Softcover. Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 231 pages. A profile of a doctor who came to China's liberated area with his Canadian-American medical team at the height of the anti-Japanese war in 1938. He eventually was killed in the conflict. Written in 1946 from the perspective of the Chinese Communist Party. Clean copy.
Softcover. Fleischmanns NY, Purple Mountain Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 80 pages with b&w photos and diagrams. Common features of these barns include a core structure composed of a steep gabled roof, supported by purlin plates and anchor beam posts, the floor and stone piers below. Another distinctive feature of the Dutch barn is that the ends of the cross beams protrude through the columns. These protrusions are often rounded to form tongues. This feature is not found in any other style of barn design. Pages are bright and unmarked, solid binding.
Softcover. Wilsonville OR, Beautiful America Publishing, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 247 pages with bibliography; index to architects, and index to houses. With more than 180 beautifully reproduced color photographs and additional drawings this is a comprehensive survey the East Coast mansions. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc. , 1st Edition, 1975, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 510 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Red cover boards, white quarter cloth, gilt title on spine and front cover board, agewear to covers. Dust jacket has edgewear (see image). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked. A historical narrative about WWI in the United States.
Softcover. Carbondale IL, Southern Illinois University Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 62 pages. INSCRIBED BY GALVIN on the title page. These poems chronicle the waxing and waning of the seasons from one winter to the next in the area around Egg Island, the dunes near a small seacoast town on the outermost reaches of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Galvin's training as a naturalist and environmental writer is evident as his practiced eye roves the waves, marshes, and forests, finding meaning and beauty in the smallest detail-- bird-watching, rebuilding a woodpile, or the flight of bobwhite quail. Other poems recall the poet's affectionate memories of his deceased wife and the life they shared together, acknowledging grief without veering into the maudlin. Always present beneath the surface is the question of where humans fit into this wild, ever-changing landscape. Mild crease to front cover otherwise a clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Princeton, NJ, Markus Weiner Publishers, 1st English Translation, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 327 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Decorated wrapper, excellent. Pages clean and bright. Binding good. Like new copy. This fascinating study of eunuchs guides readers as they travel through various lands and periods, familiarizing themselves with the duties and responsibilities, the unspeakable torments, and the passions and joys of these individuals.
Hardcover. Columbus OH, Ohio State University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 170 pages. LONG INSCRIPTION BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf dated 1987.
Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 335 pages. Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity-the notion that we, the living, are different and somehow superior to our predecessors and that our civilization is likely to be succeeded by one even superior to ours-is a relatively recent Western invention and one whose time may already have passed, Name on front fly leaf, several pages with light ink markings.
Hardcover. Indianapolis/New York, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, rubbed dust jacket, 190 pages. INSCRIBED BY BERGE on the front fly leaf to Roger (Mitchell), fellow poet and teacher. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Phaidon Press, reprint, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, about 72 pages, unpaginated. The Gamble House, also known as the David B. Gamble House, is an iconic American Craftsman home in Pasadena, California, designed by the architectural firm Greene and Greene. Constructed in 1908 09 as a home for David B. Gamble, son of the Procter & Gamble founder James Gamble, Blueprints, renderings, photos vintage and modern. Clean copy.
Softcover. Washington CT, Craftsbury Common, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Illustrated with b&w photographs by Hubbard, taken while traveling throughout America, reminiscent of the Farm Security Administration photographers of the 1930s. INSCRIBED BY PHOTOGRAPHER on the inside front cover. Clean copy.
Hardcover. US, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 1996-04-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Remainder dot to bottom edge, else a clean, tight copy.
NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by S.D. Schindler. A young boy obsessed with speed and skateboarding thinks that his visit with Great-aunt Ida and her Great Dane, Doc, will be boring, but he finds some surprises in store, in a colorfully illustrated tale featuring a rhyming text. Small closed tears, sticker residue and light edgewear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright. lightly worn dust jacket. 240 pages illustrated in color. A full-color survey of the architectural firm of Greene & Greene that almost single-handedly defined the Arts & Crafts aesthetic in America in the first decades of the 20th century. An in-depth tour of 25 magnificent homes examines the creative evolution of their style as well as surveying their greatest works. Light tape repair to spine of dust jacket.
Hardcover. Montezuma IA, F. Brownell & Son, reprint, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 496 pages with b&w illustrations. "A Whole New Collection of Fascinating and Widely Varied Shop Kinks, Cures to Problems, Techniques, Jokes and Comments sent by Practicing Gunsmiths from all over the World." Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper Brothers, 1st Edition, 1869, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2326 total pages. 4 volume set. Hardcovers. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. B/w illustrated fold-out map in volume 1. Decorated marbled edges. Decorated endpapers. Decorated cover boards with leather corners and quarter cloths. Leather spines with raised bands, gilt title and decorations. Spines straight. Light tanning from age to pages.
Hardcover. London, UK, Frederick Warne , 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 446 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Red leatherette, silver lettering to spine, top edge with red cosmetic stain. Pictorial, price clipped dust jacket. Slight wear to edges and spine, light scratching to covers, else a very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Nick Lyons Books, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 259 pages, b&w illustrations. Originally published in 1960. With a new introduction by the author. Clean copy.
NY, Dutton Children's Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Color illustrations by Judith Byron Schachner. Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear to top edges, price clipped. When Mother Holly leaves to do errands, she warns Cat to behave himself. But faster than a cat can pounce, he is up to his whiskers in trouble! One crazy mishap leads to another, until the little cottage is in a very messy state. Cat is busily tidying up when he hears Mother Holly coming up the path. He spies a tiny piece of corn on the floor and quickly swallows it. But it's no ordinary corn, and suddenly Cat notices that he is making a very curious rumbling sound.
Hardcover. Great Britain, Abelard-Schuman Limited, Reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Nonpaginated. Hardcover. Decorated cover boards (see image). Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. In beautiful condition. the classic Grimm tale of the origins of the moon is brought back to life.