Hardcover. London, England, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 2nd Edition, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 479 pages plus maps and fold-out family tree/timeline. Hardcover. Paste down presentation label on front flyleaf. Previous owner's signature on front flyleaf. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine (slightly faded). A touch of tanning to pages. In very good condition.
Softcover. AuthorHouse, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 240 pages. Softcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper and pages clean. This book is the story of just one newly graduated nurse told in her own words in her letters home saved by her parents and friends. It is one of the few stories of nurses in the Pacific area.
Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with mild fading to spine edge, short closed tear, 227 pages. William Walker's analysis of John Locke's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding offers a challenging and provocative assessment of Locke's importance as a thinker, bridging the gap between philosophical and literary-critical discussion of his work. He is revealed as a crucial figure for emerging modernity, less the familiar empiricist innovator and more a proto-Nietzschean thinker. Walker's reading of Locke is finely attentive to the text and resourceful in placing the Essay in its broadest philosophical and historical context. Light pencil notations on front fly leaf.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, MIT Press , 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 311 pages, b&w illustrations. In the 1930s and 1940s, English fashion houses, spurred by economic and wartime crises, put London on the map as a major fashion city. In this book, Michelle Jones examines the creation of a London-based couture industry during these years, exploring how designer collaboration and the construction of specific networks and narratives supported and shaped the English fashion economy. Haute couture-the practice of creative made-to-measure womenswear-was widely regarded as inherently French. Jones shows how an English version emerged during a period of economic turbulence, when a group of designers banded together in a collective effort to shift power within the international fashion system. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, WW Norton & Company, Inc, 1st Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 678 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. A few specs of foxing to front flyleaf and back page, otherwise pages clean. Dust jacket has some agewear with a touch of chipping and foxing, one small tear on back dj. Decorated endpapers. Red cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine, some spots to covers.
Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, Butternut & Blue, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. b/w illustrations throughout. Blue cover boards, black title and design on spine and covers. Dust jacket is unclipped, some scratches/rubbing to back cover, otherwise excellent.
Softcover. indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, reprint, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 388 pages. Contains the most helpful version of Hobbes's political and moral philosophy available in English. Includes the only English translation of De Homine, chapters X-XV. Features the English translation of De Cive attributed to Hobbes. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, pictorial boards, Photographer Marcia Resnick (b. 1950) earned recognition as part of the legendary Downtown New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s. Her portraits of the era's major cultural figures, such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Belushi, and Susan Sontag, have contributed to the scene's mythic status. Against this backdrop, Resnick also produced a significant body of work that engaged with the history of art, took a humorous approach to conceptual art and feminism, and proposed new ideas for what photography could be. Spanning the artist's career, this richly illustrated volume explores Resnick's early influences and education at Cooper Union and CalArts; discusses her series and photobooks such as See and Re-visions; and situates the artist's work within the history of contemporary art. An afterword by Laurie Anderson speaks to the very personal vision of Resnick's photography. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. North Carolina, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, very good.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 81 pages. A very clean, tight copy. The critically acclaimed poet and translator Brooks Haxton embraces life, from our naked beginnings to the first signs of middle age and beyond, in this inviting collection of poems. The book opens with the dramatic birth of twins, and speaks in the intimate voice of a husband, father, and poet. Diverse products of the imagination pass through Haxton's generous mind--the mysterious number zero, Milton's "Lycidas," nuclear technology--even as he captures the humor and pathos of the everyday. In these brief, exquisite lyrics, meditations, and short stories in verse, he immerses his reader in the heat of teenage rivalry and friendship, the tender comedy of sex, and the amazements of the natural world.
Softcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st paperback, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 355 pages. Softcover. Light pencil underlining in a few places. Wrapper good, with a touch of agewear, no tears, some slight moisture damage at the bottom of the back cover.
Hardcover. Michigan, Scholarly Publishing Office University of Michigan, Reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 507 pages. Hardcover. Reprint of 1857 J.B. Lippincott & Co. publication produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University's Library's preservation reformatting program. B/w illustrations throughout. Pages clean, spine straight, binding tight. ISBN label on back cover. Light foxing to edges. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. "Visits to the Malay and Loo-Choo Islands, the Coasts of China, Formosa, Japan, Kamtschatka, Siberia, and the Mouth of the Amoor River."
Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 201 pages. A man's obsession with his late wife takes a new turn when he meets an uncompromising, manipulative playwright whose favored theme is death. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. While Ol' Jake is thinking about how rich he is going to be after he catches and sells a hare he is stalking, the hare runs away into the forest. A Russian fable illustrated with lovely watercolors by Ivanov. Library binding but NOT ex-lib.
Hardcover. NY, Viking , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Max Stravinsky, the poet dog hero of Max Makes a Million , realizes his dream of going to Paris in Kalman's latest high-spirited high jinks. In the City of Light he goes to museums and clubs, meets like-minded suffering artists and falls in love with Crepes Suzette, "that divine dalmatian." Visual and literary jokes abound--a Parisienne wears strategically placed bananas a la Josephine Baker; a hunchback crouches atop Notre Dame; a man's hat is marked "this is not a hat"--while lighthearted digressions offer amusing first lessons in art appreciation. The exuberant text imports French words and other vocabulary that rely heavily on context but convey a rousing musicality ("I am Fritz from the Ritz / which I quit in a snit / when the chef in a fit / threw escargot on my chapeau / and hit my head / with a stale French bread")--sophisticated fare indeed, but children and the uninitiated alike will find plenty of amusement nonetheless. Painstaking design integrates text and pictures, turns type upside-down or sideways, shrinks or expands type size--whimsical touches in perfect keeping with this fluid work. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st pbk., 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 649 pages. Collects twenty-six newly commissioned, original chapters on the philosophy of the English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Best known today for his important influence on political philosophy, Hobbes was in fact a wide and deep thinker on a diverse range of issues. The chapters included in this Oxford Handbook cover the full range of Hobbes's thought--his philosophy of logic and language; his view of physics and scientific method; his ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law; and his views of religion, history, and literature. Several of the chapters overlap in fruitful ways, so that the reader can see the richness and depth of Hobbes thought from a variety of perspectives. The contributors are experts on Hobbes from many countries, whose home disciplines include philosophy, political science, history, and literature.
Hardcover. London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, Reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 250 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Tope edge dyed. Original bookstore's price stamp on front flyleaf. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages unmarked. Spine straight. "The handling of pigments in oil, tempera, watercolor & in mural painting, the preparation of grounds & canvas, & the prevention of discoloration, together with the theories of light & color applied to the making of pictures, all described in a practical & non-technical manner."
Hardcover. UK, Sheffield Academic Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering, 167 pages. Panorthosia (Universal Reform) is the essential theme of John Amos Comenius's famous Consultation on the Reform of Human Affairs, and chapters 19-26 represent its climax. In this volume is presented the first English translation of this major work of Comenius, which was lost from about 1672 until 1934 when the Latin scholars of Czechoslovakia had it edited for publication in Prague in 1960. Clean copy.
Softcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2002, Book: Very Good, Softcover, 209 pages. The papers in this collection provide views on central aspects of Thomas Hobbes's (1588-1679) life and work. The collection testifies to his enduring importance as a major philosopher four hundred years after his birth, and helps to unravel aspects of his intellectual biography which are relevant to a proper appreciation of his philosophy. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with silver lettering on spine and front cover, A facsimile reprint of the corrected 1716 4th edition published in London. Sixteen sermons with notes and observations. Name on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 270 pages. David Duncan was an accomplished photojournalist who covered World War II and the Korean War. He later joined Life magazine. He was a close friend of Picasso and was the only person allowed to photograph Picasso's private collection. Issued for the 80th birthday of the artist, the book is a recollection of Picasso's work between 1895-1960. The photographic reportage was shoot by Duncan in Villa La Californie in Cannes on the French Riviera, where Picasso was living with his wife Jacqueline. The book contains many illustrations, tipped in color plates, photographs of Picasso, and black and white illustrations, the text is reach of anecdotes and presents a fine portrait of Picasso's life through his work and time. Clean, no markings. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
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