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London: Oxford University Press, 1961. Hardcover. Near Fine. Occasional uncut page. Black lettering debossed to tan cloth spine of grey boards. Clean, tight, bright. Unpaginated. A witty comedy! The Malone Society is a British-based text publication. Edmond Malone (1741 - 1812), was an English scholar dedicated to the study of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. It publishes editions of plays from manuscript, facsimile editions of printed and manuscript plays of the period, and editions of original documents relating to English theatre and drama.

Newbury Park, CA: SAGE Publishers, 1987. Hardcover. Very Good Plus / Good Plus. A weighty volume to guide the communication in growing corporations and other large businesses as technology also expands. "Its renowned contributors are leading scholarly pioneers in the field -- drawn equally from organizational behavior, management studies, and communication." They analyze research, theory, and application, at various levels, providing valuable insights. 781 pp. Light edgewear to book, rear lower corner lightly bumped. Ex-library, with library info to FFEP and card pocket to RFEP, library name stamped to top, fore, and bottom edges. Light wear to DJ edges, .5" closed tear to rear panel, 1.5" closed tear to rear panel with half-dime-sized chip at base. Library code taped to lower spine of DJ, spine sunned. Light scratch to front panel. Gilt lettering to spine, black cloth-covered boards. Clean, bright. HEAVY. May require EXTRA shipping.

Boulder, Colorado: Shambhala, 1984. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Small, 2" water spot and slight nudge to front upper corner. Dustjacket very good plus. Mild shelfwear to jacket. Gilt lettering debossed to spine of peacock-blue, cloth-covered boards. Numerous black and white photographs and illustrations. Clean, tight, bright. 186 pp with appendices, glossary, bibliography and indices. The authors have concentrated on recording the traditional colours and techniques. "In this book we have concentrated mainly on the technique of thangkas, and have not dealt with murals and other branches of painting," (preface)

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1969. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good Minus. Previous owner's name, in ink, to front free endpaper. Occasional pencilled underlinings and marginalia. Very slight spine lean. Sunning to spine. Mild edgewear to spinecaps. Dustjacket very good minus. White jacket is moderately scuffed and creased. Spinecaps are chipped. Small chips to extended jacket edges. Lightly debossed gilt lettering to spine and front of red, cloth-covered boards. Bright, solid binding. 250 pp with notes, appendices, chronology, and books cited. The Yale Ben Jonson Series, 5. Termed as non-normative comedy of non-interaction, "the Introduction develops this definition, using Every Man in His Humor as a paradigm which contains all the elements of Jonsonian comedy and which foreshadows Jonson's full commitment to the non-normative comedy of Volpone and The Alchemist," (front flap).

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. Spotting to top and fore-edge. Mild edgewear. 65 black and white illustrations by Will Owen. Brown lettering to printed gold-colored, cloth-covered boards. 337 pp. Advertisements to rear of book. William Wymark Jacobs was an English author of short stories and novels. This novel focuses on the relationships between an imposing assembly of bizarre characters

Little Rock, Arkansas: Arkansas Arts Center, 1983. Paperback. Very Good. SIGNED INSCRIPTION BY ONE OF THE AUTHORS to half-title page. Light edgewear. Moderately scuffed to rear cover, lightly to front. White lettering on spine and front of chestnut-brown, illustrated cover. Frontispiece, Pierre Bonnard, Marthe entrant le salon. 79 illustrations both in color and black and white. Clean, bright, solid binding. 175 pp with index of artists and catalogue numbers. Arkansas Arts Foundation member information to rear of book. Catalogue of selected works. It covers the periods : 15th-century Italian ; 16th-century Flemish, German, Italian ; 17th-century French, German, Italian ; 18th-century American, British, French, Italian ; 19th-century American, British, Dutch, French, German, Italian and 20th-century American, Belgian, British, Colombian, Dutch, French, Italian and Mexican. 

Calgary, Alberta: Glenbow-Alberta Institute, 1979. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Near Fine in Very Good Dust Jacket. SIgned by the author on the title page. 161 pages. Illustrated throughout in black and white Traces the history of the phenomenon that brought music and live theatre to many isolated areas. Some light rubbing to front panel, a 5" scratch to rear panel. Dust jacket has some edgewear and a few small chips on lower rear. Tight, bright and clean copy "Chautauqua brought education, inspiration, and entertainment to the people of Canada." [liner notes]

Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone, 1946. Paperback. Very Good. SIXTH EDITION. ASTONISHINGLY BRILLIANT COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS. Loose-leaf binding. Previous owner's name to front cover. Small hole rubbed to front cover due to binding hardware. Cover extremities are moderately darkened from use. Notations to three pages. Dark green lettering to lighter green card covers. With 32 illustrations. Bright and solid. 32 pp. One page from Section II, Head and Neck, to rear of book. This is Section V, only, of a VII section series.

Portland, OR: Portland Art Museum, 1977. Hardcover. VERY GOOD PLUS. SHARP CORNERS. Brown illustrated paste-on to front of brown boards. Very mild shelfwear to boards. Brown lettering on front board. Chronology, maps, figures. 135 pp. Clean, tight, bright. An exhibition on the tradition of Far Eastern wood sculpture. This is the fifth, and last of a series of five Masterworks in Wood exhibitions organized by the Portland Art Museum.

Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. PRIVATELY OWNED. NO MARKINGS. Previous owner's ex-libris to FFEP. Corners nudged. Spinecaps freyed and folded under. A tiny bit of material missing to top spinecap. Spine lean and cocked but still solidly bound. Front hinges starting. A sixteen-page section of torn pages towards latter part of book. Mildly age-tanned. Titles worn from spine. Gilt lettering to front of navy, grosgrain-covered boards. Clean. 209 pp with references for the study of the short story and a chronological list of representative American Short Stories Some of the stories included in this volume are : Chariessa ; or, a Pattern for the Sex (1788) Anonymous ; Rip Van Winkle (1819) Washington Irving ; The Gold Bug (1843) Edgar Allan Poe ; The White Cowl (1888) James Lane Allen ; The Gift of the Magi (1905) and All or Nothing (1912) Charles Caldwell Dobie.

Minnesota: University of Minnesota, 2006. Paperback. Near Fine. SECOND PRINT ISSUE. Nice sharp corners. Small mark to fore-edge. Grey lettering and design to white cover. 129 pp with advertisements to rear of book. This is a graduate student-run literary journal whose editorship changes from year to year. "From Laressa Dickey's elegant opening poems to Monica Hill's delightful one-act play, enjoy..." (Editors note).

Reykjavik, Iceland: Foss, Gudnumdsson & Larsen, 1949. Paperback. Very Good Plus. Written in Icelandic, English and German. The land of frost and fire. 50 photographs of the island (mostly black and white, one in color), the people, industry and culture, with descriptions in three languages. Unnumbered. Light wear to edges and light scuffing to surfaces. Color illustrations to front and rear cover, solid binding, clean text.

New York: Pantheon, 1984. Paperback. Near Very Good. A compelling exploration of the social history of nineteenth-century London. Discusses the role of seasonal unemployment, looks at the threat presented by the casual poor to the security of London's upper eschelons, and how that very fear and anxiety provoked the movement toward social improvement. 424 pp with appendices, bibliography and index. Mild shelfwear, sticker residue to lower spine, lower front corner creased. Nicely illustrated cover in full color, a number of charts, figures, maps and an 8 page section of illustrations to center. Tight binding.

New York: Magico Magazine, 1984. Paperback. Fine. Red card covers. 18 pp. Staplebound pamphlet.

New York: Magico Magazine, 1983. Magico Magazine. Paperback. Very Good Plus.

Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1915. First Edition. Paperback. GOOD. Edgetorn paper covers, but interior complete. This copy taken in when brand new and stamped by Oregon State Library March 20, 1915, and deaccessioned maybe 95 years later. Maps, and scads of scarce photographic images of an already-then-quickly-fading Native-American subsistence life. Report dated December 31st, 1914, deals in depth with the fishing industry - salmon (trapping, purse seining, haul or beach seining, gill-netting, other methods, seasons, closed seasons/water and exemptions, salteries, power-boat trolling, curing, enemies of Salmon, etc. Also Halibut, Codfish, Herring, Whaling, Trout, Taxation, Hatchery Work, Fishery Law Enforcement, Indians and Aleuts, Pollution, Fur-Bearing Animals, Fox Farms, Pribilof Islands, Reindeer, Seal Meat, Wireless Stations, General assessment of needs.PACKED with fabulous black and white photographs, many of Native Americans, dwellings, chiefs, settlements, early… Read More

NEW YORK: New American Library, 1984. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pages lightly age-tanned. Signed by author on title page.Isadora, the sexually-liberated protagonist of FEAR OF FLYING, is "...back -- and she's trying to have it all. Career. Baby. Liberated Love Life. But the times have changed. And the dreams of the '60's have curdled into the grim (and rollicking) realities of the eighties..."

New York: New American Library, 1980. Uncorrected Proof. Paperback. Good Plus. SIGNED. Mild edgewear. Front lower corner and rear upper corner a bit creased. Lovely faint pipe aroma. Black lettering to spine and front cover, white covers. No reading crease. Letter to reviewer laid-in. Clean, unmarked text. Solid binding. 504 pp. Book of the Month Club Featured Alternate. Serialized in the August 1980 Issue of Playboy. "In three books. Comprising her life at Lymeworth, her initiation as a witch, her travels with the Merry Men, her life in the brothel, her London high life, her slaving voyage, her life as a female pyrate, her eventual unravelling of her destiny, et cetera."

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page. Previous owner's ex-libris to front free endpaper. Age-tanning to text with some staining to edges. 114 pp. Clean and tight. Ms. Jong's first book of poetry. "Writing out of a new seriousness, with a mature mastery of her art, Erica Jong sends "Mash Notes to the Dead & Letters to the Living," poems to Keats, Whitman, Neruda, Anne Sexton, Colette, and others. A prisoner "In the Penile Colony," she dispatches messages to the outside world about he inner life -- of the poet, woman wife, and lover and the often torturous accommodations of everyday exstence," (front flap)

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973. Paperback. Very Good Minus. SIGNED. Contains Jong's section of poems entitled: "The Wives of Mafiosi", and several others. Shelfwear mostly to front panel, but no apparent read crease. Signed (signature only) on title page. 130 pp., slightly age-toned.