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London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. Third Printing. Hardcover. Very good +/very good +. Third Printing. Hardcover. Stated third impression, printed in June 1965, two months after the first printing. 7 5/8" X 5 1/4". 221pp. Presents beautifully in protective archival sleeved wrap-around dust jacket designed by Richard Chopping with original price of 18s net to front flap. Gentle bumping, tiny open tears, and rubbing to corners and head and tail of spine of dust jacket. Bound in full cloth-textured black paper over boards, with spine lettered in bright gilt. Gentle rubbing and bumping to extremities, else fine. Spot of soiling to top edge of text block. Green patterned endpapers. Binding is firm, sound, and square. Pages are very gently age-toned else clean and unmarked. A very presentable and well-preserved early printing of the twelfth and final novel in Ian Fleming's James Bond series and thirteenth Bond book overall, the basis for the 1974 film of the same name, the second film to star Roger Moore as the… Leer más

Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1987. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9 1/2" X 8 1/4". 431pp. Wear to pictorial paper wraps with rubbing, creasing, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges. Creasing to spine. Toning to edges of text block. Offsetting to inside of front cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: First published in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has quickly achieved recognition as the standard work on the subject. Described by Professor James Ackerman of Harvard University as 'immeasurably the finest work covering this field in existence', it provides a lucid and accurate account of the growth of the modern tradition, and a balanced critique of its achievements.(Publisher).

New York: Riverhead Books, 2022. First Edition. Hardcover. New/new. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Marlon James to page tipped in by publisher. Stated First Printing. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". xxviii, 626pp. Light shelfwear to unclipped pictorial dust jacket featuring the artwork of Pablo Gerardo Camacho. Bound in black paper over boards, with spine backed in blue cloth and lettered in metallic green. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean, crisp, and unread. A highly presentable signed first printing of this second novel in Marlon James' Dark Star trilogy, the sequel to the bestselling National Book Award finalist Black Leopard, Red Wolf. ABOUT MOON WITCH SPIDER KING: In Black Leopard, Red Wolf, Sogolon the Moon Witch proved a worthy adversary to Tracker as they clashed across a mythical African landscape in search of a mysterious boy who disappeared. In Moon Witch, Spider King, Sogolon takes center stage and gives her own account of what happened to the boy, and how she plotted and… Leer más

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. Hardcover. As new/as new. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 9 1/4". 116pp. As New in publisher's shrink wrap. ABOUT THIS BOOK: A new consideration of extraordinary art created by Black artists during the mid-20th century My Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical significance of contemporary Black artists working throughout the southeastern United States. These paintings, drawings, mixed-media compositions, sculptures, and textiles include pieces ranging from the profound assemblages of Thornton Dial to the renowned quilts of Gee's Bend. Nearly 60 remarkable examples are illustrated alongside insightful texts that situate them in the history of modernism and the context of African American experience in the 20th-century South. This remarkable study simultaneously considers these works on their own merits while also making connections to mainstream contemporary art. Art historians Cheryl Finley, Randall R. Griffey, and Amelia Peck illuminate shared artistic… Leer más

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xii, 503pp. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bump to top edge of black cloth over board. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In 1957 two young scientists, Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl, produced a landmark experiment confirming that DNA replicates as predicted by the double helix structure Watson and Crick had recently proposed. It also gained immediate renown as a "most beautiful" experiment whose beauty was tied to its simplicity. Yet the investigative path that led to the experiment was anything but simple, Frederic L. Holmes shows in this masterful account of Meselson and Stahl's quest. This book vividly reconstructs the complex route that led to the Meselson-Stahl experiment and provides an inside view of day-to-day scientific research--its unpredictability, excitement, intellectual challenge, and serendipitous… Leer más

New York: HarperCollins, 2003. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/very good. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. Stated First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xix, 348pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Brown paper over boards with spine lettered in metallic green. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The fascinating story of the intensive search to discover and possess quinine the only known cure for malaria Malaria kills someone every 12 minutes in Africa. Now known mostly as a disease of the tropics, malaria led to the demise of the Roman Empire 2,000 years ago and ravaged Europe for years afterwards. At the start of the 17th century, Jesuit priests developed quinine, an alkaloid made out of the bitter red bark of the cinchona tree from the Andes. When quinine arrived in Europe, the Protestant powers resisted the medicine fearing that it was a Popish poison.… Leer más

New York: Nan A. Talese, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 6". 225pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Red paper over boards with spine lettered in silver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This brilliant collection of connected short stories strings together several decades of moments in the life of one woman—as an ambitious girl in the 1930s, as a young professional coming of age in the uncertain ‘50s and ‘60s, and as half of a couple growing old together. In a series of vividly evoked settings that span cities, backwoods, and farm country, we see this woman contending over time with an unstable sister, a married lover, aging parents, mystifying stepchildren, vulnerable farm animals, and her own changing self. By turns funny, lyrical, earthy, shocking, and deeply personal, Moral Disorder displays… Leer más

Wykey: Quiller Press, 2007. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 384pp. Rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bumps to corners of blue paper over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Based on the author's exhaustive researches, this is the first dedicated account of the practice of surgery during the pre-anaesthetic and pre-antiseptic days of the Napoleonic Wars. The author, a retired surgeon, captures both the background and the nature of the patients, the experience of wounding and the training of surgeons. The surgeons had to battle against contagion, infection and bleeding, often operating in the most appalling conditions but, in spite of this, some of their results were truly remarkable. This book takes a methodical approach working through the terrible effects of combat weapons at the time, the training and preparation of medical services and - in some detail - the treatment and… Leer más

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 8 3/4" X 5 3/4". xiii, 248pp. A touch of shelfwear to pictorial dust jacket, else fine. Bound in full black cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked. A highly presentable first printing of this history of the Gonzales girls, a triad of sixteenth-century sisters genetically predisposed to unusual hirsutism who found popularity among the painters, scientists, and lovers of curiosities throughout Europe. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book tells the extraordinary story of three sixteenth-century sisters who, along with their father and brothers, were afflicted with an extremely rare genetic condition that made them unusually hairy. Amazingly, the Gonzales sisters were not mocked or shunned, but were welcomed in the courts of Europe, spending much of their lives among… Leer más

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 8 3/8" X 5 3/4". 326pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Mild edgewear and light surface wear to unclipped dust jacket. Dark blue cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, with lean to spine. Faint bookseller's notations to front free endpaper. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and unmarked, with the occasional dog-ear. A quite presentable first printing of this novel of Regency England by Patricia Veryan.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". 384pp. Inscribed by Jeffry D. Wert to Earlene Scott, owner of Scott's Books, and dated September 22, 1990. Moderate wear to unclipped pictorial dust jacket, with edgewear, dampstain to bottom edge of rear panel, sunning to flaps, and light surface wear. Blue paper over boards, with spine backed in brown cloth and lettered in gilt. Mild edgewear to binding, firm and sound. Light dust soiling to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. A quite smart signed first printing of this biography of John S. Mosby during the Civil War.

San Francisco: V. Vale, 1996. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 11" X 8 1/2". 123pp. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Very occasional inked underlining to pages. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Memoirs of a Sword Swallower is Daniel P. Mannix's autobiography as a sword-swallower with a traveling sideshow, illustrated with photos from the 30s and 40s taken by the author. An example of Classic Americana, this book offers a portrayal of a vanished world of working-class performance artists who earned a living by their unique bodies and imaginations. Stars include the Fat Lady, the human beanpole, the Ostrich man who ate broken glass, and many more. The "tricks" behind eating fire and swallowing swords are explicated with clarity and candor. This book will appeal to all who speculate about the outer limits of pain, pleasure, and revulsion. Mannix went on to become the supreme noir historian of the 20th century, penning Those About to Die (about the… Leer más

Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 8 3/4" X 5 1/2". xiv, 269pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Price sticker to rear cover. Very occasional inked underlining to pages. Underlining does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Musicians of Asian descent enjoy unprecedented prominence in concert halls, conservatories, and classical music performance competitions. In the first book on the subject, Mari Yoshihara looks into the reasons for this phenomenon, starting with her own experience of learning to play piano in Japan at the age of three. Yoshihara shows how a confluence of culture, politics and commerce after the war made classical music a staple in middle-class households, established Yamaha as the world's largest producer of pianos and gave the Suzuki method of music training an international clientele. Soon, talented musicians from Japan, China and South Korea were flocking to the United States to… Leer más

Boston: Shambhala, 1996. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". ix, 322pp. Mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Previous owner's name in ink to front endpaper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The first teacher to bring Islamic mysticism to the West presents music's divine nature and its connection to our daily lives in this poetic classic of Sufi literature. Music, according to Sufi teaching, is really a small expression of the overwhelming and perfect harmony of the whole universe—and that is the secret of its amazing power to move us. The Indian Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882-1927), the first teacher to bring the Islamic mystical tradition to the West, was an accomplished musician himself. His lucid exposition of music's divine nature has become a modern classic, beloved not only by those interested in Sufism but by musicians of all kinds.(Publisher).

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xiv, 281pp. Mild creasing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Dust-spotting to edges of text block. Very occasional inked underlining to pages. Underlining does not obscure text. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This ambitious book by one of the most original and provocative thinkers in science studies offers a sophisticated new understanding of the nature of scientific, mathematical, and engineering practice and the production of scientific knowledge. Andrew Pickering offers a new approach to the unpredictable nature of change in science, taking into account the extraordinary number of factors—social, technological, conceptual, and natural—that interact to affect the creation of scientific knowledge. In his view, machines, instruments, facts, theories, conceptual and mathematical structures, disciplined practices, and human beings are in constantly shifting relationships with one… Leer más

Paris: The Olympia Press, 1956. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 7" X 4 1/2". 223pp, plus one leaf of ads. Moderate edgewear and staining to stiff green paper wraps, with scattered rubbing, creasing to spine and to wraps, chipping to head and tail of spine, and slight lean to spine. Original Olympia Press price sticker to rear wrap, age-toned and lacking top right corner. Occasional brown stains to pages throughout. Hint of binding strings at center; binding remains sound. An admittedly very worn but complete copy of this Olympia Press printing of the unabridged version of the classic erotic novel Memoirs of Fanny Hill, based on the original published in 1749, no. 17 in The Traveller's Companion Series.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1977. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xv, 541pp. Mild wear to unclipped dust jacket with toning and creasing to covers and edges. Sunning to spine of jacket. Light dust-spotting to edges of text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Includes 43 full-page illustrations. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This book is for anyone interested in ideas and their history. Despite its comprehensiveness, it is not primarily a survey or synthesis but rather an interpretation of modern intellectual history. Its specific purpose is to trace the development of one intriguing theme- perhaps the major theme- in modern man's way fo thinking about himself and his universe. That theme is the sense of becoming rather than being.(Publisher).

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +/Good +. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8 1/2" X 6". xiv, 272pp. Book presents nicely in protective archival sleeve. Mild wear to price-clipped dust jacket with creasing and chipping to edges and toning to covers. Clear tape has been applied to top and bottom edges of spine. Green cloth over boards with spine lettered in silver. Previous owner's book plate and name in pencil to front free end paper. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. 32 black-and-white photographs throughout. An overall solid copy of this 1952 work documenting the origin, development, and construction of Mt. Rushmore.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1983. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 5 7/8". xxi, 368pp. Inscribed by editor Katie Louchheim to previous owner at half-title page. 2" closed tear along side of spine at tail. Moderate wear to paper wraps, with bumping to corners. Previous owner's notes to front pastedown. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A nice, solid signed copy of reminiscences and interviews with the people behind The New Deal, including Alger Hiss and Abe Fortas, edited by Katie Louchheim, who was among those who arrived in Washington D.C. in the 1930s.

New York: Harper Collins, 1994. Paperback. Good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 7 1/4". xiv, 368pp. Rubbing, creasing, and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are free of marks and notation. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The only book of its kind, The Medieval Reader is afascinating, illustrated collection of almost 100 first-handaccounts of the period known as the middle ages, roughly from thefourth to the sixteenth centuries. Revealing the medieval worldin all its astonishing diversity, the selections reflect the cultureof the people who lived during the period, and the contributionsthey made to their world and our own. Including, in the best translations, familiar texts such as The Song of Roland, St. Augustine's Confessions and Dante's Divine Comedy, the book also contains the work of many less familiar writers, including prominent medieval women such as Hildegard of Bingen, Christine de Pisan and Margery Kempe. Finally, with the inclusion of many selections illustrating… Leer más