Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 461 pages. Softcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper excellent, very little wear. Pages clean, binding tight. Looks nearly new. Piano Roles is a lively and up-to-date history of the piano that examines both its evolution in classical and popular musical cultures around the world, and its every-changing social roles over the past three centuries.
Hardcover. New York, Arch Cape Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 200 pages. Illustrated with full color examples of costumes/dress from around the world. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cleveland, Ohio, The World Publishing Company, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 258 pages, with illustrations. Minor dust jacket edge wear and crease, otherwise, very clean and tight.
Softcover. Amherst, MA, University of Massachusetts Press, First Edition, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 210 pages. Scarce. Softcover with foxing top edge, small spots to right edge. Light wear to edges & one inch tear to heel of spine. Faint soil to preliminary pages. Else clean copy. Hans explores the cultural importance of play among a wide variety of fields, including language, history, aesthetics, socioeconomics and ethics.
Hardcover. Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover. Remainder dot on bottom edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Columbia, SC, University of South Carolina Press, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 308 pages. Hardcover. Small remainder mark on bottom edge. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight, spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Indicative of the adventurous, carefree, and relatively risk-free period between the world wars was the early career of a young navel office, Dan Gallery. He would eventually achieve the rank of admiral and garner international fame for capturing a German submarine during World War II.
Warsaw, ARS Print Pub., 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Thousands of black & white glossy photos. 638 pages. (Extra postage for priority mailing on this very heavy volume.)
Hardcover. Lawrence KS, University Press of Kansas, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, red cloth, 322 pages. No dust jacket issued. The Allied invasion and occupation of North Africa, one of the most important and complex operations in World War II, is described from a unique viewpoint in this volume. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, Theodore Presser, rep, 1946, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 5,000 portraits, each with a short biographical note. 251 pages.`
NY, Harper & Row, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white and color illustrations. Dust jacket with light edgewear, chipping. Dust jacket price clipped.
Softcover. Santa Monica, CA, The Rand Corporation, First US, 1959, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 265 pages. Ivory softcover wraps with heavy toning, darkens to spine edge & navy titles. Light toning to pages throughout. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. United Kingdom, Whittet Books Ltd, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 288 pages. Extensive color photography throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Random House Value Publishing, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 215 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. New York , World Monuments Fund , 1st, 1989 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 75 pages. Softcover. Photographs and one pull out map with key interspersed throughout. Some creasing around the spine. clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 750 pages. Hardcover. Color and b/w illustrations throughout. Gilt title on spine. Super clean inside and out. In great shape. From the front flap: "...this book moves far beyond the bounds of conventional biography or art history. With extraordinary imaginative sympathy, Schama conjures up the world in which Rembrandt moved--its sounds, smells, and tastes as well as its politics; the influences on him of the wars of the Protestant United Provinces against Spain, of the extreme Calvanism of his native Leiden, of the demands of patrons and the ambitions of contemporaries; the importance of his beloved Saskia and, after her death (Rembrandt was later forced to sell her grave, so complete was his ruin), of his mistress Hendrickje Stoffels...".
Softcover. US, Electa / Rizzoli, rep, 1990-03-15, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 196 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Yellow highlighting in text. Light shelf-wear to wrappers with slight crease to spine, else a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 195 pages plus ads. Softcover. Black & white illustrations. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Washington DC, privately printed, 1st, 1918, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 103 pages, a memoir of the Division that was formed to expedite supplies to our forces in World War 1. Fold-out photo of personnel as frontispiece. Olive color cloth with gilt lettering. Gilt name of Marguerite Roselle imprinted on front cover, her copy (listed in personnel roster under stenographers in rear). Back cover has some color fade and small bumps. Internally very good.
Hardcover. Dalla, Laurel Publishing LLC, 1st Edition, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 302 pages. Hardcover. Navy cloth boards with black printed titles to cover & spine. Coffee table sized and profusely illustrated in full page, full color & b/w. Frontis illustration, The Sower, 1888 by Vincent Van Gogh, 1888 and Lady With an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1483-88, both in full color. Bright dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 366 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition. Very clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1st Edition, 1936, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 376 pages. Hardcover. Decorated endpapers. Previous owner's name stamped on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked throughout. Cover boards bound in green cloth, red title on spine and front cover board. Some fading to spine and edges from age. Deckled edges. Top edge dyed to match cover bindings. Light age-tanning to edges. Binding tight, spine straight. In beautiful condition for its age. The "British Agent" goes back to the scene of this youthful romance and adventure, and emerges with a shrewd appraisal of a changing world.
Hardcover. New York, 1st, October 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 119 pages, color illustrations throughout, some fold-out. Minor edge wear to dust jacket. Else a very clean, tight copy.
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