Softcover. St. Cloud MN, North Star Press Of St. Cloud, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages, b&w illustrations. The Hooked X is a secret symbol first found on an inscribed slab of rock, dated 1362, unearthed by a farmer in Minnesota in 1898. This mysterious symbol inspired the author to pursue a nine-year investigation on both sides of the Atlantic that led to the discovery of other artifacts and clandestine documents indicative of secret trips to North America long before Columbus. The trail of evidence led to a deep plunge into the shadowy areas of Freemasonry and the Knights Templar that most brethren of these orders are unaware of. This incredible true story reveals untold secrets of North America that weave from medieval times through today, forever changing history as we know it. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In this sweeping, timely thriller, a Palestinian American FBI agent teams up with a hardline Israeli cop to solve the murder of the Israeli police chief in Gaza. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Benjamin Blom, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 271 pages. Originally published 1928, this is the 1972 re-issue. Introduction by Wallace Rice and illustrations by Norman Lindsay. 271 pages. Blue cloth with gold spine titles in darker blue title window, with light shelf-wear. Spine square. Binding sound. No jacket,
Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six matching volumes, red cloth bindings with black/gilt titling on spines, gilt initials on front board. Covers Emerson's letters from 1813 to 1881. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) was an influential American essayist, philosopher, and poet, known for leading the Transcendentalist movement. His works emphasized individualism, nature, and self-reliance, significantly impacting American literature and thought. NOT ex-lib, clean complete set. Due to weight DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 198 pages. A rousing memoir of an ordinary man's extraordinary life - a great, true adventure tale. Celebrated scientist Tim Flannery has edited Nicol's original text, providing accompanying footnotes and an introduction that give historical context to the sailor's exploits. Contains a brief but interesting passage on Newfoundland, with references to other nautical destinations such as Canton, Gaspe, Hawaii, Bombay, Quebec, Nootka Sound, the Cape of Good Hope, and Cape Horn. In his many voyages the Scottish-born sailor John Nicol twice circumnavigated the globe, visiting every inhabited continent while witnessing and participating in many of the greatest events of exploration and adventure in the eighteenth-century.' Clean copy.
Hardcover. Stockholm, P.A. Norstedt & Soners, 1st thus, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 495 pages, b&w frontis., fold-out map in rear. English translation by Naomi Walford.
Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 309 pages. A collection of essays from the famed literary critic. Clean copy.
Softcover. Bath ME, Anderson & Sons Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 140 pages, b&w illustrations. New England has been the birthplace of over 1100 major leaguers. In between the well-known and the unknown are several tiers of other ballplayers. This book pays tribute to those tiers closest to the top. Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Castel Di Sangro is a tiny town in the Abruzzo region of Italy, whose soccer team became an international sensation by winning promotion to the highest levels of national competition. For the team from this tiny village to be playing against the teams of Genoa and Venice was more than a dream come true, it was inconceivable. But the truth can be stranger than dreams, as Joe McGinniss discovered when he arrived in Castel Di Sangro. A recent convert to soccer, he wanted to experience life in a town turned upside down by the game. What he found was a cavalcade of euphoria, betrayal, grief, and euphoria again, an entire town living in an emotional frenzy unlike anything since the local battles of World War II. McGinniss lost himself totally to the team, a boisterous collection of characters whom readers will grow to love, and found a story whose depth and power enthralled him. Like Field of Dreams, Hoosiers, and The Secret of Santa Vittoria, this is a masterpiece of storytelling that transcends sports to embrace universal emotions. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY , Atheneum, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 141 pages. A Spanish/English bilingual edition of this influential poet. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Madison WI, University of Wisconsin Press, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with white lettering on spine. 276 pages. Between 1868 and 1897 Henry James wrote a number of short essays and reviews of artists and art collections; these essays were published in magazines such as "Atlantic Monthly" and "Harper's Weekly" and in newspapers such as the "New York Tribune". They included James' comments on Ruskin, Turner, Whistler, Sargent, and the Impressionists, among many others. Thirty of these essays were collected and first published in a modern edition in 1956, accompanied by John Sweeney's introduction which sketched James' interests in the visual arts over a period of years, focusing on the ways in which painting and painters entered his work as subjects. Susan Griffin's new foreword places James' observations in a contemporary context. Some of the novelist's judgements will seem wrong to today's readers: he was very critical of the Impressionists, for example, but all of these essays bear the stamp of James' critical intelligence, and they tell us a great deal about his development as a writer during those years. Bight, clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 105 pages. Translated by Helen Weaver. Writings by Artaud about his experience with the Tarahumara Indians in 1936, their rituals and ceremonies, and his efforts to find alternatives to what he felt was an increasingly limited European view of the mind and consciousness. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, 1st US, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 79 pages. Talks originally delivered on the BBC Third Programme, on what goes on in the body when men and animals are thinking. A Series of Broadcast Talks by Sir Charles Sherrington, E.D. Adrian, W.E. Le Gros Clark, S. Zuckerman, E.T.O. Slater, Wilder Penfield, W. Russell Brain, Viscount Samuel, A.J. Ayer & Gilbert Ryle. Dust jacket shows wear at edges and darkening to paper. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, W.A. Wilde Company, 1st, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt titles, 299 pages, color frontis by Harold Cue. Spine gilt faded, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Harper and Row, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, chipped dust jacket, 64 pages illustrated in 3-colors by Arnold Lobel. Flap price of $1.95, four I Can Read titles on rear of dj, reverse side of dj lists other titles in the series. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Charter Books, reprint, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 350 pages. With a new introduction by the author. Presents the story about coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet three, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to manhood in a right-handed world. Written in Henry's own words, this funny novel follows his eccentric course from bush league to the World Series. First published in 1953. Price blacked out on front fly leaf, otherwise a tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the half-title page. "Poet, writer, artist, and naturalist Emily Hiestand takes us to four far-flung corners of the globe - to Orkney in northernmost Scotland, to the Greek Islands, to Belize (formerly British Honduras), and to the Florida Everglades - and gives us some of the most sensual, learned, and witty writing about place to appear in years." Clean copy.
Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 554 pages. A facsimile reprint of the 1733 edition. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Washington DC, Corpus Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, Light blue cloth covers with dark blue lettering to spine. 390 pages. Maurice Blondel was a phenomenologist long before the term was used to describe an identifiable movement. His monumental work, L'Action (1893). set the stage for an intellectual revolution that is still in progress. It remains a classic effort to demonstrate the integral unity of science, metaphysics, and the moral life in the light of man's religious aspirations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Lincoln NE, Bison Books, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 368 pages. Documents the generations of Native peoples who for twelve millennia have moved through and eventually settled along the rocky coast, rivers, lakes, valleys, and mountains of a region now known as Maine. Arriving first to this area were Paleo-Indian peoples, followed by maritime hunters, more immigrants, then a revival of maritime cultures. Beginning in the sixteenth century, Native peoples in northern New England became tangled in the far-reaching affairs of European explorers and colonists. Twelve Thousand Years reveals how Penobscots, Abenakis, Passamaquoddies, Maliseets, Micmacs, and other Native communities both strategically accommodated and overtly resisted European and American encroachments. Clean copy.
Softcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 2nd pr., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 387 pages. Softcover. Black & white illustrations throughout. Faded spine. Light shelf wear to cover. Pen marks to three pages. Otherwise clean copy.
Hardcover. Hanover NH, Hood Museum of Art, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. 86 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran March 25 through June 25, 1989 at the Hood Museum of Art and then September 9 through October 15, 1989 at the Currier Gallery of Art. Features a preface by Timothy Rub, an introduction by Robert M. Doty and the poem "Chariot" by Stanley Kunitz. Includes color and black and white numerous illustrations, a checklist, biographical information, and a selected bibliography. Boghosian, (1926-2020), constructed his works from found objects. "Building upon the traditions of Surrealism and Dada Boghosian's assemblages and collages playfully contemplate the boundaries between dream and reality. In creating his art, Boghosian draws heavily on his extensive personal archive of found objects, gathered together in his home and studio. A one inch tear at the top of the jacket has been repaired with tape on the reverse side. Name on first blank page, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Tommy Orange traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School through three generations of a family in a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion prison castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Stars son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his fathers jailer. Clean copy.