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New York: Thames and Hudson, (1989). Octavo, green textured boards (hardcover), gilt letters and decoration to upper cover, 224 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Ancient Mexico was one of the great independent hearths of civilization. Out of varied landscapes grew some of the richest cultures of the early historic world -- Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, Toltec and Aztec. Standard histories tend to focus on the individual societies, but this new book takes an original approach, emphasizing the unity of Mexican civilization. In a series of attractively written vignettes, Jeremy Sabloff describes, first of all, what it would have been like to have lived during the heyday of Mexico’s greatest cities, from Olmec San Lorenzo 3,000 years ago to the Aztec Tenochtitlan at the Spanish Conquest. Through the the eyes of astronomers and ballplayers, merchants and priests, we see the temples, palaces and tombs of a civilizaaton obsessed with ritual and death. But what gave rise to these cities?… Read More

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1961. First Edition. Octavo, red cloth (hardcover), xi, 251 pp. Very Good, with light foxing (age darkened spotting) to page edges. Contents: Introduction; Folktales; Legends; Beliefs, Superstitions, and Sayings; Proverbs and Riddles; Dialect; Folk Verse; Folksongs and Ballads; Customs; Dances and Games; Recipes; Appendix: Motif Analyses of Folktales, Motif Analyses of Legends; Kansas Folklore in Print -- A Bibliography; Title Index of Songs; A note on the Kansas Folklore Society.

New York: P. J. Kenedy and Sons, 1885. First Edition. Octavo, green cloth stamped with white clovers (hardcover), white letters, 405 pp. Good, with letters of spine rubbed off, speckling to covers; interior clean & tight.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, [1979]. First American Edition. Octavo, cloth & boards, 155 pp. Photos. Very Good in a slightly chipped dust jacket.

New York: E. P. Dutton, [1985]. First Edition, As Stated. Octavo, buttery yellow cloth & boards (hardcover), gilt letters, 176 pp. Fine, in a Very Good+ dust jacket with light edgewear. A seamless series of anecdotes that resound with generosity and brio, a literary entertainment about life among the privileged, the creative, and the famous. There are tributes to Billie Holiday and Jean-Paul Sartre; revealing cameos of Orson Welles, Rudolf Nureyev, Carson McCullers; a wistful evocation of Tennessee Williams.

Verlag Paul Haupt Bert, Stuttgart, Wien, (1996). Signed & Inscribed by Author. Octavo, hardcover (slick, full-color illus. yellow boards), 520 pp. Fine (As New). From lower cover: In der irischen Abgeschiedengeit hat der Autor das Leben im ausgehenden Jahrhundert dargestellt, einem Jahrhundert, das den Menschen hohere Hohen und tiefere Tiefen beschert, einer Generation revolutionarere Entwicklungen und raschere Veranderungen zugemutet hat, als dies in vorangegangenen Epochen der Fall war. Der Autor beendet mit diesem zweiten Band - der erste erschien 1994 und umfasste die ersten 66 Jahre dieses Jahrhunderts -- seinen politischen Reisefuhrer mit der Darstellung wichtiger und nachwirkender Ereignisse im letzten Drittel dieses 20. Jahrhunderts.

Brooklyn, NY: PowerHouse Books, (2012). First Edition, Stated. Folio, full-color photographs, 143 pp. Near-Fine, with bumped corner and lightly rubbed edges. This oversized volume will require additional postage for overseas or Priority orders. Stories and photographs of women around the world. From Foreword by Meryl Streep: One thing is inescapable in these pictures, and that’s the connection that the gaze of each of these women makes with us. It is the frankest, most direct look; the way we look into the eyes of a sister or an intrepid friend. In our daily life we do not normally look, deeply, into the eyes of people we don’t know... It’s too weird, too hard, too embarrassing; both of us unnerved by the intimacy and challenge of such a connection. But these photographs have a necessity and clarity that achieves that and more. They deliver dignity back to the person who looked at the camera, beacause we who turn the page and confront, in turn, eachof these women, acknowledge each… Read More

Lincoln, Neb.: Burden Sales Co., n.d. [ca. 1960]. Octavo, printed self-wrappers, stapled, 32 pp. Illus. Near-Fine.

Detroit: Chrysler Sales Corp., 1928. Octavo, stiff brown printed wrappers, stapled, 87 pp. Illustrations, fold-out lubrication chart. Very Good.

New York: Washington Square Press, 2000. First Edition, stated. Octavo, burgundy & white boards (hardcover), silver letters, 436 pp. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: In her much-anticipated memoir, Margaret A. Salinger writes about life with her famously reclusive father, J. D. Salinger -- offering a rare look into the man and the myth, what it is like to be his daughter, and the effect of such a charismatic figure on the girls and women closest to him. With generosity and insight, Ms. Salinger has written a book that is eloquent, spellbinding, and wise, yet at the same time retains the intimacy of a novel, Her story chronicles an almost cultlike environment of extreme isolation and early neglect interwoven with times of laughter, joy, and dazzling beauty. She also delves into her parents’ lives before her own birth, illuminating their childhoods, their wrenching experiences during World War II, and above all the seeds and real-life inspirations for J. D. Salinger’s… Read More

New York: Harper, [1955]. 1st edition. Inscribed and signed by the author. Octavo, cloth & boards, x, 328 pp. Fine in a slightly chipped dust jacket.

Genova: A Compagna, MCMLXXXVII. Royal octavo, paperbound (stiff white wrappers), 186 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket.

Charleston: Arcadia, (2005). Images of America Series. First Edition. Octavo, softbound, 128 pp. Photographs throughout. Near-Fine.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1962. Octavo, blue leatherette (hardcover), gilt letters, xiv, 662 pp. Near-Fine, with bumped corners.

Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, (1980). Octavo, softbound (stiff white illus. wrappers), 283 pp. Very Good. From lower cover: The years around 1900 marked a turning-point for modern linguistics, a shift away from historical linguistics, or philolgy, which has previously dominated the field. Where research had once been preoccupied with delving into the history of languages and their relationships, and reconstructing the lost proto-languages from which families of extant languages descend, it underwent a dramatic shift toward analyzing languages as communicative systems at work at a given point in time, almost ignoring the route by which they took on their present form. The years since have produced pitched battles on a vast intellectual landscape, and powerful links to anthropology, sociology, psychology, and physics. Modern linguistics, the author argues, is often forgetful of of its past. Thus this book, which is at once a critical analysis an engaging history of the main schools of… Read More

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, [1987]. First Edition. Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), gilt letters,, xiv, 273 pp. Fine, in a Near-Fine dust jacket with lightly rubbed edges. These letters, exchanged between the famed Illinois poet Carl Sandburg and his future wife, Lilian Steichen, were written during the first six months of 1908. The correspondence traces the budding relationship from the pair’s first meeting to their June wedding...The letters of Stiechen and Sandburg reveal their deep love for one another as well as their shared dedication to socialism.

New York: Knopf, 1989. 1st edition, Uncorrect Proof Copy. Signed by the author. Octavo, softbound, 334 pp. Fine.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1927). Inscribed on the Half Title, “The Hubbell House // may some of these / last long - and may / there be singing to the / end - // [signed] Carl Sandburg.” This copy also bears the ownership signature of Jay B. Hubbell, longtime professor at Clemson and Duke. Professor Hubbell played a crucial role in the introduction of American literary studies. Today, the holdings at the Jay B. Hubbell Center at Duke University record the history of the teaching of American literature and the development of the discipline. Quarto, black cloth with orange lettering and woodcut portrait on front cover (hardcover), all edges orange, xxiii, [i], 495 pp. Lyrics and music throughout with small illustrations. Very Good.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., (1942). Advance REview Copy, bearing a handstamp on the front fly, indicating the publication date of October 22, 1942. Octavo, cloth (hardcover), x, 440 pp. Very Good in a much-chipped dust jacket.

Des Plaines Wetlands Conservancy, Inc. 1997. Signed by the Author. Octavo, paperbound (stiff, brown, stapled, illus. wrappers), silver letters, 27 pp. Fine. Contents: These Things I Know; Acknowledgments; Foreword; First Hunters; Upper Des Plaines River; Introduction of Pheasants; Edward A. Halter, Sr.; By the Fireside; Wildlife Terminology; Bees and Honey; The Old Bur Oak; Nature’s Bird Blood; Fireside Reflections; Tracks in the Snow; The Inscrutable Beaver; Wetlands Classic; Wild Berries; Tribute to a Dog; Discover the Des Plaines Wetlands Conservancy; Birds of the Des Plaines Wetlands Conservancy.