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Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 126 - 1996 by: Skinner (Ed.), Marilyn B
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Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 126 - 1996 by: Skinner (Ed.), Marilyn B

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages, maroon cloth covers. Previous owner's signature otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture. Record # 406521
Price: $12.00 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 127 - 1997 by: Skinner (Ed.), Marilyn B
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Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 127 - 1997 by: Skinner (Ed.), Marilyn B

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 393 pages, maroon cloth covers. Previous owner's signature otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture. Record # 406522
Price: $12.00 

Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 128 - 1998 by: Skinner (Ed.), Marilyn B
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Transactions of the American Philological Association: Volume 128 - 1998 by: Skinner (Ed.), Marilyn B

Hardcover. Atlanta, Scholars Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 336 pages, maroon cloth covers. Previous owner's signature otherwise clean, unmarked copy. Essays on classical Greek and Roman history, literature and culture. Record # 406524
Price: $12.00 

Unpredictable Past, The by: Levine, Lawrence W.
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Unpredictable Past, The by: Levine, Lawrence W.

Hardcover. New York, Oxford, 2nd, 1993, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 372 pages. Black & white photographs. Book and jacket show standard wear. Minor smoke smell to pages. Record # 608769
Price: $12.00 

Vanishing Vermonters: Loss of a Rural Culture [SIGNED COPY] by: Miller, Peter
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Vanishing Vermonters: Loss of a Rural Culture [SIGNED COPY] by: Miller, PeterVanishing Vermonters: Loss of a Rural Culture [SIGNED COPY] by: Miller, Peter

Vanishing Vermonters: Loss of a Rural Culture [SIGNED COPY] by: Miller, Peter

Softcover. Colbyville, VT, Silver Print Press, 1st, 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 168 pages, soft cover. Covers have some minor edge wear and rubbing with a crease on the spine, but are still in very good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. This book presents interviews and photography which explore Vermont's fading rural culture. Author's signature is present on the title page. Clean copy. Record # 34483
Price: $80.00 

Victorian Revolutionaries: Speculations on Some Heroes of a Culture Crisis by: Peckham, Morse
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Victorian Revolutionaries: Speculations on Some Heroes of a Culture Crisis by: Peckham, Morse

Hardcover. NY, George Braziller, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 310 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some rubbing, foxing, and edge wear, but is still in good condition overall. Red cloth boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. End papers and page edges have light foxing. Binding is solid. This book presents a study of the manner in which a number of 'heroic' Victorian men navigated Morse's conception of a 19th century cultural crisis by confounding the expectations of their environment; effectively, in Morse's terms, transcending their own cultural milieu in an effort to create new cultural pathways that eventually feed into new cultural growth and development. Contains previous owner's light pencil markings throughout. Record # 34360
Price: $13.00 

Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community by: Sykes, A. Krista
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Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community by: Sykes, A. Krista

Softcover. London, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Reprint, 2024, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 278 pages, soft cover. Covers are in good condition, despite some minor edge wear. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. B&W photography throughout. This intellectual biography of outspoken public activist, professor, and architectural historian and critic Vincent Scully's life and career traces the formative moments in his thinking, mapping his relationships with a constellation of architects, artists, and cultural personalities of the past one hundred years. Previous owner's signature on front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33883
Price: $25.00 

Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption by: Wolin, Richard
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Walter Benjamin: An Aesthetic of Redemption by: Wolin, Richard

Softcover. Berkeley, CA, The University of California Press, 2nd, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Few twentieth-century thinkers have proven as influential as Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary critic. This book remains among the clearest and most insightful introductions to Benjamin's writings, offering a philosophically rich exposition of his complex relationship to Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism, and Western Marxism. Clean copy. Record # 34191
Price: $20.00 

What You See in Clear Water: Life On the Wind River Reservation by: O'Gara, Geoffrey
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What You See in Clear Water: Life On the Wind River Reservation by: O'Gara, Geoffrey

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 304 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 469800
Price: $12.00 

When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands by: Jones-Jackson, Patricia
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When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands by: Jones-Jackson, Patricia

Softcover. Athens GA, University of Georgia Press, reprint , 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 189 pages. Softcover. Illustrated frontispiece. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 468294
Price: $12.00 

Yogurt & Whey: Recipes of an Iranian Immigrant Life by: Dashtaki, Homa, Illust. by: Pirouzmand, Roksana
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Yogurt & Whey: Recipes of an Iranian Immigrant Life by: Dashtaki, Homa, Illust. by: Pirouzmand, Roksana

Hardcover. NY, W. W. Norton & Company, 1st, 2023, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 277 pages, hardcover. White pictorial boards have a few minor stains, but are still in very good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography and B&W illustrations throughout. This book is a beautiful homage to Iranian yogurt traditions--past, present, and future. Dashtaki weaves over 100 nostalgic and innovative dishes. Clean copy. Record # 34138
Price: $25.00 


  
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