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NY: Knopf, 2006. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. Following The Missing Person, her highly praised debut—“A seriously entertaining and probing novel,” wrote The Washington Post Book World—Alix Ohlin gives us a collection of stories that demonstrates her impressive range. In their various locales, from Montreal (where a prosthetic leg casts a furious… Read more about this item

NY: Knopf, 2004. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. These twelve stories further Joy Williamss utterly singular achievement, described by the Washington Post as poetic, disturbing, yet very funny. Her landscapes reach from Maine and Nantucket to the Southwest and into Mexico and Guatemala, while the events cover a range of human… Read more about this item

NY: The Overlook Press, 2010. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. 358 pages, Illustrated with three sections of color plates. b&w maps, illustrations. Clean copy. A fascinating survey of the life and enduring legacy of perhaps the greatest and most unjustly ignored of the Roman emperors-written by a richly gifted historian.In 312 A.D.,… Read more about this item

NY: Pantheon Books, 1974. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright, lightly worn dust jacket. 294 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. A collection of short stories, from the author's earliest fiction in 1937 to her new novella "Dr. Heart". Clean copy. Record # 385778

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1837. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Hardcover, 300 pages, with a dust jacket that has light fading to spine and top edge of front panel. Unclipped. The final Colin Gray novel, set in the Indian Himalayas. Contains elements of mysticism and fantasy. Clean, tight copy. Record # 385781

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Will James. Hardcover, black cloth with gilt titles on spine, color illustrated on cover pastedown, 263 pages, 6 color and 8 b&w plates by Will James. Previous owner's inscription on front endpapers. Otherwise clean copy. Record # 385799

North Slope Borough, 1982. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 128 pages, b&w illustrations. A study of an Inupiat village on Alaska's North Slope and how the people live off their surroundings. Whaling, caribou hunting, fox trapping, seal and walrus hunting and other methods of subsistence are covered. Maps, b&w photos. Crease to rear cover, clean copy. … Read more about this item

Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1970. 1st pbk. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, yellow card wraps with b&w designs and black lettering. 287 pages with 55 b/w line drawings and 96 b/w plates. The first publication in English that gives a general survey of the development of the inner structure of the town from a dual point of view: that… Read more about this item

Washington DC: National Portrait Gallery/Princeton University Press, 2018. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Accompanied exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Illustrated. First major publication to focus on the development of silhouettes, gathers leading experts to shed light on the surprisingly complex historical, political, and social underpinnings of this ostensibly simple art form.… Read more about this item

University Press of Colorado, 1995. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 138 pages, b&w illustrations. The great temple known as the Templo Mayor of Tenochtitlan symbolizes the axis mundi, the Aztec center of the world, where the sky, the earth, and the underworld met. In this volume, Matos Moctezuma uses his unmatched familiarity with the archaeological details to present… Read more about this item

Zurich/NY: Edition Stemmle, 1999. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dustjacket. 223 pages. Foreword by James H. Billington. Text by Leah Bendavid-Val. Includes images by Max Alpert, Dmitri Debakov, Georgy Lipskerov, Max Penson, Leonid Shokin, Esther Burley, Jack Delano, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Gordon Parks, Marion Post Wolcott, Ben Shahn, and numerous others.… Read more about this item

NY: McGraw-Hill , 1972. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover, 293 pages, b&w photographs. Edge wear, small tears to dust jacket. Dark blue top edge decorative stain w/ light spots, else a very clean, tight copy. Nowhere is the complex and destructive painter Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) revealed with more compassion and insight than in this exemplary biography. Friedman, a… Read more about this item

New York : Harrison House, 1987. reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover. 150 vintage black-and-white 1920s and 1930s Hollywood star portraits (many/most full-page) with accompanying descriptive captions. "This book lets us see, with dramatic impact, the artistry of the Hollywood studio photographers, whose portraits (reproduced by the millions as cheap fan photographs) of Crawford, Garbo, Cooper and the… Read more about this item

London: Adam and Charles Black, 1911. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. A.C. Lovett. 224 pages, hardcover. Illustrated history of the armies of India. 72 color plates after paintings of Maj. A.C. Lovett with titled tissue guards, plus 19 line drawings in text. Impressed edging decoration to front boards and spine. Minor fading, edgewear, and rubbing to boards, as well… Read more about this item

Middletown CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1976. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, 64 pages. Poet's first collection. SIGNED BY VOIGT on the title page, clean copy, no dust jacket. Record # 385836

London: Clearview, 2019. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, pictorial boards with a paste-down label, 160 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Foreword by Elton John and David Furnish. A polaroid is the physical and organic reminder of a particular moment, enabling the creative team to step back and fully consider the technical and artistic direction of a photoshoot.… Read more about this item

London: Picador, 2001. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover in a bright dust jacket. This signed first edition of author and journalist Sid Smith's novel 'Something Like A House' was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award, following a British soldier who deserts to China during the Korean War and stays there… Read more about this item

NY: Noonday Press, 1988. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 148 pages, b&w photographs. Introduction by Ron Kovic. Durrance served in Vietnam and kept a photographic journal; this book is a selection of his photographs. Captures the range of emotions and realities of the American experience in Vietnam in the years 1966-1968, describing how young American boys became part… Read more about this item

Cambridge MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2007. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, oblong format, 152 pages illustrated in color. A richly illustrated book by landscape architect Julie Campoli and aerial photographer Alex S. MacLean helps planners, designers, public officials, and citizens better understand how residential density can help save energy, dollars, and the environment. Name on front… Read more about this item

Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977. 1st. Softcover. Very Good/None. Softcover, 159 pages. illustrated in b&w, some color. Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922) was an American artist and educator. This monograph traces his life and work in nine chapters: Beginnings; Paris and Brittany; The Return; Japanese Currents; The Pratt Institute and the Launching of Composition; Ipswich and the World;… Read more about this item