No matter how beautiful any individual piece of America may be, the true brilliance and magnificence of American is best grasped through a study of its whole. Through stunning photography and knowledgeable captions, the Travel America series explores the many cities and regions of our beautiful country. It is a trip not to be missed and never to be forgotten.

New York: The City That Never Sleeps

Shugaar, Antony

Smithmark Pub.

150 full-color photos. 9 1/4 x 12 1/2.

San Francisco: The City by the Bay

Travel

United States

Coast to Coast presents an extraordinary journey—via rail, steamboat, automobile, and even horseback— of a continent just beginning to discover itself. Traveling through the great cities, magnificent landscapes, and highways of a bygone America, the book is illustrated with vintage photographs, posters, travel brochures, and other charming ephemera. By the end of the 19th century, North America was fully settled, and the era’s robust economy led to the invention of affordable popular tourism. Even people of modest means could comfortably tour the continent, and a wealth of tourist attractions awaited: Niagara Falls, Crater Lake, the Grand Canyon and other sites in the brand-new national parks, New York’s Pennsylvania Station, San Francisco’s Embarcadero, the French Quarter in New Orleans, the Banff Springs Hotel, and many more. With five maps and nine color inserts of facsimile menus, guidebooks, and vintage postcards displaying everything from cog railways running up Mount Washington to ostrich farms outside Pasadena and Arkansas’s spectacular Hot Springs, this brilliantly researched book provides a tour of an America just beginning to flex its muscles as a world-class tourist attraction. Praise for Coast to Coast “Most Americans, it seems, are always willing – even eager – to pack a Samsonite bag or a Winnebago van and head off to see what lies down the road, across the mountains or on the other side of the continent. This restlessness isn’t a new trait, as author Anthony Shugaar and his colleagues demonstrate in this richly illustrated overview of travel in North America during the first few decades of the twentieth century. Like a cherished family photo album, Coast to Coast offers a fascinating and engaging record of where we went, how we got there, what we saw and, perhaps most important, what we learned along the way – not just about our country’s historic sites and scenic wonders but also about ourselves. It’s been a terrific trip, and this book brings it vividly to life.”--Richard Moe , President National Trust for Historic Preservation "Coast to Coast made me realize with despair that I was born a hundred years too late. I want to travel on those trains, camp in those tents, and spend weeks, if not months, in those hotels. I want to order the crab croquettes at the Hotel Ponce de Leon in 1880, and I want to cross Lake Michigan on the S. S. Christopher Columbus in 1893. Anthony Shugaar has assembled a North American scrapbook from a time when our continent was still big enough to get lost in. Reading it is like paging through a dream." David Owen, Author, The Walls Around Us, Sheetrock &amp; Shellac “For every image that colors in a vague conception of a classically American time and place, the book shows us something totally unexpected.” ~ Stephen Heyman, The Moment/NYT “Coast to Coast certainly gives a new meaning to the joyful pursuit of imaginary travel.” ~ Erica Johansson, Travel Blissful “Travels romantic past is lovingly evoked in Coast to Coast: Vintage Travel in North America.” ~ Hemispheres “Filled with engaging vintage photographs.” ~ Ann Tatko-Peterson, The Oakland Tribune “Sure to get conversations going with older relatives and spark amusement in younger ones.” ~ Helen Anders, Statesman.com

Coast to Coast: Vintage Travel in North America

History

Donzel, Catherine

Walter, Marc

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Vendome Press

A brilliant anthology of the 40-plus year history of FMR, the Italian magazine that taught the world to see art, bound in silk and adorned with gold.&nbsp; "The most beautiful magazine in the world." --Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Founded by Franco Maria Ricci (FMR) in Italy in 1982, FMR is the ultimate art magazine, a treasure trove for art lovers and a touchstone in the formation of personal taste for the past half century. This superbly produced book, featuring some 400 images as well as articles drawn from the entire history of the sumptuous black-background magazine, is printed on heavy, glossy paper with rich blacks and deep, saturated colors. With a distinctive black silk cover, adorned with gold and paired with elegant typography, it is itself a true collector's item. Ricci traversed the boundaries of art, architecture, and design, and his unprecedented magazine became an unequivocal success. FMR is cherished by curators and gallerists around the world for its presentation of daringly bold world art of every description and contributions from some of the world's greatest writers. Paused in 2009, the biannual publication was revived in 2022 and today its US, British, French, Spanish, and Italian editions combine to make it the world's largest art magazine. This book, filled with the very best of FMR, is essential for art lovers seeking to expand their knowledge, taste, and imagination. Sustainability is integral to Vendome's&nbsp;publishing process.&nbsp;All materials used in our books are 100% FSC-certified&nbsp;and we&nbsp;are proud to be a brand partner of&nbsp;Trees&nbsp;for the Future&nbsp;(<a href="https://trees.org/">https://trees.org</a>), supporting global&nbsp;communities through sustainable land use.&nbsp;By planting trees, we help create thriving regional economies, robust food systems, and a healthier planet. &nbsp;

FMR Franco Maria Ricci: A Labyrinth of Beauty

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

An “electrifying...page-turning thriller” (New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver) about two people, each shattered by their past, who team up to solve a series of killings and abductions that turn out to be just the visible surface of something far more sinister. When a woman is beheaded in a park outside Rome and her six-year-old son goes missing, the police unit assigned to the case sees an easy solution: they arrest the woman’s husband and await his confession. But the chief of Rome’s major crimes unit doubts things are so simple. He hires two of Italy’s top analytical minds to solve the mystery: Deputy Captain Colomba Caselli, a fierce, warrior-like detective still reeling from having survived a bloody catastrophe, and Dante Torre, a man who spent his childhood trapped inside a concrete silo. Fed by the gloved hand of a masked kidnapper who called himself “the Father,” Dante emerged from his ordeal with crippling claustrophobia but, also, with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and hyper-observant capacities. All evidence suggests that the Father is back and active after being dormant for decades. Indeed, he has left telltale signs that signal he’s looking forward to a reunion with Dante. But when Colomba and Dante begin following the ever-more-bizarre trail of clues, they grasp that what’s really going on is darker than they ever imagined. Kill the Father is “outstanding…an unrelenting, adrenaline-fueled novel, with a final twist serving as a setup for a sequel. Don’t be surprised if Kill the Father becomes the next Big Thing in international crime fiction” (Booklist, starred review).

Kill the Father: A Novel (1) (Caselli and Torre Series)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Dazieri, Sandrone

Mystery

Scribner

From internationally bestselling author Sandrone Dazieri and featuring “two of the most intriguing detectives to have emerged in recent years” (Daily Mail, London) comes the “explosive” (Booklist, starred review) second thriller in the Caselli and Torre series.\nIn Rome, a passenger train speeds into the city’s main station, its first-class car full of dead bodies, the macabre discovery of which falls to Deputy Police Commissioner Colomba Caselli. The police then receive a claim of responsibility and the threat of more murders to come. But neither Caselli nor her eccentrically brilliant ally, Dante Torre, are ready to buy the terrorist link.\nAs the two unconventional investigators chip away at what the perpetrator wants everyone to believe, they put their own lives in jeopardy.\nBut Dante’s bizarre and traumatic past enables him to see what others miss, and in this case, to connect with a kindred spirit of sorts, a woman named Giltine who also experienced an intense trauma—one from which she emerged damaged and full of murderous intent. Making her especially lethal is that the rare mental illness she suffers from has her believing she’s already dead.\nWhen Colomba and Dante find themselves on the outs with law enforcement they’re entirely on their own, faced with the responsibility of making sure the waters of Venice don’t turn red with blood.

Kill the Angel: A Novel (2) (Caselli and Torre Series)

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