Softcover. NY, Picador/Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 398 pages, Illustrated in color and b&w. In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years. Both became famous for their dynamic, modernist linocuts-streamlined, full of movement and brilliant color, summing up the hectic interwar years. Yet at the same time, they looked back to medieval myths and early music, to country ways that were disappearing from sight. Jenny Uglow's Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time traces their struggles and triumphs, conflicts and dreams, following them from Suffolk to London, from the New Forest to Vancouver Island. This is a world of futurists, surrealists, and pioneering abstraction, but also of the buzz of the new, of machines and speed, of shops and sport and dance, shining against the threat of depression and looming shadows of war. Remainder dot to top edge otherwise like new.

Softcover. Boston, MFA Publications, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 269 pages. Color and b&w reproductions of paintings throughout. A work issued in conjunction with an exhibition held in 1997, providing a survey of the extensive collection of paintings from China, including critical commentary on the work throughout, examining the cultural importance of the pieces discussed. 9 3/4" to 12" tall; interior is clean and unmarked.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 301 pages. Stated First printing on copyright page, $5.95 price on front flap. A collection of articles written for The New Yorker 1958-1965. Some tanning to dj. small price stamp on front flap, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Italy, NY University Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, white pictorial boards with light gray cloth spine. 30 pages illustrated in color, several fold-out plates. Clean, bright exhibition catalog. Opening essay in Italian and English.

Softcover. Fayetteville, University of Arkansas Press, reprint, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY COLLINS on the title page. A collection which includes some of Collins' most anthologized poems, including "Introduction to Poetry," "Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House," and "Advice to Writers".

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, red cloth in a worn and chipped dust jacket with closed tears, 191 pages with index. Dr. Worcester presents a theory of satire, surveying the whole field since Dryden's Discourse of the Origin of Satire and drawing illustrations not only from English but from classical, French, German, and American literature. At the same time he makes a penetrating study of irony and its uses. Name on inside front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, A & C Black, 1st, 1931, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust Jacket, 81 pages. 4 color, 8 b&w illustrations. One in the "Peeps at Many Lands" series. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Stephen Daye Press, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front cover. 46 pages, b&w photos of candle-making. Old Ways of Working Series. Front endpapers have tape shadows and old price in crayon. Otherwise a clean, bright copy inside.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, white cloth covers with gilt design, 177 pages. B&w illustrations by Demi Hitz. Stated First Edition. INSCRIBED BY TRANSLATOR FRANCIS CARPENTER on the front fly leaf. The 1st complete translation of thousand year old classic work. Includes biography of Lu Yu. Embellished by Demi Hitz's illustrations. Includes ritual of preparation, ingredients, environment Chinese tea ceremony. Light chipping, small tape repairs to rear of dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 328 pages with index. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access and receive care influence the kind of care we receive. The Doctor Who Wasn't There traces the long arc of enthusiasm for and skepticism of electronic media in health and medicine. Over the past century, a series of new technologies promised to democratize access to healthcare. From the humble telephone to the connected smartphone, from FM radio to wireless wearables, from cable television to the electronic brains of networked mainframe computers: each new platform has promised a radical reformation of the healthcare landscape. With equal attention to the history of technology, the history of medicine, and the politics and economies of American healthcare, physician and historian Jeremy A. Greene explores the role that electronic media play, for better and for worse, in the past, present, and future of our health. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, The Prairie Press, 1st, 1935, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover, 144 pages. A collection of radio sermons by a pastor broadcast on WLB, a midwest radio station in the 1930s. INSCRIBED BY HOLLAND on the title page. Clean copy.

Softcover. Austin TX, University of Texas Press, 3rd Pr., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 264 pages including appendices, bibliography and index. Profusely illustrated with b&w and color photographs. Superb images, portraits of individuals and family groups, and their arts, convey a quality of intimacy and serenity. Scenes of daily activity show many details of the way the Navajos life has been lived. Clean, bright copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Softcover. NY, Dover Publicastions, 1st pbk, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Reprint; The 203 Plates & Text of His Architectura published in 1598. Late Renaissance and early Baroque architectural ornament. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Bologna IT, Scripta Maneant Editori, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards, 455 pages. From a private collection in Italy, these previously unpublished works by Francis Bacon are presented here in thematic sections, each of which is preceded by a short introductory text. Nearly 700 drawings, pastels, and collages were gifted by Bacon over the course of many years to his close friend, Italian journalist Cristiano Lovatelli Ravarino. His commentary is included here, along with texts by noted art historians Edward Lucie-Smith and Fernando Castro Florez, and an authentication report from Ambra Draghetti, graphological consultant to the Court of Bologna. The works were photographed expressly for this publication. TEXT IN ENGLISH & ITALIAN. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Boston, Ginn and Company, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with silver lettering, 525 pages with index. B&w maps, illustrations. A historical interpretation of the semi-arid Short grass Country, the so called Cattle Kingdom. A well written book with a long chapter on the cattle industry. Copyright page states 1931, but titles listed in front date to 1937. Name on front fly leaf, mild musty odor.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. First published in 1940, The Disappearing Floor is the 19th book in the Hardy Boys series. This appears to be a 1950s reprint. Once again Frank and Joe Hardy take on a puzzling case when their famous detective father asks the boys to assist him in tracking down a notorious jewel thief and his accomplices. The trail leads to the outskirts of the Hardys' home town and to a weirdly guarded mansion on the old Perth estate. With their pal Chet Morton, the brothers must tackle the mystery of the mansion heir's sudden death. Clean copy, paper tanning.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket. First published in 1928, The Missing Chums is the fourth book in the Hardy Boys series. This appears to be a 1950s reprint. Follow Frank and Joe Hardy as they grapple with the unexplained disappearance of their closest friends, Chet and Biff, during a motorboat trip. The stakes are high, as Baldy Turk's gang think they've kidnapped Frank and Joe and, in a letter received by the Hardy Boys' Aunt Gertrude, are demanding ransom for their return. An investigation leads them to the mysterious Blacksnake Island, where they, too, are captured by the gang of criminals. Not only is the local bank robbed, but two of the Hardy boys' pals mysteriously disappear after a masquerade party. Are the events related? How the Hardy boys use all their courage and skill to outwit the criminals provides an exciting climax to one of the most baffling mysteries the young detectives have ever encountered. Clean copy, paper tanning.

Hardcover. NY, Scribner, 1st US, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 255 pages. In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to make a home in the midst of environmental disaster. Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies. Caro, Pauly, Sally, and Grandy are safe, so far, from the rising water that threatens to destroy the town and that has, perhaps, already destroyed everything else. But for how long? Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st US, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers with gilt lettering, 454 pages. "This novel forecasts the advent of the world state. It includes Wells's most thorough indictment of the phenomenon of fascism." A strange disturbing book, published on the eve of WWII. It is in part an analysis of fascism and in part a utopian novel. The book is a biography of a character Rudolf 'Rud' Whitlow, who is born with such an aggressive temperament that he is referred to by his nurse as the 'Holy Terror' and the infant become the despair of his parents. Rud eventually gets involved in socialist activism and a group plotting world revolution.

Softcover. NY, American Italian Historical Association, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 244 pages, 35th Conference of the American Italian Historical Association . "'Italian Americans and World War II, ' explores many facets of the dynamic period of the 1940s and the consequences of war and peace. Scholars within AIHA and outside the academy have been slow to recognize the significance of World War II, now recognized as a seminal event in Italian-American life and culture. . . . "This volume is dedicated to all Italian Americans who lived and died, fought and prayed during World War II." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Pantheon, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. This is the first detailed and balanced biography of one of the most controversial literary figures of the twentieth century. It includes much material - poetry, prose, and letters - which has not previously been published. Ezra Pound, an American who left home for Venice and London at the age of twenty-three, was a leading member of "the modern movement," a friend and helper of Joyce, Eliot, Yeats, and Hemingway, and an early supporter of Lawrence and Frost. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Vancouver, Raincoast Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 307 pages. b&w illustrations. In the mid-1800s, George Back went on three Arctic expeditions with Sir John Franklin across the barren lands of the Canadian north. But unlike Franklin, Back lived to tell his tales in journals, drawings, watercolors, and maps. Noted writer Peter Steele drew on these sources, along with contemporary accounts, to craft this gripping tale of resilience in the face of incredible odds. The book thrillingly recounts the near-impossible circumstances of these expeditions -- the fights with the Hudson Bay Company, rations that failed to get through, even cannibalism. Back survived these horrors to lead an exploration of the Great Fish River, now named Back River in his honor. His return upstream, hauling his handmade boat up 83 sets of rapids, is one of the greatest-ever feats of heroism and endurance. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, The Paris Review, 1st, 1963, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wrappers, 180 pages. Interview with Katherine Anne Porter. Also, Malcolm Lowry, Henry Miller, Lawrence Durrell, Robert Creeley, and more. Mild outer soil and some general wear.

Hardcover. NY, Mcdowell, Obolensky, 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with faded gilt lettering to spine, 347 pages. Edited with an introduction by John C. Thirlwall. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 279 pages. James Facos evokes the tension, the triumph and the tragedy of an American bomber crew in England during the height of the war over Germany in 1944. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Vermont Heritage Press, Revised Ed., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a rubbed, edgeworn dust jacket. Pictorial end papers. B&w illustrations throughout. Intact foldout of "Shelburne Shipyard in Winter" in winter circa 1920. This new edition adds essays by Arthur B. Cohn, director of the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, on Lake Champlain steamboats and ferries and recent developments in Champlain Valley Maritime archaeology. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay, reprint, 1889, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra cotta cloth stamped in black and gilt, 362 pages including index. Originally published in 1878, this is the 1889 New Edition with final corrections and additions. A Victorian era study of male sexuality. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 3rd pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 439 pages, b&w illustrations with fold-out map of Polo's travels in rear. First published in 1931, this is the 1950 third printing. None of the manuscripts which have come down to us represents the original form of Marco Polo's narrative, but it is clear that certain texts are closer to the lost original than others. Entrusted with the task of preparing a new Italian edition of Marco Polo, Benedetto discovered many unknown manuscripts. He carefully edited the most famous of the manuscripts (the Geographic text) and collated it with the other best known ones. * An invaluable index has been added to Aldo Ricci's of Benedetto's text, which includes all the identifications made in the Geographic text and also later editions by Marsden (1818), Pauthier (1865) and Yule (1871). * The difficulty of following Polo on his many journeys has also been simplified by the process of distinguishing between those places on his main route to China and his return journey by sea to Persia and those places which he visited during his stay in China and those he never visited at all. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, The Franklin Library, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, First Edition thus. SIGNED by Updike, with "special message" by him and b&w illustrations by Michael Deas not in the trade edition. Basis for the movie of the same name starring Cher, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Susan Sarandon as the three repressed women who accidentally conjure what they believe to be the perfect man (Jack Nicholson, playing the devil). Full green, gilt-decorated leather; all edges gilt; ribbon place marker. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Northampton MA, Kraushar Press, 1st, 1943, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth covers with black lettering, 163 pages, b&w photos. Inspired by a visit to Stoney Reservation in Alberta, Canada, the author spent 15 years visiting & living among 47 tribes, and developed a touring show of pictures, songs, dances, stories & sign language. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Dey Street Books/Morrow, 1st, 2024, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 437 pages. Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself. In Traveling, Powers seeks to understand Mitchell through her myriad journeys. Through extensive interviews with Mitchell's peers and deep archival research, she takes readers to rural Canada, mapping the singer's childhood battle with polio. She charts the course of Mitchell's musical evolution, ranging from early folk to jazz fusion to experimentation with pop synthetics. She follows the winding road of Mitchell's collaborations with other greats, and the loves that emerged along the way, all the way through to the remarkable return of Mitchell to music-making after the 2015 aneurysm that nearly took her life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Atheneum Books, reprint, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 273 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. A reprint of the classic Scribner's edition from 1911 featuring all 14 of Wyeth's color plates.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, Porter and Coates, 1st, 1881, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, brown cloth with beveled edges, ornate black and gilt stamped design on front cover and spine, all edges gilt. 315 pages, 44 b&w engravings, most full-page. A tale told from a dog's point of view. Front and rear hinges cracked, front endpaper missing, wear to spine extremities. Interior is clean and bright. Margaret Thomson Janvier was an American poet and author of children's literature who published under the pseudonym Margaret Vandegrift. Scarce title.

Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill, 4th pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 241 pages illustrated in b&w. Foreword by Charles A. Blessing. Voluminously illustrated by the author with drawings and plans. Bibliography. Index. This book traces the history of urban design to date. The monograph has become a classic.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, Shambhala, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red & green patterned wraps. 142 pages with primarily b&w plates, select color & color frontispiece. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Baltimore, Gateway Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 335 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page to the previous owner, a Major in the US Air Force Reserve. His ownership signature on the front fly leaf. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. London, Harrap, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light soil on top page block, otherwise clean, tight copy. Moderate chipping/rubbing to dust jacket edges now covered in plastic protective sleeve.

Hardcover. Seattle, Mountaineers Books, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 302 pages. Every year wildfires ravage forests, destroy communities, and devastate human lives, with only the bravery of dedicated firefighters creating a barrier against even greater destruction. Throughout the 2016 wildfire season, journalist Heather Hansen witnessed firsthand the heroics of the Station 8 crew in Boulder, Colorado. She tells that story here, layered with the added context of the history, science, landscape, and human behavior that, year-by-year, increases the severity, frequency, and costs of conflagrations in the West. She examines the changes in both mindset and activity around wildfires and tracks the movement from wildfire as something useful, to something feared, to something necessary but roundly dreaded. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 182 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy. A photographic tribute to Julia Tuell, one of the first women to photograph Native Americans at the turn of the 20th century.

Softcover. South Royalton VT, Steerforth Press, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 187 pages plus b&w photos. With haunting photographs and piercing descriptions, Women of the Shadows depicts the secluded women of southern Italy and their passionate, painful, heartrending existence. Cornelisen, who lived among these women in the mountainous villages of Lucania after World War II, reveals their struggles during a time when most of their men had to leave for factories in the industrial north. The women remained behind to work the fields. There's Peppina, Ninetta, Teresa, Maria, Pinuccia, and Cettina, all women who "have done things of which they are not proud; they know it in their hearts, as one woman said, that nothing is private, they would also agree with her conclusion: That doesn't mean you get used to it." With an extraordinary understanding of the interior lives of these and other women, Cornelisen brings them out of the shadows to tell their heroic stories in a book which truly merits the label "classic." A new introduction by the author suggests that the more things change, the more, in essence, they remain the same. Wrappers sunned, otherwise tight and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Ecco, 6th pr., 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 471 pages. A guide to some of the world's most fascinating places, as seen and experienced by writer, television host, and relentlessly curious traveler Anthony Bourdain. Bourdain saw more of the world than nearly anyone. His travels took him from the hidden pockets of his hometown of New York to a tribal longhouse in Borneo, from cosmopolitan Buenos Aires, Paris, and Shanghai to Tanzania's utter beauty and the stunning desert solitude of Oman's Empty Quarter--and many places beyond. In World Travel, a life of experience is collected into an entertaining, practical, fun and frank travel guide that gives readers an introduction to some of his favorite places--in his own words. Featuring essential advice on how to get there, what to eat, where to stay and, in some cases, what to avoid, World Travel provides essential context that will help readers further appreciate the reasons why Bourdain found a place enchanting and memorable. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, The Viking Press, 2nd pr., 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 309 pages. Clean, tight copy.