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Price: $25.00
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press: 1960
Seller ID: 004980
471 pages; a series of Evans' photographs resides ahead of the title page. The Foreword, "James Agee In 1936", is written by 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. Clean throughout; tight binding View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Milan / Venice, Skira editore / Palazzo Grassi: 2008
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004832
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 evid... View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Beyrouth, Catholic Printing: 1928
Seller ID: 004873
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: Laven, Mary
Price: $5.00
Publisher: London, Faber and Faber: 2011
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004990
279 pages; color illustrations. The sixteenth-century Jesuit mission to China with the Italian priest Matteo Ricci and religious colleagues. The author lectures in History at the University of Cambridge. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Madison, University of Wisconsin Press: 1982
Seller ID: 005042
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
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, n... 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
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: Munson, Gorham
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1985
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 005010
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
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing: 1994
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 005028
224 pages; b&w illustrations, usually photos. History built from the diaries of Marion Sambourne (1851- 1914), and husband, Linley Sambourne, Punch cartoonist. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Pellman, Rachel T. and Joanne Ranck
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Lancaster, PA, Good Books: 1981
Seller ID: 005095
96 pages; many b&w illustrations. People's Place Booklet No. 4. Why is quilting seemingly partnered with Amish and Mennonite women. What about their quilt designs, their history and inspiration? Favorites: Lancaster Rose and Horn of Plenty. Clean and tight throughout. View more info
By: Perry, Claire
Price: $15.00
Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1999
Seller ID: 003483
242 pages; numerous images, color and b&w. High art to popular representations: paintings, photographs, prints, illustration, posters, cartoons. "A cultural history of the idyllic vision of California." Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
By: Pritchett, V.S.
Price: $12.00
Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1955
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 004889
pp. 270; i-vii. Author, a long familiarity with Spain. This: politics, economics, religion, sex, art, geography, and literature. Clean throughout; tight binding. Dustjacket with light damping stains; small closed tears at the base of the spine; price clipped View more info
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Nashville, Tennessee, American Association for State and Local History: 1981
Edition: Second Printing
Seller ID: 005081
294 pages; b&w illustrations. "A close examination of any object is a graphic description of the level of intelligence, manual dexterity, and artistic comprehension of the civilization that produced it. It can reflect as well the climate, religious beliefs, form of government, the natural materials at hand, the structure of commerce, and the extent of man's scientific and emotional sophistication." R. Latham. Clean throughout; tight binding. View more info
