Hardcover. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, reprint, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 2-color Illustrations by Carol Jones, 92 pages. "Excitement and adventure pervade the mysterious Arctic as young Tuk experiences the thrill of killing his first bear; as beautiful Sedna commands the wrath of the seas; and as lovely Leealura wins the heart of Maleyato, the best hunter in the village." Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Watson-Guptill, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 128 pages. For the aspiring artist who wants to become an expert comic book inker, The DC Comics Guide to Inking Comics is the definitive, one-stop resource!Americas leading comic book publisher brings its superstar creators and classic characters to the third in an authoritative series of books on how to create comics. Legendary comic book inker Klaus Janson uses DCs world-famous characters-including Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman-to demonstrate an array of inking techniques, covering such topics as using textures, varying line weights, creating the illusion of three-dimensionality, and working with light and dark. Jansons lively, step-by-step instructions are informative, exciting-and clear enough for even beginners to follow. In addition, every technique shown in this guide conforms to actual industry standards.The perfect how-to on everything from basic inking materials to storytelling techniques, this one-stop sourcebook is packed with a wealth of tested techniques, practical advice, and professional secrets for the aspiring comic artist.

Hardcover. New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, illustrated boards, unpaginated. A collection of original Partch cartoons all about hunting, fishing, golf and other sports. Introduction by Gurney Williams, cartoon editor at Collier's. Clean copy, light wear, mild fading to edges of cover.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. Once an art smuggler, now a respectable art dealer, Ovid Wiley awoke to find his former partner stabbed to death on his gallery floor. That was strange enough--but when a CIA agent showed up to spring him from NYPD custody, things got a lot stranger. Now the CIA is offering to clear up the murder charge, but only in return for a favor: They want Ovid to fly to Vatican City and trace the trail of a renegade priest who has gone missing with millions in church funds. What's the connection? The priest's lover, a woman Ovid knew in his smuggling days. Like new.

Softcover. London, Hard Case Crime, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, colorful wraps with a retro-style illustration by Chuck Pyle. Once an art smuggler, now a respectable art dealer, Ovid Wiley awoke to find his former partner stabbed to death on his gallery floor. That was strange enough--but when a CIA agent showed up to spring him from NYPD custody, things got a lot stranger. Now the CIA is offering to clear up the murder charge, but only in return for a favor: They want Ovid to fly to Vatican City and trace the trail of a renegade priest who has gone missing with millions in church funds. What's the connection? The priest's lover, a woman Ovid knew in his smuggling days. Like new.

Softcover. Hanover NH, Brandeis University Press , reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, pictorial wraps, 228 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on title page. The Dead Sea is unlike any other place on earth. Situated a quarter mile below sea level, so saline it can't support life, surrounded by a desolate landscape, it is not just a geologic feature but a source of mystery connected to religious faith. In elegant and vivid prose, Barbara Kreiger re-creates and analyzes the myths and legends surrounding the site and examines both its natural history and its gradual and difficult exploration. But The Dead Sea (first published as Living Waters in 1988) is more than a detailed and delightful travelogue. It is also an inquiry into the human and political drama that has swirled around this mysterious place for more than 12,000 years. In an afterword to the new edition, Kreiger shows how the sea in the post-Peace Accord era may come to take on a new symbolism: with perpetual need for water and a thriving mineral industry as common bonds, Israel and Jordan, two traditional antagonists whose border bisects the sea, may find themselves joining forces to preserve its fragile ecosystem against the threats of technology and tourism. Tan stain to top corner of text b;ock, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Shuggie Akins is a lonely fat boy of thirteen. His mother, Glenda, teases him with her sexual provocations. His father, Red, is a brutal man with a short fuse who mocks and despises his son. Into this mix comes Jimmy Vin Pearce with his shiny green T-bird and his smart city clothes. It isn't long before he and Glenda begin a torrid affair. What follows is violent, shocking, and totally unpredictable - except that it is totally foreordained. Author's seventh novel. Slight slant to spine.

Hardcover. Montreal, Drawn and Quarterly, reprint, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 48 pages in color by Clowes. Teen outcast Andy is an orphaned nobody with only one friend, the obnoxious-but loyal-Louie. They roam school halls and city streets, invisible to everyone but bullies and tormentors, until the glorious day when Andy takes his first puff on a cigarette. That night he wakes, heart pounding, soaked in sweat, and finds himself suddenly overcome with the peculiar notion that he can do anything. Indeed, he can, and as he learns the extent of his new powers, he discovers a terrible and seductive gadget-a hideous compliment to his seething rage-that forever changes everything. The Death-Ray utilizes the classic staples of the superhero genre-origin, costume, ray gun, sidekick, fight scene-and reconfigures them in a story that is anything but morally simplistic. With subtle comedy, deft mastery, and an obvious affection for the bold pop-art exuberance of comic book design, Daniel Clowes delivers a contemporary meditation on the darkness of the human psyche. Originally published as a paperback in Eightball #23 in 2004, here beautifully reproduced on heavy stock with new end paper illustrations and a new cover.

Hardcover. NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover. A generous collection of b&w cartoons by Dedini whose work was featured in The New Yorker, Esquire and in Playboy. Dust jacket is a bit worn, light chipping. Previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A riveting, suspenseful read. The story follows the aftermath of a brutal home invasion that leaves one family dead and another struggling to rebuild. As the investigation unfolds, the reader is plunged into the heart of the family's lives and is left wondering who could have committed such a heinous act.

Hardcover. NY, Grosset & Dunlap, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, brown cloth with black lettering on spine and front cover, dust jacket with edgewear and chipping, 377 pages. Dust jacket art and four b&w illustrations by W. H. D. Koerner. Bottom quarter of spine gone, short blue mark to front fly leaf, otherwise a clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press , 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A psychological mystery with haunting overtones, this novel focuses on a priest tormented by the loss of the Gaelic culture, by the increasing worldliness of religion and by his own sexual desires. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two volume set. Matching gold cloth boards with titles in gold on spine, in bright dust jackets. Transcribed and with Introduction by Lilian M.C. Randall. B&w illustrations of the sculptures, paintings, drawings and etchings that Lucas dealt with while in Europe. Double-column English text. Provides an extraordinary archive for historians and dealers. Provides a hugely empirical database for prices paid and commissions issued to artists, dealers, and craftsmen. George A. Lucas's acquaintances include Daumier, Cassatt, Whistler and Barye, among many, many others. Volume Two is given over wholly to Lucas's daily diary, which ran for an extraordinary length of time. Volume 1: xv [2], 3-148 pages.; Volume 2: iv [ii], 3-965 pages. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes , 1st, 2003, Hardcover set, two volumes complete, black cloth with red and gilt titles on spine, 1116 pages, ribbon bookmarks. No slipcase. In this Dictionary, more than four hundred biographical entries encompass all the Dutch thinkers who exercised a major influence on the intellectual life of the Golden Age, as well as those who developed their ideas and beliefs through interaction with other scholars. Additional entries describe foreign philosophers who lived in the country temporarily and whose work was influenced by their stay. These include John Locke, Rene Descartes and Pierre Bayle. Ther is some pencil marking to the endpapers, mostly in Vol. 1. Otherwise clean, tight copies. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Hardcover. NY, Hyperion, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 96 pages. Color plates throughout.

Softcover. Chicago, Chicago Review Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 322 pages, b&w illustrations. An essential piece of Disney history has been unreported for eighty years.Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walts expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art Babbitt animated for the Disney studio throughout the 1930s and through 1941, years in which he and Walt were jointly driven to elevate animation as an art form, up through Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia.But as America prepared for World War II, labour unions spread across Hollywood. Disney fought the unions while Babbitt embraced them. Soon, angry Disney cartoon characters graced picket signs as hundreds of animation artists went out on strike. Adding fuel to the fire was Willie Bioff, one of Al Capones wiseguys who was seizing control of Hollywood workers and vied for the animators union.Using never-before-seen research from previously lost records, including conversation transcriptions from within the studio walls, author and historian Jake S. Friedman reveals the details behind the labour dispute that changed animation and Hollywood forever. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Delmar NY, Scholars Facsimiles and Reprints, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 597 pages. A facsimile reproduction of the 1605 London edition. Du Bartas was extremely popular in early modern England, and was still being read widely in the later seventeenth century even as his reputation in France began to decline. His world-famous La Sepmaine, ou creation du monde (1578), an epic poem on the creation of the world, divided into seven parts, for each of the seven days of creation, was first translated into English in 1598 and published in 1605 and was reprinted six times up until 1641. "No other poem (besides those in the Bible itself) was read as widely as the Semaines were across early modern English and Scottish society. Based on references to Sylvester in print, Snyder believed that 'Clearly everyone in pre-Restoration England who had received a literary education read the 'Weekes' ande almost all.... Admired it'. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 328 pages with index. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access and receive care influence the kind of care we receive. The Doctor Who Wasn't There traces the long arc of enthusiasm for and skepticism of electronic media in health and medicine. Over the past century, a series of new technologies promised to democratize access to healthcare. From the humble telephone to the connected smartphone, from FM radio to wireless wearables, from cable television to the electronic brains of networked mainframe computers: each new platform has promised a radical reformation of the healthcare landscape. With equal attention to the history of technology, the history of medicine, and the politics and economies of American healthcare, physician and historian Jeremy A. Greene explores the role that electronic media play, for better and for worse, in the past, present, and future of our health. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Amherst MA, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st US, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright blue dust jacket, 143 pages. Edited by P. T. Geach and A. J. P. Kenny. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil notations to 20 pages.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, 1st, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a soiled dust jacket, 256 pages, b&w woodcuts by Pauline Winchester Inman. Stories, articles and reminiscences selected from work by Maine writers published in DOWN EAST. Clean internally.

Hardcover. Evanston IL, Northwestern University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, pages. Oversize hardcover art book. This is the first publication of the complete body of noted Polish Author and artist Schulz's known artwork. A great engraver-draftsman, Schulz earned his living as a menial art teacher. He was one of the first Modern writers to incorporate his own drawings in his stories, one of which, "The Age of Genius", is about his artistic childhood. "His art, like his writing, is deeply infused with a sense of personal and cultural degradation, an ominous, prescient aura of the horrors in store for the fragile and rapidly disappearing world in which he lived.

Softcover. Flesk, 1st, 2021, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 400 pages. Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911) was born just two years after the inaugural release of Harper's Monthly Magazine. Starting with his first published drawing in December 1870 at age 18, Abbey's life-long association with the publisher resulted in hundreds of drawings found within the pages of Harper's Monthly Magazine and Harper's Weekly as well as Harper & Brothers books. The resulting exposure throughout the U.S. and Europe secured an extensive level of recognition. Abbey had the rarefied appeal to everyone from the average reader to the most prestigious artists of the day. The inclusion of Abbey's illustrations in these periodicals helped to expand the reach of the poetry, stories and essays that they accompanied to a massive audience. This book focuses on Abbey's line art for the magazines and books published by Harper & Brothers, beginning with his earliest works as a new professional in the field. The collection contains over 350 drawings. These delineated the poetry of Robert Herrick and enhanced such books as The Deserted Village, Old Songs, She Stoops to Conquer and The Quiet Life. Drawings created for numerous short stories and poetry are displayed here as well. Also collected are Abbey's exquisite series of drawings done over the course of twenty years for The Comedies of William Shakespeare, followed by The Shakespeare Tragedies. His painstaking devotion to research while securing the appropriate costumes, props and models for his drawings was legendary. The results are some of the most revered illustrations ever created, which continue to astound aficionados and inspire artists generations after Abbey's last drawing was made. An extensive new essay by Alice A. Carter offers a fresh look at Edwin Austin Abbey, his life and career.

Hardcover. NY, Curt Valentin, 1st, 1947, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, textured beige boards with a green cloth spine. 94 pages of text and 58 black & white plates. Limited to 1,000 copies. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Grove Press, Ltd Ed., 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, in a lightly worn dust jacket. "No. 880 of a Special Limited Numbered Edition of 1000 Copies" written in pen on the back of the half title. 85 pages of Bellmer's surreal, erotic artwork. No slipcase.

Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 1945, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, price-clipped dust jacket, 62 pages plus 85 plates. Gift dedication signed by 8 people on the front fly leaf, otherwise clean and tight.

Hardcover. Adelaide AUS, Rigby Limited, reprint, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 79 pages illustrated in color and b&w. A collaboration between artist Ainslie Roberts & anthropologist Charles Mountford, who combined Ainslie Roberts outback paintings with his knowledge. Previous owner's inscription on the front fly leaf.

Hardcover. London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1st, 1897, Book: Fair, Hardcover, oblong boards illustrated in color with red spine which is very faded. Red lettering on title page, illustrated throughout with b/w line drawings in the text by Ver-Beck. Holding nicely but fragile. Soiling to covers, pages tanned with some foxing. Previous owner's name on prelim page.

Hardcover. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, decorated cloth, 482 pages. This book explores the dynamics of the commentary and textbook traditions in Aristotelian natural philosophy under the headings of doctrine, method, and scientific and social status. It inquires what the evolution of the Aristotelian commentary tradition can tell us about the character of natural philosophy as a pedagogical tool, as a scientific enterprise, and as a background to modern scientific thought. In a unique attempt to cut old-fashioned historiographic divisions, it brings together scholars of ancient, medieval, Renaissance and seventeenth-century philosophy. The book covers a remarkably broad range of topics: it starts with the first Greek commentators and ends with Leibniz. Small ink stamp on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, The MIT Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. The daguerreotype, invented in France, came to America in 1839. By 1851, this early photographic method had been improved by American daguerreotypists to such a degree that it was often referred to as "the American process." The daguerreotype-now perhaps mostly associated with stiffly posed portraits of serious-visaged nineteenth-century personages-was an extremely detailed photographic image, produced though a complicated process involving a copper plate, light-sensitive chemicals, and mercury fumes. It was, as Sarah Kate Gillespie shows in this generously illustrated history, something wholly and remarkably new: a product of science and innovative technology that resulted in a visual object. It was a hybrid, with roots in both fine art and science, and it interacted in reciprocally formative ways with fine art, science, and technology. Gillespie maps the evolution of the daguerreotype, as medium and as profession, from its introduction to the ascendancy of the "American process," tracing its relationship to other fields and the professionalization of those fields. She does so by recounting the activities of a series of American daguerreotypists, including fine artists, scientists, and mechanical tinkerers. She describes, for example, experiments undertaken by Samuel F. B. Morse as he made the transition from artist to inventor; how artists made use of the daguerreotype, both borrowing conventions from fine art and establishing new ones for a new medium; the use of the daguerreotype in various sciences, particularly astronomy; and technological innovators who drew on their work in the mechanical arts.

Hardcover. NY, Da Capo Press, reprint, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright yellow price-clipped dust jacket. 18 pages of text, frontis portrait, plus 157 plates. All of the best drawings of Beardsley's early period, including the illustrations for "Salome". Reprinted from the second London edition of 1911. Previous owner's initials on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, NBM, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 192 pages. Early b&w comic strips. Mutt and Jeff was the first successful daily comic strip; before it, the funnies were Sunday features. It debuted in 1907, however, as A. Mutt, limning the follies of lanky racetrack gambler Augustus Mutt. Diminutive sidekick Jeff appeared the following year to form a partnership that lasted until the strip's overdue demise in 1983. Mutt and Jeff was the first strip to essay weeks-long story lines, such as a trip to Mexico to join Pancho Villa's revolution. Compared to better-remembered strips of the era, Mutt and Jeff was crudely drawn, yet it captured the nation's fancy. Despite its significance in comics history, Mutt and Jeff is scantly regarded today. By the mid-1920s, Fisher handed creative duties over to ghosts to free up time for the playboy lifestyle that the strip's sizable revenues allowed him. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light fading to spine, 487 pages. In this book Ryoshin Minami studies the last hundred years of Japan's remarkable economic growth from the Meiji period up to the present day. First, he reveals the factors which account for Japan's successful economic take-off during the Meiji period. Second, he explains why Japan achieved a more rapid rate of economic growth than other developed countries. This forms the major part of the book and will interest those in the developed countries who have felt the full force of Japan's export drive and whose own industries are consequently in decline. Finally, the author evaluates the results of Japan's economic growth and makes predictions for its future. The book makes a comprehensive survey of the Japanese experience in the pre- and post-war periods and points out lessons not only for developed countries but also for developing countries. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. Duke University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 440 pages. Black cloth, no dust jacket. The Edge of Surrealism is an essential introduction to the writing of French social theorist Roger Caillois. Caillois was part of the Surrealist avant-garde and in the 1930s founded the College of Sociology with Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris. He spent his life exploring issues raised by this famous group and by Surrealism itself. Though his subjects were diverse, Caillois focused on concerns crucial to modern intellectual life, and his essays offer a unique perspective on many of twentieth-century France's most significant intellectual movements and figures. Including a masterful introductory essay by Claudine Frank situating his work in the context of his life and intellectual milieu, this anthology is the first comprehensive introduction to Caillois's work to appear in any language. These thirty-two essays with commentaries strike a balance between Caillois's political and theoretical writings and between his better known works, such as the popular essays on the praying mantis, myth, and mimicry, and his lesser-known pieces. Presenting several new pieces and drawing on interviews and unpublished correspondence, this book reveals Caillois's consistent effort to reconcile intellectual rigor and imaginative adventure. Perhaps most importantly, The Edge of Surrealism provides an overdue look at how Caillois's intellectual project intersected with the work of Georges Bataille and others including Breton, Bachelard, Benjamin, Lacan, and Levi-Strauss.

Hardcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 562 pages. During John Dewey's lifetime (1859-1952), one public opinion poll after another revealed that he was esteemed to be one of the ten most important thinkers in American history. His body of thought, conventionally identified by the shorthand word "Pragmatism," has been the distinctive American philosophy of the last fifty years. His work on education is famous worldwide and is still influential today, anticipating as it did the ascendance in contemporary American pedagogy of multiculturalism and independent thinking. His University of Chicago Laboratory School (founded in 1896) thrives still and is a model for schools worldwide, especially in emerging democracies. But how was this lifetime of thought enmeshed in Dewey's emotional experience, in his joys and sorrows as son and brother, husband and father, and in his political activism and spirituality? Acclaimed biographer Jay Martin recaptures the unity of Dewey's life and work, tracing important themes through the philosopher's childhood years, family history, religious experience, and influential friendships. Clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright jacket, b&w illustrations, 167 pages. Donald Davie is the foremost literary critics of his generation and one of its leading poets. His career has been marked by a series of challenging critical interventions. The eighteenth century is the great age of the English hymn though these powerful and popular texts have been marginalized in the formation of the conventional literary canon. These are poems which have been put to the text of experience by a wider public than that generally envisaged by literary criticism, and have been kept alive by congregations in every generation. Davie's study of the eighteenth-century hymn and metrical psalm brings to light a body of literature forgotten as poetry: work by Charles Wesley and Christopher Smart, Isaac Watts and William Cowper, together with several poets unjustly neglected, such as the mysterious John Byron.

Softcover. Phoenix AZ, Phoenix Art Museum, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 376 pages, illustrated in b&w, some color. Cover has sunning to areas, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 239 pages. The Harvard philosopher Donald C. Williams (1899-1983) was a key figure in the history of analytic philosophy. He played a crucial role in reviving metaphysics at a time when other philosophers ridiculed, criticized, and committed it to the flames. He constructed an explanatorily powerful and parsimonious ontology and cosmology founded on logic, science, and common sense. His most influential articles were on the metaphysics of properties ('The Elements of Being') and the meta-physics of time ('The Sea Fight Tomorrow', 'The Myth of Passage'). His ontology of abstract particulars or tropes and his four-dimensional manifold theory of time remain leading hypotheses in metaphysics. Because of his novel contributions and his defense of metaphysics he made a lasting impact on philosophers of the next generation who in turn believed in the substance of metaphysical inquiry. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil marking to first 30 pages. Otherwise clean, very good.

Hardcover. Charlottesville VA, The University Press of Virginia, 1st thus, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in red, 139 pages. Facsimile of a Wotton presentation inscription as frontispiece. A facsimile reproduction of the original 1624 edition. Includes an 83 page introduction, with explanatory notes. (Folger Documents of Tudor and Stuart Civilization). Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

NY, Penguin Press, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dj issued. Illustrated by Maira Kalman in color. The Elements of Style is a prescriptive American English writing style guide in numerous editions. The original was composed by William Strunk Jr., in 1918, and published by Harcourt, in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of 57 "words often misspelled".

Hardcover. NY, Penguin Press, 1st thus, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, no dj issued. Illustrated by Maira Kalman in color. The Elements of Style is a prescriptive American English writing style guide in numerous editions. The original was composed by William Strunk Jr., in 1918, and published by Harcourt, in 1920, comprising eight "elementary rules of usage", ten "elementary principles of composition", "a few matters of form", a list of 49 "words and expressions commonly misused", and a list of 57 "words often misspelled".

Hardcover. NY, Whittlesey House, McGraw Hill, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth stamped in black. 32 pages illustrated in 2-colors by Alain (the pen name of Daniel Brustlein, painter, book illustrator, magazine illustrator, and cartoonist). Stamp to front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Christie's, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two hardcover volumes, light blue cloth covers stamped in gilt, auction catalogs illustrated throughout in color. Part 1: Important French Porcelain, 161 pages, 468 items. Part 2: Important French Furniture, Works of Art, Old Master Paintings, Drawings and Chinese Porcelain and Jade. 292 pages, 456 items. Auction held March 21- 23, 1991. Clean bright copies. Scarce in hardcover format. Ms. Firestone was heir to the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. fortune and considered one of the last great post-war collectors.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Who died at High Beck Cottage? Two old ladies had lived there for so long that friends foundit difficult to tell them apart. One was murdered- the other one vanished. A young girl comes from America to unravel the plot. One of the ladies may be her aunt. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Books of Wonder, reprint, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 304 pages. For the first time in more than eighty years, the most spectacularly illustrated of all the Oz books is available again with the metallic "emerald" green ink that illuminated the color plates of the original edition. This deluxe new edition features ninety black-and-white pictures and sixteen dazzling five-color plates by Oz artist John R. Neill. Afterword by Peter Glassman.

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 434 pages. Of all the terms with which Americans define themselves as members of society, few are as elusive as "middle class." This book traces the emergence of a recognizable and self-aware "middle class" between the era of the American Revolution and the end of the nineteenth century. The author focuses on the development of the middle class in larger American cities, particularly Philadelphia and New York. He examines the middle class in all its complexity, and in its day-to-day existence--at work, in the home, and in the shops, markets, theaters, and other institutions of the big city. The book places the new language of class---in particular the new term "middle class"--in the context of the concrete, interwoven experiences of specific anonymous Americans who were neither manual workers nor members of urban upper classes. Clean copy.

Softcover. UK, Liverpool University Press, 2nd Ed., 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, green wrappers, 146 pages. This collection makes available in English for the first time the panegyric of Claudius Mamertinus (Panegyrici Latini XI/3), a substantial part of the treatise of John Chrysostom on St Babylas and against Julian (de S. Babyla c. Julianum et gentiles XIV-XIX), and Emphrem Syrus' Hymns Against Julian. Each text covers an important period of the reign of Julian, his rise to power, his stay at Antioch and his ill-fated Persian campaign. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Thomas Dunne Book/St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 356 pages. SIGNED BY CRABBE on the title page. August, 1889. A man lies dead in a darkened construction site near Madison Square Park. The murderer, Jim Tupper, a Mohawk of the Iroquois nation, flees back to the vast Adirondack wilderness. But he has left a trail of death behind, pointing north, straight to where Tom Braddock and his family are vacationing. Worlds collide when Tom's son is caught up in the murder of a young maid at the hotel. To clear him, Tom must capture the killer, whom he believes to be Tupper, launching an epic chase across more than a hundred miles of lakes, rivers, and forest. Clean copy.