New York: Bloomberg Press, 2009. Second Edition. First Printing. Softcover. An indispensable survival guide for anyone in the media industry and the lawyers who serve them Especially now, in an age of instant global access through digital media, it is vitally important that journalists, authors and publishers, as well..... More
Berkeley, California: Stone Bridge Press, 1996. First Edition (presumed). Softcover. This landmark book, first published at the height of the manga boom, is offered in a hardcover collector's edition with a new foreword and afterword. Frederik L. Schodt looks at the classic publications and artists who created modern manga, including..... More
Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 2001. Reprint. Softcover. Highly acclaimed when it was first published in 1924, this enduring classic fired the opening salvo in a campaign for serious recognition of the importance of popular culture. Seldes - a journalist, editor, and cultural critic - believed that for a...... More
New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc, 2002. First Norton paperback edition. Paperback. A National Book Award recipient. Jason Epstein has led arguably the most creative career in book publishing during the past half-century. He founded Anchor Books and launched the quality paperback revolution, cofounded the New York Review..... More
New York: St Martin's Press, 2000. Trade paperback. Jonathan Gold has eaten it all. Counter Intelligence collects over 200 of Gold's best restaurant discoveries--from inexpensive lunch counters you won't find on your own to the perfect undiscovered dish at a beaten-path establishment. He reveals the hidden kitchens where Los Angeles'..... More
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1994. Second Edition. Hardcover. Cataloging and Classification is also a name for the course that covers general principles of bibliography, cataloging, and indexing, that is required for students working toward degrees in Library/Information Science. Of the few texts available for the course, Lois Chan's Cataloging..... More
London: Abacus, 2000. Reprint. Paperback. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push cause..... More
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991. Toni Ellis (cover design). First Paperback Edition. First Printing. Paperback. How the negotiation between poetic and media discourses takes place is the subject of Marjorie Perloff’s groundbreaking study. Radical Artifice considers what happens when the "natural speech" model inherited from the great Modernist..... More
London: Penguin Books, 2008. YES (cover design). Published as part of the Penguin Design Series. Fourteenth Printing. Paperback. In a dazzling fusion of Quentin Fiore's bold and inventive graphic design and Marshall McLuhan's unique insight into technology, advertising and mass-media, The Medium is the Massage is a unique study of..... More
New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. First Edition (stated). Hardcover. Inspired by a landmark exhibition mounted by the British Museum in 1963 to celebrate five eventful centuries of the printed word, Nicholas A. Basbanes offers a lively consideration of writings that have "made things happen" in the world, works that..... More
New York: Vintage Books, 2012. Abby Weintraub (cover design). First Vintage Books Edition. Third Printing. Paperback. More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. First Edition. Second Printing. Paperback. Robert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. Here are the ambitious writers who crowded into Paris seeking fame..... More
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. This is the latest book in the Publishing Pathways Series. Eight chapters on different aspects of "sharp practices" in the book world. Includes Christopher de Hamel on "Book Thefts in the Middle Ages," Adri K. Offenberg on "The Censorship of Hebrew..... More
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