Hardcover. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 307 pages. In all North America you cannot get much lower than the Imperial Valley of southern California, where one town, 186 feet below sea level, calls itself the Lowest Down City in the Western Hemisphere, and where the waters of the Colorado River sustain a billion-dollar agricultural industry. The consequences of that industry drain from the valley into the accidentally man-made Salton Sea, California's largest lake and a vital stopping place for migratory waterfowl. Today the Salton Sea is in desperate environmental trouble. A second river also ends in the Salton Sea. It is a river of dreams, the remains of which may be seen in the failed real estate developments that sprawl beside the sea. As the ending point of both the real Colorado and this river of dreams, the Salton Sea has become emblematic of much of the history of the American West. Its troubling story is masterfully told here in William deBuys's narrative and Joan Myers's austerely beautiful photographs. Mild wear, ereasure to front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, David Kemp & Company, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth with black lettering, 117 pages. Secret Writing is an authoritative popular work for the beginner as well as the advanced enthusiast, explaining the principles underlying the construction and deciphering of all types of cryptograms, ciphers and codes. Numerous problems and teasers are presented, and the key to their solution suggested. The author was a long-time editor and writer for pulp magazines and contributed a cryptography column to The Shadow magazine. Name, date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Boston, Beacon Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 255 pages. A collection of essays that range from an autobiographical tour-de-force that describes a childhood spent with an alcoholic father to 'Looking at Women,' a reflection on male yearning and confusion, to a look at the place-or absence-of nature in recent American fiction. In these 15 earnest and ambitious essays (published in earlier form in Harper's, The Kenyon Review, etc.), Sanders looks for--and often finds--universal truths in the particulars of everyday life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 453 pages. Selection from the 2-volume set of correspondence between the two American literary lights, plus 2 hitherto unknown letters not included in the 1960 set. Editors' preface, introduction and notes; includes a biographical directory. Clean copy.

Softcover. Annapolis MD, Air Show Publishers , 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages, b&w illustrations. A detailed study about the Shenandoah together with a bibliography about the big airships. Many rare photographs and documents, map of flight routes. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly tanned, unclipped dust jacket. 55 poems by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, 88 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. Winnipeg MB, Turnstone Press, 1st pbk, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 135 pages, b&w illustrations. The trials, tribulations and small victories of professional baseball on the prairies from 1886 to the late 1990s. Stubbs' comprehensive research uncovers Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta's rich history of teams and leagues, as well as regional heroes of the game. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Monacelli Press, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 407 pages. As much a visionary as he is an architect, Paolo Soleri, born in Turin in 1919, worked with Frank Lloyd Wright in the late 1940s and went on to develop his own organically expressive architecture. Since 1935 he has been involved almost exclusively with the design of alternative urban planning models. By 1970 he had designed thirty 'Arcologies,' his term for a series of high-density, fantastically unreal megastructures for up to six million inhabitants. This comprehensive monograph, the first on Soleri to be published in the United States, follows his entire career through a presentation of drawings, sketches, and built work. Over 600 illustrations in color and b/w. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Philosophical Library, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine, 109 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan , 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Account of major league baseball during World War II when all its talent had been stripped by the armed forces. Illustrated with 101 photographs. 290 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. self-published, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with a faded spine. WWII novel made up of Buck's memories and presented in a consequential narrative/vignette format. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR opposite the title page. Many b& photos and illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Abrams, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages, in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Edward Steichen virtually created the world of high fashion and advertising photography, but his military coverage of two World Wars was equally remarkable. He received the Croix de Guerre for pioneering photoreconnaissance as part of Pershing's American Expeditionary Force in 1918, and his team's shots of the American Navy's advance across the Pacific from 1942 to 1945 form the visual core of our memory of that crucial period. Tragically, however, Steichen's thousands of incisive images of military action were dissolved into the morass of the National Archives, and attempts to retrieve specific subjects of his are often as effective as trying to taste fine brandy after pouring it into a swimming pool. Hence the value of retrospectives such as Christopher Phillips' hefty book on Steichen's coverage of the U.S. Navy in the Pacific War. Combining skillfully chosen anecdotes from Steichen's life with vivid evocation of the pioneering photographer's joy in capturing memorable images, Phillips gives us not only an unforgettable slice of Steichen's work but also enough historical background to let readers sense the excitement and drama of a nation's best young warriors fighting for freedom's sake. Lieutenant Commander Steichen's parade of images didn't begin until after the pivotal Battle of Midway in June 1942, but the ensuing carrier warfare and savage island fighting appear in unforgettable clarity. As in all great photographs, the humanity of the subjects shines through amid their triumph, or pain, or mere existence. Students of both military history and photography can spend days poring over these astonishingly revealing images.

Hardcover. NY, powerHouse Books, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, oblong gray cloth covers with photographic label on front. gilt and black lettering. 120 pages with 110 black and white photographic images throughout featuring the NYC street photography of Boretz over the course of 30 years. First Edition (stated), second printing (with full number line ending in 2). No dust jacket issued. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY/San Francisco, New Directions / San Francisco Review, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with toning on the spine and edges, unclipped. A stark panorama of late 19th and early 20th-century America-the underside of the Gilded Age, beset by racism and casual violence, poverty and disease-in a radically stripped-down language. A legendary book that stands alongside Louis Zukofsky's "A" and William Carlos Williams' Paterson as a milestone of modern American poetry. 115 pages, no markings.

Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400 pages. A landmark work by English historian Frances A. Yates (1899-1981); an examination of the mnemonic systems developed by the ancient Greeks, and their impact on the Renaissance thought of Giordano Bruno and others. Named one of the top 100 nonfiction books of the century by the Modern Library in 1999. One large fold-out plate, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Company, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket with mild soiling. A ink line has been drawn through the flap price ($4.50), otherwise clean. Sontag's first book, a novel of ideas written at a time when Freud's theory of Dream Interpretation was considered the greatest of all. The protagonist Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishable from his real world experiences. First Printing stated.

Hardcover. NY, D.A.P. /Distributed Art Publishers, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 288 pages. The Bitter Years was the title of a seminal exhibition held in 1962 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, curated by Edward Steichen, and 2012 marks its fiftieth anniversary. The show featured 209 images by photographers who worked under the aegis of the U.S. Farm Security Administration (FSA) in 1935-41, as part of Roosevelt's New Deal. The FSA, set up to combat rural poverty during the Great Depression, included an ambitious photography project that launched many photographic careers, most notably those of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. The exhibition featured their work as well as that of ten other FSA photographers, including Ben Shahn, Carl Mydans and Arthur Rothstein. Their images are among the most remarkable in documentary photography--testimonies of a people in crisis, hit by the full force of economic turmoil and the effects of drought and dust storms. This volume includes all the photographs in the original show, in a structure and sequence that reflect those devised by Steichen for the exhibition. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Blue Sky Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. With warmth, humor, and dazzling landscapes, award-winning writer Audrey Wood and acclaimed illustrator David Shannon team up to present the tall-tale beginnings of Niagara Falls, the Rocky Mountains, Old Faithful, and more. Meet the Bunyans - a family you'll never forget! Clean copy.

Softcover. Tucson AZ, Patrice Press, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 536 pages. This is a facsimile printing of the 1924 edition, profusely illustrated including original advertisements. The book gives detailed information on the 414 cities and towns through which the famous highway passed, from Times Square in New York City to San Francisco's Lincoln Park, on the Pacific Ocean. Advice to readers includes "Don't forget the colored goggles," and "Don't stop to cool motor at top of a hill, put car in gear and coast down to cool motor." The trip was thrilling in 1924. The book is thrilling today. Mild nick to top of rear cover otherwise clean and bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 327 pages. George Lichtheim (1912-1973) was a German-born intellectual whose works focused on the history and theory of socialism and Marxism. He defined himself as a socialist and stated in a 1964 letter to the New York Review of Books that "I am not a liberal and never have been. I find liberalism almost as boring as communism and have no wish to be drawn into an argument over which of these two antiquated creeds is less likely to advance us any further." His work appeared in the Palestine Post, Commentary, Partisan Review, Dissent, the New Leader, Encounter, the Times Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books. Additionally, he translated Gershom Scholem's Main Currents in Jewish Mysticism. His death was by suicide. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Times Books, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 312 pages. A masterful guide to human development that redefines the nature versus nurture debate. A much-needed antidote to genetic determinism, The Dependent Gene reveals how all traits-even characteristics like eye and hair color-are caused by complex interactions between genes and the environment at every stage of biological and psychological development, from the single fertilized egg to full-grown adulthood. How we understand the nature versus nurture debate directly affects our thoughts about such basic issues as sex and reproduction, parenting, education, and crime, and has an enormous impact on social policy. Clean copy.

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 317 pages, b&w illustrations. Translated from the Dutch by Diane Webb. "Rembrandt, Hals and Vermeer are still household names, even though they died over three hundred years ago. In their lifetimes they witnessed the extraordinary consolidation of the newly independent Dutch Republic and its emergence as one of the richest nations on earth. As one contemporary wrote in 1673: the Dutch were 'the envy of some, the fear of others, and the wonder of all their neighbours'. During the Dutch Golden Age, the arts blossomed and the country became a haven of religious tolerance. However, despite being self-proclaimed champions of freedom, the Dutch conquered communities in America, Africa and Asia and were heavily involved in both slavery and the slave trade on three continents." Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 5th pr., 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, A Complete Guide to Fine Cooking for Beginner and Expert, Containing 1217 Recipes and Over 400 Color Pictures. Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that opens up to a color poster illustrated by the Provensens, unclipped with $5.00 price. Brown cloth boards with green lettering along spine, color illustration on front cover. No date on title page, 5th printing stated on copyright page. This is Beard's fourth -- but his first "general" cook book. 322 pages with 2-color and full color illustrations throughout by Alice and Martin Provensen. Gutters cracked (front partially), minor wear and chipping to dust jacket. No markings.

Softcover. NY, New York Review Book, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, light blue glossy wrappers, stapled. Covers with light soil, no markings.