Hardcover. Israel, Yeshivat Kol Yehuda, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.
Softcover. London/NY, Routledge, reprint, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 260 pages, b&w illustrations. Kathakali Dance-Drama provides a comprehensive introduction to the distinctive and colorful dance-drama of Kerala in South-West India for the first time. This landmark volume explores Kathakali's reception as it reaches new audiences both in India and the west. During these performances heroes, heroines, gods and demons tell their stories of traditional Indian epics. The four Kathakali plays included in this anthology, translated from actual performances into English are:* The Flower of Good Fortune* The Killing of Kirmmira* The Progeny of Krishna* King Rugmamgada's LawEach play has an introduction and detailed commentary and is illustrated by stunning photographs taken during performances. Clean copy.
Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Sharif Tarabay. Life isn't always cheap south of the border--some lives are worth a million dollars. That's what the Mexican kidnapping cartel was demanding for Carl Ledbetter's wife. So Carl reached out to the one person he knew with a chance in hell of saving her, a deadly man whose own life he'd saved in the sands of Iraq. It was time to call in some favors. Because some situations call for negotiation, but some...call for gun work. Like new.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Random House, 2nd pr., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Drawn from fragments of historical fact, Matthiessen's masterpiece brilliantly depicts the fortunes and misfortunes of Edgar J. Watson, a real-life entrepreneur and outlaw who appeared in the lawless Florida Everglades around the turn of the century. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Jersey FR, Charles Le Feuvre, 1st thus, 1881, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 420 pages, Green cloth binding with black stamping. Reimpression editee avec de legeres annotations. French text. Previous owner's bookplate, otherwise clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. NY, William Faro, Inc., 1st thus, 1930, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. black cloth with title on spine label, 313 pages. A good+ copy of the first edition [1930 on the title page] of the William Faro pirated hard cover edition, lacking the dust-jacket. "Revised, 1930, by William Faro, Inc." on copyright page. No markings, edgewear to cloth covers, corners. mild wear to top of spine. Binding solid.
Softcover. Santa Fe, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 126 pages. The American Southwest has shaped the lives and work of many artists and literary figures over the last century--Georgia O'Keeffe, D. H. Lawrence, N. Scott Momaday, to name a few--individuals unquestionably drawn to the unrivaled landscape, moved to express its beauty through the written word or through their art, and forever altered by the experience. The survey of photographers and photography in the Southwest between 1870 and 1970 begins with Timothy O'Sullivan and other late nineteenth-century expedition photographers and ends with the color landscape photography of Eliot Porter. In between are Laura Gilpin's portraits of Navajos taken during the 1930s and the documentary images of rural Hispanic communities by Farm Security Administration photographers John Collier Jr. and Russell Lee in the 1940s. Nineteen photographers in all are represented--also including Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Edward Weston--along with 102 photographs. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, March & Greenwood, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 23.4*16.3cm, 123 pages. Printed on one side of double leaves, folded once in Chinese style. Now uncommon in commerce, this was the first English translation by a Chinese scholar of the foundational book of Taoism. The enigmatic polymath Dr Sum Nung Au-Young (1893-1942) was an accomplished poet, philosopher, lawyer and economist. There is some faint discoloration but hardly visible unless held at an angle, otherwise a very good hardcover. "Author's edition".
Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover ina worn, rubbed dust jacket. 340 pages. Essays exploring the impact of Church law on medieval legal theory. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, 1932, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. Thin, flexible boards. Rubbing to corners and spine. Light soiling to covers. Previous owner's signature in pencil on front end paper.
NY, Aladdin Books, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 191 pages. Two-color illust. by Leonard Vosburgh. American Heritage Series. Dust jacket price clipped. Dust jacket with closed tear front & back bottom edge, chip to top spine.
Hardcover. Spokane, WA, Arthur H. Clark Company, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 343 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Covers bound in red, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Dust jacket unclipped. Dust jacket has a touch of fading, otherwise no rips, in very good condition. Very clean inside and out.
Hardcover. New York , Knopf Books for Young Readers, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Illustrated in color by Yaccarino.
London, Thames & Hudson, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the front fly leaf. 126 pages: 98 black and white illustrations and maps. Synopsis: A richly illustrated account of the historical background to, and life of T. E .Lawrence. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Through the shadowy persona of Deep Throat, FBI official Mark Felt became as famous as the Watergate scandal his leaks helped uncover. Best known through Hal Holbrook's portrayal in the film version of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's All the President's Men, Felt was regarded for decades as a conscientious but highly secretive whistleblower who shunned the limelight. Yet even after he finally revealed his identity in 2005, questions about his true motivations persisted.Max Holland has found the missing piece of that Deep Throat puzzle--one that's been hidden in plain sight all along. He reveals for the first time in detail what truly motivated the FBI's number-two executive to become the most fabled secret source in American history. In the process, he directly challenges Felt's own explanations while also demolishing the legend fostered by Woodward and Bernstein's bestselling account. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, American Book Exchange, reprint, 1880, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black and gilt, 387 pages plus publisher's ads, color frontispiece depicting various organs of the body after drinking. This is an 1880 reprint of a book first published in 1879 as suggested by the author's postscript and the copyright date. Light fading to spine, small nicks to front cover otherwise clean, very good.
Hardcover. New York, Kelley & Millman, Inc., reprint, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 293 pages. Collection of lectures given by Smith at the University of Glasgow, as reported by a student in 1763. Edited and with introduction by Edwin Cannan. Dark blue covers, gilt titles to spine, white dust jacket. Edgewear and chipping to dust jacket, previous owner's ink signature to front endpaper, light pencil markings to a few pages, pencil notations to rear endpaper.
Hardcover. Birmingham AL, Legal Classics Library, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, full olive calf, decorative gilt stamping, raised bands, marbled endpapers, ribbon marker, all edges gilt. 506 pages. Facsimile reprint of the 1914 edition published in London by Macmillan. Dicey's Lectures is "a work of genius, and a model to legal historians. Dicey takes three great currents of opinion--the old Toryism (1800-1830), Benthamism or Individualism (1825-1870), and Collectivism (1860-1900)--and shows how they have influenced the course of legislation during the nineteenth century...Dicey's interpretation of English law in the 19th century, [is] perhaps the soberest and broadest that has been written". Bright, clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 89 pages, large format. Tipped-on front board. Slight bump to bottom right corner. In publisher shrink wrap. A natural chronicler of all things uniquely American, photographer Lee Friedlander here puts his lens to the work of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), designer of many of this country's most iconic public landscapes and the father of North American landscape architecture. Olmsted was responsible for a staggering number of America's greatest parks, including the Niagara reservation (North America's oldest state park), Washington Park, the Biltmore Estate, the U.S. Capitol building landscape and entire parkway systems in Buffalo and Louisville. His most famous work remains New York City's Central Park, a pioneering egalitarian gesture that, at the time, was very unusual for its ready accessibility. No dust jacket issued. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.
Hardcover. NY, Ballantine Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Daughter Vernona Gomez honors her late father with a well-researched biography of Yankee great Vernon "Lefty" Gomez. From the time he was a child Lefty wanted to be a baseball player. His strength was in his determination to achieve his goal while at the same time being a willing learner from those who had knowledge to pass on to him. In other words he was coachable and aware of his limitations. Gomez played during the heyday of Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and later Joe DiMaggio. Lefty was The Yankee Clipper's roommate for several years, and taught the quiet DiMaggio life in the big leagues. The book provides numerous anecdotes of the Yankee greats of this time period which enrich the book a great deal. Gomez was there when Ruth supposedly called his "shot" in Wrigley Field during the 1932 World Series. He was also there when Gehrig was stricken with illness and had to prematurely retire from the game. Clean copy.