Hardcover. NY, Avery Publishing Group, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Story of the aborted 1904 World Series, with center photo supplement on coated paper. The 1904 World Series was called off, because of a clash of wills among John T. Brush (owner of the New York Giants), John McGraw (manager of the Giants), and Ban Johnson (president of the National League and instrumental in forming the New York Highlanders, later to be renamed the New York Yankees). Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott , 1st, 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, pale green cloth, 210 pages. Great Battles Series. No dust jacket. Related clipping laid in. Mild fading to gilt lettering on spine. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Phaidon Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 416 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white photographs throughout. A tight copy. Covering many styles and movements, it includes work by pioneers such as Edward Sheriff Curtis, seminal figures like Walker Evans, Cecil Beaton and August Sander, as well as artists such as Martin Parr, Cindy Sherman and Philip-Lorca diCorcia - With over 300 black and white and color photographs, this book offers a new perspective on the history of photography by examining the personalities both behind and in front of the camera.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 324 pages, color and black and white illustrations throughout. A masterly survey of the world's stages brings to the contemporary reader the entire panorama of the theatre, including its formative stages among primitive peoples and the richly stylized traditions of the East.
Hardcover. NY, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 324 pages, color and black and white illustrations throughout. A masterly survey of the world's stages brings to the contemporary reader the entire panorama of the theatre, including its formative stages among primitive peoples and the richly stylized traditions of the East.
Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 78 pages. Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures, No. 12. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.
Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with mild fading to spine, 294 pages. Essays that examine seven disputes which Roosevelt created, fell into or searched out during his White House years. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, The Macmillan Company, reprint, 1904, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 471 pages. Jacob Riis was a Danish American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist, and social documentary photographer. He and Theodore Roosevelt became friends when Roosevelt was the New York City Police Commissioner. Riis wrote this idolizing biography of Roosevelt which was published in March 1904, reprinted in March 1904, and published as this Special Edition in June 1904. Contains an appendix listing books by Theodore Roosevelt. Names on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. Dust jacket with light soil.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 29 pages. Hardcover. INSCRIBED ON FRONT ENDPAPER BY AUTHOR. Portrait of Winthrop opposite title page. Darkening to title on spine, with chip missing at very top. Moderate rubbing with small section of abrasion at bottom right corner of front cover. Clean, unmarked copy.
Softcover. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 358 pages. This volume includes Whewell's seminal studies of the logic of induction (with his critique of Mill's theory), arguments for his realist view that science discovers necessary truths about nature, and exercises in the epistemology and ontology of science. The book sets forth a coherent statement of a historically important philosophy of science whose influence has never been greater: every one of Whewell's fundamental ideas about the philosophy of science is presented here. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. NY, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, b&w illustrations, 416 pages. Presents Black history in America as a force of strong resistance to racism and slavery rather than accommodation and discusses the people and events of this struggle. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York , E. P. Dutton , 1st, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 40 pages. Green cloth cover, light wear to corners and edges. Dust jacket has wear to edges, heavy in one corner. Color illustrations throughout. A nice, clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1t, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1t, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. A tight copy. Color illustrations throughout.
Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a dust jacket with fading to some areas, 338 pages. Margaret Fuller - journalist, critic, radical feminist, and political activist - traveled in Europe between 1846 and 1850 as a foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune. Her letters from England, France, and Italy, which began as engaging travel sketches, soon became moving accounts of the most widespread revolutionary upheaval within modern history. These dispatches are now reproduced in their entirety for the first time. Clean copy.
Hardcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 207 pages illustrated in color. As the Walt Disney Studio entered its first decade and embarked on some of the most ambitious animated films of the time, Disney hired a group of "concept artists" whose sole mission was to explore ideas and inspire their fellow animators. They Drew as They Pleased showcases four of these early pioneers and features artwork developed by them for the Disney shorts from the 1930s, including many unproduced projects, as well as for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, and some early work for later features such as Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan.
Hardcover. San Francisco, CA, Chronicle Books, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy like new in publishers shrink-wrap. The 1940s ushered in an era of musical experimentation and innovation at the Walt Disney Studios. For this volume, author Didier Ghez has unearthed hundreds of enchanting images--from early sketches to polished concepts for iconic features--by five exceptional artists who shaped the style of the Studio's animation during this period of unbridled creativity. With evocative descriptions and excerpts from the artists' journals and autobiographies, this magnificent collection offers a rare look at the visionaries who breathed life into some of the most beloved films of our time.
Softcover. Baltimore MD, Gateway Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. 272 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the title page. 226 men with ties to College Point, New York took part in the Civil War. They served in 82 different Army units, and in the Navy, both on land and on sea. They were infantry men, engineers and artillerists, and one was a musician in the Marine Band. The majority claimed Germany as their country of birth, and 24 died in the service of their adopted homeland. This Gunner at His Piece tells their stories, before, during and after the American Civil War. Clean copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, Hardcover, 365 pages, b&w photographs. SIGNED BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. Begins with her childhood and covers the beginnings of her own and her husband's life in politics, culminating with the Democratic National Convention of 1924. Contains over 40 photographic images of the Roosevelt family. Book very good, dust jacket worn, chipped.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This Is the Day: The March on Washington is a stirring photo-essay by photographer Leonard Freed documenting the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of August 28, 1963, the historic day on which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. This book commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the historic march that ultimately led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, J. Paul Getty Museum, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 128 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy still in publishers shrink-wrap. This Is the Day: The March on Washington is a stirring photo-essay by photographer Leonard Freed documenting the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of August 28, 1963, the historic day on which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. This book commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the historic march that ultimately led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 4th pr., 1963, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. 361 pages, color frontis, preface, list of b&w illustrations and maps, prologue, 1. Beaver and Mountain Men; 2. Jedediah Strong Smith: From the Big Lake to the Sea; 3. Kedediah Strong Smith: The End of the Long Trail; 4. To Santa Fe and Beyond; 5. Perils of the Wilderness: The Wanderings of James Ohio Pattie; 6. "Joaquin Yong" and the Men of Taos; 7. From Santa Fe to California; 8. Joseph Reddeford Walker: To the "Extreme End of the Great West; 9. Partisans versus Mountain Men; epilogue, bibliographical notes, index. Minor edgewear to dust jacket. Clean copy.