A HORSE NAMED JOE by Robert E. Gard, Sloan and Pearce, 1956. Stated First Edition, Good in good dust jacket. Dust jacket has small tears SEE PICTURES. Small spotting on end pages. Dust jacket with $2.95 price. Wonderful book....more

Good condition. Back page notes that there were no notations. Once owned by local poet and signed. Many illustrations. Le Roy Phillips publisher (1916)....more

Dictionary of the English Languagem, Samuel Johnson, London (1766) Volume II only, fair/good with cracked hinge. First few pages has wear - AND EARLY WRITING SEE PIC - INTERESTING. There is a page with Genealogy going back to 1700....more

Parturition Without Pain; A Code of Directions for Escaping from the Primal Curse, M. L., M. D. Holbrook, Editor Published by Wood & Holbrook, New York (1882) 159 pp plus list of books for women. Preparation for Motherhood, Exercise & Occupation during Gestation, Bath, Fruit Diet, Mind during Pregnancy, Anaesthetics during Labor, Female Physicians, and more....more

Confessions Illustrated, Published by Gemstone Publishing, Inc., West Plains, MO (2006) Large hardcover reprint of original 1950's magazine. I believe this once was with a set of three other issues, good condition, some corner bumping on hardcover corners....more

Hitler Moves East: A Graphic Chronicle, 1941-43 by David Levinthal; G. B. Trudeau, Published by Laurence Miller Gallery, U.S.A. (1989) Levinthal and Trudeau have visiually recreated Hitler's march on Russia using black and white photos and other images. The book is in fair/good condition - the dust jacket has some heavy wear (you could replace it), and there is some random spotting - there is LETTERS FROM DAVID LEVINTHAL BETWEEN HIM AND HARVARD....more

Grant Moves South by Bruce Catton, Published by Little, Brown and Company (1960), good condition with some spotting, hardcover in good dust jacket. Owner stamp. Mr. Catton begins with Grant's first real Civil War assignment the (he had left the Army in disgrace seven years before): the command of the 21st Illinois Volunteers. He shows how Grant's simple, forceful manner made an orderly regiment out of a group of recalcitrant farmboys....more

The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson, Saafield (1925), good condition some minor wear. Decorative front cover. THE BLACK ARROW tells the story of Richard (Dick) Shelton during the Wars of the Roses: how he becomes a knight, rescues his lady Joanna Sedley, and obtains justice for the murder of his father, Sir Harry Shelton....more

The Case of the Velvet Claws by Erle Stanley Gardner, Published by Triangle Books, Philadelphia (1945) Good in fair/good to good dust jacket, with some loss. Gardner's first Perry Mason mystery and book (originally published in 1932)....more

Ships and Shipwrecks of the Americas: A History Based on Underwater Archaeology by George F. Bass, Published by United Kingdom: Thames & Hudson, 1988. Very good condition in good dust jacket in mylar cover. A survey of the maritime history of the New World. The book brings together the work of leading nautical archaeologists, each with first-hand diving experience. Twelve chapters tell the story of watercraft in the Americas, accompanied by photographs, paintings, diagrams, charts and maps....more

Gettysburg: The Final Fury by Bruce Catton, Published by Doubleday, New York, New York, U.S.A. (1974) very good condition in slipcase. Two great armies met at Gettysburg. The author clarifies the cause of the conflict, the course of events, and examined the military and political consequences of Gettysburg. A fresh and total view of the battle which was the determining event of the Civil War. ...more

Air Battle of Dunkirk by Norman Franks (Hardcover, Grub Street London 2000) Very good condition with little wear. 'Where is the RAF?' was the oft-quoted question asked by soldiers waiting on the beach at Dunkirk, to where they had retreated following the German blitzkrieg through northern France. This title details the outstanding achievements of the Allied pilots who had earlier had easy victories over the Polish, Dutch and Belgian air forces....more

YANKEE R.N. - Being the Story of a Wall Street Banker Who Voluntered for Active Duty in the Royal Navy Before America Came into War by Commander A. H. Cherry, Published by London Jarrolds. (1954) Later Printing. Maps to both paste downs and prelims.Frontis present and 36 illustrations. Cherry was a Wall Street Banker who volenteered before war broke out. Good condition with good dust jacket in mylar protector....more

Kingdom of Adventure: Everest by James Ullman, Published by Sloane (1947) good condition with fair/good to good dust jacket with some minor wear. First Edition. With photographs. A compendium of episodes between man and the mountain, "narrated by the participants" beginning with the first to attempt it, Charles Granville Bruce, and following through with others like George Ingle Finch, Percy Wyn Harris, Eric Shipton and Harold Tilman....more

A Pictorial History of the Civil War Years by Paul M. Angle, Published by Doubleday & Company (1967) Good condition with good dust jacket with a couple of small tears nothing more. The war that has been called "the American Iliad" is presented here in a rare gallery of over 350 pictures, many never before published, gathered from sources North and South....more

Anthropology & Photography 1860-1920. EDWARDS, ELIZABETH [editor]. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1992. Quarto, pp. xi, 271, good condition, SOFTCOVER. Since Its Beginnings, Photography Has Been A Resource For Anthropologists In The Recording Of Ethnographic Data. This Book Looks At The Significance And Relevance Of Still Photography In British Anthropology From About 1860 Until 1920....more

Ruth Orkin: American Girl in Italy, the Making of a Classic by Mary Engle, Published by Howard Greenberg Gallery (2005) softcover, 25 pages, art program with exhibition in Florence Italy. Very good conition....more

Beautiful Suffering: Photography and the Traffic in Pain, Published by University Of Chicago Press (2007) Exhibition catalog. Color and black and white photographs throughout. Softcover, very good condition. Susan Sontag once remarked that since the invention of the camera, photography has “kept company with death.” And indeed, images of suffering human beings and devastated landscapes appear regularly in the popular media and even in contemporary art. This volume explores these painful images from the past few decades of photography, weighing in on the intense critical debate that has arisen in recent years around depictions of acute human suffering—especially those that are beautifully rendered....more

American Politicians: Photographs, 1843 to 1993, Susan Kismaric, softcover, very good condition, Museum of Modern Art New York, 208 pages, filled with photographs....more

Inherit the Land, Photographs by Jack Lueders-Booth. Introduction by Luis Urrea. Essay by Frank Gohlke. Pond Press, Boston, 2005. 168 pp., 70 duotone illustrations, 11x8½". Very good condition, some slight wear on the dust jacket, signed inside, and comes with additional letter from the photographer. Inherit the Land bears witness to the immediate and intimate facts, both cherished and chilling, of the personal lives, dwellings, and struggles of families who live and work in the garbage dumps of Tijuana, Mexico. n these photographs the viewer will find life lessons in survival, spirituality, and community, beyond ordinary comprehension and imagination. Lueders-Booth's penetrating photographs, made over a six-year period, are further illuminated in an introduction by prize-winning writer Luis Alberto Urrea and an essay by photographer Frank Gohlke....more

First edition. Hardcover. Signed by author. Green cloth-covered boards with title stamped in silver on spine, with photographically illustrated dust jacket. Photographs by numerous (mostly unknown) 19th-20th-century photographers. Photograph selection and introduction by John Szarkowski. Essays by Richard Benson. Includes a checklist and notes on the plates. Designed by John Gambell, New Haven, Connecticut. 248 pp., with 100 duotone plates. 11-1/4 x 9-3/8 inches. Published on the occasion of the 1997 exhibition A Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and Their Stories at the Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Virginia. From the publisher: "This book, featuring 100 photographs culled from the archives of the Mariner's Museum, depicts the complex, often deeply passionate relationships of mariners with their vessels and the sea....[E]ach photograph chronicles a fragment of the mariner's experience over the past 200 years--shipbuilding, the making of a wooden skiff, commercial fishing and whaling, amateur sailing, deep-sea diving, naval encounters and much more....Benson's essays, which accompany the photographs, unify image and story in a richly evocative vignette of time and place, of historical, societal, and individual meaning."...more

ATALA. BY CHATEAUBRIAND. Translated By James Spence Harry From Firmin Didot's Edition Of The Viscount's Works. Illustrated by Gustave Dore. Chateaubriand, Francois-Rene de; Dore, Gustav. Published by P J. Kenedy, New York: (1889) Over 14 illustrations, many of Native Americans. Atala is an early novella by Chateaubriand (first published in 1801). The work, inspired by his travels in North America, had an immense impact on early Romanticism, and went through five editions in its first year. Good condition, some slight browning on the pages. Cover wear especially along the corners....more

Cosmic Consciousness by Richard Maurice Bucke, Published by E. P. Dutton, New York, NY (1940) Later Printing, Good condition, hardcover, this pioneering study in mysticism explores the phenomenon of transcendent realization, or illumination. Its numerous case studies offer intriguing, real-life particulars of individuals who experienced personal epiphanies....more

Manual for the Medical Department: UNITED STATES ARMY (1916) good condition, hardcover, 395 pages....more

Six Volumes of JANE AUSTEN - Leatherbound Illustrated by C.E. Brock, all published by J.M. Dent & Co. London. Includes Sense & Sensibility (1908), Persuasion (1909), Northanger Abbey (1907), Mansfield Park (1908), Emma (1909), and Pride & Predjudice (1908). All in good condition, 3/4 leather English Calf, some scuff marks on all volumes (see photos). Each volume online can run between $50-$200....more