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Forrest, D.W. FRANCIS GALTON: THE LIFE & WORK OF A VICTORIAN GENIUS.
340 pgs with notes & index. Illustrated. Cloth in lightly chipped
pictorial light green dust jacket with sunned spine. Octavo. NY:
Taplinger, (1974). 1st U.S. Edition. Inked inscription on front free
endpaper; otherwise, very good condition in like jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. Biography of this unusually versatile
thinker who pioneered the development of psychological testing &
formulated the major genetic principle of the segregation of inherited
characteristics. $30.00.

Masters, Edgar Lee. SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY. Woodcuts by John & Clare
Romano Ross. Patterned boards in black cloth back in clear plastic
wrapper. Octavo. NY: Macmillan, 1975. 7th printing. Near fine
condition. In print 1998 @ $35.00. Our price: $17.50.

Russell, Francis. ADAMS: AN AMERICAN DYNASTY. 374 pages with
bibliography & index. Illustrated. Cloth in pictorial brown dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: American Heritage, (1976). Near fine condition in
like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. A history of the Adams
family of Massachusetts from John & Abigail through today. $17.50.

Breuer, William. RETAKING THE PHILIPPINES: America's Return to
Corregidor & Bataan, October 1944 - March 1945, 284 pgs with
bibliography & index. Photos. Cloth in very lightly chipped dust
jacket with slightly sunned spine. Octavo. NY: St. Martin's, (1986).
1st Edition [so stated]. Circular sticker on half-title page;
otherwise, near fine condition in very good+ jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. "A dramatic account of General Douglas MacArthur's most
famous campaign." $20.00.

[Joyce] Benstock, Bernard. JAMES JOYCE. 202 pgs with bibliography &
index. Cloth in pictorial turquoise dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Ungar,
(1985). From the "Literature & Life" series. Near fine condition in
like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. "A new assessment of
Joyce's work from the standpoint of the 1980s." $20.00.

Donington, Robert. OPERA & ITS SYMBOLS: THE UNITY OF WORDS, MUSIC &
STAGING. 248 pgs with notes, bibliography & index. Photos & musical
examples throughout. Cloth in dust jacket. Octavo. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, (1990). 1st Edition. Inked inscription on half-title
page; otherwise, near fine condition in like jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. In print 1998 @ $37.50. Our price: $20.00.

Blakemore, Frances. WHO'S WHO IN MODERN JAPANESE PRINTS. 263 pgs with
appendix. Reproductions throughout. Cloth in price-clipped blue dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Weatherhill, (1980). 4th printing. Near fine
condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. A
comprehensive index of over 400 artists such as Munakata, Saito,
Nakayama, Hoshi, Mori, & Yoshida. $35.00.

Cikovsky, Nicolai & Michael Quick. GEORGE INNESS. 213 pgs with
bibliography. Color & black & white reproductions throughout. Cloth in
lightly chipped dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Harper & Row, (1985). Fine
condition in near fine jacket with protective mylar wrapper. Catalog
of this 19th-century American landscape painter's work. $50.00.

Sheehy, Terence. IRELAND IN COLOUR. 78 pgs. Color photos throughout.
Cloth in chipped, price-clipped pictorial jacket. Quarto. London:
Batsford, (1975). 1st Edition. Very good condition in good jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. A photographic tour of the Emerald Isle.
$15.00.

Stenzel, Franz. JAMES MADISON ALDEN: Yankee Artist of the Pacific
Coast, 1854-1860. 209 pgs with bibliography & index. Color & black &
white reproductions throughout. Cloth in chipped, price-clipped dust
jacket with sunned spine. Square quarto. Fort Worth, TX: Amon Carter
Museum, (1975). 1st Edition. Inked inscription on front pastedown
endpaper; otherwise, near fine condition in good+ jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $35.00.

Bushell, S.W. ORIENTAL CERAMIC ART, Illustrated with Examples from the
Collection of W.T. Walters. 429 pgs with index. Color plates; black &
white text illustrations. Cloth in chipped, price-clipped dust jacket.
Folio. NY: Crown, (1980). 1st Edition Thus. Top edge lightly sunned;
otherwise, near fine condition in very good jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. Facsimile reprint of the original 10-volume 1896
edition which is the basic sourcebook of this field. $100.00.

Murdoch, Iris. THE FIRE & THE SUN: WHY PLATO BANISHED THE ARTISTS. 89
pgs. Cloth in white dust jacket. 12mo. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.
1st Edition. Near fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. "In this essay based on her 1976 Romanes Lecture, Murdoch
discusses Plato's views on art & examines sympathetically the reasons
for his hostility toward it." $25.00.

Mann, Thomas. THE CONFESSIONS OF FELIX KRULL, Confidence Man [The
Early Years]. Black cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Knopf,
1955. 1st U.S. Edition [so stated]. Very good+ condition. $27.50.

Hesse, Hermann. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS. 291 pgs. Cloth in very
lightly chipped pictorial white dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Farrar,
Straus & Giroux, (1972). 1st U.S. Edition. Inked inscription on front
free endpaper; 3 lines ink-underlined on pg 44; otherwise, very good+
condition in very good jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $20.00.

Thomas, Dylan. THE DOCTOR & THE DEVILS. Cloth in chipped pictorial
black dust jacket. Octavo. NY: New Directions, (1953). 1st U.S.
Edition. Light wear at extremities; otherwise, very good condition in
good jacket with protective mylar wrapper. Collection of Thomas's
principal works for film & radio. $35.00.

Johnson, Samuel. THE COMPLETE ENGLISH POEMS. 260 pgs with index. Cloth
in pictorial black dust jacket. Octavo. NY: St. Martin's, (1971). 1st
U.S. Edition. Errata slip taped to front pastedown endpaper;
otherwise, very good condition in like jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $25.00.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia. LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA. Cloth in
pictorial cream dust jacket. Imperial octavo. NY: Knopf, 1988. 1st
U.S. Edition [so stated]. Near fine condition in like jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. In print 1998 @ $28.95. Our price: $15.00.

Mann, Thomas. LETTERS TO PAUL AMANN, 1915-1952. 190 pgs with notes,
appendix & index. Cloth in chipped, price-clipped yellow dust jacket.
Octavo. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, (1960). 1st Edition
[so stated]. Small nick on front free endpaper; otherwise, very good+
condition in good jacket with protective mylar wrapper. "48 letters
from the great novelist to the relatively obscure scholar in whose
mind & thought he found stimulation." $20.00.

James, Henry. STORIES OF THE SUPERNATURAL. Edited by Leon Edel. 762
pgs. Cloth in price-clipped grey dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Taplinger,
(1970). 1st Edition Thus. Inked inscription on front free endpaper;
otherwise, very good+ condition in like jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $30.00.

[Shelley] Cameron, Kenneth Neill. SHELLEY: THE GOLDEN YEARS. 669 pgs
with notes & index. Yellow cloth, without dust jacket. Quarto.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974. 1st Edition. Light wear
to spine; otherwise, very good+ condition. This comprehensive study
includes a biographical sketch of the poet's life from the breakdown
of his marriage in 1814 to his death in 1822 in addition to critical
essays on his major later works in both prose & poetry. $35.00.

Marinatos, Nanno. ART & RELIGION IN THERA: Reconstructing a Bronze Age
Society. 128 pgs. Color photos & fold-out drawings; black & white text
illustrations. Stiff pictorial black paper wrappers. Octavo. Athens:
Mathioulakis, no date (c.1980's). Very good+ condition. Reconstruction
of the Bronze Age society of Akrotiri, Thera, based on the examination
of the architecture & symbolism of wall paintings excavated at that
site. $25.00.

Heitner, Joseph. AUTOMOTIVE MECHANICS: Principles & Practices. 501 pgs
with index. Illustrated. Cloth in lightly chipped, price-clipped dust
jacket. Octavo. Princeton, NJ: Van Nostrand, (1953). Bookplate removed
from front free endpaper; light wear at extremities; otherwise, very
good condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. "Designed
to provide beginners in the automotive field with a complete
understanding of the construction & operating principles of the
automobile as well as up-to-date methods of diagnosis & repair."
$25.00.

Shapiro, Karl. COLLECTED POEMS, 1940-1978. Cloth in red dust jacket.
Octavo. NY: Random, (1978). 1st Edition [so stated]. Inked inscription
on front free endpaper; otherwise, very good+ condition in like jacket
with protective mylar wrapper. $25.00.

Muller, Herbert J. FREEDOM IN THE WESTERN WORLD. 428 pgs with index.
Cloth in chipped, price-clipped red dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Harper &
Row, 1963. 1st Edition [so stated]. Very good condition in good jacket
with protective mylar wrapper. A study of the growth of freedom in the
Western world from the Dark Ages to the rise of democracy. $22.50.

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