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Small Wonder: Essays by: Kingsolver, Barbara
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Small Wonder: Essays by: Kingsolver, Barbara

Hardcover. New York, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Light rubbing to dust jacket, crease to inside flap. Rough-cut pages. A very clean, tight copy. Record # 450846
Price: $12.00 

Social Concern in the '80s: A New England Perspective by: Boston University Art Gallery
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Social Concern in the '80s: A New England Perspective by: Boston University Art Gallery

Softcover. Boston, Boston University Art Gallery, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 pages. Exhibition catalog. Black stapled wrappers, introduction by Patricia Hills, essays by featured artists, profusely illustrated with b&w plates. Light rubbing to wrappers, pages crisp and unmarked; a very clean, tight catalog. Record # 807962
Price: $12.00 

Social Struggles in Archaic Rome: New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders by: Raaflaub, Kurt A.
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Social Struggles in Archaic Rome: New Perspectives on the Conflict of the Orders by: Raaflaub, Kurt A.

Hardcover. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 464 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket, blue cloth covers, and interior pages are all clean and bright. Binding is solid. The history of early republican Rome was marked by a long series of social and political struggles between the patrician elite and the plebeians, often called the 'Conflict of the Orders'. In this book, experts from both sides of the Atlantic illuminate the history of these social conflicts, examining their causes and nature; analyzing a wide range of social, economic, legal, religious, military, and political aspects; and considering the reliability of the historical sources. Clean copy. Record # 34284
Price: $50.00 

Some Remarkable Men - Further Memoirs by: Lord, James
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Some Remarkable Men - Further Memoirs by: Lord, James

Hardcover. New York, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1st Edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 324 pages. Hardcover. Black & white photographs throughout. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Dust jacket design by John Fontana and author photo by Bernard Minoret, in 1950 with Jean Cocteau. Clean, unmarked copy. Record # 750134
Price: $12.00 

State Papers as Governor and President 1899-1909. by: Roosevelt, Theodore
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State Papers as Governor and President 1899-1909. by: Roosevelt, Theodore

Hardcover. New York , Charles Scribner's Sons, reprint, 1926, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 548 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 XV in The Works of Theodore Roosevelt. Record # 852791
Price: $12.00 

Stay Married Abroad by: Boothroyd, Basil
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Stay Married Abroad by: Boothroyd, Basil

Hardcover. London, George Allen & Unwin, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 144 pages, blue cloth covers. Dust jacket edgeworn. Clean. Record # 406466
Price: $12.00 

Swift - An Introduction by: Quintana, Ricardo
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Swift - An Introduction by: Quintana, Ricardo

Hardcover. London, Oxford Univ. Press, 1st , 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 204 pages. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf and front panel of dust jacket Dust jacket edgeworn, taped to covers. Record # 65601
Price: $12.00 

Talking Back to Emily Dickinson, and Other Essays by: Pritchard, William H.
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Talking Back to Emily Dickinson, and Other Essays by: Pritchard, William H.

Hardcover. US, University of Massachusetts Press, 1st, 1998-08-14, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 463730
Price: $12.00 

Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin by: Grosholz, ed., Emily
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Telling the Barn Swallow: Poets on the Poetry of Maxine Kumin by: Grosholz, ed., Emily

Hardcover. Hanover, N. H., University Press of New England, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 198 pages, review slips laid in, very clean, tight copy. Record # 800744
Price: $12.00 

The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images (The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism) by: Editor: Ronnberg, Ami Editor: Martin, Kathleen
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The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images (The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism) by: Editor: Ronnberg, Ami Editor: Martin, Kathleen

Hardcover. Los Angeles, CA, Taschen, 1st, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 807 pages, hardcover. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages which were designed to incorporate indented section tabs on the edges. Binding is solid. Contains full-color photography throughout. This book combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with representative images from all parts of the world and all eras of history. Each of the approximately 350 essays examines a given symbol's psychic background, and how it evokes psychic processes and dynamics. Clean copy. Record # 34518
Price: $32.00 

The Crow Who Tampered With Time by: Ratzlaff, Lloyd
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The Crow Who Tampered With Time by: Ratzlaff, Lloyd

Hardcover. Saskatoon, Sask., 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 134 pages. Light wear to pictorial wrappers. Nice, tight copy. Record # 452940
Price: $12.00 

The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition by: Perloff, Marjorie
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The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition by: Perloff, Marjorie

Softcover. Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press, Reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 243 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography throughout. Must poetic form be, as Yeats demanded, "full, sphere-like, single," or can it accommodate the impurities Yeats and his Modernist generation found so problematic? Sixty years later, these are still open questions, which Marjorie Perloff addresses in these essays. Clean copy. Record # 34249
Price: $12.00 

The French Revolution & Birth of Modernity by: Feher, Ferenc
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The French Revolution & Birth of Modernity by: Feher, Ferenc

Softcover. Oakland, CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 298 pages, soft cover. Binding and interior pages in very good condition. Written from widely different perspectives, these essays characterize the Great Revolution as the dawn of the modern age, the grand narrative of modernity. The scope of issues under scrutiny is extremely broad, ranging from the analyses of the hotly debated class character of 1789 and the problem of the nation state to the ?Cult of the Supreme Being," the emancipation of the Jews, and the cultural heritage of the Revolution. Previous owner's name written in the inside cover, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33591
Price: $15.00 

The Future of Metaphysics by: Editor: Wood, Robert E.
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The Future of Metaphysics by: Editor: Wood, Robert E.The Future of Metaphysics by: Editor: Wood, Robert E.

The Future of Metaphysics by: Editor: Wood, Robert E.

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, Quadrangle Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages, hardcover. Tan cloth boards have some light staining, but are otherwise in good condition. Interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. This collection of original philosophical papers confronts the future of metaphysical thought. Part I of the book scans the contemporary spectrum of metaphysical orientations, from linguistic analysis and process-philosophy, through phenomenology, existentialism, and scholasticism, to neo-Hegelianism and oriental thought. Part II focuses on the relationship between metaphysics and various areas of human concern: language, logic, science, value, society, and religion. Clean copy. Record # 34356
Price: $18.00 

The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes by: Editors: Aruz, JoanFarkas, AnnAlekseev, AndreiKorolkova, Elena
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The Golden Deer of Eurasia: Scythian and Sarmatian Treasures from the Russian Steppes by: Editors: Aruz, Joan Farkas, Ann Alekseev, Andrei Korolkova, Elena

Hardcover. NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 303 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in very good condition, well protected by plastic covering. Cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Accompanied the exhibition of the same name, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from October 12, 2000-February 4, 2001. Contains several essays about the Scythians and Sarmatians, including their cults, rituals, and art. 280 beautiful full color plates throughout. Clean copy. Record # 33690
Price: $40.00 

The Grace of Great Things:Creativity and Innovation by: Grudin, Robert
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The Grace of Great Things:Creativity and Innovation by: Grudin, Robert

Hardcover. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 257 pages. Spine slightly slanted. Dust jacket with minor patch of de-lamination on upper edge of rear cover. Clean, tight copy. Record # 453951
Price: $12.00 

The Heart of American Poetry by: Hirsch, Edward
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The Heart of American Poetry by: Hirsch, Edward

Hardcover. NY, Library of America, 1st, 2022, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 452 pages, hardcover. Dust jackets are bent at the top and bottom edges. Red cloth cover boards are slightly warped, but otherwise are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. In this book, Hirsch offers deeply personal readings of forty essential American poems we thought we knew. Clean copy. Record # 34253
Price: $18.00 

The Impressionists: A Retrospective by: Editor: Kapos, Martha
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The Impressionists: A Retrospective by: Editor: Kapos, Martha

Hardcover. London, U.K., Beaux Arts Editions / Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 380 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has one closed tear at the top edge, but is still in very good condition overall. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography throughout. This magnificent volume highlights some of the finest impressionist paintings collected by American institutions. A general introduction and essay accompanies each of the 48 color plates, providing an overview and appropriate social, cultural, and historical background for each work. Presents artwork by Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, van Gogh, Cezanne, Seurat, Pissarro, and many others. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34315
Price: $12.00 

The Impressionists: A Retrospective by: Editor: Kapos, Martha
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The Impressionists: A Retrospective by: Editor: Kapos, Martha

Hardcover. London, U.K., Beaux Arts Editions / Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 380 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some light bumping to the top edge, but is still in very good condition overall. Pictorial boards are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W and full-color photography throughout. This magnificent volume highlights some of the finest impressionist paintings collected by American institutions. A general introduction and essay accompanies each of the 48 color plates, providing an overview and appropriate social, cultural, and historical background for each work. Presents artwork by Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, van Gogh, Cezanne, Seurat, Pissarro, and many others. This is a large-format book, available for DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY. Clean copy. Record # 34314
Price: $12.00 

The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800 by: Editor: Hunt, Lynn
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The Invention of Pornography: Obscenity and the Origins of Modernity, 1500-1800 by: Editor: Hunt, Lynn

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
Price: $18.00 

The Mills at Winooski Falls: Winooski and Burlington, Vermont: Illustrated Essays and Oral Histories by: Editor: Krawitt, Laura
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The Mills at Winooski Falls: Winooski and Burlington, Vermont: Illustrated Essays and Oral Histories by: Editor: Krawitt, Laura

Softcover. Winooski, VT, Onion River Press, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 206 pages, soft cover. Covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Contains B&W photography and illustrations throughout. This book is a short volume of essays which provide a multi-century view of the impact of the industrial revolution on this region of Vermont. Clean copy. Record # 34453
Price: $18.00 

The New Vision: Photography Between The World Wars by: Hambourg, Maria Morris
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The New Vision: Photography Between The World Wars by: Hambourg, Maria Morris

Hardcover. NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 318 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket is in very good condition. Black cloth covers are clean and bright, as are interior pages. Binding is solid. Published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition that ran September through December, 1989, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and then went on to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, and Houston. Foreword by Philippe de Montebello. Essays by Hambourg and Phillips. Includes 203 illustrations with 125 in color. Short inscription by previous owner on front end page, otherwise clean copy. Record # 33691
Price: $18.00 

The Politics of Literature:Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English by: Kampf, Louis, Paul Lauter
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The Politics of Literature:Dissenting Essays on the Teaching of English by: Kampf, Louis, Paul Lauter

Hardcover. New York, Pantheon Books, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 429 pages. Edited by Louis Kampf and Paul Lauter. Includes index and biography of contributors. Gray cover. Gilt lettering on cover and spine. Record # 803559
Price: $12.00 

The Territory of the Historian by: Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy
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The Territory of the Historian by: Ladurie, Emmanuel Le Roy

Hardcover. Chicago, IL, The University of Chicago Press, 1st thus, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 345 pages, hardcover. Dust jacket has some minor edge wear, but is still in very good condition. Blue cloth covers with gilt text and interior pages are clean and bright. Binding is solid. Contains B&W graphs and tables throughout. This book is an ingenious combination of narrative and analysis, covering micro-history and macro-history. Clean copy. Record # 34186
Price: $15.00 


  
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