Constable, January 1985. First Edition. Cloth. First/first UK edition in dustjacket with sticker residue front panel and flap. Black cloth covered boards with silver lettering to spine edge. Previous owner's name inked ffep. [184 pages]. More
Harper, November 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing. Full number line. Signed on the title page by Nicholas Basbanes. More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 2013. Hardcover. A Best Book of the Year: "Mother Jones," "Bloomberg News, ""National Post," "Kirkus Reviews" A consideration of all things paper its invention that revolutionized human civilization; its thousand-fold uses (and misuses), proliferation, and sweeping influence on society; its makers, shapers, collectors, and pulpers written..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, October 2013. Hardcover. A Best Book of the Year: "Mother Jones," "Bloomberg News, ""National Post," "Kirkus Reviews" A consideration of all things paper its invention that revolutionized human civilization; its thousand-fold uses (and misuses), proliferation, and sweeping influence on society; its makers, shapers, collectors, and pulpers written..... More
HarperCollins Publishers, October 2001. Hardcover. "Compulsory for anyone seriously interested in books or curious about the manic nature of collecting." --New York Times Book Review In his national bestseller, A Gentle Madness, Nicholas Basbanes explored the sweet obsession people feel to possess books. Now, Basbanes continues his adventures among the..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2025. Hardcover. WINNER OF THE NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE WINNER OF THE PEN/ JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY A TIME TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025 AN ATLANTIC TOP 10 BOOK OF 2025 A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2025 AN INSTANT NEW YORK..... More
Clarendon Press /Oxford University Press, April 1991. Cloth. In 1880 Nietzche observed that Goethe had been "not just a good and great man, but an entire culture." The author of Faust, of exquisite lyric poetry, and of a bewildering variety of other plays, novels, and poetry as well as treatises..... More
Oxford University Press, December 1992. Paper Back. In 1880 Nietzsche observed that Goethe had been "not just a good and great man, but an entire culture." The author of Faust, of exquisite lyric poetry, and of a bewildering variety of other plays, novels, and poetry as well as treatises on..... More
Touchstone Books, September 1983. Reprint. Paper Back. First Touchstone paperback edition. 2nd printing. Sound, clean & unmarked interiors. Number line: 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2. [256 pp.]. More
Alfred A. Knopf, March 1995. Oversize Softcover. This bestselling book is now available in trade paperback, reduced in size and in price. The page count remains the same, as does the richness and quality. 100 color photos. Mild edge-wear to book and jacket; Pages clean and bright; Previous owner inscription..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, May 2026. Paper Back. From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society prospers. Superbloom tells a...... More
Houghton Mifflin, February 1998. Hardcover. The most fabled city in ancient Arabia was Ubar, described in the Koran as "the many-columned city whose like has not been built in the whole land." But like Sodom and Gomorrah, Ubar was destroyed by God for the sins of its people. Buried in..... More
Oxford University Press, May 2021. Trade Paperback. Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The world teems with different kinds of music--traditional, folk, classical, jazz, rock, pop--and each type of music tends to come with its own way of thinking. Drawing on a wealth of accessible examples ranging from Beethoven to..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, June 2000. Paper Back. What is music? How is it constructed? How is it consumed? Why do you enjoy it at all? In Music: A Very Short plays Introduction, Nicholas Cook invites us to really think about music and the role it plays in our lives..... More
NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company, November 1998. Soft Cover. From Amara Dulcis to Yarrow, All-Heal to Viper's Bugloss, Culpeper's Complete Herbal and English Physician Enlarged offers remedies for all ills known to Seventeenth century society. Together with the alphabetical section on herbs, their provenance and properties, there is The English Physician and..... More
Angelico Press, October 2023. Paper Back. Written in 1440 by the great theologian and philosopher Nicholas of Cusa, De Docta Ignorantia (Of Learned Ignorance) stands as one of the most unique and influential works of medieval theology. Nicholas stands in stark contrast to his Thomist and Scotist contemporaries, and the..... More
S &s/Summit Books, April 2026. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Propulsive....When the full history of this moment is ready to be written, Into the Wood Chipper will be a vivid source." --The New York Times "A gripping page-turner that doubles as both a warning and an inspiration." --Samantha Power, Pulitzer..... More
Alfred A. Knopf, August 2001. First American. Hardcover. In this companion volume to the six-part PBS series, two of today's most distinguished men of the theatre offer a view of British and American modern theatre across the century. Here is the vital mixture of Shakespearean heritage, Irish magic, and American..... More
David R. Godine Publisher, October 1994. Hardcover. Universally recognized as a premier writers of crime fiction, Nicolas Freeling here displays yet another side of his original mind in these "enviably perceptive and lyrical" essays (Kirkus) on other players in the same field. Freeling's definition of "crime fiction" is refreshingly broad..... More
Knopf Publishing Group, January 2020. Hardcover. New York Times Best Seller A deft and uniquely credible exploration of rural America, and of other left-behind pockets of our country. One of the most important books I've read on the state of our disunion.--Tara Westover, author of Educated The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors..... More
Liveright Publishing Corporation, March 2026. First Edition. Hardcover. Nicholas Lemann, a veteran New Yorker correspondent, grew up in New Orleans, the son of German Jews in a world of gilded privilege. Yet in contrast to his parents' generation, which always sought to downplay their religious background, Lemann was intrigued by..... More
Merehurst Limited, March 2004. Oversized Hardcover. The International School of Sugarcraft is the most comprehensive course on sugarcraft ever published. The much-awaited International School of Sugarcraft Book 3 -- New Skills and Techniques covers all the latest style changes in sugarcraft and the various new equipment and products that have..... More
Ballantine Books, 1976. Mass Market PaperBack. More
GAIA GROVE PUBLISHING, January 2007. Trade Paperback. Very good. Appears unread. More
Walker & Company, November 2010. Hardcover. English is the world's lingua franca-the most widely spoken language in human history. And yet, as historian and linguist Nicholas Ostler persuasively argues, English will not only be displaced as the world's language in the not-distant future, it will be the last lingua franca..... More
