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Patronage in the Renaissance


Lytle, Guy Fith and Stephen Orgel

Softcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, January 1981, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 389 pages, several b&w illustrations. Edgewear to wrappers. Foxing to edges. Sticker residue on front fly leaf. Else clean and tight.

Record # 454047


Price: $70.00 

 

Paul Strand: Essays on His Life and Work


Stange, Maren

Softcover. New York, Aperture, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 319 pages. Softcover with light edgewear to paper wrappers. Light soil on page block.

Record # 2233330


Price: $19.00 

 

Penchants & Places: Essays and Criticisms


Leithauser, Brad

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 289 pages. Hardcover. Gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped. Deckled fore edge. Very clean book, bright inside. In excellent condition.

Record # 30784


Price: $15.00 

 

Performances


Dening, Greg

Softcover. Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press, 1st paperback edition, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 296 pages. Softcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding good. Spine is slightly faded (shelfwear, see image). Pages clean. "With elegance and candor, (the author) offers a panoramic collection of rich and densely textured essays that demonstrate how we can only understand our present through our consciousness of the past..."

Record # 33497


Price: $35.00 

 

Persistence of Vision (The Journal of the Film Faculty of the City University of New York)


Simon, Wiiliam G./James Naremore/Michael Denning/Douglas Gomery/Paul Arthur

Softcover. New York, NY, The City University of New York, 1st, 1989, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 179 pages. Softcover, special issue on Orson Welles from the Journal of the Film Faculty of the City University of New York. Light creasing on spine. Minimal pencil markings throughout. Previous owner's signature on front endpaper. Black and white photographs throughout. Minor chips & creasing to spine edge.

Record # 751625


Price: $25.00 

 

Personality of Jonathan Swift, The


Ehrenpreis, Irvin

Hardcover. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 158 pages. Hardcover. Cover boards bound in red cloth, gilt title on spine. Cover boards have a touch of fading at edges, otherwise very good. Pages and edges slightly tanned from age. In beautiful condition. Book not only looks at the Irish satirist's life, but his strong points of view.

Record # 32037


Price: $15.00 

 

Peter Milton: Complete Etchings, 1960-1976


McNulty, Kneeland (Ed.), Peter Milton (Essays)

Softcover. Boston, MA, Impressions Workshop, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 137 pages. 97 B&W plates. Pictorial covers with slight wear. Covers slightly bent, also on corners on pages 51-54. Otherwise, a nice, clean copy.

Record # 850249


Price: $20.00 

 

Peter Milton: Complete Etchings, 1960-1976


McNulty, Kneeland (Ed.), Peter Milton (Essays)

Softcover. Boston, MA, Impressions Workshop, 1st, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 137 pages. 97 B&W plates. Pictorial cover. Covers show slight wear. Otherwise, a nice, clean copy.

Record # 850250


Price: $20.00 

 

Philip Johnson Writings.


Stern, Robert A. M., Vincent Sully, Peter Eisenman,

Hardcover. New York , Oxford University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, 292 pages. White cloth cover, with very little wear, but has some smudges. Dust jacket has a small tear and general fraying on edges. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. Frontispiece is an Andy Warhol print of Philip Johnson. Inside is bright and clean, with many b&w illustrations and photographs throughout.

Record # 852590


Price: $40.00 

 

Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects: With Some Remarks on Mr. Locke's Essay on the Human Understanding


Watts, Isaac

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 408 pages, blue cloth covers with gilt lettering on spine. A facsimile reprint of 1742 edition. New introduction by John Yolton. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf otherwise clean, very good.

Record # 404895


Price: $44.00 

 

Philosophy of Film, The: Introductory Text and Readings


Wartenberg (Editors), Thomas E./Angela Curran

Softcover. Malden, MA, Blackwell Publishing, First Edition, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 308 pages. Softcover with only faint, marginal wear to edges. Features essays by Noel Carroll, Malcolm Turvey, Gilles Deleuze, Hugo Munsterberg, Rudolph Arnheim among many others. Black & white illustrations throughout. Faint (erasable) pencil to last two chapters by previous owner. Otherwise, clean and unmarked copy.

Record # 751600


Price: $23.00 

 

Photographs at the Frontier-Aby Warburg inn America 1895-1896


Guidi, Benedetta Cestelli and Nicholas Mann

Hardcover. London, Merell Holberton, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Warburg was a scholar who visited the Southwest in the late 1800s and took a number of pictures in his travels. Essays by various writers compliment the photos. 160 pgs.

Record # 125458


Price: $113.00 

 

Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated - Vol. 55 - Number 3 - September, 1872, The


Wells (Editor), Samuel R.

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.

Record # 611793


Price: $38.00 

 

Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated - Vol. 58 - Number 2 - February, 1874, The


Wells (Editor), Samuel R.

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.

Record # 611794


Price: $38.00 

Picture Cape Town: Landmarks of a New GenerationGibson, Glenda Anne (Editor)
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Picture Cape Town: Landmarks of a New Generation


Gibson, Glenda Anne (Editor)

Softcover. Getty Publications, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Never opened, still wrapped in plastic. Many photographs throughout. A nice, clean copy.

Record # 455531


Price: $25.00 

 

Picture Universe, The - 25th Anniversary U. S. Camera 1961


Maloney (editor), Tom

Hardcover. New York, U. S. Camera Publishing Corp., 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 306 pages. Hardcover with age toning to cover edge. Dust jacket with wear & darkened tone to edges and spine. Full page black & white illustrations throughout. Four foot lift up and pull out, full color panoramic insert of central Switzerland. Clean unmarked copy.

Record # 750084


Price: $31.00 

Picturing Old New England: Image and MemoryTruettner, William H./Roger B. Stein
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Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory


Truettner, William H./Roger B. Stein

Hardcover. Washington, National Museum of American Art, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 239 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with only minor wear. Full color and black & white illustrations throughout. Clean unmarked text.

Record # 750077


Price: $25.00 

 

Piece of My Mind, A


Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, reflections at sixty

Record # 6339


Price: $18.00 

 

Piece of My Mind, A


Wilson, Edmund

Hardcover. NY, Farrar Straus Cudahy, 1st, 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, reflections at sixty

Record # 2032


Price: $18.00 

 

Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism 1958-2002


Kermode, Frank

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 466 pages. light edgewear and scarring to dust jacket, remainder line to bottom edge, light soil to front end paper. Neat, tight copy.

Record # 458556


Price: $13.00 

 

Pied Piper Syndrome and other Essays, The


Hunter, Mollie

Hardcover. NY, Harper Collins, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Essays on writing for children, 118 pgs.

Record # 70552


Price: $18.00 

 

Plainwater


Carson, Anne

Hardcover. New York, Knopf, 1st, 1995, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 206 pages. Hardcover - red, yellow, and blue boards and blue spine with silver gilt lettering. Color dust jacket. Dust jacket folded slightly off center. Minor markings and wear to dust jacket.

Record # 802861


Price: $100.00 

 

Plato Two: Ethics, Politics, & Philosophy of Art & Religion; A Collection of Critical Essays


Vlastos, Gregory (Editor)

Softcover. Notre Dame IN, University of Notre Dame Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 313 pages. Softcover. Some fading to spine. Light marking on final page, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 468215


Price: $19.00 

 

Pleasure Police, The: How Bluenose Busybodies and Lily-Livered Alarmists are Taking the Fun Out of Life


Shaw, David

Hardcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 307 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Essays that mock the absurdity and self-righteousness of the crusades of the pleasure police. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Faint pencil erasure to front flyleaf. Otherwise unmarked. Bright and clean; a tight copy.

Record # 951712


Price: $15.00 


  
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