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Hardcover. NY, Greenwood Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine, 477 pages, two b&w plates. A reprint of the 1913 revised Second Edition. A selection from his correspondence with Boccaccio and other friends, designed to illustrate the beginnings of the Renaissance. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean

Hardcover. Manchester UK, Manchester University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 312 pages. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Down East Books, 1st, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 110 pages, b&w illustrations. It is a well-known fact, perhaps legend now, that Peyton Place, the controversial, scandalous blockbuster was filmed in Camden, Maine and the surrounding towns in 1957. But how did the movie come to be filmed in Maine, who was involved in getting it here, and what did the locals think about 20th Century Fox shooting a big-budget film in their front yards? Historian Mac Smith has done the research and conducted the interviews and presents a fascinating account of events and key players. Beginning with the arrival of film crews, he traces the making of the movie, what happened after the crews left, and the premiere of the film, which was held in Camden. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Neshannock PA , Hermes Press, Reprint , 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. Imagine waking up in 1939 and reading the first Phantom Sunday strip in the newspaper. Now, for the first time, these rare Phantom Sundays are being collected in their full size in an archival reprint of the first six Phantom stories! The stories for these Sundays was created by Lee Falk with artwork by Ray Moore in a half page format, so this reprint is faithful to the originals and reproduces every detail of these Sundays as seen in Sunday sections of newspapers. These Sunday pages have the same look and feel of the originals only now they're collected in a high quality art book format that will last forever.

Hardcover. Neshannock PA, Hermes Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 191 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Color throughout.

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bright green cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, 299 pages. A history of Egypt beginning with the early Dynasties from 3000 BC, with very readable and detailed accounts of the more dramatic episodes, including the battles of Napoleon's invasion, the siege of Khartoum, and Kitchener's battles. Bookplate on inside front cover, small blank sticker on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Damiani, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 162 pages. Part of a whole gang of street artists--from Barry McGee to Swoon--who have broken into the art world in the last decade or so, Phil Frost's signature style is a funky tribalism--Hawaii by way of New York City--infused with a quirky sense of art history and design. In the 1990s, Frost honed his skills by painting walls, found objects and street detritus with his intricate, compulsive and highly evolved form of tagging. Frost's gallery exhibitions are crowded affairs, filled with wildly patterned totemic objects and baseball bats while the walls are stacked with colorful mixed media paintings. He crafts his painstaking paintings by collaging layers of found imagery on grounds of symmetrical black-and-white patterning, which he paints with correction fluid, and that often morph into language-like glyphs or symbols. Frost states, "I believe [my work] is indigenous to myself. I believe that within every person there is an indigenous expression of themselves." Including an essay by New York journalist Carlo McCormick and notorious lowbrow artist Pusshead, this is Frost's first monograph, and an invaluable introduction to the evolution of his style.

Hardcover. South Bend IN, Gateway Editions, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR HARRISON on the title page. 628 pages, b&w illustrations. Thomas Cope was a wealthy merchant and ship owner, a force in city and state government, a philanthropist and--by no means least--a Quaker. He is best described in his own words about his writing and himself: "I have laid down no regular plan and I follow none. My diary is like myself, a chequered maze." He was committed to the service of others--the poor, the sick, the insane--and labored to improve the civic life of Philadelphia in far-sighted ways. He was a moving force behind the water system, a founder of the Mercantile Library, an advocate for the Penn. Railroad, and a supporter of poorhouses, among many other civic and philanthropic activities. He was also a deeply passionate man, whose fluent style at times seethes with emotion. Even into his eighties he struggled to control his temper. Perceptive and intelligently engaged, Cope comments on all the major historical events of his time, such as the yellow fever epidemics, the War of 1812, and the looming Civil War, as well as the more personal dramas of his own life. Some tape repairs ro dj, clean copy.

Hardcover. Manila, Capitol Publishing House, 3rd Pr., 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. Originally published as a oversize softcover (10 X 12 1/2"), here bound in hardcovers. 152 pages with 481 numbered images in b&w, Maps, drawings, photographs. Printed on cheap paper stock with heavy paper wrapper. Several short tears to about 20 pages, no paper loss. Otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1st , 1982, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 284 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Slight foxing to top edge. Dust jacket has price clipped from front flap. Dust jacket also shows minor shelf wear and fading to spine. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Hardcover. Hillsdale NJ, Lawrence Erlbaum, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers with light blue stamping, 422 pages. This highly readable translation of the major works of the 18th- century philosopher Etienne Bonnot, Abbe de Condillac, a disciple of Locke and a contemporary of Rousseau, Voltaire, and Diderot, shows his influence on psychiatric diagnosis as well as on the education of the deaf, the retarded, and the preschool child. Published two hundred years after Condillac's death, this translation contains treatises which were, until now, virtually unavailable in English: A Treatise on Systems, A Treatise of the Sensations, Logic. Name on front fly leaf, light bumps to cover corners.

Softcover. Rochester NY, University of Rochester Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 539 pages. The essays in this collection illustrate the interdisciplinary approach to the history of ideas fostered by the Journal of the History of Ideas. Science, philosophy and religion were closely connected in the 17th and 18th centuries, and common threads run through all the articles. A number of essays revolve around Locke: the implications of his doctrines for religion, and their relation to and support of the new science; several of these articles refer to Descartes, Leibniz andHume. There are essays on optics and vision in the work of Berkeley, Reid and Newton, and on the relation between biology and physiology, especially as these disciplines contribute to the science of man. The authors include HENRY GUERLAC, MARGARET C. JACOB, SHIRLEY ROE, L. LAUDAN, NICHOLAS JOLLEY, JAMES FORCE, G. A. J. ROGERS and CATHERINE WILSON. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. This collection of essays looks at the distinctively English intellectual, social and political phenomenon of Latitudinarianism, which emerged during the Civil War and Interregnum and came into its own after the Restoration, becoming a virtual orthodoxy after 1688. Dividing into two parts, it first examines the importance of the Cambridge Platonists, who sought to embrace the newest philosophical and scientific movements within Church of England orthodoxy, and then moves into the later seventeenth century, from the Restoration onwards, culminating in essays on the philosopher John Locke. These contributions establish a firmly interdisciplinary basis for the subject, while collectively gravitating towards the importance of discourse and language as the medium for cultural exchange. The variety of approaches serves to illuminate the cultural indeterminacy of the period, in which inherited models and vocabularies were forced to undergo revisions, coinciding with the formation of many cultural institutions still governing English society. Name on front fly, pencil marking to about 20 pages.

Austin, University of Texas , 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 154 pages. Many B&W, color photos by Kennerly. The last 30 years of the 20th century produced a compelling range of images: Vietnam and the student protests, Robert Kennedy's assassination and Richard Nixon's election, the trauma of Watergate and the recovery under Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, the fragile beginnings of peace in the Middle East and the crumbling of the Soviet Union. David Hume Kennerly's astonishing photographs of these and many other events that shaped our times are among the images forever imprinted in our memories. Kennerly was always there with his camera - on the battlefield, at ringside, or behind closed doors in the Oval Office. This eyewitness collection presents over 250 of his most dramatic photographs, many published here for the first time. Augmented by Kennerly's first-hand recollections of the historic events he witnessed, the photographs range from an early Supremes concert through Jonestown, with vivid coverage of Vietnam and other wars, the final days of the Nixon presidency, the inside workings of the Ford Administration, and groundbreaking events in international diplomacy.

Hardcover. New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non paginated. Hardcover. Extensive b&w photographs throughout. Silver gilt titles on spine and cover. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. Berlin, Guido Hackebeil, 1st, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages plus tables, ads in rear. Red cloth spine, cream colored boards with light soil. A book on amateur film making, b&w illustrations, German text. AGFA has an ad in the back with actual film stills. Previous owner's bookplate, signature on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

London, Hutchinson, 1st UK, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. Black & white photos. Very small closed tear on spine of dust jacket. An account of his life and work. Ponting became the official photographer of Scott's second expedition to the South Pole. With 77 black and white photographs taken on his travels.

Hardcover. Nevada City CA, Carl Mautz Pub, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black cloth. 126 pages illustrated by photographs and including an extensive bibliography and a directory of photographers. A typically well produced book from this publisher on the history of photography in the pioneer west as well as a scholarly effort. Both the book and jacket are bright, crisp and unworn.

Hardcover. Nevada City CA, Carl Mautz Pub, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black cloth. 126 pages illustrated by photographs and including an extensive bibliography and a directory of photographers. A typically well produced book from this publisher on the history of photography in the pioneer west as well as a scholarly effort. Both the book and jacket are bright, crisp and unworn.

Hardcover. NY, Burns Archive Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in pictorial boards. Twenty-five photographs from the Burns Archive documenting conditions presented in the 19th century in what is now called podiatry; this selection emphasizing skin conditions in the lower extremities. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York, Burns Archive Press, 1st Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcopies. (SIGNED) Domestic shipping only. Slipcase still has original mylar wrap (See image).4 Volumes: Nonpagenated (SIGNED) In slipcase.The Face, 56 pagesThe Torso, 55 pagesThe Extremities, 57 pagesThe Back, 56 pagesLimited to 5000 copies. Color, b/w and sepia illustrations throughout. Black, decorated cover boards in like new condition. Pages clean, binding tight, spines straight. Slipcase fine.

Softcover. Paris, Musee de la Vie Romantique, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 143 pages. Softcover. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Black and white photographs throughout. French text.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 170 Black & white photos., 244 pages + index. Remainder mark top edge. Top corner bumped. Illustrated with sepia-toned photographs throughout. Reproduced here for the first time are 170 images of everyday life in Montana from the 1890s through the 1920s. Included are photos of workers in the wheat fields, cattle ranchers, sheepherders, families in front of one room dwellings, wildlife, landscapes, town scenes, etc.

Hardcover. London, Merrill Holberton, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 160 pages. Black & white photography. Clean, tight copy. These largely unpublished photographs, some only recently discovered, were taken by Aby Warburg on his trip to the American frontier in 1895. Neither a photographer nor a native tourist, Warburg was a scholar with a camera. As seen though his own cultural and psychological perspective on art, these insightful photographs are significant not only to the study of Native American and frontier life, but also to an understanding of Warburg's unique vision of cultural history. 80 duotone photos.