Hardcover. Thoemmes Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 56 pages. A facsimile reprint of a pamphlet originally published in 1735 in London. Introduction by John Yolton. Although not a particularly well-known figure in the history of philosophy, the importance of Jackson's work as representative of some of the major controversies in the first half of the 18th century should not be overlooked. With the dualism of matter and spirit firmly established, many thinkers struggled for an explanation of mind/body interaction. In "A Dissertation on Matter and Spirit" Jackson attacks the argument that God is the only genuine cause of the influence of matter on mind, and is significantly swayed by Locke's belief in thinking matter. However, as might be expected of a clergyman, he maintains that matter and spirit are essentially different, but continually qualifies this as based only on conjecture. Clearly examining the key elements involved, this pamphlet is a significant contribution to the materialism-immaterialism debate. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Wesleyan University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 398 pages. "A Glimpse of Sion's Glory" signals an important new direction in the study of American Puritanism. The presence of dissenters in the colonies was not unknown, but never before have they been seen as a major shaping force for seventeenth-century American Puritanism. Gura displays a thorough knowledge of New England dissent from 1620 to 1660. This is a ground-braking study. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 337 pages, Index. Black & white photographic illustrations. Cream cloth with red & black illustration and lettering. The exciting story of the author's travels by car with Paris Benga, the famous Negro dancer, on a tour which zigzagged through the French colonies, the French and British mandates, and the Gold Coast to study the native dances in the districts most remote from civilization. This is also a study of the government and religion, the sex-life and marriage ritual, habits and customs, and the emotional and mental character of these West African Negroes. Mild stain to corners of front cover, not affecting the interior. Otherwise clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Westport CT, Negro Universities Press , reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Originally published in 1852 this is an in depth study of the African people , both in Africa and in America. A great deal of material on slavery and the South, as well as early material on Liberia. Presented in a series of "conversations", this is an in-depth history of the African continent's peoples, the colonization of Africa, and subsequent African American slavery in the United States. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Macmillan and Co., 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright blue cloth covers, 243 pages, 13 b/w illustrations. Author was an administrator in East Africa and the West Indies from 1908 to 1944. A memoir of 30 years of colonial rule in Africa by a lifetime member of the British Colonial Service. Beginning with his first glimpse of Africa on a tropical morning as a young man and ends with a last glimpse of Kilimanjaro after spending his entire working life as one of the last servants of the old Empire. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 215 pages. This was the first anthropological monograph to have dealt at length with the labour force of a major East African industry. It is a study of the African employees of the East African Railways and Harbours stationed at Kampala, Uganda, and living on the Railway-owned Nsambya housing estate. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Ten Speed Press, 5th pr., 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 348 pages. A lushly photographed cookbook and travelogue showcasing the regional cuisines of the Alps, including 80 recipes for the elegant, rustic dishes served in the chalets and mountain huts situated among the alpine peaks of Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and France.A passionate exploration of all things Alpine . . . this one is a must-have for every ski bum foodie. Like new condition. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Belmont CA, Wadsworth Publishing, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 202 pages. A collection of essays focusing on African American resistance, specifically (from the introduction) "on the nature and extent of the resistance of blacks to slavery in the United States." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Chicago, Quadrangle Books., reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 181+19 pages. Originally published in 1788. Dust jacket lightly toned. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Greenberg Publisher, 1st, 1932, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in yellow cloth with green lettering and design, 416 pages, b&w illustrations. Covers worn, soiled. This was a generic cook book which was sold through various department stores. The title was altered to fit the store that was distributing it (ie: The Emporium's Modern Cook Book...) Names on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 3rd pr., 1941, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, 555 pages, endpapers map. Author documents his drive with his wife from Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganika, on the east coast of Africa to Duala, Cameroons, on the west Coast. James Negley Farson (1890-1960), was an American author and adventurer. Spine faded, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Cupples & Leon, 1st, 1925, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light gray cloth stamped in black and red. #3 in the Bob Dexter series. Color frontispiece. Clean copy. By the author of the "Boy Ranchers" series, this is book #3 in the short-lived, 7- book YA detective series published 1925-1933.

Hardcover. NY/Boston, Little Brown, 3rd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 503 pages. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known -- in the late 1940s, no less -- to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? Dery draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Gorey. Small remainder dot on bottom edge, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 228 pages. This study is an attempt to add a new dimension to our understanding of the causes of the American Revolution. It is an analysis of the role of the subministers--the secretaries and undersecretaries--of the major departments of the British government responsible for colonial policy during the period from 1763 to the outbreak of the Revolution--the period of the Stamp and Sugar Acts, the Townshend Duties, and the Coercive Acts--and of their role in the war itself. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1st, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering, 421 pages. A biography of the crusader against government corruption. Schurz left public service after the Hayes administration, but continued to attack the "spoils system" in the United States government. He also led the New York Civil Service Reform League. He served as editor of the Evening Post from 1881-1885, and as an editorial writer for Harper's Weekly. He remained politically active as a recognized leader in the German American community. Name on front fly leaf. Front hinge of book cracked and frontispiece portrait loose. Rest of volume is solid, clean.

Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Eerdmans Publishing , 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages. A brief account of Williams' life and examination of his early poems, the criticism, biographies and plays, the novels, the Arthurian poems and his theological writings. Light edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pegasus, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 338 pages, b&w illustrations. A remarkable literary hybrid--part biography, part detective story--about the enduring figure of Robinson Crusoe. January 1719. A man sits at a table, writing. Nearly sixty,Daniel Defoe is troubled with gout and mired in political controversy and legal threats. But for the moment he is preoccupied by a younger man on a barren shore--Robinson Crusoe. Several miles south, another old man, Robert Knox, sits bent over a heavy volume--published nearly forty years before.Knox's Historical Relation was a best seller when it was published in 1681, just a year after he escaped from Ceylon and returned to England. Where did Crusoe come from? And what is the secret of his endurance? Crusoe explores the intertwined lives of two real men, Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox, and the character and book that emerged from their peculiar conjunction. It is the biography of a book and its hero: the story of Defoe, the man who wrote Robinson Crusoe, and of Robert Knox, the man who was Crusoe. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 666 pages. Name on front fly leaf, title-page. Otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Softcover. Blairgowrie Scotland, Three Cats Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 53 pages, illustrated. A collection of memories collected from nine inhabitants of this Scottish town. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn dust jacket, 326 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 205 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean. Small hole on dj front.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 161 pages. In this overview of the origins and development of black societies in southern Africa, Martin Hall reconstructs the region's past by throughly examining both the archaeological and the historical records. Beginning with the gradual southward movement of the earliest farmers nearly two thousand years ago, Hall tracks the emergence of precolonial states such as Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe. Farmers, Kings, and Traders concludes with the devastating effects of colonialism. Through a close reading of the accounts of early travelers, colonialists, archaeologists, and historians, Hall places in context the often contradictory histories that have been written of this region. The result is an illuminating look at how ideas about the past have themselves changed over time. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Girard KS, Haldeman-Julius, reprint, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, gray-green wrappers, 155 pages. Copyright page states 1947, but most likely reprinted from a 1938 publication, edited here by the publisher. Clean copy.

Softcover. Philadelphia, Paul Dry Books, 1st US, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 326 pages. In an extraordinary literary debut, Aldo Zargani reconstructs the lost world of his Jewish childhood during the perilous years 1938-45 when he and his family fled from Fascists and Nazis in northern Italy. His haunting memoir acquires a cinematic intensity as he crosscuts from the blood-red stone spires of Basel, where his father failed to find refuge for his family in 1939, to fiery scenes of the Allied bombing of Turin in 1942, to the freezing winter of 1943-44, which Zargani and his brother spent hidden in a Catholic boarding school deep in the countryside.