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Hardcover. Boston, L.C. Page and Co., reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, maroon cloth with spine label, top edge gilt. A volume from Disraeli's collected works, a reprint of the 1845 edition. Two b&w illustrations by Byam Shaw. Sybil is both an upper class romance and a political manifesto set against the backdrop of the Chartist movement (1838-1857). The novel's romantic plot is secondary to the political message, which calls for a restoration of national unity by means of reinstating royal authority and paternalistic government. As its subtitle indicates, Sybil exposes British society's bitter division of the rich and the poor during the "hungry forties." Disraeli portrayed both the physical and moral degradation of working people with gritty realism, relying on accounts from the Blue Books (reports of parliamentary commissions set up to examine social conditions) and his own eyewitness observations of manufacturing towns in the North. Bookplate on inside front cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 2nd Ed., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 226 pages. The important role of the Temperance movement throughout American history is analyzed as clashes and conflicts between rival social systems, cultures, and status groups. Sometimes the "dry" is winning the classic battle for prestige and political power. Sometimes, as in today's society, he is losing. This significant contribution to the theory of status conflict also discloses the importance of political acts as symbolic acts and offers a dramatistic theory of status politics, Gusfield provides a useful addition to the economic and psychological modes of analysis current in the study of political and social movements. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth with black stamping, 488 pages. This is the original edition from 1925. Presents an approachable path through the discipline, covering how pomology connects with botany, plant breeding, and practical fruit-growing. It highlights how to describe, classify, and compare varieties, and it provides models for student projects and laboratory work that can be adapted to different regions and teaching needs. B&w illustrations, clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Co., 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, olive cloth with gilt lettering on spine faded. 278 pages. Titchener's last statement of his 'structuralist' theoretical position, edited by his Cornell colleague H.P.Weld (who provides a 4 page Preface). A comprehensive book written by Edward Bradford Titchener, a prominent psychologist of the early 20th century. The book is a prologue to Titchener's larger work, Systematic Psychology, and lays out the philosophical foundations of psychology as a science. Titchener begins by defining psychology as the study of conscious experience, and argues that it is a natural science that should be studied using introspection. He outlines the basic principles of introspection and the methods used to study mental processes, including perception, attention, memory, and thought. The book also covers the philosophical underpinnings of psychology, including the relationship between mind and body, free will and determinism, and the nature of causality. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. self-published, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 168 pages, b&w illustrations. Magic forests, mishaps on the ice, decapitated dolls, abandoned houses, battleaxe teachers, sweethearts and snitches fill the pages of this enchanting memoir. Set in 1950's small-town America, "Tagalong Kid" evokes the author's nearly idyllic childhood in Katonah, New York, "the town that time forgot." Her indulgent older brothers allow her to "tag along" as they pursue a myriad of adventures, both imaginative and risky. Mixing nostalgia with humor, "Tagalong Kid" conjures up that dreamy swirl through which a child's mind gradually comes into focus. With 57 black-and-white vintage photographs. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, Little Brown, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 414 pages. The urban Indian as viewed by an Indian caseworker. After an historical introduction, chapters compare the status of Indians in American towns and cities with those remaining on the reservations. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge/UK, Harvard/Heinemann, reprint, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 409 pages. In Greek and English. The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after New Testament times. Volume 1 only. Loeb Classical Library. Edgewear to rear cover, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday & Company, BC Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket, 190 pages. A spy adventure featuring agent Tommy Hambledon. Manning Coles was the pseudonym of two British writers, Adelaide Frances Oke Manning, and Cyril Henry Coles. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 375 pages, b&w illustrations. A man-made wonder, a connective network, an economic force, a bringer of blight and sprawl and the possibility of escape--the U.S. interstate system changed the face of our country. The Big Roads charts the creation of these essential American highways. From the turn-of-the-century car racing entrepreneur who spurred the citizen-led "Good Roads" movement, to the handful of driven engineers who conceived of the interstates and how they would work--years before President Eisenhower knew the plans existed--to the protests that erupted across the nation when highways reached the cities and found people unwilling to be uprooted in the name of progress, Swift follows a winding, fascinating route through twentieth-century American life. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, ibooks, 1st US, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 190 pages. The Bloody Streets of Paris is a classic detective story set against the Nazi occupation of Paris. Newly discharged from a WWII prisoner of war camp, Nestor Burma finds himself unraveling a convoluted mystery surrounding the death of an associate. Tardi's black and white illustrations brilliantly evoke the gritty urban atmosphere of forties' Paris. Small dog-ear crease to corner of rear cover, Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, TOR Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 304 pages. Second book of the "Homecoming" series. On the planet Harmony survivors from a ruined Earth live in a utopia maintained by a computer, which is failing. The only repair lies light-years distant on Earth and the only way to get there is to teach forbidden technology to a few select people. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Crown Publishers , BC Ed., 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 215 pages. Contains a collection of early science-fiction short stories by popular author. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 204 pages. A collection of offbeat essays covering subjects like Santa Claus, Frankenstein's monster, Lot's wife, Albert Schweitzer and Herman Melville. Introduction by Buckminster Fuller. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st US, 1982-85, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Four hardcover volumes in bright dust jackets. Fabian socialist, social researcher and reformer, and cofounder of the London School of Economics, Beatrice Webb (1858-1943) was at the center of British intellectual and political life for nearly seventy years. Her diaries offer a remarkable record of her achievements, and they reveal the private face behind a formidable public persona. From age fifteen until her death, Webb confided in her diary. She describes her obsessive and self-thwarted passion for politician Joseph Chamberlain, her work as a young woman in London's East End, and the troubled courtship that led to her marriage and famous partnership with Sidney Webb. She tells of the books they wrote together and the people they knew-Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Ramsay MacDonald, Leonard and Virginia Woolf-in pages rich in anecdote and insight. She describes their friendship with Bernard Shaw and despairs of H.G. Wells's peccadilloes. The Diaries chart the collapse of Liberalism and the rise of the Labour Movement, and set Beatrice Webb's faith in Social Communism against the growth of fascism in the 1930s. They encompass the Boer War and the devastation of two world wars, and bring to life the social and cultural changes that introduced the modern world. Alongside this record is an intensely moving account of a long life, of friendships and family, conviction, and self-doubt. From this unparalleled document emerges a woman whose shrewd judgement, skilled portraiture, and refreshingly ironic tone establish her as one of the greatest diarists of her time. No ownership inscriptions. Clean, bright and unfaded boards. Fresh pages and unmarked closed page edges. Tight bindings. No loose. No remainder marks. A handsome set. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping. International customers please ask for a shipping quote before purchasing.

Softcover. South Conway NH, Lost Cemetery Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pale blue wrappers, 94 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf. Light foxing to wrappers.

Hardcover. NY, S.A. Russell, 2nd Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 390 pages. Winspear's volume on Plato's thought traces, in a realistic fashion, the deep-reaching social and economic roots of Plato's concept of the state and society. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Bantam Books, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 274 pages. In 2007, just five years before the centennial of the sinking of the "Titanic," two corporations--one English, one Japanese--each using futuristic technology, contend with each other over the ship's retrieval. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1948, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, light tan cloth with silver lettering on spines, 379 +438 pages, b&w illustrations. The first biography of Burney to be published after his daughter's 3-volume memoirs appeared in the 19th century. Endpaper maps. Clean copies.

Softcover. NY, Avon Books, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 222 pages. A Mirror for Observers recounts the story of Angelo Pontevecchio, a child prodigy and "potential ethical innovator" caught between two contesting factions of Martians, Observers and Abdicators. The Martians, living secretly on Earth after evacuating their dying home world, have been trying to guide the development of human civilization for thousands of years. The novel is told from the point of view of Elmis, Angelo's designated Martian guardian, who must shield him from the malignant Abdicators. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Avon Books, reprint, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. A cheap faster-than-light drive has permitted populating the galaxy. Each planet has become home for different social groups. 400 years post-diaspora, a Earth spaceship visits three -- a 1st step to galactic unification. Things don't go as hoped, as the ship's incompetent military authoritarians encounter three very different societies.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth covers, gilt title on spine. 585 pages, 4 b&w plates by Bayard Jones. A novel by the nineteenth-century French detective fiction writer Emile Gaboriau, whom Andre Gide referred to as "the father of all current detective fiction". A captivating mystery novel that delves into the intricate web of honor, betrayal, and justice within the context of French literature. Gaboriau's novel follows a gripping narrative centered around a detective's quest to unravel the secrets and intrigues surrounding a family's honor. Set against the backdrop of France, the story unfolds with meticulous detail, drawing readers into a world of suspense and psychological depth. As the detective delves deeper into the case, he uncovers layers of deception and familial secrets, leading to shocking revelations and unexpected twists. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 238 pages. Jaroslav Pelikan provides a unique perspective on the university today by reexamining it in light of John Henry Cardinal Newman's 150-year-old classic The Idea of a University and showing how Cardinal Newman's ideas both illuminate and differ from current problems facing higher education. Pelikan begins by affirming the validity of Newman's first principle: that knowledge must be an end in itself. He goes on to make the case for the inseparability of research and teaching on both intellectual and practical grounds, stressing the virtues--free inquiry, scholarly honesty, civility in discourse, toleration of diverse beliefs and values, and trust in rationality and public verifiability--that must be practiced and taught by the university. He discusses the business of the university--the advancement of knowledge through research, the extension and interpretation of knowledge through undergraduate and graduate teaching, the preservation of knowledge in libraries, museums, and galleries, and the diffusion of knowledge through scholarly publishing. And he argues that by performing these tasks, by developing closer ties with other schools at all levels, and by involving the community in lifelong education, the university will make its greatest contribution to society. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Nelson Doubleday, BC Ed., 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 215 pages. A solid collection of seventeen short stories and one novelette tackling serious themes such as PSTD, drug culture, anti-war movements, the clash of ideologies, mechanization, etc. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 2nd pr., 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 133 pages. In 1968 the photographer Richard Brown fulfilled a romantic childhood dream when he moved to the Northeast Kingdom, a remote corner of Vermont just barely entering the twentieth century. There he encountered a way of life that was fast disappearing, a land of sheep, cattle, work horses, wood-burning stoves, and small family-run farms far removed from the industrial Northeast. Determined to record it before it disappeared, he saw a pastoral vision where, "for the briefest interval, a window opened and the spirit of Vermont's past" granite hills cleared and formed, hard lives lived and lost, struggle and endurance, a harsh land made starkly beautiful by nature and man? "was made palpable." He saw the land and also a people whose "endless hours of backbreaking, monotonous work were spent with a quiet ferocity" and who believed their "age-old labors were a struggle waged against time itself " labors that might just hold modernity at bay." And Brown did record it, with an 8 x 10" large plate view camera. Not only the hauntingly beautiful landscape but also the people who stayed and worked the stubborn hills and "did so with great but fierce attachment." This is a great ode to an America that has passed before our eyes almost without comment or notice. It is a valiant, indeed a brilliant, effort to make the past tangible, to bring it back to life. Clean copy.