Yale University Press, July 1998. Oversize Softcover. Of all the Impressionists, only Pierre-Auguste Renoir earned distinction as a professional portrait painter. For more than fifty years Renoir explored the genre of portraiture, experimenting and pressing forward in his determination to become -- as he explained to Monet in January 1884..... More
Picador, May 2010. Trade Paperback. Bill McKibben meets Bill Bryson in this seriously engaging look at one man's decision to put his money where his mouth is and go off the grid for one year--while still living in New York City--to see if it's possible to make no net impact..... More
The Library of Liberal Arts; The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1955. Paper Back. Damp stained & darkened top right corner. Sunned spine. Smudges along textblock fore-edge. Some side notes here and there, a few times within text. [113 pp.]. More
Basic Books, September 1998. Trade Paperback. In this marvelous book, the reader is introduced to the bizarre concepts of modern physics as the only way to solve a casebook of otherwise impossibly paradoxical crimes. Murder on a royal train. Divers dead of heatstroke at the bottom of an icy sea..... More
J. Henry Press, October 2004. Paper Back. For the better part of a century, attempts to explain what was really going on in the quantum world seemed doomed to failure. But recent technological advances have made the question both practical and urgent. A brilliantly imaginative group of physicists at Oxford..... More
University Of Chicago Press, August 1991. Paper Back. Based on Michel Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collè ge de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited sequel to "Power/Knowledge." In these lectures, Foucault examines the art or..... More
Soho Press, December 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. "This series kickoff is an embarrassment of riches: Holmesian sleuthing, political satire, and [a] droll comic study of a prickly late bloomer."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "The sights, smells, and colors of Laos practically jump of the pages of this inspired, often wryly witty..... More
Unbridled Books, October 2010. Paper Back. The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness. Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and authoritative history of ideas carried along on..... More
Harry N. Abrams, October 1995. Oversized Hardcover. In 1765, Catherine the Great began to collect paintings of the highest quality for political as well as aesthetic reasons . Her collection was the seed that grew into one of the greatest museums in the world . Never before has such a...... More
St. Martins Press-3PL, May 2009. Paper Back. There's no doubt about it: Colin Harrison is a master storyteller. Critics and readers love his gripping, dark books. It's hard not to get sucked into his world. Entertainment Weekly calls him the "class act of the urban thriller," Michiko Kakutani of The..... More
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1970. First American. Hardcover. Presumed first U.S. printing w/ no additional printings stated; Solid binding w/ mild wear to spine; Clean, sturdy boards in black cloth - ever-so-gently edge-worn; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket ($8.95) Very Good, gently edge-worn w/ mild toning present; Jacket housed..... More
Indiana University Press/ The Harvester Press, October 1982. Reprint. Cloth. 2nd printing. Octavo. Heavily egeworn dustjacket. Persian red cloth covered boards. [192 pages]. More
Clarendon Press, June 2003. Paper Back. More
Harper Perennial, July 2003. Paper Back. More
Harper, January 2017. Hardcover. Award-winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory. A house is burning, threatening the existence of its six tenants--including a failed priest; a naturalist; a neurosurgeon; an invalid..... More
Athlone Press, January 1974. Hardcover. More
Clarion / Simon & Schuster, October 1968. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Octavo. First Clarion Printing, 1968 Mild edgewear. Dust stained edges. Staining to rear cover panel. [251 pages]. More
Anchor Doubleday, 1963. Mass Market PaperBack. G+ in square and tight heavily age toned white wraps. Very light shelfwear - no chips or tears. Interior clean and free of markings. A374. In archival sleeve. More
Harpercollins, June 1993. Paper Back. More
NY; Atheneum; 1969;. First Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition; Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards w/ mild toning/spotting present; Pages free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket gently edge-worn/rubbed with mild closed-tearing present; Jacket housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation; An excellent copy. More
Carroll & Graf Pub, April 1991. Paper Back. Mild underlining present. More
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing; Sound binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Pages free of markings; Price-clipped jacket moderately edge-worn/rubbed; Jacket housed in protective mylar; An excellent copy. More
John Baker, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. Minimal shelfwear to cloth binding. Jacket is price-clipped and a bit rubbed and chipped along edges but wrapped for further preservation. More
Bantam, 1973. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Panther Books, 1973. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Panther mass market UK paperback reprint with cocked spine. Creasing & edgeworn with darkened margins. Previous owner's name and a location upper right of first inside page. [188 pages + three pages of Panther horror and science fiction titles then available.]. More
