Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 302 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Light sun-fade along dust jacket spine. Clean, tight copy. Touring America as the "Apostle of Aestheticism" in 1882, Oscar Wilde brought a witty and controversial message of regeneration through art and beauty to a nation still shaken by the trauma of the Civil War. In this book, the first cultural history of the aesthetic movement in the United States, Mary W. Blanchard shows that it was a wide-ranging popular movement resisted by the moral guardians of Victorianism but advanced by visionary women.

Hardcover. New York, Books of Wonder Sea Star Books, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Unpaginated. Hardcover with matching dustjacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Color illustrations by Christine Davenier. Tight copy.

Hardcover. Derry, Babcock & Koontz, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. SIGNED - LIMITED EDITION OF 240 HARDCOVER COPIES - THIS HANDNUMBERED # 87. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York, HarperCollins , 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Previous owner's embossed stamp on front-fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York, Dutton, 1st , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 155 pages. A very clean, tight copy in a bright dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. "Narrator Kyle Malachi, writing as Stokes Moran, is a syndicated mystery reviewer working on his first mystery novel. His "beautiful agent, " Lee Holland, convinces him to take a $25, 000 assignment from Playboy to find and interview a reclusive bestselling mystery author. The only clue to Seymour Severe's whereabouts is the New Orleans setting of his books. Kyle goes there, spends some time in a dark gay bar, passes out and wakes up in bed next to a naked, dead boy. He flees back to Connecticut, but Lee convinces him he's been hoaxed and must return to the Crescent City where the puzzle finally assembles itself--without any help from Kyle". Clean copy.

Hardcover. Boston, Richard G. Badger, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, green cloth in an edgeworn, chipped dust jacket. 64 pages.SIGNED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. Owner's signature on same page at top. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1st, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 80 pages. Hardcover with lightly worn dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR, Aldren A. Watson, on TITLE PAGE. Cover boards show moderate rubbing and edge wear, tight binding.

Hardcover. London, Channing Press, 1st Ltd Ed., 1933, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth covers stamped in gilt on front, 29 pages. With frontispiece photograph tipped in of the author with tissue guard. Number 24 of 100 copies SIGNED BY LORING ON TIPPED-IN PAGE. Glassine wrapper.

Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian, 1st, November 17, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, INSCRIBED BY PHOTOGRAPHER. Softcover, 256 pages, b&w photographs. A very clean, tight copy. In interviews and photographic portraits, [the author] and [the photographer] bring together forty-nine of Mexico's most acclaimed artists in the performing, visual, and literary arts, displaying the creative energy of a nation.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY SCHULMAN on title page.

Hardcover. New York, Morrow, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Review copy. 260 pages. A very clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, The Colonizer, reprint, 1924, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 224 pages, b&w photos. SIGNED BY HARRIS under his frontispiece photography in blue ink. Green covers with wear, spotting. Internally good.

Hardcover. New York, Dial, 1st , 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY MCCULLY on prelim-page. Color illustrations by McCully

New York, North-South Books, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 61 pages. SIGNED BY HAGUE on half title-page. Color illustrations by Michael Hague.

Hardcover. Boston , Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.SIGNED BY AUTHOR. B&W woodcut illustration by Michael McCurdy.

Hardcover. Boston , Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-paginated. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. B&W woodcut illustration by Michael McCurdy. Tight copy.

New York, Viking, 2nd PR., 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY ILLUSTRATOR COONEY ON TITLE PAGE. A Caldecott Medal winner with sticker on front panel. 35 pages. Color illustrations by Barbara Cooney. Dust jacket has a few very small tears.

Hardcover. Bloomington IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 317 pages with index, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front fly leaf. The mythic status of the Oxbridge man at the height of the British Empire continues to persist in depictions of this small, elite world as an ideal of athleticism, intellectualism, tradition, and ritual. In his investigation of the origins of this myth, Paul R. Deslandes explores the everyday life of undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge to examine how they experienced manhood. He considers phenomena such as the dynamics of the junior common room, the competition of exams, and the social and athletic obligations of intercollegiate boat races to show how rituals, activities, relationships, and discourses all contributed to gender formation. Casting light on the lived experience of undergraduates, Oxbridge Men shows how an influential brand of British manliness was embraced, altered, and occasionally rejected as these students grew from boys into men. Clean copy.

New York , Bloomsbury, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 208 pages. SIGNED BY SCHULMAN on title page.

Softcover. Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 410 pages, b&w, color illustrations. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on the half-title page. Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors. Since the early 1970s, Fred R. Myers has studied--often as a participant-observer--the Pintupi, one of several Aboriginal groups who paint the famous acrylic works. Describing their paintings and the complicated cultural issues they raise, Myers looks at how the paintings represent Aboriginal people and their culture and how their heritage is translated into exchangeable values. He tracks the way these paintings become high art as they move outward from indigenous communities through and among other social institutions--the world of dealers, museums, and critics.

Hardcover. Italy, Massimiliano Boni, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 128 pages, plus plates. ITALIAN TEXT. INSCRIBED. Color frontispiece, B/w illustrations/plates throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has some age wear. Covers good, bound in blue fabric. Foxing on edges and endpapers, but pages clean. In very good condition.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY JIM AND KATE MCMULLAN on half title-page. Color Illustrations by Jim McMullan. TIght copy.

Hardcover. NY, Minotaur Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY MAYOR on the title page. Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation are alerted to a string of unrelated burglaries across Vermont. Someone, in addition to flatscreens, computers, and stereos, has also been stealing antiques and jewelry. Meanwhile, in Boston, an elderly woman surprises some thieves in her Beacon Hill home and is viciously murdered. The Boston police find that not only is the loot similar to what's being stolen in Vermont, but it may have the same destination. Word is out that someone powerful is purchasing these particular kinds of items in the "Paradise City" of Northampton, Mass. Clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Dial Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Non-Paginated. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Full color illustrations by Steven Kellogg. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press , 1st, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. brown cloth stamped in gilt, 120 pages. INSCRIBED BY LEACH on the front fly leaf. Originally published by Caxton in 1485, Paris & Vienne marked a change in the style of Literature being written in Europe at the time. Instead of tales of Knightly Romance & Chivalry a move was made towards more realistic down to Earth tales, closer to actual life. Clean, bright copy, no dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, W W Norton, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 175 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Softcover. Los Angeles, Red Hen Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 104 pages. Signed and inscribed by author on title page. Book is in excellent condition, text is unmarked and pages are tight.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 57 pages, in a bright unclipped dust jacket. Complete number line on copyright page. SIGNED BY KINNELL on the title page. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. New York , Hyperion Books, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Color pictorial boards with saw tooth edges. Housed in a cardboard box. The small book is 18 pages, each with double-page color illustrations by Henrick Drescher, each with interactive parts. According to the story Beastie's fur is pulled, his pop-up eyes jiggled, his boot (removed from his pop up foot) is scratched & sniffed, his privacy intruded upon as his shower curtain pulled away, his boogers poked, his miniature book reveal beastie's fantasies of revenge, as finally Judy and Paul are swallowed up by poor beastie and a mirror reveals who may be the next naughty child to incur beastie's wrath. All of these interactive pull and poke activities can be performed by the reader. SIGNED on the front cover in silver ink, with his initials, by Henrick Drescher in the year of publication.

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY PECK on front fly leaf, black & white drawings by Betty Fraser. Small chip to dust jacket front panel otherwise very good condition.

Hardcover. New York, Burns Archive Press, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcopies. DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.4 Volumes: (SIGNED) In slipcase. Slipcase still has original mylar wrap (See image).The Biological Era, 58 pagesHospital Care, 58 pagesSeeing Insanity, 47 pagesModern Therapies, 60 pagesLimited to 10000 copies with a special edition of 300. Color, b/w and sepia illustrations throughout. White, decorated cover boards in like new condition. Pages clean, binding tight, spines straight. Slipcase fine.

Hardcover. New York, New York Review Books, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 448 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Black and white photos in center. Two pages wrinkled and stuck together in the middle of picture pages. Otherwise tight.

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, April 18, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 479 pages. Light smudges to bottom and fore-edge. Else a very clean, tight copy.

Softcover. Cape Town SA, Umuzi, 2nd pr., 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover. A crime thriller set in Cape Town, South Africa. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR5 on the title page. Bright, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Simon & Schuster , 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED on front end paper by Simon. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Hardcover. NY, HarperCollins, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR Fred Marcellino on title page. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With light-hearted, lavish illustrations, Caldecott Honoree Fred Marcellino makes the most--and more--of the fantasy and farce to a trio of Lear's best tales: The New Vestments, The Pelican Chorus, and The Owl and the Pussycat. Three splendid picture books in one!

Hardcover. New York, Viking Press, 1st , 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, SIGNED BY EISENSTAEDT on front fly leaf. Photographs of over 300 well-known people by the Prussia born Life Magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898-1995). Black & white photos. 260 pages. Clean in a bright, unclipped dust jacket.

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 179 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half-title page. Minor dust jacket edge wear and rub, otherwise, very clean and tight copy. The third book, a collection of eight short stories, by this Australian-American writer, one which is "a masterpiece of observation which clearly demonstrates the authors perceptive wit. Set in the 1950s, amidst the corridors and offices of the newly created monolithic and meandering bureaucracy of 'the Organization' (read the United Nations, where Hazzard worked for 10 years) an American-based concern intent on inflicting improvement the world over, readers are introduced to an immalleable world hemmed in by regulations, memoranda and mediocrity. A place where once vibrant personalities are smothered and strangulated by red tape, and the general life-sapping realities of paper-pushing and the exacting demands of pointless tasks reign paramount.

Hardcover. NY, Roaring Brook Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations. SIGNED BY SMITH.

Hardcover. NY, Morrow Junior Books, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Color illustrations by Michael Hague and SIGNED BY HAGUE on title page. Like new in dust jacket.

Hardcover. London, Bantam Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. SIGNED BY FYFIELD on title page. Sarah Fortune, first encountered in "Shadows on the Mirror", is sent to Merton-on-Sea in Norfolk to sort out the inheritance problems of the small town's premier family. But she discovers much more than just an ambiguously-worded will - and also has to confront the pain of her own past. Clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1st, 1916, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with portraits. Top edge gilt. 412 pages + ads. INSCRIBED BY RANKIN to Livingston C. Lord, President of Eastern Illinois University in 1917. Rankin, who died at 90 in 1927, was an early colleague and friend of Lincoln's from his Springfield days. Small ink number on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Hardcover. New York , Golden Books, 1ST, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY WAHL on copyright page. Color illustrations by Erik Blegvad. Previous owner's name on front fly leaf. Glazed cardboard covers.

Hardcover. NY, Atheneum, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, color illustrations by Raschka. Sergei Prokofiev composed his Peter and the Wolf in 1936 with the hope of introducing children to the instruments of the orchestra. It happens that he also devised a wonderfully dramatic story. The characters - boy, bird, duck, cat, grandfather, wolf, hunters - and their doings have been beloved by young and old for decades. Writer, artist, musician, and Caldecott Medalist Chris Raschka has given the original story a new setting: a stage performance. Here you will relish language inspired music; enjoy mischief, suspense, and triumph in the theater; and delight in a surprise (and an additional character) Prokofiev's merry tale didn't provide. Please do not turn immediately to the last page. SIGNED BY RASCHKA.

Hardcover. Paris, Tchou, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 253 pages, b&w cartoon drawings by Copi. White cloth covers with black design. A collection of quotes from writers of the Surrealist movement in France. Long preface by Corvin. INSCRIBED BY BOTH AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR (HIS WITH A SKETCH OF A BIRD) to Roger Shattuck, author and chronicler of the period. Publishers complimentary card laid in. Small tan stain to cloth at top of front cover, otherwise very good.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt & Co,, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 199 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on the title page. Very nice copy in brodart cover.

Hardcover. South Bend IN, Gateway Editions, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in an edgeworn, unclipped dust jacket. INSCRIBED BY EDITOR HARRISON on the title page. 628 pages, b&w illustrations. Thomas Cope was a wealthy merchant and ship owner, a force in city and state government, a philanthropist and--by no means least--a Quaker. He is best described in his own words about his writing and himself: "I have laid down no regular plan and I follow none. My diary is like myself, a chequered maze." He was committed to the service of others--the poor, the sick, the insane--and labored to improve the civic life of Philadelphia in far-sighted ways. He was a moving force behind the water system, a founder of the Mercantile Library, an advocate for the Penn. Railroad, and a supporter of poorhouses, among many other civic and philanthropic activities. He was also a deeply passionate man, whose fluent style at times seethes with emotion. Even into his eighties he struggled to control his temper. Perceptive and intelligently engaged, Cope comments on all the major historical events of his time, such as the yellow fever epidemics, the War of 1812, and the looming Civil War, as well as the more personal dramas of his own life. Some tape repairs ro dj, clean copy.

Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 199 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. SIGNED ON TITLE PAGE BY AUTHOR. Light fading to top otherwise clean, tight copy.

Softcover. US, Alpine Fine Arts Collection, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 275 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. INSCRIBED BY ARTIST on front end paper. Edgewear, rubbing and scratching to wrappers. Faint foxing to top edge and end papers, otherwise a clean, tight copy.