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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. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 60 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Close to 30 full-page color portraits of phone sex "operators" in the intimate setting of their own homes with comments from each on their work.

Hardcover. Santa Fe, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 2008-12-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 60 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Close to 30 full-page color portraits of phone sex "operators" in the intimate setting of their own homes with comments from each on their work.

Hardcover. New York, Pace Wildenstein, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 188 pages. Illustrated in full color and black & white. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Washington DC/Canberra, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with light edgewear, fading to spine. 334 pages, b&w illustrations. INSCRIBED BY MYERS on the front fly leaf. The Pintupi are a hunting-gathering people of Australia's Western Desert. They were among the last Aborigines to come into contact with white society. This book presents a comprehensive ethnographic interpretation of the ways in which Pintupi politics, cosmology, kinship systems, nomadic patterns and social values reinforce and sometimes contradict each other.

Hardcover. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 135 pages. Hardcover. Front cover and spine with black and white vertical stripes, and Black & white pastedown illustration. Features 6 black & white illustrations by E. W. Kemble. First edition with (1) at end of text. Dust jacket with light chipping, creasing along edges - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, unmarked copy.

Softcover. Princeton Architectural Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 160 pages. The blue plate special, meatloaf, a cheeseburger deluxe, a milkshake in a frosty mixing canister, a hot cup of joe--all served by a friendly face in a well-lighted aluminum tube. Such are the special joys of the American diner. And it was just these pleasures that photographer Stephan Schacher set out to document when he left New York on a journey through North America that would test both his stomach and his resolve. Schacher's mission: to feed his hunger only at diners, and to photograph both his meal and his server every time. The result is a unique and deeply human story--quirky and nostalgic and generous--of one man's quest to discover North America's diner culture and his own place in it. Traveling from a Jersey diner to the Canadian Rockies to a shoreside clambake shack on the Pacific Ocean, Schacher's culinary adventure is documented here with a wealth of visual materials. The author's arresting photographs of succulent steaks and greasy fries, of smiling waitresses in uniforms or jeans, and brightly colored plastic dishes and table mats are supplemented by maps showing the photographer's route across the continent.

Softcover. London, Cornerhouse, 1st wraps, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 88 pages. Color photos of England in the 1980s by a Magnum photographer.

Hardcover. Gottingen GR, Steidl, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Black & white photographs by Rosalind Solomon. Minor wear. Clean, tight copy .Rosalind Solomon made her first pictures in Poland in 1988 during a time of political change, and returned there in 2003, a time of increasing violence and inhumanity in the world. All of the images are of individuals, their relationships and environments and are observations and commentaries on Poland itself, as well as on the rest of the world.

Softcover. Beijing, China Tibetology Publishing House, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 224 pages. "The publication of Dr. Ben Jiao's dissertation in China is a welcome addition to the growing literature in China about Tibetan culture and society as well as an excellent example of how anthropological approaches and frameworks can bring penetrating analyses to our understanding of complex social institutions. And, of course, it is especially fitting that the first Tibetan to receive a PhD in the West has conducted the first study of Tibetan fraternal polyandry in Tibet-and that his study is a major contribution to the field of anthroplogy and Tibetan studies."

Hardcover. London, Tate, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Provocative and entertaining, Pop Life examines how artists since the 1980s have cultivated their public persona as a product, and conjured a dazzling mix of media, commerce, and glamour to build their own "brands."

Softcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2nd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Charles Moore. Clean, tight copy.

Softcover. New York, Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2nd printing, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 208 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs by Charles Moore. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Academic Press, 1st USA, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 313 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine and front cover. Dust jacket has agewear with light foxing and soil. Some foxing to edges. Clean inside, binding tight.

Softcover. Sydney AU, University of Sydney, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, blue wrappers, 164 pages. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1st UK, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 269 pages. Clean, bright copy. This is the first scholarly account by a Western historian of the Time of Troubles, the period of civil war and foreign invasion in early-seventeenth-century Russia. The author focuses on the various pretenders or royal imposters who appeared at this time; she traces their careers and offers explanations for their success. Her analysis of the phenomenon of pretense illuminates popular perceptions of the monarchy in early modern Russia, and demonstrates how social protest could take the form of support for imposters claiming to be the "true tsar".

Softcover. New York, Perigee Books, Reprint, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 446 pages. Softcover with only light shelf wear to covers. Light marginal foxing to top edge. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Knights Templar, 1st, 1901, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed black cloth with gilt stamping, 304 pages. Mild wear to covers, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Knights Templar, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: 100.00, Hardcover, embossed black cloth with gilt stamping, 327 pages. Mild wear to covers, clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The high school prom is an American tradition, a rite of passage, and one of the most important rituals of youth in this country. The internationally recognized documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark took on the extraordinary challenge of working with the Polaroid 20x24 Land camera to produce this fascinating look at dozens of young people from a diverse range of backgrounds on this memorable night in their lives.Traveling across the United States to complete the project from 2006 to 2009, Mark photographed prom-goers at thirteen schools from New York City to Charlottesville, Virginia, to Houston to Los Angeles. Mark's husband, the filmmaker Martin Bell, collaborated with her on the project to produce and direct a film, also called Prom, featuring interviews with the students about their lives, dreams, and hopes for the future. A DVD of the film is packaged with the book. The 127 large-format photographs are reproduced in rich detail, and quotations from the student interviews punctuate the book. Some of the students' statements are comical, while others are deeply touching. The result is a captivating and revealing document of American youth at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Hardcover. Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. The high school prom is an American tradition, a rite of passage, and one of the most important rituals of youth in this country. The internationally recognized documentary photographer Mary Ellen Mark took on the extraordinary challenge of working with the Polaroid 20x24 Land camera to produce this fascinating look at dozens of young people from a diverse range of backgrounds on this memorable night in their lives.Traveling across the United States to complete the project from 2006 to 2009, Mark photographed prom-goers at thirteen schools from New York City to Charlottesville, Virginia, to Houston to Los Angeles. Mark's husband, the filmmaker Martin Bell, collaborated with her on the project to produce and direct a film, also called Prom, featuring interviews with the students about their lives, dreams, and hopes for the future. A DVD of the film is packaged with the book. The 127 large-format photographs are reproduced in rich detail, and quotations from the student interviews punctuate the book. Some of the students' statements are comical, while others are deeply touching. The result is a captivating and revealing document of American youth at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

Softcover. London, Faber & Faber, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 253 pages. The second volume of James Lees-Milne's provocative and highly-acclaimed diaries spanning the years 1944-1945. Gives a picture of the author's work in the country and in London, where he lived during the height of the bombing, and also of the convivialities of leisure. Like Ancestral Voices, it offers sparkling entertainment as well as shrewd insights into the social and cultural life of the period.Clean copy.

Softcover. San Francisco, Psychedelic Review, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover with color pictorial wrappers, 85 pages. Black and white illustrations throughout. The last issue of the controversial journal on psychedelic substances, originally founded by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert. Mild wear, light soil, overall very good, no markings.

Hardcover. Chicago, Albert Whitman & Co., 1st, 1938, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages. Hardcover. Full color and black & white illustrations by Carol Nay. Some light library stamping and notation - endpapers and at bottom right corner of page 25. Light wear. Clean, unmarked text.