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Softcover. Budapest, Municipal Information Office , 1st, 1931, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 28 pages, soft cover with string binding. Tipped-in plate on cover. 14 color paintings with tissue guards throughout. Some slight wrinkling on several pages. Edge and self wear. All pages clean and legible.

Hardcover. NY, Russell Sage Foundation, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 400 pages, b&w illustrations. Little over a century ago, New York and Budapest were both flourishing cities engaging in spectacular modernization. By 1930, New York had emerged as an innovating cosmopolitan metropolis, while Budapest languished under the conditions that would foster fascism. Budapest and New York explores the increasingly divergent trajectories of these once-similar cities through the perspectives of both Hungarian and American experts in the fields of political, cultural, social and art history. Their original essays illuminate key aspects of urban life that most reveal the turn-of-the-century evolution of New York and Budapest: democratic participation, use of public space, neighborhood ethnicity, and culture high and low. What comes across most strikingly in these essays is New York's cultivation of social and political pluralism, a trend not found in Budapest. Nationalist ideology exerted tremendous pressure on Budapest's ethnic groups to assimilate to a single Hungarian language and culture. In contrast, New York's ethnic diversity was transmitted through a mass culture that celebrated ethnicity while muting distinct ethnic traditions, making them accessible to a national audience. Mild fade to spine of dust jacket, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Potomac Books/University of Nebraska, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 222 pages. Burning Japan is an investigation of how and why the air force shifted its tactics against Japan from a precision bombing strategy to area attacks. The guiding doctrine of the 1930s and 1940s called for focused attacks on specific targets deep behind enemy lines. Eager to prove itself, the nascent Army Air Force at first lauded the indispensability of strategic bombardment in areas otherwise unreachable by the army or navy. But when strategic bombing failed to yield the desired results in Europe and in initial efforts against Japan, the United States switched tactics, a shift that culminated in the area firebombing of nearly every major Japanese metropolis and the burning of sixty-six cities to the ground. Clean copy.

Softcover. Boston, Bulfinch, 1st pbk, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 446 pages. This landmark book chronicles the development of a kind of photography that is created out of the energy and chance juxtapositions found in everyday life on the street. Street photography is at the heart of what makes photography unique. An unprecedented study that is the first history of this tradition ever published, Bystander explores street photography through a discussion of the medium's masters - Atget, Stieglitz, Strand, Cartier-Bresson, Brassai, Kertesz, Evans, Levitt, Frank, Arbus, Winogrand, and many others - and reveals along the way much about the craft and creative process of photography. Profusely illustrated with the work of more than eighty photographers, the book is composed of four parts separated by lively folios of pictures. Each part discusses a different era - from the early days of the medium in nineteenth-century Europe, to America in the late twentieth century - and devotes entire chapters to the key figures of that period. Clean copy. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. New York, New York University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 274 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Black & white illustrations. Faint foxing to edges. Includes Errata slip. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, University Books, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 312 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations. Marble cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Red endpapers. Top edge dyed. Previous owner's inscription on title page. Some slight tanning to a few pages from age. Dust jacket unclipped, has some chipping and agewear (see images). Binding good. Spine straight. Pages unmarked. The biography of the European eighteenth century occultist and Mason, Count Allesandro di Cagliostro.

Hardcover. New York , Assouline, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 80 pages, color illustrated throughout. Unclipped dust jacket. Mary Janes, Dots, Charms, Toostsie Rolls, Smarties, Chupa Chups lollypops. Candy is an sensual part of childhood. First there's the pleasure of seeing, then the practically mind-blowing pleasure of eating. And don't forget the simple pleasure of the creative, colorful wrapping. From the first candy shops in Medieval Europe to Tagada Strawberries that have delighted children worldwide, this book takes you on the historic journey of candy and sweets from New York to New Delhi, from Paris to Tokyo, London and beyond. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Melbourne AUS, Macmillan Art Publishing, 1st, 2009, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Hardcover, 256 pages. This book, offering more than three hundred beautiful photographic studies, spans the years 1986-2006. Each image captures a special moment at a certain place in Australasia, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. Each image is unique and can never be re-captured. Christine Wu Ramsay's excursion into photography began when she established Raya Gallery in Melbourne one of the first to exhibit the works of modern artists from the Asian region. With an eye for detail and atmosphere, she brings a unique sensibility to her captured moments, producing photographs that stir memories in anyone who has travelled the world.

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press , 1st, 1940, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 76 pages of text plus 162 pages of b&w plates featuring work by this Swedish sculptor. Rust colored cloth with gilt type on spine. Light fraying to bottom of spine otherwise very good.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, Zephyr Press, 1st, 1983, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 127 pages. Illustrated with nearly 100 color plates of various carousel animals, as well as other color and black/white photographs. Cloth bound book is in near fine condition, dust jacket shows some rubbing and slight curling at the edges. Shows horses and menagerie animals carved out of wood for American and European carousels, traces the history of carousel rides, and looks at some prominent manufacturers.

Softcover. Chicago, Haymarket Books, 1st US, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 471 pages. Brings together leftist scholars from a variety of fields to explore the many different aspects of the origins, trajectories and consequences of the First World War. The collection seeks to visualise the conflict and all its immediate consequences (such as the Bolshevik Revolution and ascendency of US hegemony) as a defining moment in 20th century world politics, rupturing and reconstituting the 'modern' epoch in its many instantiations. Appeals to general readers and those focused on Marxian theory and strategy and leftist histories of the war.

Hardcover. New York, Vendome Press, 1st US, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 384 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy in an unclipped dust jacket. In this beautiful volume, the glorious life of the incomparable Coco Chanel shines again through hundreds of illustrations and the lively prose of Edmonde Charles-Roux, her official biographer and close friend.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 436 pages, b&w illustrations. The humiliation of Russia by separatist rebels in the Chechen War marked a key moment in Russian - and perhaps world - history. In this new analysis Anatol Lieven offers a riveting account of the war as a means to explore the painful fate of the post-Soviet state. Lieven looks into the long, troubled history of Russian-Chechen relations, noting that each side despised the other for largely cultural reasons (the Chechens have long been involved in organized crime in major Russian cities, whereas Russians have long tried to strip Chechnya of its resources). He notes that Chechen society has historically been militarized (one Armenian said to Lieven, "The men are always fighting and the women are cooking for them, nursing their wounds, and bringing up their children"), making the mountain people a formidable foe. In the meanwhile, writes Lieven, the Russian military suffered from low morale and from corruption of various kinds: Russian field soldiers sold their guns to Chechen guerrillas for vodka and currency, while Russian officers stole their soldiers' pay and Russian politicians skimmed off the top. This is an extraordinary look at a little-known conflict. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 606 pages. In this definitive biography of Chester B. Himes (1909-1984), Lawrence P. Jackson uses exclusive interviews and unrestricted access to Himes's full archives to portray a controversial American writer whose novels unflinchingly confront sex, racism, and black identity. Himes brutally rendered racial politics in the best-selling novel If He Hollers Let Him Go, but he became famous for his Harlem detective series, including Cotton Comes to Harlem. A serious literary tastemaker in his day, Himes had friendships-sometimes uneasy-with such luminaries as Ralph Ellison, Carl Van Vechten, and Richard Wright. Jackson's scholarship and astute commentary illuminates Himes's improbable life-his middle-class origins, his eight years in prison, his painful odyssey as a black World War II-era artist, and his escape to Europe for success. More than ten years in the writing, Jackson's biography restores the legacy of a fascinating maverick caught between his aspirations for commercial success and his disturbing, vivid portraits of the United States. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1st, 1969, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, Exhibition catalogue for Bulgarian artist Christo. Illustrated with 71 reproductions of his often large-scale work, 3 of which are in shown in full color. Cloth bound book and dust jacket are in near fine condition; dust jacket has very slight wear some corners, book is very clean and new-looking.

Hardcover. London, George Routledge and Sons, Reprint, 1867, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes. Translated by Thomas Johnes. 102 engravings. 3/4 blue leather & patterned paper on boards, Spine with gilt & raised bands. All edges gilt. Previous owner's name stamp on front end paper. Volume 1 - 640 pages. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text. Volume 2 - 552 pages. Light wear. Clean, unmarked pages.

Softcover. Istanbul, Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 143 pages. Contents: 1. B. Beckman, Explaining democratization, notes on the concept of civil society. 2. I. Sunar, Civil society and Islam 3. S.J. Al-Azm, Is Islam secularizable. 4. B. Tibi, The cultural underpinning of civil society in Islamic civilization: Islam and democracy - bridges between the civilizations. 5. S.E. Ibrahim, From Taliban to Erbakan, The case of Islam, civil society and democracy.6. G. Therborn, Beyond civil society: Democratic experiences and their relevance to the "Middle East". 7. M. Sariolghalam, Prospects for civil society in the Middle East: An analysis of cultural impediments. 8. L. Koker, National identity and state legitimacy: Contradictions of Turkey's democratic experience. 9. E. Ozdalga, Civil society and its enemies: Reflections on a debate in the light of recent developments within the Islamic student movement in Turkey. 10. E. Ozbudun, Civil society and democratic consolidation in Turkey. 11. A. Lundgren, The European Union as a democracy-promoter. 12. I. Brandell, Labour, civil society and democratization in North Africa. 13. O. Tornquist, Civil society and divisive politicisation: experiences from popular efforts at democratisation in Indonesia. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Ward Ritchie Press, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum. Features writings by the artist, including his proposals for monuments, as well as illustrations (mostly black/white, few color) of his sculptures and drawings. Also contains chronology of the artist's life and work. Cloth bound book is in very good condition. Dust jacket has some scratches/wear.

Softcover. Paris, Histoire and Collections, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 132 pages. profusely illustrated in color and b&w. This second volume of the collection Resistance is devoted to the parachuting and picking up of agents, from 1940 to 1944. It is a gripping frieze of these operations and a vigorous tribute to those heroes of the resistance whom the author describes here, using both his extensive personal documentation, connections among the veterans and many museum conservators throughout Europe. The reconstitution is rigorous and the information precise about both material and methods, and the wealth of pictures will live up to the expectations of most enlightened amateurs. But above all, each reader can discover the personal life stories more intimately, from the training exercises in England awaiting departure, to the sacrifices made so freely in carrying out the missions. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 358 pages, color and b&w illustrations. What we call classical art did not simply appear in ancient Rome, or in the Renaissance, or in the eighteenth-century Academy. Endlessly repackaged and revered or rebuked, Greek and Roman artifacts have gathered an amazing array of values, both positive and negative, in each new historical period, even as these objects themselves have reshaped their surroundings. Vout shows how this process began in antiquity, as Greeks of the Hellenistic period transformed the art of fifth-century Greece, and continued through the Roman empire, Constantinople, European court societies, the neoclassical English country house, and the nineteenth century, up to the modern museum. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, James Pott & Co, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 340 pages. Red cloth covers, gilt titles and gilt embossed illustration to front, top edge gilt, tissue-protected b&w frontispiece, 16 b&w plates. Very light edgewear and rubbing to covers, spine lightly faded, pages crisp and unmarked, stiff binding; a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st pbk, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 472 pages. The prose writings of Charles Olson (1910-1970) have had a far-reaching and continuing impact on post-World War II American poetics. Olson's theories, which made explicit the principles of his own poetics and those of the Black Mountain poets, were instrumental in defining the sense of the postmodern in poetry and form the basis of most postwar free verse. The Collected Prose brings together in one volume the works published for the most part between 1946 and 1969, many of which are now out of print. A valuable companion to editions of Olson's poetry, the book backgrounds the poetics, preoccupations, and fascinations that underpin his great poems. Included are Call Me Ishmael, a classic of American literary criticism; the influential essays "Projective Verse" and "Human Universe"; and essays, book reviews, and Olson's notes on his studies. In these pieces one can trace the development of his new science of man, called "muthologos," a radical mix of myth and phenomenology that Olson offered in opposition to the mechanistic discourse and rationalizing policy he associated with America's recent wars in Europe and Asia. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Canberra, Australian National University, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in decorative cloth, no dust jacket issued, spine shows fading, 290 pages, several maps and charts. The chapters are: the regional development in pre-European times; the foundation of Port Moresby 1873-1888; the colonial backwater 1889-1941; administration & social change 1889-1941; wartime interlude 1942-1945; expansion of Port Moresby 1946-1974; characteristics of the Port Moresby population; social organisation; race relations; shelter; administration 1945-1974. "Port Moresby" lettered on spine, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Canada, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The material that was saved from Warsaw in 1939 included more than ten color slides. These slides are the only color photo documents showing that historic moment from the perspective of city residents. The slides were found only in recent years by the photographer's son, Sam Bryan. In addition to color slides this album also includes photographs recorded by Julien Bryan on black-and-white film at that time and iater subjected to a complicated process of colorizing. The colorizing took piace after Bryan's return to the United States in 1939.