Hardcover. US, University Of Chicago Press, 1st, 1988-05-23, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 223 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Twenty stories of life, beliefs and customs of the Nzema tribe of southern Ghana in Western Africa. The Nzema inhabit the forests and lagoons along the Atlantic coast, and Grottanelli was the only anthropologist to live among them - as he did intermittently over a period of more than 30 years. Record # 462326
Softcover. Cincinnati, OH, The Cincinnati Art Museum, 1st, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with white covers and red line illustrations. Some rubbing, minor foxing. Edges show some wear. Staple wrappers are tight. Pages clean and crisp, with 21 b/w plates of paintings by 12 different American artists. 83 works listed. Exhibition highlights artists that had since been relatively unknown. Extensive introduction on artists' lives and works. 28 pages. Record # 808014
New York, Grove Weidenfied, 1st American, 1991, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 432 pages. Yellow boards with burgundy cloth spine and gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's label on top right corner of front endpaper. Spine is slightly faded at top and bottom edges. Bottom corners bumped, front bottom right corner is wrinkled. Color pictorial dust jacket with minor marking on back, slight edgewear, and creased bottom front corner. Record # 512434
Softcover. University of California Press, 1st, February 13, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 652 pages. Slight crease to spine, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers. Record # 458241
Hardcover. NY, G. K. Hall & Co., 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 99 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, black cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Edythe Mae Gordon appeared briefly as a poet and short story writer in the twenties and thirties and was particularly active, through her connection to the Saturday Evening Quill Club, in black intellectual and cultural life in the Boston of the late twenties. This volume includes not only three short stories and thirteen poems, the bulk of which were originally published in the Saturday Evening Quill, but also the first publication of Gordon's Boston University M.A. thesis, "The Status of the Negro Woman in the United States from 1619-1865." Clean copy. Record # 34491
Hardcover. Garden City, NY, Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 176 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains a bind-in halfway through with B&W photography. This book describes the horrifying plight of the Vietnamese "boat people" who faced disease, pirate attacks, unsanitary and crowded conditions, and other dangers to escape from Vietnam to Pulau Bi Dong, a tiny, previously uninhabited island in Malaysia. Clean copy. Record # 34151
Hardcover. New York, Delacorte Press Book, The Dial Press, 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages, previous owner's inscription, slight soiling and edgewear to dust jacket, clean, tight copy. Record # 800765
Hardcover. NY, Praeger, 2nd, 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Transl. from German by Maurice Rosenbaum. 310 pages in an edgeworn dust jacket with slight tear to front cover. Previous owner's name stamp on front fly leaf. Record # 600037
Hardcover. East Lansing, ASECS, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 305 pages. Black & white illustrations. Clean, tight copy. Record # 609861
Hardcover. London, Tegg & Co., 1st, 1839, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 367 pages, hardcover. A very rare 1839 1st edition. Engraved green cloth cover boards are in good shape. The exterior of the spine is falling apart, and the front interior hinge is cracked; as a result the binding is very loose, delicate, and in need of repair. Interior pages are all legible. Some water staining is present on the outside edge of the last few pages, which does not interfere with any text blocks. This timeless classic brings to life the mythological figures of Greece and Rome that have shaped Western culture. B&W illustrations of various figures separate each section, these illustrations have been artfully colored in with watercolor on the first 44 pages. The names of two previous owners are inscribed on the front end page, and various other minor markings are present throughout. Record # 33740
Softcover. New York, NY, Historical Society of Rockland County, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Glossy blue illustrated cover, edges slightly bent and minor spotting on the front but otherwise in good condition. Pages clean and crisp, with 23 illustrated plates and 40 listings. Staple binding. All plates are b/w, some are photographs and some drawings. 38 pages. Record # 806977
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 3rd Pr., 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Minor bumping to bottom corners. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book meticulously surveys the process by which the Bolsheviks attempted to mold the minds of their people, and then examines the results thereof. Clean copy. Record # 33971
Hardcover. NY, The John Day Company, 1st, 1942, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 208 pages, hardcover. Green cover boards are clean and bright. Interior pages have some light foxing and staining on some pages, but all text blocks are legible. Pages have deckled edges. Binding is slightly loose. This book is one of the best summaries of Indonesian culture available in English. It focusses on the daily life of the people of the Indies. The previous owner's light pencil markings are present on the front and rear end pages, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34169
Hardcover. NY, Smithmark Publishers, Inc., 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Dust jacket has a closed tear at the bottom of the spine. Pictorial boards and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book introduces the very best of Cajun and Creole cuisine, with 50 delicious recipes. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34184
Hardcover. NY, The Dial Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 286 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket bumped along the top edge, but still in good condition. Covers and interior pages are both clean and bright. Binding is solid. Patrick McCabe returns to the emotionally dense landscape of small-town Ireland to explore the inner lives of two men: a headmaster and a schoolteacher, each man the product of a soul-stifling culture, each battling his own demons of loss and betrayal. Clean copy. Record # 33830
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st thus, 2009, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 334 pages, soft cover. Covers are in good condition, with a few closed tears around the spine and some edge wear. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book presents an argument that recent work in philosophy, neuroscience, and anthropology support two radical hypotheses about the nature of moral values based on emotional responses, and these emotional responses are inculcated by culture, not hard-wired through natural selection. Previous owner lightly underlined in pencil on some pages throughout, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34167
Hardcover. Chapel Hill, NC, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 219 pages, hardcover. Purple pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. This book is a humorous and skeptical examination of the early internet, arguing that much of the hype surrounding the digital world is a "collective illusion." Clean copy. Record # 34509
Hardcover. NY, Simon and Schuster, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 167 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in good condition, despite a few closed tears and some edge wear. It has been protected by a plastic Brodart sleeve. Covers and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book is an in-depth character study of the life of a troubled and lonely girl who becomes a movie star adored by millions, but is miserable in her private life. Clean copy. Record # 34185
Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd Pr., 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 553 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, green cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This book is an academic work which links archaeology and linguistics to show how Bronze Age Eurasian steppe pastoralists (Yamnaya culture) spread Indo-European languages through domestication of the horse and invention of the wheel. Clean copy. Record # 34515
Hardcover. NY, Zone Book, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 411 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is has some light edge wear and minor staining along the top edge. Black cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. In this groundbreaking collection of essays, historians and literary theorists examine how, between 1500 and 1800, pornography emerged as a literary practice and a category of knowledge intimately linked to the formative moments of Western modernity and the democratization of culture. Clean copy. Record # 34262
Hardcover. NY, Weatherhill, 1st thus, 1972, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 193 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some edge wear and rubbing, but is still in good condition overall. Gray paper cover boards with a black cloth spine are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book compares and contrasts the Japanese and the Jews with keen critical insight tempered by affection. While drawing freely from personal experiences, literature and popular sources, he also turns to such traditional materials as medieval Japanese social and legal documents, the Talmud, and the Torah in his search for the forces that have shaped the Japanese and the Jew as we know them today. Some of the previous owner's notes and musings are present in black pen on the rear end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34507
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 271 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book proposes that racial grief is a foundation for racial identity, suggesting that racial identification is itself already a melancholy act. It explores examples from culture and life to show how racial melancholia permeates our fantasies of citizenship, assimilation, and social health. Previous owner's light highlighting in pencil is present throughout, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34293
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