Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 368 pages. Red cloth with gilt lettering. This volume concerns the economic life of Britain from 1750 to the beginning of the war of 1939. Front fly leaf with stamping, Harvard Book Store sticker. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. UK, Transedition Books, 1st US, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 400 pages. Large type, beautiful illustrations, various authors. Grimms, Andersen, Perrault, etc. Beauty and the Beast, Tom Thumb, Cinderella, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and many more. Book is very clean & tight.
Hardcover. NY, Jr. Literary Guild /Albert Whitman, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth stamped in green. Illustrated in color by Wilson. 123 pages. Includes a page of Italian words and phrases at the back. This is the story of a day in the life of lovable Italian boy, Ricco, as he celebrates his 8th birthday with family and friends in his small Italian fishing village. Charmingly written and beautifully illustrated by the author. Decorated endpapers of Ricco's Village. Previous owner's bookplte on blank prelim page otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Cassell & Company, 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 213 pages, map. Memoirs of a British subaltern in a West African regiment serving in the Northern Frontier District of Kenya and Ethiopia ca. 1940-41 fighting against Italians: Wajir Fort, Buno, Bura Hachi, Battle of Uadara. Spine cloth faded, name on front flyleaf, light foxing. Otherwise clean copy.
Softcover. Newport, California, Newport Harbor Art Museum, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 159 pages. Exhibition catalog featuring the work of Norman Bluhm, Michael Goldberg, Grace Hartigan, Al Held, Alfred Leslie and Joan MItchell. Color illustrated covers with white titles, foreword by Kevin E. Consey, acknowledgments by Paul Schimmel, essays by Paul Schimmel, B.H. Friedman, John Bernard Myers, and Robert Rosenblum, b&w frontispiece, 36 full page color plates, numerous b&w figures throughout, biographical notes. Light rubbing to covers; a very clean, tight copy in great condition.
Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 24 illustrations. Genealogical chart of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. These letters were only discovered in the 1970's at Broadlands, the home of Princess Victoria's younger son, the Earl Mountbatten of Burma. These letters bring new light to bear on major world and minor domestic events, from the crisis with the Prussian court in 1888 to the Queen's agonized concern for her haemophilic children and grandchildren, from the assassination of the Tsar of Russia to her stalwart but fruitless efforts to persuade Princess's Victoria's sister to marry the eldest son of the Prince of Wales. Lord Mountbatten's elder daughter, Lady Brabourne, has provided a fascinating introduction. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, McDowell, Obolensky, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Volume 1 - 432 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings by Tomi Ungerer. Dust jacket worn with chipping and small tears along edges. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 488 pages. Dust jacket with light rubbing and small closed tears along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1st UK, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth, frontis. portrait, 223 pages. First UK edition of this Einstein biography written by Rudolf Kayser, a German literary historian and husband to Albert Einsteins stepdaughter, writing under the pseudonym Anton Reiser. Foreword by Albert Einstein. First published in the US in 1930. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, edge-worn dust jacket that's price-clipped. B&w and color photography by Hans Namuth, includes art, biographical information about, and essays on eight American artists: Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis; Jackson Pollock; Willem de Kooning; Mark Rothko; Robert Rauschenberg; Andrew Wyeth; Joseph Cornell. Clean copy. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Softcover. Monaco, Archives du Palais Princier, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 242 pages, color illustrations. FRENCH TEXT. Scholarly essays on the history of Monaco. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Annapolis, Md., Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 308 pages. Illustrations, diagrams and photographs throughout. A very clean and tight copy in a bright dust jacket.
Hardcover. Flagstaff, AZ, Northland Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A volume of the life and work of Arnold Friberg, includes 50 full-color plates and numerous b&w illustrations. 175 pages. Red cloth bound, some white dots on front and back covers. Well-bound, clean copy. Dust jacket shows signs of rubbing along edges and small tear along the back bottom left corner.
Hardcover. Naples, Banco Di Napoli, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 542 pages, Illustrated in color and b&w. Clean and tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Picador, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 259 pages. The story of the model, actress, and American icon Edie Sedgwick is told by her sister with empathy, insight, and firsthand observations of her meteoric life.
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Collects, for the first time in book form, more than two hundred of Ettlinger's most famous photographs. Immortalized in these pages are many of America's greatest writers, including Raymond Carver, Francine Prose, Walter Mosley, Mary Karr, John Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, Truman Capote, Cormac McCarthy, Patricia Highsmith, Ken Kesey, Edwidge Danticat, and Jeffrey Eugenides. Shot exclusively in natural light and in black-and-white film, each of these images is an intimate artwork, putting the reader closer than ever before to the writers they revere and admire. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Milwaukie WI, Dark Horse Comics, 1st, 2021, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 96 pages. A collection demonstrating the effectiveness of the comics medium for telling the most personal of stories--the autobiography. Showcasing some of the first published autobiographical stories from living-legend artists, mainstream greats, and young "indie" up-and-comers!Featuring stories by Will Eisner, William Stout, Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon, Stan Sakai, Sergio Aragones, and many more of comics' top talent! Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Penguin Studio, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 120 pages, color plates throughout. A collection of photographs from the burial grounds of Europe explores the beauty of cemeteries and the emotions the survivors of the dead placed into the making of the tombs, accompanied by a meditation on the death of his own parents by Dean Koontz. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, David McKay, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 241 pages, red cloth with black lettering on spine. Dust jacket with light wear, mild fading to spine, unclipped. INSCRIBED BY UPSON on front fly leaf to fellow Vermont author John Clagett.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 375 pages. B&W photographs and illustrations. Pictorial dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt title to spine. Erratum laid-in. Overall, a clean, tight copy. ohn Betjeman was by far the most popular poet of the twentieth century; his collected poems sold more than two million copies. As poet laureate of England, he became a national icon, but behind the public man were doubts and demons. The poet best known for writing hymns of praise to athletic middle-class girls on the tennis courts led a tempestuous emotional life. For much of his fifty-year marriage to Penelope Chetwode, the daughter of a field marshal, Betjeman had a relationship with Elizabeth Cavendish, the daughter of the Duke of Devonshire and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. Betjeman, a devout Anglican, was tormented by guilt about the storms this emotional triangle caused. Betjeman, published to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of the poet's birth, is the first to use fully the vast archive of personal material relating to his private life, including literally hundreds of letters written by his wife about their life together and apart. Here too are chronicled his many friendships, ranging from "Bosie" Douglas to the young satirists of Private Eye, from the Mitford sisters to the Crazy Gang. This is a celebration of a much-loved poet, a brave campaigner for architecture at risk, and a highly popular public performer. Betjeman was the classic example of the melancholy clown, whose sadness found its perfect mood music in the hymns of a poignant Anglicanism. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Delacorte Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. An unusual work in that Gallico wrote this not as a sequel to his book THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE but rather as a sequel to the film version. The film featured some plot and character changes which Gallico incorporates into this novel. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Country Life Books, reprint, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 155 pages. Beautiful color illustrations by Basil Ede throughout. Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. This book is a record, in word and picture, of 56 British birds that may still be seen in and around English towns and villages. Each bird is described in detail and accompanied by a specially commissioned print showing them in typical surroundings. A useful and attractive reference book, ideal for both bird and art lovers. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth with red and black design, 311 pages. Volume in the Motor Power Series for older boys. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, Rand McNally, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in laminated boards, color illustrations by Manning de V. Lee. The front board has an illustration of Andy Archer holding Bugle with Yorktown, VA waterfront in the background.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 320 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Building the Devil's Empire is the first comprehensive history of New Orleans's early years, tracing the town's development from its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768. Shannon Lee Dawdy's picaresque account of New Orleans's wild youth features a cast of strong-willed captives, thin-skinned nobles, sharp-tongued women, and carousing travelers. But she also widens her lens to reveal the port city's global significance, examining its role in the French Empire and the Caribbean, and she concludes that by exemplifying a kind of rogue colonialism--where governments, outlaws, and capitalism become entwined--New Orleans should prompt us to reconsider our notions of how colonialism works.
Hardcover. Sao Paulo, Brazil, Dorea Books & Art, 1st , 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Non-paginated. Illustrated with Black & white photographs by Claudio Edinger. Texts by Arnaldo Jabor, Jorge Amado and Roberto Damatta. Clean, tight copy. A collection of photographs taken during the Carnaval celebration in Brazil.
Hardcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Caroline of Brunswick, the scandaloue wife of the future George IV, is one of history's problems. Since her death in 1821, many have tried to understand her, to make her a sympathetic character, a heroine. She defeats every effort: there is an oddity about her which is not endearing, and no sooner has one assembled her good qualities - her generosity, her courage, her kindness - than one is confronted by an utterly unforgivable piece of callousness, or mischief, or immorality. A fascinating biography. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Washington D.C., The Smithsonian Institution Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Exhibition catalog, 127 pages, 74 B&W plates throughout. Edgewear to cover. Small blemish to front of wrapper. Otherwise a very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 600 pages, illustrated throughout with 504 illustrations, including 242 plates in full color. Large heavy book. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 235 pages, 251 illustrations with 56 plates in full color. Includes selected bibliography. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Corinthian Publications, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated, illustrated with over 50 b&w photogravures, many full page. Foreward and captions by E. Milby Burton.
Hardcover. NY, Viking/Ariel, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 147 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Color illustrations by Chris Van Allsburg. Like new in bright dust jacket. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 358 pages, color and b&w illustrations. What we call classical art did not simply appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or rebuked, Greek and Roman artifacts have gathered an amazing array of values, both positive and negative, in each new historical period, even as these objects themselves have reshaped their surroundings. Vout shows how this process began in antiquity, as Greeks of the Hellenistic period transformed the art of fifth-century Greece, and continued through the Roman empire, Constantinople, European court societies, the neoclassical English country house, and the nineteenth century, up to the modern museum. Clean copy.
Softcover. Indianapolis, Liberty Fund, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 347 pages. French philosopher Abbe de Condillac produced perhaps the most original contributions to eighteenth-century economics. His conclusions as to the desirability of removing barriers to free trade and of competitive market economies mirrored Smith's, published three months later. Commerce and Government has been called "one of the most sustained defenses of economic liberty in the eighteenth century." In Condillac's own words, to eliminate the abuses and injustices of government it is necessary "to give trade full, complete, and permanent freedom." Shelagh and Walter Eltis, editors of the volume, write, "English language readers who come upon Commerce and Government for the first time will find...that the case for competitive market economics has rarely been presented more powerfully and that there is continuing relevance in Condillac's account of the difficulties that those who seek to liberalize economies still encounter." Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garden City Publishing, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with a color paste-down on front cover. 274 pages of text with a frontispiece and 3 full color plates, endpapers art by James Daugherty plus ten full black and white plates scattered throughout. Copyright says 1922 but not a first, early reprint. Name on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Groningen, Wolters, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering, 241 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Everyone who wonders what history is or how it should be written will derive enjoyment and profit from the book. Ranke, Carlyle, Michelet, Macaulay and Toynbee are among the historians whom the author engages in debate.
Hardcover. Seymour CT, Greenwich Workshop Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth stamped with gilt letters, 144 pages. Deluxe limited edition. one of 110 copies. SIGNED by the artist. No slipcase, no enclosed print. Bright, clean copy of this realistic painter's work. Most depict the Apache natives of Arizona.
Hardcover. Braunschweig GR, Vieweg und Sohn, 1st, 1900-01, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes, 506 and 527 pages. Ex-library bound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards. The usual stamping, end paper residue, sticker to bottom of spines. Previous owner's signature. Light wear to covers, internally crisp and clean. GERMAN TEXT. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 202 pages. Black & white photography. Color and black & white artwork by Diego Rivera. Dust jacket is protected by a mylar cover. Remainder mark on bottom book edge.
Hardcover. New York, Fox, Duffield & Co, 1st, 1904, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Unpaginated. 39 full page b&w plates of drawings by A. B. Frost, accompanied by verse by Wallace Irwin, introduction by Joe Chandler Harris, small b&w illustrated figures throughout, monotone illustration to cover. Covers have noticeable wear, faded, wear to cloth spine, water stains to right edge of pages, dark markings to back cover, previous owner's inscription to front endpaper, some pages partially separated from binding.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 291 pages with index. A social history of Europe in all its aspects: economic, political, diplomatic military, colonial-expansionist. Crisply and succinctly written, it describes Europe not through a history of individual countries, but in a common context during the three quarters of a century between the death of Louis XIV and the industrial revolution in England and the social and political revolution in France. It presents the development of government, institutions, cities, economies, wars, and the circulation of ideas in terms of social pressures and needs, and stresses growth, interrelationships, and conflict of social classes as agents of historical change, paying particular attention to the role of popular, as well as upper- and middle-class, protest as a factor in that change. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 2nd pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards. Color illustrations by the author. Covers with light edgewear, soil, rubbing. Illustrated end papers. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 592 pages. Two-time Lincoln Prize-winning historian Allen C. Guelzo offers a marvelous portrait of the Civil War and its era, covering not only the major figures and epic battles, but also politics, religion, gender, race, diplomacy, and technology. And unlike other surveys of the Civil War era, it extends the reader's vista to include the postwar Reconstruction period and discusses the modern-day legacy of the Civil War in American literature and popular culture. Guelzo also puts the conflict in a global perspective, underscoring Americans' acute sense of the vulnerability of their republic in a world of monarchies. He examines the strategy, the tactics, and especially the logistics of the Civil War and brings the most recent historical thinking to bear on emancipation, the presidency and the war powers, the blockade and international law, and the role of intellectuals, North and South. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, J. M. Dent, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a mildly worn dust jacket, 112 pages with 12 drawings by the author. Fit for a duchess, indeed, was the splendid up-to-date privy which the Budd family finally achieved, after generations of living with a noisome hut in the garden. But, as usually happens, there was a canker: the marvels of modern technology defeated them. Here splendidly remembered as in her previous books, Dust to Dust and A Prospect of Love, is this and more of life in southern England in the 1930s. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st pbk., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 396 pages. Debut novel. This is the story of S.T. George, a young writer-in-residence at Cornell University, who is looking for love and dragons to slay. Momentous forces and a cast of extraordinary characters gather around him and soon George is caught up in an epic struggle. Magical storytelling certain to be reread, laughed over and remembered for a very long time. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, American Tract Society, 1st, 1879, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt design on spine and cover. 160 pages, 4 b&w plates. Foxing to frontis and title page. Second book by author about Frolic, a six-year old girl whose real name is Florence. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Haerdcover in a bright dust jacket. 354 pages, b&w illustrations. Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. Tackling Galileo as astronomer, engineer and author, the author places him at the centre of Renaissance culture. He traces Galileo through his early rebellious years onwards: his move to Florence seeking money, status, and greater freedom to attack intellectual orthodoxies; his trial for heresy and narrow escape from torture; and his house arrest and physical (though not intellectual) decline. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 223 pages. 357 illustrations, including 93 plates in full color. Catalogue Raisonne of Galle's work including list of exhibitions of his glass. Gray cloth, gilt lettering to spine. Gray dust jacket in mylar cover, color slightly sunfaded around edges. Cosmetic paper-split between front board and endpaper, not affecting binding, Very nice clean copy.
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