Search Results: Titles starting with N from Browsing Is Arousing

New York: Alfred a Knopf, 1998. na. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 555 pages. Detailed biography of the life of N.C. Wyeth, important illustrator Numerous b&w and color reproductions of illustrations throughout. Book bound in gray and dust jacket with full color illustration on front and b&w photograph of Wyeth on the back. Both book and dust jacket in near fine condition. Record # 806960

London: Hard Case Crime, 2006. 1st thus. Softcover. Very Good/None. Tim Gabor. Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Tim Gabor. When Navy Lieutenant David Young came to in a hospital bed, his face was covered with bandages and the nurses were calling him by a stranger’s name. But David’s nightmare was only beginning. Because the man they believed him to be was suspected of treason—and had driven his wife to murder. Now David’s got to make his way through a shadow world of suspicion and deception, of dirty deals and brutal crimes, and he needs to stay one step ahead of enemies whose identity he doesn’t even know—since if he can’t, his impersonation of a dead man is about to become a lot more realistic. Like new. Record # 372481

New York: Pantheon, 1990. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 343 pages. Brown and white cloth cover, gilt design, very light foxing. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Slight foxing on edges, but inside is clean and unmarked, with b&w illustrations throughout. A nice, bright copy. Gathering tales from the tribal peoples of Greenland, Canada, Russia, Alaska, and the polar region, which were told and retold through months of long winter night, "Northern Tales", reflects a rich diversity of traditions and cultures, spanning the Way-Back Time through the coming of the first white explorers. Record # 455790

Guilford CT: Lyons Press, 2002. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. "It's the stuff of dreams: a Scottish family giving up relative sanity and security to go and grow oranges for a living in a secluded valley in the mountains of the Mediterranean island of Majorca. But dreams, as everyone knows, have a nasty habit of not turning out quite as intended. Being greeted by a freak snowstorm is only the first of many surprises and "experiences," and it isn't long before they realize that they have been sold a bit of a lemon of an orange farm by the wily previous owners." Illustrated with drawings at the beginning of each chapter. 226 pp. Record # 384987

NY: Scala, 2002. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 224 pages. The diversity of New York City's people, cultures, religions, and backgrounds make it the indicator of American sexuality. It is black, white, gay, straight, rich, poor, rough, and tender all at once. From Margaret Sanger's dissemination of birth control to the Stonewall riot of 1969, New York City has repeatedly seen its sexual dynamics changed and American and international culture follow suit. Published to coincide with the much-anticipated opening of the Museum of Sex in New York, NYC Sex features conversations between major cultural figures and historians on sexual topics, including Grady T. Turner on "Sodom on the Hudson"; Martin Duberman and Joan Nestle on queers; Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Xaviera Hollander, and Tracy Quan on whores; Karen Finley, Luc Sante, Gene Simmons, and Art Spiegelman on the underground; and Vanessa del Rio, Legs McNeil, and Annie Sprinkle on porn. And what's a book about sex without pictures? In between… Read More

NY: Scala, 2002. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 224 pages. The diversity of New York City's people, cultures, religions, and backgrounds make it the indicator of American sexuality. It is black, white, gay, straight, rich, poor, rough, and tender all at once. From Margaret Sanger's dissemination of birth control to the Stonewall riot of 1969, New York City has repeatedly seen its sexual dynamics changed and American and international culture follow suit. Published to coincide with the much-anticipated opening of the Museum of Sex in New York, NYC Sex features conversations between major cultural figures and historians on sexual topics, including Grady T. Turner on "Sodom on the Hudson"; Martin Duberman and Joan Nestle on queers; Timothy J. Gilfoyle, Xaviera Hollander, and Tracy Quan on whores; Karen Finley, Luc Sante, Gene Simmons, and Art Spiegelman on the underground; and Vanessa del Rio, Legs McNeil, and Annie Sprinkle on porn. And what's a book about sex without pictures? In between… Read More

Prague: SNDK, 1957. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Vladimir Brehovzsky. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 140 pages. A collection of Czech/Yugoslavian fables illustrated in color by Vladimir Brehovzsky. Clean. Record # 373235

NY: Phaedra, 1966. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover, 104 pages. Unclipped dust jacket with light tanning, shelfwear. Otherwise clean. Record # 369874

Ann Arbor, MI: Ardis, 1974. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. Fade to dust jacket spine, price-clipped flap. Otherwise, a clean, sharp copy. Record # 300216

NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, (large, 12"x9") with brown and black lettering on spine, 272 pages, including chronology, bibliography, and index. Richly illustrated throughout with photographs from the exhibition and ample background and documentary images. Profusely illustrated in BW. Catalogue of an exhibition at Musee d'Orsay from June 7 to September 11, 1994 and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from April 14- July 9, 1995. Small bump to top of spine, barely noticeable, clean copy. Record # 378393

Te Neues Publishing , 2000. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover, pages. Gorgeous photos of the German supermodel who once held the record for being the model with the longest legs in the world in the Guinness Book of Records. Various world-class photographers represented. Record # 362783

Tempe AZ: Original Falcon Press, 2014. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 216 pages. Serpents have always been both venerated and feared throughout the world, but perhaps none so much as the Naga in Hindu, Tantric and Buddhist traditions. What are the Naga? They are the Serpent Lords of ancient times, more akin to the Orishas of Santeria than to the remote gods of Olympus. And, like the Orishas, they are far more accessible. B&w illustrations. Clean copy/ Record # 379919

New York: Alfred Van der Marck, 1985. 2nd printing. Hardcover. Very Good/None. 159 pages. Hardcover with minor wear to edges. Color artwork throughout. Clean. Record # 369654

NY: Da Capo Press, 1975. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, yellow cloth spine. The photo book Naked Hollywood by Weegee and Mel Harris is a phenomenal collaborative body of work. You are introduced to a new insight on Hollywood in the late 1950s. The work brings a new irony to the time period with images that are not only outrageous but also portray the illusion of the 1950’s Hollywood glamour. No dust jacket. Record # 361861

Seattle: Real Comet Press, 1984. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, stapled glossy paper covers. Non-paginated. Black & white illustrations of 'Naked Ladies' by Lynda Barry. Includes full color fold-out poster. Clean, bright copy. Barry tells a story about her learning about the power seeing naked women as she was growing up. It's about breasts and sex and shame and discovering that she could also be a naked lady. The art is 54 drawings of nude playing cards. There are little cards too that you can cut out. Record # 610039

London: Creation Books, 1997. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 250 pages. Celebrating the celluloid expression of the Beat spirit—arguably the most sustained legacy in U.S. counterculture—Naked Lens is a comprehensive study of the most significant interfaces between the Beat writers, Beat culture, and cinema. Naked Lens features key Beat players and their collaborators, including William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Brion Gysin, Antony Balch, Ron Rice, John Cassavetes, Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, Klaus Maeck, and Gus van Sant. As well as examining clearly Beat-inspired films such as Pull My Daisy, Chappaqua, and The Flower Thief, Jack Sargeant discusses cinéma vérité and performance films (Shadows and Wholly Communion), B-movies (The Subterraneans and Roger Corman’s Bucket of Blood), and Hollywood adaptations (Heart Beat and Barfly).The second half of the book is devoted to an extensive analysis of the films relating to William Burroughs, from Antony… Read More

NY: Grove Press, 2009. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Slipcased, still in publisher's shrinkwrap, no dj issued. Record # 351694

US: Antique Collectors Club , 2010. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 240 pages, mostly bw photos, some color. This book depicts, both in pictures and biographical text, the life and work of Mabel Julianelli, starting as a pattern designer in Brooklyn, NY. Beginning with her student years studying commercial art at Pratt Institute in the 1920s, and spanning her 40-plus year career, Mabel Julianelli, with her husband and partner Charles Julianelli, is credited with many constructional, interpretative, and fashion firsts. Her 1950 Coty Award-winning naked evening sandal, which had versions into the 1960s and 1970, is vital today due to the resurgence of ballroom dancing (i.e. 'Dancing With The Stars'): a style Mabel Julianelli first designed at a time when nobody wore sandals as evening wear. Mabel Julianelli's 1940s wedge sandal patent was referenced by Nike, Inc. in the 1990s and her shoe designs and ornaments were referenced by Jimmy Choo Ltd. in… Read More

Middlebury, VT: Middlebury College Museum of Art, 2015. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 111 pages. Softcover with paper wrappers. Color pictures throughout. In 1899 Gustav Klimt's painting Nuda Veritas shook up the Austrian public with what many deem to be the painter's most political exploration of the nude female body. Klimt's provocative allegory challenged viewers to consider their own beliefs about the relationship between the nude (female) body and contemporary morality; this "naked truth" was shocking. Transcending accusations of pornography, Klimt's work paved the way for artistic examinations of the nude body as the site through which questions of freedom, desire, beauty, nature, culture, power, and their antonyms could be represented and negotiated. Taking these ideas as one critical point of departure, this volume and the accompanying exhibition feature selected prints, drawings, and watercolors by Klimt, Egon Schiele, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann and Käthe Kollwitz, among… Read More

Middlebury, VT: Middlebury College Museum of Art, 2015. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. 116 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Color illustrations throughout. Record # 353546