Chicago, IL: Container Corporation of America, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 399 pages. Published to commemorate the U.S bicentential and the 50th anniversary of the Container Corporation. The book begins with introductions by Rhodes Patterson, David Ogilvy, Herbert Bayer, Mortimer Adler, and Franz Shulze The book features a total of 195 pairings of great thinkers with artwork from a variety of artists and brief biographies on each person. Among those represented are: Einstein, Camus, Faulkner, James Agee, Eleanor Roosevelt, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Goethe, Epicurus, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamn Disraeli, Rousseau, Frederick the Great, and Confucius. The artists include: Herbert Bayer, Leo Lionni, Jerry Uelsman, Ben Shahn, Shiko Munakata, Bruno Munari, Jan Tschichold, Jacob Lawerence, Max Bill, Lester Beale, Richard Lindner, Gyorgy Kepes, Milton Glaser, Man Ray, Rene Margritte, Paul Rand and many more. A very near fine copy in a close to near fine cardstock slipcase that has some minor wear. Still, a nicer than usual copy of this terrific book. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. Item #178646 More

Price: $125.00

San Francisco, CA: Sierra Club Books, 1992. First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 89 pages. Features a foreword by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, an essay by Peter Matthiessen and an afterword by David Brower. Includes numerous color photographs by Boyd Norton. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very minor wear. Item #182269 More

Price: $20.00

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 270 pages. A clean and tight very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Item #156721 More

Price: $15.00

New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. First edition. Hardcover. A fine and tight copy in a fine dust jacket. Signed by McClintick on the title page. A fresh copy. Item #113109 More

Price: $20.00

New York: Scribners, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. A continuation of McCourt's story from his Pulitzer Prize winning book "Angela's Ashes." A fine and tight copy in a very near fine price clipped dust jacket. Signed by McCourt on the title page. Item #118211 More

Price: $45.00

Boston, MA: Patrick Donahoe, 1854. Fourth edition. Hardcover. An about good copy in green cloth boards with some wear to the spine and corners, a spot to the foredge and with an edge tear to the first two endpapers. Item #124861 More

Price: $50.00

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A memoir from the author of "Positively Fifth Street." A tight near fine with a small smudge to the title page in a near fine dust jacket. Signed by McManus on the title page. Item #144441 More

Price: $30.00

Washington, DC: Cooper-Hewitt Museum, 1981. First edition. Hardcover. First edition. Hardcover. Part of the Smithsoinan Illustrated Library of Antiques prepared by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket that has slight edge wear and a small bit of bumping to the top edge of the spine. Item #127510 More

Price: $10.00

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1970. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. McPhee's seventh book, which deals with McPhee's Scottish heritage. A clean and tight near fine copy in a near fine price clipped dust jacket. Item #173587 More

Price: $75.00

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. His twenty sixth book, a look at McPhee's personal obsession with the shad. A fine copy in illustrated wrappers with publisher information on the rear panel. Somewhat uncommon in an advance state. Item #108372 More

Price: $35.00

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1979. First edition. Hardcover. The fourteenth book from this terrific writer. A collection of five extended essays including the title story about a farmer selling his produce in the greenmarkets of New York in the 1970's. A fine and tight copy in a fine dust jacket. Item #114195 More

Price: $25.00

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. First edition. Softcover. Uncorrected proof. A collection of essays. A very near fine copy in printed wrappers. Uncommon in this format. Item #158283 More

Price: $75.00

New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1994. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. Another fascinating book from the author of "A Sense of Where You Are" and the Pulitzer Prize winning "Annals of the Former World." Includes a number of color illustrations. A clean and tight very near fine copy in cloth boards in a very near fine dust jacket. Item #186577 More

Price: $20.00