(no dust jacket, possibly as issued) [light handling wear, very slight bumping to top corners, one-time owner's name (Epstein) in pencil at top of ffep, a couple of pages diagonally creased at bottom corners; spine lettering heavily rubbed, barely readable]. From the front matter: "It is a pleasure to present to our friends, on the occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the founding of the Horace Mann School, this publication, in which is set forth the history and the educational philosophy of the Horace Mann School for Boys." By 1937, the school's notable alumni already included Val... View More...
[modest shelfwear to bottom edges of covers, small bookseller label (Jean French) on front pastedown; jacket somewhat edgeworn, crinkling and minor paper loss at top of spine, spine panel a bit faded]. (B&W photographs, tipped-on color plates) A profusely-illustrated visual guide to all parts of the well-appointed postwar French home (although a number of the examples are from American publications, e.g. Better Homes & Gardens), from the salon to the library to the bar, the kitchen, the bathroom -- you name it. Hundreds of black-and-white photographs and drawings, plus 28 tipped-on color pla... View More...
[light bumping and minor wear at corners, slight wear along spine]. (B&W graphics) Literary journal featuring the poetic and prose work of Beverly Hills High School students. Includes contributions by two writers who later went on to some notoriety: Michael Tolkin, novelist (author "The Player"), represented here by three poems; and Mickey Kaus, journalist, whose contribution to this issue was a short story entitled "The Apotheosis Department," about a 100-year-old man facing some difficult choices in a future society. View More...
[light handling wear only]. Trade PB (B&W and color reproductions) This book "presents a fascinating colletion of the most ingenious designs and devices ever to represent a commercial product or serve. These two remarkable decades were times of sloganism, radio jingles, and visual puns. In terms of graphic design, the trademarks bridges the simplistic naivet of the early century with the studied sophistication of the Madison Avenue approach. [This] is a book for the graphic designer and commercial artist, and will delight the nostalgia buff and collector of Americana." View More...
[a touch of wear to extremities, pocket on rear pastedown (see notes), generally a nice clean copy; jacket shows edgewear and light rubbing, minor paper loss at both ends of spine]. (pen and ink drawings) "This book explains simply the famous Balkin system of reading character at sight scientifically. It will show you exactly how to judge others accurately and tell at a glance whether they are dishonest, stubborn, generous, sensitive, thick-skinned, impatient, etc. and how to deal with them. Learn here how to make friends and how to know the people you meet every day; how to judge your own ch... View More...
[nice clean book, no discernible wear; jacket shows moderate edgewear, a little scuffing to front and rear panels]. (tables, figures) "This study of the acculturation of three generations of Japanese Americans is based on both biographical data and psychological tests. After describing the focus of his investigation and the various research instruments that were employed, [the author] presents the historical framework within which distinctive Japanese and American characteristics developed. An account of Tokugama, Japan is followed by an analysis of the effects of nineteenth-century mod... View More...
[light shelfwear, a little dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket has various small tears and shallow edge-chips, spine faded and worn (small hole at front hinge), miscellaneous minor creasing]. SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper. A very forward-looking (not to say prescient) "analysis of the role of machinery in the modern world," by this Vienna-born architect, who later took up painting and design (particularly of furniture) and became a pioneer of modernist design. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1914, settling in New York, and (per Wikipedia) "in the years between the two world w... View More...
(no dust jacket) [light shelfwear, spine cloth somewhat faded, small bookseller's label ("Sold by The Methodist Publishing House, Nashville") at bottom corner of front pastedown; although the full jacket is not present, the complete text from has been neatly trimmed from both flaps, and the two pieces are laid into the book]. (B&W photographs, diagrams, drawings) The third published book by Gann, later the author of such aviation-themed epics as "Island in the Sky" and "The High and the Mighty." Like his other early works, this was written for juvenile (e.g. young adu... View More...
[very light shelfwear, a touch of dust-soiling to top of text block; jacket moderately edgeworn, some paper loss at spine ends and corners, a few tiny edge-nicks here and there]. (B&W drawings) "A handbook of good grooming, good clothes and good manners, and what comes of them, for young men who want more than a backward glance!" View More...
(gray paper-covered boards with white lettering on front cover and spine; no dust jacket) [moderate wear to corners and edges of boards, faint musty odor]. (B&W/color photographs, diagrams, charts, etc.) A thorough review of all things automotive during 1957, divided between general matters (including automobile design and manufacturing) and a review of the year's major races and rallies: the Grand Prix (in Monaco, Belgium, the U.K., Italy, etc.), the Indianapolis 500, etc. Some of the more interesting articles include: "The 'Smaller' Car: Its Origin and Prospects"; a biographical and histor... View More...
[nice clean copy, minor bump to bottom front corner; jacket modestly edgeworn, with a tiny closed tear and a bit of diagonal creasing at bottom right corner of front panel, still a decent example of a jacket that doesn't wear well]. Why isn't Elizabeth Hawes as much a household name as Germaine Greer or Betty Friedan or Gloria Steinem or Susan Faludi or any of those dames? Take this book, for instance -- a caustically witty, perceptive, and unrelenting analysis of (and assault on) "the corruptions of various national institutions -- unions and the N.A.M. [National Association of Manufacturer... View More...
[very nice copy, essentially as-new with just a tiny bit of surface wear to the rear cover]. Trade PB (color reproductions) "The twenties, thirties, and early forties witnessed a remarkable surge of creative activity in British graphic arts and commercial design. British designers embraced artistic developments taking place in America, France, and Germany, incorporating the avant-garde visual languages of Cubism, Futurism, and Vorticism. The resulting look was subtle, sophisticated, stylized. The first book to focus on British design of the Art Deco period, [this volume] is an essentail ref... View More...
[slight wear to top right corner of front cover, light soiling to rear cover] (Contemporary Theatre Studies, Volume 32) Series Trade PB (B&W and color photos, drawings) "This finely illustrated book offers a simple yet comprehensive 'grammar' of a new discipline. This is the first publication to outline the essential characteristics of the field and to put forward a method for teaching the subject as a discipline distinct from dance, drama, painting or sculpture. Based on a taught course, the system is designed for practical use in the studio and is also entertaining to explore. Example... View More...
[very nice copy, clean and tight, blemished only by the word "discarded" stamped in red on top edge (NO other markings of any sort); jacket similarly clean and nice, with just one small closed tear at top of spine]. "For nearly a century, the discouse on ethnoracial minorities in the United States has been framed by debates over assimilation versus pluralism. In this challenging look at race, culture, and the nature of integration, [the author] explores that discourse, from its philosophical origins in intellectual responses to the 'Jewish Question' to its contemporary formulatio... View More...
[slight wear to bottom front corner of book, small black mark on bottom edge of text block that could be a remainder mark (but I don't think it is); jacket lightly surface-worn, faint crease in top left area of front panel]. (B&W and color photographs) INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the photographer on the second front endpape (on the white area of a full-page photograph): "To Burt [Lancaster] - Wishing you / the best - Enjoy Love and / Happiness. Milton." One might have thought that Mailer was done having his literary way with Marilyn Monroe after his factoid-infused 1973 book "Marilyn... View More...
(price-clipped) [nice clean copy, very light wear to base of spine, slight bump to bottom rear corner; jacket shows minor wrinkling here and there, light surface wear]. (B&W photographs) "With the aid of over 200 photographs, the author reviews the careers of each of the 64 vessels built or bought for the P&O within living memory. [His] thorough research includes technical data on each ship and information on their eventual fate, including those few sold to other companies for further employment." View More...
[very light soiling to top edge of text block, minimal shelfwear; jacket shows just a little wrinkling along top edge, otherwise nice and clean]. (B&W photos, facsimiles, color plates) This lavishly illustrated history "catalogues the growth of the [American] medicine show from Wizard Oil routines with their high moral tone and starched wing collars; to the humbug Indian spectaculars put on by the Kickapoo and Oregon Medicine companies; through the crucible of the Pure Food and Drug Act; right up to the giant Hadacol Caravans that showcased stars in the South during the 1950s." View More...
(laminated pictorial boards; no dust jacket, as issued) [a couple of tiny scuff marks on covers, tiny dent in bottom edge of front cover, no other significant wear, clean as a whistle on the inside]. PLEASE NOTE that if you are a student purchasing this as a textbook, this is NOT THE SECOND EDITION (which came out in 2009), but rather the FIRST EDITION. An anthology of the author's essays on a wide-ranging variety of topics related to the ethical and legal issues surrounding cultural artifacts, works of art, etc. General-essay topics include: "The Public Interest in Cultural Property... View More...
[nice tight clean book, with no discernible shelfwear, tiny smudge on front cover; jacket a little browned at the edges, minor wear along top edge]. "Here for the first time within one cover [sic] is a survey of major medieval theories of communication, together with their applications to medieval literary works in Old English, Italian, German, Old French, Latin, and Middle English. The rhetorical tradition that had begun in ancient Greece was transmitted to the middle ages largely through the influence of the Roman theoretician Cicero. But medieval theorists put their own special stamp on ... View More...
(padded hard covers; no dust jacket, as issued) [light external soiling, minor annotations within (no autographs or inscriptions)]. (B&W photographs) Typical high school yearbook of the period, with individual portrait photos of faculty, staff, and senior class members -- in fact, it very much is the SENIOR class yearbook, with the lower classfolk not even rating a mention (although many of them are presumably pictured in some of the many, many group photos of clubs, sports teams, etc.) There is no personalization in this particular copy (not even an ownership signature), although whoever ow... View More...
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