The Nature of Alexander
Pantheon, November 1979. Mass Market PaperBack. The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault, the author of Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, two best-selling novels about Alexander. More
Pantheon, November 1979. Mass Market PaperBack. The acclaimed biography of Alexander the Great by Mary Renault, the author of Fire from Heaven and The Persian Boy, two best-selling novels about Alexander. More
Eureka Productions, August 2005. Paper Back. The book presents thirteen stories and poems of danger, horror, comedy, and romance; all told in new comics adaptations. Included are "The Valley of the Sorceress" by "Fu Manchu" author Sax Rohmer, "The Masked Ball" by Alexandre Dumas, and "Tigre" by Zane Grey. Plus..... More
Penguin Books, 1986. Mass Market PaperBack. Essential passages form the works of more than 100 fifteenth-and sixteenth-century thinkers and writers, including Erasmus, Cervantes, Boccaccio, Montaigne, Bodin, Dürer, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Rabelais, Leonardo, Cellini, Copernicus, Galileo, Savonarola, Luther, and Calvin. (Four & 1/4' x 7') -- 7th reprint of 1977 Penguin mass..... More
Knopf, January 1985. First Thus. Paper Back. Octavo with curled textblock. Previous owner's name written in blue ballpoint first internal page. {76 pages]. More
Alfred A. Knopf, March 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. In dustjacket. Red cloth. Foxing and discoloration on end pages. More
Dover Publications, March 1983. Paper Back. Profusely illustrated account of the greatest engineering achievement of the 19th century. Rare contemporary photos and engravings, accompanied by extensive, detailed captions, recall construction, human drama, politics, much more. 167 black-and-white illustrations. Profusely illustrated account of the greatest engineering achievement of the 19th century..... More
Penguin Classics, September 2007. Trade Paperback. A deluxe edition of Mary Shelley's haunting adventure about ambition and modernity run amok. Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Now a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition with an introduction by Elizabeth Kostova and cover art by Ghost..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), 199. Paper Back. Why are the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf, Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel frescoes, and Marcel Duchamp's ready-made urinal all considered works of art? Why, strictly speaking, is a Cindy Sherman photograph more art-like than a Da Vinci portrait? How did the painters and sculptors of the Renaissance..... More
Doubleday, January 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo in dustjacket with cllipped front spine. Quarter bound: black cloth spine with stamped gold lettering & off-white paper (embedded w/fibers) covered boards. Tangerine colored end pages front and back. Inscribed & signed: 'To Elizabeth from her friend, love, Mary Stuart' on ffep. [462..... More
Viking Adult, August 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Mary Swander was a lapsed Catholic content with the solitude and tenuous spirituality of a life tied to the Iowa prairie and its seasons. But when a car accident left her paralyzed and in chronic pain with no medical cure in sight, she..... More
Random House, October 2002. Hardcover. Amuse-bouche (pronounced ah-myuz boosh) are today what hors d'oeuvres were to America in the 1950s: a relatively unknown feature of French culinary tradition that, once introduced, immediately became standard fare. Chefs at many fine restaurants offer guests an amuse-bouche, a bite-sized treat that excites the..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1980. Trade Paperback. As is. Book slightly curled. More
Rizzoli, January 1982. Oversized Hardcover. Minor shelfwear to book and jacket. Slipcase a bit sunned. More
National Gallery of Art. Oversize Softcover. Very mild edgewear and spine crease. Pages clean and in-tact. More
University of Georgia Press, December 1990. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in clean, bright dustjacket. Front flap is not clipped. Grey boards with red lettering upon spine. Brick red end papers front and rear. Tightly bound. Complete number string. Clean interior text. [419 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, USA, April 2009. Trade Paperback. Mary Wollstonecraft is best known for her pioneering views on the rights of women to share equal rights and opportunities with men. They are expressed here in two novels in which heroines have to rely on their own resources to establish their..... More