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New York: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 345pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Mild wear to jacket with a spot of toning to front cover and very light creasing to edges. Gray paper over boards with spine backed in white and lettered in silver. Previous owner's name in ink to front and rear free endpapers. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A highly presentable first printing of this 1994 PEN/Faulkner Prize winning novel by David Guterson. ABOUT THIS BOOK: San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt.… Leer más

Great Britain: T. Nelson & Sons, Ltd, 1925. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. 6 1/2" X 4 1/4". viii, 276pp. Rubbing, toning, and bumps to covers, corners, and edges of red cloth over boards. Sunning and lean to spine. Toning to edges of text block and to endpapers. Previous owner's name in ink, dated 1928, to front free endpaper. Heavy penciled annotation to pages throughout. Text is still legible. Binding feels a touch tender but remains sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Sartor Resartus is Thomas Carlyle's most enduring and influential work. First published in serial form in Fraser's Magazine in 1833-1834, it was discovered by the American Transcendentalists. Sponsored by Ralph Waldo Emerson, it was first printed as a book in Boston in 1836 and immediately became the inspiration for the Transcendental movement. The first London trade edition was published in 1838. By the 1840s, largely on the strength of Sartor Resartus, Carlyle became one of the leading literary figures in Britain. Sartor Resartus became one of… Leer más

New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. Second Edition. Paperback. Very good. Second Edition. Paperback. 9" X 6". xxxvii, 654pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people's experience of religion in fifteenth-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. For this edition, Duffy has written a new Preface reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period.(Publisher).

Thomas Nelson / HarperCollins, 2021. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Limited Edition. Hardcover. The Seasons Edition series of books are fine, exclusive editions of some of literature's most beloved stories. Featuring laser-cut jackets on a textured book with foil stamping, all titles in this series are individually numbered and issued in a limited edition of 10,000 copies each. The Spring 2021 titles include Emma by Jane Austen, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo. About the series: The Seasons Edition - Spring was the third set in a collection of fine edition classics that have been selected because of the season in which the book takes place. All books in the series feature intricate, finely detailed laser cut dust jackets and include a matching laser cut bookmark. Each one features a quote from the book about that season on the back cover. Expertly created by award-winning designer… Leer más

New York: Harper, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. As new. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by author in ink to front fly-leaf. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 9 1/4". Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial over boards. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Nathan W. Pyle's first picture book in his Strange Planet series, a #1 New York Times bestseller! Based on his popular Instagram comics, Nathan W. Pyle presents a delightful, heartfelt, and clever picture book that young and old beings alike will enjoy reading together. When the nearest star rises, Lifegiver has an exciting quest planned for Offspring! Follow along as they observe a strange creature that sneaks, hides, and vibrates around their house. Hilarity ensues as the blue beings try to mimic this talented creature. As always, Nathan W. Pyle draws humor from his unique perspective on human activity and delivers a colorful experience that… Leer más

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Rivers Solomon to page specially bound-in by the publisher. First edition, with full number line to copyright page indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 5/8". 355pp. Presents nicely in unclipped dust jacket designed by Na Kim. Bound in full deep blue paper over boards, with spine lettered in metallic blue. Binding is firm, tight, and sound. Pages are clean, bright, and unread. A highly presentable signed first printing of this triumphant, genre-bending breakout novel from Rivers Solomon, author of An Unkindness of Ghosts and The Deep and one of the boldest new voices in contemporary fiction. ABOUT SORROWLAND: Vern seven months pregnant and desperate to escape the strict religious compound where she was raised flees for the shelter of the woods. There, she gives birth to twins, and plans to raise them far from the influence of the outside world. But even in the forest, Vern is a… Leer más

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xv, 416pp. Mild toning and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart invites readers to embark on a new journey into a land of rationality that differs from the familiar territory of cognitive science and economics. Traditional views of rationality tend to see decision makers as possessing superhuman powers of reason, limitless knowledge, and all of eternity in which to ponder choices. To understand decisions in the real world, we need a different, more psychologically plausible notion of rationality, and this book provides it. It is about fast and frugal heuristics--simple rules for making decisions when time is pressing and deep thought an unaffordable luxury. These heuristics can enable both living organisms and artificial systems to make smart choices, classifications, and predictions by… Leer más

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. 9" X 6 1/8". xxxii, 703pp. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Bound in dark green cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Rather heavy wear to binding, with hard bumping to corners, chipping and fraying to head and tail of spine, and scattered rubbing or faint dampstains to cloth in places. Previous owner's name and old prices to front free endpapers. Hint of spine at gutter of Preface; text block rather shaken. Binding remains sound. Age-toning to pages throughout, else unmarked. The Senses and the Intellect, together with its follow-up The Emotions and the Will, cemented Bain as a major contributor to the emerging field of psychology, and his insistence on psychological explanations rooted in physiology proved to be part of Bain's enduring influence, predating the development of experimental psychology and behaviorism that would come in the following century. This… Leer más

New York: Doubleday, 2007. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. Signed by the author in ink at half-title page. 9 1/2" X 6 1/4". xx, 329pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in brown paper over boards with spine backed in red and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first human flying machines; designed military weapons and defenses; studied optics, hydraulics, and the workings of the human circulatory system; and created designs for rebuilding Milan, employing principles still used by city planners today. Perhaps most importantly, Leonardo pioneered an empirical, systematic approach to the observation of nature-what is known today as the scientific method.Drawing on over 6,000 pages of Leonardo's surviving… Leer más

New York: Doubleday, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". 306pp. Signed by Chuck Hogan at title page. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. A touch of edgewear to unclipped dust jacket. Black paper over boards with spine backed in black cloth and lettered in silver. Mild edgewear to binding with light scattered rubbing and dust soiling to cloth. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. A very nice signed first printing of Chuck Hogan's first novel, "a deadly war of nerves between perfectly matched opponents.

New York: Routledge, 2004. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xii, 388pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. Includes unused CD. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Speak It Louder: Asian Americans Making Music documents the variety of musics-from traditional Asian through jazz, classical, and pop-that have been created by Asian Americans. This book is not about "Asian American music" but rather about Asian Americans making music. This key distinction allows the author to track a wide range of musical genres. Wong covers an astonishing variety of music, ethnically as well as stylistically: Laotian song, Cambodian music drama, karaoke, Vietnamese pop, Japanese American taiko, Asian American hip hop, and panethnic Asian American improvisational music (encompassing jazz and avant-garde classical styles). In Wong's hands these diverse styles coalesce brilliantly around a coherent and consistent set of questions about what it means for… Leer más

Island Pond: Stadion Publishing Company, 2003. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". x, 213pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The fourth edition of Stretching Scientifically: A Guide to Flexibility Training teaches: How to stretch safely and quickly to achieve and maintain your maximum flexibility How to make your muscles grow stronger and longer so you stay flexible all the time How to do splits even if you are over 40 or 50 How to kick high and do splits with no warm-up How to develop each of the three kinds of flexibility--dynamic, static active and static passive--to suit every athlete's needs What exercises are "no-no's" if you want to stretch your muscles All the factors limiting flexibility Brilliantly simple tests of hip joint mobility and muscle length that dispel common misconceptions of what limits flexibility the most(Publisher).

Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". viii, 321pp. Veery mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of dust jacket. Brown cloth over boards with spine backed in tan and lettered in siliver. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In 1831, an unknown, horrifying, and deadly disease from Asia swept across continental Europe and North America, killing millions and throwing the medical profession into confusion. A killer with little respect for class or wealth, cholera ravaged the squalid streets of Soho and rocked the great centers of Victorian power. In this gripping book, Sandra Hempel tells the story of John Snow, a reclusive doctor without money or social position, who alone and unrecognized had the genius to look beyond the conventional wisdom of his day and uncover the truth behind the pandemic. She describes how Snow discovered that cholera was spread through drinking water and how this… Leer más

New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 373pp. Very mild shelf wear to unclipped dust jacket with light rubbing to covers. Gray paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: In medical school when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was diagnosed with the disease shortly before assuming the Presidency, Salk was given an impetus to conduct studies on polio. His progress in combating the virus was hindered by the politics of medicine and by a rival researcher determined to discredit his proposed solution. But Salk's perseverance made history-and for more than fifty years his vaccine has saved countless lives, bringing humanity close to eradicating polio throughout the world. Splendid Solution chronicles Dr. Salk's race against time-and a growing epidemic that reached… Leer más

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970. First Printing. Hardcover. Very good. First Printing. Hardcover. 10" X 6 3/4". Two volumes in slipcase. Some rubbing and wear to corners and edges of slipcase. Light toning and rubbing to spines and covers of blue cloth over boards. Pages clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. A handsome, slipcased two volume set of Edgar Johnson's biography of Sir Walter Scott.

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 9" X 6". xii, 338pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Empiricism today implies the dispassionate scrutiny of facts. But Jessica Riskin finds that in the French Enlightenment, empiricism was intimately bound up with sensibility. In what she calls a "sentimental empiricism," natural knowledge was taken to rest on a blend of experience and emotion. Riskin argues that sentimental empiricism brought together ideas and institutions, practices and politics. She shows, for instance, how the study of blindness, led by ideas about the mental and moral role of vision and by cataract surgeries, shaped the first school for the blind; how Benjamin Franklin's electrical physics, ascribing desires to nature, engaged French economic reformers; and how the question of the role of language in science and social life linked disputes over… Leer más

Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2005. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xxi, 401pp. Mild shelf wear to covers and corners of unclipped dust jacket. Light creasing to edges of dust jacket. Black paper over boards with spine backed in red and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: The carnival sideshows of the past have left behind a fascinating legacy of mystery and intrigue. The secrets behind such daring feats as fire-eating and sword swallowing and bizarre exhibitions of human oddities as "Alligator Boys" and "Gorilla Girls" still remain, only grudgingly if ever given up by performers and carnival professionals. Working alongside the performers, Joe Nickell blows the lid off these mysteries of the midway. The author reveals the structure of the shows, specific methods behind the performances, and the showmen's tactics for recruiting performers and attracting crowds. He also traces the history of such… Leer más

New York: G. W. Dillingham Company, 1902. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First Edition. Hardcover. 7 1/2" X 5 1/4". 426pp, plus three leaves of ads. Presents nicely in protective archival jacket. Red cloth over boards, with upper board and spine stamped in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with edgewear, fraying to corners, small tears to head and tail of spine, scattered rubbing, and spots of soiling to spine. Lean to spine. Front hinge tender. Pencilled notes to front endpapers. Foxing to pages throughout, else unmarked. A solid first printing of this novel by the Southern writer Augusta Jane Evans (1835 - 1909).

New York: Doubleday, 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition with full number line indicating first printing. 8 1/2" X 5 3/4". xxii. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket encased in protective archival sleeve. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Black paper over boards with spine backed in brown and lettered in gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Chuck Palahniuk's world has always been, well, different from yours and mine. In his first collection of nonfiction, Chuck Palahniuk brings us into this world, and gives us a glimpse of what inspires his fiction.At the Rock Creek Lodge Testicle Festival in Missoula, Montana, average people perform public sex acts on an outdoor stage. In a mansion once occupied by The Rolling Stones, Marilyn Manson reads his own Tarot cards and talks sweetly to his beautiful actress girlfriend. Across the country, men build their own full-size… Leer más

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1926. Hardcover. Very good +/good +. Hardcover. 7 5/8" X 5 1/4". 398pp, plus 4 leaves of ads. Early reprint. Moderate wear to colorful dust jacket, with crease to front and rear panel, small tears to head and tail of spine and at edges, and light dust soiling. Advertisements of other works on verso of dust jacket. Orange cloth over boards, with upper board and spine stamped in black. Mild edgewear to binding. Front hinge a touch tender. Pages are clean and unmarked. A quite attractive early printing of Edna Ferber's Show Boat, the inspiration for the 1927 Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II Broadway musical and three film adaptations.