Alex Powers

There is a tear and other shelf wear to the dust cover (pictured). Some discoloration to inside covers (pictured). Otherwise a clean copy. 

Examples of principles and techniques are copiously illustrated in beautiful color. 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

California

A Design Approach 

Shows how to draw the head, facial features, and figure, discusses watercolor materials and techniques, and covers shape, value, space, movement, texture, hue, and intensity

Painting People in Watercolor

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W. Clouse

There is a tear and other shelf wear to the dust cover (pictured). Otherwise this is a nice, clean copy. 

Step-by step instructions lavishly illustrated in color. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Art School Acrylics

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Emelie Tolley

Chris Mead

There is a barely noticeable indentation of handwriting on the dust cover; not ink, just an indentation (pictured). Otherwise this is a nice, clean copy. 

The first glorious full-color life-style book about gardening, decorating, and cooking with herbs.More than 450 full-color illustrations and 25 black-and-white illustrations.

Herbs

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Simon Winchester

PLEASE NOTE: This is an audiobook on CD.  The box is a bit worn but the CDs are complete and clean and play fine. 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Professor and the Madman CD Audiobook 

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There is a small nick to back cover (pictured). Otherwise this is a nice, clean copy that appears unused. 

It’s the book that started it all, the well-loved edition that first bought Betty Crocker cookbooks into American by homes and hearts. Published in 1950, this ground-breaking title made cooking easy, it made cooking appealing, and best of all, it made cooking fun. Packed full of practical tips, useful hints, and lavish color photography, this was the book that shaped cooking for generations, the book that people remember. Every recipe you -- or your mother -- ever wanted is here, from pigs in blankets, to Emergency Steak to Chicken Tomato Aspic. Enjoy the clever ideas throughout -- twelve months of birthday cake ideas, showing how to decorate a cake to match each month's gem stone, pointers to make setting up a kitchen easy, or hints to make housework more pleasant. Feel a part of history when making Home Front Macaroni, developed during WW II rationing to stretch meat. Get into the spirit of fun with a Betty Crocker "Cookie Shine" or cookie baking party. People who grew up with this book will want it for the memories; those who are new to the book will want it for its charm and its intelligent approach to cooking. It's a perfect keepsake and a great gift.



Oversized Hardcover (4 to 6 lbs)

Betty Crocker’s Picture Cookbook 

Syd Field

This is a nice, clean copy that appears to be unread. 

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Art, Music, Drama/Theater

Studies in the American Screenplay: Thelma and Louise, Terminator 2, the Silence of the Lambs, and Dances with Wolves

Yes, you can write a great screenplay. Let Syd Field show you how. “I based Like Water for Chocolate on what I learned in Syd's books. Before, I always felt structure imprisoned me, but what I learned was structure really freed me to focus on the story.”—Laura Esquivel Technology is transforming the art and craft of screenwriting. How does the writer find new ways to tell a story with pictures, to create a truly outstanding film? Syd Field shows what works, why, and how in four extraordinary films: Thelma & Louise, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, The Silence of the Lambs, and Dances with Wolves. Learn how: Callie Khouri, in her first movie script, Thelma & Louise, rewrote the rules for good road movies and played against type to create a new American classic. James Cameron, writer/director of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, created a sequel integrating spectacular special effects and a story line that transformed the Terminator, the quintessential killing machine, into a sympathetic character. This is how an action film is written. Ted Tally adapted Thomas Harris's chilling 350-page novel, The Silence of the Lambs, into a riveting 120-page script—a lesson in the art and craft of adapting novels into film. Michael Blake, author of Dances with Wolves, achieved every writer's dream as he translated his novel into an uncompromising film. Learn how he used transformation as a spiritual dynamic in this work of mythic sweep. Informative and utterly engrossing, Four Screenplays belongs in every writer's library, next to Syn Field's highly acclaimed companion volumes, Screenplay, The Screenwriter's Workbook, and Selling a Screenplay. “If I were writing screenplays . . . I would carry Syd Field around in my back pocket wherever I went.”—Steven Bochco, writer/producer/director, L.A. Law, Hill Street Blues

Four Screenplays

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Susan Branch

A nice, clean copy that appears unread. Charmingly illustrated and hand-lettered. Makes a wonderful gift. Measures 6” x 7”. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

A Keepsake Book from the Heart of the Home

Susan Branch's inimitable whimsy and charm have won her a large and loyal following across America -- and made her previous gift books and cookbooks perennial bestsellers. This Keepsake Book features recipes and paintings for Christmas -- put one in someone's stocking! Ribbon marker.

Christmas Joy

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Patricia Craig

There is a small nick to front cover (pictured). Otherwise a clean copy that appears unread. 

The Oxford Book of Detective Stories

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Martha Stewart Living Magazine

175 Inspired Ideas for Everyone's Favorite Treat

Features recipes for cupcakes, from classics such as devil's food to surprises like peanut butter and jelly, as well as frostings, fillings, toppings, and a wide selection of decorating and embellishment ideas, including stencil templates, and an equipment glossary. Original.

Martha Stewart's Cupcakes

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This is a nice, clean copy. Fully illustrated with color photographs throughout. 

A Practical Approach to the Use of Essential Oils for Health and Well-Being 

The Complete Essential Oils Sourcebook 

Kathleen Desmond Stang

Some light shelf wear to dust cover. Otherwise a nice, clean copy. Charmingly illustrated with colorful watercolors throughout. 

With 34 enticing, easy-to-follow recipes for breakfast breads, salads, soups, entrees, accompaniments, and desserts, The Delectable Apple presents a cornucopia of delicious dishes based on a wide variety of sweet and tart apples. Illustrated with lively watercolors, this cookbook provides complete information on choosing apples by season and type of dish.

The Delectable Apple

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Will Shortz

This is a nice, clean copy that would make an awesome gift.

The New York Times Little Black (and White) Book of Sunday Crosswords

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David Sedaris

Wrinkle to rear cover (pictured). Otherwise a clean copy that appears to be unread. 

A collection of contemporary and classical short fiction works includes pieces by such writers as Alice Munro, Tobias Wolff, and Joyce Carol Oates.

Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules

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Anthony Lane

Writings from the New Yorker

In an aside that reads like a declaration of intent, Anthony Lane writes that he “never quite thrilled to the battle pitched between mainstream and art cinema”—which is to say that he glories in highbrow and lowbrow alike, and respectfully suggests that “the ideal literary diet consists of trash and classics . . . books you can read without thinking, and books you have to read if you want to think at all.” In almost ten years as a critic for The New Yorker, Lane has not only written an indispensable column on the latest movie releases, great and small. He has also turned his gaze upon subjects as various as Evelyn Waugh, Shakespeare, the glory of cookbooks, and the fine art of the obituary. Whether he is examining Alfred Hitchcock or astronauts, to read him is to be carried along on a current of urgent inquiry (“What is the point of Demi Moore?”), wry reflection, and penetrating wit. An essay on The Sound of Music leads him to consider not only singing nuns but the comedy of our cultural memories (“For all our searchings and suppressings, the past comes unbidden or not at all”); his now infamous pieces on the best-seller lists both celebrate the exultantly bad prose of Judith Krantz and deride the “marshes of the middlebrow, where serious novelists lumber around with too many ideas on their back.” His writings on the poetry of Matthew Arnold, A. E. Housman, and especially T. S. Eliot showcase his erudition, dispensed with a piercing insight into human folly. In his survey of events as disparate as Oscar night, a Walker Evans retrospective, and the craziness of a Chanel show in Paris, the acuity of Lane’s intellect is matched by a quality of heart that is his alone, and by a willingness to be carried away. His writings remind us of what criticism can achieve at its best. Arguably the most gifted reviewer at work today, Anthony Lane sets the standard—as a reader, as a critic, and as an observer of life. Nobody's Perfect is a must for fans old and new.

Nobody's Perfect

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D. H Lawrence

Poems

"Birds, Beasts, and Flowers! is the peak of Lawrence's achievement as a poet....The lucidity of his language matches the intensity of his vision; he can make the reader see what he is saying as very few writers can."--W. H. Auden D. H. Lawrence made his first great experiment in free verse in this collection of poems about animals and the natural world, published when he was thirty-eight. This Black Sparrow edition re-sets the text in the format of the first edition (New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923) and restores several "indecent" lines suppressed by the original publisher. Lawrence's original jacket artwork is reproduced on the jacket in full color. In the words of the Academy of American Poets, "Lawrence believed in writing poetry that was stark, immediate and true to the mysterious inner force which motivated it. Many of his best-loved poems treat the physical and inner life of plants and animals; others are bitterly satiric and express his outrage at the puritanism and hypocrisy of conventional Anglo-Saxon Society."

Birds, Beasts and Flowers!

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John Carter

Robert Anton Wilson

The Occult World of Jack Parsons

In his short 37 years, John Whiteside "Jack" Parsons embodied at least several different roles in one tormented but glorious life.
By day, Parsons' unorthodox genius created a solid rocket fuel that helped the Allies win World War II and NASA send spacecraft to the moon. Co-founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Aerojet Corporation, a lunar crater was named after Parsons.
By night, Parsons called himself The Antichrist when he performed Aleister Crowley's Thelemic rituals to create a new sort of human being that would finally destroy Christianity.
In a Pasadena mansion, the dark, handsome Parsons hosted soirees for the emerging literature of science fiction, visited by writers such as Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury, and none other than L. Ron Hubbard, who later founded the Church of Scientology. With Hubbard playing his "Scribe," Parsons enacted dark "Babalon" rituals to help foment a new occult age. Jack Parsons died suddenly in a huge, mysterious explosion that even today cannot be definitively explained. Was it murder? Suicide? Or just an accident?
Feral House's paperback edition adds new photographs and an Afterword about Parsons' "Black Pilgrimage." One of the inspirations for hit television series, "Strange Angels."

Sex and Rockets

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This appears to be an unread copy. It is a nice, clean copy. 

Don't Be a Starving Artist

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Octavia Wynne

This is a nice, clean copy. Measures 7” x 6”.

Can you tell an iamb from a trochee? An anapest from an amphibrach? Why do children always take such delight in dactylic tetrameter? Is a ballad the same as a ballade? What is poetic rhythm? In this clever little book, Scottish poet Octavia Wynne examines the elements of poetry, from its various feet, meters and lines, through its patterns, stanzas and rhymes, right up to the poetic forms themselves, with ancient and modern examples from William Shakespeare to Dr. Seuss.

Poetic Meter and Form

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Austin Kleon

There is light shelf wear to the cover. Otherwise this is a good, clean copy. Measures 6” x 6”.

10 Things Nobody Told You about Being Creative

You don’t need to be a genius, you just need to be yourself. That’s the message from Austin Kleon, a young writer and artist who knows that creativity is everywhere, creativity is for everyone. A manifesto for the digital age, Steal Like an Artist is a guide whose positive message, graphic look and illustrations, exercises, and examples will put readers directly in touch with their artistic side. When Mr. Kleon was asked to address college students in upstate New York, he shaped his speech around the ten things he wished someone had told him when he was starting out. The talk went viral, and its author dug deeper into his own ideas to create Steal Like an Artist, the book. The result is inspiring, hip, original, practical, and entertaining. And filled with new truths about creativity: Nothing is original, so embrace influence, collect ideas, and remix and re-imagine to discover your own path. Follow your interests wherever they take you. Stay smart, stay out of debt, and risk being boring—the creative you will need to make room to be wild and daring in your imagination.

Steal Like an Artist

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Joy Chant

Some normal shelf wear to dust cover but no tears. Inside flap of dust cover has been clipped (pictured). Beautifully illustrated with full-color plates and paintings (pictured) as well as decorations, maps, and artifacts.

The High Kings

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Carolyn Hall

Some small tears and shelf wear to dust cover (pictured). Otherwise a nice clean copy. Lavishly illustrated in black-and-white and color. 

The Forties in Vogue

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Terry Taylor

This is a nice, clean copy. Lavishly illustrated in color throughout. First edition. 

Mixed-Media Artists Create Handmade Tales

"Once upon a time… storybooks held a special place in our lives, filling our hearts with wonder. Thanks to this extraordinary crafting anthology we can experience that magic again in a marvelous new way by recreating and reinterpreting the picture book. An overview outlines a variety of structures and techniques, from simple collage to gluing. But above all, these highly visual pages offer ideas and inspiration, with talented artists presenting lovingly designed story spreads and covers. Take a fantasy vacation via a travel booklet fashioned from vintage, nostalgic postcards. Follow The Queen of Tarts in a story that unfolds in a miniature puppet theater motif. And two different artists offer their revised versions of a classic: The Princess and the Pea"--

The Artful Storybook

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Debby Applegate

There is some minor wrinkling of the dust cover, but otherwise this is a nice, clean copy. Illustrated with black-and-white photos. 

The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age

The compulsively readable and sometimes jaw-dropping story of the life of a notorious madam who played hostess to every gangster, politician, writer, sports star and Cafe Society swell worth knowing, and who as much as any single figure helped make the twenties roar--from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America.

"Applegate's tour de force about Jazz Age icon Polly Adler will seize you by the lapels, buy you a drink, and keep you reading until the very last page.... A treat for fiction and nonfiction fans alike." --Abbott Kahler, New York Times bestselling author (as Karen Abbott) of The Ghosts of Eden Park

Simply put: Everybody came to Polly's. Pearl "Polly" Adler (1900-1962) was a diminutive dynamo whose Manhattan brothels in the Roaring Twenties became places not just for men to have the company of women but were key gathering places where the culturati and celebrity elite mingled with high society and with violent figures of the underworld--and had a good time doing it.
 
As a Jewish immigrant from eastern Europe, Polly Adler's life is a classic American story of success and assimilation that starts like a novel by Henry Roth and then turns into a glittering real-life tale straight out of F. Scott Fitzgerald. She declared her ambition to be "the best goddam madam in all America" and succeeded wildly. Debby Applegate uses Polly's story as the key to unpacking just what made the 1920s the appallingly corrupt yet glamorous and transformational era that it was and how the collision between high and low is the unique ingredient that fuels American culture.

Madam

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Jim Harter

Some minor shelf wear to cover (pictured). Otherwise a nice, clean copy. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources

Lush allegorical ladies, Grecian maids and Victorian maidens, Indians, Japanese, dancers, housewives, courtesans; women dancing, smiling, working, weeping, flirting -- an unusually rich sourcebook of feminine poses and activities, costumes, clothing, everyday life, etc. 488 illustrations.

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