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Hardcover. Nashville TN, Vanderbilt University Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 271 pages. The first English translation of the last work of Gogol to be published during his lifetime. The only important nonfiction prose work of the Russian novelist, the*e thirty-two critical essays, written in the form of personal letters, define Gogol's views on religion, morality, and aesthetics and provide a key to the underlying motives and messages of his earlier fiction, including Dead Souls and The Inspector General. Translated from the Russian by Jesse Zeldin.

Hardcover. Boston, MA, Houghton MIfflin Company, Reprint, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 259 pages. Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Brown cover boards and quarter cloth. Gilt title on spine, all nearly fine. Previous owner's small check marks (see image) in places. Otherwise pages clean. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition. Mosher brings the remote North Country vividly to life, showing how a tough and interesting land breeds tough and interesting people.

Softcover. San Francisco, City Lights, 6th pr., 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 255 pages. A compilation of Charles Bukowski's underground articles from his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" appears here in book form. Bukowski's reasoning for self-describing himself as a 'dirty old man' rings true in this book. "People come to my door?too many of them really?and knock to tell me Notes of a Dirty Old Man turns them on. A bum off the road brings in a gypsy and his wife and we talk . . . . drink half the night. A long distance operator from Newburgh, N.Y. sends me money. She wants me to give up drinking beer and to eat well. I hear from a madman who calls himself 'King Arthur' and lives on Vine Street in Hollywood and wants to help me write my column. A doctor comes to my door: 'I read your column and think I can help you. I used to be a psychiatrist.' I send him away . . .""Bukowski writes like a latter-day Celine, a wise fool talking straight from the gut about the futility and beauty of life . . ." ?Publishers Weekly. Mild shelf wear, clean copy.

Hardcover. Silver Print Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 162 pages. Stories and essays by this exceptional photographer of Vermont and it's people. SIGNED BY MILLER.

Hardcover. Colbyville, Vt., Silver Print Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 162 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. B&w photography throughout. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. Chicago, Henry Regnery, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 323 pages. "Occasions and Protests offers a collection of articles, protests, and affirmations written over the last thirty years by one of the most astute, eloquent, and concerned observers ever to happen the upon the American scene." The perpetual conflict between the individual and the system is his subject. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Publisher's blue cloth with decoration of men sitting at table and smoking cigars. Humorous essays, including "The Social Life of a Newt." Author's first book. This copy published without the four pages of advertisements at the back (no priority known). 234 pages. Tiny hole near bottom of fist two pages, not affectin title page. Previous owner's inscription dated 1921 on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt, 1st , 1921, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Author's 1st book. Illustrated with black & white drawings by Gluyas Williams. Two-color drawing. on front cloth cover. Previous owner's signature front end paper, mild tanning to end papers. Slight wear to cloth hinges.

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 274 pages. Faint foxing to upper edge of brodart protected dust jacket and to top edge, else a very nice, tight copy.

Hardcover. Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Blue cloth covers with embossed design, gilt lettering on spine. Writings from the author best known for "The Story of an African Farm". 214 pages, no markings. Owner's small embossed stamp on front fly leaf.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 118 pages, b&w photographs by John Ranard. A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday , 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 118 pages, b&w photographs. A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st Edition, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 207 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in dark gray cloth, gilt title on spine. Some light fading to covers at top and bottom of spine (shelfwear). Gray endpapers. Dust jacket price-clipped, some light tanning and chipping to edges of dj (see image). Pages clean and unmarked. Foreedge has some light spots of soil and a touch of tanning (see image). Binding tight. Spine straight. Sontag examines a wide range of problems, both aesthetic and moral, raised by the presence and authority of the photographed image in the lives of everyone today. Appendix "A Brief Anthology of Quotations" included.

Hardcover. NY, Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, reprint, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn and lightly soiled dust jacket, unclipped with $4.50 price. Essays on a wide range of topics, including the assassination of Gandhi, Vassar, anti-Semitism, the Communist party, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, etc. No first printing indicated so assumed 2nd pr. No markings.

Paperback. New York, Welcome Books, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 287 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Holographic photograph on front cover. In 1984, photographer Peter Feldstein set out to photograph every single resident of his town, Oxford, Iowa (pop. 676). He converted an abandoned storefront on Main Street into a makeshift studio and posted fliers inviting people to stop by. At first they trickled in slowly, but in the end, nearly all of Oxford stood before Feldstein's lens. Twenty years later, Feldstein decided to do it again. Only this time he invited writer Stephen G. Bloom to join him, and together they went in search of the same Oxford residents Feldstein had originally shot two decades earlier. Some had moved. Most had stayed. Others had passed away. All were marked by the passage of time.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, Reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 129 pages. Color illustrations by James McMullan. Dust jacket unclipped with slight rubbing. Otherwise, clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. Orlando FL, Academic Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with some discoloration along edges. 299 pages, b&w illustrations. This book contains a selection of papers from the Third International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies held in Bad Homburg, Germany, in 1983; these papers combine archaeology, history, and ethnography to explore the relationship between prehistoric and living hunter gatherer societies; they look for both continuity in these societies through time and for the effects of changing degrees of contact with surrounding farmers, herders, traders, and settlers. Clean copy.

Softcover. Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 314 pages. Essays on language, action and interpretation. This is a collection in translation of essays by Paul Ricoeur which presents a comprehensive view of his philosophical hermeneutics, its relation to the views of his predecessors in the tradition and its consequences for the social sciences. The major theme that unites his writings is that of a philosophical anthropology. This anthropology, which Ricoeur came to call an anthropology of the "capable human being," aims to give an account of the fundamental capabilities and vulnerabilities that human beings display in the activities that make up their lives.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 207 pages. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Viking Press, 1st, 1936, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, bound in black cloth with design of a phoenix on the front cover. No dust jacket. First edition with Published in October 1936 on copyright page and no additional printings noted. Fading to the spine. 852 pages. A complete collection of D H Lawrence's unpublished essays. Discoloration to black cloth along bottom of front cover and spine, Interior is bright and clean.

Hardcover. Boston, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear. Featuring eighty-seven photographs, all drawn from the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum, that span nearly 150 years of image making.

Softcover. Duke University Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 381 pages, color and b&w illustrations. Photography is one of the principal filters through which we engage the world. The contributors to this volume focus on Walter Benjamin's concept of the optical unconscious to investigate how photography has shaped history, modernity, perception, lived experience, politics, race, and human agency. In essays that range from examinations of Benjamin's and Sigmund Freud's writings to the work of Kara Walker and Roland Barthes's famous Winter Garden photograph, the contributors explore what photography can teach us about the nature of the unconscious. They attend to side perceptions, develop latent images, discover things hidden in plain sight, focus on the disavowed, and perceive the slow. Of particular note are the ways race and colonialism have informed photography from its beginning. The volume also contains photographic portfolios by Zoe Leonard, Kelly Wood, and Kristan Horton, whose work speaks to the optical unconscious while demonstrating how photographs communicate on their own terms. The essays and portfolios in Photography and the Optical Unconscious create a collective and sustained assessment of Benjamin's influential concept, opening up new avenues for thinking about photography and the human psyche. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Boston, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. Photography as Fiction includes seventy-six color plates illustrating works from the J. Paul Getty Museum's collection that embrace theatricality and are unconcerned with documenting the world as it exists.