Hardcover. California, University of California Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 245 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Slight edge fading to boards and spine. Otherwise clean inside and out. From dust jacket front flap: "In this exquisite memoir, novelist Guanlong Cao sketches the tale of growing up in Shanghai during the tumultuous Cultural Revolution."
Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 399 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Conway, AR, University of Central Arkansas Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 321 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Cloth covers with gilt lettering on front and spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, PA, Fortress Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 668 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket shows some creasing and age wear. Name of former owner in pen in front end papers. Very light pencil marking. Tight copy.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, Phillips, Sampson and Company, First Edition, 2nd Printing, 1858, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 373 pages. Hardcover. Brown embossed boards with gilt titles to spine. Crack & fraying to crown & heel of spine, soiling to the first several pages including tissue paper of frontis illustration. Engravings in bw throughout, each protected with a tissue guard. Light foxing throughout. Insect marking pp. 11-70. Otherwise clean with striking illustrations.
Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st edition, 2019, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 236 pages. Hardcover. Deckled foreedge. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. Mustard cover boards, red quarter cloth, gilt title on spine and gilt design on front cover board. Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean and bright. Decorated endpapers. In beautiful, like-new condition. Lyrical, rooted and intimate, Autumn Light gives us a Japan we have seldom seen before, where the transparent and the mysterious are held in a delicate balance.
Softcover. Los Angeles, LACMA, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 30 pages. Softcover. Magazine format. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Light wear.
Hardcover. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 192 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. With 2 maps, 12 color and 84 black and white illustrations. The people of ancient Mesopotamia, who settled in the 'fertile crescent' between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers before the fourth millennium BC, laid the foundations of Western civilization. Gave way to many fundamental developments in human society,
Softcover. Chicago, IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st Edition, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Wrapper very good, has some fading to spine (shelf wear). Pages clean. Binding good. Malaita is nearly unique among the Pacific Islands outside New Guinea in that it has a significant population still trying to maintain a traditional way of life.
Softcover. Port Moresby, Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies, 1st Edition, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 215 pages. Softcover. Normal light age wear and fading to covers. Name of former owner in pen in title page. Clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Henry Holt and Company, 1st, 1939, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 270 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with chipping along edges. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 427 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Normal light wear and fading to jacket. Clean and tight copy with maps and images throughout.
Softcover. Washington, D.C., The Smithsonian Institution, 1st, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Catalog of the collection of bags and bandboxes at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum. White covers with color plates on front. Minor rubbing and marking. Staple wrappers are tight, pages clean and crisp. Numerous b/w plates of bags in the museum's collection. Organized by style of bag. Introductory essay on the bag in art. 33 pages.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 400 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated in black & white and full color. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Clarkson Potter, 2nd printing, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Boni and Liveright, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 2 hardcover volumes. Volume 1 - 324 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket worn with rubbing, chipping - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 321 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket worn with rubbing, chipping - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Brandon, VT, Brandon Improvement Association, 1st, 1910, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 63 pages. Softcover. Staple binding. B/w illustrations (plates) throughout. Brown construction paper wrapper (agewear), orange title and decoration on front cover. Formerly on exhibit at Shelburne Museum, with stamp of proprietorship on front flyleaf. Just a touch of tanning to pages and edges, otherwise clean and unmarked. Beautiful photo-illustrated promotional travel book highlighting the sites of downtown Brandon, VT, circa 1910. Collector's delight.
Hardcover. London, UK, William Kimber, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 238 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Red cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, has a touch of tanning from age, Back flap has a small crease, dj in good shape. Pages and edges lightly tanned, doesn't affect text or illustrations. The technical and artistic mastery of the Bolshoi, described by Collins, a dancer with the company for four years.
Hardcover. New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Slight curling to dust jacket inside flaps. Otherwise tight copy.
Hardcover. Athens, GA, University of Georgia Press, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Previous owner's bookplate and stamp on front endpapers. Dust jacket price clipped, has a touch of agewear, wrapped in protective plastic cover. Pages and edges have slight tanning from age. Pages otherwise unmarked and clean. Binding tight, spine straight. In great shape for its age. The author's purpose is to evaluate Haydon's place in the history of art, to indicate his importance as a pioneer in social concepts of art, and to describe his success and failure as a painter and as a man.
Hardcover. New York, Basic Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 706 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.
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