Coleridge (Past Masters)
Oxford University Press, 1985. Reprint. Hardcover. Octavo. In dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Previous reader's name written in ink fep. [102 pages]. More
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Zen Culture
Random House, January 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarter burgundy cloth binding with gold lettering and design. Grey boards lightly sunned at the edges. Spine is starting to separate but pages still tight. Light shelf wear / creasing on the jacket. Mylar wrapped to preserve. Signed and dedicated by the author..... More
Making the Mummies Dance : Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Touchstone, February 1994. Paper Back. No museum in the world is like the Metropolitan Museum of Art - and no man has ever run it, or revolutionized it, quite like Thomas Hoving. In a decade, Hoving changed almost everything people had grown accustomed to from the Met, shaking the institution..... More
Protestant Theology and the Making of the Modern German University
Oxford University Press, USA, May 2009. Trade Paperback. In shaping the modern academy and in setting the agenda of modern Christian theology, few institutions have been as influential as the German universities of the nineteenth century. This book examines the rise of the modern German university from the standpoint of..... More
Alabama Birds
University of Alabama Press, January 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing w/ no subsequent printings stated; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards, gently edge-worn; Pages free of markings; Clipped dust jacket moderately edge-worn w/ significant chipping at spine, mild foxing present; Jacket now housed in protective mylar to ensure further preservation..... More
Protector of the faith: Cardinal Johannes de Turrecremata and the defense of the institutional church
Catholic University of America Press, January 1981. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn, foxed, dust stained dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards. Stains bottom edge of boards. Gold lettering on spine. Slight bow to boards toward fore-edge. [206 pages]. More
Culture and Cooperation in Europe's Borderlands (European Studies 19)
Rodopi, August 2003. Flexible Boards. No jacket as issued; text is clean; binding solid. More
The Hidden Shakespeare: a Study Of the Poet's Undercover Activity in the Theatre
Funk & Wagnalls, January 1967. Hardcover. Moderate wear to book and jacket. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Modern Library)
Modern Library, August 1993. Hardcover. A distinguished selection of writings by the man who more aptly than any of his countrymen might be called the American Leonardo--published for the first time in trade paper. More
Selection From the Personal, Political and Philosophical Writings of Thomas Jefferson
The Heritage Press, 1967. Hardcover. Tight binding, gently worn at spine; Clean, sturdy blue marbled boards w/ gilt text at spine; Pages free of markings; Slipcase VG, gently edge-worn w/ no significant flaws to disclose; An excellent copy. More
The Campaigns Of General Nathan Bedford Forrest And Of Forrest's Cavalry
Da Capo Press, August 1996. Trade Paperback. In June 1861, practically unschooled, without military training or experience, Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private. Yet by the Civil War's end he was a lieutenant general whose dazzling exploits and bloody victories caused him to be..... More
Remembering Athens
Athens Historical Society, January 1996. Hardcover. More
HOLLYWOOD ON TRIAL; The Story of the Ten Who Were Indicted.
Boni & Gaer, January 1948. Paper Back. Heavily tanned/discolored at margins & spine. Top textblock edge darkened. Edgewear & chips at corners, edges, etc. Internal text unmarked. Not pretty, but is good reading copy. More
Ad Hoc at Home
Artisan, November 2009. Oversized Hardcover. New York Times bestseller IACP and James Beard Award Winner "Spectacular is the word for Keller's latest . . . don't miss it." --People "A book of approachable dishes made really, really well." --The New York Times Thomas Keller shares family-style recipes that you can..... More
Merton: Mystic at the Center of America (Way of the Christian Mystics)
Michael Glazier Books, March 1992. Trade Paperback. More
Rymyng craftily: Meaning in Chaucer's poetry
Humanities Press, January 1976. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo without dustjacket. Black cloth covered boards and stamped gold lettering on spine. Previous owner's name written in ink on ffep. [247 pages]. More
With Love and Squalor: 14 Writers Respond to the Work of J.D. Salinger
Broadway, October 2001. Paper Back. Reading The Catcher in the Rye has become a rite of passage for young Americans, landing the book on bestseller lists (and banned book lists) each year, even though it was published a half century ago. What is it about J. D. Salinger and his..... More
Ernie in Kovacsland: Writings, Drawings, and Photographs from Television's Original Genius
Fantagraphics Books, November 2022. Paper Back. Best known for his wildly imaginative, gleefully absurdist television show in the 1950s, Ernie Kovacs (1919 - 1962) was also a notorious illustrator, novelist, essayist, newspaper columnist, and poet. In celebration of this cockeyed genius and his prolific creative output, Fantagraphics presents a career..... More
New Essays on 'Paradise Lost'
University California Press, April 1970. Soft Cover. Octavo with worn cover. Sticker residue front cover. Previous reader's name in ink first inside page. [180 pages]. More
Death and Afterlife in Modern France (Princeton Legacy Library, 122)
Princeton University Press, December 1992. First Thus. Paper Back. Although today in France church attendance is minimal, when death occurs many families still cling to religious rites. In exploring this common reaction to one of the most painful aspects of existence, Thomas Kselman turns to nineteenth-century French beliefs about death..... More
Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of the New Yorker
Carroll & Graf Pub, January 1996. Trade Paperback. This hugely entertaining biography of the founding editor of "The New Yorker" tells the diverting story of how Ross and the brilliant group of people he gathered around him--including James Thurber, Charles Addams, Dorothy Parker, and John O'Hara--devised the formula that made..... More
Four Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois; and The Atheist's Tragedy (Oxford World's Classics)
Oxford University Press, USA, March 2000. Trade Paperback. The Revenge Tragedy flourished in Britain during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The classic ingredients of the genre are a quest for vengeance, mad scenes, a play within a play, and carnage. Each of the four plays here subverts the..... More
Avengers
Penguin Group, September 2023. Paper Back. The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy Collects The Avengers #1-4, 9, 16, 26, 28, 44, 57, 58, 71, 74, and..... More
X-Men
Penguin Group, September 2023. Paper Back. The Penguin Classics Marvel Collection presents the origin stories, seminal tales, and characters of the Marvel Universe to explore Marvel's transformative and timeless influence on an entire genre of fantasy Collects X-Men #1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 38, 41, 42..... More
Perilous Times
Ballantine Books, May 2023. Hardcover. An immortal Knight of the Round Table faces his greatest challenge yet--saving the politically polarized, rapidly warming world from itself--in this slyly funny contemporary take on Arthurian legend. "A brilliant collision of ancient mysticism with modern madness."--Robert Jackson Bennett, bestselling author of the Founders Trilogy..... More
