J. Michaels Books

Thompson Ford, Richard

Dress Codes: How the Laws of Fashion Made History

Simon & Schuster, 2021. Hardcover. A revelatory exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society.Dress codes are as old as clothing itself. For centuries, clothing has been a wearable status symbol; fashion, a weapon in struggles for social change; and dress.....

Price: $30.00

Batalion, Judy

The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos

William Morrow & Company, 2021. Hardcover. One of the most important stories of World War II, already optioned by Steven Spielberg for a major motion picture: a spectacular, searing history that brings to light the extraordinary accomplishments of brave Jewish women who became resistance fighters--a group of unknown heroes whose.....

Price: $28.99

Daehner, Jens M. & Lapatin, Kenneth (Editors)

Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of theHellenistic World

Los Angeles: The John Paul Getty Museum, 2015. First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. 9-7/8 x 11-5/8", dark green paper over boards, 367pp, appendix, bibliography, authors, index, fully illustrated in color and black ^ white. A catalogue associated with an exhibition of large-scale bronze sculpture from the Hellenist period (323 BC.....

Price: $75.00

Hiley, Michael

Victorian Working Women: Portraits from Life

Boston: David R. Godine, 1980. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 9 x 9-3/8", brown cloth, 142pp, notes, index, illustrated. The life, habits, and fortunes of Victorian working women in Great Britain chronicled by Arthur Munby, a functionary of the Ecclesiastical Commissions in London. Illustated with drawings by Munby, photogaphs he commissioned.....

Price: $35.00

Kirstein, Lincoln

Paul Cadmus

New York: Imago Imprint Inc., 1984. First Edition. Hardcover. 9-7/8 x 10-3/4", 1/2 beige cloth, beige paper over boards, over 150 paintings, etchings and drawings, 49 in full color. A presentation of the entire range of Cadmus's achievement: the controversial, satiric social realism of The Fleet's In!, Bar Italia, and.....

Price: $75.00

O'Neill, Daniel

Sir Edwin Lutyens: Country Houses

New York: Whitney Library of Design / Watson-Guptill Publications, 1981. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 9-1/4 x 8-3/4", green paper over boards, 168pp, biographical details, bibliography, index, illustrated with 150 black& white photographs. With a preface by Sir Hugh Casson. A critical analysis of the work of Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944). Organized.....

Price: $50.00

Roberts, John

Safeguarding the Nation: The Story of the Modern Royal Navy

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 8-7/8 x 11-1/8", navy blue paper over boards, light blue endpapers, 352pp, epilogue, maps, notes, sources, Ships of the Royal Navy, Royal Navy Operations 1957-2009, The British Empire and the Royal Navy, First Sea Lords, Presidents and Chairmen of the.....

Price: $37.50

Tredrea, John & Sozaev, Eduard

Russian Warships in the Age of Sail 1696-1860: Design, Contruction, Careers and Fates

Yorkshire: Seaforth Publishing / Pen & Sword Books, 2010. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. 9-7/8 x 11-5/8", brick paper over boards, xiii, 447pp, bibliography, index, picture credits. A complete and comprehensive list of seagoing fleet and inshore navy, with technical details and career highlights for every ship, down to small craft.....

Price: $50.00

Mehl, Hans

Naval Guns: 500 Years of Ship and Coastal Artillery

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002. Drawings by Rudolf Roth. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Oblong quarto, 11-5/8 x 9-5/8", blue cloth, pictorial endpapers, 216pp, abbreviations, historical weights and measures, biblio., index, illustrated with 350 photographs supplemented by contemporary and modern line drawings and plans. History of global naval and coastal.....

Price: $75.00