Softcover. Lincoln VT, Lincoln Bi-Centennial Committee, reprint, 2007, Softcover. Fold-out map in rear of book. Many b&w photographs, made by new negatives and reprinted old photographs by David Brown. Section A "Memories of a Mountain Town," published 1976 / Section B: "Lincoln Vermont, 1780-1980 published 1980 / Section C: "Lincoln Entering the 21st Century," published 2007.

Hardcover. NY, Time Life, reprint, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages. Hardcover with no dust jacket. Dark blue leather bound with gilt titles to front cover and spine. Embossed decoration on front cover. Gilt text block edges, red ribbon marker. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Carlton Books, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, illustrated throughout with numerous plates in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. Lincoln NE, iUniverse, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 236 pages. "Forward! Double-Quick!" and away we all rushed toward the fort... capturing two brass field pieces, one of which the rebels left loaded." A true account of Vermont men of color in battle during the Civil War. A barely known fact is that the tiny state of Vermont provided over one hundred and fifty African American soldiers to fight for the Union and by doing so, free millions of their own race. This is their story. Derived from historical archives and through their own words. Clean copy. Hastily signed by the author on the half-title page.

Hardcover. London, Staples Press, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 152 pages, illustrated throughout. Dust jacket edge wear and fading. Minor spotting along fore edge and front and rear flyleaf. Publisher's mark on copyright page. Otherwise, clean pages and tight binding.

Hardcover. New York, Random House, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 339 pages. Hardcover with only minor wear to dust jacket. Black and white pictures throughout. Previous owner's embossed stamping on front-fly leaf and signature. Otherwise clean.

Softcover. Bowie MD, Heritage Books, reprint, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Two softcover volumes 391 & 392 pages. Volumes 1 and 2 complete, a facsimile reprint of the 1897 edition by Lippincott. This two-volume series takes the reader on a journey through the colonies of Virginia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Carolina, and Georgia. The charm of the journey is in its variety, as the reader passes through communities of such striking individuality that they assume the character of different nations. Each colony has a set of opinions and laws peculiar to itself, and it is not uncommon to find the laws of one in contradiction with the laws of another. This text explores the settlement and history of each colony prior to the American Revolution. Topics include development of the colonies' government, laws, religion, schools, boundaries, industries, layout of the cities, fashions, homes, social activities, slavery, architecture, interaction with the Indians, and customs. At least one prominent person from each colony is discussed, amongst them, William Penn of Pennsylvania, John Smith of Virginia, George Calvert of Maryland, and General Oglethorpe of Georgia. Light sunning ti spines.Clean copies.

Hardcover. Seattle, WA, University of Washington Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap.

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Bodleian Library, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. pictorial boards, 112 pages. This book celebrates the Bodleian Library's acquisition of Tom Phillips's archive of over 50,000 photographic postcards dating from the first half of the twentieth century, a period in which, thanks to the ever cheaper medium of photography, 'ordinary' people could afford to own their portraits. Each title in this series is thematically assembled and designed by the artist, the covers featuring a linked painting specially created for each title from Tom Phillips's signature work, A Humument. With an illuminating foreword by Eric Musgrave, 'Menswear' presents postcards of men in all manner of outfits, whether formal, practical or casual, dating from around 1900 up to c. 1949. Most of the subjects are posing for portraits, displaying both their individual style and an interpretation of the fashions of the time. The rich variety of accessories on display includes ties, gloves, pocket squares, walking sticks, canes, boutonnieres and spats. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. 139 pages.

Hardcover. NY, E.P. Dutton, 2nd pr., 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Charles Mikolaycak. 139 pages.

Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster , 2nd pr., 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dustjacket, Illustrated wth 12 b/w cartoons by George Price. A wry and witty history of the American motion picture by a giant of the industry. Postcard of Brown Derby Restaurant laid-in.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, First Edition, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages. Hardcover. Ivory & light grey cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Bright dust jacket with ligh wrinkles. Clean, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Secaucus, N.J., Chartwell Books, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 128 pages, color illustrations. Clean, tight copy. Discusses the main collecting areas, provides expert advice on how to avoid expensive mistakes, how to care for old toys, and how to spot the works of the masters.

Hardcover. New York , Nelson & Phillips, 1st, 1873, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 309 pages. Terracota cloth with gilt titles and decor to front and spine. Light edgewear and rubbing to covers, previous owner's bookplate on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Folkestone UK, Winterdown Books, reprint, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 248 pages. Sydenham's first book on the treatment of fevers, has been reprinted since the 2nd edition of 1668 and has never been translated as a whole until this book. Text is in both Latin and English. The Latin text of the 1666 and 1668 editions with English translation from R.G. Latham (1848). Introduction, notes and index by G.G. Meynell. Limited to 275 copies. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 444 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light fading to dust jacket front. Light edgewear to dj. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean, tight copy. In 1999 Pope John Paul II proclaimed Our Lady of Guadalupe a patron saint of the Americas. According to oral tradition and historical documents, in 1531 Mary appeared as a beautiful Aztec princess to Juan Diego, a poor Indian. Speaking to him in his own language, she asked him to tell the bishop her name was La Virgen de Guadalupe and that she wanted a church built on the mountain. During a second visit, the image of the Virgin miraculously appeared on his cape. Through the centuries, the enigmatic power of this image has aroused such fervent devotion in Mexico that it has served as the banner of the rebellion against Spanish rule and, despite skepticism and anticlericalism, still remains a potent symbol of the modern nation. In Mexican Phoenix, David Brading traces the intellectual origins, the sudden efflorescence, and the theology that has sustained the tradition of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Brading also documents the interaction of religion and patriotism, and describes how the image has served as a banner both for independence and for the Church in its struggle against the Liberal and revolutionary state.

Hardcover. NY, Charles J. Folsom, 1st, 1842, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, publisher's brown cloth, stamped in blind, spine gilt. 256 pages including index with a color folded map laid in. Map was tipped-in and removed leaving a sliver or the map still attached at title page (see photos), map itself is clean, no wear to folds. First edition of this important work. The section on Texas and the Santa Fe expedition is attributed to Franklin Coombs, a veteran of the latter ill-fated debacle, and his account of the expedition and his captivity (which first appeared in NILES WEEKLY REGISTER) is reprinted herein, along with another account (Wagner-Camp 86) of a trip to Santa Fe appearing here for the first time in book form. The map shows Texas, Mexico, and the southwest region as far north as the Arkansas River, south to Yucatan, west to the Pacific, and east to New Orleans. Light chipping to spine cloth at top, penciled notation on front fly leaf, mild foxing to several pages, otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 348 pages, b&w illustrations. This handsomely illustrated book offers a panoramic view of ancient Mexico, beginning more than thirty thousand years ago and ending with European occupation in the sixteenth century. Drawing on archaeological and ethnohistorical sources, the book is one of the first to offer a unified vision of Mexico's precolonial past. Typical histories of Mexico focus on the prosperity and accomplishments of Mesoamerica, located in the southern half of Mexico, due to the wealth of records about the glorious past of this region. Mesoamerica was only one of three cultural superareas of ancient Mexico, however, all interlinked by complex economic and social relationships. Tracing the large social transformations that took place from the earliest hunter-gatherer times to the Postclassic states, the authors describe the ties between the three superareas of ancient Mexico, which stretched from present-day Costa Rica to what is now the southwestern United States. According to the authors, these superareas-Mesoamerica, Aridamerica, and Oasisamerica - cannot be viewed as independent entities. Instead, they must be considered as a whole to understand the complex reality of Mexico's past.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 212 pages, b&w photos. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Today, roughly fifty thousand Tarahumara continue living in ways similar to those of their ancestors, retaining many customs from their pre-Columbian past. Striking sepia-toned monochrome photographs and a historical narrative document the lives and past of people in mountainous southwestern Chihuahua, Mexico.

Hardcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 220 pages, 155 b&w photographs by Casasola. Edited by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio, essay by Pete Hamill. Agustin Victor Casasola photographed everyone of consequence in Mexico at the time of the revolution, from Francisco (Pancho) Villa, Emiliano Zapata and the exiled Russian leader Leon Trotsky to artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. For this splendid collection of Casasola's work, the noted American author Pete Hamill has written a rich essay on the photographer and the Mexico he pictured so well.

Hardcover. Ann Arbor, MI, Ardis, 1st English, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 565 pages. B/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Decorated endpapers. Dust Jacket shows some wear due to age: yellowing, fraying and chipping to edges of front, spine and back, but still in tact. Cover boards clean, covered in teal fabric and in good shape. Pages clean, edges slightly yellowed. From the front flap: "...a landmark work in Russian theater scholarship, this study reveals Meyerhold in the context of his time, as seen by friends and enemies, actors and critics, and analyzes the development of his remarkable career as Russia's most celebrated and influential experimental director."

Hardcover. NY, Free Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. No artist looms so large in Western consciousness and culture as Michelangelo Buonarroti, the most celebrated sculptor of all time. And no place on earth provides a stone so capable of simulating the warmth and vitality of human flesh and incarnating the genius of a Michelangelo as the statuario of Carrara, the storied marble mecca at Tuscany's northwest corner. It was there, where shadowy Etruscans and Roman slaves once toiled, that Michelangelo risked his life in dozens of harrowing expeditions to secure the precious stone for his Pieta, Moses, and other masterpieces. Many books have recounted Michelangelo's achievements in Florence and Rome. Michelangelo's Mountain goes beyond all of them, revealing his escapades and ordeals in the spectacular landscape that was the third pole of his tumultuous career and the third wellspring of his art. Eric Scigliano brings this haunting place and eternally fascinating artist to life in a sweeping tale peopled by popes and poets, mad dukes and mythic monsters, scheming courtiers and rough-hewn quarrymen. In showing how the artist, land, and stone transformed one another, Scigliano brings fresh insight to Michelangelo's most cherished works and illuminates his struggles with the princes and potentates of Carrara, Rome, and Medici Florence, who raised intrigue to a high art.

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 438 pages, illustrations in color and b&w. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Prentice-Hall , 1st, 1953, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 12 plates featuring black and white photographs of various American football plays. Also includes several black and white diagrams depicting different plays. 208 pages + 5 pages of index. A full explanation of the actual coaching techniques and system of plays Biggie Munn used in molding the Michigan State Multiple Offensive. He discusses the simple blocking rules that made this system possible, which is based on speed and maneuverability rather than brawn and power. In short, this book lets you get inside Biggie's brain to see how he created a high-scoring, winning football team. Review slip laid in.

Hardcover. NY, Taschen, reprint, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pictorial boards, 190 pages. A smaller edition of the book published in 2019. Rewind back to the midcentury, before the age of Instagram and Snapchat, where people were using 35mm cameras loaded with color film to document both monumental and mundane moments in their lives. They took pictures of their loved ones, their vacations, their celebrations. They memorialized the births of babies; a child in a cowboy outfit; a new color television set; sightseeing in National Parks; fishing trips; lazing on the beach; weddings; office parties; family reunions; holding hands, kissing and dancing. Imagining these lives and the possible stories that lie behind the images is what makes The Anonymous Project such a compelling journey into our past. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 458 pages. This book argues that there was a middle-class democracy in Massachusetts even before the Revolution, which only removed British power from the area. Bump to top corner of volume causing a crease, remainder lines to bottom edge. No markings.

Softcover. Vermont, Privately Published, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 404 pages, with illustrations throughout. Minor edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 547 pages. Hardcover. A Special Hall of Fame Edition of 1,000 copies of which this is SIGNED and hand numbered #738/1000 BY THE AUTHOR. Illustrated with 8 pages of black & white photographs. Faint darkening to top right corner, edge of front endpaper. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Unmarked text. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. Poughkeepsie, New York, Abraham Tomlinson, 1st, 1855, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 128 pages, gilt title on cover and frontispiece illustration, with numerous illustrative notes throughout and a supplement containing official papers on the skirmishes at Lexington and Concord. Ex-library residue, front cover loose and binding needs new back strip. Internal pages are clean and bright.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 293 pages. Despite John Stuart Mill's widely respected contributions to philosophy and political economy, his work on political philosophy has received a much more mixed response. Some critics have even charged that Mill's liberalism was part of a political project to restrain, rather than foster, democracy. Redirecting attention to Mill as a political thinker, Nadia Urbinati argues that this claim misrepresents Mill's thinking. Although he did not elaborate a theory of democracy, Mill did devise new avenues of democratic participation in government that could absorb the transformation of politics engendered by the institution of representation. More generally, Urbinati assesses Mill's contribution to modern democratic theory by critiquing the dominant "two liberties" narrative that has shaped Mill scholarship over the last several decades. As Urbinati shows, neither Isaiah Berlin's theory of negative and positive freedom nor Quentin Skinner's theory of liberty as freedom from domination adequately captures Mill's notion of political theory. Drawing on Mill's often overlooked writings on ancient Greece, Urbinati shows that Mill saw the ideal representative government as a "polis of the moderns," a metamorphosis of the unique features of the Athenian polis: the deliberative character of its institutions and politics; the Socratic ethos; and the cooperative implications of political agonism and dissent. The ancient Greeks, Urbinati shows, and Athenians in particular, are the key to understanding Mill's contribution to modern democratic theory and the theory of political liberty.

Hardcover. NY, Norton, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 256 pages. Through a lively text and 250 stunning duotone images (most never previously published), Millionaires, Mansions, and Motor Yachts re-creates an era of opulence and extravagance that today seems incredible. Dominating this volume are the mansions and yachts of Alfred and Jessie du Pont. Equally larger-than-life personalities include Thomas Lawson, his expansive estate, Dreamwold, and yachts such as Dreamer; empire builder John Spreckels's 227-foot Venetia; Emily Cadwalader, who commissioned a vessel destined for world renown as a U.S. presidential yacht, before checkmating this achievement by ordering the largest private yacht ever built, the 407-foot Savarona; Eugene Tompkins, the "Napoleon of Theater Managers"; George Fabyan; Harry Darlington; and William Rands. Enfolded in this volume's fascinating pages are not only the wealthy individuals who shaped this era but also curmudgeonly writer/yachtsman Thomas Fleming Day, photographer Nathaniel Stebbins, and the designers and builders who created the splendid yachts that here return to life.

Hardcover. NY, Harry N. Abrams/Hood Museum of Art, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. A beautiful and intimate treatment of the architecture of the early industrialization of New England. 108 pages of color plates. Essays by Noel Perrin & Kenneth Breisch. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Liberty Street, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 196 pages. A stirring visual tribute to the Civil Rights Movement and the long and difficult battle for racial equality captures in more than 150 extraordinary photographs the leaders and events of the era, with portraits of Sidney Poitier, James Baldwin, Miles Davis, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many other activists, both famous and unknown, who took part in the struggle.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape Ltd], 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 373 pages. 50 line and 24 halftone illustrations. In this text, the author argues that the celebrated archaeologist, Sir Arthur Evans, who at the turn of the century claimed to have discovered the labyrinth which housed the Minotaur, was in fact a fabulist. MacGillivray uses Evans's own papers as evidence for his exposee.

Hardcover. NY, The Burns Archive Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards, measures 6 x 6 3/4". SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY BURNS on the title page. Mirror, Mirror features an extraordinary scope of early photography from one of the most important and comprehensive private collections in the world. Over 250 daguerreotypes presented in full-color reproductions illustrate the depth and beauty of this special medium. Showcasing a wide range of American, British and French images, revealing the clear distinctions in the style and presentation of each country, makes this book an excellent guide for novice collectors as well as a resource for connoisseurs and curators. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, The Burns Archive Press, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, laminated boards, measures 6 x 6 3/4". SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY BURNS on the title page. Mirror, Mirror features an extraordinary scope of early photography from one of the most important and comprehensive private collections in the world. Over 250 daguerreotypes presented in full-color reproductions illustrate the depth and beauty of this special medium. Showcasing a wide range of American, British and French images, revealing the clear distinctions in the style and presentation of each country, makes this book an excellent guide for novice collectors as well as a resource for connoisseurs and curators. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Essex, Pequot Press, First Edition, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 69 pages. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards with gilt titles to spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Frontis illustration, The Harpist, A Portrait of Miss Florence by Alphonse Jonghers, tipped-in & in full color. Dust jacket with same full color image on bright blue background. Dj has age related wear to edges. Clean, unmarked. A nice copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1894, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 405 pages, an early edition, originally published in 1893. Illustrated in b&w. Covers with light edgewear, spine darkened, previous owner's name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. A tight, attractive copy of this vintage cook book.

Hardcover. NY, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1858, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, embossed brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, now faded. Livingstone describes his missionary activities and travels in South Africa from 1841 to 1853 and his first major expedition, the Trans-Africa journey of 1853-56. Livingstone also gives an accurate account of the tsetse fly and of the disease produced in cattle following its bite. Frontispiece portrait, 732 pages, [4]pp ads, 2 folding maps by Arrowsmith at the rear, 1 double page wood engraving, 1 folding diagram, many wood engraved text illustrations. Fair condition only with worn, rubbed covers, cloth split along spine edges. Interior pages clean with tight binding.

Softcover. Tucson, AZ, Arizona University Press , 1st paperback, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. Black & white photos by George Alexander Grant. Some color fade to edges of cover. The Spanish missions founded by Padre Eusebio Kino in Sonora, Mexico, during the 1690s and early 1700s are historical as well as architectural marvels. Once self-supporting villages with central churches, the missions stand today as monuments to perseverance in the face of a hostile New World. These "Kino Missions" were surveyed in 1935 by the National Park Service to prepare for the restoration of the mission at Tumacacori, Arizona, then a National Historic Monument. That report, which was never published, provided insights into the missions' history and architecture that remain of lasting relevance. Perhaps more important, it documented these structures in photographs and drawings--the latter including floor plans and sketches of architectural detail--that today are of historic as well as aesthetic interest. This volume reproduces that 1935 report in its entirety, focusing on sixteen missions and including two maps, 52 drawings, and 76 photographs. With a new introduction and appendixes that place the original study in context,

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Limited to 3000. 162 pages with 60 illustrations. The cyanotypes reproduced in Mississippi Blue come from an album of photograhs taken by Henry P. Bosse for the Army Corps of Engineers. They show the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Louis, and were taken from 1882 to 1892 as part of the Corps' effort to document and understand the ever-changing river.

Hardcover. Santa Fe NM, Twin Palms Pub, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Limited to 3000. 162 pages with 60 illustrations. The cyanotypes reproduced in Mississippi Blue come from an album of photograhs taken by Henry P. Bosse for the Army Corps of Engineers. They show the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Louis, and were taken from 1882 to 1892 as part of the Corps' effort to document and understand the ever-changing river.

Hardcover. Cape Town, Howard Timmins, 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, cream color cloth, black lettering on spine. 147 pages, tables, maps, charts, photographs: author spent most of his life in Portuguese East Africa and this is both a history and an authoritative study of the economic and political situation circa early 1960s. Clean copy.

Softcover. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 2nd Ed., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 431 pages. Softcover. Tight copy. Profusely illustrated with black & white photographs & architectural illustrations. One interior section includes full page, full color photographs. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. NY, Jonathan Cape /Harrison Smith, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 295 pages. Decorated cloth with black cloth spine, bright gilt lettering on spine. A French doctor's account of Chinese life & civilization, based on his twenty years of life, work & travel there; he was Director of the Imperial School of Medicine at Chengtufu. Typically patronizing and moralistic; the author credits China with having been great in the past, but now in the grip of a profound lassitude, only to be helped by Europeans. Translated from the French by Elsie Martin Jones. Previous owner's name, date on front fly leaf otherwise a clean, bright copy.

Softcover. NY, Dodd, Mead & Co., 11th pr., 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 652 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. NY, Harcourt Brace And Company , reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and chipped dust jacket. 424 pages, 10 tipped-in color plates & 48 double-sided b/w plates. index. This book is an attempt to tell the story of modern French painting as developed by the Impressionists and subsequent adventurers in the last hundred years in Paris. No date, most likely early 1950s. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, Hill and Wang, BC Ed., 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 352 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. In the middle of a frigid Sunday night in January 1856, a twenty-two-year-old Kentucky slave named Margaret Gamer gathered up her family and raced north, toward Cincinnati and freedom. But Margaret's master followed just hours behind and soon had the fugitives surrounded. Thinking all was lost, Margaret seized a butcher knife and nearly decapitated her two-year-old daughter, crying out that she would rather see her children dead than returned to slavery. She was turning on her other three children when slave catchers burst in and subdued her.Margaret Garner's child-murder electrified the United States, inspiring the longest, most spectacular fugitive-slave trial in history. Abolitionists and slaveholders fought over the meaning of the murder, and the case came to symbolize the ills of the Union in those last dark decades before the Civil War.