Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 351 pages, profusely illustrated in b&w. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Berkeley CA, Counterpoint, 2nd pr., 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket, 161 pages. An unsuccessful writer and an inveterate alcoholic, Boris Alikhanov has recently divorced his wife Tatyana, and he is running out of money. The prospect of a summer job as a tour guide at the Pushkin Hills Preserve offers him hope of regaining some balance in life as his wife makes plans to emigrate to the West with their daughter Masha, but during Alikhanov's stay in the rural estate of Mikhaylovskoye, his life continues to unravel.Populated with unforgettable characters?including Alikhanov's fellow guides Mitrofanov and Pototsky, and the KGB officer Belyaev? Pushkin Hills ranks among Dovlatov's renowned works The Suitcase and The Zone as his most personal and poignant portrayal of the Russian attitude towards life and art.
Hardcover. Flagstaff AZ, Northland Press, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket with a small chip to rear panel. B&w drawings by Remington. Reprinted from a series of articles published in The Century Magazine in 1888. During the early 1880s, both Remington the artist and Roosevelt the writer were trying their hands at ranching, Remington in Kansas and Roosevelt in Dakota territory. Their respective records of the experience as perhaps the most important to survive of ranching in that era. Contains specific material on the severe winter of 1886-87 which put an end to ranching for many. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Mexico City, Joaquin Mortiz, 1st , 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 242 pages. First Edition printed in Mexico City, #1146 of 5000 copies. Red cloth and gilt lettering on spine. Dust jacket has light soiling and chipping, covered with a clear plastic Brodart.
Hardcover. London, William Heinemann, 1st thus, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 116 pages, illustrated with 4 color and 12 b&w plates by G.D. Armour. Green cloth covers with brown lettering and design, gilt lettering on spine. The green dust jacket is worn, chipped with a small hole at the edge of the spine. SIGNED & HANDWRITTEN LETTER BY AUTHOR tipped inside cover, also ANOTHER SIGNED NOTE W/ENVELOPE laid in.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 296 pages, b&w illustrations, dark blue cloth with gilt design on spine. In a bright, price-clipped dust jacket.
Hardcover. Paris, Zodiaque, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 334 pages plus index. Color, b&w gravure photographs, plans of churches, cathedrals, abbeys and monasteries in France. Text in French. Ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 101 pages. Interview with American artist, David Salle by Peter Schjeldahl. 65 pages of text (interview) as well as color and black & white plates by Salle. In very good condition. Cover is a black & white photograph of David Salle.
Hardcover. Chicago, Stone and Kimball, 1st, 1895, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 237 pages. Previous owners name in pencil on front endpaper. Spine slightly cocked. Gilt decoration and title on front and back covers. Top edge gilt. Light rubbing to cover corners.
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus & Company, 1st US, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 85 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. His first book of poetry to be published in the United States.
Hardcover. Rome , Compagnia Edizioni Internazionali, Reprint , 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 173 pages. Hardcover. Numerous full color illustrations. Illustrated flyleaves and endpapers. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on frontispiece. Gray and white dust jacket with full color illustration on the front. Light edgewear and foxing on top edge.
Softcover. Ann Arbor, MI, University of Michigan Center of Chinese Studies, 1st Edition, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 125 pages. Soft cover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Wrapper has some tanning (shelfwear) and small spot of soil on front cover (see image), otherwise good with no tears. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. A study of the Chinese May Thirtieth movement.
Hardcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover, light tan cloth stamped in dark brown, 244 pages. Illustrated with b&w photographs. Previous owner's name stamped inside front cover. Mountain lion and bear hunting on horseback, with dog packs on a 330,000 acre New Mexico working ranch. Dust jacket worn wit chipping, short tears.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 305 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Small dent on cover and red dot sticker on last page, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Lee and Shepard, 1st , 1867, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 273 pages. B&w frontispiece with tissue guard. Green cloth cover with gilt titles and decoration on spine. Soiling, rubbing, and edgewear to cover. Front and rear hinges cracked. Previous owner inscription on front fly leaf. Binding cracked at page 204. Some spotting and staining throughout.
Hardcover. London, Picador, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This signed first edition of author and journalist Sid Smith's novel 'Something Like A House' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, following a British soldier who deserts to China during the Korean War and stays there some 35 years, bringing up a little girl who later becomes a victim of experimental biological warfare. Despite being set in China, Smith had never traveled there before writing the novel, the background gleaned from extensive research at the British Library amongst other places. An exciting novel set in a China almost unknown to the outside world, a chilling account of an army deserter living through a Cultural Revolution. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Metro Books , 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 178 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A pictorial history of the Broadway musical. Light edgewear to dust jacket. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, W.W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green cloth stamped in purple, 288 pages. Stated first edition on copyright page. When Bart Paget is found clawed to death in his library and Susan Remington has disappeared and her wild cats let loose, Asey Mayo must act quickly to avert the panic sweeping over Quanomet. Very minor fade to spine, otherwise a tight clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1st US, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 123 pages. The title poem is set on an island that has been a site of pilgrimage in Ireland for over a thousand years. A narrative sequence, it is an autobiographical quest concerned with "the growth of a poet's mind.'" There are also many poems with richly meditative lyrics and the final section is in the voice of the legendary Sweeney, a king of Ulster. A marvelous group of poems, this was Heaney's sixth major collection and many believe it ranks among his best. Previous owner's name, date on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Hurst & Company, reprint, 1914, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light blue cloth with color label on front cover, Unpaginated, with a page decorated in color for each letter of the alphabet.
Softcover. Washington DC, Planners Press, revised ed., 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, This seminal report outlines a street-graphics system that ensures on-premise signs are expressive, appropriate, legible, and compatible with the character of the community. The system is a legally enforceable regulatory framework that makes good design possible. It offers benefits to business owners by eliminating the visual cacophony that often drowns out their messages and to drivers and pedestrians by making it easier and safer for them to find what they're looking for. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Clean copy. The topic of streets and street design is of compelling interest today as public officials, developers, and community activists seek to reshape urban patterns to achieve more sustainable forms of growth and development. Streets and the Shaping of Towns and Cities traces ideas about street design and layout back to the early industrial era in London suburbs and then on through their institutionalization in housing and transportation planning in the United States. It critiques the situation we are in and suggests some ways out that are less rigidly controlled, more flexible, and responsive to local conditions.