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By: Achilles, Rolf (Compiled and Edited by)
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Chicago, The Newberry Library: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 005162
ISBN: no
Condition: Very Good
124 pages; many full-page color illustrations of rare books. Marking the centennial of the library with an exhibit and this publication which traces the history, mission and users of the library. Clean throughout; an excellent read. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press: 1960
Seller ID: 005184
ISBN: no
Condition: Very Good
471 pages; a series of Evans' photographs precedes the title page. The Foreword, "James Agee In 1936", is Evans'. The preface from the first edition, probably by Agee, is retained. A very nice copy of this famous piece written while working under the Farm Security Adninistration during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper; small repair to a corner. Otherwise, clean throughout; tight binding View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Milan / Venice, Skira editore / Palazzo Grassi: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004832
ISBN: 8861304885
Condition: Fine
692 pages; numerous color illustrations. Notes and Bibliography; Glossary; Chronology; List of Works on Display (the exhibition) by country of origin. Published in coordination with the exhibition in Venice, Bonn and Rome. History of the First to tenth centuries through the vector of art. "The commingling of civilizations, the opening, the integration of worships and traditions, the dissemination of knowledge, mutual enrichment and even cultural diversity gives evidence to the timeless force of art whose origin is lost in the midst of time but yet continues in the most contemporary creati... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Beyrouth, Catholic Printing: 1928
Seller ID: 004873
ISBN: no
Condition: Fair
not paginated. Two volumes: Premiére Partie, A to I; Seconde Partie, K to Z. Quarter-red-leather with red marbled boards binding. The leather backstrip of both volumes is missing. The front board of volume one is not attached but present. Neverthless, the binding is tight; the pages clean and flat though toned View more info
By: Burland, Cottie
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Feltham, Middlesex, Paul Hamlyn: 1968
Seller ID: 003297
Condition: Very Good
141 pages; 24 color pages; more than 100 b&w illustrations. Eskimo to the Mound Builders of the Southeast. View more info
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Hyperion: 1997
Edition: Stated first edition
Seller ID: 004942
ISBN: 0786863218
Condition: Fine
223 pages. Strategies for organizing life and making good choices. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Council on Religion and the Homosexual
Price: $10.00
Publisher: San Francisco, Council on Religion and the Homosexual; [et al]: 1968
Seller ID: 005024
ISBN: no
Condition: Very Good
72 pages. The outlook in 1968 along with brief historical surveys (of the West), including of the English Wolfenden recommendation and the situation in the United States. Covers are faded and spotted; text is clean throughout; binding tight. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boston / Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press: 1903
Seller ID: 004970
ISBN: no
Condition: Very Good
406 pages; 3 illustrated portraits. Land, Race, Manners, Truth, Wealth, Aristocracy, Universties, Religion, Character and more. Volume V of the Concord Edition, Complete Works. Clean throughout, tight binding. View more info
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Boston / Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press: 1903
Seller ID: 004971
ISBN: no
Condition: Very Good
445 pages; 3 illustrations. Self-Reliance, Compensation, Love, Friendship, Heroism, Intellect and more. Volume II of the Concord Edition, Complete Works. Clean throughout, tight binding. View more info
By: Finamore, Daniel; Stephen D. Houston
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Salem / New Haven, Peabody Essex Museum ; Yale University Press: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004976
ISBN: 0875772196
Condition: Fine
328 pages; numerous illustrations, including 99, mostly full-page, color plates. Who connects the Ancient Maya with the sea? Not most one suspects. Bounded by the sea on the Yucatan Peninsula this is a beautiful and informative book on just that. View more info
By: Fisher, Angela
Price: $40.00
Publisher: New York, Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: 1984
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 004827
ISBN: 0810918234
Condition: Fine
304 pages; 457 illustrations, including 414 color. Visited are East Africa; Equatoria: Old Africa (pockets of ancient tradition); The Savannah; The Sahara; The Maghreb; The Horn. Jewelry, dress, body decoration and hairstyle for women and men are pictured and considered for their cultural importances. 1994 reprint. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Gilman, Richard
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1979
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 005195
ISBN: 0374135673
Condition: Very Good
180 pages. "a fascinating linguistic exploration, ... a first rate piece of literary criticism, and an illuminating essay in cultural history." Clean tight and bright throughout. The jacket with only slight wear. View more info
By: Hanson, Chris
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Point Roberts, WA, Hartley & Marks: 1996
Seller ID: 005194
ISBN: 0881791261
Condition: Very Good
278 pages; well illustrated. What you need to know, especially, forming a group, financing, design agreement, development, etc. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Madison, University of Wisconsin Press: 1982
Seller ID: 005042
ISBN: 0040-2426
Condition: Very Good
94 pages. Contents are all in the title. Pencil underlining and margin notes pp.3-5. Previous owner's name and phone number on the contents page. Otherwise, clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Lutz, Donald S. and Jack D. Warren
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Providence, RI, The John Carter Brown Library: 1987
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004828
ISBN: 0916617270
Condition: Very Good
88 pages; b&w illustrations throughout. Published on the 200th anniversary of the United States under the Constitution. "American citizens are grateful for the stability of our system whatever its faults. The past 200 years of world history reveals numerous examples of the evils of anarchy and tyranny, to which it must not be assumed the United States is immune." This volume "explores one major strand in the cultural background to our frame of government, namely the role of religion."Clean throughout; tight binding; nearly fine. View more info
By: Macintyre, Alasdair and Critics; Lawrence S. Cunningham (Edited by)
Price: $22.00
Publisher: ntre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press: 2009
Seller ID: 004884
ISBN: 026802300X
Condition: Fine
374 pages. An initial essay by MacIntyre, "Intractable Moral Disagreements" followed by responses by 8 critics then a final reponse to the critics by MacIntyre. Clean throughout; tight binding. As new. View more info
By: Mansfield, Katherine; John Middleton Murry (Edited by)
Price: $5.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1951
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: 005155
ISBN: no
Condition: Good
701 pages. Letters covering the relationship until her death at age 34. Commentary by Murry at beginning and end of the letters. The book itself is in very good condition. Previous ownership has pasted news items about K.M and JMM on the endpapers. Pictures of both are pasted on preliminary pages; a note is written below the frontispiece photo of Mansfield. boards clean, backing with gilt titles clean, binding tight. View more info
By: McCamant, Kathryn and Charles Durrett
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Berkeley, CA, Habitat Press / Ten Speed Press: 1988
Seller ID: 005202
ISBN: 0898153069
Condition: Very Good
208 pages; numerous illustrations. The authors are credited with starting the cohousing movement in this country after observing its success in Denmark. Some ocassional highlighting. Otherwise, clean, tight binding. View more info
By: Morse, Edward S.
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Rutland, Vermont, Charles E. Tuttle: 1982
Seller ID: 005203
ISBN: 0804809984
Condition: Very Good
372 pages; numerous illustrations by the author who worked in, lived in and visited Japan. He was Keeper of Pottery at the MFA and he was director of the Peabody Mueum for thirty years. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Munson, Gorham
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 005010
ISBN: 0807112011
Condition: Fine
317 pages; b&w portrait-illustrations of artists and writers. With the end of the Great War American culture came alive. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
