Hardcover. UK, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 178 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1778 edition, Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Scholastic Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in glazed pictorial boards, 40 pages. Brilliant, vibrantly colored pictures by Bruce Degen illustrate this story. 'With her reluctant student, Arnold, the Friz slips through a mysterious trap door and ends up in the Middle Ages. There, they explore a medieval castle, meeting the people who live there and learning about everyday life within the castle walls.' Sicker residue on rear cover, crease to front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY , Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover in a poor dust jacket with chipping, fading, especially to spine. Wheeler-Bennett worked as the director of the Royal Institute of International Affairs' information department. In particular, Wheeler-Bennett lived in Germany in 1927-1934 and witnessed firsthand the rise of Nazi Germany. After the Second World War, Wheeler-Bennett was a critic of Appeasement, and 10 years after the Munich Agreement wrote a book condemning it. Footnotes. Illustrations, Maps. Bibliography. Index. 507 pages, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 210 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Smoke. Shadows. Moody strains of jazz. Welcome to the world of "noir musical" films, where tormented antiheroes and hard-boiled musicians battle obsession and struggle with their music and ill-fated love triangles. Sultry divas dance and sing the blues in shrouded nightclubs. Romantic intrigue clashes with backstage careers. In her pioneering study, Music in the Shadows, film noir expert Sheri Chinen Biesen explores musical films that use film noir style and bluesy strains of jazz to inhabit a disturbing underworld and reveal the dark side of fame and the American Dream. Clean copy.
Softcover. Pomeroy OH, Carpenter Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages, illustrated by David Lynas. Includes numerous black and white photos of attractive female nudes. Ribald adventure in the style of Henry Miller. Johnson's second novel to be published, though the third to be written, takes up the whole issue of who gets published and why. It takes as its main subject the uproarious literary politics of the late 60's, when the government first set up the National Endowment for the Arts, and fools and crooks and serious editors asked for money to keep small-scale literary operations afloat in a sea of conglomerate-owned houses and declining public taste. One of the best parts is the description of the first COSMEP (Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers) meeting. The two main characters, a truck driver named Gasserpod Peasporr Slocum, and his mentor, a small magazine editor, Ellis Schoenobatic, take us on a marvelous tour of the USA, into all the current scenes -- political, artistic, sexual -- and finally back to Sausalito and the girl they left behind. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Windmill Books/Simon & Schuster, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Color illustrations by Rockwell. Dust jacket with mild edgewear, light soil. Previous owner's inscription also on front fly leaf. First Printing stated. 23 full-page color Norman Rockwell prints of his wonderful art work. The Rockwell pictures are complimented with one-page short stories.
Hardcover. NY, New York Review Of Books , reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong format in pictorial boards. Peewee the dog doesn't know any tricks, 'not a single one not even how to roll over not even how to shake hands but never mind he is so teeny weeny that everybody loves him,' the clown, the fat lady, the thin man, the huge tall giant, the strong baby, the acrobats, the elephants, and all the other amazing performers in the wonderful circus of the man with the quite tall red hat. A classic picture book first published in the 1930s. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket that has tape repairs in the reverse side. In August 1945, Great Britain, France, the USSR and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime for the plotting of aggressive warfare, the extermination of civilian populations, the widespread use of slave labor, the looting of occupied countries, and the maltreatment and murder of prisoners of war. G.M. Gilbert (1911-77) was the prison psychologist before and during the Nuremberg trial. He had an unrivaled, firsthand opportunity to watch and question the Nazi war criminals. With scientific dispassion he encouraged Goering, Speer, Hess Ribbentrop, Frank, Jodl, Keitel, Streicher, and the others to reveal their innermost thoughts. 471 pages, bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 404 pages. The Napoleonic wars did not end with Waterloo. That famous battle was just the beginning of a long, complex transition to peace. After a massive invasion of France by more than a million soldiers from across Europe, the Allied powers insisted on a long-term occupation of the country to guarantee that the defeated nation rebuild itself and pay substantial reparations to its conquerors. Our Friends the Enemies provides the first comprehensive history of the post-Napoleonic occupation of France and its innovative approach to peacemaking. From 1815 to 1818, a multinational force of 150,000 men under the command of the Duke of Wellington occupied northeastern France. From military, political, and cultural perspectives, Christine Haynes reconstructs the experience of the occupiers and the occupied in Paris and across the French countryside. The occupation involved some violence, but it also promoted considerable exchange and reconciliation between the French and their former enemies. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR on the title page. Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation are alerted to a string of unrelated burglaries across Vermont. Someone, in addition to flatscreens, computers, and stereos, has also been stealing antiques and jewelry. Meanwhile, in Boston, an elderly woman surprises some thieves in her Beacon Hill home and is viciously murdered. The Boston police find that not only is the loot similar to what's being stolen in Vermont, but it may have the same destination. Word is out that someone powerful is purchasing these particular kinds of items in the "Paradise City" of Northampton, Mass. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, Dark brown leatherette, stamped in orange on front and spine. Dust jacket is bright with light chipping. B&w illustrations by Henry E. Vallely. Short worm holes to several pages at top margin, not affecting text. Paper tanning, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 12th pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 830 pages. Known in his lifetime primarily to readers of science fiction, Philip K. Dick is now seen as a uniquely visionary figure, a writer who, in editor Jonathan Lethems words, wielded a sardonic yet heartbroken acuity about the plight of being alive in the twentieth century, one that makes him a lonely hero to the readers who cherish him.This Library of America volume brings together four of Dicks most original novels. The Man in the High Castle (1962), which won the Hugo Award, describes an alternate world in which Japan and Germany have won World War II and America is divided into separate occupation zones. The dizzying The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch (1965) posits a future in which competing hallucinogens proffer different brands of virtual reality, and an interplanetary drug tycoon can transform himself into a godlike figure transcending even physical death.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), about a bounty hunter in search of escaped androids in a postapocalyptic society where status is measured by the possession of live animals and religious life is focused on a television personality, was the basis for the movie Blade Runner. Ubik (1969), with its future world of psychic espionage agents and cryonically frozen patients inhabiting an illusory half-life, pursues Dicks theme of simulated realities and false perceptions to ever more disturbing conclusions. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise like new.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Company, 1st US, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 461 pages. Laval began his career as a socialist, but over time drifted far to the right. Following France's defeat and armistice with Germany in 1940, he served in prominent roles in Philippe Petain's Vichy Regime, first as the vice-president of the Council of Ministers from 11 July 1940 to 13 December 1940, and later as the head of government from 18 April 1942 to 20 August 1944. After the liberation of France in 1944, Laval was arrested by the French government under General Charles de Gaulle. In what was widely regarded as a flawed trial, Laval was found guilty of plotting against the security of the State and collaboration with the enemy, and after a thwarted suicide attempt, he was executed by firing squad. His manifold political activities left a complicated and controversial legacy, resulting in more than a dozen conflicting biographies of him. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a bright, clean copy.
Softcover. Las Vegas, Parmenides Publishing, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 246 pages. Plato's Parmenides presents the modern reader with a puzzle. Noted for being the most difficult of Platonic dialogues, it is also one of the most influential. This new edition of the work includes the Greek text on facing pages, with an English translation by Arnold Hermann in collaboration with Sylvana Chrysakopoulou. Hermann's Introduction provides an overview and commentary aimed at scholars and first time readers alike.
Softcover. UK, Oxford University Press, 1st pbk., 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 643 pages. An illuminating reappraisal of Plato's later works, which reveals radical changes in his ethical and political theory. Christopher Bobonich argues that in these works Plato both rethinks and revises important positions which he held in his better-known earlier works such as the Republic and the Phaedo. Bobonich analyses Plato's shift from a deeply pessimistic view of non-philosophers in the Republic, where he held that only philosophers were capable of virtue and happiness, to his far more optimistic position in the Laws, where he holds that the constitution and laws of his ideal city of Magnesia would allow all citizens toachieve a truly good life. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY MAYOR on the title page. Ben Kendall was a troubled man. Coming back from Vietnam with PTSD and scars that no one else could see, he hid away from the world, filling his house with an ever-increasing amount of stuff, until finally, the piles collapsed and he was found dead, crushed beneath his own belongings. But what at first glance looks to be a tragic accidental death of a hoarder, may be something much more-and much deadlier. Ben's cousin, medical examiner Beverly Hillstrom, unsettled by the circumstances of his death, alerts Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 182 pages. Mostly written in 1712, "Second Characters" contains the plan and fourth treatise of a work intended as a complement to the "Characteristics" and represents an application of the theoretical principles of that work to the realm of art. B&w frontispiece. Includes dictionary of art terms and index of ease. A facsimile reprint of the 1914 edition. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, The Free Press, 1st pbk, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 210 pages. With scholarly detachment, clarity, and taste the author presents a history and analysis of American ideals of success. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with some light tape repairs. 312 pages, INSCRIBED BY FLANDERS on the front fly leaf. Clean copy.
Hardcover. UK, ACC Editions, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial bpards. Felicity Green brought a new, original voice and look to the fashion pages of the '60s' Daily Mirror. For the first time in newspaper history she created fashion pages designed to appeal to both sexes as the circulation soared to more than 5 million copies a day. Great pictures, great photographers, top designers, top models - Felicity made these Swinging '60s fashion stories FUN! bringing the glamor and style of glossy magazines to the Mirror. These award-winning pages broke the fashion mould and captured the stellar time when London fashion conquered the world. Under Felicity Green's by-line comes stories of the stars of the '60s - they're all talking in this original book: Mary Quant, Barbara Hulanicki, Vidal Sassoon, Twiggy, Terry O'Neill, and a sparkling foreword by Barbara Hulanicki, of Biba fame, tells the story of a fashion collaboration/friendship whose gingham dress made fashion history. Still in publisher's shrinkwrap.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 8th pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Moses. It is a silent, snowy December night. Shopkeepers and country folk in the tiny Vermont village are hurrying everywhere, lighting candles, wrapping gifts, baking pies--getting ready. But for what? For Christmas Eve? Or is there more? The Miller family knows there is! Pa and the boys, little Andy and Jamie, rush to the train station through the blizzardy twilight to pick up Grandma Stokes. Old Paul, the hired hand, rides to get Doc Herrick. Mama's quilty friend Tinker won't leave her side. They all know something truly wonderful is going to happen this Christmas Eve, snow or no snow, right here at Miller farm.In his unmistakable style, world renowned folk artist Will Moses brings Christmas to a Vermont village in an original story that the entire family--boys and girls, mothers and fathers, grandparents, aunts and uncles - can share by their own candlelight year after year.
Hardcover. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR on the title page. Across Brattleboro, Vermont, rich people (some with dark secrets) are waking up in their high-security, alarm-equipped homes to find a Post-it note stuck to their bedside tables reading, "You're it." There is little sign of disturbance anywhere, nothing stolen (that anyone admits), and only a bit of expensive food eaten as a signature. The local press loves the story and they have collectively dubbed the burglar the Tag Man. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1944, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, tan cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 212 pages, fold-out map in rear. Previous owners signature at top of front endpaper. Cover shows wear and sun fading.
Hardcover. NY, New York Review of Books, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards with a red cloth spine. First publlshed in 1950, this charming picture book by the Caldecott Medal-winning team of Simont and Krauss features bold illustrations that bring to life a humorous and engaging reversal of ordinary reality that will enchant young children and their parents. Full color. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Thomas Nelson, 1st, 1935, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with gilt lettering, design on spine. 216 pages plus publisher's catalog in rear. Color frontis. and 11 b&w illustrations by Rowland Hilder. Previous owner's inscription to front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Mild wear to spine cloth. This is the more elusive first printing with the color plate in front, no dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Quadrangle, reprint, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 344 pages. In this exciting history, Professor Mowry has determined the motives and actions of men who established the Progressive movement in California, and has reconstructed the conditions which opened the way to their ascendancy and fall. The progressive represented, in the author's words, "a pivot on which the democratic process could swing." By examining progressivism in California, its grassroots development and its leaders, Professor Mowry contributes to an understanding of the nature of national progressivism and recent American liberalism. He also illuminates the curious and paradoxical social phenomena of American reform movements - why they begin and why they die. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 4th pr., 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 745 pages. Beginning with Homer and ending in late antiquity with Christian and pagan reflections on divine and human order, this volume is the first general and comprehensive treatment of Rome ever to be published in English. Its international team of distinguished scholars includes historians of law, politics, culture and religion, as well as philosophers. The volume will long remain an accessible and authoritative guide to Greek and Roman thinking about government and community. Remainder line on bottom edge otherwise clean.
Softcover. London, Pimlico, 1st pbk., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 812 pages, b&w illustrations. Light wear to covers and edges of spine. Old UK price sticker on rear cover. Neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, 7th Ed., 1855, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover, 521 pages. Cloth has peeled back from spine with some missing chips. The book's binding is solid and tight, clean interior. First published in 1854. This is the seventh printing with an illustrated title page dated 1855. Name and address on blank prelim page otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 321 pages, b&w illustrations. In The Cruel Radiance, Susie Linfield challenges the idea that photographs of political violence exploit their subjects and pander to the voyeuristic tendencies of their viewers. Instead she argues passionately that looking at such images--and learning to see the people in them--is an ethically and politically necessary act that connects us to our modern history of violence and probes the human capacity for cruelty. Grappling with critics from Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht to Susan Sontag and the postmoderns--and analyzing photographs from such events as the Holocaust, China's Cultural Revolution, and recent terrorist acts--Linfield explores the complex connection between photojournalism and the rise of human rights ideals. In the book's concluding section, she examines the indispensable work of Robert Capa, James Nachtwey, and Gilles Peress and asks how photography should respond to the increasingly nihilistic trajectory of modern warfare. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, G. K. Hall & Co., reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 413 pages. This incomparable collection of essays, manifestos, and illustrations was prepared by Robert Motherwell with the collaboration of some of the major Dada figures: Marcel Duchamp, Jean Arp, and Max Ernst among others. Here in their own words and art, the principals of the movement create a composite picture of Dada - its convictions, antics, and spirit. First published in 1951, this treasure trove remains, as Jack Flam states in his foreword to the second edition, "the most comprehensive and important anthology of Dada writings in any language, and a fascinating and very readable book." It contains every major text on the Dada movement, including retrospective studies, personal memoirs, and prime examples. The illustrations range from photos of participants, in characteristic Dadaist attitudes, to facsimiles of their productions. Embossed name stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Plesant Plain OH, David Zimmerman, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 348 pages illustrated in b&w and color. A visual reference for all kinds of tins for coffee, peanut butter, cocoa, tea, and various other food products. Also tins for talcum powder, soap, typewriter ribbons, needles, pens, medicines, etc. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Lanham MD, Vestal Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 226 pages with b&w illustrations. This volume presents "the most complete filmography of Chaney's work ever compiled. For each of the actor's 158 known film appearances, [the author] includes cast and crew lists, plot synopsis, critical comments, and behind-the-scenes information. Complementing the text are 120 photographs, most of which are published here for the first time."
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 4th pr., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket that has a faded spine. Do we consciously cause our actions, or do they happen to us? Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, theologians, and lawyers have long debated the existence of free will versus determinism. With the publication of The Illusion of Conscious Will in 2002, Daniel Wegner proposed an innovative and provocative answer: the feeling of conscious will is created by the mind and brain; it helps us to appreciate and remember our authorship of the things our minds and bodies do. Yes, we feel that we consciously will our actions, Wegner says, but at the same time, our actions happen to us. Although conscious will is an illusion ("the most compelling illusion"), it serves as a guide to understanding ourselves and to developing a sense of responsibility and morality. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2nd pr., Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Artist Alex Beard brings to life an African savanna filled with humor and misunderstandings.When Bird mixes up something Turtle says, he accidentally starts a rumor about the watering hole drying up. One misunderstanding leads to another, with animals making their own hilarious assumptions. No one is hearing anything right, and soon the animals are in an uproar from one end of the jungle to the other. Elephant is trumpeting, Croc is snapping, and the Flamingos are fleeing! Beards story will have every child wondering if peace can ever be restored in the animal kingdom. No dust jacket, clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, John C. Winston, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with a 3-color design on the front cover. 344 pages, b&w frontispiece illustration. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 535 pages. This work contains Shaftesbury's philosophical notebooks from 1698 to 1712. It includes reflections on such topics as the natural affections, good and evil, God, self, the passions, pleasure and pain, nature, life, and philosophy, as well as a brief Life of the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, by his son. A reprint of the 1900 edition. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, reprint, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages. Few stories are as widely read and as universally cherished by children and adults alike as The Little Prince. This special edition of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's world-famous classic marks its seventy-fifth anniversary in print. Featuring a beautiful new cover and a special look at its history and making including a biography of Saint-Exupery, sketches, photos, and reviews from the first edition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards, 282 pages. "Horses, horses, horses! Would you like to belong to a riding club? Would you like to solve mysteries and have exciting adventures? Then come along and join Sunny, Dave, Peggy, Mike and all the other members of the Timber Trail Riders Club. Horse shows, rodeos, and trail rides. these are just a few of the wonderful activities that await boys and girls at Timber Trail Farm." Illustrated by Olindo Giacomini and Arnie Kohn. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY BOTH TAN AND SHIELDS on the half-title page. On a rainy afternoon, a woman shares with three restless granddaughters her "earliest memory" from her childhood in China. Adapted from Tan's The Joy Luck Club , the haunting tale that unfolds is worthy of retelling--and of repeated rereading. The narrator, Ying-ying, recalls waking up at the age of seven on the morning of the Moon Festival; it was a steamy day, and "the sun drove rays through the bamboo curtains like knives." Filled with similarly vivid images, Tan's lilting text conveys Ying-ying's contagious excitement about the festivities. These include the appearance of the Moon Lady, who can fulfill one's secret wish. Later, celebrating with her family on a "floating teahouse," Ying-ying loses her balance and falls into the lake, where she is caught in a fisherman's net. He returns her to shore, where her secret wish is granted: she is found by her family, and thus learns a lesson about which kind of wishes come true. Tan has done a superb job of distilling this incident for young readers, who will be as mesmerized by the expressive narrative as by Schields's ornately detailed paintings, ablaze with luminous color.
Softcover. NY, Vintage Books, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. The "old revolutionaries" were Samuel Adams, Isaac Sears, Thomas Young, Richard Henry Lee, and Charles Carroll. Of widely varying backgrounds and interests, all of them had their greatest influence in the years between 1769 and 1776, and all of them saw their power transferred after the war to the men we know as "the Founding Fathers." In telling the stories of these men, Maier shows how the American Revolution was less a collective movement than a commitment to an ideal of a republic, which different people interpreted differently. She describes not just why Americans made the Revolution, but what the Revolution did to them.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Company, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly chipped dust jacket. The writers of the Bible, like any other authors, were dependent on a vast array of literary sources from their time-the ancient world. Many of these documents are tragically lost, but what remains provides insight into the voluminous, fascinating, complex, and dynamic literary world that shaped the expressions of faith found in the Old and New Testaments. Part of these extant sources are known as the Pseudepigrapha. This collection of Jewish and Christian writings shed light on early Judaism and Christianity and their doctrines. Volume 1 only (of a 2-volume set). 995 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Garland Publishing, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige boards with maroon lettering on the spine, 568 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1941 edition published in London. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Bonanza Books, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. A retrospective photographic history of Bourke-White's career from her college years (1921) through her years with Life Magazine (1950-1956). Illustrated with over 200 black and white photos. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Edinburgh University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 210 pages. All students of Western political thought encounter Niccolo Machiavelli's work. Nevertheless, his writing continues to puzzle scholars and readers who are uncertain how to deal with the seeming paradoxes they encounter. 'The Political Philosophy of Niccolo Machiavelli' is a clear account of Machiavelli's thought, major theories and central ideas. It critically engages with his work in a new way, one not based on the problematic Cambridge-school approach. Geared towards the specific requirements of students who need to reach a sound understanding of Machiavelli's ideas, it is the ideal companion to the study of this influential and challenging philosopher.
Softcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, reprint, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 760 pages. This is a frank and insightful analysis of the political and economic influences in the United States during the Reconstruction Era, covering the years immediately after the Civil War and the death of Abraham Lincoln, and ending shortly before the Spanish-American War. Originally published in 1938. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Philomel Books, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 306 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON HALF TITLE PAGE. Clean, bright copy. Young Merlin, triumphant after his first encounter with the dreaded Rhita Gawr, has brought new hope to Fincayra, the enchanted isle that lies between earth and sky. Yet when a renewed tide of evil arises, its first victim is Merlin's own mother. To save her, Merlin and the forest girl Rhia must follow the perilous path of Seven Songs of Wizardry that has claimed even the lives of great wizards. Most difficult of all, Merlin must discover the secret of seeing not with his eyes, but with his heart.The eagerly anticipated second book in The Lost Years of Merlin epic combines all the passion, power, and spiritual depth that are T.A. Barron's hallmarks.
Softcover. Kingston, Ian Randle Publishers, 1st pbk, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 434 pages with index. The book traces the African ancestral line of Black Jamaicans through to the influence of Asian, European & Spanish rule of the island throughout the ages, culminating with early English white settlers, forging 2-types of Jamaican People. Clean, like new.