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American Legacy Press, NY, 1985. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Text and photographs seek to recapture the life and architecture of Chicago between 1833 and 1933, celebrating the fallen and razed private and public buildings and monuments of the Place of the Wild Onion." [Pub. Info] More than 200 historic photos. 1ST THUS.

Harper Collins, NY, 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "During a kachina ceremony at the Tano Pueblo, the antics of a dancing koshare fill the air with tension. Moments later, the clown is found bludgeoned to death, in the same manner a reservation schoolteacher was killed only days before. Officer Jim Chee and Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn believe that answers lie in the sacred clown's final cryptic message to the Tano people. The two Navajo policemen may have to delve into closely guarded tribal secrets, on a sinister trail of blood that links a runaway, a holy artifact, corrupt Indian traders, and a pair of dead bodies." [Pub. Info] STATED FIRST EDITION

Bloomsbury , 1994. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST UK EDITION.

Knopf , 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. ""Memnoch has a half-maddened, fever-pitch intensity. . . . Narrated by Rice's most cherished character, the vampire Lestat, Memnoch tells a tale as old as Scripture's legends and as modern as today's religious strife. -- Rolling Stone"" [Pub. Info]

Harper & Row, 1972. 1st US edition. Hardcover. Fine. "...Emile Durkheim, one of the great founding fathers of sociology. Durkheim remains one of the most widely read thinkers in the social sciences and every student of sociology, anthropology and related subjects must study his now-classic books. He brought about a revolution in the social sciences: the defence of the autonomy of sociology as a science, the systematic elaboration of rules and methods for studying the social, the condemnation of racial theories, the critique of Eurocentrism and the rehabilitation of the humanity of ‘the primitive’. He defended the dignity of the individual, the freedom of the press, democratic institutions and the essential liberal values of tolerance and pluralism. At the same time he was critical of laisser-faire economics and he defended the values of solidarity and community life. In many ways, Durkheim’s rich intellectual heritage has become part of the self-understanding of our time."" [Pub. Info] 676… Leer más

Oxford University Press, 1986. 1st edition. Hardcover. As New. One of best resources on American writers and their works. There is a protective mylar cover.

Viking, NY, 1977. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "A critical biography of Kipling focuses on the writer's literary and peripatetic searches for a refuge to replace the lost Indian Eden of his childhood." [Pub Info] Definitive biography. 397 pages. 1ST US EDITION.

Random House, NY , 1988. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "As his characters struggle for survival, Michener weaves together the exciting high points of Alaska's story: its brutal origins; the American acquisition; the gold rush; the tremendous growth and exploitation of the salmon industry; the arduous construction of the Alcan Highway, undertaken to defend the territory during World War II. A spellbinding portrait of a human community fighting to establish its place in the world, Alaska traces a bold and majestic saga of the enduring spirit of a land and its people." [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST EDITION.

Oxford University Press, NY, 1963. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "John Innes Mackintosh Stewart was a Scottish novelist and academic. He is equally well known for the works of literary criticism and contemporary novels published under his real name Michael Innes. 'Eight Modern Writers' includes a set of eight writers to go with the period from 1880 to 1940 - all writers remarkable enough to deserve any amount of attention." [Pub. Info] Insightful essays on Hardy; James; Shaw; Conrad; Kipling; Yeats; Joyce; Lawrence. 704 pages. 1ST EDITION

Farrar Straus & Giroux, NY , 1992. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Andy Warhol's 'Brillo Box' of 1964 constituted a radical attack on the traditional definition of artwork and, in Danto's view, brought the history of Western art to a close. 'Beyond the Brillo Box' considers the aftermath and the consequences of Warhol's work on three levels. Danto first discusses what he calls the master narrative of Western art... He then takes up the current, post-historical period, which began with Warhol and the collision of 'high' and 'low' art... Finally, Danto addresses the philosophical idea of the master narrative from Plato to Wittgenstein and beyond..." [Dust Jacket] Danto won the 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. There is a protective mylar cover. STATED 1ST EDITION

The Folio Society, London, UK, Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Essays by J. H. Plumb, Sir Lewis Namier, and Geoffrey Holmes among others. An excellent resource on England at a time of great colonial expansion and the creation of its formidable place in world politics. Slipcase is also in As New condition. This is a 1st thus edition.

The Bobs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, Hardcover. Fine /General wear to extremities; large chip with paper loss at bottom right corner of cover; small tear at top left of front cover. Chipping with paper loss at top and botrtom of spine, small tear also at top; small tear at top of back cover.. "This is the stuff of which legend is made, this story of the making of Texas, and Houston is one with those semi-legendary characters - with Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett, with Marion the Swamp Fox and Ethan Allen... In a sense he is too good to be true, this man who wrought such mighty deeds within the lifetime of our fathers and grandfathers; in a sense if he had not existed we should have had to create him." [Introduction by Henry Steele Commager] Illustrated. There is a protective mylar cover. Pulitzer Prize for Biography (for 'The Raven')

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1982. Hardcover. Fine. "A critical examination of the lives and works of leading thinkers of the period. A critical examination of the lives and works of leading thinkers of the period."" [Pub. Info] 500 entries by 200 experts. 709 pages. 1ST EDITION

St. Martin's Press, NY, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Novel based on the screenplay by David Williamson and the story by Peter Weir (who also directed the Australian film Gallopoli). The story concerns young men who enlist in WWI and "come-of-age" in the failed Allied Campaign (Britain and France) against the Ottoman Empire. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST US EDITION.

HarperCollins, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Scott Fitzgerald, a romantic and tragic figure who embodied the decades between the two world wars, was a writer who took his material almost entirely from his life. This book... is the first to analyze frankly the meaning as well as the events of Fitzgerald's life."" [Pub. Info] Definitive biography.

Harcourt Brace, NY [Modern Classics], 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/ Fine "Lewis's scathing satire of middle-class America: Babbitt explores the social pressures of conformity and materialism... the story of George Babbitt, a middle-aged family man who becomes disillusioned with both conformity and his belated attempts at rebellion. Set in the fictional Midwestern town of Zenith, Babbitt offers a powerful critique of the American Dream and all it entails." [Pub. Info] The Nobel Prize in Literature 1930 was awarded to Sinclair Lewis "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of characters". [Nobel prize website] Owner name. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST Thus.

Harper Collins. NY, 2015. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "The sequel to the globally renowned 'To Kill a Mockingbird'... forces readers and characters alike to accept some difficult truths when the narrator, Scout, returns to her hometown and becomes infuriated with the stagnation, lack of ambition and backwards attitudes of people she has known and loved her whole life." [Pub. Info] The book and dust jacket are both in Fine condition. There is a protective mylar cover. STATED FIRST EDITION.

Columbia University Press, NY , 1986. 1st edition. Fine/Fine. "Arthur Danto, a thinker of great scope and wide interests, has contributed to many aspects of contemporary philosophy. The broad range of his work is indicated by his previous books, which includes 'The Transfiguration of the Commonplace', which concerns a theme in which Danto has long been interested: the relationship between art and philosophy. 'The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art' delves further into that long and complex relationship. It brings the strategies of philosophical analysis to the resolution of conceptual questions in contemporary art, and seeks to explain the deep ties, historical and theoretical, between philosophy and art." [Dust Jacket] STATED 1ST EDITION.

Oxford University Press, Oxford UK. 1st thus. Hardcover. Fine. No comparable volume offers such extensive coverage of the classical roots of English literature - both surveys of indiviual figures… and separate accounts of major works… [It provides] unrivalled coverage of European authors… who have influenced the development of English literature... [and is] the most complete reference guide to English literary culture..."" [Pub. Info] REVISED EDITION.

Butterworth's, London, UK, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Published first by British father and son (both architects and architectural historians) this book has been, and is, the standard reference for concise/accurate descriptions of architecture throughout the ages. "...it is believed that a work in which architecture is treated as a result and record of civilization, will prove attractive to that increasing public which interests itself in artistic development." [Preface, 1896] Larger format. [Please check for shipping cost on multi-volume sets and larger format books.] There is a protective mylar cover. 19TH EDITION; 2ND PRINTING.