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G.P. Putnam, NY, 1862. 1st edition. hardcover. Good . Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American literary artist to earn his living solely through his writings and the first to enjoy international acclaim. In addition to his long public service as a diplomat, Irving was amazingly prolific. His collected works fill forty volumes that encompass essays, history, travel writings, and multi-volume biographies of Columbus and Washington. But it is Irving's mastery of suspense, characterization, tempo, and irony that transforms his fiction into virtuoso performances..." [Pub. Info] This biography of Irving was written by his nephew. The volumes are in Good to Very Good condition. [Please check for shipping cost on multi-volume sets and larger format books.]

Little, Brown & Co. NY [vols: 1983, 1988, 2012], 1983. 1st edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Born at the end of the 19th century when Imperial Britain still stood at the splendid pinnacle of her power, Churchill would witness the shift a few years later as the Empire hovered on the brink of a catastrophic new era. One of the greatest wartime leaders of our time, he would go on to stand alone, politically isolated in Parliament, as he took the lead in warning of the growing Nazi threat, and would lead Britain to victory against Nazi Germany and the Axis powers in World War II... 'The Last Lion' is the definitive work on this remarkable man whose courageous vision guided the destiny of a nation during darkly troubled times - and who looms as one of the greatest figures of our century." [Pub. Info] "The Nobel Prize in Literature 1953 was awarded to Winston Churchill "for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human… Leer más

G. P. Putnam, Hurd and Houghton, NY, 1866. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No jacket. Arranged and edited by Pierre M. Irving. Scarce first of two volumes. Prior owner's signature. Chipping to top of spines. 1st edition.

Harper Collins, NY , 2006. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper was a primary source of information. The reporters and artists who traveled with the armies were eyewitnesses to events, great and small, for their captivated readers. Sometimes the news was sensational. At other times it was tragic. But it was always eagerly sought after. Here are the accounts, in pictures and stories, of those first wartime journalists." [Dust Jacket] Detailed index. Smithsonian. 226 pages. Copiously illustrated. There is a protective mylar cover. Larger format. [Please check shipping cost for larger format books and multi-volume sets.] 1ST EDITION.

John B. Alden, NY, 1887. 1st edition. Hardcover. Good. "Washington Irving (1783-1859) was an American author of the early 19th century. Best known for his short stories 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' and 'Rip Van Winkle,' he was also a prolific essayist, biographer and historian. He travelled on the Western frontier in the 1830s and recorded his glimpses of Western tribes in 'A Tour on the Prairies' (1835). He spoke against the mishandling of relations with the Native American tribes by Europeans and Americans." [Pub. Info] 1ST THUS

The Swallow Press, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Of all the strange landscapes of America, the most powerfully mysterious, the Far West, had been a compelling force on the imagination for as long as there had been rumor of it.' Beginning in the 1830s, with Catlin and Bodmer and Miller and others, 'at last it was realized in paint.' Hundreds of artists and illustrators continued to portray the West. There were professionals and amateurs, government survey employees, women and men. European visitors - and cowboys like Charles Russell... The West was loved and longed after and romaticized and misunderstood by the non-Westerner. By the Westerner it was loved and taken for granted."" [Dust Jacket] A dictionary of Western artists born before 1900. Each volume has a protective mylar cover. STATED 1ST EDITION.

University Press of Hawaii, 1972. 1st edition . Hardcover. Fine. "These essays are based on ideas and activities and intellectual adjustments in various places, particularly Mexico, France, mainland United States, and Hawaii -- seventy-nine essays of infinite variety, on art, literature, history, poliitics, philosophy, all done in a style as rich in image and perception as his painting."" [Preface, p. xi] Books are Fine in a Fine slipcase. Volume 1 - Collected Essays by Jean Charlot; Volume 2 - Mexican Art. This is a review copy.

Wayne State University Press, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Moses Jacob Ezekiel was the first American-borm Jewish artist to achieve international recognition. A child of the South, born in Richmond, Virginia, and a graduate of the Virginia Military Academy, he served in the Confederacy in the Civil War, and became an intimate friend of General Robert E. Lee and Mrs. Lee soon after the war. ...Still a young man, Ezekiel traveled to Europe in 1869 to study sculpture in Berlin. His talent and the international acclaim it won remained for many years uncompensated, although contemporary critics praised him as the greatest talent since Michelangelo. ...Ezelkiel settle in Rome, where he became an intimate of many of the celebrated artists and political figures of the late 19th century... Ezekiel's colorful personality, his love of gossip, his unfailing curiosity about the world in which he lived, and his often magisterial opinions about the issues of contemporary society give his memoirs unique… Leer más

[Dura Europos] was founded in 303BC... [at the intersection of trade routes on the Euphates. [It] was abandoned in he 3rd century AD... The Parthian Temple, the painted Christian Chapel, and the standing Jewish Synagogue with its four walls covered with paintings from the Old Testament [were] vital sources for the understanding of pagan religions, Judaism in the early centuries of the Christian Era, and early Christianity. The chance discovery of Dura by British troops in 1920 and its subsequent study [by] French and American archaeologists resulted in one of the most famous archaeological recoveries in the twentieth century, [But in the 21st century] ISIS [initiated massive looting of the site turning] the illicit aniquities trade into a multimillion dollar transnational business..."" [PARALLELS] ""Satellite imagery shows a cratered landscape inside the mud-brick walls, evidence of widespread destruction..."" [National Geographic] There is a protective mylar cover. Out-of-print. 1ST EDITION.

Luxor Press, London, Deluxe edition. Hardcover. Fine. Written in 1749. It was a huge success. The publisher's preface contains a brief biography of Cleland and a brief accounting of the dismissal of a NY lawsuit to have the book banned for obscenity in 1963.

Bonanza Books, 1951. Hardcover. Fine. "Here you will find the whole vivid story in pictures of the gallant, heroic slice of history that was the Confederate States of America….you will find the best of the great wealth of illustrations of the Confederacy….Here are rare Brady photographs, Sheppard sketches, Chapman oils, Volck engravings; here are photographs and on-the-spot drawings by unknown Confederate soldiers, never before reproduced in any book."" [Dust Jacket] 288 pages. There is a protective mylar cover.

Cambridge University Press, UK, No date. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The book and dust jacket are in Fine condition.

Knopf, NY, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. "Instead of the dying Old Regime, Schama presents an ebullient country, vital and inventive, infatuated with novelty and technology--a strikingly fresh view of Louis XVI's France. A New York Times bestseller in hardcover. 200 illustrations." [Pub, Info] "Simon Schama is a professor of art history and history at Columbia University, and is the author of numerous award-winning books... [and has] won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. He is a cultural essayist for the New Yorker and has written and presented more than thirty documentaries for the BBC, PBS, and the History Channel..." [Pub. Info] Very minor chipping on spine; book fly leaf has small tear. There is a protective mylar cover.

Clarkson N Potter, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Children's books from the late 16th century to the present day. Ephemeral and often elusive works. Reproduces the hand-coloured frontispiece and the woodcuts or copper-plate engravings.""1ST EDITION

Hutchinson & Company, 1st edition.. Hardcover. Fine. ""Arthur Koestler argues that the scientist's insight is similar to the artist's act of creation, and that they share certain psychological conditions. Examining the common factors in scientific, artistic, and comic creations, he gives examples from psychology."" [Pub. Info] ""While the study of psychology has offered little in the way of explaining the creative process, Koestler examines the idea that we are at our most creative when rational thought is suspended - for example, in dreams and trancelike states."" [Pub. Info]

National Georgraphic Society, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "We British are a strange lot; we don't have a noun to describe ourselves in the singular. Someone from the United States can say that he or she is an American, whether from Honolula or Hackensack. But in these islands no one calls himself a Briton or a Britisher. We say we're English, Scottish, Welsh....this book will lead you to a better understanding of us and of the lands that helped ot shape us....if there's one thing the English, Welsh, Scots, and Irish enjoy, it is showing off their countries to foreigners, to those people whom Shakespeare...described as the inhabitants of 'less happier lands.'"" [Pub Info] Sumptuously illustrated.

McGraw Hill, NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. ""The novel is the story of Dreyer, a wealthy and boisterous proprietor of a men's clothing emporium store. Ruddy, self-satisfied, and thoroughly masculine, he is perfectly repugnant to his exquisite but cold middle-class wife Martha. Attracted to his money but repelled by his oblivious passion, she longs for their nephew instead, the myopic Franz."" [Pub. Info] There is a protective mylar cover. STATED 1ST AMERICAN EDITION.

Knopf, NY, 2009. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "In the concluding volume of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for her life in more ways than one: if and when she recovers, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of Mikael Blomkvist, she'll need to identify those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she'll seek revenge - against the man who tried to kill her and against the corrupt government institutions that nearly destroyed her life."" [Pub Info] As New; STATED 1ST UNITED STATES EDITION.

Charles Scribner's Sons , 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST US EDITION.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux/ NY, 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine. "Cancer Ward examines the relationship of a group of people in the cancer ward of a provincial Soviet hospital in 1955, two years after Stalin's death. We see them under normal circumstances, and also reexamined at the eleventh hour of illness. Together they represent a remarkable cross-section of contemporary Russian characters and attitudes. The experiences of the central character, Oleg Kostoglotov, closely reflect the author's own: Solzhenitsyn himself became a patient in a cancer ward in the mid-1950s, on his release from a labor camp, and later recovered."" [Pub. Info] 560 pages. The book is in Fine/ As New condition. There is a protective mylar cover. 1ST US EDITION; 3RD PRINTING.