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Bottle Collector's Book, A by: Ferraro, Pat & Bob
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Bottle Collector's Book, A by: Ferraro, Pat & Bob

Softcover. Sparks, Nevada, Western Printing & Publishing Company, Sixth, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Sixth printing. Guide to collecting bottles. 110 pages with several essays on historical aspects and particular elements of bottle-making. Also includes glossary of terms. 37 black/white plates. Very good condition, slight wear to the spine, previous owner's name, date, and location written in ink inside the cover. Record # 805541
Price: $12.00 

Browning Studies by: Harrington, Vernon C.
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Browning Studies by: Harrington, Vernon C.

Hardcover. Boston, Richard Badger, 1st., 1915, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, SIGNED BY HARRINGTON. (was prof. of English at Middlebury College) Record # 177884
Price: $12.00 

Campaigns and Controversies. by: Roosevelt, Theodore
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Campaigns and Controversies. by: Roosevelt, Theodore

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 403 pages. Green cloth cover, cloth faded on spine. Some wear to corners and edges. Pages untrimmed on fore edge, top edge gilt. Inside is bright and clean. A nice copy. Volume XIV in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt. Record # 852792
Price: $12.00 

Castles In Spain & Other Screeds by: Galsworthy, John
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Castles In Spain & Other Screeds by: Galsworthy, John

Hardcover. London, Heinemann, 2nd, 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 190 pages. Previous owner's inscription front fly leaf. Record # 68330
Price: $12.00 

Chomsky: Language, Mind, and Politics by: McGilvray, James
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Chomsky: Language, Mind, and Politics by: McGilvray, James

Softcover. Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA, Polity, reprint, November 1, 1999, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 274 pages. Cover has minor wear to edges, faint smudges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Some marking in faint pencil. Otherwise, inside is bright and clean. Record # 455314
Price: $12.00 

Clearing the Ground by: Harris, Sydney J.
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Clearing the Ground by: Harris, Sydney J.

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 216 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped. Gilt title on spine. Some slight age yellowing to dust jacket. Clean and bright inside and out. In excellent condition. Record # 30787
Price: $12.00 

Collected Prose, The  by: Lowell, Robert
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Collected Prose, The by: Lowell, Robert

Hardcover. US, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 1987-04-01, Book: Very Good, 377 pages. Light edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 462802
Price: $12.00 

Commencement Address, A by: Cooke, Alistair
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Commencement Address, A by: Cooke, Alistair

Softcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 30 pages, cardboard covers with dust jacket. Record # 402390
Price: $12.00 

Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Taylor, Henry
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Compulsory Figures: Essays on Recent American Poets [INSCRIBED COPY] by: Taylor, Henry

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, LA, Louisiana State University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some light bumping to the top edge, but is still in very good condition overall. Blue cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. In this collection of previously published essays, poet and critic Taylor praises the vitality and diversity of contemporary American poetry by examining the development and techniques of 17 recent American poets. Each essay locates the style of a particular poet in his or her earliest works and traces the evolution of that style to later, more definitive poems. Author's signature is present on the title page. Clean copy. Record # 34255
Price: $18.00 

Conversations With Peter Taylor (Literary Conversations Series) by: McAlexander, Hubert Horton
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Conversations With Peter Taylor (Literary Conversations Series) by: McAlexander, Hubert Horton

Hardcover. US, Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1987-11-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Record # 463738
Price: $12.00 

Conversations With Reynolds Price (Literary Conversations Series) by: Price, Reynolds
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Conversations With Reynolds Price (Literary Conversations Series) by: Price, Reynolds

Hardcover. US, Univ Pr of Mississippi (Txt), 1991-03-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Like new in publishers shrink-wrap. Record # 463713
Price: $12.00 

Covering Ground: Essays for Now by: Phelps, Donald
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Covering Ground: Essays for Now by: Phelps, Donald

Croton Press, 1st, 1969, 290 Pages, First Edition hard cover. Minor age wear and yellowing to the dust jacket. Has light yellowing to the pages and light foxing. Overall a very tight and clean copy. Record # 2232118
Price: $20.00 

Cow Country by: Dale, Edward Everett
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Cow Country by: Dale, Edward Everett

Hardcover. Oklahoma, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st New, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 258 pages. Collection of magazine essays over 25 yrs. Illustrated in pages and d.j. Plastic jacket. Green board with black spine and gilt text. Record # 220815
Price: $12.00 

Creative Evolution by: Bergson, Henri Transl. Mitchell, Arthur
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Creative Evolution by: Bergson, Henri Transl. Mitchell, ArthurCreative Evolution by: Bergson, Henri Transl. Mitchell, Arthur

Creative Evolution by: Bergson, Henri Transl. Mitchell, Arthur

Hardcover. NY, Henry Holt and Company, 1st thus, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 407 pages, hardcover. Blue cloth boards are in very good condition, despite some light bumping to the corners. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This book provides an alternate explanation for Darwin's mechanism of evolution, suggesting that evolution is motivated by an elan vital, a "vital impetus" that can also be understood as humanity's natural creative impulse. Bergson suggests that the experience of time as "duration" can best be understood through creative intuition, not through intellect. Clean copy. Record # 34358
Price: $22.00 

Culture, Disease, and Healing: Studies in Medical Anthropology by: Editor: Landy, David
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Culture, Disease, and Healing: Studies in Medical Anthropology by: Editor: Landy, David

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 3rd Pr., 1977, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 559 pages, hardcover. Brown cloth covers with gilt text have lightly bumped corners and edge wear, but are still in good condition overall. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W graphs and tables throughout. This book is a historical perspective on disease and healing practices, as it relates to culture. Contains 57 papers for students and professionals in the medical and health fields. This is a large-format volume, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Previous owner's name has been stamped on the front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 34525
Price: $20.00 

Curious World - A New Yorker at Large by: Hamburger, Philip
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Curious World - A New Yorker at Large by: Hamburger, Philip

Hardcover. San Francisco, North Point Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 237 pages. Hardcover. Light wear. Clean, tight copy. Record # 613452
Price: $12.00 

Day at the Beach, A : Recollections by: Wolff, Geoffrey
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Day at the Beach, A : Recollections by: Wolff, Geoffrey

Hardcover. US, Knopf, 1st, 1992-03-17, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 259 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463714
Price: $12.00 

De Gustibus... An Exhibition of American Paintings Illustrating A Century of Taste and Criticism by: The Corcoran Gallery of Art
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De Gustibus... An Exhibition of American Paintings Illustrating A Century of Taste and Criticism by: The Corcoran Gallery of Art

Softcover. Washington, D.C., The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1st, 1949, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Exhibition catalog with yellow tagboard covers, minor rubbing. Paper wrappers tight. Pages are glossy, clean and crisp. 23 b/w plates of American painting, from 1830 until 1949. Catalog is divided up by years and includes 59 listed works. Short essays on each time period of painting, as well as an introduction on the history of American painting. Record # 807663
Price: $12.00 

Deconstruction and Philosophy: The Texts of Jacques Derrida by: Sallis, John (Editor)
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Deconstruction and Philosophy: The Texts of Jacques Derrida by: Sallis, John (Editor)

Softcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, rep., 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 207 pages. Previous owner's signature in front fly leaf, edgewear to wrappers, faint foxing to top edge. Binding is tight. Record # 455251
Price: $12.00 

Depth Takes a Holiday - Essays From Lesser Los Angeles by: Loh, Sandra Tsing
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Depth Takes a Holiday - Essays From Lesser Los Angeles by: Loh, Sandra Tsing

Hardcover. NY, Riverhead, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 226 pages, minor dust jacket edge wear, otherwise, very clean and bright. Record # 53434
Price: $12.00 

Dickens' London by: Vallance, ed., Rosalind
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Dickens' London by: Vallance, ed., Rosalind

Softcover. London, Folio Society, reprint, 1966, Dust Jacket: None, 239 pages in black cardboard slipcase. Essays selected and introduced by Rosalind Vallance. Engravings by George Cruikshank. Beige covers with brown cartoon on cover and brown and gold lettering on spine. Record # 802842
Price: $12.00 

Diversion: Twenty-two Authors on the Lively Arts by: Sutro, ed. , John
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Diversion: Twenty-two Authors on the Lively Arts by: Sutro, ed. , John

Hardcover. London, Max Parrish, 1950, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 224 pages. 24 photogravure plates and 40 drawings in line. Facsimiles of authors' signatures on endpapers. Creasing, small tears, edgewear, soiling to dust jacket. Record # 510686
Price: $12.00 

Early Recollections: Their Use in Diagnosis and Psychotherapy by: Olson, Harry A. Foreword: Corsini, Raymond J.
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Early Recollections: Their Use in Diagnosis and Psychotherapy by: Olson, Harry A. Foreword: Corsini, Raymond J.

Hardcover. Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 1st, 1979, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 388 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some rubbing and light chipping concentrated towards the bottom of the spine, but it is still in good condition overall. Brown cloth covers with gilt text are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W illustrations throughout. This book is an exhaustive compendium of the literature, and an up-to-date manual for the use of early recollections in diagnosis and psychotherapy. Previous owner's name was signed on the front end page, and their light pencil markings are present throughout, with extra notes on the rear end page. Record # 34487
Price: $42.00 

Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000 by: Miller, Arthur
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Echoes Down the Corridor: Collected Essays, 1944-2000 by: Miller, Arthur

Hardcover. US, Viking, 1st, 2000-10-09, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages. Light shelf-wear and scratching to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 463550
Price: $12.00 


  
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