: US Camera Publishing, 1953. 1st. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover with a bright dust jacket, 424 pages. Catagories of photos include post-war European photography, the year's best pictures American-International, Elisofon's Africa-in color, combat in Korea, The News in Pictures. Clean copy. Record # 355639

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1892. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. 1000 pages. Black cloth cover, worn and soiled. Corners and edges of spine are bumped. Minor foxing on front endpaper. Front flyleaf has small tear, but no part of the page is missing. Pages untrimmed. Diverse topics include the history of sheep husbandry in the U. S. and a record of the sheep industry in Eastern and Western states. Inside is bright and clean, with 96 b&w plates depicting various sheep breeds and farms, also b&w statistic charts throughout. A nice copy. Record # 852700

New York : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1942. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. 275 pages. Blue cloth cover with gilt lettering. Edges and corners and worn and bumped, faint smudges on cloth. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Pages untrimmed, some unopened. Some foxing on front and rear endpapers. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean, with many b&w illustrations throughout. Record # 852695

Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 315 pages. Light green laminate boards, numerous charts, graphs and diagrams. Previous owner's signature to top right corner of front endpaper, covers very slightly discolored, pages crisp and unmarked; a very neat, tight copy. Record # 807238

London: Hard Case Crime, 2018. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Paul Mann. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Paul Mann. Why would a happily married Florida housewife pick up her husband’s .22 caliber Colt Woodsman semi-automatic pistol and use it to kill her two young children and herself? Cynical newspaper reporter Richard Hudson is assigned to find out—and the assignment will send him down a road of self-discovery in this incisive, no-holds-barred portrait of American marriage in the Mad Men era.On the 30th anniversary of the death of the masterful novelist the Atlantic Monthly called the "father of Miami crime fiction," Hard Case Crime published Charles Willeford’s legendary lost novel, unavailable since its original publication by a disreputable paperback house in 1961. One of Willeford’s rarest titles (copies of the original edition sell for hundreds of dollars), Understudy for Death still has the power to disturb, half a century after its debut. Like… Read More

London: Perpetua Books, 1959. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Hardcover, Illustrated in black & white by the wonderful Ronald Searle. 111 pages. A humorous Grand Tour of America with some startling sidelights on the American character. Book is very good, the dust jacket with chipping, edgewear, fair only. Record # 363433

Florence Italy: Giulio Giannini & Son, 1910. 1st. Hardcover. Good/None. Hardcover. Unpaginated, b&w line portraits of famous Italians by Buona Fortuna accompanied by verse. Originally softcover here bound in three-quarter leather and marbled boards, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering. Bound with Casa Guidi Windows by E.B. Browning.(1925, Florence, 96 pages) Front cover hinge cracked but holding. Record # 406050

UK: Trustees of the Uganda National Parks, 1957. Softcover. Good/None. Softcover, 102 pages plus ads in rear. Also has a small folded map of Uganda in back pocket. B&w illustrations throughout. Record # 359813

NY: Taplinger, 1971. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. A look at one of the richest, most varied wildlife areas in the world, Uganda's Queen Elizabeth National Park. Color photographs, 127 pages. Clean copy. Record # 380948

New York: Sirecox, 1991. 2nd pr.. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 243 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color photographs throughout. Illustrated with color photographs by Jose Luis Gonzalez Grande. Translation by Louis Bourne. Foreword by Sam K. Sebagereka, Minister for Tourism and Wildlife of Uganda. Preface by Luis Yanez-Barnuevo. A photographic safari of Uganda. Record # 2230145

New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1990. 1st. Very Good/Very Good. Richard Egielski. Hardcover in a bight, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR. 28 pages. Color illustrations by Richard Egielski. Record # 204420

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Adrienne Adams. Hardcover, 64 pages illustrated in color by Adrienne Adams. Dust jacket worn with chipping, some tanning. Flap is price-clipped (has mandatory "A" on title page). Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, last page with dog-ear crease to top corner. Otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 405193

New York: Gallery Books, 1991. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 390 pages, illustrated throughout in color. INSCRIBED BY YOSHIDA on half title page. Large, very heavy book. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Record # 460396

New York: Simon and Schuster, 2016. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 367 pages, a graphic novel illustrated in color by Igort. Color illustrated boards, no dust jacket issued. After spending two years in Ukraine and Russia, collecting the stories of the survivors and witnesses to Soviet rule, masterful Italian graphic novelist Igort was compelled to illuminate two shadowy moments in recent history: the Ukraine famine and the assassination of a Russian journalist. Now he brings those stories to new life with in-depth reporting and deep compassion. In The Russian Notebooks, Igort investigates the murder of award-winning journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkoyskaya. Anna spoke out frequently against the Second Chechen War, criticizing Vladimir Putin. For her work, she was detained, poisoned, and ultimately murdered. Igort follows in her tracks, detailing Anna’s assassination and the stories of abuse, murder, abduction, and torture that Russia was so desperate to censor. In The… Read More

New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 399 pages. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. An illustrated history of 170 years of Arctic exploration and its effects on indigenous peoples. Ultima Thule is the terrible and yet fantastic story of European and American exploration in the polar north. Based on excerpts from the explorers' logs counterbalanced by Inuit testimony, it brings to life both sides of the clash that arose when white men arrived in the Far North, dreaming of conquest and believing that they brought with them a civilization superior to that of the indigenous peoples they found. Today, the outlook for the Inuit and the polar environment is bleak: the people and their landscape are in danger of disappearing for good. But according to Jean Malaurie, the situation is not altogether without hope. Heavily illustrated with period photographs, engravings, artifacts, and drawings, the book gives the… Read More

Nara: Nara National Museum, 2002. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 375 pages. Softcover. Exhibition catalog. Full color photographs. Primary language of catalog is Japanese - Foreword and Exhibition Checklist in English. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 613715

New York: Aperture, 1997. 1st US. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 104 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Published in Italian in 1955, and now available for the first time in the English language, Un Paese captures in photographs and in spoken testimony the essential experience of daily life in Luzzara. It presents a series of intense portraits, graceful landscapes, and images of everyday objects. Paul Strand's photographs are carefully distilled, deeply powerful; they contain the flavors and the rhythms of an entire culture crystallized in a single village. Zavattini successfully synthesizes text and image, aligning with the new cinematic trend of the day, a movement known as Italian neorealism. Their Luzzara is an ordinary village, neither overly picturesque nor greatly unusual, yet it is a town sustained by a grounded humanity and a profound love for the land by its people. Record # 353366

Paris: Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, 1996. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 506 pages, hundreds of b&w and color illustrations featuring English sculptors and their work. Boards with die-cut to front cover revealing art on front fly leaf. FRENCH TEXT, clean and tight copy. Record # 404918

New York: Beach Lane Books, 2012. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Douglas Florian . Non paginated. Hardcover. Extensive color illustrations by Douglas Florian throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 352299

Brooklyn, NY: PowerHouse Books, 2018. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 176 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Color photographs throughout. Record # 353524