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Humanities' Mirror: Reading at the Newberry, 1887-1987

By: Achilles, Rolf (Compiled and Edited by)

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Chicago, The Newberry Library: 1987

Seller ID: 005162

ISBN: no

Binding: Pictorial Wrappers (softcover)

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.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Three Tenant Families

By: Agee, James; Walker Evans

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press: 1960

Seller ID: 005184

ISBN: no

Binding: Black cloth

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
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Rome and the Barbarians, The Birth of a New World

By: Aillagon, Jean-Jacques (edited by) with the scientific coordination of Umberto Roberto and Yann Riviere

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Milan / Venice, Skira editore / Palazzo Grassi: 2008

Seller ID: 004832

ISBN: 8861304885

Binding: Black paper boards

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...
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Dictionnaire Francaise-Arabe - 2 volumes

By: Belot, P. J.-B., S.J.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Beyrouth, Catholic Printing: 1928

Seller ID: 004873

ISBN: no

Binding: Marbled boards - disbound

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
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North American Indian Mythology

By: Burland, Cottie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Feltham, Middlesex, Paul Hamlyn: 1968

Seller ID: 003297

Binding: Decorated cloth boards

Condition: Very Good

141 pages; 24 color pages; more than 100 b&w illustrations. Eskimo to the Mound Builders of the Southeast.
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Don't Worry, Make Money: Spiritual and Practical Ways to Create Abundance and More Fun in Your Life

By: Carlson, Richard, Ph.D.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Hyperion: 1997

Seller ID: 004942

ISBN: 0786863218

Binding: quarter-cloth / paper boards

Condition: Fine

223 pages. Strategies for organizing life and making good choices. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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The Challenge and Progress of Homosexual Law Reform

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

Binding: Printed Wrapper

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.
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English Traits

By: Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Boston / Cambridge, Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press: 1903

Seller ID: 004970

ISBN: no

Binding: Maroon cloth

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.
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Fiery Pool , The Maya and the Mythic Sea

By: Finamore, Daniel; Stephen D. Houston

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Salem / New Haven, Peabody Essex Museum ; Yale University Press: 2011

Seller ID: 004976

ISBN: 0875772196

Binding: Gray linen boards

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.
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Decadence, The Strange Life of an Epithet

By: Gilman, Richard

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1979

Seller ID: 005195

ISBN: 0374135673

Binding: Cloth

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.
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Sub-Stance 36: Historiography of Thought, Lacan and Cixous, The Dandy, King Lear, Barthes, Asia, Jarry

By: Lévy, Sydney (Editor)

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Madison, University of Wisconsin Press: 1982

Seller ID: 005042

ISBN: 0040-2426

Binding: Printed Wrapper

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.
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A Covenanted People: The Religious Tradition and the Origins of American Constitutionalism

By: Lutz, Donald S. and Jack D. Warren

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Providence, RI, The John Carter Brown Library: 1987

Seller ID: 004828

ISBN: 0916617270

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

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.
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Intractable Disputes About the Natural Law

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

Binding: Printed Wrapper (softcover)

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.
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Katherine Mansfield's Letters to John Middleton Murry, 1913-1922

By: Mansfield, Katherine; John Middleton Murry (Edited by)

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1951

Seller ID: 005155

ISBN: no

Binding: Blue cloth

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.
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Cohousing: A Contemporary Approach to Housing Ourselves

By: McCamant, Kathryn and Charles Durrett

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Berkeley, CA, Habitat Press / Ten Speed Press: 1988

Seller ID: 005202

ISBN: 0898153069

Binding: Pictorial Wrappers (softcover)

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.
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The Awakening Twenties, A Memoir-History of a Literary Period

By: Munson, Gorham

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press: 1985

Seller ID: 005010

ISBN: 0807112011

Binding: Cloth

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.
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A Victorian Household

By: Nicholson, Shirley

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing: 1994

Seller ID: 005028

ISBN: 0750918268

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Fine

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.
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Pacific Arcadia: Images of California, 1600-1915

By: Perry, Claire

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Oxford University Press: 1999

Seller ID: 003483

ISBN: 0195109376

Binding: Pictorial Wrapper (softcover)

Condition: Very Good

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.
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The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook

By: Piven, Joshua and David Borgenicht

Price: $5.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Chronicle Books: 1999

Seller ID: 005227

ISBN: 0811825558

Binding: Printed Wrapper

Condition: Fine

176 pages. Baby in a taxi; killer bees; parachute does not open. And, a few others. Clean throughout; tight binding.
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The Spanish Temper

By: Pritchett, V.S.

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Alfred A. Knopf: 1955

Seller ID: 004889

ISBN: no

Binding: quarter-cloth w/ paper boards

Condition: Very Good

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
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Category: Culture, Society