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Taste of Conquest, The: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of SpiceKrondl, Michael
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Taste of Conquest, The: The Rise and Fall of the Three Great Cities of Spice


Krondl, Michael

Hardcover. New York, Ballantine Books, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 468083


Price: $13.00 

 

Team That Wouldn't Die, The: The Philadelphia Phillies, World Champions, 1980 (SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR & DALLAS GREEN, PHILLIES' MANAGER)


Bodley, Hal

Hardcover. Wilmington, DE, Serendipity Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 418 pages. SIGNED & INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, AND DALLAS GREEN, PHILLIES' MANAGER. B/illustrations throughout. Dust jacket unclipped, has tanning/discoloration, as well as agewear, covered in plastic brodart. Red cover boards. Edges have a touch of tanning and moisture stain on bottom edge, doesn't affect text or illustrations. Endpapers decorated in players' signatures. Binding tight, spine straight. The real story of the Phillies' World Championship year.

Record # 31667


Price: $63.00 

 

Technical Training and Development in Papua, 1894-1941


Austin, Tony

Softcover. Canberra, AU, Australian National University, 1977, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 204 pages. Softcover. Some fading and wear on cover. Small price stickers on front cover. Unidentified signature on front cover.

Record # 2230449


Price: $25.00 

 

Temperaments: Artists Facing Their Work


Hofstadter, Dan

Hardcover. New York, NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 217 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight. Spine straight. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Deckled foreedge. Pages and edges clean and unmarked. Tan cover boards, tan quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. In beautiful condition. Hofstadter shows us the artist in the act of being an artist - in the act of being a human being.

Record # 32181


Price: $15.00 

 

Temples of the Sun and Moon - A Mexican Journey


Swan, Michael

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st, 1954, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Ex-lib with stamp & envelope on front end paper, Black & white gravure plates

Record # 54926


Price: $18.00 

 

Tender Hour of Twilight - Paris in the 50's, New York in the '60's:A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age, The


Seaver, Richard/Jeannette Seaver (Editor)

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, New York, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 457 pages. Hardcover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 613183


Price: $19.00 

 

Terracotta Warriors and Horses at the Tomb of Qin Shi Huang


Hongik University Ceramics Research Institute

Hardcover. Seoul, Hongik University Ceramics Research Institute, 1st?, 1990, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Primary text in Korean? - 6 pages of text in English. Hardcover. Full color photographs and black & white drawings. Rear cover slightly bowed due to binding error. Dust jacket with sun fade along top 3" of rear, and to title on spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612224


Price: $38.00 

 

Texan Jazz


Oliphant, Dave

Paperback. Austin, Univ. of Texas Press, 1st pbk., 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white illust. 481 pages.

Record # 61517


Price: $20.00 

 

Textiles in Daily Life in the Middle Ages


Martin, Rebecca

Softcover. Bloomington, IN, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy illustrated covers, in excellent condition with almost no wear. Corner slightly bent. Pages clean and crisp. Paper binding in good condition. 42 plates, mostly in b/w and a few in color. Catalogue of 27 items. 68 pages.

Record # 806982


Price: $65.00 

 

Textiles of Ancient Peru and their Techniques


D'Harcourt, Raoul/Grace G. Denny/Carolyn M. Osborne

Softcover. Seattle, University of Washington Press, Reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 186 pages of text followed by 117 black & white plates. Slight fade to spine. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 611786


Price: $25.00 

 

The Beat of the Drum and the Whoop of the Dance: A Study of the Life and Work of Joseph Henry Sharp (SIGNED)


Fenn, Forrest

Hardcover. Santa Fe, NM, Fenn Publishing Co., 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 359 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some scratches and wear on jacket. Otherwise clean and tight copy. Sketches and color plates throughout. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page.

Record # 2230466


Price: $375.00 

 

The Blue Guides: London and it's Environs


Muirhead, Findlay (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, MacMillan & Co. Ltd., 2nd, 1922, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 74 pages, illustrated in b&w and color. Fold-out maps in color. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Blue cloth covers with gilt lettering. Rubbing to spine, light edgewear to pages.

Record # 808939


Price: $30.00 

 

The Born-Einstein Letters 1916-1955: Friendship, Politics and Physics in Uncertain Times


Born, Max, Werner Heisenberg (Introduction), Bertrand Russell (Foreword), Diana Buchwald and Kip Thorne (New Preface)

Hardcover. New York, Macmillan, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 235 pages. Previous owner's address label on front endpaper. B/w illustration on frontispiece. Dark gray cover boards, gilt title on spine. Binding tight. Spine straight. In beautiful condition, looks nearly new. A new edition of the correspondence between Max and Hedwig Born and Albert Einstein between 1916 and 1955, where everything from physics to politics, to music and their families was discussed. New Edition

Record # 32892


Price: $31.00 

 

The Cultural and Political Intersection of Fair Trade and Justice: Managing a Global Industry


Stenn, Tamara L.

Hardcover. US, Palgrave Macmillan, 1st, 2013-10-03, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 262 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR on front end paper. Light shelf-wear to illustrated boards, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 464358


Price: $63.00 

 

The Cultures of Mankind (4 vols)


Von Hildebrand (ed), Alice, Gary Wills, Ruth Brantl, Jilian Mates and Eugene Cantelupe

New York, Braziller, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Titles include: Greek Culture - The Adventure of the Human Spirit, Roman Culture - Weapons and the Man, Medieval Culture - The Image and the City, and Renaissance Culture - A New Sense of Order. Spines sunned. 380 pages each. Black & white photography and art. Box sunned with light wear.

Record # 205936


Price: $35.00 

 

The Garia: An Ethnography of a Traditional Cosmic System in Papua New Guinea


Lawrence, Peter

Hardcover. Manchester, NH, Manchester University Press, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 276 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Sunfading to spine of dust jacket.

Record # 2230431


Price: $19.00 

The Good Ship: Ships, Shipbuilding and Technology in England 1200-1520Friel, Ian
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The Good Ship: Ships, Shipbuilding and Technology in England 1200-1520


Friel, Ian

Hardcover. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket, normal light wear on upper edge of jacket. Otherwise good and clean copy. Old price sticker on back of jacket.

Record # 2230641


Price: $23.00 

The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious AffirmationBerger, Peter L.
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The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation


Berger, Peter L.

Hardcover. Garden City, N.Y., Anchor Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 220 pages. Hardcover without dust jacket. Slight fading on spine, otherwise clean and tight copy.

Record # 2230546


Price: $23.00 

 

The Maori Mantle


Roth, H. Ling

Softcover. Carlton, UK, Ruth Bean , Reprint, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 77 pages. Softcover. Slight foxing on text block. Clean and tight copy. Sticker on back cover.

Record # 2230459


Price: $31.00 

 

The Marble House in Second Street : Biography of a Town House and its Occupants, 1825-2000.


NA

Softcover. New York, Rensselaer County Historical Society, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 351 pages. Paperback. With essays by: Douglas G. Boucher, Stacy Pomeroy Draper and Walter Richard Wheeler. Black and white photographs and diagrams of various buildings and styles of architecture.

Record # 500110


Price: $30.00 

The Minimalist ProgramChomsky, Noam
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The Minimalist Program


Chomsky, Noam

Softcover. Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 420 pages. Softcover, minor scuffing and wear to corners. Otherwise tight copy, with pencil underlining and annotation in introduction.

Record # 2230654


Price: $15.00 

The New York Waterfront: Evolution and Building Culture of the Port and HarborBone, Kevin (Editor)
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The New York Waterfront: Evolution and Building Culture of the Port and Harbor


Bone, Kevin (Editor)

Softcover. US, Monacelli, na, 2003, Book: Near Fine, Dust Jacket: None, Like new, in shrinkwrap.

Record # 450129


Price: $25.00 

 

The Wonder that was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims


Basham, A.L.

Softcover. New York, Grove Press, Reprint, 1959, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 568 pages. Softcover. Some wear, staining and foxing on text block and cover and spine. Previous crease in back cover and final 50 pages. "With More Than 200 Half-Tone Illustrations".

Record # 2230502


Price: $23.00 

 

The Works of Ta'unga: Records of a Polynesian Traveller in the South Seas 1833-1896


Crocombe, R.G. and Marjorie

Hardcover. Canberra, AU, Australian National University Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 164 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Some wear and fading on jacket. Clean and tight copy. Pacific History Series: No 2

Record # 2230463


Price: $19.00 


  
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