Hardcover. Auburn NY, Auburn Publishing Company, 1st, 1863, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, original brown cloth with gilt design on front and rear covers and spine. Marbled edges, 552 pages, 4 pages of publisher's ads in rear. Frontispiece, many b&w engravings and 7 folding maps are included, all very good. First edition of Storke's history of the American Civil War, Volume 1 only. (... with Biographical Sketches and Portraits of its Principal Actors and Thrilling Incidents of Land and Naval Heroes - Volume 1) (The second volume was published in 1865.) Rear hinge tender but holding. Clean copy, no stamps or marking. Spine gilt with some fading, covers with mild edgewear.

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1st, 1948, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, beige cloth hardcover book in good condition. McWilliams examines the growth of discrimination and persecution of Jews in America from 1877 to 1948 and the "myths with which the anti-semite surrounds his position." Light shelfwear, no dust jacket. Clean copy.

Hardcover. St. Paul MN, Graywolf Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 242 pages. The Arab poet's story, from her childhood in Nablus, on the West Bank of the Jordan, between the world wars to the occupation by the Israelis in 1967. A rare glimpse of Arab culture from a woman's perspective. Includes a selection of her poetry. Clean copy.

Softcover. Hong Kong, API Press, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 265 pages. The Chinese Stepping-Stone Syndrome is presented as a social-psychological complex that characterizes the Chinese and helps to explain their behavior and the socio-political problems of China. Regards Hong Kong as the original geopolitical and psychological stepping-stone. "It awes me how Professor Albert Yee has given me within one book such graphic and gripping insight and immensely greater perception of both the historical roots and the evolved enormous complexities of the ancient and indelible Chinese culture." - Alex Haley. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 364 pages. Dmitrii Mendeleev: It's a name we recognize, but only as the disheveled scientist pictured in our high school chemistry textbook, the creator of the periodic table of elements. Until now little has been known about the man, but A Well-Ordered Thing draws a portrait of this chemist in three full dimensions. Historian Michael Gordin also details Mendeleev's complex relationship with the Russian Empire that was his home. From his attack on Spiritualism to his humiliation at the hands of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, from his near-mythical hot-air balloon trip to his failed voyage to the Arctic, this is the story of an extraordinary man deeply invested in the good of his country. And the ideals that shaped his work in politics and culture were the same ones that led a young chemistry professor to start putting elements in order. Mendeleev was a loyal subject of the Tsar, but he was also a maverick who thought that only an outsider could perfect a modern Russia. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 315 pages. Superb oversize book on the great French poster designer. Illustrated with 398 reproductions of his posters, set designs, magazine covers and more, including 90 in full color.

Hardcover. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 276 pages. Half cloth boards. Illustrated with black & white photographs of furniture in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mass. Slipcase slightly sunfaded. Bottom edge of case torn approx. 1" along seams. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Basic Books, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 306 pages. Morse Peckham "considers the various roles played by pornography, especially within that hateful siege of contraries which constitutes stability and innovation." Chapters: What is Pornography?, The Art in Pornography, An Explanation for Pornography, Pornography and Culture.

Softcover. New York , Prentice Hall Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Large folio softcover, 89 pages. Numerous full-color illustrations throughout. With an introduction by Scott Gutterman, an essay by Miles Davis, plus a conversation between Miles Davis & artist Jo Gelbard. Mild wear to covers.

Hardcover. Boston, David R Godine, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 216 pages, b&w photos. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. A survey that displays the variety of imagery, much of it developed anonymously in small studios, much of it taken by inspired amateurs, in early-twentieth-century America. Notes, List of Postcard Photographers Working Before 1930, Selected Bibliography. More than 200 fine-line duotones.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Candlewick Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, color throughout. This exhilarating graphic-novel edition of an ancient classic honors the spirit of the original as it attracts modern readers. The epic tale of the great warrior Beowulf has thrilled readers through the ages - and has been reinvented for a new generation with Gareth Hinds's masterful illustrations. Grendel's black blood runs thick as Beowulf defeats the monster and his hideous mother, while somber hues overcast the hero's final, fatal battle against a raging dragon. Speeches filled with courage and sadness, lightning-paced contests of muscle and will, and funeral boats burning on the fjords are all rendered in glorious and gruesome detail. Told for more than a thousand years, Beowulf's heroic saga finds a true home in this graphic-novel edition. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket, 184 pages. Blue cloth covers with gilt printing to the spine. A novel of "wartime love and death" in the London of 1917. In the heroine Julia Ashton, Doolittle creates a vibrantly sensitive character through the evocation of her feelings, moods and memories. Previous bookseller's price sticker on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Brooklyn, NY, PowerHouse Books, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Remainder mark on bottom edge, otherwise, clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color and Black and white pictures throughout. Explores the genre of self-portraits through nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first-century photographic techniques, including also block prints, watercolor drawings, and accompanying essays.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, off-white cloth over boards; b&w image on front cover and black lettering on spine; 200 pages. 52 color, 240 b&w plates and figures. Includes a chronology of Brancusi's life, as well as an essay, by Geist; Wonderfully illustrated and with a tipped-in plate opposite the title page. Lacks dust jacket.

Softcover. Lincolnville Beach ME, Duck Trap Woodworking, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled paper wrappers, 83 pages printed on one side only plus index and ads. B&w drawings throughout. Detailed instructions in words and pictures for canoe construction and finishing. This is the first printing from 1981. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 327 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w by Crane. Ripped from the headlines of the day, these eleven stories propel ace troubleshooter Buz Sawyer from Africa to South America to the Arctic Circle, from the heart of a hurricane to a plague of ravenous locusts. Meanwhile, back home, a femme fatale seduces Buz's C.O. to steal military secrets. Then, it's every parent's worst nightmare - Buz and Christy's new baby is kidnapped right in the hospital! Roy Crane, dean of the golden age of adventure comic strips, peppers these rollicking tales with rapid-fire action, suspense, intrigue, humor, unforgettable characters, and brilliant art. Now, at last, you can enjoy these stories, unseen since the 1950s.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin , 2nd Ed., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 344 pages. With a post-epilogue on Cape Cod Today by John Hay. illustrated with b&w photos plans, charts, endpaper maps and other maps in the text. Third printing of the second edition. Clean copy.

Softcover. Papeete Tahiti, Comics Stars in the World, 1st, na, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 20 pages of the comic strip reprinted from 1927, in 2-colors.

Softcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 373 pages. Presents conflicting interpretations of caudillismo in twenty-seven essays written by an international group of historians, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, journalists, and caudillos themselves. The selections represent revisionists, apologists, enemies, and even a victim of caudillos. The personalities discussed include the Mexican priest Miguel Hidalgo, the Argentinian gaucho Facundo Quiroga, the Guatemalan Rafael Carrera, the Colombian Rafael Nunez, Mexico's Porfirio Diaz, the Somoza family of Nicaragua, the Dominican 'Benefactor' Rafael Trujillo, the Argentinians Juan Peron and his wife Evita, Paraguay's Alfredo Stroessner - called 'The Tyrannosaur,' Chile's Augusto Pinochet, and Cuba's Fidel Castro. Clean copy.

Hardcover. SUNY Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 768 pages. The personal journals of Charles Burchfield reveal the unique vision and approach to life that established him as America's preeminent watercolorist and painter of nature. When he died in 1967 at the age of seventy-three, Burchfield had filled sixty-seven bound notebooks with his personal entries, comprising some 10,000 pages. He included sketches, doodles, quotations, clippings, weather notes, and other marginalia and insertions offering a rare glimpse into the artist's life. Presented here in book form, the edited journals are organized thematically. The editor's introductions place each section in biographical and art historial context. The material is annotated and informed by the previously unpublished archives of the Burchfield Art Center, and complemented by 41 color plates of Burchfield's paintings and 131 black and white illustrations. Due to size and weight, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Coward McCann & Geohegan, reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, illustrated throughout in 2-colors by Paul Galdone. Weekly Reader Edition. A dog who never growls at strangers meets a burglar in his house. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Lincoln MA, Penmaen Press, 1st Ltd Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 103 pages. Introduction by Walter Harding. Actor/author Christopher Childs compiled these excerpts and performed them as a stage monologue in order to convey the essence and personality of Henry David Thoreau. The first performance took place on July 6, 1975, in Concord, Mass. This book appeared three years later. Here the selections are organized into fourteen chapters that address a variety of topics, such as Gods, On Being a Writer, Friendship and Singularity, and John Brown. Source footnotes appear in an appendix. The book begins with an introduction by Thoreau Society secretary Walter Harding. Selected wood engravings by Michael McCurdy supplement the text. A publication note on the final page indicates that only 2,000 copies of this book were printed. Short tear to dj repaired on the reverse side. Clean copy.

Hardcover. San Diego CA, Idea & Design Works/ IDW, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 319 pages. Color and b&w strips from the newspapers between 1927 and 1929. Little Orphan Annie -- the original female comics hero -- takes on chiseling business men and a gang of thieves, armed only with her sharp wit and a good left hook. Then she helps her surrogate parents by nursing "Daddy" Warbucks to health and helping save the Silos' family farm. And only that little chatter-box could become a cross between Robinson Crusoe and Dr. Doolittle when she and Sandy are shipwrecked on a deserted island.

Softcover. Watertown MA, Charlesbridge Publishing, 1st pbk, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, oblong format. A cowboy poet who can't rope, whip, or ride? who ever heard of that? Slim knows he could be a real cowboy if the ranch hands would just give him a chance. Action-filled color drawings by Apple capture the excitement of a cattle run to Dodge City. Clean copy.