Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 464 pages. Richard Stites views the struggle for liberation of Russian women in the context of both nineteenth-century European feminism and twentieth-century communism. The central personalities, their vigorous exchange of ideas, the social and political events that marked the emerging ideal of emancipation--all come to life in this absorbing and dramatic account. The author's history begins with the feminist, nihilist, and populist impulses of the 1860s and 1870s, and leads to the social mobilization campaigns of the early Soviet period. Spine with light fading, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 552 pages. Green cloth boards with gilt title on spine and cover. Moisture stain in upper right corner of front endpaper. Fold-out map of Japan shows light foxing. Endpapers age faded. Light soiling to front and back covers.

Hardcover. NY, Golden Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, A book of essays and cartoons given out by Volkswagen dealers to their customers. Contributions by artists and writers such as Charles Addams, Harry Golden, William Steig, Jean Shepherd, Virgil Partch, George Price, Roger Price, Charles Saxon and others. Photos of a number of the contributors. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardbound, illustrated boards with black cloth spine, 74 pages. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Color and black & white illustrations. Purple illustrated endpapers. Edgewear, corners bumped and worn. Clean.

Hardcover. London, Studio Editions, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 128 pages. Color plates throughout. This book includes the work of nine leading cartographers spanning the first half of the nineteenth century. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 339 pages, softcover with wire spiral binding. Scarce early proof. The author boarded this Orkney trawler whilst the weather was at its worst. An old trawler , converted for Deep-Sea Fishing , by a young skipper who now has a huge overdraft. The Nortantean is the only boat leaving. O'Hanlon sets off, with the crew of five , on a gut-wrenching, leg-jellying voyage.

Hardcover. Conway NH, TMC Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 131 pages, illustrated throughout in color. SIGNED BY AUTHORS on title page. This is the story of what happens when big people decide to be kids again and they have tools and lumber. A beautifully written tale about building an elaborate two story treehouse in the Maine woods, Treehouse Chronicles is reflective and insightful, and carries the reader along as a dream is made real. We meet the author's family, and friends, and a squirrel with an attitude, and you will be captivated by this poignant and humorous story of process, a house is hung in the sky. Packed with over 180 spectacular photographs, evocative watercolors, and line drawings. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Northampton MA, Heavy Metal/Tundra, 1st US, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial glossy boards, color ilustrations by Fabrice Lamy and Olivier Vatine. Olivier Vatine's comic book "Trio Grande" is a splendid presentation of his skills in the comic book world. The book is set in a hot desert scenario with a fantastic spaghetti western style. Clean copy.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Getty Conservation Institute, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 138 pages illustrated in color. As the Roman Empire expanded its African settlements in the early centuries of the common era, thousands of mosaic floor pavements were fashioned to adorn the townhouses and rural estates of the African upper classes. Between the second and sixth centuries, mosaic art blossomed, particularly in Africa Proconsularis, the region comprising modern Tunisia. In contrast to the official art of imperial Rome, mosaics generally expressed the worldviews of private citizens. These artworks are remarkable for the intricate beauty of their polychromatic geometric and floral designs, as well as for figural scenes depicting the interests and activities of the patrons who commissioned them--scenes of daily life, athletic contests, gladiator spectacles, and classical literature and mythology.Abundantly illustrated throughout, Tunisian Mosaics: Treasures from Roman Africa offers the general reader a lively introduction to this extraordinary ancient art. Initial chapters survey the historical background of Roman Africa and discuss the development of mosaic art in the Mediterranean. Subsequent chapters profile Tunisia's major mosaic sites and tour the collections of important museums. A final chapter surveys current initiatives to preserve this heritage for future generations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Germany, Gottingen, 1st, 1894, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 571 pages, reproduction of handwritten text in German by author. Black cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, ex-library with usual stamping, residue to end papers, label on spine. Front and rear hinges cracked but interior, clean, very good. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Hardcover. Profusely illustrated with full color and black & white photographs. Clean, tight copy. An illustrated history of 170 years of Arctic exploration and its effects on indigenous peoples. Ultima Thule is the terrible and yet fantastic story of European and American exploration in the polar north. Based on excerpts from the explorers' logs counterbalanced by Inuit testimony, it brings to life both sides of the clash that arose when white men arrived in the Far North, dreaming of conquest and believing that they brought with them a civilization superior to that of the indigenous peoples they found. Today, the outlook for the Inuit and the polar environment is bleak: the people and their landscape are in danger of disappearing for good. But according to Jean Malaurie, the situation is not altogether without hope. Heavily illustrated with period photographs, engravings, artifacts, and drawings, the book gives the readers the impression of having an entire museum of North Pole history in their hands. 650 color and black-and-white photographs. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. WInner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. One of his landmark, defining works. Ha Jin has seamlessly and eloquently melded historical fact with personal experience. His short stories have been compared to the works of Isaac Babel, the greatest Russian short-story writer of the 20th century. Clean copy.

Softcover. Paris, E. Teriade, 1st wraps, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Includes: Original Cover by Bonnard, witing by Malraux, Valery, art by Matisse, Klee, Miro, Chagall, photos by Andre, Verger, others. Very good condition. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. London, Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2nd imp., 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 635 pages. Contains black and white illustrated plates, and a pull out family tree. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. Canada, Penguin Books, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 640 pages. The Western world is full of paradoxes. We talk endlessly of individual freedom, yet we've never been under more pressure to conform. Our business leaders describe themselves as capitalists, yet most are corporate employees and financial speculators. We call our governments democracies, yet few of us participate in politics. We complain about invasive government, yet our legal, educational, financial, social, cultural and legislative systems are deteriorating. All these problems, John Ralston Saul argues, are largely the result of our blind faith in the value of reason. Over the past 400 years, our "rational elites" have turned the modern West into a vast, incomprehensible, directionless machine, run by process-minded experts--"Voltaire's bastards"--whose cult of scientific management is empty of both sense and morality. Whether in politics, art, business, the military, entertain-ment, science, finance, academia or journalism, these experts share the same outlook and methods. The result, Saul maintains, is a civilization of immense technological power whose ordinary citizens are increasingly excluded from the decision-making process.In this wide-ranging anatomy of modern society and its origins--whose "pages explode with insight, style and intellectual rigor" (Camille Paglia, The Washington Post)--Saul presents a shattering critique of the political, economic and cultural estab-lishments of the West. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st thus, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glossy pictorial boards. Stated first impression of this reproduction of Nister's work from the late 1800's. Includes poetry, fold-outs & reproductions of antique dimensional pictures. All 4 pop-ups perfect. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dodd Mead and Co., 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 144 pages, illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club. Brown cloth with decorative binding in three colors plus gilt by Margaret Armstrong. Front hinge cracked, some wear to top and bottom of spine cloth, otherwise clean and bright copy.

Hardcover. London, Picador, 4th pr., 2018, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. In Wilding, Isabella Tree tells the story of the 'Knepp experiment', a pioneering rewilding project in West Sussex, using free-roaming grazing animals to create new habitats for wildlife. Part gripping memoir, part fascinating account of the ecology of our countryside, Wilding is, above all, an inspiring story of hope. 362 pages, color photos. Small ownership sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcovers, 650 pages. The complete WWII cartoons of the greatest cartoonist of the Greatest Generation, in a beautiful, oversized, two-volume slipcased set. During WWII, the closest most Americans ever came to the war was through the cartoons of Bill Mauldin, the most beloved enlisted man in the U.S. Army. Fantagraphics Books brings together Mauldin's complete works from 1940 through the end of the war. This collection of over 600 cartoons, most never before reprinted, is more than the record of a great artist: it is an essential chronicle of America's citizen-soldiers from peace through war to victory. Bill Mauldin knew war because he was in it. He had created his characters, Willie and Joe, at age 18, before Pearl Harbor, while training with the 45th Infantry Division and cartooning part-time for the camp newspaper. His brilliant send-ups of officers were pure infantry, and the men loved it. With their heavy brush lines, detailed battlescapes, and pidgin of army slang and slum dialect, Mauldin's cartoons and captions recreated on paper the fully realized world of the American combat soldier. Their dark, often insubordinate humor sparked controversy among army brass and incensed General George S. Patton, Jr. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 282 pages, b&w illustrations. Bryson analyses the evolution of narrative styles (rather than the successive artistic styles of baroque, rococo and neo-classical) and concludes that there is an 'inner evolution in the image as a pattern of information'. He analyses the work of LeBrun, Watteau, Greuze, David etc. Clean copy.