Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, BC Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers stamped in black, 120 pages, B&w illustrations by Bice. A Weekly Reader Book Club Edition. Paper tanning, otherwise a tight, clean copy.

Softcover. Lanham MD, Lexington Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 167 pages. Introduces basic information on Rwanda and how it has been viewed by the outside world. Chapter One describes early Rwanda's political and cultural development, traditional narratives, group migrations, the effects of German and later Belgian colonialism, and the introduction of Christianity. It concludes with a look at how this early history has been interpreted and reinterpreted. The second chapter discusses the end of Tutsi dominance and the 1959 Hutu Revolution. It details Hutu Power ideology, Belgian domestic politics, early acts of genocide, refugee movements, and economic and political stagnation. The text documents the development of the Rwandan Patriotic Front, its 1990 invasion, and the Arusha peace process. An account of the 1994 genocide follows. Drawing on numerous sources and fieldwork, it discusses this east central African nation's deeply seated cleavages, atrocious recent past, and the internal and external myths that have directed its history and national life. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Brooklyn NY, Elsewhere Editions, 1st, 2025, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 48 pages. Wonderful color illustrations by the author-artist. A charming children's tale about finding beauty in friendship and nature, a journey full of adventure while learning to appreciate things just as they are. First published in Finland. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in light tan cloth with brown lettering, 246 pages. B&w drawings by the author and Ruth King. Nice vintage copy of a book instructing children on the care of all kinds of pets. Mild slant to spine, clean copy.

Softcover. Minneapolis MN, University Of Minnesota Press, 1st, 1998, Softcover, 303 pages. The Subaltern Studies Collective, founded in 1982, was begun with the goal of developing a new critique of both colonialist and nationalist perspectives in the historiography of colonized countries. Its most famous members - Gayatri Spivak, Partha Chatterjee, and others - were instrumental in establishing the discipline best known as postcolonial studies. A selection of the definitive and most influential work from the collective's eponymous journal, these essays chart the course of subaltern history from an early concentration on peasant revolts and popular insurgency to an engagement with the more complex processes of domination and subordination in a variety of the changing institutions and practices of evolving modernity. Clean copy.

Softcover. London, Eland /Hippocrene Books, reprint, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 172 pages. Having learned to appreciate Muslim life while living in Pakistan, Peter Mayne settled down to live in the back streets of Marrakesh in the 1950s. Rather than watch from the shelter of a hotel terrace, he rented rooms, learned the language, made friends, and became embroiled in conspiratorial picnics, hashish-laced dinners and in the enchantments and misunderstandings of the street, with its festivals, love affairs, potions and gossip. By turns used, abused and cherished by his neighbors, Mayne wrote their letters for them and captured the essence of their lives in this affectionate and hilarious account. A new edition of a 1953 classic that captures the very essence Marrakesh and its people. Clean copy.

Hardcover. US, David Zwirner Books , 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 112 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Still in publisher's shrink wrap.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY BROWNE on the front endpaper. First edition with Browne's illustrations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Verso Books, 1st, 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 425 pages. The Israeli army, officially named the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), was established in 1948 by David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, who believed that 'the whole nation is the army'. In his mind, the IDF was to be an army like no other. It was the instrument that might transform a diverse population into a new people. Since the foundation of Israel, therefore, the IDF has been the largest, richest and most influential institution in Israel's Jewish society and is the nursery of its social, economic and political ruling class. In this fascinating history, Bresheeth charts the evolution of the IDF from the Nakba to wars in Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and the continued assaults upon Gaza, and shows that the state of Israel has been formed out of its wars. He also gives an account of his own experiences as a young conscript during the 1967 war. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Horizon Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 176 pages. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st pbk., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. A fascinating look at the common ground which unites artist and magician. Light corner crease to front cover otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Art in America, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Pictorial boards, 136 pages. Hardcover magazine format. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Features articles on: 'What Should a Museum Be?, 'A Day with John Marin', 'Antiques for the Avant-Garde', 'Notes Toward an Ideal School of Fine Art', 'American Art International', 'Paris Letter: Nouveux Realistes', and more. Cover by Saul Steinberg. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, The Bodley Head, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 645 pages, fold-out map in rear, translated by Michael Glenny. The work tells about the beginning of the First World War and the unsuccessful offensive of the Russian army in East Prussia. The author uses the methods of documentary narration within the framework of a work of fiction and describes not only the military campaign, but also the experience of people caught in the middle of events. Red top edge. Edge wear, small pieces missing from dust jacket; in brodart. Else a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 177 pages. In this edition of Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments and other writings, Richard Bellamy draws on recent Italian scholarship to show how Beccaria wove together the various political languages of the Enlightenment into a political philosophy that combines republican, contractarian, romantic and liberal as well as utilitarian themes. This edition also includes a number of pieces from Beccaria's writings on political economy and the history of civilization that were not previously available in English. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Janos Gat Gallery, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wraps, 30 pages, b&w illustrations. For an exhibition held Feb. 12 - March 23, 2002. The photographs in this catalog were taken from 1944-1945 by Barney Rosset, then a young American Army photographer. Rosset documented the Chinese Army in their pursuit of Japanese troops following the Battle of Henan-Hunan-Guangxi. The Japanese Army was pulling back from the Ichi-Go operation, the largest Japanese land campaign of the war, and Rosset joined Chinese troops at the deepest point of Japanese penetration (Kweiyang). After the war, Rosset became the proprietor of Grove Press, publishing authors often refused due to their controversial subject matter. Laid in are 2 identical postcards featuring the image on the cover of the catalog, Clean, bright copy, scarce.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. Color frontispiece, black and white reduced facsimile after the text. 169 pages. This work was commissioned by Blake's friend John Flaxman for his wife Ann, adapted from the 1790 edition of "Gray's Poems", and was likely completed around 1800. These illustrations were not available to the public during Blake's lifetime, likely due to a combination of the owner Ann Flaxman's desire to keep them exclusive, and the politically subversive nature of the contents which would have been dangerous for Blake. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 407 pages. This book delves beneath the chaos and brutality of the Norse world to discover a complex interplay of ordering and disordering impulses. Miller's unique and engaging readings of ancient Iceland's sagas and extensive legal code reconstruct and illuminate the society that produced them. People in the saga world negotiated a maze of violent possibility, with strategies that frequently put life and limb in the balance. But there was a paradox in striking the balance--one could not get even without going one better. Miller shows how blood vengeance, law, and peacemaking were inextricably bound together in the feuding process. This book offers fascinating insights into the politics of a stateless society, its methods of social control, and the role that a uniquely sophisticated and self-conscious law played in the construction of Icelandic society. Clean copy.

Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 141 pages. This volume contains the essential points of Jean Bodin's theory of sovereignty, a landmark in legal theory and royalist ideology. The four chapters presented form the core of Bodin's classic work, Six Livres de la Republique. Bodin was primarily responsible for introducing the seductive but erroneous notion that sovereignty is indivisible, that the entire power of the state had to be vested in a single individual or group. This thesis, combined with the prevailing crisis of authority during the French religious wars, led Bodin to a systematically absolutist interpretation of the French and other European monarchies. This is the first complete translation of this material into English since 1606, and is accompanied by a lucid introduction, chronology, and bibliography. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Thames and Hudson, 1st UK, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. 189 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of the collecting mania in the 19th century & the transformation of art from an aesthetic experience to the acquisition of objects. Light shelf wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, PS Publishing, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 288 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, tight copy. Collects February to December 1951, Issues 1-6.

Hardcover. NY, Billboard Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 154 pages, b&w illustrations. Carmen McRae is well known as one of jazz music's most masterful improvisers, and is ranked among the greatest jazz singers of all time. She grew up during the swing era in Harlem, and participated in the transition from swing to bebop--the New Thing--playing with all the important musicians and in all the major clubs. Her struggle to fame was long and hard, finally paying off when she was thirty-four years old and began to perform with Tony Scott's band. It was Scott who convinced her to stand up at the microphone and leave the piano bench behind. By 1955 she had signed with Decca records and achieved national recognition. The rise to fame had begun. By the end of her life Carmen had performed all over the world, recorded over sixty albums, and been recognized with numerous awards and honors. Carmen McRae died on November 10, 1994.

Hardcover. NY, Distributed Art Publishers (DAP), 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards with silver lettering. One of the most influential American artists working today, Carrie Mae Weems has investigated narratives around family, race, gender, sexism, class and the consequences of power for more than 40 years. Her complex oeuvre-always ahead of its time, and profoundly formative for younger generations of artists-has employed photography (for which she is best known), fabric, text, audio, digital images, installation and video. Writing in the New York Times, Holland Cotter succinctly described Weems as "a superb image maker and a moral force, focused and irrepressible." This volume, spanning four decades of work, is the most thorough survey yet published. It includes Weems' earliest series, such as Family Pictures and Stories, for which she photographed her relatives and close friends; the legendary Kitchen Table Series, in which she posed in a domestic setting; and other critically acclaimed works and series such as Ain't Jokin', Colored People, From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, Not Manet's Type, The Jefferson Suite, Monuments, Roaming, Museums, Constructing History (A Class Ponders the Future), Slow Fade to Black and the Obama Project, among many others. Contextualizing these pieces are essays by LaCharles Ward and Fred Moten and a chronology by Raul Munoz. The book also includes a visual essay by Weems that presents a personal selection of her own works from the artist's perspective. In publisher's shrinkwrap.

Hardcover. Washington DC, Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, unclipped dust jacket. 156 pages, b&w and color illustrations. Accompanied the exhibit of the same name shown at the Smithsonian, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Whitney in 1968 and 1969. Essays by Martin Friedman, Bartlett Hayes and Charles Millard. Whitney Museum of American Art. Bibliography: p. 106-107. Charles Sheeler (July 16, 1883 - May 7, 1965) was an American painter and commercial photographer. He is recognized as one of the founders of American modernism, developing a "quasi-photographic" style of painting known as Precisionism and becoming one of the master photographers of the 20th century. Mild shelf wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Korero Press, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Contains nudity. Adults only. Black and white photographs throughout. Clean, tight copy.