Hardcover. Moscow, Foreign Language Publishing, 1st transl. thus, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 439 pages. Goncharov's first novel, preceding his masterpiece Oblomov by twelve years - is a study of lost illusions and rude spiritual awakening in the modern world. Translated by Ivy LitvinovaNo date, appears to be a 1950s printing. Clean copy.
Softcover. Rochester VT, Park Street Press, 1st thus, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 288 pages. This groundbreaking survey, originally published in London in 1860, is a radically open-minded look at the use of drugs across the world and throughout the ages. Early users of tobacco in Russia would have their noses cut off and repeat offenders their heads. Pope Innocent XII excommunicated any who used it in St. Peters. Marijuana users in 14th century Egypt would have their teeth extracted for the crime. Yet use of these and other forbidden substances continued to grow. If only as a record of the perennial failure of harsh punishments to deter drug use Victorian naturalist Mordecai Cooke's work The Seven Sisters of Sleep would remain significant. But Cooke's natural humor and keen insights have ensured this work's reputation as possibly the best early book from what has grown into an enormous body of literature on mind- and mood-altering substances. Written at a time, similar to our own, when drug use was being reconsidered, The Seven Sisters of Sleep is a thought-provoking and open-minded look at the use of drugs across the world and throughout the ages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st thus, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. black cloth with color illustration on cover label. 347 pages. 10 color plates by Peter Hurd, including the illustrated title page. Front hinge cracked, bookplate on half-title page. Otherwise clean.
Softcover. Chicago, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art; Univ. of Chicago, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 page exhibition catalog with b&w photos of the sculptor's work. INSCRIBED by Uchida on the title page. Clean copy.
Softcover. Austin TX, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, 1st, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps, 40 pages. Illustrated in color and b&w. Amazingly, no date for this exhibition catalog on WW1 that includes posters, photographs, letters and other ephemera and artifacts from the period. Clean copy.
Softcover. Montpelier VT, Wood Art Gallery, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 63 pages illustrated in b&w. Lists 79 works exhibited. Thomas Waterman Wood was an American painter born in Montpelier, Vermont. Essay by William Lipke. Exhibition held at Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vt., Sept. 11-Oct. 5; the Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, N.H., Oct. 14-Nov. 12; and the Wiggin Gallery, Boston Public Library, Nov. 16-Dec. 10, 1972. Includes bibliographical references. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Holiday House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Mitra. Waking up on his birthday with a toothache, Elephant visits the dentist and learns about proper tooth care. Inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Softcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages, color plates. With translucent dust wrapper. Mild ripple to pages. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Neuberger Museum of Modern Art, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 36 pages. Numerous color plates. Essay by Patricia Philips, lavish illustrations. Published to accompany the exhibition at Neuberger Museum of Art from January 27 - May 5, 2002. Mild fade to spine edge on cover. Clean copy.
Softcover. Racine WI, Whitman Publishing, 1st, 1938, Book: Fair, Softcover, 24 pages illustrated in color and b&w with scenes from the animated film. Front cover detached, spine with tape repair. Minor wear but pages clean and bright.
Softcover. Walt Disney Enterprises, 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, heavy linen-like pages, color art throughout. Some white paper residue stuck to front cover over the title. Rest of book is clean with minor wear.
Hardcover. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. In Washington Seen Fredric Miller and Howard Gillette bring together nearly four hundred unique photographs from the Gilded Age to the Great Society. Throughout, the focus is not on streets and monuments but on the complex relationships among the people of Washington-men and women, black and white-and the way they worked and lived. Here are Washingtonians at home and at work, at restaurant tables and lunch counters, in schools and churches, dancing the jitterbug and going to the movies, cheering the Redskins, the Senators, and the Homestead Greys. In the accompanying text, Miller and Gillette invite readers to enter into an intimate "conversation with the past," offering insightful commentary on the images of people whose faces cannot fail to captivate. Clean copy.
Softcover. Albuquerque NM, University of New Mexico Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 365 pages, b&w illustrations. Professor Myres gives frontier women a voice they never had. She uses extensive source material by and about women ( letters, journals, and reminiscences from over 400 collections ) to study the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West. She offers a major reinterpretation of the experience of pioneer women, including that of Indian, Mexican, French, black, and Anglo-American women. The account recreates in detail the frontier experience of all these women, beginning with their physical and intellectual responses to the trek West, and concluding with their struggle for political suffrage and economic opportunity. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Viking Press, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial cloth. When Whistle for Willie was first published in 1964, The New York Times wrote "Mr. Keats' illustrations boldly, colorfully capture the child, his city world. and the shimmering heat of a summer's day." Clean copy. A Children's Book Club Edition.
Hardcover. Templar/Candlewick Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, In this enthralling scrapbook that William Shakespeare compiled for his daughter, he looks back on his life as he retires from the theatre. Discover late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth century stories of love, war, kings and queens, fellow playwrights and actors, explorers and life in London. An interactive book with lots of flaps, notes in envelopes, etc. Excellent condition.
Hardcover. Annapolis, Naval Institute Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 249 pages. Hardcover. Brick cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Illustrated with photos in b/w. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean, unmarked copy.
Softcover. Dallas TX, Adams-Middleton Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 24 pages illustrated in color. Second brochure laid-in, all text, 4 pages. An exhibition catalog of the Spanish sculptor's work.