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Bazin, Germaine. BAROQUE & ROCOCO ART. 288 pgs with bibliography &
index. Color & black & white photos & prints throughout. Cloth in
lightly chipped pictorial black dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Praeger,
(1964). Very good+ condition in like jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $30.00.
Roth, Philip. THE GHOST WRITER. Cloth in dark blue dust jacket.
Octavo. London: Cape, (1979). 1st U.K. Edition. Top edge lightly
sunned; otherwise, near fine condition in like jacket with protective
mylar wrapper. $25.00.
Engelbrecht, H.C. & F.C. Hanighen. MERCHANTS OF DEATH: A Study of the
International Armament Industry. 308 pgs with index. Photos. Green
cloth, without dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1934. 1st Edition.
Very good condition. $20.00.
Stein, Edith. ON THE PROBLEM OF EMPATHY. 135 pgs with notes & index.
Pictorial light blue paper wrappers. Octavo. Washington, DC: ICS
Publications, (1989). Very good condition. Volume 3 of "The Collected
Works of Edith Stein." $15.00.
Farber, Martin. THE AIMS OF PHENOMENOLOGY: The Motives, Methods, &
Impact of Husserl's Thought. 240 pgs with index. Tan paper wrappers.
Octavo. NY: Harper, (1966). Good condition. $15.00.
Knoedelseder, William. STIFFED: A TRUE STORY OF MCA, THE MUSIC
BUSINESS, & THE MAFIA. 480 pgs with index. Pictorial black paper
wrappers. Octavo. NY: HarperCollins, (1994). Very good condition.
$15.00.
Busch, Niven. THE SAN FRANCISCANS. Cloth in lightly chipped gold dust
jacket. Octavo. NY: Simon & Schuster, 1962. 1st Edition [so stated].
Presentation copy signed by the author. Near fine condition in very
good jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $25.00.
Gray, Alex Xenophon Demirjian. MEMOIRS OF MANY IN ONE. Cloth in dark
green dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Viking, (1986). 1st U.S. Edition [so
stated]. Fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper.
$20.00.
tendhal] Richardson, Joanna. STENDHAL. 344 pgs with notes,
bibliography & index. Prints. Cloth in lightly chipped pictorial black
dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Coward, McCann, (1974). Inked name & address
on front free endpaper; otherwise, very good+ condition in good+
jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $15.00.
James, William. A PLURALISTIC UNIVERSE. 488 pgs with notes & index.
Edited by Frederick Burkhardt. Cloth in pictorial white dust jacket.
Octavo. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977. 1st Edition.
Near fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. In
print 1998 @ $50.00. Our price: $25.00.
Bazin, Germain. THE LOUVRE. 323 pgs. Color & black & white
reproductions throughout. Cloth in very lightly chipped pictorial
black dust jacket. Octavo. London: Thames & Hudson, (1959). 2nd
Edition. Near fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $25.00.
Bazin, Germaine. IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS IN THE LOUVRE. 320 pgs with
index. Color & black & white reproductions throughout. Cloth in very
lightly chipped pictorial black dust jacket. Octavo. London: Thames &
Hudson, (1961). 3rd Edition. Near fine condition in like jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $20.00.
Stone, Irving. THE AGONY & THE ECSTASY: A NOVEL OF MICHELANGELO. Cloth
in chipped dust jacket lacking small piece at top of spine. Thick
octavo. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961. 1st Edition [so stated].
Signed by the author. Front endpapers slightly darkened; otherwise,
very good+ condition in good jacket with protective mylar wrapper.
$25.00.
Mazzeo, Joseph Anthony. RENAISSANCE & REVOLUTION: The Remaking of
European Thought. 349 pgs with index. Cloth in pictorial white dust
jacket. Octavo. London: Secker & Warburg, (1967). Near fine condition
in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. "Concentrates on the
work of four crucial figures - Machiavelli, Castiglione, Bacon, &
Hobbes - to develop a picture of the great themes in the literature &
thought of the period." $20.00.
Auchincloss, Louis. THE CAT & THE KING. Cloth in pictorial tan dust
jacket. Octavo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981. Near fine condition in
like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $15.00.
Faulkner, William. ESSAYS, SPEECHES & PUBLIC LETTERS. Dark blue cloth,
without dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Random House, (1965). 1st Edition [so
stated]. Inked name & rubber stamp on front free endpaper; otherwise,
very good condition. $25.00.
Naubert-Riser, Constance. KLEE. 138 pgs + bibliography. Color
reproductions throughout. Cloth in pictorial white dust jacket. Square
folio. NY: Portland House, (1990). Very good+ condition in like jacket
with protective mylar wrapper. $20.00.
Elgar, Frank & Robert Maillard. PICASSO. 315 pgs with index. Color &
black & white reproductions throughout. Cloth in lightly chipped
pictorial black dust jacket. NY: Praeger, (1956). Near fine condition
in good+ jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $20.00.
Murray, Peter & Linda. THE ART OF THE RENAISSANCE. 286 pgs with index.
Color & black & white reproductions throughout. Cloth in very lightly
chipped pictorial black dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Praeger, (1963). Fine
condition in very good jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $15.00.
Caen, Herb. BAGDAD: 1951. 120 pgs. Cloth in chipped dust jacket. 12mo.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950. 1st Edition [so stated]. Scotch tape
remains on front pastedown endpaper; otherwise, good+ condition in
good jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $65.00.
Auchincloss, Louis. LIFE, LAW & LETTERS: Essays & Sketches. Cloth in
tan dust jacket. Octavo. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979. 1st Edition.
Fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $25.00.
Grant, Michael. THE TWELVE CAESARS. 282 pgs with notes, bibliography &
index. Photos. Cloth in pictorial black dust jacket. Octavo. NY:
Scribner, (1975). 1st Edition. Near fine condition in like jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. $30.00.
Chomsky, Noam. TOWARDS A NEW COLD WAR: Essays on the Current Crisis &
How We Got There. 498 pgs with notes & index. White paper wrappers.
Octavo. NY: Pantheon, (1982). Top edge slightly damped; otherwise,
good condition. $15.00.
Levy, Ian Hideo. HITOMARO & THE BIRTH OF JAPANESE LYRICISM. 174 pgs
with bibliography & index. Map. Cloth in black dust jacket. Octavo.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, (1984). Fine condition in
like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. Critical examination of the
work of Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Japan's first major poet. In print
1998 @ $32.50. Our price: $16.50.
Atwood, Margaret. PROCEDURES FOR UNDERGROUND: POEMS. 79 pgs. Brown
paper wrappers. Octavo. Boston: Little, Brown, (1970). 1st Edition
Thus. Light shelfwear; otherwise, good condition. $15.00.
Connolly, Cyril. PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS: Selected Writings of a Decade.
414 pgs. Cloth in lightly chipped dust jacket with very slightly
darkened spine. Octavo. London: Hamish Hamilton, (1963). 1st U.K.
Edition. Very good+ condition in good+ jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $25.00.
Hogg, Ian. THE WEAPONS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD: The Key Weapons of
Modern History, From 1860 to the Present Day. 159 pgs with index.
Color & black & white photos & prints throughout. Cloth in pictorial
white dust jacket. Quarto. NY: Arbor House, (1986). 1st Edition. Small
rubber stamp on front free endpaper; otherwise, fine condition in like
jacket with protective mylar wrapper. $20.00.
[Swift] Smith, Frederik. LANGUAGE & REALITY IN SWIFT'S "A TALE OF A
TUB". 172 pgs with bibliography & index. Frontispiece. Cloth in
price-clipped light green dust jacket. Octavo. Columbus: Ohio State
University Press, (1976). Near fine condition in very good jacket with
protective mylar wrapper. In print 1998 @ $40.00. Our price: $20.00.
Lawford, James. THE CAVALRY: TECHNIQUES & TRIUMPHS OF THE MILITARY
HORSEMAN. 176 pgs with index. Color & black & white prints throughout.
Cloth in dust jacket. Quarto. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, (1976).
Fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar wrapper. "The
stories of the great cavalry regiments, their commanders & celebrated
actions." $30.00.
Yeats, W.B. THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE. Grey cloth with printed cover
& spine labels, without dust jacket. 12mo. Portland, ME: Mosher, 1903.
Inked inscription on front flyleaf; cover slightly bumped near top of
spine; otherwise, very good condition. $20.00.
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. POEMS. Cloth in chipped blue & yellow dust
jacket. 12mo. London: Oxford University Press, (1940). 2nd Edition.
Very good condition in good+ jacket with protective mylar wrapper.
$20.00.
Lauer, Quentin. PHENOMENOLOGY: ITS GENESIS & PROSPECT. 185 pgs. Maroon
paper wrappers. Octavo. NY: Harper & Row, (1965). Very good+
condition. A critical analysis of the philosophy of Edmund Husserl.
$15.00.
Rushdie, Salman. SHAME. Cloth in brown dust jacket. Octavo. NY: Knopf,
1983. 1st U.S. Edition [so stated]. Remainder mark on top edge;
otherwise, near fine condition in like jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $25.00.
[Bellow] Miller, Ruth. SAUL BELLOW: A BIOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGINATION.
385 pgs with notes & index. Cloth in very lightly chipped dust jacket.
Imperial octavo. NY: St. Martin's, (1991). 1st Edition [so stated].
Near fine condition in very good+ jacket with protective mylar
wrapper. $25.00.
[Boswell] Ryskamp, Charles (Editor). BOSWELL: THE OMINOUS YEARS, 1774-
1776. 427 pgs with index. Illustrated. Cloth in chipped, price-clipped
dust jacket. Imperial octavo. NY: McGraw-Hill, (1963). 2nd printing.
Light wear at extremities; otherwise, good+ condition in like jacket
with protective mylar wrapper. $37.50.
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