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1997Best.-Nr. R0033The Dovsonian Telescope: A Practical Manual for Building Large Aperture Telescopes by David Kriege and Richard Berry. Willmann-Bell 1997. This copy is in Very Good Condition: Mild shelf wear; Less than 1 centimeter chip on top and bottom spine; Very light scuffing to bottom edge of back cover; 1 Inch name written on top corner of Front Matter; Pages are VERY clean; Binding is tight. Overall this copy is in Very Good to Near Fine Condition. All photos are of the actual copy we are selling from here at Barbed Wire Books. Willmann-bell hardcover
1984Best.-Nr. 16713Augusta Georgia U.S.A.: Cotton Lane Press 1984. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. BOOK FINE/DUSTJACKET NEAR FINE. 8vo - over 7¾"" - 9¾"" tall. Signed by Author. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE FRONT ENDPAPER. AN EXTREMELY CLEAN ATTRACTIVE COPY WITH A BRIGHT BEAUTIFUL DUSTJACKET IN NEW GLOSSY BRODART. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKINGS. 164 pages. Cotton Lane Press hardcover
1989Best.-Nr. 2507310001Turner Publishing 1989. Hardback. Very Good. Limited Edition 1 of 1200. VERY GOOD Clean no marks. Gently read if at all. Binding is tight and square. 152 pages : illustrations some color ; 32 cm. . . . . . . Chronicles the experiences of U.S. Air Force fighter pilots known as the River Rats who flew high-risk missions over North Vietnam’s heavily defended Red River Valley during the Vietnam War. The book created with input from the Red River Valley Fighter Pilots Association combines first-person accounts photographs and the organizational history of this group. It highlights their bravery the perilous conditions they faced and the strong bonds formed among pilots who survived or were shot down in the region. Beyond recounting combat stories the volume also traces the association’s beginnings in Thailand in 1967 and its evolution into an influential fraternity of fighter pilots. The association played a vital role in POW/MIA advocacy and maintained its traditions through reunions support networks and continued engagement with aerospace issues. The book serves as both a tribute and a historical record preserving the camaraderie and enduring mission of the River Rats. Turner Publishing hardcover
2008Best.-Nr. Q-0231143435Columbia University Press 2008-02-22. Paperback. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Columbia University Press paperback
Best.-Nr. 1402797265.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
1994Best.-Nr. Q-0679434690Pantheon 1994-08-30. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! Pantheon hardcover
Best.-Nr. 0938021397.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
Best.-Nr. TANG0499Frances Young tang/weatherspoon Saratoga Springs NY. New. New! May take up to 14 days to arrive. Sorry we don't offer expedited shipping on this item. -01x- Frances Young tang/weatherspoon, Saratoga Springs, NY unknown
1894Best.-Nr. Q416Boston: Prang Educational Company 1894. Hardcover. Very good. First thus 1894. Cloth 8vo 176pp. Very Good with light soil rubbing to the corners and spine ends a few instances of discoloration or soil from use. Previous owner's signature to the front flyleaf else clean and unmarked. The book popular art education exercises modeled after the Froebel gifts including paper folding and cutting stick laying blackboard drawing and clay modeling. It also offers a thorough course for teaching color that incorporates visual tactile and language exercises. Despite espousing the superiority of art education that did not rely on rote copying exercises Turner accepted the job of producing a new version of White's Course in Art Instruction for the American Book Company in 1891 along with four young art educators--Nathanial Berry Elizabeth Perry Jessie Prince--who referred to themselves as "the syndicate." Bailey was a state agent with influence over art education in Massachusetts where a years-running competition with Prang came to a head when Prang bought out the American Book Company acquiring evidence of Bailey's involvement in the production and coercing a more cooperative climate for Prang's books in MA schools. See "Drawing Book Wars" by Mary Ann Stankiewicz. Visual Arts Research Vol. 12 No. 2 Fall 1986 pp. 59-72 Prang Educational Company hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 023766New York: The Macmillan Company. Small chip on DJ at base of spine. Yellow cloth with black graphic figure and printing. With B & W musical notes on endpprs. With color pictorial illustrations. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1930. The Macmillan Company hardcover
1995Best.-Nr. 54801New York And Avenel NJ: Wings Books. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1995. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0517147696 . A Fine first printing of the first edition housed in a Near Fine dust-jacket that has a worn price sticker on the front; Langston Hughes: before and Beyond Harlem by Faith Berry is a comprehensive biography of the renowned African American author and poet. The book traces Hughes' life from his childhood in Harlem to his early years as a writer covering his work as a poet novelist and playwright. Berry provides a rich and detailed account of Hughes' life and work exploring his relationships with family friends and fellow writers.; 8vo; 394 pages . Wings Books hardcover
1982Best.-Nr. 022202Gloucestershire: The Whittington Press 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Gift condition. Tipped-in illustrations. Blind stamp on the first free end paper. Fast shipping. Free delivery confirmation. Thank you. The Whittington Press hardcover
1894Best.-Nr. 18792Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable at the University Press 1894. 1894. First printing. 8vo. xii 352 pp. Illustrated. Original brown cloth binding. Tear top 1" of front spinal gutter wear at the extremities white number base of spin e no other indication of the book being ex library very good minus. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable at the University Press, 1894. hardcover
2007Best.-Nr. 203690New York: Rizzoli 2007. Hardcover. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on top text block. Sticker and due date card on back pasted end page. A matte casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in black down a white spine. Pages: 7 8-205 3. Profusely illustrated with color images. "Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress presents a comprehensive overview of Walker's work beginning with her first cut-paper wall installation Gone An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart 1994 through new multimedia installations that feature layers of colored projections. The 1996 series of twenty-four watercolors Brown Follies is reproduced in full as are many views of Walker's past exhibitions. Throughout the book is a selection of Walker's writings as they appear typed on index cards. These writings reveal a rarely seen side of the artist whose words are as provocative as her installations and drawings. Also included are four essays that discuss her relation to culture at large and issues of race sexuality and representation addressed in her art." Contents are as follows: Kara Walker : "The black-white relation" / Anne M. Wagner -- The art of racial profiling / Mark Reinhardt -- This is not about the past : silhouettes in the work of Kara Walker / Darby English -- The enigma of the negress Kara Walker / Michele Wallace -- Contributors -- Exhibition history and selected bibliography / compiled aby Kristina Podesva and Alison Pruchansky -- Exhibition checklist -- Directors' afterword -- Acknowledgements. Rizzoli hardcover
2007Best.-Nr. 203690New York: Rizzoli 2007. Hardcover. VG/VG: Exlibrary book. Stamp on top text block. Sticker and due date card on back pasted end page. A matte casebound book. There is a dust jacket with the title in black down a white spine. Pages: 7 8-205 3. Profusely illustrated with color images. "Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress presents a comprehensive overview of Walker's work beginning with her first cut-paper wall installation Gone An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred between the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart 1994 through new multimedia installations that feature layers of colored projections. The 1996 series of twenty-four watercolors Brown Follies is reproduced in full as are many views of Walker's past exhibitions. Throughout the book is a selection of Walker's writings as they appear typed on index cards. These writings reveal a rarely seen side of the artist whose words are as provocative as her installations and drawings. Also included are four essays that discuss her relation to culture at large and issues of race sexuality and representation addressed in her art." Contents are as follows: Kara Walker : "The black-white relation" / Anne M. Wagner -- The art of racial profiling / Mark Reinhardt -- This is not about the past : silhouettes in the work of Kara Walker / Darby English -- The enigma of the negress Kara Walker / Michele Wallace -- Contributors -- Exhibition history and selected bibliography / compiled aby Kristina Podesva and Alison Pruchansky -- Exhibition checklist -- Directors' afterword -- Acknowledgements. Rizzoli hardcover books
1998Best.-Nr. 16204Aurora CO: Write Way Publishing. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1998. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Very Fine condition in Very Fine dust-jacket. Signed by author Linda Berry directly on the title page; Death and the Easter Bunny is a humorous children's book that tells the story of how Death and the Easter Bunny get along. Death is always looking for new ways to keep busy and Easter Bunny is always looking for new ways to make Easter more fun for the children. They come up with a number of ideas including a game of hopscotch that Death helps to set up and a race to see who can get the most Easter eggs. Ultimately the Easter Bunny and Death enjoy each other's company and everyone has a fun Easter.; 8vo; Signed by Author . Write Way Publishing hardcover
2002Best.-Nr. 47723San Francisco:: Privately Printed. VG/VG. 2002. Hardcover. Oversized limited edition in green cloth slipcase with yellow paper label on spine; number 646 signed by Berry on rear endpaper. The book itself is attractively bound in green black and yellow plaid cloth with frontis by Andrew Berry and golf hole drawings by Christopher Monti and Andrew Berry. Front endpaper MacKenzie Map is by Monti with golf course map on rear endpaper by Darryl T. Robertson and Monti. Contents clean bright with scant evidence if that of handling. Slipcase very mildly rubbed. 527 numbered pages. ; . Privately Printed, hardcover
Best.-Nr. 69000Shoemaker Hoard 2004. First edition first printing. Fine bright in like dust jacket with crisp bright text throughout. The author has dedicated this book to his wife Tanya Shoemaker Hoard, 2004 unknown
1997Best.-Nr. 7577Louisville Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky 1997. Softcover 108 pages. Very Good. Harlan Hubbard. Signed on title page by Wendell Berry. Covers show signs of reading and handling wear. Light scuffing and creasing to covers. University Press of Kentucky unknown
Best.-Nr. 65089North Point Press 1991. First edition first printing. A collaboration made in heaven two Kentucky friends look toward their homeland in photography and prose. Fine and bright glossy pictorial Meatyard wraps with stiff wraps with strong spine and clean text. Becoming scarce. This is the revised and enlarged edition North Point Press, 1991 paperback
Best.-Nr. 66603Sand Dollar Books 1977. First edition first printing. With its back cover endorsement from Gary Snyder. Near fine illustrated wraps with clean text throughout. Limited printing. One of the early relationships between the poet and Jack Shoemaker Sand Dollar Books, 1977 paperback
Best.-Nr. 63956Shoemaker & Hoard 2007. First edition first printing. With a fine introduction by James Baker Hall. As new and bright illustrated boards issued without dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Another poet's signature to the opening flyleaf which bothers none of the text. A lovely handsome copy and gift quality Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007 hardcover
1984Best.-Nr. 313308Beyond Words Publishing Co. New in New dust jacket. 1984. Hardcover. 196 pp; Wonderful photos by Rikki Cooke spanning 1972 to 1984 section on history of the island in the rear and detailed Photographer's Notes including location/subject info and lens. A beautiful book and jacket. . Beyond Words Publishing Co. hardcover
1984Best.-Nr. 37323Augusta Georgia:: The Cotton Lane Press. 1984. Softcover. 0960481060 . Softcover signed in red ink by Fleming on half-title page. Light minor cover wear with perhaps a bit of yellowing of white portions. Pages tight clean unmarked. ; . The Cotton Lane Press, paperback
2009Best.-Nr. 1145975DC Comics 2009. Hard cover. Very good/Very good. Jacket edges are slightly worn. Spine is tight. Inside is clean and unmarked. DC Comics unknown