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2nd Hand Reading

William Kentridge, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

1 volume (various pagings) : color illustrations. Reproduction of an altered book created by drawing and painting in a copy of The shorter Oxford English dictionary on historical principles, Second Edition, volume I, A-M, 1936. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition Stacked & Altered, summer 2022.
Little Nemo in Slumberland: So Many Splendid Sundays!

Winsor McCay, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[150] p. : chiefly col. ill. "Splendid Sundays, 1905-1910". Includes bibliographical references. Gift of Tim Finn.
The Jackson Pollock Sketchbooks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

4 v. in boxed set, [80] p. of plates : ill. (some col.). Portfolio box (61 x 43 cm.) includes 3 sketchbook facsimiles and 1 volume of text (88 p. : ill. ; 21 x 28 cm.) "This first edition is limited to 525 copies, of which 500 are for sale": inside cover of box. Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Oct. 22, 1997-Feb. 8, 1998. Library has copy no. 489. Sally Hume Lincoln Memorial Fund. Includes bibliographical references.
La Case Vide

Bernard Tschumi, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

1 case (28 pages, 20, [1] leaves of plates) : illus. (some color). Folio (London, England) ; 8. Cover title. Published to accompany exhibition organized at the Architectural Association, London. French text with English translation on opposite pages; interview in English. CONTENTS: La case vide / Bernard Tschumi -- Point de folie--Maintenant l'architecture / Jacques Derrida -- Trick-track / Anthony Vidler -- Interview between Alvin Boyarsky and Bernard Tschumi.
The Changing City

Jörg Müller, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

8 folded leaves in portfolio : all color illustrations ; 33 cm. First American edition. Oversize. Translation of Hier Fällt ein Haus, dort steht ein Kran und ewig droht der Baggerzahn oder Die Veränderung der Stadt. "Here, in eight, full-color, fold-out pictures ... Müller has created an accurate portrait of urban decay and change that is equally true of the city scene in the United States."--inside front cover. SUMMARY The sequence of eight illustrations, which are based on documents in Swiss and German municipal archives, shows how one section of a city changes at three-year intervals between 1953 and 1976. The companion volume to Müller's The Changing Countryside. Cover title. "A Margaret K. McFlderry book."
The Tiger Who Wore White Gloves

Gwendolyn Brooks, Timothy Jones, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[36] pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 26 cm. All the tiger's fierce qualities do not satisfy him; he wants to be stylish and wear white gloves. "First Edition, Second Printing" Stapled binding. In clear plastic cover. Walter Lorraine Fund. Formerly in the collection of Tidewater Community College.
Peaches

Dindga McCannon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

126 pages : illustrations; 22 cm. A young black girl growing up in Harlem tells about her life with her family and her ambition to be an artist. Paper dust jacket with color illustration. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Children of Night

Edgar White, Dindga McCannon, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

38 pages : illustrations; 24 cm. Chronicles some of the pleasures, dreams, and experiences of a young black boy living in the South Bronx. Paper dust jacket with color illustration. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Sati the Rastifarian

Edgar White, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[31] pages : illustrations (some color); 26cm. Illustration on title page, type in black and brown. Five-year-old Sati misses his home when he leaves the West Indies to come to New York for an education. Illustration on dust jacket. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Aloneness

Gwendolyn Brooks, Leroy Foster, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

16 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. Cover printed in blue and black and with illustration. Photo portrait of the author on back cover. Photograph by Howard Simmons. Stapled binding. Library has second printing January 1983. Inscribed to Martha Drake and signed by the author.
Willy

Helen H. King, Carole Byard, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

47 pages : color illustrations; 21 x 27 cm. 1st edition. "Library edition" Dust jacket with color illustration. Catching the troublesome rat besieging the kitchen challenges a ghetto youth's cleverness and establishes him as the family protector. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Notes and Projects for the Large Glass

Marcel Duchamp, Arturo Schwartz, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

217 pages : illus. (some color). Text in English and French. Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even.
The Rabbits' Wedding

Garth Williams, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm. Double, illustrated title page. "Printed in the United States of America"--Title page verso. Two little rabbits, one white and one black, decide they want to remain friends forever, so they marry each other in a forest wedding. Illustrated book jacket, some tears and paper wear, loss. Case binding. Walter Lorraine Fund.
Bronzeville Boys and Girls

Gwendolyn Brooks, Ronni Solbert, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

40 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. A collection of poems for and about children, particularly those living in big cities. Contents: Mexie and Bridie -- Val -- Timmy and Tawanda -- Narcissa -- Andre -- Keziah -- Charles -- Cynthia in the snow -- John, who is poor -- Paulette -- Rudolph is tired of the city -- Eppie -- Ella -- Dave -- Luther and Breck -- Michael is afraid of the storm -- Eldora, who is rich -- Beulah at church -- Skipper -- Robert, who is often a stranger to himself -- Lyle -- Nora -- Mirthine at the party -- Maurice -- De Koven -- Gertrude -- Marie Lucille -- Cheryl's Mootsie -- Jim -- Eunice in the evening -- Vern -- Otto -- Tommy -- Admiration of Willy. Illustration on title page. Case binding. Walter Lorraine Fund.
Around the World in a Flash: how messages are sent via telephone, telegraph, radio, and television

Marie Neurath, Isotype Institute, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

36 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm. The How and why series. "A Chanticleer edition". "Printed in Great Britain by Graphic Reproductions Ltd. London". Color illustrated, double title page. Case binding with paper color dust jacket. Jacket has tears at top of spine and back cover bottom left corner.
Mother Goose Riddle Rhymes

Joseph Low, Ruth Low, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[44] pages : color illus. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Color illustrated title-page and dust jacket. Book jacket design by Joseph Low, printed offset. Book seller's label, inside back cover: Museum Books, Inc., 48 East 43rd Street, New York 17, N.Y. Gift of Christine Jones (RISD IA '52).
The first great inventions

Lancelot Thomas Hogben, Marie Neurath, Joseph Albert Lauwerys, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

36 pages color illustrations 23 cm. Chanticleer wonder-story books. "Designed by the Isotype Institute and printed in six-color offset lithography by Waldheim-Eberle, Vienna, Austria" Color illustrated, double title page. Case binding with original color paper dust jacket.
Noa Noa: Voyage á Tahiti

Paul Gauguin, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[4] p., [2] leaves of plates : illus. (some color), facsim. Facsimile of Gauguin's handwritten notations, color reproductions. Donated by Bess P. Kaufman in memory of Sol. P. Kaufman.
Britain at War

Monroe Wheeler, Herbert Read, E. J. Carter, Carlos Dyer, and E. McKnight Kauffer

97 pages : illustrations (color frontispiece). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Defense of the Islands / T.S. Eliot -- The artist and national defense / Monroe Wheeler -- The war as seen by British artists / Herbert Read -- Paintings and drawings -- Photographs -- Architectural reconstruction and war-time forms / E.J. Carter -- Cartoons -- Posters -- The role of the artist in camouflage / Carlos Dyer -- Catalog of paintings and drawings. Ten thousand copies .. printed by the Plantin Press. Cover design by McKnight Kauffer. Gift of William H. Edwards.
Summer Holiday

Richard Floethe, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

[62] pages : all color illustrations (lithographs) ; 22 cm Imprint from title page verso. Housed in a paper covered slipcase printed with a basket weave pattern. "This book is limited to 150 copies, printed by lithography, hand colored and signed by the artist [signed], Richard Floethe. This copy is number 29 [signed and numbered in ink]"--Colophon. Bequest of Nina Abrams.
Mummy's Bedtime Story Book

Marion, Mrs. Alexander Marion Gemmell, Jessie Marion King, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

56 pages color illustrations. Printed Photo-Offest by Suttley & Silverlock, LTD., Blackfriars Road. Color illustrated frontispiece, title page, and endpapers. Eleven full-page illustrations, with color decorations on each text page. Bound in bright paper covered pictorial boards with title in red. Case binding. Jessie Marion King (20 March 1875--3 August 1949) was a Scottish illustrator known for her beautiful illustrated children's books; she also designed jewelery and fabric, and painted pottery; King was one of the artists known as the Glasgow Girls. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Voyaging Southward from the Strait of Magellan

Rockwell Kentridge, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

xv, 184 pages, [1] leaf of plates : frontispiece, illustrations, maps. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Illustration on title-page. Maps on lining-papers. Cover design also by Kent. Gift of the Estate of Henry D. Sharpe.
The Holy Experiment: a message to the world from Pennsylvania

Violet Oakley, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

xii, l6, 19-38, 40-51, [7] pages : illus., 22 leaves of mounted color plates (2 folded); 57cm. Series of mural paintings by Violet Oakley... in the Governor̓s Reception Room and in the Senate Chamber of the State Capitol at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Printed in black, red and blue. In portfolio. Leather portfolio with stamp, border and leather bosses. Metal clasps hold the covers together. Gold leaf on inside covers. Leather spine has been repaired/replaced. Title vignette. Illustrated title-page. "This edition is limited to 500 copies of which this is no. 34." Numbered and signed by the artist. "The pages of the original manuscript have been written and illustrated by Violet Oakley from her notes made in preparation for the paintings from 1902 to 1922. They are reproduced from plates made by the Beck Engraving Co." Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
Bugs and Wings and Other Things

Annie W. Franchot, Walter Harrison Cady, Jessie Willcox Smith, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

ix, 99 pages, [7] leaves of plates : illus. (some color). Contains illustrated lining papers. CONTENTS: The insects' symphony -- The locusts' song -- Aristocratic worms. Gift of Mrs. Murrary S. Danforth. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections exhibition By Hand: Women & Books Exhibit fall, 2021.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon; Norske folke-eventyr. English. Selections

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, Kay Rasmus Nielsen, Special Collections, and Fleet Library

206 pages, [25] leaves of plates : illustrations (some color). "Selected from the Norske folkeeventyr of Asbjörnson and Moe; most stories in this book originally appeared in Sir G.W. Dasent's Popular tales from the Norse, cf. Preface, pages [1-2]. Illustrated title page; end papers illustrated in black and gold. CONTENTS East of the sun and west of the moon -- The blue belt -- Prince Lindworm -- The lassie and her godmother -- The husband who was to mind the house -- The lad who went to the North Wind -- The three princesses of Whiteland -- Soria Moria Castle -- The giant who had no heart in his body -- The princess on the glass hill -- The widow's son -- The three billy goats gruff -- The three princesses in the blue mountain -- The cat on the Dovrefell -- One's own children are alway prettiest. Translated by George Webbe Dasent. Gift of the Estate of William E. Brigham."