Here’s what Henry has added today:
Philippe Halsman and Salvador Dali, Dali's Moustache (Librarie Ernest Flammarion, dist. by Abbeville Press (1994), 128 pp. hardcover, unclipped dust jacket. ISBN 2-08013-560-0.) Dali answers questions with photos of his languorously long moustaches doing things. A cult classic since the first edition in 1954. Very good condition. Your price: US $25.
Jacob Riis, How The Other Half Lives: With 100 Photos From The Riis Collection (Dover Publications, 1971, 233 pp, paperback, ISBN 0-486-22012-5, 10" x 7 7/8".) Reproduction of the social reformer’s early 20th century documentary of slums in New York. Very good condition. Your price: US $20,
William D. Morgan, Henry M. Lester and 14 leading 3-D experts, Stereo Realist Manual (Morgan & Lester,1st ed. October, 1954), 400 pp. hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, Library of Congress # 54-11905, 6 1/2" x 9"). Very good condition, rare. Your price: US $100.
By the late 1940s, photography had branched out in all sorts of directions from the relatively simple systems Riis used half a century earlier. One was Seton Rochewite's Stereo Realist 35mm camera, produced by The David White Co. of Milwaukee from 1947 to 1971. In simplest terms, the Stereo Realist camera gave every American his own View-Master.
Stereo film photography took off, and by the mid-50s several of the major players in the film and photographic equipment industry, including Bell & Howell and Kodak, jumped in with models of their own. But they mistimed the market, and by 1960 David White not just the first manufacturer, but the last. Production ceased in 1971 but enthusiasts still bought and used Stereo Realist equipment into the next decade.
Stereo Realist Manual, published at the peak of the craze in 1954, is an evangelist's tract/user guide to the David White camera. Silent film legend Harold Lloyd wrote the introduction; he shot over 200,000 stereo photos, from which his daughter published the collections 3D Hollywood (1992) and Hollywood Nudes in 3D! (2006). Contributors include the ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and art historian Beaumont Newhall. The dust jacket announces, "Here is something new- the first book on stereo photography actually illustrated with color stereos. An amazing new optical Stereo Viewer (it's inside the back cover!) was specially designed for viewing the stereos in this book." Our copy- a first edition- includes the special Stereo Viewer, in its original envelope, behind the back cover just as promised sixty years ago.
A Delicate Balance: Six Israeli Photographers (The Light Factory, 1996; softcover, 60 pp, ISBN 0-9642772-1-2, 10" x 7.5", very good condition). Your price: US $100. A Delicate Balance: Six Israeli Photographers is the companion volume to a 1996-97 exhibition organized by the Israel/North Carolina Cultural Exchange. The works presented are of contemporary Israeli life as interpreted by the photographers. A second show, in 1997, featured the work of four North Carolina photographers taken during residencies in Israel.
The photographers represented in this elegant volume- printed in English and Hebrew- are Barry Frydlender, Judith Guetta, Gilad Ophir, Michal Rovner, Simcha Shirman and Oded Yedaya. This is a rare and unusual collection by artists how, in the nearly twenty years since, have gone from strength to strength in the international photography world.
Stephen King and f-stop Fitzgerald, Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques (Viking Studio Books, 1988; hardcover, 128 pp, ISBN 0-670-82307-4; 1st ed., hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, 10" x 11.25", very good condition). Your price: US $75. Horror and suspense writer Stephen King found his first face-to-grimace encounter with a gargoyle, the grotesque waterspouts that have carried water away from the sides of stone buildings since ancient times. Seeing one up close, King writes, is like "having a nightmare awake."
The avant-gardishly named avant-garde photographer, f-stop Fitzgerald, shares King's fascination, and the two collaborated on what became a 1988 best-seller, Nightmares in the Sky: Gargoyles and Grotesques. 100 duotones and 24 full-color images menace and confront the reader in a fascinating, up-close-and-personal encounter with an art form we rarely notice at ground level.
Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) modeled his famed monsters after relatives: “They were unkempt; their teeth were horrifying. Hair unraveling out of their noses." Notoriously spiky (of e-books, he said, "F*** them is what I say; I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future... they may well be. I will be dead, I won’t give a s***!”; of a fan, he recalled, “A woman came up to me the other day and said, ‘You’re the kiddie-book man!’ I wanted to kill her.”), it bothered him not in the least that his book, In the Night Kitchen, is among the kids' books most banned from libraries in this century.
Selma Lanes, a Sendak friend and children's books' editor and author, combines a biography of the artist and a visual survey of his work in The Art of Maurice Sendak, a large, lavishly illustrated book complete with foldouts of Sendak's sketches and storyboards for his books. Harry Abrams, the art book publisher gave this volume the full treatment, which makes it a must-have for kids-at-heart and visual arts fans of every sort.
Selma G. Lanes, The Art of Maurice Sendak (1993 ed., hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, one slight tear on back edge, 278 pp., 165 black-and-white, 94 color illustrations, ISBN 0-819-8063-0, 12" x 11", very good condition). Your price: US $75.
Adams, Ansel, Camera and Lens: The Creative Approach (Morgan & Morgan, 1st rev. ed., 1970, 5th printing, 11/1975, with two-impression lithography). ISBN 0-87100-056-3. The first in Adams’ series on the elements of photography. Even to digital-era readers, there is much to be learned. Adams uses nearly 150 of his own photos to illustrate what he teaches. Hardcover price-clipped dust jacket. Very good condition. Octavo, 302 pp. HBB price: $20.
Alcoholics Anonymous (Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 2d ed., 1955, 15th printing, 1973). “This is the Second Edition of the Big Book, New and Revised. The Basic Text for Alcoholics Anonymous.” LOC 55-14751. The Big Book first appeared in April 1939 and sold more than 300,000 copies over the next sixteen years. The Personal Story section was greatly expanded to reflect the movement’s growth, and to help virtually anyone find a story he or she could relate to. The second edition’s 15th printing came out in 1973 (the book is now in its fourth edition). Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Octavo, 575 pp. HBB price: $150.
Bailey, Albert Edward, The Gospel in Hymns: Background and Interpretations (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1950, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1950). This is a sort of cookbook for hymn singing, carefully notated by Mary Ann Ogg (various marginalia, plus chapter indices, typed on onionskin, carefully mounted throughout. The book also bears the name of Chaplain William Neale Williams, longtime trustee of Toccoa Falls College, whom Ogg met and married when they were students at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. Hardcover, very good condition. No dust jacket. Octavo, 600 pp. HBB price: $25.
Doob, Leonard W., ed., “Ezra Pound Speaking”: Radio Speeches of World War II (Greenwood Press, Contributions in American Studies, #37, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1978). ISBN 0-313-20057-2. The foreword says, “The best reason for publishing Ezra Pound’s Italian broadcasts may be the simplest. Thousands of people have heard about them, scores have been affected by them, yet but a handful has ever heard or read them. Here they are.” Since his death in 1972, Ezra Pound has slipped into history’s embrace and people do not much know the influence he possessed before World War II, or the controversy he caused after it. Far from the sunny, affably clueless radio postcards of P.G. Wodehouse, Pound had an agenda and he was determined to push it. Fascist radio was all too happy to help. This book is a singular contribution to the history of the war era and understanding the life of Ezra Pound. Hardcover, no dust jacket as issued, Green boards, fine condition. Octavo, 465 pp. HBB price: $125.
Frazier, Nancy, Special Museums of the Northeast: A Guide to Uncommon Collections from Maine to Washington, D.C. (The Globe Pequot Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1985). 144 museums are covered by this guide, “from aircraft and arctic explorers to dogs and dolls, from fly fishing and forestry to motorcycles and mushrooms, from railroads to steamships to weaving and weightlifting.” Softcover, octavo, 304 pp. Very good condition. HBB price: $25.
H.R. Geiger (1940-2014) was a member of the special effects team given the Oscar for the 1979 film, Alien. His ornate yet austere surrealist art, combining fantastic creatures and technology (he was a friend of both Dali and Timothy Leary), published in 1977 as Necronomicon, caught the eye of director Ridley Scott, and launched a thousand drooling, indestructible creatures into movie houses for the next 35 years. Alien made Giger rich and famous; his post-Oscar ventures included a series of Giger-themed bars in Switzerland and Japan. His Swiss chateau is now a museum of his work.
In 1994 Morpheus International published H.R. Giger's Necronomicon as an over sized art book, with a new forward by Clive Barker and, added to the 1977 text, material from Giger's work for Alien. We have a good copy, sans dust jacket and a little worn at the top and bottom of the spine, but in fine condition otherwise. H.R. Giger, H.R. Giger's Necronomicon, Morpheus International, 1991, 3rd printing, 1994, ISBN 0-9623447-2-9), 12" x 16 3/4" hardcover, no dust jacket, some wear to top and bottom of spine, otherwise quite good. Your price: US $29.
Graham, Katherine, Personal History (Alfred A. Knopf, 1st ed., 1997) ISBN 0-394-58585-2. Pulitzer Prize winning autobiography of the woman who unexpectedly inherited a newspaper and used it to stand up to a President of the United States, and inspired one of the great celebrity parties of the 20th century. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Octavo, 642 pp. HBB price: $25.
Graves, Robert, The Antigua Stamp (Seizin Press/Random House, 1st U.S. edition, 1937). Two children: the boy grows up to be a novelist; the girl, an actor-manager of a theater company. They both feud over the Antigua stamp, a rare object in their collection. A sardonic romp by the author of I, Claudius. Octavo, 325 pp. Hardcover, good condition; wear to the dust jacket, some taped but happily, not yellowed. The U.S. 1st is more scarce than the U.K. 1st. HBB price: $150.
Kersten, E.L., Ph.D., The Art of Demotivation (Despair Ink, Executive Ed., 2005, 1st ed.). ISBN 1-892503-341-7. Leather bound with a brass smiley face in the center of the cover, and a brass clasp at the center of the fore edge. A guide to employee motivation “so dangerous they had to put a lock on it.” Hardcover, leather binding, octavo, 243 pp. Illustrated by Kevin Sprouls, the famed Wall Street Journal portraitist. An unusual and thought-provoking book. HBB price: $50.
One of the last books published in his lifetime (1876-1916), Jack London's The Little Lady of the Big House was a shocker, says Wikipedia:
"London said of this novel: 'It is all sex from start to finish — in which no sexual adventure is actually achieved or comes within a million miles of being achieved, and in which, nevertheless, is all the guts of sex, coupled with strength.' One reviewer disparaged the novel's 'erotomania.'
"Clarice Stasz comments:
"Little Lady upset readers in London's day for its gushing sexual imagery... [and] its close portrayal of the tempting pull of adultery. Modern critics, on the other hand, deride its Victorian coyness and sentimentality, its unrealistic characters. Both were correct—it was too sexy for readers in 1915, when it appeared, and not sexy enough for readers beyond the sexually free twenties."
Published by Macmillan in 1916, this tale of a love triangle on a California ranch is claimed, by some London scholars, to be semi-autobiographical. Jack London, The Little Lady of the Big House (Macmillan, 1916), hardcover, no dustcart 392 pp, with four pages of ads for other London works after the conclusion. Very good condition. Your price: US $40.
McBain, Ed, And All Through The Night: Christmas Eve at the 87th Precinct (Warner Books, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1984). ISBN -=0-446-51845-X. Ed McBain delighted readers with over forty novels featuring the boys at the 87th precinct. In this slim volume, at’s 10.30 Christmas Eve and the precinct isn’t just quiet. It’s dead. Det. Steve Carella figures its a paperwork night. Maybe get home a little early. The things start happening. A charming retelling of the birth of Jesus as a night at the precinct. Hardcover, no dustjacket. The blazing Christmas tree on the cover is visible through a precinct window on the slipcase. 5.75 x 5.75 inches, 40 pp. Very good condition. HBB price: $25.
George MacDonald, The Golden Key (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1967; 2d ed., 1996; illustrations by Maurice Sendak, afterword by W. H. Auden. 85 pp. hardcover with unclipped dust jacket, Library of Congress catalog card number 67-10391. Small octavo, very good condition). Your price: US $75.
Paintings in the Collection of Henry Clay Frick, at One East Seventieth Street, New York (Privately printed, 1910). Rare volume produced before Frick began construction of the mansion that became the museum of his holdings after his widow’s death in 1931. Softcover, full limp morocco with gilt titling; sepia illustrations. 151 pp., octavo. Some rubbing along the front joint and at the spine’s head and tail. Otherwise in very good condition. HBB price: $150.
Parramore, Thomas C., First to Fly: North Carolina and the Beginnings of Aviation (University of North Carolina Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 2002). ISBN 0-8078-2676-6. A noted North Carolina historian presents the state’s role in flight, from Jules Verne’s Robur building a death zeppelin in an extinct Rutherford County volcano (Master of the World, 1904), to the major travel center Charlotte-Douglas International Airport has become. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Octavo, 372 pp. HBB price: $25.
Poole, Gary, Radio Comedy Diary: A Researcher’s Guide to the Actual Jokes and Quotes of the Top Comedy Programs of 1947-1950 (McFarland & Co., 2002). Teenager Gary Poole filled eleven spiral notebooks with gags and bits of business he heard on the radio; half a century later, he published this valuable- and funny- treasure trove of fragments of the long-lost scripts of American radio comedy. A boon for wireless enthusiasts and scholars alike. Octavo, 212 pp. Softcover, very good condition. HBB price: $25.
Porter, Katherine Anne, A Christmas Story (Seymour Lawrence Book/Delacorte Press, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1967). LOC 67-25978. Illustrations by Ben Shahn. Porter (1890-1980) was a renowned short story writer for three decades before embarking on a twenty-some year struggle to publish a novel. When it came out in 1962 as Ship of Fools, it won the Pulitzer Prize and was made into a successful Hollywood film. This holiday tale was written for Porter’s five year-old niece and published in Mademoiselle in 1946. This handsome little 5.75” x 5.75” volume has green boards with gilt lettering and cover art, and a very good price clipped dust jacket. unpaginated, 36 pp. HBB price: $25.
Rathbone, Basil, In and Out of Character (Doubleday, 1st ed. 1st printing, 1962). LOC 62-15316. Memoirs by the man who will, to some, always be the definitive Sherlock Holmes on film. Entertaining tale of a long career on stage and screen. Hardcover, unclipped dust jacket, very good condition. Octavo, 278 pp. HBB price: $50.
Shute, Nevil, The Breaking Wave (William Morrow, 1st ed., 1st printing, 1955). LOC 55-6369. A ripping yarn, as they used to say, from the author of On The Beach. This time, An Australian called Alan returns home after five years to find a family retainer, Jessie, has been found dead. Before her dead, she destroyed all her papers, so all she is in repose is a name. Alan sets out to rediscover her life, and, in the process, finds his own. A solid, well-told tale. Octavo, dust jacket a bit chipped about the edges, slight forward lean. Good condition. 282 pp. HBB price: $15.
Shute, Nevil, Ordeal (William Morrow, 1st. ed., 1st printing, 1939). An astonishingly prescient tale of life in Southampton, England, as war breaks out and night-after-night air raids begin. His home destroyed, Peter Corbett and his family hang on as best they can until cholera breaks out; fleeing into the countryside, they face new challenges trying to maintain their life together as the world seems to fall apart around them. Few have imagined the home consequences of war as well as Shute, whose sad, noble portrayal of people facing a certain end in On The Beach remains a classic. Octavo, dust jacket a bit chipped about the edges. Good condition. 280 pp. HBB price: $15.
Solzhenitsyn, Alexsandr, One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Frederick A. Praeger, 1st American ed, 1st printing, softcover, 1963). LOC 63-12729. Solzhenitsyn’s first novel bears this chilling bio: “...a forty-four-year-old physicist and mathematician, served in the army until February, 1945, when he was arrested and condemned to eight years in prison. He was subsequently, sent to a concentration camp, from which he was released in 1956. Rehabilitated in 1957, he now teaches mathematics and physics in a secondary school in Ryazan.” Fifty years on, this classic has new resonance in the Age of Putin. Very good condition. Trade paperback, 210 pp. HBB price: $40.
Skloot, Floyd, The Open Door, (Story Line Press, 1st, ed. 1st printing, softcover, 1997). ISBN 1-885266-48-0. Henry’s book guy, Lin, writes, “When I was a college senior reviewing poetry submissions to the college magazine 38 years ago, I was amazed by the work of a man called Floyd Skloot. He was working for state government in Minnesota, and sent us a packet of poetry about bureaucracy! Since then, he’s fought back from chronic fatigue syndrome and produced more remarkable work. The Open Door is his third novel and shows us how two boys, growing up in a Jewish enclave in Brooklyn in the 1950s, grow up and deal with the unplanned inheritance of their parents’ physical and emotional abuse. Octavo, 199 pp. Very good condition. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, signed on the title page. HBB price: $25.
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