Christmas Book List Has Something For

Page 3B books Christmas book list has something for all By Joan Hanauer day season include Sir James Canada’s foremost wildlife artist, (Grosset & Dunlap, $19.95) tells Wild Garden, an Illustrated His George Frazer’s The Golden is being republished this year the tale of badmen from Montana tory of Weeds, by Lys de Bray United Press International Bough, edited by Mary Douglas (Prentice-Hall, $35) because to the Mexican border with ($17.95 and $19.95 respectively). (Doubleday, $14.95), and The From the temples of ancient snafus in distribution last year lim gorgeous photography by Domesticated nature appears Annotated Jules Verne: From Rome to the world of bowling, ited supplies. Jonathan Blair. among the dog, cat and horse the Earth to the Moon, by Walter from the history of medicine to the The art of Salvador Dali toasts Fireman turned author Dennis books. For dog-lovers, Macmillan James Miller (Crowell, $16.95). history of weeds, there’s a gift wine in an alternately outrageous, Smith has put together the His presents The Dog Catalogue, by book for everybody this Christ Hemingway is having a informative and beautiful book tory of Firefighting in America Don Myrus ($16.95), while mas. All you need is the money to minirevival, with Peter Buckley’s called The Wines of Dali, with (Dial, $17.50). The Slaves, by McGraw-Hill offers Standard pay for them and the muscles to Ernest (Dial, $17.50) presenting text by Max Gerard and Louis Susanne Everett (Putnam, $20) Guide to Pure-Bred Dogs presents an “illustrated history of lug home these bigger and more a photo biography of the author Crizet, illustrated by Dali (Ab ($24.95). Cat types get Cham the monstrous evil” that is cruel, beautiful than ever books. from handsome youth to the last rams, $50). This volume won the pion Cats of the World, by slashing and sometimes hard to Maybe supernatural help will sad years, while Hemingway’s . Prix Montesquieu de la Sommel- Catherine Ing and Grace Pond solve your problems, as in Paris is brought to life by Robert lerie Francaise as the best wine take. (St. Martin’s, $17.50). What horse book of 1977 but it won’t win lover could say neigh to Great Faeries, by Brian Froud and Alan E. Gajdusek (Scribner’s, $14.95). Vicarious tourists will enjoy applause from the California Stud-Farms of the World, by Lee (Abrams, $14.95). The book Literary lions aside, there’s American Rivers, by Bill Thomas Monique and Hans Dossenbach is every bit as elvishly delightful The Literary Dog (Putnam s, winemakers. Leave that to the (Norton, $30), and the New York Wines of California, by Robert and Hans Joachim Kohler as last year’s Gnomes, by Wil $14.95) in which William E. Graphic Society’s At Home in (Morrow, $35). Huygen (Abrams, $17.50), which Maloney and J.C. Suares collect Lawrence Balzer (Abrams, $25). the Wild, New England’s White Art doesn’t stop with painting Mountains, text by Brooks Atkin From sport of kings to Sports! remains a best seller a year after canine illusions from Ecclesiastes by George Plimpton (Abrams, publication. Thurber. and sculpture, as Walter Terry il son and W. Kent Olson. For those who prefer man $29.95), which includes every Faeries, like many other newly All sorts of animals are availa lustrates in Great Male Dancers thing from the hulks of football to published coffee table books, can ble in Great Sculpture of An of the Ballet (Anchor, $10 paper) made wonders, there’s the Na tional Trust Book of Great man made tiny, overwhelmed by be bought at bargain rates — the cient Greece, by Pierre Devam- from Louis IV to Baryshnikov and Houses of Britain, by Nigel the Hawaiian surf. Individual price goes up after Christmas. bez and Great Baroque and Dupond, while music is repre sports in the spotlight include Abrams, which has long been Rococo Sculpture, by Maurizio sented by a reissue of Arthur Nicolson (Godine, $30), which will make your home seem like a Jack Nicklaus On & Off the one of the world’s most suc Fagiolo dell’Arco (Morrow, $25 Hutching’s stunning Mozart, The each) part of this year’s cor Man, The Musicians (Schirmer, hut. Forget it and enjoy The Joy Fairway, an autobiographhy with cessful publishers of gorgeous art Ken Bowden (Simon & Schuster, books, appears to be taking over nucopia of art books. Switching $45) and The Book of Music, A of Paris, by Bernard Herman Visual Appreciation, edited by $12.95), and The Perfect Game, the fey field as well. It also has from the baroque to the primitive (Vendome, $17.95), a splendid the World of Bowling, by Her added The Muppet Show Book mood is R.C. Gorman: The Gill Rowley (Prentice Hall, look at people as well as places. man Weiskopf (Prentice-Hall, to its list, which for $14.95 offers Lithographs, by Doris Born Man- $19.95). Gardening tomes will be grow $15.95). Kermit, Miss Piggy and the rest of than (Northland, $35), the reser Art and history combine in the ing like weeds on America’s cof the Jim Henson creatures that vation born American-lndian ar magnificent Rome and Her Em fee tables this year. These in appeal to young of all ages. In the tist’s depiction of the life of Indian pire, text by Barry Cunliffe clude An Illustrated History of Car buffs will adore the classic same category is the beautifully women. (McGraw-Hill, $50), which makes Gardening, by F.R. Crowell beauty of 20 Silver Ghosts, the illustrated Walt Disney’s Treas Other individual artists whose the reader realize the grandeur (Houghton Mifflin, $20), The Au Incomparable Pre World War I ury of Children’s Classics (Ab work can delight for the holidays that was Rome. dubon Society Book of Rolls-Royce, paintings by Mel rams, $19.95). include Sisley, by Raymond One of the handsomest gift Wildflowers, by Les Line and bourne Brindle, text by Phil May From the ridiculous to the sub Cogniat (Crown, $5.95), a bar books for armchair historians is Walter Henricks Hodge (Abrams, (Doubleday, $17.95) and be lime, but still with a supernatural gain in lovely impressionist col The Times Atlas of World His $37.50) and two from Mayflower, amused by Auto Ads, by Jane flavor, is David Bindman’s The ors; Mark Rothko, a Retrospec tory, edited by Geoffrey Barrac- Flowering Plants of the World, and Michael Stern (Random Complete Graphic Works of tive, by Diane Waldman (Ab lough (Hammond, $50), with edited by C.V. Hey wood, and The House, $12.95). William Blake (Putnam’s, $45), rams, $30) for those who dig re maps that span the millenia from one of a number of literary- ctangles of disembodied color; Ti the origin of man to the 1970s. inspired art books for Christmas tian, by David Rosand (Abrams, Some of the map colors are star giving. It is for serious Blake $25) for those who prefer Re tling, but the book achieves great Bestsellers scholars, offering manuscripts naissance light and color; The clarity in its chronology. and art, but no color. Arts of David Levine (Knopf, Another super history is the NONFICTION Even more expensive, but a $25) ranging from watercolors at Bettmann Archive Picture His Coney Island to wicked carica tory of the World, by Otto L. bargain at the price, is A.L. 1. Mommy Dearest — Rowse’s three volume The Anno tures of Richard Nixon and other Bettmann (Random House, FICTION $19.95) with almost 5,000 pic Christina Crawford tated Shakespeare (Potter, $55), politicians, and James McNeill tures of history from caveman to 2. A Distant Mirror — Bar which answers fascinating ques Whistler, by Hilary Taylor (Put 1. War and Remembrance spaceman. bara Tuchman tions about the Bard of Avon you nam, $22.50) to prove once and — Herman Wouk In the special history category, never even asked. for all that Whistler’s art was not 2. Chesapeake — James 3. American Caesar — the best-known author is Robert Other literary works that re limited to his mother. A. Michener William Manchester The Art of Glen Loates, Redford, whose The Outlaw Trail ceived artistic attention this holi 3. Fools Die — Mario Puzo 4. If Life Is a Bowl of Cher 4. The Far Pavilions — M. ries, What Am I Doing in M. Kaye the Pits — Erma Bombeck 5. Evergreen — Bella Plain 5. Gnomes — Wil Huygen Albums inspired by movies, T\ 6. The Empty Copper Sea 6. In Search of History — — John D. MacDonald Theodore White By William D. Laffler ject of a lively movie starring Street have come forth with a 7. Prelude to Terror — 7. The Complete Book of Diana Ross as Dorothy. And what humorous takeoff on “Saturday Helen Maclnnes Running — James Fixx a cast! Richard Pryor is the crafty Night Fever.” 8. The Silmarillion — J. R. 8. Jackie Oh! — Kitty Kelly United Press International Wizard, Lena Horne is Glinda, 9. The Country Diary of an It is a concept album called R. Tolkien Nipsy Russell is the Tinman, Edwardian Lady — Edith “Sesame Street Fever” (Sesame 9. Bright Flows the River The Wiz Michael Jackson is the Scarec Holden row, and Ted Ross is the Cow Street Records CTW 79005). Joe — Taylor Caldwell Raposo and Arthur Shimkin 10. Wifey — Judy Blume 10. Robert Kennedy and When L. Frank Baum wrote a ardly Lion. Mabel King re-creates dreamed up the show from an His Times — Arthur story about a little girl named her Broadway role of Evilene, the 14 idea by Norman Stiles.

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