Hardcover. NY, C.M. Saxton & Company, 1st, 1857, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 340 pages+ 2 pages of ads at rear. Worn and soiled brown leather boards with "Presented by the Vermont State Agricultural Society" stamped in gilt on front board. Marbled endpapers. Black spine label with gilt lettering. Many illustrations. Traces the pedigree of the Morgan horse from the original Justin Morgan with hints for breeding, breaking and general use and management. Front hinge cracked, interior clean, binding tight.

Hardcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This pioneering study documents the extent and diversity of the impact of Nietzschean ideas on Soviet literature and culture. It shows for the first time how these ideas, unacknowledged and reworked, entered and shaped that culture and stimulated the imagination of both supporters and detractors of the regime. 421 pages, a bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday Books for Young Readers, 2nd pr, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Text and pictures portray the activities of woodland animals on a snowy night. 32 pages illustrated with San Souci's exquisite watercolors. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Henry Holt & Co., reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 406 pages. Second edition of this national best seller, with a personalized inscription signed by the author on the half-title.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 312 pages. The first book to document the peasant rebellion against Soviet collectivization, Peasant Rebels Under Stalin retrieves a crucial lost chapter from the history of Stalinist Russia. The peasant revolt against collectivization, as reconstructed by author Lynne Viola, was the most violent and sustained resistance to the Soviet state after the Russian Civil War. Conservative estimates suggest that over the course of the 1920s and early 1930s, more than 1,100 people were assassinated, more than 13,000 villages rioted, and over 2.5 million people participated in this active struggle of resistance. This book is about the men and women who tried to preserve their families, communities, and beliefs from the depredations of Stalinism. Their acts were often heroic, but these heroes were homespun, ordinary people who were driven to acts of desperation by cruel and brutal state policies. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1909, Hardcover, Edwardian era novel, illustrated throughout with 34 black and white plates by Rose O'Neill. Orange cloth lettered and decorated in gilt and dark green with an inset blind-stamped design of pumpkins and vines on the front cover, 307 pages, no dust jacket. Small number stamp on inside front cover, otherwise clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, Book Club Ed., 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black and gilt stamping. 1066 pages. A number-one bestseller when it was first published in 1948, this powerful novel is a compelling vision of nineteenth-century America with timeless resonance. Throughout a single day in 1892, John Shawnessy recalls the great moments of his life -- from the battles of the Civil War to the politics of the Gilded Age, from the love affairs of his youth in Indiana to his homecoming as schoolteacher, husband, and father. This panoramic epic of the nineteenth century in Raintree County--particularly of the Civil War and its effects -- was produced after six years of research, writing, and revision. It continues to command attention and respect as a stylistically unique work of considerable force. Gutter crack at title page, sound, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a bright wraparound dust jacket. Ramona, written by Helen Hunt Jackson, is a timeless work of historical fiction that first captured hearts in 1884. Set against the rugged beauty of post-Mexican-American War California, this powerful novel weaves together romance, cultural heritage, and social justice in a narrative that resonates deeply with readers. We follow the life of a young woman of mixed Native American and European descent as she navigates the complexities of identity, love, and survival in a land fraught with change. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Softcover. Chapel Hill, Algonquin Books, Uncorr. Proof, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in yellow wrappers with some fading. Beginning when a dead Ray Williams arrives in Heaven, the novel unfolds as the deceased proceeds to tell his life story backwards. As dodgy and shiftless in the afterlife as he was on Earth, Ray finds himself in Heaven's popular Last Words discussion group, where, for dramatic effect, he lies about his final utterances. A series of flashbacks reveals Ray's defining moments, including his real last words and what they meant, in a funny, poignant narrative that moves with the clarity of a fable and the complexity of modern psychology. Advance Uncorrected Proof. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Everyman's Library, reprint, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 168 pages. Joseph Roth's 1924 tale of a one-legged street musician defying his fate in postwar Vienna. Andreas Pum, having lost his leg in World War I, is rewarded with a medal and a permit to support himself by playing a barrel organ in the streets of Vienna. At first the simpleminded veteran is entirely satisfied with his lot, and he even finds a voluptuous widow to marry. But then a public quarrel with a respectable citizen on a tram propels Andreas's life into a rapid downward trajectory. As he loses his beggar's permit, his new wife, and even his freedom, he is provoked into finally rejecting his blind faith in the benevolence of the powers that govern his life. Joseph Roth's remarkable novel deploys the haunting atmosphere and propulsive power of a dream to convey the bewilderment of an ordinary man as his world falls apart around him. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, The Dial Press, Uncorr. proof, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in red wrappers. An uncorrected proof 203 pages. Novel of men who followed their fathers into good jobs at the steel mill and are left high and dry when the layoffs start. Winner of the PEN West prize for best novel of 1985. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Isaac Riley, 1st, 1809/1810, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, leather bound with maroon labels with gilt lettering "Tyler's Reports". Vol. 1, 496 pages, dated 1809. Vol. 2, 488 pages, dated 1810. Both with an index to the Principal Matters. Royall Tyler became an assistant judge of the Vermont Supreme Court in 1801 and from 1807 through 1813 served as chief justice (the ninth in Vermont history); during this time he presided over a number of important trials (e.g., that of Stephen Jacob in 1802, involving slavery, and that of the Black Snake crew in 1808, dealing with smuggling on Lake Champlain), prepared two volumes (1809-1810) of Reports of the Vermont Supreme Court (covering 1800-1803), and became professor of jurisprudence at the University of Vermont (1811-1814). Calf covers scuffed, discolored, bindings strong, interiors clean. Previous owner's bookplate, related newspaper clipped laid in.

Hardcover. NY, Clarion Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 32 pages. Handsome woodcuts are the highlight of this rhyming story about the boomtown of Rhyolite, which sprang up almost overnight in 1904 after two men discovered gold in southwestern Nevada. The population quickly reached 10,000, then dwindled to almost nothing in a few years, following a financial panic. Frampton's woodcuts, more intricate than much of his previous work, suit the historical tale with their rustic feeling and glowing palette of oranges, browns, and golds. Small school stamp to bottom of title page, otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. Milwaukee WI, Amadeus, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 406 pages, illustrations. INSCRIBED by co-editor Malcolm Crocker. A rare, revealing look at the composer, written by his granddaughter Tatiana. Featuring a wealth of correspondence and photographs from his family's archives, this book provides new, fascinating details about the composer's life, work, and relations with close friends and colleagues, including Borodin, Mussorgsky, and Tchaikovsky. It also sheds new light on his wife, Nadezhda Purgold, an accomplished composer and pianist who helped her husband with his own compositions. Many letters involve Rimsky-Korsakov's other family members and important figures in art, history, literature, and music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, Ivan R. Dee, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. Illustrated with black & white portraits and paintings. When Peter Paul Rubens died in 1640 he left an indestructible reputation as one of the world's great painters. In every sense Baroque, his paintings have a wonderful fluidity, a powerful sensuality, a beauty and richness of color and texture. His prolific output included some 1,300 paintings (compare this with Leonardo's twenty and Vermeer's thirty-six) as well as books of engravings, architectural drawings, and sketches. He also left a beautiful young wife, a vast personal fortune, a palatial house in Antwerp, and collections of old masters, antiquities, precious stones, and silver work. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Akron OH, Saalfield, reprint, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards. "Rum Tum Tummy was a bold, bad elephant. he had no parents, which would have been bad to anybody but a bold, bad elephant in a very wild jungle. He didn't even have an aunt to say ... 'Brush your tusks!' He had nothing but a terrible appetite, and, as you shall see, he had a wild time !" Color illustrations by Holling. Back cover soiled, interior clean.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 236 pages. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. In the three decades following Stalin's death, major underground Russian writers have subverted Soviet ideology by using parody to draw attention to its basis in utopian thought. Referring to utopian writing as diverse as Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground, and Orwell's Animal Farm, they have tested notions of truth, reality, and representation. They have gone beyond their precursors by experimenting with the tensions between ludic and didactic art. Edith Clowes explores these "meta-utopian" narratives, which address a wide range of attitudes toward utopia, to expose the challenge that literary play poses to dogmatism and to elucidate the sense of renewal it can bring to social imagination. Using both structural analysis and reception theory, she introduces readers outside Russia to a fascinating body of literature that includes Aleksandr Zinoviev's The Yawning Heights, Abram Terts's Liubimov, Vladimir Voinovich's Moscow 2042, and Liudmila Petrushevskaia's "The New Robinsons."

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Zoland Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A collection of short stories, most of them set in Indiana, focuses on the meddling of fact and fiction and includes a dozen satiric - but also sympathetic - tales written in the persona of Indiana's famous son, Dan Quayle. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY/London, Marion Boyars, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 152 pages. Essays that deal with the shadow economy. Shadow Work is all the work people do who are not paid in cash. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red and blue cloth with black stamping, 334 pages. Clean copy. Portraying the dark, authoritarian side of the utopian dream, this classic novel tells the story of the Reverend Harmston, a man devoted to building a microsociety in which there is a balance between the order that is necessary to produce livelihood and the freedom to fully explore sexuality. Setting up a commune in the remote Guyanese forest with the creed, "Hard work, frank love, and wholesome play," the reverend attempts to construct an ideal society that opens up cross-cultural dialogue between the spirit of European enlightenment and the culture of the native Amerindians. Underneath its generally comic tone, however, there are notes of a darker spirit at play--such as Harmston's unquestioned authority and the brutal punishments he hands out--that eerily foreshadow the actual 1978 Jonestown Massacre, a violent event that occurred 27 years after the novel's initial publication.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. This classic novel, the 1972 winner of a National Endowment for the Arts Award, turns, providing an essential companion piece to The King of Cards. Illuminated by the author's personal experiences, this authentic coming-of-age novel presents a cavalcade of memorable characters and adventures. Brave, honest, funny and thought-provoking, Shedding Skin is Ward's account of his early travails in Haight Ashbury (and other parts). He draws the reader into chaos, delusion, humor, criminality and the human condition on an intimate level. Short closed tears to dj, rear panel scratched, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Adelson Galleries., 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with heavy paper slipcase. Contains 15 loose 12x12" color plates and a folded sheet featuring a photo of the artist and a short essay by Warren Adelson. A 16th plate called for in the list of paintings is missing. Plates on heavy stock, bright and clean, slipcase shows wear.

Hardcover. NY, Viking, 1st US, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY FFORDE and signed "Jasper" on the title page. Thursday has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none other than the dithering Danish prince Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snap--as outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon's patron saint foretells doom, and if that isn't bad enough, back in the Book World The Merry Wives of Windsor is becoming entangled with Hamlet. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Harper Prism, ist proof, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, red wrappers with black type. This is a Uncorrected Proof of the author's 14th book in the Discworld Series. The Discworld, a rich and evolving fantasy land comprised of interlinking sub-series of novels, is Pratchett's legacy. Like new, no markings. The first US hardcover trade edition was published in 1995. Rear cover with small wrinkle near spine. Otherwise clean.