Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf, tipped in PHOTO OF AUTHOR with pipe in her mouth on following blank page with hand-written quote from Anatole France underneath, also SIGNED BY BRIGHAM on the title page. Her second book. Besmilr Brigham who was part Choctaw, was born Bess Miller Moore in 1913 in Pace, Mississippi. Mild wear to dust jacket. Clean copy.
Softcover. Prestel, 1st, 2009, Flexible card covers, 200 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w.Henry Moore is most celebrated for his monumental outdoor sculptures in many major cities around the world. Lesser known are the sculptor's plaster pieces, which represent an important stage in the development of his work leading up to the final bronze sculptures. Moore's sculptures are presented alongside a generous selection of his drawings and carvings made during the last decades of his life. Commentary by leading scholars from the Henry Moore Foundation offers Moore's audience a deeper understanding of the artist's approach to his work and the evolution of his world view.
Hardcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 197 pages. Professor Noble examines the basic philosophy and writing of six American historians, George Bancroft, Frederick Jackson, Charles A. Beard, Carl Becker, Vernon Louis Parrington, and Daniel J. Boorstin, and finds in them a common tradition which he calls anti-historical. He argues that this viewpoint is founded in the frontier interpretation of American history, that American historians have served as the chief political theorists and theologians of this country since 1830, and that their writings can be interpreted as Jeremiads designed to preserve a national covenant with nature. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 242 pages, b&w illustrations. Collins conducted business in Trenton and Burlington and founded New Jersey's first regular newspaper, the "New-Jersey Gazette". Clean, bight copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 301 pages with index. The biography of Morgan, who established the first school of medicine in North America. He also headed the medical services in Washington's Continental Army. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1st, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt design and lettering, 437 pages. Includes [9] leaves of plates, illustrations, portraits, bibliographical references, and index. A fine biography on America's sixth President, and the second Adams to hold that office. Clark gives equal attention to Adams' early diplomatic career, his time in State politics, in the U.S. Senate, as Secretary of State, and of his extensive career as an elder-statesman after his Presidency. Spine gilt faded, corners worn, name on front endpapers, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First published in Norway in 2004, Knots is Gunnhild Oyehaug's radical collection of short stories that range from the surreal to the oddly mundane, and prod the discomforts of mental, sexual, and familial bonds. In both precise short-shorts and ruminative longer tales, Oyehaug meanders through the tangled, jinxed, and unavoidable conflicts of love and desire. From young Rimbaud's thwarted passions to the scandalous disappearance of an entire family, these stories do the chilling work of tracing the outlines of what could have been in both the quietly morbid and the delightfully comical. A young man is born with an uncuttable umbilical cord and spends his life physically tethered to his mother; a tipsy uncle makes an uncomfortable toast with unforeseeable repercussions; and a dissatisfied deer yearns to be seen. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 263 pages. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 353 pages. The only available collection of Ricoeur's lectures on ideology and utopia, this seminal collection discusses the work of Althusser, Marx, Habermas, Geertz, Mannheim, and Weber. Clean copy.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Ontario Review Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages. An intimate account of the sudden rise to literary fame and long, inexorable decline of Delmore Schwartz, a complex and deeply troubled man who was keenly aware of his own inner contradictions, as revealed by his correspondence. Clean copy.
Hardcover. UK, Frederick Warne, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 240 pages. Profusely illustrated in black and white and color . Charming collection of personal letters written by beloved author Beatrix Potter. The collection begins with an 1893 letter to a young friend, Noel Moore, when the youngster was ill; Potter would go on to write many letters, most often to children (particularly to the family of her former governess, Annie Moore), told funny anecdotes about her pets and her holidays, and copiously illustrated them with witty drawings. Clean copy.
Softcover. Fremont MI, Sumac Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages. One of 1000 copies of this slim collection of poetry. A clean and near fine copy in wrappers. A very nice copy of one of Harrison's best group of poems.
Hardcover. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 167 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Daleville IN, Barnwood Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 102 pages. Frontis of Goedicke and her husband, author Leonard Wallace Robinson. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, glossy pictorial boards. Color paintings by Base. One little boy living on a farm in rural Texas gets a big surprise when he discovers tiny flying elephants under his bed. But his mom doesn't like critters in the house, so he tries to keep them a secret. Until one day they escape from his bedroom and cause havoc in the house. But when locusts invade the farm and start to destroy crops, the elephants come to the rescue!
Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 97 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, William Luscombe, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 256 pages, b&w illustrations. This is a broad and long history of the Thames. Inscription on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Frederick A. Stokes, 1st, 1918, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brick-red cloth with cover label, gilt lettering and design faded. This is a American Indian legend called Lost Indian Magic, a mystery story of the Red Man as he lived before the White Man came, Eight color plates by Carl Moon, the one opposite page 70 is loose and laid in. Covers worn, hinges cracked, no markings.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. Frontispiece illustration by Rockwell Kent. 1000 pages plus commentary in rear by John Crowe Ransom, William Carlos Williams and others. Previous owner's name on title page, gutter loose at title page. Rear hinge cracked. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Stillwater MN, Voyager Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 158 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A tribute to the elk, one of the most popular game animals in the U.S. Featured are writings by some of the outstanding authors in American outdoor literature, including the former editor in chief of Field & Stream and Outdoor Life, Clare Conley; Hal Borland, a longtime writer for the New York Times; Jack Ward, former head of the U.S. Forest Service; and even Teddy Roosevelt. The collection of elk-hunting stories is excellent to read, and the accompanying photographs are truly breathtaking.
Softcover. Hartford CT, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art/ Yale University, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages, 106 full-page color plates. Issued in conjunction with 2003-2004 exhibitions featuring work by American modernist Marsden Hartley (1877-1943). Gathers together the most recent scholarship on Hartley's work. Includes a chronology of his life, with a full catalogue entry accompanying each painting. With essays by Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Amy Eillis, Patricia McDonnell, Wanda M. Corn, Jonathan Weinberg, Bruce Robertson, Donna M. Cassidy, Randall R. Griffey, Carol Troyen, Stephen Kornhauser, and Ulrich Birkmaier. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 458 pages. This book argues that there was a middle-class democracy in Massachusetts even before the Revolution, which only removed British power from the area. Bump to top corner of volume causing a crease, remainder lines to bottom edge. No markings.
Hardcover. NY , Harper Brothers, 1st, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover light gray boards stamped with a white and gilt design, gray cloth spine. Top edge gilt. Originally published in France in 1902, this is the first US edition of a play set in Italy at the end of the fifteenth century. B&w frontis of the author with a tissue guard. Previous owner's name on the front fly leaf, otherwise an exceptionally clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Stein & Day, Book Club Ed., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. Frontispiece, photographs, maps, appendix, bibliography, index. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, faded dust jacket. 500 pages, b&w maps, index. Clean copy. Nathanael Greene, Major General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, known for his effective leadership in the Southern Campaign against British forces. He was born on August 7, 1742, in Rhode Island and died on June 19, 1786, in Georgia, leaving a legacy as one of George Washington's most trusted officers.
Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 87 pages. Name on front fly leaf, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, American Anthropological Society, 1st, 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, mauve cloth with yellow title label on front cover and spine, 265 pages followed by a bibliography. A collectible true first edition of this title, NOT the Panurge Press edition published the next year. Limited to 1000 copies Bloch is sometimes called "the first sexologist" for his research into sexual practices and the publication thereof. This is a classic book from an historical and anthropological standpoint, in that it retraces the importance fragrances have had in social interactions. Groundbreaking for its time, despite some errors, the aromatic substances mentioned by Bloch are still as pervasive in the perfume trade as they were at the time of his book. An excellent primer! Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 445 pages. Story of the struggle among Jefferson, Hamilton and Burr for power and influence during the early days of the nation. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 3rd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages with index. The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, based on the story of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Juan Diego, an Indian neophyte, at the hill of Tepeyac in December 1531, is one of the most important formative religious and national forces in the history of Mexico. It has variously been interpreted as the source of Mexican national identity, a means of continuity between the Indian past and Spanish domination, a symbol of national liberation, and a way of evangelizing and pacifying the Indians. The aphorism "Mexico was born at Tepeyac" aptly summarizes its importance. In this, the first work ever to examine in depth every historical source of the Guadalupe apparitions, Stafford Poole traces the origins and history of the account, and in the process challenges many commonly accepted assumptions and interpretations. Small corner clip to front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NJ, Citadel Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 292 pages. Studies the distinctive personalities, problems, and cultural contributions of such women as Margaret Fuller, Lydia Maria Child, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, examining the extent to which romanticism encouraged intellectualism among women during the three decades prior to the Civil War. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Northfield VT, Norwich University, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light tan cloth with black lettering on front cover, 39 pages. A study of the social conditions in the counties of Vermont in the earl part of the 20th century. Flint was Professor of Political Science at Norwich University.
Softcover. Durham NH, University of New Hampshire, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, original publisher's sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, square format, 78 pages, 13 text-illustrations, catalogue of 72 items depicted and described, credits.
Hardcover. NY, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1st, 1940, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers stamped with black illustration and lettering. 670 pages illustrated with contemporary prints. Historical novel of the destruction of Charleston (symbol of an era) , with a man of destiny theme. Young Perry wants to be a gentleman; he is tutored by the man who eventually turns out to be his grandfather. He does newspaper work in Charleston, he does his bit in the Civil War; the siege of Charleston forms the local point for Northern hatred. Spine cloth worn at top and bottom, clean copy.
Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to the spine. "Cary Nelson performs an invaluable service to the reader by recovering the work of dozens of forgotten poets, especially women, blacks, and writers on the left, while making it clear that the texts we recover inevitably gain new meaning from their positioning within contemporary culture." Nicely illustrated in b&w and some color, mostly book jackets and title pages of books discussed. Some light pencil marking in margins.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1964, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket. A young English novelist's journey through the Soviet Union in the early sixties (author also wrote "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner', "The General", and others. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean copy.
Softcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. A major contribution to the cultural and literary history of the Victorian age, Rule of Darkness maps the complex relationship between Victorian literary forms, genres, and theories and imperialist, racist ideology. Critics and cultural historians have usually regarded the Empire as being of marginal importance to early and mid-Victorian writers. Patrick Brantlinger asserts that the Empire was central to British culture as a source of ideological and artistic energy, both supported by and lending support to widespread belief in racial superiority, the need to transform "savagery" into "civilization," and the urgency of promoting emigration. Rule of Darkness brings together material from public records, memoirs, popular culture, and canonical literature. Brantlinger explores the influence of the novels of Captain Frederick Marryat, pioneer of British adolescent adventure fiction, and shows the importance of William Makepeace Thackeray's experience of India to his novels. He treats a number of Victorian best sellers previously ignored by literary historians, including the Anglo-Indian writer Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug and Seeta. Brantlinger situates explorers' narratives and travelogues by such famous author-adventurers as David Livingstone and Sir Richard Burton in relation to other forms of Victorian and Edwardian prose. Through readings of works by Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, John Hobson, and many others, he considers representations of Africa, India, and other non-British parts of the world in both fiction and nonfiction. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Salisbury, VT, Privately Published, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 189 pages with appendix and index, b&w illustrations. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering. Tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Lewisburg/London, Bucknell University Press / Associated University Presses,, 3rd pr., 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 268 pages. "Ruben Dario" is the pseudonym of Felix Ruben Garcia Sarmiento. He was born in Metapa, Nicaragua (today known as Ciudad Dario) in January 18, 1867. Dual Spanish/English text. Clean, bright copy. Dario is possibility the poet who has had the greatest and most lasting influence in twentieth century Spanish literature. He has been praised as the prince of Castilian letters.
Hardcover. Windsor VT, Richard and Tracy, 1st US, 1833, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, polished brown calf, 213 pages. Eleven page preliminary essay by the American editors, followed by 9 sermons, title label on spine. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a chipped, tape repaired dust jacket. Maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 266 pages. INSCRIBED BY SIPE on the front fly leaf to fellow professor Roger Mitchell. English majors are used to being told that Shakespeare frequently broke the rules of iambic pentameter, and that as he matured artistically, his usage became bolder and freer. Well, it isn't true. Shakespeare's iambics turn out to be extremely orthodox (which just makes all the more impressive the variations he was able to create within the rules). In 1968 Dorothy Sipe went to the remarkable labor of demonstrating this objectively through a painstaking analysis of over 13,000 lines of verse. She also supplied information I've never found anywhere else on the prosodic rules taught by poets to poets in Shakespeare's day. All this said, including a five star rating for the perfect achievement of its goal, the book is definitely not for everyone interested in Shakespeare's verse and methods. It is devoted to proving a highly specific case by means of many, many examples that non-specialists are likely to find tedious. But if you are deeply interested in some subjects -- Shakespeare's iambics, his coinages, and the history of English iambic technique -- it is well worth your time. Dust jacket tanned, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Middletown CT, Wesleyan University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 90 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. San Francisco, Sixteen Rivers Press, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 101 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page. Clean copy.
Softcover. Iowa City, University of Iowa Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 91 pages. INSCRIBED BY HULL on the title page. Previous owner's name on the front fly leaf. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 2nd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 212 pages. Small notation on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, yellow and black cloth covers, 145 pages. This interpretative essay and extensive bibliography surveying the chronology and major characteristics of American technology before 1850 is the first available guide in this period to the rapidly developing field of the history of technology. Clean copy.
Softcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 81 pages. INSCRIBED BY GALVIN on the title page. The Air's Accomplices vividly evokes poet Brendan Galvin's love for the rugged landscapes of Cape Cod and Ireland and their elusive inhabitants. Weaving themes of death, migration, and aging into an exploration of the natural world, Galvin's work reflects a deep engagement with the places he and his family have called home, as well as with the triumphs and tragedies of human life. Faint corner crease to cover. Clean copy.
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 "Knots: Storiesby: Oyehaug, Gunnhild/ Dickson, Kari (Translator)")
 "Letters to Yeseninby: Harrison, Jim")
 "Monna Vanna: A Play in Three Actsby: Maurice Maeterlinck")
 "Odoratus Sexualis A Scientific And Literary Study Of Sexual Scents And Erotic Perufmesby: Dr. Iwan Bloch")
 "Realism and Invention in the Prints of Albrecht Durerby: David R Smith, Liz Guenther")
 "Repression And Recovery: Modern American Poetry & Politics Of Cultural Memory 1910-1945by: Cary Nelson")
 "Sermons on Infidelity: First American Edition with a Preliminary Essayby: Thomson, Andrew")
 "The Air's Accomplices: Poems (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Brendan Galvin")