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Abbott, Philip. The Exemplary Presidency: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the
American Political Tradition. University of Massachusetts, 1990. 233 pp.
Hardcover in jacket. Boards a bit bowed; very good+ overall. Regards the
presidency as an "exemplary" institution, and argues that FDR made
effective, imaginative use of the policies and leadership styles of his
precessors in office. $13.50
Alexander, Edward. The Jewish Idea and Its Enemies: Personalities,
Issues, Events. Transaction Books, 1988. 264 pp. Hardcover in
dustjacket. Owner's stamp on front endpaper; jacket creased; nice
condition overall. A collection of essays which together examine the
modern fate of the idea that Jews are "a covenanted people chosen to
receive the Law, whose ultimate purpose is contributing to the universal
salvation of mankind." $19.00
Allchin, Bridget and Raymond. The Rise of Civilization in India and
Pakistan. Cambridge University Press, 1982. First Edition. 379 pp.
Hardcover (brown cloth). Damage to front pastedown (looks as though a
label was removed roughly) with some surface loss. Few faint spots to
covers. Firmly bound; clean interior. Includes sections on early and
mature Indus civilization, the aftermath of the Indus civilization, the
arrival of Indo-Aryan people, and the emergence of classical Indian
civilization. A volume in the Cambridge World Archaeology series. Black
& white illustrations. $22.00
Atkins, Irene Kahn. Source Music in Motion Pictures. Fairleigh Dickinson
Univ. Press, 1983. First Edition. 190 pp. Hardcover in jacket. A little
shelfwear. Few creased tears chips to jacket. Looks at the use of source
music in movies (music which comes from a visible onscreen source, as
opposed to "background music"). Traces its evolution since the advent of
the sound era, its varying popularity, and its different types and
functions. $17.00
Birley, Robert. Sunk Without Trace: Some Forgotten Masterpieces
Reconsidered (The Clark Lectures 1960-1961). Harcourt, Brace & World,
c1962. First US Edition. 208 pp. Hardcover in dustjacket. Book is in
very good condition. Jacket is price-clipped, and shows light wear & a
little chipping to extremities. A consideration of six works of English
literature, regarded as masterpieces in their day but largely neglected
in modern times. The works are: William Warner's Albions England;
Nathaniel Lee's The Rival Queens; Edward Young's Night Thoughts; William
Robertson's The History of the Reign of Charles V; Thomas Moore's Lalla
Rookh; and Philip James Bailey's Festus. $9.50
Blyth, Alan. Remembering Britten. Hutchinson, 1981. First Edition. 181
pp. Hardcover in dustjacket. Front board slightly bowed; faint foxing to
top edge. Jacket is price-clipped, with light wear & a few tiny tears.
Very good condition overall. A collection of reminiscences from
Britten's friends, family, and colleagues who offer first-hand accounts
of how the composer lived and worked. Quite a nice copy of this scarce
title. $35.00
[Brackman, Robert] Bates, Kenneth. Brackman: His Art and Teaching:
Revised, Enlarged Edition. Madison Art Gallery, c1973. 8 1/2" x 11 1/4".
Hardcover in dustjacket. A little creasing to front flap of jacket. Very
good+ overall condition. Nice copy. A look at the life, work, and
teaching methods of this artist/art instructor who conducted his own
summer school in Madison, Connecticut, for several years. With 17
four-color reproductions, and over 50 black & white illustrations.
$17.00
Broue, Pierre and Emile Temime (Translated by Tony White). The
Revolution and the Civil War in Spain. The MIT Press, 1972. 591 pp.
Hardcover in dustjacket. A little light foxing/smudging to exterior &
edges of text block. Jacket is price-clipped and rubbed, with a few
short tears. An examination of the Spanish Civil War which focuses on
the internal affairs of the Republic and the Anarchist collective
experiments in particular. $27.00
Brown, Oren L. Discover Your Voice: How to Develop Healthy Voice Habits.
Singular Publishing Group, Inc., 1999. 4th printing. 286 pp. Softcover
book in very good condition, showing very little shelfwear. Straight,
square spine. Includes CD in still-unopened sleeve inside front cover.
Written by Voice Faculty Emeritus at the Juilliard School, who is
considered a pioneer in the field of Voice Therapy. $22.00
Christopher, Nicholas. On Tour with Rita. Knopf, 1982. First Edition.
110 pp. Hardcover in dustjacket. Remainder mark (red felt-tip) on bottom
edge of text block. Light general wear & soil. Christopher's first book
of poetry, #8 in The Knopf Poetry Series. $13.50
Dufresne, Todd. Tales from the Freudian Crypt: The Death Drive in Text
and Context. Stanford University Press, 2000. First Printing. 229 pp.
Hardcover in dustjacket. Very good+ condition. Traces the influence of
Freud's "Beyond the Pleasure Principle" and its positing of a "death
drive" on a wide range of 20th century thought, including the fields of
biography, biology, psychotherapy, philosophy, and literary theory.
$17.00
Eckert, Allan W. Gateway to Empire. Little, Brown, 1983. First Edition.
688 pp. Hardcover in dustjacket. Front board slightly bowed; light
spotting to spine; top edge stamped "AS-IS". Jacket shows light wear, a
few tiny edge-tears, and a little spotting/staining. A quite presentable
copy of the fifth volume in Eckert's "The Winning of America" series.
$27.00
Freund, Gisele. Photography & Society. London: Gordon Fraser, 1980. 231
pp. Hardcover in dustjacket. Book is in very good+ condition. Jacket has
faded spine and shows light wear & a few small tears. Landmark study
explores the relationship between the photographer and his surrounding
society, asking the central question "How does the photographer reflect,
integrate, affirm, or deny the profound social values he selects to
record?" $15.00
Guilbaut, Serge, ed. Reconstructing Modernism: Art in New York, Paris,
and Montreal 1945 - 1964. MIT, 1991. 2nd Printing. 418 pp. Hardcover in
dustjacket. MIT stamp on bottom edge; jacket shows wear & some creased
tearing. Essays which together constitute a dialogue among historians,
critics, painters, and art historians towards an understanding of the
reception of art in the postwar Western world. $17.00
Hackney, Sheldon. Populism to Progressivism in Alabama. Princeton
University Press, 1969. First Edition. 390 pp. Hardcover in dustjacket.
Extensive but fairly light pencil marking. Jacket faded. Light general
wear. Decent working copy. Traces the development of these two movements
against the background of planter vs. farmer; incipient unionism against
management; political battles, white domination and the rise of Jim
Crow. $12.00
Hopkins, Paul. Glencoe and the End of the Highland War. Edinburgh: John
Donald, c1986. 543 pp. Hardcover in dustjacket. A little faint smudging
around edges; very good+ condition overall. Written by an authority on
early Jacobitism, this work sets the Massacre of Glencoe in its
historical context, describing the tensions in the Highlands between the
Restoration and the Revolution, and giving a full account of the
Highland War of 1689-91. $37.00
[Ingarden, Roman] Falk, Eugene H. The Poetics of Roman Ingarden.
University of North Carolina, 1981. First Edition. 213 pp. Hardcover in
dustjacket. Boards a bit bowed; jacket unevenly faded. Exposition of the
Polish phenomenologist's views of literature as art. $10.00
[Joyce, James] Ellmann, Richard. The Consciousness of Joyce. Oxford
University Press, 1977. First Edition. 150 pp. Hardcover in dustjacket.
Mild foxing along edges of text block. Light wear & a little creasing
along edges of jacket. Attempts to "measure Joyce's response to his
principal sources, to show how he reconciled the seemingly
irreconcilable, how he unravelled and wove, and how he made his book
express his aesthetics and his politics as well as his epic theme." The
principal sources looked at are Homer and Shakespeare, whose presences
so permeate Joyce's Ulysses. $15.00
[Lanyon, Peter] Causey, Andrew. Peter Lanyon: His Painting. Aidan Ellis,
1971. First Edition. 8 3/4" x 11 1/2". Hardcover in dustjacket. A bit of
shelfwear to extremities; slight spine-slant; jacket is yellowed and
shows some wear. U.S. distributor's label inside front flap of jacket
(Universe Books). Quite presentable copy of this scarce study of
Lanyon's work. In addition to Causey's essay, there are 38 color plates
and 42 black & white illustrations; lists of exhibitions and
collections. short bibliography and chronology; and catalogue of
paintings (including almost all of the artist's traceable paintings from
1945, except for a few personal portraits and pictures from later years
where the larger dimensions are less than 10 inches). With a short
introduction by Naum Gabo. $100.00
Leslie, I. Julia. The Perfect Wife: The Orthodox Hindu Woman according
to the Stridharmapaddhati of Tryambakayajvan. Oxford University Press,
1989. First Edition. 375 pp. Hardcover in dustjacket. Front endpaper
corner-clipped; a little smudging around edges. Very good+ condition
overall. An analysis of the Stridharmapaddhati (Guide to the Religious
Status and Duties of Women), an 18th century work by an orthodox pandit
in southern India, and the lasting influence of its ideology. $25.00
Matthews, J. H. An Introduction to Surrealism. Pennsylvania State
University Press, c1965. First Edition. 192 pp. Hardcover in dustjacket.
Book is in very good condition; jacket is a little worn & rubbed. An
introduction to surrealist art and literature which focuses on
surrealism as "an attitude of mind." $19.00
McKee, Patrick and Heta Kauppinen. The Art of Aging: A Celebration of
Old Age in Western Art. Insight/Human Sciences Press, 1987. First
Printing. 193 pp. Hardcover in dustjacket. Owner name on front endpaper
& on title page; a little edgewear to jacket. How old age has been
represented in Western Art and how these works can contribute to our
understanding of aging. $9.50
Meier, August. A White Scholar and the Black Community, 1945 - 1965:
Essays and Reflections. University of Massachusetts, 1992. 232 pp.
Hardcover in dustjacket. Fine condition. Sixteen essays written between
1945 and 1965, during which time Meier taught at black colleges and was
an activist in the civil rights movement. $15.00
O'Connor, Flannery. The Complete Stories. FSG, 1971. First Printing. 555
pp. Hardcover in dustjacket. Jacket price-clipped, lightly worn, a bit
smudged, & unevenly yellowed. A quite presentable copy of this essential
collection of stories. $19.00
Powers, Alex. Painting People in Watercolor: A Design Approach.
Watson-Guptill, 1989. First Printing. 8 1/2" x 11 14", 144 pp. Hardcover
in jacket. Jacket a bit creased; little wear. Nice copy. Explains how to
make design elements and principles work together to create successful
watercolor portraits. $19.00
Sears, William H. Fort Center: An Archaeological Site in the Lake
Okeechobee Basin. University of Florida, 1982. 212 pp. Hardcover in
jacket. Mild foxing to top edge; very good+ overall condition. The
author documents his years of fieldwork at the Lake Okeechobee Basin
site, exploring such issues as the relationship of Florida's prehistoric
population to the Caribbean Basin and the origins of maize agriculture
in eastern America. Ripley P. Bullen Monographs in Anthropology and
History from the Florida State Museum Number 4. $19.00
Shaffer, E.S., ed. Comparative Criticism (Volume 20): Philosophical
Dialogues. Cambridge University Press, 1998. First Edition. 359 pp.
Hardcover in dustjacket. Bumped corner; close to fine overall. Writings
on a form which has proved its flexibility, subtlety, and capacity to
continually encompass fresh debate. $19.00
Smith, Ray Campbell. Fresh Watercolour: Bring Light & Life to Your
Painting. London: David & Charles, c1991. 8" x 11 1/4", 128 pp.
Hardcover in jacket. A bit of shelfwear; nice condition overall. Insight
into how careful planning and foresight can bring about fresh,
spontaneous effects to your watercolor paintings. Color illustrations
throughout, with step-by-step projects and detailed analysis of examples
of the author's work. $16.00
Spacks, Patricia Meyer. Imagining a Self: Autobiography and Novel in
Eighteenth-Century England. Harvard University Press, 1976. First
Edition. 342 pp. Hardcover in dustjacket. Light foxing around edges of
text block. Jacket shows minor edgewear, with considerable scuffing to
back panel. An exploration of the affinities between novel and memoir in
the eighteenth century -- a period which Spacks recognizes as intensely
concerned with the problem of identity and the nature of the self.
Includes chapters on female identities; Edward Gibbon; Sterne's Tristram
Shandy; Fanny Burney; Boswell & Fielding; Defoe and Cowper; Samuel
Richardson & Colley Cibber. Overall, quite a presentable copy of this
scarce title. $37.00
Sprague, Rosemary. Imaginary Gardens: A Study of Five American Poets.
Chilton Book Company, 1969. First Edition. 237 pp. Hardcover in
dustjacket. Some mild foxing & a few stray pencil marks to edges of text
block. Very good condition overall. Profiles of five women poets: Emily
Dickinson, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and
Marianne Moore. $9.50
Szabo, Zoltan. Painting Little Landscapes: Small-Scale Watercolors of
the Great Outdoors. Watson-Guptill, 1991. First Printing. 8 1/2" x 11
1/4", 143 pp. Hardcover in dustjacket. Very good+ condition. How to
create fresh, charming watercolor landscapes in a scaled-down format.
Color illustrations throughout, with numerous detailed demonstrations.
Attractive copy of this useful (and increasingly scarce) title. $29.00
Thelin, Valfred, with Patricia Burlin. Watercolor: Let the Medium Do It
- Projects for Pleasure and Practice. Watson-Guptill, 1988. First
Printing. 8 1/2" x 11 1/4", 144 pp. Hardcover in jacket. Very good+
condition; nice copy. This useful book presents numerous experimental
techniques for watercolor painters, with examples throughout the book to
illustrate the ways different artists interpret subject matter and adapt
various techniques to suit their own styles. $17.00
Williams, E. Carleton. Bess of Hardwick. Longmans, Green, 1959. First
Edition. 312 pp. Hardcover in dustjacket. Moderate foxing/discoloration
(mostly to jacket, book's exterior & first fewith last few leaves).
Biography of this formidable character who was born in the reign of
Henry VIII and who outlived Queen Elizabeth. In the meantime she was
married four times, imprisoned twice in the Tower, and acted with one of
her husbands (the Earl of Shrewsbury) as guardian to Mary, Queen of
Scots. $13.50
[Wise, Thomas J.] Todd, William B., ed. Thomas J. Wise: Centenary
Studies. University of Texas, c1959. 2nd Printing. 128 pp. Hardcover in
dustjacket. Small stain to top edge of text block, with associated
drip/stain running down front panel of jacket (looks as though someone
was a bit careless with his coffee). A little general wear & a little
scattered smudging. Essays on the infamous "book collector,
bibliographer, editor, and forger" by John Carter, Graham Pollard, and
William B. Todd. $19.00
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