Hardcover. NY, Star Bright Books, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, color illustrations throughout. First published in 1966, Brian Wildsmith's stunning art is the backdrop to this newly revised selection of Robert Louis Stevenson's wonderful poetry for children. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Putnam, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, wrinkling to front flap. SIGNED by author and movie star Goldie Hawn directly on the title page with purple flair pen. A rather unconventional memoir from one of the world's most beloved actresses. Goldie writes about everything from her early years as a little girl who felt like an ugly duckling to her go-go dancing years in New York in the Sixties to Hollywood and memorable films like the Oscar-winning Cactus Flower, Swing Shift, and Private Benjamin. She speaks of her relationship with her family, her partner Kurt Russell, her children Kate Hudson, Oliver Hudson, Wyatt Russell, and her stepson Boston Russell.
Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, unpaginated (about 100 pages), Introduction by Adlai E. Stevenson III. Illustrated from black and white photographs, cartoons by Al Capp, Pletcher, Dobbins, and Justus. INSCRIBED BY HUMPHREYon the front fly leaf. Dust jacket price-clipped, light edge wear, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 457 pages, b&w illustrations. Few of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon: prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Instead, countless banks issued paper money in a bewildering variety of denominations and designs - more than ten thousand different kinds by 1860. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation. Their success, Stephen Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise of a country defined by a freewheeling brand of capitalism over which the federal government exercised little control. It was an era when responsibility for the country's currency remained in the hands of capitalists for whom "making money" was as much a literal as a figurative undertaking. Mihm's witty tale brims with colorful characters: shady bankers, corrupt cops, charismatic criminals, and brilliant engravers. Based on prodigious research, it ranges far and wide, from New York City's criminal underworld to the gold fields of California and the battlefields of the Civil War. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 446 pages with index, b&w photos. Name on half-title page otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth stamped in black, 314 pages. Color frontis and endpaper drawing by Rowland Hilder, b&w illustrations by Richard Southern. An historical adventure set on the high sea. Mild shelf wear to covers, clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 85 plus 67 pages. Two titles in one volume. Reprints of 1838 and 1891 editions. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Stephen Green Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AIKEN on half title page. Additionally INSCRIBED BY RALPH NADING HILL on the front fly leaf. Appears that Hill obtained signed copies and gave them out to friends. Enclosed is publisher's promotional schedule.
Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light edgewear, 458 pages. J. R. and Philip Milton present the first critical edition of John Locke's Essay concerning Toleration, based on all extant manuscripts, and a number of other writings on law and politics composed between 1667 and 1683. Although Locke never published any of these works himself they are of very great interest for students of his intellectual development because they are markedly different from the early works he wrote while at Oxford and show him working out ideas that were to appear in his mature political writings, the Two Treatises of Government and the Epistola de Tolerantia. With authoritative contextual guidance from the editors, this will be an invaluable resource for all historians of early modern philosophy, of legal, political, and religious thought, and of 17th-century Britain. Name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 307 pages with index. Having studied over 3,000 surviving alley houses in Baltimore through extensive land records and census research, Mary Ellen Hayward systematically reconstructs the lives, households, and neighborhoods that once thrived on the city's narrowest streets. In the past, these neighborhoods were sometimes referred to as "dilapidated," "blighted," or "poverty stricken." In Baltimore's Alley Houses, Hayward reveals the rich cultural and ethnic traditions that formed the African-American and immigrant Irish, German, Bohemian, and Polish communities that made their homes on the city's alley streets. Featuring more than one hundred historic images, Baltimore's Alley Houses documents the changing architectural styles of low-income housing over two centuries and reveals the complex lives of its residents. Clean copy.
Softcover. Mountain View CA, Pacific Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 120 pages. A missionary's experience in the 1930s among the natives of New Guinea. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Dunne Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 270 pages, b&w illustrations. Augustus Owsley Stanley III, better known by his nickname, Bear, was one of the most iconic figures in the cultural revolution that changed both America and the world during the 1960s.Owsley's high-octane rocket fuel enabled Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters to put on the Acid Tests. It also powered much of what happened on stage at Monterey Pop. Owsley turned on Pete Townshend of The Who and Jimi Hendrix. The shipment of LSD that Owsley sent John Lennon resulted in The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour album and film.Convinced that the Grateful Dead were destined to become the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band, Owsley provided the money that kept them going during their early days. As their longtime soundman, he then faithfully recorded many of the Dead's greatest live performances and designed the massive space-age system that came to be known as the Wall of Sound.Award-winning author and biographer Robert Greenfield's definitive biography of this Grateful Dead legend masterfully takes us through Owsley's incredible life and times to bring us a full picture of this fascinating man for the first time. The definitive biography of the reclusive and mysterious Grateful Dead benefactor and renowned LSD chemist without whom the counterculture would never have been born. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Freeman SD, National Buffalo Association/Pine Hill Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright yellow cloth with black design, 392 pages, many b&w illustrations.
Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 398 pages. Colorfully depicts colonial life in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Maryland as reported in the newspapers and journals of the region. 'Feel the pulse of the people by reading the same items and advertisements presented in their weekly newspapers; the same words, the same spellings, the same compositions as they were written by Colonial compositors and publishers.' These pages are 'filled with newspaper abstracts concerning runaway slaves and indentured servants, the near frontier, piracy, ships and mariners, plantations, land and home sales, and many more happenings and items of interest to the highborn as well as the common tradesman.
Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 375 pages. VOLUME 2 ONLY. A facsimile reprint of the Grant Richards 1900 edition.
Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 338 pages. VOLUME 1 ONLY. A facsimile reprint of the 1698 and 1900 editions. Pencil notations to about 40 pages in the treatise dealing with Enthusiasm.
Hardcover. NY, Library of America,, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with light sticker residue to rear panel, 1096 pages. The ultimate Portis: for the first time in one collector's volume, the complete fiction and collected nonfiction of the author of True Grit. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise like new.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 516 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This volume documents Fenn's prolific career from the 1860s until his death in 1911. Sue Rainey also recounts his adventurous sketching trips in the western United States, Europe, and the Middle East, which enhanced his reputation for depicting far-flung places at a time when the nation was taking a more prominent role on the world stage.
Softcover. Brownington VT, Orleans County Historical Society, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 122 pages. Previous owner's name, embossed stamp on title pg. A charming, nostalgic portrait of Vermont through the eyes of Daisy Dopp, a beloved figure in the state's history, this book is a collection of anecdotes, illustrations, and historical details that capture the essence of Vermont's rural life and traditions. B&w drawings by Peter Schumann.
Hardcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 466 pages, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf, minor wear to dj. Otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. America has had a love affair with the hard-boiled detective since the 1920s, when Prohibition called into question who really stood on the right and wrong side of the law. And nowhere did this hero shine more than in crime fiction. In Detectives in the Shadows, literary and cultural critic Susanna Lee tracks the evolution of this truly American character type from Race Williams to Philip Marlowe and from Mike Hammer to Jessica Jones. Lee explores how this character type morphs to fit an increasingly troubled world, offering compelling interpretations of The Wire, True Detective, and Jessica Jones. 216 pages, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 2nd pr., 1939, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow cloth covers with red stamping, 191 pages illustrated with b+w drawings throughout, color title pages, lacks dj. Yellow cloth boards with red titles and ornament soiled, top edge clothworn. Interior clean.
Softcover. Cambridge, MIT Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, exhibition catalogue featuring the famed architect's travel sketches along with photographs of the buildings he encountered and essays on their influence on his work. 11'' x 8.5''. In original dark orange pictorial wrappers. Illustrated throughout in black and white, some color, 136 pages. Spine sun faded.
Hardcover. NY, The Morgan Library & Museum, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 294 pages. Clean, bright copy. A sumptuous collection of master drawings from the Renaissance to the current era, all reproduced in color.
Softcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 186 pages. A detailed study of the politics underlying British policies of mercantilism in the American colonies. Focusing on the political activity of interest groups in the British Empire of the eighteenth century, Professor Kammen relates political influence in Georgian England to American colonial history, to the early history of the industrial revolution, to the incredible flood of writings in the later eighteenth century on political economy, and to the dynamics of Anglo-American political society, public life, and the empire. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Plesant Plain OH, David Zimmerman, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 268 pages illustrated in color. A visual reference for all kinds of tins for coffee, peanut butter, cocoa, tea, and various other food products. Also tins for spices, tobacco, cosmetics talcum powder, soap, typewriter ribbons, needles, pens, medicines, etc. Clean copy.
Softcover. Burlington VT, Free Press, 1st, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 66 pages. Reprints an oration by L.E. Chittenden. Mild wear, crease to front wrapper, chipping to paper on spine. Clean.
Hardcover. NY, Thunder's Mouth Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 274 pages, with b&w photographs. Very clean and tight copy. Unauthorized biography of Hunter Thompson. Perry takes us on a journey through Thompson's booze and drug fueled rise to fame. From a young yahoo in Louisville, Kentucky-drinking heavily and playing with his rifle, to the first hand secrets of Thompson's inventive and irreverent gonzo jounralism. A look at a man who was a horror to some, a hero to others.
Softcover. Hong Kong, Bonhams, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 328 pages illustrated in color. Auction catalogue for Bonhams Hong Kong 29 May 2023 sale - Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Sale 28274, Lots 801 - 997. Text in English/Chinese. Printed in Hong Kong. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Sotheby's, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover illustrated with color & b/w photos. Sale 5793 1,062 lots. Painting and Screens (55), Prints (223), Netsuke (89), Ojime (11), Inro (143), Sword Fittings (171), Swords (44), Armour (8). Also Ivory, Ceramics, Enamels, Metalwork, Furniture. Includes an important group of prints by Utagawa Hiroshige from The One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Thames & Hudson, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth. Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel is an icon of fashion, and can lay claim to having invented the look of the 20th century. At the height of the Belle Epoque, she stripped women of their corsets and feathers, bobbed their hair, put them in bathing suits and sent them out to get tanned in the sun. She introduced the little black dress; trousers for women; costume jewelry; the exquisitely comfortable suit that became her trademark. Early in the Roaring Twenties, Chanel made the first ever couture perfume - No. 5 - presenting it in the famous little square-cut flagon that, inspired by Picasso and Cubism, became the arch symbol of the Art Deco style. No. 5 remains the most popular scent ever created. This volume, published to accompany a landmark exhibition in Paris, traces the birth and evolution of Chanel's timeless style. Specially commissioned photographs by Julien T. Hamon showcase the clothing, while essays by fashion historians illuminate a period, an event or a theme. Rare archival documents, including portraits of Gabrielle Chanel herself, round out the book. Remainder line on bottom edge otherwise clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. Berkeley , University of California Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 455 pages. This biography of Henry Thoreau offers insight into his social activism, his interest in fine arts, William Gilpin and John Ruskin's influence on his nature writing, and his involvement in, and influence by, the Agassiz-Darwin debate over "The Origin of Species." Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six issues of the bi-monthly bound in tan cloth. Clean. Top edge gilt. Articles by and about Eric Kimmel, Margaret Hodges, Natalie Babbitt, Margot Zemach, Penelope Farmer, Virginia Hamilton, Isaac Bashevis Singer, many more. 744 pages. Dozens of book reviews, ads.
Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six issues of the bi-monthly bound in tan cloth. Clean. Articles by and about Mollie Hunter, Jean Fritz, E.L. Konigsburg, Margaret Hodges, Susan Cooper, Leo and Diane Dillon, Sid Fleischman, Felice Holman, many more. 704 pages.Dozens of book reviews, ads.
Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six issues of the bi-monthly bound in tan cloth. Clean. Articles by and about Geoffrey Trease, Eric Kimmel, Children's Bookstores, Alvin Schwartz, M.E. Kerr, The Dillons, Mildred D. Taylor, Paula Fox, John Tunis, many more. Dozens of book reviews, ads.
Hardcover. Boston, The Horn Book, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, six issues of the bi-monthly bound in tan cloth. Clean. Articles by and about Penelope Lively, Lawrence Yep, Mollie Hunter, Leonard Wibberley, Peter Spier, Katherine Paterson, Paula Fox, Virginia Hamilton, Ellen Raskin, Margaret Hodges, many others. Dozens of book reviews, ads.
Hardcover. NY, Platt & Munk, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, glazed pictorial boards, 61 pages. Color illustrations by Susan Perl. An educational book created from a series of award-winning magazine ads created by Health-Tex clothes for children that ran in the 1960s and 70s. Answers a variety of questions such as "What are freckles?", "Why am I ticklish?", and "How many countries are there?" Small sticker residue otherwise clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Hong Kong, Bonhams, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 111 pages illustrated in color. Auction catalogue for Bonhams Hong Kong 29 May 2023 Sale 28699, Lots 101 - 183. Text in English/Chinese. Printed in Hong Kong. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 170 pages. During her first term at boarding school, fifteen-year-old Flanders tries to cope with a variety of unusual people and situations and come to terms with her conflicting emotions about her recently separated parents. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 11th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Novelist, essayist, and public intellectual James Baldwin was one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the postwar era, and one of the greatest African-American writers of this century. "Early Novels and Stories" presents the novels and short stories that established Baldwin's reputation as a writer who fused unblinking realism with rare verbal eloquence. This volume includes his first novel, "Go Tell It on the Mountain" (1953), "Giovanni's Room" (1956), and other early works. 970 pages, Remainder mark to bottom edge otherwise like new.
Hardcover. NY, New York Review of Books, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format in pictorial boards. It's a big day for Jenny Linsky, the shy little black cat of Greenwich Village, when her brothers, Checkers and Edward, take her out for her birthday. They pick up her notorious friends along the way, including the twins Romulus and Remus, who have brought a special present, and Pickles, the Fire Cat, who gathers everyone into his red fire truck to take them to the park. There they will invite friends and strangers to share a picnic supper and dance the night away. First published in 1954. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 4th pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket with mild fad to spine. The long-enduring American legend of Johnny Appleseed comes to life in the glorious folk illustrations and spirited storytelling of Will Moses. Everyone knows the story of Johnny Appleseed: how he traveled westward across our young country, spreading apple trees wherever he went and wearing outlandish hats, like a soup pot, on his head. But did you know that Johnny Appleseed was a real person? Born John Chapman in 1774, he grew up in a family of twelve children, and as a young man, struck out to find the frontier. It was along this journey that he discovered the wonders of apple trees, and where he had his life adventures. In the tradition of his great-grandmother, Grandma Moses, Will Moses's much-loved folk art perfectly illustrates this American tale.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 624 pages, black and white illustrations. The diplomat and historian George F. Kennan (1904-2005) ranks as one of the most important figures in American foreign policy and one of its most complex. Drawing on many previously untapped sources, Frank Costigliola's authoritative biography offers a new picture of a man of extraordinary ability and ambition whose idea of containing the Soviet Union helped ignite the Cold War but who spent the next half century trying to extinguish it. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, SelfMadeHero, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 128 pages. In the mid-1970s, Klimowski's fearlessly original artwork caught the eye of leading Polish theatre and film companies, for whom he designed some of the period's most influential and iconic posters. The London-born artist, who moved to Poland at a time when many East Europeans dreamed of going West, went on to create posters for works by filmmakers and playwrights from Scorsese to Altman, Beckett to Brecht. Drawing on folk art, Polish Surrealism and the work of his mentor at the Warsaw Academy, Henryk Tomaszewski, Klimowski uses techniques including photomontage and linocut to create posters that are filled with metaphor, drama and originality. The Klimowski Poster Book compiles the best of his Polish work, while also tracing his career after his return to London, where he remains Emeritus Professor of Illustration at the Royal College of Art. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1870, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine, gilt design on front cover. 589 pages, engraved portrait of Webster with tissue guard. VOLUME ONE ONLY. A comprehensive & complete history of Mr. Webster by his literary executor, George Ticknor Curtis. Faint pencil notation to blank prelim page otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright, chipped dust jacket. Based on the Harold Gray comic strip. Illustrated with comic book style art. When Annie and Sandy stopped in the little town of Butternut, a train robbery and an abandoned mine threaten to entangle the two of them in a mysterious maze of circumstances. Front hinge partially cracked, paper tanning. No markings.
Hardcover. London, Omnibus Press, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 176 pages. While many books, films and documentaries claim to have captured the phenomenon that was Swinging London, just one magazine was present in the capital during the 1960s to illustrate this extraordinary moment as it unraveled. London Life emerged in October 1965 and, over the next fifteen months, would document the capital's action at its absolute zenith. With imagery from the likes of David Bailey, Duffy and Terence Donovan, designs from Peter Blake, David Hockney, Gerald Scarfe and fledgling artist Ian Dury plus words and opinions from those riding high on the city`s cutting-edge, London Life remains the coolest document from the capital's most exciting period. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. Post Mills VT, Chelsea Green, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY HELEN NEARING on the title page. illustrated with black and white photographs covering the many years of Helen and Scott Nearing. Here for the first time, Helen Nearing writes about a relationship with the young Krishnamurti, and when she went to Scott Nearing at the age of 24, he was 45; and their move to Vermont in 1932. Then in 1953, their move to Maine. Helen's memoir of their life together and an inspiring testimony to the ideals they stood for: self-sufficiency, simplicity, social justice, and peace. Clean copy.
 "Daisy Dopp's Vermont by: Schumann, Elka (Ed.)")
 "Dive Bomber: Learning to Fly the Navy's Fighting Planes by: Robert A. Winston")
 "Donna Parker at Cherrydaleby: Marcia Martin")
 "Loving and Leaving the Good Life (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Nearing, Helen")