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Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 239 pages. Drawing on the latest scholarship of a generation of social historians of the Reformation, the author presents a new analysis which goes beyond the partisan politics of noble factions and socio-economic tensions of early modern society. He argues that this long conflict was fomented by religious tensions among the population at large. While politics and socio-economic tensions were doubtlessly important, this book focuses on the social history of religion. By analysing the conflict as a cultural clash between two communities bent on defining the boundaries between the sacred and the profane in explicitly different ways, the author attempts to explain why the wars lasted for so long and why they ended in the way that they did. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 436 pages, b&w illustrations. Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age. At the age of sixteen, in a nationwide selection for royal consorts, Cixi was chosen as one of the emperor's numerous concubines. When he died in 1861, their five-year-old son succeeded to the throne. Cixi at once launched a palace coup against the regents appointed by her husband and made herself the real ruler of China--behind the throne, literally, with a silk screen separating her from her officials who were all male.

Hardcover. NY, Crown , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 478 pages. B&w illustrations. When the Marines' campaign to wrest the remote Southwest Pacific island of Guadalcanal from the Japanese began in August 1942, few knew how to conduct it--and no one expected it to last six months. Hammel collects the stories of more than 100 participants on both sides to brilliantly tell one of the most bitter campaigns of World War II in the Pacific. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Avon Books, 1st pbk., 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, mass paperback, 126 pages. 35 cents price. Tristessa is a 1960 novella by Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac. While in Mexico City Kerouac falls in love with a young Mexican prostitute and a morphine addict whose real name was Esperanza Villanueva. In Spanish Tristessa means sadness. Kerouac tries to rescue her from injury,overdose and possible death as he stays with her through the streets of Mexico City and tries to find her a home. Previous owner's name on first page, otherwise tight and clean.

Hardcover. NY, Monacelli Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light sunning to spine edge, 287 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. "...presents an extensively illustrated collection of essays from an international group of scholars that explores not only all phases of Mendelsohn's architectural output but also his early education; his travels to Holland, Palestine, the United States, and Russia; and his professional practice and relationships with his colleagues and family." No markings. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing. 

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 304 pages, color illustrations. That Frank Lloyd Wright was an artist is of course no surprise -- however, we often forget that, as an architect, he had to have quite an eye and ability for drawing. To be able to commit an idea down on paper is the first, and sometimes most crucial step, in designing a project, particularly when one has to convince another party to pay for it. This book by Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer, who began as an apprentice with Wright at Talesin West, and directs the FLW archives at the FLW Foundation, is a masterpiece of the artistic design of Frank Lloyd Wright. It has more than 300 illustrations, nearly half of those in full-color plates, in a wide-page format that makes this a great gift book, coffee-table book, and guide for those serious in the arts. An expert with the craft of draftsmanship as well as creative with flair for the artistic/aesthetic side of his buildings and concepts, these images show an astonishing range through the 300 concept pieces, plans, elevations and perspectives contained herein. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1st, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn and chipped dust jacket, 314 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Andric's historical novel about the Mehmed Pasa Sokolvic Bridge in Visegrad, one of the main works responsible for Andric's winning the Nobel Prize. The Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. First English translation. Faint name stamp on the title page. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st US, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two matching hardcover volumes, 1334 pages in total. Regarded by many as the most important Austrian novel of its era, Heimito von Doderer's The Demons is a sweeping portrayal of Viennese society on the cusp of catastrophic and irrevocable change. Narrated by retired civil servant Georg von Geyrenhoff, this monumental work takes readers on an intimate, multi-layered tour through Vienna's cafes and kitchens, bedrooms and back alleys, modest apartments and artist's ateliers, palatial parlors and wooded parks, a basement, and a burning palace. As a great conductor harmonizes a hundred discordant instruments into a concert, so too Heimoto von Doderer has blended his riotous cast of characters into a symphony that chronicles the cataclysmic events that alter, even end, these characters' lives. The paradoxes of this novel--which von Doderer wrote and revised over the course of twenty-five years--are born from the paradoxes of Europe after the first world war, with its superficial peace and order layered over a festering decline and despair that erupts into World War II. Clean, bright set. No dust jackets.

Softcover. Seattle, Fantagraphics, 1st, 2026, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, stapled wrappers, 36 pages. The seminal cartoonist who single-handedly invented the alternative comics format of the one-person anthology in 1967 with ZAP returns at age 81, still raging at the world and himself, still drawing like a master, and still funny... mostly. In his latest comics excursion, Crumb dives down internet and newspaper rabbit-holes, and comes up asking questions. Why don't we know the real background of deep state careerists? And is Crumb himself just as paranoid as everyone else tells him he is? Or is that just what THEY want you to think? Mixing memoir, essay, polemic, neurosis, and conspiracy across 12 short comics -- including the final Dirty Laundry story, drawn by Crumb with a script written with Aline Kominsky-Crumb before her death in 2022 --Tales Of Paranoia shows there's still plenty of life in both the artist and the classic underground comics format.

Hardcover. Franklin Center PA, Franklin Library, Ltd. Ed., 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gilt stamped leather bound, 146 pages. Over 25 b/w Illustrations (chiefly headpieces) by Quentin Fiore. All edges gilt, raised bands, satin ribbon page marker. This limited edition is published exclusively for subscribers to The Franklin Library collection The 100 Greatest Books of All Time.

Softcover. Jim Davidson, JD Press, reprint, 2026, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 5 X 7", b&w illustrations. Meet Mopsy -- that funny, sexy, slightly dingy (yet impishly clever) maid of mirth! Conceived by brilliant cartoonist Gladys Parker, Mopsy was a joke-a-day panel that captivated readers for three decades. This "best of" collection (originally published in 1945) comprises cartoons that originally appeared in newspapers during the war years (1942 to 1945), when Parker was at her creative peak. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New Brunswick NJ, Transaction Books, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 265 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with mild fading, 285 pages. How did Buddhism, so prominent in Japanese life for over a thousand years, become the target of severe persecution in the social and political turmoil of the early Meiji era? How did it survive attacks against it and reconstitute itself as an increasingly articulate and coherent belief system and a bastion of the Japanese national heritage? Here James Ketelaar elucidates not only the development of Buddhism in the late nineteenth century but also the strategies of the Meiji state. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 2nd Ed., 1966, Book: Very Good, Hardcover, maroon cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 173 pages. SIGNED BY DAVIE AND DATED 1968 on the front fly leaf. He examines the theories of T.E. Hulme, Susanne Langer, and Ernest Fenollosa, who have all had something to say about the function of syntax in poetry. Previous owner's name on half title page, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 266 pages. A consideration of myth in the poetry of W. B. Yeats, Robert Graves, and Edwin Muir. Name on front fly otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 228 pages. Nine essays on the connection poetry forges between inner and outer lives, from esteemed poet and thinker Jame Hirshfield. Nine Gates begins with a close examination of the roots of poetic craft in "the mind of concentration" and concludes by exploring the writer's role in creating a sense of community that is open, inclusive and able to bind the individual and the whole in a way that allows each full self-expression. in between, Nine Gates illumines the nature of originality, translation, the various strategies by which meaning unfolds itself in language, poetry's roots in oral memory and the importance of the shadow to good art. Delving into the nature of poetry, Jane Hirshfield also writes on the nature of the human mind, perception and experience. Nine Gates is about the underpinnings of poetic craft, but it is also about a way of being alive in the world: alertly, musically, intelligently, passionately, permeably. Clean copy.

Softcover. cambridge MA, The MIT Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 276 pages. John Cage is the outstanding composer of avant-garde music today. The Saturday Review said of him: "Cage possesses one of the rarest qualities of the true creator- that of an original mind- and whether that originality pleases, irritates, amuses or outrages is irrelevant." "He refuses to sermonize or pontificate. What John Cage offers is more refreshing, more spirited, much more fun-a kind of carefree skinny-dipping in the infinite. It's what's happening now." -The American Record Guide. "Of all Cage's books, it is perhaps the first, Silence, which has had the broadest impact. Even now, artists of all sorts continue to respond to its Zen principles, its chance procedures, and its revolutionary ideas about sound, silence, form, and time"--Dance Chronicle. Name on front fly leaf.

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 248 pages. Though the term "San Francisco Renaissance" is usually associated with the Beat movement, it was in reality a collage of different communities, often at odds with one another, whose agendas were social and political as much as aesthetic. These subcommunities provided important contexts for subsequent counterculture developments such as gay liberation, feminism, and the New Left long before those movements attracted widespread public attention. In his study of these various impulses Michael Davidson devotes chapters to central figures such as Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Duncan, William Everson, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Michael McClure, Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen, and Jack Spicer. He also examines the important but largely neglected context of women writers in a period dominated by misogynistic views. His final chapter brings things up to date by looking at developments in the Bay Area since the death of Jack Spicer. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, University Books, 1st US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 633 pages. First published in 1900, this book is a comprehensive study of the Gnostic beliefs and practices of the early Christian era. It explores the origins of Gnosticism, its relationship with Christianity, and its influence on the development of Western spirituality. Mead examines the various Gnostic sects, their beliefs, and the texts they produced. He also delves into the philosophical and religious ideas that underlie Gnosticism, such as the concept of the divine spark within the human soul and the idea of salvation through knowledge. Introduction by Kenneth Rexroth. Name stamped on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, University Books, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with chipping, decorated boards with a black cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine, 704 pages. 14 pages of b&w plates in front section, b&w diagrams and illustrations throughout. There was no single or canonical Book of the Dead. The surviving papyri contain a varying selection of religious and magical texts and vary considerably in their illustration. Some people seem to have commissioned their own copies of the Book of the Dead, perhaps choosing the spells they thought most vital in their own progression to the afterlife. The Book of the Dead was most commonly written in hieroglyphic or hieratic script on a papyrus scroll, and often illustrated with vignettes depicting the deceased and their journey into the afterlife. The finest extant example of the Egyptian in antiquity is the Papyrus of Ani. Ani was an Egyptian scribe. It was discovered in Luxor in 1888 by Egyptians trading in illegal antiquities. It was acquired by E. A. Wallis Budge and was taken to the British Museum, where it remains. Name stamped on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, 1st thus, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 704 pages in color. Out of the blackout, into the boom years: Tracing 1940s America through ads The aftermath of World War II brought unprecedented pride and prosperity to the American people. From Western Electric communication tools (for "the modern battle") to Seagram's whiskey (for "Men Who Plan Beyond Tomorrow") to the Hoover vacuum ("For every woman who is proud of her home"), the post-war era represented a flood of products and services for every occasion. Combining social, corporate and graphic history, this new hardcover edition of 40s ads follows America's development through the anxieties of war to the buying-frenzy of peace. These colorful signs of the times feature both blasts from the past and many brand names still going strong today. It's hard to believe that the company who made your ultra-compact mobile phone was once advertising portable radios with "Motorola: More radio pleasure for less money," or that Electrolux didn't have any qualms about using Mandy, the portly black maid, to promote their new silent refrigerators: "Lor-dy, it sure is quiet!" Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt, Brace & World, 2nd pr., 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket, 259 pages. Leonard Woolf's recollections of his life with Virginia Woolf during the years when she wrote her major novels; also an account of the growth of the Hogarth Press, as well as portraits of Sigmund Freud, T. S. Eliot, and others. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Dobson Books Ltd, 1st UK, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket, 553 pages. Bright blue cloth with gilt lettering. B&w illustrations. A leading theatrical designer of his day, the Russian-born author (whose credits included many important productions for the Group Theatre and the Theatre Guild in the 1930s) also designed costumes, was a lighting director, and, later in life, a teacher of theatre. In this volume, an acknowledged classic, he "presents a vivid panorama of stage and screen technique, showing how styles of production change constantly in response to new audiences. It is the first adequate study of the social meaning of stage production. It analyzes the artistic relation of the stage to the screen. It describes the effect of new political ideologies on dramatic life and thought. Mild soil to dust jacket, no markings.

Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 402 pages, b&w illustrations. Explorer, eccentric, agent provocateur, and travel writer, Freya Stark first ventured into the Middle Eastern societies under British mandate during the 1920s, which led to a lifelong love for the Arab people and their culture. The published accounts of her exploits and observations made this mysterious region intellectually and emotionally accessible to both European scholars and casual readers. When she died in 1993 at age 100, she left a remarkable legacy as perhaps the last of the great adventuresses. In this insightful biography, former New York Times reporter Geniesse looks behind the legend to uncover the factors that molded her personality. Raised in a dysfunctional family by a controlling mother, Stark fretted about her physical failings and lack of higher formal education. Her need for freedom and attention contributed to her risk-taking, while her fear of rejection led to impetuous and disastrous personal relationships. Clean copy.