Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1st, 1957, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Poor, 312 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in poor condition with multiple open tears. Cloth covers underneath are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Top edge of the pages colored green. This book covers the story of the sea otter hunters, and the hundred-year rule of the Russians on the Northwest Coast of America. It is a saga of one of primitive man's most rigorous conquests of nature, combined with one of the most ruthless eras of human subjugation, cruelty, and rapine in frontier history. Title page is inscribed with a dedication by the previous owner, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33787
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 400 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Some holes in dust jacket spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 468150
Hardcover. Boston, Bradlee Whidden, 1st, 1899, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, B&w frontis of author Blue cloth w/gilt lettering. Light wear/rubbing to edges and spine, previous owner's inscription on front fly leaf. Acadian Land refers to an area of the eastern seaboard historically known as Acadia between 1755 and 1764. Acadia included the modern Canadian Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island, along with part of the US state of Maine. Record # 75373
Hardcover. Boston, MA, National Sportsman Press, 1st, 1903, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 159 pages, hardcover. Inscribed by the author in 1903 on the front end page. Exterior cloth covering is in fair condition, with some stains, fading, and minor tears. Interior pages and binding are in very good shape. B&W photographs throughout. Recounts the author's numerous visits to Long Pond and nearby areas in Maine on hunting and fishing trips. The previous owner inscribed the front title page with the life-span of the author, and the last end page with directions. Otherwise clean copy. Record # 33619
Hardcover. NY, Simon & Schuster, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 384 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography throughout, with a few B&W maps. This book is a first-person reportage from one of the planet's biological hot spots. This husband-and-wife scientific team spent almost a decade studying endangered mountain gorillas in the Virunga Forest of Rwanda, and designing an internationally funded long-term project for their survival. Clean copy. Record # 34239
Hardcover. New York, American Forestry Association, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 120 pages. Very good pictorial dust jacket. Black & white photographs throughout. Record # 804460
Hardcover. New York, W.W. Norton, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 112 pages. 1/4 black cloth, 3/4 purple paper, silver lettering. Tight, clean, unmarked. Record # 803839
Hardcover. Oxford, England, Oxford Clarendon Press, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 333 pages, hardcover. Blue cloth cover boards are in very good condition despite minor bumping at the top and bottom of the spine. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This is a comprehensive book that focuses on Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment, a philosophical work that explores the nature of aesthetic judgment and its role in human perception. The book includes a complete translation of Kant's Critique of Aesthetic Judgment, as well as seven introductory essays that provide context and analysis of Kant's ideas. Clean copy. Record # 34357
Softcover. Chicago, Ill., Haymarket Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 199 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 458988
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, reprint , 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 467952
Hardcover. Paris, Cite des Livres, Colligees et Presentees par Pierre d'Espezel, 1927, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Volume 1 404 pages, volume 2 247 pages, volume 3 294 pages, volume 4 213 pages, hardcovers. 3/4ths covers are polished calfskin with marbled boards, and are in very good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright. Bindings are solid. Top edges gilt. Some foxing is present on the outside edges of the pages. This French text set of classic literature by Rabelais (1495-1553) is famous for its bawdy, satirical nature. Pantagruel is a tale of comic chivalry, which satirizes lawyers, theologians, and academic buffoons, while Gargantua mocks rash generals, idiotic monarchs, and uncouth professors. It champions freedom, and laughs at a dirty young giant before he turns into a splendid prince. Some related ephemera has been laid in. This edition was printed in 1065 copies, and this is copy no. 676. Clean copies. Record # 33999
Softcover. London, Reaktion Books, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 216 pages, illustrated throughout in color. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. From ocean to stock pot, an in-depth look at the lobster and it's interaction with the human world. Record # 460271
Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 355 pages. Hardcover. B&w illustrations throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Creasing and shelf wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 468157
Hardcover. New York, William Morrow & Co, 2nd, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages. Hardcover with price-clipped dust jacket. Color photographs in center pages. Clean, unmarked copy in excellent condition. Record # 468196
Softcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 3rd printing, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 528 pages. Softcover. Black and white illustrations. Light edgewear to wrappers, light creasing on rear bottom fore corner, otherwise clean and tight. Record # 468199
Hardcover. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 415 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in fair condition, with significant bumping to the top edge. Gray cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. In this book, Khalid chronicles the tumultuous history of Central Asia in the age of the Russian revolution. Traumatic upheavals--war, economic collapse, famine--transformed local society and brought new groups to positions of power and authority in Central Asia, just as the new revolutionary state began to create new institutions that redefined the nature of power in the region. Previous owner lightly marked a couple interior pages in pencil throughout, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34140
Softcover. New York , Friends of American Art in Religion, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 64 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. Text in English and Italian.Catalog for an exhibition at the Vatican Museums. Record # 900258
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Dana Estes & Company, Publishers, Illustrated Cabinet Edition, circa 1900, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 393 pages volume 1, 492 pages volume 2, 425 pages volume 3, 495 pages volume 4, and 467 pages volume 5, hardcovers. Green cloth cover boards with gilt leaf embellishments have some edge wear and rubbing. Interior pages are clean and bright, with deckled outside edges and gilt top edges. Bindings are solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This set of art criticism features Ruskin's arguments on landscape painting, Turner, and nature. Due to the size and weight of the package, this 5-volume set is available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copies. Record # 34514
Hardcover. US, WordSong, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 54 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. Edgewear on top edge. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 465923
Hardcover. Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages, hardcover. Dust jackets, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. John Lane sets out with friends from his own backyard in upcountry South Carolina to calm his nerves and to paddle to the sea. Along the way he recounts local history, and spars with stream-side literary presences. Paddle stroke by paddle stroke, Lane is reminded why life and rivers have always been wedded together. Author's title page inscription reads: "For Jack, good friend and a friend of living waters. Here's to trips downstream & upstream. All best, John Lane. Clean copy. Record # 33913
Softcover. New York , Richard York Gallery, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 24 pages, color and b&w plates of flowers and plants by artists like Stella, O'Keeffe, Demuth, and Imogen Cunningham. An exhibition catalog, 58 works listed. Bibliography. Record # 900259
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