Carole Kismaric

112 pages, forward by Bob Keeshan

softcover, normal wear on edges, binding still like new, no markings inside pages, cut-outs still intack (some light creasing to one corner of cut-outs page--see picture)

Growing Up with Dick and Jane traces the Dick and Jane phenomenon from their birth during the Depression to their retirement in the stormy 1960s. It explores the influence these little books had on education and the evolving American Dream. Packaged with a sampler of original Dick and Jane stories (24 pages) and cutout dolls of Dick and Jane, Growing Up with Dick and Jane stirs memories of home, school and what it was like to grow up when childhood felt like one long summer day.



Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New York

Learning and Living the American Dream

They're back!

Growing Up with Dick and Jane reunites us with two old friends, Dick and Jane, who, for forty years, taught so many of us to read. Here's the all American brother and sister team. Look! It's Dick, in his striped polo shirts and shorts, always ready for an adventure. Look! Look! It's Jane, in her pretty dresses, eager to have fun and learn about life. There's silly, mischievous Baby Sally, and Spot, America's favorite spaniel. Growing Up with Dick and Jane brings to life the cast of characters who are emblems of the American Dream. And side by side with the story of Dick and Jane is an entertaining and informative text that tracks important historical, social and educational events of the "Dick and Jane era."

Here's your chance to step back into the innocent watercolor world of Dick and Jane, where night never comes, knees never scrape, parents never yell and the fun never stops. Remember holding a Dick and Jane primer for the first time and the thrill you felt when you knew you could read? Growing Up with Dick and Jane traces the Dick and Jane phenomenon from their birth during the Depression to their retirement in the stormy 1960s. It explores the influence these little books had on education and the evolving American Dream. Packaged with a sampler of original Dick and Jane stories and cutout dolls of Dick and Jane, Growing Up with Dick and Jane stirs memories of home, school and what it was like to grow up when childhood felt like one long summer day.

Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman produce innovative visual books and museum exhibitions. Lookout, their company, has created: Talking Pictures (Chronicle), a book and popular multimedia exhibition; Loyalty and Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob (CollinsSanFrancisco); the bestselling Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood (Hyperion) with William Wegman; and the cult classics Mr. Salesman (Twin Palms) with Diane Keaton and I'm So Happy (Vintage).

Bob Keeshan, known to generations as Captain Kangaroo, is one of the most beloved performers and influential innovators of children's television. The first Clarabell on The Howdy Doody Show, Keeshan went on to create Captain Kangaroo, the longest-running network children's series. An advocate of children's causes, Keeshan's unique blend of education and entertainment has influenced his followers, on screen and off.

Growing up with Dick and Jane

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John Rewald

Poor condition due to outside blemishes to cover, corners are worn thru the cloth cover. Otherwise an excellent book inside. Spine is in very good shape, still intact and flexible. No markings or highlighting in text. Illustartions are fantastic. A total of 614 pages. Museum of Modern Art, 3rd edition, 1979.

Written by one of the finest art historians ever, the writer had first hand knowledge of the background material with interviews of artist family members and access to artists correspondents previously unpublished. Rewald was a war refugee acutely aware of the way wars end one era and bring about another, with new tastes and styles coinciding. In short, he saw the big picture all the while maintaining a masterful grasp of the minute.


Huge Hardcover (6 to 8 lbs)

Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin

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There is breakage to the outside spine, but this is not attached to the actual text anyways. All 24 colored slides are accounted for. Illustrations in book are black and white.

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Color Slide Program of the World's Art

Painting by the Post-Impressionists

Outside covers are not in the best of shape. Tear in spine and crease to lower right corner of cover. Inside pages are very good, no markings (96 pages). Wonderful illustrations, mostly black and white, but some in color. 

This guide is a catalogue to Van Gogh Paintings and Drawings. A Special Loan Exhibition from The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, circa 1949-1950.

A Special Loan Exhibition

Van Gogh : Paintings and Drawings

Some wear to front and back covers. Inside illustrations are very vibrant, with flip out close ups on some. 

Blue and Rose periods, being a volume in the Pocket Library of Great Art (Museum of Modern Art, New York). Introductory text by William Lieberman, followed by numerous colour plates of Picasso's paintings.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Blue and Rose Periods

Picasso

Norma Lorre Goodrich

Besides the embossed stamping on the cover and obvious blemishes that come with age, this book overall is clean inside. Text is unmarked and binding is still intact. Age related tanning on inside covers. No creased pages or dog ears.

Published in 1977, 286 pages.

Abridged English translations of medieval hero stories.

The Medieval Myths

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Paperback cover has wear and creases, as well as the spine. No dog eared pages or markings inside. Some aging to inside covers, otherwise clean looking. Published in 1969.

Dive into the timeless tales of gods and heroes in this bestselling A-to-Z encyclopedia detailing classic myths and legends—perfect for curious readers and academics alike.

Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture—the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present.

We follow the drama of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus. We hear the tales of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Cupid and Psyche, and mighty King Midas. We discover the origins of the names of the constellations. And we recognize reference points for countless works for art, literature and culture inquiry-from Freud's Oedipus complex to Wagner's Ring Cycle of operas to Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra

Both a reference text for scholars of all ages and a book to simply enjoy, Mythology is a classic not to be missed (335 pages).

Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes

Mythology

Basic ware to cover edges. Spine not broken in. No creased pages. Checkmarks in the margins within the first 25 pages, otherwise no markings within the book. 

Based on the Terry Lectures delivered at Yale University. 

One of the world's eminent philosophers describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety (197 pages).

The Courage to Be

Signs of wear to cover, but binding still solid. Clean white pages. No markings except to inside cover page that has a name and number, and very few margin marks. Table of contents page has a creased corner, otherwise no bent pages.

This Volume 1 of the Great Books Foundation collection, featuring Plato's Gorgias and Aristotle's On the Soul, as well as other writings by Kant and Freud. Printed in 1974, 100 pages.

Seventh Year: Volume 1

The Great Books Series: Plato, Aristotle

This 1950s edition is in decent shape. Normal wear to the paperback cover and book of this age. Text is clean and no markings of any kind.

Focusing on the closing days of the Trojan War, this novel incorporates the same epic cast of gods and warriors from The Odyssey. From the kidnapping of Helen from her Greek home to the death of Achilles's companion, the battle rages between two warring nations and the gods which protect both sides. Thrilling in content, but literate and subtle in its meaning, The Iliad remains a classic among classics.

The Iliad

In excellent condition, except for creases in spine, and cover edges are no longer sharp. Otherwise, bright and clean pages--no yellowing. No markings or highlighting in text. 

Bright illustrations. 672 pages. 1973, 4th edition, published by the Museum of Modern Art 

Oversized Paperback (4 to 6 lbs)

Text and pictures chronicle the impressionist movement.

The History of Impressionism

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Ralph Noyes

A few signs of wear to the dust jacket, but the hardcover itself is very clean with sharp edges. Yellowing to dustjacket, but none within the pages. No markings in text. Binding is like new.

1990, British hardcover edition, Gateway Books, Bath, U.K. 192 pages. Maps / illustrations / color and b&w photos throughout. 

Here a number of experts present their view on the meaning of the circles that have stirred up such a controversy. The first part of this book deals with the history of the circles, the second part looks at the evidence, their formation, with additional discussion of symbolism and other meanings. Very interesting, particularly with the number of essays of varying viewpoints that make up this title.

A Range of Viewpoints from the Centre of Crop Circle Studies

The Crop Circle Enigma

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Benjamin Blech

Roy Doliner

Like new condition, except for one small tear on dust jacket (backside). Dust jacket unfolds into a poster, and small tear does not impede imagery. Crisp, clean pages. No markings throughout.

Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican (320 pages).

Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican

Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world—the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, which is the largest fresco painting on earth in the holiest of Christianity's chapels; yet there is not one single Christian image in this vast, magnificent artwork. The Sistine Secrets tells the fascinating story of how Michelangelo embedded messages of brotherhood, tolerance, and freethinking in his painting to encourage "fellow travelers" to challenge the repressive Roman Catholic Church of his time. "Driven by the truths he had come to recognize during his years of study in private nontraditional schooling in Florence, truths rooted in his involvement with Judaic texts as well as Kabbalistic training that conflicted with approved Christian doctrine, Michelangelo needed to find a way to let viewers discern what he truly believed. He could not allow the Church to forever silence his soul. And what the Church would not permit him to communicate openly, he ingeniously found a way to convey to those diligent enough to learn his secret language."—from the Preface Blech and Doliner reveal what Michelangelo meant in the angelic representations that brilliantly mocked his papal patron, how he managed to sneak unorthodox heresies into his ostensibly pious portrayals, and how he was able to fulfill his lifelong ambition to bridge the wisdom of science with the strictures of faith. The Sistine Secrets unearths secrets that have remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.

The Sistine Secrets

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Sigmund Freud

Alan Tyson

Peter Gay

Like new condition. No markings or creases throughout. Spine not even broken in. Clean edges.

Leonardo da Vinci (1910) remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output.

A detailed reconstruction of Leonardo's emotional life from his earliest years, it represents Freud's first sustained venture into biography from a psychoanalytic perspective, and also his effort to trace one route that homosexual development can take. (116 pages).

Leonardo da Vinci (1910) remains among the most fascinating, though speculative, works of Freud's entire output.

Leonardo Da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood

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Helen Gardner

Outside cover in pretty decent condtion considering this is a 1975 edition. A few white marks on spine. Edges of cover are still crisp. Binding still holding well. No markings within text. Slight yellowing on inside covers, but otherwise no yellowing of main pages.

Since publication of the first edition in 1926, Helen Gardner's Art Through The Ages has been a favorite for generations of students and general readers. Her knowledge and humanity have made it possible for the beginner to learn to see and thereby to penetrate the seeming mysteries of even the most complex artistic achievements (959 pages).

Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Gardner's Art Through the Ages

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Giorgio Vasari

George Bull

Some underlining in preface text. A few pages are creased in the corner. Overall im good condition. Minor wear to front and back covers. (477 pages)

In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio Romano's startling painting of Jove striking down the giants; and his friend Francesco Salviati, whose biography also tells us much about Vasari's own early career. Vasari's original and soaring vision plus his acute aesthetic judgements have made him one of the most influential art historians of all time.

Volume 1

In his Lives of the Artists of the Italian Renaissance, Vasari demonstrated a literary talent that outshone even his outstanding abilities as a painter and architect. Through character sketches and anecdotes he depicts Piero di Cosimo shut away in his derelict house, living only to paint; Giulio Romano's startling painting of Jove striking down the giants; and his friend Francesco Salviati, whose biography also tells us much about Vasari's own early career. Vasari's original and soaring vision plus his acute aesthetic judgements have made him one of the most influential art historians of all time.

Lives of the Artists

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Monika Fagerholm

Slight wear to outside corners, no markings inside. Translated from Swedish into English, 1997 publication (282 pages).

A meeting of two families who rent cottages by the sea in Sweden. The novel follows the relationships which form between the adults and their children. Various social issues are treated, such as the influence of American culture and the Swedish generation gap. The time is the 1960s.

Set in the early 1960s. Tells the innocent, comic, tragic story of Bella, her family and Rosa and her family as they flee their urban lives for carefree annual summer holidays by the Baltic Sea in Finland. Scandinavian writer.

Wonderful Women by the Water

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Matthew Craske

Light crease to front cover, lower right. Sun damage to spin. No markings in book, except for a few occassional, small pencil checkmarks in margins. Overall bright and clean.


In an era of unprecedented change--rapid urbanization, economic growth, and political revolution--European artists from 1700-1830 were in the business of finding new ways of making, selling, and talking about art. Matthew Craske creates a totally new and vivid record of eighteenth- and early
nineteenth-century art in Europe, taking a critical view of such conventional categories as the "rococo," the "neo-classical," and the "romantic." He goes on to explore crucial thematic issues, such as changes in "taste" and manners, and the impact of enlightenment notions of progress, and at the same time goes well beyond the usual geographic limits of surveys to include St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, Warsaw, and Madrid. The result is a refreshingly holistic text which sets the art of the period firmly in its social history. (320 pages)



Art in Europe 1700-1830

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Pierre Maranda

Some light creasing to front cover. Shows age (yellowing) on cover and edges. No markings except for signature and stamp on title page. No creased pages or dog ears.


320 pages

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Frederick N. Hartt

Dust jacket shows some wear. Binding is in good condition. No markings in text.

Third edition, 1989 (1087 pages)

A History: Painting, Scuplture, Architecture

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Binding is not in the best shape, some pages are beginning to fall out, but overall not in bad condtion considering the publication date of 1967. 


The text is in French with an English translated counterpart (398 pages). Forward by Pierre DuPuy. Acknowledgement by Jean-M Raymond.

The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, commonly known as Expo 67, was a general exhibition from April 28 to October 27, 1967. It was a category one world's fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is considered to be one of the most successful World's Fairs of the 20th century with the most attendees to that date and 62 nations participating. It also set the single-day attendance record for a world's fair, with 569,500 visitors on its third day.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Expo 67, Montreal Canada

Man and His World, International Fine Arts Exhibition

Peter Murray

Linda Murray

October, 1989 publication. 6th edition. Paperback cover shows sign of wear. Inside pages clean, no markings, binding in good condition.


This magnificant, bestselling reference book finally leaves its old look to join the modern Penguin subject dictionary series. Why exactly did Van Gogh cut off his ear? Was Warhol an original or just a copyist? The answers to all this and more are found in The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists, the essential guide to over 700 years of creative endeavour. Each entry features extensive cross-referencing and listings of galleries where the artist's work can be seen.


Short biographies of over 1,200 painters, sculptors, and engravers. Defines artistic movements, terms, technical expressions, and processes.

The Penguin Dictionary of Arts and Artists

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Annie Proulx

Older 1993 publication for mass media. Creases to the front cover, but no markings within text itself.


Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family.

Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in a house empty except for a few mementos of the family’s unsavory past, the battered members of three generations try to cobble up new lives.

Newfoundland is a country of coast and cove where the mercury rarely rises above seventy degrees, the local culinary delicacy is cod cheeks, and it’s easier to travel by boat and snowmobile than on anything with wheels. In this harsh place of cruel storms, a collapsing fishery, and chronic unemployment, the aunt sets up as a yacht upholsterer in nearby Killick-Claw, and Quoyle finds a job reporting the shipping news for the local weekly, the Gammy Bird (a paper that specializes in sexual-abuse stories and grisly photos of car accidents).

As the long winter closes its jaws of ice, each of the Quoyles confronts private demons, reels from catastrophe to minor triumph—in the company of the obsequious Mavis Bangs; Diddy Shovel the strongman; drowned Herald Prowse; cane-twirling Beety; Nutbeem, who steals foreign news from the radio; a demented cousin the aunt refuses to recognize; the much-zippered Alvin Yark; silent Wavey; and old Billy Pretty, with his bag of secrets. By the time of the spring storms Quoyle has learned how to gut cod, to escape from a pickle jar, and to tie a true lover’s knot.


Surprising transformations take place when a newspaperman's elderly aunt and two daughters decide to move back to their family home on the coast of Newfoundland

The Shipping News

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A. M. Homes

Appendix A is an elaboration on A.M. Homes' novel The End of Alice, and lays bare the process of creating a character and building a fiction. The End of Alice is a tale told by an aging sex offender drawn into a summer correspondence with a college student. At first the criminal and his correspondent are merely pen pals, teasing each other, but as their epistolary exchange grows increasingly seductive, the full story of the criminal unfolds. Functioning as a compendium of evidence, Appendix A gathers an array of evidence--a photo album, paintings, assorted trinkets, teeth, a watch--remnants of the narrator's lingering and deadly infatuation with a little girl called Alice. An elaboration of the act of novel writing, Appendix A is unique exploration of the troubled boundary between truth and fiction, art and evidence.

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Carole Kismaric

Growing up with Dick and Jane

John Rewald

Post-Impressionism from Van Gogh to Gauguin

Alfred Werner

Painting by the Post-Impressionists

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Van Gogh : Paintings and Drawings

William Lieberman

Picasso

Norma Lorre Goodrich

The Medieval Myths

Edith Hamilton

Mythology

Paul Tillich

The Courage to Be

Plato, Aristotle, et al.

The Great Books Series: Plato, Aristotle

Homer

The Iliad

John Rewald

The History of Impressionism

Ralph Noyes

The Crop Circle Enigma

Benjamin Blech; Roy Doliner

The Sistine Secrets

Sigmund Freud; Alan Tyson; Peter Gay

Leonardo Da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood

Helen Gardner

Gardner's Art Through the Ages

Giorgio Vasari; George Bull

Lives of the Artists

Monika Fagerholm

Wonderful Women by the Water

Matthew Craske

Art in Europe 1700-1830

Pierre Maranda

Mythology

Frederick N. Hartt

Art

Pierre DuPuy

Man and His World, International Fine Arts Exhibition

Peter Murray; Linda Murray

The Penguin Dictionary of Arts and Artists

Annie Proulx

The Shipping News

A. M. Homes

A. M. Homes: Appendix A

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