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Softcover. Seoul Korea, Nanam Publications, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 219 pages, b&w illustrations. Essential for any serious martial artist and practitioners of Tae Kwon Do. Contains practical one-step fighting techniques arranged in the traditional format along with articles on the philosophy andlaguage of the Tae Kwon Do culture. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John Grigg, 1st thus, 1831, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Presumed 1st, copyright Feb. 9, 1831, 1831 on title page. Translated from the French by Charles D. Meigs, M.D.; black-&-white plates The title page is preceded by four pages of publisher's ads for medical books. xix, 17-584. Full calf binding has scuffs and wear, but still very sound and attractive. Gilt rules & title on spine. Previous owner's name, date and price on front end paper (1837) Another previous owner's bookplate date 1895 on front pastedown. Contents slightly age-toned, some foxing and text-block offsetting throughout otherwise very good. James Kay, Jun & Co. - printer.

Softcover. New York, Nantier Beall Minoustchine, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated. Softcover. First volume of reprinting, covering 1924-1925. With an introduction by Bill Blackbeard. An unmarked, clean and tight copy with only light edge wear to wrappers.

Softcover. Denver CO, Roberts Publishing Co., reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, orange wrappers, 136 pages, profusely illustrated with 152 instructional drawings in black & white. The first of a series of papers on the repair of the complex mechanisms of complicated watches, providing an in-depth analysis of mainly chronograph movements. Written by the Dean and President of the American Academy of Horology. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would "invigorate" the races, thereby producing extraordinary offspring. Their daughter, Philippa Duke Schuyler, became the embodiment of this theory, and they hoped she would prove that interracial children represented the final solution to America's race problems. Able to read and write at the age of two and a half, a pianist at four, and a composer by five, Philippa was often compared to Mozart. During the 1930s and 40s she graced the pages of Time and Look magazines, the New York Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker. Philippa grew up under the adoring andinquisitive eyes of an entire nation and soon became the role model and inspiration for a generation of African-American children. But as an adult she mysteriously dropped out of sight, leaving America to wonder what had happened to the "little Harlem genius." Suffering the double sting of racismand gender bias, Philippa had been rejected by the elite classical music milieu in the United States and forced to find an audience abroad, where she flourished as a world-class performer and composer. She traveled throughout South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia performing for kings, queens, and presidents. By then Philippa had added a second career as an author and foreign correspondent reporting on events around the globe--from Albert Schweitzer's leper colony in Lamberene to the turbulent Asian theater of the 1960s. She would give a command performance for Queen Elisabeth of Belgium one day, and hide from the Viet Cong among the ancient graves of the Annam kings another.

Hardcover. Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, Highfill Press Inc., 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 1223 pages, illustrated throughout with charts and photographs in color and b&w. Black leatherette with silver titles to front and spine. White dust jacket. Slight wear to dust jacket, else a beautiful copy.

Hardcover. NY, B. Keith and Co., 2nd Ed., 1860, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 444 pages plus index. Black cloth covers with embossed ruling, gilt lettering on spine. Light rubbing to rear cover, small bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise clean, sharp-edged copy. Copyright page states 1858, but the preface to the Second Edition is dated 1860.

Hardcover. Atglen, PA, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout.

Hardcover. NY, New Directions, 1st, 1951, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a yellow dust jacket with chipping, soiling. 187 pages. Black cloth binding with titling on the spine in gilt; with Chinese ideogram on the front cover. Illustrated with rubbings by William Hawley; and a Note on the Stone Classics by Achilles Fang. Previous owner's name and address on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. NY, Basic Books, reprint, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 359 pages. Stanley Crouch-MacArthur "genius" award recipient, co-founder of Jazz at Lincoln Center, National Book Award nominee, and perennial bull in the china shop of black intelligentsia- has been writing about jazz and jazz artists for over thirty years. His reputation for controversy is exceeded only by a universal respect for his intellect and passion. As Gary Giddons notes: "Stanley may be the only jazz writer out there with the kind of rhinoceros hide necessary to provoke and outrage and then withstand the fulminations that come back." Now, in a long-awaited collection, Crouch collects fifteen of his most influential, and most controversial pieces (published in Jazz Times, The New Yorker, the Village Voice, and elsewhere), and includes two new essays as well. The pieces range from the introspective "Jazz Criticism and its Effect on the Art Form" to a rollicking debate with Amiri Baraka, to vivid, intimate portraits of the legendary performers Crouch has known. The first, autobiographical essay reflects on his life in jazz as a drummer, a promoter, a critic, and most of all a lover of this quintessentially American art form. And the closing essay, about a young Italian saxophonist, expresses undaunted optimism for the worldwide vibrancy of jazz.Throughout, Crouch's work reminds us not only of why he is one of the world's most important living jazz critics, but also of why jazz itself remains, against all odds, an elemental component of our cultural identity. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Roberts Brothers, 1st, 1895, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two volumes complete. 811 pages, many b&w illustrations. Green cloth with black rule, gilt design and lettering, top edge gilt. Volume one with fraying to cloth at top of spine, previous owner's sticker inside front covers. Otherwise clean, very good set.

Hardcover. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt decoration. Illustrated historical volume on the city of Constantinople. 567 pp., includes 164 black/white illustrations, mostly reproduced photographs. Very good condition: gilt-edged pages, slight wear on the spine and corners of the cover. Previous owners' names and dates written inside the cover and on p. vii.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press,, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 235 pages. Includes bibliographical references, index, notes, and numerous black and white and color illustrations and maps. Bright dust jacket. light foxing to text block fore-edge.

Hardcover. Tokyo, Kodansha, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 187 pages. Large format. Illustrated with full color and black & white examples of of fine contemporary prints from Japan. Dust jacket shows wear with dime sized chunk missing at top of spine and piece missing at bottom left corner of rear flap. Clean, tight copy. May require additional postage. "Contemporary Japanese Prints" is a fine, beautifully printed folio book--just the way art books should be. Written by a key art historian and critic as well as museum director, it serves as an excellent and eye-opening overview of just what the straightforward title indicates, artistic prints by Japanese artists then currently active as of 1967. Kawakita's introduction is clear and concise but properly informative, defining this art form's general characteristics and then outlining its modern history, starting with its rise in the early twentieth century. Contrary to what one might expect, these prints are almost totally unrelated to Japan's rather famous ukiyo-e prints of the early modern period, these modern "hanga" instead representing the creative vision and artistic labor of one individual artist. And well, a picture's worth a thousand words, so the bulk of the book presents a selection of 150 prints by 119 artists--47 color plates and 103 monochrome plates.

NY, Harper and Brothers, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, stated first edition with code letter "F-M" and "First Edition" printed on copyright page. Paper label on spine, three quarter black cloth with blue paper over boards. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Philsdelphia, J. B. Lippincott, reprint, 1890, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark brown clot stamped with gilt lettering on front cover, 326 pages plus publisher's ads in rear. Hopton was a Yorkshire miner's son, collier manager, and crusader for mine safety. This book was a bestselling treatise advocating improved ventilation and other safety improvements in mine construction and operation, written in a conversational question and answer format. Black and white diagrams throughout including folding frontispiece. Reprinted from the 8th English edition. Front hinge cracked, 2" tear to spine at bottom rear, otherwise a sound, clean copy.

Softcover. London, Bemrose & Sons, 1st, 1911, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Softcover with heavy wear to paper wrappers. Maps and black and white pictures. Previous owner's markings on rear and throughout. Spine paper removed.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, John Winston, 1st, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 276 pages. Color frontispiece, black & white illustrations by Kurt Wiese. Gilt decorated blue cloth covers.

Hardcover. New York , Princeton University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 158 pages with 4 color plates. 132 black & white photos. 11 line illustrations.

Hardcover. London, England, Pickering & Chatto, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six volumes, Hardcovers. 1636-1691. Volume 1: 521 pages. Two bumps to front cover board edge.Volume 2: 674 pages. front cover board top right corner bump.Volume 3: 445 pages.Volume 4: 528 pages.Volume 5: 474 pages.Volume 6: 616 pages. Some b/w illustrations. Blue cover boards, gilt title on black with decoration on spines. Previous owner's name and information on flyleaf of volumes 1, 2, and 6. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Spines straight. Beautiful set right out of a professor's library. Domestic Shipping Only.

Hardcover. New York, National Academy of Design, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 246 pages. 62 B&w illustrations and 77 plates in full color. Black leatherette. silver lettering to spine. Pictorial dust jacket. Like new.

NY, Macmillan, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 51 pages. Black & white photos by Patricia Agre. Behind the scenes of a small family owned restaurant in New York City. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, The Folio Society, 1st illust thus, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorative boards with black slipcase. 445 pages, color frontispiece and 12 color plates by David Hughes. First published in 1938, recounting the life of the Byzantine general Belisarius (AD 500-565), It was not a peaceful time for the Roman empire. Invaders threatened all fronts, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, Emperor Justinian's greatest general. With this book Robert Graves again demonstrates his command of a vast historical subject, creating a startling and vivid picture of a decadent era. Forward by Lindsey Davis. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Nashville TN, Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1st, 1947, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, terra-cotta cloth stamped in blue. 63 pages, red and black line drawings throughout. A city boy's adventures as he spends the summer at his uncle's farm. Shelf-worn but clean.