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Pact with the Devil

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

by Michael T. Taussig


The Good Ship Britannia

Rites of Passage

by William Golding


Old, Old Story

No Man's Land: 1918, The Last Year of the Great War

by John Toland

The End of Order: Versailles 1919

by Charles L. Mee Jr.


A Successful Martyr

Olive Schreiner

by Ruth First and Ann Scott


The Gentle Slope of Castalia

Photography and Society

by Gisèle Freund

Diana and Nikon: Essays on the Aesthetic of Photography

by Janet Malcolm

The Eloquent Light

photographs by Ansel Adams, text by Nancy Newhall

Yosemite and the Range of Light

photographs by Ansel Adams, introduction by Paul Brooks

Time in New England

photographs by Paul Strand, text selected and edited by Nancy Newhall

Brett Weston: Photographs from Five Decades

photographs by Brett Weston, text by R.H. Cravens

Water's Edge

photographs by Harry Callahan, introductory poem by A.R. Ammons

Harry Callahan: Color

photographs and text by Harry Callahan, edited by Robert Tow and Ricker Winsor

Sudek

photographs by Josef Sudek, text by Sonja Bullaty

Lotte Jacobi

photographs by Lotte Jacobi, edited by Kelly Wise, introduction by James Fasanelli

Moholy-Nagy: Photographs and Photograms

by Laszlo Maholy-Nagy, text by Andreas Haus, translated by Frederic Samson

Beaton

photographs by Cecil Beaton, edited with a text by James Danziger

Allure

by Diana Vreeland and Chris Hemphill

Eye for Elegance Company

photographs by George Hoyningen-Huene

The Art of the Great Hollywood Portrait Photographers, 1925-1940

by John Kobal

Mrs. David Bailey

photographs by David Bailey

Special Collection 24 Photo Lithos

by Helmut Newton

Sleepless Nights

photographs by Helmut Newton, introduction by Philippe Garner

Women on Women: Twelve Photographic Portfolios

with an introduction by Katherine Hollabird

42nd Street Studio

photographs by Joyce Baronio, introduction by Linda Nochlin

The Best of Photojournalism, 5: People, Places, and Events of 1979

with an introduction by Tom Brokaw

In China

photographs by Eve Arnold

Photographs for the Tsar: The Pioneering Color Photography of Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii, Commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II

edited by Robert H. Allhouse

Across the Rhine

text by Franklin M. Davis Jr.. the editors of Time-Life Books

Private Pictures

photographs by Daniel Angeli and Jean-Paul Dousset, introduction by Anthony Burgess

Dorothea Lange and the Documentary Tradition

photographs by Dorothea Lange, text by Karin B. Ohrn

Dialogue with Photography

edited by Paul Hill, edited by Thomas Cooper

Photography in the Twentieth Century

by Peter Tausk

Fox-Talbot and the Invention of Photography

by Gail Buckland

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Schoenberg and Dika

Schoenberg Remembered: Diaries and Recollections (1938-1976)

by Dika Newlin


The Master of Mysticism

From Berlin to Jerusalem: Memories of My Youth

by Gershom Scholem, translated by Harry Zohn


Yuk!

Unmentionable Cuisine

by Calvin W. Schwabe


Soviet Heroes

Soviet Dissidents: Their Struggle for Human Rights

by Joshua Rubinstein

A Chronicle of Current Events

No. 54 Journal of the Human Rights Movement in the USSR


The All-Star Victorian

Tennyson: The Unquiet Heart

by Robert Bernard Martin

The Tennyson Album: A Biography in Original Photographs

by Andrew Wheatcroft


Fine Art for Kids

The Work of E.H. Shepard

edited by Rawle Knox

Edward Ardizzone: Artist and Illustrator

by Gabriel White

Nicholas and the Fast Moving Diesel

by Edward Ardizzone

A Child's Christmas in Wales

by Dylan Thomas, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone


Masterwoodworks

The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany

by Michael Baxandall


The Not-So-New Men

Parliaments and English Politics 1621-1629

by Conrad Russell


Nabokov’s Show

Lectures on Literature: British, French, and German Writers

by Vladimir Nabokov, edited by Fredson Bowers, with an introduction by John Updike


Balancing Act

Aberration of Starlight

by Gilbert Sorrentino

At the Shores

by Thomas Rogers


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