Jonathan Evison

Four modern families aboard a passenger train hurtle into the night.

One hundred and seventy years earlier their forebearers make their way in a young nation built on grand promises.

Each family follows their own path, only to find that their destinies are linked inextricably, the culmination of five generations of shared history.

Jonathan Evison’s Small World is a novel that speaks to the present moment, a grand adventure that explores the American experiment in its most human and intimate aspects, a novel that asks whether America has made good on those early promises.  

Humming with heart and adventure, and love and hope and ideas, Small World delivers the thrill of great storytelling straight through to its deeply satisfying conclusion.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oregon

A Novel

Four modern families aboard a passenger train hurtle into the night.

One hundred and seventy years earlier their forebearers make their way in a young nation built on grand promises.

Each family follows their own path, only to find that their destinies are linked inextricably, the culmination of five generations of shared history.

Jonathan Evison's Small World is a novel that speaks to the present moment, a grand adventure that explores the American experiment in its most human and intimate aspects, a novel that asks whether America has made good on those early promises.  

Humming with heart and adventure, and love and hope and ideas, Small World delivers the thrill of great storytelling straight through to its deeply satisfying conclusion.

Small World

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Iker Gil

Fascinating study of the rapid growth of Shanghai, complete with stunning color photographs and graphs.

-published 2008 
-270 pages

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Social Studies

Over the years, architects from around the world have discovered China as the perfect place to develop their architecture. Shanghai is immersed in a deep physical transformation, reconsidering the relationships within the city as well as surrounding neighborhoods. This work examines this transformation.

Shanghai Transforming

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Sacha Goldberger

Wholesome little photo book of portraits of the photographers grandmother. 

-some water stains on back few pages (see photos) otherwise in great condition 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

My Mighty Little Grandmother

Meet Mamika: the world’s coolest and most daring nonagenarian! To raise his ninety-three-year-old grandmother’s spirits, photographer Sacha Goldberger engaged her as his creative collaborator, model, and muse. Countless costumes, geriatric gaffes, unbelievable stunts, and hilarious photo shoots later, Mamika is a worldwide global media sensation. This volume captures our feisty heroine in a range of amusing scenarios, all accompanied by her droll observations about life and living, making this book a treasure trove of witty, sardonic wisdom for readers of all ages.

Mamika

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Amsterdam De Jaren 70 Foto’s by Steye Raviez 
-published 1983
-144 pages black and white & color photographs
-written in Dutch 🇳🇱

Amsterdam De Jaren 70 Foto’s

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Typography 17

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Aperture Photography Magazine 
-150th issue, Winter 1998

Aperture Issue #150: Moments of Grace, Spirit in the American Landscape 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/FAULKNER AWARD

From Willy Vlautin,  award-winning author of Lean on Pete and The Motel Life, comes a powerful exploration of identity and loneliness pulled from deep within America's soul.

Don't Skip Out On Me is going to make your heart crumple into a little wad of paper and then open it back up into a perfect paper airplane sailing the skies from the hand of a boy. How does a bi-cultural man find a self when he's been abandoned by his parents? He invents it, that's how, with his hands, his fists, and that fist-shaped muscle, a heart. No one anywhere writes as beautifully about people whose stories stay close to the dirt. Willy Vlautin is a secular--and thus real and profoundly useful--saint."

--Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Book of Joan

 

Horace Hopper has spent most of his life on a Nevada sheep ranch, but dreams of something bigger. Mr. and Mrs. Reese, the aging ranchers, took him in and treated him like a son, intending to leave the ranch in his hands. But Horace, ashamed not only of his half-Paiute, half-Irish heritage, but also of the fact his parents did not want him, feels as if he doesn't belong on the ranch, or anywhere. Knowing he needs to make a name for himself, he decides to leave the only loving home he's known to prove his worth as a championship boxer.

Mr. Reese is holding on to a way of life that is no longer sustainable. He's a seventy-two-year-old rancher with a bad back. He's not sure how he'll keep things going without Horace but he knows the boy must find his own way.

To become a champion Horace must change not just the way he eats, trains, and thinks, but who he is. Reinventing himself as Hector Hildago, a scrappy Mexican boxer, he heads to Tucson and begins training and entering fights. His journey brings him to boxing rings across the Southwest and Mexico and finally, to the streets of Las Vegas, where Horace learns he can't change who he is or outrun his destiny.

A beautiful, wrenching portrait of a downtrodden man, Don't Skip Out on Me narrates the struggle to find one's place in a vast and lonely world with profound tenderness, and will make you consider those around you--and yourself--differently.

Don't Skip Out on Me

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-92 color plates of works from Salvador Dali and Joan Miró
-published in 1967
-excellent condition 
-hardcover with dust jacket 

Masters of Surrealism 

Dali / Miro

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Childe Hassam (1859-1935) fell in love with New York after moving there in 1889, and it became one of his favorite subjects for his paintings. His urbanscapes are shown here not only as sumptuous tonalist paintings but also as visual records of a city in the throes of a profound transformation from quaint city to crowded metropolis. Illuminating quotes by Hassam and writers of the day are featured with the full-color reproductions.

Childe Hassam's New York

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POPEYE May 1978 #30 Men's Fashion Magazine.

-rare Pacific Northwest edition

-text in Japanese 

-some aesthetic wear with age on the exterior

-crossword has pen markings

Popeye Magazine 1978 Rare Pacific Northwest Edition

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning comes a “groundbreaking” (Time) approach to understanding and uprooting racism and inequality in our society—and in ourselves. “The most courageous book to date on the problem of race in the Western mind.”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • NPR • The Washington Post • Shelf Awareness • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Kirkus Reviews Antiracism is a transformative concept that reorients and reenergizes the conversation about racism—and, even more fundamentally, points us toward liberating new ways of thinking about ourselves and each other. At its core, racism is a powerful system that creates false hierarchies of human value; its warped logic extends beyond race, from the way we regard people of different ethnicities or skin colors to the way we treat people of different sexes, gender identities, and body types. Racism intersects with class and culture and geography and even changes the way we see and value ourselves. In How to Be an Antiracist, Kendi takes readers through a widening circle of antiracist ideas—from the most basic concepts to visionary possibilities—that will help readers see all forms of racism clearly, understand their poisonous consequences, and work to oppose them in our systems and in ourselves. Kendi weaves an electrifying combination of ethics, history, law, and science with his own personal story of awakening to antiracism. This is an essential work for anyone who wants to go beyond the awareness of racism to the next step: contributing to the formation of a just and equitable society. Praise for How to Be an Antiracist “Ibram X. Kendi’s new book, How to Be an Antiracist, couldn’t come at a better time. . . . Kendi has gifted us with a book that is not only an essential instruction manual but also a memoir of the author’s own path from anti-black racism to anti-white racism and, finally, to antiracism. . . . How to Be an Antiracist gives us a clear and compelling way to approach, as Kendi puts it in his introduction, ‘the basic struggle we’re all in, the struggle to be fully human and to see that others are fully human.’ ”—NPR “Kendi dissects why in a society where so few people consider themselves to be racist the divisions and inequalities of racism remain so prevalent. How to Be an Antiracist punctures the myths of a post-racial America, examining what racism really is—and what we should do about it.”—Time

How to Be an Antiracist

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER * PEN/Faulkner Award Winner *  A gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric masterpiece of courtroom suspense--one that leaves us shaken and changed. 

"Haunting .... A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper." --Los Angeles Times

San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies.  But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. 
 
In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries--memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched.

Snow Falling on Cedars

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World Languages

Learn French the Fast and Fun Way

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'They're Not Pets, Susan, ' says a stern father who has just shot a bumblebee, its wings sparkling in the evening sunlight; a lone office worker, less than an inch high, looks out over the river in his lunch break, 'Dreaming of Packing it all In'; and a tiny couple share a 'Last Kiss' against the soft neon lights of the city at midnight. Mixing sharp humour with a delicious edge of melancholy, "Little People in the City" brings together the collected photographs of Slinkachu, a street-artist who for several years has been leaving little hand-painted people in the bustling city to fend for themselves, waiting to be discovered. . . 'Oddly enough, even when you know they are just hand-painted figurines, you can't help but feel that their plights convey something of our own fears about being lost and vulnerable in a big, bad city.' "The Times"

Little People in the City

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Self- Published in 2006 by Chilean photographer Rodrigo Torres Barriga 

-110 pages of black & white photos 
-some writing on the inside cover 
-text in Spanish 

Déjà Vu

-black and white photographs 
-published by Blue Sky Gallery in 2005

People Facing Their Birthday Cake 

Black and White photographs accompanied by poetry. 

-published by Rizzoli Press in 1997

Photographs by Lynn Saville

The mysterious, eloquent essence of the night--long a favorite subject of artists and writers--is the focus of this unique book, which couples evocative black and white photos with night-inspired poetry from around the world and across the centuries. Shot after dark in and around New York, and in rural Vermont, Ireland, Lisbon, and other places. 80 photos.

Aquainted with the Night

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-crease on front cover
-no marks, rips, or tears on pages 

A Memoir with Photographs

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe New York Times, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, NPR, Publishers Weekly, BookPage A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed photographer Sally Mann. In this groundbreaking book, a unique interplay of narrative and image, Mann's preoccupation with family, race, mortality, and the storied landscape of the American South are revealed as almost genetically predetermined, written into her DNA by the family history that precedes her. Sorting through boxes of family papers and yellowed photographs she finds more than she bargained for: "deceit and scandal, alcohol, domestic abuse, car crashes, bogeymen, clandestine affairs, dearly loved and disputed family land . . . racial complications, vast sums of money made and lost, the return of the prodigal son, and maybe even bloody murder." In lyrical prose and startlingly revealing photographs, she crafts a totally original form of personal history that has the page-turning drama of a great novel but is firmly rooted in the fertile soil of her own life.

Hold Still

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A Love Letter to New York

Part playful guide, part New York stories, and part love letter to the city, told through Chast's laugh-out-loud, touching, and true cartoons

Going into Town

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Published in 2003 “American Route 66” is a photographic journey across one of America’s most iconic roadways.


Home on the Road

Featuring powerful portraits and beautiful colour images with poignant and often humorous interviews, this is a contemporary portrait of America's first highway. It documents how the heritage of Route 66 is reflected in the current conditions and rhythms of life and portrays a fresh spin on local folklore and Americana.

American Route 66

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Husk of Time: The Photographs of Victor Masayesva 

“Masayesva Jr, has created a rich body of video and photographic work that represents the culture and traditions of Native Americans” 

The Photographs of Victor Masayesva 

Husk of Time 

Examples of great typography and design from 1998.

1998 Exceptional Typography Awards Book

Typography 19

Featuring Paintings from artist Max Beckmann exhibited at the Berlinische Gallery in Berlin. 

-good overall condition, no markings, rips, or tears
-binding tight
-text in German 

Max Beckmann Und Berlin

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New York Times Bestseller

By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Strange Planet and 99 Stories I Could Tell!

Living in New York City for five years as a transplant from Ohio, illustrator and T-shirt designer Nathan Pyle was fascinated by the unique habits and unspoken customs New Yorkers follow to make life bearable in a city with 8 million people (and seemingly twice the number of tourists). In NYC Basic Tips and Etiquette, Pyle reveals the secrets and unwritten rules for living in and visiting New York including the answers to such burning questions as, how do I hail a cab What is a bodega Which way is Uptown Why are there so many doors in the sidewalk How do I walk on an escalator Do we need be touching right now Where should I inhale or exhale while passing sidewalk garbage How long should I honk my horn If New York were a game show, how would I win What happens when I stand in the bike lane Who should get the empty subway seats  How do I stay safe during a trash tornado Each tip is a little story illustrated in simple black and white drawings.

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