Softcover. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 432 pages. Softcover. Sunfading to spine. Previous owner's inscription to front end paper. An otherwise clean, unmarked copy with minor edgewear. Black and white images throughout.
Hardcover. New York, George A. Peters, 1st, 1841, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 288 pages. Hardcover. Missing 3 (at pages: 30, 217, 241) of the 13 black & white illustrations. Varying degrees of foxing to pages throughout. Rubbing, chipping to cover edges. Separation of cloth along front cover hinge. Text is clean, unmarked. Good reading copy.
Philadelphia, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 316 pges + index. Illustrated with black & white photos, drawings, floor plans. Ex-lib with library bookplate on front paste-down endpaper, stamping to edges, endpapers, label on spine - otherwise clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Cambridge, MD, Tidewater Publishers, Reprint, 1960, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 317 pages. Softcover. B/w illustration on frontispiece. Wrapper has some age wear, moisture staining, and a previous bookstore price tag on back cover (see image). Tanning and slight foxing to edges, pages clean and unmarked. Binding tight. The tale of one involved incident in the criminal career of this most vicious and cruel of legendary females.
Hardcover. Chicago, Chicago, 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Volume 1 - 402 pages. Foxing to page edges. Book and dust jacket show standard wear. Light smell of smoke to pages. Volume 2 - 348 pages. Foxing to page edges. Book and dust jacket show standard wear. Light smell of smoke to pages.
Hardcover. New York, Oxford University Press, 1st Edition, 1946, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 300 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations (plates) throughout, including frontispiece. Former library book with appropriate stamps/markings, although no labeling on spine. Green cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine. Spine has some fraying, but binding is good. Some light tanning to pages from age.
Softcover. Bruxelles, Editions des Artistes, 1st, 1952, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 86 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR TO ART CRITIC AND MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ASSOCIATE JAMES THRALL SOBY ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Black & white illustrations by: Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, Picasso, Joan Miro, Hans Arp, Yves Tanguy, Andre Masson, Dali, Paul Klee, Magritte. Many un-opened pages. Chipping to paper at bottom 1/2" of spine. Covers show light wear. Pages clean and unmarked.
Softcover. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian, 1st Edition, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 230 pages. Softcover. 2 fold-out maps (see image). Tanning throughout. Wrapper has tanning/foxing, but still in good shape (see image). Binding good. Pages unmarked. Smithsonian Institution Institute of Social Anthropology #16
Hardcover. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 240 pages. Illustrated with mostly black & white photographs. Lower right cover corners lightly bumped. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. New York, B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 169 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth edition. Top edge stained red. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Previous owners name embossed at top of rear interior dust jacket flap. Dust jacket with darkening to spine, minor smudges at upper left corner - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cleveland, OH, The World Publishing Company, First Edition, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 441 pages. Blue cloth covered boards with navy printed illustration to cover & silver printed titles to cover & spine. Light toning throughout. Section of black & white illustrations to center. Original dust jacket is bright, with shelfwear, small tears to edges, price clipped. Tight binding, tight signatures.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 144 pages of text followed by section of black & white plates. Dust jacket with chunk of paper missing at bottom corner of rear cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Abrams, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 262 pages. Hardcover. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Profusely illustrated with photographs from around the world 1840-1940. Foxing, slight darkening to page edges. Faint damp odor. Clean, unmarked.
Softcover. New York, Samuel R. Wells, 1st, 1872, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 71 pages plus 24 pages of ads and commentary. Periodical format. Black & white illustrations. Covers with moisture staining (no wrinkling). Interior clean, unmarked.
Softcover. New York, Samuel R. Wells, 1st, 1874, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 67 pages plus 12 pages of ads and commentary. Periodical format. Black & white illustrations. Covers with light foxing, chipping at top of spine. Interior clean, unmarked.
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. Bennington, Bennington Historical Society, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 178 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket with light wear - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.
Softcover. London, Routledge , 1st Edition, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 281 pages. Softcover published as Sociological Review Monograph number 35. Light foxing to top edge. Black & white illustrations throughout, including diagrams. Clean unmarked copy.
Hardcover. New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 127 pages. Hardcover. Illustrated with full color tipped-in plates. Standard wear to covers' clear protective plastic jacket. Fading to cloth of spine and cover edges. Interior clean, tight.